Lane violation

And the world's most dangerous bowler award goes to...
(Nice bowling shoes, BTW.)


And when you're bored on the job... a little game of tic-tac-toe. Another reassuring example of your tax dollars at work.

When you’re bored at work from r/funny

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt." -- Erma Bombeck

Chances with wolves

You can't be too careful these days... an apparently nice dogeroo shows what he's made of, escaping a three-pack of wolves in Italy's Abruzzo National Park.


And why are these wolves running alongside the highway? Trying to stay warm?

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." -- Orison Swett Marden

Night at the improb

Never in your wildest imagination could a musical mashup of 80s hair/metal band Ratt and Marvin Gaye possibly work, could it? Well prepare to be surprised. (And this mashup of Elvis Presley's "Burning Love" and Van Halen's "Jump" is pretty good, too.)


And street photographer Pao Buscató has earned himself a reputation for capturing moments that feel impossibly coincidental.

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"Fate laughs at probabilities." -- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Planes, trains, and automobiles

Another perk of flying coach -- in-flight laundry service.


Or the thrills of traveling winter roads, which in this nerve-racking case is a bus narrowly avoiding a car on a snowy road thanks to pro driving.




And finally, watch a train roll through the desert for an hour, which is just as relaxing and scenic as it sounds.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." -- Lao Tzu

Perfect placement

Presumably plastered person seems ticked off that his mirror-self won't get out of the way. Ridicularious.


And this extremely lucky woman narrowly escaped certain doom by doing absolutely nothing.

They say ignorance is bliss from r/nevertellmetheodds

Finally, Russian digital artist Igor Lipchanskiy humorously imagines his place at the edges of iconic album covers.

A post shared by Igor Lipchanskiy (@igor.lipchanskiy) on Feb 26, 2018 at 11:21am PST

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains." -- Alfred North Whitehead

Wholly holey

With glazed eyes and glazed old-fashioned in hand, Donut Squirrel says, "The only kind of nuts I needs is do-nuts."


And an Insider look at how Krispy Kreme doughnuts are made at their Burbank, California doughnutorium. Why not order a whole bouquet of them?




Finally, you might want to try a "pietrait", a dessert decorated in drastic detail from Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin.

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." -- George Bernard Shaw

Sliding in safe

Lucky motorcycler loses control on the freeway and somehow manages to slide under a moving tractor-trailer.


And this poor man's version of Evel Knievel miraculously walks away from an idiotic bit of daring stuntery.

I'm not gonna do the math of this stunt, WCGW? from r/Whatcouldgowrong

"You can never plan the future by the past." -- Edmund Burke

Track stars

Professional artists and kids drew the same still life scene while wearing eye tracking glasses, and there were some interesting differences.


And a series of found-object charts that you might find quirky and insightful.

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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." -- Henry Ward Beecher

Let it flow

A storm left over from former Cyclone Gita swept across New Zealand recently, damaging buildings, knocking out electricity, and causing flooding. It also triggered a bizarre natural phenomenon known as granular flow -- essentially a raging river of rocks.

(If you're interested, geologist Dave Petley explains this freaky and frightening phenomenon over at the Landslide Blog.)


And tougher to fathom in retrospect, who would have imagined this way back when?

No one could have imagined... from r/funny

"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown." -- Stephen Gardiner

Widdershins

Inner monologue plays out in "A Chair at the Beach", a subtly ridiculous two-minute short film. Four stars for quirkiness.


And are the dots in this make-you-dotty optical illusion going side to side, up and down, or 'round and 'round?

2 dots oscillating? Vertically or horizontally? Or 2 dots orbiting? Clockwise or widdershins? Or 2 diagonal pairs of blinking dots with no "motion" at all? Or something else!? from r/illusionporn

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself." -- Ernest Hemingway

A million in one

See if you can withstand the seizure-inducing breakneck experience of watching one million famous film frames flash forward in five minutes. Recognize any?


And thankfully, a still image, a cat playing behind the TV.

