Roman, as in, in the capital of Italy, in 1866, or reasonably close.
When I read the word “Roman”, my brain jumps back about a millennium and a half, and wonders why nobody’s wearing a toga.
I have to remind myself… Rome is still there. I mean, you know, Sophia Loren is a Roman. There are Roman people and places in 2026, just as there were in 1866.
/// Angry Rocco would burn with disgrace
if a napkin should shade Giulia’s face.
It may look like one, yet
that is no serviette,
just odd headgear from that time and place.
These, according to various descriptions on trade card and paper emphemera collecting sites, are the Lillis sisters… It’s a card rom the set “Actors and Actresses”, issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes, and also different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Co.
I looked up the Lillis sisters… They’re not on a Wikipedia list of 19th century actresses; in fact the only mention I found was for cigarette cards. The one pictured looks to me like someone whited out the brand and added a different one in pen and ink.
Cards like this one, showing so much bare skin, were considered very racy. A gentleman might own them, but hid them away in his underwear drawer, or the 1880s equivalent. They were forbidden treasure to 12 year old boys.
It’s possible that the voluptuous “Lillis sisters”, possessing faces and bodies considered highly desirable in that era, did their only “acting” by posing semi-nude (as this was considered) on cigarette cards.
Ooh, a Puli, or maybe a Komondor.
Can’t tell what he looks like standing, cos he’s too busy being a flying mop. Komondor are taller.
I knew a couple with a Puli… sweet dog, beautiful.. And they seemed nice enough..But I discovered they’d chosen the wrong dog for owners who didn’t want to groom him almost daily, play constantly, and remove tufts of dreadlock (this one was black with some gray mixed in) from every conceivable surface, and a lot of inconceivable ones.
I went to their rental house after they had moved out, to help clean it up. I couldn’t believe they’d left chewed furniture, and strands of dreadlock caught on every surface, in every door hinge, and clogging the bathroom sink (?!). They were also behind on the rent.
You’d think maybe they wouldn’t have complained so much about not getting their security deposit back.
I recognized the same two people as you did for 5 and 19. All of the others as well, because of Mort Drucker’s skilled portrayals, are instantly identifiable.
My fully grown father, with three or four other presumably grown men, all officers in the US Air Force, on a TDY trip inspecting Norad bases in Europe, posed in the same way near a fountain with similar jets, though it was a much smaller pool, and the jets started higher… at what you might call… um… a more realistic height for suggesting.. the… um… desired effect
They were in flight uniform… no attempt to hide what they were doing. They were passing around my dad’s 8mm movie camera to film it. I don’t know whether somebody else got still pictures.
When my Dad showed.us the film, mostly scenes of military bases, and this came up, my mother got so embarrassed, even though the only ones getting to see it were our family and the family who lived next door, in our small Air Force owned apartment building in Libya.
He eventually spliced most of the little films together, with no regard for subject or order, into longer reels.
Mom begged him to leave that scene out, but he wouldn’t, so if you wanted to see Christmas or somebody’s birthday, you also got to see Air Force officers pretending to pee in a fountain.
no , actually I thought the Chewy reference was funny and meant to type it in but never got back to it–the 5th grade thing was just …distracting, to me
.
A donkey and his kitty.
When I searched it, I saw a picture from when the cat was a kitten.
Other pictures too, on other pages, but I thought they were a different cat.
Makes me wonder how many donkeys have a ginger tabby friend.
“Send nudes”?
Um… I know the meme, in several forms…
But am I missing something hiding in this picture?
..
Roman, as in, in the capital of Italy, in 1866, or reasonably close.
When I read the word “Roman”, my brain jumps back about a millennium and a half, and wonders why nobody’s wearing a toga.
I have to remind myself… Rome is still there. I mean, you know, Sophia Loren is a Roman. There are Roman people and places in 2026, just as there were in 1866.
/// Angry Rocco would burn with disgrace
if a napkin should shade Giulia’s face.
It may look like one, yet
that is no serviette,
just odd headgear from that time and place.
That cat must be an
ancestor of our late cat
Romy – reproachful…
…
It couldn’t have happened in a better town!
New Hope, Pennsylvania… You’ve probably guessed that it’s 1945.
