Random Pics...from around the web
Just post pics from the web that strike yer fancy.
I, personally, am limiting myself to one post per day.
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This one's by Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias @ DeviantArt.
Cerberus, Guardian Hound Of Hades:
But these are from around the Web!
Seems familiar, somehow...:neutral:
Attached pictures and pics uploaded from your devices don't count.
If my device is connected to the Web, then isn't it part of the Web?
Attached pictures and pics uploaded from your devices don't count.
So you're hotlinking. :eyebrow:
So you're hotlinking. :eyebrow:
If you mean using IMaGe tags, then yes.
If my device is connected to the Web, then isn't it part of the Web?
Yes, but not necessarily the images...if they're stored on your device's HDD. Your Facebook/Twitter/whatever photo library doesn't count either.
Doesn't count? To who? You? Are you keeping score in this thread? Guess who has two thumbs and isn't playing.
Doesn't count? To who? You? Are you keeping score in this thread? Guess who has two thumbs and isn't playing.
Keep it comin', Dennis. :D
Isn't hotlinking frowned upon by pretty much the entire universe?
Isn't hotlinking frowned upon by pretty much the entire universe?
So, using [IMG] tags is hotlinking, but using [URL] and [YOUTUBE] tags is not? WTF is the difference, and why is it included in every forum software package (including
vBulletin, which powers
The Cellar)?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. You're stealing bandwith from the linked site.
I hot link because it's easier and I don't want to fill my hard drive with whims. Most of them are linked to servers that host images for a living and do not object to it. Downloading and uploading images to the cellar server costs the cellar more bandwidth. It's more permanent though....
What is your official position on this matter, Mr Undertow'd?
10 years ago hotlinking was a terrible problem for us because
words = small
images = big
video = huge (it's actually many images per second)
But since bandwidth has increased worldwide, hotlinked images are not much of a problem for us any more, and certainly not for image hosting sites like Imgur. The only problem with hotlinking now is that we will outlast the other sites and the threads won't be pretty. I like the idea that our threads may still be useful and interesting in 10-20 years.
I have always wanted to fill out the utterly simple image hosting that IotD uses, and make it available to all Dwellars with a nice interface, inside the Cellar security so that your username and password allow you into the image hosting. It could still happen.
What is your official position on this matter, Mr Undertow'd?
Good question. #like
10 years ago hotlinking was a terrible problem for us because
words = small
images = big
video = huge (it's actually many images per second)
But since bandwidth has increased worldwide, hotlinked images are not much of a problem for us any more, and certainly not for image hosting sites like Imgur. The only problem with hotlinking now is that we will outlast the other sites and the threads won't be pretty. I like the idea that our threads may still be useful and interesting in 10-20 years.
Seems logical. #like
Lol @ your hashtags. I'm so old...isn't that a tweeter thing? ;)
Lol @ your hashtags. I'm so old...isn't that a tweeter thing? ;)
#Yep.
The only problem with hotlinking now is that we will outlast the other sites and the threads won't be pretty.
I have no problem downloading images to my HDD, and re-uploading them as attached images if you prefer. #yerdaboss
Well there is the longevity thing. I've perused way old threads, having seen something interesting some guest was looking at from 'who's online' and sometimes the relevant pics are gone and that's disappointing. You lose the thread of the thread.
Posterity!
I hot link because it's easier and I don't want to fill my hard drive with whims.
These new-fangled computers let you delete stuff, too.
Download the pic.
Post the pic.
Delete the pic from your computer.
Delete the pic from your computer.
Only if I am in desperate need of space, but with 309GB free on my 323GB D: partition, and a 128GB flash drive, I think I'm good.
And yes, I realize you were replying to Jim.
This Kuratas, a real-life (but
maybe not) 13-foot tall mech created by
Suidobashi Heavy Industries.
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If you wish to purchase this suit, it's only 123.1 million yen (1 million US dollars) @ Amazon Japan. your gonna like the way you look. I guarantee it.
And
here is how to operate it.
Augment: Megabot's pretty cool too. And he's native.
Well there is the longevity thing. I've perused way old threads, having seen something interesting some guest was looking at from 'who's online' and sometimes the relevant pics are gone and that's disappointing. You lose the thread of the thread.
Posterity!
Sing it, sister!
Likewise, however in this case it doesn't much matter.
Ha Ha Tell me about it Mr. B
Pedicure, must be one of those girly Phants.
Had not heard of these guys... I don't get out much.
Pssst, wanna buy some land?
Nothing quite says happy new year like lighting a 3 ft diameter roll of firecrackers.
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
HUH? SPEAK UP.
In 1957, Miss was still politically correct. ;)
xoB, that's some firecracker!
glatt, LOL
xoB, that's some firecracker!
Yes, she certainly is.
