Weird and Wonderful

The Lighting Under This Bridge That Makes It Look Like A Crescent-Moon In The Water




Japanese Rice Field Art




Seamless Circle Of Cats




Lithops Are South African Plants That Have Evolved To Look Like Stones




Washed And Dried Sheep




Stealing The Moon




Fox Is Curled Up Into A Perfect Circle




Nice Leaf Art (By @lito_leafart)




Two Zebras Lining Up Randomly, And Perfectly




Non-Edited Photo Of Salt Mountains In Iran Still Look Beautiful




Entire Alphabet Is Carved Into A Pencil




Deformities In This Carrot Make It Look Like It's Walking




Beetle's Shell Is So Reflective Its Like A Mirror




Calm Before The Storm




Chinese Artist Creates Stunning 500m Ladder In The Sky With Fireworks In Tribute To His Grandmother




Cat & Dog Look Alikes




Tulip Fields Just Outside North-Holland, Netherlands




Amazing Hairstyle




Ten Carved Crayons




After Ordering Some Shrimp, Customer Returned The Plate Like This




French Pastry Perfection




Drew A Pattern On My Hand




The Underside Of A Lily Pad




Onigiri (Rice Balls) Perfectly Shaped Like Cats




Broom Setup In Our Local Garden Store




View From The Sleeper-McCann House In Beuport




Seedless Watermelon That Is Very Seedless




Dizzying Patterns Covering This Abandoned Salt Mine Are Completely Natural




The Head Of A White Sturgeon When Viewed From Above Is Somewhat Beguiling As It Appears To Be The Head Of A Giraffe Or Mythical Dragon. This Species Of Sturgeon Is North America's Largest Freshwater Fish




The Foehn Effect Covering Just One Side Of This Mountain




Hiding In The Trenches




Bread, With Legs




Horse’s Fur Flattens When Petted (winter coat)

Ukrainian duo, Valeriy and Yulia, leave audiences at the edge of their seats.

Just Doggos being Doggos

He Wanted Me To Go Outside And Play Fetch




When You Leave Your Dogs Alone For Just A Few Minutes




The Dog Was Much Happier Before Her




Cause This Is Thrilleeeeeer!




Looking




Photobombing




Breaching Buddies




All Hail The New King




If You Can't Hide A Crime Scene, Just Pretend You Are A Victim




White Doggo vs. Freshly Cut Grass




The Division Has Begun




We Don’t Need Any Fake Frens




When Your Chihuahua Uses Your Bulldog As A Horse




Just Wanted A Nice Family Photo




Head Pats And Rubs Go Right Here Please




Our Dog's New Hairdo, Courtesy Of The Cat




He’s Extremely Stubborn




One Of Piper’s Heckin Cool Tags Came In Today




I Guess I'm A Towel Now




He Has Been Known To Accost People For Ages If He Thinks They Will Throw A Ball Or Stick For Him





Don't Stop Me Now




My Girlfriend Finally Woke Up Before Me And Caught Our Usual Sleeping Arrangement That I’ve Been Complaining About. The Bed Is King-Size




These Are In Fact The Same Dog On The Same Day




Sliced Bread




Anubis Wears Adidas, Apparently




She's The Only Thing Keeping The Tower From Falling.




My Dog Gets Ear Infections Easily, So I Got Him A Shower Cap




Mom Decides To Cut Dog's Hair Herself




When You Grow A Potato That Resembles Your Dog




Transmission Is Stuck In Bark. Put It In Rufferse




Say Hello To Bagel The Beagle

Grandma Gets a Christmas Present

Angry Wet Dog Gives His Owner A Piece Of His Mind After His Bath

Street dog starts living indoors

Happy Feet! Baby Goat Boogie

For the Trekkies among us--Crazy As Heck Ideas Star Trek Almost Went With

For over five decades, fans of all ages have happily followed Star Trek through all its TV series, movies, and spinoff paraphernalia. Despite all its change and regeneration, the franchise has consistently landed on its feet, thanks to great characters and storylines. But it's been a close thing in a few cases. More than once, various writers and producers have come startlingly close to driving the whole thing right off a cliff. For example ...

