Posts Tagged ‘advertisement’
Monkburgers
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
[Found here.]
Photoshop Fails
Monday, 11 May 2020
It makes something bigger…
Monday, 23 March 2020
Call Before Midnight Tonight Hot Links
Sunday, 29 December 2019
Largest shovel-tailed snow snake ever seen.
From The Juvenile But Funny Department: Win / Fail.
“Skee-Ball is my life.” Guy’s dream project got stomped by SJWs.
DIY lifehack for Teenagers. Similar How To Do It vids linked here.
Throwing dollar bills to bums on LA’s skid row from the top of a $50k van is not a humanitarian gesture. Dude thinks he’s feeding animals.
“Yeah, the days are getting longer, but at least it’s not the end of the decade.” Bunk Strutts 29 December 2019
From The Statistical Statistics Department:
The Federal Bureaus of Prisons: says 92.9% non-whites and 7.1% whites were incarcerated as of 21 December 2019, therefore it’s a racist system. Oh wait…
The “For Every 100 Girls/Women” chart is interesting. Links to stats backing it up are here [via].
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image: Ron Popeil.]
Saturday Matinee – Ronco’s Greatest Hits, Han Li, Sam Chatmon, Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Saturday, 14 December 2019
Just a few more shopping days left. Go for it [via].
“We found the happiest lady [Han Li] in China. We told her that you don’t need a real hula hoop to have fun. She agreed.”
Khruangbin made me smile [found here].
Sam Chatmon (1897-1983) sang his version of a classic cheatin’ song in 1978. Apparently the vid was filmed by Alan Lomax.
The origin of the song “Make Me A Pallet On The Floor” is fuzzy and dates to the 1800s. It appeared in sheet music in 1908 in “Blind Boone’s Southern Rag Medley No. One: Strains from the Alleys.“
Now check out John William Blind Boone‘s amazing story…
Magic Slim, aka Morris Holt (1937-2013). Nice Chicago blues [via].
Magic Slim was forced to give up playing the piano when he lost his little finger in a cotton gin mishap. He first came to Chicago in 1955 with his friend and mentor Magic Sam. The elder (by six months) Magic (Sam) let the younger Magic (Slim) play bass with his band and gave him his nickname.
Have a great weekend folks. Be back here tomorrow for more stuff.
The Mom Motel
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Joseph W. Grimes Rides The Cleveland Bicycle
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
[Found here.]
This is not a hammer, and…
Monday, 23 September 2019
Державне підприємство “Антонов” 1961
Thursday, 5 September 2019
“In the mid twentieth century there was made a series of photographs advertising Soviet “An” planes to western buyers. Some of these photos have been revealed just recently. Party leaders didn’t allow them to be used abroad and the photos were kept in the archives of “Antonov” company.”
[Image and caption found in here. More about the Ukraine-based company here.]
