Weirdness: Round three

[Té Rowan]

https://www.ranker.com/list/jedi-memes/joedonley — "Why can't you email a photo to a Jedi?"

[Té Rowan]

Hoary Old Story Time:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11246463/1/The-Greatest-Prank by sakurademonalchemist. HP/LFG cross, seventeen chapters, stalled.

Who would have thought that Harry Potter and Richard (from Looking For Group) would get along like a house on fire?

[Té Rowan]

Following is a rough translation and reformat of a trademark registration announced by the Trademark Registrar in Reykjavík in 1956. The dates shown are those printed in the document, albeit in an ISO format.

1956/16 — Announced 1956-01-02 and registered 1956-03-03 by National Comics Publications, Inc., New York, USA.

Image of a man with the word "SUPERMAN" above him and the word "SUPERHOMBRE" below him.

According to announcement dated 1944-08-26, the mark is registered in Washington 1945-02-06 as Class 38 (Magazines).

[Té Rowan]

https://omalovanek.cz/sailor-moon/

Just in case someone is looking for a Sailor Moon colouring book...

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

I don't know about coloring books, but I have some Sailor Moon paper dolls. If you click on the small version, it takes you to a larger version. Neither Outers nor batteries are included.

[Té Rowan]

Neither Outers nor batteries are included.

Heh. Just like the Ikea Bookbook. And I remembered it only because sis was bolting together a Jysk shoe-rack while wondering why some USAnians sound unable to assemble an Ikea product. Are these folk really no-DIY and all-thumbs?

[J. St.C. Patrick]

While I knew nearly every place in Japan has a mascot, I'd never really wondered if Nerima had a mascot, or what it was, until this morning when I saw this tweet(?) on X, showing Nerimaru, a horse crossed with a radish with an antenna on its head.

[Té Rowan]

Seems this Mondo Mascots tweets bags about mascots around Japan. Even has a website.

AIUI, Japan is replete with mascots. Here is an unusual one: The Mind-the-gap Gecko.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/0790_Maintenance_of_Roads_08_15_00_28 — Part 1
https://archive.org/details/0790_Maintenance_of_Roads_08_44_14_25 — Part 2

A silent film from the inter-war period about road maintenance.

[Neko-]

Not a fav picture, but still weird in that I can't unsee it... So I'm sharing it with all of you, seeing it does cater to Sailor Moon...

https://imgur.com/a/lGZPeto

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Not a fav picture, but still weird in that I can't unsee it... So I'm sharing it with all of you, seeing it does cater to Sailor Moon...]

My eyes did not burn, but they blinked a lot and rolled from side to side.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/WoodenPET — A drawing of Commodore's Personal Electronic Transactor prototype.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/Hit-Parade-France-1975
https://archive.org/download/Hit-Parade-France-1975/N%C2%B0%2085%20-%20Kraftwerk%20-%20Autobahn.mp3

A French version of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn". Worth listening to, if only because of how very different it is from the original.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2024/05/25/himakajima-the-japanese-island-with-one-traffic-light-that-only-turns-green-once-a-year/

Once a year? Yeah, definitely sounds weird.

[Té Rowan]

https://samim.io/p/2022-06-08-academia-summed-up-in-one-photo/ — "The growing inaccessibility of science" costs $8.99 to read.

No wonder why the crowing cockerels of pseudo-science find markets so easily.