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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

I thought I saw a ghost dog!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

NOSES!!

P51Strega
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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

Eyes!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

“Are you gonna be expecting a big ‘hello’ with jumping and yipping and fussing? Cause we don’t play that.”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Interesting. I tried translating the sign below the warning lights. It looks like hiragana, but I just couldn’t work it out. Way too many years since I tried to learn even a little bit of the language.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

“Walk”

Liverlips McCracken
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1 year ago

I believe the illuminated sign says “stand here and wait, numb nuts.”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

My last life must have been during the art deco age. I love these.

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

It looks like it has a zip fly in front (upside down i.e. zipper pull at the bottom).

So you undo it, and the outer shell lifts off for fixing the engine?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 year ago

Close! The thing at the bottom is actually the coupling (Screw coupling). The fronts would either split down the middle, or hinge at the top (and bottom in the case of the LNER A4’s) for access to the smokebox door. From the feel of the picture the loco actually looks German to me, but air-smoothed designs were very popular in the 1920’s and ’30’s in several countries and continents.

DennisinSeattle
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1 year ago

Where’d you get your bathing suit, Creature?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

What’s he doing in Echo Lake?

Doesn’t he live way over in the Black Lagoon?

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

i grew up going to echo park lake in glendale (ca) we called it ‘shady boat park’.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

That’s what I was gonna say. Must be why it’s called “Echo lake.”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Just to start, I’ll bet the catcher isn’t wearing a cup. I was a catcher in a similar situation in 5th grade. Luckily, the only thing broken was my nose. At the same time, the woman in the hat is in grave danger from a foul ball (as is the umpire). Sometimes education is a slow process. At other times….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

But you immediately know it’s a modern photo.

No matter what the actors wear, photos from the 21st or late 20th century never look like pre WWII.

The hair, makeup, stance, or bearing, and even photographic process, all have a different look.

I’ve tried to pose some myself… not OF me, but me taking B/W photos of a couple of female friends, who didn’t look like models, in genuine 1920s clothing, after I thought did their hair in a style for the era…

Nope.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

And when I say modern, I mean that very loosely.

I took those photos in the 1980s, and they look like the 1980s.

By the 1960s, movies didn’t replicate the 20s, and by the 80s, even the 50s looked “wrong”.

Every era subtly imprints itself on its artifacts.

As a matter of fact, in the late 1930s, “Gone with the Wind” launched a fad for 1860s style lamps, that are now recognizable as from the 30s, as were the costumes in the movie.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

what language is this?

Tigressy
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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

German.
And I didn’t even have to look it up. 😉

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

Wow.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

I’d like to know hat story.

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

Arfside
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Amado Mio translates as “My beloved”. Enjoy the song, with that in mind.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 year ago

comment image

Arfside
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 year ago

Well, I couldn’t catch my tail (hey, I’m a basset, we ain’t too quick), but this is a pretty good substitute.
Looks like a Chippendale Mupp in Dr. Seuss’s “The Sleep Book”. It’s so far from his brain that it will take 8 hours to get there and wake him up. Nature creates her own alarm clocks.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 year ago

NOSE!!!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 year ago

Just so long as he doesn’t wonder who bit him.

Tigressy
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1 year ago

Lexington? Is that you?

Oh – and I love Mrs. Maisel.

Tigressy
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1 year ago

re the 8th – The Raven:

MAD #9 Bill Elder.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

Thanks. I saw it in a Mad compilation book a very long time ago.

DennisinSeattle
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1 year ago

I like how George’s surroundings contribute to the song. But that backflip, was that a body double?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 year ago

Yes

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
1 year ago

The person dancing in the blue light, including the flip, isn’t George.

Not his hair or his body, and you can see his face change back into George’s as he slips back into the chair.

DennisinSeattle
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1 year ago

Pink Shoe Laces video mix is absolutely great! I memorized that song when I was a kid! I think the instructions on how to be buried are something I need to revisit with my attorney.

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

Mr Gargoyle has found himself a real live (so to speak) pin-up girl to date, also so-to-speak, as we might be talking about a different kind of dating, as in determining how old she really is.

She’s a bit cold to him, but he thinks she’ll warm up in the nice weather.

Was for the Shar Pei, she’s found some compatible wrinkles.

Who knows what either of them really looks like.

BTW a couple of years ago they “fixed” one of my favorite entries on Wikipedia.

There was an entry for Shar Pei, and up at the top, it said “For the felt tip marker, see “Sharpie”.

And on the page for Sharpies, it said, of course, “For the dog, see “Shar Pei”.

It may have just been a prank in the first place, but I think it was there for a least a few years.

Last edited 1 year ago by SusanSunshine
MontanaLady
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1 year ago

i LOVE the ‘nearsided lovers’, NH! no matter the topic, they’re special!

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