#penny-farthing

[astercontrol]

Being an artist is far too much power because you can just have a phrase pop into your head, like "penny-farthing lightcycle," and then you can just. Make it be a thing

but be careful

(because if you have the kind of messed-up brain that would DO this, then you may also end up with thoughts like: "they would not call it a penny farthing, though. What kind of currency do they use inside a computer" and then the Evil side of you will say "the crypty kind" and will also try to tell you that Bit and Tron both have crypt money named after them and you will have to smack that part of your brain and tell it to shut up)

[blockygraphics]

BIKE.BMP, modified March 3, 1993, 8:00 PM; clipart included with CardShop Plus by The Software Toolworks (1994).

[nkp1981]

A daring gentleman attempts this perilous ride on a penny-farthing down the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. circa 1884.

Photo: Library of Congress

[baxtervalentine]

I think the part where lisa is like "you probably didn't even drive back when you were alive. you probably rode on one of those bicycles with the big stupid wheel in the front" and the creature looks at her and she's like "you did" is really funny

[amygdalae]

[finisfish4]

I want to ride my…. Penny farthing? 🤨

[scavengedluxury]

[fofi42]

I see what's happening here...

Taskmaster s17e09 SPOILERS

[leoreadss]

It's 3.29 am and I can't sleep cause I'm hyper-fixating on microcontrollers and fans so here goes a question for my autistic humans.

What's your current hyper-fixation?

[weirdyearbook]

Source details and larger version.

Newsworthy: a collection of weird headlines and book titles.

[murphyellents]

Simon Petrikov, also known as the Ice king in his cursed days, riding an old fashioned bike. I just wanted to draw him just pleasantly enjoying something from the olden days, even considered old in the pre-mushroom war era, since he is the type of person who'd enjoy such a thing.

[poisonandpages]

In Lisa Frankenstein the Creature's year of death was 1837, right? And we're probably meant to assume he's around the same age as Lisa, give or take a year or two. Meaning he would literally have been born around the time Mary Shelley was writing & publishing Frankenstein.

[spockvarietyhour]

Speaking of The Gilded Age this fucking bike sent me.

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joni Mitchell, The Penny Farthing—Toronto, ON, April 9, 1965.

[hasellia]

Things l'm expecting to have been ridden by a Ghost Rider at this point, by chronology

• A model T Ford

• A Polynesian raft

• A Broom stick

• A long boat

• A beloved Mongolian war pony

• A kite

• Sled dogs

• A fish thiiiiiiiis big

• An Indian or Carthaginian War Elephant ( I know about the Mammoth)

• The dharmachakra ( dharma wheel )

• boulder

• The Ghost Rider's spouse

[good-to-drive]

So apparently Conan is considering a memoir and as much as I would like to know more about his life I'm even more excited at the prospect of a Norm Macdonald Based on a True Story-style absurdist faux-memoir that uses the truth as a springboard for insightful, heartfelt self-satire because I think he would absolutely crush it and also I don't think he could handle NOT going off on insane comedic tangents for anything like an entire book