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Tea Party Takeoff Attempt

Gasp! We got fungus among us!

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call classicman, STAT~!

And one of my water maples has herpes, looks like...

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:eek:

Looks like an Agaricus from here ... thats just a guess though. Maybe a mycena? They typically grow on decaying wood though... I don't get into the million little ones varieties too much. There are too many too similar to each other.

WORD.

Heh-heh, woops!

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Just think how history would have changed if the sea levels had stayed where they were 16,000 years ago. :eek:

Hey dude, there's a stick between your legs, might want to grab a handful of it!

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Awesome selfie!

Yes, that one's awesome.

When you've got money for nothing and chicks for free, this is what you buy next.

Never hire a carpenter named Leary.

HMNZS Wellington, on November 13, 2005, immediately before becoming a reef.

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I'm hoping a telephoto lens has compressed the distances between those boats.

Inventions that didn't quite get of the ground. OK, one or two did.
 

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An archive of weird and wacky innovations has been unearthed by an amateur historian as he trawled through a collection of images spanning the last 100 years. Businessman Chris Hodge, from Chislehurst, south east London, has collected more than 250,000 images and is having them all digitally scanned and archived. Above, an experimental flying bicycle.


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An experimental gyrocopter


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...and a Land Rover hovercraft

Rovercraft!

Hoverover!

Judging by the number of military 'Top Brass' chaps in that photo, it was probably considered to be a viable project at the time.

Anyway, here's a couple more:

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The photos, taken from various British trade and business-to-business media titles including Motorcycle News, Speed & Power Magazine and Nursing Times, document Britons trying to invent the next big thing.

Gyr King, founding director of Easyart, said the collection is a "hidden gem of British social history". He added: "The vast majority of these images have remained unseen for several decades and shine a light on the extraordinary inventions, machines, people, places and events in Britain's past."

One must remember to wear proper attire when taking one's fancy fucking boat out of one's fancy fucking boat.

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What? Not consider everything from Rover serious? Rover which gave Queen Victoria the Safety Bicycle, WW I motorcycles for Old Blighty and Russia, WW II gas turbine engines, not to mention the Land Rover to add an inch or two on every swinging dick in the land. Pshaw I say, even in peace time.

I guess the military wasn't buying though because it was offered to the common rabble as a kit, in the sixties.

And this:

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I'd almost forgotten about the gas turbine powered Rover car. I remember seeing it in the London Science Museum during a childhood visit. It appears that it is still on display.

Science Museum Blog

Rover gas turbine car JET 1, 1950

Yep, in June this year:


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But the furriners are gaining ground, only a few hundred metres away:

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(I understand there is a Lambo showroom in the area.)

I'd druther have the Rover if it was modernized and reliable. But I'm afraid going anywhere would be as complicated as taking the Stanley Steamer, after snipping the balls off the moths.

Thanks for the Rover picture, Scriveyn. That brings back memories, although I'd rather not spend too much time working out exactly how long ago it was that I saw the car 'in the flesh'. :eek:

This reminds me:

A couple months ago I had occasion to use the old joke "Have you ever smelled mothballs?" Of course, the guy said "Oh, yeah." And then I issued the punch line "How'd you get their legs apart?", and the guy says "Huh?".

I said "Their legs, how'd you get 'em apart?", and he shakes his head and goes "Do whut now?".

I had to draw him a picture (almost literally).

:facepalm:

Then & now...

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That Sony pic was taken only seconds before the tree branch snapped, and he plummeted 40 feet to a spine snapping death.

The birds fluttered around, saying "I tawt I taw a puddy-tat!"

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Cellar, meet 'Marley The Ridiculously Photogenic Pup'.

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Cute lil "guy"

Obviously a publicity shot. I think it was for the mayor's push to vaccinate New Yorkers against Smallpox, which had reared it's ugly head.

Those darn cops
 

Darn cops...

Da pohleeses 'round hyere won't jump you off. They won't unlock yer door, neither. I know damn good and well they wouldn't change your tire. You'd get a ticket and towed for being a traffic hazard.

Legal liability, I suppose.

The upper right pic is PA, not sure what country the others are from.

Here's one...

Bruce, even though their job is to always do good, sometimes cops do good, sometimes they do bad. When they do good, they're doing their job and, unfortunately, don't get recognized. When they do bad, they, deservedly, get vilified.

It's the exceptions that murder people. These are exceptions also, way over and above protect and serve.

Yep.

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The cynic in me says that there's a commercial arrangement here.

Street View Chicago

The look on dude's face...

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Exasperated with a girlfriend who couldn't grasp her role in the procedure known as a 'leg up' when mounting a horse, I resorted to the 'both hands' method being employed on the right of the picture.

She eventually went off and married a Texan oil man.

He's avoiding getting a camel toe in the eye

What a face!

Only a father could love. :haha:

Fortunately, she didn't get close enough to the President to detonate the plastic explosive in the heel of her shoe bomb.

Reagan: "I'll give you weapons the you can use on Americans in 20 years. What do you say?"

Obama: "I'll give you weapons you can use on Americans right now.

or I can give you $50,000 weapons that we can use $500,000 weapons to eliminate. We're all winners!

As long as the right people make money, it is utterly irrelevant who dies, from which continent they hail, or how many are killed. I keep waiting for the day when everyone on the planet understands that there are no nations, no policies, no governments, no beliefs. Just money. Money, and sufficient power to get money.

This little piggy goes to market.

This is like the fisherman holding the fish close to the camera for the picture. But those nuts are each the size of his HEAD!

It's not skewed perspective, I've seen many old boars with balls that big. Thirty minute orgasms take ammo. :haha:

BUT, where's the head????

Turned to his right.

How do you know it's a 'he'?

Look at those balls, man!!!:eyebrow:

What? Are ya nuts?

BTW, that trailer-plumb-damn-full-o'-bacon is being towed with a garden tiller.

Engineuity!!

Speaking of breakfast...genius!

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Ditto.