[Found here, here and here. Related post here.]
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Posts Tagged ‘WTF’
The .Gif Friday Post No.494 – Hedgehogs on Inflatable Flamingos, Blooming Owl & Bear In The Box
Friday, 21 July 2017Mission Accepted.
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
[Found here.]
“When Death Rides the Rubber” – Popular Mechanics, December 1932
Monday, 17 July 2017
Silent But Deadly Hot Links
Sunday, 16 July 2017
How to Make Everything Okay.
A massive 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California, was reported by USGS on Twitter, 21 June 2017 – 92 years after it happened. Story here [via].
A massive 6.7 magnitude earthquake happened on Friday 14 July 2017 in San Diego. Nobody felt it, and a two-story structure suffered the only damage. Videos of previous tests here and here.
Few will be able to afford a flight on this big bird [via].
I might put in some overtime to justify ordering this: microwavable Skyline Chili pouches (and they don’t require refrigeration). Urrp. Related posts about chili (including the Strutts Family Recipe) here.
Breaking Bad – The Short Version.
Tardigrades are amazing animals. They can go 30 years without food or water, can survive the sub-freezing temperatures and vacuum of outer space, and they can live in boiling water. They’ll be around long after the sun burns out. [Related links here].
Top image: Jim Woodring’s LIMITED SIGNED EDITION JERRY CHICKENS POP-UP KIT because why not.
“Your Uncle Jim designed and built this elaborate pop-up; inside the coop are the cylindrical, conical and cubic Jerry Chickens, viewable through the holes in the ‘wood’. And of course it folds flat, chickens and all.”
12 July – National Different-Colored Eyes Day
Thursday, 13 July 2017
I don’t know if Congress actually took time for this stupidity, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Most of those wallet-leeches can’t handle 6-syllable words, and assume that we can’t either because we keep voting the losers back in.
Oh, yeah, and that’s me in the photo, and I missed posting this on the 12th. So what. Do I qualify for subsidies and reparations?
[Related links here.]
Toucan, but Toushouldn’t.
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
[Found here.]
Comb-over Villain
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Mama’s Got A Squeezebox, Daddy Wants To Drive Railroad Spikes Through His Temples.
Monday, 10 July 2017
“When Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. When Papa ain’t happy, nobody gives a shit.”
[Found here.]
Polyptotons, Diacopes, Syllepsis & Hot Links
Sunday, 9 July 2017
Any book other than a dictionary that employs the terms Polyptoton, Aposiopesis, Merism, Hyperbaton, Anadiplosis, Diacope, Hendiadys, Epistrophe, Tricolon, Epizeuxis, Syllepsis, Enallage, Zeugma, Chiasmus, Catachresis, Litotes, Metonymy, Pleonasm, Epanalepsis and Scesis Onomaton gets thrown into The Department of Overwhelming Pretentious Verbiage unless it’s written by P.J. O’Rourke. Unfortunately, this one was not, but it could have been [via].
Don’t know about you, but I’m kinda glad the Aztecs are gone.
Cyrus Cylinder is not a rock group.
We posted this before, and we’ll likely post it again: Milton Friedman explains how Capitalism works [via].
Full-time employment is inching up. Maybe.
Cat Eats Dog. You’re on your own with this one. Yeah, it’s safe.
Google “Dog Barf” and you get this – nothing but links to advertisements for canine-gastrointestinal products. No fun at all.
The Neighborhood Boy Saga:
Episode 1 – March 2016
Episode 2 – May 2016
Episode 3 – April 2017
Episode 4 – June 2017
[Top image of a Banded Diacope, (Jardine, William (1843) Fishes of the Perch Family, Naturalist’s Library, vol. XXXVIII, Edinburgh, Scotland: W. H. Lizars) found here.]
