Random Pics
I will add new ones almost everyday
Do you work for Warner Bros.?
I did the frog because it is a random pic.
Pee Wee Herman's Mug Shot
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHA
simply put, i think i'm missing some of the humor of these. ahem. bye now.
If you dont like the previous ones try this one
I hope this works but if not check out the website bc there are over 100!!!!
MORE ICONSYour images suck, dude.
I've seen them all before.
I'm sure your website sucks too, but I'm not going to give you a hit on your stupidass counter to check it out.
Go. Away.
As long as he keeps these crappy images in his Random Pics thread, the damage is contained ... but heaven help us if this shit floods the Cellar. It would be like a toilet backing up! :eek:
Come on, Nic, play well with others. (I cane't understand why you'd be grumpy today!)
Nic plays nice by linking the high res
Quality Image of Homer
http://www.trappersbaseball.com/homer.htm
*playing with hotdude*
Well the Leafs still have a slim chance - but I sure wouldn't put money on them making it to the next round.
However, take some consolation that whoever makes it to the finals from the east, they are going to be walked on by the west finalist... they are just too strong.
I realize that many of my images are dumb, but thats bc i am bored. Can you blame a guy for being bored? I dont think so. And if you still are then this is for you
Besides NIC, dont get mad at others bc you arent gettin any. I promise that if your nice i will get you a nice blow up doll or something. Its for the good of the Cellar
Hey i found one for you. It would get a better one but they are too expensive. Well tell me if you like and i will mail it or something.
Tony, could we set up a PayPal account for that blow-up doll for Nic? ;)
Of course, if people don't like the images, they could just ignore them. It might also help if hotdude played nice too.
I have been playing nice and I intend do "play nice" when this is all over but i have to defend myself and thats what i am doing
A random pic...of a mini-submarine.
I can't swim. I don't like water deeper than my head. I don't like small spaces...
I want one.
[ATTACH]39200[/ATTACH]
[SIZE="1"]Thread resurrection cuz the pic ain't wtf, it ain't NSFW, and it ain't funny.[/SIZE]
I hate family photos...
CHEESE!
[ATTACH]39256[/ATTACH]
Gymnasts in training? Tthey need to work on that py-ram-id.
How about some slack, Dad. They're just a bunch of kids after all.
A random pic...of a mini-submarine.
I can't swim. I don't like water deeper than my head. I don't like small spaces...
I want one.
[ATTACH]39200[/ATTACH]
[SIZE="1"]Thread resurrection cuz the pic ain't wtf, it ain't NSFW, and it ain't funny.[/SIZE]
That's where he keeps his sub. Duh.
That's where he keeps his sub. Duh.
Reckon the sub has to wear the collar while he's in the submarine?
I never really understood the point of this thread, but I guess I'll get in on this:
My homemade avatar:
I did a Google Image search with the term random.
This is result number one:
[ATTACH]39613[/ATTACH]
One room efficiency apartment
Skylight
Open floor plan
Clean
No deposit required
Very low utilities
Location?
The arch over the walk path in my backyard
Ready for occupancy
[ATTACH]39715[/ATTACH]
Anybody wanna go swimmin?
[ATTACH]39779[/ATTACH]
I count ~39.
If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big [strike]surprise [/strike] mauling.
I'd paint it yellow and paint 'Tonka' across the bukkit.
[ATTACH]39832[/ATTACH]
That'd be "MR. Tonka" to you and me. Maybe even "Mr. Tonka, sir, pleaseohgodnotanotheroneplease, sir!"
I said "Does anybody wanna to go swimmin?!"
[ATTACH]39867[/ATTACH]
Little doggeh ears,
Little doggeh feet,
Little doggeh bunghole,
To make your day complete.
[ATTACH]39922[/ATTACH]
:D
Pic stolen from
FreeKibble.comI said "Does anybody wanna to go swimmin?!"
[ATTACH]39867[/ATTACH]
I'm sick and tired of these m-effing snakes on the m-effing dock!
I think Philthy stole the sky-writing plane again.
[ATTACH]39994[/ATTACH]
Did Wolf buy a murdersickle?
[ATTACH]40114[/ATTACH]
I doubt it, I don't see any machine guns.
Did Wolf buy a murdersickle?
[ATTACH]40114[/ATTACH]
You've been misled. There should be a speech bubble around the words on the seat indicating dialog. It's not supposed to be an affiliation logo.
I was going to post this in the "Interesting Links..." thread, but since it's mostly photos, I figured it'd be more appropriate here in RP. The site was put on the web a year ago, but I just found it today. So, here it is:
Northern Lights over TeepeesThis sculpture is by Jed Lind, and is entitled "Gold, Silver, and Lead".
It's made up of seven cloned Honda Civics. The caption called them '1st generation' Civics, and referred to them as 1979 models, but I personally owned a 1977 Civic, and I remember mine being a little, idk, 'rounder', so...
[ATTACH]40200[/ATTACH]
ETA: I thought I had a pic of it. A scanned Polaroid, no less.
[ATTACH]40201[/ATTACH]
I don't if the art is Civics or not, now. Rabbits, maybe?
Plymouth horizon or dodge colt. The rabbit had 4 doors unless gti. Taller rise below the c pillar too
hmm.. maybe not. that rounded rear side window throws me. maybe a hyundai?
Lind gave in, eventually — these days, he negotiates via a 1973 Toyota pickup — but the experience stuck. And while it wasn’t exactly the impetus for the towering stack of clean, white 1979 Honda Civics he installed at the Toronto Sculpture Garden this week, it would also be wrong to assume it had nothing to do with it, either.
79 civics
Plymouth horizon or dodge colt. The rabbit had 4 doors unless gti. Taller rise below the c pillar too
I thought it was the plymouth horizon and dodge
omni that were so similar to each other.
My friend in college had one (or the other) and she drove it down the middle of campus one night...I was in it. I don't even think we were drinking. I put something in the personals section of the college paper about the (one or the other car) being careful to not hit trees, and luckily I got the wrong car.
I've been looking at a ton of 1979 hatchbacks and can't find any that have that rear window. It's got such round corners. None of them have those curves.
The Dodge Omni and the similar Plymouth Horizon were front wheel drive cars introduced by the Dodge and Plymouth divisions of the Chrysler Corporation in North America in 1978, and were based on a European Simca-based design of the same name. While they are generally not credited, they were the first of many successful front-wheel drive models, such as the Dodge Aries/Plymouth Reliant and the Dodge Caravan/Plymouth Voyager which helped return Chrysler to profitability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_OmniIs there some dispute? They look like Civic shells to me.
Perhaps stylized civic shells. The window is wrong and the sharp angles are wrong. But the holes for the tail lights are correct and the overall shape is close.
I once drove my Civic for ten days with a broken clutch cable. Up-shifting was no problem as the tranny was not a synchronized design to begin with, just let off the gas and shift, no problem.
Stopping wasn't a problem either, go to neutral, stop, turn the engine off, wait for my turn, crank the engine with the car in gear and take off in one smooth move.
Downshifting was another story, I could make third by revving the engine up a bit when I hit neutral, but anything else called for a complete stop/restart.
Aug. 27, 2012: Photomicrographs of a new species of ancient gall mite
found in 230-million-year-old amber droplets from northeastern Italy.
The mite was named Ampezzoa triassica.
(AP Photo/A. Schmidt, University of Göttingen, PNAS)
.
I thought it was the plymouth horizon and dodge omni that were so similar to each other.
.
yes, that's right. the colt was more like a little minivan.
Jerry Garcia can play that.
I think he's a Rastafurrian.
[ATTACH]40395[/ATTACH]
Rastafurrian? Really, nothing? Harrumph.
*******************
Well here's a homemade Bender, then.
[ATTACH]40447[/ATTACH]
By Josh Welton at
BrownDogWelding.
A fucking far-flung flock of Fighting Falcons.
Mmmm...alliteration.
[ATTACH]40557[/ATTACH]
Korea. (South, I hope.)
The fuck?
Is that a nutria?
Whatever he is, fucker loves him some corn on the cob.
I like that.
I'm from that time too.
A bldg at the local park.
[ATTACH]40706[/ATTACH]
Rastafurrian? Really, nothing? Harrumph.
*******************
Well here's a homemade Bender, then.
[ATTACH]40447[/ATTACH]
By Josh Welton at BrownDogWelding.
WANT
This pic is kind of a 2-fer.
Ya got the 'get's laid daily', sure.
But, I gotta confess ignorance of the thing mounted at the top of the door...WTF is that thing? It's driving me nuts.
I knows we got at least one truck driver/former truck driver here...please help.
[ATTACH]40717[/ATTACH]
[SIZE="1"]Damn...I said please.[/SIZE]
It's a mirror to see things (cars, kids, etc.) that are lower than the window level on the passenger side of the truck.
It's a mirror to see if Indiana Jones has jumped up onto the running board and is holding on to the gripping pole, waiting to jump into your window and steal your truck.
Well, so long as he don't throw me over the hood...then it's just 'so long'.
Thank you Rhianne.
[ATTACH]40782[/ATTACH]
Just a block away from the corner of Surprise and Buttsecks.
Graffiti in-game from Borderlands.
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
Look at the size of those talons...the whole thing, really.
:eek:
[ATTACH]41160[/ATTACH]
Not called a raptor for nothing ... terrifying but beautiful.
Polly wants a bloody cracker.
Made of BEEF.
NOW!
you are really on a roll gravdigr.
Snapped at the truck stop.
[ATTACH]41439[/ATTACH]
[SIZE="1"]Sub-megapixel phone pic.[/SIZE]
Well, he did.
[ATTACH]41547[/ATTACH]
Hey, Wind, blow much?
[ATTACH]41589[/ATTACH]
Shh. they're sleeping.
:lol2:
There were five in the bed
And the little one said
Roll over! Roll over!
So they all rolled over and one fell out.
There were four...
Neat ! Even better if that is one continuous thread.
World's fastest gecko?
[ATTACH]41675[/ATTACH]
Objects on mirror are slightly closer than surface of mirror.
I love this pic.
[ATTACH]41752[/ATTACH]
The owner allowed a local carpentry shop to build this shelter as an advertising gimmick for their business. The owners also rent horses to ride from this location, so it draws a lot of people in for business. Pure advertising.
This picture is real and taken in Döllstädt, central Germany. LOVE IT!
that's random *and* cool.
It was a typing error.
He said he wanted a new stable for the horses.
This made me think of Dana. :D
Gorgeous.
Also check out the
hero dog! He looks sorta familiar.
But every time I look at a Border Collie I feel like he's reading my mine... I'd never make it to the door. :haha:
I caught Benny reading that Recreational Math thread, the bastard.
What a beautiful dog. Can I borrow him for a minute? I need a good hug from an awesome critter like that. I have to wait until Sunday to get my retriever fix.
Benny loves the lovin. He'll be right over.
what is this, a pissing contest?
Pardon me, fellas, I need to go piss like a racehorse up a wall. I mean, piss race a horse up a wall. Or something. Hold my beer.
Sunset at the beach today:
Nice, I was transported there for just a moment.
For those that have not heard...
[ATTACH]42609[/ATTACH]
[SIZE="1"]To the tune of "I'm Sexy & I Know It":[/SIZE]
[ATTACH]42912[/ATTACH]
♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫
I sit down on the toilet
And this is what I see
A velvet-antlered buck
Staring at me
He's a little upset
And he ain't afraid to show it, show it, show it
He's watchin' me poop
And I know it
♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫
Bacon Seed
(Should be 'This is One Reason I Don't Eat Bacon)
You don't eat bacon?
Ouch. All those hotness points lost in one fell swoop.
I love bacon - but no, I don't eat it.
I'll just have to take the hit on the hotness points ...
Well if you were to rub yourself with bacon grease, you ... [SIZE="1"]nevermind[/SIZE] :blush:
Does Llama School close for snow?
[ATTACH]43207[/ATTACH]
Remember the good ol' days?
Yeah me neither.
[ATTACH]43218[/ATTACH]
Messing around on GooglEarth this morning I came across this, outside South Bend, Indiana:
[ATTACH]43258[/ATTACH]
Studebaker (spelled out in trees) Proving Grounds
That's cool. Looks like they still use the track.
I also found a Tasmanian version of Berta from 2½ Men.
[ATTACH]43265[/ATTACH]
:facepalm:
Oh yeah, we gots lots of ejumacashun down here!
Messing around on GooglEarth this morning I came across this, outside South Bend, Indiana:
Studebaker (spelled out in trees) Proving Grounds
That's now
Bendix Woods County Park.
Still not lupus...
[ATTACH]43312[/ATTACH]
[Maxwell Smart]Missed it by that much.[/Maxwell Smart]
[ATTACH]43315[/ATTACH]
Holy crap! This dude must be, like, 100 feet tall!!
[ATTACH]43459[/ATTACH]
[SIZE="1"]R/C model A-10 'Warthog'[/SIZE]
I don't particularly like Steven Seagal, but, he's growing on me...
[ATTACH]43504[/ATTACH]
You can continue not caring for him, because he didn't do it.
original picture and a bunch of other photoshops here:
http://dimka-jd.livejournal.com/2757409.htmlDamn.
I think I prefer to believe the Russians 'shopped his fingers out, then said "This is original picture."
Thanks.
Who knows? Maybe they did.
In Soviet Russia, they don't shop your fingers out, they chop your fingers off.
You're thinking of the *other* mafia, the Yakuza.
You're thinking of the *other* mafia, the Yakuza.
Friend of mine once suggested that the next step in body art would be the amputation of fingers. I held out for branding.
My new BF - and expert in all things Manga - pointed out that the Yakuza already severed digits. When I say new BF, this was back in 1995.
Haven't heard of any branding yet, 'cept that done for media reasons by hardline veggies.
Weirdly, I would love a brand.
I've never burned myself except by accident, but I've burned myself plenty. And my skin heals so slowly (even before my liver issues.)
Received wisdom is that if you have a tattoo you want anoter one. Not in my case, although I've considered an anchor for Bri - hope being an anchor.
But I'd rather have it branded than drawn.
I guess it's a matter of cost - they'd have to make a branding iron for each single person.
there are places that do
branding, and other types of
scarification body artThere's been more than the odd geek that's used a LASER engraver to do custom branding/scarification.
clicky
I've burned myself accidentally on the collimated but non-focused beam on my unit (had the safety interlocks bypassed and thought the etch was finished when I reached in to remove an etched piece), but that beam had nowhere near the power density of the focused beam that comes out of the final focusing lens.
Is it weird that I still find it beautiful?
I had laser eye surgery. Didn't hurt, but boy did it smell. Eugh, I can smell my own eyeballs.
And the bruising from the device that kept my eyes open took a week to heal, regardless of what the TV adverts show.
I will get a branded anchor. When I win the lottery. That will have made Brianna laugh her tits off.
I followed a guy up the escalator last week who had his fraternity sign branded on the back of his calf. Guy was black, and I assumed it was a black fraternity. Seemed odd to me since his slave ancestors were branded against their will. But I guess he had his reasons.
I haven't seen a white person w/branding. I have seen a few black guys/gals w/it. I used to work with a black girl that had a dolphin branded above her ankle. Didn't look too bad.
Not being racial, or anything, just saying.
Tattoos don't work so well against a dark background.
And now that all them middle class whiteys are gettin ink, how's a brutha supposed to show how badass he is?
This is Equality House in Topeka, Kansas...it was in the news maybe a month or so ago. It's a house painted like the GLBT rainbow flag...and it's across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church. You know, the "God Hates Fags" folks?
I went over there the day after it was done to check out the work. One of the volunteers was taking picture of people who wanted to stand in front of the house. Soon, they'll all be pieced together as a collage "group" photo. Pretty cool stuff.
I followed a guy up the escalator last week who had his fraternity sign branded on the back of his calf. Guy was black, and I assumed it was a black fraternity. Seemed odd to me since his slave ancestors were branded against their will. But I guess he had his reasons.
Several letters or a Sigma (Σ)? I know Phi Beta Sigmas used to do that, though they normally branded your bicep. I'll pass on any branding.
and it's across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
It's an improvement, rainbows, or, not.
[ATTACH]43687[/ATTACH]
The guy paid 80-something grand for the privilege.
snip--
It's a house painted like the GLBT rainbow flag...and it's across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church. You know, the "God Hates Fags" folks?
--snip
in yo FACE!
in yo FACE!
Meanwhile, WBC is a small nondescript church surrounded by a tall fence. Looks rather innocent actually...of course, their members are protesting a Family Video around the corner...
Wolf that down and you'll have a stomach ache.
Yeah, as far as branding and piercing, I come by my scars and punctures honestly.
That struck me as being a lot of wolf.
Meanwhile, WBC is a small nondescript church surrounded by a tall fence. Looks rather innocent actually...of course, their members are protesting a Family Video around the corner...
Well, Family Video
does let you rent kids' movies and educational films
for free...so, clearly they're evil.
That struck me as being a lot of wolf.
Or an extremely small watermelon...
Meanwhile, WBC is a small nondescript church surrounded by a tall fence. Looks rather innocent actually...of course, their members are protesting a Family Video around the corner...
Their members are now in Boston for the funerals. Fuck those evil cocksuckers.:mad:
I fail to see how WBC's actions count as protected speech under the first amendment. It is really tantamount to hate speech, which I am pretty sure is not protected. I need to look that up.
Their members are now in Boston for the funerals. Fuck those evil cocksuckers.:mad:
QFT.
That would work better if we had a generation willing to put in the effort to be "whip-crack smart".
Maybe you and I should recalibrate what "college" and "whip-crack smart" means nowadays.
There's another thread about this somewhere; but I thought we determined that if everybody goes to college, you'll end up with is a bunch of janitors with bachelors degrees... The world only needs so many middle managers and telephone sanitizers, right? More degrees don't make more jobs.
Which is why I say pay the ditch diggers and the store workers and the factory people a decent wage. Yes, the world needs these people. No, not everyone needs to go to college. But that clerk at the candy store should make a wage above poverty level.
Or, as Flint said, you have a bunch of people going to college to 'better themselves' and they end up working pretty much where they worked before, making the same lousy wage, because our society only rewards the Tops of the Crops, so to speak. We can't all be CEOs (thank god.)
Someone needs to sell the damn wares. Someone needs to clean the house of the wares. Someone needs to put up the structures needed for the ever-growing technologies.
Not like a boss...
The Boss.
[ATTACH]43956[/ATTACH]
On the other hand - should it be COST that determines who goes and who doesn't? I'd rather see desire and ability determine who gets to go to school. Just because post secondary education is paid for doesn't mean that everyone is going to go - only that everyone has the opportunity to go. And we're NOT just talking about everyone getting bachelors degrees.
What about technical colleges? Plumbers, electricians, firemen, bakers, beauticians, digital animators, carpenters, auto mechanics, rough necks - all trades programmes offered by Schools of technology and applied arts. And what about going to school just for the sake of being a better educated more well rounded smarter garbage man, or shop clerk??
Anyways, regardless if Henry Rollins said that (doubtful on the internet) it is a very naive sentiment, and not thought out very clearly.
Offering free college to big herd of lazy, stupid, morally bankrupt jackasses is going to accomplish, what exactly? If you can't afford college--at the moment--you can already get it paid for, so in effect we are already doing what he says here. The problem is that nobody gives a shit.
Anyways, regardless if Henry Rollins said that (doubtful on the internet) it is a very naive sentiment, and not thought out very clearly.
Offering free college to big herd of lazy, stupid, morally bankrupt jackasses is going to accomplish, what exactly? If you can't afford college--at the moment--you can already get it paid for, so in effect we are already doing what he says here. The problem is that nobody gives a shit.
He did say it, Flint.
But you have to hear it in context.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzrreEGBTI - at the 4:20 point (4:20, heh heh)
Okay, yeah, I'll pass though. I have to go watch a video of a cat on a treadmill, or something.
Paradise Hills Shopping Center......
Looks like they sell a lot of shitty beer.......
It's near PV High School:D
JR
Chinese is shorthand for sticking eels up your butt.
Hmmm... would that be sex for the purposes of securing a male heir?
Interesting to think this photo is probably not much over 50 years old.
Things have changed a bit since the 50's...
.
.
.
.
.
No. No, indeed. Hell no.
[ATTACH]44974[/ATTACH]
What, you don't like soup?
Meanwhile .... spidercamel!
[ATTACH]44975[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]44974[/ATTACH]
Jesus Asia, wear a condom!
Looks they ordered [Strike]in. Er...out?[/Strike] They had it delivered.
[ATTACH]45085[/ATTACH]
Isn't that a lot like being in a boat and chumming for sharks ?
Now son, when two planes really love each other and want to make a baby...
Aaaand here's their sprog:
[ATTACH]45270[/ATTACH]
I hear the food is out of this world!
JR
Ha ha ha awesome. Just re-watched the movie.
Voyager 1. In radio light. From 11,500,000,000 miles out.
The main transmitter on V-GER is just 22 watts.
This blue dot in the radio spectrum is 0.5 arcseconds across. A full moon is in the neighborhood of 1,800 arcseconds. 1 arcsecond is what a penny looks like from 2.5 miles.
[ATTACH]45441[/ATTACH]
GAH!! Do not want.
[ATTACH]45529[/ATTACH]
I understand that in China, virtually everyone goes on holiday the same two weeks of the year. So if you want to go anywhere that any normal person would consider nice and relaxing, you have to go there the same time as everyone else.
It's good to be a foreigner traveling during the off season in China.
Turn about, and all that, I guess...
[ATTACH]45706[/ATTACH]
Most photogenic moose, EVAH.
[ATTACH]45778[/ATTACH]
Heh, right back at ya, copper.
[ATTACH]45880[/ATTACH]
Move along, folks. Nothing to see here, just a goat mowing the roof...
[ATTACH]45893[/ATTACH]
What's that old saying? "Goats who live on grass houses...", I can't remember the rest.
Efficient. Clearcut the forest, then pull up and ship the bridge out with the rest of the lumber.
Lookout folks, looks like he runs this shit.
[ATTACH]46110[/ATTACH]
Who's the milky?
Metallica lead singer James Hetfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_HetfieldIf by "milky" you mean the cracker
If by 'milky' you mean the white guy who could kick Kanye's ass on and off the stage...
I love this pic. That's a fairly substantial fella, doing what looks like the daintiest ballet move.
[ATTACH]46235[/ATTACH]
I wish him luck and hope there's a great prize for getting the flag
... otherwise splitzville can be a painful surprise
A little Turkish flag, honor, money, honor, prizes, and honor.
