You Are Being Silently Judged

 

Good Friday, but I'm not following the usual "Jesus Nailed to a Cross" narrative.

Instead, this august group of blokes. Reading the background foundation stone, this might be the Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing (RAKCON), which is nice.

Bonus - Orkney Tesco supermarket orders 38,000 bananas by mistake    

First Friday - PAR-TAY!!!

 

From sixty years ago, and a different party entirely.

First Friday is a tradition for the accounts department of Frisson, Mulgrew and Henderson, and we see them going wild...but still wearing their ties.

Bonus - Year Progress Tracker

Sand Dune - Bank Holiday Monday edition

 

To make up for the lack of a slide yesterday - sorry, but I contracted Ennui - here's a return of Ahmed and Trevor, the Sand Dune Duo.

As you can tell, Trevor has new socks today.

Bonus - 

Bobby and Bernie at the Condo

 

This is from a set of slides marked as "1963 - July at The Beach-House".

Not sure which state/town/beach it is, but.... Nice.

Pity about the camera shake and film fungus...

Bonus - How bog bodies were secured underwater. From the always interesting TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

A Focus Group of Photographers

 

I presume that that is the correct term for a gathering of snappers.

Looks like a day out for the East Finchley Retired Teachers Photography and Real Ale Club.

Bonus - Banana fight in Pennsylvania gas station leads to charges for employee

Bonus 2 - Live Breaking news 

 

Hello Sailor

 

In the days before Tindr / Grindr, men would meet men at the Port Talbot Steelworks Beach, an discuss coal mining, rugby and singing in choirs.

It was a simpler time.

Bonus - Inside a Family Home Built Around a 12,000-Year-Old Boulder

Banished to the Driveway

 

While the ladies of the party collectively change into something more comfortable, they gentlemen are banished to the driveway to wait.

The unseen moments of Massachusetts wife-swapping parties.

Bonus - Swimming lessons for German Shepherd Puppies

Fashion Shoot or Documentary?

 I really like this image.

It could be a documentary shot by a photo-journalist reporting on the whelk farming families of Vermont.

It could be a fashion shoot for the LLBean catalogue of 1959.

It's just ... great.

Bonus - Mediaeval Bridge Building 

Another One For The Ladies...

 

This is Percy, and ...

Oh, come one. Don't snigger.

Percival is an ideal potential boyfriend. He's clean, neat, house-trained and loves his mummy.

Bonus - Betty Boop as Snow White with Cab Calloway rotoscopes, singing  St. James Infirmary Blues.

Pratts in Hats

 

1966, and while the youth of UK were beginning to Tune In, Turn On and Drop Out, the cadavers and stiff shirts of Esher were still sporting Morning Suits for events as simple as Bare-Knuckle Boxing and Dog Fighting at the Grosvenor Rooms of the Esher Ritz Hotel.

Bonus - 

Bank Holiday Fishing Display

 

It's been said before, Americans love fishing, and "Look what I caught" photos.

maybe i could do a whole calendar of such slides. Heck, it could be a ten-year with no repeats calendar !

Bonus - 

One For The Ladies !

 

"Hallo Ladies!"

This is Nathan, your Sunday Hunk.  He's 19 years old, studying Philosophy and Taxidermy at Whitby College, and just about to shovel 2 years of shit from the improvised toilet onto the tomato crops.

Bonus - The Failed Logistics of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

I've got them old "Digging A Hole" Blues

 

"Well, I woke up this morning"

Twang, twang, twang

"And know I had to dig an 'ole"

Strum twang twang

"So I thought to myself"

Twang, strum, twang

"What'll I put in that hole?"

Yes, that famous opening to Charlie Stickelback's classing "Digging A Hole Blues".

And this is the accompanying MTV Video, themed around a Scientology Ritual.

Bonus - 

Snog - Marry - Dismember - Game #568

 

Time for another game of your favourite ...ummm... game. Snog / Marry / Dismember,and this time, it's for the ladies and non-binary funsters out there.

Have a look at the slide, and the bios, and decide - Who would you Snog for the night, who would you Marry with a view to a family, and who would you poison with bleach and Dismember with a chainsaw?  From the left,

Harold - a 64-year-old credit assessor from Nebraska, who enjoys alcoholism.

Ingmar - a 76-year old retired potato stuffer from Maryland, who enjoys covering his body in mayonaise

Ludwig - a 32-year old school janitor from Akron, who enjoys listening to recordings of serial killers' confessions.

Bonus - I got nuthin'

Three Generations

 

Wendel Thurman IV, Wendel Thurman II and Wendel Thurman III.

And only one of then dyes his hair.

Bonus - 

Exhibit "Q"

"So, members of the jury, you've heard the case for the prosecution, and frankly it's weak.  Only two items of video footage, some questionable DNA evidence, some irrelevant previous convictions for similar events, and a written confession with uncharacteristic spelling mistakes.  Not very conclusive."

"Instead, members of the jury, I ask you (shows slide - Exhibit Q) "Does this look like the face of a man who would shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. Would he go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! ?"

I rest my case.

Bonus - Possibly my new favourite SubReddit - r/hitlerinsocks
Bonus 2 -

Banished to the Drive

While Isobel and Kath are on the webcams, trawling for toy-boys, their husbands Herb and Maxwell have been banished to the driveway, where they can discuss guns, beer, grid-iron or the Communist Infiltration of Goldberg's Hardware store.   All important subjects in 1961.

Bonus - A journey to every place in the shipping forecast.

Bonus 2 - Back to School

Dudes at the Lake

Yes, there was a time before the Covid-19 Lock down (it was only a week ago), but there are great recollections of a time back when a family could head up to the lake for some boating and fishing.  In the above case, it was October 1961.  Nice.

Bonus 1 - Thor Bjørklund invented The Cheese Slice

Bonus 2 - Percentages and Pie Charts.   This is not how they work.

Friday is Fishing Day !

Covid-19 Lockdown, be damned !

Friday is the day to think about heading out of port and fishing for fishees.

Looks like a stylish hat will be essential.

Bonus 1 - Basically, preparation for a Saturday Night Fish Fry.

Bonus 2 - Coronavirus - Now is not the time for blame, but...a-ha !

Summer on the Urban Veranda

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

Bonus - Exploding Coffins?