My wife just texted me this picture of our cat playing behind the TV from r/funny

"There's no thief like a bad movie." -- Sam Ewing

Feathered mysteries

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: Don't know, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't to play an operatic aria on a keyboard.
(Earned her a spot on "America's Got Talent", anyway, which I thought was for people.)


And a chattering of starlings go to bed in less than a minute.

How 40,000 starlings go to bed in less than a minute. from r/NatureIsFuckingLit

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." -- Chinese Proverb

Overextended

This guy must seriously regret his attempt to demonstrate this minivan's sliding door safety feature.

And watch this trucker nail an impossible right-hand turn while hauling a 200-foot turbine blade.

Finally, an interesting map visualization that shows the best car route from the center of the U.S. to every county in the nation.

"Choices are the hinges of destiny." -- Edwin Markham

Plot twist

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What the heck just happened? Craziest convenience store CCTV footage you'll ever see.


And not at all surprising, parking in front of a liquor store.

Parking in front of a liquor store from r/pics

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." -- Erma Bombeck

Dishing it out

Pizza tossing to the extreme from gifs

Pizza tossing to the extreme. And a couple of efficiently-poured beers to go with it. (Thanks Mr. G.)

German engineering at its finest....

"Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology." -- Mark Hawkins

Fight or flight

Slugfest to hugfest, it's tough to explain how or why this brawl on a Sydney train ends in sudden friendship.


And painfully obvious, taunting a bull with flaming horns... WCGW?

Taunting a bull, WCGW? from r/Whatcouldgowrong

"Because of a great love, one is courageous." -- Lao Tzu

Incompatible interface

Apple lovers -- would you use this 1980s PC version of Siri?


And some historical perspective that's not a parody... check out The Titanic compared to a modern cruise ship. (thanks mr. g)

The titanic compared to a modern cruise ship from r/Damnthatsinteresting

"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." -- Franklin Pierce Adams

Improv hour

Attempted break-in goes very off the rails very, very early.


And you'd probably be extra jittery if Christopher Walken opened a coffee shop.

"No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness." Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Fire and ice

Guy worked for months gluing 42,000 matchsticks together and watches it all goes up in flames (on purpose).


Likewise satisfying, this kid jumping onto an ice-covered trampoline makes for a great video effect.

"It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment." -- Andrew Wyeth

Toys for bots

As if the world didn't have enough problems, now it has one more. Hacker-musician Sam Battle wired up 44 Furby toys, soldering and all, to create the first/last singing Furby keyboard.


And a surreal bit of colorful abstract animation that lets you "see" the sounds of rainforest birds, synesthesia style.

"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." -- Jean de La Fontaine

Flim-flammable

Deceptive leaking LPG tanker + car with hot exhaust = highway to hell. Some scary math.


And not nearly as bad, why menu translations go terribly wrong.

"A spark neglected makes a mighty fire." -- Robert Herrick

lookOut on life

Enjoy a dose of Alan Gogoll's "Stringscapes", a relaxing half hour of fingerstyle guitar with a beautiful sunset vista, filmed from inside the guitar.


And an impressive three-year timelapse of Seattle shot from uptop the Space Needle.

"The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth." -- Robert Anton Wilson

Take the rap

Sick of his wife and friends making fun of him, this 44-year-old from Austin bet them that he could put out a legit hip-hop song and make at least ten bucks off it. So without further ado, here's "Spinach Dippa" rapping about who knows what.


And a Nest video caught a dog starting a house fire when he stole leftover pancakes off the stove, reports Bay News 9. No charges were filed.

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself." -- Andre Gide

Diner's remorse

This mischievous Iowa cow ate a family's mail right out of the mailbox for no apparent reason.


And when the chips are down... the anchor on CBS Philly only had to eat one chip to complete the One Chip Challenge, but Paqui's Carolina Reaper Chip got the best of him. His co-host, though, is a chip-champ.

"The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat." -- John McNulty

Make-shiv cutlery

Katsuobushi (aka bonito) is dried, fermented and smoked tuna, and it's not only tasty (?) but it's possible to make a knife out of it.


And this is not a giant pair of jeans; it's a sleeping bag for two.




Finally, James McNabb is a talented designer who carves detailed mini-cities out of scrap wood.

A post shared by James McNabb (@mcnabbstudio) on Oct 5, 2017 at 7:56am PDT

"I cry out for order and find it only in art." -- Helen Hayes

Nobody move

This videographer caught a helicopter with its rotors are in perfect sync with his camera, making for an unintentionally nifty effect.


And an artist who draws sad clown faces on discarded objects strewn about Los Angeles.

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"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art." -- Philip James Bailey

Circumspectrum

"Instravel - A Photogenic Mass Tourism Experience" entertainingly points out the cliched sameness in every tourist's Instagram travel photos.


And so-called latte art is generally a monochromatic palette of coffee and cream browns, except when art professor Kangbin Lee shows you how it's done.

A post shared by 이강빈 (@leekangbin91) on Nov 16, 2017 at 4:08am PST

"Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage." -- Regina Nadelson

Accent marks

It's a Southern Thing created this funny video about a version of Alexa that understands how Southerners talk. "The future is here, y'all. And it's available in burlap and reclaimed barn wood."


And this guy had to write a letter to cancel his gym membership. It was something of a tough breakup.

Planet Fitness wouldn't let me cancel over the phone, and required a certified letter to cancel since I live in a different state now. I dropped this in the mail today. from r/funny

"What we really are matters more than what other people think of us." -- Jawaharlal Nehru

Free woolin' it

Drone footage captures the controlled chaotic-yet-synchronized fluidity of dogs herding sheep, which looks a lot like a giant flock of birds.


And weird colorful visual puns created by the creative Randy Lewis.

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." -- Dalai Lama

Route of bounds

When your friend makes you use Apple Maps instead of Google... "You Are On The Fastest Available Route" is an effective dashcam horror short from Local58, a news affiliate that thankfully does not exist.


In other bad directions, this notice of a public hearing in Hempstead, New York, is impossible to read. Fine example of malicious compliance. If you want to actually read the sign, here is a stretched version.

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided." -- Clarence Day

Iron cross

Brave man/maniac crosses a cheeks-clenched-terrifying Siberian bridge in nothing but a Ford Bronco.


And also remote, the sky in Antarctica looks like something from the world of science fiction.

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"Neither blame or praise yourself." -- Plutarch

Lead by example

Try to grok this guy carving a pencil on the end of a pencil on the end of a pencil.


And old style, a clever 3D optical illusion newspaper ad. (The ad was created for the supermarket HiperCentro Corona, and you might notice that the blocks of text in the illusion are in the shape of a kitchen.)

"Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers." -- T.S. Eliot

Bad breaks

Nifty side-scrolling condensed one-minute animated version of "Breaking Bad" is as capsule a summary as you can imagine.


And a healthy dose of instant karma goes to this woman who steals a package from someone's porch, and then promptly breaks her leg slipping/tripping on the lawn during her "getaway".

"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein." -- Proverb

Impressive run

Must have been a lot a lot of work to synchronize this intricate chain-reaction marble-and-magnet run to Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers".


And another sync'd showing of some significance, New York Times Sunday Magazine articles from 100 years ago, posted weekly.

"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." -- Carl Sagan

Last call of the wild

In Minnesota there's a tavern called Hillbillies Ice Hole that is quite literally on a lake, open just 20 days a year when the weather's right, featuring ice fishing inside the bar and its signature drink, a Minnow Shot.


And artist Yuki Tatsumi created "Japanese Tip", an installation of the 8,000 origami "tips" left by customers at restaurants.

"Almost anything can be preserved in alcohol, except health, happiness, and money." -- Mary Wilson Little

Noir trek

Based on the new trailer, Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek looks like a winner. (No matter what, it's gotta be a million times better than the actual movies they made.)


And when something gets lost in the translation of American movie titles to Japanese, someone like @Bomb Arrow is there to document it on the interwebs.