TNG Almost Killed Off Commander Riker To Keep His Clone

In the Next Generation episode "Second Chances," we're introduced to Will Riker's clone, who was created via transporter accident eight years earlier during a routine plot device calibration. Going by Riker's middle name, "Thomas," by the end of the episode, the still-just-a-lieutenant version of Riker left the Enterprise and was pretty much forgotten, other than a DS9 plotline wherein he stole the Defiant and ended up in a Cardassian labor camp.
Despite making history as one of the most screwed-over Trek characters ever, Thomas Riker was nearly given the upper hand by producers, who wanted to kill off Will and replace him with Thomas. The plan was to "reboot" the character, putting him in the Ops position and having him work his way back up the ranks. This would provide a far more realistic excuse for Riker continuing to be on the show instead of constantly deferring a promotion to captain. Also, as Thomas was still very much in love with Deanna Troi, this would introduce a new potential romantic subplot to the show and provide an element of tension about whether he might, uh, breach her warp core.
Ultimately, the writers decided that killing OG Riker would be going a little too boldly where no one had gone before, so they beamed Thomas off to the planet of unresolved plotlines. They also felt it would be more interesting to have both versions of Riker floating around the galaxy, leaving the door open for awkward get-togethers in the future. A door which they utterly forgot about forever.




Captain Picard Almost Had A Wig And A French Accent

When a show is in pre-production, its creators will tinker with characters' backstories and looks until they find what they hope is a winning recipe. For example, at some point during the planning stages of TNG, Wesley Crusher was a girl, Geordi had a Jamaican accent, and Troi was a non-humanoid alien. And while having Leslie Crusher instead of Wesley Crusher may be the stuff of Trekkie fantasies, what nearly happened to Jean Luc Picard is the stuff of their nightmares.
Apparently, the production team had a hell of a time deciding if Picard should sound English or French, so Stewart performed some scenes (including the opening narration) with a French accent, just to take it for a test drive. Which means we came terrifyingly close to exploring "Space, ze final fronteeah."
In addition to working out what Picard would sound like, Stewart's hair -- or lack thereof -- was another sticking point. Gene Roddenberry was adamant that a bald English dude couldn't possibly be "the new Captain Kirk," and was initially opposed to Stewart trying out for the part of Picard at all. Even though Roddenberry warmed to Stewart, he wasn't budging on the hair issue, and even had a wig flown from London to Los Angeles for Stewart to wear during a tryout.
As you may have noticed, Picard did end up bald, which means Roddenberry eventually caved and realized that members of the Federation would probably be more concerned with Romulans than Rogaine. Roddenberry even stated that Picard was bald because "hair doesn't mean anything in the 25th century." Which sounds hilariously naive to modern ears, now that we know how important beards are to first officers.




Captain Kirk Almost Fought Jesus

While Star Trek: The Motion Picture gave us our first taste of the series on the big screen, the movie probably isn't anyone's favorite Trek film. For most, it's what we suffer through in order to get to "KHAAAAAAN!" At best, it made us think a bit about the consequences of firing junk into space. But hey it could have been ... OK, not exactly better, but definitely way more odd. While what we got was a missing satellite and a bald robot in a short skirt, what we almost got was Captain Kirk fighting Alien Jesus. We'll give you a moment to develop that mental picture.
How many hammer punches and clumsy forward rolls did you envision? Eight? Nice.
As it happens, an early version of the film pitted the crew against a shapeshifting alien that would assume the forms of various biblical figures. "In the climactic scene, Kirk had a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ," Star Trek author and screenwriter Michael Jan Friedman said. "So Kirk was slugging it out on the bridge. With Jesus."
Now before you get all hot and bothered thinking how cool it would be to have Kirk drop-kicking Jesus aboard the Enterprise, it's our duty to remind you of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, in which Kirk fights God. The one time the Star Trek universe dabbled in religion, we get a steaming piece of crap so fragrant that even its producer admits it "almost doomed the franchise."




Geordi La Forge Was Almost An Alien Spawn
While there wasn't talk of killing him off (that we know of), Geordi La Forge narrowly avoided some serious character reprogramming of his own. You see, in one almost-happened storyline, Geordi was revealed to be the technologically inclined, visually challenged spawn of an alien who impregnated his mother. Yes, really.
According to writer and producer Jeri Taylor, Geordi's mom had an "almost Rosemary's Baby-kind of thing," giving birth to the half-human offspring of an unknown alien, which might have explained La Forge's similarly awful track record with women. The truth of Geordi's parentage would have come to light when his people showed up looking for him.
Fortunately the idea got scrapped, possibly because Deanna Troi had already done the whole alien impregnation thing, and possibly because they were saving it for Harry Kim, who experienced almost this exact nightmare in an episode of Voyager.




