The Chocolate Bunny

Yes Easter.
 Perfect Time for  a Giant Chocolate Bunny.

Bonus - Ah.   Yes.      Oops.

Bonus 2 -

Easter Friday Fashion Fails

Clerical Catastrophes.

There's something about religions that seems to block any fashion sense.

Pom-Poms, brimless crimson hats, white lace .... Just Say No.

Bonus - British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg

Goat Thursday

The Thursday before Easter has been as Goat Thursday all across Nottinghamshire since the late 17th century.

No-one knows why.


But this slide seemed appropriate.

Bonus - Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (A capella)

Bonus 2 - The CIA's Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft

Lassie and her Pups

Admission time.

I have no idea if this slide portrays the real Lassie.  Or one of the numerous actresses who portrayed her.

Cute, tho'.

Bonus - How Creedence Clearwater Revival Became the Soundtrack to Every Vietnam Movie

The Villa in the Pines

Tedious Tuesday Slides

There's an almost inexhaustable supply.


Hard Luck.


Bonus - Woodworking's "impossible" Japanese sunrise dovetail!

Bonus 2 - No.  Just No.

Who's Mama's Favourite Boy ?

Yes, you are, you ugly mutt.

Overweight Americans with an overweight dog.

Blogged by an overweight Scotsman, if I'm being fair.

Bonus - I have to admit it. Ronnie O'Sullivan is a good snooker player.

Bonus 2 - There was an attempt...

Two Tree Gnomes

Generally, gnomes live in burrows underground.

However, these two seem to have made their home up a tree.

Daft.

Bonus - Today, I have been making Stigmata Cookies.

Ohhh ..... Hello !

We seem to have caught Mindy by surprise.

She seems surprised, if not shocked, by the appearance of a man with a camera.

Which begs the question.... who or what is in the second single bed, pushed against Mindy's?    Husband?  Pillows?  Lover?     Girlfriend?

Bonus - The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: 

Bonus 2 -

1991-05 Ipanema Beach, Rio, Brazil

Looks like someone was taking pictures at Ipanema Beach, uing a telephoto lens.

What a disappointment.  No buxom bikini babes.

Still, now I fancy a Kibon Ice-cream...

Bonus - Most folk know that Kelsey Grammer voiced Sideshow Bob, but did you know....

Bonus 2 -

Rape of Polyxena

For a change, a lot of info written on this slide.

Pio Fede 1866 Rape of Polyxena  Loggia des Lanzi

So, you were right if your first thought was "That looks like a work by Pio Fede to me.

More images here. 

The basic story:

1) Polyxena was the daughter of Hecuba and the King of Troy.
2) Achilles killed Polyxena's brother Troilus in front of her.
3) Achilles falls in love with Polyxena .
4) Achilles kills another brother Hector.
5) Polyxena offers herself as a slave to Achilles in return for Hector's body.
6) Polyxena discovers Achilles heel betraying him to his brother Paris.
7) Paris kills Achilles
8) As he’s dying, Achilles asks that Polyxena “Sacrificed” to him.
9) Polyxena is stabbed to death.
10) Trojan War ends.

Greek Culture.

Bonus - Just Lion Around

Walkies with Grand-Pa

The Slide Guy Blog.

Not just there for the unpleasant things in life.


Charlie and Bob are here, talking Grand-Pa Mosteyn for a walk.

Lovely.

Bonus : A Remote Paradise Island Is Now a Plastic Junkyard

Bonus 2 - Swanage, Dorset, Apparently

Any moment now.......

Looking at this slide, I keep thinking that it has to be one of those shock web pages, which appears all calm and collected, but SUDDENLY something loud, obnoxious and animated happens.

So, if you wait for a while.....


Meanwhile....

Bonus - Hank vs The Cousins.

The Colter Co, Wholesale Grocers

A fine looking warehouse, with some fine looking autos out front.

Some Googling makes me think that this could be 1950's Cincinnati, possibly. Some deep digging reveals

The Colter Company (1838), Water and Vine Streets,
Cincinnati's oldest wholesale grocery organization, specializes
in supplying hotels, restaurants, and institutions. 

Bonus - Bye Bye Charles Manson

Bonus 2 - The Trees That Sail to Sea

The Red -Hatted Butchers

There's a great box of slide in the collection, marked "Koosharem, Utah", and seems to depict a Fall 1950 hunting expedition.  Proper tents, and lots and LOTS of freshly butchered venison.

Why the Red Hats ?   Fashion statement, or may an attempt to avoid being shot by so many red-necked hunters.

Bonus - Gulp.  Volkswagen T3 Crash Test

Bonus 2 - Not always what you think.

