With the new LED headlights and accent lights I often see “angry” cars coming up behind me. I see angry looking lights and think “this guy is going to tailgate me” (I hate that). Then I’m often pleasantly surprised that the “angry” car, isn’t angry after all.
I think a lot has to do with the lack of design work during the war years. They had a lot of carry-over designs from prewar production. So changing the ads would make them seem more stylish.
The attachment is what I’m seeing for extra two.
But as this is the only video anywhere I can find in which Ray Parker Jr. appears, I’m going to guess this is the content of extra two.
Gasoline on Saturday, was 129.9 ¢/litre. Various Gas stations on Tuesday started showing 140.9 ¢/litre, and now virtually all are showing that price (and even the “virtually stations” also raised their prices 11 ¢/litre).
That’s a rise of 50 ¢/imp. gal
or 41.6 ¢/U.S. gal.(Canadian) ≈ 37¢ U.S.
“New larger bases have been introduced to improve player safety and to modestly encourage more stolen-base attempts. The bases are now 18-square inches, up from 15-square inches. Home plate is now three inches closer to first and third base, while the corner bases are now 4 1/2 inches closer to second base.”
The above quote came from AP; I do wish proper mathematical grammar was still being taught in schools.
By the above, bases in major league baseball were, up until the end of last season, 3.87 inches on a side, and are now a whole .37 inches per side bigger for this and future seasons.
As soon as I figure out what I think is actually meant by the base distance changes, I’ll do that math too.
Many outlets repeated that quote, then corrected. Of course what the meant to say was that the bases went from 15 inches square to 18. A 15 sq in base would be less than 4X4″!
Voracious predator!
Love them!
It looks like a robot from a sci fi movie.
The little metallic bumps and that preternatural shine have got to be photoshopped.
And what about those droplets(?) hanging below?
“ Ladybug ” By: Julien Le Pingouin
Wanna play?!
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Somewhere in Kenya – photographer possibly Nick Brandt (his stuff is worth looking at / it’s a bit gloomy though).
Where is this?
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I notice something in old car ads.
I’m no car expert, so I may be using the wrong words… But in the 1930s and 40s, American car front ends were tall and bulky.
The ads for them made them look imposing, with tall, shiny grilles, sometimes looking up at them, as though they were Art Deco buildings.
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By the very late 40s, their shape hadn’t changed, but the images in the advertising flattened them out, made them lower and wider…
Maybe it was supposed to look sportier, I dunno.
I don’t see a date on this ad… looks like 1950, 51??
But look: The actual car, in the photo, is tall, and heavily chromed, very solid and strong looking.
The same car in the ad is stylishly (?) low and wide, made to look more subtle, and less rounded.
The proportions are altered to give a different effect.
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Maybe it was wishful thinking, because a few years later, the actual cars started looking like the earlier drawings, most of them even more angular.
Not the style details, just the shape, of, say, a ’54 Chevy is like the illustrations of a ’51.
It’s like the ads foretold the coming years…
Or the designers were taking cues from the company’s advertising.
I have a friend who told me as a child he was terrified of his daddy’s car because it looked like a monster
just like the car in ”cars”… paul newman.
I thought those vertical grilles were scary, too…
Even now, it looks like a piranha…
I still don’t like the face of either.
With the new LED headlights and accent lights I often see “angry” cars coming up behind me. I see angry looking lights and think “this guy is going to tailgate me” (I hate that). Then I’m often pleasantly surprised that the “angry” car, isn’t angry after all.
I think a lot has to do with the lack of design work during the war years. They had a lot of carry-over designs from prewar production. So changing the ads would make them seem more stylish.
The attachment is what I’m seeing for extra two.
But as this is the only video anywhere I can find in which Ray Parker Jr. appears, I’m going to guess this is the content of extra two.
Just griping about the universe.
Gasoline on Saturday, was 129.9 ¢/litre. Various Gas stations on Tuesday started showing 140.9 ¢/litre, and now virtually all are showing that price (and even the “virtually stations” also raised their prices 11 ¢/litre).
That’s a rise of 50 ¢/imp. gal
or 41.6 ¢/U.S. gal.(Canadian) ≈ 37¢ U.S.
Rough calculations … A tad over 3.75 liters to one US gallon, $1.46/L is about $5.50/gal…. Converting CND to USD that’s about $4/gal.
We already pay $5/gal for regular in California. Wanna trade?
It’s even higher in the UK and most of Europe.
Pedal power!
I used to ride a bike everywhere…
Sure wish I still could!
A quote and another gripe at the universe.
“New larger bases have been introduced to improve player safety and to modestly encourage more stolen-base attempts. The bases are now 18-square inches, up from 15-square inches. Home plate is now three inches closer to first and third base, while the corner bases are now 4 1/2 inches closer to second base.”
The above quote came from AP; I do wish proper mathematical grammar was still being taught in schools.
By the above, bases in major league baseball were, up until the end of last season, 3.87 inches on a side, and are now a whole .37 inches per side bigger for this and future seasons.
As soon as I figure out what I think is actually meant by the base distance changes, I’ll do that math too.
saw a lunch truck today with this blazoned across the side in huge letters:
‘ONE BITE AND WE GOT YOU’
Now what is so hard about making that ‘WE’VE’?
Don’t get me started.
Advertising, the internet, newspapers… it’s everywhere!
Commenters on YouTube can be ignorant.
I don’t like it but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Even if it would did any good, which it wouldn’t, correcting people is rude.
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But when my newspaper (online) reports that something will be “fazed out”, I grit my teeth.
In the same paper, within the next day or two, another reporter said someone wasn’t “phased”.
I almost wrote a comment. But I refrained.
I guess I’m going through a nice faze.
Sigh…. I know you like doing unnecessary math.
But stop for a moment and consider … you can SEE the bases on a baseball diamond.
I am no baseball fan, don’t care for sports, and never watch any kind of games on TV, yet even I can picture a baseball game.
There’s no way those visible squares are smaller than a slice of sandwich bread…
I usually pay no attention to this stuff but I had to check.
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You said yourself that people didn’t use proper mathematical grammar.
One quick Google showed me that this is simply another example.
Yes, I read that, but other sources corrected it.
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The bases were 15 inches SQUARE, not 15 square inches.
They are going to be 18 inches square.
A difference of an easily figured three inches.
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BTW…..
The bases will be closer, yet the running distance between them remains the same…
This magic occurs because the outside edge of a base is on the base line (is that the right word?)
It sits inside the corner.
So I guess the edge of a base becomes a inch and a half closer at each end.
The runner can step on it that much sooner (must be half a second) or maybe not miss it if he would previously have landed an inch and a half short.
Many outlets repeated that quote, then corrected. Of course what the meant to say was that the bases went from 15 inches square to 18. A 15 sq in base would be less than 4X4″!
Exactly… That’s what I just wrote!
Cleo, you should have brought in the resident frog. Much neater.
Flies are extra.
Never wear a green sweater with tomato whatever.
Fuel!
The story of how this 747 got to the meadow in CAPTIONED PICTURES. Scroll up.
Although I don’t find plane crashes funny, the caption on this is really funny!
LOL
orange chiffon cake
Moral: Don’t complain to Cleo about a fly in your soup.
You’ll only end up with soup in your fly.
cleo, cleo, cleo. now you’ll have to charge them extra for the extra protein!
They must be new to this restaurant. Regular customers know what to expect and know to NEVER, NEVER complain.
Love the annimation! That’s funny.