“A competition was held for biggest mallee root, and this entry from Tooleybuc was just shy of winning. […] At the mallee root festival in Ouyen, guests witness root tossing competitions. Whoever throws a 9 kilo (nearly 20 lb) stump the furthest wins.”
From Wiki:
Mallee is the growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber,
So there you go.
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Box Top, Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm (1958) Cobra RecordsRecorded at Cobra Studio, Chicago, the session lineup was Odie Payne (drums), Willie Dixon (bass), Eddie Jones (sax), Carlson Oliver (sax, vocals) and Ike Turner (guitar, vocals).
Did he really say Get bent? 😀
How to get where you’re going.
Crowd control had their hands full.
Corgi vs. Chook vs. Duck by Ozzy Man
(language NSFW, NSFK) [via].
Julliard School exposed. [h/t alondrataylor73.]
Why missing kids are no longer on milk cartons.
Real life Superhero: Shavarsh Karapetyan. [h/t Paul Y.]
Smishing is a texting scam, been around for a few years.
Rockin’ Bird has a great earworm loop. Some pigeons learn to fake injuries for a handout. That one is in Melbourne Australia [source].
Covid-19 origins revisited (and it was not from a bat 1,500 km from Wuhan). Biohazards News Tracker is updated regularly, too.
“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.”
“Where we going, man?”
“I don’t know but we gotta go.”
― On the Road
[Top image unknown source. Tineye has no matches, Google image search says it’s “soil.” It appears to be a whale carcass, possibly Hawaii.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
That’s some serious Black Mirror stuff.
The Malford Milligan Band with Jeff Plankenhorn (I think) circa 2011. Can’t verify the the others.
“We had so much fun backstage during our last jam video that Darius Rucker decided he didn’t want to be left out…so we made another!” Whole buncha peeps in that one: The Brothers Osborne, Darius Rucker and A Thousand Horses. BTW, that’s a Doc Watson song.
Joey Quinones & Thee Sinseers‘ chicano R&B gets me every time. Reminds me of so many things long ago and far away. Hard to find the band lineup, but that’s Adriana Flores (of The Altons) on vocals.
Guess that’s good enough for now. Have a great weekend, do something nice for your mom, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.
[Cinco de Mayo archive here.]
Tacky Raccoons 