The .Gif Friday Post No. 499 – Pelican Pecker, Scanner Ants & Futurisma

These are all somehow related. Not sure why there’s a copier/scanner out in the woods filled with ants. So many questions…

[Found  here, here and here.]

Gone Fishing

No idea what the story is. Possibly in Singapore.

[Found here.]

I’ll See You on the Dark Side of the Hot LInks

“Look, I got this. Just gimme a coupla minutes.” –Cristobal Columbo circa 1492

The Great American Solar Eclipse is tomorrow. Plug in your location here to find out what time you need to start banging your pots and pans to drive the dragon away. If anyone tells you it’s safe to look at with the nekkid eye, he/she is a fool.
Don’t do it.

Apparently The Ancients blamed dogs for the temporary darkness of a solar eclipse.

Every time I hear it, it seems she’s singing about her cat. On the other hand, it’s a good Solar Eclipse party song.

The Mystery of the U.S. Navy’s Ghost Blimp is still unsolved after 75 years.

84 year-old folk artist Denny Lunn tells some stories [via].

The last Blockbuster store is still open for business.

An honorary statue in New Orleans, depicting a famous military figure on a horse, was defaced with the words “Tear It Down” recently. The honored warrior was captured, tortured and killed by fire decades before Europeans even knew about this continent, and centuries prior to the founding of the United States of America. TRUE.

Walter E. Williams on Rewriting American History.

[Top image from here.]

 

The .Gif Friday Post No. 498 – Lake Reflection, Blowup & Blowout

[Found here and here. First one is my own, original image found here.]

Okay, I got nuthin’.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 497 – Rodeo Rascals, Hedgehog Cat Tango & Pwnd by Plastic

[Found here, here and here.]

Spuds

“My friends call me either ‘Jennie’, OR ‘Ida.'”

[Found in here.]

Apparently the soil has a high acid content.

Stowlangtoft Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
To make matters worse, Stolangtoft Hall is a nursing home…

[Found here.]

Black Ops Never Blink.

Bet it’s hot in there, especially under the lights of the camera.

[Found here.]

Australian Body Surfing Hot Links

This is what you get when you Google Fireworm.

Keep the carburetor out of the dishwasher.

Ladies and Gentlemen, due to a shift in the space-time continuum, we’re going to monitor the situation.

The Woolwich Foot Tunnel Anomaly is kinda fun [via].

Dog scales a 12′-10″ wall.

A Dr. Thomas Sowell Primer.

Conan O’Brien, once president of the Harvard Lampoon, allegedly spent a night in jail following a stunt he pulled as an undergraduate. That story (with other unrelated pranks) found here.

How to swap pianos and not hold up the concert.

This is my favorite piano etude. I’d rename it “The Stupid Deadline Song.”

[Top image is a screen cap from this, found here.]