My daughter-in-law (bass player) gets to go to the Grammys. My son quit going with her, because all the scenes for television are pretty much scripted, and the setup is very long and boring.
Oh, no. His father had passed away before her. But while she was alive, my friend’s inheritance was unavailable. She kept trying to buy him off with some pittance (so she could pass on all the money to her kids)…but patience won in the end. Her kids were from a previous marriage and were not entitled to any of the family money.
Looking at it now, it actually looks pretty undistinguished, somehow…
But it was one of the first, if not THE first, muscle cars, with a big engine as an option, giving it more horsepower than it should have had.
In the 70s my ex husband and I had a beat up used ’66 Tempest, definitely not a muscle car, with a small slant six, though it was still very peppy and a great car.
Sometimes people would momentarily take it for a GTO, especially young guys when we drove it through Mexico. They admired it even when they realized it was an old Tempest, and patted the hood, which surprised us. “Good engine, good engine.”
A genuine Iberian ham, like the one in the picture, usually comes with the metal stand, and often a knife. They weigh about 15 pounds, and the best ones, from a special breed of pigs, fed on acorns, cost between $1,000 and $2,000!
There’s a less expensive variety, called Serrano ham, raised on normal feed in the mountains, that goes for a few hundred.
They’re all dry cured, with salt, rather than cooked, which means you can’t bring one into the country, like the restauranteur my friend worked for tried to do… though you can buy one that’s commercially imported.
I think he had to leave his with a broker, who somehow got it successfully imported, but it took weeks or months and ended up far from a bargain. He could have bought it a lot cheaper from Costco.
(Sisters too… as long as the brothers are smaller.
When the brothers get bigger, that’s when sisters suddenly remember that they shouldn’t fight with their brothers.
I gotta stop cos I’m falling asleep, but I gotta share an AI experience…
I have no TV, plus the attention span of a gnat… so sometimes I watch a bunch of YouTube shorts… videos that used to be limited to one minute, but now they allow up to three.
Earlier today I found myself watching a short about the role of Queen Victoria in selecting Ottawa as the capital of Canada. It was illustrated with drawings, not photos. I was getting annoyed cos the narrator’s voice sounded like AI.
The drawings of Victoria looked absolutely nothing like her… We know what she looked like, so why use a fairly tale princess? I wondered if the illustrations were all AI too.
Right in the middle, I did a double take at one scene. I managed to stop the video and get a screen shot of it.
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Greet every morning with a song! (I’m sure the neighbors love it too…)
Well, yes, there IS a fire engine in the area. Why do you ask?
Hey!
A Warren Zevon back-up singer…
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(Werewolves of London reference)
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Coca-Cola ad, on an apartment building in Bucharest, Romania
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Or Samuel Prescott, or William Dawes?
or Sam Adams
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I don’t think it’ll spoil anything to not hide that Google says they’re at the rehearsals for the 1958 Oscars.
Rehearsals?
Just what do they know ahead of time?
Glad I didn’t Google to see what movie they were filming together!
Actually they had just finished “Run Silent, Run Deep”, but it wasn’t up for any awards.
My daughter-in-law (bass player) gets to go to the Grammys. My son quit going with her, because all the scenes for television are pretty much scripted, and the setup is very long and boring.
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“Ding, dong the witch is dead…”
(Friend of the family, upon hearing his step-mother had passed, had a t-shirt made that said exactly that.)
That seems pretty mean, if his father was grieving!
Oh, no. His father had passed away before her. But while she was alive, my friend’s inheritance was unavailable. She kept trying to buy him off with some pittance (so she could pass on all the money to her kids)…but patience won in the end. Her kids were from a previous marriage and were not entitled to any of the family money.
That’s a beautiful set. I wonder how many people it took to make it, and how long it took them?
A lot, and a long time.
All I know is it was all filmed on indoor sets, even the farm and the poppy field… which featured thousands of hand made fake poppies.
This doesn’t say exactly, but it is a pretty complete timeline of the making of the movie:
https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_Timeline
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Woo woo… the ’65 GTO!
Looking at it now, it actually looks pretty undistinguished, somehow…
But it was one of the first, if not THE first, muscle cars, with a big engine as an option, giving it more horsepower than it should have had.
In the 70s my ex husband and I had a beat up used ’66 Tempest, definitely not a muscle car, with a small slant six, though it was still very peppy and a great car.
Sometimes people would momentarily take it for a GTO, especially young guys when we drove it through Mexico. They admired it even when they realized it was an old Tempest, and patted the hood, which surprised us. “Good engine, good engine.”
I could never figure where the “Little” came in….
Nor could I…. Though I suppose it’s short next to a Cadillac or Buick.
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If you do that with Buddy count your fingers after.
Too true! I had one (Maggie) that would often get a piece of flesh with her treats.
(Maggie had issues…)
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Dude, you picked a lousy campsite.
“Is dinner ready yet?”
If she had decided that you were fair game and eligible, we would not be having this discussion.
Mmmmm, burritos for dinner!
I’ll bet he had to dry out his shorts and sleeping bag the next day.
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I do like me a big bowl of paella.
A genuine Iberian ham, like the one in the picture, usually comes with the metal stand, and often a knife. They weigh about 15 pounds, and the best ones, from a special breed of pigs, fed on acorns, cost between $1,000 and $2,000!
There’s a less expensive variety, called Serrano ham, raised on normal feed in the mountains, that goes for a few hundred.
They’re all dry cured, with salt, rather than cooked, which means you can’t bring one into the country, like the restauranteur my friend worked for tried to do… though you can buy one that’s commercially imported.
I think he had to leave his with a broker, who somehow got it successfully imported, but it took weeks or months and ended up far from a bargain. He could have bought it a lot cheaper from Costco.
I was hoping for a taste, but never got one. 🙁
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Very well done, young lady! Demonstrates practical application of an understanding of leverage, fulcrums, and physics.
She’s drinking from a fountain in New York City, in 1932.
hailstorm
Oh yeah… now I remember why I’m in California.
Going to visit my sister in El Paso next week, where it will be in the high 90s or low 100s. I’ll send this to her.
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Lovely! Hercules Beetle…
You’re welcome to take my turn holding him.
I mean, it’s hard to give it up, but I’d do that for you.
It’s just the kind of person I am.
Okay. You can have my turn with the tarantula…
Um… I… oh no, I couldn’t.
It’s just too…. er… too kind of you.
Yeah, that’s it. Too kind.
(Gulp..)
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Cerberus!!!
I don’t think either of you yahoos is going to find biting each other to be half as rewarding as you imagine it will be.
They look like siblings.
It’s just what brothers do.
(Sisters too… as long as the brothers are smaller.
When the brothers get bigger, that’s when sisters suddenly remember that they shouldn’t fight with their brothers.
But I digress…)
But, up until that time, you helped make your brother tougher.
He swore I made the top of his head flatter.
The summer after he turned 13, he grew 3″ between June and September, ending up taller than me, and I noticed he was actually pulling his punches.
I said, “You know, we’re both teenagers now. We shouldn’t fight like little kids”… and we shook on it. 🙂
That is such an early picture of whoever, it’s near impossible to project an adult from it.
Yeah…. A few people are recognizable at that age, but not many, and not this guy.
But when I recognized
I guessed well, for once!
I knew immediately and exactly who that is. I could see him in that Christmas movie…Die Hard.
But I couldn’t pull his name out of the depths of my sludge-addled brain.
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“I know it’s down here somewhere!”
Remember this?
Having heard it once, who can ever forget it?
Boo! 😀
If that’s for Claude, I agree.
Proper response to a pun.
Lake Tutshi (too shy) in northern BC, Canada.
Aw! I thought “Lake Tushy” would be a cute name!
If you can see the bottom of it.
Turnstone.
I’ve turned my share. Or is this one of those “leave no tern unstoned” puns?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstone
I gotta stop cos I’m falling asleep, but I gotta share an AI experience…
I have no TV, plus the attention span of a gnat… so sometimes I watch a bunch of YouTube shorts… videos that used to be limited to one minute, but now they allow up to three.
Earlier today I found myself watching a short about the role of Queen Victoria in selecting Ottawa as the capital of Canada. It was illustrated with drawings, not photos. I was getting annoyed cos the narrator’s voice sounded like AI.
The drawings of Victoria looked absolutely nothing like her… We know what she looked like, so why use a fairly tale princess? I wondered if the illustrations were all AI too.
Right in the middle, I did a double take at one scene. I managed to stop the video and get a screen shot of it.
Gee… do you think this might be AI? Maybe?
fairly creepy, too
And I see that autocorrect decided she’s a “fairly” princess.
LOL!