This is a comment on our love of trees and what we’ll do to avoid cutting down a tree. Unless we’re a corporate entity who doesn’t care about anything other than profits, or someone who’s wrong in the head. (I won’t type the word/term I wanted to use).
It is all asphalt, but two different types. The gravelly looking stuff is porous to allow water through, but keeps the stone in place or it would all disappear over time. The smoother looking stuff looks like a repair where they used the stuff for paths.
I couldn’t find a reliable date for this picture… But until she was 10, which she could be here, but she looks younger, the future Queen Elizabeth had no thought of becoming the monarch.
Her grandfather was still on the throne, her uncle David was going to be King one day, and from what I’ve read, she led a relatively happy and quite privileged life, in a close family.
She couldn’t be much older than ten, in any case, and it probably took a while even after that to sink in… for her to grasp the life of duty that lay before her.
But it was also a life of luxury, and some level of power and fame, and in spite of its personal or emotional cost, she seems to have embraced it.
It had its downsides, but on the whole, I can’t say i’m ready to feel sorry for her.
That’s very hyped up… She never became a truck driver.
I’m not putting down her efforts… She did wartime broadcasts as a teenager, and was eager to join the war effort.
She convinced her parents to let her enlist in the ATF (I don’t remember what the initials stand for, but it’s the women’s army unit) at 17.
She went to military training school for auto and truck mechanics, starting a couple of months before the war ended, and she finished the training, but she went home every night to Windsor Castle.
I do admire her for doing it… She wasn’t given a high rank because of her royal position, and she was barely 18 by VE Day…
She herself was justly proud of her stint, and all the rest of her life enjoyed driving herself where allowed (AFAIK, in cars, not trucks) and could still diagnose mechanical problems.
But let’s not pretend she spent WWII driving transports through battlefields.
She then took a one month training course starting some time in March, and turned 18 in April. The war ended in May.
At the time of the photo, it says she’s completed her course, and that she’s in the cab of the ambulance. She’s posing, to show off the ambulance.
There’s not one word to say she ever actually drove one.
She probably did, in training… But that was driver training. It takes more, different training to actually drive an ambulance.
She was only in the service two or three weeks after her training ended.
And no matter what her military rank, there’s no way the British Army was going to send the teen-aged future Queen of England out to drive an ambulance in a war zone.
In fact, no women were allowed in combat. Some fired large weapons from emplacements behind the lines.. and some were killed. They wouldn’t have let Elizabeth do that either.
There were a handful of female ambulance drivers but they drove in places like London, after bombing raids.
Years later, Prince Harry had to fight to be allowed to go to a war zone in Afghanistan as a pilot.
Later edit: sorry, my arithmetic is off. The future Queen was born in 1926, so she was 18 when she joined the ATF in February 1945, and turned 19 in April, right before the war ended in May.
Read what happy wrote – she had the license to drive a truck / an ambulance which makes her an ambulance / truck driver.
Happy never implied she was in any war zone. Neither did I.
There is a big difference between knowing how to pilot an ambulance, ie, run, steer, and stop the vehicle…even having (for a few weeks) a licence to do so…. and being trained in transporting patients in that vehicle, and actually doing it, as your military (or civilian) assignment.
The latter is called being an ambulance driver.
There’s even a difference between having a license to drive a truck, and using it to transport things… ie being a truck driver.
Maybe it’s a language difference.
But I’m finished.
You don’t want to get it – no-one implied that princess Elizabeth served in WWII.
Happy’s remark was in jest which you didn’t get.
And now you’re just trolling.
Searching this image was a bit confusing, but interesting.
At first I thought I found two different people with the same name, because the sites focused on different parts of his career…. but there’s only one.
The fellow in the reptile suit is Paul Stader…. I’m not hiding it because I don’t think very many of us have heard of him. My apologies if you have, and wanted to guess.
He should be better known!
The thing is, Stader wasn’t just an actor… He came to California to try out for the 1932 Olympic swimming team. Her didn’t make it, but did make friends with Buster Crabbe, an Olympic gold medalist, and Johnny Weismuller, an all around athlete who played Tarzan.
They helped him find a job as a lifeguard…. But his diving was noticed, and he became very well known as a stuntman. He did all those spectacular Tarzan dives, and the swinging on vines, even when the studio boasted that Weismuller did his own stunts!
He doubled for Crabbe in Flash Gordon, for Kirk Allyn in Superman, and for many other actors in iconic roles.
Eventually he ran a school for stuntmen, while still working as one himself. He became a stunt coordinator, an assistant director, and an actor, appearing in what seems to be everything.
Yes… Star Trek included, where he played a gladiator.
He has so many credits that sites like Wikipedia and IMDb just give partial lists, and not specifics.
This photo is actually on the set of an episode of The Outer Limits.
But I don’t know whether he’s there as a stuntman or playing a role…. or both.
