Red eyes in every high school corridor…
Girls older than us wearing black crepe paper armbands.
My sister and I were kids. We knew who he was, and thought he was “cute”, but weren’t allowed to see his movies.
Our older friend, though, who lived down the street…. all of 10, herself, but as she told my father, almost a teenager… wept openly for days, and started signing her papers at school with Dean as her last name.
My Dad had told her to stop being ridiculous… and when that brought forth torrents of waterworks, he forbade us to go to her house, which made her parents angry…
Her grandmother was also our landlady, and our families were all friends.
Seems in my memory that it took eons to blow over… It may have actually been only days, cos we had resumed our crosstown walks to her grandmother’s bakery long before we left Cleveland the next spring.
But when we were moving she said we should write to each other. She wrote her address, which I already knew, on a piece of paper, and said I should keep it forever…. And she’d put Dean for her last name.
Took a while, but I finally got my eyes into the right mode, and there it was.
Dunno if it’ll work for others but…
here’s a possible viewing hint:
I tilted my tablet a bit away, to the right… not rotated, tilted on a vertical axis, like opening the door outward a little bit, say, just enough to let in the cat.
If you can’t tilt your monitor away to the right, you can move your head. Then relax your eyes. For me, it makes the letters a wee bit brighter than the background.
I enjoy pinups in general, and Vargas is an artist that I’ve seen a lot of, but I don’t recall seeing anything by Elvgren that I could identify. I’ll have to explore further.
If you look at the model, who has a very nice figure, and the painting, comparing bit by bit, you can see that the artist added just a bit more roundness to almost every part… not enough to make her fat… a little more voluptuous. Forearms, calves, cheeks, breasts.
If she stood up though, she’d be a little plump, compared to the model.
Nowadays, an art director would ask someone painting that model to make her look thinner.
Women like Rachel on Friends or Penny on Big Bang Theory (yeah, they’re old shows… I don’t watch TV) have to be not much over half the size of the blonde in the painting, who would be cast as the “fat” neighbor.
I’m familiar with Hilda… I used to think she was a joke, not a sex symbol, but then I read that she was one of the most popular calendar pinups in the 1950s.
I don’t think a lot of joke calendars hung in gas stations.
Anyway… I’m not saying there haven’t always been a few popular larger size sex symbols… Look at Anna Nicole Smith… only that it’s interesting that body types come and go in fashion… and sometimes sad, when girls are made to feel that they have the “wrong” type.
In my (admittedly rather limited) experience, when they finally achieve a great smell, just the way they like it, and we immediately wash it off, the first thing they try to do is go find something horrific to roll in, and recapture the moment.
Nothing has a greater desire to stink than a freshly laundered pooch.
I think it’s hatred of the nice clean scents we choose for doggie shampoo. “You want me to smell like a wuss??”
You should smell the flea/tick shampoo I have for the dogs…they’re quite pleased with it. Smells almost as bad as when my first hound rolled around on a dead sting ray at the beach…
I have never given Buddy a bath. He’s a labrador. He did get completely covered in beach sand once. I hosed him off in the yard. His coat is as shiny today as it was when he was a pup. But, he’s never gotten into anything petroleum so I’ve never seen a need for soaps. A labs skin/hair oil is just that good. And as for smell, i do give him a good sniff on occasion. Just to be cretan he hasn’t developed a skin issue. Ive done that with my and mom & pops dogs. I started that with pops first schnauzer. She had skin issues, and his boy later had ear problems. Sniff your pets people!
That sounds like a trick question… it looks quite primitive, but it’s going to be either way older or way newer than we think. If it were 1934, I don’t think you’d ask (so with my luck it will be .)
But no… they’re wearing t-shirts so it’s not 1934, and certainly not 1894… so I’ll go another hundred years… 1994? Maybe even 2004? No reason for the four, just being random.
I keep forgetting to ask… I’m having trouble with GoComics so I can’t get to my strips to check for people. That’ll get fixed when I reset my password for the 73rd time…
But meanwhile… Has anybody seen Marge? She was coming here pretty regularly but it’s been a long time.
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Aktuelle Sperrung des Oktoberfestes – München – warnung.bund.de
Aufgrund einer unspezifischen Sprengstoffdrohung im Zusammenhang mit dem Einsatz im Münchener Norden wird das Festgelände auf der Theresienwiese vorerst bis 17:00 Uhr nicht geöffnet.
