Tag: WTF
Carole was a hottie.
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Dog sleds. [via].
Someone really likes Hot Wheels. Jump to 01:12 for the GoPro experience [via].
Lucy feeds his cats (with commentary).
Mouse poop vs. rat poop. The critter in our garage is not a mouse.
“You could die just trying to get out.” Monster surf tops 60 feet (18 January 2018).
On rogue waves: Sebastian Junger‘s 1997 book “The Perfect Storm” describes how they happen. I read the book twice, it was that good. The movie, well, it took a lot of liberties with Junger’s documentary. It’s still worth a watch.
John Moschitta Jr., aka, The Fastest talking man in the world (according to the Guinness Book of World Records) recites “Ya Got Trouble” from The Music Man.
The Fastest talking woman in the world (according to the Guinness Book of World Records) is Fran Capo.
Wanna play Kim Jong Un? Nuke any city on the planet and see the results.
[Top: Tony Clifton graphic found here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No.519 – Ancient Fertility Figurine Pron
Nightmare Fish
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Never heard the term Crip walk until today. Apparently it could get you killed if you did it in some neighborhoods and you’re not a Crip.
Here’s a tutorial on how to Crip walk from the UK. Here’s what it looks like in action.
A McDonald’s Chicken Nugget Commercial (2007?) features Ronald McDonald Crip walking.
The Creighton Family produced many Creightons.
This is what you get if you Google “Dog General Green.”
Godzilla stalks, but
Alligator nose. “It is very, very abnormal” but “it is not abnormal.” Alligators “know they have to breathe.” Brilliant commentary [via].
The animals are experiencing brumation, a process cold-blooded animals go through that lowers their metabolism so they can survive cold climates, similar to warm-blooded mammals’ hibernation. “It is very, very abnormal for southeastern North Carolina, […] It is not abnormal for the [the alligators] to do this because they know they have to breathe.”
Weathercam photobomb amused me. Related post here.
Home Security for only $1.25. It permits ventilation, too. Guess what it is.
Who’s Your Doppelganger in Museum Portraits? [UPDATE: Here’s a privacy warning.]
[Top image from here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 518 – Kitchen Ninja, Bubblehead & A Potato
Best Cookbook Ever.
Mickler compiled these rural recipes of great artery clogging goodness. Be sure to check with your doctor first before trying them, and no, there aren’t any possum or squirrel recipes. For those you need a copy of The Foxfire Appalachian Cookbook.
[Found in our kitchen, reminded of it by Amy Oops.]
Saturday Matinee – Russian Standoff, Booker T. & The MGs, Merle Travis w/ Speedy West and Judy Hayden, & Paula Jo Taylor
“We need some untranslatable Russian Stuff.” Young Russian thugs messed with the wrong construction workers [via]. On the other hand, here’s the same crane, so the vid was probably staged for the lulz. They’re apparently in the auto reclamation business.
“Hang ‘Em High” is a musical theme composed by Dominic Frontiere for the soundtrack of the 1968 film of the same name. Though it was first covered by Hugo Montenegro, whose orchestra recorded a full album of music from the film, the tune became a hit in an R&B instrumental version by Booker T. & the M.G.’s that charted #9 Pop and #35 R&B [Quote & links via Wiki].
Merle Travis was a national treasure. Country pop is nothing compared to country swing, and check out that unusual picking style.
Heck, let’s go one more just for fun.
Have a great weekend, folks, and remember that the traffic goes back to default on Monday.
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Couldn’t find anything on snoring cow omens. According to Wiki, whistling on board a sailing ship is bad luck, it’s thought to encourage the wind to increase. On ships where whistling was taboo, the cook was usually excused, because as long as he was heard whistling he wasn’t stealing food.
Goats were more sure-footed on sailing ships than cows, and ancient mariners would leave breeding pairs on remote islands to provide food for future visitors. Oh, and goats snore, too.
Famed mariner Josh Slocum was once advised to purchase carpet tacks by a merchant. He balked until the merchant explained why he needed them. They were to be scattered over the deck after dark in case pirates attempted to board the vessel undetected. The tacks were a burglar alarm, and according to Slocum, they worked.
Tacks were employed in the design of “Turtle Boats,” Korean warships of the late 1500s for similar reasons.
I’d never heard of the Beano Grenade until now.
I read in a USNI publication that 90% of intercontinental communications are via submarine cable. The same was true in 1850.
Infrasound – the frequency of fear? [h/t Carl L.]
A Mumbo Jumbo was not a niceguy.
The 17 equations that changed the course of history. Pythagoras of Samos was good, but Leonhard Euler came up with the concept of the square root of negative 1, and much more. Also, Euler is not pronounced “yū’-lər.” It’s a Swiss surname, pronounced “ōē’-dər.”
Pheeew. Jingle Bells is a racist song because of minstrel shows?
[Top image is a panel from “Ploopy The Ghost” by F.O. Alexander, ca. 1940. Franklin Osborn Alexander was the cartoonist who provided the classic graphics for the board game Monopoly.]
