From that angle, they look like toy cars… especially the hollow, molded plastic ones you got when I was a little kid.
The axles snapped into round notched holes at the bottom, and the wheels barely rolled. For playing, not racing…. years before Hot Wheels and the like.
My older cousins had heavy rubber ones, a bit larger… and one of them gave me a school bus. Now it would be almost an antique.
I used to occasionally buy a “girl’s” magazine sort of like this, when I was 8 or 9…
Did I ever make the things in it? No… mostly cos I wasn’t allowed to have tools. But it was fun to think I would.
Actually… that isn’t completely true… I just remembered.
I did make a few things that were paper, or cloth, cos it’s where I learned to make some simple paper flowers, that I used to trick my little brother. They had popsicle sticks for stems.
I gave him turn bits of paper, saying they were seeds, and got him to plant and water them. The next morning I stuck a few of the flowers in the ground… He really thought they grew from the seeds.
I believe this banner lady wears a sad expression on purpose.
Her sign, or I should say banner, says “JM Dolph & Co Furniture & Undertaking.”
Mr. Dolph sold both furniture and caskets, before need or after.
I’m wondering why the little chair says “Pet”. Were there pet undertakers in the late 19th century? Or is it just a child’s chair cos it’s something light enough to carry?
I’m also wondering about a few of her accoutrements. The round metal balls, and the rings hanging from her hat, or headgear, may have signified something with which I’m not familiar…. And there’s something on the floor behind her that looks like a 3rd foot.
Also…. are those drawer pulls on her bodice… or «brrr…» coffin handles?
These banner lady photos are.copied directly from 19th century cabinet cards.
If they’re AI, those stories about time traveling aliens are true!
That white sock or ankle-looking things isn’t attached to anything on top, and the front of the foot shape doesn’t match the toes of the actual feet, in their lace up boots.
It’s awfully small, but it might be a tiny dog lying on the floor, its head in front of whatever the white thing is.
This is Marilyn Monroe, visiting an American soldier with an injured back, in a hospital in Japan, Feb 5th 1954.
When I first glanced at it, I didn’t see her. Kind of a “Find the Marilyn” puzzle.
BTW, she was in Japan on her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio.
But while they were there, she visited military hospitals, while he participated in baseball events with a Japanese team… And she took a side trip to Korea to entertain troops there, while he stayed in Japan.
Interesting place (though I do admit to being easily amused.)
Directly in back, we’re looking at the “Old Dick Whittington” public house at 24 Cloth Fair, a historic London Street, in Smithfield, viewed from Middle Street, in 1890.
The Old Dick Whittington was a 16th century timber framed house, that first became a beerhouse in 1848. It later erroneously claimed to be the oldest licensed premises in London.
The pub was acquired by the Corporation of London in 1916 and … sniffle… subsequently demolished.
Another tidbit (or titbit, if you’re over there) … 41-42 Cloth Fair is the site of the only surviving residential house in the City of London that predates the 1666 Great Fire.
Um…. Okay…… But I’m not sure why you upload videos to a host. I don’t know how it worksn for the ones to on top… but you don’t need one in the comments.
This is for everybody who wants to know:
You only need to copy and paste the address from the address bar above a video, which usually embeds it in your comment.
And if it occasionally doesn’t, as it didn’t today, or if you just find it easier, use the share link below the video instead.
It looks like a short, curved arrow. Clicking it opens a little window, with a slightly different link to copy.
The little icon with two overlapping squares is the symbol for “copy”, and will put the link in your clipboard, ready to paste in the comments.
Don’t forget to remove anything after the ‘?’ in a uToobe URL as it’s all tracking code. The link will work perfectly fine without it, and won’t link you to where you found it from.
He’s got really small ears for a hare… makes him look like a rabbit.
(Oops… sorry, sir, if hares find that insulting. You’re a fine figure of a hare, no doubt.)
In any case, I know they’re different species, but what I don’t understand is why “bunny”, which after all, is not a scientific term, doesn’t apply to hares.
