Tag: green

The .Gif Friday Post No. 858 – An Elephant Rat with Batbeavers, Eyeball Strutters & Palm Springs

[Found here, here and here.]

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Hot Links

Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream), Allison Young (2020) A multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Allison Young has a timeless style, as evidence by her cover of The Chords‘  1954 classic. (More about her at My OBT.)

Be oncé.

LOL Joel!

Rising CPI.

More trains.

The Little Fly.

Sunny Emilio.

Pearly whites.

Very Disturbed.

Bicycles of 1939.

The longest game.

Lunch with Bessie.

Trolling the Nevers.

Norty Blues Episode 55.

The Shadow of the Beast.

Tom Waits does the Ramones.

Better than Bic {via Bunkerville].

Megalithic Ireland [via Mme. Jujujive].

Books of bricks [via The View From Lady Lake].

Irish “Sheena” McCalla 1956 [via Memo Of The Air].

And there’s more Saint Patrick’s Day stuff here.

[Top image cropped and modified from lost original source, dates to March 2008 according to Tineye.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

[Images via Mr. McGoogle.]

Color Control

“Green Control, this is Orange Control. Copy?”

“You’re kidding me, right?”

[Found here. Note that both images are the same size, but one looks closer than the other.]

Grinch.

Grinch

Pokemon Grinch as found on my Waze ap. GTFO, GTFAFM and every other GTF you can think of.

[Original undoctored image found here.]

Bíodh Lá Shona Naomh Pádraig, nó greim dom!

Exactly Four Are Not Irish

The four in front are not Irish, but the back three are. Just sayin’.
I bet the Erins go Bleaugh within the hour.

On the other hand, this is pretty cool.

ballyroon-holed-stone

There are a few remaining holed stones in Ireland. There is one in Co. Antrim and in Co. Louth and lucky for me there’s one in my native Co. Cork! This is the Ballyroon standing stone which is situated in West Cork on the Sheep’s Head road. This imposing stone is 2.25 metres in height unfortunately it is not standing and is only propped up on a smaller stone. The most striking feature is the beautifully carved round hole which runs through the stone. According to a local historian

The hole in the stone  is narrow on  one side and wide on the other. The man had a bigger hand and he put his hand  through the wide side and the woman put her hand through the narrow side. They made their promises when they put their  hands through the stone.

[1st image found in here; 2nd image with description found here. Previous St. Patrick’s Day posts here.]

My favorite Irish song is Nell Flaherty’s Drake for various reasons. Here’s the tune:

Stay safe driving home tomorrow so you can still wake up on Wednesday and call in to work stupid.

Big Little Green Army Men

Green Army Men

Yeah, we had ’em.

We’d split them up, Germans vs. Allies, set them up in the dirt, then each of us would shoot rubber bands at the opponent’s “army.” If the rubber band knocked over a soldier, he was taken off of the battlefield as KIA.

If you shot a rubber band off your thumb, hit or miss, it became part of your opponent’s arsenal. If you were a good shot but too aggressive, you might run out of rubberband ammo and lose the battle. Strategy & Tactics for 8 year old boys.

[Found here, via here.]

Retro Green Beer Delivery

1958 Chevy Apache

Steam Whistle, arguably Canada’s greenest brewery, has added a custom-built, eco-friendly vintage ride to its delivery fleet. Called Retro Electro, this green machine started life as a 1958 Chevy Apache truck. Steam Whistle retrofitted it with an AC motor capable of cranking out 465 pound-feet of torque, which is on par with the power output of gas-guzzling muscle cars, yet the Retro Electro is emissions-free as it’s Bullfrogpowered with electricity generated by wind turbines. [via]

I’ll refrain from cranking on the insults to “gas-guzzling muscle cars” but that photo is awesome. [Found here.]

The Mowin’ o’ the Green

The algae kinda got out of hand, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.

[Found here.]

Church Seats Are Go

Some of you may have noticed an improvement in the Tacky Raccoon HQ rec room restrooms recently. Yep, that’s right, the old cracked wooden butt-pinchers have been replaced with Church Seats. We’re going green, and the best part is that Church Seats will stay stunning.

[Found here, via here. Crossposted here.]