Um… I can think of one on a platform in the clouds, and one on a tall pedestal on her very own island…. Oh yeah, and one …hmm…. I dunno where she stands…
I mean… she seemed nice, and friendly, not that I ever talked to her.
But sweet and innocent aren’t words that come to mind for someone slugging liquor onstage, and smoking like a chimney.
The ragtag thrift shop and vintage finery she wore, and her.. um… let’s say street vocabulary… were very familiar in the world I inhabited, but looking back, I can see why some grannies were shocked.
There’s supposed to be a word that goes after one and before the other, like peanutbutter and butterfly… But I can’t think of one, since AFAIK “basketpool” isn’t a word
To me, for that to be the puzzle, they’d have to show pictures of a basket and a pool.
One that’s already a pool ball would seem to be disqualified…
unless the first picture were already a basketball… Then you could say well duh….they’re both balls.
Wow, this one led to a rabbit hole, which I had to try hard not to fall too far into. (You can tell that I was only partly successful.)
There were a bunch of results that were very obviously not true, and since plagiarism is rampant, and research rare, many websites blindly repeat misinformation, and copy whole sentences from other sites.
This was identified as being in different places, in different years; the young man was said over and over to be shopping “with his home-built trolley,” but no one mentioned why it had no wheels, which I never did find out.
Arfside joked about it being Cleveland, I assumed it was England, because of the prices, and because American stores don’t sell custard powder or “biscuits,” or have huge displays of tea.
But it’s neither.
I finally found one site that seemed to have real information.
The place “was captured in well-known historical photographs by Ken Niven for Gordon H. Burt Ltd around 1932–1933”.
It did have two different captions:
“Young customer making his purchase at the Self help Co-Op Ltd. grocery shop in Rintoul Street, Newtown. The person behind the counter is John Jenkins, the manager.”
and…
“Self Help Co-op Grocery Store, corner of Mulgrave Street and Lambton Quay”
How can it be at that corner and yet on a different street? Where is Newton? Google to the rescue…
It’s in Newton, New Zealand.
“Self Help Co-op”. Is actually the name of the store, which was already a chain, in 1933. That might somehow be the same address, but if not, the one above is on Rintoul St., and the other caption belongs to the one below… both in Newton NZ.
Yeah, those are either wheels or just the hubs…. But if it’s able to roll on them, why are they not on the floor?
Whichever they are, that’s the question to me.
How did he get it there, and how will he get his groceries home?
And who lifted it up onto those boxes… it looks too heavy for a kid to do that. And why? If it was some sort of photo prop, it doesn’t make it look any more visible in the picture.
I know, I know…. Nighthawks posted this picture yesterday….
But I didn’t Google it, until I just got idly curious today…
and I thought there might be some who’d like another look,
now that I found out it’s an early lithograph by M. C Escher, about half a dozen years before he started making the images he’s now more famous for.
It shows the Abruzzo village of Castrovalva, which Escher sketched on on a tour of Italy, in 1930.
According to Wikipedia… “In 1982 the name “Castrovalva” was used in a story in the BBC television series Doctor Who.
The storyline also relied heavily on recursion, a favorite theme in Escher’s later and more famous works, and used ideas taken from “Belvedere”, “Ascending and Descending”, and “Relativity” to trap the protagonists in the city of Castrovalva.”
The Black-and-Orange flycatcher (Ficedula nigrorufa) or Black-and-Rufous flycatcher is a species of flycatcher endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats, the Nilgiris and Palni hill ranges in southern India.
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why the long face?
When this one noses you from behind, you know you’ve been nosed!
Or, as Montana Lady would have said
”NOSE!”
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Where’s the lady with the torch?
Um… I can think of one on a platform in the clouds, and one on a tall pedestal on her very own island…. Oh yeah, and one …hmm…. I dunno where she stands…
If I knew which one I could look for her….
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Halfback Harold “Red” Grange in action in 1925 with the Chicago Bears.
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Sigh. She always looked so sweet and innocent…
Not in person.
Sorry.
I mean… she seemed nice, and friendly, not that I ever talked to her.
But sweet and innocent aren’t words that come to mind for someone slugging liquor onstage, and smoking like a chimney.
The ragtag thrift shop and vintage finery she wore, and her.. um… let’s say street vocabulary… were very familiar in the world I inhabited, but looking back, I can see why some grannies were shocked.
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Looks more like un chat…
Yeah, but if it said “Beware of cat”, no one would take it seriously.
And if it said “Beware of Lion”… People would just say “yeah, right.”
There was a pub near where I used to live and work that the Publican had owned a lion. I think it was an ex-circus lion that was in retirement.
