Friday Ephemera (821)
This is one of these. || Closer to the Almighty. || Ad location of note. || He wants to talk to the ladies. || A live map of the London Underground. || Paper-scroll-based in-car navigation system, 1931. || Icarus. || Enoch and Jonny and Dick, 1971. || In terms of immigration, discernment matters. || “A multi-racial society that approaches equal proportions of the different groups… is not workable.” || Wolf and grizzly discuss sharing. || World of big hair, or a TWA flight attendant recruitment film, 1967. || Photography is hard. || On knives and gunfights. || The gratitude of newcomers. || Not all ideas are good ones. || A brief guide to chili peppers. || Repair job. || Propellor polishing. || A way to pass the time. || The MCP 2000. (h/t, Things) || His promising skillz. || Cars fall from sky, cows unscathed.
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Had some unscathed cows lazing about.
[ Orders full-length fur coat. ]
Don’t forget the mandatory accessories.
And as it’s been close to 24 hours since the last one, it’s surely time for another Thing That Never Happens.
Don’t know if the story of the York, PA minor league baseball team refusing to wear pride-themed uniforms came up here but the video of the general manager and his management-speak, with its umms and ohs and uhs is pretty funny. Well to me anyway.
Sounds like a hostage video. Does anyone here know Morse code? He was blinking a lot.
When Muppets go bad.