Feathering the nest

Brazen bird burgles bill from unsuspecting shopper.


And can you make sense of this picture? (Hint: tilt your head 90^o to the left.) If you still can't see it, here's a copy of the picture with an outline to help you out.)

It took me 5 minutes to understand this not disturbing photo. from pics

"When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation." -- Vanya Cohen

Crumple zone

How do Dummies spend Christmas? Annihilating toys with 120-mph crash tests, that's how.

And now that it's almost winter, be cow-ful before you drive. (sorry)

Be cow-ful before you drive from funny

Finally, your fiends at MIT want you to engage in constructive debate.

"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy." -- Eric Hoffer

Tooth hurts

Man sets record for most bottles opened using his teeth in one minute, with reckless abandon.


But you can take the path of less resistance with this nifty six-pack bottle opener.

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard

Board games

Quirky video from Kevin Parry who plays "miniature action sports" like skateboarding and surfing. (There's a behind-the-scenes video, too.)


And a store customer with a nice hacky-sack-style save, doesn't let the wayward beer get away.

Saving a beer from funny

"The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel." -- Robert Morley

Queasy does it

This water slide / Ferris wheel contraption called the Slidewheel just might be the stomach-turningest amusement park ride ever invented. (For a better idea of how it works, there's this animated video.)


Also nauseating is this fellow's beer-based concoction flavored with cigarette smoke, a handful of wrigglers, and topped off with a flaming shot of hooch, which he impressively chugs down in a matter of seconds.

HMB while I drink my weird as all hell beer from holdmybeer

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity." -- Thor Heyerdahl

Point of attack

If you don't like insects, you might really not like watching this exterminator remove a gigantic hornet nest hiding inside someone's backyard shed.


And this guy got stung playing the odds... what could go wrong?

WCGW if i put my hand here? from Whatcouldgowrong

"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance." -- Laurence J. Peter

Catching fire

This video of a crazy wheel on fire is fake, right? (Well the flames, anyway.)

And if you see a fire off in the distance, start filming and you might catch an explosion like this.

Fire in the distance from gifs

"Never fight an inanimate object." -- P. J. O'Rourke

Turning a corner

Watch Lars Andersen bend arrows mid-flight and hit targets located behind obstacles. A valuable skill indeed.


And so-so effort by this furniture mover who tries to intentionally injure himself on the job by jumping in front of a kid on a scooter.

"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed." -- Stanley Kubrick

At once

Lend me your ears and tell me that 100 people singing different notes at the same time isn't the choir from Hell.


On the other hand, this synchronized bird diving is a little more like it.

Synchronized diving from gifs

"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." -- Franz Kafka

Brush with fate

Watch how this oddly-talented artist paints him a self-portrait backwards while looking in a mirror.


And a new wrinkle on breakfast from an Instagram account called @the_eggshibit.

A post shared by The Egg Exhibit🍳 (@the_eggshibit) on Nov 14, 2017 at 8:25am PST

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." -- Edgar Degas

Flight beer

This Carlton Draught commercial almost makes me want to drink their beer.


And surprisingly enough, hospital food in Japan looks good enough to eat.

"Beer is the cause and solution to all of life's problems." -- Homer Simpson

Rubberneckers

Try to watch this if you can... 14-year-old Pakistani boy can turn his head 180 degrees (yeah, like an owl) and other freaky flauntings of fantastic flexibility.


Also, surreal and slightly grotesque human-form animations from Esteban Diacono.

A post shared by Esteban Diacono (@_estebandiacono) on Oct 17, 2017 at 6:38am PDT

"Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry." -- Albert Perry

Atta boy

This smart, happy, and highly motivated pooch is proof positive that education, including dog obedience training, is better in the UK.


And it seems UPS drivers have a Facebook group dedicated to the dogs on their routes.

"Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?" -- Robert Brault

Scraping by

Lesson learned -- do not park your car right next to the train tracks.

Also ill-advised, this nauseatingly bizarre family arrangement in which the daughter pleaded guilty to marrying her mom, who was once married to her biological son. Huh...?!?

"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde

King of the jungle

Curious mountain lion chooses, presumably wisely, not to mess with a rather assertive skunk.

And a dog tries to stop two brothers from fighting.