I mane business here!
Ow. Ow. Ow.
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“Above the Light”…. art print by DDiArte,
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Well, THAT’S rude!
Until you pointed that out, I thought he was getting ready to conduct the Cleveland Frog Symphony.
Raising his BICs ENCORE! ENCORE!
“Hello my honey Hello my baby…”
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Yo, garcon! Over here!
What a horrible way to ruin chocolate!
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I didn’t know whether
I think they’re looking
But I could be mistaken.
I don’t really think so…
One that’s already a pool ball would seem to be disqualified…
unless the first picture were already a basketball… Then you could say well duh….they’re both balls.
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Hose water. The kid drink of summer.
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Yesterday, shown as a little girl, today, as a woman of 62….
Annie Oakley, in 1922… happily displaying a treasured rifle, given to her many years before by Buffalo Bill.
Link to historical account of this photo, currently in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division:
00651800
Beware the smiling lady, dressed in black and holding a long gun.
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Up on blocks with missing wheels? It must be Cleveland. 😉
It has small cast iron wheels.
Wow, this one led to a rabbit hole, which I had to try hard not to fall too far into. (You can tell that I was only partly successful.)
There were a bunch of results that were very obviously not true, and since plagiarism is rampant, and research rare, many websites blindly repeat misinformation, and copy whole sentences from other sites.
This was identified as being in different places, in different years; the young man was said over and over to be shopping “with his home-built trolley,” but no one mentioned why it had no wheels, which I never did find out.
Arfside joked about it being Cleveland, I assumed it was England, because of the prices, and because American stores don’t sell custard powder or “biscuits,” or have huge displays of tea.
But it’s neither.
I finally found one site that seemed to have real information.
The place “was captured in well-known historical photographs by Ken Niven for Gordon H. Burt Ltd around 1932–1933”.
It did have two different captions:
“Young customer making his purchase at the Self help Co-Op Ltd. grocery shop in Rintoul Street, Newtown. The person behind the counter is John Jenkins, the manager.”
and…
“Self Help Co-op Grocery Store, corner of Mulgrave Street and Lambton Quay”
How can it be at that corner and yet on a different street? Where is Newton? Google to the rescue…
It’s in Newton, New Zealand.
“Self Help Co-op”. Is actually the name of the store, which was already a chain, in 1933. That might somehow be the same address, but if not, the one above is on Rintoul St., and the other caption belongs to the one below… both in Newton NZ.
The cart look to me like it has small cast ion wheels of the type found on industrial equipment like sack barrows.
Yeah, those are either wheels or just the hubs…. But if it’s able to roll on them, why are they not on the floor?
Whichever they are, that’s the question to me.
How did he get it there, and how will he get his groceries home?
And who lifted it up onto those boxes… it looks too heavy for a kid to do that. And why? If it was some sort of photo prop, it doesn’t make it look any more visible in the picture.
’tis a conundrum and that for sure!
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Mug shot.
He wasn’t stealing it… honest.
He was only borrowing it.
He’ll be careful… You’ll hardly notice the holes.. or the… you know… teeth marks…
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Roly Poly Puddy Tat.
Wait!!!! Didn’t Edie perfect ‘the Edie Flop’ with her baby daddy, Casper…..
I know, I know…. Nighthawks posted this picture yesterday….
But I didn’t Google it, until I just got idly curious today…
and I thought there might be some who’d like another look,
now that I found out it’s an early lithograph by M. C Escher, about half a dozen years before he started making the images he’s now more famous for.
It shows the Abruzzo village of Castrovalva, which Escher sketched on on a tour of Italy, in 1930.
According to Wikipedia… “In 1982 the name “Castrovalva” was used in a story in the BBC television series Doctor Who.
The storyline also relied heavily on recursion, a favorite theme in Escher’s later and more famous works, and used ideas taken from “Belvedere”, “Ascending and Descending”, and “Relativity” to trap the protagonists in the city of Castrovalva.”
No no no no no…
It’s “The Gatekeeper” and “Keymaster”…
Whoosh… Another cultural reference that flies right over my head…..
More…
Mad Magazine ™ #253 Ghostbusters parody…
The Black-and-Orange flycatcher (Ficedula nigrorufa) or Black-and-Rufous flycatcher is a species of flycatcher endemic to the central and southern Western Ghats, the Nilgiris and Palni hill ranges in southern India.
So the hills of India must be where they have black and orange flies?
Obviously they have to live somewhere they can catch them, so that’s why I never see them in my yard.
They have Black and Orange flies, and you have Yellowjackets 😉
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