tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91814507647105472262024-03-13T20:00:03.122-07:00elaine de castro picsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-71756954410039860342021-05-24T07:57:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:13.267-07:00QUOTE FOR THE DAY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLlWvmA3EdNwDEIauznEPikwSH4yakP7LyHkDXMRSM8IbCRSrmZY-5WT4nRkeVCeJzCh7NP4zDqit6YCbZ5p1iv9aeXiiZZWMYRMTgnX5CQtQQwFUV0MCYRpttU0BfQ5XcZiTd_HVlw/s829/Herac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="829" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLlWvmA3EdNwDEIauznEPikwSH4yakP7LyHkDXMRSM8IbCRSrmZY-5WT4nRkeVCeJzCh7NP4zDqit6YCbZ5p1iv9aeXiiZZWMYRMTgnX5CQtQQwFUV0MCYRpttU0BfQ5XcZiTd_HVlw/w640-h266/Herac.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-28629749039902143832021-05-24T07:54:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:10.861-07:00PHOTOS FROM THE PAST<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A look back at the distant and not so distant past . . .</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Gc5_R8aCKPgaWDji0rnenzdFpp0AV_br8wze87gzACN320EUpH14QjMiSflvxhG1dMlHsosErNlWqtX1uTdYBoMx9A06feufCnQHDrInSCWb1LGNaTlBezpEYlNVPQVaQQrn3TfaBQ/s978/PFTP+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="978" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Gc5_R8aCKPgaWDji0rnenzdFpp0AV_br8wze87gzACN320EUpH14QjMiSflvxhG1dMlHsosErNlWqtX1uTdYBoMx9A06feufCnQHDrInSCWb1LGNaTlBezpEYlNVPQVaQQrn3TfaBQ/w640-h478/PFTP+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Moving a 7,600 ton apartment building to create a boulevard in Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLWvMSwZhbDul7WADCLxlWIXzdoWfTkgtXRUgXlo3eY1jpwU0lhV_L08JblnAdxE4L3rjO5f49E2lX9Eb97kiq3vg8BjWrQFzfZqnaZ3gKVIk1KYZ-rYtx6r_1jw6kGZEWcmLC8h0EQ/s900/PFTP+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLWvMSwZhbDul7WADCLxlWIXzdoWfTkgtXRUgXlo3eY1jpwU0lhV_L08JblnAdxE4L3rjO5f49E2lX9Eb97kiq3vg8BjWrQFzfZqnaZ3gKVIk1KYZ-rYtx6r_1jw6kGZEWcmLC8h0EQ/w640-h480/PFTP+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">A black officer protecting KKK member from protesters, 1983.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PcU-FngSDDKmmjoFOZdSvUFrsh-Hiblj7hAl5TWGRhA5SPDxrrJtn_wzF-VAheM1q01_TcesW4Ys74as409-7OnvEtwIE4HL3ATkxtutsver8tPcV4-g3NbT3NitcgjBCqMk7tP_Rg/s766/PFTP+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="599" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PcU-FngSDDKmmjoFOZdSvUFrsh-Hiblj7hAl5TWGRhA5SPDxrrJtn_wzF-VAheM1q01_TcesW4Ys74as409-7OnvEtwIE4HL3ATkxtutsver8tPcV4-g3NbT3NitcgjBCqMk7tP_Rg/w500-h640/PFTP+3.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as a young gentleman, 1986.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCaYBu0X370KqOqQynR3KIdGKwPMFwJilKrJ267jOepZSofUAMjxrot8VD2DfhVSif9wGPrphfktpEdiiap_MRKND6P4EqOZUdhtPAS4gslyWtAXTJy7OH1amfzoBl0WiE5Hd5kvKM1A/s389/PFTP+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="380" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCaYBu0X370KqOqQynR3KIdGKwPMFwJilKrJ267jOepZSofUAMjxrot8VD2DfhVSif9wGPrphfktpEdiiap_MRKND6P4EqOZUdhtPAS4gslyWtAXTJy7OH1amfzoBl0WiE5Hd5kvKM1A/w626-h640/PFTP+4.jpg" width="626" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Transporting ‘The Apple’, the first Indian satellite, 1981.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmVtpz9hvD5t-jTLDl4Eitj8TrrNu6ckHapBrxuBKbShRpwIaHtHAet4HcZoX_7E3QfkydWwatdHgxgk_DQbZJAaCtj3dolTITmpHWUhwgjqTAzC6gyv3EGtSGvfirDD2doFmh8vSng/s900/PFTP+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="900" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmVtpz9hvD5t-jTLDl4Eitj8TrrNu6ckHapBrxuBKbShRpwIaHtHAet4HcZoX_7E3QfkydWwatdHgxgk_DQbZJAaCtj3dolTITmpHWUhwgjqTAzC6gyv3EGtSGvfirDD2doFmh8vSng/w640-h360/PFTP+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The glasses John Lennon wore when he was assassinated, 1980.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpelPD44arlE5Mw3txOOW2oGHtgbHonKwMsKAmV1h0jV14LhaA8msCn7Y7Q3sYAZrt4iP-JE9OzHxNsfMJBx7aaXylxwHgfURtmPU1yhf_mtzz_NMBuUwe2vZape1mzDgwXK7yZ7GH2A/s630/PFTP+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="630" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpelPD44arlE5Mw3txOOW2oGHtgbHonKwMsKAmV1h0jV14LhaA8msCn7Y7Q3sYAZrt4iP-JE9OzHxNsfMJBx7aaXylxwHgfURtmPU1yhf_mtzz_NMBuUwe2vZape1mzDgwXK7yZ7GH2A/w640-h426/PFTP+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Spielberg doing the first Indiana Jones movie in 1980.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCf4sRGcwUrUhKkK7Euw1990aXWNgiZag6sWr-G03OwcxZ2NdlPmAfGe_osI9jLIMgPyvvkv6kg4hIlOqO2JIgk-GPiT0Eqp_zjZmLJaQKwcFMznsujX9mrsS49qjp3-zx00v9PYasAA/s1040/PFTP+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1040" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCf4sRGcwUrUhKkK7Euw1990aXWNgiZag6sWr-G03OwcxZ2NdlPmAfGe_osI9jLIMgPyvvkv6kg4hIlOqO2JIgk-GPiT0Eqp_zjZmLJaQKwcFMznsujX9mrsS49qjp3-zx00v9PYasAA/w640-h472/PFTP+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Due to strong cross winds, a landing plane crashes with a truck standing near the runway, 1976.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNcuja6tLa2esJqBb5xZp8kdyYKhqmjFvrTfOfm8vQpRyP4M0AmQo48oEUkiblelFfGtf_Dn9oQAjwYj2l6M3wQECmehL7PgNNSk2EXKGKrULHjLLg0lBZpfAAaKU9rwkWhA-FCdPJuQ/s630/PFTP+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="630" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNcuja6tLa2esJqBb5xZp8kdyYKhqmjFvrTfOfm8vQpRyP4M0AmQo48oEUkiblelFfGtf_Dn9oQAjwYj2l6M3wQECmehL7PgNNSk2EXKGKrULHjLLg0lBZpfAAaKU9rwkWhA-FCdPJuQ/w640-h424/PFTP+8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Highway picnic during the Oil Crisis, 1973.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDmPkHcDFYm8bRiOdHOo8xyCu0SPJN8pb4KhrJK6s2rpKFuIb7D90ist86mqce9Q0d8DqSpXvrIafjna5I8DabD6Uald_WuWyaBrNWSqDydHxTQd7kDx4UIQdLYCjE1w0B-qoRa57MQ/s1024/PFTP+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="1024" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDmPkHcDFYm8bRiOdHOo8xyCu0SPJN8pb4KhrJK6s2rpKFuIb7D90ist86mqce9Q0d8DqSpXvrIafjna5I8DabD6Uald_WuWyaBrNWSqDydHxTQd7kDx4UIQdLYCjE1w0B-qoRa57MQ/w640-h446/PFTP+9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Interior of a London Pub, 1898.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65FH3lCZYCMDjRHJuE7eu4cugciF7zoE7ymF75FJN_3zF3P5wZFMbY02KT5s_WeRr8_sOUiFxFxFlM8Z-Z9Abcif1fT5SEWzDgcvY_OLsfcc0iZ1ixZOA-c3vCUl2W2-LygXTHJBFeA/s1203/PFTP+13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65FH3lCZYCMDjRHJuE7eu4cugciF7zoE7ymF75FJN_3zF3P5wZFMbY02KT5s_WeRr8_sOUiFxFxFlM8Z-Z9Abcif1fT5SEWzDgcvY_OLsfcc0iZ1ixZOA-c3vCUl2W2-LygXTHJBFeA/w544-h640/PFTP+13.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Test pilot George Aird – flying an English Electric Lightning F1.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCQZ4VA1GQd3s24VwO3HY333HKWWf7t0DSbEgdJmr89Q7-qVKSgU4AaxXrPA7NqgqZ6ucwrFeXvtwLvhjPJS-CQrIRSrKyNhP64gkDIEhvykoYOtcLfL8eM7EQME11tGnIuT0mXDMIw/s805/PFTP+14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="805" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCQZ4VA1GQd3s24VwO3HY333HKWWf7t0DSbEgdJmr89Q7-qVKSgU4AaxXrPA7NqgqZ6ucwrFeXvtwLvhjPJS-CQrIRSrKyNhP64gkDIEhvykoYOtcLfL8eM7EQME11tGnIuT0mXDMIw/w640-h434/PFTP+14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Beatles play for 18 people in the Aldershot club, December 1961. They were to become superstars in one and a half years time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjY8tbGvldl_ejoNCh0OULrT6AYJ7TWTCiNOLJ5z_nHpG6WamMUl5e8IW7sIu8K1S3geKUJey73fX7FivtBB0pnEzO7EXbmkH1nlpl5AM39YVUw76vjGINtTWnTiMe36L4tDuFmOlNA/s1024/PFTP+15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1024" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjY8tbGvldl_ejoNCh0OULrT6AYJ7TWTCiNOLJ5z_nHpG6WamMUl5e8IW7sIu8K1S3geKUJey73fX7FivtBB0pnEzO7EXbmkH1nlpl5AM39YVUw76vjGINtTWnTiMe36L4tDuFmOlNA/w640-h500/PFTP+15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The East Bay Dragons, the first black bikers’ club, Oakland, California, 1960s.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOHas-qsWHc8867fG49bkzaJFkeKNH1PMyuAu61jWqlFORTcqi1gQbRlYbmtWurjPa96U4M921MOFjZ8qxZFYWfgc8BiFSMhVt3QC_6qUlkmrp6K9uPcFwb9tYoeFo-09jh77N2vOZWg/s850/PFTP+16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="850" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOHas-qsWHc8867fG49bkzaJFkeKNH1PMyuAu61jWqlFORTcqi1gQbRlYbmtWurjPa96U4M921MOFjZ8qxZFYWfgc8BiFSMhVt3QC_6qUlkmrp6K9uPcFwb9tYoeFo-09jh77N2vOZWg/w640-h422/PFTP+16.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing, 1960.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLfy1Gt5DsjdE0WfDfiD0CfkUMBGIpE8aNZ7xDf1D7wNk0XtDZ1QmxkCcNsswo3rtmN8xQG6t4-YULRT1jC9NnyjKxQEBXb5DRf91Ee5BFu4VI2rCEqnKqS6HarVYPPp_IiEIPucBUOw/s741/PFTP+17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="599" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLfy1Gt5DsjdE0WfDfiD0CfkUMBGIpE8aNZ7xDf1D7wNk0XtDZ1QmxkCcNsswo3rtmN8xQG6t4-YULRT1jC9NnyjKxQEBXb5DRf91Ee5BFu4VI2rCEqnKqS6HarVYPPp_IiEIPucBUOw/w518-h640/PFTP+17.jpg" width="518" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">A swim-mobile in New York City, 1960.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JnNZ5hkIgBRcSvs9aFWIRXJMOWABxmHopwTxuSJ7rC2JVu0HrN_nfjc3aV1b_uto-9wIQ6z2KmjvqzfhmZtk4guKw61RMmQWKOQ6h5EnTMHssoQh1W0aPPvtP6kXfixMrINO2mhflg/s1600/PFTP+18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1075" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JnNZ5hkIgBRcSvs9aFWIRXJMOWABxmHopwTxuSJ7rC2JVu0HrN_nfjc3aV1b_uto-9wIQ6z2KmjvqzfhmZtk4guKw61RMmQWKOQ6h5EnTMHssoQh1W0aPPvtP6kXfixMrINO2mhflg/w430-h640/PFTP+18.jpg" width="430" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer “Ip” in Beverly Hills, CA, 1958.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZVwcgWU-aeWa7pEvN55E_WgGWE1A0qcBr51spvEUAI28Lbll5-zoWUFo01o_K953tXLdEKDBpoHg8WxjrRR8SzymjPqpQUEg7Df0AIAWfTxi_NL6KDmQrC9SirU2fLhDQPIxI6ECLBg/s700/PFTP+19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="528" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZVwcgWU-aeWa7pEvN55E_WgGWE1A0qcBr51spvEUAI28Lbll5-zoWUFo01o_K953tXLdEKDBpoHg8WxjrRR8SzymjPqpQUEg7Df0AIAWfTxi_NL6KDmQrC9SirU2fLhDQPIxI6ECLBg/w482-h640/PFTP+19.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Uploading the first 5 MByte hard disk to a PanAm plane, 1956.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibrEZUs70yQ3QtWMlzWCay6vi-R6Bf5D7xKxrHk_aLmI9sx11XV0GwLRDNjsVwwthDu0TwPNp8EiMyuXiSdK7ZmfQ8QRs-FvAjqLS12bTYhJ-7zwochY4_qz3HCidZI4KxeumDeJS8g/s964/PFTP+20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="964" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibrEZUs70yQ3QtWMlzWCay6vi-R6Bf5D7xKxrHk_aLmI9sx11XV0GwLRDNjsVwwthDu0TwPNp8EiMyuXiSdK7ZmfQ8QRs-FvAjqLS12bTYhJ-7zwochY4_qz3HCidZI4KxeumDeJS8g/w640-h624/PFTP+20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">In the aftermath of the D-Day invasion, two boys watch from a tree as American soldiers drive through the town of St. Lo. France.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLze-gdAqN7lte_Kpeabuhwt0f2FjANS3pDWvGk0hCVbx3XraSncQZPPwmp7DkLFkzXPH4A6zcGwMOXUbwCi0CiR0XEB_LQdiveiCLBe9tPbd2vYJa7TLHzyTiCx-9tmRiva-5FAHqvA/s1536/PFTP+21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="1536" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLze-gdAqN7lte_Kpeabuhwt0f2FjANS3pDWvGk0hCVbx3XraSncQZPPwmp7DkLFkzXPH4A6zcGwMOXUbwCi0CiR0XEB_LQdiveiCLBe9tPbd2vYJa7TLHzyTiCx-9tmRiva-5FAHqvA/w640-h540/PFTP+21.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">A flight simulator in 1942.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz4qdfrbaJIyA0nzG53LauHhd4kLmkxOdmec1vcVPHJivMzsFJpO4rNddkBjLCBDxHRkWaZZuPitIql5yjh4je6JbtvoXlx5hYmax2UC0TYFFKSNaryhUPdsQRmH5onNvK4YT3obOqSw/s1600/PFTP+22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz4qdfrbaJIyA0nzG53LauHhd4kLmkxOdmec1vcVPHJivMzsFJpO4rNddkBjLCBDxHRkWaZZuPitIql5yjh4je6JbtvoXlx5hYmax2UC0TYFFKSNaryhUPdsQRmH5onNvK4YT3obOqSw/w640-h428/PFTP+22.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">An opium den in Singapore, 1941.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrutNZxD7oL8MCZuiRRu7HZxAjwDMaMMeNsMcq07eQlWBqfPtB5RfK_m4rPEJIEhPqqrFSvVR5XrCMatP7Kyca2jIzElqPRalCl4oleu8P32xQFX7hnOnEI3vDQJHJd-EjokPbr3sFEA/s693/PFTP+23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="520" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrutNZxD7oL8MCZuiRRu7HZxAjwDMaMMeNsMcq07eQlWBqfPtB5RfK_m4rPEJIEhPqqrFSvVR5XrCMatP7Kyca2jIzElqPRalCl4oleu8P32xQFX7hnOnEI3vDQJHJd-EjokPbr3sFEA/w480-h640/PFTP+23.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, 1928.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHniCixLow-fyXQf0EO1P8xwloGN0_GVrjB6vuz0GLlehkO9iP2ZY6iI6et_NNuFl_W94ax6ylsRon8NA7Ueb8kV0hCaAOfEmZmPAyS3DqW59GKWAfNTbCwfXKWlgkXItNPTePdfA-Zw/s650/PFTP+24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHniCixLow-fyXQf0EO1P8xwloGN0_GVrjB6vuz0GLlehkO9iP2ZY6iI6et_NNuFl_W94ax6ylsRon8NA7Ueb8kV0hCaAOfEmZmPAyS3DqW59GKWAfNTbCwfXKWlgkXItNPTePdfA-Zw/w640-h640/PFTP+24.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Factory workers race on the roof (test track) of the Fiat Factory in Turin, Italy, 1923.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoYOx6PNH4AFrYB0TeCp96vcR8QajoZ5j-WDrJAjH1BBct7yPfH0HAA5nD4Vfd0sqSm6ZJLEyW4J_Jgf8cXT5Owd46hObFodsx3Jf6-XAZEbEJPKCjzWkkC83eY96HcoIcOVjVFCmTA/s713/PFTP+25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="713" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoYOx6PNH4AFrYB0TeCp96vcR8QajoZ5j-WDrJAjH1BBct7yPfH0HAA5nD4Vfd0sqSm6ZJLEyW4J_Jgf8cXT5Owd46hObFodsx3Jf6-XAZEbEJPKCjzWkkC83eY96HcoIcOVjVFCmTA/w640-h506/PFTP+25.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach, 1920.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIl1PFmrbFEiFBcf-r5cWrB88mm4vkLJIgcd9mnzWPU87o2HdhM_y4VNu96gdYYnM5FFxzW_dcWwrQizaO0e1mhG-j7iHsDr5DDJqAfutYfTaZp1XBNJHJq2qCXZT-iuZyBJdj7bdmiw/s232/Div+36.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="61" data-original-width="232" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIl1PFmrbFEiFBcf-r5cWrB88mm4vkLJIgcd9mnzWPU87o2HdhM_y4VNu96gdYYnM5FFxzW_dcWwrQizaO0e1mhG-j7iHsDr5DDJqAfutYfTaZp1XBNJHJq2qCXZT-iuZyBJdj7bdmiw/w200-h53/Div+36.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-62123678560922654312021-05-23T07:56:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:12.267-07:00THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<p> Sent by son Thomas . . . </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3oAZpmNdaJRaGHYVIG5wvkZWvnO_UbCJjG3XNVzlmZeK8O_KVAr7tQKLFO-_XglKBvqRoUouH-GxYtxfUyqzhIx-K8XjUGrvzUn_4dvUDvnbr6kJb_aT9kk0PNuvj_r7wRSlILu48xQ/s1091/Zoom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1091" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3oAZpmNdaJRaGHYVIG5wvkZWvnO_UbCJjG3XNVzlmZeK8O_KVAr7tQKLFO-_XglKBvqRoUouH-GxYtxfUyqzhIx-K8XjUGrvzUn_4dvUDvnbr6kJb_aT9kk0PNuvj_r7wRSlILu48xQ/w640-h594/Zoom.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-41946927481888908922021-05-23T07:49:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:11.624-07:00ART SPOT: THE PAVEMENT SURGEON<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Caution: risque content ahead</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">--------o😊o--------</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Back on June 22, 2020 I posted a piece about Jim Bachor, who fills in Chicago’s potholes with colourful mosaics. That posted can be found by clicking on:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2020/06/art-jim-bachor.html">http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2020/06/art-jim-bachor.html</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Some of Jim Bachor’s works:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23ztTZeXIpbGza7-I8S-Dz6O5HDCz-lIHERcBPu5XcnZT7nat3N2K7sp1t2r0jYjHXcK0XdiKtdTzZn5OXGS5R8btbjqG95aHXVzV23m14IJ9cEYSlhD3esvA1C4AJLTWE7vCeMve_Q/s640/Pot+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23ztTZeXIpbGza7-I8S-Dz6O5HDCz-lIHERcBPu5XcnZT7nat3N2K7sp1t2r0jYjHXcK0XdiKtdTzZn5OXGS5R8btbjqG95aHXVzV23m14IJ9cEYSlhD3esvA1C4AJLTWE7vCeMve_Q/w480-h640/Pot+1.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik5_7fzXtaxZo3Wc1mwIDpIUglVzc4Qvh804BXqxE8MV3Vk0LorM3JX8xSXB5QFz5GFE3d8-NtL94fzbZ1G5R4ubRReFbtNJxwhT_dLLR7xobW6zQSaIbtxNXATK_C9uTwsUft-kSbQg/s640/Pot+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="640" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik5_7fzXtaxZo3Wc1mwIDpIUglVzc4Qvh804BXqxE8MV3Vk0LorM3JX8xSXB5QFz5GFE3d8-NtL94fzbZ1G5R4ubRReFbtNJxwhT_dLLR7xobW6zQSaIbtxNXATK_C9uTwsUft-kSbQg/w640-h476/Pot+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDb3WjdlZ-Stg-u2ixYgIbctPrjckbz6tu0Stegkmjs9PcI8Er1cwM4nKKZiDVuUqAhUvsq42IyxWaYcIq55h51IFhu1v-di5qrI53uFOhCOmVXv2AzovRBDRBVMbF5B6qEQiIC9yxOQ/s844/Pot+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDb3WjdlZ-Stg-u2ixYgIbctPrjckbz6tu0Stegkmjs9PcI8Er1cwM4nKKZiDVuUqAhUvsq42IyxWaYcIq55h51IFhu1v-di5qrI53uFOhCOmVXv2AzovRBDRBVMbF5B6qEQiIC9yxOQ/s16000/Pot+3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I recently became aware of Jim Bachor’s French equivalent, an artist who goes by the tag Ememem in his city of Lyons and who is more commonly known as “the pavement surgeon.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">According to Emenem, his footpath, road and façade repairs are “a poem that everybody can read.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He has been at it since 2016 and his works are lovely to look at, often times suggesting a piece from a bygone day, age and structure. These days he fills holes everywhere in France, not just Lyon. “It’s a succession of a lot of places and reflections, experiments I did before. I had done similar things, with other techniques, other supports, and finally, when this one emerged, I knew I found something that I was going to keep doing for the rest of my life,” he says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Gallery:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirE9A421CP6-vz75zEQpTjWa7aYMIIOe9TuIpu1W7w1QS34MTYPIexn8Flpef3X0dugnZ4Upmh9KhzTCuUpnjde34fohi5XYJVAH2s6pbghnywylNTE-1hMx8iGengn59TMjx7Nwe6hQ/s2048/Pot+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1366" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirE9A421CP6-vz75zEQpTjWa7aYMIIOe9TuIpu1W7w1QS34MTYPIexn8Flpef3X0dugnZ4Upmh9KhzTCuUpnjde34fohi5XYJVAH2s6pbghnywylNTE-1hMx8iGengn59TMjx7Nwe6hQ/w426-h640/Pot+4.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Before and after</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2sT4hgoyuhDTmoU1aMXhmKeWVrQaXOJ7KvjbWIYIu4iFppwEQHqk5vjeVYxKgRYlzrOPUqfa-ZnFe0vNTT3wZE_aJQNZbAxfa8Z3_C5oro4PTwI4xyJ0-mcQXzcjf0_VFjEoOF78vLw/s960/Pot+23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2sT4hgoyuhDTmoU1aMXhmKeWVrQaXOJ7KvjbWIYIu4iFppwEQHqk5vjeVYxKgRYlzrOPUqfa-ZnFe0vNTT3wZE_aJQNZbAxfa8Z3_C5oro4PTwI4xyJ0-mcQXzcjf0_VFjEoOF78vLw/w426-h640/Pot+23.