Friday links

Great-grandmother, 92, rams mugger with mobility scooter. Bonus: Hell's Grannies sketch from Monty Python.

In 1950, the White House was gutted and re-built from the inside. Here's a set of photos.

Yesterday was National High Five Day: a brief history of the high five.

Better than it sounds: David Hasselhoff stars in a new epic '80s style music video for a song from the Kickstarted film 'Kung Fury' (in which a martial-arts expert cop goes back in time to fight Hitler (AKA Kung Furher), dinosaurs and Norse gods). Kind of related (as in also from Kickstarter): here's a trailer for Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre (because fracking!)

Collection of photos of animals licking windows.

Superheroes’ Part-Time Jobs: Because No One Pays Them For Saving The World.

ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, and include lots of tax stuff, Leonardo da Vinci's handwritten resume (from before he was famous), the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, and an answer to the age-old question: if I dug straight down, at a speed of 1 foot per second, what would kill me first?

David Hasselhoff Stars in a new epic '80s style music video for a song from the Kickstarted film 'Kung Fury'

While not quite in the same class as Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre....

Kung Fury, scheduled to be released on YouTube for free in late May 2015, is about a martial-arts expert cop who goes back in time to fight Kung Furher (Hitler with skills). A time machine malfunction sends him back too far, where he has to deal with dinosaurs and Norse gods, among other things. At least that's what I get from the music video and trailer - check them out yourself, below.

David Hasselhoff (wiki) fights bad guys and rides a dinosaur in this over-the-top music video for "True Survivor", a song from the soundtrack. Hasselhoff is also, of course, appearing in Sharknado 3.

Kung Fury is described as an "1980s style action comedy that features arcade-robots, dinosaurs, nazis, vikings, norse gods, mutants, and a super kung fu-cop called Kung Fury."

The official trailer (from back when it was on Kickstarter):

via Tastefully Offensive. More at The Verge.

Beatle Kisses: from a 1965 magazine article, closeups of The Beatles' lips, so you can practice kissing at home

Have at it.

via Weird Vintage.

Great-grandmother, 92, hits mugger with mobility scooter. Bonus: Hell's Grannies sketch from Monty Python

My favorite bit:

"We went through the war and all the bombings. We won't let a weasel like that hold us back."

A 92-year-old woman has told how she saved her 75-year-old friend from a mugger by ramming him with her mobility scooter.

Eileen Mason and Margaret Seabrook were on their way back from a lunch club meeting when the thief struck from behind a fence.

Margaret Seabrook, 75, (left) and Eileen Mason, 92 Photo: SWNS

He saw the contents of Ms Seabrook's basket, mounted on the front of her scooter, before grabbing Ms Mason by the arm and reaching for her carrier bag. Ms Mason shouted "Oh, no you don't," and hit the accelerator of her scooter.

The would-be thief was knocked to the ground before the great-grandmothers, both of Swindon, Wiltshire, sped off.

Ms Mason - who has four children, 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren - said: "I saw him look into my basket and I said 'oh no you don't', really loudly.

"I put my scooter into accelerate and turned really fast. The next thing I know he was on the floor. I thought 'my gosh'.

"Something in me just told me to turn so I squeezed the accelerator and turned and he went flying. He was so evil looking. We go to the lunch club every week on our scooters and nothing like this has ever happened before.

"We went through the war and all the bombings. We won't let a weasel like that hold us back. I would stand up for myself again if I needed to, but hopefully I won't need to. We will carry on as normal though - he hasn't put us off."

Mother-of-three Ms Seabrook, who has eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren said: "They were obviously targeting us because they thought we'd be an easy target - he was wrong.

"We're just so surprised by the response we've had. We just want to warn people not to leave things on display in their baskets, put it in the back or leave it on your lap, hidden by a coat."

And here are Hell's Grannies from Monty Python (wiki):

More at the Telegraph, via Dave Barry.

Wednesday links

Tax day quotes, songs, links and advice, filing an extension, and the 1967 cartoon version of the Beatles' Taxman. Related: Death and Taxes... and Zombies: Tax implications of the zombie apocalypse.

The Titanic sunk on this day in 1912 - here's an eyewitness account.

A Short History of Congress’s Power to Tax.

It's Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday. Here's his handwritten resume from 1482.

A Photographic Exploration Of The Oldest Living Things In The World.

If I dug straight down, at a speed of 1 foot per second, what would kill me first?

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, romance novel covers re-enacted by real people, a KKK application from the 1920's (you had to be recommended by a friend first, though), and the status of woolly mammoth cloning efforts.

Tuesday links

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 150 years ago today: history, quotes, illustrations, and videos (including the 1956 appearance on I've Got A Secret of the last eyewitness)

The Mission to Clone the Woolly Mammoth.

Do shoes cause schizophrenia?

Tangentially (maybe) related to Lincoln: Here's the 1920's KKK Application Form.

10 Unretouched Romance Novel Covers Reenacted by Real People.

The Mystery of the Green Children of Woolpit

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include reasons for insane asylum admission in the 1800's, the science of old people smell, a video of a chameleon that's actually two body-painted women, and making raisins before seedless grapes.