There's still an American Museum in Britain, but it's near Bath in SW England and dates from 1961.

There seems to be considerable interest in American Indians. Cyclefrance mentioned Brit horse owners dressing like cowboys, too.
Some Eastern Europeans are REALLY interested.



Anyway, this mug caught my eye because I used to go to Motoramas(rod & custom shows), in the late '50s, at that same armory.

This looks like the illustration for Ripley's Believe it or Not.

I have four different sizes of the Dickal bottle, down to a nip size, from the sixties.

Those are pretty darn cool.

btw, I miss your doodads thread, xoB.

Seems advertising has always tried to attach their product to whatever is fueling the public's attention at the moment. Ferris corsets has no connection to the fair. :rolleyes:

Something about a giraffe being fed, damn if I can find it...

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Don't they both have/use gussets ?

Remember Hobo Coins, usually nickels? These are new hobo coins, made into jewelry.

I had not heard of those before... thx for the posting and link.

Lamp, check this out. http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=11538

Good pic... 2006 was before my initiation here. :blush:

Sure, I thought it was before your time, that's why I linked it. Lots more pictures than wiki.

That hobo coin jewelry made by Silver Piston, is available at the Selvage Yard Store in New Hope.

Supposedly 1,000,000 different colors.

May be less since I ensmalled it.

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It can be at most 464,442 colors now, but since most of those colors will have been resampled in the ensmallening process, and many more during the compression process, many of those 464,442 pixels will be the same color.

Looking through some old threads, I found this term, that I was, shockingly enough, unaware of:

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In the first two small pictures he wears different clothes, I guess it took him more than a day. :haha:

Is that a butterfly, or a moth?

:corn:

It only matters if you wear wool pants.

Hedge fund fun.

Wonder if it opened in time?

Young Billy Gates, with a cd-rom, and all the text it can store.

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RAF Lightning fighter. That's a famous shot on this side of the Atlantic.

All you need to know...

LINK

What Carruthers said.

:D

University of Texas Sorority in 1944. Obviously posed, with time to prepare what props each wanted. I'd imagine they were wealthy, or at least their families were, to go to the University and join a sorority. The girl top center was ahead of her time, doing a paleolithic duck face.

Little castle in Georgia, with a swimming pool moat.

edit: Here's an article about it.

Speyside, Tobago seaweed:

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Oh the horrors. Think of the baby Loggerheads.

I'm want no parts of this amusement park. Nope, nope nope. :headshake

Any more info on that one, Bruce?

Many dead, suffocated turtles and other animals. Not to mention all the tiny sea life that lived in the sargassum itself. It's said to quite odorsome.

Mexico is spending $9,000,000, Tobago, $3,000,000 to clean up. So far.

No, it's on several sites but always under, Photos That Speak A Thousand Words.

I think this an incident/accident report for this event. I worked on Bruce's pic, for clarity of plane number, and, I think the plane is ZG478, which would be the aircraft in this report.

First I did a TinEye search for the photo, and came up with this:

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Then I searched for 'harrier May 14, 2009'.

This is Bruce's pic, enlightend a bit:

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It might say 'ZG478'...

Thanks for your efforts in researching that, Mr G. :thumb::thumb:

Just relying on memory, I think that a new generation of 'Bang seat' had to be developed for the Harrier.
They were described as 'Zero Zero' seats as they could be used on the ground and with no forward speed.
Must have been one hell of a boot up the arse when you pulled the handle.

At least 10% of ejector seats made are used? Yikes.

That's on British built jets. :lol2: :bolt:

There's a few stories here from pilots who have 'banged out' and owe their lives to Martin-Baker ejection seats:

www.martin-baker.com/clubs

One is from a French pilot who has had to leave his aircraft in something of a hurry on two occasions.
One of those rare events when a Frenchman has actually thanked the British. :eek:

For the aviator about town, the latest in fast jet soft furnishings, lace edged ejection seat headrest covers!

http://s4.postimg.org/q4urd110d/Head...orth_Korea.jpg


Cockpit photo exposes North Korean pilot using a ridiculous lace-trimmed ejection seat headrest cover

[Not so]Great Horny Toads!!![/YosemiteSam]

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Top-o-th-marnin-to-ya...

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Hurry up, damn it, I have dinner guests arriving at 7.

That boggles my fragile little mind.

That why real "oriental" rugs are so expensive, them bitches be making almost a dollar a week. :haha:

Fighter pilot guy looks like he's about to be eaten by Shamu.

P-40s

Hah! It does, kinda, doesn't it? I hadn't noticed.

The only thing that could make that symbol more symbolic would be to add some blur. But that would make it less iconic.

Almost everyone.

...up til that point.

I Believe.

makes me think of Frank Poole.

Makes me think of Loretta Lynn's husband...

They should have these here, a place to park the baby in public rest rooms. The bar in front is in the up/closed position, it swings down for loading/unloading.

Those things are awesome, but I've only seen them in practice once. A waitress friend told me once that her place tried installing them, and they were all broken within days from too-big kids (or even drunk adults?) trying to sit on them. [/ThisIsWhyWeCan'tHaveNiceThings.]

Wouldn't put my kid in/on that, anymore than I would put them on the bare toilet seat...:headshake