From the NASA website, whence comes this 1984 photo:
“Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS-41B mission specialist, reaches his maximum distance from space shuttle Challenger before returning to the spacecraft using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
Credits: NASA”
The MMU was untethered.
O.M.G.
I know they practiced, they trusted, they planned… but I can’t see how it wouldn’t be at least a little, wee, bit… or in my case, a LOT… terrifying!
If it’s working correctly, a coffeepot pours almost-but-not-quite-boiling water over the ground coffee, which then drips into the pot below… so it’s even a few degrees cooler than that by the time it fills up.
The warmer plate keeps it hotter than I prefer, but nowhere near boiling…. If it kept the water boiling the coffee would be ruined.
Even making dreadful “cowboy coffee” over an open flame, you only boil it for a minute, not the 8 minutes that spaghetti would take.
Hope this would-be chef enjoys slightly warm, wet on the outside, raw pasta.
I hope the other contraption is just for brushing teeth.
Believe it or not, there is still a fabric retailer here in our City which still writes out the fabric order on a pad which you take with you to the cash register, along with the fabric.
Yes, they now use the regular cash/CC transactions, all that happens at the till is you pay. But they are still using the paper-pad to track inventory and sales. I imagine that somewhere in a back room, a pile of these paper-slips were compiled into inventory and sales book-keeping records.
I tried to get some more info, like the date, and the place….but it’s been published on, of all things, a birthday card .. because it so clearly lends itself to the celebration of a festive occasion… and every link was a link to the sale of the card, with its lame joke.
And no, it wasn’t even the racy joke one might expect… just something about there never being too much of a good thing.
The women behind the counter are dressed like nurses, but that used to be fairly common in supermarkets, even through the 1950s, to suggest surgical cleanliness, in spite of the unwrapped, unrefrigerated sausages piled on the counter.
Nowadays, of course, the sausages would all be sealed in packages, all 3 or 4 kinds they carry, in a self serve, refrigerated display… and not even nurses dress like that.
I’ve never seen this many kinds in an American market, though the workers somehow look American. I do miss some of the kinds they did carry… I just went on a quest to just to find liverwurst, and I haven’t seen landjaeger in years.
They said he was the 88th wonder of the world… but I think he’s right up there with the 8th… in fact, when the puny humans made their copydog version, they claimed the 8th spot. But they should have said 9th… because King Hound was ahead of them!
Rotten Tomatoes called it the best horror film of all time… But you know, I don’t call it that. Not because it doesn’t deserve the ranking; not because it isn’t scary… but because I don’t call it a horror film.
It’s an adventure film, with overtones of both scariness and tragedy.
A giant hound, provoked, captured, tempted with a great beauty… Fray Way at the height of her canine powers… and thus led to a death I never thought he deserved «sniffle»
Anyway, we saw the poster the other day… but since then, a few small changes have been made… Actually, nine of them, by my count. … so it’s being re-released for your sleuthing pleasure
Two “!!”s in the tagline or two differences in the large title at the bottom… but the triangle hole in the A gave me the most trouble, and was the last thing I found.
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So good looking.
MONTANA LADY!!!!!!
I don’t think it looks like her at all!
😉
forever remembered
,
Knew instantly who.
I’m assuming you mean R. Crumb, the artist, and not the fellow in the picture, which was my thought for a second or two. 🙂
I recognized the hatch work. Instantly recognizable!
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From the NASA website, whence comes this 1984 photo:
“Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS-41B mission specialist, reaches his maximum distance from space shuttle Challenger before returning to the spacecraft using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
Credits: NASA”
The MMU was untethered.
O.M.G.
I know they practiced, they trusted, they planned… but I can’t see how it wouldn’t be at least a little, wee, bit… or in my case, a LOT… terrifying!
“Bomb? What are you doing, Bomb?”
Genuine footage of the Silver Surfer catching a bodacious wave…
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL…”
I’m sorry, Steve… I’m afraid I can’t do that.
.
Every time I see a picture from this, my brain starts whistling.
I just hate it when my brain whistles.
I’m pretty sure it should be this way–
Did the Japanese wear their medals on the right side and carry their sidearms on the left??
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Great save, Mama!
Some cats, maybe even this cat, are very reluctant to jump from a tree…. but desperation about a baby would give her strength and adrenaline.
If she were human, that excess energy would mean baby will now get a scolding he’ll remember. Maybe kitties do that too.
Lou Gehrig
The Iron Horse
pop-up!
,
They pay a heavy price.
,
This
Who broke every bone in his body…
that was the funny line from the movie with George Hamilton
Dunno whether I should be proud or embarrassed that I instantly
[spoiler title=”Is he”] [Awful Knoffel?/spoiler]
The spoiler text should go between the ] [ brackets, you just missed by 2 spaces.
A good example for anyone who can’t do spoiler boxes.
Usually if you put the code in a comment, it can’t be seen because it works.
But this shows the code because it didn’t work. If I type the whole thing correctly, you’ll see a spoiler, not the code.
So just looking at the end…
If instead of
] [Awful Knoffel?/spoiler]
it said
]Awful Knoffel [/spoiler]
it would have worked.
