Impressive Float

No info (as usual) but there is a phone code in the background (796.8486?) and the float has a label of "Sunkist"...but otherwise I'm stumped.

Any suggestions.

Bonus - Inadvisable Haircuts for Kids.

Bonus 2 - the only wooden toilet seat to be found in the Roman Empire 

The Fun of Caravaning

Yes, it's fun.

Cramped conditions and family tensions. Who could resist.

Bonus - The Thing

Bonus 2 -

The Young Accountant

Not every slide gets to be taken on Kodachrome.

Apologies for the inferior condition of this slide - it's over 60 years old, and has suffered from fungal attack.

No apologies for the subjects - A young accountant and his mother.

Bonus - An outrageous case of police brutality.

Bonus 2 -  The End Times Are Now

The Stump

The Stump.

You've probably read about it in Rolling Stone or Italian Vogue, but this is the genuine stump.

You may wonder about the Mick Jagger story...but I have it on good authority....it's true.   It's Damned True.


Bonus - Alec McGregor and Ewan McGuinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Nude Swimmer

Yup.   Naked.

Nude apart from his tatoos.


Completely.

Bonus - Dog with a cat's shadow

Bonus 2 - Clickee Biggee

"Say Cheese"

Smile for the camera.

By The Way - There's a camouflaged Japanese sniper concealed in the shrubbery. Can you spot him?

Bonus - Ski-Jump records around the world

Bonus 2 -

Zombies on The African Queen

On the positive side, you can identify the celebrities from their Waxworks.
On the negativeside - Aaarrrggghhh. Zombies !


Bonus -  It all depends on your outlook on life.
Bonus 2 - When Reggie doesn't get his favourite pouches

The Citrus Thieves

"Heck. They grow them at the side of the road....they must be expecting to lose a few"

Seconds later, the criminals were vaporised.


Bonus "During their jolly to Washington for Trump’s inauguration, Nigel Farage and Brexit financier Arron Banks staged the most solemn of pilgrimages to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the grave of a British soldier who perished in 1944. The fact that he succumbed to anaemia whilst working a desk job approximately 4,000 miles from Normandy – perhaps the only person in Arlington not to have actually died for their country – was somewhat de-emphasised."     The Subject Briton

Tea al fresco

After forty years in solitary confinement in a stinking jungle hovel, Major Walter Johnston preferred to have his afternoon tea in the open air, thank you very much.

Bonus - Wait ... What???

Smith 8450

Words Fail Me.


Bonus - Other Smith 8450s are available, including :

Smith 8450 Heavy Duty Grease Trap Interceptor 

Bonus 2 - Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

Graduation Day Speech

The most important day in some cadet's life ... but what a dull slide.

Bonus - The Massive Pizza Funeral That Never Had to Happen

Bonus 2 - Yes.  New look to the blog.

Bonus 3 - New Zealand artist Benjamin Lloyd to give sick kids incredible 'tattoos

The Playground Newbie

I've never seen that before.

A lad in a Newbie School tee-shirt. Marking out the new lad for extra special treatment.

Or maybe not. Squinting at the image, that might be "Mark Newbie School"...and a few Googles later reveals....   Mark Newbie Elementary School.

Ta-Da.

Bonus - Best.  Crib.  Ever.

Peek-A-Boo

Well....it keeps both parties amused for hours.

Bonus - No.....Yes....Nom
Bonus 2 - What to Do When Your Girlfriend Is 70 Times Bigger Than You

Lucas admires the Swirl Pattern

More subtle than the 1970's carpet monstrosities.

Bonus - Today I have been watching this.
Bonus 2-  Also - How Prostitutes Settled the Wild West

Name That Plane

The latest in a very irregular series.

Today....a quite distinctive airplane, tho' not particularly successful.

Answer.


Bonus - Amtrak Snow-mo Collision

Cat-Taunting

Tom and Billy, two young local ass-holes, play with two cats.

Hope the lad remember that 5 of six ends on a cat are sharp.

Bonus - Well, I had been hoping for 's sleep...but I I guess I can forget about that now.a good night;

Bonus 2 - Darwin Misses...

Style Never Goes Out Of Fashion

What could be more stylish than Maggie's Tightly belted Camelhair Coat and Dennis's Red Plaid Sports Jacket.