Bad Japanese Movie Title #82: "Anger Management" is "New York Style Happy Therapy" #japanesemovietitles pic.twitter.com/nupD1vDrbH

— Bomb Arrow (@Bomb_Arrow) August 3, 2017

"It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around." -- Mary Pickford

Way downtown

After trying for eight hours a day for six days straight, guy sinks a seemingly impossible record-breaking 660-foot "free throw" from up top a waterfall. How ridiculous, indeed.


And check out 19 year-old Dexton Crutchfield who at 5'9" jumps over his friend's head in this unreal real "dunk video". (I'm guessing he chose the friend, who is 6'2", specifically for the padded hairstyle.)

"Hey, let's go to Target." "Why?"

"If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball." -- Phil Jackson

Snack attack

I'm not sure why these people on Goat Island in Australia are feeding this crocodile, but their little dog sure didn't seem to like it and chased him off after a whole bunch of barking. Dog might owe his life to the fact that the croc had already eaten.


And how to stop a kangaroo fight; one man's technique.

How to stop a kangaroo fight from funny

And then there's the Conor McGregor way.

Conor McGregor vs Kangaroo

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." -- J. K. Rowling

Snowbody's business

In a moment of perfect timing, car spins out in the background of a live news report about safe driving on icy roads.


And an imaginative prankster fooled the cops pretty good with a car made out of snow. Fortunately Canadians tend to be mild mannered.

"You can't get too much winter in the winter." -- Robert Frost

Seen on the street

A compilation of interesting and sometimes talented street performers showing what they got. Proves that it takes all kinds and then some.

And in High Point, NC, this 1920s-era 36-foot-tall Goddard-Townsend style dresser/building called the "Bureau of Information" is on the market and available for a mere $235K.

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

Breadbasket catch

Seasoned paratha-maker seen flinging doughy disks across a restaurant with astounding accuracy. Would make for an interesting time and motion study.


And most folks throw away avocado pits; this artist carves them into fanciful forest figurines.

"Every loaf of bread is a tragic story of grains that could've become beer." -- Unknown

Finteresting

How time consuming is it to get ready for a little fishing trip? Fairly much if you start from scratch, like in this nicely animated two-minute short.


And grab a Raw Meat Hoodie, perfect for your next BBQ or trip to the butcher.

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming." -- John Steinbeck

Way OC

Orange County transit bus dashcam video of the car that went airborne after hitting the median and flew into the second floor of a building on Sunday.


And a big-ol' list of less dramatic one-in-a-million coincidences that might have actually happened. A bunch of these are pretty darn good.

"You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it." -- Jimmy Dean

Slide goeth before a fall

Man makes a valiant attempt to avoid falling as he skate-slides all the way down his driveway. But inevitably...


And this genius has no excuse. Sometimes you get what you deserve.

"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests." -- Thornton Wilder

Rooster tales

A previously unnoticed animal instinct -- a chicken named Frog who runs to greet Savannah as she gets off the bus every day after school. He's got some wheels and lots of enthusiasm.

Also unexpected, set aside your repulsion and take a look at these bizarre, fantastically colored, almost otherworldly creatures, caterpillars.

And finally, a speeding car hit the median and launched into the second floor of a building in Santa Ana, California, early Sunday morning. The building sustained minor injuries.

OCFA on scene in SANTA ANA of a vehicle into a building. One person still trapped inside the vehicle. pic.twitter.com/sWmtovu0Kd

— OCFA PIO (@OCFA_PIO) January 14, 2018

"Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." -- George Eliot

Duel identities

Scene from Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury" reworked to include light-sabers and light-nunchucks, without the armpit burns though.


And you can use Google's Arts & Culture app to see if a portrait of your doppelganger is hanging in a museum somewhere.

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception." -- Robert Motherwell

Driving force

Car on the freeway gracefully spins out of and back into control in a bravo performance, whether sheer luck or not.


And check out this clip from Burbank Firefighters Local 778 of a small car careening down a hilly road in a torrent of muck and mud. "Urban Prius bobsledding," they called it.

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"The cars we drive say a lot about us." -- Alexandra Paul

Sketchy situation

Can you work an Etch A Sketch like master-twister Kyle Fleming? If you're so impressed, you can get his custom works and other stuff like clothing and jewelry on his website.


And a nice demonstration of technique with this hand lettering with nifty shadow effect from @santarosatattoo.

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original." -- Jean Cocteau

Batten down the hatches

Crazy footage from the cruise ship Norwegian Breakaway that traveled through the "bomb cyclone" that hit the East Coast over New Year, complete with flooded hallways, leaking ceilings, piles of deckchairs, and staggering passengers as it sailed through stout wind and rough seas.


Meanwhile in Alaska... a seemingly insane chainsaw racer does a few laps around a small plane parked on a frozen lake. Good idea?

Meanwhile, in Alaska

"There’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing." -- Alfred Wainwright

Glide you did

Russian dancers appear to float across the stage while doing the Berezka dance. Pretty fresco stuff. I assume they have feet.


And along other paths, some flowing data about who marries whom based on occupation.

"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."John Dryden

That's the spirit

Twenty-seven years later, "Teen Sprite" is Nirvana's anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit" played in a major key. And it's a completely different everything from the classic grunge anthem.


And a nifty little Tumblr called The Kitten Covers transforms iconic album covers by replacing the people with adorable kittens.

"Music is what life sounds like." -- Eric Olson

Enemal instinct

Yeah Jesus could walk on water but could he do this!? from funny

I know we're way past waterpark season but check out this Christ-like display of aquatic adeptness. Give yourself a round of applause, young man.


And a collection of collectors' collections of odd things. Guess the stuff has to go somewhere.

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

State lines

Vicariously hike the entire Continental Divide Trail -- 3,100 miles from Mexico to Canada -- in four quick minutes without getting off your couch, courtesy of this video made from one second of each day of the trek. (What stumps me is how the heck you know where you're going? Half of it looks like wandering in a field or up the side of a random hill.)


And a list from McSweeney's -- new Latin state mottoes for the 21st century.

"Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee." -- Demetri Martin

Nice comeback

You'll like UK game show host Rob Brydon's brilliant comeback after being told he has a face like a horse, accenting it with some nice propwork to boot.


And Sp@mnesty is a simple service: forward your spam to it and it will engage the spammer in pointless chatbot email chains, wasting their time. The conversations are posted live, and some are quite funny. It's fascinating how obvious it is when a spammer switches from their own bot to giving a human response, and satisfying to see them fooled.

"An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike." -- Spiro T. Agnew

Cooper scooper

Storm Eleanor has been hitting UK something fierce, with torrential flooding and winds up to 100 mph. Watch as this car cruises through serious storm surge like it's no big deal. (And a Mini, no less.) Needless to say, don't try this at home.

Bonus little-known fact: yesterday (January 4th) was National Trivia Day. (Obvious fact: I missed it.) But here are 60 interesting though not necessarily useful trivial infobits from your friends at Mental Floss.

Finally, seems "Dukes of Hazards" stuff like this is possible in real life.

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." -- Blaise Pascal

Dinner at random

Give this woman a hand, because in six short minutes she prepares an entire Christmas turkey for cooking using nothing but her piehole. (It's a little less confusing -- though perhaps no less astounding -- when you find out that it's some sort of "art" created by London-based artist Nathan Ceddia.)


And like to add some suspense and uncertainty to your dinner? Then try Pizza Roulette, a service that allows you to order a random pizza, putting your pizza fate in their hands to fulfill through your local Domino's.

"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom." -- Storm Jackson

Take the plunge

Groomsman completes the perfect wedding ceremony (portrait filming notwithstanding) with an abrupt crash. Eyes on the bride -- she's annoyed and not the least bit concerned.

And Every Second tracks things such as YouTube videos, animal heartbeats, Spotify songs playing, and more right up to the, uh, second.

"Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night." -- Paul Hornung

Herd around town

If you think you've seen everything there is to see on the Internet, have a gander at these real-life "sheeple" being shepherded, performed as art by Toronto's Les Moutons dance troupe.


And which are smarter, cats or dogs? A new study from Vanderbilt University gives us the answer

"Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem." -- Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh