A couple of Street Urchins

 

In the absence of any info on this pair of ragamuffins, some background on the use of "urchins"

Urchin, noun,

1    archaic : hedgehog

2    a mischievous and often poor and raggedly clothed youngster ("street urchins")

3    sea urchin

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"Yeah, That's where we Whacked him."

 

Frank "The Haberdasher" Coccotti, former enforcer for the Scarloni Family, reminisces about that time he whacked Freddy The Snitch, and disposed of the body in Lake Woebegone.

Allegedly.

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Your Entertainment Tonight.... Senor Vila

 

The bad old days, from 1972, the entertaining racism of Senor Manuel Vila, a joke, a song and funny mis-use of the Spanglish language.

 Regular entertainment at the Hotel Splendid in Malaga.

Actually, it's Freddie Jones, a failed Red-Coat from Grimsby, with a light dusting of Kiwi shoe polish.

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Nice !

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Yes, it's Groundhog Day

Rock Fans

 

A wonderful slide, but alas, no information.  Looks early 1950's to me, and that seems a fairly photogenic location but Google doesn't help much. 

Google suggests it might be Balanced Rock, nr Colorado Springs.... but it doesn't look right to me. (NB : the image might be left-right mirrored.)

Anyone have a suggestion?

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...And ... I'm back in the room !

 

Well, that wasn't fun.

A couple of days of intermittent computer file recovery and ... I think I've recovered 99% of what I had.

Top Tip Folks -Remember to back your files up. Preferably automatically.

Bonus - Cats Crashing Nativity Scenes

Bonus 2 - I suppose I should comment on today's slide. Nice T-Shirt.

A Mom and A Son

 

Just a simple photo from, oh 1955 I guess.

As the weather here in 2022 gets chillier, I thought junior's winter weather suit, and mom's warm and practical corduroy dress and sweater combo seemed ideal.

Rock on !

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It's Carina's Birthday

 

Yes, it's Carina's Birthday, and she's ... so happy to celebrate with so many friends.

But, I suspect the craft Gin & Tonics will be appearing later.

Happy Birthday Hon !

Bonus - Word of the day - Spuddle

Bonus 2 - Life Lessons from Gomez Addams

It's Twos-Day !

 

To mark Twos-Day (the once in a lifetime? day of 22-2-22 ) I went looking for an suitably appropriate slide.

And gave up quite quickly.

Instead, here's a tedious slide of a slightly interesting event.

It seems to be a muddy lake with a writhing mass of catfish (?) feeding on a raccoon carcass. Or something.

Tasty.

Bonus - Movie trailers have undergone a huge evolution. They’ve gone from those cheesy voice-of-God narrators in the ‘80s and ‘90s, to boojes and bwaas.

Today : Today is a palindromic ambigram day

An American Tragedy

 

Perhaps an overly-dramatic title for this slide, but maybe I was referring to the American Tragedy which was Donald J Trumps term as POTUS. It ends today, with the expected tantrums. Bye-bye Donald - please just head off into the sunset.

Bonus - First preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says.