Abdul's official "The past is a foreign country" thread.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:57 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:03 pm

Sure would not fly nowadays.

For one thing Dean-o is smoking on camera.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:19 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:26 amAnd Hitler had good teeth.

There's a lesson in that.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:37 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 05, 2018 5:54 pm

Spoiler:

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:01 pm

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:37 pm

So his power is to give his enemies a touch of the vapors?

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:53 pm

I thought he defended reefer city after bong-man retired?

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Aug 05, 2018 11:32 pm

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Vapo-Man

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:02 am

Secretary of State John Hay signs a peace treaty with Spain at the Resolute desk
in President McKinley's office, circa 1899.

More about that desk: http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/furnish ... e-desk.htm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:02 am

John Garand and his M1 (late 30ies).

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:09 am

1962

A commenter added:

This is the corner of W. 3rd St. and Sullivan St. in NYC. Googies was still there through the ‘80s when I lived down the street. It was a great little bar. It’s gone now.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:33 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Aug 11, 2018 11:04 pm

↑ Cultural appropriation!

ed · Post by ed » Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:09 am

The phrase “a huckleberry over my persimmon” was used to mean “a bit beyond my abilities”. “I'm your huckleberry” is a way of saying that one is just the right person for a given job. The range of slang meanings of huckleberry in the 19th century was fairly large, also referring to significant persons or nice persons.

Completely gone now. Funny, isn't it?

ed · Post by ed » Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:47 pm

They grow wild here in Florida.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:27 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 2:58 pm
ed wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:47 pm They grow wild here in Florida.
Do the human natives ("huckleberries") gather and eat literal huckleberries, or do the trilobites run them off?

Fucking trilobites!!11

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:31 pm

How do they work?

--J.D.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:42 pm

Related to magnets.

Fucking goddamned magnets!!11

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 4:04 am

That's what happened to the trilobites! They were magnetic and they got sucked up in the Van Allen Belt! They're still floating around up there!

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:25 am

And then Admiral Nelson blew them all up with a nuke!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:22 am

I often gorged on blueberries (roughly the same, right?) in the Alps, but there is always a (very) slight risk of catching echinococcosis there.

Having fun in burqas.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:20 am

What a fun loving bunch of klansmen!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:05 am

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:07 pm

Sacred Hair by Dumb and Dumber.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:50 am

Seventies. Picture by Fred W. McDarrah.

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:09 am

Witness wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:05 am

She was a decade ahead of her time. The 1980s big hair bands got nothing on her.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:07 am

And need I remind any here at this August Institution that Big Hair is not Tall Hair?

Dipshits.

ed · Post by ed » Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:24 am

Witness wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:05 am

Side 1, Track 2.
The eternal question.

Much much more here
http://gbugrb.blogspot.com/2011/03/benn ... hymns.html

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:35 am

EEEEeewwwwww.
No. Don't really wonder about that myself.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:22 am

As I see that the subject gets hairy…

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:31 am

sparks wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:07 am And need I remind any here at this August Institution that Big Hair is not Tall Hair?

Dipshits.

That was my point.

Dipshit.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:35 am

Dandy.

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:44 am

sparks wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:35 amDandy.

That's good enough for me . . .

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:08 pm

Thread approaches ... awesome. But, like light speed, it will never attain same.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:39 pm

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:50 pm

They look like Kang and Kodos in drag.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Aug 19, 2018 12:17 am

Terrible period.

That style was called "choucroute" (sauerkraut).

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:54 am

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:55 pm

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:00 pm

What?

You object to child safety seats?

--J.D.