TWANG!

 

It's interesting to consider the relationship between archery and the English language and surnames.

• Bowman
• Archer
• Fletcher

and

• Going for Gold
• A-quiver
• Straight as an Arrow
• etc.

OK, mildly interesting. To some.

Bonus - 

Ten Green Bottles

Just bought a new scanner, and that's prompted me into starting scanning the HUGE slide backlog.

So, from the new scanner, here's a 1982 vintage slide - of a Women's Institute Sale. Logic appears to have flown out the window, as they appear to be more than ten, not all are green, and not all at bottles.

Still, it's a great slide.

Bonus - WTF Part 1
Man drowns himself in Austrian lake using concrete block with wife's head inside.

Bonus - WTF Part 2
Girls and Tanks.

Oh. You ARE close.

Terry never did understand the basic optical principals behind telescopes.

Bonus 1 - Journalists.   Lazy sods.  Especially on The Independant. Wanky Balls, indeed.

Bonus 2 - Unicorn Being a Jerk

Footy Frenzy

Finally, the 2010 World Cup is here, and oh boy, am I excited. Engerland have a marvelous chance to do as well as they usually do - through the Group Stages and then out once they face reasonable sides.

 So, I thought I'd post something vaguely appropriate - spotty English teenagers, kicking about a football on a patch of dust.

Sensible Corner. There seems to be an outburst of anti-USA stuff in the newspapers at the moment. Surely this couldn't be related to tomorrow's England v USA footie match, and some lingering resentment from the past??

Engineer's Corner. The anti-BP rhetoric regarding the Deepwater Horizon, reminds me of the Petrobas P-36 event. This PPT slide show is interesting and food for thought to all cost-cutters. Win-Win !

Edit : OK today's post is a little serious, so lets add in this WTF gif

Fancy Dress Kids

Don't worry. This is the last one from theMalhamdale Show and Sports kids fancy dress competition (after this one and this one.)

Again, it's the clown that gives me Teh Fear. And now the full horror is revealed - He's got an accordian !!!!

Second Prize !

Ah. Yesterday's slide makes a little more sense.

"Malhamdale Show and Sports. Saturday, August 29th 1970, Second Prize "

That clown, however, gives me THE FEAR !!!

Kiddy Stare

Holy Flick !   We've hit the jackpot.  The Zenith of Retro Slides Weirdness ?

What's the story ?  Stay tuned, and there might be some more info...

Three Tykes on a Traction

QuintessentiallyBritish. Traction engines.

I just can't imagine any other nation getting moist and emotional over a bunch of hulking great lumps of steel. Perhaps a few of the former colonies, but can you imagine the Brazilians (for example) caring for Traction Engines ?

This is Drumtochty, a ten-ton engine by Davey Paxman, built in 1916. So there.

Gladys Hector and "Tiddles"

After quite a few "Holiday" slides, I reckon it's time for some slides for the family, of the family. Here we meet Gladys, Hector and Tiddles, in their palatial home (Gawd. I'm beginning to sound like Hello!)  Quintessentially English, utterly naff and quite likely to be as Mad as a Goose on Stilts.   (Isn't Tiddles a big cat, or are G+H smaller than average.)