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04/07/2019 at 2:16 am in reply to: Military Acronyms on Commemorative SIgned Pentagon Picture #59824
I did check the acronym “XOXL” which appears on some of the contributions; it turns up as the source of some papers published in “Air University Review”. Telephone directory of 2005 for Maxwell AFB, Alabama, gives “XOXL” as “Logistics Support Branch” and XOX as “Deputy Director”
and “Assistant Chief, Plans & Operations” in the “Plans & Operations Directorate”. Nothing on XOC etc.Note that although everybody else wrote in pen, Bill Cassidy wrote his in crayon. This suggests:
a) He’s not allowed sharp objects- or
b) He’s a Marine, and used what he was eating to write- or
c) He was handed it in an airplane cockpit, and used a grease pencilOnly word that springs to mind regarding the type of object is “enconium”. There’s various synonyms that might be more appropriate.
You say “broken tiles”, I say “¡Trencadís!”. The only pottery you can ship without bothering to pack it properly 🙂
I did once buy something whilst a chiseller was standing there with it in his hands, trying to chisel 50 pence off the price. I took it out of his hands- he cried out “Right! I’m going to sue you for tortious interference with contract expectancy!” “Wrong continent mate- that’s the land of the free, this is the land of the eff off and get out of the way.”
If someone’s standing there for a couple of minutes trying to get a few dollars off, that’s two minutes they could have spent browsing elsewhere. I view this kind of picker as inefficient and greedy.
04/02/2019 at 1:49 am in reply to: does anyone out there has a subscription to newspaper.com? #59565“Wrung-necked Chicken-bird”? “ill-fortuned Joe Btfspld”? Was the reporter Don van Vliet’s brother, Wilbur?
That china dog that ornaments the bedroom of my furnished lodgings. It is a white dog. Its eyes blue. Its nose is a delicate red, with spots. Its head is painfully erect, its expression is amiability carried to verge of imbecility. I do not admire it myself. Considered as a work of art, I may say it irritates me. Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.
But in 200 years’ time it is more than probable that that dog will be dug up from somewhere or other, minus its legs, and with its tail broken, and will be sold for old china, and put in a glass cabinet. And people will pass it round, and admire it. They will be struck by the wonderful depth of the colour on the nose, and speculate as to how beautiful the bit of the tail that is lost no doubt was.
We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog. In 2288 people will gush over it. The making of such dogs will have become a lost art. Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were. We shall be referred to lovingly as “those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs.”
from Three Men In A Boat published 1889. JKJ’s describing the Staffordshire pottery dogs that were desirable antiques back in the ’70s (the 1970s). You can get them cheap now, if you want to make a long-term investment cough.
Them’s egg cups. They’re used for soft-boiled eggs.
Collected a load of different ones for a display last Easter, together with decorative eggs to put in them. Eggs sold, cups didn’t- no-one uses them any more.
Found out yesterday that there’s at least one word that should be capitalised- PYREX. So long as it is PYREX and not pyrex…
03/19/2019 at 5:04 am in reply to: Picking Up Hitchhikers by the Side of the Road for Fun & Profit #58925Yes, I regularly drive past a mint-green and white two-door Plymouth (I keep on meaning to stop and find out what model). It’s been in someone’s driveway for at least five years, with another car at the back of it covered in a tarp. The owner’s recently put it up on axle stands and removed the back wheels. The houses in the area were built in the 1960s, when British cars were about 5 feet wide, so an American car stuck in a 6-foot driveway looks like a beached whale.
Someone in the area did manage to hoard five cars; three in the 20 foot wide front garden and two on the road. As far as I remember it was two Range Rovers and three Reliant Scimitars. He died after hitting a lamp post in a Scimitar. Neighbours said six German shepherd dogs were found (in good health) in his house.
03/18/2019 at 1:43 pm in reply to: Picking Up Hitchhikers by the Side of the Road for Fun & Profit #58888Lot of work to strip a car, and then you have to have plenty of shelf space and an inventory system. Also model-specific parts are easier to locate if they’re left in situ.
This junkyard, Vic Berry’s, managed to cover Leicester in asbestos when it caught fire.
Signature may be ‘Moyes’. The fiddler looks to me more like Zero Mostel than Topol.
If you like rabbit holes, try searching “Whitcombe and Tombs “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”” 🙂
It appears that the bulbs are flickering at 120 Hertz (i.e. 120 times a second, or twice the US mains frequency), which flickering usually can’t be discerned by people. Presumably all the bulbs flicker at the same rate and time, so a shutter speed of 1/240 of a second or faster will sometimes produce a dark photo.
The overpainting’s “clobbering” (explanatory page). For example, Mason ironstone was often clobbered in Indian red and blue. I suppose it’s a way of adding colour using unskilled labour.
Poirist (å la mode de Louis-Philippe I).
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