They’re all liars. Every one of them.
[Found here, undetermined origin, may be AI. h/t Pam M.]
Tag: awesome
Flipping the Bird
The Recycler
[Image found here. It’s a still from this video, and the following clip was posted in the comments.]
Umbrella Jellyfish Can-Can Horsebutt Ibis
African Sacred İbis (Plegadis Falcinellus)
Photographer: Hisao Kanno (2020?)
Collect Them All!
“These stickers are not easy to drop off; they’re non-reflective and even waterproof. I’m willing to call them the most successful invention of 2023!”
Some Chinese news outlets credited the unexpected popularity of belly button stickers to Chinese traditional medicine, which states that the lower abdomen must be kept warm to preserve the overall health of the body. By keeping the fake navel exposed, users can wear high-waisted pants that cover much of the stomach, while still rocking garments like crop-tops.
ONLY 1/2¢ PER BB!
A pack of 96 3/4″ x 1″ Chinese belly button decals for only 50 cents is one helluva deal. Confuse people by moving them around, or wear several at the same time and claim as many birthdays as you want. So many possibilities.
[Images and story found here.]
Ode to NANCY
For some unexplainable reason, I’ve been collecting random Nancy panels for a while, many culled from this fine collection. I have only one paper copy I clipped long ago from the Sunday Funnies because it’s so Zen; the others were all found online by accident. I messed with one or two…
[Click on any image to enlarge. Previously posted Nancy, Sluggo and Aunt Fritzi Ritz stuff here.]
Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918
IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 16 YEARS OF STUFF!
On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.
3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2023 – 16th year Blogoversary!
As of this date, there are exactly 6,233 posts in our archives, +10 K comments and over 2.69M referral links that comprise
Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.
We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.
—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—
The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2023).
“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”
Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!
No. 11 / NR / NR – Staredown on the Pequod
No. 10 / NR / 203 – How To Make Capybara Dumplings
No. 9 / 5 / 36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks
No. 8 / 11 / 35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
No. 7 / NR / 109 – Cliffside Path, China
No. 6 / NR / 83 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever
No. 5 / 2 / 42 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals
No. 4 / 10 / 134 – Monetary Disfigurement
No. 3 / 4 / 53 – Professional Shadow Puppetry
No. 2 / NR / 96 – St. Pancras Hotel
And the NO. 1 POST for the past year:
The Most Terrifying Bird In The World
Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/37 – Number One TWO YEARS IN A ROW. AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.
Top 5 Audio posts for past year:
[Note that I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]
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Bunk
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Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
1965 NASA PDAD Robot
The ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ project was under Contract No. NAS 9-1370 and ran from May 22, 1963 through July 31, 1965. It was originally built for Nasa’s Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The reason for a test dummy was officials hoped to use it during design and testing of a spacesuits, which might otherwise be painful, tedious or even dangerous for human beings.
The 1965 robot was able to simulate 35 basic human motions and used sensors to gather data on how the human body acted in a pressurized suit – but it never made it off the ground due to its tendency to leak oil.
Only two of these robots were created, the one selling for $80,000 and another that is owned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Wedding Wedding Photo Photo
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 