The Christmas Cowboy

 

Huh?

Well, actually he is Mr Chris Maas, of Lubbock Texas, and actually he's getting a bit tired of the teasing.  However, his chum Hal Owen has similar issues about the end of October.

Bonus - Major General Horatio Gordon Robley and His Collection of Māori Tattooed Heads    ( Speechless).

Today's Yule Lad -  Skyrgámur Skyr Gobbler Has a great affinity for skyr, a regional style of yogurt.

Skyrgámur 

Auntys Visit to #3808

It's. Too. Damned. Hot.

Here in Slideville, I prefer cooler weathers, so today has been Hellish.

Something about this slide also makes me think that it's a hot summer in Texas, or somewhere.

Bonus - Colid-19 Wisdom

The Arwine Grave

I've said it before, and it remains true. People photograph the Strangest Things.


Like this. The gravestone for Margaret and Lewis Arwine.

Here They Are.

Bonus - Oysters Can Get Herpes, And It’s Killing Them.

Bonus 2 - People who know me, know that I hate, loathe, detest and dislike The Daily Mail. And yet, I keep reading bits of it.  Despite headlines like....
She posted pictures of the fish to Twitter, asking for help identifying what it is.
Most biologists agreed that it must be some sort of fish.
 Yes, Fish turns out to be fish.    And the Readers' Comments are depressingly predictable.

Welcome to New Mexico

"Land of Enchantment"

An intriguing slide. I suspect it was taken at the Texas / New Mexico border - in Glenrio, beside the "State Line Bar".
However, the metal plaque is curious. Sure, Glenrio was on Route 66, and R66 was Will Rogers Highway, but I couldn't find any mention of the plaque being in Glenrio. Other plaques look the same, so I have to conclude that the plaques were a common marketting ploy, or the the Glenrio one is migrating towards the sea.

Bonus - Will Rogers was quite a shap cookie, and was famed for his one-liners - eg "Lettin' the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than puttin' it back in."

Bonus - He's also the name behind the ever-interesting Will Rogers phenomenon, after is quip "When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states."

"...the way I see it...

said Mildred, "... Fermat's Last Theorem is a method to find local maxima and minima of differentiable functions on open sets by showing that every local extremum of the function is a stationary point (the function derivative is zero in that point)."

Ted retorted "Hah, you daft trollop. I asked about Fermat's Last Theorem. You've confused Fermat's Theorem Regarding Stationary Points with  Fermat's Last Theorem which states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer value of n greater than two.

Meanwhile, Mildred's Mother was attempting to make the photographers head explode using only mental telepathy.

Bonus - It's Science !

Bonus - Rotate Your Owl (For Science)

Texas !

A particularly shoddy tourist attraction, but what they heck, she seems happy.

But...what the heck are those mis-begotten ugly voluminous shorts that she's wearing ??  Is which bizarro dimension could they ever be considered stylish.

OK, TheSlideGuy offering women sartorial advice is a bit of a cheek (as those who know me will attest) but seriously...they're damned ugly.