Weekly Whimsy

By tigtog on March 8, 2012

This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a different sort of error message.

A 6 panel comic strip using simple stick figures in black and white for characters | PANEL 1: * _Error -41_? That's helpful. It doesn't even say which program it's from * + -41? I'll look it up...+ | PANEL 2: + It says -41 is _sit by a lake_ + | PANEL 3: they walk | PANEL 4: they sit | PANEL 5: An enormous colour panel of a serene deep blue lake with lotus leaves floating in the foreground and a forest on the far shore in the background | PANEL 6: They are still sitting down: *I don't know where you got that book, but I like it* + Hasn't been wrong yet +

xkcd | Error Code

Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

NB: the weekly whimsy thread is a stoush-free zone.
ADDENDUM: If you “don’t know whether it’s whimsical enough” then it almost certainly belongs on a different thread. Please look in the sidebar for suggestions for more appropriate threads.

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15 responses to “Weekly Whimsy”

Paul Burns
March 8, 2012 at 8:29 am | Permalink

I’m not sure if this is whimsy but it caught my attention enough for me to go looking it up on teh internet.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/man-dies-in-buried-alive-record-attempt-20120306-1uetc.html
Chris Harper
March 8, 2012 at 9:25 am | Permalink

Paul Burns,

That looks to be more a Darwin Award nominee than whimsical.

Do we know if he was a progressive or a conservative?
wilful
March 8, 2012 at 10:56 am | Permalink

Respect! for tigtog, keeping the mouseover text!
Ootz
March 8, 2012 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

Tonic immobility – as kids we ‘hypnotised’ chickens, but this takes the cake.
Ootz
March 8, 2012 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

Sorry the link above does not work, lets try again
Tonic immobility
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=WK2LpUoqX6A&vq=medium
Paul Norton
March 8, 2012 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

I’ve been denounced as a Zionist on Facebook.
Sam
March 8, 2012 at 2:33 pm | Permalink

Paul 6

Are you a fellow traveller of this organisation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Zionist_Alliance?
Paul Norton
March 8, 2012 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

Sam, in a way I am, but that isn’t why i was denounced. I’ll elaborate on another thread as this one is supposed to be stoush-free.
joe2
March 8, 2012 at 6:48 pm | Permalink

Ootz, that really is quite incredible.

I think I will start with a tadpole and work upwards.
wilful
March 8, 2012 at 7:58 pm | Permalink

that’s quite cool ootz. I’m nicking that for a MeFi post.
Terangeree
March 8, 2012 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

Maybe any reference to this story ought to be in the “Spotlight the Spin” thread?
Paul Burns
March 9, 2012 at 8:06 am | Permalink

Well, somebody has to notice it.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/full-titanic-wreck-site-is-mapped-for-1st-time-20120309-1unx0.html
Wood Duck
March 9, 2012 at 3:43 pm | Permalink

I know that this is not very whimsical [redacted]

[If it's not whimsical/uplifting, then it's not on topic, as the post explicitly outlines. Items that are not on topic anywhere else belong on the open thread. ~ moderator]
Terangeree
March 10, 2012 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

Love in a convenience store is so…

convenient
Link
March 11, 2012 at 9:57 am | Permalink

Geebz Ootz that’s remarkable. I was thinking what a brave ‘man’, but hang on a minute . . .

http://www.sharkdiver.com/blog/45-shark-diver-industry-blog/6278-cristina-zenato-first-lady-of-shark-diving

Like the gloves–very handy when feeding sharks . . .

Its almost as if she has to encourage this last shark to get moving again.