Due to an unspecified threat of explosives in connection with the operation in nothern Munich, the Oktoberfest on the Theresienwiese will initially be closed until 5:00 p.m.
There were some explosions and vehicle fires in a different part of the city. I’m guessing that they decided to give the fair site a good once over one more time with security details. .
If one of my husband’s friends hadn’t called in sick and they therefore canceled meeting at that time and location, they would have been among the victims.
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on of the ladies that I taco Tuesday with was saying she had a herd of them about thirty strong. As best as she could count.
In her yard? On her farm? Or in her living room?
Hers and connecting neighbors yards.
30!? Big yards.
Kinda country setting. A couple acres per property. More or less.
And no HOA to decide the height of the lawn…
Or the size of the yard decorations.
Especially when they’re life-size live deer.
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Wait, don’t tell me — I know this one…!
Shall we round up the usual suggestions?
Yes… hint… sort of… we recently saw him out of uniform.
Oh, yeah… the rest of them I know you know.
I’m glad to see the other guy finally got his bandages off…
You saw him out of his uniform? What kinds of websites are you visiting!!!
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DUCK!!!
The landing isn’t finished until the tail waggles.
So graceful!
And I noticed the “honking” as he swooped down for his landing…!
“Over your head! INCOMING!!”
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My version of this: that’s my previous two hounds, Reggie and Dexter.
more. please post more
Just a coupla guys, at home in their own skins.
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If you look closely…
On the set Hitch had to build because they wouldn’t let him film in the real United Nations…
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Red eyes in every high school corridor…
Girls older than us wearing black crepe paper armbands.
My sister and I were kids. We knew who he was, and thought he was “cute”, but weren’t allowed to see his movies.
Our older friend, though, who lived down the street…. all of 10, herself, but as she told my father, almost a teenager… wept openly for days, and started signing her papers at school with Dean as her last name.
My Dad had told her to stop being ridiculous… and when that brought forth torrents of waterworks, he forbade us to go to her house, which made her parents angry…
Her grandmother was also our landlady, and our families were all friends.
Seems in my memory that it took eons to blow over… It may have actually been only days, cos we had resumed our crosstown walks to her grandmother’s bakery long before we left Cleveland the next spring.
But when we were moving she said we should write to each other. She wrote her address, which I already knew, on a piece of paper, and said I should keep it forever…. And she’d put Dean for her last name.
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:’o(
🙁
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I know a good boy when I see one. And I’m looking at one right now.
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ouch
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Ashbury Park, NJ- 1905
I presume that is supposed to be “Asbury Park, NJ- 1905” above.
can you read this?
Nope.
Okay, today I got it.
Yup. I’m crosseyed for life now, but i got it.
No, that’s because you kept making that face.
Took a while, but I finally got my eyes into the right mode, and there it was.
Dunno if it’ll work for others but…
If you can’t tilt your monitor away to the right, you can move your head. Then relax your eyes. For me, it makes the letters a wee bit brighter than the background.
It’s rather out of season!
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I always enjoyed Vargas.
What about Elvgren?
I enjoy pinups in general, and Vargas is an artist that I’ve seen a lot of, but I don’t recall seeing anything by Elvgren that I could identify. I’ll have to explore further.
I was only teasing… Just facetiously pointing out that this one wasn’t a Vargas.
If you look at the model, who has a very nice figure, and the painting, comparing bit by bit, you can see that the artist added just a bit more roundness to almost every part… not enough to make her fat… a little more voluptuous. Forearms, calves, cheeks, breasts.
If she stood up though, she’d be a little plump, compared to the model.
Nowadays, an art director would ask someone painting that model to make her look thinner.
Women like Rachel on Friends or Penny on Big Bang Theory (yeah, they’re old shows… I don’t watch TV) have to be not much over half the size of the blonde in the painting, who would be cast as the “fat” neighbor.
It’s cruel that bodies have to be fashionable.
Google a pinup named Hilda. Plus sized sexy beauty.
She looks like fun. The artist caught her personality as well as her looks.
Fun stuff.
I’m familiar with Hilda… I used to think she was a joke, not a sex symbol, but then I read that she was one of the most popular calendar pinups in the 1950s.
I don’t think a lot of joke calendars hung in gas stations.
Anyway… I’m not saying there haven’t always been a few popular larger size sex symbols… Look at Anna Nicole Smith… only that it’s interesting that body types come and go in fashion… and sometimes sad, when girls are made to feel that they have the “wrong” type.
You’re spot on, but it’s not only her body that grew more generous. Her hair, too.