[SIZE="1"]Oh, you mean the, uh,
the firecracker...I thought you meant the, uh, y'knowwhatjustnevermind.[/SIZE]:runaway:
Don't throw nothin' away,
junk is big bucks.
Huh. Like the one in my garage?
That's $3942 in 2016 dollars.
37 lbs.
Won't be using that one one-handed from a bucket truck.
Tiles in an underpass next to the Daimler Benz works Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
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That suggests Mercedes had women of their factory race teams, back in the day. Which I doubt. :eyebrow:
That suggests Mercedes had women of their factory race teams, back in the day. Which I doubt. :eyebrow:
The image may well fall into the category of
sex sells, then and now, and cars in particular.
On the other hand there was Ines Keil-Folville who in the 1920s allegedly was the first professional woman race-driver. She raced Mercedes cars among other brands, competing with the great male drivers of the day and won four 24-hour races.
I only found this German
Wikipedia reference
And there is also this
dedicated website, also in German, but linking to an extensive photo album.
Nice photo album. Almost 100 years ago!
Yes, I'd heard of Ines Keil-Folville, but don't know a lot about her career. She likely drove Mercedes from time to time, as did most of the pros of the era. However I've never heard of a woman driving for any of the Mercedes factory teams.
Another victim of demon rum... or Vodka, or wine, or beer, or
Early mechanical street sweepers discovered not all the horseshit comes from horses, especially during an election year. ;)
Why? [COLOR="White"].......... [/COLOR] Just why? :rolleyes:
Why? [COLOR="White"].......... [/COLOR] Just why? :rolleyes:
Because it keeps the likes of Crown Derby and Dartington Glass in business.
Or it would if the Chinese weren't undercutting everybody.:eek:
First, I wouldn't be able to identify that as a soup spoon. Very different from what I recognise.
Second, to me the layout is wrong, as the bread plate is in the wrong place, the napkin should be provided by the waiter so doesn't take up any space on the table, and a cup and saucer is NEVER used until after dinner. In fact tea is rarely served at dinner - coffee is far more acceptable in polite circles. And where is the fish knife?!
But it's a photo to show off a pattern, so I should stop being so picky.
Please note I did not grow up with this kind of dinner service; I was a silver service waitress, and that was back in the days when you could still actually get a slap from the Head Waitress if the wrong glass was in the wrong place.
Why? [COLOR="White"].......... [/COLOR] Just why? :rolleyes:
They're separating the wheat from the chaff. One wouldn't want the wrong sorts at table.
The truth will [strike] set you free[/strike] keep you safe.
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes.
They've got those hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And whats with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!
Or maybe midgets.
OMG, midget bunnies running up your pant legs like chipmunks. :speechls:
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo)
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away (Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey)
During WW II while Joe was in the army, his parents were "enemy aliens".
Giuseppe and Rosalia DiMaggio were among the thousands of German, Japanese and Italian immigrants classified as "enemy aliens" by the government after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan. They carried photo ID booklets at all times, and were not allowed to travel outside a five-mile radius from their home without a permit. Giuseppe was barred from the San Francisco Bay, where he had fished for decades, and his boat was seized. Rosalia became an American citizen in 1944, followed by Giuseppe in 1945.
He was a dunker, y'know...
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Guess it was easier than fixing the van. :rolleyes:
Canada offering 160 acres with no mule, but lots of other promises. ;)
Canadian fruit...
What's that, apples and blueberries?
All the tree fruits and all the berries.
Apparently, they grow
dried fruit up there, too:
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Link for above imageFreestone Plums grown specifically for prunes, is growing Prunes.
Clingstone Plums grown for eating as fresh fruit, is growing Plums.
By that logic, they grow beer up there too
Haven't ever seen a Molson tree?
Those make great gifts for your enemies. :lol:
Freestone Plums grown specifically for prunes, is growing Prunes.
Clingstone Plums grown for eating as fresh fruit, is growing Plums.
By that logic, they grow beer up there too
And raisins.
Nope, because the grapes could be used for other purposes when they're harvested, like wine or jelly, or just eating.
Pissed her off, by God:
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Every once in awhile I come across one of theses Civil War pictures, and every time I do it surprises me. For some reason I can't get my head around the Civil War and photography, even though I've seen hundreds of them. :nuts:
I believe it for the first row on my right, second row my left and maybe center, third row my right and maybe left, and last row my right. Natural born killers. :yesnod:
I was blown away until I saw the spokes.
I mean sure, he can lift more than me, but most of that wheel is hollow.
Oh, and according to Wikipedia:
Lift included in the Guinness Book of World Records This record has been expunged due to no official witness being present, and no evidence of the weight's measurement. (Source: "Guinness Book of World Records".)
