What has always struck me, since I read about it, is
that
Don Knotts
fought as a U.S. Marine during WW II in the Pacific! That this unassuming, funny, scrawny-looking little guy, who made a career of playing hapless, helpless, comic wannabes, passed muster as one of “the few, the proud” in the most brutal theater of perhaps the most savage war in human history. He would have had to be one tough SOB. An underappreciated actor.
Elegant folk dancing the cakewalk, at a fancy party in the late 19th century.
Funny thing about the cakewalk… it started with promenade style dances on the plantations of the South… One person or a couple did a slow dance or walk between two rows of other guests, in time to the music, sometimes with pirouettes.
The story goes that slaves watched, and began to do a mocking imitation, once back in the slave quarters, prancing, high stepping and twirling… each in turn trying to do the most exaggerated steps.
Everyone would laugh and clap, and the best or most outrageous would win a cake.
Eventually it came back around… the plantation folk eventually saw and were enchanted by this “African” dance, without realizing they were being mocked, and it became a craze in white society, eventually making its way to northern cities, where its origin was lost.
This dance, BTW, is also why we still say something takes the cake.
Watching my son’s 2 golden retrievers. They love everybody. Watched my other son’s small Aussie shepherd just before that. A bit more timid, but she hasn’t been socialized as much, except with family. Glad that we can borrow them from time to time.
But here’s the whole puzzle… I think … or at least, it contains the 3rd apple.
It’s amazing how many sites post these puzzles, either unaware or indifferent as to whether they’ve found a bad copy, or even lopped off part of it to fit their page.
Wherever Nighthawks got it, it has a black border, so it looks complete but it isn’t…. And I saw it offered like that on several sites, and another that was wider but much shorter. I guess they just publish puzzles to lure readers, but don’t care about them.
I might be misunderstanding you, sorry… But I’m pretty sure that means the photo, not the helmet.
Otherwise Mr. Clifford would be admitting to museum theft… surely an international crime. (Ooh… Was he an ancestor of that renowned scofflaw, Cleo Clifford?)
Unless there’s another Emperor Charles V, the one who wore this helmet died in the 16th century.
Actually, he was a pretty amazing guy… In his lifetime he ruled a huge part of the Western world.. but not by conquering it; but acquiring titles successively, by heredity and by marriage.
He was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, which included many countries, plus King of Germany, of Spain, and of Portugal….
I have to look it up but AFAIK his armor was ceremonial.
He divided his realms among his sons, and died in a monastery.
We’re trying to remember what we said about it, cos it’s almost 1am…. rather late to search it again.
I remember it was knitted and stuffed by an art commune, I believe it was on a mountain in Italy, trying to make a play sculpture large enough to be seen on Google Earth, of natural materials that would eventually disintegrate, or biodegrade.
By play sculpture, I mean people could climb up and sit on it, have picnics, take naps… and they did.
It appeared on Google Earth until it got too decomposed … I don’t know who decides, but it was removed a few years ago… and as you can see, it continues to remove itself from the mountain, as well.
In contrast to yesterday’s picture of railway tracks in the US in a rural setting, one of the UK’s urban network.
East Midlands Railway’s Turbostar 170207 threads its way through Manchester with a service from Liverpool Lime Street. The urban sprawl virtually engulfs the railway here.
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Let’s raise a glass to Montana Lady!
Maybe several!
NOSE!
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Dang! That’s not at all what I was expecting to find! Bummer!
There’s always the next hill
Atlantic City, 1910
Cue the Jaws music.
Bruce was only a puppy fish then…
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Nothing beats a baby’s smile!
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Or maybe his dinosaur ancestors.
It’s Toothless!
Now you’re gonna have everybody wanting one! Are they endangered yet?
They might be saved by their family name “Caprimulgiformes” — Goat suckers and oil birds…
…
Human down!
Love this. 🙂
Not that it makes much of a difference at this age, but are they puppies or kittens?
Kittens.
Yes please.
He hasn’t moved since I went to bed.
Are we sure he’s ok?
OMG! He’s overdosed on kittencute!
there are considerably worst ways to go
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Makes you want to share the laugh, just looking at them.
What has always struck me, since I read about it, is
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Elegant folk dancing the cakewalk, at a fancy party in the late 19th century.
Funny thing about the cakewalk… it started with promenade style dances on the plantations of the South… One person or a couple did a slow dance or walk between two rows of other guests, in time to the music, sometimes with pirouettes.
The story goes that slaves watched, and began to do a mocking imitation, once back in the slave quarters, prancing, high stepping and twirling… each in turn trying to do the most exaggerated steps.
