Friday Ephemera
At last, fake tampons for smuggling hooch. // This is not a Muppet, this is Pootoo. Yes, Pootoo. // Milk Seafood Noodle and other Japanese commercials. // “The English profanity ‘shitstorm’ is widely used by Germans.” // Cleaning out the hippo enclosure of Milwaukee County Zoo. // Six hours of Nevada’s night sky (with no time lapse). // Trainers repel water, shirt repels gravy. // Afghanistan of yore. // A history of aspect ratio. // Roam the stars in comfort. (h/t, Coudal) // House climbing. // How common is your birthday? // How cows work. // Life-size whale portraits. // My dad was in a band. // I do believe it’s Elvis. // Duct tape surfing.
Afghanistan of Yore
The expressions on the faces of Krushchev and Bulganin saluting Afghan soldiers wearing old Wehrmacht uniforms are absolutely priceless.
“The English profanity ‘shitstorm’ is widely used by Germans.” // Cleaning out the hippo enclosure of Milwaukee County Zoo.
I see what you did there.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/british-swearing-still-the-best-in-the-world-2013070374748
I think we can afford a moment of quiet pride.
“Yes, it’s unconventional. But you may reasonably wonder why it’s normal for people to consume milk intended by nature to feed baby cows, yet enjoying milk intended for human beings [breast milk] should be considered disgusting and wrong… Leaving aside the yuck factor, it is of course impractical (and morally unacceptable) to milk women in the same way that cows are milked commercially: human milk as such will only ever be a niche product.”
http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2013/07/breast-is-best.html
sk60,
I think that one should have its own post.
Promotion! ;-D
Re: Japanese Commercials…at 4:00 mark … Tommy Lee Jones speaking a couple of words of Japanese (and with laser eyes). Ha.
Viva Las Vegas
Weird Andy, truly weird.
LOVE the Potoo bird.
WANT!
From what I’ve seen, di, it’s already an internet meme. At first, I thought is was a photoshop or a “bad taxidermy” gag.
Trainers repel water, shirt repels gravy.
Alec Guinness could tell you the stuff isn’t stable. 🙂
Ted S.,
Yet another example of economic ignorance. One thing I find interesting is there are people who simultaneously hold the idea that efficiency will lead to economic disaster and the Malthusian fallacies. And a great number of them are university professors.
These are quite effective…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357366/The-3D-Stereoscopic-images-World-War-One-Canadians-attic.html#ixzz2YJeHWjyr
Giant Chrome T-Rex in Paris.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/giant-chrome-t-rex-installed-on-the-seine-river-in-paris-by-philippe-pasqua/
If you can motorise it and install flame-throwers, I’ll take six.
http://tebe-interesno.livejournal.com/
ThompsonCorp(TM) Space division.