Well, while you’re formulating a guess….
I hope it’s ok,
if I let the others know…..
They are Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor… in their somewhat pathetic attempt to take on the roles played by Paulie Newhound and Liz Howler in the original basset film.
In the 19th century, this kind of luxury car might be a rental, in its entirely, for one trip or on a long term lease. Imagine booking a suite like this just to go to another city!
Well to do industrialists, politicians, and the like often bought their own cars outright, and simply paid to have them attached to a train headed the right direction when they traveled.
I once had a book with pictures of the interiors of some… Wow.
Though bedrooms on US trains became less common once air travel took over, they didn’t disappear.
There are still Pullman cars. Most were, and continue to be, divided into tiny “roomettes”, with a bed, which usually folds up for daytime, revealing seats.
I don’t know whether there are any privately owned full cars left now, but I do know that San Francisco newspaper columnist Lucius Beebe owned and traveled in one in the 1960s.
I was on a trail that looked like this. The trail crew used a mower with blades that swung over to each side to clear the path area. The above picture shows only the entrance cut, but the trail I was on was like a long tunnel.
I’d seen this picture but I still forgot, till I looked at the later picture … I can’t say the adult picture, because he was totally an adult already here.
But he changed his life….
and we knew him as…
TV painting instructor Bob Ross.
More about him…
We knew him as perpetually soft spoken, and gentle, painting “happy little trees.”
But the younger picture above was taken when he was a drill sergeant in the US Air Force, stationed in Alaska.
He was in the military for 20 years!
When he got out, after years of what he described as screaming at guys to clean the latrine, he decided that he didn’t want to yell at anyone ever again, so he purposely changed his demeanor.
His iconic huge Afro-atyle hair was a perm. He got it when he was trying to make a go of painting, and poor, just to save money on haircuts. Later he hated it, but his picture was in his logo and he thought it was part of his popularity, so he didn’t want to change it.
Liz Howler was certainly lovely back then, wasn’t she?
It wasn’t only the deep south weather that was hot!
Pauly Newhound wasn’t so bad either.
….
I know I’ve posted about how I didn’t get to see movies like this when they were new…
As long as I lived with my parents, they insisted that I was much too young for adult themes.
They’d seen the trailer, with Liz vamping about in her slip, acting, as my father put it, like a …a… well, like female dog in heat.
Of course I had no idea what he meant 🙄.
….
BTW, there was a human version… I don’t know why they keep trying.
The human who played Maggie? Nothing but a pale pink imitation of Liz Howler.
They coulldn’t call her Maggie the Basset, could they… cos that was already taken…
so they cast her as a CAT??
C’mon…. she looked nothing like a cat.
Why, she didn’t even have any fur!
And her eyes were some kind of strange violet color…. no proper sort of brown at all.
I just don’t get it.
Don’t know if this affects anyone here, but Amazon are changing what you can do with Kindle eBooks that you’ve bought and paid for.
After the 26th of February, you will no longer be able to download and create an offline copy of any book in your library. The books will only exist within your Amazon library, and you’ll still be able to send them to either a Kindle device, or a Kindle App. What this means in reality is everything will be the same as it is now, except if, for any reason, you lose access to your Amazon account. If that happens, and you cannot recover the account, you will lose all the Kindle books that you’ve bought and paid for.
I have over one thousand books in my Kindle library, and will be downloading them. This is going to be a bit of a pain as you have to click on the command on each book.
Possibly, but it is happening now, if you go to download any of your eBooks so you can transfer via USB, there is a message stating that after the 26th, you won’t be able to because they are removing that feature.
Like streaming services, as opposed to downloads/physical media, if you have no connection, or cannot access your account, you can’t access the items you’ve paid good (Or bad) money for.
80 on board, all got off, some with help from crew or other passengers. All could walk, limping or not, across the tarmac.
18 taken to hospitals….
All but two have since been released.
Those two reportedly have “critical but not life-threatening” injuries.
The video was taken by someone in one of the rescue helicopters, which were on call, as usual, at the airport, in case of need…. not just sent in response to the crash.
Let me guess…
Well, while you’re formulating a guess….
I hope it’s ok,
.
Owls are endlessly fascinating.
Even the pygmies…
I didn’t know they grew like that.
Does each plant only produce one owl, or are those little owl-buds along the stem?
Yup! one owl per bud. But before they harden into owls, the owl-cones form little mice under their scales to feed the grown up owl…
Fascinating!
And I hate to admit… A teeny bit scary.
I hope they don’t grow in my neighborhood!
Though I suppose if they’re field mice, I don’t have to worry about escapees.getting into my cupboards.
Is that an admirer of this one?
“Don’t come peddling that snake oil around here!”
restoration of a luxury Pullman car
Gorgeous!
In the 19th century, this kind of luxury car might be a rental, in its entirely, for one trip or on a long term lease. Imagine booking a suite like this just to go to another city!
Well to do industrialists, politicians, and the like often bought their own cars outright, and simply paid to have them attached to a train headed the right direction when they traveled.
I once had a book with pictures of the interiors of some… Wow.