Any chance you might be thinking of the Fall Guy, starring Lee Majors?
He plays a stuntman who’s also a bounty hunter, assisted, in purely TV fashion, by a pretty blonde… and it’s totally fictional. But I didn’t think it was short-lived.
There’s a fairly new movie version of it… And several older movies about stuntmen, none of them Stader.
According to my search, this is a “supercell thunderstorm” over Ancona, Italy. I didn’t see a date for the photo… but most of the results were from 2014.
A supercell, according to Wikipedia, “is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft.
…. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe.”
They last for several hours, and produce hail, and torrential downpours…. and about 30% or so turn into tornadoes.
Furthermore, I just don’t like the way it’s hanging around.
that’s tulip on the right and her buddy Jacob
Your Tulip?
She looks like a sweet doggie.
IIRC you did a multi panel strip featuring her, didn’t you?
afirmative
Is this a comment on British street maintenance or is the the postbox used by Noddy and Peter Rabbit?
This is a comment on our love of trees and what we’ll do to avoid cutting down a tree. Unless we’re a corporate entity who doesn’t care about anything other than profits, or someone who’s wrong in the head. (I won’t type the word/term I wanted to use).
Poor tree.
Dying of thirst.
Instead of asphalting over, grids are preferable for the trees.
I think that’s small gravel, not asphalt… You can see loose pebbles at the edges, and a few escaped ones in the sidewalk grid.
We have that here, too, around trees… it allows water to pass through.
There’s what looks like a small patch of asphalt in the lower left corner, maybe sealing a bad spot.. it looks different from the gravel.
It is all asphalt, but two different types. The gravelly looking stuff is porous to allow water through, but keeps the stone in place or it would all disappear over time. The smoother looking stuff looks like a repair where they used the stuff for paths.
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Was Chester ever really that young?
Forget Chester. Was Doc Adams ever that young?
Milburn Stone.
Of the Rolling Stones…
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,
Can you say “Clue” knockoff?
Don Quixote?
Yes… in fact, it’s titled “Last Urban Don Quixote”.
Acrylic painting by Julia Kosivchuk, who, according to her website, was born and grew up in Ukraine, and now lives and paints in Berkeley, California.
the original ‘soda jerk’
the future Queen
Doesn’t look like Freddy Mercury to me!
Poor little rich girl.
I couldn’t find a reliable date for this picture… But until she was 10, which she could be here, but she looks younger, the future Queen Elizabeth had no thought of becoming the monarch.
Her grandfather was still on the throne, her uncle David was going to be King one day, and from what I’ve read, she led a relatively happy and quite privileged life, in a close family.
She couldn’t be much older than ten, in any case, and it probably took a while even after that to sink in… for her to grasp the life of duty that lay before her.
But it was also a life of luxury, and some level of power and fame, and in spite of its personal or emotional cost, she seems to have embraced it.
It had its downsides, but on the whole, I can’t say i’m ready to feel sorry for her.
At that point she had no idea that she was going to become a truck driver.
That’s very hyped up… She never became a truck driver.
I’m not putting down her efforts… She did wartime broadcasts as a teenager, and was eager to join the war effort.
She convinced her parents to let her enlist in the ATF (I don’t remember what the initials stand for, but it’s the women’s army unit) at 17.
She went to military training school for auto and truck mechanics, starting a couple of months before the war ended, and she finished the training, but she went home every night to Windsor Castle.
I do admire her for doing it… She wasn’t given a high rank because of her royal position, and she was barely 18 by VE Day…
She herself was justly proud of her stint, and all the rest of her life enjoyed driving herself where allowed (AFAIK, in cars, not trucks) and could still diagnose mechanical problems.
But let’s not pretend she spent WWII driving transports through battlefields.
Ambulance driver:
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1994-07-291-66
“But let’s not pretend she spent WWII driving transports through battlefields.”
Agreed. Who did?
Please… re-read your own link.
It says she joined the service in February 1945.
She then took a one month training course starting some time in March, and turned 18 in April. The war ended in May.
At the time of the photo, it says she’s completed her course, and that she’s in the cab of the ambulance. She’s posing, to show off the ambulance.
There’s not one word to say she ever actually drove one.
She probably did, in training… But that was driver training. It takes more, different training to actually drive an ambulance.
She was only in the service two or three weeks after her training ended.
And no matter what her military rank, there’s no way the British Army was going to send the teen-aged future Queen of England out to drive an ambulance in a war zone.
In fact, no women were allowed in combat. Some fired large weapons from emplacements behind the lines.. and some were killed. They wouldn’t have let Elizabeth do that either.
There were a handful of female ambulance drivers but they drove in places like London, after bombing raids.
Years later, Prince Harry had to fight to be allowed to go to a war zone in Afghanistan as a pilot.
