If it were his car, it would surely have killed him.
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In all our trips across the country, we stopped one time at a roadside attraction, after at least 20 miles of begging by three little kids.
Something to do with Paul Bunyan… I only remember giant Babe footprints full of water….
While we were inside, someone who worked there put bumper stickers on all the cars in the parking lot, without asking.
We got literally hours, at least 100 miles, cooped up like sardines, listening to my father ranting, yelling, using language my mother tried to shush (the kids! the kids!!)…
They ruined his car! It would never be the same again!
He was going to sue them for every cent they had. I didn’t even know what that meant.
I didn’t understand bumper stickers… I mean, I saw it.
I thought it was pretty, but they must be dangerous somehow.
We couldn’t even talk about Paul Bunyan for years. Maybe ever… I don’t remember cos by the time I was a teenager, I didn’t care any more.
They would put on bumper stickers at Luray Caverns as well, but there was a sign at the parking lot entrance to leave your sun visor down if you didn’t want one.
/We coulda been in the same parking lot at the same time! my Dad didn’t mind the bumper sticker in the least! Maybe your Dad objected that it was wired on and not stuck?
going by the costumes and background, I’m pretty sure this was the episode where Clark with the comment that a piece of coal under pressure for a million years becomes a diamond, proceeded to pressure a piece of a coal in his grasp (well, you know he has a pretty good grip) for a few seconds to turn it into a large diamond.
I don’t remember most of those episodes, but for some reason I do that one.
Didn’t recognize that this was from that episode, but I certainly remember him making the diamond!
It made me think it was possible for strong machines to squeeze coal into diamonds.
Now I know that’s totally impossible… but there are people out there who believe it.
I actually saw a question on Google, when I was looking up something else, where someone asked how much pressure it would take to make a diamond out of coal in an Instapot cooker.
My brother did it… but records, long before tapes. The Columbia Record Club.
Didn’t ask my parents, had no checking account.
He was about 14, and didn’t understand the small print. Thought he could get 7 records for a penny and quit.
They did no credit check, no age check…. I don’t think they can do that now.
They sent a flyer every month, fun of titles.. A few bargains on records nobody wants. But if you don’t pick something, they send you two that they picked… at high prices…
And they bill you… And bill you… You can’t quit till you’ve bought something like a year’s worth. He had no way to do it.
Of course my parents saw the packages… They yelled at him, then they yelled at the company. The records and bills kept coming.
I didn’t remember exactly what happened, or when it stopped, but I know he owed several hundred dollars, that still showed up years later on a credit check.
Nearly word-for-word of the experience that my younger brother had, he was 12, I was at 14 a bit more knowledgeable and I told him to talk to Mom first. He didn’t, and then when the first record arrived in the mail and Mom found out about it, all heck broke loose! Mom was on the phone a lot, and somehow she got him out of it (I think she bought a few records to satisfy Columbia, but we ALL were told NOT to do anything like that again without asking permission first.
Susan, yeah, no checks beforehand, small-print contractual terms, shysters the lot of them.
I notice the ad says you only need to buy 7 records in 3 years…I didn’t know whether my brother even noticed that.
But one thing I remember trying to explain to him later is that if you bought the cheapest bargain selections, they didn’t count, because they weren’t “at regular club prices”.
Yes. I think that is what my brother thought too, initially, that he could buy the under-99-cent specials after he got his choice of the Special Introductory Record Offer AKA the latest and greatest recorded hit of the day…
I’m guessing we should treat it as though it has a line across the bottom.
The good thing is, it’s not the sort of puzzle where the 3rd apple or the 5th dinosaur that we’re supposed to find might be cut off.
It says count the squares. Meaning, to me, the squares in whatever version we have…. as long as we agree on whether or not there’s a bottom line enclosing the figure.
I plan to do it as if there were, and any solution I come up with will be based on that
driver and spectator safety was a mere afterthought in auto racing from its inception clear on to the sixties and beyond. in fact, some drivers from the
fifties resisted the installation of some sort of cockpit safety simply because
it didn’t look right —incredible, given the number of fatalities that piled up
(so to speak)
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Whata cutie!!!
Makes you lose your head!
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They’ve hardly aged a day!
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um….sorry i just couldn’t resist….
I wouldn’t have either.
