Halloween' Hellcats

Hazel, Helga and Hermione. The Harrisburg Halloween Hellcats.

Bonus - JFK Assassination Orville Nix Film Stabilized
 
Bonus 2 - Conspiracy Nuts and Las Vegas Shooting

Granny and an Outsized Baby

Granny and Grandchild.

I'm getting the mom is off having some emergency stitching - that is a VERY large baby.

Bonus - What I do on my weekends. (I'm drummer number 3.)

The Clocks went back last night

...to 1962, apparently.

Slide is of Robin and Jeremy .... and that leaves a few troubling question about the gender of Robin. I mean...I'm just not sure.

Bonus - Walking through New York as Kim Jong Un

Bonus 2 - Epic Bite

With Grandpa Jones

Just six of his 73 Grandchildren.

Christmas Present buying must be Hell.

Bonus - Man Loses Leg to Cancel, but Nails Halloween Costume

Bonus 2 - Teen Plays Chopsticks At Talent Show, And...

The Climber

This little bundle of mischief is Kevin.  Kevin the climber.


Bonus - The Shortest Route Between All the Pubs in the UK

Bonus 2 - Yeah Gods - I've just been alerted to Annie Leibovitz's photo of Donald and Melania Trump.

A Trophy For Everyone

Well done, Lads.

Except .... If you look very closely, and squint your eyes, you can clearly see that the main trophy is inscribed "Eastleigh and District Gymkana : Pony Dressage Girls Championship : Under Seven Years"

Bad show chaps, posing with someone else's trophy. Very bad show.

Bonus - Car Safety - 1992 vs 2017

Bonus 2 - Amanda Holden - Dumb-Ass, Tim Peake answers like a gentlemen.

Dancing the Hectic Henry

Think of it as the English version of the Gay Gordon's, but with the arm movements of the Lambeth Walk.

Danced to a Cornish Polka.

And that's basically "it".

Bonus - Sorry, late night at work.

Bonus 2 - Morning news show tries Carolina Reaper #OneChipChallenge, goes badly

It's Curtains for George

This is why I call in Tedious Tuesday.

A slide of .... A Pair of Curtains (Drawn.)

Wow.

Bonus -
Mindhunter vs Real Life Ed Kemper - Side By Side Comparison

Bonus 2 - 536KG DeadLift

October 23rd, 1961

Looking thru'my slides for a subject for today, and this one almost slipped through to be a Weekend Wallpaper. But something intrigued me, and I returned to it.

Then I noticed the writing on the blackboard....

Bonus - Is it wrong to be turned on by this?  Because I am not. (Damn.  Gone.)
Bonus 2 - Well....the residents aren't complaining...

The Camera Assistant

That, I suspect, is a Redlake Hycam high-speed 16mm cine camera.

And on left is Shirley from the typing pool, who was roped in for the photoshoot.

Bonus - The 'merican Idea of Fun
Bonus 2 - Idiot

Helping at the Apple Harvest

Seemed seasonally apposite.
A slide from a a mini-set at a Pick Your Own Apple Farm.

Bonus - Do you think your home country is the Best or Worst? (Click for +Pixels)

Rockefeller at the Zoo

What a curious slide.

"Tea party at the Brox Zoo, 1941. From left to right : Laurance Rockefeller, Fairfield Osborn, Jean Delacour, "

Looks to be the same photoshoot as this picture

Bonus - Awww crap.  Frederico Luppi has died.  If you've not seen Cronos yet, you're in for a treat.

Bonus 2 - When Fishing, always bring an Action Man

Zebra, Crossing

Di you know that there are there are three extant species of zebra, and eight subspecies of zebra.

And this one is called Charles.

Biofuel
Recent research has shown that TU-103, a strain of Clostridium bacteria found in zebra feces, can convert nearly any form of cellulose into butanol fuel.

Bonus - Are you ready to be creeped-out?

Bonus 2 - Q & A with the Squatty Potty Team

Welcome to London Cannon Street

Strangely, knowing my bad luck and the number of sad old train spotters back then, I actually have very few slides of trains and rolling stock.

Thank Goodness.

However, I do have this one. And from a little Googling, this is a unique one.  This particular ...thing ... is the only preserved British Rail Class 401. Also known as the 2-BIL,... as in  (2-car Bi-Lavatory stock, they were used until Zzzzzzzzzz........

Bonus -

Another Ordinary Street

It could be almost anywhere in the UK, but the fact is that it is somewhere.  Somewhere unique and which physically exists.

Unless I dreamt it.

In which case, you must be imagining a a view of Another Ordinary Street. 

Wouldn't it be strange if we imagine the same features in our imaginary street??

Bonus - How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape.

The Finger-Slicer

I realise that I've probably been conditioned by too many DailMail Elf'n'Safety scare stories, but this baby carriage looks rather dangerous to me.