Backlift: 6,270 lb (2,840 kg) (weight raised slightly off trestles; done June 12, 1957, in Toccoa, Georgia)[1]
emphasis mine
These days he'd have negotiated a lucrative sponsorship deal with a leading hernia clinic.
Sure, to go in the Guinness book they have to have somebody there to check. That doesn't mean it didn't happen. It's quit possible as Anderson was generally recognized as the strongest man in the world for a whole lot of feats, like Olympic gold and a couple national championships, not just for this stunt. I'm sure there are some farm boys who could do this, but never receive recognition beyond local lore and bar bets, I've met a couple.
6,270 lbs is a really big number and difficult to believe.
I don't know much about weightlifting records. If you Google the subject, you can find
articles that tear his claim apart. He apparently did the lift in his backyard by piling junk on a table he built, and then lifting the table. And then weighing the junk. Maybe he made an addition mistake. That article mentions a safe that weighed 1,200 lbs
less than he claimed it did. He claimed three people were witnesses, but at least one of those witnesses said they were not there that day but just heard about it later.
He was a strong man. There are plenty of official records out there of lifts he did, and he was an olympian. Nothing to be ashamed of.
But 6,270 lbs? That's 3 cars at once. No way.
But 6,270 lbs? That's 3 cars at once. No way.
Three cars? Baby cars. :lol2:
6,270 lbs is a really big number and difficult to believe.
I don't know much about weightlifting records. If you Google the subject, you can find articles that tear his claim apart. He apparently did the lift in his backyard by piling junk on a table he built, and then lifting the table. And then weighing the junk. Maybe he made an addition mistake. That article mentions a safe that weighed 1,200 lbs less than he claimed it did. He claimed three people were witnesses, but at least one of those witnesses said they were not there that day but just heard about it later.
He was a strong man. There are plenty of official records out there of lifts he did, and he was an olympian. Nothing to be ashamed of.
But 6,270 lbs? That's 3 cars at once. No way.
Three cars? Baby cars. :lol2:
OK, two cars.
The weight of a car depends on the type of car, how it's made, and the combined weight of included features. It differs from car to car.
Yes. But even small cars are around 2,500 lbs. A mid size car is more like 3,000
During the Big One, WW II, some people were about getting the job done...
^ Agreed. I hate "beating around the bush" .
Most people do, but that letter only works from the top down. If you're at the bottom, or even the middle of an organization, that letter would tag you as not being a team player, trouble maker, and kill your career.
^ Agreed. I hate "beating around the bush" .
I like "Beating Around The Bush".
With Bon Scott goodness:
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TV Tommy Ivo...Hadn't heard that name in long while.:rolleyes:
And that's how the LSD came to be in our home, your honor...
Tested on the common bricklayer fish
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Ha ha ha, good eye. :thumb:
The following find was inspired by TW.
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Packard had a better idea...
A different Indian Head Penny...
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It's a foooooooooooooooosball table.
Also:
Is that a leg?
Also:
Is that a leg?
Yes. I believe it is. A leg wearing a roller blade.
I'm sure this will just take a little buffing...
That probably made a noise.
Fall of '42, one year into the war, adjust ads to reflect life. Like the muffler rots out faster not being driven often. But always girls-girls-girls, and dumb jokes.
Ha! I know right where that is in Pawtucket.
This must have been a trip to meet on the road in 1931. :eek:
♪ ♫:jig:♪ ♫
Lightning struck an Oak tree...
Sometimes success is a winning smile...
Tea time, hot tea, at -40 degrees F/C, 20 km from the North Pole...
Some handsome bastard posted
that pic before...
Without the details, the Huffington minion. :p:
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WANT!!!
So get out your Sharpie and get after it.
theres an industry there, ceiling stencils. what else?
A plane flying towards you?
I believe they're called Gravdigr's Face™.
Every. Day.
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The Old Maid game was the precursor to the internet's Cat Lady.
Seems those
Brit paintball freaks are also perverts... :lol:
I got that same fortune a week ago!
We're going to Disney World...
Ever wonder what Grav drives? :lol:
Here I am in Philly back in 2014.
You guys didn't even know I was in town...
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Skip to 2:15 for my Bad Ass Move™.
^ Nice moves. :devil:
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A motorist accused of flashing his private parts to a pedestrian in Boynton Beach, Florida, had an electronic device with wires on his genitals, and drove naked in a neighbourhood full of children, police said.
The witness said children looked in the suspect's direction but did not approach his car. Police stopped the car. Jenkins got out wearing only a pair of red shorts, according to the report. Police say he refused to get on the ground, so an officer took him down. Jenkins is facing charges of lewd and lascivious exhibition, indecent exposure of sexual organs, and resisting a law enforcement officer.
Maybe this explains BigV... :lol2:
WTF, 20% Federal Tax when the dancing starts?
