Terrific!

"not puffy"
"Disney on Ice"
"What's your story?"
"I told you it was scary"
"Old school costumes"
"a trampoline"
"When you haven't seen your dog"
"Good, this is..."


Thanks for another fun roundup, SCE! Have a great week!

This image is enchanting!



But on this one, I am going to have to indulge in some irritating pedantry.



Apparently, it was NOT that unusual for Vikings to physically haul their longboats over dry land for stretches of a given journey. There's even a specific word for the practice, and if anyone wants to out pedantic me, ( or go grammar nazi on my ass for the misuse of pedantic in the previous clause), and supply the correct term for this ancient Viking practice, please feel free to do so.

Happy Sunday and thank you SalmonChantedEvening.

Yes! That's it! Thank you!

Now I can go back to sleep.

por·tage
Origin

late Middle English: from French, from porter ‘carry’. The sense relating to carrying between navigable waters dates from the late 17th century.

So not a Viking word!

which they were the first Europeans to know about. A surprising number settled in France. They even reached what is now Russia - where the locals told them, "Hey, you guys seem to be really well organized. Why don't you stay here and become our ruling class?" - not in those exact words, of course - and many did - which explains a lot IMO.

So different from the Ukrainian Cossacks, who mercenaries, for hire to any riler, but not permanently sworn to any ruler.

The Vikings definitely did get around, as we well know. It would probably take more research into the history of Norse languages than I have time for to find out if that word was adopted adopted into Old Norse from French, so I hereby declare this to be a moot point!

that portage was a Viking word, just that they could easily have come by it honestly after some settled in France. And my real point was we don't really know diddly about the Vikings. They are highly understudied.

Quite common . It’s been done for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Disney on ice, indeed.

Loved the warning label t-shirts, too.


And the exquisite lizard.

Thanks, SCE!

I especially loved the butterfly boy and the Ape at the end.

Thank you for another wonderful edition of Sunday LOLcats. The gorilla hugging a man was heartwarming..👏🤗💙

Heck, I still do, and I’m a grandma now.

🦋

Everybody's got cardboard, and I'll becha somebody sells colored cellophane. How about some paper doilies to edge the wings?

If you trimmed the main cardboards into wing-shape, you could edge the whole thing with paper doilies and it would look so lacey and ethereal!

Cut the whole thing out in one piece, with a middle section (between the wings) on which you could secuo anchor long ribbons in several places. Make ‘em all long enough that you can tie ‘em around you. I’d do two sets of “ties” for each side. The upper set ties over your shoulders and the lower other set ties around your waist.

Or something of that sort.

And don't you need a little loop under the top edges of the wings so children could put their fingers in the loops and actually flap the wings? Then you'd call your parent or adults their friend with a phone camera, and you could be on Tik Tok. I had no idea you were such a craft nerd, Calimary.

Pics / biography of Andre Bauma:

https://legendsandlegaciesofafrica.org/andrebauma.php

Ndakasi obituary:

https://virunga.org/wildlife/primates/mountain-gorillas/gorilla-orphans/ndakasi/

Most enjoyable.

Thanks so much! Have a great Sunday!

as always 😀

Great, as usual.

Happy Sunday!

The octopus is amazing.

I thought they were the cat's pajamas when I was a kid, but now? Yikes!

Happy Sunday!

Thank you for helping start the week with a smile.

I sure needed this. Thank you.

Lol, talk about retro!

yet impressed the chicks seem not.

Also, I'm old enough that I actually had some of that lino (somewhat more muted, but same design) put into a kitchen reno I did decades ago. Not my proudest moment, in retrospect.

Thank you, as always, SCE!!!

Love this collection. You're the best.

Love these!

The puffer fish! 😄😄😄😄🩷

for the chuckles and smiles. Sigh.