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Well it says it’s interior paint. I don’t see what the problem is.
It’s not a fabric paint!
Welll…it’s dangerous for people like my dad…
If it were his car, it would surely have killed him.
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In all our trips across the country, we stopped one time at a roadside attraction, after at least 20 miles of begging by three little kids.
Something to do with Paul Bunyan… I only remember giant Babe footprints full of water….
While we were inside, someone who worked there put bumper stickers on all the cars in the parking lot, without asking.
We got literally hours, at least 100 miles, cooped up like sardines, listening to my father ranting, yelling, using language my mother tried to shush (the kids! the kids!!)…
They ruined his car! It would never be the same again!
He was going to sue them for every cent they had. I didn’t even know what that meant.
I didn’t understand bumper stickers… I mean, I saw it.
I thought it was pretty, but they must be dangerous somehow.
We couldn’t even talk about Paul Bunyan for years. Maybe ever… I don’t remember cos by the time I was a teenager, I didn’t care any more.
They would put on bumper stickers at Luray Caverns as well, but there was a sign at the parking lot entrance to leave your sun visor down if you didn’t want one.
/We coulda been in the same parking lot at the same time! my Dad didn’t mind the bumper sticker in the least! Maybe your Dad objected that it was wired on and not stuck?
No, it was definitely stuck.
That’s what set him off… the glue that “ruined” his car.
Funny to think we could have seen each other in a parking lot over..um … mumble mumble years ago and not known.
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Thanks… I was gonna do that.
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“What part of ‘Move over, I’m driving’ did you not understand?”
Is he pushin’ or pullin’?
“Hey! I’m walking here!”
Ratso the elephant.
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Clark Kent, Lois Lane, & Jimmy (Schnookface) in the old
going by the costumes and background, I’m pretty sure this was the episode where Clark with the comment that a piece of coal under pressure for a million years becomes a diamond, proceeded to pressure a piece of a coal in his grasp (well, you know he has a pretty good grip) for a few seconds to turn it into a large diamond.
I don’t remember most of those episodes, but for some reason I do that one.
Didn’t recognize that this was from that episode, but I certainly remember him making the diamond!
It made me think it was possible for strong machines to squeeze coal into diamonds.
Now I know that’s totally impossible… but there are people out there who believe it.
I actually saw a question on Google, when I was looking up something else, where someone asked how much pressure it would take to make a diamond out of coal in an Instapot cooker.
I always wondered why Superman would laugh as bullets bounced off his chest, but would duck when the shooter threw the gun at him.
Wow! Lois is much more shapely than I remember.:))
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Only 1 left standing.
And it’s the oldest!
That old Giza!
Too soon?
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“Drill, baby, drill!”
This is why you never leave the safety/reversing switch ‘on’ when there’s kids about.
He tore him a new one?
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“You’re not In traffic, you Are traffic”
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Sign as you enter Ipswich (UK) on the Norwich Road from the A14.
Reminds me of tourists who complain cos places they go have too many tourists.
That reminds me of a pet peeve:
Tourists who whine that places they go are too full of tourists.
They even do it in magazine articles and travel blogs.
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“Hey… I have some advice for you….”
Don’t get me wrong… If they stay away because there are going to be too many tourists… Fine.
But you can’t go there and complain.
I got WordPressed!
This comment is duplicated because the first one completely disappeared.
I thought I made it, but after a while it was gone. I clicked the arrow to show comments, refreshed the page… Nada.
I convinced myself I must not have clicked the button to submit it, so I made it again.
The first one still wasn’t there when I went to bed… But now here it is.
Okay, so this night not yet be an everyday occurrence…
The descriptions I read say this is six lanes of traffic at a standstill on London’s Victoria Embankment during the General Strike of May 1926.
They also say there would be buses and trams, but they’re on strike.
BTW… It looks more like 8 lanes to me… 6 going, only 2 coming.
And there are still a few horses in the mix.
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Most of the
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The valley is so magical when the flamingoes are in bloom…
Funny…. My first thought on seeing it was to wonder why there were flamingos in the mountains.
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Such a scam.
My brother did it… but records, long before tapes. The Columbia Record Club.
Didn’t ask my parents, had no checking account.
He was about 14, and didn’t understand the small print. Thought he could get 7 records for a penny and quit.