After those drinks, how would they tell if people are dancing or weaving? :lol:
I guess the tax starts with the music.
I thought the tacks started with your thumb?
Damn you M&Ms, you addictive scourge of the masses, Imma shoot you...
Fuck you, too, Broccoli.
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God i love that!
Get 'em while they're hot...
I did a google image search on that and came up with a spanish sex site.
https://seducelasiempre.com/formas-de-excitar-a-una-mujer/So are dildos.
Not Trump-themed, I mean, just in general.
Trump themed dildos for when you wreck your erection
Oh, snap! It's Granny!!!
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In 1953, while American was sleeping, space aliens patented the Ray Gun. Now that they are working with lawyers, we are doomed. :eek:
Bob's your uncle, eh? Well bobbete's your target. Keep your eyen on the prize.
I have inspected those ray gun patent diagrams carefully, and I think they've been doctored - - I don't see the words "Acme Company" anywhere.
Ima name my ray gun Ronald.
Ronald Ray Gun.
:D
I blew up the pic, and was shocked, shocked I tell you, by who invented the ray pistol:
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Seems like a waste of powder when a rifle would do...
Seems like a waste of powder when a rifle would do...
True but this is way more fun, plus this way makes a huge mess for those worthless women to clean up. The religion of peace, my ass.
If she had Gravdigr, she wouldn't have to fake it. :biggrinha
A tall glass of Gravdigr will do that to a gal...
The French do things a little [strike]different[/strike] weird.
What's French here?
/obtuse
"bergungsdienst" is 'mining service' according to GoogleTranslate...
...sooo...
...truffles?
What's French here?
/obtuse
It was taken at the French GranPrix. Did you ever see race cars, or any cars, transported that way? Sideways, hanging off the side, with people in them?
It was taken at the French GranPrix. Did you ever see race cars, or any cars, transported that way? Sideways, hanging off the side, with people in them?
You ain't from around here is you, boy?
I know it sounds like yours truly, but...wasn't me:
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Ah, so it's Germany. Thank you Sir.:notworthy
See the otter
By the water
Giving thanks
Like she oughter
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Who is the bald guy in the middle?
I know I know the woman, but damned if I can think of her name.
ETA: The bald guy is Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire-Hathaway, one of the directors of Costco Wholesale Corporation, and Warren Buffett crony.
Charlie Munger in the middle, no idea who the blond is.
She does not appear on Forbes' 2014 list of world's richest women, not their list of America's richest women.
No matter, she wouldn't be interested in an old ugly ogre like me.
Hell, I just want to know her name.
It's bugging me.
The woman in question is Becky Quick.
She was interviewing the other three for CNBC.
grr.
I just came here to post the same thing
Fat assed Americans with your big boats and fancy motor homes. Back in my day if you wanted a motor home you built it... or whupped the slaves a little harder.:crone:
Flower boxes on the window sills and everything...
And a cat/doggie door. Maybe that's where the mailman drops your bills. :haha:
Who did it belong to previously?
Calm... make a good desktop
And you complain about a few potholes...
This might be slightly out of date. :rolleyes:
This should be in every High School locker room in the country.
They should correct "your" to "you're" first.
Other than that, I like it.
You are college education? Wrong.:headshake
OK, didn't see that one. :blush:
I grabbed this picture because when I saw it I immediately thought that's a gangster or a politician. But I repeat myself.
What comes first, success or retirement? :haha:
I think they should paint the front of this trailer to look like an Eagle.
Whoops, there goes another commision...
What's going on?
It's for a whisky pipeline to the local bulk storage installation. :)
And the wagoner on the left, with the barrel in his cart, can only look on in despair.
:smack: Of course, why didn't I think of that.
No doubt best quality snake oil was also available for the discerning customer.:D
And hoochie coochie girls in the back room hidden away from the ladies and children for their delicate constitutions. ;)
Ladies and Germs, here is evidence of what really caused the Soviet Union's demise.
That's very pretty.
The amber one, not the vodka one.
Never fuck with a guy (or gal:eek:), who shaves with this.
Um, I'll meet you at the tilt-a-whirl. :bolt:
Be careful or you'll end up meeting Wolf. :blush:
Intemperance...
Sign me up! I LOVE Scotch!
What the hell is that?
Here we have the inside of an intake manifold and a head for an automobile engine. I can without reservation, bet either one is more costly than your car.... even at MSRP.
from the intake manifold picture
so, it's oriented right side up, it's a v8, we can't see the fourth cylinder intake for the right hand bank, out of the field of view of the camera. the openings in the upper/roof part lead to gently downward curving tubes to the opposite side/bank for the.. the. I'm lost. I would have called the next part the intake manifold. Where do the intakes connect to on their downstream end? Not the top part of the head, a picture of which you've show us in the second image. Something between that head and the cylinder.
