It happens with most things that involve saving people (or animals or plants) from fatal conditions.
Any time you make something stop killing, you increase the odds of whatever creature it affects living with the condition… thus their percentage of the population.
When an ancient culture stopped killing babies with club feet, more people in the population had club feet. And they could.grow up to reproduce, so there was an increase in passing along the gene.
When polio stopped being fatal, it left more living people with polio.
OMG… I suppose this is only funny to older boomers and the previous cohort, if they ran in certain (some would say “the wrong”) circles, in the mid to late sixties.
But I can imagine this photo being sold to them on a poster, as a joke.
I’m sure Owsley Drugs in Billings isn’t even actually related to the humor… it’s just a funny coincidence.
In the mid 1960s, Owsley Stanley, sound engineer for the Grateful Dead, became known as the Acid King. Acid, aka LSD, was still legal, and he produced millions of doses. He was arrested numerous times after it became illegal, but carried on for a number of years… I don’t know how long.
He provided the LSD for the Dead, for Ken Kesey’s acid test, and the cream of the crop of what was sold on the street. Saying “it’s real Owsley” was bragging… sometimes a lie, I’m sure… but it meant quality.
His first name, not his last, was Owsley, and his family had nothing to do with drugstores or Montana. But he was very famous for drugs… mostly, but not only, LSD, so I laughed at this photo.
There are many definitions, depending on where you look. Usually they don’t have points, but in a casual sense, that’s the best word for that shape, and I’ve seen it used.
I know Nighthawks does the celebrity picture-guessing gig… but I can’t resist posting this.
Hope you don’t mind, Nighthawks.
I just ran into this picture tonight… I was looking at a news story, and this was a link at the bottom of the page… one of those teaser pics, where they try to get you to look at pages and pages of celebrity images, with a billion ads. I usually don’t.
The things is, I saw this baby, and for some reason, I thought I knew who he’d grow up to be…. so I had to look, and I can’t believe it, but I was right. I almost never recognize a baby!
And he doesn’t even look like the grownup… I don’t know what I saw in his face…
There was a wonderful ferry between Seattle and Victoria, that I loved taking, but it shut down decades ago.
Much smaller than the ones from Washington to Vancouver and between Vancouver and Victoria.
Wish I could remember the name of it.
IIRC it ran once a day in each direction… if you were doing it on one day, you could go to Victoria for a fairly short day trip, but from the other direction, only an overnight trip to Seattle. But of course you could stay longer.
10cc … one of the most underrated bands in the late 70’s. Most people know only one of their songs …I’m Not In Love > their albums were conceptual and many of their best songs were too long for air play. Here is one of their best and although the video quality is pitiful, the music says it all.
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One of yours?
no, but could have been –many times over
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Keystone Cops, or a Buster Keaton film?
Good guesses… It’s the former.
Keystone Kops – a stunt for the 1914 ‘Kops’ …
filmed on the Santa Monica Palisades.
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It happens with most things that involve saving people (or animals or plants) from fatal conditions.
Any time you make something stop killing, you increase the odds of whatever creature it affects living with the condition… thus their percentage of the population.
When an ancient culture stopped killing babies with club feet, more people in the population had club feet. And they could.grow up to reproduce, so there was an increase in passing along the gene.
When polio stopped being fatal, it left more living people with polio.
And so on.
My father survived WW2 in spite of having been shot in the head…
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StelBel’s Metropolis?
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Okay. Do we?
No. I think that people eventually just come to their own conclusions either way regardless of outside influence.
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Okay, Kowalski, you go iun first…
“Right of Way’ by John Harrison.
It was in the running for a prize in a recent Australian photo contest.
A group of royal penguins draws the ire of an elephant seal, as they walk past him to the shoreline.
Yeah, he says they changed course. I was kinda hoping they stood their ground, but I guess the seal is a lot bigger.
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Fruit and vegetable store in Rome, 1960s … from Edouard Boubat
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“Human see, human do…”
“Insomnia”
BTDT…
I still do it… thankfully not as much as a few years ago.
But it’s 1am right now!
Billings, Montana-1939
OMG… I suppose this is only funny to older boomers and the previous cohort, if they ran in certain (some would say “the wrong”) circles, in the mid to late sixties.
