That is an honest face. Better, it is the epitome of an honest face.
I would totally trust that face if I asked its owner to please keep an eye on my steak while I go find a clean fork. 😂 😆
Well of course… he’d be happy to keep an eye on your steak.
Along with every other part of his face…
his nose, his mouth, his tongue… why, even his teeth.
Google search seems to think it’s neither Rolls nor Mercedes, but a mid 1930’s Maybach, a pre-WWII German car, from a company that also built dirigibles.
Looking up pictures of Maybachs, this could definitely be one of their Cabriolets…. but since I don’t see a Maybach badge, it could still be AI.
This shot won a photography contest for photographer Michael Zheng.
It’s a dawn photo of Factory Butte… which I had to look up.
“Factory Butte is a prominent, 6,302-foot flat-topped sandstone formation in central Utah, near Hanksville, known for its otherworldly, Mars-like landscape of barren badlands, deep sand, and colorful rock formations. It is a popular destination for off-road vehicle (OHV) enthusiasts, hikers, and photographers, offering a unique geological experience with its Mancos Shale badlands and underlying Ferron sandstone. The area is also recognized for its appearance in films and commercials.’
We sat right underneath the tracks, in the ravine at a small railroad crossing… never thought about the danger in those long ago unsupervised days. Putting pennies on the rails.
Trains passing two feet overhead, on open tracks. Pebbles and coins flying everywhere… sometimes you could find one soon enough that it felt warm, or maybe we just convinced ourselves they did.
I still love “train coins”. We moved too much for me to have kept the ones from my childhood… but years ago I used to buy them at the flea market for a dime or a quarter. I had a little bagful. I also like the pennies that have been stamped with stuff like the Lord’s Prayer, or views of Yellowstone.
Yeah, I collect those stamped pennies too…I have so many from different places I bought a little “passport” to put them it – it’s a blue passport sized folder with little sleeves to keep the pennies in.
How could you NOT give this a dozen extra likes? Of the seven or eight bassets I’ve had, only Maggie d’Earest could sit up like that. Oh – and the mix too…he was half basset, half Shar Pei. That little twirp could park like that all through dinner.
Not European, but British originally, then becoming a Hollywood actor… You may think of him as European…
because of…
Seeing him as the French Captain Renault, walking off into the future with Humphrey Bogart at the end of Casablanca.
But you may also have seen him…. er… not seen him… as the Invisible Man
Funny, I knew the picture was too old and that it really wasn’t him… but my first thought was Johnny Cash. I never thought of them having any resemblance… and actually I still don’t. But this particular image made me think of Cash.
If I was the biker and recognized the guy driving the Jeep-like thing as an antagonist, I think I might be unable to resist dragging him from the car and punching his lights out. Otherwise, call emergency services and see how bad a shape he is in already.
I had a zillion of those shoe store x-rays… They called them fluoroscopes or something, so my mom wasn’t convinced they were real.
20 years later it’s like “oh gosh, I guess maybe we shouldn’t have let medically untrained shoe salesmen take so many unshielded x-rays of little kids’ feet.”
Actually the sales people got more exposure than anybody else. I’ve heard it caused problems for some…. But I’ve never looked into it.
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque has a great section on nuclear medicine (uses and misuses). It’s a great museum with excellent docents.
This is Grant Wood’s 1939 “Parson Weem’s Fable” … showing young George Washington confessing to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.
Partially puzzling because of the nine differences added ….
And partially because some people wonder about the style, thinking it’s 100 years or more older than it is, and others wonder whether it depicts actual history.
Parson Weem’s wrote a biography of George Washington in the early 1800s. Historians mostly, if not all, agree that he made up the part about the cherry tree, as a moral lesson. He has little George saying “I cannot tell a lie”… But apparently the parson could.
Nonetheless, I was taught that story in school as truth.
I’ve read in places that Grant Wood was mocking it, but Wood himself said he painted it out of patriotism, when war was brewing in Europe.
He used the adult head of Washington from Gilbert Stuart’s famous portrait, also on the $1 bill. And he purposely showed slaves in the background. I love the way the cherries hang from the tree.
I love buildings like this… All the orange juice stands shaped like oranges, and cafes shaped like windmills or teacups, or the ones with giant plaster cows on the roof.
There’s used to be a bar just off the highway to Sacramento with a horse and a cow… Finally found out it was called the “Hoosegow”, and horse-cow was supposed to be a pun. Okaaay.
But I’ve never heard of Teapot Dome gas… so I had to look this up to find out whether it was related to the Teapot Dome Scandal, arguably the biggest political scandal in US history, which I only remember involved oil field leases, and it’s getting late today.
