Hello, welcome, bienvenue, vilkommen, and how the hell are ya? Welcome to another Sunday’s worth of content even less serious than my usual frivolity and drivel! Stuff so silly that I just had to call it foobles, or “foobs” as they are known to their small but tightly-knit community of friends, and proceed to make every Sunday’s column a paean to all in the world that is delightful, adorable, ridiculous, fantastic, or just plain fun to look at.

In that spirit, we will open with a dog who has, by canine standards, pulled way out ahead of the pack in terms of sleep efficiency.

And now, Rex does his impression of a Jawa

And doesn’t he look pleased with himself? And rightfully so, he gets to cuddle up in his cage in his favorite blanket and does it all in one smooth, elegant motion. I’m sure if there were other dogs around, they were suitably impressed. I know I am.

I’d guess that he did this once entirely by accident, and his owners saw it, and made sure to put his blanket atop the cage the exact same way from then on, and realized, as all modern pet owners do at least once, “the Internet must see this. ”

And on behalf of all of us who have enjoyed this little clip….. thanks!

Next up, we have a cute and comical little concatenation of nerdity.

You shall click to enlarge. These are not the droids you are looking for. We may pass.

As a comedy form, this sort of “Impact bold on screenshots” kind of thing has been the common grist for the Internet LOL mill for a long long time, but this one charmed me more than this sort of thing usually does.

I think it’s the punchline that does it. Lots of people do the “hey, these two things!” comedy and do it badly, but adding the third thing, and almost as importantly, keeping it nice and short and simple, makes this one a cut above the throng.

I mean, when you can thread together Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Monty Python in a way that is clever and funny, you are officially, in my books anyhow, a Geek of Note.

And speaking of clever and funny, here’s an example of someone taking the art of funny sign writing to the next level :

You, sir, are one funny son of a batch

Granted, the comedy form of “implied dirty word” is quite common and trendy lately, but still, I like this one. For one, it’s modernized with the bringing in of that ever so modern source of comedy, smartphone spell checkers and word completion “assistants” which often subvert the intended meaning in funny and sometimes horribly inappropriate ways.

But from the point of view of a true comedy nerd like moi, the real art is in structuring the joke so that the payoff is on the very last word. If you can do that, and maintain a good natural flow of language, then you are a long way towards being a quality jokesmith instead of just someone with a funny idea.

Next up, an image for the next time you think you have the worst job in the world.

It could be worse.

You could be this guy.

"Finally found my boss' head!"

I don’t know why the hell he’s up there, but I have watched (and read) enough All Creatures Great and Small to hazard a guess : presumably, Jumbo there has something very wrong way up in there, and it was way less invasive to get to it from the inside than to cut through a lot of elephant to get at it from the outside.

I can only imagine that our intrepid veterinary spelunker has a light like on a miner’s helmet and his own oxygen supply in there.

Now that image was fucked up. Granted. But that’s just me warming you up for this next image, which I just have to share with you all because…. well, look at it.

Oh, and roughly as NSFW as the last pic, depending on how your workplace feels about flaccid deer wang urinating…. clouds?

The mind boggles

Now that’s some serious WTF right there. There is so much going on in this pic, it defies analysis. I mean, you have Mister T as a toddler, and someone possibly experiencing apotheosis via their eyeballs, and of course Bambi pissing (on) a bush….

Whoever made this, they have gone considerably beyond the normal bounds of fetishism or obsession and have created something very much like religion with this pic.

Assuming, of course, that this pic is real art, and not just someone throwing together a bunch of stuff to make people go WTF.

No, even someone doing that could not come up with the above pic.

Truly, the Internet tubes are filled with more miracles and wonders than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio.

Because your philosophy sucks.

Seeya next week, foob fans!