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxWhy8uaupevTCoxo4JKxBTITQ5-4Nc2sHDNjTeMrsFM2QXRYDrcfvbg1R1tq-Ir3Ay1hyphenhyphenFKs8JzBhw75kQLg3gv3JN4k_Fd8deIN6y2Yf06TtEOOdzZ6YzL4dxsf7B23Ib2pgsHTxyw/s849/Pot+24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxWhy8uaupevTCoxo4JKxBTITQ5-4Nc2sHDNjTeMrsFM2QXRYDrcfvbg1R1tq-Ir3Ay1hyphenhyphenFKs8JzBhw75kQLg3gv3JN4k_Fd8deIN6y2Yf06TtEOOdzZ6YzL4dxsf7B23Ib2pgsHTxyw/w482-h640/Pot+24.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bonus Item #1:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">German street artist Jan Vormann carries out repairs all over the world using not tiles but Lego bricks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vormann’s creative, colorful repairs are called Dispatchwork by him and he psosts images on his website.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some samples:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzAkHNBnQVIo1hdeb5dQjhHnltK4fQUVI7aNB-tVMZCNDpa0hFK-26Xoa6i2h2ye4wHI62aKIMENtUDj-VJ2uiX_OvRRZ3m9oCHmu0sR1jCDgQZQJ7ygo6-t_btS1GA3pb8h9WubWPQ/s768/Pot+27.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzAkHNBnQVIo1hdeb5dQjhHnltK4fQUVI7aNB-tVMZCNDpa0hFK-26Xoa6i2h2ye4wHI62aKIMENtUDj-VJ2uiX_OvRRZ3m9oCHmu0sR1jCDgQZQJ7ygo6-t_btS1GA3pb8h9WubWPQ/w640-h480/Pot+27.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiajfNmaox-UugcvF8-F7MrNR3R3eMKgoZJ4QxjkHPeBO9JqaadcKAQPYFRkXHjj9EargREly1SJn5uYSUUR0M4axZivlofrGcnRGcgvZ88dlBxwWY7L0JfszMupPZBSG2xTHLK18Xwxw/s467/Pot+29.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="467" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiajfNmaox-UugcvF8-F7MrNR3R3eMKgoZJ4QxjkHPeBO9JqaadcKAQPYFRkXHjj9EargREly1SJn5uYSUUR0M4axZivlofrGcnRGcgvZ88dlBxwWY7L0JfszMupPZBSG2xTHLK18Xwxw/w640-h434/Pot+29.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I must be honest, I am not a fan of the Lego repairs and I find it intrusive in the olde</span>r walls and buildings, much as I don’t like to see yarn bombing on trees.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Bonus item #2:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in 2012, complaints to the authorities the pockmarked streets of Yekaterinburg in Russia, fell on deaf ears. Local blog URA.RU turned to ad agency Voskhod to create a campaign whereby under the cover of night they painted the faces of local politicians around the most unsightly potholes and shamed them into action.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Ads of the World:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>Quality of roads is the eternal problem of Yekaterinburg – the fourth largest city of Russia. The local site URA.RU, which writes about life in the city, decided to remind politicians that it is their duty to repair the roads. The problem is – our politicians don’t care about potholes. Their only worry is their own public image. We associated road holes with the images of certain politicians. In the night, on three potholes in city center, we drew faces of the governor, the mayor and the vice-mayor. The news about caricatures became a sensation. With this intense PR the politicians were no longer able to sit idle. The holes were fixed. The news about the action was released in more than 300 media venues, the website traffic on URA.ru doubled. The officials at last started to do their jobs.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gallery:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHe_vTBLNBHfwUaqWp87ODoUjPrhTL7ruBpY5pV5DkdO3b5dVhprxCiaVtlzjOF8YLXdITCbeu6PjrBqqLEqslWIzlmEOK7hzukWzk_3yDo_6AwRT8WFOwUYg_LwzIUy5F2DQNF9J4w/s640/Pot+30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHe_vTBLNBHfwUaqWp87ODoUjPrhTL7ruBpY5pV5DkdO3b5dVhprxCiaVtlzjOF8YLXdITCbeu6PjrBqqLEqslWIzlmEOK7hzukWzk_3yDo_6AwRT8WFOwUYg_LwzIUy5F2DQNF9J4w/w640-h480/Pot+30.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslW7_mAUfrtdhvll2xmFzcyG_mLCbrCiYcpPbrrFTOqg8FcuR6OC_d4wpCu__4mGhyphenhyphenCVFrBT_OjTHIo-1VZGStJe3hAD0Uy8UP1BbozLQo1_4_Yhs8vhcTgLT2gPjDaNN6052qzdd9w/s780/Pot+31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslW7_mAUfrtdhvll2xmFzcyG_mLCbrCiYcpPbrrFTOqg8FcuR6OC_d4wpCu__4mGhyphenhyphenCVFrBT_OjTHIo-1VZGStJe3hAD0Uy8UP1BbozLQo1_4_Yhs8vhcTgLT2gPjDaNN6052qzdd9w/w526-h640/Pot+31.jpg" width="526" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvDaBhTQNlxuii7xBWKGW8sShehZtQ0n6AmmQbSUO3RghR3cnPkfwAfatmyeAbMHMEpCHBv9cvJRBfi3seLglX3pFjGG0VfpAkcMi82AEeXUJDefG-So9JcHtgj7L4UUoPuU4sODkhQ/s640/Pot+32.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="640" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvDaBhTQNlxuii7xBWKGW8sShehZtQ0n6AmmQbSUO3RghR3cnPkfwAfatmyeAbMHMEpCHBv9cvJRBfi3seLglX3pFjGG0VfpAkcMi82AEeXUJDefG-So9JcHtgj7L4UUoPuU4sODkhQ/w640-h364/Pot+32.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI6P32xBVI8G8iHyffEz0YVvmBHypallHI4IkFFE9n5igbBXkLCerrBid4XKcisaOgbz6TAy6NPi5s0EyiakVDHyZNFQc5hQ-_v-4cxDpQ2sJ1uIB0tkpo8dz2jotuNkf7ifP9_2vQcA/s640/Pot+33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="640" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI6P32xBVI8G8iHyffEz0YVvmBHypallHI4IkFFE9n5igbBXkLCerrBid4XKcisaOgbz6TAy6NPi5s0EyiakVDHyZNFQc5hQ-_v-4cxDpQ2sJ1uIB0tkpo8dz2jotuNkf7ifP9_2vQcA/w640-h436/Pot+33.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bonus Item #3:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2015, an anonymous UK person who goes by the name Wanksy started spray painting giant penises around potholes as a means of prodding Manchester Council to repair them. This was based on the rationale that potholes take ages to get fixed whereas rude graffiti gets attended to quite quickly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">According to Wanksy, "The roads of Manchester are in an appalling state... I have cyclist friends who have been hospitalized. They damage vehicles. Sometimes it's hard to know which pothole caused the damage because there are so many."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Within 48 hours, potholes began to be repaired, sometimes with the original artworkd still showing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Gallery:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVgN-LOPKiZZFwBm5ruFYC4Q1GJHusaER2xA_aUK94yyYyWF8n-D6mXOdCErm9OuV9olXWmnEqfwrQJFgmSXMuBXnqbvgx_4v5Pmqgfu22sxp1036JZDIDoNVT6BH6bkE_LQpIed2rA/s780/Pot+34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="780" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuVgN-LOPKiZZFwBm5ruFYC4Q1GJHusaER2xA_aUK94yyYyWF8n-D6mXOdCErm9OuV9olXWmnEqfwrQJFgmSXMuBXnqbvgx_4v5Pmqgfu22sxp1036JZDIDoNVT6BH6bkE_LQpIed2rA/w640-h360/Pot+34.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzu7BkkJW77XI1mnwJyvAcra-27tG_ibpbuO-5HYlJmAfVEOSYUriwCNjtAlTruNEX1plTb-fGF2445j9LyOZWiMbXfDwgp0TKZdQeY3RoXAjHLDQrLlXtImrN873AiI5C-Upo38PHAw/s780/Pot+35.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="780" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzu7BkkJW77XI1mnwJyvAcra-27tG_ibpbuO-5HYlJmAfVEOSYUriwCNjtAlTruNEX1plTb-fGF2445j9LyOZWiMbXfDwgp0TKZdQeY3RoXAjHLDQrLlXtImrN873AiI5C-Upo38PHAw/w640-h478/Pot+35.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAWQlZEAG-3zMCJvlVCJOCOoqjprmNbUl-fhf85X92R6Ef0xcSKRbyQ6B40SYjw_SR0YDkFfbHQrUxPSaa0jwO51GqFkzF6cmDlZk28IHxjalY_NKtMmQ7Vmjv-Z-GauohRgofxNUkug/s780/Pot+36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="780" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAWQlZEAG-3zMCJvlVCJOCOoqjprmNbUl-fhf85X92R6Ef0xcSKRbyQ6B40SYjw_SR0YDkFfbHQrUxPSaa0jwO51GqFkzF6cmDlZk28IHxjalY_NKtMmQ7Vmjv-Z-GauohRgofxNUkug/w640-h360/Pot+36.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">"Been there 8 months at least. A bit of art and they are filled in 48 hours,' wrote Wanksy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, the attention may now no longer be working. According to Wanksy “They don't always get filled, in fact, I think the council maybe deliberately not filling them in now."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">A Manchester Council spokesman told the BBC that this type of art will not impact scheduled road work. "We understand and accept that residents are unhappy with the number of potholes in the borough, and we have a programme of scheduled works to fix them," he said. "Painting obscenities around potholes will not get them repaired any quicker."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The same tactic was adopted in Kansas City in the US in 2019:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz3KSF2T_41JarwbDQZ5pMO38tk7ufpr7c1CbXcEZBbjLOXvzn_PHs6JvAhHvlKbi-rXo2E1u06_bbjJpqk_mAZrKFSJamfcIOTXMLT2uerBdWyRLwpXKXiAeqp-yPBwIdxPoxVwISMA/s599/Pot+37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="599" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz3KSF2T_41JarwbDQZ5pMO38tk7ufpr7c1CbXcEZBbjLOXvzn_PHs6JvAhHvlKbi-rXo2E1u06_bbjJpqk_mAZrKFSJamfcIOTXMLT2uerBdWyRLwpXKXiAeqp-yPBwIdxPoxVwISMA/w640-h640/Pot+37.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I have no information on whether it worked.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.tonyskansascity.com/2019/03/tkc-must-see-kansas-city-artists.html">https://www.tonyskansascity.com/2019/03/tkc-must-see-kansas-city-artists.html</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-90219554639458819652021-05-22T08:17:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:14.648-07:00QUOTE FOR THE DAY<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by."</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">George VI (1895 – 1952), </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">King of the United Kingdom and the </div><div style="text-align: center;">Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 1936 until his death in 1952, </div><div style="text-align: center;">father of Queen Elizabeth 11.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtyUkqKqBvpWzXTp8qrHIDnDBmf8aCzI2UkB4YatTdv1bmzmRcWgVBcxdDxbc4af9ZF5tDrAVQyPxCcJ7RYtbnouGjbphXLpcpttGC_p6vMHP6tbEasUo7B4SY29lmFqc9lJ44IqGTg/s980/George.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="980" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtyUkqKqBvpWzXTp8qrHIDnDBmf8aCzI2UkB4YatTdv1bmzmRcWgVBcxdDxbc4af9ZF5tDrAVQyPxCcJ7RYtbnouGjbphXLpcpttGC_p6vMHP6tbEasUo7B4SY29lmFqc9lJ44IqGTg/w640-h640/George.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-87541924417507264442021-05-22T08:16:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:14.538-07:00G SPOT: RECREATED FACES<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s700/div+138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="59" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s320/div+138.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Friend Graham E sends me regular contributions for Bytes which I post under his own page I like to call The G Spot.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the latest of Graham’s items . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>It’s all about the face</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">From Graham:</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Hi Mr O,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Found this artist that features on YouTube,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Artist Panagiotis Constantinou, has recently used facial recognition software to interpret images of people from the past, these include Roman Emperors, Chinese Terracotta Warriors, Ancient Egyptians and English Royals among others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.worldhistory.org/user/belacheur/">https://www.worldhistory.org/user/belacheur/</a></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks, G.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I haven’t been able to find out much about Panagiotis Constantinou beyond what you have said above. Apparently he takes the faces from statues, paintings, sketches, selfies (I made that one up) and uses the facial recognition software to come up with more modern day depictions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is a selection, words and text from the above link . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s700/div+138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="59" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s320/div+138.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeTDcjodJxPEksrfXRc8T-znNO4UDI6AEL1u05dLw3ejpm_NvOpRp4kQfJ-B_dub5iJRQ_LgzWgDesOL9nn03GsYAhdFBD0uxchLV8Te_mKB3G2B76DEuX-hnRYRPh5T4wzXg5mt_sw/s750/Face+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeTDcjodJxPEksrfXRc8T-znNO4UDI6AEL1u05dLw3ejpm_NvOpRp4kQfJ-B_dub5iJRQ_LgzWgDesOL9nn03GsYAhdFBD0uxchLV8Te_mKB3G2B76DEuX-hnRYRPh5T4wzXg5mt_sw/w640-h640/Face+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A recreation of the Roman empress Valeria Messalina (c. 20-22 CE-48 CE), wife of the emperor Claudius (r. 41-54 CE). Messalina's facial features are very loosely based on a combination of Roman portraits and artistic license. Messalina is depicted with blonde hair instead of her historically black hair. However, according to some dubious sources like the satirist Juvenal (l. c. 55-138 CE), she would don a blonde wig to go out into the city on nights of debauchery.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOpMDIqvN7VcQ1L14t13Bovw8CAztauSpmi9x7kn60dOBjLCqWeOuo1K3kydQ9iIODDdES3FEhhPi4zVMDmSLfZHESpGKvC16XWfD8a6WwW3koz2cgLFO3gmUDjFibMDAW0QaEXlzGJQ/s750/Face+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOpMDIqvN7VcQ1L14t13Bovw8CAztauSpmi9x7kn60dOBjLCqWeOuo1K3kydQ9iIODDdES3FEhhPi4zVMDmSLfZHESpGKvC16XWfD8a6WwW3koz2cgLFO3gmUDjFibMDAW0QaEXlzGJQ/w640-h640/Face+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A realistic approach in recreating Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) by studying posthumous and contemporary statues and busts. Made using Artbreeder, an AI neural network.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfBMVufQAoVil9XN8AUNCq5fSl3Yp3KCueaw3gokJFGpls4JMap1Qp_ijNZkEnZpp5ojQhvjqNY-Ng9szWIi1pDHhF8NcZ7WgeEYDYUQpe7PLcFI7uv9KkmOtqU1C0N7EElFvbd-9PA/s750/Face+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEfBMVufQAoVil9XN8AUNCq5fSl3Yp3KCueaw3gokJFGpls4JMap1Qp_ijNZkEnZpp5ojQhvjqNY-Ng9szWIi1pDHhF8NcZ7WgeEYDYUQpe7PLcFI7uv9KkmOtqU1C0N7EElFvbd-9PA/w640-h640/Face+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A photorealistic reconstruction of Roman emperor Commodus (r. 180-192 CE).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(By the way, Commodus was the bastard who killed Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And who would have his vengeance, in this life or the next.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwCSi181kqzahjMWwwNoDFkqPFEbN18aThsvyUcyVlLgdLDS0WvQjSiuskwChagSVKSjQYdgrRoNkA2YR_THXiK2q893Wnypiv-9vvToI_YUvfbSgwsZ_x3XCv1lgsXDTavWeaUPQ_Q/s750/Face+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwCSi181kqzahjMWwwNoDFkqPFEbN18aThsvyUcyVlLgdLDS0WvQjSiuskwChagSVKSjQYdgrRoNkA2YR_THXiK2q893Wnypiv-9vvToI_YUvfbSgwsZ_x3XCv1lgsXDTavWeaUPQ_Q/w640-h640/Face+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A photorealistic facial reconstruction of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus (r. 305-306 CE), the father of Constantine the Great (306-337 CE). Based on coinage and busts from the reign of Constantius Chlorus.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s700/div+138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="59" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s320/div+138.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>By the way #1:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bored Panda has also posted pics and text of recreations of figures (well known and otherwise), although not using facial reconstruction software. The post can be accessed at:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.boredpanda.com/historical-faces-reconstructed/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic">https://www.boredpanda.com/historical-faces-reconstructed/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some from that site . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjfQfs2xvVcsgWNFmbbDl9IBnapcgX4bgpPuW9w6lx3StIjI8pmX4l7s3eXwofx8_UIY6InNOqtb1WxJ91QiD6_xZlBzYGFfm-YVGBI7AxMqQv-QDN6CEY08WCl79qeBzxRDxoZjinKA/s700/Face+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="700" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjfQfs2xvVcsgWNFmbbDl9IBnapcgX4bgpPuW9w6lx3StIjI8pmX4l7s3eXwofx8_UIY6InNOqtb1WxJ91QiD6_xZlBzYGFfm-YVGBI7AxMqQv-QDN6CEY08WCl79qeBzxRDxoZjinKA/w640-h374/Face+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry IV of France was King of France from 1589 to 1610, when we was assassinated by a fanatical Catholic. He was also known as Good King Henry for his great concern about the welfare of his subjects.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Philippe Froesch created a CGI 3D forensic facial reconstruction of Henry, using his skull as a base.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinC-qFQoDCAXkEGtAa0jHbmtQmePGZ_1ujTA0bg0iMUwq_PogbdtqXTkTk4sATsccOfq7ODjpE55rZRrFc2xU9KsVJStQIlw2A0x_7XJkmaqmPDVqKpqgXkelMLH_pFINBUpQvMNOZpw/s700/Face+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="700" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinC-qFQoDCAXkEGtAa0jHbmtQmePGZ_1ujTA0bg0iMUwq_PogbdtqXTkTk4sATsccOfq7ODjpE55rZRrFc2xU9KsVJStQIlw2A0x_7XJkmaqmPDVqKpqgXkelMLH_pFINBUpQvMNOZpw/w640-h386/Face+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Nicolaus Copernicus was one the brightest Renaissance-era mathematicians and astronomers, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. He died at the age of 70.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Polish forensic team reconstructed this face from his remains.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJIal7b90VUF7V-ZBABL_YAb_oQKfFGquvKJWgaTM7jOJIpNz51jXceEgkQ9YYlcs5onpifhBoEbkQmXVh6PNJKNeWCpVE7AWlewJHs6A4kyoSTLrRPW3oN9GD_5oxHb2tgqWHUnb3Q/s700/Face+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="700" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJIal7b90VUF7V-ZBABL_YAb_oQKfFGquvKJWgaTM7jOJIpNz51jXceEgkQ9YYlcs5onpifhBoEbkQmXVh6PNJKNeWCpVE7AWlewJHs6A4kyoSTLrRPW3oN9GD_5oxHb2tgqWHUnb3Q/w640-h386/Face+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, who is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scottish anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson took measurements of Bach's facial bones to recreate a 3D image of what the composer's face must've looked like.