Tag: WIN

The .Gif Friday Post No. 827 – Lil’ Rocker, Iron Roller, Fall Weather & That Guy

[Found here, here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 826 – Biergarten Twist, One Little Grape & The Perfect Dismount

[Found here, here and here.]

Halloween – Best Of Show

[Images found scattered across the internest.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 819 – A Bumble Flop, An Ostrich Wrangler & Dry Surfing

[Found here, here and here .]

Think Like A Proton

“I’m pretty sure this is a Beryllium atom and the artist just used artistic license to depict the 8 protons and neutrons in the nucleus as the atom’s body (1), eyes (2), teeth (4), and tongue (1). He also portrayed the atom part way through the oxidation process, which is why it still has 3 electrons instead of the traditional 2 that form the Be+2 ion. But even midway through oxidation, the atom would still have a positive charge. So the shirt is technically (though artistically) correct.
Yeah, I’m gonna go with that.”

[Shirt found here. Art review found here.]

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.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

I call photoshop.

It’s a tribute to the work of THIS GUY (who explains it all in the video).

Photo of 7 mo. old “Murphy” was originally posted on a number of SubReddits on 6 December 2020 by Adamsma77.  [h/t Dina S.]

This Girl.

[Found here.]

VWtf Space Heater

[Found here.]

Revealed: The Real Fake Captain K.

In June of 2011, I found a photo of Captain Kangaroo with something interesting in the background and posted it as a tribute to the late Bob Keeshan. In October 2014 a comment appeared and “Dave” corrected me – that is NOT the Captain.

Dave, Monday, 20 October 2014,  8:05 AM
FYI, that IS a kitchen in a home — an old home — in Derry, New Hampshire. And that is not Bob Keeshan as Captain Kangaroo, rather another “Mr. Dressup” in a Halloween costume. The picture you found and “acquired” is from a Halloween party that took place in 1986, and that is NOT Captain Kangaroo’s Heineken on the counter!

Now, a mere 11-1/2 years later, the identity of the fake Captain is revealed. It was Dave himself!

09 February 2023 12:45am [via email]

Hi Bunk,

Back in 2014 I was doing an online search for pics of Bob Keeshan as the Captain, and was surprised to find shots of myself mixed in with pics of the real Captain. At that time I had a website set up to highlight years of Halloween costume pictures I had of myself, and I guess some had found their way onto the Internet search engines. That is when I discovered your website, and I was amused by the Heineken comment, and flattered that someone may have thought that my portrayal made them think that I was the real Captain. Little did I know that you found that picture a whole three years earlier.

Here are a few Captain photos, including the updated 1986 shot. That shot was taken at a friend’s home in NH, an old farmhouse. Our friend is a pro artist, and they had the house decorated in total Halloween mode, including a front yard graveyard and crooked shutters on the windows, a parlor with a coffin, and an oil painting on the wall depicting a knife-wielding character with blood dripping from the blade, across the frame, and onto the floor. Plus much, much more.

I rarely repeat a costume, but the Captain was a fave, so I repeated it nine years later. This time I rigged a box with a lid to contain Bunny Rabbit. A false, sleeved arm held the box so I could use my real hand to operate the puppet. I had gotten previous use of the box when dressed as the Addams Family’s Uncle Fester, with Thing (my real hand) in the box.

Coincidentally, shortly after doing my CK reprise, I heard from a friend that Bob Keeshan was coming to a local Barnes & Noble for a book-signing. I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to meet him and brought a few pictures to show him, and a camera to get some shots of him.

You are welcome to post these pics, if you like.

Enjoy,

Dave

[Update: Dave’s website link deleted at his request.]

Here are those photos. Thanks Dave!

 

…and the Addams Family for the win: