He let the whole world call him “Wrong Way Corrigan” and a damn fool for the rest of his fairly long life, without ever admitting that he flew East instead of West on purpose!
An experienced pilot and airplane mechanic, he’d been denied permission for that exact flight, over and over, with his old, repaired and patched up plane grounded at various times for safety reasons.
He flew all alone, with no radio, and almost no food, for over 24 hours, and claimed he didn’t know he was headed for Ireland instead of California.
He was a hero to some people and an idiot to others.
I used to have 2 or 3 issues of this magazine from around the same time.
Gorgeous!
25 cents was a lot of money for a magazine in 1914, and most cars were expensive too… you could tell it was aimed toward rich people, probably not Model T owners.
I think it’s the same Motor Magazine that became a car enthusiast mag, full of technical articles about auto repair, that you see lying around in the waiting room at the mechanic.
Took some work, but I got them all. My first time through the equations I was stymied by the 4’s, 8’s, & 9’s. Going back through, once I got the 4’s, the 8’s & 9’s were easy.
From yesterday.
I do hope the two of you appreciate the pain the index finger of my right hand is suffering because I forced it to click on website after website after website after….(you get the idea) in pursuit of the latest of nighthawks’ Hopper parody yesterday.
I was finally successful.
The denizens of the diner are from the British television series “Peaky Blinders.”
The parody itself was done by an artist who goes by the “art name”
NORROBEY.
From the artist’s avatar at the site, I think he inserted himself into the picture (caution: a not very well disguised obscenity appears in the title of the work).
Here is a YouTube clip from the series (the obscenities are not disguised at all).
Well done. We appreciate your diligent research to round out Nighthawks (sometimes) obscure and interesting forays into finding obscure pleasures for us Cleo-Ites.
i am so there.
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No fair!
Too adorable!
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Interesting character.
He let the whole world call him “Wrong Way Corrigan” and a damn fool for the rest of his fairly long life, without ever admitting that he flew East instead of West on purpose!
An experienced pilot and airplane mechanic, he’d been denied permission for that exact flight, over and over, with his old, repaired and patched up plane grounded at various times for safety reasons.
He flew all alone, with no radio, and almost no food, for over 24 hours, and claimed he didn’t know he was headed for Ireland instead of California.
He was a hero to some people and an idiot to others.
Gotta wonder which his wife thought.
No question in my mind that he flew his intended course. He was still an idiot for doing it in that plane.
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Cool, reunion of the lost.
I have a feeling something really bad is about to happen…
No hot water?
Someone flushes the toilet?
AAAAaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
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I used to have 2 or 3 issues of this magazine from around the same time.
Gorgeous!
25 cents was a lot of money for a magazine in 1914, and most cars were expensive too… you could tell it was aimed toward rich people, probably not Model T owners.
I think it’s the same Motor Magazine that became a car enthusiast mag, full of technical articles about auto repair, that you see lying around in the waiting room at the mechanic.
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five…
Got em all… Eventually.
But 5th grade algebra has little to do with getting a PhD.
I’ll post my solution later.
Took some work, but I got them all. My first time through the equations I was stymied by the 4’s, 8’s, & 9’s. Going back through, once I got the 4’s, the 8’s & 9’s were easy.
I was stumped by the 4’s and almost gave up, but I got the 5’s and kept going.
When I got to the end I went back to the 4’s and thought “well, duh!”
Is my solution…
(3×3) -3
(4²/4) + √4
(5/5) + 5
(6×6)/6
7 – (7/7)
(8²/8) –
³√8
(9²/9) – √9
Of course there are multiple solutions for all, and all of your answers are correct.
√4 + √4 + √4
5 + (5/5)
6 + 6 – 6
7 – (7/7)
³√8 + ³√8 + ³√8
(9²/9) – √9
The bold ones are different from your answers.
5’s are the same… Just in reverse order, but of course addition doesn’t care.
I think maybr i like your 4’s and 8’s better than mine… but it all works just the same.
Is he wearing boots?
Yes
Nothing like new footwear to make everything ducky.
Hearing Stevie Nicks “Edge Of Seventeen” while I watch this. The timing is nearly perfect!
Nighthawks, how did you pick such a perfect pairing?
♫ Just like the white wing duck ♪ sings the song…
and
From yesterday.
I do hope the two of you appreciate the pain the index finger of my right hand is suffering because I forced it to click on website after website after website after….(you get the idea) in pursuit of the latest of nighthawks’ Hopper parody yesterday.
I was finally successful.
The denizens of the diner are from the British television series “Peaky Blinders.”
Here is the WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE on the series.
The parody itself was done by an artist who goes by the “art name”
NORROBEY.
From the artist’s avatar at the site, I think he inserted himself into the picture (caution: a not very well disguised obscenity appears in the title of the work).
Here is a YouTube clip from the series (the obscenities are not disguised at all).
Thank you!
Well done. We appreciate your diligent research to round out Nighthawks (sometimes) obscure and interesting forays into finding obscure pleasures for us Cleo-Ites.
That site was the first hit looking via yandex.
I imagine it depends on your search terms.
I don’t think he means after he knew the name of the series, but while searching for what the painting might represent.
Meanwhile, I’ve never tried Yandex. Thanks.
I just fed the image to yandex…
I’m a little nervous about Yandex being a Russian site, though I read that they sold it to a Dutch company to cut ties with the Kremlin.
I know that it’s widely used in Europe, yet my Firefox still warns me if i go there.
No list of songs about being seventeen seems complete without this one.
RIP Meatloaf.
(Disclaimer: If you’re easily offended by teenage lust, please don’t listen. It’s not by any means X rated, though.)
2nd disclaimer: Much as I like this, it’s totally outside my life experience.
The combination of Picasso’s Don Quixote and that Van Gough is brilliant.