It looks like an incredible number of cars for 1916…
till you find out that attendance for game one was about 36,000.
(Amazing what you can find on the Internet.)
The Model T was just becoming popular, as a car regular people could buy… but most cars were still owned by the wealthy. Most people took streetcars and such, since there wouldn’t be room for 20,000 carriages.
Speaking of which… The 1916 Series was the Boston Red Sox vs The Brooklyn Baseball Team, then generally called the Brooklyn Robins, after their manager, whose last name was Robinson.
But in looking up the attendance, I also found out… apparently the trams in Brooklyn, including the numerous ones out to Fenway Park on game days, were notorious, having just switched from horses to faster electric power, and considered dangerous by some people. So another nickname for the Robins was the Trolley Dodgers… And in 1931 they became the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Oops! Thank you!
Surprised no one else said anything!
I meant Ebbets Field, but I was looking at a program from this game, which of course, was played in Boston… but actually not even at Fenway Park, at Braves Field, which momentarily made me think Fenway was the “other” stadium.
Sigh… Another too late at night flub (the nice word for it.)
Stilt fishermen Weligama, Sri Lanka … Steve McCurry
(McCurry, BTW,l is a well known photojournalist, who has taken pictures of war zones, of the World Trade Center collapsing, and is most famous for the 1984 photo of an Afghan girl with striking green eyes used several times on the cover of National Geographic.)
The second guy tries to throw a plate underneath the dropped food before it hits the floor and becomes subject to the “Five minute rule” for dropped food (This is a commercial kitchen….). Instead of throwing a non-breakable object, he throws a china plate, so even if it had landed on the floor first, it wouldn’t have done any good as it would have still smashed. He did throw it too late as well so it broke after the food had hit the floor. The first man is then annoyed that the plate got broken!
Makes sense, sort of… except for him thinking he could throw a plate faster than gravity, especially when he was starting after the food began to fall!
I thought he was just throwing it on top, but I didn’t understand why.
Sorry, but if nothing could be thrown faster than gravity, than frisbee, javelin, many games’ balls wouldn’t take off…
Maybe he didn’t have enough sleep either?
Sigh…. I’m sorry you didn’t understand…
Honestly, you didn’t need to explain gravity to me.
But I meant he thought he could grab a plate, start to throw, and make it reach the food, and thus save it faster than gravity could make it reach the ground.
Your last line is completely mean and unnecessary dig. I guess there are things I don’t understand.
Cleo reminds me of Maggie, my first purebred basset. Never enough to eat. That girl got over 70 pounds and was still trim. Big boned? No, just a genetic throwback to the Jurassic age…Megalohound.
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You said, “Walk”! I heard you say, “Walk”!
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Banksy wuz here…
Actually an ad campaign in a subway. Most of my search results say it’s in Seoul, a few said Tokyo or somewhere in China.
Some say it’s an ad for taking the subway to the beach, instead of just to work, others say the ads are for a travel agency.
And just to make it more fun, only maybe 20% of the pages in my results are in English… most are in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
I think we just got to my stop.
We were there in 2016 (September plus October), but have seen none of those.
Your search skills are better than mine.
Thanks!
I doubt that, but thank you!
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Trust me; Some of those cars have been stuck there ever since.
Many of them still hand crank, and fickle about starting.
It looks like an incredible number of cars for 1916…
till you find out that attendance for game one was about 36,000.
(Amazing what you can find on the Internet.)
The Model T was just becoming popular, as a car regular people could buy… but most cars were still owned by the wealthy. Most people took streetcars and such, since there wouldn’t be room for 20,000 carriages.
Speaking of which… The 1916 Series was the Boston Red Sox vs The Brooklyn Baseball Team, then generally called the Brooklyn Robins, after their manager, whose last name was Robinson.
But in looking up the attendance, I also found out… apparently the trams in Brooklyn, including the numerous ones out to Fenway Park on game days, were notorious, having just switched from horses to faster electric power, and considered dangerous by some people. So another nickname for the Robins was the Trolley Dodgers… And in 1931 they became the Brooklyn Dodgers.
