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[Bill Douglas]

[Steve Carlton]

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

How is that possible?

I'd bet a nice chunk of change that it's not legit. What successful restaurant would be willing to risk that much food for a stunt?

All the boxes and bowls are probably empty and the whole thing is probably glued together.











https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-man-dies-after-jumping-on-moving-18-wheeler-and-dancing/amp/

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

I'd bet a nice chunk of change that it's not legit. What successful restaurant would be willing to risk that much food for a stunt?

All the boxes and bowls are probably empty and the whole thing is probably glued together.




https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-man-dies-after-jumping-on-moving-18-wheeler-and-dancing/amp/

maybe. that one does look impossibly tall. The following link
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2015/04/13/photographs-of-old-japans-glorious-art-of-soba-delivery/
has this combined photo with the the caption below.

Left: date is unknown but we note the symmetry and balance that’s achieved through combining bowls and stackable plates. Right: In the 1950s there were contests held to see who could deliver the most soba. Pictured here is the winner of such contest carrying meals for about 100.

Maybe that one was a failed contest attempt.

But these are also included.

[masraum]

And don't forget modern day Indians...

[2.7RS]

Impressive.

And here in america people rent a truck to go to home depot because they wouldn't put that much weight in the back of their suv.

First world problems

[masraum]

Someone on a "track/DE" facebook group that I'm on posted the following photo and asked "how many more trackdays are these good for?"

Their post wasn't in green text, and I didn't see a smiley, so I have to assume it was a serious.

One of the first responses was "-1"

[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

General store interior - notice the sacks of flour at the front. Moundville, Alabama in 1936.


Evicted sharecropper family in temporary camp, Butler County, Missouri, USA. 1939.

[flatbutt]

Whenever Glen posts pix from the 20's / 30's / 40's I cease to wonder why the greatest generation was indeed so great.

[GH85Carrera]

I grew up in the Hawaii Territory, before it was a state. Pineapple was common, a picked ripe pineapple was 5 cents, and so sweet all of our guests assumed mom had added sugar. We had fresh pineapple every day for a long time until we were sick of it.








This is what an LMU dorm room looked like in the 1920's...
"Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) dormitory room. LaFrentz - Poole Hall (dormitory). Shows two young women at desks, beds in foreground, dressers and radiator at end of room."
No air conditioning, no fridge in the room, and GASP, no WIFI or internet.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by masraum

Someone on a "track/DE" facebook group that I'm on posted the following photo and asked "how many more trackdays are these good for?"

Their post wasn't in green text, and I didn't see a smiley, so I have to assume it was a serious.

One of the first responses was "-1"

When we tracked the modified Z06 Vette, with stock brakes (we kept the power to 500hp, but it was capable of over 800hp when adjusting) I was a regular at O'Reilly's, since the brake rotors had a lifetime warranty, lol. So I always had spare rotors and since the most we got out of a set on a track weekend was one event, sometimes a event and a half.
The last thing you want to happen braking from 180mph to go through turn 1 at Roebling Road is for the rotors to explode.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by craigster59

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So, let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

[red 928]

The Hollywood Boys Glee Club (1973)
from a TV special called Rowan & Martin
Present RCA's Opening Night.
It aired on NBC on September 18, 1973.

[GH85Carrera]

New York, 1922. 100 years ago.




Grtrude Three Finger, Cheyenne by William E. Irwin (1871-1935). Irwin worked in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona in the 1890s and early 1900s, and specialized in photographing Native Americans. This photograph is an albumen print mounted on a cabinet card, archived in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma Libraries, and featured in A Stylistic Analysis of American Indian Portrait Photography in Oklahoma, 1869-1904 (2001) by Amy Nelson. The woman’s dress is decorated with elk teeth.

[masraum]

Icebreakers push an iceberg to clear a pass in McMurdo Sound, in Anctartica, 29th December 1965

[GH85Carrera]

Washakie (c.1804[1]/1810 – February 20, 1900) was a prominent leader of the Shoshone people during the mid-19th century. He was first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to the council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). Essentially from that time until his death, he was considered the head of the Eastern Shoshones by the representatives of the United States government. In 1979, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Much about Washakie's early life remains unknown, but some information is revealed. Washakie was born between 1798 and 1810. His mother Lost Woman, was a Tussawehee (White Knife) Shoshoni by birth. His father, Crooked Leg (Paseego), was an Umatilla rescued as a boy from slave traders at Wakemap and Celilo in 1786 by Weasel Lungs, a Tussawehee dog soldier (White Knife) Shoshoni medicine man. Crooked Leg was adopted into Weasel Lungs' clan. He became a Tussawehee dog soldier (White Knife) Shoshoni and married Weasel Lungs' eldest daughter Lost Girl, later Lost Woman. His maternal grandmother, Chosro (Bluebird)), was also Tussawehee by birth. Lost Woman's younger sister, Washakie's aunt, was Nanawu (Little Striped Squirrel). She was the mother of Chochoco (Has No Horse), a first cousin to Washakie.[3] On September 9, 1860 Settlers under Elijah Utter were killed on the Oregon Trail by Shoshoni and Bannack. Zachias Van Ornum a relative of those killed believed a white boy among the Shoshoni was his nephew Reuben Van Ornum and took him away; the Shoshni protested that the boy was the son of a sister of Washakie and a french trapper.






City of Los Angeles from Fort Hill, 1877. Source: Library of Congress




So, I have to use a cane, and turn to the left, and see the squirrel , and sledge hammers are $100 if I want one or do I have to buy one if I see the squirrel?