Sincere apologies to Jeff and Bil Keane for using this as a cheap last minute intro to an Overnight Open Thread.
Posts Tagged ‘Open thread’
The Real Family Circus
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 160 Comments › )Filed under Art, Education, Humor, Open thread at July 25th, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Blew Flamer Babe Magnet
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 208 Comments › )Filed under Art, Humor, Open thread, Transportation at July 24th, 2010 - 11:00 pm
What can we possibly say about this excellent example of Babe Magnetage that isn’t intuitively obvious to the casual observer? More than you might think.
If I’m not mistaken, this Vehicle of Vapidity is a 1989 Nissan Saturn 4-dork that was originally silver, until Bonnie Phumph’s little brother Dirk took over the ride when Bonnie left for animal husbandry school in Middlevale last year. Dirk went on a yellow spray paint rampage.
Puke Yellow Bile is not an attractive color for any Japanese import, so Dirk took it a step further with the LameFlame job. But of course, just like any proud owner of a newly created Babe Magnet, he couldn’t stop there. Nope. He used the rest of the blue dork-spray paint to stencil “Dirk is King,” “Dirk Rules” and “Dirk Rocks” in Tolkien runes on the door panels just underneath the windows.
But he didn’t stop there either. Enter a poor rendition of Marvin the Martian on the left rear quarter panel. This work o fart just screams “Dirk is a complete moron!” And just so anyone missed the message, Dork managed to knock off his rearview mirror in the Dairy Queen drive-thru and repaired it with, yep, you guessed it, duct tape.
Pure efficient genius, previously posted elsewhere, yet appropriate enough for an Overnight Open Thread.
[Updated vehicle make as a Saturn S series per comments below.]
It’s Caturday!
by 1389AD ( 169 Comments › )Filed under Caturday, Humor, Open thread at July 24th, 2010 - 6:30 pm
It’s Caturday, the best day of the week!
According to the infamous Urban Dictionary, cats will fall from the sky and you’ll receive a thousand sandpaper kisses.
Though Wikipedia seems not to have a Caturday page, it describes the Caturday Internet meme on the Lolcat page:
The first recorded use of the term “lolcat” is from the anonymous imageboard 4chan circa 2005. The word “Lolcat” is attested as early as June 2006, and the domain name “LOLcats.com” was registered on June 14, 2006. Their popularity was spread through usage on forums such as Something Awful. The News Journal states that “some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or ‘Caturdays’.” Ikenburg adds that the images have been “slinking around the Internet for years under various labels, but they did not become a sensation until early 2007 with the advent of I Can Has Cheezburger?” The first image on “I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?” was posted on January 11, 2007, and was allegedly from the Something Awful website.” Lev Grossman of Time wrote that the oldest known example “probably dates to 2006,” but later corrected himself in a blog post where he recapitulated the anecdotal evidence readers had sent him, placing the origin of “Caturday” and many of the images now known by a few as “lolcats” in early 2005. The domain name “caturday.com” was registered on April 30, 2005.
There’s even a Russian version of Lolcats (with English translations below each picture) at lolkot.ru.
From Neatorama is this little blurb for their Cat Butts Magnet Set, for $10.95:
This is probably one of the strangest products we carry on the NeatoShop (and believe me, we carry a lot of strange stuff). Behold, the Cat Butts Magnet Set, a pack of 5 refrigerator magnets with pictures of felines from the non-cute end. It’s probably the perfect WTF gift for the cat lover in your life: Link
But wait, there’s more cat cuteness!
Catsup
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 338 Comments › )Filed under Art, Food and Drink, Humor, Open thread, Weapons at July 23rd, 2010 - 11:00 pm
[Image from here.]
What does somebody have to be smoking to decide to fill up Mr. Boots with helium? First thing that occurred to me was that I’m glad there’s no sound to that image.
Because the inhalation of the contents of a helium balloon invariably forces otherwise sane humans to utter the words “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” in a squeaky voice, imagine what this cat sounds like. Dogs all over the county would howl and paw screen doors in pain and fear of the high frequency air raid siren, glass would shatter, and we’d have an Overnight Open Thread.
