This was taken in 1944.
She was only 19, and watching airborne paratroopers.
But even when I was a teenager, and she was a youngish-middle-aged queen, I remember seeing photos of her in little pillbox hats with short veils… and thinking they (and her clothes) looked more suitable for someone 90 than 40.
I don’t picture her in those big, elaborate hats till the 70s or 80s, when her clothes started getting brighter, as well.
Google has no information, except to show me a few dozen similar but not the same images, with different names and origins, some for sale as “original oil painting” with no artist name given, or “created by our studio”.
The file name says Jazz Band With Musical Play by Paparafmott…
which turns out to be a user name on DeviantArt…
His “gallery” shows dozens or maybe hundreds of images, in so many styles they can’t possibly all be his, and none that I saw look anything like this.
His profile is in French, and I can read a little of it but it’s very complicated. Finally I saw the phrase that explains it… as best I understood, he comes to DeviantArt, in part, to practice “IA”, which is French for “AI.”
Highly probable…
When I was in primary school, my mom got a used Fiat 500 from the early 60s (since she refused to drive our old Mercedes battle-ship-like family-car).
My older brother (by over 10 years) once borrowed it for a trip to Italy – and lost the key for it (shaped like the ones in the left part of the picture above) in the Lake Garda during a swim.
Desperate, he tried the house keys – and the one to the garage door fit!
The spare key (which was safely at home, of course) became my key to the garage after the Fiat was no more…
You can bet that the surface is some kind of rubber material or he wouldn’t be laughing.
BTW, basic physics (F=ma) explains why the landing didn’t hurt and the rolling also distributed some of the energy gained by the drop.
I learned tumbling in sixth grade. It must have ingrained in my brain because I have with rare exception, done a roll anytime I’ve tripped or misstepped and gotten right up with everything but my self image intact.
I made this for the first time in a while last weekend.
I had forgotten how good it is.
If you try it I’ll bet you like it.
In American parlance, “Old Cheddar” is “Sharp Cheddar.”
From a pamphlet titled:
CANADIAN CHEESE RECIPES (No publication date.)
Published by: The Dairy Bureau of Canada
20 Holly Street, Suite 400,
Toronto, Ontario
M45 3B1
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Does anyone else see Yin and Yang in that nose?
Tell them to get out!
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A cigarette could have been their trademark…
He ended up with throat cancer.
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Shelter from the Storm
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“If I could talk to the animals…”
I’d tell him not to walk in front of my bike and make me fall!
According to Uncle Google, that’s his dog, not a movie dog.
Rex Harrison
Yeah .. I guess I figured everybody knew.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen her in such an understated hat!
This was taken in 1944.
She was only 19, and watching airborne paratroopers.
But even when I was a teenager, and she was a youngish-middle-aged queen, I remember seeing photos of her in little pillbox hats with short veils… and thinking they (and her clothes) looked more suitable for someone 90 than 40.
I don’t picture her in those big, elaborate hats till the 70s or 80s, when her clothes started getting brighter, as well.
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She must have really sweaty ears!
You could lose an ear that way! Horses have a pretty strong bite.
From here:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/doctors-grew-ear-soldiers-forearm-then-used-it-ear-transplant-180969058/
Yup, you’re right. But it would still hurt like the dickens!
Only until you pass out.
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“I’m singing in the rain…”
Love this.
I’d love to see it animated.
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The Spock likeness isn’t too bad, but poor Nichelle has been murdered. Looks like they recast Uhura.
You got that right! That’s a terrible likeness, if it was even meant to be one.
In many’s opinion back then, they all looked alike.
Not much has changed, unfortunately…
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,.,Google has no information, except to show me a few dozen similar but not the same images, with different names and origins, some for sale as “original oil painting” with no artist name given, or “created by our studio”.
The file name says Jazz Band With Musical Play by Paparafmott…
which turns out to be a user name on DeviantArt…
His “gallery” shows dozens or maybe hundreds of images, in so many styles they can’t possibly all be his, and none that I saw look anything like this.
