Yup. Watching “Finding Your Roots” with Henry Louis Gates Jr, I’m seeing that people didn’t always let it stop them. Religions and other beliefs, on the other hand, seem to have been larger barriers.
I searched this image last night, and again just now…. Mostly I found different descriptions everywhere…
However I just found one comment saying “This is a well known photo taken by dutch photographer wim k steffen from 1957 called cattle dealers in cafe.”
Quick edit…. I googled the photographer, and managed to find one mention… It did lead to this picture, and the above is true.
It doesn’t look like the wild West because these are cattle dealers in the Netherlands, in 1957.
It’s told differently on different Facebook and IG pages, but apparently, either there were multiple copies of the sign made, and posted in various libraries, or this photo of the only sign went viral… In any case, commenters on most sites are asking about it, not solving the mystery.
But on two sites, people who seemed to know said this was a joke, done in answer to a funny Oreos Superbowl ad… one gave a link to the ad. Unfortunately this picture and that Superbowl ad are from 2011 or 2012, and the link no longer works.
What a wonderful picture. Now why would somebody put that stepstool in there and ruin it? There’s just no telling about what passes for “art” these days.
Just in case you, like me, live in an area where there’s nothing called Jared’s… I searched it for us.
Jared’s is, as you might tend to assume from context, a jewelry store. It’s owned by the same huge corporation that owns Zale’s and Kay Jewelers, and some smaller chains, plus online jewelers Blue Nile.
Kay and Zale’s are mall chains… Jared’s has some stand alone stores and the parent company promotes it as a bit more upscale… But it’s not upscale on a par with, say, Tiffany’s, or especially, Cartier.
Then again, Clara isn’t likely to be shopping at Tiffany or Cartier. That would be a bit over the top, unless Cleo is a bigger star than I thought.
But if that were the case, Claude probably wouldn’t be excited about a 25¢ VCR rewinder from the flea market. Then again… he’s Claude.
They did keep the baby relatively confined… But in an accident they were pretty much worse than nothing.
The baby isn’t strapped in, and the seat was only hooked over the car seat back… In a sudden stop they both went flying, not necessarily together.
That said, I rode in one sort of like this, and later, my little sister used it. IIRC, ours was just cloth, though… no metal frame under us.
Like a square bag, hanging from a thin wire frame, with holes for the legs.
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Me, and my shadow
Walkin’ down the avenue.
A black panther is, of course, a melanistic (ie black) leopard or jaguar…. About 10 or 12% of leopards are melanistic, and they don’t seem to notice.
By that I mean, there doesn’t seem to be much preference for a leader or a mate of one color or the other, and the young are all treated the same.
Like it should be with humans.
Yup. Watching “Finding Your Roots” with Henry Louis Gates Jr, I’m seeing that people didn’t always let it stop them. Religions and other beliefs, on the other hand, seem to have been larger barriers.
When my (white) cousin married a (black) African my family was scandalized. I thought it was the best thing they could have done for the human race!
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I searched this image last night, and again just now…. Mostly I found different descriptions everywhere…
However I just found one comment saying “This is a well known photo taken by dutch photographer wim k steffen from 1957 called cattle dealers in cafe.”
Quick edit…. I googled the photographer, and managed to find one mention… It did lead to this picture, and the above is true.
It doesn’t look like the wild West because these are cattle dealers in the Netherlands, in 1957.
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Probably got that mouse hiding down there under the snow.
Actually, yes.
According to my image search, this is a fairly common sight in some places.
The mouse isn’t necessarily hiding…
This is a snow print made by an owl, when it pounces on small prey.
Some people online called them “owl angels”. I didn’t know whether they actually say that, or it was just for the comments on that site.
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There is a story there that’d like to hear. 😀
This image is all over the place on line.
It’s told differently on different Facebook and IG pages, but apparently, either there were multiple copies of the sign made, and posted in various libraries, or this photo of the only sign went viral… In any case, commenters on most sites are asking about it, not solving the mystery.
But on two sites, people who seemed to know said this was a joke, done in answer to a funny Oreos Superbowl ad… one gave a link to the ad. Unfortunately this picture and that Superbowl ad are from 2011 or 2012, and the link no longer works.
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He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
And now imagine that scene only a split-second later.
“Please do not feed the ducks.”
“Pull my finger.”
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Gotta be a story in there somewhere…
I recognize the gal on the right, but I can’t put a name on her. Clueless about the gal on the left.
