The .Gif Friday Post No. 201 – Full Body Scan, Infinite Windows, Homer’s Wall of Death

[Found here, here and here.]

RaggMopp

[Found here.]

Pure Awesome: The WereSlug

[Found in here. Kid’s got this guy beat by a mile.]

FAIL WIN

Awesome beer save.

[Found here.]

Caped Crustacean

Banna Nanna Nanna Nanna Banna Nanna Nanna Nanna…

[Found here.]

Retriever Cool. Deal With It.

[Found here.]

11/12/11 12:11:12

Overshadowed but not forgotten.

Saturday Matinee – Rosemary Clooney, Eric Clapton & Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi & Jimmie Vaughan with Double Trouble, Otis Rush, Memphis Slim

Rosemary Clooney‘s “Blues in the Night.” A Hooey Da Hoo-ee.

Classic Clapton jam from 2007, featuring Derek Trucks. Nice version, even with Clapton’s guitar feed dropping out midway through.

Derek Trucks is married to Susan Tedeschi, and here she is backed by Jimmie Vaughan and Double Trouble.

Double Trouble took it’s name from this Otis Rush song.

Let’s wrap it up with some awesome boogie woogie with Memphis Slim from 1975. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll see you tomorrow for more fun.

11/11/11 11:11:11

And it’s the first (and likely the last) Nigel Tufnel Day in Recognition of Its Maximum Elevenness.

Armistice Day / Veterans Day / Remembrance Day


“One of the guns of Battery D, 105th Field Artillery, showing American flag which was hoisted after the last shot had been fired when the armistice took effect. Etraye, France., 11/11/1918”.
Sergeant First Class Morris Fineberg, Photographer.

My grand-uncle was stationed in France in the U.S. Signal Corps in WWI, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he knew some of the men in the photo above. On 10 November 1918, he sent this letter home:

“Mom and Dad. Well, nothing much new, only today we got the news of the peace plenipotentiaries arriving for a conference with General Foch. It sounds good to me. There is something here now that I would like to tell you but can’t, so when I return you mustn’t forget to ask me about the civilian refugees in the church. It will be some story. Not much excitement lately. We had our balloon burned by a boche plane with American insignia on it.”

Then on 14 November, this:

Dear Mom and Dad:

Well, of all the wonderful things that could ever happen. The war is “won”. As the French say, “Fini la Guerre.” Every Frenchman we meet hollers, “Fini la Guere, Merci! Beaucoup.” It means – The war is over, thank you many times. We are sure some glad bunch. I sure will have a lot of stuff to tell you when I return. And that won’t be long. We are now away from the front for the first time. I just got rid of a bunch of cooties yesterday. I hope that they will be the last, too. They are sure the cause of one hell of a feeling.

Well, this is all for the present. So long and hoping to see you soon.

Soldier Bill

May God Bless All Veterans, both past and present.

[Image from here. Related posts here and here.]