Time to clean out the ol’ A&A folder, so put on your athletic supporter and take your meds:
They are thawing out the largest Colossal Squid ever - 1000 lb - in New Zealand somewhere, prior to doing detailed dissections on it. The article tells all!
Next - we have a Norwegian effort to develop a nicotine vaccine:
The full article is here - at Reuters - which should either be pronounced Rooters, or spelled Royters , dammit! Fucking Euro-names.
Next: I will give you one guess as to what happened here, and what did it:
That is about the funniest thing since sliced bread. No, wait…
The thing I really think is neat about it is the precision and accuracy - the timing - of the slices by the offending aircraft propeller! Notice the spacing between slices hardly changes all the way from the tail to the back of the passenger compartment. Now that must have been a razor-sharp prop and a seriously powerful engine.
Well! Thank goodness we cleared up that confusion. I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume that when they are open again it’ll be because they are no longer closed. I know its a stretch…
I forgot where I got the alien plant artwork. But it sure is neat.
So is this one:
That green hand kinda spoils it in a dumb Shreck-ish cartoon way.
The above photo is - yes I can safely say - it’s strange. So there.
Here is one that’s not so strange:
No - wait. Yes it is. It is as strange as the other one, truth be told. My bad.
I don’t remember if I used this before. I know I’ve wanted to for a long time.
The above is a bedbug - by Reuters again, of course.
Below is my last funny food photo.
Those things were a hoot ‘n a half! I wish I remembered where I got ‘em.
I just got this from the FAIL web site. Look it up yourself, lazy! Oh - jeez. OK. Here. Its a WordPress blog, so it’ll stay in the fambly anyway.
Here is another squid-themed FAIL photo:
Now the pacifier thingy below is funny:
The photo below is strange, too.
Is … is that … is that the sin that shall not be named? Or is it just one of those other sins that aren’t mentioned loudly in polite company?
Here …whew! That was work …here is some smut.
April 30, 2008 at 10:09 am
The dog in the suit. Classic.
“Would you do it for a SCUBA snack” doesn’t roll as well, does it?
Pic #7. A piece titled “The Mother-in-law After Arising”.
April 30, 2008 at 10:20 am
Nice collection of oddity.
The shredded plane reminds me of this picture of the A-10:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kim_campbell_damage_a10.jpg
The A-10 is exceptionally hardy, to the point that some service men refer to it as ‘an airborne tank.’ Its strong airframe can survive direct hits from armor-piercing and high-explosive projectiles up to 23 mm…The aircraft is designed to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator and half a wing torn off…The cockpit and parts of the flight-control system are protected by 900 pounds (408 kg) of titanium armor, referred to as a “titanium bathtub”. The tub has been tested to withstand multiple strikes from 20 mm cannon fire.
Airborne tank. What better way of killing tanks than with an airborne one?
April 30, 2008 at 11:28 am
I don’t know why you ended up in the spam filter, Gibby. You’re last name isn’t ‘Lokki” is it?
The A-10 is ’bout my favorite plane. Tough as armadilla shit. Able to punch many holes in heavily armored tanks. Able to fly on sheer pilot willpower and a small rubber band. Flies low ‘n slow - the better to annihilate the enemy into itty-bitty pieces-parts with!
April 30, 2008 at 11:40 am
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in the spam receptacle recently. Weird. Whatever happened to Lokki anyway?
Yeah, I really do have a gooey patch for the A-10. Thank God it’s still got another 20 years of service before it gets replaced.
April 30, 2008 at 11:52 am
Lokki and Dawn both dropped off the radar about 2(?) months or so ago. I have no clue.
Wonder what they will replace it with? Maybe they’ll just gently polish the baby to perfection with a light technology-modernizing sponge bath.
April 30, 2008 at 11:57 am
I like how the example with pilot Kim Campbell allows that it is as much a testament to her flying as the tank killer’s armor - both are good. REAL good.
April 30, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I’d read about the A-10’s damage-surviving abilities. Was it Campells damaged wing the was flapping in the breeze - a 2ft by 4ft section of wing sheeting flapping right in front of the engine intake?
I’d read that the pilot was at first worried that the plane would crash with a 2×4ft section torn out of the wing. When that didn’t happen, the pilot worried that the 2×4ft sheet that was flapping in the breeze would get ingested by the engine.
It did. The engine sucked it in, uttered a gentle *burp*, and then continued running smoothly.
After that the pilot totally stopped worrying - he *knew* he/she was going to land just fine.
April 30, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Yeah, I’m not quite sure the F-35 (which is what’s rumoured to be replacing the A-10) would perform to the same high standard when shot up.