Final Family Photo

;

While Billy Mitchell may have disappeared (see yesterday's pic), the rest of the Mitchell family gather for a family photo, and you can really tell what they're thinking :

Frank Mitchell : "I fought on the beaches of Okinawa, but to have a draft dodger as a sone....well, that really grinds my gears."
Margaret Mitchell : "Great...I finally have a daughter...of sort."
Robert Mitchell : "Military College... dammit. I don't deserve this. My parents hate me."
Kevin Mitchell : "Great. I get a bedroom of my own now!"

Bonus -

Cousin Billy - The Draft Dodger.

The sixties were a tough time for Billy Mitchell. He didn't want to be drafted, and didn't want to move to Canada.

So, one night, Billy disappeared.

The next day, distant cousin Wilhelmina (from Wales, apparently) arrived.

It's a period in the Mitchel Family History that is rarely talked about.

Bonus - Who's that actor who plays Sherlock?

Bonus 2 -

We call him ... David

A fairly well known icon of medieval art.  If I can quote Wikipedia...

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by Henry Moore. David is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the former Prime Minister David Cameron, a favored subject in the art of Florence.

Bonus : Ever wonder why that eBay purchase takes so long to arrive?

Not Suitable for Children

Well, I'm not a doctor, but that cannot be normal.


I'll even go as far as to sat that's abnormal.

Hope the wee tyke recovered.

Bonus - RIP Stephen Hawking.
Einstein vs Stephen Hawking -Epic Rap Battles of History #7

Bonus 2 - Dropping In

The Weeds of Capitalism Bear Bitter Fruit

Don't know why that quote came to mind.

That said, it is a VERY obscure quote, and probably mis-remembered.

Character

Bonus - Because I can - Yo La Tengo at KEXP

Bonus 2 - Miss Snake Charmer 2016: Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas 

Out Of Season

Funny.  I never thought about Winter Sports attractions, out of season.

I'm also intrigued by the shallow angle slode on the left of the Big Jump.  A training or beginners slope, I assume.

Bonus - Artwork by Jorge Méndez Blake.

Happy Mother's Day

To mothers everything - Thank you.

So why not thank your mother with .... a bottle of bleach. Apparently.

Odd.

Bonus - What's In The Box?

Bonus 2 - How to pronounce..

A Visit By The Chinese Ambassador

Chinese Ambassador General Tso (yes, that one) visits the site of the River Hull Hydro-Electric plant, to pay his respects to his predecessor How Hi, who was buried in the foundations of the dam.

Bonus - Pablo EskoBear – The Legendary Cocaine Bear of Kentucky

Grandma Transfixed By Amarylis

What an oddly staged photograph. 


Bonus -  Gentlemen - How Much Boobs Weigh In Animals Terms?

Bonus 2 - U.S. Still Paying a Civil War Pension

Vicious Dog Thinks About Biting Little Hoomans

But decides against it, based upon them having Treats.

Bonus - "Friends": Ross Geller without laugh track = psychopath

Bonus 2 - Good Landing

Oink

Oink, oink, oink.

Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink. Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink?  Oink!

Bonus - Why do pigs oink in English, boo boo in Japanese, and nöff-nöff in Swedish?

Bonus 2 - Amelia Earhart

Grass, Clouds and Pony-Treckers

Man.


What a tedious slide.

Normally I can find one redeeming fact about a slide, but this one....

Well, I s'pose it's in focus...

Bonus - Doug Jones - The Most Famous Actor You’ve Never Seen

Bonus 2 - Nope.

Frank's Fashions

Frank is definitely a one off when it come to his fashions.

If he suggest a particular style, or fashion... think long and hard about what he suggest, then just say No.


JUST .... SAY ... NO !


Bonus -

The Thumping Stick

During the 1950s and 1960s, America was obsessed with The Cold War, fearing Reds Under The Bed.

Belle DuMarche had her own solution. If any Commie was going try and disarm her, she'd fight back with her ever-present Thumping Stick.  And the same goes for anyone who tells her to avoid smoking in front of the kids.

Bonus - If you have three hours to spare...
The Century of The Self
Adam Curtis 2005

Fun, Fun, Fun Afloat

With the wintry weather continuing, let's remember the warmer days of August 1972.

Babes in Bikinis
Blokes in ...Boats.

Bonus - 50 Years Old - That famous Bigfoot film.  Stabilized.
Bonus 2 - Making poor life choices.

Like a Camel, but in reverse.

It took me a couple of sends to realise, but something about this horse struck me as odd.

VERY odd.

I'm sure there's a story behind it, and I'm sure I'll never know. But...I hope it lived out its life in pleasant surroundings.

Bonus - Sigur Rós - Svefn-G-Englar

Little Nicky's Birthday Treat

Little Nicky (on the right) celebrates his fifth birthday, with special chum Little Andy (on the left.)

The lucky young chap has a special treat today - A Chocolate-Coated Haricot Bean. Lovely.

Bonus - Also a Birthday Boy today - Roger Daltrey and Justin Beiber