I nearly forgot to post a slide today.
So, here's a quick grabbed slide, and it appears to be almost certainly Switzerland, in the 1960's.
Or possibly Austria.
Or might be Liechtenstein.
But definitely not The Netherlands.
Bonus - In bad weather / bad visibility, Slow The Flap Down !!!
< counts silently >
OK.... here you are !
Bonus - Every Single Scandinavian Crime Drama
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Or m ore technically, a branch of a tree.
And it's not very interesting.
But, a starting point for some psychedelic experimentation.
Bonus - The population of Uruguay is 3,457,000. In Australia there are 47 million kangaroos. If the kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, every Uruguayan has to fight against 14 kangaroos.
Bonus 2 - Italian sailors knew of America 150 years before Christopher Columbus, new analysis of ancient documents suggests
Fish, Fish, fish fish, fishy?
Fish !
Bonus - Fish.
Bonus 2 - 2013 Falklands Referendum
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Point is, today is Mother's Day, at least in the civilised parts of the world.
Mothers are Great.
Bonus : Why President Coolidge Never Ate His Thanksgiving Raccoon
However, the Badlands of (Montana??) looks like an environment worth a visit.
They really do look like they're a billion years old, and that the efforts of men to change them will be ignored, like a human attached by a ladybird.
Bonus - Yesterday, I spent the evening watching Half Man, Half Biscuit. Excellent night guys !
HMHB - National Shite Day
Then, "coincidentally" I scanned this slide from the "To Do" pile, and ... Reggie ? Is that you?
Has my cat mastered Time Travel?
Bonus - Pinched from B3TA.com, and so, SO wrong.
And, here is a retro 35mm slide of someone else enjoing the sun.
Good for you, Mrs Smith.
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Google tells me that this post number 4943, so sometime I'll have to investigate...
But, Slide 5000 looks like Harry "Fingers" Hardy and Felix "The Wheel" Rochester of the Clerkenwell Mob have to hide out in Spain until the heat dies down on the Ashbury Street Post Office job.
Bonus - Americans don't seem very good at estimating things.
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Sometimes, I happen across a slide and think that some band, somewhere is screaming out for a certain image for the cover of their latest CD, and I might just have it.
Bonus - Erotic Squirrel Taxidermy
Speaking of which, I could do with some fine, Columbian ... coffee.
Bonus - Eating a piece of cheese is perfectly acceptable, but if you shove a handful of grated cheese in your mouth people look at you like you are a psychopath.
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Bonus - Half Man Half Biscuit - If I Had Possession over Pancake Day
What keeps me going is this picture of an unknown Granny and Gramps. They must have seen a fair amount of sheet in their lives, and still they smile and love each other.
Nice.
Bonus - On the other hand, here's someone who is unloved, and deserves some sheet in his life.
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And after a fair bit of correction (thanks for the massively underexposed slide) we have this image of the The Singing Daughter of Mick O'Murphy. Few people know that their song "My Lovely Goat" was fourth placed in Ireland's "Song for Eurovision 1973", and was later plagiarized by Father Ted.
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Of course, it could be that Hilda is an alcoholic, and the percolator is filled with Bourbon.
Just saying ... It's a possibility.
Bonus - The crawfish farming industry in Louisiana grew after rice farmers began breeding them in their rice fields. They realized that they could farm crawfish throughout the year without it affecting their rice.
You might imagine that the Hotel Albarella is located on the Adriatic Coast of Italy, close to Venice.
Alas, no. This one, thanks to some Google-Fu, is located in San Bernardino, Switzerland. 1600metres above the Adriatic, beautiful hills, blighted by this monstrosity
And it looks like it's still there, and (in 2014) still seemed to be its ugly, horrible
self. Yeuch.
.Bonus 2 - The equivalent of Fibonacci spiral in real life.
But, with the recent announcement that Tom Brady might not have retired after all, this image seemed appropriate.
Bonus - However, with that news, one chap will be mightily pissed.(Beware - Link to Daily Mail, so news story may be 100% bollocks.)
Bonus 2 - Happy Pi Day
And it's an early post today, as I'm out for lunch with The Gang.
Bonus - There are rumours that Nic Cage may have over0-indulged in Bolivian Marching Powder in the early 90's. Well, I think this clip from BBC TV's Wogan should quash those rumours.
Today, we remember The wedding of ... ummm. No Info. The Wedding of Cheryl and Gavin. (They look like a Gavin and Cheryl). And the best man is called "Malc". Not Malcom, "Malc".
Are my prejudices showing?
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Must be a classy event...everyone is drinking from glasses.
Bonus - Fun fact: "sugar" is the only word in the English language where "su-" makes a "sh" sound. . .
At least, I'm pretty sure that's correct.
Bonus 2 - Heat wave caused bees to ejaculate to death. Could Styrofoam 'protection' help?
No need for misleading or smutty descriptions.
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At least that's my assumption, based upon the mountainous background. (Slide was Very underexposed, so not the best quality, even with photoshopping.)
Bonus - Endurance wreck: Ernest Shackleton's lost ship found off Antarctica
Sorry. A bit distracted today.
Someone who's tired of the rat-race, and given up his career of domestic insurance sales, to start a small pottery in a remote corner of Britain.
A small pottery shop, getting a little passing trade, but with 98% of people saying "What? £45 for that.... thing?"
I guess why I get thrown out onto the street at most of them.
Bonus - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Catching Smoke (Official Video)
And in the case of former pole dancers, they retire to the Floridian Community of East Bonitaville. Over 43% of the community is made of of former Pole-Dancers and Exotic Dancers.
Here, we have "Tina Tremendous", now living under her stage name of Molly Smith.
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This is Nathan, your Sunday Hunk. He's 19 years old, studying Philosophy and Taxidermy at Whitby College, and just about to shovel 2 years of shit from the improvised toilet onto the tomato crops.
Bonus - The Failed Logistics of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
These folks were found in one of my early slide sets, and circumstantially, they may well be in Jersey.
As usual, it's the small details that catch my attention - The bottles of beer, and a thermos of tea, for one.
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No chimp this time.
Bonus - Have a rest from all the bad news with some laundry art.
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So, lets start with the Star of 1964. Spanky The Chimp.
Not an act that you're likely to see nowadays, but if you are interested, there is plenty of information and video out there of Spanky.
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Which is slightly creepy.
You're welcome.
Bonus - I believe that I have a new favorite insult.
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