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“Do you see what I see?!?”
The Vermont Historical Society labels this “Old fellow his best friend”…. Vermont, 1918
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College dorm improvisations?
Unfortunately, a coffee pot won’t cook pasta.
You need water at a rolling boil to do that.
If it’s working correctly, a coffeepot pours almost-but-not-quite-boiling water over the ground coffee, which then drips into the pot below… so it’s even a few degrees cooler than that by the time it fills up.
The warmer plate keeps it hotter than I prefer, but nowhere near boiling…. If it kept the water boiling the coffee would be ruined.
Even making dreadful “cowboy coffee” over an open flame, you only boil it for a minute, not the 8 minutes that spaghetti would take.
Hope this would-be chef enjoys slightly warm, wet on the outside, raw pasta.
I hope the other contraption is just for brushing teeth.
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What is this woman in the foreground supposed to be doing? And how is she doing it?
I am more than a shade suspicious.
She’s writing something down, presumably the order she’s just taken. I’ve seen people hold pencils even weirder than that.
You should see how us southpaws do it!
It looks to me like she’s writing up someone’s order, with a pencil, on what might be an order pad.
I agree Susan.
Gotta remember that somewhere along the line there was a need for inventory records plus that onerous nasty thing called taxes…
Plus it was probably duplicate, so one part was a receipt for the customer, and the second part was kept for the records.
Or possibly, it was given first to the person who packed the order, if this lady didn’t do it.
Believe it or not, there is still a fabric retailer here in our City which still writes out the fabric order on a pad which you take with you to the cash register, along with the fabric.
Yes, they now use the regular cash/CC transactions, all that happens at the till is you pay. But they are still using the paper-pad to track inventory and sales. I imagine that somewhere in a back room, a pile of these paper-slips were compiled into inventory and sales book-keeping records.
This image was labeled “Women at a meat market”.
I tried to get some more info, like the date, and the place….but it’s been published on, of all things, a birthday card .. because it so clearly lends itself to the celebration of a festive occasion… and every link was a link to the sale of the card, with its lame joke.
And no, it wasn’t even the racy joke one might expect… just something about there never being too much of a good thing.
The women behind the counter are dressed like nurses, but that used to be fairly common in supermarkets, even through the 1950s, to suggest surgical cleanliness, in spite of the unwrapped, unrefrigerated sausages piled on the counter.
Nowadays, of course, the sausages would all be sealed in packages, all 3 or 4 kinds they carry, in a self serve, refrigerated display… and not even nurses dress like that.
I’ve never seen this many kinds in an American market, though the workers somehow look American. I do miss some of the kinds they did carry… I just went on a quest to just to find liverwurst, and I haven’t seen landjaeger in years.
Things just took a turn for the wurst…
could be the wurst pun ever– (that’s a high compliment)
-surely Susan has some lunchmeat puns.
or as they say down at the health food store,’ processed meat’ puns
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It’s almost my late Alpha, Robson (Avatar).
That looks like a face bent on world domination.
Yesterday I put a cap on Panda and she stayed still long enough for this.
She has a knowing, soulful look. And, thanks to the hat, jaunty too.
The hat accentuates the eyepatch, and makes her look like an old sea-dog.
Retired from sailing the high seas, she now captains the harbour tugboat.
She certainly captains the couch.
I can see why her name is Panda… but she also looks like Petey, from Our Gang.
Wow! King Hound!
The most formidable basset ever!
They said he was the 88th wonder of the world… but I think he’s right up there with the 8th… in fact, when the puny humans made their copydog version, they claimed the 8th spot. But they should have said 9th… because King Hound was ahead of them!
Rotten Tomatoes called it the best horror film of all time… But you know, I don’t call it that. Not because it doesn’t deserve the ranking; not because it isn’t scary… but because I don’t call it a horror film.
It’s an adventure film, with overtones of both scariness and tragedy.
A giant hound, provoked, captured, tempted with a great beauty… Fray Way at the height of her canine powers… and thus led to a death I never thought he deserved «sniffle»
Anyway, we saw the poster the other day… but since then, a few small changes have been made… Actually, nine of them, by my count. … so it’s being re-released for your sleuthing pleasure
Find all nine… And after you do….
Seven, and I’m calling it done. I remember this one as being particularly hard. No doubt I miss some of the same diffs each time.
Aw… c’mon.
I have faith that you can do it. Unless you already looked.
A poor seven. I’ll have another look later.
YESSSSS!!!
Arrggghhh!
Missed the exact same one as I did the last time we had this one.
I confess I’m not sure…
You are correct, it could had been either.
It was the latter that I missed, that sucker got me the last time as well!
Eh?
Street Art, USA, by ZooKeeper.
love it!
‘Persian, New Jersey’ (1961) photo taken by Walter Chandoha, for Caturday (Definitely Not EWC!! Honest!!!)
Are you certain (that it’s not the EWC)???
the original
the glare of death
With just a wee bit of “the smirk” showing…
OOoooo…
Looks almost the same there…!
Volcano Hummingbird, a high-elevation hummingbird endemic to the Talamanca Mountains, Costa Rica.