I like it.
Long exposure to get all three light colors.
very cool. miffed I didn't think of it.
It's not easy to get. You need to find an intersection busy enough to have a traffic signal, but also out in the countryside where there are no lights. Usually those two things don't go together.
Clearly 'shopped in that case. I feel better all ready. When I was a kid we had to develop our pictures in the dark, with poisonous chemicals, UPHILL (both ways)...
Projected on the wall by a lucite trophy. Taken using HDR mode on my cameraphone.
vivid! How close are the colors to what your brain thought your eye saw?
The picture is much, much brighter, and the wall texture is much more obvious. Probably because of HDR.
Anybody seen Goldie, I think this is her bike.
I could have swore that I already posted this, but...
...is that a 'lip' print?
If so, that bike may belong to one of the prostitutes that was in "Harlem Nights"...
I've got a girl who's pussy is so good, if you threw it up in the air it would turn into sunshine.
~Vera (Della Reese)
Yeah, well, if all your friends were jumping off a--nevermind.
[ATTACH]46385[/ATTACH]
Vincent Fett & Jules Vader
[ATTACH]46437[/ATTACH]
This man is stoned. That is all. Carry on.
[ATTACH]46493[/ATTACH]
Saturn's moon Iapetus
[ATTACH]46626[/ATTACH]
Saturn's moon Iapetus
[ATTACH]46626[/ATTACH]
Super cool!
Highest mountains in the solar system, has had three different names, Saturn's third largest moon, but the most distant orbit by far, tidally locked, widely varying albedos (accounting for the non-straight appearance of the terminator in your picture.)
Oh God, I can smell it from here.
[ATTACH]46633[/ATTACH]
It's "Doobie", the joint-growing dog!
...from Sarah Jessica Parker's wedding...
[ATTACH]46695[/ATTACH]
The magic spell ended at noon, and she reverted to her horse leg self. She should have paid closer attention to both her watch and the old hag who explained this to her.
She's the bride... of course she's the centaur of attention.
She's the bride... of course she's the centaur of attention.
I see what you did there.
:lol2:
RIP Mr Benn, ya done good.
I may have posted this somewhere...apologies, if so.
[ATTACH]47031[/ATTACH]
This qualifies as random, maybe even off the wall. Anyway, I came across this picture of Queen Mary in 1911. She was pretty hot for a woman in her mid-forties in 1911. Unlike today, they were usually pretty beat up by that age back then. I down suppose she did much housework though. :haha:
This qualifies as random, maybe even off the wall. Anyway, I came across this picture of Queen Mary in 1911. She was pretty hot for a woman in her mid-forties in 1911. Unlike today, they were usually pretty beat up by that age back then. I down suppose she did much housework though. :haha:
A walking target for an audacious jewel thief.
Yeah, her hands wouldn't need Madge's attention. No dishwashing or floor-scrubbing for her.
Some kid wanted to take his girlfriend's picture with the Ukrainian Riot Police. What struck me is the faces of the riot police without visors. They look nothing like the infamous
Berkut they replaced after it was disbanded.
Wow ... no. These guys are just babies. Vscheh neh vsoh hloh, ivzhe cazhe meni scho robiteh ... phonetically. Roughly translated: 'they want to tell me what to do when they're still wet behind the ears' (the image is of chicks that haven't dried off yet after hatching). I'm sure limey can say it far better.
A million people waiting in line...
...for what, a table at Cracker Barrel?
ETA: I just looked it up. Ugh & eww. They're all waiting for their chance to bathe in the Ganges.
No. No, indeed. Hell no.
:headshake
For people who think they're a relic just for show, or for people to try and make laugh, think again. :headshake
This guy argued with the cop, then tried to push his way into the palace.
I guess Thomas got on that shit...
[ATTACH]47466[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]47539[/ATTACH]
Umm...why are there holes in electrical plugs? Why do some have them, and some don't?
Srsly.
Probably so a nice socket can have a little catch there, to make it harder to pull out accidentally.
[ATTACH]47539[/ATTACH]
Umm...why are there holes in electrical plugs? Why do some have them, and some don't?
Srsly.
FWIW, from
http://home.howstuffworks.com/two-flat-prong-plug-holes.htm
There are three reasons for the holes:
If you were to take apart an outlet and look at the contact wipers that the prongs slide into, you would find that they have have bumps on them. These bumps fit into the holes so that the outlet can grip the plug's prongs more firmly. This detenting prevents the plug from slipping out of the socket due to the weight of the plug and cord. It also improves the contact between the plug and the outlet.
Electrical devices can be "factory-sealed" or "locked-out" by the manufacturer or owner using a plastic tie or a small padlock that runs through one or both of the prong holes. Construction projects or industrial safety requirements may require this type of sealing. For example, a manufacturer might apply a plastic band through the hole and attach it to a tag that says, "You must do blah blah blah before plugging in this device." The user cannot plug in the device without removing the tag, so the user is sure to see the instructions.
There also is a small savings in raw materials (metal) for the manufacturer of the actual plug prong. Every little bit helps!
Thx Spexx. I hadn't tied the holes to lock-out protocols, and, I've not looked inside the wall socket before, so, ddin't know about the 'bumps'.
Thx Spexx. I hadn't tied the holes to lock-out protocols, and, I've not looked inside the wall socket before, so, ddin't know about the 'bumps'.
Neither did I. I guess I could have put that in "What I learned today", too
Thx Spexx. I hadn't tied the holes to lock-out protocols, and, I've not looked inside the wall socket before, so, ddin't know about the 'bumps'.
Come on, you don't have to actually look inside a socket to discover stuff like that, any fool with a fork and thirst for knowledge is bound to learn *something*...
"ddin't" [Size=1]Musta been ddrunk.[/Size]
Come on, you don't have to actually look inside a socket to discover stuff like that, any fool with a fork and thirst for knowledge is bound to learn *something*...
:shocking:
Meet my neighbor's dog, Ghillie.
[ATTACH]47568[/ATTACH]
....
not really my neighbor.
but, look at that dog, willya!?!
[ATTACH]47571[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]47572[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]47573[/ATTACH]
It's like a sponge. It's like a towel.
It's like a OHGODITSMELLS.
Let's go surfin' now
Everybody's learning how
Come on and safari with me
(Come on and safari with...)
It's a caribou margarita!
Wow. I like that carpet pattern. What is that, some sort of berber?
It's too bad that I've gotten to the point that I don't trust any quote attributed to George Carlin. This one actually sounds like he might have said it, but so much BS has been falsely attributed to him that I just can't do it anymore.
I wish some official body would come up with a website of the complete official words of George Carlin so you could easily double check this stuff.
Just saw a show of him on tv here 2 weeks ago...
Don't know if it was exactly the same , but i can remember something like that what he said....
From Shorpy...
September 1942. New York City. "First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports."
UM... United Nations... in 1942? :confused:
"As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert."
Probably family hostages in China.
Lee Ah Ding (left) and Yee Chee Ching, Chinese seamen from a British freighter, try typical American food for the first time. Yee took a hot dog in stride, but Lee refused to have anything to do with this strange foreign food. He did, however, drink a Coke with relish."
Really, a hot dog with relish probably would have been better.
Photo by Edward Gruber, Office of War Information.
From Shorpy...
UM... United Nations... in 1942? :confused:
Yeah, wasn't founded til
after WWII, was it?
Photo was obviously staged, and apparently over-rehearsed (re: hot dog guy).
Yeah, '45 I think, for the purpose of preventing WW III.
I think they're referring to nations united against the Axis powers.
Was the handle "allies" applied retroactively?
I don't think so, but it'd be an interesting thing to tease out. Maybe the focus grouping of "United Nations" didn't go well.
The phrase 'Allied Nations' was used during WWII, I'm almost positive, as well as 'Allied Forces'.
As in "Yesterday, in [insert French town], Allied Nations Forces under [insert American/British military leader] relieved a month long siege yadayadayada".
Yeah, I just yadayada'd World War Two...:mg:
[Size=1]Remember the board game 'Axis & Allies'?[/Size]
Spent poison gas shells during WW I (swat the filename says anyhow)
[ATTACH]47730[/ATTACH]
This is Conrad Hayer. He is 103 years old in this picture.
[ATTACH]47758[/ATTACH]
Mr. Hayer has the distinction of being the earliest-born person ever photographed. The pic (a daguerreotype) was taken in 1852, Mr. Hayer was born in 1749. He is further distinguished by being the only Revolutionary War veteran who served under George Washington, and crossed the Delaware to Valley Forge, to be photographed.
After the war he moved to Maine, where he lived until he died at the age of 107.
Story at
HuffPoCool
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted this pic of himself on the Apple production line seeing how it's done. Those Apple iMacs in the background being used on the Apple production lines?
[ATTACH]48022[/ATTACH]
They're running Windows.
:eek:
Cormorant fisherman in China...
Cool! The lantern is the only modern thing there, and even that is 50 year old technology.
Yeah very old tech, I think 50 is being generous to Coleman, taken on a cell phone.
I wondered as I wrote that. I have vague recollections that the mantels had some sort of radioactive ingredient to make then shine brighter, so I figured they weren't 100 years old.
Yeah but many a product was found to be dangerous long after they were put into common use. I think it's like the posh California hotels with a brass plaque saying there are chemicals inside that the state of CA says cause cancer. Pretty small risk, but don't give 'em to kids.
OK, you peaked my curiosity, had to look up the history. The first lamp was 1905, but the first one I saw with the types mantle we're familiar with was around 1950, so you were right. :thumb:
Doncha just hate it. Your favorite fishing spot, ready for some serious fish catching, and somebody barges in. :(
I hate when that happens.
But what's with the huge amount off smoke coming off that VW Golf?
Looks like a still from a Roger Moore era James Bond movie. Has that cheesy feel to it, even if it's a modern Golf.
But what's with the huge amount off smoke coming off that VW Golf?
Dust. Gravel road leading to the ramp.
Montenegro, about 5:30 in.
[YOUTUBE]JbyTbxJBLU0[/YOUTUBE]
I've just never seen a cat on an airplane wing before.
And, now I have.
[ATTACH]48261[/ATTACH]
The
office didn't fare well either. The monsoon leaked through the roof.
[ATTACH]48709[/ATTACH]
Waylon Jennings and a pair of authentic, vintage Willie Nelson pig-tails, which were a gift when Johnny Cash threw Waylon a sobriety party.
[ATTACH]48808[/ATTACH]
They (the pig-tails) are part of 2,000 items owned by the late Waylon 'Watasha' Jennings that will be auctioned.
The pretty lady beside him is Jessie Colter, Watasha's wife from 1969 until his death in 2002.
The pretty lady beside him is Jessie Colter
I believe her name is Lisa.
No. Her song was. I'm not Lisa.
I know she's too good looking for His Bearded Leatheriness...
Paveway II...incoming.
[ATTACH]48817[/ATTACH]
There goes the neighborhood.
No. Her song was. I'm not Lisa.
I was hoping someone would get the joke. Not really a joke since it's not funny. Whatever it is, I'm glad you noticed, BB.
Well I was gonna say that's not lisa, her name is julie...but then.
My cousin's name is Julie. And you know my name. So we had fun with that song when we were kids. ;)
I was hoping someone would get the joke. Not really a joke since it's not funny. Whatever it is, I'm glad you noticed, BB.
I felt ya.
All you people who had your names in the songs... you were the lucky ones.
When the DJ would come on and tell us that was Jessie Colter, I remember being almost angry about it. Shouldn't you have to sing "My name is Jessie"?? Jessie, Julie, it's not that far off, even. Wouldn't the song be even more interesting? Or would it? Would that make it even more weird in a weirder way?
I remember two cases where it caused people trouble. One was my landlord's daughter... Roxanne. :haha:
Did she, uh, 'put on the red light' (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)?
Shouldn't [she] have to sing "My name is Jessie"??
Well, the name of the song
was "I'm Not Lisa", but, she
could have narrowed it down some more...
She did, remember - the whole line was "I'm not Lisa, My name is Julie," but she was always lying.
Damn if she didn't.[/backfromyoutube]
[Julia] The addition of an acid will fluff up your whipped egg whites. It stabilizes the whites and adds volume. Add 1/8 teaspoon of acid ingredient (such as lemon juice, vinegar, or cream of tartar) per egg white, except for meringues, where 1/8 is used for two egg whites. The acid should be added to the whites just as they begin to become frothy during beating. [/Julia]
Wow. I've seen airplanes punch through clouds all the time, and the clouds just stay there. The plane has no impact on the clouds.
I've never seen an image where a plane shapes a cloud that much.
The effects of the wing tip vortices are conspicuous and I assume that the deep furrow in the cloud is caused by the contra rotating props.
I accept that the second part of that sentence is a rather large assumption, so I'll willingly stand corrected if necessary.
BTW Looks like a TU-95 Bear.
The addition of an acid will fluff up your whipped egg whites. It stabilizes the whites and adds volume.
This is unexpectedly relevant to me, as I just bought a new cookie press thing for making meringue cookies that don't look all blobby and ridiculous coming out of a piping bag. I shall try adding lemon juice!
BTW Looks like a TU-95 Bear.
Seconded.
Perhaps that's not a cloud, but, a fogbank?
Seems to me that it whatever it is, the plane would have to be pushing that volume of air down to make the cloud/fog go down.
Also it appears that the plane has pulled up from closer to the cloud/fog...Am I looking at that right?
Also a strange shadow from the plane (?).
Seems to be the next picture in the sequence.
More here:
Tu 95For Infi The Hobo Killer:
[ATTACH]48921[/ATTACH]
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! This chick who hated me years ago started a rumor I had herpes. Bitch. I don't. Have herpes that is. I am depressed and I do kill hobos, though...so thanks. ;)
I just passed that on to homesick girl at college.
Herpes. Likely NSFW.
Definitely NSFW is all of OJST (Oh Joy, Sex Toy).
New readers should start here. I've read all the comics, they're grrrrreat!
That herpes link up there in V's post should work more like
this herpes link (to the same place).
;)
******************************************
Re: Herpes Infocomic
Herpes...It's really not that big of a deal, after all.
:eyebrow:
Thanks Grav.
Sorry I didn't proofread that post. I'm glad you did and that you corrected my error.
[Size=1]'Salright.[/Size]
A six storey tall Rubber Duck by Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch artist, leads a procession into Los Angeles harbour.
Could just as easily have been posted in Weird News or WTF, but it's ended up here as you can see.
Carruthers retires to ponder over this, the meaning of life and sundry other matters.
Bad time to own stock in Malaysian Airlines
[ATTACH]48949[/ATTACH]
Why dogs don't play poker.
[ATTACH]48954[/ATTACH]
Bad time to own stock in Malaysian Airlines
Good time to buy, though.;)
**********************************************
I never knew one used one's toes so much performing a headstand...
[ATTACH]48996[/ATTACH]
I realize the world population is exploding, plus a lot of our former serfs have acquired buying power. The result is the competition for beach front property has become stiff, and the prices stiffer.
That said... No... N.O... No way Spanish Joe... absolutely not. :headshake
I realize the world population is exploding, plus a lot of our former serfs have acquired buying power. The result is the competition for beach front property has become stiff, and the prices stiffer.
You want beach front property? Walk this way sir. It's yours for a mere £500,000 ($810,000)
Off the coast of the Isle of Grain there is a unique building, with an unforgettable address, which is looking for a new owner. Number 1, The Thames, otherwise known as Grain Tower Battery, was built around 1855. Planted on a spit of land on the Isle of Grain, it can only be reached at low tide. The bomb-proof 150 year-old estuary gun emplacement is a kilometre off the Isle of Grain shore at the strategically important point where the Thames meets the Medway. The original tower is similar in design to the Martello towers which were first constructed as a defence against Napoleon in the early 19th Century. The property is of course in need of complete renovation but could be transformed into almost anything (STPP) - a private residence, an off shore hotel, a houseboat community, outdoor pursuit centre, film location, nightclub, casino to name a few!
So, it needs a little renovation. Nothing that a few weekends and a visit to your local DIY store won't put right.
It's had a battering from a tidal estuary for the last century-and-a-half and it was an anchor point for anti-submarine steel netting during the last Anglo-German unpleasantness but it will probably last another century or two.
No 1 The Thames
Google Maps
BBC Link with videoCaption:
Tea Party Takeoff Attempt
Gasp! We got fungus among us!
[ATTACH]49105[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]49106[/ATTACH]
And one of my water maples has herpes, looks like...
[ATTACH]49107[/ATTACH]
:eek:
Looks like an Agaricus from here ... thats just a guess though. Maybe a mycena? They typically grow on decaying wood though... I don't get into the million little ones varieties too much. There are too many too similar to each other.
There are too many too similar to each other.
WORD.
Heh-heh, woops!
[ATTACH]49122[/ATTACH]
Just think how history would have changed if the sea levels had stayed where they were 16,000 years ago. :eek:
Hey dude, there's a stick between your legs, might want to grab a handful of it!
[ATTACH]49179[/ATTACH]
Awesome selfie!
When you've got money for nothing and chicks for free, this is what you buy next.
Never hire a carpenter named Leary.
HMNZS Wellington, on November 13, 2005, immediately before becoming a reef.
[ATTACH]49201[/ATTACH]
I'm hoping a telephoto lens has compressed the distances between those boats.
An archive of weird and wacky innovations has been unearthed by an amateur historian as he trawled through a collection of images spanning the last 100 years. Businessman Chris Hodge, from Chislehurst, south east London, has collected more than 250,000 images and is having them all digitally scanned and archived. Above, an experimental flying bicycle.
An experimental gyrocopter
...and a Land Rover hovercraft
Hoverover!
Judging by the number of military 'Top Brass' chaps in that photo, it was probably considered to be a viable project at the time.
Anyway, here's a couple more:
The photos, taken from various British trade and business-to-business media titles including Motorcycle News, Speed & Power Magazine and Nursing Times, document Britons trying to invent the next big thing.
Gyr King, founding director of Easyart, said the collection is a "hidden gem of British social history". He added: "The vast majority of these images have remained unseen for several decades and shine a light on the extraordinary inventions, machines, people, places and events in Britain's past."
One must remember to wear proper attire when taking one's fancy fucking boat out of one's fancy fucking boat.
[ATTACH]49227[/ATTACH]
Judging by the number of military 'Top Brass' chaps in that photo, it was probably considered to be a viable project at the time.
What? Not consider everything from Rover serious? Rover which gave Queen Victoria the Safety Bicycle, WW I motorcycles for Old Blighty and Russia, WW II gas turbine engines, not to mention the Land Rover to add an inch or two on every swinging dick in the land. Pshaw I say, even in peace time.
I guess the military wasn't buying though because it was offered to the common rabble as a kit, in the sixties.
What? Not consider everything from Rover serious? Rover which gave Queen Victoria the Safety Bicycle, WW I motorcycles for Old Blighty and Russia, WW II gas turbine engines, not to mention the Land Rover to add an inch or two on every swinging dick in the land. Pshaw I say, even in peace time.
I guess the military wasn't buying though because it was offered to the common rabble as a kit, in the sixties.
And this:
I'd almost forgotten about the gas turbine powered Rover car. I remember seeing it in the London Science Museum during a childhood visit. It appears that it is still on display.
Science Museum Blog
Rover gas turbine car JET 1, 1950... I remember seeing it in the London Science Museum during a childhood visit. It appears that it is still on display. ...
Yep, in June this year:
[ATTACH]49230[/ATTACH]
But the furriners are gaining ground, only a few hundred metres away:
[ATTACH]49231[/ATTACH]
(I understand there is a Lambo showroom in the area.)
I'd druther have the Rover if it was modernized and reliable. But I'm afraid going anywhere would be as complicated as taking the Stanley Steamer, after snipping the balls off the moths.
Yep, in June this year:
[ATTACH]49230[/ATTACH]
Thanks for the Rover picture, Scriveyn. That brings back memories, although I'd rather not spend too much time working out exactly how long ago it was that I saw the car 'in the flesh'. :eek:
...after snipping the balls off the moths.
This reminds me:
A couple months ago I had occasion to use the old joke "Have you ever smelled mothballs?" Of course, the guy said "Oh, yeah." And then I issued the punch line "How'd you get their legs apart?", and the guy says "Huh?".
I said "Their legs, how'd you get 'em apart?", and he shakes his head and goes "Do whut now?".
I had to draw him a picture (almost literally).
:facepalm:
Then & now...
[ATTACH]49272[/ATTACH]
That Sony pic was taken only seconds before the tree branch snapped, and he plummeted 40 feet to a spine snapping death.
The birds fluttered around, saying "I tawt I taw a puddy-tat!"
[COLOR=LemonChiffon]-------
4,646[/COLOR]
Cellar, meet 'Marley The Ridiculously Photogenic Pup'.
[ATTACH]49306[/ATTACH]
Obviously a publicity shot. I think it was for the mayor's push to vaccinate New Yorkers against Smallpox, which had reared it's ugly head.
Da pohleeses 'round hyere won't jump you off. They won't unlock yer door, neither. I know damn good and well they wouldn't change your tire. You'd get a ticket and towed for being a traffic hazard.
Legal liability, I suppose.
The upper right pic is PA, not sure what country the others are from.
Here's one...
A policeman in Michigan recently took “protect and serve” to a whole new level.
Officer Ben Hall pulled a car over last Friday for a traffic violation, and when he walked up to the car, he noticed that a small child in the backseat was only wearing a seatbelt rather than sitting in a car seat. Another ticketable offense.
The driver, Lexi DeLorenzo, told Officer Hall that she knew her daughter should be in a car seat, but that she simply couldn’t afford it right now.
So instead of writing a ticket, Officer Hall wrote a check…metaphorically, at least. He told her to pull into the nearby Walmart, and there he bought her a car seat for her daughter out of his own pocket.
Bruce, even though their job is to always do good, sometimes cops do good, sometimes they do bad. When they do good, they're doing their job and, unfortunately, don't get recognized. When they do bad, they, deservedly, get vilified.
It's the exceptions that murder people. These are exceptions also, way over and above protect and serve.
The cynic in me says that there's a commercial arrangement here.
Street View ChicagoThe look on dude's face...
[ATTACH]49371[/ATTACH]
The look on dude's face...
[ATTACH]49371[/ATTACH]
Exasperated with a girlfriend who couldn't grasp her role in the procedure known as a 'leg up' when mounting a horse, I resorted to the 'both hands' method being employed on the right of the picture.
She eventually went off and married a Texan oil man.
The look on dude's face...
[ATTACH]49371[/ATTACH]
He's avoiding getting a camel toe in the eye
Only a father could love. :haha:
Fortunately, she didn't get close enough to the President to detonate the plastic explosive in the heel of her shoe bomb.
Only a father could love. :haha:
Reagan: "I'll
give you weapons the you can use on Americans in 20 years. What do you say?"
Reagan: "I'll give you weapons you can use on Americans in 20 years. What do you say?"
Obama: "I'll give you weapons you can use on Americans right now.
or I can give you $50,000 weapons that we can use $500,000 weapons to eliminate. We're all winners!
As long as the right people make money, it is utterly irrelevant who dies, from which continent they hail, or how many are killed. I keep waiting for the day when everyone on the planet understands that there are no nations, no policies, no governments, no beliefs. Just money. Money, and sufficient power to get money.
This little piggy goes to market.
This is like the fisherman holding the fish close to the camera for the picture. But those nuts are each the size of his HEAD!
It's not skewed perspective, I've seen many old boars with balls that big. Thirty minute orgasms take ammo. :haha:
BUT, where's the head????
Turned to his right.
How do you know it's a 'he'?
How do you know it's a 'he'?
Look at those balls, man!!!:eyebrow:
What? Are ya nuts?
BTW, that trailer-plumb-damn-full-o'-bacon is being towed with a garden tiller.
Engineuity!!
Speaking of breakfast...genius!
[ATTACH]49432[/ATTACH]
It's not skewed perspective, I've seen many old boars with balls that big.
Ditto.
Look at those balls, man!!!:eyebrow:
It was an attempt, evidently doomed to failure, at wry humour. ;)
It worked too, would have fallen flat without Grav's come back. :thumb:
Speaking of breakfast...genius!
[ATTACH]49432[/ATTACH]
There are so many recipes and restaurant options that make me wish I liked bell peppers.
Just about the only thing I can stand them in is chili.
It worked too, would have fallen flat without Grav's come back. :thumb:
Sometimes I'm too subtle for words. ;)
There are so many recipes and restaurant options that make me wish I liked bell peppers.
Just about the only thing I can stand them in is chili.
I can't eat green Bell peppers once, every time I've tried they repeat all night. But I've found the yellow, red, and purple Bells, are no problem at all. :confused:
Turned to his right.
Have a close look at the legs on that beast, the front legs are wrong. To me they look like hind legs.:bitching:
After another look. Disregard this post.
I can't eat green Bell peppers once, every time I've tried they repeat all night. But I've found the yellow, red, and purple Bells, are no problem at all. :confused:
Same for me, Bruce
I think the problem with green Bell peppers is they just aren't ripe. If left unpicked for another 4 to 6 weeks they'll turn red, then they're ripe. Anywhere in between, when they are part green and part red, they're called "tans"... damifino why?
Anyway, nobody will buy "tans", not even restaurants, so the farmer takes a huge financial risk waiting for them to ripen. Reds bring more money but the possibility of weather, insects, or a million other threats, could destroy the crop. :thepain:
I eat them every which way, but, lately it's been raw green bell peppers with pimento cheese.
:yum:
Green pepper is like one of the last flavors I have to conquer, along with cilantro. But I cain't. I just cain't eat it. Why oh why do we have such different tastes?
[COLOR="Gray"]Maybe because minor differences between individuals in a species allow for genetic diversity to permit some to survive and adapt differently than others, causing evolution to happen even without genetic errors/mutations.[/COLOR]
Psst... Queen Vicky's been talking shit behind your back. Come over to the USA, Nebraska love you long time.
So that's where them goddanged pheasantkillers came from...
This woman has some huge melons.
[ATTACH]49560[/ATTACH]
What?
:lol2:
[ATTACH]49565[/ATTACH]
I'd dive through a wood chipper.
[ATTACH]49720[/ATTACH]
Saw Lamplighter today:
[ATTACH]49733[/ATTACH]
[j/k]:D
[ATTACH]49662[/ATTACH]
This.
Sent by thought transference
Saw Lamplighter today:
[j/k]:D
Wasn't me... I would never dye my hair that shade of red
Hah! [Size=1]I knew you were out there somewhere![/Size]
Lost Springs, Wyoming
[ATTACH]49767[/ATTACH]
I started to say they had more feet than people, but, unless the populace consists of amputees, that would naturally be the case...
Thanks for posting that, Grav.
About a month ago, there was an article in one of the national newspapers about oil drilling or fracking, I forget which, and the effect it was having on Wyoming.
The article concentrated on the area around Lost Springs so I spent some time on Street View having a look around.
There seems to be some trailer accommodation behind the bar so perhaps that increases the population temporarily if it is related to energy exploitation.
Lost Springs.
I'm fond of Wyoming, but Americans often say to me 'there's not much in Wyoming'. Exactly, that's its USP.
I find it a bit crowded in this corner of SE England so some time spent on the prairie suits me quite nicely.
Whether I shall ever get the chance to go back, remains to be seen.
Americans often say to me 'there's not much in Wyoming'.
Have they actually been to Wyoming? WTF?
Maybe they meant there isn't much
man-made in Wyoming.
Maybe they meant there isn't much man-made in Wyoming.
Yes, I think that is what was meant.
I take the view that there is plenty in Wyoming. Its natural splendour is unsurpassed.
I've made four visits and I'd go back tomorrow if I could, despite winter setting in.
Christmas card... although it could be Halloween. :eyebrow:
Christmas card... although it could be Halloween. :eyebrow:
There has been much comment on that card in the Nation's press. Little of it favourable.
I knew I knew who that was.
Couldn't recognize him.
Ol' Tone looks like he got caught cussing the photographer.
Nothing to see, move along, just another day in
Michigan. :haha:
That one guy doesn't have an orange safety vest. Amateur.
[youtube]J3Cr43ZP9hk[/youtube]
That one guy doesn't have an orange safety vest. Amateur.
Maybe he's the hunter and the others are the easier-to-see targets.
A Bosty named Soybean...:D
[ATTACH]49814[/ATTACH]
No, I don't believe I want balls on my chin. :eyebrow:
That's just not a manly look.
Somehow.
Big pic apologies, but, I thought it was cool enough to be seen in the large.
This pic was taken in 1927, at the
Solvay Conference, in Brussels.
It's been called the most intelligent picture ever taken.
[ATTACH]49875[/ATTACH]
Front row: I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Skłodowska-Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch.-E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, O.W. Richardson
Middle row: P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr;
Back row: A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, E. Herzen, Th. de Donder, E. Schrödinger, J.E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin;
At some point, someone colorized it. Rather well, I think. Below is a pic taken at almost the same moment, which has not been colorized.
[ATTACH]49876[/ATTACH]
I didn't realize they were contemporaries. That was a golden age of science. Lots of big steps taken all at once.
Schrödinger's there. Anyone spotted his cat?
Heisenberg picked it up and threw it against a wall, but he's uncertain whether it hit or not.
Heisenberg picked it up and threw it against a wall, but he's uncertain whether it hit or not.
There are some frighteningly well read people on this site.
I had to look that one up. I'm dim but I'm honest.
:D
[YOUTUBE]sysxnM279X0[/YOUTUBE]
Planck's constantly muttering about something or other.
Maybe Planck is upset because Lorentz is always transforming the numbers.
because two days of "The Joy of Painting" is *enough*, even for Bob Ross.
I could listen to that magnificent bastard talk All. Fucking. Day.
I would really like to have met him.
There are some frighteningly well read people on this site.
I had to look that one up. I'm dim but I'm honest.
I just smile, nod and head over to the picture threads ;)
I could listen to that magnificent bastard talk All. Fucking. Day.
I would really like to have met him.
[YOUTUBE]WGN5xaQkFk0[/YOUTUBE]
My family accumulated a bunch of painting they bought from a guy outside the Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Alaska. He sold them for $5 unframed, painted on grey shirt cardboard. I thought they were cool because they were in the style of a few blobs and a wide brush give instant background then minimal strokes of a brush fill in mountains, evergreens, and other details.
When I first saw Bob Ross on TV, I immediately thought of the style of those cheap paintings. When just recently I read Ross spend a lot of time in Alaska, I had to wonder if it was him, but he didn't get there until about 1959 or '60 and some of these predate that. That makes me wonder if he learned the technique from the painter?
Nevermind, as you were. :blush:
Yeah, I think he was AirForce when he was in Alaska. He's said that part of his job in the AF was to yell at people, and when he got out, he said he was never going to yell/shout again, and developed that signature soft-voiced way of speaking.
Speaking of Alaska, there's
an artist up there making neat pictures.
Breakfast of champions... might explain a lot of coal mine explosions back in the day. ;)
This aggressive falcon in South Bay, Los Angeles, didn't enjoy model plane enthusiasts getting too close to her nest - taking down their gliders in mid-air.
The peregrine attacked at least two planes which fell to the ground.
I'm inclined to take the side of the Peregrine on this one.
Hey, that's Species-ist.
Pretty impressive picture though.
I'm not best placed to offer an analysis of the artistic qualities of this painting, but the sheer size of it will always turn heads.
It's just a shade under 18' x 25'
How on Earth do you even start a work that size?
The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
I'm not best placed to offer an analysis of the artistic qualities of this painting...
Hey, it was painted by an American, it must be "exceptional". :lol2:
...but the sheer size of it will always turn heads. It's just a shade under 18' x 25'
Yeah, how in hell did they handle it, move it around England, to Gibraltar and back, conserve it for 200 years? Roll it up? Don't oil painting get brittle and crack?
Yeah, how in hell did they handle it, move it around England, to Gibraltar and back, conserve it for 200 years? Roll it up? Don't oil painting get brittle and crack?
Probably best not to attempt to move it on a windy day
Unless they absolutely, positively, had to get there overnight. ;)
Every school kid got the Dust Bowl basics of how the pioneers plowed up the prairie grass, and when droughts came, the persistent wind blew away the soil.
This is why...
Surfing in style, on recycled wine bottle corks...
Is that air or resin between all those corks? If it's resin, it's an awful of of extra weight just to look cool when backlit. I'm guessing its for decoration and not use.
The site isn't clear on that, or exactly what they use, but the L, XL, and XXL weigh 12kg, 25kg, and 18 kg.
[ATTACH]50329[/ATTACH]
Bugger. I've just bought one of those.
Without the handcuffs.
they're there. you just can't see them. yet.
One day, Carruthers, you'll download an app, and, if it's quiet enough, you'll hear a subtle [COLOR="Silver"]*clink*[/COLOR]. That'll be the cuffs snapping shut.
they're there. you just can't see them. yet.
One day, Carruthers, you'll download an app, and, if it's quiet enough, you'll hear a subtle [COLOR="Silver"]*clink*[/COLOR]. That'll be the cuffs snapping shut.
Gulp. Anyone wanna buy a smartphone? :eek:
they're there. you just can't see them. yet.
One day, Carruthers, you'll download an app, and, if it's quiet enough, you'll hear a subtle [COLOR="Silver"]*clink*[/COLOR]. That'll be the cuffs snapping shut.
As yet I haven't become a slave to the gizmo and I'm finding it very useful.
I've got a new number so the
ambulance chasing claims companies don't bother me anymore.
Dad can get hold of me when some dire domestic emergency strikes and I am not within shouting distance. If I spot any problems with livestock I can phone the farm manager and not worry about credit disappearing at the rate of £0.40 ($0.60) a minute and I can also keep him informed of the activities of any observed rogues, vagabonds or all purpose ne'er do wells in the area.
Apart from that there is the question of keeping in close touch with my small, but very select, social circle. Ah, the advantages of an ex-directory number.;)
I remember how my ex was super condescending to me in 1992 as I drove specifically to the gas station that, early on, had card swipe at the pump. "You'll do anything to avoid a moment of human contact," she said. "It's not human contact, it's gas station attendant contact," I replied.
I would like to know, now, if my ex ever drives around looking for a gas station where they don't have card swipe at the pump.
Chained to the technology? No. We have adapted to the new way of life.
Wow, you guys had that technology early. The first "pay at the pump" stations didn't show up in Austin until 1996 (same year I got my license.)
[ATTACH]50329[/ATTACH]
Yes.
No, you can't see my hand. :headshake
Obviously Tower Bridge but I don't know the ship. May have been that Tall Shit deal that Curruthers hosted.
All part of the service, sir. :cool:
Merchant ship 'returns' to London
Last Updated: Saturday, 19 May 2007, 16:31 GMT 17:31 UK
A replica of an old merchant trading ship has sailed along the Thames to be greeted by a full gun salute.
The ship, modelled on the original 18th Century Swedish ship the Gothenburg, fired her cannon to salute London at Tower Bridge.
HMS Belfast fired a full gun salute in return - the first salute she has fired since being berthed in London.
The Gothenburg has visited 13 countries during a two-year voyage recreating the Old East India trading routes.
The ship will be in London until 2 June, and the King and Queen of Sweden will visit it on Sunday.
Work began to recreate her in 2002, using traditional materials and craftsmanship employed during the 18th Century.
The recreation used over 50km of planks, 70,000 hand-forged nails, 10,000 bolts, 1,000 rigging blocks and 10 cast iron cannons.
The original ship was last in the city in 1745 after setting sail for Sweden with cargo valued at more than Sweden's national budget.
But during her two-year voyage back to Scandinavia she sunk.
All the crew survived, picked up by the flotilla of small boats that sailed to greet the Gothenburg.
Most of the cargo was never salvaged, but claimed on insurance.
Swedish historians speculate the ship was deliberately wrecked as an insurance fraud, and believe the Captain and ship's owner sold the cargo in London.
BBC LinkWork began to recreate her in 2002, using traditional materials and craftsmanship employed during the 18th Century.
The recreation used over 50km of planks, 70,000 hand-forged nails, 10,000 bolts, 1,000 rigging blocks and 10 cast iron cannons.
I was wondering how it was navigating the Thames with sails down. I figured it must have engines, and wasn't quite the historical replica they made it out to be.
According to Wikipedia:
One small change was that the headroom of the deck was increased by 10 cm, since today's seamen are taller than their ancestors.[24]
While the exterior remains true to the original, the interior is highly modern. The ship has an electrical system and propellers powered by diesel engines.
...
Other enhancements include satellite navigation, communications equipment, modern facilities for the crew (kitchen, lavatories, washing machines, desalination equipment, ventilation, refrigerators), watertight bulkheads and fire protection (fire sprinkler systems, fire hydrants etc.). Most of this new technology was necessary to pass national and international safety regulations.
I'm a little dubious of 50 km of planking. That sounds like a lot, I mean, a lot.
I assume "rigging blocks" are similar to a block and tackle, and 1,000 of those sounds like a lot, too.
Having said that, I know nothing about ships. Which may be obvious from those first three sentences.
Shore is purty, though.
Ok, I just did some quick 'n' dirty math and 50 km of planking is not as unbelievable as I thought at first blush.
Hey, thanks professor. Ha, I just notice I wrote Tall Shit deal. :lol2:
The original ship was last in the city in 1745 after setting sail for Sweden with cargo valued at more than Sweden's national budget.
But during her two-year voyage back to Scandinavia she sunk.
(BBC link)
Two years from London to Scandinavia? They should have rowed.
With all that rigging, plus moving canons, keelhauling miscreants, and at least spares for 50%, I can believe 1000 blocks.
Heh, frogman.
[ATTACH]50546[/ATTACH]
I love it!
I wonder if I'll see one like that at this year's SakuraCon.
This article has several images that describe pi, but this one was my favorite
10 stunning images show the beauty hidden in pi
Washington Post - Ana Swanson - March 14, 2015
Working with Cristian Ilies Vasile, a self-described "artist by accident,"
Krzywinski also created a series of circular representations of pi,
where the numbers are connected across the circle with a chord.
The artists start at 3, draw a line to 1, draw a line to 4, and so on,
changing the color with each new digit.
[ATTACH]50658[/ATTACH]
Martin Krzywinski and Cristian Vasile
Nice, lamp, beautiful result.
Artist by accident? Probably more common than we know. I mean if people suddenly declare you an artistic genius, throw cash at you, and invite you to party with the rich & horny, would you say it was an accident? Hell no, ride it for as long as you can.
There's nothing you can draw, nothing you can build, nothing you can see in the world, (when not doing drugs) that isn't influenced by Pi. Even if we can't visualize the connection, which is usually the case, it's there. It's the law. :lol2:
so beautiful.
the one that made the zigzag pattern of ten then a thousand then ten thousand then a hundred thousand digits of pi... just mesmerizing.
It Did About A Rod.
Is that a dog, or a cow, or a freakin' yak?
WTF is that slobbery thing?!That's a very rare breed, The Great Northern Exuberant. Breed of what I don't know.
Chuck Jones' rules for the Coyote/Roadrunner.
[ATTACH]50687[/ATTACH]
Man, I loved me some Roadrunner & Coyote cartoons.
Chuck Jones' rules for the Coyote/Roadrunner.
[ATTACH]50687[/ATTACH]
Man, I loved me some Roadrunner & Coyote cartoons.
That was interesting to read. I realized as I read it that I knew all the rules, but never would have been able to articulate them.
...but never would have been able to articulate them.
Exactly.:yesnod:
Love. These. Barstools.
[ATTACH]50712[/ATTACH]
[SIZE="1"]If I've posted this already, apologies.[/SIZE]
ETA: Also, the sign in the back does not say "Welcome Rapists", it says "Welcome Baptists", which is almost as odd.
:lol2:
ETA: Also, the sign in the back does not say "Welcome Rapists", it says "Welcome Baptists", which is almost as odd. :lol2:
Same thing, ain't it?:bolt:
Heaven alone knows what was in the damned things, but as I seem to suffer from all the afflictions they are purported to cure, with the possible exception of neuralgia, I think that I'd have placed a bulk order.
Thanks Sundae. :thumb:
Note the blue and white socks...
[ATTACH]50867[/ATTACH]
...and I'm gonna be a dirty old man til I'm a dead old man, too.
~Fred Sanford.
College tuition, 1956:
[ATTACH]50959[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]50960[/ATTACH]
Inflation info from
here.
The linked inflation calculator doesn't go back that far,
but that even seems a bit high for 1956... maybe because it's for a private school.
I graduated in 1956 after 2 yrs full-time student at UCLA @ $35 per semester for California residents.
For perspective, back then, I used to type up my Dad's tax returns, and remember that as a
full time + a lot of overtime union electrician at General Motors, his annual income was just over $5,000.
I graduated in '56 after 2 yrs full-time student at UCLA @ $35 per semester for California residents.
But we did have minor lab fees and textbooks, and I think I still have a couple of them.
The linked inflation calculator doesn't go back that far,
but that even seems a bit high for 1956
Whatsthatnow? It goes back to 1914.
Just, ya know, get admitted to Stanford. :)
Or the Spanish Riding School.
♪ ♫Helpless people on subway trains♪ ♫
♪ ♫Scream for God as he looks in on them♪ ♫
[ATTACH]51085[/ATTACH]
Just your normal lawn ornament...
Is that Woz?
[ATTACH]51176[/ATTACH]
Woz That Woz?...Sounds like a band name.
_________________________________________________
[ATTACH]51185[/ATTACH]
that's super cool, and I want to make one... I just don't know who to give it to...
Waiting for Jerry?
[ATTACH]51225[/ATTACH]
Did you know the Chinese discovered the entire world... except Europe.
Is that why all the places, except Europe, end in -uh?
America
Africa
Asia
Australia
Antarctica
Canada
India
Russia
China
, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Larga, Montega
Baby why don't we ga
To the Koko-ma,
We'll get there fast and then we'll take it sla.
It was 88 dagrees here yestaday. I ain't ghana ga ta na stanking beach.
Did you know the Chinese discovered the entire world... except Europe.
Just looked back at this and... it says here, the farthest they got was the middle east and east Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_voyagesEven had I not previously read about the treasure voyages, just the claim they explored the whole world and missed Europe, screams bullshit. ;)
Four years and mucho dinaro right down the pooper. :Flush:
Need an Intern With a Strong Sense of Entitlement and Bad Manners? Hire a Rich Kid
There is a rampant disease today that goes beyond borders. Entitlement is a contagious, insidious state of mind that has infected a whole generation of young people who feel they deserve things based on who they think they are or who their parents are. Or who they’ve been told they are.
More, as they say, at the link. :eyeroll:
In case you were wondering who's running this popcorn stand.
Dwellar Carruthers, white courtesy phone, Dwellar Carruthers pick up the white courtesy phone please.
Dwellar Carruthers, white courtesy phone, Dwellar Carruthers pick up the white courtesy phone please.
[ATTACH]51699[/ATTACH]
You rang, sir?
[ATTACH]51699[/ATTACH]
You rang, sir?
just thought you might be interested in the air traffic controller map posted above.
My post was written in the style of the PA announcer calling Captain Oveur in the movie Airplane! I guess you had to be there....
just thought you might be interested in the air traffic controller map posted above.
My post was written in the style of the PA announcer calling Captain Oveur in the movie Airplane! I guess you had to be there....
Thanks for that. All is now clear!
It's a long time since I last saw
Airplane and have forgotten most of it.
I do recall one scene where someone says that 'the sh!t is going to hit the fan'.
A large quantity of ordure then hurtles across the room and 'interfaces with the air conditioning'.
Off now to Amazon to search out the DVD. :D
Dwellar Carruthers, white courtesy phone, Dwellar Carruthers pick up the white courtesy phone please.
:lol:
Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Male announcer: [later] The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.
[Later]
Male announcer: There's just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Male announcer: It's really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there's no danger involved.
Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?
Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified
First Somebody: We've got to get this [Strike]man[/Strike] [Strike]woman[/Strike] person to a hospital!
Somebody Else: A hospital? What is it?
First Somebody: It's a big building with lots of windows, but, that's not important now...
I have a hard time imagining a more quotable movie. Just genius.
[YOUTUBE]M7fchtEJpy8[/YOUTUBE]
We had either the admiral, maestro, or G.E. when I was a kid.
Our hi-fi had the multi-stackable spindle for 33s. I actually had a double album set (either Wings Over America or Tommy, I forget) that was set up 1/4, 2/3 so you could stack them and then flip the whole stack to play the other sides in order. My Beatles double albums were 1/2, 3/4.
The Beatles can't wait to get their hands on your butt.
Ladies, I have the solution for that messy jewelry box where every time you try to extract something to wear, it always ends up tangled with all those extra strings of pearls.
The Beatles can't wait to get their hands on your butt.
John thinks he can handle my butt one-handed.
Paul knows he's wrong.
Dr Dana showed us hot chicks can be smart too. Here are more.
Dong Tao Chickens, up to 6 kg, $2500 a pair.
I thought this guy was original, turns out he is a plagiarist. :rolleyes:
Oh my god, they need socks to make the outfit sing. :rolleyes:
Dong Tao Chickens, up to 6 kg, $2500 a pair.
I'm guessing selectively bred for chicken feet for the Chinese DimSum market. It's funny to me because last night the inch, the mm, and I were talking about cultural preferences for different parts of chicken and how the US is one of the few (or only?) countries that prefer white meat and how chickens here have been bred to produce larger breasts. I wondered if other countries bred chickens to have larger parts of the type they preferred eating.
Is this proof?
OK Vietnamese. Do Vietnamese like chicken feet?
[ATTACH]52280[/ATTACH]
Fixed it.
The
TYWKIWDBI blog is the source of this pic:
[ATTACH]52282[/ATTACH]
Back in the 60's we lived there for a while,
and were told that when your lane of traffic is stopped at a STOP sign,
once you have stopped your own car, you don't have to stop again for that intersection.
What this meant in heavy traffic was that when one car got through the intersection,
all the other cars behind it could and did go right on thru - without stopping.
But, then the cross-traffic was then caught in a dead stop.
Once I was first car caught in such a blockage, so I had my wife take the wheel.
I got out of the car and (carefully) stepped in front of a car coming thru the intersection.
When that car stopped, and my wife drove through the gap
... as did all the cars behind her !
It was incredible how angry was the driver of the car I stopped
... and all the drivers behind him.
Thankfully many idiots eventually remove themselves from the gene pool, just try not to stand too close.
Impressive...
Why? It didn't even blow his hat off. :lol2:
That's a healthy prostate.
Whoa! Someone really loves swimming
Hung Dolphin: Whale penis? Pfft.
She had a sense of humor.
Ever wonder why Slang likes the Philippines so much?
Maybe because rum is cheaper than Coca Cola. :haha:
A triple costs less than a regular rum and coke? [SIZE="1"]I gotta tell my bar about this philosophy[/SIZE].
Now I wonder if rhum and rum are the same thing...
ETA:
Rhum vs. Rum
I learned sumpin today.
Awesome. Thanks Grav. I too learned something today.
Me too, I figured it was a native thing.
So you're telling me, the American Museum, in England, opposite the Pit of Gaiety Theater, is run by a Pollock.
Also, they have the frog man, a mermaid, monstrosities, batteries, and a spiromotor.
Batteries and a spiromotor... how can I resist. If this was near
Lomer Griffin he would've had only 11 kids... maybe 10.
Spiromoter
Surely they don't mean something like this:
[ATTACH]52472[/ATTACH]
Wonder what a spiromoter was, back in 1888?
Also:
It appears the freaks were on for 23 hours a day..."12a.m. until 11p.m".
So you're telling me, the American Museum, in England, opposite the Pit of Gaiety Theater, is run by a Pollock.
Also, they have the frog man, a mermaid, monstrosities, batteries, and a spiromotor.
Batteries and a spiromotor... how can I resist. If this was near Lomer Griffin he would've had only 11 kids... maybe 10.
There's still an
American Museum in Britain, but it's near Bath in SW England and dates from 1961.
There's still an American Museum in Britain, but it's near Bath in SW England and dates from 1961.
There seems to be considerable interest in American Indians. Cyclefrance mentioned Brit horse owners dressing like cowboys, too.
Some Eastern Europeans are REALLY interested.
Anyway, this mug caught my eye because I used to go to Motoramas(rod & custom shows), in the late '50s, at that same armory.
This looks like the illustration for Ripley's Believe it or Not.
I have four different sizes of the Dickal bottle, down to a nip size, from the sixties.
Those are pretty darn cool.
btw, I miss your doodads thread, xoB.
Seems advertising has always tried to attach their product to whatever is fueling the public's attention at the moment. Ferris corsets has no connection to the fair. :rolleyes:
Something about a giraffe being fed, damn if I can find it...
[ATTACH]52669[/ATTACH]
Seems advertising has always tried to attach their product to whatever is fueling the public's attention at the moment.
Ferris corsets has no connection to the fair. :rolleyes:
Don't they both have/use gussets ?
Remember
Hobo Coins, usually nickels? These are new hobo coins, made into jewelry.
Remember Hobo Coins, usually nickels? These are new hobo coins, made into jewelry.
I had not heard of those before... thx for the posting and link.
Good pic... 2006 was before my initiation here. :blush:
Sure, I thought it was before your time, that's why I linked it. Lots more pictures than wiki.
That hobo coin jewelry made by Silver Piston, is available at the
Selvage Yard Store in New Hope.
Supposedly 1,000,000 different colors.
May be less since I ensmalled it.
[ATTACH]52780[/ATTACH]
Supposedly 1,000,000 different colors.
May be less since I ensmalled it.
It can be at most 464,442 colors now, but since most of those colors will have been resampled in the ensmallening process, and many more during the compression process, many of those 464,442 pixels will be the same color.
Looking through some old threads, I found this term, that I was, shockingly enough, unaware of:
[ATTACH]52791[/ATTACH]
In the first two small pictures he wears different clothes, I guess it took him more than a day. :haha:
Is that a butterfly, or a moth?
:corn:
It only matters if you wear wool pants.
Wonder if it opened in time?
Young Billy Gates, with a cd-rom, and all the text it can store.
[ATTACH]52866[/ATTACH]
RAF Lightning fighter. That's a famous shot on this side of the Atlantic.
All you need to know...
Crashed on final approach to Hatfield, whilst involved in the Red Top AAM programme, on 13-9-62. Whilst carrying out a demonstration flight, there was a fire in the aircraft's reheat zone. Un-burnt fuel in the rear fuselage had been ignited by a small crack in the jet pipe and had weakened the tailplane actuator anchorage. This weakened the tailplane control system which failed with the aircraft at 100 feet on final approach.
Fortunately the nose pitched up, giving test pilot George Aird time to eject. He came down through a greenhouse roof, breaking both legs and right thigh. He was unconscious due to the impact of landing and was woken by jets of cold water from the greenhouse's sprinkler system. He later recovered to resume his flying career.
This aircraft is one the featured in the famous (and much syndicated) photograph of the pilot’s ejection watched by a tractor driver. According to some sources, including the tractor driver who appears in the picture, the photographer was paid £1,000 (equal to £18,607 at 2012 prices) by The "Daily Mirror" for the photograph.
Other newspapers originally dismissed the photograph as a fake...until the Ministry of Defence tried to put a "D Notice" on the photograph banning its publication, which confirmed that it was indeed real and not a fake!
LINKWonder if it opened in time?
What Carruthers said.
:D
University of Texas Sorority in 1944. Obviously posed, with time to prepare what props each wanted. I'd imagine they were wealthy, or at least their families were, to go to the University and join a sorority. The girl top center was ahead of her time, doing a paleolithic duck face.
Speyside, Tobago seaweed:
[ATTACH]52910[/ATTACH]
Oh the horrors. Think of the baby Loggerheads.
I'm want no parts of this amusement park. Nope, nope nope. :headshake
Any more info on that one, Bruce?
Oh the horrors. Think of the baby Loggerheads.
Many dead, suffocated turtles and other animals. Not to mention all the tiny sea life that lived in the sargassum itself. It's said to quite odorsome.
Mexico is spending $9,000,000, Tobago, $3,000,000 to clean up. So far.
Any more info on that one, Bruce?
No, it's on several sites but always under, Photos That Speak A Thousand Words.
I'm want no parts of this amusement park. Nope, nope nope. :headshake
Any more info on that one, Bruce?
I think this an incident/accident report for this event. I worked on Bruce's pic, for clarity of plane number, and, I
think the plane is ZG478, which would be the aircraft in
this report.
First I did a TinEye search for the photo, and came up with this:
[ATTACH]52917[/ATTACH]
Then I searched for 'harrier May 14, 2009'.
This is Bruce's pic, enlightend a bit:
[ATTACH]52918[/ATTACH]
It
might say 'ZG478'...
Thanks for your efforts in researching that, Mr G. :thumb::thumb:
Just relying on memory, I think that a new generation of 'Bang seat' had to be developed for the Harrier.
They were described as 'Zero Zero' seats as they could be used on the ground and with no forward speed.
Must have been one hell of a boot up the arse when you pulled the handle.
At least 10% of ejector seats made are used? Yikes.
That's on British built jets. :lol2: :bolt:
That's on British built jets. :lol2: :bolt:
For over 65 years, Martin-Baker has been the world leader in the design and manufacture of ejection seats. Our latest designs offer unprecedented life-saving capabilities while providing systems and interfaces to fully integrate the pilot with cockpit and aircraft systems. Over 70,000 ejection seats have been delivered to 93 Air Forces around the world and have saved over 7,450 aircrew lives.
www.martin-baker.com
There's a few stories here from pilots who have 'banged out' and owe their lives to Martin-Baker ejection seats:
www.martin-baker.com/clubs
One is from a French pilot who has had to leave his aircraft in something of a hurry on two occasions.
One of those rare events when a Frenchman has actually thanked the British. :eek:
For the aviator about town, the latest in fast jet soft furnishings, lace edged ejection seat headrest covers!
Cockpit photo exposes North Korean pilot using a ridiculous lace-trimmed ejection seat headrest cover[Not so]Great Horny Toads!!![/YosemiteSam]
[ATTACH]52941[/ATTACH]
Top-o-th-marnin-to-ya...
[ATTACH]52958[/ATTACH]
Hurry up, damn it, I have dinner guests arriving at 7.
That boggles my fragile little mind.
That why real "oriental" rugs are so expensive, them bitches be making almost a dollar a week. :haha:
Fighter pilot guy looks like he's about to be eaten by Shamu.
Fighter pilot guy looks like he's about to be eaten by Shamu.
Hah! It does, kinda, doesn't it? I hadn't noticed.
The only thing that could make that symbol more symbolic would be to add some blur. But that would make it less iconic.
makes me think of Frank Poole.
makes me think of Frank Poole.
Makes me think of Loretta Lynn's husband...
They should have these here, a place to park the baby in public rest rooms. The bar in front is in the up/closed position, it swings down for loading/unloading.
Those things are awesome, but I've only seen them in practice once. A waitress friend told me once that her place tried installing them, and they were all broken within days from too-big kids (or even drunk adults?) trying to sit on them. [/ThisIsWhyWeCan'tHaveNiceThings.]
Wouldn't put my kid in/on that, anymore than I would put them on the bare toilet seat...:headshake
Hey look, Tommy Chong got a new hoverboard:
[ATTACH]53033[/ATTACH]
Still burning after five days, Must have been a lightning strike because the woods don't look burnt.
I've seen fairly hollow redwoods that were charred inside. Guess they looked like this at one point.
Coming Soon: Squirrel Condominiums!
At least a megawatt from just a flea fart. :haha:
This man has a giant tool.:eek:
[ATTACH]53100[/ATTACH]
or...
Normal tool, T-Rex hands.
[/perspective]
Spam. A lot.
[ATTACH]53168[/ATTACH]
[size=1]And sunglasses.[/size]
Sir Spam-a-lot to you. :haha: Must be Hawaii.
Ike, Winnie, and Omar, [strike]celebrating my birth[/strike] trying out M-I Carbines in 1944.
Florida's last Civil War veteran...~1955.
[ATTACH]53386[/ATTACH]
Christina Ricci as Morticia Addams...
[ATTACH]53466[/ATTACH]
:yum:
Wow.
I wanted to see a clearer picture, and unfortunately found out this one is not entirely real. I actually considered keeping this information to myself, but feel like it's more important to set the record straight.
The room and most of the body belong to Angelica Houston. The face is Ricci, and I don't know who the chest belongs to.
[ATTACH]53468[/ATTACH]
I left that info out, cuz I think the pic stands on it's own , even if not entirely genuine.
Still...hubba hubba, even the original pic.:heartpump
Here's a link to the article relating to the Ricci version of the pic.
..... I don't think I've ever seen a news article before that was nothing more than "here's a photoshopped image we found on the internet"...
Amiens cathedral (<---maybe the first time I ever typed that word) during WW II:
[ATTACH]53485[/ATTACH]
Wow.
I wanted to see a clearer picture, and unfortunately found out this one is not entirely real. I actually considered keeping this information to myself, but feel like it's more important to set the record straight.
The room and most of the body belong to Angelica Houston. The face is Ricci, and I don't know who the chest belongs to.
[ATTACH]53468[/ATTACH]
The chair is by
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and was also in Doctor Who,
The Name of the Doctor.
Pretty cool design for 1897
I love Mackintosh 's designs!
Sent by thought transference
What chair? In the Morticia pics? I didn't see no chair.
Tim's no fun.
Wet blanklet Tim.
Look Tim I misspelled a word in you're description.
:lol2:
Well, if you're a Nickelback fan, you probably DO need redemption...
I knew a girl like this once. Once.
[ATTACH]53551[/ATTACH]
Oh, Dan is much, much more of a prick than Adam or Fred.
By a factor of ten. At least.
He handles more, at least.
That's a bigger digger.
A mega-excavator to be exact. :)
That's some water pressure
[ATTACH]53704[/ATTACH]
The text on the right side risers is how many calories you've burned by climbing the stairs to that point.
1939 - The last public execution by guillotine in France. They still used it in private till 1977, but no more crowds. As I understand it, the crowd got so rowdy, not in protest, with enthusiasm, they had to move the venue. By then it was light enough to clearly take pictures, and the spectators probably had a little more wine. There are a couple photographs, this the best, and even a dark fuzzy youtube video of the chop. I was surprised, as soon as the blade dropped the body instantly rolled off the side into a box. The dude they chopped was a four time kidnapper/murderer, and offed tourists.
Re body rolling into that box.. I bet that's to contain the bloody mess quickest.
Amazon customer service win:
[ATTACH]53905[/ATTACH]
I guess even superheroes need to walk their dogs from time to time.
#SupergirlIs that Krypto's cousin?
(Actually, she's supposed to have a cat,
apparently)
It's actually Melissa Benoist's dog, Milli. Melissa (who plays Supergirl) brought Milli to the set.
(Actually, she's supposed to have a cat, apparently)
Mmmm...Superpussy.
His work is not done.
I guess even superheroes need to walk their dogs from time to time. #Supergirl
reminds me of an acronym I recently learned, OTK.
Niiiice.
reminds me of an acronym I recently learned, OTK.
Niiiice.
In nothing but those boots.
What?!? :speechls: Are you nuts? :nuts: The what's point of going on?
Pervey, breathing, nourishment, all the same, necessities.
OK, let's not be pervy.
Well not together, no...
In nothing but those boots.
Boots optional... jus sayin
Mr Cocker said, You can leave your hat on. ;)
I found Bruce's wifi in my network list:
[ATTACH]54025[/ATTACH]
Trisha, Garth, Jimmeh, & Rosalynn
[ATTACH]54035[/ATTACH]
Workin' peeps, the kind that still work after the paparazzi go home. :notworthy
How'd ya like
this fer Thanksgiving dinner:
Trisha, Garth, Jimmeh, & Rosalynn
I've got nothing but respect for the man and his family. But would it kill them to put an impervious moisture barrier under those pressure treated sill plates? I guess with a Habitat house, you don't spend any extra money on anything. But still, the concrete gets damp, the pressure treated wood gets damp, and then the moisture is right there at the untreated wood. And they are probably in active termite country.
Maybe the sill plates are coated on the bottom with space age epoxy Billy Mays told them was impervious to water and seventy eleven organic chemicals. :lol:
Nah, 2x4s, 24" on center, on a slab, tells me this is a budget build. But Jimmy's a Nuclear Engineer, just a pair of hands on this job.
I wonder if Putin wears this with the stockings and lingerie in the privacy of his bedroom? :eyebrow:
In 1864, on the Santa Fe Trail, 13 year old Robert McGee was orphaned, and later
scalped. This picture was taken in 1890.
Apparently, that will leave a mark.
Still better than Trump's head
Actually, the boots *are* OTK. The same OTK you're thinking of, just different Ks.
Actually, the boots *are* OTK. The same OTK you're thinking of, just different Ks.
Are you referring to post
709, which you posted
a week and a half ago?
I ain't paying $8 for that crap.
[ATTACH]54130[/ATTACH]
Little tubs of Negro icre? :eyebrow:
via Google translation of the Romanian ad
NEGRO 2000 SRL is a Romanian private company founded in 1993
and its field processing and preserving of fish and fish products.
Manufactures and offers its customers a wide assortment of salads, eggs,
salted eggs uncooked specialties smoked fish, marinated fish and fish salads,
packaged individually using the trademark or under other brands.
I leave it to you to translate the tubs of CRAP !
Fish egg salad. :eyebrow:
Are you referring to post 709, which you posted a week and a half ago?
yes
The filename says 'spotthegaymarine'. I'm not getting it.
There is one grunt there who is wearing a black t-shirt rather than the od green the rest are wearing...Is black the new gay?
[ATTACH]54221[/ATTACH]
There is also an empty spot in the ranks.
IDK
There is also an empty spot in the ranks.
IDK
Spotted it.
The filename says 'spotthegaymarine'. I'm not getting it.
Me either. Maybe it was sarcasm suggesting you can't?
mustache guy?
yawning guy?
They guy in front of yawning guy has no face because he's looking at his wee-wee, but he's not gay if it's his own. :confused:
I would guess it's a "gays can serve just like straights can" statement.
If that's a bright qualification badge on a subdued uniform, it's teh gay even if it's regulation.
[ATTACH]54238[/ATTACH]
Has anyone seen Limey's flock?
[ATTACH]54298[/ATTACH]
Hot light must be on...
[ATTACH]54331[/ATTACH]
Must be getting lonely out in Grifftopia...:D
Either the dog wasn't a ballet fan or he was making a political gesture.
Entitled: Ballet dancers stage a protest outside the Russian Embassy in London (2014)
Anybody wanna share some coke w/me?
[ATTACH]54392[/ATTACH]
:D
I could use a bump about now... but I promised I wouldn't for another 29 years.
Life's hard. It helps if ya can look forward to something.:D
Wonder how hard it was to get those ropes equal?
I'm sure, once you know how, it's a piece o' cake, but I'd go insane(r).
Who says they are equal? The triangles can be any size as long as they are tied off equally at the ceiling.
If the triangles aren't the same or at least isosceles, you'll have one slack corner unless you move the ceiling attachment. Moving that would make it swing crooked.
This is Patrick Stewart.
[ATTACH]54432[/ATTACH]
He is 75 years old.
That's from his vacation on Risa.
I like a woman who knows how to drink.
[ATTACH]54456[/ATTACH]
Wet from the rain I guess, but smooth as a baby's ass nonetheless
You're right, definitely wet to show how smooth it is, I think he probably wet it with a bucket if it wasn't raining.
I have a piece of Black Walnut about 4ft long, 28/9 inches wide and 3 inches thick. I'd cut it out with a chainsaw, and looked for a planer to smooth it out, but the only outfit in the area with a planer over 24 inches wide wouldn't do it. He said he'd just spent $175 having the blades sharpened, and didn't want to chance hitting a bullet or nail.
I set it up on the picnic table with a 20 inch box fan the blow the dust away and smoothed it with a body grinder and sanders. I coughed for 6 weeks after that. So 20 years later, I still haven't used it. :smack:
Your plank would make a nice coffee table, Bruce. Or a bench.
Yes, it very heavy and would be stable. My head came up with a number of possibilities, some I discarded as not worthy of the tree, and none got my lazy ass in motion. :haha:
Beautiful wood. I have a piece I got from scrap at the marina a few years back. Its about 4'x8"x2" and another that was the same size but partially cut. Dunno what to do with them. The bench idea is interesting.
Scoots... colorized Scoots.
Discarded lifejackets pile up on the Greek Island of Lesbos.
Yes, it very heavy and would be stable. My head came up with a number of possibilities, some I discarded as not worthy of the tree, and none got my lazy ass in motion. :haha:
Wanna sell it?
Sorry, someone requested I leave it to her in my will a couple days ago. You know I can't say no to the ladies. :blush:
she just wants your wood after you're gone.
typical.
Matters not, my wood is already gone. :o
"Extreme Flooring"
[ATTACH]54719[/ATTACH]
Just a tiny sample of stuff monster can throw at you... :haha:
More of monster's scary stuff. :eek:
is it a 7oz beercan? nope.
Andre the Giant. 12 oz beer can
1956 Indiana gun safety class.
I probably mentioned this before, but in 3rd grade in 1976 in Tuscon, Arizona, my friend brought a pistol he found in the desert in to show and tell. He told how he had taken it shooting once with his dad in the desert. Times change.
I saw a thread about that picture somewhere, with pictures from the other side, without the water. The parking lot is lower, with a concrete wall up to the level of the fence, so they didn't even have to photoshop it. :haha:
Awesome.
Optical illusion, but still awesome.
And there is water on both sides of the fence. It just blends in with the vegetation better on this side.
On the near side, there's nothing to keep the water from running off, so it doesn't get higher than the vegetation.
edit; here it is. Not the same picture I saw before, but yet another thread on that water picture. There was a bunch of them on Imgur, defending CA I guess.
I expect there's a concrete wall we can't see behind that fence
Doh. Was not on the last page of the thread when I said that. I hate when that happens
you are immediately proven right though! so you have to leave it
Warning: This is Beirut in 1958 before the religious nuts got control. It can happen here.
I think all of us, except maybe Ali, could use a shot of this to get the blood flowing again:
[ATTACH]55045[/ATTACH]
Ahhhhhh...That's better!
♪ ♫...toes in the water♪ ♫
♪ ♫ass in the sand♪ ♫
♪ ♫not a worry in the world♪ ♫
♪ ♫a cold beer in my hand♪ ♫
♪ ♫life is good today♪ ♫
♪ ♫Life is good today♪ ♫
From the first big English Dictionary.
WTF?!
[ATTACH]55163[/ATTACH]
I used to be a big Phil Tippet fanboy.
Millennium Falcon chess set, tauntauns, Jabba's rancor, etc.
Somebody done jacked theyself a church:
[ATTACH]55203[/ATTACH]
Impressive. Not the engineering feat on display here, but that any church has the money to pay for such a thing. It's a far more common sight to see them being neglected and abandoned because the dwindling congregations can't support them.
Edit: Google says it's the Mormons in Provo
The Mormons have a lot of money.
Did you know Mormons are supposed to have a full year's worth of non-perishable food in storage at all times, just in case? So take mental note of your Mormon neighbors, because that's who you're going to want to raid when the apocalypse strikes.
Most of them also have weapons to defend those stores. So be careful.
Looks like Mother Nature and old Man Winter had another spat.
Photos, taken at the right time and at the right place.
http://imgur.com/gallery/iJUx3Well, here's your problem, right here:
[ATTACH]55285[/ATTACH]
Don't worry, though, owl fix it for you.
:3eye:
♪ We three Queens of England are... ♫
It was at the Kings funeral, they were laughing on the inside... girl power, ya know. ;)
Brooklyn, NY, in the '50s, had hemp growing in every vacant lot.
Probably run away seeds from the shipping through for rope and net production during WW II.
You axed for it, dumbass...
[ATTACH]55371[/ATTACH]
Looks like Jim's got a sideline.
We had Helm's Bakery when I wasa kid in Southern California. Every day Mon-Fri about 9 am the Helms truck would come down the street. My Mom would get Bread and Pastries from them.
I need one of those trucks
It don't look like no art installation to me. :eek3:
Damn.
That's a very artistic wreck.
♪ ♫He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps,♪ ♫
♪ ♫He likes to press wild flowers.♪ ♫
It don't look like no art installation to me. :eek3:
[YOUTUBE]OrLI7lYeWhw[/YOUTUBE]
That Bruce guy...
Always with the bloodthirsty bunny bullsh--GAH!!!!
[ATTACH]55603[/ATTACH]
Damn, he was right!
Soulless eyed, fluffy, maneating bastidges...
What the fuck, first Pluto's not a planet now Saturn is a red bunny?
[ATTACH]55632[/ATTACH]
See that? Yeah, how could ya miss it?
Shirley Temple's father bought her that ring for her 12th birthday, in 1940. He gave $7210 for it,
in 1940. That's $121,810.38 in current currency.
The ring will be auctioned by Sotheby's on April 19.
Bidding will start at
$25,000,000.
:shocking:
from
hereFort Benning says, just try something Korea, we're bad.
By 1930, about 30% of American men belonged to at least one fraternal organization. This was during prohibition, but an even bigger reason is the working man could get a low cost life insurance policy through the organization, when only the upper crust could afford life insurance. Sometimes they included burial and headstone benefits too.
That said, they still had fun, especially at initiations for new members. This company provided means to that end.
Damn whippersnappers don't know what they're missing. :crone:
Hey baby, wanna play with my 8 inch wondergram.
Hey baby, wanna play with my 8 inch wondergram.
♪ ♫Got me the strangest woman♪ ♫
♪ ♫Believe me this trick's no cinch♪ ♫
♪ ♫But I really get her going♪ ♫
♪ ♫When I whip out my big ten inch♪ ♫
♪ ♫Record of a band that plays the blues♪ ♫
♪ ♫Well a band that plays its blues♪ ♫
♪ ♫She just love my big ten inch♪ ♫
♪ ♫Record of her favorite blues♪ ♫Seemed like a good idea at the time? This isn't a river crossing or ferry, it looks like a downstream trip, and has an elaborate cradle with lifting rigging. A first I thought a motorhome but now I'm sure it's a bus, maybe moving it to an island or remote settlement. Damifino.
What could possibly go wrong?
[size=1]...the fuck?![/size]
[ATTACH]55973[/ATTACH]
Google says 9 hrs 15 min from kissing to petting, to fucking, to wedding.
We've all seen the balanced rocks on the interwebs. This may be the first I've seen in the wild.
Found on Photosafari:
[ATTACH]56022[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]56023[/ATTACH]
I guess we Kentuckians aren't as ambitious as some...:lol2:
Did you check it for glue, Grav?
Delaware whipping.
5 of the 7 flogged in the newspaper clipping was for robbing a pawn shop.
And in Poland, like everywhere else...
But Bruce, you hate the Yankees
...you're from Massachusetts and that still has to represent something
Fuck the Red Socks, I was always a Yankees fan... until I figured out I really didn't give a rat's ass about baseball at all. :haha:
Fuck the Red Sox?!!!?!:mad2:
Why you raggedy, foul, no account sonof----wait a minute...I don't give a shit for baseball either.
Nevermind.
:p:
Musta been a good party...
[ATTACH]56075[/ATTACH]
...woke up in a public restroom with one sock and a box of Life cereal. :neutral:
If you were a kid and saw this guy, you'd never forget him, ever.
UT must have gotten behind on his plane payments. :haha:
From the New York Times, The Gray Lady, bastion of solid responsible Journalism, spurner of sensationalism...
A 22 year old woman shopping in London with her Mother and Daughter in Bexleyheath, south east London, when a man in a trade van called her over and handed her this.
He's very lucky she and her Mother thought it was funny, as I'm sure if she had freaked there is probably a number of health and safety statutes which would have cost him. He might even be tagged a sex offender.
“I thought it was a leaflet for his business or something because he was in a work van. He literally called me over and gave me the sex ticket, rolled up his window and then looked in the other direction.” The mother-of-one has seen the funny side of the “sex ticket”.
She added: “My mum and I read through it and started laughing – something like this has never happened to me before. My sister phoned the number on the card to see who would answer and she said it sounded like an old man.”
But no parking.
LinkJohann's a prick.
Don't be a Johann.
Going to be a hot Saturday night..
Does it have something to do with making a bong? What is that rectangular thing next to the pen?
Pen? I thought that was an e-cigarette.
Smartass whippersnappers. :crone:
ha.
On a similar note, I mentioned manual typewriters in a speech today and got a TON of blank faces.
They literally didn't know what it was.
Looks like a shattered windshield to me.
High speed bird crap impact.
On a shattered windshield.
[ATTACH]56479[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]56480[/ATTACH]
Reuse, recycle, repurpose...
Not like some wasteful places...
Is that a license plate? Does that license plate have photographs on it? Where do I find license plates with photographs on them?
Also, this: For a moment, I thought the engine was wearing a top hat.
I'd guess it's Che Guevara, or some other revolutionary.
Only after reading your comment Grav, did I go back and look. Imagine my surprise that you were right. Wait..... That didn't come out right. Dumb hat on a dumb horse.
Also, where is the supply of vws so plentiful that you can just chop 'em up for whatever job you've got?
Most of the scrapped cars have front end damage, so the rears are relatively easy to find.
[ATTACH]56560[/ATTACH]
-A-DOODLE-DOO!!!
[ATTACH]56560[/ATTACH]
-A-DOODLE-DOO!!!
I wonder if he got into the Kentucky Bourbon?
"We asked Mr Google about how to catch roosters and he came up with the idea to give them a bit of whiskey. Our animal control officer sacrificed some of his own finest Kentucky whiskey and we have laced some barley with it and we are getting results," he said.
The roosters were getting very drunk and rolling onto their sides, allowing the officers to pick them up.
linkThat's the way to do it...
-50 for riding in a minivan though.
That's the way to do it...
Anyone else reminded of "Some Like It Hot"? :cool::rattat:
OMG... do you realize what this means? I missed out on almost six hours of sex. :shock:
Apparently some Go 'Rounds were more Merry than others by the looks of these carousel figures.
♫ Catch an Olive Oyl on the spinning wheel ride...
[buzzkill]It's vitamin B12 that makes you piss fluorescent, not any of the other things.[/buzzkill]
What about chemo, will that do it?
I never saw a purple stove
But I would like to see one
And like the fabled purple cow
I'd rather see than be one
Safety first... after convenience.
Uh... what are we looking at?
X-ray of a laptop computer.
When the glatt clan wants burgers and dogs it's vanbeque to the rescue. :haha:
Neato.:thumb:
*****************************************
[ATTACH]57186[/ATTACH]
Bet they get more than $100 for it... maybe more than $1,000. :haha:
I've driven one of the replica monsters. OMFG.
♫ Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by, ♪
♫ And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by. ♪
I'll bet this intake costs more than $29.95.
Yeah, that's gonna hurt the back pocket.
Ringringringringringringringring-
[ATTACH]57361[/ATTACH]
Look at the kid's clothes, then check out the old man in the background.:3_eyes:
[ATTACH]57438[/ATTACH]
What's wrong with this pic?
[ATTACH]57519[/ATTACH]
Here's what's wrong with that pic:
That's Marvin Gaye. Marvin Gaye died in 1984.
Did those type earphone/boom microphones exist in 1984? Did they? I don't think they did.
Well that fashion choice right there is what's wrong with the picture...
Awesome catch, there, gtown. Thanks.
hahahaha - thats great. Sad, but ...
Great advice in theory. Not that easy in real life.
But very rewarding when one can muster the courage to overcome one's emotions and realize the benefit.
dear classicman,
tw has stolen your cellar credentials and is posting as you.
You picked up on that eh? ;)
I think I would've liked Janet.
I liked the bronzing article. I often wondered about those ads in magazines.
See, the Big Mac wouldn't be so hard if it wasn't for the shredded lettuce in there.
[ATTACH]57774[/ATTACH]
Good thread for that picture, John. Random.
Who is that?
Is that Gabriel Iglesias?
I google searched it and it came up: photograph.
The apple fell far from the tree on that one.
Is that Gabriel Iglesias?
Yep. datz Fluffy.
This is awesome.
[ATTACH]57839[/ATTACH]
I must've forgotten to ensmall that pic.
Those tomatoes have places to go.
These roots were made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do...
These roots were made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do...
For the win.
These fruits were made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do...
ftfy
Knowledge: Knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom: Not putting it in a fruit salad.
One of these folks has a reeeeally good horse mask...
[ATTACH]57963[/ATTACH]
i don't know why i laughed at this for a full minute
Sometimes the simplest things strike us as really funny.
glatt truck, VW based truck built by a custom coach firm in Berlin about 1951.
glatt truck, VW based truck built by a custom coach firm in Berlin about 1951.
Looks a bit like a VW.
Seems the engine is under the seat, with those vents back there. Back in the day, VW built thier own pickup trucks with the engine under the bed, way in back.
The United Steaks of America:
[ATTACH]58107[/ATTACH]
Close.
Now, that is a a good lookin' country.
EAT THE PLANET!
[ATTACH]58110[/ATTACH]
That looks like the original Everlasting Gobstoppers candies, when they were jupiter-sized and you could easily choke and die on one.
you know, when child safety was not considered a thing.
from my perspective, child safety started to become a thing in the mid 70s. of course when i got to age 14, child protection kicked in for the whole culture. and everyone started being all worried about the children and they, like, banned flammable pajamas and choking hazards and stuff
it's just a shame about all the kids i grew up with who died of choking on jawbreakers, and of going to bed in flaming pajamas. and got their eyes knocked out by
clackers. all those blind, choked, burned up kids. and pegged in the head by a lawn dart, too.
It's just a cake, dude. Chill.
Methane clouds on Titan:
[ATTACH]58130[/ATTACH]
The smeller's the feller.
who dealt it
The smeller's the feller.
heh.
[ATTACH]58134[/ATTACH]
This one probably shoulda gone in the "Useless Facts" thread, but technically, it is a picture.
Like all insurance companies they want to stick it up your ass...
In 1974 Blue Jeans was in vogue...
The moon of [COLOR="DarkRed"]BLOOD[/COLOR]
[ATTACH]58181[/ATTACH]
Best photobomb I've ever seen!
[ATTACH]58182[/ATTACH]
Maybe it's not a photobomb, but a selfie. :lol:
and I thought my fall allergies were bad....
Red Spider Nebula
[ATTACH]58308[/ATTACH]
Where do you think the spiders from Mars originated?
Why?
Oh, very funny. :rolleyes:
Where do you think the spiders from Mars originated?
We miss you, David.
Lego spider mech
[ATTACH]58312[/ATTACH]
Oh, very funny. :rolleyes:
Glad you liked it, because it doesn't always mean what you think it means.;)
Norther Lights above a volcano
[ATTACH]58314[/ATTACH]
DO WANT!
[ATTACH]58315[/ATTACH]
How the fuck so you eat that, dissect it with a knife and fork?
It's garnished with another fuckin' cheeseburger!!!:lol2:
I'm not saying these are scientifically accurate, but...
Purported to be fatal doses of each:
[ATTACH]58318[/ATTACH]
Probably a good idea to avoid both. :yesnod:
My kids have both taken Fentanyl as an anesthesia. And I've been given morphine more than once. Dose is everything.
My ex nephew in law died from fentanyl
Recreational, or medical?
I keep waiting for a "you insensitive bastards".
Parking spaces reserved for combat wounded:
[ATTACH]58385[/ATTACH]
Doot doot doot looking out my back door
Xoxo, thanx , I needed that.[emoji2] [emoji2]
tarheel
Wow.
I wonder what are those rings around each bloom are about?
ETA: Framework to achieve the shape I suppose?
Yes, frame to maintain shape.
I wanna pick just one. :bolt:
When the government works for the people, no four months of engineering, three months of bids, 6 months of accusations of bid rigging and political favoritism... with lawsuits, and 6 months of construction.
ONE WEEK! One damn week!
That may be a bit too far in the other direction... I'd be worried that the Nov 8th pics could be relabeled Nov 29...
They supposedly used a special soil mix the Japs have developed to stabilize after earthquakes. It's supposed to insure the building's subsoil won't move.
Blooms...
Then this ... See, the cellar is ahead of the news.
Are those little, tiny Amazon boxes?
:D
Have a Cthulhu Thanksgiving urrbody!
[ATTACH]58562[/ATTACH]
I guess the tracking force was measured in lbs. :rolleyes:
What do ya mean 'Has there been any flooding lately?'?:eyebrow:
[ATTACH]58632[/ATTACH]
Why do you ask?
I guess the tracking force was measured in lbs. :rolleyes:
Wild. I wonder if this was a nod to Donovan's Mello Yellow song.
It's not even a particularly fresh banana.:neutral:
I was one, too, but, I didn't get on tv for it.:neutral:
The graphics and set make it look like he's on a reality show, in which case I'd have to argue with the "former" designation.
Flying used to be more interesting when that rig would slid on the rail during flight. Where it stopped after landing, determined who got the baby. :yesnod:
I believe I could have outran it.
Kids run wild these day, led by pop culture, instead of family values.
Now back in the day, girls learned from mothers/grandmothers, things like baking and fashion. ;)
"...things like baking and fashion"
And patio furniture in the house.:yelsick:
Yes and what the hell is up with that floor/wallpaper combination? It doesn't even work if you're colorblind.
They're simple folk, being able to decorate the wall or floor was each an accomplishment. Things got changed one at a time, sometimes a year or two apart, coordination wasn't possible. Taste is never on sale. :lol:
If you asked them, they wouldn't even know what you are talking about.
The floor is the floor, and the wall is the wall. They are two separate things.
Yes and what the hell is up with that floor/wallpaper combination? It doesn't even work if you're colorblind.
Throw in the pattern on Aunt Gertie's zip-front dress and you got yourself the makings for a seizure right there.[/hickspeak]
Look. At. The. Head. Of. Hair. On. This. Babby.:eek:
[ATTACH]58777[/ATTACH]
Yes and what the hell is up with that floor/wallpaper combination? It doesn't even work if you're colorblind.
Same people, Running Springs CA.
[ATTACH]58822[/ATTACH]
:lol2:
This taxidermy is 100+ years old, proving people were weird long before the internet. ;)
Looks like some other froggy came a-courtin' Miss Mousey...
I love this photo.
[ATTACH]59020[/ATTACH]
I don't suppose their faces ever really do reflect what they are feeling, but those guys look like this is just another jump-away in their day.
That's exactly what I loved about the pic.
It's like they didn't even stop talking about the type of floss they'd been using.
It's the latest hot Antelope Band: the GTFOs!
Check out this fucking mug:
[ATTACH]59088[/ATTACH]
OMG, it's all about the money...
Air guitar strings...That i$ fucking geniu$.
Aren't you glad nobody has to cut you to find out how old you are... except Dick Cheney. :eyebrow:
Do you think he gets much pussy?
I do, actually. He's an attractive young man, and Eagle Scouts are not nerds anymore, they're the resourceful outdoorsy types. Guarantee that kid's gotten his dick wet.
Prolly got a badge for it.:right:
Getting all those badges, ranks, and honors requires a lot of time. It would have to be a girl who is content to only see him once in a while.
Or a one night stand with a girl that gets wet at the sight of uniforms and medals.
Is it illegal to wear a biker jacket?
I think that was originally from Australia and was changed, but yes, some places in the country they've passed local ordinances, and anywhere it's liable to draw unreasonable harassment.
Colors are sometimes banned where large motorcycle rallys take place because it reduces the violence, cuz humans are dumb.
Is it illegal to wear a biker jacket?
I don't think it's the leather jacket. It's the 'flying of the colors' (mc club/gang logos) that's illegal in many places.
This is my vest. Never had any complaints. See I had lots of room in my Goldwing and I carried a Bible. My Harley is a different style of bike with less room. It pays to ride with the Lord.
tarheel
It pays to ride with the Lord.
Damn sure don't hurt.
When you want wood wheels but you're gonna drive the bitch...
"You've got wood."[/AOLvoice]
Forgot how to deer:
[ATTACH]59598[/ATTACH]
I'm sure he'd prefer the 2nd option, and not for the cash savings. :lol:
Hey look, there's BigV's house...
Having a bad day? Just remember, you could be James' brother:
[ATTACH]59715[/ATTACH]
It's the Underyoutoad.:jig:
I was looking at a used Pontiac but I suspect it may be flood damaged. :confused:
Enforcing prohibition in 1929... the savages...oh the humanity :bawling:
[ATTACH]59810[/ATTACH]
:lol2:
Bwaaaahahahahaaha!
Truth in advertising has never been so well handled.
Rowan Atkinson, as everybody:
[ATTACH]59876[/ATTACH]
MoarWhen your plumber's a pro and working with a this old house sized budget. ;)
That belongs in Nightmare Fuel.
Damn. Look at all that real estate too. That basement ceiling is at least 10 feet tall.
I bet his hen house is a sight to behold. Just look at all those pet cocks.
Damn. Look at all that real estate too. That basement ceiling is at least 10 feet tall.
That's because it's a new house. They know man caves and home theaters need head room. Years ago I was doing plumbing in a new house for a guy whose hobby was basketball. Not enough for a regulation half court, but 14 ft ceiling.
The house that manifold is in uses PEX throughout the house.
Couldn't they have done that bit in PEX too
Possible but harder to do neatly and keep straight, notice the different sized copper tubing with all the valves and drains. Probably made up off site. The only thing I'd change is that drain (I presume it's a drain), at the lower right. I would have put an elbow on the end of the copper tubing then necked down to the valve. But it could be a charge port. :confused:
I would have put an elbow on the end of the copper tubing then necked down to the valve. But it could be a charge port. :confused:
Well, as long as we are being critical, it's going to be a pain to switch out the water heater in the future with it tucked behind the plumbing like that. Maybe there is clearance out of frame to the right, but maybe not.
Couldn't they have done that bit in PEX too
Absolutely, and for a tenth of the price and in a tenth of the time.
Changing water heaters in no problem.
♫With jump to the right,
let's change heaters again,
let's change heaters again.♪
PEX? Good luck, you'll never get on TV. :p:
Specialty truck, wonder what that cost the taxpayers...
Clandestine-ish?
Reminds me of when I was a kid, there was a building in my neighborhood that housed the US Secret Service - Uniformed Division.
Couldn't they have done that bit in PEX too
Absolutely, and for a tenth of the price and in a tenth of the time.
2" copper? Copper bell reducers?! This is a high-dollar art project.
Clandestine-ish?
Reminds me of when I was a kid, there was a building in my neighborhood that housed the US Secret Service - Uniformed Division.
You know, mullet style. Business in the front, party in the back.
I think they mean clandestine labs, not clandestine response team.;)
I've never encountered a "barf sink".
Not a dedicated one, anyway.:lol2:
[ATTACH]59977[/ATTACH]
I'm guessing they're transporting blades for a big wind turbine.
Must have been dope peddling, American women raping, terrorists.
Damn. They're strict.
[ATTACH]60066[/ATTACH]
Heh, the pic in the previous post is not the one I came here to put up.
This is what I meant to put up:
[ATTACH]60067[/ATTACH]
Platter from an early hard drive. Probably measured in megabytes.:p:
United is taking a beating on the web. :lol:
[ATTACH]60131[/ATTACH]
Fuckin' A, man.
For some reason the Coco-de-Mer have always been treasured by men. Kings have claimed all of them as his own. Men have paid fortunes for them. Sailors thought they were Good luck. All for a coconut. :)
Ya gotta look out for 'em...They can be anywhere.
[ATTACH]60178[/ATTACH]
With this flag you can be a badass, but can be changed to white quickly if you chicken out... or elect a Pope.
If the island on Lost had a flag, that'd be it.
Hah! Soup knife, for slicing soup. Y'know, for sammiches.
[ATTACH]60425[/ATTACH]
What? You never heard the phrase "fucked up as a soup sandwich"?:eyebrow:
Eh, while I'm here, this is as good a place as any:
[ATTACH]60426[/ATTACH]
I've been there. Backed up the street aways to get a better picture.
Backed up on a one way street? :eyebrow:
He was only facing one way.
Yep. We drove down it, at the bottom my roommate got out to take a picture of me in the car on the street. He said the picture would be better if I were higher up the street. Rather than drive around God knows where to get back to the top, I just backed up about half a loop.
I've been there a few times. Bumper to bumper traffic coming down it. No way are you backing up. I feel sorry for the poeple who live there. No way would I want to live on that busy street.
Yeah, that's what I saw, bumper to bumper.
No way would I want to live in that expensive city.
Fixed that for me.
[ATTACH]60539[/ATTACH]
:drool:
My God...It's full of stars.
ETA: Lebanon, KY, btw.
No reason not to stay in shape...
[ATTACH]60539[/ATTACH]
:drool:
ETA: Lebanon, KY, btw.
So, sooooo thirsty.
Caltrans, CA's highway administrator/emperor has made the decision (after a 6 year study, costing?) not to install or maintain any more Botts Dots. They are going to zoomy plastic reflective tchotchkes. Around here they've gone with cutting grooves in the pavement on the edges and centerlines between the lanes. It's remarkably effective when it's foggy or you're foggy.
I hate when this happens...
Honey...I'm home.:drool:
[ATTACH]60665[/ATTACH]
Put that wheelchair to work for you...