Yeah, I'm gonna look it up.
it is the head. But the side of the head, not visible in the example picture you posted. That makes sense. Clean, fuel rich air enters the SIDE of the head, flowing past the intake valve stem, then down into the cylinder, boom, then up and back out the other side of the head past the exhaust valve, past the valve stem, then into the exhaust headers. They're hot by the way.
Go on, ask me how I know.
All intake manifolds attach to the side of the head or heads. They carry air, sometimes compressed, sometimes laden with fuel vapor, to the heads intake ports. The bottom rounded vee part of the intake manifold is the valley pan sealing the top of the vee on a V-8 engine.
The other side of the head is for exhausting the stuff that kills babies and kittens.
The top of the head is reserved for valves and the shit to open/close them, in an overhead valve engine. The exotic layout of the valves and open/close shit, is the reason for that second picture.
The two pictures are not related, now get off my lawn ya whippersnapper. :crone:
How many channels could ya get with that?
It's a LOT bigger than my cable, and I get like 200 channels.
Here are mine:
Gigi Hadid
Kendall Jenner
Rachel Hilbert
In the '60s the detectors were perched on telegraph poles to detect nuke bomb blasts and warn the military. it worked pretty well until a glitch in one of the telegraph relays gave a false alarm that almost started WW III. The military decided they needed a better system which resulted in ARPANET, mother of the Internet.
Um... no, bad plumber, bad.
I'm trying to get a mental picture of the physical position required for a #2 in the toilet...
Upper decker, I guess?
I call bullshit.
Supply lines are on the left when facing a toilet. If that toilet was actually hooked up, you would see a hose leading up to the tank on the left. Plus it still has the new toilet sticker on it.
This is a posed shot for lulz.
I'm sure you're right, it's a joke, however the push button on top and the size of the tank means it's foreign and the supply may not be on the left.
Aw, c'mon guys!
I was having a grand ol' time seeing some guy all bent over trying to aim his mudhole at the sliver of open toilet, while trying hold the lid as wide as it could go, behind his back.
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Didn't stop you, though, did it?
This would have already happened to me if I drank coffee:
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Just try and beat this guy to the buffet...
Fuck that...Is that a rocket-powered skate board in the corner?
Might be but he won't be using it.
Not anymore. Why do you think he needs the chair??
Fucked himself up in a motorcycle accident.
Very clever... but he/she probably killed the tree. :(
See that limb behind the chair with the brown leaves and the other tree leaves are green. I would say the tree is already dead.[emoji22]
'S okay...It's in a graveyard.
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Old payphone bank.
$10,000 to the winner but replacement combines could run a half a million bucks. :smack:
Yeah, no.
Been there. The competing combines would not have had a combined (<--see what I did?:D) value of ten thousand dollars. Not even close.
BTW, I think the entire purse was like $2500.
Been there.
When I said "there", I didn't mean the
exact same combine demo derby.
There are others.
Car dealer warns of panhandler...
Terrorizing the neighborhood...
Methinks it was staged, no way to pull that front end with those skinny wheels on mud. The kids dad was the track photographer for Beeline Raceway. Still, it was a cool enough picture to make the cover of Rod and Custom magazine, August '67.
Here's another shot.
I have that helmet. But I never dragged my mom's parasol around pretending it was a drag chute.
I think I still have my gold metalflake helmet from the early-mid 70s.
The first Neon sign in the USA.
In 1923, Georges Claude introduces his neon signs to the United States. He sells two neon signs to a Packard Car dealership in Los Angeles. Earle C. Anthony purchased the two signs reading"Packard" . Georges Claude charged $24,000 for those two signs.
Which one of you guys is from Virginia. I know its ot. T S.
That $24,000 is $335,000 today. I've seen small neon signs on the net for less than $50. :smack:
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Wonder what that cut is called?
It's just an illusion. The guy is 3' tall
The guy is 3' tall
...and speaks w/a chipmunk voice.:lol2:
Oh, shit! They're measuring now! No more lying, I guess.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
And man said, "Fuckin' A"
that bottom one especially, with the mules... it makes me wonder, where are the brakes on that thing? the load's got to be several tons, no power, no hydraulics, how do they keep the mules from getting run over?
I would guess there's a brake on the railcar like wagons, buggies and buckboards. They'd have to set a brake when parked without the mules attached or it would roll away trying to load it.
Entertainment for the idle rich.
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Coupla kids with Tonka toys will have this cleaned right up...
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Wonder if the road held up the load?
They had it completely cleaned up and reopened between the slide in April 2010 and the next Google Earth image on 12/11/10.
lat: 25.119460° lon: 121.695282°
Using the historical imagery in Google Earth, you can see they dumped it in a couple spots adjacent to this same highway within 5 miles. Filling in low spots.
Go, go, Geo-Glatt.
