We always ask ourselves that when we see one of these old photos. Any war, whichever country’s young people. All because of the greed of someone far away from the fighting.
Why do you suppose somebody colorized it with large patches and even whole sections, of bright blue, olive green, and chestnut brown, trying to make it look like olive drab, instead of just mixing the correct color?
The small fellow at lower right is almost completely in olive, which would have worked for all the uniforms.
The guy at upper left is wearing almost all blue, like the Air Force, and the one below him looks like a pied piper
Working that position (in the “waist”) she’d be known as a “waister.”
Liverlips McCracken
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1 month ago
Quit your witchin’, Cleo!
You tryin’ to tell me that you, who can fire a bazooka, drive a tank, steal a kibble truck and a food cart, and who possesses missiles, cannot open a can of dog food?! Or cook up something edible? For shame.
I am in the same predicament as JP Steve. Eight. I have a pretty good idea about where the ninth must be, but for me it’s usually a case of missing the forest for the trees.
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Weren’t you a Nuthatch yesterday?
They grow up so fast!
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Boy, you just hate to see that happen.
Is that a miniature pyromaniac in the front yard?
,,
I’ve never seen anything in this post.
I thought an image would appear if I refreshed, or magically, somehow, in the morning…
But it’s still blank for me, except for a single quotation mark.
All i have is ” .
The light’s on. Someone must be home.
Baba Yaga?
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I don’t even know why I’m going to bother putting this actor’s name in a spoiler box, but
I wouldn’t have recognized him!
I was wrong on the movie. See Susan Sunshine’s spoiler below.
TBF I didn’t know either till I searched the image.
I recognized him, but not the movie…. had to be a movie, of course, because IRL he was in the US Air Force, and not a Nazi.
My search says
on the set of “Where Eagles Dare”, in 1968.
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I want him at my front door on Halloween!
Even if he comes up and says, “Trick or Treat”?
Um….
OK then.
If he comes to MY door, I will definitely send him to yours.
So glad to have somewhere to suggest so he’ll leave!
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Yoiks, and away!
Is that a quote?
A gag with a long and proud tradition.
It’s “Robin Hood Daffy” from 1958 (it didn’t post as the video but open the U.R.L. in a new window).
https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/robin-hood-daffy/
The internet failed me again, sigh…the copyright says 1957.
You’ve heard of “the coal miner’s daughter”? This is the coal miner.
By photographer DIMITRI KESSEL.
I was just thinking about these guys and what sort of deadly action is surely ahead of them.
and how many of them got through the war safely
We always ask ourselves that when we see one of these old photos. Any war, whichever country’s young people. All because of the greed of someone far away from the fighting.
I’m betting the guy front row right isn’t over 16…
He does sort of look like the mascot, doesn’t he?
What’s with the colors (colorization I presume?) of their uniforms?
They’re not in Marine dress blues; the less formal service uniform l believe I’ve seen is tan, never camo or whatever this is.
it’s supposed to be a sort of olive drab
Yes, but why isn’t it?
Why do you suppose somebody colorized it with large patches and even whole sections, of bright blue, olive green, and chestnut brown, trying to make it look like olive drab, instead of just mixing the correct color?
The small fellow at lower right is almost completely in olive, which would have worked for all the uniforms.
The guy at upper left is wearing almost all blue, like the Air Force, and the one below him looks like a pied piper
It seems strange!
The colors have faded. Looks like a diagonal stripe. Probably it hung on a wall by a window with Venetian blinds…
Even the nights were brighter in the olden days…
Tepeecal little house on the prairie.
You wanted one, you got one.
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“What’s the latest from our port side lookout?”
Working that position (in the “waist”) she’d be known as a “waister.”
Quit your witchin’, Cleo!
You tryin’ to tell me that you, who can fire a bazooka, drive a tank, steal a kibble truck and a food cart, and who possesses missiles, cannot open a can of dog food?! Or cook up something edible? For shame.
Eight before bedtime!
Nine!
I am in the same predicament as JP Steve. Eight. I have a pretty good idea about where the ninth must be, but for me it’s usually a case of missing the forest for the trees.
Okay, okay…..
Got a teensy bit distracted, but here comes your solution!
Give it your best…. don’t let Cleo see you peeking early!
She’s crabby when she’s hungry, and we all know enough not to provoke a bazooka-totin’ tank drivin’ basset hound when she’s crabby.
Her super indulgent dog-parents won’t even try to stop her!
So be sure you’ve done your part…
Found eight, and looking at your solution Susan, I can see why I missed it, I was thrown off by one of the other differences.
Found all nine; but I won’t tell you how long it took.
aw come on
Eight.
Jean Bugatti with his Type 41 Royale, which was produced between 1927 and 1933.
I say!!!
Gotta love the sporty plus fours.
Almost plus sixes…
(I guess not. They were huge!)
Looks like a Munchkin beside an MG!