You've got to be yolking!

 

Sometimes me and B amaze ourselves with the comedy gold we come up with.  This is one of our longer, funnier exchanges, with my favourite theme!

Dog-shaming

Exhibit A - brand new box of  tissues

Exhibit B - She's a harsh critic of modern fiction

Naughty Jenny-pup likes to chew things.  A lot.  Her go-to item is clothes pegs, as they're often to be found around the back garden.  She also likes eating Lego, Bionicles parts, iPhone cable and/or headphones, a guest's slippers, DD's Crocs (2 pairs), the eyes from many many soft toys, the underside of the wooden kitchen chairs, my friend's tiled front porch, and boxes of tissues.

Oh, and she ate a hole in my favourite red Skechers,
and has chewed up a copy of Mary Poppins (the book, not the DVD), several uni textbooks, a crime novel (Anne Perry), and a copy of a Terry Pratchett that I haven't even finished reading yet ;-(

She eats chicken poop, and wees on the back porch when it's cold so she doesn't get her ickle wickle feet cold when it's winter...  She was even accused of being a penguin killer when we were on Kangaroo Island recently - NOT GUILTY, although she did refuse to get back in the car after a pit stop, causing us to delay the KI ferry as we boarded late.

Bad girl!  She's gonna end up on dog-shaming.com

Exhibit C - Skechers

Running Chicken Nebula

No, I didn't make it up:

Pic courtesy of EarthSky.org

That really is it's name - the Running Chicken Nebula, also known as Lambda Centauri Nebula, also known as IC 2944. It’s a cloud of hydrogen, illuminated by hot, bright newborn stars, in the direction of the southern constellation Centaurus the Centaur, and some astronomers see a bird-like shape in its brightest region.

I sort of see it myself, and lots of people (including me) have tried to help by drawing on the photo. 

A fun thread about this is on the Backyard Chickens has more pics like this one (I'm about a year late, it seems, lol)

Here's one of my tries!

and another two!  I won't be giving up the day job any time yet...

Borneo's most elusive feline photographed at unexpected elevation -

The elusive bay cat, taken by motion-triggered camera-trap in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Copyright: J. Brodie & A. Giordano.

Although known to science for 138 years, almost nothing is actually known about the bay cat (Pardofelis badia). This reddish-brown wild feline, endemic to the island of Borneo, has entirely eluded researchers and conservationists. The first photo of the cat wasn't taken until 1998 and the first video was shot just two years ago, but basic information remains lacking. A new camera trap study, however, in the Kelabit Highlands of the Malaysian state of Sarawak has added to the little knowledge we have by photographing a bay cat at never before seen elevations.

"We've never known conclusively whether the bay cat occurred at this high an elevation" said Jedediah Brodie, a Fulbright Research Scholar, who helped conduct the study. "Our record is an important contribution to existing knowledge of this unique and elusive species, and to this amazing ecosystem".

Top: Sunda clouded leopard also caught on camera trap in Pulong Tau National Park. Bottom: sambar also photographed in Pulong Tau National Park. Copyright: J. Brodie & A. Giordano.

The bay cat is listed by the IUCN Red List as Endangered. Thought to be naturally rare, the bay cat is also imperiled by deforestation due to logging and palm oil plantations on the island of Borneo, though the cat has been photographed in previously logged forests, but not plantations. The bay cat is not alone in its plight: four of Borneo's five wild cats are classified by the IUCN as threatened with extinction due to continued deforestation, but the bay cat is only one of those found no-where else in the world.

"Although Borneo’s lowland forests are without question a primary regional conservation concern, we are only beginning to learn the wealth of biodiversity that these highland regions harbor," Anthony Giordano, the founder and director of S.P.E.C.I.E.S., a new carnivore conservation organization. "The fact that we now know the bay cat occurs here could change the way we approach future efforts to locate it."

The conservationists warn that although the cat was photographed in Pulong Tau National Park, the park is only protected on paper.

"This is a 'paper park' for sure, currently with no budget, no infrastructure, and no staff, including no park rangers" explains Brodie. "Given that we have recorded such a rich mammal fauna, we urgently need to see that it receives the additional scientific attention and protection it deserves."

The camera trapping expedition also recorded several other endangered species including the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi), marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata), banded civet (Hemigalus derbyanus), sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), sambar (Rusa unicolor), bearded pig (Sus barbatus), pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), Hose's langur (Presbytis hosei), tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis), and Bulwer's pheasant (Lophura bulweri), all of the above of which are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List.




Captive bay cat. Photo by: Jim Sanderson.




Close-up of bay cat. Copyright: J. Brodie & A. Giordano.
Read more: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0111-hance_baycat.html#ixzz22qQemqy8

Too many zombies and too much wine? Surely not possible

When you are being harrassed for the buttons you promised for a button swap, what can you do but call out the big literary guns and invoke the Merchant of Venice to defend your honour??  However, dear friend B didn't get the reference and mucho text weirdness ensued (she started it with that alien emoticon, honest guv!).  Learn from this lesson, folks, and don't drunk text!

Naughty vegies (and recipes, and a surprise free gift!)

 Well, it's not grown up, and it's not clever, but it IS pretty funny... 

We found this very amusing while in the Netherlands!According to a recipe I found, Winterpeen is the name for the big ones (oo-er!)

Picked up this beauty at the markets and made him into stovetop baba ganoush!

Summerpeen, perhaps?A cucumber from the States, pic sent by a lovely friend who was obviously impressed by it's perfection, lol.  You can make them into Agua de pepino (cucumber limeade), it's a Mexican treat!

BONUS FRUIT, WHAT A FREE GIFT! Look at this Rubenesque Corella pear.  Why not make this TMX (Thermomix) Pear and Raspberry cake? Nom nom nom ;-)

Playing around with buttons

Who remembers playing with the button box as a kid?  I do.  My mum had an old biscuit tin full of buttons that I think must have come from my grandma's house, and it was always the biggest treat to be allowed to sort through them.   And nowadays, buttons are cool and crafty, and I've been using them to make pictures as birthday gifts:

There is method in this madness

Happy BD Lesley!

I've been using a combination of new ones, vintage ones from the op shop, and also adding beads and other elements to create texture and interest.  I'm pretty happy with the results so far!

crochet  +

Catie's birthday tulips in progress

Almost finished tulips - just needs some bling.  Catie loves it!