I have to point out at this juncture that Fenway Park, then as now, is in Boston and not in Brooklyn.
Oops! Thank you!
Surprised no one else said anything!
I meant Ebbets Field, but I was looking at a program from this game, which of course, was played in Boston… but actually not even at Fenway Park, at Braves Field, which momentarily made me think Fenway was the “other” stadium.
Sigh… Another too late at night flub (the nice word for it.)
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Heathcliff!!!
Pirta!!!!!
(From the webcomic ‘The Whiteboard’)
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“Yeah, the fish I caught was truly THIS big!
HONEST!”
Tigger?
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Here is (I think) the first of the 3 episodes she appeared in.
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“Noah, how long can you tread water?”
I remember that album very well—-
Still have it. A great album.
One revolution of the pointer on the dial is two furlongs, if you were wondering.
Now I’m wondering what a “furlong” was…
I am ever so surprised!
Do you not customarily use the FFFF system of weights and measures?
Furlongs per micro-fortnight is an important measure of speed.
220 yards, 1/8th of a mile, 660 feet, 201.168 metres, or 0.201168 kilometres.
Kids who play on the freeway will not be alive furlong.
And Persian cats wear their furlong.
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Clearly an on-set still from
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Polish fishermen?
Well, yes, you could say they’re pole-ish.
Stilt fishermen Weligama, Sri Lanka … Steve McCurry
(McCurry, BTW,l is a well known photojournalist, who has taken pictures of war zones, of the World Trade Center collapsing, and is most famous for the 1984 photo of an Afghan girl with striking green eyes used several times on the cover of National Geographic.)
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Somebody ‘splain me?
my only clue was the words that accompanied it:
‘trying to save food’
Aha .. I didn’t understand why breaking a plate on top would save the food, till read MoreCats’ comment.
The second guy tries to throw a plate underneath the dropped food before it hits the floor and becomes subject to the “Five minute rule” for dropped food (This is a commercial kitchen….). Instead of throwing a non-breakable object, he throws a china plate, so even if it had landed on the floor first, it wouldn’t have done any good as it would have still smashed. He did throw it too late as well so it broke after the food had hit the floor. The first man is then annoyed that the plate got broken!
Thanks.
Makes sense, sort of… except for him thinking he could throw a plate faster than gravity, especially when he was starting after the food began to fall!
I thought he was just throwing it on top, but I didn’t understand why.
Sorry, but if nothing could be thrown faster than gravity, than frisbee, javelin, many games’ balls wouldn’t take off…
Maybe he didn’t have enough sleep either?
Sigh…. I’m sorry you didn’t understand…
Honestly, you didn’t need to explain gravity to me.
But I meant he thought he could grab a plate, start to throw, and make it reach the food, and thus save it faster than gravity could make it reach the ground.
Your last line is completely mean and unnecessary dig. I guess there are things I don’t understand.
It would be absolutely possible.
And what’s mean about suspecting that he didn’t have enough sleep? He works in a restaurant!
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I have seen that!
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Yikes.
Makes me wonder whether the
foolishuh.. clever(?) …cruel(?)… photographer was purposely shining some kind of light in their eyes..,,.
Got it!
Easy.
Then what?
you get the kewpie doll!
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Could I have a Kewpie too, pretty please?
They made it so difficult by it being the only one that has ‘6’ as the last character……
That too 😉
Gerald Harper, photographed on location at the Klangenfurt-Rosenbach railway in Austria with the cast of the 1979 remake of
Bunny for Bunday.
Chinese Rubythroat.
I recalled this song because of a clue in the crossword I was doing just now. Enjoy!
Cleo reminds me of Maggie, my first purebred basset. Never enough to eat. That girl got over 70 pounds and was still trim. Big boned? No, just a genetic throwback to the Jurassic age…Megalohound.