Nice collection of big GIFs. Gotta love the sideways tornados and octupus face attacks niche videos! Talking about tornados...I see the GIF of the week is missing in here! The one where the portable toilet flies away like a kite!
Hey Ken et al! The octupus facial attacks are truly unnerving. You know, I read that one scientist postulates that octopi are extraterrestial in origin becsause:
1. Octopi are invertebrates, yet as smart as dogs.
2. Have eyes like cameras in complexity.
3. Are so different from other sea life.
If your head feels strange, that doesn't mean you need a bigger hat. It just means you should stop putting strange things into it. Try blending into the background, going with the wind or the flow. Let the traffic take you and give you a hand. Let the auto-refresh stop closing all the GIFs in this browser.
Am I too late to make a request? Can we hear some of The Shaggs today?
9:03am
David in London:
There is a documented case of an octopus under study in a research lab that deliberately took out the electrical system by jetting water at the lights.
I saw a couple of octopies on a beach in California last year. I held a stick near one and it immediately grabbed it and pulled. Those suckers are strong.
I still have an octopus-handpuppet I got when I was a little kid, David. Get one of those - almost as good as the real thing and a much longer lifespan
I do have a stuffed animal octopus that I won at the carnival when I was in 4th grade, he's lived for 25 years with only minimal injury from curious rats...
Good idea, cory! Let's all prepare our favourite German potato salads to celebrate and commiserate the Germans people for their irreparable loss (on their first match in the world cup!).
Tilos Radio is from Hungary, indeed. But they have a Serbian show called Burek Forever. That's what I listen when I am not listening to Ken, DIY or Irwin.
Also, octopi, squids and cuttlefish are inexplicable as to how they evolved beyond all other sea life, further supporting the hypothesis that their origins came from a extraterrestrial rock of sorts crashing into our oceans some time ago.
Threath level 5:
Mariah Carey was implicitly requested at 9:25hrs by commenter karlward.
What to do in case DJ plays request?
Proceed with disconnecting your headphones, turning volume down, running for your life, or flushing radio down the toilet.
I've always wanted a pet cuttlefish. I think it would keep my cat's mind active while my better half and I abandon her each day for 9 hours to sit at desks in order to get money for food and shelter.
9:35am
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Thank goodness for FEMA. I wasn't aware of the imminent danger. I;m gonna hurry up my preparation of the German potato salad.
well, nice to (not actually) have known you, queems!
9:42am
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In Mexico City excited people triggered the seismic alarm two times after Mexico scored against Germany, according to local authorities. I kid you not. These are called artificial earthquakes.
Honestly, I can't distinguish different cats from each other. They all look exactly the same to me. Kind of like how some people can't distinguish one pigeon from another.
9:51am
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What I like about the football World Cup is how easily triggers Americans' exceptionalism sense.
@N.A.R.D. Apres axper jan, mec hajoxutyun! It might take a few tries to get it right if you're making it at home. Hehe, my ex back when I lived in NJ once tried to make it as a surprise and the damn white girl "butchered" it as it were. Have you had it before?
Something about the World Cup turns me into an angry old white American male every four years. As opposed to the rest of the time when I'm basically an angry old white American male.
9:54am
Karen in Sleepy Hollow:
This new Big Blood album is just wonderful. Any chance they're coming back to Monty Hall?
9:55am
David in London:
@N.A.R.D. - Your employer should notice your initiative and reward you with a promotion.
@Diezel Tea, I'm a second generation Armenian immigrant to the US, I grew up on Armenian foods like lahamcun and kashlama! Not to mention the Armenian fusion foods, like lamburgers and muttacos (mutton tacos)!
The Warriors was an AWESOME movie!!! I was a teenager when that came out - and everyone I know LOVED it. I'll still watch it any day of the week over half the crap that passes for movies these days.
10:09am
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I like to think the author is John From Oslo. The legendary commenter that used to comment here more than a decade ago when I was just a little fofo still learning how to type comments (and who knew? I'm still learning).
One time I was hanging out with some friends and the subject of The Warriors came up. As we were talking, one friend gathered up three beer bottles, put them on his fingers, started clinking them together, and said, “What’s The Warriors?” He was serious. I still have no explanation for this.
10:14am
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And he had more fingers left to hold even more bottles, but HE DID NOT DIG IT, did he, The Oscar?
@steveo - by creating a profile on WFMU you are giving WFMU explicit permission to algorhythmically determine your hat size and then sell that data to hat retailers worldwide.
Oh man, I know steveo and he's very private about the size of his head too. He goes to great lengths to hide it and it is not an easy thing to do as you might imagine.
WFMU may or may not be algorithmically determining your hat size and selling it to hat retailers worldwide. If you have a WFMU profile, copy and paste the following message onto the comments board: "MY HAT SIZE IS PRIVATE! DO NOT SHARE!" This will prevent Station Manager Ken from stealing your hat size and selling it for money. Only 1% of listeners will copy and paste this message. Let's see if you have the courage to be one of them.
Is it better to have a big head or a small one? I've often heard the phrase "big dumb head", but it seems like having a small one would be bad too, since most people consider being a "pinhead" to be a bad thing...
10:26am
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Wait a minute!
All this hat talk is just a diversion from the key issue here!. Did you notice in the last mic break? We have been deprived of our beloved crowdsourced (aka Sam) Legal IDs! Ken has prohibited, banned, and/or deprecated them! Can you dig it?!
@Wild Neil, we're not allowed to talk about it, but suffice it to say that after... the incident... *looks away*, no one felt much like wearing hats anymore
Hat incident? Oh you mean the time a music director was decapitated and his head fell into a vat full of WFMU hats and then they sent out the hats anyway and everybody just claimed he'd "moved to California?!" That was no big deal. OOPS I'VE SAID TOO MUCH
@f0f0 I think Klaus identified as male, I recommend watching the Nomi Song documentary, or at least looking up some clips-- I've never seen disappointing Nomi footage.
Everytime I encounter web ads from Hat vendors all offer me 12 inches hat. How did the algorithm arrived to that number? I have only favourited the Clearance Carter song and the BBQ one. I don't understand.
@Ken: I have ginormous noggin. *taps on it* yes, sound like a coconut, nothing inside it. My wife also has a large head. If we every have kids, it will be via C-section.
Donovan was like Syd Barret on the brain pill and less LSD. Donovan is like the Chuck Norris of singer songwriters whereas Syd Barret was more like Sid Vicious.
‘Warm my bones by the fire’ - was Gilmour singing about grilling some bone in steaks? You know , having a barbecue... ( a piece of hot meat). See also put the bone in.
11:23am
Linda lee:
will there be no reward for this hard luck morning?
alas, I fear not!
Oh, fer f8cks sake! I went outside for a break and what did I miss? CIBOO AND MAATTOOO!!! By the way, I think Cibbo is adorable but Matto sings better.
11:34am
meb:
Immigrant Song!!!
11:34am
Linda Lee:
alas, a lack,
despite our tuchus hats.
11:36am
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Did you know Ken has perfect taste when it comes to instrumental songs? It has been scientifically proven.
11:38am
Linda lee:
I drag myself through fetid muck & a 20th century tracfone to prostrate myself at Ken's shapely feet to beg for tuchus shamelessly .. & what do I get?
@KFHP, I've been trying to get a mashup of Corn Weenie and Tuchus since I hit puberty
11:51am
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You know we are dealing with a great DJ when he or she makes your tuchus go ecstatic just by playing one single song. Ken, you have the pulse of the WFMU nation.
I would like to help mail swag out, can you mail the swag to me so that I can mail it to the correct recipients? I can't really get up to New Jersey right now.