curiosities

That’s how I felt after last Thanksgivings dinner.

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

I”ll bet he had a bad belly ache…................LOL

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Northern Australian ‘Cane Toad’. Imported many years ago from South America to keep down pests eating sugar cane plants. Became a pest itself. Now covers a large part of Northern Australia. This is a particularly large one.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Man, that’s a load of toad!!

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas

Retired teacher Geoff Ostling displays his tattooed skin at his home in Sydney, Australia.
The 65-year-old has pledged to donate his skin to the National Gallery in Canberra after his death.
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-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

I wonder what he taught. Body Art perhaps?.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Let’s hope he doesn’t loose a bunch of weight. Saggy tattoos are not in vogue.

Grumpy: Are the legs on that toad edible? They are at least big enough to be worth the effort to harvest.

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

Bureaucrat, I don’t know if anybody has eaten one & lived to tell the tale. One of the main reasons they have survived is because they are poisionous to an prey that wants a meal. The locals practice their golf swing to keep the numbers under control. This one is a bit big for that though.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Take the people out of this photo, and it looks like a bad painting. It’s the wave rock formation in Arizona, formed out of ancient sand dunes and creating that crazy depth perception-destroying optical illusion.
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-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

cool stuff

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Behold The Uno: a one-wheeler motorcycle invented by an 18-year-old. That’s right, while you spent your senior year of high school trying to get a peek up the cheerleaders’ skirts at basketball games, this dude went out there and completed some engineering slick enough to make every Segway owner jealous.
It operates just by tilting your weight forward or back to accelerate.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

I’ll bet it’s a chich to ride for anyone who can do wheelies ;-))

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Dan, Your picture of Arizona has inspired my next project. Thanks!!

-- ~ Inspiring those who inspire me ~

pretty much the greed we are living in this country.

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

Which one is the real chicken?.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Awsome!!! another thread that enables Grumpy to share his vast array of photos. Keep em coming Grumpy they’re great!

Rick

-- If at first you don't succeed...Don't try skydiving

the fun part is finding the photos on the net and posting them here…. it almost like solitaire playing cards or something … every once in awhile you see something that loosely fits the topic or expands the thread. fun stuff really for old guys anyways … heheheheheheh

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check ODIES new blogspot http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Now you come to mention it there is a likeness between Woodsterman & Odie.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Wolf man’ condition down to huge DNA malfunction

A 31-year-old Chinese man whose body is 96 per cent coated in hair has an extra chunk of DNA that could explain his condition – called congenital generalized hypertrichosis terminalis (CGHT).

A new study of the patient known as “KK” – one of the world’s hairiest men – and three families with a history of CGHT suggests that the disease is caused by vast genomic changes on chromosome 17.

CGHT is exceedingly rare, with fewer than 100 cases documented in news reports and the scientific literature, says Xue Zhang, a geneticist at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, who led the new study.

The disease is one of at least several forms of hypertrichosis – all characterised by overgrowth of hair. One of the earliest recorded cases involved a Mexican Indian woman, Julia Pastrana, who toured Europe in the 1850s and 60s, before dying due to complications from childbirth.
Disturbed DNA

To find the genetic changes responsible for CGHT, Zhang’s team first scanned the genomes of 16 people with the disease and their unaffected relatives, looking for obvious differences.

A region on chromosome 17 jumped out, and after further study, Zhang’s team showed that family members with CGHT were missing between 500,000 and 900,000 DNA letters on that chromosome. Patient KK, on the other hand, had 1.4 million extra nucleotides at the same place on the genome.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

The Japanese spider crab can be found skulking around the bottom of the deep, dark sea floor. It can weigh up to 44 pounds, possess a leg span of almost four metres and boast a body size of 15 inches. It’s also incredibly long-lived, with a lifespan of up to 100 years.

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

This one was found in Washington DC

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog)

How’s this for a catch.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

If that kid with the one wheeled scoot can put a shovelhead engine one, I’ll buy it.

-- I'm a lumberjock and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day!

Dave received a parrot for his birthday. The parrot was fully grown with a bad attitude and worse vocabulary. DavE tried hard to change the bird’s attitude and was constantly saying polite words, playing soft music, anything he could think of to try and set a good example. Nothing worked. He yelled at the bird, the bird yelled back, he shook the bird and the bird just got more angry and more rude. Finally, in a moment of desperation, Dave put the parrot in the freezer. For a few moments he heard the bird squawking, kicking and screaming, then suddenly there was quiet. Not a sound for half a minute. Dave was frightened that he may have hurt the bird so he opened the freezer door. The parrot calmly stepped onto David’s arm and said “I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I will endeavour at once to correct my behavior. I am truly sorry and beg your forgiveness.” Dave was astonished at the bird’s change of attitude and was about to ask why when the parrot continued with, “May I ask what the chicken did?”

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

good one …

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

-- Gene

-- Gene

Gene, is the one with the fangs a HODAG? HOWDAG? Dang it.. hang on…(google…google…) Yeah, I was right the first time. IS THAT A HODAG?

Man, it’s been 34 years….

-- Beer, Beer, Thank God for Beer. It's my way of keeping my mind fresh and clear...

Milo, out here, we call it a Chupacabra. Kills cattle and scares little Mexican children. Lots of real scary stories about him/her in the Barrios where I used to work.

-- Gene

Here’s a Hodag.

-- Gene

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

That Hodag is the high school mascot in Rhinelander WI. The city also has a festival celebrating the hodag. There is at least 1 LJ from Rhinelander.

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

I spent a couple summers in Rhinelander too many years back. I guess I had a flashback when I saw that thing… ;-)

btw, your hodag pix didn’t show up. :-(

-- Beer, Beer, Thank God for Beer. It's my way of keeping my mind fresh and clear...

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

the fish eating one four times it’s size Sorry I don’t buy it.Looks like a fake set up to me.Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

The Blobfish

This little guy looks more like a cartoon character than a fish. The Blob fish has very few muscles and move very slowly, floating like a jelly fish. To eat, the Blob fish waits on the bottom of the ocean for prey to pass by.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/galleries/the_worlds_ugliest_animals_/the_worlds_ugliest_animals_.html#ph2#ixzz0Ljq1XiKJ

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DAN, THAT BLOB FISH LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE I MET ONCE

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Seapigs live on, or just underneath, the bottom of the ocean and feed on the mud of the seafloor. Scientists haven’t yet worked out how they are such a successful deep-sea creature

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The blobfish is a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than that of the water it occupies. This helps it maintain buoyancy. Hovering just above the sea-floor, the blobfish gobbles edible matter that floats past it

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

With their unusual feeding habits and slime-producing capabilities, the hagfish has been dubbed the most “disgusting” of all sea creatures

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever