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Just why? :rolleyes:

easier to lift his bicycle onto his bike rack ?

Edited: Nope.

Fashion. A very stupid fashion.

When I was in high school the guys that drove American muscle cars all had the rear end jacked up. They all claimed it was for weight transfer needed with the big powerful engines. One of my buddies used to carry a yardstick and a copy of the law in his car. He got pulled over all the time, and he would prove to the cop he was 1/2 inch below the maximum allowed by law. I had a 1960 VW bug and never got pulled over.

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A child's car seat from the 1940s

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When we bought the house in SC, we had some work done on the house. One of the young men showed up in a truck with the "Carolina Squat". Nicest kid you could imagine. I had never seen the mod before.

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Something like the below. Not my truck, not my money but...

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That has to be the singularly most retarded modification I have ever seen done to a road vehicle........utterly useless, and dangerous to boot.

Anyone driving one of those would be disqualified from being hired because "stupid"........ no other evidence required.

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STILL the fastest! Pete Knight flew the modified X-15A-2 to its maximum speed of Mach 6.7 or 4,520 mph, still the fastest anyone has ever flown an aircraft. Shock waves from the record-breaking speed resulted in considerable heat damage to the aircraft and the X-15A-2 never flew again.
October 3rd, 1967, "Pete" Knight gave that Ol' Mach Demon the best chase it ever had! A speed record that still stands to this date. Knight also became one of only five pilots to earn their Astronaut Wings by flying an airplane to an altitude over 280,500 feet.

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A great scene from A Clockwork Orange. "A bit cold and pointless, isn't it my lovely." LOL

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Carolina lean! 🙄

It's illegal due to laws passed last year, but you still see it.

I’m seeing this more and more, ducks or something similar on the dashboard of jeeps. What does it mean?

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A portable television concept created in 1967.

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A milkman working his route during the London blitz 1940.
Imagine that with today's workers.

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Well....

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On 2 October 1952: The Big Ugly Fat Fu#ker (BUFF) took to the skies for the very first time. The Boeing XB-52 Stratofortress prototype, left Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, with the famed Dash 80 aerobatic test pilot, Alvin M. “Tex” Johnston at the controls.
Amazingly, all these years later, The BUFF is still flying...
Here is a BUFF fact that many of you didn't know; The Buff is even credited with three air to air kills during the Viet Nam war, thanks to the B-52D tail gunners who took down three MiG-21 Fishbeds when their aircraft came under attack.

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Leola King, America’s first female traffic cop, 1918.

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Wow that's even older than the SSN-571 Nautilus, commissioned in 1954 and decommissioned in 1980!

The original Nautilus was created in 1870- and with atomic power!

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The BUFF my well be in service for 100 years!

There are B-52 that the new pilot sits down in the left seat to be the pilot in command, and they know their father and their grandfather, flew that very same airplane! Imagine, flying a weapon of war for the most powerful military on the planet, and knowing grandpa sat in the same seat, and flew that same airplane. And there is no replacement in the works for the BUFF.




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"I was probably 5 or 6 years old before I realized that all kids weren't in movies."
Spanky McFarland's famous double and triple-takes were taught to him by Stan Laurel, while a lot of his mannerisms (rolling of eyes, hands on hips, and his trademark exasperated expression) were inspired by Oliver Hardy. He, Laurel and Hardy were working together, but in different shorts, that were produced and directed by Hal Roach.
McFarland's nickname "Spanky" is erroneously said to have arisen from warnings by his mother not to misbehave during one of the initial discussions with Hal Roach in his office. As the story goes, he had a habit of reaching out and grabbing things, and on doing so his mother Virginia would say, "Spanky, spanky, mustn't touch!" While this story has considerable folksy appeal, Spanky himself contradicted the tale, saying that the name was given by a Los Angeles newspaper reporter. The term "a spanky child" was late 19th century–early 20th century slang for an intelligent, gifted toddler.
In the mid-1950s, when the "Our Gang" comedies were sweeping the nation on TV, McFarland hosted an afternoon children's show, "The Spanky Show," on KOTV television in Tulsa, Oklahoma (see below). The show included a studio audience and appearances by other celebrities such as James Arness. Set against the backdrop of a makeshift kids' clubhouse, Spanky entertained and informed his studio audiences and the viewers at home with games, stories, craftmaking, hobbies, comedy skits, informational segments, and interviews with guest performers, personalities, and the children in the studio audience in between the reruns of "The Little Rascals" film comedies. Station executives prevented McFarland from developing and expanding the show's format, and, by 1960, McFarland had quit the show.
After that stint, he continued at odd jobs: selling wine, operating a restaurant and night club, and selling appliances, electronics, and furniture. He was selling for Philco-Ford Corporation, where he advanced to national sales training director. During this time, McFarland continued to make personal appearances and cameo roles in films and television.
During the 1990s, after his self-described "semi-retirement," Spanky lent his name and celebrity to help raise money for charities, primarily by participating in golf tournaments. Spanky also had his own namesake charity golf classic for 16 years, held in Marion, Indiana. He also traveled the country doing speaking engagements and lectured about his acting career.

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A very large organ pipe cactus in Baja California, Mexico. 1895

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Not just another brick in the wall. this guy's making a statement.

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Literally laughed out loud because that is so me. Drives my wife crazy.



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A postcard with 305 mm Italian howitzer, captured probably in 1917 by the German-Austro-Hungarian forces on the Isonzo Front. The gun carriage was known as a De Stefano carriage. Usually employed on rails, the wheels could however have tracks attached, as above, for use in rough terrain.

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Control rooms under DC's Arlington Memorial Bridge, locked up and out of use since 1976. The drawbridge was last raised on February 28, 1961. (Atlas Obscura)

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Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed Calamity Jane, the original Wild West woman, as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion.
Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life.
In his lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography, Author Richard Etulain traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.

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Illinois inventor Joseph Glidden strategically marketed his 1874 patent for barbed wire, which he named “The Winner,” to Texas Panhandle ranchers, and he found immediate success.

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I've wasted a few hours on Ancestry as well!

Thought you might like this:

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Ps - thanks for all the great contributions to a great thread. A bright spot in my day to be sure!

I researched my family tree and found Isaac Newton back there. At least I got his good looks.

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B29 Fun Fact: I read somewhere recently that the B29 actually recorded more overall kills than the P51 during WWII.

"The B-29 had five “sighting stations” that were equipped with what was an analog computer. The computer compensated for airspeed, gravity, temperature, humidity and calculated the amount of “lead” required for the bullets to hit the target. All the gunner had to do was track it long enough for the computer to do its thing. Each gunner had the ability to bring one or more of the bomber’s turrets to bear on the target."

A friend of mine in Strandwood Elementary 6th grade got me into cartooning. He had more talent, but we had a lot of fun, making some cartoons that were pretty good. He once did a bomber with way too many bombs and missiles under the wings, in the same exaggerated way of this one. It was brilliant. Bruce Ryland was his name.


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^ anyone recognize her without doing a search?

A young Debbie Reynolds?

Donna Reed ?

Well it looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It's Isaac's DNA that makes you so smart.

Rachel Devine?
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Yessir.

FIFI was in town last month,for fleet week,weather didn't cooperate!