Tag: WTF

Stir Fried Hot Links

 

“Stupid is rarely quiet.” – Bunk Strutts 5 May 2018

This is stupid.

Grease the pole.

Urban graffiti vid is better with the sound off.

Cat hunts and retrieves sponges.

Time passing too quickly? Consider a Slow Watch. Its single hand rotates once every 24 hours.

Major 7th arpeggio in B♭. Hold your nose and enjoy the Rectal Magnum Opus.

World’s oldest spider dead at 43.

This is a fun cartoon series.

17 minutes of lathe art.

Heh.

Cheap thrills: Find a pair of 3D movie glasses (not the red/blue type, the polarized kind). Put them on, look in a mirror and close one eye. Do it.

George de Mestral (1907-1990) was a Swiss electrical engineer who invented Velcro, but lost his patent rights in 1978.

[Top image found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 533 – Early .Gif FaceMorph, Shadows & AI Humanoid Spaz

[First .gif source unknown, and it’s the second one ever posted on this site. It’s one of my all-time favorites and inspired This Awesome Collection.

2nd .gif found here,

Third .gif was cobbled together from a video of a computer-generated humanoid that taught itself to walk, then run, by trial and error.

“So, um, who’s up for a beer?”

Looks like union work to me.
Then there’s the “Frontier Communications” van in the foreground.
No comment.

[Found here.]

“Um, Hasbro. May I have a word with you?”

It appears that Hasbro has repackaged Milton Bradley‘s classic “The Game of Life” (which it owns) with a more accurate title. Good thing there’s a warning that the “poop” contains wheat.

[Advertisement vid here, image & copy found here, via here.]

 

And The Times They Are A Hot Links

A long forgotten grade-school rhyme popped into my head recently and here it is.

Mary had a little watch.
She swallowed it one day,
So Mary took a Feen-A-Mint
To pass the time away.

The Feen-A-Mint, it did not work;
The time, it did not pass;
So if you want to know what time it is,
Just look up Mary’s little brother.
He’s got a watch.

Full Moon.

Marky Ramone talks about CBGBs and stuff.

The U.S. Tax System explained with beer.

These “Chimera Cats” are not photoshopped images.

Caren Zeldie Turner lost her position as NJ Port Authority Commissioner because of this.

Cool and embarrassing at the same time. El TIE Fighter más ecológico de la galaxia.

The world’s oldest living person is always alive because the previous record holder has passed on.

Broward County school shooting survivor Kenneth Preston did some homework and was squelched.

Some People Are Their Own Identical Twins. [via]. More here.

[Top image found here.]

“HEY YOU! DOWN IN FRONT!”

[Found in here.]

Auto Wash Bowl

“The Auto Wash Bowl was built in Chicago in 1924 by The Newway Auto Cleaning & Service Corp., allowing drivers to run around in circles to clean off the undercarriage. After that, they drove into a stall where they’d get a proper wash by an attendant.”

[Image & caption found here via here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 531 – Kitty Lizard Tizzy, Dog Wars & Beach Ball Chumping

[Found here, here and here.]

Condoned by Congress, The USS Comfort Carried Captured Camels

In 1855, Congress approved a plan developed by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to import camels as pack animals for the U.S. Army operating in the American Southwest.

The camels were also considered for use as a long-range mounted force that could drive “hostile Indians out of the country.” The storeship USS Supply was refitted with special hatches, stables, hoists and a “camel car” for the sole purpose of loading and transporting dromedaries.

Once the first herd of camels was obtained in North Africa, Supply [w]as further modified to compensate for the towering humps of the camels by cutting away part of the main deck. The camels were delivered to Texas where their potential was recognized but the plan was never fully implemented due to the advent of the Civil War.

So instead of wasting them, the U.S. Army sold the camels to zoos. TRUE

[Image and story found here. More about the Camel Corps here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No.530 – Shipping Center, HooverDog & Maori War Face

You gotta see the first one full size.
The second illustrates typical dog survival instincts.
The third shows either complete disbelief, a Maori War Face, or a hyperthyroid problem.

[Found here, here and here.]

UPDATE: These appear to be the same dogs doing pretty much the same thing:

[Found here.]