ETA: Dayum, there are a lot of tunnels in that area.
Looks like I may need tires come winter.
tread lightly and carry a big slick
I've had trouble w/the treading lightly part, but, that carrying a big Slick, I had that shit down.
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Looks a lot like elspode.
Elspode isn't nearly that black.
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LinkYou're jealous because you can't do that. :lol:
Hah! Glatt would have to swallow a watermelon to do that.
Sadly, all I gotta do is fall down.
:D
Wuzzat?
Izzat a street lamp?
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If you've ever driven in NYC you know it's crazy. Seems it's always been crazy.:crazy:
Mother nature is sometimes fast and furious, and sometimes very slow, but nature never sleeps. :headshake
When plugs had personality, and wild claims were permitted...
The anti-LBGT crowd say it's unnatural, it doesn't happen in nature.
I beg to differ...
The first hands free phone.
Is this progress? Some think so.
In days of old,
when not by toil
men got their gold
selling snake oil.
The little engine that retired.
A lot bigger than Limey's fanny.
Traditional sailor tattoos.
Judge - To do what you did takes a lot of guts.
Defendant- I don't think so.
Judge - Lets find out.
Data, data, data data ding ding ding...
Sylvester Stallone's daughters...
Buddhist monks, the most gentle caring folks on the Earth.
I'm wondering why Pink Pants is the only body with clothes.
Has you boss been insufferable? Do your children look exactly like your best friend? Did your true love run off with a traveling salesman? Is that's what's bothering you Bunkie? Time for a change of scenery, go someplace to chill.
There at advantages to the new plastic gas tanks...
Tho$e are $ome phucking expen$ive de$k$.
Coulda had mahogany for less money. Prolly. Maybe.
They probably got 'em wholesale. ;)
It's the office at the Snap-On museum.;)
"Snap-On Tools."
*titter*
I'm just sayin'. :D Cuz, who the hell thought up this company name?
Years ago, I did part-time office work for a small mold removal company with an equally unfortunate name, implying that it was in the business of professionally removing minorities.
Heh.
Spic-n-Span?
:D
No, but very well done! PM me for the name. ;)
"Snap-On Tools."
*titter*
I'm just sayin'. :D Cuz, who the hell thought up this company name?
Snap-On referred to the way the pieces, sockets, extensions, ratchets, breaker bars, went together. It was generations later filthy minded people started tittering.
Snap-On referred to the way the pieces, sockets, extensions, ratchets, breaker bars, went together. It was generations later filthy minded people started tittering.
I'll own that. :rolleyes:
No, but very well done! PM me for the name.
Oh no, guessing is more fun. :) Kike Remediation? Paki Mold Removal? Gringo-Be-Gone?
Wait, gringos wouldn't be minorities. People-of-Color-Be-Gone?
Wait, gringos wouldn't be minorities. People-of-Color-Be-Gone?
We're working on it...
^^^From June 13, 2013, btw.
Oh no, guessing is more fun. :) Kike Remediation? Paki Mold Removal? Gringo-Be-Gone?
:D
I've had trouble w/the treading lightly part, but, that carrying a big Slick, I had that shit down.
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Just saw this, and Bruce's following comment. It *does* look a lot like me, right down to the cat.
Ol' Slick will be gone three years next month.:sniff:
We (Momdigr and I, anyway) still hear him jump onto the side of the tub occasionally. We hear his paws thump on the tub itself and hear his claws click on the shower door rail.
There's nothing else makes/made that exact sound.:ghost:
Finally, a good use for fords...
Ford Sleeper?
Not Pickup Bed?
It was Good Friday 1964 and I was at my peak.
She said the Earth moved, I said your welcome. :blush:
Dayum. You're gonna need one of them front tine tillers to smooth that shit out.
These look so much nicer than a digital readout in a plain face.
Tell the maid you're masturbating...
Getting out of the Americas dong.
Why would people run from such an awesome blowjob?
Be prepared for the apocalypse...
Cops in these here parts use Ida, Mary, Boy, Sam and Robert. I think the rest are the same.
Oh, and Lincoln.
I had a professor in college who was in the reserves, and he would offer extra credit on any test for naming a few letters in the phonetic alphabet.
Justice was swift if not necessarily fair...
What's his bung have to do with anything?
Somebody got some 'splaining to do...Mrs. Barnsley, and Mrs Essex are the same person.
Correction Mrs Essex, it's a £25 spoon.:right:
Getting to South Padre Island Texas. The causeway is weird, can't figure out what's on the right no in the center?
Justice was swift if not necessarily fair...
Somehow I don't think that branch will hold !
That's not a problem, if it doesn't they'll find another one.
Somehow I don't think that branch will hold !
It's an Old West tree. They were tougher back then.
Owlbears!