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRWgaZRMMqaG6GnLx_a4Zy0GCf6yuF3BYIqBdGiQABz8AA0M7K6lb9z4jVwuJMVbUZt2lTeTA5fkPj42h9l7-7RE7DA83Kn9NJYv9k4HAq-MiMC0jRbEOSFomLxyhFA2v8GSKzgpC10Q/s700/Face+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="700" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRWgaZRMMqaG6GnLx_a4Zy0GCf6yuF3BYIqBdGiQABz8AA0M7K6lb9z4jVwuJMVbUZt2lTeTA5fkPj42h9l7-7RE7DA83Kn9NJYv9k4HAq-MiMC0jRbEOSFomLxyhFA2v8GSKzgpC10Q/w640-h424/Face+8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The reconstruction of an early Neolithic man's head was based on the skeleton of an adult male excavated in 1863, in Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire. Experts used skeletal analysis to recreate what a slender man in his 40's looked like about 5,500 ago, 500 years before the first monument at Stonehenge was built.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3oGELoQ81_RbGYDxquUlJ50ShVeFCJVi5Pt-142xUeiGtEcYr7IekMcPUWsKIrYK_PcR4i9hMJxPHP4WZIZ1JpE4xPbZn-tN1pkvJxKxlmjIOL0sp-rFVhBUKvr0tH76iYyqdIWi-4w/s889/Face+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3oGELoQ81_RbGYDxquUlJ50ShVeFCJVi5Pt-142xUeiGtEcYr7IekMcPUWsKIrYK_PcR4i9hMJxPHP4WZIZ1JpE4xPbZn-tN1pkvJxKxlmjIOL0sp-rFVhBUKvr0tH76iYyqdIWi-4w/w504-h640/Face+9.jpg" width="504" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Jane of Jamestown was a young girl (14-years-old) who was eaten by her 17th century Jamestown co-settlers. Her mutilated skull and severed leg bone were found in 2012, among butchered animal bones and other food remains, in a Jamestown cellar. Dr. Douglas Owsley, chief forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, examined the bones and determined that the cuts and marks on them were from an attempt to separate tissue and brain from the bones. Owsley concluded that it was a case of cannibalism as marks were consistent with other cases of cannibalism and the fact that the people of Jamestown were starving during the winter of 1609-1610.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9V8-hnLweGr9OS2mfKG-MUVNZ2djtCJNLAEhmSzFrki81pv1mRaL9olydvbkJdff2tnjOiohM4FtxYt5ruwfwmhD6mQ4bwWOkLHU1go2rf5VSTxs3Ck8SPO5s8tunO8OH2ry-R7DqMg/s700/Face+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="700" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9V8-hnLweGr9OS2mfKG-MUVNZ2djtCJNLAEhmSzFrki81pv1mRaL9olydvbkJdff2tnjOiohM4FtxYt5ruwfwmhD6mQ4bwWOkLHU1go2rf5VSTxs3Ck8SPO5s8tunO8OH2ry-R7DqMg/w640-h406/Face+10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Maximilien de Robespierre was a French politician and lawyer, best known for his role in the French Revolution (1789 - 1799) and the Reign of Terror. He was executed by guillotine on July 28, 1794 at the age of 36.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scientists used his death mask, as well as historical records detailing Robespierre's medical history to reconstruct his face and determine the illnesses he suffered.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Several clinical signs were described by contemporary witnesses: vision problems, nose bleeds (“he covered his pillow of fresh blood each night”), jaundice (“yellow colored skin and eyes”), asthenia (“continuous tiredness”), recurrent leg ulcers, and frequent facial skin diseases associated with scars of a previous smallpox infection. Historians speculate that he suffered from sarcoidosis. He also had permanent eye and mouth twitching. The symptoms worsened between 1790 and 1794. The day before his beheading, Robespierre suffered a firearm wound to the jaw in dubious circumstances.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DavYSrWaxQZiGmMkkSvE3FzxLwfyztoMnn1reDaCZh4Kd73SG_YUUb9yDB8Ww2ZZH1sAR8Tl3DWd6nfXgZq2VUiVlMLh-tk7Gc8p2XDzn3Qt9HWCIF8FQVvvUlgc6d-h1SHDPXaoMw/s700/Face+11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="700" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DavYSrWaxQZiGmMkkSvE3FzxLwfyztoMnn1reDaCZh4Kd73SG_YUUb9yDB8Ww2ZZH1sAR8Tl3DWd6nfXgZq2VUiVlMLh-tk7Gc8p2XDzn3Qt9HWCIF8FQVvvUlgc6d-h1SHDPXaoMw/w640-h530/Face+11.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Mary Stuart was Queen of Scotland between 1542 and 1567 and she was only 6 days old when she acceded to the throne. She spent her last 18 years in custody of Queen Elizabeth of England after which Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth in 1586 and executed. She was 44 at the time of her execution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Experts from the University of Dundee compiled all the available portraits of Mary Stuart to recreate a 3D image of what she would've looked like during her reign.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s700/div+138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="59" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDrtLaQg0n8bqP88Jeua_Qo-Yd1jb7t-Mt73iU2e60iXw3Zf80ZS2WaGv0ux0ECllLggB-X2rwvC2Me99T49yoqR2yTNXllXmvSv_RLyMa6AKfdEx9JUjqckFdfahVooAW11lPcKcvQ/s320/div+138.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>By the way #2:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Becca Saladin also recreates past historical figures into a modern look.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">From the website My Modern Met at:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/royalty-now-historical-figures-modern-portraits/">https://mymodernmet.com/royalty-now-historical-figures-modern-portraits/</a> . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>As the daughter of two teachers, graphic designer Becca Saladin has always loved history. Now, she's combined her talents in graphic design with her thirst for learning to create Royalty Now. This fascinating Instagram account shows off her skills in transforming famous figures throughout history into modern characters you'd see walking the streets today. From Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to Queen Elizabeth I and Prince Albert, these historical greats get new life thanks to Saladin's work.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevtYfkkb0NPw_WXVIvwWh48rXNoIvTqb2dFvZgEdQcNOCymDQ7og02A-OrwRNczAkfmnFBdMg2Ystjh2Q9v5kjHFyEqq3tRpKyP86cY7X-NV44tfNoX7p1QN5ccXI0KIFmq2ShF6E7w/s750/Face+12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="750" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevtYfkkb0NPw_WXVIvwWh48rXNoIvTqb2dFvZgEdQcNOCymDQ7og02A-OrwRNczAkfmnFBdMg2Ystjh2Q9v5kjHFyEqq3tRpKyP86cY7X-NV44tfNoX7p1QN5ccXI0KIFmq2ShF6E7w/w640-h390/Face+12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Nefertiti</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="750" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbcgGvtFC9zJovo_cWoT1wDzg2fRVRDzh2p1yus764_ca6ouFBHRtwNTl34ys9rZvWgTsxHs6thN7l8hd-m4nJgYtLhUt-wP-YxynTKRuLNEaTy1oSo7o8CzITpR8NI-inmJZGOOpyA/w640-h402/Face+14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Napoleon</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoKTZOjfh3mIJ7mT26pswBA3ZtmmIGmi3PJr5_9-3t2rVNPq5oyobC66uBcbPLAYQ5nfrv3FJeyoFhpbzKR1opvsJnOgyAPgP2BCRK3ulrrum3r4WBJZahqhI0x74eRfHIOHw5uysxA/s750/Face+15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="750" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoKTZOjfh3mIJ7mT26pswBA3ZtmmIGmi3PJr5_9-3t2rVNPq5oyobC66uBcbPLAYQ5nfrv3FJeyoFhpbzKR1opvsJnOgyAPgP2BCRK3ulrrum3r4WBJZahqhI0x74eRfHIOHw5uysxA/w640-h406/Face+15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Louis XV</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="750" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiTseWEsiegPHB0hVnEv-QSxEOYvm_ReZF-buAT0Bzq5_ydK1x2AIdEwX92Rban5a0EB-MkhFEI-DEKEHjJHQv0dA6LsZC2jvV9bbzb090FfPPQZ88zEGXzxf5LUMiCxEdvkPkg7vDZw/w640-h424/Face+17.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Anne Boleyn</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0_mlPKzupsEJG66X8vFps_6M390mG0DZdVKKEDI8c1EIZ4EuzyIbw66qwaX1hUQbJ9wJ2xakfPAlX7vKeNyHE8V9ldfGXL4nXQY8_3S0d2YxA9d3PKu1WmzABPTRmWRpKCLL21cn-w/s750/Face+18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="750" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0_mlPKzupsEJG66X8vFps_6M390mG0DZdVKKEDI8c1EIZ4EuzyIbw66qwaX1hUQbJ9wJ2xakfPAlX7vKeNyHE8V9ldfGXL4nXQY8_3S0d2YxA9d3PKu1WmzABPTRmWRpKCLL21cn-w/w640-h390/Face+18.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Henry VII</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDCCi4StUJCC2LOvyBOrEYTtQCGeN76dmvue0CcutxaUn3y0RyW_eunKqP82xc4hsAKTa-QZJqPd34rVJhq0C6uBR9agXPULJBwBfR4aCw4goQQeCnh-0LJ4ppww88JpH8ZBmL7mXNfA/w544-h640/Parker+1.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-92071923593856648602021-05-21T07:39:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:14.755-07:00FUNNY SATURDAY<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">-----o😊o-----</span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apologies for Funny Friday being posted on Saturday, readers, a computer glitch prevented me posting yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdORjPVXFTvwQbuYfKYTtYgHfnARd0gKMRfMlvnmAQOM4oBatZZ1WzGVatXNqk5TZnTNMBhH_phf65k1MVC7cXqPyBeo9W6VWjbg2hjEAZpILrc0cDgRkdZJ6qY1viGmqJpqQZYsPbVA/s564/Friday+15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdORjPVXFTvwQbuYfKYTtYgHfnARd0gKMRfMlvnmAQOM4oBatZZ1WzGVatXNqk5TZnTNMBhH_phf65k1MVC7cXqPyBeo9W6VWjbg2hjEAZpILrc0cDgRkdZJ6qY1viGmqJpqQZYsPbVA/w640-h640/Friday+15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>This was supposed to have been posted yesterday . . . </span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Good times are ahead, readers, they are called Saturday and Sunday, so here's some laughs to get prepped for the weekend.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As usual, a caution that risque content follows.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>SOME HUMOUR:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">A guy got chatting to a girl in a club. "Can I buy you a drink?" he asked.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Have you not got a girlfriend?" she replied, "Guys like you always have girlfriends."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He looked downcast, "No, sadly we broke up just over a month ago."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Oh I'm sorry to hear that," she said, "Go on then, I'll have a white wine please."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One glass of wine led to a second. A few drinks later after a kiss and a cuddle they headed off back to her place and made passionate love.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While he was putting his clothes back on she said, "So, you're good looking, a nice guy and amazing in bed. Can I ask why on earth you split with your girlfriend?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said, "My wife found out."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">It was the first anniversary of my relationship with my girlfriend yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Being the sort of person I am, I arranged for a fancy car to arrive outside at 7pm sharp, a lovely meal at a fine restaurant and a walk by the moonlit pier followed by a night of wine and intense passion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ever the nit-picker, I awoke to an earful from my girlfriend because as usual there’s one little detail she insists I got wrong.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apparently she thinks it would’ve been nice if we’d have done it together.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">A guy walks into a bar and orders a beer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I recently entered a competition to see who gained the most weight and lost the most hair," he tells the bartender. "</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What the heck? Why?" the bartender asks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Oh, they didn't call it that," the guy replies. "It was advertised as 'high school class reunion,'"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">There is a factory that makes the Tickle Me Elmo toys. The toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, Lena is hired at The Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 8:00 am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The next day at 8:45 is there is a knock at the Personnel Manager’s door. The Foreman throws open the door and begins to rant about the new Employee. He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule. The Personnel Manager decides he should see this for himself, so the two men march down to the factory floor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When they get there the line is so backed up that there are Tickle Me Elmo’s all over the factory floor and they’re really beginning to pile up. At the end of the line stands Lena surrounded by mountains of Tickle Me Elmo’s. She has a roll of plush Red fabric and a huge bag of small marbles. The 2 men watch in amazement as she cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two marbles and begin to carefully sew the little package between Elmo’s legs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Personnel Manager bursts into laughter. After several minutes of hysterics, he pulls himself together and approaches Lena.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’m sorry,” he says to her, barely able to keep a straight face, “But I think you misunderstood the instructions I gave you yesterday.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Your job is to give Elmo two test tickles.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvNPWZDnZfX1hxdIdlmdz7LQs3EKcnGvyiSIK9S8EEyrCAuYQ9alzuO3TIcvUu4h9zEIpC8LZk2kTxyijEf2vy6-yHHm7CQZw15uU0KjB7ZoxbjmHHxLJu-uAybME7bwY7Y5aJ7F60Cg/s2048/Bytes.Header.Vault+Funny+Friday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1565" data-original-width="2048" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvNPWZDnZfX1hxdIdlmdz7LQs3EKcnGvyiSIK9S8EEyrCAuYQ9alzuO3TIcvUu4h9zEIpC8LZk2kTxyijEf2vy6-yHHm7CQZw15uU0KjB7ZoxbjmHHxLJu-uAybME7bwY7Y5aJ7F60Cg/w640-h490/Bytes.Header.Vault+Funny+Friday.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDYzJv0ywFi9Xmef3rvdP26fQmDV4J3JcGWK3Am3dyqHdEKxEwwh6PKH9-4ne1J8U9gscUozaBhBTmHAItsA8_3zNPE1W9MmDIDjFqBDDUKYq2XMy1cNX8TBx9Id4m49xcMM2jsrHdg/s1600/Hawking+6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1286" data-original-width="1600" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDYzJv0ywFi9Xmef3rvdP26fQmDV4J3JcGWK3Am3dyqHdEKxEwwh6PKH9-4ne1J8U9gscUozaBhBTmHAItsA8_3zNPE1W9MmDIDjFqBDDUKYq2XMy1cNX8TBx9Id4m49xcMM2jsrHdg/w640-h514/Hawking+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkDTM89hMkd1hpKCBZhtxwMxiuPJYUrpMeqvKNROIK7Te-thKmIEMcDvpKW8OqqdJZe6H53xZqoinkVZ2GqWMw2_JEAtJoZh0ZY17DvrVsrNEYvs0FNo3R-KCpdvCEnKNLQj1duICjw/s2403/Bytes+Header.Law+and+Lawyers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="2403" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkDTM89hMkd1hpKCBZhtxwMxiuPJYUrpMeqvKNROIK7Te-thKmIEMcDvpKW8OqqdJZe6H53xZqoinkVZ2GqWMw2_JEAtJoZh0ZY17DvrVsrNEYvs0FNo3R-KCpdvCEnKNLQj1duICjw/w640-h162/Bytes+Header.Law+and+Lawyers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two small boys, not yet old enough to be in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"My name is Billy. What's yours?" asked the first boy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Tommy," replied the second.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"My Daddy's an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living?" asked Billy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tommy replied, "My Daddy's a lawyer."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Honest?" asked Billy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"No, just the regular kind", replied Tommy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>LIMERICK OF THE WEEK:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was once a sad Maitre d'hotel</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who said, "They can all go to hell!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What they do to my wife---</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Why it ruins my life;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And the worst is, they all do it well."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GALLERY:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9E5QejzUveLvj3IuUN7rOvRQ8cPLAkKRzkt7PAcep4N1uI2ElcJae1ujdTjSB9YtkO8Df742M-YjCzvQJk-Em1Ohnv9659OHKUHI9-dsBtL7sEDbez03FAF5MvVnVhtHyRDqoN3Mc3A/s465/FFF+158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="465" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9E5QejzUveLvj3IuUN7rOvRQ8cPLAkKRzkt7PAcep4N1uI2ElcJae1ujdTjSB9YtkO8Df742M-YjCzvQJk-Em1Ohnv9659OHKUHI9-dsBtL7sEDbez03FAF5MvVnVhtHyRDqoN3Mc3A/w640-h500/FFF+158.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>Worth another airing in the current news context . . . </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3sqJo-jRR_ObSCn5ITJUFBdQByBL_SbT_qNhYWQYWe_4zz9HJ7gdVPeoKLT1Ai4igjBbASDCYzBG_Vi8Zumcd1kDJQGXQY4kXhyphenhyphenv3HnDLz6FjEP8cnbRwPs9fSr0klV2rZr6B9bW2w/s500/007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3sqJo-jRR_ObSCn5ITJUFBdQByBL_SbT_qNhYWQYWe_4zz9HJ7gdVPeoKLT1Ai4igjBbASDCYzBG_Vi8Zumcd1kDJQGXQY4kXhyphenhyphenv3HnDLz6FjEP8cnbRwPs9fSr0klV2rZr6B9bW2w/w640-h640/007.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVi4DYaGqxLtw4ROcHGlwmVb7y9Yj17lhbsQUnItBFpjSd1oVhQP6enytrXug17GIiFfh18bXoHbzIItaCS3lCmpWCVofebTlSqQQ6VvmMSVgLH3_tPtYSvdwB85hzWqrFg060I265Q/s242/Corn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="208" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvVi4DYaGqxLtw4ROcHGlwmVb7y9Yj17lhbsQUnItBFpjSd1oVhQP6enytrXug17GIiFfh18bXoHbzIItaCS3lCmpWCVofebTlSqQQ6VvmMSVgLH3_tPtYSvdwB85hzWqrFg060I265Q/w172-h200/Corn.jpg" width="172" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>CORN CORNER:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People always ask where I got my incredibly detailed tattoo done, but they never believe me when I tell them Spain.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nobody expects the Spanish ink precision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I invented a new word</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Plagiarism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you find a bomb that blows up when stepped on, please let me know.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's mine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did you hear about the new virus called the Peekaboo virus?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They recommend that if you get it, go straight to the ICU.