But I can imagine this photo being sold to them on a poster, as a joke.
I’m sure Owsley Drugs in Billings isn’t even actually related to the humor… it’s just a funny coincidence.
In the mid 1960s, Owsley Stanley, sound engineer for the Grateful Dead, became known as the Acid King. Acid, aka LSD, was still legal, and he produced millions of doses. He was arrested numerous times after it became illegal, but carried on for a number of years… I don’t know how long.
He provided the LSD for the Dead, for Ken Kesey’s acid test, and the cream of the crop of what was sold on the street. Saying “it’s real Owsley” was bragging… sometimes a lie, I’m sure… but it meant quality.
His first name, not his last, was Owsley, and his family had nothing to do with drugstores or Montana. But he was very famous for drugs… mostly, but not only, LSD, so I laughed at this photo.
Did I take that stuff? No.
How do I know all this, then?
Hey, I was there.
And you remember it! There’s your bona fides right there!
Being there is not quite the same as taking the stuff.
( a friend told me)
Yeah…. One difference is probably that I’m still capable of remembering.
LOL!
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Another from Elliott Erwitt’s “Dogs”… early 1970s, NYC
I had them on note cards, but I think there was a book, too.
Has he been strapped into one of those “invisible dog” collar and leashes that were a novelty item a few decades ago?
Just jumping!
Otherwise he’d be strangled, being held by a collar around his neck.
(I assume you mean the dog, not the man or Mr. Erwitt.)
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Maybe I’m missing something
There are seven circles drawn, any conjunction of two hemispheres where different circles overlap creates an ellipse, not another circle.
You can count them in the reverse direction, and your perspective seems to change, but they’re the same circles… there are no new ones. Still seven.
Anybody?
There are many definitions, depending on where you look. Usually they don’t have points, but in a casual sense, that’s the best word for that shape, and I’ve seen it used.
We’re not all mathematicians here.
Agreed.
Do you see the tube they form from right to left, left to right, or can you see both ways?
Both ways. But that’s what I meant about it not changing the number of circles.
One could say there are an infinite number of them, as you move along the tube… But there are only certain ones drawn.
Yes, I nearly fell into the trap of counting them both ways.
Exactly. That might be the point of the puzzle, but it’s not very clear.
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Right, birdies… I’d be concerned too!
Hit six branches on the way down.
Flying lessons?
Just a doggy who takes his job seriously.
Maybe it’s better than being a slackerdoggy.
I know Nighthawks does the celebrity picture-guessing gig… but I can’t resist posting this.
Hope you don’t mind, Nighthawks.
I just ran into this picture tonight… I was looking at a news story, and this was a link at the bottom of the page… one of those teaser pics, where they try to get you to look at pages and pages of celebrity images, with a billion ads. I usually don’t.
The things is, I saw this baby, and for some reason, I thought I knew who he’d grow up to be…. so I had to look, and I can’t believe it, but I was right. I almost never recognize a baby!
And he doesn’t even look like the grownup… I don’t know what I saw in his face…
Yep!
I was just looking for an adult picture.
There just something recognizable about his face.
Vancouver Steam Clock.
Wow! New and modern. Not like this old water-powered.
Of course it’s all for show. A regular electric clock with steam coming out. (I think it does whistle, though)
They cheated?? In Canada??
Time for tea.
I recall seeing this when we went with some friends to Victoria and Vancouver from Seattle. Fun trip, but the ferry crossing was pretty choppy.
There was a wonderful ferry between Seattle and Victoria, that I loved taking, but it shut down decades ago.
Much smaller than the ones from Washington to Vancouver and between Vancouver and Victoria.
Wish I could remember the name of it.
IIRC it ran once a day in each direction… if you were doing it on one day, you could go to Victoria for a fairly short day trip, but from the other direction, only an overnight trip to Seattle. But of course you could stay longer.
Purple Finch.
It’s so easy to get them confused with a House Finch.
I’ve never been able to tell them apart!
10cc … one of the most underrated bands in the late 70’s. Most people know only one of their songs …I’m Not In Love > their albums were conceptual and many of their best songs were too long for air play. Here is one of their best and although the video quality is pitiful, the music says it all.