Aw, now see, I thought that was an
owlsquatch. Thanks for edumacating me! ;)
Hadn't heard of owlsquatches, but it looks like they may be related.
Do ya s'pose there are dropsquatches?
Baby Dumbo Octopus lives 6,500 ft down, and within 10 minutes of hatching from the egg act like adults.
Wow, looks like a big concert... aw, just cotton pickin' machines.
I've never seen, or even heard of one of these, warm your buns, dry your mittens and make your bread rise.
I've never seen, or even heard of one of these, warm your buns, dry your mittens and make your bread rise.
Oooh! Very nifty. I love oddball things like this, particularly if they're Art Deco. I have a cool black enamel Art Deco gas heater with chrome accents in my front hallway. (Sorry for the crappy image quality.)
I found it at a salvage yard in Berkeley years ago and had to have it. I think I paid $15.
:)
But these? These are
way mo' bettah!
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flying baby head! How insane is
that?!? I don't know why
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I love the cherub trying to pretend he's not getting a blow job under the bar. ;)
I love the cherub trying to pretend he's not getting a blow job under the bar. ;)
Heehee!
I recognize Ladybird, Jackie, JFK, LBJ, Harry, Bess, and Ike, no idea who is behind LBJ or behind Bess.
I recognize Ladybird, Jackie, JFK, LBJ, Harry, Bess, and Ike, no idea who is behind LBJ or behind Bess.
The guy behind LBJ is definitely Sigmund Freud. :D
Wow, he looks great for being dead 23 years. :haha:
Skynet has nothing on Italian grandmas...
Since nobody sews or mends anymore with all that cheap crap at walmart, recycle that sewing machine.
Do they go? Don't leave me hanging like that!
Well, yeah, but only sew-sew.
You need a hobby, how about carving a tire?
I don't think it'll hold water.
Or air.
Is purty, though.
It's a lovely morning and you're feeling fine, as you drive you Corvette into your Manhattan Wall Street job where you park for $2200 a month. :facepalm:
Considerate of them to set the price in such a way that it comes out even after tax.
No wonder they're paving Paradi$e to put up parking lot$...
When you absolutely, positively, have to get the picture tonight...
Possibly a piece of Carruthers' youth?
Times have changed since I worked at 7th an 52nd in '87. I was employed with Square Parking. The garage was under the Time Life bldg. At the time the price was $18 up to 2 hrs. We dealt in cash then and most gave $2 tips. Between salary, tips and free parking I made more money than some in the buildings above me.
Possibly a piece of Carruthers' youth?
December 1937! A malicious calumny, sir!
More importantly, why is the father holding his son at gunpoint?
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Nobody said that was the last issue, it could have still been printed up into the 1950s or later.
The gun goes with the Hitler mustache.
More importantly, why is the father holding his son at gunpoint?
"I don't care what ya want, ya little shit, ya ruined my life and your mother's vagina, you're gettin' a model airplane! Ya say anything else and you're gettin' two behind the ear and a ride out to the pine barrens!"
I'd say from the flame he probably is, or he's learning and hasn't got it yet. :haha:
Well, he only has one left thumb, instead of two, so...
Too soon, ya reckon?
One of the nicest truck beds I've seen...
I could get into it, but, I'm not sure I could get out of it in the morning.
The gas pump nozzle is a weird touch. Who wants to emulate sleeping in a truck bed at a gas station? Sleeping in a truck bed is going further than I would want to go, but I can see it. But the gas station bit?
"Sleeping in that bed gives me gas."
the fumes will get you overnight.
What make you think it's in a station and you didn't just drive off with the hose still attached because the hooker you picked up came running out with a handful of cash waving a gun?
Shift knobs you can't afford...
Moving Lucy for the last time...
I love the county prison shift knob.
Do you remember Eddie the Eagle?
Do you remember Eddie the Eagle?
Only just!
His name surfaces from time to time (this being one of them) so I did the obligatory search to find out more about him.
I was surprised to learn that his story was the subject of a film made in 2016.
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ETA The DVD is available on Amazon for £4 ($5.20) and 737 reviews give it a rating of 4.6.
I'll have to see how much loose change there is in the car ashtray.
Fantastic movie!!!
:thumb::thumb:
Pretty good run, probably Mickey Thompson's son Danny who set a 448.757 record for a piston driven vehicle.
There's a great movie about the rise of the McDonald's empire starring Michael Keaton, plus Nick Offerman and B. J. Novak in side roles. Can't remember the name of it, but the short version is those two guys in the picture got screwed.
Screwed by Ray Kroc, Richard Nixon's largest money donor.
I've been to the site of the first one Ray Kroc opened. The replica-museum on that site is in the process of being torn down:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mcdonalds-museum-demolition-20180724-story.html
There's a modern functional McDonald's right across the street.
