This is Katie Sandwina (her professional name), who was featured on yesterday’s circus poster, with her husband 155 pound circus acrobat Max Heymann,l.
Max always said in interviews that he fell hopelessly in love with her when she publicly beat him in a wrestling match. Her father used to offer a prize to anyone who could best her, but no one ever did.
She was 6’2″ tall and over 200 pounds, but was considered a great beauty. Newspapers reported that she was the ideal figure of a woman, with a perfect body… though I have a feeling a little circus publicity was involved in that.
They were married for more than 50 years, and had two sons.
That’s around the same as the first McDonald’s I went to… but you have to consider that $2 an hour was considered a decent wage, and I only got 35¢ an hour for babysitting.
A 1907 camera ad slanted towards women, who were considered the most likely demographic to want to take family pictures, and buy the new handheld cameras.
They were advertised as small, portable, and lightweight (as you can see)… and caused a revolution in picture-taking.
With the new fast film that came on a roll, you didn’t need glass plates, tripods or 2 minute exposures to get candid pictures of the children or pets.
The old rule is, if it won’t move and it should, use WD-40…. if it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape.
Sometimes that just won’t work.
A locksmith once lectured me because I said I’d put WD40 in a lock.
It works, but eventually gets sticky, attracts dirt and gums it up. He made me buy powdered graphite, and promise I’d never ever use anything else for locks.
That was years ago … now they say to buy a Teflon based dry spray… But still, NOT WD-40.
It also eventually gums up zippers and scissors, if you use it too often… but it sure helps as a temporary fix.
Yeah, one of my “go-to” items. I just used it to soften and remove all traces of decades old duct tape from a spare walker at Mom’s house. Then I had to hand wash the whole thing to get the slick greasy WD-40 off of it. That’s what they never tell you in these things – the residue is awful.
I also read that it could act as a water repellent in glass shower stalls acting much like Rain-X. I tried it and almost passed out from the fumes and it only turned the glass panels into a blurry, stinky mess that I had to remove with Windex.
It is funny that it’s intended use was not mentioned …to displace water on electrical components in cars. That’s also how it got it’s name from testing when it was first being developed, It was Water Displacement test # 40 so they called it WD 40. It was used to spray in a distributor cap and points when they got wet
That seems very brave… Not just the idea of speaking in front of all those people. I’m not sure, but I don’t think she minded public speaking.
It’s just the idea of standing there, exposed to 250,000 people, ignoring the odds of being vulnerable to a hater or a madman, or any other danger. If she ever thought about it, AFAIK, it never showed.
I did a lot of wallpapering at home. We’d write on the walls in pencil before wallpapering over it. Then when we got ready to wallpaper again, it was like a time capsule of jokes and comments from the last time.
Almost as bad as a moose. Friend of mine ran into a moose on the highway. Unlike a deer, it doesn’t just go down…it goes over. Take the legs out at speed, and the body falls on the car, crushing the cabin. (No-one got hurt, thankfully.)
No. There is a frog. I had to go to ChatGPT, eventually Chat found the website, and the solution was there. Posting it here without a spoiler, because there is no way on God’s Green Earth you could find it in the resolution presented. If you blow up the image here, and inside the red circle, you can barely make out a pair of eyes.
Edwardian ladies having a bit of playful fun for the camera, in 1905.
They’re laughing cos they know this pose would be considered a bit daring in their social circle…. but not so much as to be as actually vulgar, or get them in genuine trouble.
They actually made an album of this excursion … I saw a couple of the pictures.
I think, again, it has to do with the novel idea of accessible photography. A ladies’ day out, with souvenirs that didn’t require a photographer.
All you can eat, huh? If the Golden Glutton is as bad as the reviews, $5 is too much, ’cause I can’t eat a thing.
Yesterday I drove past a pizza place – ad on the marquis for buffet lunch, $15. I don’t think I could eat fifteen dollars worth of pizza, salad, etc. for lunch.
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They couldn’t drag me away from Cleo & Company.
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If she’s in the mood …you better be.
This is Katie Sandwina (her professional name), who was featured on yesterday’s circus poster, with her husband 155 pound circus acrobat Max Heymann,l.
Max always said in interviews that he fell hopelessly in love with her when she publicly beat him in a wrestling match. Her father used to offer a prize to anyone who could best her, but no one ever did.
She was 6’2″ tall and over 200 pounds, but was considered a great beauty. Newspapers reported that she was the ideal figure of a woman, with a perfect body… though I have a feeling a little circus publicity was involved in that.
They were married for more than 50 years, and had two sons.
She is big but well proportioned
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That’s around the same as the first McDonald’s I went to… but you have to consider that $2 an hour was considered a decent wage, and I only got 35¢ an hour for babysitting.
Not bad. You could buy a hamburger and a shake after only an hour of babysitting (if your dad would let you).