They did no credit check, no age check…. I don’t think they can do that now.
They sent a flyer every month, fun of titles.. A few bargains on records nobody wants. But if you don’t pick something, they send you two that they picked… at high prices…
And they bill you… And bill you… You can’t quit till you’ve bought something like a year’s worth. He had no way to do it.
Of course my parents saw the packages… They yelled at him, then they yelled at the company. The records and bills kept coming.
I didn’t remember exactly what happened, or when it stopped, but I know he owed several hundred dollars, that still showed up years later on a credit check.
Nearly word-for-word of the experience that my younger brother had, he was 12, I was at 14 a bit more knowledgeable and I told him to talk to Mom first. He didn’t, and then when the first record arrived in the mail and Mom found out about it, all heck broke loose! Mom was on the phone a lot, and somehow she got him out of it (I think she bought a few records to satisfy Columbia, but we ALL were told NOT to do anything like that again without asking permission first.
Susan, yeah, no checks beforehand, small-print contractual terms, shysters the lot of them.
I notice the ad says you only need to buy 7 records in 3 years…I didn’t know whether my brother even noticed that.
But one thing I remember trying to explain to him later is that if you bought the cheapest bargain selections, they didn’t count, because they weren’t “at regular club prices”.
Yes. I think that is what my brother thought too, initially, that he could buy the under-99-cent specials after he got his choice of the Special Introductory Record Offer AKA the latest and greatest recorded hit of the day…
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Is this a complete picture?
I’m guessing we should treat it as though it has a line across the bottom.
The good thing is, it’s not the sort of puzzle where the 3rd apple or the 5th dinosaur that we’re supposed to find might be cut off.
It says count the squares. Meaning, to me, the squares in whatever version we have…. as long as we agree on whether or not there’s a bottom line enclosing the figure.
I plan to do it as if there were, and any solution I come up with will be based on that
After a quick count up, that’s the number I got.
I got one more than you.
Of course, I could be mistaken… It’s midnight and I’m sleepy.
But just so we’re on the same page….
Or another one I almost missed … the square of four in the center.
Hmmm… Both of you….Maybe I’d better count again…
Oops… You guys are right.
… the outside square twice on my list.
I should only do this stuff in daylight!
yes the lyellow line on the bottom was not left in when I cropped out the website—sorry for the confusion
S’OK.
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Polo with the strangest looking ponies I have ever seen.
Water polo after the drought…
Too many ponies had drowned before.
I searched it…
Auto polo was invented in 1912, supposedly by a Ford dealer, and actually became a popular spectator sport.
It drew audiences at carnivals and fairs, even arena events.
The stripped down cars each had a driver inside and a “poloist” holding on outside … No helmets, no safety equipment.
Broken bones and crashed cars were common… even spectators sometimes got hurt. There no agreement on whether there were fatalities, but probably.
For some unfathomable reason, it began to fade before the 1930s.
driver and spectator safety was a mere afterthought in auto racing from its inception clear on to the sixties and beyond. in fact, some drivers from the
fifties resisted the installation of some sort of cockpit safety simply because
it didn’t look right —incredible, given the number of fatalities that piled up
(so to speak)
Yeah… and I can’t believe these polo players were just standing on running boards with no protection… knowing they’d probably crash.
Most of the car bodies had been removed as well, so the drivers were almost as vulnerable.
It just seems like idiocy… Maybe they’d already hit their heads too often
I always wanted to do that at work using the lift trucks…”Hyster Hockey”…
‘The Whiteboard’ has done some ‘Red Button’ skits, with similar results, I’ll have a look through the archive and see if I can find some.
The Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Agia Triada, Kalambaka.
kinda difficult for deliveries and supplies
Most brought up by winch and hanging basket? I wouldn’t like to trust a rope to pull me up that far, but the climb would be pretty “difficult”.
Same goes for Greece.
Wood Duck ducklings, and a passing Muskrat.
Should I take that first song personally?
I’m tempted to give this comment a thumbs down.
😉
nah
I love the Basset Trek animation.
And Claude is lucky to get to visit the Enterprise!
Cleo wouldn’t have complained either…
A star-ship full of sexy bassets…
With phasers and photon torpedoes!
Which she finds even more attractive than tight uniforms.