Thanks gobs for all your support and interest this past year, and may your Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa festivities include the gift of socks for you and yours.
Bunk & the Family Strutts
[Image from here.]
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Saturday Matinee: One Domino Trashes a Town, and unrelated stuff
According to Arbroath, this was Guiness’ most expensive television advertisement to date, costing 10m pounds (about $2.1 million US bucks). Filmed in a village in Argentina, the whole town came out to watch. If our crack webminers can find a link to a “making of” video, we’ll update this post, but it’s more likely we’ll just tip a stout and be done with it.
Totally unrelated to the video above, our crack webminers turned up a video from 1970, from the Flip Wilson Show. This broadcast changed my life… or at least a good part of it.
The band appeared at Woodstock. Yes, that Woodstock, 1969. These guys played alongside Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Crosby Stills & Nash, Mountain, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe & the Finch, Richie Havens, Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell, Melanie, Joan B. Depressed, Bobby Bieber and the SlimJims, Brittney Spears, etc.
Bunk was too young to attend Woodstock, but Bunk was allowed to watch TV. This is what Bunky witnessed at his grandparents house and loved it. ShaNaNa was IT.
This was Bunk’s introduction to DooWop. ShaNaNa sent me on a mission to hear the original versions by the Marcels, the Paragons, Dion, Gene Chandler, the Isley Brothers, the Zodiacs, the Del-Vikings, the Chips, the Chords, the Channels, Harvey & the Moonglows, Shep and the Limelights, the Ronnettes, the Shirelles, Leon Redbone, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin, Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Police, the Ramones, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, the Stray Cats, Frank Zappa, the Aquabats, the Skatalites, Moms Mabley and the Beat Farmers (featuring the late Country Dick Montana)… and not necessarily in that order. Oh, and I forgot the Solid Voidz featuring Big Don P.
Fill in the band(s) I might have missed in the comments section.
178 hits past 100,000
TackyRaccoons was and is an experiment to see if I, Bunk, can keep people entertained with inanity stolen lifted linked with credits to other websites for cheap daily entertainment. I’ll keep it going as long as it’s fun for me.
Our purpose was and is to distract you from your job of actually being productive during the work week, and to keep you entertained on the weekends so that you run out of time to mow the lawn. Our crack team of webminers make sure that you can see stupid funny stuff at the office, at school, at home, and all without penalty if you’re caught, and on a daily basis.
In other words, we can’t give you a day off, but we can give you a coupla minutes.
Comments are always welcome, pro or con. Deep thoughts may be sent to BunkStrutts@verizon.net. I usually respond, unless you’re just too out there. If I don’t respond, you can take that as a compliment.
Thanks gobs for visiting. You made my day.
Bunk
P.S. Not tryin’ to be a ho, but would any of you regulars like TackyRaccoons T-shirts? Lemme know. Okay, I’m bein’ a ho. Offer stands, I just have to work out the logistics.
[Photo with the fingers of another 100,000-views veteran of the internest from here.]
China Denies Reverse Engineering Mice
呼和浩特 (從Strutts通訊社滑稽的荒唐) –
hu先生否認中國是違反版權法通過拆卸老鼠。
「沒有法律版權在老鼠設計! 我們的所有是拆卸我們捉住的那个，創造一個較不昂貴的方式做他們，放回他們一起，并且他們是，像新一樣。 然後我們賣他們到美國，美國人吃他們。「
[Photographic evidence provided by Sourfizz. English to Traditional Chinese translator may be found here. The re-translation back to English is close enough for Bunk. Bite the wax tadpole.]
UPDATE: Although the post preview displayed actual chinese characters, WordPress changed them to question marks in the final post. Here is the re-translation from Traditional Chinese to English:
Huhhot (from the Strutts news agency funny absurd) –
Mr. hu denies China is violates the copyright law through the disassemblage mouse.
“Does not have the legal copyright in the mouse design! We all are that which disassembles us to seize, creates a not expensive way to be them, returns them together, and they are, new is likely same. Then we sell them to arrive US, the American eat them.”
How can you argue with that?
Bloody Mushrooms with Teeth
The Blood-Tooth Mushroom
“The young fruitbody is spongy and characteristically exudes droplets of red fluid. Later the fruitbody becomes tougher and teeth develop on the underside.”
That appears to be a good description of some members of congress, especially the part about developing teeth on the underside. Ugh. I wouldn’t lick it.
BUT if I did I’d prolly run for Senator… and win. My soul would be gone forever, and I’d be sitting on dentures in my old age and talking out my posterior, just like most Senators. Gives me the willies.
[Photo via Miniature Brain, description from here.]
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