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">-----o😊o-----</div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-82456224400241010212021-05-19T07:05:00.001-07:002022-05-11T10:19:14.223-07:00POETRY SPOT<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">--------o😊o--------</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I happened to mention the below classic old poem to Kate yesterday and thought it was worthy of a wider airing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have tried to source its origin but there are a multitude of explanations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those wishing to link to a site that discusses the possible origins can visit The Mudcat Café at:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=103016">https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=103016</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Go to <a href="mudcat.org ">mudcat.org </a>for the home page and see the list of topics discussed. As Spock would say:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggAlNW_pBJgmWEJRwpig-OSY8D2tUD-MP3M2nKDg33J_YA6JdFDtwpKvThsbyH9-rZm79jDHVgBljazCRhBkobuFb0CVBnOsLVmrtnx4pQ2Jo5EI5VROVGccRR0w7c0XRUrlj29KN4BQ/s480/Fascinating.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggAlNW_pBJgmWEJRwpig-OSY8D2tUD-MP3M2nKDg33J_YA6JdFDtwpKvThsbyH9-rZm79jDHVgBljazCRhBkobuFb0CVBnOsLVmrtnx4pQ2Jo5EI5VROVGccRR0w7c0XRUrlj29KN4BQ/s320/Fascinating.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">The Preservation of Man</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The horse and mule live 30 years</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And nothing know of wines and beers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The goat and sheep at 20 die</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And never taste of Scotch or Rye.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The cow drinks water by the ton</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And at 18 is mostly done.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The dog at 15 cashes in</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Without the aid of rum and gin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The cat in milk and water soaks</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then in 12 short years it croaks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The modest, sober, bone-dry hen</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lays eggs for nogs then dies at ten.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">All animals are strictly dry:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They sinless live and swiftly die;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Survive for threescore years and ten.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">And some of them, a very few,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Stay pickled till they're 92.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">The fact that the poem refers to the allotted life span as threescore and ten indicates how old the poem is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fact that the poem refers to ginful, rum-soaked men indicates either political incorrectness in not being non-gender specific, or that the author had a lower estimation of the male species.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A correction and apology.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a post a few days ago about bad-ass elderly people, I threw into the mix my father in law Noel, saying that he was 91 and still active, studying etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I got that wrong. He is 94.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sorry Nelly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGnLnWooorx_1kCb4wOppI1cvad2NiDWntzbPXHEzQUixKJXDnfL88blhPvleef6O4YB0Ml7vrozgCVc4polHhuEbrlu0wtnRdUuUfxLpk-UgEDgiE0Vt85FIVP-kqSsK0BwWPurvWw/s1010/John+Wayne.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="787" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGnLnWooorx_1kCb4wOppI1cvad2NiDWntzbPXHEzQUixKJXDnfL88blhPvleef6O4YB0Ml7vrozgCVc4polHhuEbrlu0wtnRdUuUfxLpk-UgEDgiE0Vt85FIVP-kqSsK0BwWPurvWw/w498-h640/John+Wayne.jpeg" width="498" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">--------o😊o--------</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-67958764523049233882021-05-19T07:05:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:12.901-07:00QUOTE(S) FOR THE DAY<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From the news yesterday . .</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--------o😊o-------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not in the know, parts of rural Australia are suffering a mouse plague so severe that farmers are being ruined ruined (coming on top of drought and COVID consequences). It has been estimated that the plague is the worst since 1933 and that that there will be an estimated $100m damage bill. It was reported yesterday that mice have now begun cannibalising each other.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Enter People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA):</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">“These bright, curious animals are just looking for food to survive. They shouldn’t be robbed of that right because of the dangerous notion of human supremacy. In the meantime, we urge farmers and residents to avoid poisoning these animals. This cruel killing method not only subjects innocent mice to unbearably painful deaths, but also poses the risk of spreading bacteria in water when mouse carcasses appear in water tanks. Instead, humane traps allow small animals to be caught gently and released unharmed.”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">- Aleesha Naxaxis, PETA spokesperson</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5QkRNQc6iHWYzW-leOZZ7_UVubxyBnYX1Abli6ND-etxDw628lI7veAuX7B1o3QY5OyT59HXLNntTryMlh363QzbdViGyD2oi2FwjOChVdL2sSlptccd58QcOH5A19HZu9zC_lcvYw/s1280/PETA+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5QkRNQc6iHWYzW-leOZZ7_UVubxyBnYX1Abli6ND-etxDw628lI7veAuX7B1o3QY5OyT59HXLNntTryMlh363QzbdViGyD2oi2FwjOChVdL2sSlptccd58QcOH5A19HZu9zC_lcvYw/w640-h360/PETA+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">________________</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Comment by the Prime Minister:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was hard to see “the devastation and heartbreak” recently experienced by NSW farmers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">“It’s just one thing after another … and apart from the comments being very insensitive to the plight of those farmers … it’s pretty dopey.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZv3hr3n6bpQ6U-NM6drmylTG8p6cpIa7OSLAxvBbcNRULYfIoc6pCgW3GKV85gTFp4vJc8hV1WfUdV0dK-6y8a4nUb70RpVOL12SWleffzyEffpG8HfadKv9Cmr60Orfl0Dkvz_LBQ/s768/PETA+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZv3hr3n6bpQ6U-NM6drmylTG8p6cpIa7OSLAxvBbcNRULYfIoc6pCgW3GKV85gTFp4vJc8hV1WfUdV0dK-6y8a4nUb70RpVOL12SWleffzyEffpG8HfadKv9Cmr60Orfl0Dkvz_LBQ/w640-h360/PETA+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Comment by the Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">“The real rats in this whole plague are the people who come out with bloody stupid ideas like this. Their thinking around this is reprehensible, when you have farmers struggling. You have these people who have never left the city and wouldn’t know if their backside was on fire, then all of a sudden they’re telling farmers what to do? The only good mouse is a dead mouse.”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioepxKzd4-Et-ct97uqcgh12EwXU2m5219rQ5VD_L6ooWvATid0sZQMbSf19do6YSdgMuWuiXPrK7IwPgeSSSUi8pCJHmhaSgtf03CiyRzi8PmfF0Rnyo6Nmeuin6BISZ1v_W2glDOTQ/s1024/PETA+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioepxKzd4-Et-ct97uqcgh12EwXU2m5219rQ5VD_L6ooWvATid0sZQMbSf19do6YSdgMuWuiXPrK7IwPgeSSSUi8pCJHmhaSgtf03CiyRzi8PmfF0Rnyo6Nmeuin6BISZ1v_W2glDOTQ/w640-h360/PETA+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Ms Naxaxis responded in an interview that rehoming millions of mice involved logistical problems in catching and releasing the mouse horde.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">She argues however that more humane methods should have been rolled out by the government a long time ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">“Farmers have been crying out for help for months. (Government) inaction months ago has led to this. The situation has gotten so bad that not only farmers are suffering, but mice are suffering.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">She ignores that:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Last week, the NSW government responded to farmers’ pleas for help with a $50 million relief package that includes rebates and a promise to chemically treat grain to protect against the vermin.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>The government is also seeking urgent approval from the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority for approval to use bromadiolone – a new poison outlawed in Australia that’s guaranteed to kill rodents within 24 hours</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o-------</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">.</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-66986836165497865262021-05-18T08:22:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:12.374-07:00QUOTES FOR THE DAY<span style="font-family: verdana;"> Prince Harry needs to see this film . . .</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Yj8g9CC1y_JUxGnO1xdwY2QpyPTFOKENfIz3V6-9znEw7B_B9wKRC8vMT_6ZlAqHQSXi_GYAwMc_IWU-jjR_0bHbZFIkiSLXVst1RTRQflLMfAOZxROYfEMOFRLJAg7fd7qOwTRfSA/s553/Don+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="553" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Yj8g9CC1y_JUxGnO1xdwY2QpyPTFOKENfIz3V6-9znEw7B_B9wKRC8vMT_6ZlAqHQSXi_GYAwMc_IWU-jjR_0bHbZFIkiSLXVst1RTRQflLMfAOZxROYfEMOFRLJAg7fd7qOwTRfSA/w640-h472/Don+2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvN2-TP-NiZPX9eg_ynqwNtwd2J80hyYEemeV0V5jzgRh_z8IwvHD_QQbQvFauxccIJ1tkkS0TcEb52ovoB_AqP-GaH2JH_rNop3ccIYugKygmwlkeyz9owpwlbOYTKbnTu5g7UGvHcw/s500/Don+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvN2-TP-NiZPX9eg_ynqwNtwd2J80hyYEemeV0V5jzgRh_z8IwvHD_QQbQvFauxccIJ1tkkS0TcEb52ovoB_AqP-GaH2JH_rNop3ccIYugKygmwlkeyz9owpwlbOYTKbnTu5g7UGvHcw/w640-h640/Don+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-1363875103256959402021-05-18T08:10:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:09.003-07:00ANECDOTES FROM HISTORY<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">---------oOo--------</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6TwJOinbaplTlHJrn4p0i63tVLrdaBNO5Mqr-Cogve-p1mnkvA-7PyG1mnCLxIeLV3ypYnocL6TLceVVG0eYoqChdnPvWJvwwSoWX_ONa8tPRlIPWPpQh4nL4qZI1ZzMhczJDmKa8A/s500/Sparta+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="500" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6TwJOinbaplTlHJrn4p0i63tVLrdaBNO5Mqr-Cogve-p1mnkvA-7PyG1mnCLxIeLV3ypYnocL6TLceVVG0eYoqChdnPvWJvwwSoWX_ONa8tPRlIPWPpQh4nL4qZI1ZzMhczJDmKa8A/w640-h386/Sparta+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Interestingly enough, Sparta was a city within the region of Laconia. This is where we get the term laconic, meaning concise, terse, or using as few words as possible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">December 23rd, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a tank destroyer from the 7th Armoured Division moved west from Salmchateau on the highway toward Fraiture, the commander spotted a lone trooper from the 325th digging a fox hole for an outpost near the road.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The commander stopped the vehicle and asked him if this was the frontline.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The trooper, PFC Vernon Haught, with Company F, 325th GIR, looked up and said, "Are you looking for a safe place?" The tank destroyer commander answered, "Yeah."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Haught then said, "Well, buddy, just pull your vehicle behind me. I'm the 82nd Airborne Division, and this is as far as the bastards are going."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVP5sGvaKZJwf7WxC9B_W0Yqc47NtqzshziAlXbp2v2-SaI2zzyLCLsSm3FGyNsHNfh9hAtYB2ltzCv0O_1oAQGB84IObh1JRu1e8HQixN-74tctpf0W9I8GLgIBj3VJS5OFVHnFfOiQ/s348/Haught.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVP5sGvaKZJwf7WxC9B_W0Yqc47NtqzshziAlXbp2v2-SaI2zzyLCLsSm3FGyNsHNfh9hAtYB2ltzCv0O_1oAQGB84IObh1JRu1e8HQixN-74tctpf0W9I8GLgIBj3VJS5OFVHnFfOiQ/w288-h400/Haught.jpeg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Vernon Haught (1923-1995)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">We all know of William conquering England, when Harold copped an arrow in the eye, but how many know of William’s death and funeral?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBpGKTIc9QAHY7exDez8PMQtjZFQWux3SPrb-8JV0ekVfhqOt12G3SpL289tBAR6uA3xsnt8zzsgqj-GOvS9o-LBXwHaypi1yjgyZ5dtlnrbffvtNB9DycIwm8wYDUxCqUnUTmRLJQw/s1200/Will+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBpGKTIc9QAHY7exDez8PMQtjZFQWux3SPrb-8JV0ekVfhqOt12G3SpL289tBAR6uA3xsnt8zzsgqj-GOvS9o-LBXwHaypi1yjgyZ5dtlnrbffvtNB9DycIwm8wYDUxCqUnUTmRLJQw/s320/Will+1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/William-The-Conqueror-Exploding-Corpse/">https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/William-The-Conqueror-Exploding-Corpse/</a></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are two main accounts of the death of William the Conqueror.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The more famous of the two is in the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ written by the Benedictine monk and chronicler Orderic Vitalis who spent his adult life in Saint-Evroult monastery in Normandy. While some accounts vaguely state that King William became ill on the battlefield, collapsing through heat and the effort of fighting, Orderic’s contemporary William of Malmesbury added the gruesome detail that William’s belly protruded so much that he was mortally wounded when he was thrown onto the pommel of his saddle. Since the wooden pommels of medieval saddles were high and hard, and often reinforced with metal, William of Malmesbury’s suggestion is a plausible one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to this version, William’s internal organs were so badly ruptured that even though he was carried off alive to his capital Rouen, no treatment could save him. Before expiring, however, he had just enough time to set up a death-bed last will and testament that would leave the family arguing for decades, if not centuries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rather than conferring the crown on his troublesome oldest son Robert Curthose, William chose Robert’s younger brother, William Rufus, as heir to the throne of England. Technically, this was in keeping with Norman tradition, since Robert would be inheriting the original family estates in Normandy. However, the last thing William should have done was split his dominions. It was too late though. Hardly were the words out of his mouth than William Rufus was on his way to England, metaphorically elbowing his brother out of the way in his haste to seize the crown.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The rapid departure of William Rufus signalled the start of a farcical sequence of events that made the funeral of his father William memorable for all the wrong reasons.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To begin with, the room in which his body lay was almost immediately looted. The king’s body was left lying naked on the floor, while those who had attended his death scuttled off clutching anything and everything. Eventually a passing knight appears to have taken pity on the king and arranged for the body to be embalmed – sort of – followed by its removal to Caen for burial. By this time the body was probably already a little ripe, to say the least. When the monks came to meet the corpse fire broke out in the town. Eventually the body was more or less ready for the church eulogies in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just at the point where the assembled mourners were asked to forgive any wrongs that William had done, an unwelcome voice piped up. It was a man claiming that William had robbed his father of the land on which the abbey stood. William, he said, was not going to lie in land that didn’t belong to him. After some haggling, compensation was agreed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The worst was yet to come. William’s corpse, bloated by this point, wouldn’t fit into the short stone sarcophagus that had been created for it. As it was forced into place, “the swollen bowels burst, and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of the by-standers and the whole crowd”, according to Orderic. No amount of incense would cover up the smell and the mourners got through the rest of the proceedings as quickly as they could.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">By the way . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURK96g2VOcgw9W1qHy6EAT6EyIKHjHzjauQFg8vvsqnj5kh1Aj2CbR1pLRXAOuEW0ARxcd9n1NhYQp376pDCE5kKp51xBgiE4jyh1Cxv2VH8AJYEZWiQBYBYr3-cu7sRLGXppiwnalA/s800/Henry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="800" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURK96g2VOcgw9W1qHy6EAT6EyIKHjHzjauQFg8vvsqnj5kh1Aj2CbR1pLRXAOuEW0ARxcd9n1NhYQp376pDCE5kKp51xBgiE4jyh1Cxv2VH8AJYEZWiQBYBYr3-cu7sRLGXppiwnalA/w640-h482/Henry.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">---------oOo--------</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-21796321029969916482021-05-17T13:47:00.001-07:002022-05-11T10:19:10.437-07:00STREET ART AND PUBLIC ART<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Click on the links provided to access the items for a more detailed look . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>50 Badass Elderly People That Are The Epitome Of Cool</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bored Panda</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.boredpanda.com/cool-elderly-people/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter">https://www.boredpanda.com/cool-elderly-people/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From a smashing sense of humor to incredible skills, enviable physical shape, and the most youthful mindset, there’s a lot to learn from these badasses who may not have turned back time, but figured out how to get the most out of it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlqEqXMjBvEZp_qG2HtThPVGWETv2-Etb9as-Iq9P-W-hu7k80nbsCSia1JjlmkINhWr6orvf-ee3DQFiAxi667xWj9qs_B7ghaqyMbGEw4_L3WOBKJk-iKKAHppEp30lJAsPtcTvhlQ/w300-h400/SS+250.