Later edit: sorry, my arithmetic is off. The future Queen was born in 1926, so she was 18 when she joined the ATF in February 1945, and turned 19 in April, right before the war ended in May.
Read what happy wrote – she had the license to drive a truck / an ambulance which makes her an ambulance / truck driver.
Happy never implied she was in any war zone. Neither did I.
Sigh….
There is a big difference between knowing how to pilot an ambulance, ie, run, steer, and stop the vehicle…even having (for a few weeks) a licence to do so…. and being trained in transporting patients in that vehicle, and actually doing it, as your military (or civilian) assignment.
The latter is called being an ambulance driver.
There’s even a difference between having a license to drive a truck, and using it to transport things… ie being a truck driver.
Maybe it’s a language difference.
But I’m finished.
You don’t want to get it – no-one implied that princess Elizabeth served in WWII.
Happy’s remark was in jest which you didn’t get.
And now you’re just trolling.
Prince Andrew flew helicopters during the Falklands conflict.
Yes! I forgot about that.
Was there a fuss about him doing it?
I just remember the to-do about Prince Harry… but then, he was closer (at that time) in the succession.
..aand dodging nazi shellfire
LOL!
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Tell me that’s not art.
Well, I could tell you it’s not art, but I’d be lying.
All right: I say it’s not art.
Depending on your definition of art.
I didn’t say it wasn’t well done, or anything else derogatory about the drawing.
The sole reason I say it’s not art is that all my search results say it was created by an AI program called MidJourney.
I’ve never had results that conclusive, where an image was recognized everywhere as AI, coming from the same source.
It turned up several versions, but all the links said MidJourney.
….
To me, AI is computer-assisted thievery.
It can be decorative, sometimes attractive, but it’s plagiarism, not original, and therefore not art.
Damn AI!
Agreed, Susan. No “soul” = no art.
Worse than no soul… stolen soul.
It copies techniques, like brush strokes, ink lines and angles, from real artists, and replicates them without credit or permission.
I sure don’t like were all this is heading…sometimes I don’t regret being a codger
Star Trek — the Tacky Period…
Searching this image was a bit confusing, but interesting.
At first I thought I found two different people with the same name, because the sites focused on different parts of his career…. but there’s only one.
The fellow in the reptile suit is Paul Stader…. I’m not hiding it because I don’t think very many of us have heard of him. My apologies if you have, and wanted to guess.
He should be better known!
The thing is, Stader wasn’t just an actor… He came to California to try out for the 1932 Olympic swimming team. Her didn’t make it, but did make friends with Buster Crabbe, an Olympic gold medalist, and Johnny Weismuller, an all around athlete who played Tarzan.
They helped him find a job as a lifeguard…. But his diving was noticed, and he became very well known as a stuntman. He did all those spectacular Tarzan dives, and the swinging on vines, even when the studio boasted that Weismuller did his own stunts!
He doubled for Crabbe in Flash Gordon, for Kirk Allyn in Superman, and for many other actors in iconic roles.
Eventually he ran a school for stuntmen, while still working as one himself. He became a stunt coordinator, an assistant director, and an actor, appearing in what seems to be everything.
Yes… Star Trek included, where he played a gladiator.
He has so many credits that sites like Wikipedia and IMDb just give partial lists, and not specifics.
This photo is actually on the set of an episode of The Outer Limits.
But I don’t know whether he’s there as a stuntman or playing a role…. or both.
Was there a TV show loosely based on him?
Short lived.
I didn’t read about one… I’ll try to check later.
Couldn’t find one .
Any chance you might be thinking of the Fall Guy, starring Lee Majors?
He plays a stuntman who’s also a bounty hunter, assisted, in purely TV fashion, by a pretty blonde… and it’s totally fictional. But I didn’t think it was short-lived.
There’s a fairly new movie version of it… And several older movies about stuntmen, none of them Stader.
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I like what they’ve done to the place…
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I think i got it in time! Wow!
Me too.
Me 3.
Didn’t I see this in “Close Encounters…?”
I believe that’s the photographic definition of “menacing.”
It looks like its opening its mouth preparatory to gobbling up the countryside.
According to my search, this is a “supercell thunderstorm” over Ancona, Italy. I didn’t see a date for the photo… but most of the results were from 2014.
A supercell, according to Wikipedia, “is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft.
…. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe.”
They last for several hours, and produce hail, and torrential downpours…. and about 30% or so turn into tornadoes.
Furthermore, I just don’t like the way it’s hanging around.
You should be able to recognise the man,
But do you know the name of
Summer of 1946, Hyannisport, Mass.
Very distinctive looking. He has one of the few faces I can always recognize.
No Mo…
Great job on illustrating The Dogfather!
I wondered, too, about them walking away from that incriminating scene.
You know, I saw a human movie using the same story… it was okaaaay….
But not as good as this.
you’re too kind
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