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Colorful Lady

The Ohio State University Marching Band (aka, The Best Damn Band In The Land) has a raccoon named Bon Qui Qui for a mascot. Thanks to all the Buckeye fans who inadvertently gave us a traffic spike of almost 5x normal yesterday. [Related posts here.]

Monumental Land Art in the U.S. Sorry, but I don’t consider a trench in the desert “Art,” but some of these are kinda cool.

There’s a Robert Redford movie coming out soon about Dan Rather, CBS and the Killian Documents Forgery Scandal. Here’s a breakdown of how the fraud began to unravel and who actually uncovered it.

A selfie from Mars.

She’s inane. She’s vapid. She’s @SocalityBarbie.

Heh.

Someone doesn’t know what a knife is for.

Buster Keaton rocks [via].

Attach a corn cob to a long fishing pole, swing it at a rubber chocolate donut and try to avoid hitting a bunch of protesters with placards on sticks in a field. That’s Hornussen, aka Swiss Golf.

How about a Little Turtle Face?

Old Lady Chic: Wearing the 60’s in their 70’s.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 406 – Obama Greets Pope, Escher Falls & Bird Release Fails Big Time

Obama Greets Pope Francis
Escher Falls
Nature
These .gifs made me smile, especially the third one, because it was so well-intentioned, yet so poorly thought out.
[Found here, here, and here.]

Hat.

Hat

[Found here.]

Horse. Fly.

Horse Fly

Smell the tail. [Found here.]

“Darts ready? Okay! On three…”

Balloon Queen

Careful. The Balloon Queen’s got a gun.

[Found here.]

Christmas Decorations

Christmas Decorations

If you haven’t taken ’em down by now, might as well leave ’em up.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 403 – Cat Ballet, Pub Pup & Russian Water Park

Cats and Noise
Beer Dog
Russian Water Park

[Found here, here and here.]

The Free Kitchens Project.

free-kitchens

I’m guessing they want one of these people released from incarceration.

[Found here.]

The Wreck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Macon

USS MACON INSIGNIA

The USS Macon was an aircraft carrier that sank stern-down off the coast of Point Sur California during a violent storm in 1935. There were surprisingly few casualties, and those she sustained were due to human error. One jumped to his death, another returned to the sinking wreck to retrieve his personal belongings. All other crew members survived.

The Macon was not an attack vessel. Its purpose was to provide long-range surveillance of the Pre-WWII Japanese navy, and it sunk because this aircraft carrier was not designed to float on water. Some of her aircraft had no landing gear either, because the ship had no landing deck.

TRUE.

Puzzle this one out for yourselves before you click.
[Explanation, images and source links below the break.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 402 – The Sneeze, Dog Got Yer Tongue? & Dog Stare Down

Classroom Sneeze

Dog Gotcher Tongue

Golden Retriever Stare

[Found here, here and here.]