Dog tries to stop two brothers from fighting

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." -- William Shakespeare

For art's sake

This guy used just a small fraction of the photos taken of it by the six million annual visitors to the Louvre to make Mona Lisa Selfie, a (very) short film made entirely of Instagram posts.

And watch a restorer clean 200-years-worth of grimy varnish off an oil painting without destroying the artwork itself.

A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish 1/2 pic.twitter.com/yBGNGDcNd7

— Philip Mould (@philipmould) November 6, 2017

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things." -- Henri Matisse

So shall ye reap

Nothing to report here... a morning news show crew tried the Carolina Reaper #OneChipChallenge, and it didn't go all that well for some of the participants.


And this deli customer was puzzled by a handwritten message on his sandwich wrapper... Who is Tom, and why has he been decreed the chooser of onions?

Tom knows best

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." -- William Arthur Ward

Bass serenade in the key of moo

Who said cows are drawn to music? Certainly not this guy.


And tough to believe that this blues guitar player, Toby Lee, is a mere 12 years old when he can play like this. The stuff he recorded a couple of years ago (at age 10) is similarly impressive.

"Music is the poetry of the air." -- Richter

Pot luck

This real and amusing ad from Oregon-based cannabis delivery company Briteside is a spot-on parody of the formulaic big pharma commercials that seem to OD the TV airwaves.


And maybe they'll make a no-smoking PSA out of this citizen video of a smoker being handcuffed and hauled out of the stands at a football game. Got what she deserved, it appears.

Don't smoke in SEC stadiums. Thanks. pic.twitter.com/HdudwN8Wq5

— SEC Country (@SECcountry) November 5, 2017

"If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action." -- Douglas Adams

Cutting edge

Jimmy Kimmel pulls a back-to-the-future trick on passersby by telling them an iPhone 4 is the new iPhone X, and the reactions are pretty much what you'd expect from the brand-loyal sheeple.


And what would happen if toddlers could post on Facebook? Nothing good, of course.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard P. Feynman

Pro bono

Guy films a too-good ad to auction off his girlfriend's used car, so good in fact that the plan backfires when bidders go crazy, and eBay suspects fraud and cancels it.


And a flowchart to help you decide whether to work gratis. Also available as a letterpress print.

"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." -- Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Volley fever

Check out tennis pro Pablo Cuevas' perfectly executed "tweener" last week.

And the bestselling artists of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America's list of gold and platinum artists. Also, check out the RIAA's database, which can be quite the time suck if you want to filter and reminisce.

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good." -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Oversharing

Seems that people will share just about anything about themselves when you put them in front of the camera, as evidenced by these 100 folks who were asked, "What's the worst thing you've ever done?", and gave quite the range of answers.


And make sure you think about your ink, lest you regret it.

I’ve got regrets, but at least I didn’t get Kevin Spacey’s face tattooed on me. pic.twitter.com/TxOXdyfCdn

— Chris McPhail (@ChrisMcPhaiI) November 2, 2017

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -- George Bernard Shaw

Swing set

Grab a listen to this 1930s jazz style cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller", including zombie tap dancers no less, from a collaboration between Wayne Brady and Postmodern Jukebox.


And not unlike the doodles you made in your school notebook, artist Jake Fried puts black markers and Liquid Paper to good use in making these intricate and mesmerizing short films.

"Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains." -- John Philip Sousa

Tip the scales

Finally an extreme sport I want to watch from funny

Looks like fishketballski is the new "extreme sport" capturing the hearts of Americans from coast to coast.


And a little less eclectic, clandestine photos of museum visitors who happen to match the artworks they're viewing.

https://peoplematchingartworks.tumblr.com/post/166683116125/austrian-artist-stefan-draschan-has-spent-hours

"Sports is human life in microcosm." -- Howard Cosell

Out of the shadows

Have you ever heard someone say that a car "came out of nowhere" to cause an accident?


And also out of thin air, it appears Sports Illustrated predicted the Houston Astros World Series victory three years ago.

Called it... pic.twitter.com/GK8VZDmPR2

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) November 2, 2017

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." -- Paul Valery

Roar deal

What would you do if you heard this mountain lion in the woods?


And in other cats, the BYU mascot is trying to pick up the slack for its struggling football team this year.

BYU might be struggling this year, but their mascot is on another level from sports

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." -- Albert Einstein