April 30, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Gibby - I haven’t kept up with most new-development on jets and the like. What is the supposed argument for the F-35?
April 30, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Based on long seconds of research (just now!), I doubt the F-35 could take a fraction the punishment that the A-10 will simply shrug off. It appears to me the missions of the two craft have almost no overlap except coincidental.
Well, we can hope there are plenty of A-10s in AZ in reserve. They’re based in Tucson, aren’t they?
April 30, 2008 at 1:31 pm
You mean regarding the replacement of the A-10? I’m not totally sure, but I guess it’s because the F-35 seems fairly similar to the A-10 in terms of being able to provide Close Air Support. Except of course that it has some stealth capability, better sensors, can fill other roles &c.
Or in other words, I’ve no idea.
April 30, 2008 at 1:40 pm
yeah, but will it fly low ‘n slow? I don’t know, but I was under the impression that the quiet, really low speed on-the-deck capability is what the pilots love - and the enemies hate - about the A-10.
I could be completely faacked up, of course.
April 30, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Thanks Gibby. Even an I don’t know is information!
McGoo, what does it mean when you get a search engine hit from “fritzl enema”? You get some strange ones. Is there a process (such as reading tea leaves) by which you divine the true nature?
Signed,
Your humble Padawan
April 30, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Say! That’s a nice one, LK.
Fritzl enema.
Sounds German. Or Swiss or Austrian. Bet it’s painful.
No, I never divine their true nature. The only thing I sometimes do is type ‘em in to Google myself and see where it leads, and how they got to me. It can take you on some really strange journeys. Take a lunch.
A&A did make it to number 1 for the hit “Temptation - thy name is poop chute”, but not for the reason I’d hoped.
Weasel gets the strangest ones. I am totally jealous.
April 30, 2008 at 2:11 pm
… thy name is poop chute…
Ok, are you happy? I just had to lie to my co-workers about why there is a fine mist of coffee spray across my desk and out my door.
April 30, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Ah. Thanks for telling me.
*gets out scorecard - marks another square*
April 30, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Bra.Vo.
Yes, that was oddity in its finest.
Somehow I’ll have to try to outodd that collection.
April 30, 2008 at 3:15 pm
It’s like porn, Mayor - there’s plenty more out there. Go for it!
The majority of those were in my “My Photos for WordPress*” folder for a while. I surf A LOT, and whenever I see anything even remotely interesting - or, more often, really fucking odd - I save it to my file.
It really helps on slow post days, and yields the added benefit of a “freebee” post from time to time,when I clean out the pipes.
* I still have a few cherished never-been-used shots in there. Some day…
April 30, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I shall lie in sweaty anticipation for the undivulged shots. Well, looking forward to them anyway. Sweaty might be putting it on a little thick.
May 1, 2008 at 12:43 am
Morning guys. On the wierd searches: I got one today that was “Sex in a rowboat”. I also did a full post on one that I get quite often.
“Fat men in Diapers”.
May 1, 2008 at 1:49 am
Fat men in diapers? Thats … perverted.
Now sex in a rowboat, I can see…
May 1, 2008 at 2:08 am
If this boat’s a-rockin’ don’t come a-knockin’… makes sense.
May 1, 2008 at 6:47 am
I still get hits to this day on the diapers one. I guess it drives up traffic… But now I know that some of my readers are 30+ overweight dudes that get turned on when the “make poopie”.
Eh.
May 1, 2008 at 7:49 am
Like I’ve said before - a good percentage of my traffic is hitting on “Liver Cirrhosis ..) do to this ancient post:
http://aardvarks.wordpress.com/2007/12/15/crocodile-liver-cirrhosis-plague-a-complete-mystery/
What’s funny is that the posts on either ’side’ of it (date-wise) get some of the next-highest hits.
May 1, 2008 at 11:27 am
I will go scope that out. At home.
Old Iron: “But now I know that some of my readers are 30+ overweight dudes that get turned on when the ‘make poopie’.”
I will probably spend the rest of my life in vain trying desperately to scrub that image from my mind.
May 1, 2008 at 11:41 am
Hey McGoo - I just saw that alien plant picture you showed, on the cover of Scientific American. Didn’t think to look for the artist’s name. Brain fart.
May 1, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Yep. I saw that Sci-Am the other day in the bookstore when I was looking for reading fodder.
But … so far as I can recall, I DID NOT get the photos from Sci-Am. I must have ran into the artist’s site or sumpin somewhere on the Innertubes.
May 1, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I’m going to try to run down the artist. That pic was cool enough that odds are I’ll like his/her other art.
May 1, 2008 at 6:21 pm
There were (IMHO) even better ones wherever I got those.