My first thought was to wonder whether it was a scene from a movie… but it doesn’t really look like one… and no.
It’s a scene from real life.
ONE picture
A THOUSAND words
BEAUTIFUL!
,
braggart!
That’s not the disturbing part.
.,
These, according to various descriptions on trade card and paper emphemera collecting sites, are the Lillis sisters… It’s a card rom the set “Actors and Actresses”, issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes, and also different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Co.
I looked up the Lillis sisters… They’re not on a Wikipedia list of 19th century actresses; in fact the only mention I found was for cigarette cards. The one pictured looks to me like someone whited out the brand and added a different one in pen and ink.
Cards like this one, showing so much bare skin, were considered very racy. A gentleman might own them, but hid them away in his underwear drawer, or the 1880s equivalent. They were forbidden treasure to 12 year old boys.
It’s possible that the voluptuous “Lillis sisters”, possessing faces and bodies considered highly desirable in that era, did their only “acting” by posing semi-nude (as this was considered) on cigarette cards.
,,.
Ooh, a Puli, or maybe a Komondor.
Can’t tell what he looks like standing, cos he’s too busy being a flying mop. Komondor are taller.
I knew a couple with a Puli… sweet dog, beautiful.. And they seemed nice enough..But I discovered they’d chosen the wrong dog for owners who didn’t want to groom him almost daily, play constantly, and remove tufts of dreadlock (this one was black with some gray mixed in) from every conceivable surface, and a lot of inconceivable ones.
I went to their rental house after they had moved out, to help clean it up. I couldn’t believe they’d left chewed furniture, and strands of dreadlock caught on every surface, in every door hinge, and clogging the bathroom sink (?!). They were also behind on the rent.
You’d think maybe they wouldn’t have complained so much about not getting their security deposit back.
You couldn’t ask for a better mop head.
all featured in Mad Magazine drawn by Mort Drucker
Mort was great.
I’m pretty sure I recognize them all…
I recognized the same two people as you did for 5 and 19. All of the others as well, because of Mort Drucker’s skilled portrayals, are instantly identifiable.
then you got them all
Of course, I could be lying about the other 18.
But I’m not. I promise.
..,,
Cinematographer.
,,
,,
Obligatory – “You can’t park there sir!”
,
Two and a half kids.
Why?
Demographic of the time. Families with two and a half kids. 😀
Oh! LOL…
I thought you were saying Tina was too young to be a kid, or maybe something I didn’t know about was wrong with one of the others.
Not tonight.
I see him but I can’t name him..
Ghandi.
Yes.
Okay, I was thinking Einstein…
That’s who I see too.
My fully grown father, with three or four other presumably grown men, all officers in the US Air Force, on a TDY trip inspecting Norad bases in Europe, posed in the same way near a fountain with similar jets, though it was a much smaller pool, and the jets started higher… at what you might call… um… a more realistic height for suggesting.. the… um… desired effect
They were in flight uniform… no attempt to hide what they were doing. They were passing around my dad’s 8mm movie camera to film it. I don’t know whether somebody else got still pictures.
When my Dad showed.us the film, mostly scenes of military bases, and this came up, my mother got so embarrassed, even though the only ones getting to see it were our family and the family who lived next door, in our small Air Force owned apartment building in Libya.
He eventually spliced most of the little films together, with no regard for subject or order, into longer reels.
Mom begged him to leave that scene out, but he wouldn’t, so if you wanted to see Christmas or somebody’s birthday, you also got to see Air Force officers pretending to pee in a fountain.
boys will be boys
So typical.
So can water, eventually…
I posted this before… I believe this is Chewbacca in 2nd grade.
They’re so cute when they’re young.
I cropped what it originally said on top:
“Chewbaca when he was in the 5th grade”
so, not the 4th grade, not the sixth—the fifth —why the 5th?
I plead the fifth.
I dunno… I think when I posted it, I was thinking he looked too young for 5th… probably why i misremembered 2nd.
I had forgotten it was part of the picture…
Maybe this time you cropped it to get rid of the Chewie reference altogether.
Oops.
no , actually I thought the Chewy reference was funny and meant to type it in but never got back to it–the 5th grade thing was just …distracting, to me
Photographed by Otto Dyar.
Goldfinch.
Wow!