Yeah… And it’s probably satirizing the “modern girl’s” penchant for short skirts and staying fashionable at all costs.
That last thing hasn’t changed, as far as I can tell.
In my high school days, I was no fashion icon, but even so, one had to wear as short a skirt as allowed (about mid knee) on the coldest, snowiest winter days, and never earmuffs or rubber boots… bearing in mind that we had to wear skirts.
I see girls today out in the cold rain with no raincoats or boots, or hats. Ah, youthful vanity.
Though honestly, that’s more likely in places other than sophisticated Brussels, where almost everybody learns English in school…. And these statuettes are metal.
I thought it must be a factory or at least a wholesaler, because one shop wouldn’t have so many duplicates of the same thing…. but no, every site said it’s one souvenir shop in Brussels.
They’re almost all bottle openers and small figurines shaped like the Manneken Pis (a little boy peeing)fountain in that city.
After all, I’m thinking it’s almost a law that you have to take home a souvenir of that… they must check your luggage for one at the airport, and make you buy one at the expensive airport gift shop if you don’t have one. So you may as well stock up before that.
I say this because so many people have shown me their souvenirs of it, as though they’re the first person to ever buy one, or know of its existence.
My family went to the World’s Fair in Brussels, when we were stationed in Libya.
My father bought some kind of wooden dish… I think it was a nut dish… with a little metal Manneken Pis standing on it.
My mother hated it, but he thought it was hysterical. He was very disappointed that none of us kids wanted it 20 years later.
You have to look closely to see the woman in a traditional conical hat, gathering pink water lilies, arranging them on the water next to a wooden sampan.
This photo won several awards, including one in the International Drone Photography Contest, and has been featured in National Geographic.
This is a full-scale floral replica of an Emirates Airbus A380 covered in over 500,000 fresh flowers and living plants, earning a Guinness World Record in 2016 as the largest floral installation in the world.
It’s inside the Dubai Miracle Garden, the world’s largest natural flower garden spanning over 72,000 square meters with more than 150 million blooming flowers.
The garden is open seasonally from October or November to mid-May, closing during Dubai’s hot summer. Every year, before it reopens, everything, including this plane model, is stripped and completely replanted with fresh flowers and greenery.
Just left of center, almost but not quite at the bottom.
His face is blue like the jellyfish, but with much smaller eyes than they have, and round balls on the tips of his antennae.
His yellow shell is harder to see
It helps if you imagine autocorrect as a tiny little elf in your phone who is trying so hard to be helpful but is in fact quite drunk.
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You’d think that if she goes to Rutgers, she’d be smart enough to dress for the weather. Must be going there just to get her MRS degree.
Yeah… And it’s probably satirizing the “modern girl’s” penchant for short skirts and staying fashionable at all costs.
That last thing hasn’t changed, as far as I can tell.
In my high school days, I was no fashion icon, but even so, one had to wear as short a skirt as allowed (about mid knee) on the coldest, snowiest winter days, and never earmuffs or rubber boots… bearing in mind that we had to wear skirts.
I see girls today out in the cold rain with no raincoats or boots, or hats. Ah, youthful vanity.
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Say hello to Dorothy.
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A pair of observational balloons?
Or the duel from “Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines”…….
Actually, an illustration from Jules Verne’s 1863 novel “Five Weeks in a Balloon”b(Cinq semaines en ballon), by French illustrator Édouard Riou.
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Dear customer be careful of not touching in case of broken by yourself you have to pay it
Though honestly, that’s more likely in places other than sophisticated Brussels, where almost everybody learns English in school…. And these statuettes are metal.
I thought it must be a factory or at least a wholesaler, because one shop wouldn’t have so many duplicates of the same thing…. but no, every site said it’s one souvenir shop in Brussels.
They’re almost all bottle openers and small figurines shaped like the Manneken Pis (a little boy peeing)fountain in that city.
After all, I’m thinking it’s almost a law that you have to take home a souvenir of that… they must check your luggage for one at the airport, and make you buy one at the expensive airport gift shop if you don’t have one. So you may as well stock up before that.
I say this because so many people have shown me their souvenirs of it, as though they’re the first person to ever buy one, or know of its existence.
My family went to the World’s Fair in Brussels, when we were stationed in Libya.
My father bought some kind of wooden dish… I think it was a nut dish… with a little metal Manneken Pis standing on it.
My mother hated it, but he thought it was hysterical. He was very disappointed that none of us kids wanted it 20 years later.
Dean Martin’s wine cabinet???
At first I didn’t see any corkscrews, only bottle cap openers…
Now I see them, and they’re particularly rude… Or funny, depending on your taste in jokes.
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At least it gives you a choice!
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Wish I could see what it was afraid of.
Me too.
All those people approaching.
Turn the picture to the left by 90 degrees.
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You have to look closely to see the woman in a traditional conical hat, gathering pink water lilies, arranging them on the water next to a wooden sampan.
This photo won several awards, including one in the International Drone Photography Contest, and has been featured in National Geographic.
photographer Pham Huy Trung
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In celebration of the 4-engine passenger jet.
Whoa! Not what I expected when I searched it!
This is a full-scale floral replica of an Emirates Airbus A380 covered in over 500,000 fresh flowers and living plants, earning a Guinness World Record in 2016 as the largest floral installation in the world.
It’s inside the Dubai Miracle Garden, the world’s largest natural flower garden spanning over 72,000 square meters with more than 150 million blooming flowers.
The garden is open seasonally from October or November to mid-May, closing during Dubai’s hot summer. Every year, before it reopens, everything, including this plane model, is stripped and completely replanted with fresh flowers and greenery.
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You can do it, pup!
And if you can’t, that guy taking this picture had better help you, if he knows what’s good for him!
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PepsiCo $20.3 Billion
Mondelez International $11.3 Billion
Mars, Inc $7.4 Billion
Hershey Company $5.7 Billion
Ferrero $5.5 Billion
Kellanova $4.75 Billion
Nestle $2.6 Billion
Lindt & Sprungli $1.45 Billion
Total $59 Billion
Dentists and doctors to help cure what these cause $Lotsa Billions from all of us!
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Look on the bright side. It was a galcier filling the valley. At least it wasn’t a glacier. Those things are full of ice!
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Looks to me like two MPs.
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If it was apparent, then it wouldn’t be hiding, would it?
I dunno… I think a lot of parents want to hide every now and then, like, say, when the kids run amok at the supermarket.
Anyway….
His face is blue like the jellyfish, but with much smaller eyes than they have, and round balls on the tips of his antennae.
His yellow shell is harder to see
It helps if you imagine autocorrect as a tiny little elf in your phone who is trying so hard to be helpful but is in fact quite drunk.
— Author illegible
Yes!
Cactus Wren.
Jimmy Soul. Fabulous song! 🎶
It was a calypso song first.