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I’ve heard of downward dog, but downward ???
I would have to go with just “downward-facing duck”, regardless of which exact web-footed aquatic bird it is.
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I couldn’t help myself — I had to look it up!
I took a guess, then looked it up. I was wrong.
Me too.
Sad thing is, I’d pretty much eliminated two, though of course I couldn’t be absolutely sure… but I had fairly good reasons.
So it was down to two possible definitions, and I still guessed wrong.
Just looked it up.
I guessed right.
A rare event…
I was right! It was a guess, but still!!! 😀
Bath time!
In my (admittedly rather limited) experience, when they finally achieve a great smell, just the way they like it, and we immediately wash it off, the first thing they try to do is go find something horrific to roll in, and recapture the moment.
Nothing has a greater desire to stink than a freshly laundered pooch.
I think it’s hatred of the nice clean scents we choose for doggie shampoo. “You want me to smell like a wuss??”
You should smell the flea/tick shampoo I have for the dogs…they’re quite pleased with it. Smells almost as bad as when my first hound rolled around on a dead sting ray at the beach…
I have never given Buddy a bath. He’s a labrador. He did get completely covered in beach sand once. I hosed him off in the yard. His coat is as shiny today as it was when he was a pup. But, he’s never gotten into anything petroleum so I’ve never seen a need for soaps. A labs skin/hair oil is just that good. And as for smell, i do give him a good sniff on occasion. Just to be cretan he hasn’t developed a skin issue. Ive done that with my and mom & pops dogs. I started that with pops first schnauzer. She had skin issues, and his boy later had ear problems. Sniff your pets people!
Sebastião Salgado – Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil.
Working conditions look somewhat less than optimal.
Well….
before I peek…
But no… they’re wearing t-shirts so it’s not 1934, and certainly not 1894… so I’ll go another hundred years… 1994? Maybe even 2004? No reason for the four, just being random.
Final: okay…2004.
I see that I overshot a little.
But I’m okay with my guess. LOL
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It reminds me of the horde at Helm’s Deep.
Probably would have been cheaper to film.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards… it’s actually Richard… looking so angelic, even though they really weren’t… but just so young, in 1966.
I can’t believe that was almost 60 years ago. Okay, yeah… “only” 59.
They had to be …(Trying to do arithmetic at midnight)… 22 and 21 years old, cos Mick is 82 now, and Keith 81…
And they’re still touring, and making music, and still the Rolling Stones!
I keep forgetting to ask… I’m having trouble with GoComics so I can’t get to my strips to check for people. That’ll get fixed when I reset my password for the 73rd time…
But meanwhile… Has anybody seen Marge? She was coming here pretty regularly but it’s been a long time.
If you see her, ask her to come back!
EVERYONE is having trouble with GoComics.
I had the opportunity to look up Marge’s last comment over there, her last comment was about 4 weeks ago.
She also runs the “Ten Cats Friends from GoComics”, but hasn’t posted anything since Aug 24, not that it is a very active FB page nowadays.
I grabbed her email address that she had posted in her GC profile if you wish to contact her.
Holy shit!
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Aktuelle Sperrung des Oktoberfestes – München – warnung.bund.de
Aufgrund einer unspezifischen Sprengstoffdrohung im Zusammenhang mit dem Einsatz im Münchener Norden wird das Festgelände auf der Theresienwiese vorerst bis 17:00 Uhr nicht geöffnet.
Due to an unspecified threat of explosives in connection with the operation in nothern Munich, the Oktoberfest on the Theresienwiese will initially be closed until 5:00 p.m.
https://warnung.bund.de/meldungen/mow.DE-BY-M-SE125-20251001-153-000/Aktuelle_Sperrung_des_Oktoberfestes_Muenchen
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We’re save.
Do you have any more info on the threat? Roadwork? Terrorist threats? Leftover bombs? Something else?
Of course they’ve reopened Oktoberfest at 5:30 pm…
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/munich-oktoberfest-resumes-after-seven-hour-closure/ar-AA1NG83Z
Hope it’s ok!
Hey, it’s reopened! I’ll drink to that!
There were some explosions and vehicle fires in a different part of the city. I’m guessing that they decided to give the fair site a good once over one more time with security details. .
There were threats according Oktoberfest.
Dang it.
Probably not ethnic Germans.
You mean – like this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest_bombing
If one of my husband’s friends hadn’t called in sick and they therefore canceled meeting at that time and location, they would have been among the victims.