Makes me think of Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of King's Mountain.
God Himself cannot remove me from this mountain.
He was right. He's still there today.
Man, what a sweet ride. I'd ride the shit outta that. I'd ride that right in the middle of Main Street, hollerin' "Whoo-hoo!! Look at me!!".
[ATTACH]60697[/ATTACH]
I wouldn't be caught dead on that green scooter, though.
:cool:
Bah, just eye candy not wife potential. :lol2:
Bookmobile...
Bah, just eye candy not wife potential.
She's 5 feet and a quarter inch tall.
Her babydaddy, Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko, is 6 feet 6 inches tall.
See, he's so tall he can't see her flaws. :yesnod:
Golden Gate Bridge under construction.
[ATTACH]60784[/ATTACH]
They had to get them up to hang the safety nets from.
Keep calm, and have a cuppa:
[ATTACH]60847[/ATTACH]
A woman sits on a pile of rubble and enjoys a cup of tea in a quintessentially British act of defiance.
(Royston Leonard/mediadrumworld.com)
That pic, man. Such calmness in the face of calamity.
Calmity.
From
here.
In 1933 the Jews worldwide knew where the Nazis were at.
Late 30s LA. I've never seen these double stools before. For a pair of young lovers sharing an ice cream soda... or me. :blush:
The stools are for fat ass people ordering a malt shake with double extra malt.
Why do women live longer than men?
Canola/rapeseed:
[ATTACH]61097[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]61098[/ATTACH]
If you've never smelled it, I wish you could.
So I wouldn't be suffering alone. God, it's just hideous.:greenface
I wonder if the have trouble with flocks of birds?
If they do, I haven't heard about it.
But, they well might. Birds like canola, I take it?
I didn't know, thought birds would eat any kind of seed.
Rapeseed And Canary Seed
These two seed types don’t offer much over the more widespread seeds. A few birds do eat rapeseed, including quails, doves, finches, and juncos. If you’re not getting these, the rapeseed will be left to spoil. Canary seed is very popular with House Sparrows and cowbirds—birds that many people would prefer not to attract. Other species that eat canary seed are equally happy with sunflower, so this is a better all-around choice.
[ATTACH]61132[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]61131[/ATTACH]
Yeah, they were ridin' high back then...
You think you put them through college and they go away. Wrong parent breath, they'll keep coming and coming and coming for your wallet... and the wife encourages them.
Designed by a male chauvinist pig? If so, he's probably is unaware he is...
Nuthin else it has a helluva nut sack.
[ATTACH]61299[/ATTACH]
Married 33 yearsImagine his voice humming on her clit... seriously, imagine it. :rollanim:
I'd bet that when Sam Elliott busts a nut it sounds like someone dropping five pounds of gravel in a foil pie pan.
Imagine his voice humming on her clit... seriously, imagine it. :rollanim:
I'd bet that when Sam Elliott busts a nut it sounds like someone dropping five pounds of gravel in a foil pie pan.
Both of these made me snort/laugh..........:cool:
On a side note, when Sam Elliott was recording the Wrap Up scene to the "Big Lebowski" the Cohen brothers had him doing the take after take. Finally, after 15 takes, Sam asked the Cohen brothers, "Am I doing something wrong? Do you want me to change anything?"
They said, "No, we got it on the second take, we just like hearing you say it."
(Katherine Ross is still a babe.)
JR
Ha Ha Ha, I don't approve, but I understand. :D
[ATTACH]61369[/ATTACH]
Hey, look! My own noodle bar!
[ATTACH]61370[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]61371[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]61372[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]61448[/ATTACH]
:lol2::lol2::lol2:
That's funny, but a tattoo?
I guess ya realllllly gotta like Lionel and Waldo...
Big V came to mind when Momdigr brought this in the other night...:)
[ATTACH]61471[/ATTACH]
What am I looking at? I can't identify those red and yellow circles.
They look like dog treats. Squirrel stashed them in the car.
Yes, filled the console with dog treats.
Squirrel's have nothing but free time and don't seem to do anything constructive as far as I can tell, they are rodents, don't forget
Yes, filled the console with dog treats.
Where did all the treats come from? Is this yours?
No, not mine. Evidently the owner of the vehicle had a dog.
Relationships change, I guess:
[ATTACH]61585[/ATTACH]
It's like a bait inception...
[ATTACH]61622[/ATTACH]
The file name says 'whenyourbaiteatsyourbaitsbait'.
This is accurate
I'm chaotic good, usually, but sometimes I'm neutral good. I'm never ever lawful good...those plastic thingys suck.
This is accurate
...
I use this system:
We use the twist tie. According to Undertoad makes us lawful good.
yeah, we save twist ties from other sources and use those instead of the plastic clip.
But I also save the plastic clip and use them for clothes pins on paracord on backpacking trips.
I use "just tuck", in the fridge, but not freezer. Sliding around the southeast quadrant.
I don't buy bread thus avoiding the quandry. ;)
I bet your sammiches is fuuuuuuucccckkked up.
Gentlemen don't eat sammiches. The sandwich is food ne'er-do-wells share while gaming and drinking. Gentlemen dine with proper utensils like a plastic spoon and paper plate.
Aaaand here's how ya can tell Darwin took a day off:
[ATTACH]61755[/ATTACH]
Despite what you may have heard, this is the real Miss America...
A couple questions...
[ATTACH]61775[/ATTACH]
No. 1, is that one of those things the nightwatchman/security guard would carry on his rounds and put a wall-tethered key in there to prove he'd made his rounds? Is that what that is?
No.2, just wtf is that, anyway?:eyebrow:
2 is a sewing machine. I would have guessed 1 is a canteen, maybe with a compass on it.
I tried to make a sewing machine out of it! I really did.
Thanks.
I believe you are right about the night watchman’s clock.
This is accurate
*
freezes bread*
*
hangs head in shame*
But freezing is only a neutral evil and a good idea under some circumstances. :thumb:
Happiness...
But freezing is only a neutral evil and a good idea under some circumstances. :thumb:
When you live alone and don't eat a lot of bread, a loaf can go bad pretty quickly. Typically, I take three or four slices out, put them in a ziploc baggie that stays on the kitchen counter, and freeze the rest for later.
Some friends who visit regularly were puzzling over why I only ever had two or three slices of bread. Took them a good year to finally ask why . . . :D
Even good friends usually find it awkward to ask about our idiosyncrasies that are not shocking, but just a little strange. :D
[ATTACH]61827[/ATTACH]
Flushes a bucket of golf balls in a single flush.
:3_eyes:
Golf balls are easy to flush. They should dump a serving bowl of mashed potatoes in there and see how it does.
Golf balls are easy to flush. They should dump a serving bowl of mashed potatoes in there and see how it does.
And mix up the mashed potatoes with barium, and then take live fluoroscopic images of the flushing sequence.
I worked on a renovation project at the Roebling factory in NJ, when it was being split up for smaller companies. I doubt Roebling made that cable in NJ. :haha:
From a recent safari:
I think that I
Shall never see
A sister as twisted
As this tree
[ATTACH]61894[/ATTACH]
Think about the pressure on certain parts of that trunk...
A pic from the craziness out in Vegas last night:
[ATTACH]61998[/ATTACH]
Dude didn't even drop his drink.
Maybe he was sitting there and simply too drunk to get up. :haha:
Could be, but, gunfire sobers a fellow purty damn quick.:lol2:
Heh, that reminds me of El Dorado:
John Wayne: Anybody know a fast way to sober a man up?
Arthur Hunnicutt: A band of wild Injuns hollerin' fer hair does the trick faster than anything I know.
:lol2:
Turtle, riding capybara, pursued by swan.
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!Ha Ha, looks like they're both doing burnouts in the mud.:D
I shall call him.... SPEAK!
That made me think of Steven Wright naming his dog Stay.
C'mere Stay! C'mere Stay!
"I think this mirror is broken, or something."
[ATTACH]62040[/ATTACH]
Yeah. The weight isn't so much a concern, as keeping it from folding up. Or, down, as the case may be.
Driver has great visibility.:rolleyes:
Could only do that in the great wide open, around here the necessary support crew and permits would kill that move.
Some cars are just lucky...
3 from the pic dump:
[ATTACH]62167[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]62168[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]62169[/ATTACH]
That Zuckerberg one just pisses me off because it's true.
You'll like this one, then:
[ATTACH]62176[/ATTACH]
That post, I hate that post,...
I broke a concrete block in a wall with a fork once.
Just a little.
When I worked at Westinghouse there was a milk machine that liked to steal money and sometimes give sour milk. The guy that serviced it only came in after midnight so recouping losses was a bitch. One morning I came in and the machine was pinned to the wall with a fork truck. :lol:
Bloody battles in 108 degree heat and high humidity, prompted brutal mutilation.
I'll take the yellow one w/the massive bumper, or the white one up top.
To all the people who drive in the left lane, going the same speed as the truck next to them in the right lane, this is in your future, asshole. :crone:
It's the passing lane, to be used to overtake the traffic in the adjacent lane.
How is this still news?
In ideal conditions, the left lane is the passing lane.
In the real world, everybody and their mom is in the left lane thinking they are going to go faster than the 35mph average stop and go bullshit everyone is experiencing in all lanes of the highway, but the left lane is actually worse because everybody and their mom is there. The middle lanes are usually fastest.
[ATTACH]62422[/ATTACH]
There's an excellent passing lane on the right, just ahead of that location.
I enter the beltway on my commute just where that white box truck is, between the signs.
(technically, where the dark-colored car is, poking out behind the sign, but the box truck is easier to point out.
No way. Grav is at least at old as Ash
In ideal conditions, the left lane is the passing lane.
In the real world, everybody and their mom is in the left lane thinking they are going to go faster than the 35mph average stop and go bullshit everyone is experiencing in all lanes of the highway, but the left lane is actually worse because everybody and their mom is there. The middle lanes are usually fastest.
[ATTACH]62422[/ATTACH]
That looks so much like the sure kill(76) west bound near city line Avenue. I had to check the signs to realize it was DC.
Is the kid you, Grav?
You mean post #1245 w/Bruce Campbell, or the 'white privilege' pic in post #1240?
Neither is me, btw. You can tell because the mother in 'white privilege' doesn't have a weapon in her hand and isn't chasing me down the street.
And as far as the Bruce Campbell pic:
No way. Grav is at least at old as Ash
He's
ten years older than me. However, our b-days are very close.
Looks accurate to me.
[ATTACH]62513[/ATTACH]
Scotland built the coolest trucks... evah.
If ya coma across a pic of one of them, please, share it w/us.
What do you call that, chopped liver?
OK, it's actually spelled Albion. :o They started in 1899 and were taken over by Leland in the early 50's, building all kinds of trucks. But to me those 1930's vans were the pinnacle of cool.
Not my thang, but, I can see the attraction.
I'm just giving ya a hard time.:stickpoke
Nobody can compare with the man. :biggrinlo
If you've got bad credit, a clapped out car, and a good motor you put them together the best you can. Sometimes it's a poor fit and you have to alter it a mite.
[ATTACH]62862[/ATTACH]
14, 14 hammocks. Muah. Ah. Ah.[/TheCount]
Clever advertising...
Buy Pennzoil + war bonds = pride for doing more than your peers.
Have to get a new elephant....
LOL
However, spare bunnies can be found in the trunk
Shoulda been a hybrid.
I see a flaw - the radiator won't be hot if you're not using gas.
Maybe these are assists, like the batteries in a hybrid. If you are right you might be entitled to substantial monetary compensation from Pennzoil. :jig:
What costs more?
Buying gasoline?
Or feeding an elephant?
Old school Metallica fan:
[ATTACH]63051[/ATTACH]
"Draw me in your sweaty leg hair like one of your French girls."
[ATTACH]63052[/ATTACH]
I'm not sure she knows what an STD is:
[ATTACH]63053[/ATTACH]
[YOUTUBE]hxGgnI6kCrs[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]XT8hE7_8BCY?t=18[/YOUTUBE]
Speaking of cowboys era folks...
[ATTACH]63217[/ATTACH]
I'm not a scotch man, but, if you buy I'll drink it.
Ha!
Apparently, I *used* to be a scotch man, but now I see I can't afford it.
There is more traffic now?
Apparently an Indian scout who rode with Wild Bill Cody...
Ice fishing can get expensive...
At least the beer's still cold...
That almost looks like mounds of old horse shoes piled up on the left there. Probably a vine though?
I can't tell even after blowing up the pic.
[ATTACH]63381[/ATTACH]
I thought sheds from the tree the pile is under, or wiring from the cars being dismantled...just can't tell, though.
Those things across the top of the building that look like anvils have letters on them.
I think it says C S Johnston.
It does say C S Johnston.
Shop floor plan, and equipment list at the link.;)
Yeah, young Lucy was smokin'.:love:
This one is Irish but I've seen this here in the US too... I love it. :thumb:
Nothing to worry about, see the pink collar? Obviously someone's tame pet.
Until that tail gets pinched.....
Yep. Adorable.
[ATTACH]63471[/ATTACH]
I love the name Public Welfare Pictures. Yes sir, we have the public's interest at heart, not porn, nope not prurient, we are public spirited scholars.
The photo is not related to the poster but I thought appropos. :blush:
This steering wheel probably cost more than a compact car. :eek:
For some reason, that pic reminds me of an old Jerry Clower story involving lizard boots.
A woman screamed "Those boots are lizard boots!"
"Yes ma'am, they are."
"Some poor lizard had to die so you could have a pair of lizard boots!"
"No ma'am, a Greyhound bus run over this lizard..."
...
"No ma'am. This cow was killed by a freight train hauling sheet rock to Wichita.":lol2:
Thanks Grav!
Do you know how hard it is to work that into polite conversation?
You are right, but you don't have to be pissy about it...
Of course I'm right... because I didn't know what the hell it was so I Googled it. But when I asked they slapped me, called me an ignoramus, and said bad things about my Mama. They did give me the proper spelling however.
#retrogiminent
Psst... retromingent.
I knew a chick who had one of them retromingents.
It was like the 70s all over again.:headshake
My son on a band trip with his band buddies shortly after checking into a hotel at Myrtle Beach.
Sweden leaves the dark side...
Always look on the bright side of life...
He looks less like a human every time I see him.
Abe Lincoln, just passing through...
...the hell? Did he watch his own funeral procession???
[ATTACH]63813[/ATTACH]
Always remember deep is relative...
Always remember deep is relative...
[ATTACH]63827[/ATTACH]
It's fun to tell tourists in DC that the line on the Washington Monument is due to the great flood of '38.
Keeps you from scraping you wheels on the curb...
Kinda dangerous. Must be some kind of record for sidewall bubbles.
Caught off guard
The Scots Guards were seen letting their hair – and their hats – down a little while having their regimental photograph taken outside Buckingham Palace early yesterday morning.
[ATTACH]63946[/ATTACH]
It's probably against Queen's Regulations to joke at the expense of one's follically challenged comrades in arms.
Anyway, there's bound to be an 'ism' that will cover it.
The issue that is, not the baldness. :)
Ah, let the lads have their fun.
I'm sure they earn it.
Myself, though, I woulda given the hairless among them a proper Benny Hill-style smacking on the pate.:D
It would be unwise to be smacking Scots Guards.
Is it any unwiser to give them a sensual head rub?
Intent is interpreted by the receiver. ;)
Intent is interpreted by the receiver. ;)
ƒuck you, buddy! I know what you're implying and I am positively incensed.
It's like a reverse growth chart, for a very used up broom:
[ATTACH]64002[/ATTACH]
************************************************
My buddy has a really green thumb.
Urrbody: How green is it?
He got AstroTurf to take root:
[ATTACH]64003[/ATTACH]
************************************************
Finishing off with The Slowest Argument EVER:
[ATTACH]64004[/ATTACH]
shouldn't it be
buddy!
too
you
fuck
you
fuck
Does radar work by line of sight? If so, how does it detect anything over the horizon?
The higher the antenna is the further it can "see."
Also, it's often used to detect things that are themselves high up.
It all depends on the angle of the antenna.
Still needs line of sight.
Radar is a radio wave, correct? RAdio Detection And Ranging? How is it I can receive a radio station from Nashville? That is beyond line of sight. Is it that the returning signal doesn't have the same properties as the outgoing?
T'ain't no returning signal on the AM/FM, just outgoing from their transmitter, that you receive.
I said taint
What? Nobody said anything about a returning am/fm signal. I meant the radar signal, and I think you know it.
This is gonna go just like the fucking "what does the blue represent" I'm gonna get nothing but goddamned bullshit.
Fuck it. I'll guess I'll find out on my goddamned own.
I bet my soon to be even more miserable goddamned life this question could be answered in a single fucking sentence.
Fuck me when that happens, here or anyfuckingwhere else.
BTW, thanks for explaining how radio works. I missed that day in kindergarten.
Radar is a radio wave, correct? RAdio Detection And Ranging? How is it I can receive a radio station from Nashville? That is beyond line of sight. Is it that the returning signal doesn't have the same properties as the outgoing?
Frequencies below about 30Mhz will bounce off the ionosphere hence the ability to receive a station beyond the horizon, the AM broadcast band being the band most people are probably familiar with.
International broadcasters, VoA, BBC etc will use higher frequencies (but below 30Mhz) for global coverage from a limited number of transmitter sites.
When you get up into the FM broadcast band, 88-108Mhz in the UK and probably the US, VHF radio waves travel, save for unusual circumstances, straight through the ionosphere.
It's therefore possible to have several different stations on the same frequency simply by well planned geographic separation.
Air Traffic Control radar of the long range variety tends to operate at about 1300Mhz. A radar sited on high ground will 'see' further than one mounted at sea level.
A good example of this is the radar on Mt Gabriel in Southern Ireland which is operated by the Irish aviation authorities but is also 'piped in' to UK Air Traffic Control.
It allows early identification of trans Atlantic arrivals.
That's a bit of a broad brush approach but I think it lays out the general principles.
Have to go and water some plants now on instructions from the manager in residence.
Back later. :)
ETA If you'd like clarification of any of the above points, please do ask.
There may be a small fee.;)
What? Nobody said anything about a returning am/fm signal. I meant the radar signal, and I think you know it.
This is gonna go just like the fucking "what does the blue represent" I'm gonna get nothing but goddamned bullshit.
Fuck it. I'll guess I'll find out on my goddamned own.
I bet my soon to be even more miserable goddamned life this question could be answered in a single fucking sentence.
Fuck me when that happens, here or anyfuckingwhere else.
Oh shut up, just because you're old you don't have to be grumpy.
RADAR is radio waves that go straight out, bounce off of something, and come straight back. They couldn't get there or back if there was anything solid in between. Wouldn't be of any use if the didn't come back now would they.
Ground penetrating radar is a whole other kettle of fish.
Radar is a radio wave, correct? RAdio Detection And Ranging? How is it I can receive a radio station from Nashville? That is beyond line of sight. Is it that the returning signal doesn't have the same properties as the outgoing?
If you only care about receiving a transmission, you don't care what route it took, but if you're measuring distance by how much time it traveled, you need the direct line there and back.
Radio waves...
Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth's atmosphere; long waves can diffract around obstacles like mountains and follow the contour of the earth (ground waves), shorter waves can reflect off the ionosphere and return to earth beyond the horizon (skywaves), while much shorter wavelengths bend or diffract very little and travel on a line of sight, so their propagation distances are limited to the visual horizon.
The scene from, I think it is Hot Shots...
The guys are all jumping from the plane hollering "Geronimoooo!", "Geronimoooo!","Geronimoooo!" Then a Native American appears in the door, jumps and yells "Meeeeee!"
I larfed, and larfed.
ETA:
Yep, it's Hot Shots:
[YOUTUBE]-lXiUleCN2w[/YOUTUBE]
A wasp nest...
[ATTACH]64215[/ATTACH]
...in THE wrong place.
I would like apologize to Toad for my unwarranted shitburst of June 27th.
I am sorry, sir. I was not pissed at you in particular, I was just pissed in general, I should have kept my anger more in check, and should not have responded the way I did. It was quite childish.
Again, my apologies to you sir, and to anyone else that felt spackled by my overspray.
Heh no problem sir I have done that myself plenty
The blue area in North America means that it was colder than average in North America, during the whole month of April. Areas that were red were warmer than average during that month.
And it feels gooooooood. :lol2:
New Jersey. An appliance was delivered the day before. It used to be a two-story house.
[ATTACH]64298[/ATTACH]
Damn. With a side order of DAYUM! That was a a-big a-badda-boom!
The article says the blast was felt several miles away.
An old-school family whose name ends in a vowel, in New Jersey, and they don't suspect foul play?
(continues reading) near Vineland
Oh never mind, yeah that was just an incompetent installer.
Maybe the neighbors wanted to claim the pool. :rolleyes:
It's gonna need to be cleaned.
"appliance"?
Is that what the cool kids are calling it now? Are you telling me that "device" is no longer the term of art?
And only knobs call it an apparatus.
All knobs know are shafts and various grips
Erik Estrada's latest gig:
[YOUTUBEWIDE]GofxkpEY6Uo[/YOUTUBEWIDE]
Erik Estrada's latest gig:
[YOUTUBEWIDE]GofxkpEY6Uo[/YOUTUBEWIDE]
Who was that guy that starred with Erik on Chips?
When asked why he still lived in a bungalow instead of buying a mansion like Erik he replied, you never know how long stardom will last. I guess he was right cuz he dropped off the map.
Larry Wilcox.
Loved that show.
I was a child.
Chevy billboards for the Woodward Ave Cruise over the years.
Will people ever line the street to look at what you drove?
This.
I wanna take a Sharpie, and draw lines all over Grand Cherokee One, and make it look like it's covered with insulating tiles, like the Space Shuttle.
Oh, Canadia...:facepalm:
[ATTACH]64670[/ATTACH]
Hmm, Canadian flag, California flag, and honesty... something doesn't add up?
PECO taking care of business...
That woulda made tree trimming more interesting.
I wonder if his name was Bill?
(PECO's Bill)
One of the most beautiful pictures of Niagara Falls I've even seen. Maid of the Mist, fall foliage, and everything...
One of the most beautiful pictures of Niagara Falls I've even seen.
I concur.
Titanic? Iceberg?
[ATTACH]65036[/ATTACH]
Rly?:right:
Is your mode of travel dangerous?
You can't really compare when they're all measured in different units.
heh. He does look like a short version of me!
It's actually pretty amazing. His grin is a little more crooked than mine, and he's shorter. But it's an otherwise identical face.
Maybe Alvarez is really really tall. Plutonium is heavy and maybe the MP is holding most of the load. :haha:
And that is either Flint, or XTC's Andy Partridge on the right.
...with the plutonium core from the Fat Man atomic bomb...
They got it back?!:eek:
And that is either Flint, or XTC's Andy Partridge on the right.
wait why is that me ?
...
...
...
this is what I look like now:
You look like that now because of all that plutonium.
You look like that now because of all that plutonium.
that's the kind of hurtful stereotype that gives today's Clean Plutonium™ a bad rap
Must have been a heck of a margarita.
wait why is that me ?
...
...
...
this is what I look like now:
I might be drunk, but I know Capt. Spalding when I see him.
:devil:
This year Halloween is on a Wednesday--the night I play drums in the house band for a weekly Open Mic night. So I guess this Capt Spaulding will be on the skins !!
[ATTACH]65168[/ATTACH]
The ageing process has not been kind to Elton John.
And all that deep-throating seems to have disfigured his neck...
Ride 'em, cowboy!!!
[ATTACH]65234[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]65245[/ATTACH]
Yep, that's it, alright.
Just go about your business as usual, pay no attention to the sniper.
If you aren't doing anything wrong you've nothing to worry about, right?
Boonie hat gives him away.
That's a repeat, btw. Not sayin' nothin', I just wanted to beat Sexobon to it.:stickpoke
:p:
A squirrel proof bird feeder?
In 1860 whitey didn't know what was in the middle of Africa...
Dey knew dere watn't no whiteys...
Every time I see a map of Africa I think of one of the insults from GySgt Hartman in
Full Metal Jacket:
...I don't care if it shortdicks every cannibal on the Congo...
Or something like that.
Yup, that's it, that's my life...
It's life. Even if you get where you want to it's always a u-turn to back where you started.
Or, ya go 10 miles outta your way for absolutely nothing.
...if God wanted you over this obstacle, he would've miracled your ass over it by now.
~GySgt Hartman
Also:
In skirts. Just sayin'.:devil:
Flattening San Francisco...
They didn't do a very good job.
Well, that's close enough. What's 600-700 miles?
Temptation? Nope, any fool knows you don't steal from guys who have wads of cash like that... and live.:headshake
Flattening San Francisco...
The neighborhood is known as the
Denny Regrade.
eta: thought I saw "Denny
Retrograde" somewhere... oh well.
I thought I saw that, too.
Re: What the tech found in the glovebox:
I kept looking at the red thing. What is that red thing the tech found? What the heck is tha--HOLYGREENBACKSLOOKATTHATWADOFCASH!!!!!!!!
Yeah, Diaphone Jim linked to that.
The Texas method of bringing up boys...
Glove box and cabin filter: Just cuz it tickles a red flag piss off. My granddaughter took her Toyota to a dealer for service. They changed her cabin filter, which is a 2 minute job and a $10 or less part. Charged her $80, a day's pay for her at the time.
Wtf is that red thing, anyway?
Maybe it's a reel of kiddie porn, that would explain the cash.
[ATTACH]65682[/ATTACH]
Alllllmost missed it.
[ATTACH]65683[/ATTACH]
Oh man, that would have been a great "Where is This?" challenge.
That's a great idea! Nobody would ever get that one.
Cool the pad? That's new to me. I understand why, just new.
That's why I bothered with it, drag strip pictures with nothing going on are a boring as it gets, but that one is unusual because it's all concrete and it's the only one with a cooling system. I could understand it down south but Colorado?
Maybe the thinner air allows more surface heating.
Now this is a single guy's fridge, my buddy's:
[ATTACH]65790[/ATTACH]
:lol2:
Two tubs of a product called "Spread"?
Buttuh-like substance. Ya don't wanna run out of BLS.
Oh, and the pink and brown box has been empty for at least a year.
Now that I think about it, one of those had some kind of leftover in it, I think.
Beer doesn't last long enough to get cold around here, much less for pics.:D
There's nothing in that drawer either, but a tiny airline bottle of Jaeger. That's shit's so nasty not even alkys will drink it.
Why are the mayo and the other thing (parmesan cheese?) way in the back? The only thing I can think is that he literally throws them in, otherwise why make the effort to get them all the way back there?
Why are the mayo and the other thing (parmesan cheese?) way in the back? The only thing I can think is that he literally throws them in, otherwise why make the effort to get them all the way back there?
When you put in a bunch of beer, it pushes everything back.
Why are the mayo and the other thing (parmesan cheese?) way in the back? The only thing I can think is that he literally throws them in, otherwise why make the effort to get them all the way back there?
Unused items generally make their way to the back don't they?
Unless they're up against the side (re: pink and brown box).
There's advanced intelligent lifeforms out there, but do you think they want those scumbag Humans of earth littering their hood? Nooooo!
A slice of a rotted out section of a white pine tree. If it had not rotted and been sliced up into boards, you can see where the knots in knotty pine come from.
So did the smaller diameter branches rot, and that is why they are thinner here, or did they not grow as fast because their light was blocked or something?
They didn't grow as fast, or as long, as the larger ones. Look at a pine tree in the wild and there will be branches that stop growing and die off while others thrive, with no apparent reason. Could be better genes, a Moose munched the end off, or a million other things. Mother Nature works in mysterious ways.
Oh my God!!!
They cut out Kawliga's heart!!!
:eek:
There's advanced intelligent lifeforms out there, but do you think they want those scumbag Humans of earth littering their hood? Nooooo!
* not to scale
Ladies, yoo hoo over here...
The last 'gym teacher' I had was over 60, not even close to 6 feet, and weighed about 300 lbs.
I shit you not.:lol2:
No backstory with the pictures so I just made one up. :haha:
Happened over near Edgewood.
Back when America was great and W.T.Grant gave S&H Green Stamps.
Gravdigr: Give us details if you can find them.
I got nothing, Jim. Sorry.
Says "Edgewood Auto Repairs" on the tow truck door.
Something about a purse, or something, IDK...
[ATTACH]66000[/ATTACH]
Pontiac in muck in Novelty, Ohio.
Good find. How'd ya go about that?
I just called the number on the wrecker.
Actually I googled the number (using 33 instead of ED) and Edgewood and up popped the still extant business.
Then I called the current owner who bought the place from Kenny (the driver in the pic, don't ya see) and had a nice talk.
More details of the incident may follow.
I have had an identical '60 GMC, but in red, for 48 years.
I have had an identical '60 GMC, but in red, for 48 years.
:devil:
It's easy to forget how big they are. I had the Philly 76ers get on a plane I was taking to Kansas City, of course they sat up front, but in the airport at the other end, when standing next to them at the baggage claim was the first time it really sunk in how big the are.
Surprised at your ink, xoB.
.... of course they sat up front....
I bet that played havoc with the C of G calculations!
Otto, the pilot, takes care of trimming for load.
Otto Pilot:
[YOUTUBE]_WQfZYacEAw[/YOUTUBE]
Bada-Boom, Big Bada-Boom...
In a UPI pics-of-the-year-type thing I came across this pic:
[ATTACH]66114[/ATTACH]
It seemed...'familiar', somehow. And then it hit me, it was reminding me of a famous pic:
[ATTACH]66115[/ATTACH]
I confess a fondness for skin pics.
That's my new favorite.
By the grin I'd say she loves massaging her cheek. :rolleyes:
Wait til she gets to her lips.
Dolly and her husband for over 50 years...
One of the best answers ever was hers to the question: "How long does it take to do your hair?"
Which was, "I don't know, I'm never there."
Boobs?
Where are the boobs?
I don't see no boobs!
I call shenanigans.
Ima go look for boobs...
I hate to be the one to break it to ya but they're plastic.:bolt:
You shut your whore mouth!
She's quite open about all the plastic surgery, nips and tucks she's had. It's part of show biz, the image thing, her job.
But what's important is the wonderful things she's done with her money. Much more than just throwing a bunch of cash at an established charity, she's actually gone out and started projects that were needed, helped ordinary people. She's a good person.
Honey, I'm home.
[ATTACH]66246[/ATTACH]
This one is for Glatt.
And maybe HappyMonkey:
[ATTACH]66321[/ATTACH]
And look at the size of this amethyst geode:
[ATTACH]66322[/ATTACH]
:eek:
Sweet Jesus, man. How about a little warning next time!
;)
Dang. On both.
I initially thought those binder clips had unusually long arms, but it looks like that may be doable with standard ones; though less interesting if they're all black.
Closest I've come to that one is I clipped 12 Pringles can lids together from the inside. Brain teaser for folk who come by my desk as to how I clipped the last clips.
re "home"
you say that like you left at some point...
See what happens when you drag shit back from space. :eek:
I think there was Reddit PhotoShop contest concerning that geode.
[ATTACH]66330[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]66332[/ATTACH]
Just to see if they was lyin' (
they ain't), I did a GIS on the Sandwich Police.
In the process also found this:
[ATTACH]66331[/ATTACH]
Run, foo, it's the flippin' pohlees!!
I did a GIS on the Sandwich...
I call it
man-aise.:cool:
Did you find sandwich? Down the cape.
We're a cut above here in the UK.....
[ATTACH]66336[/ATTACH]
Did you find sandwich? Down the cape.
There's one in Illinois, too, I think.
We're a cut above here in the UK.....
[ATTACH]66336[/ATTACH]
Y'all got a ham sandwich, India has a whole Delhi. They have a new one, too.
The sandwich might have ended up being called something else, if Blackadder and Baldrick had anything to do with it.
Ink and Incapability.
Start at 19min 30secs.
I'm hooked every time I see Hugh Laurie as anyone but House.
I'm hooked every time I see Hugh Laurie as anyone but House.
Have you ever seen him with Stephen Fry in 'Jeeves and Wooster'?
[YOUTUBE]tk7pk58Bq4Q[/YOUTUBE]
That's what first knew both of them from. Excellent show.
I've watched A Bit of Fry & Laurie. I'll give the Jeeves & Wooster a try when there isn't as much going on in the house.
The GGOAT (Greatest Goat Of All Time):
[ATTACH]66353[/ATTACH]
The billiest goat evar!
[ATTACH]66354[/ATTACH]
Oh. Well...uh-
Fukkit, it's 5:00 somewhere!
I know those things spin, but I'd love to see data on how many cubic feet per minutes they vent vs. a regular old mushroom type vent. Or ridge vent.
OK. Graingers has one that moves 700 CFM in a 4 mph wind. That's impressive.
About the same as the average bathroom fart remover.
My bathroom fan is just a noise maker, it doesn't suck.
Goddamn Cellar makes me Google "bathroom fan."
Answer says 70 CFM for 7' x 10' bathroom.
Also found the most powerful at 245 cubic meters per hour. I'm not doing the math.
245 cubic meters per hour = 8652 cubic feet per hour, or 144 cubic feet per minute.
[ATTACH]66426[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]66427[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]66428[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]66429[/ATTACH]
It's pretty clear that the US advantage during the war to end all wars, and the big one WW II, was our women...
[ATTACH]66503[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]66504[/ATTACH]
real estate pro spider:
Location, location, location
That's about to be one well-fed bider.
Heh, bider. Made me think of Sundae.
That there is a ready-made covered bridge, Precious.
German parking lot. Ve haf vays to make you more efficient. :dedhorse:
That is a pretty design, that basket weave pattern. I used that pattern on deck. Parking wasn't a problem, but it did save me a a zillion miter cuts.
Front seat doors also look to be opening into gaps, between and behind cars so other cars parking up against the white line doesn't cause as much of a hassle (or, as in German: painenzeparkendööropenjämmed)
German parking lot. Ve haf vays to make you more efficient. :dedhorse:
As with anything, it depends on the user having a grain or two of common sense*.
Several floors of a local multi-storey car park are laid out in the classic herringbone pattern.
It's simple, the bays are slanted at about 45 degrees to the centre line of the 'road', you can park with minimum of delay to queuing traffic behind, and when it's time to go reversing out automatically points you in the direction of the exit.
Unfortunately not everyone has grasped this concept. One user actually reverses into the bay.
Why burden yourself with the hassle of making a 135 degree reversing manoeuvre when you don't have to?
Equally driving out, while giving a visiblity advantage, requires a corresponding right turn of 135 degrees again.
The driving lane between opposite parking rows isn't that wide so it's likely that exiting will require, at the very least, a two stage operation.
Life puzzles me at times.
* The trouble with common sense is that it's not very common.
The trouble with common sense is that it's not very common.
I think they (who ever they are) are putting stupid powder in the water, every time we go out some idiot tries to kill us. We hide at home now, and go out only when necessary.
I Love Humanity, It's People I Can't Stand!
Linus
One user actually reverses into the bay.
Why burden yourself with the hassle of making a 135 degree reversing manoeuvre when you don't have to?
You guys have to have front licence plates don't you? If it weren't for that, I'd say there was a good chance he was hiding his plates from mobile plate-readers.
A lot of towns/cities in states that don't require front plates have an ordinance/law prohibiting backing into parking places. In some locales, even your own driveway.
You guys have to have front licence plates don't you? If it weren't for that, I'd say there was a good chance he was hiding his plates from mobile plate-readers.
A lot of towns/cities in states that don't require front plates have an ordinance/law prohibiting backing into parking places. In some locales, even your own driveway.
Yep, plates are required both ends.
In this instance, I think that the driver may have been one of life's non-conformists.
Or perhaps just a bit daft. :rolleyes:
I think they (who ever they are) are putting stupid powder in the water, every time we go out some idiot tries to kill us. We hide at home now, and go out only when necessary.
I Love Humanity, It's People I Can't Stand!
Linus
^^^
THIS ^^^
Times a million. :eyebrow:
I think they (who ever they are) are putting stupid powder in the water, every time we go out some idiot tries to kill us. We hide at home now, and go out only when necessary.
I Love Humanity, It's People I Can't Stand!
Linus
^^^ THIS ^^^
Times a million. :eyebrow:
The more I see of people, the more I like my dog...
...and the poor soul is dead!
Ah, but! If you accidentally went the wrong way down the parking lane in the first place, that means you pass the free space, then back into it as if your car were moving in the correct direction to begin with.
Don't ask me how I know.
Looks nice and neat.
Apparently their little old ladies are better at backing up than ours.
And I don't see any one-ton pickups with duallies.
Several floors of a local multi-storey car park are laid out in the classic herringbone pattern.
45 deg Herring bone with an overlap like the Germans, or there's an invisible wall between like the junkyard.
[ATTACH]66578[/ATTACH]
We have mostly the 90 deg, and 60 deg. I do like the look of the third option.
[ATTACH]66579[/ATTACH]
This one...
[ATTACH]66585[/ATTACH]
It seems to be the most common arrangement in the UK.
It's simple and has stood the test of time.
I did a Google search and stumbled across an academic paper that resorts to the most byzantine of maths to prove a point that everyone knows*.
It's the second link down (Optimisation of Car Park Designs) if you're really that interested. Or bored enough. :)
Link
*We're back to common sense again. See above.:rolleyes:
dist1 = lsdist(xys(j,: ), xys(j+1,: ),xyi(i,: ));
dist2 = lsdist(xys(j+1,: ), xys(j,: ),xyi(i,: ));
dist = max(dist1,dist2);
dmin = min(dmin,dist);
if dist<=lroad
Of course, why didn't I think of that? :smack:
I had to edit that, the first time it ended up like this...
dist1 = lsdist(xys(j,:), xys(j+1,:),xyi(i,:));
dist2 = lsdist(xys(j+1,:), xys(j,:),xyi(i,:));
dist = max(dist1,dist2);
dmin = min(dmin,dist);
if dist<=lroad
dist1 = lsdist(xys(j,: ), xys(j+1,: ),xyi(i,: ));
dist2 = lsdist(xys(j+1,: ), xys(j,: ),xyi(i,: ));
dist = max(dist1,dist2);
dmin = min(dmin,dist);
if dist<=lroad
Looks just like a parking lot. Good job!
Apparently you didn't go to Carruther's link.
[ATTACH]66635[/ATTACH]
This one time, I was walking along when all of sudden I was surrounded by half-naked, beautiful, dancing, partying, teenage white chicks...
God it was awful.
How can a dude be that mad while wearing a comic strip shirt?
Banksy is selling a few things at auction to raise a few bucks.
How can a dude be that mad while wearing a comic strip shirt?
Maybe he's coming for the unauthorized photographer.
Didn't you see the sign?
"No flash photography."
[ATTACH]66689[/ATTACH]
♪ ♫Little boxes on the hillside,♪ ♫
♪ ♫Little boxes made of ticky tacky♪ ♫
♪ ♫Little boxes on the hillside,♪ ♫
♪ ♫Little boxes all the same♪ ♫
Posted by the pool at a hotel in Thailand, they didn't have a clue...
[ATTACH]66751[/ATTACH]
...oh my!
[ATTACH]66751[/ATTACH]
...oh my!
LGBT
An odd bunch of beastie besties, they grew up together.
Steering wheel, no wonder the drivers get paid so much...
If they're gonna drive with a yoke, they should measure engine output in oxpower.
Doesn't matter what the units are, they can turn it up to 11.;)
That is an Xbox controller.
What is displayed on that screen?
If they're gonna drive with a yoke, they should measure engine output in oxpower.
That is an Xbox controller.
In that case it's an Oxbox controller.
QED.
... and they shouldn't be called pilots, but yokels instead.
Isn't the controls of an airplane called a yoke?
[YOUTUBE]AiTk5r-4coc[/YOUTUBE]
It is called a yoke, it controls the ailerons and the elevator.
In that case it's an Oxbox controller.
QED.
Bravo.
Worms for...
[ATTACH]66806[/ATTACH]
...the baby birds.
[ATTACH]66805[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]66807[/ATTACH]
Jigsaw fan Tim Klein, 52, came up with his one-of-a-kind works after discovering that many mass-produced 500-piece jigsaw puzzles have the same cut pattern, allowing their subjects to be combined in bizarre ways.
There's several more which are worth a look.
See:
Link
LinkA friend of my father was a die maker for Milton Bradly, he could put together jigsaw puzzles face down... the puzzles, not him.
Although he could do it three sheets to the wind, not face down. :haha:
I have thought of the upside-down thing, but never the mixing.
They won't give you warts but maybe VD...
An underground fuel tank won't stay underground if it's empty and there is ground water to float it up.
An underground fuel tank won't stay underground if it's empty and there is ground water to float it up.
At sewage works in the UK the large circular tanks are never completely emptied to avoid the possibilty of them floating on ground water and being damaged. When being cleaned or serviced they have clean water pumped in as ballast.
None of you knows how long I've been waiting to share that fact. :)
That was a Shitty Story. LOL!!!
Damn you, fargon :mad:
I'll need incontinence pants soon!
Damn you, fargon and Carruthers. :mad:
I'll need incontinence pants soon!
At sewage works in the UK the large circular tanks are never completely emptied to avoid the possibilty of them floating on ground water and being damaged. When being cleaned or serviced they have clean water pumped in as ballast.
None of you knows how long I've been waiting to share that fact. :)
When I worked at Westinghouse they closed down one of the power plants. There were two underground oil tanks of over 25,000 gallons (never did find how much over), and since the ground was about six or seven feet above the river it's a good bet the ground water level was that high. If they popped up they would have to be decontaminated and disposed of which is a very expensive process.
They had ready mix concrete trucks lined up for a half mile in both directions to fill both tanks.
Swimming pools are supposed to have a hydrostatic relief valve that equalizes the water level inside and outside the pool.
If not, you can get a nice boat that floats up out of the ground (until it crumbles).
They used to make concrete boats. Boots too, I guess..
That's odd Jim, swimming pools are usually full to almost the top so I don't see how outside water would be high enough to float it. :confused:
I guess some people drain their pool in winter though. Those one piece fiberglass pools that look like a big boat before they're installed might be easy to float.
Draining the pool for maintenance or whatever is just the time when the pool level might be lower than the water table and up it comes.
With the extreme cost of installing (or re-installing) a pool, this is to be avoided. The valve I mentioned is about 30 bucks.
Wow. Water, man.
Amirite?
Tell me about it!
Water = bad news. Too risky.
I guess some people drain their pool in winter though. Those one piece fiberglass pools that look like a big boat before they're installed might be easy to float.
Yeah, my neighborhood pool is drained for the winter. But we're high up on a hill, so no groundwater issues.
An underground fuel tank won't stay underground if it's empty and there is ground water to float it up.
Underground tanks that are installed in a "floodplain" areas are required to be secured with Deadman anchors and cables to prevent that.
Even here in the desert that is a issue and comes up (no pun) regarding areas subject to 50year and 100 year rain/floods. Which we have had both of these occur in the past 40 years.
JR
I think the Canadian Postal System screwed up, instead of making these peel and stick stamps, they should be lick and stick with appropriate flavors. :haha:
Sugar pie...Call it like it is, I reckon.
Shoulda been scratch-n-sniff at the least...
Oh Hail, that ain't good, wonder what the sheet metal looks like?
WD-40... in the beginning.
Has 3-in1 ever been pressurized?
Not sure but I doubt it since 3 in 1 is a product of the WD-40 Company.
"One million dollars!!"[/Dr.Evil]
[ATTACH]67676[/ATTACH]
Apologies for pic-dumping all over the place...Pics For The Cellar folder is now empty.
It's supposed to have a security computer chip in it.
Flags and flags and more flags...
For some reason, I like the one in the top left hand corner the best. ;)
For some reason, I like the one in the top left hand corner the best. ;)
YOU CAN HAVE IT!
Yeah, we don't want no health care. :rolleyes:
For some reason, I like the one in the top left hand corner the best. ;)
Now cut that out!!:bitching:
This is why Puerto Rico and Washington DC have to be added at the same time. 52 stars can be arranged into 8 rows alternating 7 and 6 stars each. With 51 stars, you'd have to do just 6 rows alternating 9 and 8 stars each. The rectangle would get too wide.
Now cut that out!!:bitching:
Still quite popular in Hawaii, it would seem. :D
[ATTACH]67756[/ATTACH]
Islanders stick together.
Still quite popular in Hawaii, it would seem. :D
We kicked their ass too.
[ATTACH]67803[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]67804[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]67805[/ATTACH]
Fox news fans?
[ATTACH]67819[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]67820[/ATTACH]
Didja see it?:eek:
The first picture in Gravdigr's post gave my memory a nudge.
There was an article in last week's Sunday Times about the joint UK/USA mission to track down the so called 'Jihadi John'.
