A little bit of laughter can help make long weeks feel a bit shorter. I consider hearty chuckles to be a necessary component of a good day, and googly eyes are a great path to quick giggles. Seriously, slap some googly eyes on almost anything and try not to laugh.
Today, Jason wrote about how the 4×4 version of the GMC 7000 series was so big it needed its headlights positioned south of the truck’s grille. GMC didn’t fill the old headlight holes with anything. Jason felt that GMC should have just filled the holes with caps. 10001010 has a better idea:
Cheap plastic covers that mimic the grill are boring, what these really needed were 7″ googly eyes.
IRegertNothing, Esq enhances it:
Bonus points if you put them on springs that release every time you hit the brakes really hard.
I don’t know how to do the requested gif, but check this out:
While I’m at it, I also made this some time ago in response to the Alvis Lancefield article:
Contributor Sam Abuelsamid has written about the 2026 Toyota RAV4, and Toyota’s cash cow crossover has gone all hybrid. It also has a bit of tech called Arene OS. Yzguy:
So when the software goes sideways, I can say “Come on Arene”
Toora, loora, toora, loo-rye-aye…
In other news, those nightmare stand-up airliner seats are making the news rounds again. Hopefully, they continue to be just a terrible idea. At least the jokes are great. Rippstik:
I won’t stand for this.
Finally, David is facing a self-induced dilemma over what to do with his first car. Its potential replacement is a Jeep with rotten floorboards. Matt Sexton offers sage advice:
Oh goodness, no. That’s not a minor restoration. Once you get to floorboards, I’m out.
I’ve had two cars restored and the three things I took away from it were: 1. It will cost three times what you expect 2. It will take twice as long as you expect 3. In the end it won’t be worth what you’ve spent on it (If it’s an emotional thing and you can afford it, then accept this). And neither of my cars needed floorboards.
For the record one of those cars was my first, and I still have it.
Have a great evening, everyone!
(Topshot: GMC/Vaessen Creative)
A few years ago Cartoon Network ran a special on April Fools day where a select few shows ran most of the day with every character sporting animated googly eyes. My kids and I watched a bunch of Teen Titans GO! like this and it was endlessly entertaining.
In conclusion, the world need more googly eyes on stuff.
I saw a Cybertruck with googly eyes and it was oddly endearing.
Incontrovertible proof that googly eyes truly can make everything better.
Slightly OT, but I saw a video the other day in which several different colors —then a flag—were tried to attract attention to a trip hazard. Once they put googly eyes on it, and a sticker-mouth, problem solved. Something about the human predilection for pareidolia and face-recognition draws attention to it, maybe?
Techs following me are gonna see a lot of googly eyes 😉
Yeah, those GMC 7000 trucks with googly eyes can haul everything everywhere all at once
I feel like this would work on cars that have the appearance of a second set of headlights. Otherwise you would just get pulled over. Or just mount those rally-style front lamps but with googly eyes.
Wow, and I have to share this honour with DialMforMiata, the lyricist for this (hopefully not) one hit wonder.
Woooooo! And thanks for the Photoshop!!!
It looks amazing with the googly eyes.