His profile is in French, and I can read a little of it but it’s very complicated. Finally I saw the phrase that explains it… as best I understood, he comes to DeviantArt, in part, to practice “IA”, which is French for “AI.”
,.,.
Um…. okay…..
Do I just not get it cos I drive a 90s car, and keys have changed?
Highly probable…
When I was in primary school, my mom got a used Fiat 500 from the early 60s (since she refused to drive our old Mercedes battle-ship-like family-car).
My older brother (by over 10 years) once borrowed it for a trip to Italy – and lost the key for it (shaped like the ones in the left part of the picture above) in the Lake Garda during a swim.
Desperate, he tried the house keys – and the one to the garage door fit!
The spare key (which was safely at home, of course) became my key to the garage after the Fiat was no more…
One key for the door, the other for the ignition.
yep. that’s the point—something from a bygone era
Like – Us?!?
I’m feeling that way.
museum pieces for sure
I’d rather be a museum piece than something designated for an alternate location, if you get what I mean.
🙂
Nothing wrong with museum pieces!
I’ve had close copies of all four of ’em!
Oh!
I didn’t even notice… thanks.
I guess it was that my first car was too new, not that my present car is too old, for me to see the difference.
I started driving at 40, in an old, 2nd hand car, but I’ve never driven anything old enough to have separate keys.
WOW!
“One key to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them”
Darn headlights acting up again?
find the teddybear
everybody give up?
No….. I don’t think so, anyway.
But nobody posted a solution.
Even WITH the solution I had a hard time finding it.
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Not being a boy, I’ve never been able to figure that out.
I’m a guy and i still don’t understand it.
You can bet that the surface is some kind of rubber material or he wouldn’t be laughing.
BTW, basic physics (F=ma) explains why the landing didn’t hurt and the rolling also distributed some of the energy gained by the drop.
I learned tumbling in sixth grade. It must have ingrained in my brain because I have with rare exception, done a roll anytime I’ve tripped or misstepped and gotten right up with everything but my self image intact.
It’s our job. In order to protect women and children, we have to be ready to take risks. It has helped our species survive for this long.
I made this for the first time in a while last weekend.
I had forgotten how good it is.
If you try it I’ll bet you like it.
In American parlance, “Old Cheddar” is “Sharp Cheddar.”
From a pamphlet titled:
CANADIAN CHEESE RECIPES (No publication date.)
Published by: The Dairy Bureau of Canada
20 Holly Street, Suite 400,
Toronto, Ontario
M45 3B1
CHEDDAR CHEESE SOUP
3 Tbsp. (45 mL) butter
1/4 cup (50 mL) minced onion
1/4 cup (50 mL) finely-grated carrot
3 Tbsp (45 mL) flour
1 Tbsp (15 mL) chicken bouillon mix
1/2 tsp (2 mL) paprika
1/2 tsp (2 mL) dry mustard
2 cups (500 mL) milk ( Use Whole milk, 3.25% milk fat.)
1 3/4 cups (425 mL) water
2 cups (500 mL) shredded old Canadian Cheddar cheese
Melt butter in saucepan.
Sauté onion and carrot until tender.
Blend in flour, bouillon mix, paprika and mustard.
Gradually stir in milk and water.
Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil and thickens.
Remove from heat; add cheese and stir until melted.
Garnish (the recipe doesn’t say what with / I have never added anything).
Makes about 5 cups / 1.25 L.
Cleaning the canals, Venice, 1956.
I can’t imagine the stench.
yeah, probably hasn’t been cleaned in a few hundred years
I’ll bet they woouldn’t have done it unless it was really, REALLY necessary!
The canals had silted up and had got too shallow.
So when the water got thick enough to walk on…
That’s the river(!) Ankh that flows(!!) through Ankh-Morpork….
Female Sparrowhawk.
It was a light sentence
But it gave him time to reflect.
I bet that made things crystal clear… and will color his thinking for decades.
A prism sentence will do that.
“Heck, I’ve been on a light bender for years!” ……Bung, Wizard of Id