Robert Hannigan, a former director of GCHQ, said:
“For us at GCHQ this was a largely desk screen-based campaign,” said Hannigan.
“If you looked at a picture of Raqqa you would see these little VSat terminals — these little satellite dishes all over the roofs.
And they were connecting direct to the internet and that is the way that people were communicating.
They were not using telephone company GSM [Global System for Mobile communication] networks because they didn’t trust them.”
I might be barking up the wrong tree and, as Gravdigr says, they're probably all watching Fox News.
Or test match cricket.
The article is behind a paywall but there might be a limited number of free articles, so here's the
Link.That is a *lot* of brick cutting.
The sculpture was unveiled in 2010 and aims to create a futuristic vision rather than a being a literal depiction of the areas past.
The future is the surrounding industrial stacks are going to keel over and stick their head in the sand? :lol:
The sculpture is 16 metres long and is a realistic brick design which was carved in polystyrene, then coated in 6mm of Armour-Lyte for durability and strength, before being hand painted by Theatre Company Steel Monkey and being lifted into position by crane.
Had a hard time finding Armour-Lyte because that's also the name of a sports drink.
Price ain't bad for the kick, but....
Out in Oregon, it looks terrible at first but it's body parts, no chassis, no grease/oil, so all it's adding to the water is iron/rust and lacquer that's thoroughly outgassed. I wonder how many were pulled out for WW II scrap drives?
When in doubt call it art...
Are there really enough proms and weddings to justify this car-nage?
A very very lucrative patent for Mr Yale...
The four Hunter brothers were trying to set an endurance record by refueling and all maintenance in the air, but after 11 days a fog moved in and they couldn't see to refuel.
I bet that ain't in the labor book...
Rule No. 16:
Try to get stuck near a tree.
The yellow strap rig is a neat idea, BUT you need to dig the hole twice--that will suck.
For the best price in disposal of the departed...
I used to answer the phone "Smith's Funeral Home, You stab 'em, we slab 'em".
Aslo:
"Devil speaking, who in the hell ya want?"
And:
"Pool room. Eight Ball speaking."
Hölle and Teufel are known surnames where I live.
(German for hell and devil)
I wonder if he has to close the gate before taking cover ?
I wonder if there was any sub-surface element to that shelter.
The paving slabs appear to have been cut away in a large key hole pattern so perhaps giving a hint to a space below.
Whatever the case, the sound of lumps of shrapnel hitting the metalwork would have been terrifying.
It's difficult to tell exactly where the picture was taken but I suspect I'm not too far away in this Streetview link.
Marlborough RoadThat looks like a good candidate. I don't understand the queen dowager bit. George V married her (his dead brother's fiance) then became King so she became Queen? Must have got along they had six kids, although there was no TV yet. But when George V died she didn't rule, their son took over so she was demoted from queen to kingmother or dowager queen?
That looks like a good candidate. I don't understand the queen dowager bit. George V married her (his dead brother's fiance) then became King so she became Queen? Must have got along they had six kids, although there was no TV yet. But when George V died she didn't rule, their son took over so she was demoted from queen to kingmother or dowager queen?
The rules of succession, aka 'who gets what' baffle me, so I defer to Wiki:
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress consort of India as the wife of King George V.
Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Francis, Duke of Teck, who was of German extraction, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, who was a granddaughter of King George III. She was informally known as "May", after her birth month.
At the age of 24, she was betrothed to her second cousin once removed Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, but six weeks after the announcement of the engagement, he died unexpectedly during an influenza pandemic. The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's next surviving brother, George, who subsequently became king. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales.
As queen consort from 1910, she supported her husband through the First World War, his ill health, and major political changes arising from the aftermath of the war. After George's death in 1936, she became queen mother when her eldest son, Edward VIII, ascended the throne, but to her dismay, he abdicated later the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. She supported her second son, George VI, until his death in 1952. She died the following year, during the reign of her granddaughter Elizabeth II, who had not yet been crowned.
Wiki
Admittedly the above is more an explanation of what happened and less of why it happened.
The following year, she became engaged to Albert Victor's next surviving brother
Well, I guess if it worked for the Biden family...
That consort business keeps confusing the issue.
Hey, if you have your heart set on the latest Chevy pickup but before you can get the money together a new model comes out, love the one you're with. ;)
Well, I guess if it worked for the Biden family...
Saw what you did there.:lol2:
The rules of succession, aka 'who gets what' baffle me, so I defer to Wiki:
According to this
article in Readers Digest(who have been wrong before) this is the line of succession.
1. Prince Charles
2. Prince William
3. Prince George
4. Princess Charlotte
5. Prince Louis
And
this article says...
Male royals have traditionally had precedence over their sisters when it comes to inheriting the crown. But thanks to the Succession of the Crown Act in 2013, a female child can officially maintain her place in line for succession, no matter the gender of her younger sibling or siblings.
That spells good news for Princess Charlotte, who is currently fourth in line for the throne. She may not be the youngest anymore, but her status for the crown doesn’t change—even though she now has a little brother, age takes precedence over gender for the first time in royal succession history.
Are there really enough proms and weddings to justify this car-nage?
That pic at the lower right corner . . . the camper/truck-limo combo monstrosity.
1. Why?
WHY? Who is going to go camping in that ridiculous thing? You'll never find a KOA camping space big enough to hold it, and you're sure as hell not going off-road/four-wheeling in it.
2. That abomination is either a "cammo" or a "limper." Imma go with item the second, because it's as lame as it could possibly be.
Clearly, some people got too much damned time AND money. And not a goddamned brain in their heads. :eyebrow:
But Bubba wanted a cammo.
And that welder was just sitting there in the corner...
[SIZE="1"]...all sexy-like.[/SIZE]
Don't worry they tied it off before going home...
Hong Kong in the '50s/'60s.
Nobody around even in the middle of the day?
I was there in 1966 and they sure had recovered by then!
The future of space travel looks interesting...
Nope, no, do not want, NIMBY...
As I understand it the tried to determine which brand/model got the most speeding tickets
and if the people driving those brand/model rides had a speeding ticket in the last 7 years. Poorly done.
Ever driven a WRX? All-wheel drive & low center of gravity-- feels like you're vacuumed to the road. Subaru WRX guys have an enthusiastic modding community, they get c r a z y HP out of those little 4-cylinder engines.
I did not know that the (Toyota) Scion FR-S and the Subaru WRX are the same car.
WTF and why so scoff-law?
Isn't the Scion rear wheel drive vs the WRX all wheel drive?
I don't believe you can get an Impreza to speed
A WRX is an Impreza with a factory performance package. Since the WRX modders are going to upgrade everything, maybe some of them just start with the base Impreza package and save a few bucks?
Maybe the Impreza guys buy the factory WRX parts that the WRX modders replaced, and mod their Impreza into a "factory" WRX?
However it breaks down, a WRX is technically an Impreza, and WRXs are hell on wheels.
I did not know that the (Toyota) Scion FR-S and the Subaru WRX are the same car.
WTF and why so scoff-law?
They aren't the same, Jim, but both are uh... performance oriented, and the people who value those attributes tend to be in a hurry. ;)
I don't believe you can get an Impreza to speed
Stop by this weekend and take Amandas car for a spin.
0-60 in four point 7 seconds.
Fuck yeah. Remember your gti? It was slow.
A WRX is an Impreza with a factory performance package. Since the WRX modders are going to upgrade everything, maybe some of them just start with the base Impreza package and save a few bucks?
Maybe the Impreza guys buy the factory WRX parts that the WRX modders replaced, and mod their Impreza into a "factory" WRX?
However it breaks down, a WRX is technically an Impreza, and WRXs are hell on wheels.
The sti package made 304 hp in 2009. They've backed it off a bit now.
I obviously don't know squat about these vehicles.
So little that I was surprised by just the fact there is overlap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_86
"Also called" on the right.
A Subaru BRZ is not a WRX.
The ones with the hate certainly know the right way, the ones who tag to piss somebody off, anybody off, not so much. :rolleyes:
I spotted this frieze on a building in Thermopolis WY on my last visit to the US.
I think that they're keeping their options open. ;)
[ATTACH]68597[/ATTACH]
You can see it in context courtesy of Streetview here:
LinkSort of a short downtown.
Native American design in that Wyoming one.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
Fuckin' Illinazis, man.:headshake
I though I'd posted this... uh, why did I come into this room?
Texas Speed & Performance makes some great stuff, this is one of the castings for an aftermarket head they make.
I though I'd posted this... uh, why did I come into this room?
Texas Speed & Performance makes some great stuff, this is one of the castings for an aftermarket head they make.
MURCA! [COLOR="White"]Torque v Horsepower[/COLOR]
85% of upper management says torque is e x t r e m i s m because sklsalasjkdkskasdkks
Very handy radiator. Warm you plates or your buns, dry your mittens or rinsed out condoms, raise you dough, or bake your kittens.
Holy hole, what a flaky individual, Batman. :eek:
Be still my fluttering heart, I loved her when she was a redhead even more...
Things that go boom in the night... and day.
Better days are coming...
They were having a small local car show so this guy got up early and pinstriped the street.
Looks like he was practicing his technique in the photo on the left before doing the real thing in the photo on the right. Different streets and designs.
Pinstriping was (and I guess still is) a demanding skill and art.
There were a few classmates in long ago high school that could do it and I was in awe of them.
I know a biker that does free-hand pin striping. It is a trip watching him work.
Good motorcycle taillight...
Just a pretty picture...
[ATTACH]69032[/ATTACH]
Had the best Chinese food ever in Tucumcari less than a week after having the worst ever in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Mmm...refrigerated air.
The upscale places use air that's been frigerated the one time...
100%, pfft.
No idea, I'd guess the Dolomites.
Come on, somebody must know where those spooky peaks are or even if they are real.
Don't make me have to offer a reward.
Where the heck is that?
The French Alps according to google.
In general or someplace specific?
Jim, go
here and read the comments.
Jim, go here and read the comments.
Kind of thought so.
"maidenhair"
sounds dirty but it isn't
Kind of thought so.
But it's still not confirmed one way or the other. I've seen pictures of the Dolomites in Italy that aren't far off of that.
My day in one pic.
EDIT: Wow, my day is even better now.
Miss Universe, Canada 2019... be still my beating heart...
But like the self driving cars killing people, asshats like this don't help a bit.
Recreational marijuana did not go on sale in Michigan until around 10 a.m. but at 9 AM that day...
The one tool to have when you're having only one...
[ATTACH]69334[/ATTACH]
It's a fencing tool, not en garde, keep the cows in.
But not all at once.
You need one of each.
How many hands do you have?:eyebrow:
Also:
[ATTACH]69337[/ATTACH]
Damn. How old is that light?[/rhetorical]
Installing this preformed chain night be difficult... ;)
Kind of thought so.
Are these acceptable, Jim? :D
There are some views of the Grand Tetons that are possibles too.
Makes my toes cold.
Treasures found in boxes or on dusty shelves...
I first thought they were gas pump globes...
Drawer knobs?
Shifter knobs for unstealable cars.
Two Bettys,
only one of them is a Betty White.
The young Bettys are Betty Brosmer.
This guy;
1. had to move this a ways.
2. didn't have much gas/money.
3. found a all you can load buffet.
Lost and reloaded three times on the way, plus two flats.
It is a 3/4 or 1 ton anyway.
I bought some firewood one time where they were clear cutting trees for lumber and selling the slash. One price for a pickup or van, all you could carry.
I think this is a pretty good hint your lifestyle is sedentary...
How some of your employees are labeled...
There will probably be an Overlord rank in the Starfleet for Pence the Dense.
It's labeled Starfleet and not with the actual title of US Space Force. That means the Overlord rank would be "Q".
It's not the US Space Force, I'll bet it was created years before the space force, it's the starfleet.
ghost sticker...
Most people don't appreciate what professional photographers go through to get that dramatic shot.
Um, going out on a limb, here...
Flying embers/sparks?:p:
That can only be good for the lens, too. Burn it clean, like the pros do.
https://petapixel.com/2018/11/13/this-is-a-photographer-covering-the-wildfires-in-california/
I searched 'bout everything but embers.
I live downwind from what used to be Paradise and the smoke made it dark twilight here for most of a day.
He must have had a UV filter on the lens, they're glass not plastic. Probably smelled good being a burning KFC.
Hey look, a Texan. :haha:
Guy drove a school bus for decades:
[ATTACH]69896[/ATTACH]
Man, I don't want to be within miles of that X-ray machine. :mg:
Working in the motor trade...
What's he gonna do chase you down?
That's so awesome! I've seen those tracks in some old tunnels (Maybe even the Holland tunnel) and wondered what rode on them. Thanks Bruce!
Needs a narrow gauge policeman.
Yes, someone asked me when they did away with them and I said when the cops got too wide. :thumb:
But it's still not confirmed one way or the other. I've seen pictures of the Dolomites in Italy that aren't far off of that.
I grabbed this picture off the net, no caption, no description.
Did a search in Google images and it came up with nothing but suggested it might be from Seicer Alm.
Tin eye came up zero, zip, nada.
That house is similar to the one in post 1683.
"maidenhair"
sounds dirty but it isn't
During one of our hikes on the Odyssey of the WASP (Harstine Island State Park, to be precise) I came across a lovely Maidenhair fern. I found it so pretty and so unusual that I was tempted to just bring it home with me, but Twil intervened and we left empty-handed.
I have since found Maidenhair ferns at the local nursery and got a few for the back yard. They're much smaller, but just as delicate and lovely.
Here's a pic from the Harstine Island hike.
[ATTACH]70477[/ATTACH]
That fern looks to be in a fine fettle.
Re: The Limo
That's just, that's just fine.
I'd feel comfortable following closely behind it on the highway. No concerns there.
Definitely!
Because you already have a tow truck right there!
I hope he has a tail/brake light bar we can't see. :eyebrow:
You can live close to mountains in Canada...
Yeah... that view was covered with smoke when we were there.
I'm looking at the striations in the rocks near the peaks of the mountains there, I see horizontal-ish lines highlighted by the snow, apparently layers of rock laid down first. Then the vertical-ish fractures, like knife cuts through the layers of rock making thick slices leaning to the left of the highest peak. The talus covered slopes in the foreground were all part of the higher elevations at one time and crumbled away forming the base of the mountain.
Of course, no knife cut through the stacks of layers of rock.
These patterns were made when the layers of rock we see were all continuous and flat and horizontal. Then titanic forces pushed upward producing the elevation and fracturing we see here.
I've been moving some concrete around the yard for some projects. I'm breaking up the anchoring of a gate frame and I'm arranging some blocks. Some of the material is literally too heavy for me to lift, I can barely move it to get a good swing at it to chip away at the surface in an effort to make it small and light enough to maneuver. The key word here is "effort". That stuff is really heavy. It boggles my mind to try to conceive of the forces that raise up mountains of that material.
Awesome.
There are a lot of stones here which would look great in the yard but granite goes about 168 lbs per cubic foot. The lift on the tractor barely wiggles them.
The Earth Moved Under My Feet...
I have had friends who would tell me "ROCKS DON'T BEND."
I imagine they are all off MAGAing now.
This is today's APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day): Wowsa!
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200517.htmlIt kinda irks me a little when the APOD is not something in space (outer).
Cool pic, and all...
The picture has been kicking around the net for at least 5 years.
It kinda irks me a little when the APOD is not something in space (outer).
Cool pic, and all...
The picture has been kicking around the net for at least 5 years.
Cyberspace don't count!
There are a lot of stones here which would look great in the yard but granite goes about 168 lbs per cubic foot. The lift on the tractor barely wiggles them.
Tripod & chain fall, or engine hoist, then slide a wagon or truck or stone boat under 'em.
You seem more determined than I feel. :D
Get an old jon boat. Tilt the boat over on its side, roll the boulder into the boat, tip the boat flat, drag it where ya want the boulder, roll the boat onto its side, and roll the boulder out.
Both you guys seem to want to move stone.
Yyyyyeah, noooo...:lol2:
I like to hear and read about ppl working smarter, not harder.
Both you guys seem to want to move stone.
This from someone who plans to cut down 20 trees and slice 'em into planks.:rolleyes:
I wonder how often they broke those glass tubes driving around?
They had someone driving it around every evening jotting down the names and locations of electric signs needing maintainance to be contacted the next day.
Nautilus shell, maybe, Venus Flytrap, nope.
I'd never seen or heard of one of these gas pumps with a display cabinet built in for impulse sales.
They are pretty rare and highly prized by collectors of petrolina.
Shorpy has this picture of a guy blowing up a big balloon, but looking more closely it's an innertube from a car or truck tire.
It looks too big to be a bicycle tire. Why? I guess to prove he can, maybe to prove he's qualified to run for office.
Glass at both ends, he must carry a lot of windex and rags...
Built from an engine nacelle from RAF VC10 XV104.
The VC10 and Super VC10 were flown by BOAC (later British Airways), a small number of other airlines and the RAF.
Some of the RAF aircraft were used as air-to-air refuellers and a number of redundant BA examples were also acquired by the RAF.
[YOUTUBE]__BB4FlINYI[/YOUTUBE]
Link
The VC10 was a fast and popular passenger jet but never sold in large numbers. It was also hellishly noisy.
Here's an example being flown into Bruntingthorpe airfield and aviation museum.
[YOUTUBE]lwQUoWOesnA[/YOUTUBE]
VC10 NetBuilt from an engine nacelle from RAF VC10 XV104.
The VC10 and Super VC10 were flown by BOAC (later British Airways), a small number of other airlines and the RAF.
Some of the RAF aircraft were used as air-to-air refuellers and a number of redundant BA examples were also acquired by the RAF.
[YOUTUBE]__BB4FlINYI[/YOUTUBE]
Link
The VC10 was a fast and popular passenger jet but never sold in large numbers. It was also hellishly noisy.
Here's an example being flown into Bruntingthorpe airfield and aviation museum.
ETA Can't embed video due to restriction placed by owner, but you can view it here:
HD video - VC10 XR808 Delivery Flight to Bruntingthorpe - 29th July 2013
VC10 NetVC10: four engines, 10 barndoor flaps, .50 cal nose gun. That's a lot of plane.
VC10: four engines, 10 barndoor flaps, .50 cal nose gun. That's a lot of plane.
Actually, that's a flight refuelling probe.
The RAF use the 'probe and drogue' method of air-to-air refuelling and the VC10 was capable of receiving, as well as supplying, fuel mid air.
Illustrated here...
[YOUTUBE]hB-O1efRSuY[/YOUTUBE]
That is always exciting to watch; great precision flying.
And a huge misuse of resources.
Is there anywhere but in warplanes where in-air refueling is used?
The fifty is just for when the pilots have underlying issues.
The Pacific be big, very very big. There are places in the Pacific you could drill a hole straight
through the center of the Earth and the drill would pop up in the Pacific.
Pangaea isn't done breaking up.
OMG, who would park a Rolls in this neighborhood?
[ATTACH]71118[/ATTACH]
Not to worry it's just paint.
OK, late to the jet engine house party, very cool but they just phoned in the back end. It would have been awesome if they had built the nose of a plane on that end, but they didn't ask me.
The Rolls guy must have a network that clues him about suitable locations.
Evidently in Russia large blocks of concrete are relatively common.
OK, late to the jet engine house party, very cool but they just phoned in the back end. It would have been awesome if they had built the nose of a plane on that end, but they didn't ask me.
this
We had Odieth before. That's his logo on the wall.
https://mymodernmet.com/odeith-illusion-art/I hope he has a good cobbler.
When it absolutely, positively, has to stay on the truck overnight...
That's twenty tons of truck riding on ten tons of trailer. The rear axle isn't even all the way up the ramp. And the trailer tires are eating the fenders.
I wouldn't be following too closely.
The trailer tire is shot and the truck tire is probably melted on to the rim.
And there isn't a good way to get the welded strap off the rim.
I wonder where this is.
The trailer tire is fine it's the plastic fender that's fucked up. The strap can be cut off the rim with a cutting disc. Quick weld didn't even get hot enough to burn the paint.
I had a steam fitter working for me who would cut the valve guard off 20 lb propane tanks, reposition it, and arc weld it back on because they interfered with his trailer hookup. :eek:
Who said space aliens aren't here watching us?
We were young and life was good but she changed, man, doesn't even look like the old Earth...
I grabbed this picture because I really like it and appreciate how hard it was to pull off.
Note the sand she is sitting on looks dry.
I love it, but if that sand is dry then this is the first attempt with this set up and that's incredible.
You can see little ripples to the left of her knee: she's sitting in a puddle. Not every wave will be a giant one, necessarily, but I guarantee it took a few tries to get the shot right. Still pretty.
A reverse image search indicates that it's a pretty popular hobby of women to sit or stand in front of crashing waves to have their photo taken.
You can see little ripples to the left of her knee: she's sitting in a puddle. Not every wave will be a giant one, necessarily, but I guarantee it took a few tries to get the shot right. Still pretty.
OK, I found the ripples but that water isn't more than a inch or two deep and no indication if it came over the top or in from the side.
The sand in the foreground looks dry but can't tell if the pile behind her is wet.
I suppose they could have set up before a rising tide but more likely they used a raft or boat to block waves while getting ready.
Better yet use a boat to make the wave when they were ready.
I have obviously wasted too much thought and time on this picture.
On the up side think of all the laws unbroken because I was distracted. :blush:
I only masturbated and moved on...
Gonna be a tough climb...
I had only seen Jeeps crated this way...
Anyone remember ads for Jeeps packed in cosmolene? Or cosmoline?
Well, I do. But:
http://wwiijeepparts.com/Archives/WW2JeepsInCrates.html
Another interesting story at the bottom.
And a bunch more memories at the homepage:
http://wwiijeepparts.com/WWIIArmySurplusStores.htmlBonhams auction today...
[ATTACH]71708[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]71709[/ATTACH]
BJ auction later.
[ATTACH]71710[/ATTACH]
I think there are three or four of those auctions on TV .
For some reason the way they are presented is very similar, which is to say obnoxious. Sort of like Joe Buck.
I don't watch very long, but few vehicles appeal to me and the money spent reflects a world I do not know.
I often think the "drivers" may be selected from the sidewalks outside. I would love to see one start "his" car and roar off down the ramp and out the door.
I do covet most Bentleys I see, however.
That Washtenaw College is in Ann Arbor, MI.
Let's give 'im a hand!
~Said no DaddyVader evah
Maybe he was visited by 3 force spirits on Life Day Eve Night, and woke up with the Life Day spirit in his artificial heart.
