Tag: potpourri

Hot Links UNMASKED!

RUN.

Rabbit Run.

Explain this.

Goat parade.

Duck quacks, explodes.

Report tegus in the wild.

Polar bear being a polar bear.

I’ve got an uncontrollable urge to buy a DEVO Energy Dome COVID-19 face mask.

Betsy Ross incubated an egg in her bra and hatched a duckling.

King Rhadamanthus: If a person defends himself against another who initiated violence then he should suffer no penalty.

Cat Man – Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps 1957

[Top image: On Friday afternoon, L.A. guerilla artist Sabo was interviewed on AM640KFI. Scroll down to listen.]

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Anti-Virtue Scolding Hot Links

Happy Mothers Day.

The pushback continues.

Mind Your Own Business.

Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus.

RIP Little Richard Penniman (1932-2020).

A fruit tested positive for COVID-19. So did a goat and a sheep.

Amazing milestone: First US Space Force recruitment video was released 6 May 2020.

36% of voters would turn in their neighbors for ignoring stay-at-home orders. That is disturbing.

Top image: Old man arrested for fishing under quarantine rules. Photo essay here.

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Not sure what happened to the side bar. I blame meerkats.
Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

Rebullitional Hot Links

Crash crash ding tinkle tinkle

THIS.

BANSHEE! [via]

World’s oldest record shop.

From the Too Much Botheration Dept.:
Lotta frustration these days.

Mientras tanto en España [sound up].

Twitter thread of creepy objects posted by museum curators [via].

It rhymes with “biscuit,” but what does the name “Triscuit” really mean? (Mystery solved!)

For 36 years Military specialized in publishing 1st hand accounts from WWII to the present. According to the editor, June 2020 will be its final printed issue.

[Top image found in here.]

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Pandiculating Hot Links

DON GRETH — THE DUTCH PLACE Lenhartsville, Pa. Designer, painter of Chust for Nice, dutch folk culture art. Works everyday, chust off Route 22 at the Lenhartsville HEXIT. Come see wunst, see how it’s done.

Pigmeat Markham.

The Nudibranch Song.

The story behind Wipeout.

Anyone can make a facemask.

The Border Wall at El Centro is moving right along.

Heartfelt thanks to The True Heros of this crisis [sarc alert].

Google has filed a new trademark application with the USPTO for the name “Pigweed.”[More here.]

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) sarcastically identified common “tricks, dodges, and chicanery” used in debate in 38 Ways to Win an Argument. They’re all underhanded and dishonest, and are prevalent in today’s media.

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Bonks and Conks:

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Hot Links of the Tokoloshe

Microrockets.

The Broken Chair.

THE record breaker.

Window silhouettes.

Free paper organ templates.

This guy says he got it from Agnes.

The Stockport Spiderman [h/t @stumpymoose].

Interactive Wave is kinda cool. Click around on it.

First they ruined this. Then they ruined that. The PC police ruin everything.

“When u social distance so well that the cops have to find u by helicopter.”

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Monoblepsial Hot Links

Slinky treadmill [via].

Pac-Man self-portrait.

“My boss turned herself into a potato.”

Dominican Republic Quarantine Police.

Meanwhile at the Mattress Races. [Story here.]

Even with all the hoarding, there are still some generous people out there.

From the Instant Karma Department: Venezuelan Warship Attacks German Cruise Ship, Rams It and Sinks Itself.

Inspired by The Lemon Juice Bandits, David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University did a study and discovered that stupid people often don’t realize they’re stupid.

On homemade fabric masks: “Common fabrics have pores too large for viruses (that are about 100 nanometer in diameter) and most airborne droplets that contain viruses.”
-Dr. You-Lo Hsieh, professor at the University of California

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[Top image from Bunkarina via FB.]

Social Distance Shaming Hot Links

Jungle Boogie, The Bobby True Trio, 1948:

I spy Walter Wick.

Zendaya is Meechee [via].

Who did the voice of Cecil the Turtle best?

COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic stats are interesting. To date, less than four-thousandths of one percent (0.003.5%) of the US population has contracted it; six ten-thousandths of one percent (0.0006%) of the US population has died from it. Italy’s death rate from the virus is 1.7%.

The Republic of San Marino is a 24 sq. mi. micronation surrounded by Italy. It has the highest fatality rate (of the countries listed) at 6.5%.

PJMedia parsed the same statistics I did and posted the graphs below:

From the What-Are-They-Hiding Department:
This. Oh, and also This.

Earlier this year, a Beijing district office for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that pants should be an effective barrier against farts that might disperse the Wuhan virus.

[Status update: A Humble Request.]

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China V-word Hot Links

Ratted out.

There’s water on Mercury?

Cat learns that he has ears.

R.I.P. Kenny Rogers (1938-2020).

Ootah after the return from the sledge trip.

Fargo police dog sniffs out black market Purell.

Monty Python Black Knight plush action figure.

Glen Greenwald’s list of media lies (and no, he’s not a Republican).

Running out of bumwad? Order it here. If that’s not what you’re looking for, click here.

Wikipedia is actually debating whether or not to delete references to the 1918 Spanish flu. Now about the Wuhan Chinese Asian Corona virus…

“It’s a funny thing… After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that that what the west needed was more socialism.” – Milton Friedman 1993.

[Status update: A Humble Request.]

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[Top image of canned cheeseburger from here.]

Hygienical Hoarding Hot Links

Uh-huh-huh.

Is It Cancelled Yet? [via]

Military rations for five in 1957.

Watch this giant sea cucumber poop.

How to write a traditional Irish folk song.

Top 10 most congested roadways in the U.S.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is 42. 😀

NSFW, NSFK & disgusting (but I found the commentary funny).

Don’t call it “the Wuhan Virus” or “the Chinese Virus.” CNN says so.

Media-fomented panic is causing widespread shortages of staples (and tempers). Fight 1. Fight 2.

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Campaign Speech Hot Links

Cat.

Playing With Polls.

Finger Poppin’ Time.

NSFW, NSFK ca.1890.

The Wall’s not done… yet.

A silent video can record sound??

Foreign Born Population in the US.

Are you a commie? Take this quiz to find out! [via AoS].

Amazing transformation: asian guy turns into white hipster.

The Corona virus is not the greatest threat to the US economy.

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