But today's slide links in with the Scotland connection.
This is the Blue-Billed Water Grouse, the back-up national bird of Scotland. One interesting fact is that the Blue-Billed Water Grouse cannot, in fact, float. Instead, they use their 55-inch long legs to stand on the bottom of ponds, and flex their knees to give the illusion of floating.
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A whole shoot-load of nothing.
Possibly USA. Maybe Canada.
Not likely to be Hong Kong.
Bonus - Quite Interesting - A Toucan Skeleton
A lovely scene.
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As an aside, 1971 was a time before duvets, or "Continental Quilts". Blankets, sheets and suchlike ruled the day.
Bonus -When did duvets arrive in UK?
Bonus 2 - Pallas's Cat uses tail to keep feet warm.
It's sometimes about find rather pleasing slides.
A crisp morning, while out walking the dog, and luckily the unknown photographer sees this view and thinks "I like that!" Well, I like it too.
Bonus - Beach bums: Bondi bares all for Spencer Tunick’s art installation
Bonus 2 - Reality TV star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare.
Bonus - Friendship has run it’s course
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This is one of them.
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This slide, from October 1958, seems to be a float for Giesel's / Ziesel's / Fiesel's department store, and features some sensible, well tailored outfits. Very Classy.
Bonus - No message, just likes the image.
So, off to Marple's Farm to select her ideal donor. Fresh and local...just like the people want.
Bonus - ‘Russian warship, go FLUB yourself’: what happened next to the Ukrainians defending Snake Island?
Luckily, it appears that Thelma and Dixie were photographed during a summer, many decades ago, and are classy enough to avoid using plastic cutlery.
Nice.
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Looks like a Grizzly Bear to me, which leads me to remind readers to watch the documentary "Grizzly Man"
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"And on the right you can see the Sir Willoughby Fortesque, South Lincolnshire Harbour Authority's very one Sludeg Drudger and Party Venue."
Bonus - The World Is So Desperate for Manure Even Human Waste Is a Hot Commodity
Bonus 2 - Fidel Castro Playing Basketball
Italian is my guess.
Probably some sort of monastery.
Hopefully, someone will comment with more info.
Might be unfair to class this as suitable for Tedious Tuesday.
However, I like to think that it was some big protest that lead to the overthrow of a dictator or corrupt region. Maybe in Alabama. :-D
Bonus - A 'fatberg' in the sewers? What a waste
Bonus 2 - A llama in a lobster costume, that is all...
There are probably hundreds of tourists who have told friends and neighbours that they really wish they had this rather that Tesco or Waitrose.
Those tourists are, of course, lying. A quick dose of typhoid or cholera, and they'd be screaming for safe, reliable Sainsburys.
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Today's ... it's a bit mysterious.
The main characters look like Guizers, out on a Penny For The Guy campaign, raising money for fireworks on Guy Fawkes night.
But, the weather seams too damned good for early November.
So, I'm open to suggestions. The slide was processed in March 1976, but that doesn't mean that the picture was taken in March 1976.
Bonus - An underwear-clad man is caught eating cheesecake in the middle of the Florida Everglades.
Bonus 2 : KFC apologises for Kristallnacht chicken and cheese promotion
People just don't think of chunky knit sweaters and simple cotton dresses.
But Charlie and Rosey do.
Oh... the Black Border? This slide was a half-frame slide, and this crop seemed appropriate.
Bonus - 20 Years ago (on 4th Nov) MC Hoky released his only album, and this was the lead single.
It also seems incongruous to have an image of Venice on "Tedious Tuesday", but ... it does rather belong here.
Bonus - Nine Things To Whisper To Complete Strangers
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Chipmunks love coffee so much, they will hunt down discarded styrofoam cups, just to sup the last of the brown nectar.
Of course, it was entirely innocent, but at at that moment.... like six out of seven dwarves, she was not happy.
Bonus - 25 years ago...
Instead...this most pleasant scene. No info on the slide, but based upon a hunch, I'm saying that this almost certainly Polperro Harbour.
Bonus - Do you have a filthy mind?
I believe that these dancers are dancing the Tradicionalni ples tajanstvenog električnog ormara, which translates as "Traditional Dance of the Mysterious Electricity Cupboard".
You can see the mysterious cupboard that houses the electric meter on the right of the stage.
Bonus - Yes, we have another suspect as the infamous Zodiac Killer.
That is Swiss German for the great lake freeze of 1963.
During the winter of 1962/1963 it was so cold in Switzerland that Lake Zurich froze over! In Swiss German this phenomenon is called 'Seegfrörni' which simply means 'freezing over of a lake'. For a lake as big as Lake Zurich (about 88 km2 and 136m deep) that's pretty impressive.
Googling didn't seem to find anything on this artwork, tho Ice Yachts were definitely used during Seegfrörni 1963
Bonus - The Best Way to Hug Someone, According to Science
Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire and famous worldwide for its prestigious university, the oldest in the English-speaking world. In his poem ‘Thyrsis’ the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called Oxford ‘the city of dreaming spires’ after the stunning architecture of these university buildings.
Two rivers run through Oxford, the Cherwell and the Thames (Isis), and it is from this riverside situation that Oxford got its name in Saxon times, ‘Oxenaforda’ or ‘Ford of the Oxen’. In the 10th century Oxford became an important frontier town between the kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex and was also strategically important to the Normans who in 1071 built a castle there, first in timber and later in the 11th century, in stone.
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It is, in fact, the Brunnenhof (Fountain Courtyard), one of the ten courtyards at Munich Residenz, the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria.
Albeit, with the famous fountains boarded over due to an outbreak of the Lurghi.
Bonus - View from Kalsoy island, Faroe Islands