DS9 Almost Got An Episode Making Fun Of Trekkies
When the 30th anniversary of the franchise rolled around, writers for Deep Space Nine wanted to mark the occasion with some sort of special episode. Suggestions were offered, ideas were kicked around, and while we ended up with odd-looking Klingons and lots of Tribbles, we very nearly got a throwback that was way, way more meta.
You see, someone had the bright idea of going back to the planet Iotia from the TOS episode "A Piece Of The Action," in which the crew encounters an entire society that's based itself on a history book about mobsters in Chicago. When the crew of DS9 visited the planet, they'd find the entire place changed after the encounter with Kirk and Spock, with the culture and religion now based on the Enterprise crew instead of 1920s mob bosses.


According to writer Ronald D. Moore, the planet's Kirk-obsessed population would "have conventions" and "know all the adventures." His vision was "to send the characters to a Star Trek convention" as "a kind of comment on fandom, and people's involvement with the show from afar." In short, there'd be an entire planet of Trekkies.
Producers eventually put an "all stop" on the plan, since it'd be almost impossible to do without making fun of their viewership and talking down to them.
The concept didn't completely die, though, and the core idea was revisited years later in the Voyager episode "Virtuoso," in which the Doctor becomes a celebrity on a Delta Quadrant planet.




Eddie Murphy Was Originally The Sidekick In The Voyage Home
As a huge Star Trek fan, actor and comedian Eddie Murphy was understandably jazzed at the prospect of starring alongside Kirk and Spock in one of the Trek films. And in early versions of the script for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Murphy was slated for a "sidekick" role in the portions of the film that take place in modern-day San Francisco. There, Murphy would run around acting like Eddie Murphy, while Shatner and Nimoy made faces and tried to keep up.
In case you're a little foggy on the premise, Star Trek IV is "the one with the whales." When an alien probe threatens to destroy 23rd-century Earth if it can't talk to some whales -- which are extinct -- Kirk and the Enterprise crew travel back in time to 1986 to retrieve some.
So why wasn't Murphy in the final version of the film, hanging out with Kirk and Spock and having a whale of a time? Turns out he was super interested in going to space, but considerably less psyched about, uh, "coming to America." As Murphy put it, "I wanna be in space! I wanna beam up! I don't wanna be in San Francisco." While Murphy later got his space on in the timeless classic Pluto Nash, the sidekick role was reworked for Catherine Hicks, who joined the cast as a whale biologist and love interest for Captain Kirk.



The Original Pitch For The Series Was A "Wagon Train To The Stars"
Although every episode begins with a not-so-subtle reminder that the crew of the Enterprise is here to "explore strange new worlds," "seek out new life and new civilizations," and "boldly go where no one has gone before," the original concept for Star Trek was a lot more along the lines of "Wagons ho!"
When Gene Roddenberry first pitched the series in 1964, he envisioned a "wagon train" concept, featuring "characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which becomes our stories." One ship, the S.S. Yorktown, would do most of the ferrying, and her "skipper," Captain Robert April, would head up the cast of characters for the "space western."
CBS passed on Roddenberry's pitch, citing its similarity to Lost In Space. And while we're confident Fox would have eventually picked it up, called it Firefly, and cancelled it to the dismay of viewers everywhere, Roddenberry decided to revise his premise. The result of his editing was the TOS original pilot, called "The Cage," which interested NBC enough for them to order a second, revised pilot, and eventually the entire series.
And so history was made. Roddenberry got his show, Shatner didn't have to get that dusty, and we never had to sit through any tedious episodes about Klingons rustlin' space cattle.

Dachshund Cross-Breeds

Some of these are pretty cute. I didn't include the ones that were not so much. The ones of doxie x large breed--how is that possible? Reminds me of the old joke--someone put him up to it!


Chiweenie: Dachshund x Chihuahua




Dach-Griffon: Dachshund x Brussels Griffon



Dorkie: Yorkshire Terrier x Dachshund



Doxador: Labrador Retriever x Dachshund



Doxi-Pekepoo: Poodle x Dachshund x Pekingese



Doxie Scot: Dachshund x Scottish Terrier



Doxie-Pin: Dachshund x Miniature Pinscher



DoxiePit: Pit Bull x Dachshund



Doxiepoo: Poodle x Dachshund



Dusky: Dachshund x Siberian Husky



Foxie Doxie: Wire Fox Terrier x Dachshund



Jackshund: Jack Russell Terrier x Dachshund



Mauxie: Dachshund x Maltese



Miniature Schnoxie: Dachshund x Miniature Schnauzer



Spaniel-Doxie: Cocker Spaniel x Dachshund



Golden Dox: Dachshund x Golden Retriever

Saturday Night Fur-ver.....Kitty Funnies