Tag: Football

Saturday Matinee – Island Soccer, ZZ Embarasses A Keeper, Pencil Test, Technological Threat & Rocket Pen

Great video worth watching. Pure awesome. [via]

Remember “Zezu” Zidane’s infamous headbutt at the 2006 World Cup? He’s running a training camp now. Here’s some more of his dickery.

In 1986, this was state of the art computer animation. Here’s Pixar’s “pencil test” of the most recognizable early computer animation of all time.

In 1988,  Brian Jennings’ and Bill Kroyer’s “Technological Threat” combined digital animation with Tex Avery’s classic style. It was nominated for best animation short (but was beat out by Pixar’s “Tin Toy”).

So now, let’s fast forward to 2011. Computer animation is at its peak with this example of awesome. I love it.
[Courtesy of Bunkessa.]

And with that, have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more fun.

The .Gif Friday Post No.162 – Football WinFail, 3DTV, Catwalk Hand

[Found here, here and here.]

Gyroscopy

One of the great things about international football tournaments (that’s soccer to you deniers) are the lengths that some fans go to get photos posted on the internet:

A fan cheers during the Club World Cup semi-final soccer match between Brazil’s Internacional and DR Congo’s TP Mazembe at Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi December 14, 2010.

Right. Nothing like putting the threaded axle of a bicycle wheel on your noggin, giving it a spin, and enjoying some self-trepanation while watching a soccer match. Next thing you know, your spinning image is posted here.

[Found here and previously posted here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No.157 – Cheerleader Pwnd, Dog Pwnd, Pwnr Pwnd

[Found here, here and here.]

Saturday Matinee – Chip Test, Unethical Football, Burnside & Woods, Rancid, and Buster Keaton

Memory chip testing WIN!

Awesome play. (Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Kitty.)

Country Blues, with Johhny Woods and R.L. Burnside. Woods teamed up with Mississippi Fred McDowell during the 60s blues revival.

Burnside learned from McDowell who lived in the next county over, but never got much attention until the 90s. Burnside and his family, tired of the life of sharecroppers, moved to Chicago in the early 50s. Subsequently his father, uncle and brother were murdered there.

In 1959 he returned to Mississippi, and was convicted for murder himself, and served time at the Parchman Penitentiary. He was freed after only six months… via a bit of chicanery.

Rancid‘s “Time Bomb” was a retro ska hit in the early 90s.

Buster Keaton, aka The Great Stoneface, was a classic. Grab a beverage and a snack and enjoy a blast from the early years of comedy. Have a great weekend folks, and be back here tomorrow.

The .GIF Friday Post No. 109 – Life, Football, Ice Cream and Water Skiing

[Found here, here and here.]

You’re a Good Man, Chuck Brown

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Rarely do pitchers wish for rain.  Chuck usually got rain, whether he wished for it or not,  but mostly the downpour came when his team was ahead.  As for Ms. Van Pelt, our crack team of webminers are working overtime,  scouring the depths of the Internestic Oceans, for a current photo of Lucy that doesn’t look like Amy Winehouse.

[Top image found here, via a series of now unretraceable links.  Second slightly edited image from here.  Related posts  here, here and here.]

GOT MUD?

Only one day left to sling it before Tuesday’s elections…

[Images from here, here and here.  Related images there, there and there.]

The Fridge Meets Aluminum Man at Big Ass Fans’ Booth

Yep, Big Ass Fans is a real company, and William “Refrigerator” Perry is their spokesperson.  What perks.  Gets to meet “Aluminum Man” and stuff. Good God am I envious.

Scousers?

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While on a lunchbreak sojourn researching modern Japanese anthropology today, I found this photo on Gaijin Tonic. Apparently the picture is a group of Scouser-mocking Mancs at a match. As a Yank, I had to look up Scouser in the Urban Dictionary, where I found definition No.24 of 40 very helpful:

i hate the way wools go on about scousers it really annoys me. If half of the stupid greasy heded gelled haired scals actually got their facts right then they would realise that 70% of the crime rate is actually in manchester/ warrington areas an not in liverpool! so the next time a wool calls u a scal or ses “go an rob a car” tell them to f*** off an go an wash there greasy permed haired an to go an get it dyed agen cos the roots are down to their a**! Wools wear baggy jeans an footy shirts wich just dont go an big sketcher trainers with big chunky light up heals on the bottom also last years fashion coats with there hair gelled bak so it wont move out of place for two centurys an have light blue eyeshadow on with big hop earings an two dangly peaces of hair down the side of their face an not forgetting the famous “hoodies” wich luk an absoloute show an jus luk scruffy so all u wools can f** off hu skit scousers an am sure thereare sum wools hu are nice in fact i no there are wools hu r nice but scousers are nice too so dont f**ing forget it!!!nobs

wool: “haha say funky chicken haha hehe”
Scouser: er no go an wash ye hair ye scruff.

 

Hope that clears it up as much for my fellow U.S. readers as it did for me. As for you Scousers, Mancs and Wools: Knot bin shirty, no skit, jes havn a giraffe. ‘Sall tickety boo wit Bunk. (Where can I get “footy shirts wich just don’t go?” That description alone hooks me.)