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A 1907 camera ad slanted towards women, who were considered the most likely demographic to want to take family pictures, and buy the new handheld cameras.
They were advertised as small, portable, and lightweight (as you can see)… and caused a revolution in picture-taking.
With the new fast film that came on a roll, you didn’t need glass plates, tripods or 2 minute exposures to get candid pictures of the children or pets.
Buffalo NY-November 2014
Must have been one of those lake effect blizzards that just park over the city.
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it’s a great Salad dressing too!
Here’s one more!
The old rule is, if it won’t move and it should, use WD-40…. if it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape.
Sometimes that just won’t work.
A locksmith once lectured me because I said I’d put WD40 in a lock.
It works, but eventually gets sticky, attracts dirt and gums it up. He made me buy powdered graphite, and promise I’d never ever use anything else for locks.
That was years ago … now they say to buy a Teflon based dry spray… But still, NOT WD-40.
It also eventually gums up zippers and scissors, if you use it too often… but it sure helps as a temporary fix.
But don’t put it in the toilet, either!
Yeah, one of my “go-to” items. I just used it to soften and remove all traces of decades old duct tape from a spare walker at Mom’s house. Then I had to hand wash the whole thing to get the slick greasy WD-40 off of it. That’s what they never tell you in these things – the residue is awful.
Yeah, gets the crayon off of the wall.
But you will never, ever, be able to paint that area again…
I also read that it could act as a water repellent in glass shower stalls acting much like Rain-X. I tried it and almost passed out from the fumes and it only turned the glass panels into a blurry, stinky mess that I had to remove with Windex.
It is funny that it’s intended use was not mentioned …to displace water on electrical components in cars. That’s also how it got it’s name from testing when it was first being developed, It was Water Displacement test # 40 so they called it WD 40. It was used to spray in a distributor cap and points when they got wet
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That seems very brave… Not just the idea of speaking in front of all those people. I’m not sure, but I don’t think she minded public speaking.
It’s just the idea of standing there, exposed to 250,000 people, ignoring the odds of being vulnerable to a hater or a madman, or any other danger. If she ever thought about it, AFAIK, it never showed.
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He’s painting his money white?
Putting up wallpaper. Probably $10,000 bills.
Thank you! I was wondering too.
I thought they were stacks of bills, because of the red bands. Now I see that he’s opening the bundles to paste the bills on the wall.
I did a lot of wallpapering at home. We’d write on the walls in pencil before wallpapering over it. Then when we got ready to wallpaper again, it was like a time capsule of jokes and comments from the last time.
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Wow. That would really suck.
I just hate it when airplanes bounce off my car
Almost as bad as a moose. Friend of mine ran into a moose on the highway. Unlike a deer, it doesn’t just go down…it goes over. Take the legs out at speed, and the body falls on the car, crushing the cabin. (No-one got hurt, thankfully.)
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Hmmm…looks like slightly unstable air. You might want to avoid flying your paraglider into it.
or a Lear jet
Holy Mackerel! Run away! Run away!
I don’t want to be under that.
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I might just have a sneezing fit if I got close to that area. At least one of those would tickle my nose if any of the dust was in the air.
If those are conical piles of spice… first, how would you ever get or sell that much?
And second, how would you take any off, without it all falling down?
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Aren’t you gonna share? (I don’t think he is.)
I don’t think I.. um.. want any, anyway….
well, they say there’s a frog in there somewhere…
Who are “they”, and why do you believe them?
“They” must be the “some people” we hear a lot about in the news.
so. no frog?
No. There is a frog. I had to go to ChatGPT, eventually Chat found the website, and the solution was there. Posting it here without a spoiler, because there is no way on God’s Green Earth you could find it in the resolution presented. If you blow up the image here, and inside the red circle, you can barely make out a pair of eyes.
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Shameless hussies!
Edwardian ladies having a bit of playful fun for the camera, in 1905.
They’re laughing cos they know this pose would be considered a bit daring in their social circle…. but not so much as to be as actually vulgar, or get them in genuine trouble.
They actually made an album of this excursion … I saw a couple of the pictures.
I think, again, it has to do with the novel idea of accessible photography. A ladies’ day out, with souvenirs that didn’t require a photographer.
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Yo, boss, you OK? You look like you could use a dog in your lap.
“Hey, if you’re looking for someone to share that with I’m right here!”
It’s the eyes. I can never say no to those eyes.
In the old sitcom “Cheers,” the character Norm’s favorite restaurant was The Hungry Heifer.
Street Art – Mexico City.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
All you can eat, huh? If the Golden Glutton is as bad as the reviews, $5 is too much, ’cause I can’t eat a thing.
Yesterday I drove past a pizza place – ad on the marquis for buffet lunch, $15. I don’t think I could eat fifteen dollars worth of pizza, salad, etc. for lunch.
$15 is about half a pizza in my area. And, yes, I can eat $15 worth. That’s why I have to avoid those places.