Oh well. I suppose maybe if they accepted hares into the bunnies, pretty soon they’d have conies and pikas and hyraxes and other little rabbity things wanting to be bunnies, as well … And then where would we be?
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He (or she) may not be an only child… I see another bed in there.
Bassets are better in bunches!
Great pose! Front end alert, back end still in nap mode…
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That is a great look for some sort of horror fantasy.
Yeah… I was just wondering whether they were carnivorous.
More Cats can probably tell us…
I feel a sci-fi vibe.
Battlestar Galactica is what came to my mind…Cylons…big red eye that slid back and forth in their forehead…
SANDWORMS!
Chicago – 1941
From that angle, they look like toy cars… especially the hollow, molded plastic ones you got when I was a little kid.
The axles snapped into round notched holes at the bottom, and the wheels barely rolled. For playing, not racing…. years before Hot Wheels and the like.
My older cousins had heavy rubber ones, a bit larger… and one of them gave me a school bus. Now it would be almost an antique.
I had a metal Dinky Toy version of the one inn the center. Their wheels didn’t turn very well either…
I had those!!
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I used to occasionally buy a “girl’s” magazine sort of like this, when I was 8 or 9…
Did I ever make the things in it? No… mostly cos I wasn’t allowed to have tools. But it was fun to think I would.
Actually… that isn’t completely true… I just remembered.
I did make a few things that were paper, or cloth, cos it’s where I learned to make some simple paper flowers, that I used to trick my little brother. They had popsicle sticks for stems.
I gave him turn bits of paper, saying they were seeds, and got him to plant and water them. The next morning I stuck a few of the flowers in the ground… He really thought they grew from the seeds.
Where do I go to subscribe???
Does look like fun stuff!
not what it looks like
Oh no? It looks to me like the gaping, ravenous maw of Hell.
I think that geologists call it a skylight.
Yes… A skylight being a gap in a tube that has formed from a stream of hot, flowing lava.
Though Google says they do call this one, in Hawaii, the Gates of Hell.
So you’re both right.
I’m just happy to hear that those writhing shapes are formations of cooled lava, not the agonized souls of the departed.
It looks like Ropy pāhoehoe….
Had to look that one up.
Me too
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“Furniture and Undertaking”? Did undertaking mean the same thing that it does now?
Yep… I was answering that, and we posted at the same time.
I believe this banner lady wears a sad expression on purpose.
Her sign, or I should say banner, says “JM Dolph & Co Furniture & Undertaking.”
Mr. Dolph sold both furniture and caskets, before need or after.
I’m wondering why the little chair says “Pet”. Were there pet undertakers in the late 19th century? Or is it just a child’s chair cos it’s something light enough to carry?
I’m also wondering about a few of her accoutrements. The round metal balls, and the rings hanging from her hat, or headgear, may have signified something with which I’m not familiar…. And there’s something on the floor behind her that looks like a 3rd foot.
Also…. are those drawer pulls on her bodice… or «brrr…» coffin handles?
The rings on her attire are for hanging curtains (USA Drapes) from curtain poles.
And does that banner lady have three feet?
That certainly resembles a foot. AI?
These banner lady photos are.copied directly from 19th century cabinet cards.
If they’re AI, those stories about time traveling aliens are true!
That white sock or ankle-looking things isn’t attached to anything on top, and the front of the foot shape doesn’t match the toes of the actual feet, in their lace up boots.
It’s awfully small, but it might be a tiny dog lying on the floor, its head in front of whatever the white thing is.
Try all you might to dismiss it, but WE know it’s aliens traveling back in time to use AI.
Hey, I didn’t deny it!
I said IF it were AI, it was time traveling aliens.
I try not to leave my @@$ uncovered.
Didn’t anybody see a little dog?
PS… yes, I know @@$ doesn’t mean anything, or should be @$$.
I like to do “@@$” because it amuses me.
Somebody got temporarily banned for typing it, in those exact symbols, by the nannybot on GoComics.
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More than normal side-eye… More like full face side-eye.
That’s a head that’s thinking “She’s no better than she should be.”
That’s a head that’s thinking, “I used to be that young and pretty. I’ll bet I could have married Jimmy if I was allowed to wear skirts that short!”