Everyone would laugh and clap, and the best or most outrageous would win a cake.
Eventually it came back around… the plantation folk eventually saw and were enchanted by this “African” dance, without realizing they were being mocked, and it became a craze in white society, eventually making its way to northern cities, where its origin was lost.
This dance, BTW, is also why we still say something takes the cake.
The pose reminds me of the music video thriller. that was one of Michael Jackson’s moves.
Like zombies
A couple of sites called this picture “Victorian Thriller”…. silly me, I didn’t know what they meant till you said that!
Now hold that pose for 10 seconds without moving while we take this (almost instant) flash photograph..
There were different dates given for this in my search, but the extreme pose and slight smiles are why I didn’t believe the earliest.
It’s hard to get a really good look, in that position, but the dresses could maybe be from the 1880s…
But IMHO there’s no way they’d all be posing like that until the faster speed of 1890s photography made it possible.
10 seconds is quite possible, even a minute, if they must… But not the several minutes required 10 years earlier.
Zombies with back pain?
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OOH! Scary!!
Yeah, right.
Cheez whiz, Phydeaux. Read the sign!
Stand back! You might get licked!
Watching my son’s 2 golden retrievers. They love everybody. Watched my other son’s small Aussie shepherd just before that. A bit more timid, but she hasn’t been socialized as much, except with family. Glad that we can borrow them from time to time.
find 3 apples
Got one tonight.
Got two. End of a long day…eyes are screaming in pain looking at that.
Wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants if they were green apples?
I’ve only got two as well… But I know I’ve seen this puzzle before, whether on Cleo or elsewhere…. and I’m thinking this isn’t the whole thing.
If I have time, I’ll search it tomorrow… I have a dentist appointment at my normal Cleo return time, so I may not get a chance.
But while I night be wrong, this just seems too narrow, too few birdhouses across, for what I vaguely remember..
Now I don’t feel so bad. All I found last night were two apples also.
Found a 2nd one this morning.
Okay guys… I gotta get outta here…
But here’s the whole puzzle… I think … or at least, it contains the 3rd apple.
It’s amazing how many sites post these puzzles, either unaware or indifferent as to whether they’ve found a bad copy, or even lopped off part of it to fit their page.
Wherever Nighthawks got it, it has a black border, so it looks complete but it isn’t…. And I saw it offered like that on several sites, and another that was wider but much shorter. I guess they just publish puzzles to lure readers, but don’t care about them.
But I care about them!
I know!
It was wherever you got it from that didn’t.
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Doesn’t the sign above belong to this guy?
What is the deal with Fishtail McGurk?
Funny furballs!
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Nice that they left room for the straw. Those things get hot after awhile!
I assume that more than the helmet was “taken.”
I might be misunderstanding you, sorry… But I’m pretty sure that means the photo, not the helmet.
Otherwise Mr. Clifford would be admitting to museum theft… surely an international crime. (Ooh… Was he an ancestor of that renowned scofflaw, Cleo Clifford?)
Unless there’s another Emperor Charles V, the one who wore this helmet died in the 16th century.
I meant that his head was likely removed from the rest of him before the helmet.
Ah!
Actually, he was a pretty amazing guy… In his lifetime he ruled a huge part of the Western world.. but not by conquering it; but acquiring titles successively, by heredity and by marriage.
He was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, which included many countries, plus King of Germany, of Spain, and of Portugal….
I have to look it up but AFAIK his armor was ceremonial.
He divided his realms among his sons, and died in a monastery.
We talked about this one recently. This popped up in my fb feed.
Yes, we did.
We’re trying to remember what we said about it, cos it’s almost 1am…. rather late to search it again.
I remember it was knitted and stuffed by an art commune, I believe it was on a mountain in Italy, trying to make a play sculpture large enough to be seen on Google Earth, of natural materials that would eventually disintegrate, or biodegrade.
By play sculpture, I mean people could climb up and sit on it, have picnics, take naps… and they did.
It appeared on Google Earth until it got too decomposed … I don’t know who decides, but it was removed a few years ago… and as you can see, it continues to remove itself from the mountain, as well.
Never fear, astronauts!
I must take exception to today’s movie title – there are no ugly bassets…just some really weird looking ones.
In contrast to yesterday’s picture of railway tracks in the US in a rural setting, one of the UK’s urban network.
East Midlands Railway’s Turbostar 170207 threads its way through Manchester with a service from Liverpool Lime Street. The urban sprawl virtually engulfs the railway here.
Kori bustard in the Serengeti.