Big shout out to Blogadilla reader billb, who sent us what is definitely our weirdest Bacon Product of the Week to date. Can any of you out there one up him? Keep posting your bacon finds in the comments!
This sport is common throughout several east and southeast Asian cultures, usually involving the large horned beetles of the Rhinoceros beetle subfamily (Dynastinae), whose members include the awesome Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) and the Atlas beetle (Chalcosoma atlas). The large “horns” of the males are used for territorial fighting, where they will wrestle in an attempt to topple one another, until one submits, retreats, or is knocked-off a perch. Fighting these beetles is a popular gambling sport throughout Asia, from Thailand to Hong Kong (another link).
In Japan, collecting and fighting these beetles is common among boys - Rhinoceros beetles are easy pets to care for. These fighting pets are common enough in Japan that one can even buy Rhinoceros beetles from streetside vending machines (photo from the Photomann gallery of Japanese vending machines), and there are many Japanese toys and models that relate to Rhinoceros beetle collecting. Also, this practice is the likely origin of the Japanese game Pokémon, which gained world popularity in the late 1990’s, and which focuses on the collecting, husbandry, and fighting of supernatural creatures.
There are also dire “blood sport” forms of bug fighting, involving more dangerous insects, arachnids, and crustaceans - as seen on the website Japanese Bug Fights! (sadly, sometimes the matches end in fatalities).
What does this image represent? Here are some possible answers:
how to check the oil on Bessie
a really good hiding place for a spliff, where no one will EVER look
something very very wrong and illegal in 39 states
junkie cows
where sausage comes from
‘T-boning’
a very lifelike “pin-the-tail” game
how to inflate your blow-up heifer doll
drunken shenanigans at the ol’ dairy farm
Believe it or not, this is an actual graphic from a real website demonstrating the proper technique for drawing blood from a cow. (You take blood from a vein on the underside of the tail - who knew?!) Here is a photo demonstrating the technique in action:
The website is from a company, BioTracking, that provides pregnancy tests for cows and other ruminants. If livestock reproduction technology makes you giggle like a schoolgirl then check out this link for a ram ejaculator. Seems to me that sheep farmers could save a lot of money by just going by Good Vibrations instead.
[Given that it is now the Chinese Year of the Rat, I thought this appropriate.]
A Rat King is not the King of Rats, despite what certain dippy ballets and Dungeons & Dragons geeks would have you think. A Rat King is a mythological creature composed of a mass of rats, stuck together by knotted and intertwined tails. This phenomenon is said to occur when rats nest together in large numbers and their tails somehow naturally tangle together. They are reported to move about as a single entity, running amock and scaring the sh!t out of everyone. This phenomenon/myth appears to be of European origin and the oldest report of a Rat King may date to 1564.
For examples of preserved (hoax) Rat Kings: Linkety - Link - Link
Perhaps only worse than a Rat King is the dreaded squawking Chihuahua King.
I don’t want to give too much away if you haven’t seen it yet, but it looks more like a dinosaur-bodied, fish-tailed, 6-to-8-legged, grasshopper-headed, tadpole mutant (and almost a little too much like the mutant in The Host).
This is my friend Steve’s dog.
She is young and friendly and affectionate and energetic
. . . and inbred and stupid.
Really stupid.
Untrainably stupid.
Steve says, “You know, last week she pooped a Hot Wheels.”
Apparently Steve’s back yard is something of an archaeological site: generations of toys are buried beneath the turf and his dog digs them up and eats them (despite great efforts to train her otherwise). And despite this, she is in good health.
The running list of remarkable things Steve’s dog has pooped:
•1 Hot Wheels car
•Multiple fragments of plastic army men
•2 bottlecaps
•Countless rocks
•Christmas tinsel
•What may be the remains of a My Little Pony head
•1 small marble
•1 G.I. Joe action figure torso
•A length of nylon rope (it required some ‘midwifing’)
•A length of cotton string (this also required some ‘midwifing’)
•And around 16¢ in change
Last night, I saw “Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience.”
Life-sized free-moving animatronic dinosaurs.
Oh man . . . it kicked ten flavors of Jurassic robot as$!!
Here’s the video I made:
You’ve seen a LOLCat; you’ve seen a LOLebowski; but these pale in comparison to the new new king of the Internet, the almost mythical “LOLTapir“. If you don’t know what a Tapir is, check out the wikipedia page.
For more LOLTapirs, check out the full gallery– most of the images are safe for work, but there a few images that lean toward the ‘explicit’ end of the spectrum, so be warned. Nothing too gross though.
Have you had enough of college students wearing 3 polo shirts at the same time, each with its own massively popped collar? Are you not convinced that pink is the new black? Are you eager to rebel in fashion choice, but forced to be subtle?
If any or all of the above points pertain to you, or if you just want to laugh, check out ThreadPit’s “Tragically Hip” polo shirts…a hilarious choice for the “I’m-over-polo-shirts,-but-really-not”-type of guy:
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us - it’s that animatronic dinosaurs will not be contained. Animatronic dinosaurs break free, expand to new territory, and crash through barriers . . . painfully . . . maybe even dangerously.
Oh man . . . ROBOTSandDINOSAURS!! Two supercool things in one place (much like bacon and chocolate). On tour now, the Bay Area venue is the San Jose HP Pavillion, December 26-30.
