Ready 2 Party !

As 2019 draws to a close, I thought I'd thank you all for your visits and support.  Much Appreciated.

Best Wishes for 2020

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(PS if anyone is worried about my mental state - don't worry. I just found this cartoon funny.   

I'm fine :-) )

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Spent part of today scanning in some slides - a fairly repetitive, tedious task - and today it's been mainly someone's slides from Soviet Russia.

This, I believe,  is a MiG-17. Slide labelled as "Warsaw to E Berlin, 8-12-87"

Bonus - RIP Neil Innes. An under-appreciated genius.

Kristmas is for the Kids

Keep on smiling.

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Nope. No Explanation.

Your Evening's Entertainment

...comes from Mandy Von Treacle and Her Semi Coordinated High-Kickers.

Bless them, they try.

Bonus - What I Wanted For Christmas

Predicta

Under The Christmas Tree

Yes, the Christmassy slides continue.

Bonus - The Far Side (finally) has an official online home.

Bonus 2 - Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis

Christmas in Dixie

OK, you win.

A More Traditional Christmas slide - "Young Girl with Confederate Canon".

Bonus - Prince Andrew with a 15 year old Escort.

Your Christmas Cracker

Yeah. To heck with Tradition.
Slide collecting isn't just about funny looking kids from Norfolk.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Christmas Eve, Dance

Time for a Ball.   The Christmas Ball at the country club, and a chance to put on your glad-rags.  White Opera Gloves and a White Dinner Jacket.   How trashy.

Bonus - Vermin Supreme

Santa and His Sleigh

Are on their merry way.

Only eleven reindeer, you see:

Prancer hit my car, north of Dundee.

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Merry Christmas From The Editorial Team

Before the orgy starts, we'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

From : Walt, Janet, Chris, Flavia, Justine and Gloria.  And Hank the Photographer.

Bonus - Swearing in Tarantino Movies.

The Family Christmas Portrait

Set timer .... press button .... rush to chair....FLASH.  It's done.

And that's an awesome hairstyle that Trudy is sporting. The hairspray involved in that is the primary reason for the Ozone Hole.

Bonus - Lucky strike? How lightning inspired builders of Callanish

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The Bone Cutter

From the Medical Images box of slides.

The info label at the bottom is very out of focus, but seems to say

< something> was used during the civil war for cutting bones..

Anyone got more info?

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Waiting For The Rapture

This dear girl is clearly awaiting the arrival of The Rapture, and the Second Coming.

Why else would she be wearing her N for Nirvana sweater.

Bonus - Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection

The Seven Day Wait

As Mindy knows, there are just seven more sleeps until Christmas Day.

Or 22 if you're me, or two sleeps, if you're insomniac.


Bonus - A Bored Game for your Computer !

Bonus 2 -

Insert vapid title here.

View From A ... Plane

It may be only 8  days until Chrimbo, but I'll still try and spoil the mood with tedious Tuesday slides.

If anyone can identify this airport / airstrip ...  you're a sadder man than I

Bonus - The news you've been waiting for : Someone is putting tiny cowboy hats on pigeons in Las Vegas
One local onlooker only has one explanation: “the rodeo is in town.”

The Ornamental Garden

Designed by Alvin Stardust

Executed by Tina Turner

Tended by Reginald Bosenquet.


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Summer on the Urban Veranda

Any patch of open space is great for a deck party.

Bonus - Exploding Coffins?

Snow Time Like The Present

As I've said, it's not easy writing copy for these slides.

Bonus - World chess champion on the verge of topping fantasy football table
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Boris's Blue-Rinse Cheerleaders

Now that the results are in, and it's been confirmed that BoJo will remain our Prime Minister, I can exclusively reveal that this bevy of biddies have played the role of Tory Stormtroopers.

Wherever Boris was due to speak, these matrons have turned up in advance to lay the smack down on any potential opposition.

Well done Brenda, Bella, Madge and Mildred.

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Ice Rink Numb Bum

A surprisingly common injury, I would expect.

Tho', a gurney on wheels?    Maybe not ideal.

Bonus - My brain struggles with this.

Alabama Rural Scene #34

Sorry.   Distracted and need to have an early night.

Laters !


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The Night Lights of .... Somewhere

Could be Singapore.

Could be Vancouver.

Could be Bangkok.


WHO KNOWS.

Bonus - Please let this be real.

The Photographer...Photographed

I find something satisfying about snapping the snapper.

Especially when the photographer herself is a blonde bombshell in double denim.

Hmm. I'll probably be criticized for sexism for that comment.

Bonus - What’s behind a phobia of holes?

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A Festive Sunday Lunch with Chums

That's what I'm looking forward to today.

Bonus - Cards - Am I right that The Trump beats The Flush?

Bonus 2 - Spot the cat

Christmas is coming.

Heavens above.

Less than Three weeks to Christmas.

I better start some preparation !

Bonus - How Scientists Resolved the Mystery of the Devil’s Corkscrews

Big Horse With A Quiff

You know, it's difficult to come up with copy to go with these slides.  It sort of makes me appreciative of the creativity of newspaper hack being presented with another picture of Kim Kardasheun, and told "we need 450 words to go with that."

I suppose if I followed that approach, the Daily Mail version of this post would be...

The Internet was stunned when Big Horse With A Quiff refused to disclose his relationship with pint-sized pop tart Ariana Grande. After being lead to water, the quadruped drank quietly and did react when accused with...

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The Graduate - Outstanding In His Field.

No-one comes close.



That's Stinky Pete Farnley



Bonus - So, I was driving south on the A90 at around 70MPH, when WHAM!

BirdStrike

A Pheasant?

Meet Max

Max is a rather mature old fellow, and my instinct is to let him be, lying in the sun.

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Nuns on Seats