Though bedrooms on US trains became less common once air travel took over, they didn’t disappear.
There are still Pullman cars. Most were, and continue to be, divided into tiny “roomettes”, with a bed, which usually folds up for daytime, revealing seats.
I don’t know whether there are any privately owned full cars left now, but I do know that San Francisco newspaper columnist Lucius Beebe owned and traveled in one in the 1960s.
…
Release the Minotaur!
…
Amazing.
A kitty fakir?
Zen Katt
The things I have to do to get a little sympathy around here!
,,
Aaaaand we’re back…
As I said Friday or Saturday….
It’s full of anachronisms because it’s AI…
Part of an imaginary city, called Utropiia.
Not my sort of thing, but for those interested, theres a website about it…
https://www.utropiia.com/quick-tour
,.
What i’m seeing is topiary level pruning!
Who stole Bilbo’s front door?
I was on a trail that looked like this. The trail crew used a mower with blades that swung over to each side to clear the path area. The above picture shows only the entrance cut, but the trail I was on was like a long tunnel.
,
I wish they’d fix that tilt…
I think it gives it a jaunty look.
But all the moonbeams keep running off!
And it’s a mess inside…
The plates and cups fall off the shelves, and it’s hard to stay on the bed.
,
It looks like it’s on a space ship… Or at least, not attached to the ground.
“The Shindig;” (believe it or not this is a Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1930 / this scene appears at 2:07).
…she and her man, who called himself Dan,
were in the next room at the hoe-down…….
Not even close!
I’d seen this picture but I still forgot, till I looked at the later picture … I can’t say the adult picture, because he was totally an adult already here.
But he changed his life….
TV painting instructor Bob Ross.
We knew him as perpetually soft spoken, and gentle, painting “happy little trees.”
But the younger picture above was taken when he was a drill sergeant in the US Air Force, stationed in Alaska.
He was in the military for 20 years!
When he got out, after years of what he described as screaming at guys to clean the latrine, he decided that he didn’t want to yell at anyone ever again, so he purposely changed his demeanor.
His iconic huge Afro-atyle hair was a perm. He got it when he was trying to make a go of painting, and poor, just to save money on haircuts. Later he hated it, but his picture was in his logo and he thought it was part of his popularity, so he didn’t want to change it.
What a great story!
A very strong, nope.
One of my favorite posters! Maggie is one hot dog!
Wow….I remember this beautiful poster.
Liz Howler was certainly lovely back then, wasn’t she?
It wasn’t only the deep south weather that was hot!
Pauly Newhound wasn’t so bad either.
….
I know I’ve posted about how I didn’t get to see movies like this when they were new…
As long as I lived with my parents, they insisted that I was much too young for adult themes.
They’d seen the trailer, with Liz vamping about in her slip, acting, as my father put it, like a …a… well, like female dog in heat.
Of course I had no idea what he meant 🙄.
….
BTW, there was a human version… I don’t know why they keep trying.
The human who played Maggie? Nothing but a pale pink imitation of Liz Howler.
They coulldn’t call her Maggie the Basset, could they… cos that was already taken…
so they cast her as a CAT??
C’mon…. she looked nothing like a cat.
Why, she didn’t even have any fur!
And her eyes were some kind of strange violet color…. no proper sort of brown at all.
I just don’t get it.
.
Don’t know if this affects anyone here, but Amazon are changing what you can do with Kindle eBooks that you’ve bought and paid for.
After the 26th of February, you will no longer be able to download and create an offline copy of any book in your library. The books will only exist within your Amazon library, and you’ll still be able to send them to either a Kindle device, or a Kindle App. What this means in reality is everything will be the same as it is now, except if, for any reason, you lose access to your Amazon account. If that happens, and you cannot recover the account, you will lose all the Kindle books that you’ve bought and paid for.
I have over one thousand books in my Kindle library, and will be downloading them. This is going to be a bit of a pain as you have to click on the command on each book.
That already has happened before.
Possibly, but it is happening now, if you go to download any of your eBooks so you can transfer via USB, there is a message stating that after the 26th, you won’t be able to because they are removing that feature.
Like streaming services, as opposed to downloads/physical media, if you have no connection, or cannot access your account, you can’t access the items you’ve paid good (Or bad) money for.
Surprise!!!
Just like they did with all the MP3 files I ever bought. One computer hiccup and they’re all gone!
And thanks to the recent “unpleasantness” I am pausing my association with amazon so they’re probably all gone too.
From the “Born On This Day” column section of today’s London “Daily Mail” (if it’s true, we may know him today).
The Delta crash at Toronto yesterday (it appears to have been taken from another plane’s cockpit / everyone survived / there’s some language).
OMG! And everyone survived!!
I don’t think the Pope could watch that without “some language…”
80 on board, all got off, some with help from crew or other passengers. All could walk, limping or not, across the tarmac.
18 taken to hospitals….
All but two have since been released.
Those two reportedly have “critical but not life-threatening” injuries.
The video was taken by someone in one of the rescue helicopters, which were on call, as usual, at the airport, in case of need…. not just sent in response to the crash.