(or insert whatever thought balloon you think is appropriate, but she still wanted to marry Jimmy.)
I’m sure that’s a Python in drag…
I sense disapproval
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Like any good detective, he’s all over the case.
He’s got a nose for the culprit!
Or a tongue.
…LOL!
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Good… Let them run off to the beach!
After 5 hours in the car, they’re spring-loaded.
It’ll be easier to unpack and settle in without that pent up energy bouncing around inside the cabin.
I think I’ve stayed in that cottage!
Yeah, complete with the outhouse!
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I think we’ve seen this previously; Marilyn Monroe visiting injured soldiers during WWII, takes a moment to talk to a man whose neck/spine was broken.
1954
I don’t remember seeing it before, but you can’t count on what I don’t remember.
This is Marilyn Monroe, visiting an American soldier with an injured back, in a hospital in Japan, Feb 5th 1954.
When I first glanced at it, I didn’t see her. Kind of a “Find the Marilyn” puzzle.
BTW, she was in Japan on her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio.
But while they were there, she visited military hospitals, while he participated in baseball events with a Japanese team… And she took a side trip to Korea to entertain troops there, while he stayed in Japan.
I was going to say “He doesn’t look happy.” Then i looked down….
,…,
What good doggies!
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Interesting place (though I do admit to being easily amused.)
Directly in back, we’re looking at the “Old Dick Whittington” public house at 24 Cloth Fair, a historic London Street, in Smithfield, viewed from Middle Street, in 1890.
The Old Dick Whittington was a 16th century timber framed house, that first became a beerhouse in 1848. It later erroneously claimed to be the oldest licensed premises in London.
The pub was acquired by the Corporation of London in 1916 and … sniffle… subsequently demolished.
Another tidbit (or titbit, if you’re over there) … 41-42 Cloth Fair is the site of the only surviving residential house in the City of London that predates the 1666 Great Fire.
,…
The only one I see that works
Same thing I came up with
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Of course it’s.
Silly me.
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They pretend to be the good guy, but the moment that they are no longer fining enough bugs they will make a wound and drink the blood.
🙁
And here I thought it was trying to help the zebra fly.
Nasty!
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If I eat those, will I croak?
I would stay away from the brightly colored one.
Cos I would really croak?
No thanks, not hungry tonight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYIgG9uyJWc
The link works, but I think this one will make it post here on the page:
thanks. IBB has decided it’s not going to give me link for videos anymore.
So I’m stuck with WordPress
Um…. Okay…… But I’m not sure why you upload videos to a host. I don’t know how it worksn for the ones to on top… but you don’t need one in the comments.
This is for everybody who wants to know:
You only need to copy and paste the address from the address bar above a video, which usually embeds it in your comment.
And if it occasionally doesn’t, as it didn’t today, or if you just find it easier, use the share link below the video instead.
It looks like a short, curved arrow. Clicking it opens a little window, with a slightly different link to copy.
The little icon with two overlapping squares is the symbol for “copy”, and will put the link in your clipboard, ready to paste in the comments.
Don’t forget to remove anything after the ‘?’ in a uToobe URL as it’s all tracking code. The link will work perfectly fine without it, and won’t link you to where you found it from.
Fairy Steed.
Not a Bunny!
(It’s not Bunday today)
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Irish Hare – a subspecies endemic to Ireland.
He’s got really small ears for a hare… makes him look like a rabbit.
(Oops… sorry, sir, if hares find that insulting. You’re a fine figure of a hare, no doubt.)
In any case, I know they’re different species, but what I don’t understand is why “bunny”, which after all, is not a scientific term, doesn’t apply to hares.
Oh well. I suppose maybe if they accepted hares into the bunnies, pretty soon they’d have conies and pikas and hyraxes and other little rabbity things wanting to be bunnies, as well … And then where would we be?
…
So that’s where they went!!!
So an Irish shorthare?
OK, you win todays internet prize for that one….
Pale Chanting Goshawk, found in southern Africa.
Looks like a bad-ass bird