I knew it!
I’ve never seen this movie, but I’ve been watching short clips of it for a long time on YouTube.
Oops… We must have posted at almost the same time.
No problem. It happens frequently. At least we agree. 😉
Funny that our actual comments were so similar.
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and furthermore, if I’m elected….
“Now you may be wondering why I asked you all here today….”
If those llamas look especially cute, it’s because they’re actually alpacas.
So the cat’s name isn’t Dalai?!?
Elf llamas. !!!
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Guilty as charged…
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You make it look almost safe…
As in, close but no cigar.
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Is there a tree trunk or fire hydrant in the middle?
Could be a statue inside.
Or a microchip.
Lenin?
A fair chance, though not sure if the authorities would appreciate a statue of Lenin being entombed in ice and snow.
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What a wonderful picture. Now why would somebody put that stepstool in there and ruin it? There’s just no telling about what passes for “art” these days.
Yup. That’s from that site.
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A pack of wolves.
Pack is generic… lots of animals are in packs and herds.
There really are fanciful words for individual animal groups, even though they’re rarely used except maybe by poets, not scientists.
Some of the ones on this chart seem made up… then again, so do some real ones.
I’ve heard of a few of them, and one is “rout” for a pack of wolves. No “e” on it though.
I thought a barrel of monkeys was just a joke… I dunno, but I know people do say a troop of monkeys.
Gaggle of geese is actually used, and supposedly a murder of crows and a parliament of owls, but I think those two are just in a picture book.
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Gee… could it be… Yes!
”People Are Alike All Over'” ….. season 1, episode 25, March 25, 1960.
Just in case you, like me, live in an area where there’s nothing called Jared’s… I searched it for us.
Jared’s is, as you might tend to assume from context, a jewelry store. It’s owned by the same huge corporation that owns Zale’s and Kay Jewelers, and some smaller chains, plus online jewelers Blue Nile.
Kay and Zale’s are mall chains… Jared’s has some stand alone stores and the parent company promotes it as a bit more upscale… But it’s not upscale on a par with, say, Tiffany’s, or especially, Cartier.
Then again, Clara isn’t likely to be shopping at Tiffany or Cartier. That would be a bit over the top, unless Cleo is a bigger star than I thought.
But if that were the case, Claude probably wouldn’t be excited about a 25¢ VCR rewinder from the flea market. Then again… he’s Claude.
Child Car Seat – 1950’s.
They did keep the baby relatively confined… But in an accident they were pretty much worse than nothing.
The baby isn’t strapped in, and the seat was only hooked over the car seat back… In a sudden stop they both went flying, not necessarily together.
That said, I rode in one sort of like this, and later, my little sister used it. IIRC, ours was just cloth, though… no metal frame under us.
Like a square bag, hanging from a thin wire frame, with holes for the legs.
Looks like a launch pad to me.
Yup!
Especially bad on 2-door sedans with the front seat able to swing out of the way to let in the rear seat passengers.
I remember having the steering wheel off of one to use in my cardboard box racing cars…
Gray Fox, Sebastopol, California.
That’s only about 10 miles from me, on the way out to the coast.
Wanna come over, little guy?
It’s more rural there, so he probably wouldn’t like my neighborhood.
White-browed Robin Chat found in east, central and southern Africa, its natural habitats include riverine forest and thickets.
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(Had to look up the word ‘riverine’, it means adjacent to a river, or riverbank).
I was told about real estate that “riverine” meant in the water, like riverine otters, and navigational rights… I’ve never heard of riverine forests.
Near, or on the banks of, a river is “riparian”, like use of the riverbank, or like Hyacinth’s picnics.
Auwälder. Quite common here.
For which?
Riparian forests.
Okay… Yes, here too, though we don’t have a separate word for the trees…. Just riparian this or that.
As you know, German creates a lot more descriptive combined words than English does.
I’d say the word itself isn’t common, but it’s well known to those who need it, for instance, riparian rights are spelled out on property deeds.
Yin and his brother Yang…
Or her brother…
Or his sister, or her sister… I just get tired of typing every alternative.
Nope.
Yin is the female principle, Yang the male.
Sigh …
Yes indeed.
I do know it was meant as a joke, but please take your own advice too sometimes.
Peace.
Okay… .. still trying to figure out what advice I’ve forgotten.
I did not know that.
I’ve got that the wrong way for decades.
Edgar Allan Poe:
…all cats are she…
And all dogs are he…