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I remember 15 cent burgers, 2 burgers, fries, and a drink for less than a buck.
♫ Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
♪ We'd sing and dance forever and a day
♫ We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
♪ For we were young and sure to have our way
And the along came JFK and LBJ, Nixon, and Vietnam. :(
I remember 15 cent burgers, 2 burgers, fries, and a drink for less than a buck.
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
And the along came JFK and LBJ, Nixon, and Vietnam. :(
Gawd you must be old. I remember when they were 79¢.
Gawd you must be old.
:lol2:
Gawd you must be old. I remember when they were 79¢.
Not age, location, location, location. The burger chains spread to the civilized states first.
A friend in Texas told me he drove around the Indy track a couple weeks ago and was surprised how little banking there is.
12 degrees banking at Indy.
I miss miniskirts, although I never wore one, and probably only 10% of those who did were completely comfortable in them.
Where's the one with knees touching but feet wide apart? That's me.
Well hello there...
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Pfft. Apparently I'm sexually interested in everyone, everywhere, including when I'm alone.
Or you're often fantasizing. Either way,
Well hello there... :joylove:
Well hello there...
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That list is questionable, at best.
You wanna know if a woman likes ya? Look at her feet.
If they're behind her ears,
she likes ya a lot.:yesnod:
I'm having trouble accepting this...
Snopes and several other sites do a thorough job debunking this April Fool's Joke:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elephant-carrying-lion-cub/Not surprised in the least, just too outrageous.
The bastards running JC Whitney, the Warshawskys...
I bought lots of things from them during my younger, poorer days.
Most of them even worked.
Yeah, so did I but I was lucky not to get screwed because I was too young to have a credit card when everyone got screwed.
This is apparently a common clothesline for apartment dwellers in Japan.
It's a screen capture from a XXX video and they don't budget much for props.
Fascinating. Now I am wondering about sapwood vs. heartwood where the limbs intersect with the trunk. In a tree, the sap travels through the outer sapwood, and the heartwood is dead, but what path does the sap follow to get to the limbs? There appears to be no capillary connection between the sapwood of the trunk and the limbs. Is the pith (the center) of the tree also a carrier of sap? Is the pith alive, and the heartwood dead, and the sapwood alive?
Incidentally, the sapwood carries a decay resistant compound, which is why this post has rotted away in this pattern. The living part of the tree (when it was cut down) hasn't rotted away, and the dead part has. I guess I answered my own question.
The cambium layer under the bark goes up the trunk and out the limbs, there's no break between the two. The cambium builds new wood and feeds the leaves the water to photosynthesise food for the tree.
Actually it's really mind boggling looking at all the things that come into play to keep the Earth as we know it doing it's thing reliably.
I liked the old siggy better.
A young teen standing in the backseat of his Dad's convertible near the finish line snapped the only picture of the Snake during this incident with the last picture on his roll of film.
Water isn't the only place to find fish...
I'm liking the Star[strike]Fish[/strike] Trek Enterprise one.
Man, that looks like one of my exit/on ramps.
I guess it looks like a lot of exit/on ramps.
Yeah, if they don't put in a cloverleaf, this is the alternative.
It fooled me, I had to make sure it wasn't the
ramp I used for 28 years.
Want... without the contents...
Maybe getting old can have an up side...
The good thing about getting old is that it don't last long.
That ride will get ya to the end quicker if nothing else...
You use Arabic numbers every day. You have a passing knowledge of Roman Numerals, kind of give me a minute I'll figure it out. You can now add Babylonian numbers to your resume...
Dis the only
Babilonian number I'm interested in:
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Here's a log for Griff to work his slicematic on. :haha:
Ecologically sound amusement. the only cost after set-up, unless you want lights at night, would be for a $Billion dollar liability insurance policy.
I was curious about details. This looked like it was at Burning Man, so was easy to look up. The stones are pretty steady. Each is anchored at 3-4 spots.
Scroll towards the end to watch it being used. Or watch the whole video to see it set up too.
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Stairway To Broken Bones:lol2:
The world as it used to was...
You use Arabic numbers every day. You have a passing knowledge of Roman Numerals, kind of give me a minute I'll figure it out. You can now add Babylonian numbers to your resume...
And Egyptian hieroglyphics...
It's hard to believe this was once a valid headline...
South Philly back in the day...
I'd guess it suffered a collision or engine fire and he's trying to patch it back together with limited resources and no off street parking. It's a '58 and the picture was taken 3-1-1970 so it's been around awhile possibly several owners.
That is a nice shot.
Going on the list of places to visit, this time in winter.
Some of the trees in the park have seen over three thousand winters!
The young girl:
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The survivors of the first victim:
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Shockwave from a two level explosion...
Scale reference brought to you by the little white square ⬜ in the foreground, a TEU shipping container.