This was built only a couple of years later, and I read that the name was chosen to remind people of that (which seems strange), but it wasn’t involved.
It’s in Zillah, Washington, and I’m happy to report that it was moved, and saved, and it’s still the town visitor center.
I figured it wasn’t terribly old…. That picnic bench looks like something from Costco, the gas pumps are zeroed out, and you can see what might be glimpses of modern cars through the fence.
LOL!
Einzug der Wies’nwirte: The female moderator about Oktoberfest and socializing:
“Du kommst als Fremder und gehst als Freund!”
That’s the catch-phrase of the Leierkasten since forever – the famous brothel in the Ingolstädter Straße near Euro-Industriepark, Munich…
For those who are WWII buffs, the trio of eruptions took place in the vicinty of landing beach White 1, just north of the ships that were originally sunk for a temporary harbor and are now on dry land.
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That is an honest face. Better, it is the epitome of an honest face.
I would totally trust that face if I asked its owner to please keep an eye on my steak while I go find a clean fork. 😂 😆
Well of course… he’d be happy to keep an eye on your steak.
Along with every other part of his face…
his nose, his mouth, his tongue… why, even his teeth.
That’s just what a good boy he is.
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Charades night!
‘On the Street where We Live’
I want to say
ok, readyyyyy—
go!
Okay
I have to go find out who played the two Liverlips named for me… Thanks!
That was easier than I expected…..
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Millie was played by Ann Morgan Guilbert, and Jerry by Jerry Paris
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Burning rubber on a Rolls? Isn’t that a crime .. .. .. somewhere?
Doesn’t look like a Rolls to me, the grill looks more Mercedes.
It’s not, and the top of the grill is wrong to be one, but it looks a lot more like a Mercedes than a Rolls.
Based on the door handles being on both sides of the door, I’d say it’s an AI
The front doors used to open backwards.
backwards and frontwards, there are door handles on both sides of the door.
That may be a hinge at the back, not a handle.
The bottom hinge is probably in the shadow and behind the exhaust, so it can’t be seen.
I was just going to say it’s a hinge in the rear.
Not the invisible sort we have today, and not the kind with rectangular plates, bit a strap hinge, long and slightly triangular.
I don’t think there is a lower one… The door edge slants forward below it. Just one sturdy hinge.
Google search seems to think it’s neither Rolls nor Mercedes, but a mid 1930’s Maybach, a pre-WWII German car, from a company that also built dirigibles.
Looking up pictures of Maybachs, this could definitely be one of their Cabriolets…. but since I don’t see a Maybach badge, it could still be AI.
A late 30s Maybach SW38
The back of the door is vertical and has regular hinges.
All the Maybachs I saw had that swoop on the side.
Oh… And the old Maybach badge… Sometimes a hood ornament.
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No problem.
Unless you prefer your yoga balls intact.
Then it might be a problem.
I kept waiting for it to pop.
Me too!
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This shot won a photography contest for photographer Michael Zheng.
It’s a dawn photo of Factory Butte… which I had to look up.
“Factory Butte is a prominent, 6,302-foot flat-topped sandstone formation in central Utah, near Hanksville, known for its otherworldly, Mars-like landscape of barren badlands, deep sand, and colorful rock formations. It is a popular destination for off-road vehicle (OHV) enthusiasts, hikers, and photographers, offering a unique geological experience with its Mancos Shale badlands and underlying Ferron sandstone. The area is also recognized for its appearance in films and commercials.’
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Kid putting a penny on the rail? Done that. Nickels too. Sometimes they’re hard to find after – they can get flung away.
I used to love to do that.
We sat right underneath the tracks, in the ravine at a small railroad crossing… never thought about the danger in those long ago unsupervised days. Putting pennies on the rails.
Trains passing two feet overhead, on open tracks. Pebbles and coins flying everywhere… sometimes you could find one soon enough that it felt warm, or maybe we just convinced ourselves they did.
I still love “train coins”. We moved too much for me to have kept the ones from my childhood… but years ago I used to buy them at the flea market for a dime or a quarter. I had a little bagful. I also like the pennies that have been stamped with stuff like the Lord’s Prayer, or views of Yellowstone.
Why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I collect those stamped pennies too…I have so many from different places I bought a little “passport” to put them it – it’s a blue passport sized folder with little sleeves to keep the pennies in.
Last time it didn’t have a caption and I had to look it up.
All that backbreaking work.
I shoulda just waited.
