Ugly is as ugly barks

Miss Ellie, the ugliest dog winner. How proud her owner must be.

I recently was alerted to this gem at Daily Mail. I'm pleased to see mediocrity is never rewarded. In order to receive any recognition in the world, one must be either the best or the worst at something. That includes being the worst at being cute… or is it simply the best at being ugly.

I bet those judges are a bunch of butter bodies with butter faces.

Poor Miss Ellie looks so proud, but I've seen uglier.

Clicky.

Thanks go to my friend, Betty Bones for finding this.

Darwin killed the werewolf

19th century image of a werewolf. (Credit: Copyright Brian Regal)

I really can't be too snarky with this post because it's so darned interesting. Though, I'm sure all my werewolf friends would be offended by the suggestion, and all my bigfoot and sasquatch friends would be just as offended; the idea that werewolves developed in folklore into our ape-men of today is just too fascinating to pass up.

Science Daily article.

Readers don't watch movies

Apparently, library goers never watch movies or heard of Poltergeist. You wouldn't catch me borrowing one of their books when they get this library finished!

Horrible traffic

LOL! I reserve the LOLs for really fun posts, and I am most certainly amused.
Joseph Carnevale created this outstanding work of art - a construction barrels monster!

His reward for his brilliance: larceny charges.

Linky.

And here's the arrest report on the Smoking Gun (with a great big picture).

What the Shrek?

I don’t understand a word of it, but it looks like a couple of ogres got married…

Go ahead and click. Blechk!

[added later] Someone sent me a translation.

Long Island paper picks up the monster

Long Island’s Newsday is finally getting in on the Montauk Monster action. This time, at least, there’s some more info than just an image, and random speculation.

See the Newsday article.

Go directly to montaukmonster.com

And, finally: Newsday’s interesting piece, 4o Creatures that may or may not Exist.

…and yet again

Main stream media picked up the Montauk Monster again. This time MSNBC is reporting on blog reporting. Amusing, but still sad for the poor expired creature.

Montauk monster is back… again

I swore I wouldn’t mention the poor Montauk Monster again, but this is a new creature, actually. I can’t remember what ever came of that. Was it a hoax? Was it a viral ad campaign for some movie? Were all the rumors just speculation?
I don’t have the answers, but I’m intrigued enough to follow what The Ampersand has to say.
I’m inclined to believe it’s not a sea monster at all, but some wacky experimental animal from Plum Island.

Scientists disprove my existence… dorks

Hmm. This is fishy. Inspired by the success of Twilight, I’m sure; physicists supposedly have proved that is impossible for vampires to exist.

Hel-looooo? Some of us prefer ketchup to you sour blood. Give it up, and go find a cure for cancer or something.

I found this awful anti-vambite bit at io9. Thanks for posting. Spread the word on these dorks so they can be the autumn’s Thanksgiving turkeys. I’m sure there are some vampires out there that celebrate it.

clicky.

Eminent domain for bats

The bats won a battle, finally. Their home was destroyed, but at least the law was in their dugout fighting the good fight for them. A developer was obliged to build a new home for these rare brown long-eared bats if he wanted to demolish the home they were already living in.
But, dang, what about all the memories in their old home?

Read the article.