I gotta start carrying around a bag of self-adhesive googly-eyes.
Just gotta.
Tag: WTF
Infraterrestrial Hot Links
Gone With The Wind in 1 minute.
Guy got fired for doing what comes naturally.
What The Heck Is It? The Giz Wiz dares you to guess.
Like early 20’s-30’s jazz? Free public domain downloads here.
Ever review the Socialist Party USA Platform? Everything is free except for freedom.
Yank the plastic straw out of the sea turtle’s left nostril and sell it to China = RECYCLING!
Dust in the foreground, stars in the background. This .gif of the surface of a comet (67P?) may or may not be amazing.
This is possibly The Best White House Press Conference you’ll ever hear.
[Top image: US Navy Hurricane Hunters, 1960, found here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 547 – Ghost Scooter, Wire Mesh & #InMyFeelings Challenge Fail
Nothing Much Happened This Weekend.
Hot Links with Daisy and Joe
THIS is amazing.
Remembering Triggly Puff.
Stuff I never knew about petticoats.
Cats during an earthquake in Japan [via].
The Dancing Plague of 1518 killed hundreds of peasants in Strasbourg Germany.
The Laughing Epidemic of 1962 affected hundreds of people in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
Got a critter trapped under the kitchen counter? It might not be what you think it is.
In the past six years (2002-2018) there have been three recorded deaths in the US from snake bites during religious services. Pastor Cody Coots survived a bite to the face. Jamie Coots, Cody’s father was bit on the hand and died in 2014. (Pinkard and Bowden addressed this practice in 1984.)
About Hollerin’. Wanna hear some? Leonard Emanuel was one of the best.
Petticoat Junction trivia – Edgar Buchanan (aka Uncle Joe Carson) was a dentist in real life. He’s pictured above with Irene Ryan (aka Daisy Mae “Granny” Moses) on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies, 1968.
The Friday .Gif Post No. 546 – Crab Shell Molting, Hippo Roll, Dance Hard & Lil’ Demon Photobomb
Dang. I lost the source links for these (despite the watermarks) so I need to tighten up. If anyone has the original links, I’ll update with credit. The 3rd one reminded me of the last one (which is one of my all-time favorites.)
Down the River Styx
Makes me wanna puke.
So why have I been suspended from Twitter for doing nothing?
If you haven’t noticed by now, Jack Dorsey is an asshole, and my Twitter account that I don’t use has been magically reinstated.
Update: Here’s the notification:
“Okay. It’s 1-800-Eat-Shit.”
[Related post here.]
Update II: I was sent to #TwitterGulag (several times) for supposedly breaking one or more of their vague rules, I and many others are now vulnerable.
Twitter has begun banning a large number of accounts from the website, specifically focusing on accounts that have previously been banned or have received suspensions.
Yesterday a number of Twitter users reported that their accounts were beginning to lose followers at a rapid pace. The banning seemed to apply to a multitude of accounts with little explanation as to why they were being suspended. Users took to the hashtag #TwitterPurge to voice their concerns over the issue.
Archemedes’ Ladder?
Little Shop Of Horrors
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 