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“This sunbeam is all mine.“
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How could you NOT give this a dozen extra likes? Of the seven or eight bassets I’ve had, only Maggie d’Earest could sit up like that. Oh – and the mix too…he was half basset, half Shar Pei. That little twirp could park like that all through dinner.
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I didn’t recognize him with his face on….
Maybe a few bandages would help?
“The Elephant Man”?
I love that song… and Rocky Horror in general.
He says “invisible man” not “elephant man
That’s why I said “I know”…
This guy I know I have seen previously. A European actor, rather than an American. Name???
Coming back and looking at it again the next day, I know who he is. I love getting old. 🙄
Join the club.
Not European, but British originally, then becoming a Hollywood actor… You may think of him as European…
Seeing him as the French Captain Renault, walking off into the future with Humphrey Bogart at the end of Casablanca.
But you may also have seen him…. er… not seen him… as the Invisible Man
Funny, I knew the picture was too old and that it really wasn’t him… but my first thought was Johnny Cash. I never thought of them having any resemblance… and actually I still don’t. But this particular image made me think of Cash.
I’m shocked, shocked………. Love him.
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Nine-o-pus
The dangers of the see food diet…
beginner level car assassin
If I was the biker and recognized the guy driving the Jeep-like thing as an antagonist, I think I might be unable to resist dragging him from the car and punching his lights out. Otherwise, call emergency services and see how bad a shape he is in already.
After i figured out if I was okay.
,..
Remember when they used to do that to our feet? (And where the X-rays went next…!)
I had a zillion of those shoe store x-rays… They called them fluoroscopes or something, so my mom wasn’t convinced they were real.
20 years later it’s like “oh gosh, I guess maybe we shouldn’t have let medically untrained shoe salesmen take so many unshielded x-rays of little kids’ feet.”
Actually the sales people got more exposure than anybody else. I’ve heard it caused problems for some…. But I’ve never looked into it.
The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque has a great section on nuclear medicine (uses and misuses). It’s a great museum with excellent docents.
Yay, I found all 9.
I have found nine differences. Or at least I think so. Whether they are, in fact, THE nine differences remains to be seen.
Winner of a pat on the back and a face full of mud.
A puzzling painting, today….
This is Grant Wood’s 1939 “Parson Weem’s Fable” … showing young George Washington confessing to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree.
Partially puzzling because of the nine differences added ….
And partially because some people wonder about the style, thinking it’s 100 years or more older than it is, and others wonder whether it depicts actual history.
Parson Weem’s wrote a biography of George Washington in the early 1800s. Historians mostly, if not all, agree that he made up the part about the cherry tree, as a moral lesson. He has little George saying “I cannot tell a lie”… But apparently the parson could.
Nonetheless, I was taught that story in school as truth.
I’ve read in places that Grant Wood was mocking it, but Wood himself said he painted it out of patriotism, when war was brewing in Europe.
He used the adult head of Washington from Gilbert Stuart’s famous portrait, also on the $1 bill. And he purposely showed slaves in the background. I love the way the cherries hang from the tree.
Anyway……I hope you found everything….
Yup!
Same here.
Yay
Washington 1920.
Teapot Dome oil.
I love buildings like this… All the orange juice stands shaped like oranges, and cafes shaped like windmills or teacups, or the ones with giant plaster cows on the roof.
There’s used to be a bar just off the highway to Sacramento with a horse and a cow… Finally found out it was called the “Hoosegow”, and horse-cow was supposed to be a pun. Okaaay.
But I’ve never heard of Teapot Dome gas… so I had to look this up to find out whether it was related to the Teapot Dome Scandal, arguably the biggest political scandal in US history, which I only remember involved oil field leases, and it’s getting late today.
This was built only a couple of years later, and I read that the name was chosen to remind people of that (which seems strange), but it wasn’t involved.
It’s in Zillah, Washington, and I’m happy to report that it was moved, and saved, and it’s still the town visitor center.
The picture is from 2015.
I figured it wasn’t terribly old…. That picnic bench looks like something from Costco, the gas pumps are zeroed out, and you can see what might be glimpses of modern cars through the fence.
Regarding Oktoberfest: Those horn-like caps the horses wear covering their ears are to protect them from flies.
LOL!
Einzug der Wies’nwirte: The female moderator about Oktoberfest and socializing:
“Du kommst als Fremder und gehst als Freund!”
That’s the catch-phrase of the Leierkasten since forever – the famous brothel in the Ingolstädter Straße near Euro-Industriepark, Munich…
I informed the network and they’ve thanked me for learning something new…
For those who are WWII buffs, the trio of eruptions took place in the vicinty of landing beach White 1, just north of the ships that were originally sunk for a temporary harbor and are now on dry land.