{"id":24434,"date":"2019-09-24T03:08:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24434"},"modified":"2019-09-24T03:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:08:46","slug":"any-given-definition-of-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/09\/any-given-definition-of-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Any given definition of &#8220;stranger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Holiday Approval Union, finding that nothing whatsoever notable happened on this day &#8211; no prominent or noteworthy events, no worthwhile person born or died &#8211; has thus chosen this date to represent <strong>Beware of Strangers Baring Gifs Day<\/strong>, because <em>something<\/em> had to be jammed into this barren spot in the month. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, we should completely ignore such blatant machinations, but I&#8217;m under pressure to find some other holiday to celebrate this month and coming up blank, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I present a small collection of the best gifs (pronounced, &#8220;dawayitspeld,&#8221;) ever created, as a reluctant nod to this manufactured and insipid celebration. I&#8217;d love to give credit for these, if I had the faintest idea where they came from but, you know, interwebs. Page loading times are going to go to hell I&#8217;m sure, and if you&#8217;re dumb enough to be on a phone with a data plan or something, better leave now.<\/p>\n<p>I really am going to get one of these shirts<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ook.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"391\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24435\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>No comment needed<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/dickmove.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24436\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Note the roof and the lights<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/godhatestrees.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24437\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The acting in this is superb<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/getwiddit.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24438\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This, however, is probably not acting<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/thinkyourefunny.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24439\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Took me a few passes to figure out what I was seeing<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/figureitout.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24440\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Uttering fowl slurs in the wrong part of town<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/youbetterrunmuthafucka.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24441\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I believe when I came across this, it was captioned, &#8220;First sip of Coke,&#8221; or something like that<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/firstsipofcoke.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24442\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the best gif ever made, period<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/bestgifever.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24443\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve done my part. Let&#8217;s move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Holiday Approval Union, finding that nothing whatsoever notable happened on this day &#8211; no prominent or noteworthy events, no worthwhile person born or died &#8211; has thus chosen this date to represent Beware of Strangers Baring Gifs Day, because something had to be jammed into this barren spot in the month. As far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,6,12],"tags":[5099,5100,5101,5103,5102],"class_list":["post-24434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-humor","category-random","tag-beware-of-strangers-baring-gifs-day","tag-insipid","tag-not-a-damn-thing-noteworthy","tag-not-yet-anyway-just-you-wait","tag-the-international-holiday-approval-union-should-be-disbanded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}