Vespertilionizing Hot Links

I’ll Always Remember Hawaii, Cyril Lefbevre (?) (2011)I don’t know anything about the musician other than he appears elderly and plays un Ukulélé MOTU français.

Cochineal bugs.

Knockemstiff, Ohio.

What time is it on Twitter?

It’s just an old comic book.

This is a herd of llamas in Khipu.

A lot of people pointing at things.

Lost your cursor arrow? This will find it.

When an apple doesn’t taste like an apple.

Packouz & Diveroli were the inspiration for War Dogs (2016).

UMPD brutality left him “mentally and emotionally tormented with an experience that will last a lifetime.” 😀

If Ivory Soap is 99 and 44/100% pure, what’s in the other 0.56%?

[Top image found in the curser finder linked above.]


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The .Gif Friday Post No. 669 – Doggie Slider, Three Ice Angels & A Zoomfail

[1st created from vid found here; 2nd & 3rd found here and here.]

Dogs in a Theater.

Apparently they’re service dogs being trained to sit through a movie without talking.

[Found here.]

Let’s Pretend it’s Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras has been ruined for the 2nd year in a row. Thank God USA Today has a list of the 10 Best Ways to Celebrate Mardi Gras at Home.

1. Decorate in green, gold and purple.
Dare to be ugly.

2. Have a seafood boil.
Eew.

3. Eat a king cake.
Okay.

4. Mix a Mardi Gras martini.
Okay with that also. Oop, made a mistake. Let’s try another one.
Whoopsie. Did it again. Let’s make three and see which one is best. Then we’ll make that one.
Uh-oh…

5. Make a shoebox float.
Then look at it.

6. Learn some Cajun French.
Gitcha gitcha gris-gris gumbo yaya. Done.

7. Snack on some MoonPies.
Got it.

8. See some house floats.
Mardi Gras without the flashers, but a good excuse to keep your Christmas lights up.

9. Dress up your dog.
No. It embarrasses you and annoys the dog.

10. Take a virtual tour of Mardi Gras World.
It’s kinda cool in a 2nd grade field trip kinda way, but it’s virtual so it’s more like shopping for mattress covers online.

Enough of that nonsense. Let’s do this instead.

 

Legible Graffiti

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Mathieu Tremblin lives and works in Rennes and Arles, France, finds graffiti and enhances them for legibility (and sometimes the taggers return).

“As if tagging the city was about freedom, and drawing decorative letters about control, I wanted to find a project to turn “ugly tags” into something “beautiful”, but preserve the subversive part of language distortion.”

I find it interesting that the vandalism in France is indistinguishable from that in the US, and I wonder why.

[More images here. Poorly translated background story here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 667 – Cat Magic, Foaming Foam & Trashman Trashes

[Found here, here and here.]

Really?

I received 10 unordered face masks from the Association of the United States Navy (AUSN) today. They’re promotional, and include a request for donations.

Made in China.

FASHION MASK
Executive Standard FZ/IT 73049-2014
Safety Class B ( it’s can contact with skin directly)
Fashion dust protection, sun protection thermal mask (not medical mask)
Attention This product can be used with multiple times, washable;
No protection against toxic gases
Effect: please use with caution for skin allergy

Typos are as they appear on the package.

Should I burn them?


Update: Here’s the response from AUSN:

Sir,
I apologize for the packaging. In response to our COVID-19 survey which showed that the majority of our members were in need of PPE gear. We had hired a veteran owned company in Illinois to do the production and distribution of the masks. It was not until we received the tracking numbers once they were mailed to our membership that we realized they were not coming from the USA. They do in fact have the ability to insert a N95 filter which would increase the level of protection if desired further protection against the virus.
Thank for your understanding.

Non-Photoshopped Ceiling Cats

Taiwanese shop owner installed a glass ceiling for his cats.
Now they won’t stop staring at him.

[Story and image here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 665+1 – Ball Drop Oops, Three Dogs on a Ball & Surf Dogs

[Found here, here and here.]