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I’m tossing my father in law, Noel, into this collection. He is 91, still living independently, still studying, going to the shops each day and still staying active. Yay for the Day to Noel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>55 Weird Stories About How Famous Things Got Invented</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cracked</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.cracked.com/article_30272_55-weird-stories-about-how-famous-things-got-invented.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=postup">https://www.cracked.com/article_30272_55-weird-stories-about-how-famous-things-got-invented.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=postup</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Bicycle</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bicycle was invented following the summer of 1816, when a massive volcanic eruption caused worldwide famine. People couldn't feed their horses and killed their horses for meat, so Baron Karl von Drais invented a new form of transport.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Jacuzzis</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jacuzzis weren't decadent luxuries originally. Candido Jacuzzi invented the device to treat his son's rheumatoid arthritis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Telephones</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though we all know Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, Elisha Gray submitted a patent for the phone the very same day as Bell. At the time, neither of them had an actual working phone, but Bell won the patent war, so he got to continue tinkering.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Pill</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The birth control pill was invented by John Rock, a devout Catholic who earlier ran a clinic that taught Catholicism-approved birth control methods. He thought the church might embrace his new invention. He was wrong.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Doorknobs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Doorknobs were invented much later than you'd think -- Black teenager Osbourn Dorsey invented it in 1878. Before that, people could only latch doors shut with heavy bars.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Device Allows Man With Paralysis to Type by Imagining Handwriting</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Smithsonian Magazine</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/experimental-device-allows-man-paralyzed-below-neck-type-thinking-180977729/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210514-daily-responsive&spMailingID=44981689&spUserID=NzQwNDUzNzA1MDkS1&spJobID=2001271309&spReportId=MjAwMTI3MTMwOQS2">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/experimental-device-allows-man-paralyzed-below-neck-type-thinking-180977729/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210514-daily-responsive&spMailingID=44981689&spUserID=NzQwNDUzNzA1MDkS1&spJobID=2001271309&spReportId=MjAwMTI3MTMwOQS2</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_ug5uBZ_9GE0hY7pXGZtqWM2R0jFQNk55housxohJHmN4ODNkE-K7iT5olWZCHyuIN2xtufho27ghwJ99lULMt5LB5WFC6KsC3ZR57rxBwsbZm7g4WAfuzLELMNKLr5d1mvilXew1w/s800/SS+251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_ug5uBZ_9GE0hY7pXGZtqWM2R0jFQNk55housxohJHmN4ODNkE-K7iT5olWZCHyuIN2xtufho27ghwJ99lULMt5LB5WFC6KsC3ZR57rxBwsbZm7g4WAfuzLELMNKLr5d1mvilXew1w/w640-h320/SS+251.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An experimental brain-computer interface has allowed one man who is paralyzed below the neck to gain the ability to type by thinking about handwriting, according to research published on May 12 in the journal Nature.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The man became paralyzed after a spinal cord injury in 2007, and joined the research project at Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute nine years later, Ian Sample reports for the Guardian. After years of development, the man can use the device to write up to 18 words per minute when connected to the system, with 94 percent accuracy on each letter. When the scientists added autocorrect to the program, its accuracy improved to 99 percent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The device uses two sensors called microelectrode arrays placed near the part of the brain used for handwriting, just under the surface of the brain. The arrays could measure signals from about 100 neurons.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>This Kid Made His Own Cozy Atmosphere During Reading Time</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twisted Sifter</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://twistedsifter.com/2021/05/kid-makes-own-cozy-atmosphere-during-reading-time/">https://twistedsifter.com/2021/05/kid-makes-own-cozy-atmosphere-during-reading-time/</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLIDbK3JbaWx7EmNqvrWt-2r-TaO75FbNjUrVrgrTXrQ3YtH-HD4v2npIS_968hMqnVlOiFbz-TIzSd5tDqgd_0zzz2FqXzNnZkqRvqpsqk_9gZWD0Hm8flTnbHB11QoWwF8biD2-uyA/s1067/SS+252.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLIDbK3JbaWx7EmNqvrWt-2r-TaO75FbNjUrVrgrTXrQ3YtH-HD4v2npIS_968hMqnVlOiFbz-TIzSd5tDqgd_0zzz2FqXzNnZkqRvqpsqk_9gZWD0Hm8flTnbHB11QoWwF8biD2-uyA/w480-h640/SS+252.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier this week, a grade 3 teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio shared this amazing photo of one of her students setting a cozy atmosphere for himself during reading time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not sure if the headphones are just for noise cancellation or if he’s actually listening to the fire, hopefully he gets to hear that delightful crackle!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t know why, but this just puts a big smile on my face, this kid’s a legend!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Anschlussdenkmal: The Forbidden Nazi Memorial</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amusing Planet</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/05/anschlussdenkmal-forbidden-nazi-memorial.html">https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/05/anschlussdenkmal-forbidden-nazi-memorial.html</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm30JDk3ZN5qJj6mxhMyzsc_Kahdq0o9pxrPsk93Kqo3Gb4VHLJ9hyphenhyphenFjSwb3dj3NGKkdOjjhq3zd87xj494C8gFxPmiupsmCiJDItvdnWndSfUCV6wUnqRy30Ig2AtZzPHl_AWE51Vag/s1000/SS+253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm30JDk3ZN5qJj6mxhMyzsc_Kahdq0o9pxrPsk93Kqo3Gb4VHLJ9hyphenhyphenFjSwb3dj3NGKkdOjjhq3zd87xj494C8gFxPmiupsmCiJDItvdnWndSfUCV6wUnqRy30Ig2AtZzPHl_AWE51Vag/w640-h426/SS+253.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Anschlussdenkmal, or Anschluss Monument, in the Austrian town of Oberschützen, is a Nazi monument erected to commemorate the bloodless coup of 1938 by which Austria was annexed into Nazi Germany.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The monument was designed by Styrian architect Rudolf Hofer and was made to appear like a temple with pillared arcades. A two-meter high gilded imperial eagle stood inside the rectangular structure on a high pedestal on which were engraved the Nazi inscription Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer! (One People, One Empire, One Leader) and a large swastika. The sculpture itself was surrounded by fire cauldrons.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is the largest remaining Nazi memorial in Austria.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtJyuJnhInwxbQVevxmLiceQs76kj_Tub4BTO8WYs1WLb7WLYEQGl_NkEapvQtcsCVpVo6uKvAHNCRPjLv1oUisk-lBEhozxdQKRnUBrZSPAobUU15c-p9t83EnwQclqTaUA8bJvdTA/s1000/SS+254.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1000" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtJyuJnhInwxbQVevxmLiceQs76kj_Tub4BTO8WYs1WLb7WLYEQGl_NkEapvQtcsCVpVo6uKvAHNCRPjLv1oUisk-lBEhozxdQKRnUBrZSPAobUU15c-p9t83EnwQclqTaUA8bJvdTA/w640-h460/SS+254.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Anschlussdenkmal as it appeared after its completion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Anschlussdenkmal was erected shortly after Austria’s annexation. During the Nazi era, the monument was used for a number of ceremonies and political rallies. After the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Nazi rule, the imperial eagle that stood in the middle of the building was demolished. The base inscription and the fire pylons were dismantled. Only the stone pillars remained.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There were repeated discussions about tearing down the monument, but this never happened because of the complicated ownership structure of the land the monument stood on, among other things. In the years that followed, the building was used in different ways, mostly as campfire sites and in photo shoots, but in general, it was considered taboo because of its origins. There wasn't much talk about the building in the community, until 1997 when the municipality attached a plaque to the memorial. The inscription on it read:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><i>Erected in 1939 as a memorial for the annexation of Austria to National Socialist Germany. May this site be a memorial for us today and in the future: against dictatorship, against violence, against racism - for democracy, for peace and for the protection of human rights!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Municipality of Oberschützen, 1997</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>50 “Absolute Unit” Posts That Show Just How Big Things Can Get</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bored Panda</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-absolute-unit-pics/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter">https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-absolute-unit-pics/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">There are units, and then there are absolute units. If the latter doesn’t ring a bell, it may be because the odd-sounding term comes from internet culture, where people use it to refer to a large, round animal or object. But in order to get to the essence of what being an absolute unit entails, one has to see a real example of it . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsBLtMojYgvYRgWEv9-Cgs3EM2ks5GSPz38atf0E_lkUIsik2eGvT3K-Xwzb5Pd1tuWALVlbPIFhMsV56AXrDJ5Kj51lGcWbcQAc78Ft2IauZ-Hv_Nuvp45y7r0UnFZVcQdCAeGpmVA/s700/SS+255.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsBLtMojYgvYRgWEv9-Cgs3EM2ks5GSPz38atf0E_lkUIsik2eGvT3K-Xwzb5Pd1tuWALVlbPIFhMsV56AXrDJ5Kj51lGcWbcQAc78Ft2IauZ-Hv_Nuvp45y7r0UnFZVcQdCAeGpmVA/w640-h426/SS+255.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">This Baobab Tree Is Said To Be 6000 Years Old</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6RFfhdoW8bKLWniPnEE9Az6XA4MkMLyTQ6nH0A4YMAlUyQzRXVqG67Ko2tASrDVBDd8ehVRAtPTYSAo7GVOdTiw1p4Jahyphenhyphens8zGTIVMIn6CAgCszQV4HtYZKVbyacUindYGIklGP-lHg/w640-h640/SS+260.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Elvis From Australian Reptile Park Is An Absolute Unit Of A Saltwater Crocodile</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-69608669699003407912021-05-15T07:11:00.001-07:002022-05-11T10:19:13.052-07:00SONG SPOT: Somebody That I Used to Know<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzWJXn76D6XLf5tK0KbbpdaXusM6Fb1SnJP4B6_Hi4ICFCgTle4vM0Scefv-TWiSJVRPUwwYdYlDQKNVhPq8JXBj13_BFU2BdTpvdXRpLW2z3vFAYBwinyPIVh3GHzWRouVY2SE1EiQ/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzWJXn76D6XLf5tK0KbbpdaXusM6Fb1SnJP4B6_Hi4ICFCgTle4vM0Scefv-TWiSJVRPUwwYdYlDQKNVhPq8JXBj13_BFU2BdTpvdXRpLW2z3vFAYBwinyPIVh3GHzWRouVY2SE1EiQ/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Somebody That I Used to Know" is a song written by Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter Gotye ( pronounced 'GOH-TEE-YAY') featuring New Zealand singer Kimbra. The song was released in 2011, topped charts in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand, as well as 22 other national charts, and reached the top 10 in more than 30 countries around the world. Not bad at all.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">More about Gotye and the song later.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65YCFLY5Gkjrw7qUliPOjaNVSNLouxZ30_SErvqf221QcWtomzE2Rs1rp0GYQkxo8TOcZZ86VduwNKX2ecyyV2VM-r037gURrwAb5ClMSaoznz4YnxzOSfkzlthb_8LW29LoTZH_fYw/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65YCFLY5Gkjrw7qUliPOjaNVSNLouxZ30_SErvqf221QcWtomzE2Rs1rp0GYQkxo8TOcZZ86VduwNKX2ecyyV2VM-r037gURrwAb5ClMSaoznz4YnxzOSfkzlthb_8LW29LoTZH_fYw/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My reason in posting an item about the song is that I happened to come across a cover by a band called Walk Off the Earth that is fascinating, both for the quality of the cover and the fact that it has five people playing one guitar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcl3ap_fMOPeM-kE6Fl2MX_ycF-3tSbhnsug2CFKP7fzJHRW2sdL65-0CirgliA7H2mVnVfCJ8nJCCBC7KlN-yxoQEvi8QdNt15WQ7fqwvF77bTvxL9yis87IR15fj75WlUhTmxp_T5A/s1280/Walk+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcl3ap_fMOPeM-kE6Fl2MX_ycF-3tSbhnsug2CFKP7fzJHRW2sdL65-0CirgliA7H2mVnVfCJ8nJCCBC7KlN-yxoQEvi8QdNt15WQ7fqwvF77bTvxL9yis87IR15fj75WlUhTmxp_T5A/w640-h360/Walk+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the link to the cover of Somebody that I Used to Know:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0f8LMbaq9HTWeJc987Z-XlpO2YuPdcZ1xLvdfL5HYT-NENOjSELnt7Jf2JnJ3Ux_8DwB3Hwm8WHULXf0Voo5fVpTOyNFAsN0T_0UPbdiJq7PuGmOB5985RWvOip6u4ExNlap7Sgq3Ew/s1280/Walk+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0f8LMbaq9HTWeJc987Z-XlpO2YuPdcZ1xLvdfL5HYT-NENOjSELnt7Jf2JnJ3Ux_8DwB3Hwm8WHULXf0Voo5fVpTOyNFAsN0T_0UPbdiJq7PuGmOB5985RWvOip6u4ExNlap7Sgq3Ew/w640-h360/Walk+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8KuLkWeJIKLAJ17DilFTK2FRAgwQkNtsAJqbaV_OA5BgYzaR_8lISj4mec5LjdY3uU22YP3MCiXqpBeG5kbDKB684PaRbHEIAApUJnbzhuE5RU0XN5RAgnhSVzE6adeBezPfM7X4kg/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8KuLkWeJIKLAJ17DilFTK2FRAgwQkNtsAJqbaV_OA5BgYzaR_8lISj4mec5LjdY3uU22YP3MCiXqpBeG5kbDKB684PaRbHEIAApUJnbzhuE5RU0XN5RAgnhSVzE6adeBezPfM7X4kg/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Some reader comments to the above video:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I like the dude on the right</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Me watching the video:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We bought the whole guitar so we're gonna use the whole guitar"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not enough people talking about the guy on the left. Keeping time like that on a guitar isn't easy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Beard guy is me when participating group project.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Guy on the right knows things About universe that we Will never understand</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Cant believe that the "Beard guy" is gone</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">R.I.P. Beard Guy. Gone but never forgotten.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Imagine someone misses a note.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Ok, now from the start again"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After this song the guitar went for a cigarette break</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Imagine how excited they were after this take, I bet it took over a hundred tries to nail this video.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last video I watch with my father before he's gone. And he said "this song is really good" and everytime I hear this, I cry</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">this song really does take on a whole new meaning when you know mike "beard guy" taylor is gone ... and i did not even get to know him</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am sorry for his family's loss</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Fun fact: they had to convince Mike “Beard Guy” on the right that this song was a sea shanty in order to get him to participate. May he Rest In Peace.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Watching this 9 years later makes me sad, because almost half the band is gone, the man on the right past, and the man beside him left. Luckily they found a new recruit and their band is still making beautiful music that I 💕</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After all these years...still the best cover on YouTube. It both makes me happy thinking about all the success they are having and sad thinking about Mike being gone,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">From a Time when youtube was about making cool Videos that inspire people! :)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Her voice is so amazing...I love it ❤❤💋💯💥</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I cant believe I thought this was the original for years...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s mad that the camera quality is so good, and this was made 8 YEARS AGO!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">For almost a decade I thought the guy in the middle is Gotye and this is the original song. FFFFFFFFFFF</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Plot twist: Beard guy actually plays the piano like the masters and he’s plays it with the 4 others carrying the piano like he does their guitar</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I love how blondie looks down the entire video and when it's time to sing she gasps and looks up (at 2:37)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">That guitar is feeling much loved</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The guy on the right looks like he knows all the answers to every possible question in the universe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Can't believe it's almost been a decade since this was uploaded</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">"What do you mean you spent all the money on microphones? What are we going to use for instruments?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBH6cGRg4CFUgoOymUXrSvH3aH8Z0x4V9F2UIL_N9UuiFfDIDkmdSDl28NrgaEZiw-09mHA0KY1WhGbJ33232hXubXkmv0P58qqMdA_tyVEQKAod9jbGotwSmfEcD1H2FjXUpcpmA8w/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBH6cGRg4CFUgoOymUXrSvH3aH8Z0x4V9F2UIL_N9UuiFfDIDkmdSDl28NrgaEZiw-09mHA0KY1WhGbJ33232hXubXkmv0P58qqMdA_tyVEQKAod9jbGotwSmfEcD1H2FjXUpcpmA8w/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some notes about Walk Off the Earth:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Walk off the Earth is a Canadian indie pop band known for its music videos of covers and originals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both Gotye and Kimbra have approved their cover of Somebody That I Used to Know.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 30, 2018, it was announced that band member Mike "Beard Guy" Taylor had died from natural causes. He was 51 years old.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the the most popular cover song ever posted on YouTube.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjab2uVU2ftK1yDbD2TKyJH5QsB4KcwBVj04AaaWVsaSH_SeTaaYB5pv3zF3eljXbEaI57ok-V_lsW4THSbPYnf9LmAMUCEXKzCSZYgJEg8_V6JsMFqzSKeo3iNHeG-52pgctDo-QGedw/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjab2uVU2ftK1yDbD2TKyJH5QsB4KcwBVj04AaaWVsaSH_SeTaaYB5pv3zF3eljXbEaI57ok-V_lsW4THSbPYnf9LmAMUCEXKzCSZYgJEg8_V6JsMFqzSKeo3iNHeG-52pgctDo-QGedw/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the link to the original song by Gotye and Kimbra:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCesSssoYBJq_GOLXWvSES_UGrPur2S869WVS_FKAMuLrQGmhB6aflJ2Paxydo5zTcI15ViAUQ2A3Yx2f1uG7a-EJAtHTvt5_TG-YvnCuKMXNv3t8WLidrCCZfNPvzIbLmHVW2h4di3w/s1280/Gotye+10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCesSssoYBJq_GOLXWvSES_UGrPur2S869WVS_FKAMuLrQGmhB6aflJ2Paxydo5zTcI15ViAUQ2A3Yx2f1uG7a-EJAtHTvt5_TG-YvnCuKMXNv3t8WLidrCCZfNPvzIbLmHVW2h4di3w/w640-h360/Gotye+10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuoEzDwU0djnZlRgBt6LfsrAcM0ZY4dl2fxANiYuNXZ3ZtVXD2rEni4SFTy-XgS__Iq5c8wIrvNgbkIbpHv_tu2lYjIl95g_GbbZnfaTC_Dp5lql-d1vj0N0BpJec4PTFCpaS0IP2BeA/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuoEzDwU0djnZlRgBt6LfsrAcM0ZY4dl2fxANiYuNXZ3ZtVXD2rEni4SFTy-XgS__Iq5c8wIrvNgbkIbpHv_tu2lYjIl95g_GbbZnfaTC_Dp5lql-d1vj0N0BpJec4PTFCpaS0IP2BeA/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Song lyrics:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Now and then I think of when we were together</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like when you said you felt so happy you could die</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Told myself that you were right for me</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But felt so lonely in your company</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But that was love and it's an ache I still remember</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like resignation to the end, always the end</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So when we found that we could not make sense</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, you said that we would still be friends</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I'll admit that I was glad it was over</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But you didn't have to cut me off</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I don't even need your love</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No, you didn't have to stoop so low</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Have your friends collect your records</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then change your number</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I guess that I don't need that though</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now you're just somebody that I used to know</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now you're just somebody that I used to know</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now you're just somebody that I used to know</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Now and then, I think of all the times you screwed me over</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But had me believing it was always something that I'd done</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I don't wanna live that way</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reading into every word you say</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You said that you could let it go</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I wouldn't catch, you hung up on</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody that you used to know</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But you didn't have to cut me off</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I don't even need your love</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And you didn't have to stoop so low</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Have your friends collect your records</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then change your number</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I guess that I don't need that though</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now you're just somebody that I used to know</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody (I used to know)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody (Now you're just somebody that I used to know)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody (I used to know)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody (Now you're just somebody that I used to know)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWow8nsssWFUYgCnVLGUB51ASoTbVletfW6gfNwEISpvs0SQbTEJHuTRu4SmAVtDAHipu9_pKOjXKJgBN6D-NT5qxdETiF-_MgTYYRPgSWffKezffTsjOoEIiTbrgfSx5dbgdBmbDzsg/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWow8nsssWFUYgCnVLGUB51ASoTbVletfW6gfNwEISpvs0SQbTEJHuTRu4SmAVtDAHipu9_pKOjXKJgBN6D-NT5qxdETiF-_MgTYYRPgSWffKezffTsjOoEIiTbrgfSx5dbgdBmbDzsg/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some more notes:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Gotye (real name Wally De Backer) was born in Belgium and moved with his family to Australia at the age of 2.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He has been releasing music in Australia since 2001.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody that I Used to Know is the second single from De Backer's third album, Making Mirrors. The LP was released in the summer of 2011.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gotye did not originally intend the song to be a duet but, after writing the first verse, realized he had nowhere to go with the character he was writing about, and needed to introduce another voice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Somebody" was both produced and written by Gotye in his parents' barn on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">The song finds Gotye addressing a past lover, reminiscing about their relationship and break-up. The song draws from the aftermath and memory of several relationships, but he told Rolling Stone Australia that one does resound louder than the others. "There is an ex-girlfriend I know." he admitted. "It was five-six years ago. It wasn't a nasty breakup, but it was messy in the sense that we hurt each other more than we needed to because it wasn't a clean break. I guess it's closest to what the chorus is about. We both realized we had to move on and we haven't seen each other since."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kimbra was not Gotye's initial choice to provide the female vocals on this song. "There was a vocalist who was quite high profile in Australia who was all set to do it and then cancelled the night before we were going to do the vocal session," the Belgian-Australian divulged to Jam! Music. "In fact, we met at a festival months later and she was just like, 'Maybe that was a mistake,'" he added with a laugh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDGqkZF1gFJqFuu2r8sw_ObskiMP0bwhOJskytA_cyaN2DdWRKWUaTDHG6irn2J3Tgc_5liEeOtyobFwwe6SOWv7OEEsNJlqZ8Q78owMktRhBF1ujEndmuvk510EZypv0XKJhDaMy7g/s2184/Music+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="2184" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjDGqkZF1gFJqFuu2r8sw_ObskiMP0bwhOJskytA_cyaN2DdWRKWUaTDHG6irn2J3Tgc_5liEeOtyobFwwe6SOWv7OEEsNJlqZ8Q78owMktRhBF1ujEndmuvk510EZypv0XKJhDaMy7g/w200-h78/Music+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some memes about the song:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It’s not like I had been thinking of a one-eyed dwarf with red hair with a parrot on his shoulder and then seeing one walking down the street but it still struck me as a coincidence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So here’s the second part of my (fingers make air quotes sign) coincidental experience . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Email from Graham E:</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Hi Mr O,</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Came across a reference to “tin tabernacles” and their appearance in Australia, which led to these interesting items.....</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_tabernacle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_tabernacle</a></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>A tin tabernacle, also known as an iron church, is a type of prefabricated ecclesiastical building made from corrugated galvanised iron. They were developed in the mid-19th in the United Kingdom.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Many ‘tin tabernacles’ appeared in Australia and New Zealand becoming part of the cultural identity. The Victorians used them for internal colonisation, 19 such churches were erected in Melbourne alone by 1851.</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Graham also provided the following pics:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsJLnZpnC-LMod-WmriNHGcYU7X9IugBDvcGAKPTZcM2HM2CbMpyr9mpe9w93dgjPu9OgmwZmEdH5AIH8Up0UpyeLtQKbF6PuPIv4EXG5tvWvd31AIADbRzkCSCX9uCBEiv-yGshv7A/s1280/Tin+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsJLnZpnC-LMod-WmriNHGcYU7X9IugBDvcGAKPTZcM2HM2CbMpyr9mpe9w93dgjPu9OgmwZmEdH5AIH8Up0UpyeLtQKbF6PuPIv4EXG5tvWvd31AIADbRzkCSCX9uCBEiv-yGshv7A/w640-h480/Tin+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Anglican Church at Booligal, NSW</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBL4JzXXvu5q4nGN1qYwt0Ns4E8qy_K_xJhx5QSEwbhziGSOW52Bz6y-dp1znBAfb3xHq6l4sR1wh73MtMpPNVBVz0nM1ZkKE0_XdV558f-QCZYBgoMcouU9saWDVCnu7QDPTriH-ufA/s1920/Tin+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1263" data-original-width="1920" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBL4JzXXvu5q4nGN1qYwt0Ns4E8qy_K_xJhx5QSEwbhziGSOW52Bz6y-dp1znBAfb3xHq6l4sR1wh73MtMpPNVBVz0nM1ZkKE0_XdV558f-QCZYBgoMcouU9saWDVCnu7QDPTriH-ufA/w640-h420/Tin+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">St Barnabas' Anglican church at Oxley, New South Wales</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2f6bZHI3lfywqgnzaJ_BghOOnnFBwPBW9zj8GNQRFYc1IGEZKJyDGANzhO7yc-9J-ETRXEP8vcfvTY3EUFV-oS-snGW2mxGMjurW5UsIsJCSRKfSo7dDcQ1uMz3UMJODRyHuJFcemw/s1118/Tin+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1118" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2f6bZHI3lfywqgnzaJ_BghOOnnFBwPBW9zj8GNQRFYc1IGEZKJyDGANzhO7yc-9J-ETRXEP8vcfvTY3EUFV-oS-snGW2mxGMjurW5UsIsJCSRKfSo7dDcQ1uMz3UMJODRyHuJFcemw/w640-h424/Tin+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Wesleyan Church, Darwin, Northern Territory.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Originally built in Adelaide, South Australia, it was shipped to Darwin in 1897. It was restored and moved to the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens in 2001, where it is used as a cafe.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjKmoMmDm9KjoI6eIpBmb7pCWXabn8mEidxE5KV4CYTxtvGvSKcG5pq4b-gZTYi1iDrt0gaP73YaWVwmpNfz0CvVpxakF2bB4BM_cNsEY3-EwgXhC00Toxz5Vq5BH-qBkeqHuI5I4vyw/s640/Tin+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="640" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjKmoMmDm9KjoI6eIpBmb7pCWXabn8mEidxE5KV4CYTxtvGvSKcG5pq4b-gZTYi1iDrt0gaP73YaWVwmpNfz0CvVpxakF2bB4BM_cNsEY3-EwgXhC00Toxz5Vq5BH-qBkeqHuI5I4vyw/w640-h412/Tin+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Corrugated Iron Church was built as part of the 'Goddess of 1967' movie film set in Lightning Ridge New South Wales Australia</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks Graham.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Some points made by the Wikipedia article:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Corrugated iron was first used for roofing in London in 1829 by civil engineer Henry Robinson Palmer, and the patent was later sold to Richard Walker who advertised "portable buildings for export" in 1832.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>The technology for producing the corrugated sheets improved, and to prevent corrosion, the sheets were galvanised with a coating of zinc.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>After 1850, many types of prefabricated buildings were produced, including churches, chapels and mission halls.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>The Industrial Revolution was a time of great population expansion and movement in Europe. Towns and cities expanded as the workforce moved into the new industrial areas resulting in the building of more than 4,000 churches during the mid 19th century and a demand for even more buildings.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, wrote a pamphlet in 1890 decrying the construction of corrugated iron buildings "that were spreading like a pestilence over the country."</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Several tin tabernacles survive as places of worship; some have listed building status and some have been converted to other uses. Some redundant chapels have been moved to museums for preservation.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some Brit tin tabernacles:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8nBD0SJKoaonwr-fRKaJC3g3uDdjUO2_lvB1JQ1Ttbg-EEXz0H_WGkPt-Zd9TYbFZc-D6lO8yQgB5necNG7dXE4ZG4XPg_DoiXRefT6vdc7CZBVt1qyewFbG6qj6H3qXypj5tKpbKA/s640/Tin+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8nBD0SJKoaonwr-fRKaJC3g3uDdjUO2_lvB1JQ1Ttbg-EEXz0H_WGkPt-Zd9TYbFZc-D6lO8yQgB5necNG7dXE4ZG4XPg_DoiXRefT6vdc7CZBVt1qyewFbG6qj6H3qXypj5tKpbKA/w640-h480/Tin+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Church of England mission church at Alhampton, Somerset, seen from the north. A "tin tabernacle" building completed in 1892.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVml2PTdWnZ9dDL6uOHDISqPp4mtKW0seMcVI7PHNgaKLS6MJi0SOPpyOjPusNcXwbY7AjnM0CBFsMxFWBROwrTHrkSr2ta3wZgmcrWwYnFdXYj4uMqrGfmlOfNqvCU35eJ7-9Ga_6GQ/s640/Tin+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVml2PTdWnZ9dDL6uOHDISqPp4mtKW0seMcVI7PHNgaKLS6MJi0SOPpyOjPusNcXwbY7AjnM0CBFsMxFWBROwrTHrkSr2ta3wZgmcrWwYnFdXYj4uMqrGfmlOfNqvCU35eJ7-9Ga_6GQ/w640-h480/Tin+6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Village hall at Bartley, Hampshire, seen from the southeast. It was built as a Church of England mission church.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaElIUx0tgkpdglES3q5Vf5uualCLOde2ounktYkaF9Yyxx_nMNwjOQsfIw87EfMCs9k6nonHyAYqoqkg_IGSrYONFgTu3ZEr_q2IowE2tNDdk-LiqUnTPNeSMikXfbOrD7GuPTWaFvA/s640/Tin+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="489" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaElIUx0tgkpdglES3q5Vf5uualCLOde2ounktYkaF9Yyxx_nMNwjOQsfIw87EfMCs9k6nonHyAYqoqkg_IGSrYONFgTu3ZEr_q2IowE2tNDdk-LiqUnTPNeSMikXfbOrD7GuPTWaFvA/w488-h640/Tin+7.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Church of The Ascension near Bedmond, England. A perfect example of the tin tabernacle design, and still in fairly good condition.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOBp4h7PlF1IiphcH3I-SiyufiDSh8fZvHp1N2MgVe5E3lARKPGoLPR4My3smh8aSKb-RJRzyljFBd0uOJgQKWMjVCPyd0afZVlUwNS4zAYBdiwX88jjFY7wG2FsEvSmeaqOLKjAywJA/s1280/Tin+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1280" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOBp4h7PlF1IiphcH3I-SiyufiDSh8fZvHp1N2MgVe5E3lARKPGoLPR4My3smh8aSKb-RJRzyljFBd0uOJgQKWMjVCPyd0afZVlUwNS4zAYBdiwX88jjFY7wG2FsEvSmeaqOLKjAywJA/w640-h462/Tin+8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">St Peter's Church, Wellhouse Road, Beech, East Hampshire District, Hampshire, England. An Anglican tin tabernacle dating from 1902. Along with the Church of the Holy Rood in Holybourne and All Saints Church and St Lawrence's Church in Alton, it is one of four churches in the Parish of the Resurrection, Alton.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVa-uC7RMONs5jC-ap7K8jJ3GTi_7cKGLcvG5HbhDF_39eWq_o0TxgunqL2VUbWoymVz2VHeNQd8OTtVi3YDyUJLhqz2rFYG1L0DFgJUspgfYw9EZrRnBymknUwS4A8Ye3fAChPydeg/s1280/Tin+9.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="1280" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVa-uC7RMONs5jC-ap7K8jJ3GTi_7cKGLcvG5HbhDF_39eWq_o0TxgunqL2VUbWoymVz2VHeNQd8OTtVi3YDyUJLhqz2rFYG1L0DFgJUspgfYw9EZrRnBymknUwS4A8Ye3fAChPydeg/w640-h470/Tin+9.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Former Christ Church (Blackgang Mission), Blythe Shute, Blackgang, Chale, Isle of Wight, England. Built in 1895 to replace an earlier mission hall registered in 1882, this was variously described as Baptist, Independent and undenominational in character. It is now used as a holiday cottage.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwtRrhn1tR3OL6ZbZRNG3b_5xvK5PWjYFsuIGnCVD4TxBInrDLfTHGR9Q2OOpEh11m8qZpOykICcAGxBcWx2u5qG2oIEXbcHKCNBf4zcmxD98xtlE5VZDt2-yOt3vLZSSngRk-0drjg/s880/Tin+10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBwtRrhn1tR3OL6ZbZRNG3b_5xvK5PWjYFsuIGnCVD4TxBInrDLfTHGR9Q2OOpEh11m8qZpOykICcAGxBcWx2u5qG2oIEXbcHKCNBf4zcmxD98xtlE5VZDt2-yOt3vLZSSngRk-0drjg/w582-h640/Tin+10.JPG" width="582" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Church in the Woods, Bramdean Common, near Bramdean, City of Winchester District, Hampshire, England. A tin tabernacle in the middle of a wood by Bramdean Common, built in 1883 at the expense of Rev. A.C. Bishop of Bramdeaen for "the commoners, charcoal burners and itinerant gypsies who seasonally occupied Bramdean Common". Services are held twice a month in the summer.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlVxpmbQ7ImJAmnMXU2_3p7_QnV_Ut3aATPs1-6mHT3k4zknsZfDtDDseX9q8Bk_7CL7eqTJWEQt-_Wi5-FCKD85nAPznqsQaN3kSJxBIwlaYkIgUI5ubdflU4bJwLFa9gSdxJH6faQ/s1000/Tin+22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlVxpmbQ7ImJAmnMXU2_3p7_QnV_Ut3aATPs1-6mHT3k4zknsZfDtDDseX9q8Bk_7CL7eqTJWEQt-_Wi5-FCKD85nAPznqsQaN3kSJxBIwlaYkIgUI5ubdflU4bJwLFa9gSdxJH6faQ/w640-h426/Tin+22.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Tin tabernacle at Sandling, Kent.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;">. . . and one from Ireland:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE4vBy6HObymWwGWCWNCsQX4rpNmrBknFnpvTQBva5cc7xGPPhzt196ecEyAc8EdREMNumA_s2nZdWckbfXJ0Vl23nAobSDGf1gNk_c88tZl2PAwfNeYRHA9398gwp76v-6-t1NsuYPg/s1000/Tin+21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE4vBy6HObymWwGWCWNCsQX4rpNmrBknFnpvTQBva5cc7xGPPhzt196ecEyAc8EdREMNumA_s2nZdWckbfXJ0Vl23nAobSDGf1gNk_c88tZl2PAwfNeYRHA9398gwp76v-6-t1NsuYPg/w640-h426/Tin+21.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Tin Tabernacle in Ballywillin. Ireland</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Talking of tin churches, here’s a feelgood story for the day, dating from 2018 . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Imagine a little tin church is the woods that the church decides to close and sell off, along with 11 other churches, to raise about $2 million to provide compensation to victims of institutional child abuse in the region.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That’s what happened to the former Anglican church of St Aidan's at Black Springs, near Oberon NSW in 2018. Saint Aidan's was listed for sale online at $130,000 for the 127-year-old heritage-listed small tin church and the three acres of native forest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifF7sy3kauolDKO2LIGabZegrLm-P1VTwbf2xaq0FLoOcPpiyqEZfCKVyrYl-1ui8VTiLkbTTtmMheqAZXOPmC2WlRAsHteZf98Mwy9ovi84BPFeyeeCL9pNTc0qw_D6JdhQZyMY8wqA/s800/Tin+14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="800" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifF7sy3kauolDKO2LIGabZegrLm-P1VTwbf2xaq0FLoOcPpiyqEZfCKVyrYl-1ui8VTiLkbTTtmMheqAZXOPmC2WlRAsHteZf98Mwy9ovi84BPFeyeeCL9pNTc0qw_D6JdhQZyMY8wqA/w640-h442/Tin+14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7m_Je-ziXP8GjMUDqeVHDgatykxY2FetYJm2r1YYHDR4SkBWwEOigwIwVagqGLWoxRZpzehXRVQHWqk9lnqt-vtF34e8d-0xd6Dn_ees85y53c0XLa2lJ5MBLjduQIjtuwI42wq3tw/s862/Tin+17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="862" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7m_Je-ziXP8GjMUDqeVHDgatykxY2FetYJm2r1YYHDR4SkBWwEOigwIwVagqGLWoxRZpzehXRVQHWqk9lnqt-vtF34e8d-0xd6Dn_ees85y53c0XLa2lJ5MBLjduQIjtuwI42wq3tw/w640-h426/Tin+17.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The locals were not happy:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7n8kSJbLiROzbQp3C1t_OrhLM8ASehNeDNsy43iUnCJTr1OHW6mkHBWuhjrr_0ITLJ-UWwhZ8N0Qo1THlP16sDoQdA3nLL3_dXFqkJqa63GcxAM5ykzHQ_GLgviEj1vu4U04tBHL-A/s1065/Tin+12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1065" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7n8kSJbLiROzbQp3C1t_OrhLM8ASehNeDNsy43iUnCJTr1OHW6mkHBWuhjrr_0ITLJ-UWwhZ8N0Qo1THlP16sDoQdA3nLL3_dXFqkJqa63GcxAM5ykzHQ_GLgviEj1vu4U04tBHL-A/w640-h408/Tin+12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv6Jvn3u3pJVHf4y1spo8Z7_gai0ibTUkIuYlM1wEKMty9gwFCvJiYH028p0bnJeMd992K2Vq80LmOL-fqd8niIuZyn-H2Le-VmNfZHLrK99NVTz3laWBCXvFcKW9ehaz62gY_dR5T4Q/s1200/Tin+13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv6Jvn3u3pJVHf4y1spo8Z7_gai0ibTUkIuYlM1wEKMty9gwFCvJiYH028p0bnJeMd992K2Vq80LmOL-fqd8niIuZyn-H2Le-VmNfZHLrK99NVTz3laWBCXvFcKW9ehaz62gY_dR5T4Q/w640-h360/Tin+13.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then their saviour came along and made the church rise from the dead. Former park ranger Andrew Wilson, when he saw that St Aidan's was for sale online, offered the local diocese full price of $130,000 and bought it. He then mowed the lawn that surrounds the little tin church and handed the keys back to the congregation, which had been locked out by the diocese. According to Andrew Wilson: "There are no conditions. Period. I trust you enough to give you a key, and take it wherever the spirit leads you."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He has no plans to get involved or attend the church, other than do some caretaking and gardening and explore the bush behind. "I have been driving past for more than 50 years. I always stopped outside that particular church, it had an amazing sense of calm and peacefulness.:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF55ki0ydtUXm052mC4YsLWJcq9_Ay2WUUsn2rDXTSahzaOoRShlVaFhiB3g1bHbwRBNe9hDH-q8nHGkZjHAdRqqReUTLStrSVhiLXFI1fHGnKq9ly1-wEPVhcHJKgV-lNj7R1D-hImA/s800/Tin+15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF55ki0ydtUXm052mC4YsLWJcq9_Ay2WUUsn2rDXTSahzaOoRShlVaFhiB3g1bHbwRBNe9hDH-q8nHGkZjHAdRqqReUTLStrSVhiLXFI1fHGnKq9ly1-wEPVhcHJKgV-lNj7R1D-hImA/w640-h360/Tin+15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Andrew Wilson</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some have suggested that there was more to the intended sale than raising capital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a letter at the time of closing and lockout of parishioners, Bishop Ian wrote explaining the property would be sold but raised other issues, including the congregation's refusal to "receive Holy Communion" and the fact that they had spoke badly of him and others. "It is clear that they have broken fellowship," Bishop Ian wrote. He told Fairfax Media that the rule requiring members of the congregation to take communion three times a year to be eligible to counted as parish members dated back more than 400 years to the Book of Common Prayer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, however, the parishioners are again happy, God’s in His Heaven and all’s well with the good folk of Black Springs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisNJC0544i2bDVHDV-VsZKbVM65GksQF4SZo0rXvjEngpVVY80hEPufnLfLFlwY1zXQkjzO4ykXTLYLe-QFLAOAeXogDYkxbbYn9ifBb0NJUm0YLY-kSR-7azHgLLYuGcF_Bi6aKNl4Q/s862/Tin+16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="862" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisNJC0544i2bDVHDV-VsZKbVM65GksQF4SZo0rXvjEngpVVY80hEPufnLfLFlwY1zXQkjzO4ykXTLYLe-QFLAOAeXogDYkxbbYn9ifBb0NJUm0YLY-kSR-7azHgLLYuGcF_Bi6aKNl4Q/w640-h360/Tin+16.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCLLyiOfzAdgpcz-HqsKBnKmcffDWCUYP35yultypvEIzJTdJDI1Qeb_V0rjUmfcwS3OlIz4s7Bg4gBFs0c_SGruh9TWLYyqpbuZ07FLpybJ049KaalfkBYBpTt8Q5mdlN4WRJjA4TA/s862/Tin+18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="862" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCLLyiOfzAdgpcz-HqsKBnKmcffDWCUYP35yultypvEIzJTdJDI1Qeb_V0rjUmfcwS3OlIz4s7Bg4gBFs0c_SGruh9TWLYyqpbuZ07FLpybJ049KaalfkBYBpTt8Q5mdlN4WRJjA4TA/w640-h426/Tin+18.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpYMw2u1sz4Yg-5joOrevrm4f-EA7t0wEIuv9vnFry4VpdSGByW5GW2QRWXGDqaqh8M6FuJ-tRdKp7izZDnpiNAxlS6zKixPHGoCmweaRxlSYCQcLAkhRh1BeequR45FczFuuT2QBUQ/s1198/Tin+19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1198" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpYMw2u1sz4Yg-5joOrevrm4f-EA7t0wEIuv9vnFry4VpdSGByW5GW2QRWXGDqaqh8M6FuJ-tRdKp7izZDnpiNAxlS6zKixPHGoCmweaRxlSYCQcLAkhRh1BeequR45FczFuuT2QBUQ/w640-h362/Tin+19.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkGbug-fR3Xg6WAuTItQjJPoYSYVH4HinpynHpM9_pXf-qBQg9DzUjVOLEpz-YBuWAHiwu9s1tn4D5yG9CzgP4aZ2uo5ZVOuu7Q0g1UcQoAK6cE_chmVe4el7iKcIF_6nM_uzaR71MZw/s375/Tin+20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="375" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkGbug-fR3Xg6WAuTItQjJPoYSYVH4HinpynHpM9_pXf-qBQg9DzUjVOLEpz-YBuWAHiwu9s1tn4D5yG9CzgP4aZ2uo5ZVOuu7Q0g1UcQoAK6cE_chmVe4el7iKcIF_6nM_uzaR71MZw/w640-h360/Tin+20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Source:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/tin-church-rises-from-dead-20180307-p4z38d.html">https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/tin-church-rises-from-dead-20180307-p4z38d.html</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Istanbul’s cast iron church:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bulgarian St. Stephen Church with its richly ornamented façade on the shores of the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey, is made of iron. It was cast in Vienna, floated down the Danube and across the Black Sea on barges, and bolted together in Istanbul in 1871. It is possibly the largest prefabricated cast iron structure in the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some pics:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjop2zx-07_a67uUKffcO2ncatAR95734lLg0Zadm6N_CK18aPvdMVqyF6XaByqn8fu47wq5W9mMfsHeNGVJ1uAEmNldujAbh8MLiMXMm0sWy83qhYaOXxQ7GMUwzfC7lUApAzBdLhQ/s1000/Tin+23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1000" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFjop2zx-07_a67uUKffcO2ncatAR95734lLg0Zadm6N_CK18aPvdMVqyF6XaByqn8fu47wq5W9mMfsHeNGVJ1uAEmNldujAbh8MLiMXMm0sWy83qhYaOXxQ7GMUwzfC7lUApAzBdLhQ/w640-h616/Tin+23.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnuGYzg5DGlxANbVaO6XVDePcfwDzE14LHIgU9VFp7_vSv31xoDeW6S_tBRaTAlFOoiMEDMPanF46FuC9_RGeg7jiQnw09c4GcGNzPR1zKzAEc5u0biR1_Zyo4z7hzwRa7tgiLlfJeSw/s1000/Tin+24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnuGYzg5DGlxANbVaO6XVDePcfwDzE14LHIgU9VFp7_vSv31xoDeW6S_tBRaTAlFOoiMEDMPanF46FuC9_RGeg7jiQnw09c4GcGNzPR1zKzAEc5u0biR1_Zyo4z7hzwRa7tgiLlfJeSw/w640-h426/Tin+24.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Gm5Prm1ailpZtz0dWyqlTgArboM-7pXP2pobbBERks8P5t4aNlXWCJxpcEnHv5VXeWZ9lRnwxjCE1efJdjFb3CTBBF2uEzvrrRW9RRO842rH4GwysDOUobg8HHwb7a8F2CATcq7WTw/s1280/Tin+27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1280" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Gm5Prm1ailpZtz0dWyqlTgArboM-7pXP2pobbBERks8P5t4aNlXWCJxpcEnHv5VXeWZ9lRnwxjCE1efJdjFb3CTBBF2uEzvrrRW9RRO842rH4GwysDOUobg8HHwb7a8F2CATcq7WTw/w640-h468/Tin+27.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIYJDGNEgmlJdbP2Aobq8-IK2f-_qtcBgMU3NT2ATbFYOyeQhZE8gYnlVNhRZnntQcVk3-Dkab6STqkYDmmaBmaaQSocncws-KkDih72V5Zh4w0vjl3SWrVGL9w79ZYjL2ilb8xdOzg/s1024/Tin+28.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1024" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglIYJDGNEgmlJdbP2Aobq8-IK2f-_qtcBgMU3NT2ATbFYOyeQhZE8gYnlVNhRZnntQcVk3-Dkab6STqkYDmmaBmaaQSocncws-KkDih72V5Zh4w0vjl3SWrVGL9w79ZYjL2ilb8xdOzg/w640-h466/Tin+28.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The original wooden church which was replaced by the cast iron church when the wooden church burnt down</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro555Tl4odAN-ZuqDWQfqVfAq4lvdbaS2MtCfSmTpbiO14yf2OXmrzcZsekYPRSODY8dJczeWuC_y3cBawsEZHsVhJ0tz0jtD8IY6vT1iIN7kkS2AWf76UqUrhBIrwIBp6B6d3n9cew/s817/Tin+29.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="817" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgro555Tl4odAN-ZuqDWQfqVfAq4lvdbaS2MtCfSmTpbiO14yf2OXmrzcZsekYPRSODY8dJczeWuC_y3cBawsEZHsVhJ0tz0jtD8IY6vT1iIN7kkS2AWf76UqUrhBIrwIBp6B6d3n9cew/w640-h408/Tin+29.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">An early 20th-century postcard depicting the Bulgarian St Stephen Church</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DDAwHZdoQ6d6V9tZFj1iv0_ZAMk7V6JggHd7SQH42Coy44Ke4HqnmfF_4VYWoaBWmNBLbR91IZQEpi-vl-6lB_q0ybhFjEDQZ_6mN1PsZt9pW__Kqtr_BmrdWuM8T-e4kNV6mevYEA/s1280/Tin+30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1280" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DDAwHZdoQ6d6V9tZFj1iv0_ZAMk7V6JggHd7SQH42Coy44Ke4HqnmfF_4VYWoaBWmNBLbR91IZQEpi-vl-6lB_q0ybhFjEDQZ_6mN1PsZt9pW__Kqtr_BmrdWuM8T-e4kNV6mevYEA/w640-h424/Tin+30.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUXNNHnvJTBc9JIX4zJRL-7Hr-h7gTMj1zZAIDASDQw5Ia1Fjj305Nhka8QkF6XaOc6wpRdUQifZnRHnXuE6UYxA5PsdBoGfgN3iU2Ati51T_2nV46wLosjVGEAyH1AoF4bQ4j6BjUg/s452/Cars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUXNNHnvJTBc9JIX4zJRL-7Hr-h7gTMj1zZAIDASDQw5Ia1Fjj305Nhka8QkF6XaOc6wpRdUQifZnRHnXuE6UYxA5PsdBoGfgN3iU2Ati51T_2nV46wLosjVGEAyH1AoF4bQ4j6BjUg/s320/Cars.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-53265617511545442642021-05-13T08:02:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:11.844-07:00FUNNY FRIDAY<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">-----o😊o-----</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYN7rcVPuOsGHE8_K8RByMY6HOKO8Q7OdXycre1L3gB04yqpQ2ATnobcWBICepLYKZ_yCRNX-umBos3G9MkXETyxouO0scNLOzLXjub2m12sS8DgbdZfI6tcl2TLAIygdjapQYkrJGjQ/s791/Bytes.Header.Funny+Friday+ravie.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="791" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYN7rcVPuOsGHE8_K8RByMY6HOKO8Q7OdXycre1L3gB04yqpQ2ATnobcWBICepLYKZ_yCRNX-umBos3G9MkXETyxouO0scNLOzLXjub2m12sS8DgbdZfI6tcl2TLAIygdjapQYkrJGjQ/w640-h128/Bytes.Header.Funny+Friday+ravie.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some risqué content ahead, dear readers, press on at your own risk (of laughing).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although I am not a huger fan of humour that requires too much of a contrived situation, the first and third jokes are two in such category that I did find amusing. Hopefully you will as well.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy the weekend, folks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>SOME HUMOUR:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">A couple owns a dog that snores in his sleep.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Annoyed because she can't sleep, the wife takes the dog to the vet to see if he can help. The vet tells the woman to tie a ribbon around the dog's testicles at night and he will stop snoring.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The woman is dubious about the vet's advice, but a few hours after going to bed, the dog is snoring as usual. Unable to sleep, she decides to see if a ribbon will help. She goes to the closet and grabs a piece of ribbon and ties it around the dog's testicles, and sure enough, the dog stops snoring. The woman is amazed!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Later that night, the woman's husband returns home drunk after being out with his buddies. He climbs into bed, falls asleep, and begins snoring very loudly. woman thinks maybe the ribbon will work on him. So she goes to the closet again, grabs a piece of ribbon, and ties it around her husband's testicles. Amazingly, it also works on him!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The woman sleeps very soundly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The next morning, the husband wakes up with a hangover and lurches into the bathroom to urinate. Standing in front of the toilet, he looks in the mirror and sees a blue ribbon around his privates. He is very confused, and, as he walks back into the bedroom, he notices a red ribbon around his dog's testicles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He shakes his head, looks down at the dog and says, "Boy, I don't remember where we were or what we did, but, by God, we got first and second place!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today I saw a car parked with a bumper sticker that said "I miss New York."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So I smashed his window in and stole his radio.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A man scores a hot date</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not wanting to disappoint his date in the bedroom, he goes to the doctor to get his penis enlarged. The doctor says, "we happen to have a new experimental procedure that uses muscle cells from an elephant trunk that should do the trick." The man accepts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later on, the man and his date are having dinner. The man is in love with her but is experiencing an increasingly uncomfortable pressure in his trousers. In an attempt to relieve the pain, he slowly undoes his fly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Immediately, his penis lunges out onto the table, grabs a bread roll and vanishes back under the table.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">His date, unsurprisingly shocked, slowly smiles and says, "Could you do that again?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The man, his eyes watering slightly, replies "Probably, but I don't think I can fit another roll in my arse."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BDloZmBQYWj08QRhYrzkDHjeJqkaackjhbwc3Z2nITpyx-AAiFDSYzuMVX5Wwv0Z4AabBuwz9pnCPqX5hA_dmBY2Acye5G5i8hkIWH2oy0yxDgBaCsk87nfhKAGSb0MDAyBM_VepRQ/s2048/Bytes.Header.Vault+Funny+Friday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1565" data-original-width="2048" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BDloZmBQYWj08QRhYrzkDHjeJqkaackjhbwc3Z2nITpyx-AAiFDSYzuMVX5Wwv0Z4AabBuwz9pnCPqX5hA_dmBY2Acye5G5i8hkIWH2oy0yxDgBaCsk87nfhKAGSb0MDAyBM_VepRQ/w640-h490/Bytes.Header.Vault+Funny+Friday.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">John went to visit his 90 year old grandfather in a very secluded, rural area of Saskatchewan. After spending a great evening chatting the night away, the next morning John’s grandfather prepared breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast. However, John noticed a film like substance on his plate, and questioned his grandfather asking, ‘Are these plates clean?’ His grandfather replied, ‘They’re as clean as cold water can get ‘em. Just you go ahead and finish your meal, Sonny!’</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For lunch the old man made hamburgers. Again, John was concerned about the plates as his appeared to have tiny specks around the edge that looked like dried egg and asked, ‘Are you sure these plates are clean?’</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Without looking up the old man said, ‘I told you before, Sonny, those dishes are as clean as cold water can get them. Now don’t you fret, I don’t want to hear another word about it!’</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later that afternoon, John was on his way to a nearby town and as he was leaving, his grandfather’s dog started to growl, and wouldn’t let him pass. John yelled and said ‘Grandfather, your dog won’t let me get to my car’.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Without diverting his attention from the football game he was watching on TV, the old man shouted! ‘Coldwater, go lay down now, yah hear me!’</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>LIMERICK OF THE WEEK:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tim B sent me an email which drew my attention to having missed an important event (which is commemorated on May 12):</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>From my brother Reg.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Tim B</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>It is National Limerick Day so I felt an obligation to celebrate. Here is my contribution.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Reg B</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>This is National Limerick Day</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>So I wrote this one right away</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>I guess it will do</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Although it is true</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The best one’s are always risqué</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks Tim and Reg.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apparently National Limerick Day is celebrated on May 12 because it is the birthday of Edward Lear, the English writer known for his works of nonsensical prose and poetry. Lear popularised the Limerick in his A Book of Nonsense, published 1846, but his limericks are crap and not worth reading.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is my contribution to National Limerick Day:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I missed that the twelfth day in May</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is also National Limerick Day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Better late than never,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s not all that clever</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is mine for Funny Friday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">But enough of this cleanliness, here’s a more usual Funny Friday Limerick of the Week:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was a young lady named Cager</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who, as the result of a wager,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Consented to fart</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The complete oboe part</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of Mozart's quartet in F major.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmS4EkERuLaBdOu0A2TuVBDA4n5UtpdERGS9pKx4VpEan69tD4y-zTIdWc6QBE4YrWSqcZLQ7WRfShIEr8S-94O1dtbsay-AOZI8Z0CSeiFjHe-7ftjckf-vqKNnV0c7OSwTlTYo0Y4g/s2403/Bytes+Header.Law+and+Lawyers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="2403" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmS4EkERuLaBdOu0A2TuVBDA4n5UtpdERGS9pKx4VpEan69tD4y-zTIdWc6QBE4YrWSqcZLQ7WRfShIEr8S-94O1dtbsay-AOZI8Z0CSeiFjHe-7ftjckf-vqKNnV0c7OSwTlTYo0Y4g/w400-h101/Bytes+Header.Law+and+Lawyers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a classic oldie . . . </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">At a convention of biological scientists, one researcher remarks to another, "Did you know that in our lab we have switched from mice to lawyers for our experiments?" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Really?" the other replied, "Why did you switch?" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Well, for three reasons. First we found that lawyers are far more plentiful, second, the lab assistants don't get so attached to them, and thirdly there are some things even a rat won't do."</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My reason in posting it is that I read a response to it in Lawyers Weekly:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>The problem using lawyers as experimental animals is extending results derived from lawyers to human beings.</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GALLERY:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQkOWAk6pB4w9HmAjI8PIC0Maui7a9daRon46FrV1AQGAW1gpUP140dXS8U5DW6ih7zimapEnSk0WyvzqqHadVTQVSc0gdubZZnZMaHQRgxGazDFFzbkV3HxwCkrwTo-vnEjYwNCoZQ/s280/FFF+181.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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They have named it in his honour.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's called RARA's grasp-Putin, Russia's greatest glove machine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">__________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When the day is very sunny, and you’re out with your honey, and your nose is very runny, and you think it’s very funny,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, it’s snot.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">__________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Smoking will kill you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bacon will kill you too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But smoking bacon will cure it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">-----o😊o-----</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-73112200420145773322021-05-12T07:15:00.001-07:002022-05-11T10:19:13.478-07:00POETRY SPOT: The Ballad of the Leather Medal<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">--------o😊o--------</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Readers will be aware of my fondness for folk poetry, bush ballads and simple narratives that tell a good yarn, in preference to artsy-fartsy and wanky stuff. This also extends to my taste in films, which causes many a debate and difference of opinion with friend Steve (my Third Top 10 + 2 will be coming soon).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In keeping with my comments above, I have previously posted poems by Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, Robert Service (“The Bard of the Yukon”, or “the Yukon Banjo” as I tend to think of him), and even by Benny Hill.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bytes has previously posted Service’s poems:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Spell of the Yukon</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Shooting of Dan McGrew and</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Cremation of Sam MacGee.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today another Robert Service poem, one of his lesser known works, from 1907. It features Millie MacGee, the daughter of the Sam MacGee referred to above.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_zlEPnG9Fo2P4m2SbXPcFo0wwAESMDp6eXog2cBwySnyZKQhqg9ZcvLfp_-L8dv9zR0w3IkT-1mGW6zt9luROj_BqvuKJrCfOAM2OD4ii_vdw8Vy7xGLkNBpOhN1Fm15KslMOkLsuw/s905/Service+4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="905" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_zlEPnG9Fo2P4m2SbXPcFo0wwAESMDp6eXog2cBwySnyZKQhqg9ZcvLfp_-L8dv9zR0w3IkT-1mGW6zt9luROj_BqvuKJrCfOAM2OD4ii_vdw8Vy7xGLkNBpOhN1Fm15KslMOkLsuw/s320/Service+4.jpeg" /></a></div></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Robert W Service (1874 -1958)</span></div><br /><div>--------o😊o--------</div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Ballad of the Leather Medal</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- Robert W Service</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Only a Leather Medal, hanging there on the wall,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dingy and frayed and faded, dusty and worn and old;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet of my humble treasures I value it most of all,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I wouldn't part with that medal if you gave me its weight in gold.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the inscription: For Valour - presented to Millie MacGee.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ah! how in mem'ry it takes me back to the "auld lang syne,"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Millie and I were sweethearts, and fair as a flower was she -</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet little I dreamt that her bosom held the heart of heroine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Listen! I'll tell you about it... An orphan was Millie MacGee,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Living with Billie her brother, under the Yukon sky,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sam, her pa, was cremated in the winter of nineteen-three,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As duly and truly related by the pen of an author guy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A cute little kid was Billie, solemn and silken of hair,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The image of Jackie Coogan in the days before movies could speak.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Devoted to him was Millie, with more than a mother's care,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And happy were they together in their cabin on Bunker Creek.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'Twas only a mining village, where hearts are simple and true,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And Millie MacGee was schoolma'am, loved and admired by all;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet no one dreamed for a moment she'd do what she dared to do -</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But wait and I'll try to tell you, as clear as I can recall...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">. . . . . . . . . . . . . .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Christmas Eve in the school-house! A scene of glitter and glee;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The children eager and joyful; parents and neighbours too;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Right in the forefront, Millie, close to the Christmas Tree.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">While Billie, her brother, recited "The Shooting of Dan McGrew."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I reckon you've heard the opus, a ballad of guts and gore;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of a Yukon frail and a frozen trail and a fight in a dringing dive,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's on a par, I figger, with "The Face on the Bar-Room Floor,"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And the boys who wrote them pieces ought to be skinned alive.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Picture that scene of gladness; the honest faces aglow;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The kiddies gaping and spellbound, as Billie strutted his stuff.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The stage with its starry candles, and there in the foremost row,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Millie, bright as a fairy, in radient flounce and fluff.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More like an angel I thought her; all she needed was wings,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I sought for a smile seraphic, but her eyes were only for Bill;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So there was I longing and loving, and dreaming the craziest things,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And Billie shouting and spouting, and everyone rapt and still.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Proud as a prince was Billie, bang in the footlights' glare,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And quaking for him was Millie, as she followed every word;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then just as he reached the climax, ranting and sawing the air -</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ugh! How it makes me shudder! The horrible thing occurred...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'Twas the day when frocks were frilly, and skirts were scraping the ground,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And the snowy flounces of Millie like sea foam round her swept;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Humbly adoring I watched her - when oh, my heart gave a bound!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hoary and scarred and hideous, out from the tree...it...crept.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A whiskered, beady-eyes monster, grisly and grim of hue;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Savage and slinking and silent, born of the dark and dirt;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dazed by the glare and the glitter, it wavered a moment or two -</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then like a sinister shadow, it vanished... 'neath Millie's skirt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I stared. had my eyes deceived me? I shivered. I held my breath.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Surly I must have dreamed it. I quivered. I made to rise...</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then - my God! it was real. Millie grew pale as death;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And oh, such a look of terror woke in her lovely eyes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did her scream ring out? Ah no, sir. It froze at her very lips.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clenching her teeth she checked it, and I saw her slim hands lock,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Grasping and gripping tensely, with desperate finger tips,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Something that writhed and wriggled under her dainty frock.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quick I'd have dashed to her rescue, but fiercely she signalled: "No!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her eyes were dark with anguish, but her lips were set and grim;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I knew she was thinking of Billie - the kiddy must have his show,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reap to the full his glory, nothing mattered but him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So spiked to my chair with horror, there I shuddered and saw</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her fingers frenziedly clutching and squeezing with all their might</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Something that squirmed and struggled, a deamon of tooth and claw,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fighting with fear and fury, under her garment white.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oh could I only aid her! But the wide room lay between,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And again her eyes besought me: "Steady!" they seamed to say.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Stay where you are, Bob Simmons; don't let us have a scene,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Billie will soon be finished. Only a moment...stay!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A moment! Ah yes, I got her. I knew how night after night</div><div style="text-align: justify;">She'd learned him each line of that ballad with patience and pride and glee;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With gesture and tone dramatic, she'd taught him how to recite...</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And now at the last to fail him - no, it must never be.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A moment! It seemed like ages. Why was Billie so slow?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He stammered. Twice he repeated: "The Lady that's known as Lou -"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The kiddy was stuck and she knew it. Her face was frantic with woe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Could she but come to his rescue? Could she remember the cue?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I saw her whispering wildly as she leaned to the frightened boy;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But Billie stared like a dummy, and I stifled an anxious curse.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Louder, louder she prompted; then his face illumined with joy,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And panting, flushed and exultant, he finished the final verse.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So the youngster would up like a whirlwind, while cheer resounded on cheer;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">His piece was the hit of the evening. "Bravo!" I heard them say.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But there in the heart of the racket was one who could not hear -</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The loving sister who'd coached him; for Millie had fainted away.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I rushed to her side and grabbed her; then others saw her distress,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And all were eager to aid me, as I pillowed that golden head,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But her arms were tense and rigid, and clutched in the folds of her dress,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlocking her hands they found it . . . A RAT . . . and the brute was dead.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In silence she'd crushed its life out, rather than scare the crowd,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And queer little Billie's triumph . . . Hey! Mother, what about tea?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've just been telling a story that makes me so mighty proud...</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Stranger, let me present you - my wife, that was Millie MacGee.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">--------o😊o--------</span></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-59354967252671978182021-05-12T07:15:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:12.059-07:00QUOTE FOR THE DAY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0uuYqHFHRj61QzOtk3zXHYcOui8z6xzrX7PF4q517ws39X6a4GJ0fVZKBjTFJ308u8o5ybHK1R73AhQDk5CnvLx0vP-frlelPSLBVSMDWwjnSMb64uRJHwYg_tkKkVpO2p3FWjx4tfQ/s460/House+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="460" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0uuYqHFHRj61QzOtk3zXHYcOui8z6xzrX7PF4q517ws39X6a4GJ0fVZKBjTFJ308u8o5ybHK1R73AhQDk5CnvLx0vP-frlelPSLBVSMDWwjnSMb64uRJHwYg_tkKkVpO2p3FWjx4tfQ/w640-h470/House+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9181450764710547226.post-77301091184532885732021-05-10T11:24:00.000-07:002022-05-11T10:19:13.905-07:00THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5xUaKQnxC-k8_SfDkQywyOfh5BlkLE5SPObNGl5f9fZVXPPG1k6aePx08wtAW_pqE5_eIXKnK_wFn1SrXjvOJu22d-fHUw51wnGQ7A_scBGJxnJonBM6UDLbTpEyxmY3aVO5XplDAQ/s488/Stonehenge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="488" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5xUaKQnxC-k8_SfDkQywyOfh5BlkLE5SPObNGl5f9fZVXPPG1k6aePx08wtAW_pqE5_eIXKnK_wFn1SrXjvOJu22d-fHUw51wnGQ7A_scBGJxnJonBM6UDLbTpEyxmY3aVO5XplDAQ/w640-h494/Stonehenge.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0