[via Mogadonia.]
[via Woosk.]
This Can Happen to YOU.
You’re driving along a secluded roadway with your older brother’s girlfriend and you find yourself surrounded by magical red bricks, hovering around your vintage 1948 Eelmobile.
A plaid alligator materializes in the rear seat and a coon hound jumps out of your hat. A phantom image of Franklin Delano Roosevelt swallowing a large jalapeno appears behind you, follows for a while, but vanishes before you have time to take notice. The speaker under the perforated dashboard blasts The Ramones to the rearview mirror above.
Meanwhile, the lights at 53rd Street and Third Avenue have stuck on green, causing mass confusion to pedestrians and vehicles.
At 57.4 mph, you, your brother’s babe and your bitchin’ ride are transported over the intersection, ten stories up, easily clearing the parapet of the L. Foosers Paperclips Building while the magic bricks swarm like mad rectangular prism hornets.
That’s when I usually wake up.
“Set phasers on WTF.”
I altered the color a tad, but otherwise it’s genuine, not photoshopped. Any guesses?
North Piddle (and elsewhere)
Interesting story from NYT about towns with unusual names in the UK. (London? Who came up with that one?) The US has it’s share of odd names, too, but we’ll reserve those for a future post.
Fat Whale Linked Here.
“Hey. I gotta question. You probably know this.”
Q. “What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?”
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. “Where will the government get this money?”
A. From taxpayers.
Q. “So the government is giving me back my own money?”
A. Only a smidgen.
Q. “What is the purpose of this payment?”
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q. “But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China?”
A. Shut up.
[Image from here. Stimulus Package analysis was from a column by Dave Barry.]
Saturday Matinee: Planet Drum, Sirens, Spelling Bee Champ, Wright
Here’s Micky Hart’s Planet Drum from a few years back. (I have one of the Planet Drum CDs that I play at full blast from my porch on Halloween. I love the way it echoes around the neighborhood, even if Mrs. Strutts hates it. When she’d complain, I’d switch to Tom Wait’s “Bone Machine.” She doesn’t complain about Planet Drum anymore.)
The Sirens from “O Brother Where Art Thou” sang a song both pretty and dangerous. Great movie.
Spelling Bee pro. Great recovery.
Ferret nail trimming tips (via AAF.)
Steven Wright… well, you know what they say. C’mon. You know.
The .gif Friday Post 65: Animated Scales
Fun for seconds on end.
[These are not rulers. Kings and queens are rulers. These Geek Scales were found via RGS.]
US Air Hudson River Ditch – First person account
Folks, the following unedited description by one of the passengers on this flight was emailed to me by Papa Strutts from his friend Bruno. Video with first hand account after the break. Image above from ABC News. Continue reading “US Air Hudson River Ditch – First person account”
The Dawn of Efficiency
And boy was Dawn efficient. According to her husband, she was a regular filament-winding prodigy.
[Image with caption from the master of Captionland, Fengtastic.]
Tacky Raccoons 