The REAL Service Dog

 "OK Fido.  Momma needs her smokes.  Go to the Tobacconist and get 2 packs o' fags!"

Specially-trained Tab Terriers were common in Sheffield.

Bonus - On Greenland TV's Wheel of Fortune

Bonus 2 - 

The Mermaid Passage

 

Today's slide - a quaint part of Merry Old England - The Mermaid Passage, at the Mermaid Inn, Rye.

Legend has it that a mermaid was caught at sea, and was drowned in a vat of Liebfraumilch, by villagers who believed that she was a donkey.  Stupid folk.

Bonus - Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book

Bonus 2 - 

They're so funny

42nd and Lexington

 

Unlabelled, but almost unmistakeable.

That's the Chrysler Building. 

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. At 1,046 ft (319 m), it is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework, and it was the world's tallest building for 11 months after its completion in 1930. As of 2019, the Chrysler is the 12th-tallest building in the city, tied with The New York Times Building.

Bonus - 

Shocked by the Sandwiches

 

The scene is undoubted the Dronfield Parish of St Fittick's Church, welcoming event for the new vicar, and Edith Hackthorn's is shocked to find out how much cheese is in the Cheese and Radish Triangles.

Frank Hudson, on the right, tackles the mini-sausage-rolls.

Bonus - Umm, what about Donald Trump meeting Zig and Zag?

Happy Birthday, Ted

 

Today is Ted "Theodore" Newt's first birthday, so Happy Birthday Ted.

This picture is not of Ted. No sirree, it might even be of a Tess, rather than a Ted, and it does date from March 1958, so.... Not Ted.

But, that cuddly toy skunk doll thing.     Scary as flute, or what?

Bonus - 

Some days, things just get weird

Jimmy Gribble, King of the Jokers

 

In celebration of April Fools Day, today's slide is of Jimmy Gribble, the King of Pranksters.

In the 1950's, Jimmy invented many of the pranks that would entertain rural Wisconsin. Wiring the main electricity to the toilet, that was his. Replacing sugar with DDT?  Yes, Jimmy's.  Hiding deer intestines in the attic. Yup, him too.  Sending fake arrest warrants for Rabbis?  Yes, Jimmy's invention.

I'm glad he's gone.

Bonus -  Illegal massage parlors outnumber Starbucks 2 to 1 in NYC

The Early Days of Computer Graphics

 

It may be crazy-sounding to younglings brought up on XBoxes and Mintendo machines, but this image would once have been white-hot leading edge computer generated imagery.

Probably around 1983.

Bonus - A patient experienced claustrophobia and had a panic attack during a CT scan

Bonus 2 - 

"Don't CRACK, STACK"

Wise words from Mrs McGinty.

Tho' I suspect that the message should actually be "Don't Crack 'em, Stack 'em."

Doesn't make any more sense.

Suggestions welcomed.

Bonus - Personal note.  Thirty Five years ago today I started work with (My Current Employer).  How do they mark such an event?

Nowt.

Bonus 2 - 

A True Prospect of Saint Augustine Church

" Now Erecting at Ramsgate in the Isle of Thanet."

Designed by Pugin, apparently.

Bonus - For Nick n Andy. Grace Jones and Dolph Lungren entering a nighclub beside a bondage rhino.

The Rising Sun, Then and Now.

 

Another tedious slide.

OK, pubs in themselves are not dull and tedious (usually),  but taking pictures of them (in the 1980's I guess, but before Google Streetview), that's a fairly dull activity.

Still, with a slide with no info on it, there is the fun of figuring out that this pub is in the Castleford region of Yorkshire. And the second image is of the current Google Streetview...view.

Bonus - Tanker Owners can be Jerks.