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One of my coworkers told me about a local photographer who lived on her street. It was an older neighborhood of well-built homes. Lots of trees providing wonderful shade.

It had not risen in caché insofar as local real estate values and this photographer liked it that way because it meant his property taxes were reasonable.

Every time a house went up for sale on the street, he went in his shed and pulled out several of those plastic flamingos and installed them in his front yard. Supposedly that kept the snooty types from moving in, rennovating the house beyond neighborhood norms, telling their friends about the neighborhood, and causing a bump in the home values.

I think putting an old Vega on blocks out front would've done a good job as well.

But that's a lot of trouble to do every time a For Sale sign goes up and I know the city ordinances wouldn't have allowed it.

No ordinance against plastic birds, though.







Phillip Seymour Hoffman in "Twister"...did you remember he's in it?

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Fossilized pizza from the Crustacious period.

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Now THAT'S stylish.

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An aerial photo of a beach in Normandy shortly after the D-Day landings in 1944.
Photo from the LIFE Magazine Archives - Photographer Frank Scherschel

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A couple demonstrating the use of a Morrison shelter. Used in the UK during WWII, half a million had been distributed by the end of 1941. In an examination of 44 severely damaged homes 120 out of 136 occupants escaped without serious injury. I can't imagine going to bed in a cage like that just to hope to live through the night. The British citizens were a tough bunch, and just kept fighting the Nazis. We can all be thankful they did.

I debate if this is the greatest sport shot of all time...

Or is this one.

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Those two lived near me. Used to see them at the local mall all the time.

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What a trip! They're 33 now.

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The title page pic is bassacwards.

StonerThoughts:

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More #StonerThoughts:

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Another example of Random Moving Pics:

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Doug Henning?

Jaun Epstein?

Frank Zappa

Zappa

Wow, I remember watching his magic shows as a kid.
I also remember thinking Welcome Back Kotter was great.
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And is it just me, or was the Joey Tribiani character in Friends the modern version of Vinnie Barbarino from Welcome Back Kotter?

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Tallest mountain in the solar system. Olympus Mons (on Mars)

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In Fess Whitaker’s book he tells the curious story about not being able to speak until he was 9, and how a small town doctor figured out the problem and cured him, keeping him out of a state institution.
“I never spoke a word until I was nine years old. I only clucked and motioned for what I wanted. Lots of people thought I was an idiot because I could not talk. I may have looked like one, for I was a little old country boy that never cut my hair in those days only about twice a year, and I wore a big checked cotton shirt and old jeans pants made by my mother and old yarn socks, and 70-cent stogie shoes with brass toes. This was my winter suit and my summer suit was only a big yellow factory shirt and no hat or shoes.

At the age of ten I was taken by my mother and uncle, Gid Hogg, to Whitesburg, Ky., the county seat of Letcher County, a distance of about eighteen miles. We rode an old mare named "Kate," without any saddle, and when I was taken off I could not walk I was so stiff, and that made everybody think I was an idiot sure enough. So when Judge H. C. Lilley opened court on Monday, February 12, they taken me before the judge. The judge ordered old Black Shade Combs, then the sheriff, to summons twelve jurors and two doctors. One doctor thought I had been born an idiot, and Dr. S. S. Swaingo, of Jackson, held out that I was all right of mind, and so the case was put off until 10 a. m. Tuesday. Then Dr. Swaingo got old Dr. McCray and gave me a thorough examination. The doctors found by examining my neck, where the small tits in one's neck are, that the tit in my neck had grown together. After the doctors cut the tit loose in my neck I began to talk and to have a good joke. The doctors took me to a one-horse barber shop and had my hair cut and fixed me up and presented me on Tuesday morning to Judge Lilley, and he was surprised beyond reason that I was Fess. So that was Fess's first miracle. Later on they have all been worked out to the present.

When my mother took me back home everybody was surprised and people came miles and miles to see the boy that was so much talked about and to see the boy that had been made to speak after ten years of worthless tongue.”
Fess Whitaker 1880-1927. A veteran, politician, and an author. An interesting fellow, killed at age 47 in a car accident near Whitesburg, Kentucky while County Jailer of Letcher County.
(Check out another post in this group that talks about and shows Fess’s homeplace.)
Photo and info: History of Corporal Fess Whitaker, 1919. (Book is sold at Amazon).

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Not sure how many have checked out the View above Seven Brothers Lakes in the Big Horn Mountains.

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The Who, 1965. Photo by Philippe Le Tellier

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Cashiers At The Piggly Wiggly Continental, Encino, California, 1962

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Ammunition dump. Properly loading truck with ammunition. Guadalacanal - April 1, 1944

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An aerial view of Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California (USA), with three docked aircraft carriers on 25 August 1971. The carriers are the USS Ranger (CVA-61) (in dry dock), USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), and the USS Hancock (CVA-19) (left).

There is a pic of my brother in law and me having a conversation in the middle of a loop on a coaster. We were bored.

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^^^ must be in Russia

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This Indian Air Force’s “flying jumbo” helicopter resembled to a dancing elephant. Nearly 50 yrs ago, it danced across the skies during the Republic Day parade at Rajpath.

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I think the helo is a "Gazelle" -not quite sure.

Think "Gazellephant:)

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This is P-38 number 44‑23296 named "YIPPEE", a special aircraft that marked the 5,000th P-38 produced. The aircraft was painted bright red and marked with the name YIPPEE under the wings and on the nose. After this publicity stunt, the aircraft was returned to standard colors and sent to the Pacific. It developed mechanical issues and was eventually damaged in an accident and likely scrapped.

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I always liked the P-38. It was co-developed by Kelly Johnson and for performance they decided on a pair of 1,000 hp Allison V-12s with turbo superchargers. They had more than their fair share of problems with those engines throwing rods, sucking valves, fouling plugs, and more, unfortunately. Also, the cockpit got extremely cold in European deployments, with pilots having to be helped out of the plane when returning and sometimes with frostbite.

The French and Brits ordered hundreds of them and the Brits named it Lightning. The US was going to call it Atalanta, but Lightning won out. A remarkable plane, used in the right way in the right climate.

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