They were probably hauling it on a trailer and had to make a sudden stop. The sound of it coming through the back window hopefully caused the driver and possibly passenger to duck. The headrests probably helped keep the panel up above the head also.
I went and looked up this book. It was NOT the basis for the TV movie of the same name. It tells the tale of a young couple who became serial child killers in Britain in 1963. The cover image is not the young lady in question. It is Catherine Deneuve.
As it is the 50th anniversary of “Jaws” I went looking for the movie online.
I got 13 and a bit minutes in and shut it down.
It was boring me to sleep (the acting wasn’t that good either).
I know I’m probably in the minority, but that’s what I think of the movie.
I did put a hold on the book at the library, others must want to know what the book is like too (it’s got to be better than the movie).
I’ve posted the link a couple of weeks ago.
[video src="https://archive.org/download/jaws.-1975.1080p.-br-rip.x-264.bitloks.-yify_202408/Jaws.1975.1080p.BrRip.x264.bitloks.YIFY.mp4" /]
Well, yeah. Try watching anything else that’s 50 years old. I just started streaming season one of “Space: 1999” with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain as lead characters. Dreadful…but like a car accident, I just can’t make myself stop watching.
Okay, I’ve never watched Space 1999. Maybe it’s lame… I can’t say… but there’s plenty of new lame stuff, too.
Surely you don’t mean OG Star Trek, Star Wars and Monty Python are lame, or movies like the Godfather, Taxi Driver, Cabaret, Harold and Maude, Midnight Cowboy…. the list goes on and on…. not to mention the great movies of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
BTW, I’m back. At least for a short while. The new SSD (Solid State Drive) was defective. They ordered a new one and handed me back my computer to use until it came in (possibly Friday). So I’m going with a still fully full drive.
The Washington Post reported the night’s tab to be estimated at about 89 pounds, four shillings, and two pence (£89/4s/2d) – the rough equivalent of $15,400 today.
In addition to the drinks, the tab included dinner for all 55 guests, fees for broken glasses, and meals and drinks for musicians and “servants.”
But the party might not have been all that much fun for Washington, according to Alexis Coe, historian and author of the Washington biography “You Never Forget Your First.”
“Washington really did not want to be there,”
Coe said of the Constitutional Convention. “He was happy to provide the stable, unifying presence that the founders and framers needed to sign the Constitution… But he was exhausted, he was without his wife, whom he really liked to be with -and he knew there was no way she would join him.”
I always think it’s funny when things are “estimated” to the penny.
I know it’s a bit further off to make the pounds more and the dollars less, but I still think had they said £90, the rough equivalent of $15,000, no one’s underwear would be in a knot.
Especially since we don’t have the correct number of people anyway. An extra ten servants makes a lot more difference than missing nearly eight shillings.
…
I once had a (very polite) argument with a professor about the uselessness of trying to make exact calculations using bad data.
In any case, using either figure, if there were, say, 10 each, musicians and servants, that’s 75 people…. About $200 apiece, though more for the guests, a lot less for the servants…. A number that still sounds about right for today.
If anybody’s interested… I posted some stuff early yesterday afternoon I don’t think anybody came back and saw.
I know there were more pictures and info about that boulder that rolled through the farm… and a video of a kind of amazing but scary walking tour of Mesa Verde, in Colorado, the place P51Strega was talking about.
Not sure what else… and I dunno, maybe people saw them and just never liked them or replied, but if not ..
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…not you…
Um, no.
Some seats just weren’t meant for sharing.
Never mind sharing with a stranger in a bunny suit.
BUNNY!
Too cute!
I post in remembrance of Shelley Roche’s kitty, recently deceased, The Most Delightful Bunny.
TinyKittens.com HQ
And I in remembrance of Moonkey’s therapy beagle, Bunny…
The dog looks like an elkhound mix.
Uh oh…. you need to be careful.
Don’t fall for fake bunnies!
True love!
Get a room!
Yes.
Jamie Wyeth
Is this the one Snoopy had?
I’d think he had an Andrew.
.
LOL… Do they have engines, or does every airport employ a 500 foot tall giant to throw them?
Really long rubber band.
latter!
Like me and my siblings and cousin, all under ten, sitting out in the (much smaller) inflatable pool at my aunt and uncle’s house….
on a flat country road outside Peoria, Illinois, on a steaming hot July day… and staying there during the quick afternoon rain.
..
Pass!
It worked for me.
Me too, except for the chills…
Assuming there is a fire burning in the fireplace, I imagine it’s nice and warm up there. A good way not to waste the heat.
There’s no smoke coming out…. So maybe he’s just enjoying the view.
Or he’s hoping Santa Claus will come by and he can apply for a job as a reindeer.
Yeah yeah… but maybe Santa wants to diversify his work force.
In the next frame, he has turned into a prince.
Sorry.
😢
,
Snooker! No idea who the players are.
I immediately identified her. I recognized him as well but I had to Google search his name
If the rabbit has any sense at all, he’s hiding from all those predatory felines.
BUNNY!
Yes.
Sweet baby
You just know that she’s going to eat that flower.
Yes, he’s the cat with bunny ears.
That’s about right! 😀
…
I don’t see any blood so i suppose everyone survived.
They were probably hauling it on a trailer and had to make a sudden stop. The sound of it coming through the back window hopefully caused the driver and possibly passenger to duck. The headrests probably helped keep the panel up above the head also.
I went and looked up this book. It was NOT the basis for the TV movie of the same name. It tells the tale of a young couple who became serial child killers in Britain in 1963. The cover image is not the young lady in question. It is Catherine Deneuve.
As it is the 50th anniversary of “Jaws” I went looking for the movie online.
I got 13 and a bit minutes in and shut it down.
It was boring me to sleep (the acting wasn’t that good either).
I know I’m probably in the minority, but that’s what I think of the movie.
I did put a hold on the book at the library, others must want to know what the book is like too (it’s got to be better than the movie).
I’ve posted the link a couple of weeks ago.
[video src="https://archive.org/download/jaws.-1975.1080p.-br-rip.x-264.bitloks.-yify_202408/Jaws.1975.1080p.BrRip.x264.bitloks.YIFY.mp4" /]
Well, yeah. Try watching anything else that’s 50 years old. I just started streaming season one of “Space: 1999” with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain as lead characters. Dreadful…but like a car accident, I just can’t make myself stop watching.
You’re kidding!
Okay, I’ve never watched Space 1999. Maybe it’s lame… I can’t say… but there’s plenty of new lame stuff, too.
Surely you don’t mean OG Star Trek, Star Wars and Monty Python are lame, or movies like the Godfather, Taxi Driver, Cabaret, Harold and Maude, Midnight Cowboy…. the list goes on and on…. not to mention the great movies of the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
Wow
My wife said the book was terrible! The movie was much better.
it’s got an unnecessary, troubling plot twist as I remember…
and as for the movie, well, agree to disagree
but didn’t you think the monologue by Queeg on his surviving
the Indianapolis disaster was fantastic?
Good thing Cleo slept through that pun. She might have stepped all over Claude.
I think she’s sarcastically feigning sleep… in order to step on him. 😁
He ought of ladder be…
BTW, I’m back. At least for a short while. The new SSD (Solid State Drive) was defective. They ordered a new one and handed me back my computer to use until it came in (possibly Friday). So I’m going with a still fully full drive.
The Washington Post reported the night’s tab to be estimated at about 89 pounds, four shillings, and two pence (£89/4s/2d) – the rough equivalent of $15,400 today.
In addition to the drinks, the tab included dinner for all 55 guests, fees for broken glasses, and meals and drinks for musicians and “servants.”
But the party might not have been all that much fun for Washington, according to Alexis Coe, historian and author of the Washington biography “You Never Forget Your First.”
“Washington really did not want to be there,”
Coe said of the Constitutional Convention. “He was happy to provide the stable, unifying presence that the founders and framers needed to sign the Constitution… But he was exhausted, he was without his wife, whom he really liked to be with -and he knew there was no way she would join him.”
I always think it’s funny when things are “estimated” to the penny.
I know it’s a bit further off to make the pounds more and the dollars less, but I still think had they said £90, the rough equivalent of $15,000, no one’s underwear would be in a knot.
Especially since we don’t have the correct number of people anyway. An extra ten servants makes a lot more difference than missing nearly eight shillings.
…
I once had a (very polite) argument with a professor about the uselessness of trying to make exact calculations using bad data.
In any case, using either figure, if there were, say, 10 each, musicians and servants, that’s 75 people…. About $200 apiece, though more for the guests, a lot less for the servants…. A number that still sounds about right for today.
15s/10d short of £90. 20 shillings to the pound, 12 pence to the shilling.
Yeah… I know, thanks.
I was sleepy and subtracted from 12 instead of 20… But i wasn’t trying for accuracy, anyway; I was pointing out that it doesn’t matter.
$15,400 divided by 75 is $205, using $15,000, which is pounds off, not just shillings, it’s still 200.
A minute difference, when we’re roughly estimating both the number of people AND the equivalent prices of food and wine in 1787.
“They spent the equivalent of around 225 dollars per guest, and also fed the musicians and servants” is about as accurate as could be said.
Rule: You can only get as many significant figures in the answer as in the data
89% of numbers are made up on the spot…… 😉
Claude’s real ladder went out one night to get a can of paint and never came back.
His cupboard had to remarry, cos no one could reach her shelves.
Surely you remember Mother Cupboard.
Lots of stories
If anybody’s interested… I posted some stuff early yesterday afternoon I don’t think anybody came back and saw.
I know there were more pictures and info about that boulder that rolled through the farm… and a video of a kind of amazing but scary walking tour of Mesa Verde, in Colorado, the place P51Strega was talking about.
Not sure what else… and I dunno, maybe people saw them and just never liked them or replied, but if not ..
Thank you.
Thank you! 🙂
Awww… Thanks guys.
Guess I had visited earlier than your addionals, and like HHH and Tigressy, Thank You.
After the first boulder, I wouldn’t have stayed, probably…
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