Timeless classics.

Bonus -

And Outside, There's A ... An Airport!

Another Tedious Tuesday slide. I'm trying to think of some cockamamie fact to make this slide even slightly interesting.

Nope. Failed.

Bonus - "Cockamamie" - By the look and sound of it, cockamamy (also spelled "cockamamie") seems like an arbitrarily coined nonsense word-but a reasonable explanation for its origin exists. Supposedly, cockamamy is an altered form of the term decalcomania, which denotes a process of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. The word decalcomania comes from the combination of French décalquer, meaning "to copy by tracing," and -manie, meaning "mania." In the 1940s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called "decals" or "cockamanies." They were naturally regarded by many as silly novelties. Hence, in time, the variant cockamamie came to be used as an adjective meaning "ridiculous."

Bonus 2 - Heavy Snow.

Outside the Trident Grill

...and right beside the Seahorse Bar, should she fancy a small sherry of five.

Yes, it's blurred / unfocussed.

No, I don't know where it is.

Bonus - Happy, happy, happy dog.

Wrapped Up Warm

Looking outside, it does appear that Spring is almost upon us.  Sunshine, and small shoots of rhubarb.

So, this slide seems appropriate. The tulips and daffodils are out, as are the warm woolly hats.

Bonus -

Word Bodging

One of my favourite anecdotes concerns Humphrey Lyttleton and..Orthni...Ornolot....Orthinology.

Bonus - The Return of Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski

Pink Flamingos

I thought this slide might be a suitable (tho' late) way to mark the death of Divine on March 7th 1988.

Farewell you Trash-Queen.


Bonus - My Blog, My Choices.

The Danish Parade

I realise that the title may make you think of a magazine that your creepy uncle subscribed to in teh Seventies....but it isn't.

It's a delight to see that it's not just Americans who enjoy a good street parade.

Bonus -

Awaiting The Second Coming of Christ

Based upon their own interpretation of Paul's Fourth Latter  to The Galetions, Bob and Shirley Cummings and neighbours Ted and Augustine Marshall of Toledo Ohio believed that The Second Coming would occur in June, at this small outcrop in Ohio. So, they've maintained a vigil on that site...awaiting the inevitable.

Bonus - Today is International Women's Day.  Woo!.
Bonus 2 - "How come there isn't an International Men's Day"?   Actually, Richard Herring knows the answer.
Bonus 3 - The Daily Mail's contribution.Can this simple hack really give you an instant FACELIFT? Blogger uses collagen shaping gel to transform her face in seconds (and the results will amaze you)

Depressing Little Roses

What could be sadder than these pathetic little roses, photographed on a damp Tuesday in Halifax?

Nothing.

Nothing except someone thought they were worth a photograph.


Bonus - Uplifting
Bonus 2 - Lapdog

The Big Red Van

Looking like a scaled up child's toy, this is a beauty of a vehicle. Possible Fire-service related.

Bonus - Boredom + Engineers = Innovation

Photographing The Christmas Cowboy

There's something about pictures of photographers photographing things that just makes me smile.

Bonus - Hold On, I'm Coming.

Bonus 2 - 30 February - Yes, you read that right

I'll Huff and I'll Puff...

or maybe the start of the Hippy Crack epidemic.

However, I suspect this is a photo from Peru, where the extreme altitudes can lead to health problems - especially for non-locals. This looks like a low-tech oxygen enrichment treatment.

Bonus - Hornet Queen Builds Nest
Bonus 2 - The Camera Never Lies

Uncle Kenny

As seen on TV

Uncle Kenny, inventor of the Self-Lubricating Screwdriver, and Fame Raconteur.

He died after an unfortunate Piano Tuning accident.

Bonus -

Ladies Who Liquid Lunch

A Gaggle of Inebriated Women - and no, it's not Loose Women on ITV.

For all you beerhunters out there, they appear to be drinking Tecate, which appears to be the local TrampJuice

Bonus - Oroville Dam Spillway evolution

Angry Clouds over Essex

Another slide with no info, but in the foreground is a sign for MACHIN AND KINGSLEY. A quick Google, and it seems that they were based in Upminster in Essex.

Helloooo Essex.


Bonus - Good Throw

Bonus 2- Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies