Duck World

A store that sells only one thing is broadly called a severely specialized store or a one-item shop or one-item purveyors. When that single product is unusual, quirky, or humorous, the specific term is a novelty shop. Other examples of novelty shops include Barn the Spoon (wooden spoons), Just Bulbs (light bulbs), or Ant Store (ants).

If anyone has some time, please send me photos of unusual spoons (they don't have to be just wooden). 

 

God's Seat (Chaise Dieu)

 

Rock Towers

Did you stack these Rotifer... during one of your white-water rafting trips?
 

The Sewer Rat Plumbing, Sewer & Drain Cleaning

 Check out the license plate, too.

Basaltic columns

Madagascar

Devils Postpile (photo by Randy_B)

 

Frog Applause versus Artificial Intelligence

 I plugged an old "Frog Applause" cartoon into AI to see how it would be interpreted. This is what I got. 

The image shows an absurdist satirical cartoon featuring an upside-down figure in a suit flatulating smoke while declaring, "I finally figured out who stole my ceremonial baloney plug."

• The artwork combines 19th-century engraving aesthetics with surreal, modern dialogue and falling caterpillars.
• It plays on nonsensical humor by juxtaposing a Victorian-style illustration with completely absurd, mundane terminology.

Goldfish quotes

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.---Alan Alda

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

---Stephen Hawking