What are the chances that some kid's going to lose a finger-tip in an unfortunate accident  while folding that guillotine buggy?

Bonus -  The ins and outs of urinating at sports stadiums.

Mavis O'Flaherty

There so much I could speculate about Mavis, but I'll let you draw your own inferences from two basic facts.

1. Phoenix Fire Station has a dormitory named after her.
2. They never did find the spatula in question.

Bonus - Alaskan Bush Pilot (with MASSIVE cojones)

Girl to Girl Intercourse

Intercourse - noun "Interpersonal communication, any kind of human communication or interaction"

Nothing even remotely naughty about these two ladies.  Sorry to all those mis-directed souls who expected something else.

Bonus - Selfie Time

Allenton, on the Derbyshire Riviera

Unlike yesterday's slide, this is one location I can identify.

It's the leafy suburb of Allenton, on the patch of coastline called The Derbyshire Riviera.

The exact location if from the Spider Island, looking west, and you can just see the golden M of Derbyshire's only MacDonalds in the distance.

Bonus -

Where On Earth?

How Infuriating.

The slide has a few clues - Lathams, Manx Fish. Send A Box Of Kippers, but my Google-Fu fails to locate the location of this scene.  Dammit.

Bonus - Two words for you - Whale Lice
Bonus 2 - Just Tattoo of Us: TV Show where friends/family design tattoo's for each other. Hilarious/Brutal 

Off To Market

For a change, a bright cheery upbeat slide, featuring a pretty lady.  OK, it's out of focus, but what the heck...it's improving my mood this evening.

Bonus - Hurricane Katrine, Hospitals  and the spectre of Euthanasia...

Bonus 2 - Abandoned dog dragging 6-pound tumor gets second chance at life

Oh Look. A Baby.

Oh Gosh.   This bring back memories.

Just yesterday, a work colleague was telling me of her weekend visiting her sister and her newborn, and "here's a couple of pictures of the little darlin'. "


Sorry Missy, but I have virtually zero interest in your children, let alone your freshly ejected nieces or nephews.

Top Tip Ladies - Men aren't interested in other people's kids. Even their own kids aren't really worth the effort.

Bonus - Nicely Played
Bonus 2 -

Achalasia

Achalasia   and

Deglutition.

Two words I'll now try and work into random conversations.

Bonus - Austria burqa ban: Man dressed as shark falls afoul of new law

Bonus 2 -

Look at Our Fishees

If there's one thing I've learned from being The Slide Guy, it's that Americans Love Photographing Fish. And Parades. If there was a street parade of anglers and their catches, then Kodak would still be in business.

I wonder if the neighbours enjoyed seeing the slides of fish and parades as much as the photographer.

Bonus - What Time Is It Now Eccles?
Bonus 2 - Clouds wash over the Dolomites

Time for a Smoke

Yes, it's time for a break.  Charlie (here) needs a smoke, and I need a coffee.

Bonus - What Time Is It Eccles?

Bonus 2 - The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces

American Domestic Architecture

It's certainly not something that the Bauhaus would come up with.

A distinctly American style.

Bonus - Is the Moon a planet or a star?

QVC tries to supply the answer....

Sorting out the Drainage in the Lower Field

... as Ted and Ralph would often discuss. 

Comedy Gold.

Bonus - Two Hip-Hop Heads listen to Megadeth for the first time.

Bonus 2 - US Presidents With Their Subjects At Times Of Crisis. (Explanation of The_Donald.)

The Ghost Ships

I dare say that there is someone, somewhere who could identify these mothballed ships.

They might not even need the enlargement section also attached ("US Navy E 775"?)

But they certainly look like creepy ghost ships, to me.

Bonus 1 - The Daily Mail knows the stories that interest their readers.

Bonus 2 - You can get Camouflaged Baby Coffins in the US....

The Hotel Bed ... Of Mystery

Who knows the secret of the Hotel Bed?

Is is related to the Bed Head?  Or is it the Bedside Table?


Or is that mysterious object on the bedside table?

We will probably never know.

Bonus - Tigers Love A Drone Hunt
Bonus 2 - Meanwhile, in Japan....

Still Waters Run Deep

No idea where this is but from the mountains in the background, I'm guessing it's not The Netherlands.

Bonus - Hmmm.   Another Mass Shooting in the USA. Las Vegas, 58 people dead. One Shooter.
1. How it should be reported does not match with the reality.
2. The Stats are, predictably, utterly depressing. (Interesting resource.)

Mildred's Anger

No wonder. Having found the downstairs closet blocked by some horrid, coiled, brown monster, Mildred's needle-sharp stare is focused on the presumed guilty party.  Mrs Ethel Grosshammer. Damn her.

Bonus - Someone doesn't want to help with the laundry.