Abdul's official "The past is a foreign country" thread.
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The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Colonel Russian Imperial Army / Life Guards - Horse Regiment / Pavel Eduardovich Wolf, 1896
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Back when European officers all dressed like fags.
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Newly built Beetles ready for shipping, (West) Germany, 1972.
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243rd Infantry Division / German Imperial Army / Western front March 1918.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... crash.htmlUS WWII bomber emerges from glacier in Iceland melting due to climate change - 76 years after it crashed on its way to England
- The B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland
- Bomber's 10 crew survived the accident during a re-fuelling on Sept. 16, 1944
- The warplane was on its way to England when it was caught in a down-draught
- Ice swallowed it up but it has now re-appeared in the open air due to melting
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I generally don't like clickbate but this one is sorta interesting. Sadly, I remember most of these.

https://za.investing.com/magazine/best- ... /?ref=next
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A bit of searching for the image turned up many instances where that has been posted. One site claimed that Frederic Stanley was the artist...which is true, and his signature can bee seen on each image. Several claim that it's an actual Heineken advertisement from World War II.
HOWever...it's a digital fake. This site sold a couple of originals:
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/81 ... s-frederic


https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67 ... c342/m1/1/
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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You wouldnt think there were that many dentists.
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still working on Sophrosyne, but I will no doubt end up with Hubris
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Think about it, it fits in this thread
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Yeah, I also found the typography somewhat anachronistic. Thanks.
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That was the first clue...didn't look right. Then it was the clipped edges of the image area. Did a TinEye search and the oldest image was from 2008. Then searched for the painter's name and the originals turned up in the images part of the search.
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You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
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In general Google reverse image search finds more stuff than TinEye (ironic, in a way), but I don't like to use Google. In that particular case it found the originals and this stamp:

https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/patrio ... la/5297347
I wonder if it's genuine too, the seller's blather seems a tad ambiguous…
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https://old.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHisto ... thtub_the/A young American woman soaks in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub, her muddy boots staining his bath mat, and an official portrait of the Fuehrer sits on the tub’s edge.
The woman is Lee Miller, the only female combat photographer in Europe during World War Two. She is pictured in Hitler’s Munich apartment on April 30, 1945, by fellow war correspondent David Scherman.
“This was actually taken on the day that Hitler committed suicide, although Lee Miller didn’t know that until after the event,” said Hilary Roberts, research curator of photography at the museum, who put together the show.
Shortly before, Miller had toured and photographed the Dachau concentration camp. She and Scherman had then made their way to Munich, by this time under U.S. occupation, and headed for Hitler’s apartment, where they spent the night with a group of other people, the curator said.
“The key objects in the photograph are Lee Miller’s boots on Hitler’s bath mat, which when she arrived was pristine white, and when she left was covered with dirt from Dachau,” she said.
Miller walked away with more than just a souvenir snapshot of herself in Hitler’s tub. She also filched a few of his mistress Eva Braun’s personal belongings, which are on view in the exhibition: a smiling portrait of Braun, her powder compact, her large Art Deco-style perfume bottle, and her four-piece rose-patterned desk accessory set.
Before the war, Miller was a model, a Surrealist photographer, and a fashion photographer. Yet her concentration camp pictures are among the ones she is most famous for.
Picture colorized. Source (with B&W pic): https://forward.com/schmooze/323460/the ... ETmtj0_oFA
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To frighten off predators, right?Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:24 pm 1059. Didn't quite catch on, but still.![]()
Evidences:
https://www.shorpy.com/node/25928
https://www.shorpy.com/node/25929
... The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.
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People still do that!
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I put mine in the microwave.
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We know.
What do you do with batteries though?
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I once owned a beetle and have very fond memories of it.
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I owned a few, including a Karmann Ghia.
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Yep, you totally outsmarted me ~ Wildcat.

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I only steal from the rich.
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those old telephone booths go for top dollar after restoration.
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The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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Mob of the Mean: Free beanie, cattle-prod and Charley Fan Club!
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The full promo suggest to me that "Mr Delicious" is modeled after the bosses of Rax at the time.
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Had a few in Cleveland, otherwise I don't know and not sure I care enough to Google it. All those types of eateries are basically the same.
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From Wikipedia:
Sounds like a dump.Current status
From Rax to Rich's Inc. owns the two locations in Lancaster, Ohio and Ironton.[33] Most of the remaining Rax locations are franchisee-owned, with the right to use the Rax name as long as the store is in operation. The website lists eight locations, six in Southern Ohio, and one each in Kentucky and Illinois.[3] However with the closures in West Union and Georgetown, as well as the yet-to-be-built store in Chillicothe, Ohio, there are only five operating locations as of October 2020.
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"what dicking deep shit i produce" -- pillory
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
People are shitting themselves to death
Crap so much they fail to take a breath
But even when their kids are starvin'
They thought Trump would throw them Charmin.
"what dicking deep shit i produce" -- pillory
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
People are shitting themselves to death
Crap so much they fail to take a breath
But even when their kids are starvin'
They thought Trump would throw them Charmin.
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The mascot they came up with for kids isn't much better.




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Looks safe to me.
"It is not I who is mad! It is I who is crazy!" -- Ren Hoek
"what dicking deep shit i produce" -- pillory
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
People are shitting themselves to death
Crap so much they fail to take a breath
But even when their kids are starvin'
They thought Trump would throw them Charmin.
"what dicking deep shit i produce" -- pillory
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
People are shitting themselves to death
Crap so much they fail to take a breath
But even when their kids are starvin'
They thought Trump would throw them Charmin.