Tag: awesome

Four-Color Robots

[Found here.]

*pop*

[Found in here. Zoom in and you can see the photographer and some nice wrought iron porch seats.]

Vintage Ads

[Found here via Tineye, the images date to at least 2010. The Google Classic postcard has been in my desk drawer for a very long time.]

The Housekeeper’s Nightmare

[Found here.]

Zoo Kabuki

[Found here.]

The Demise of a Fokker D.VII

GERMAN PLANE FALLS.  Fokker D-7 A German fighting airplane which “nose-dived” to destruction near a zeppelin shed at Namur.

From History of The Fokker D.VII

The Fokker D.VII is the only aircraft mentioned by name in the Armistice demands of November, 1918. Germany was ordered to surrender “1,700 airplanes (fighters, bombers – firstly, all of the D 7’S and all the night bombing machines)” (number of aircraft to surrender are not always the same).

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In the end, not all D.VII’s were handed over. Some were flown back to Germany by their pilots and hidden in sheds. From the ones that were flown to the collection points of the Inter-Allied Control Commission, some were wrecked during landings or taxiing. After the war, some were sold abroad. Anthony Fokker flew from Germany and smuggled six trains with sixty wagons each full of aeroplanes and tools to Holland. Among these were 120 D.VII’s.

[Photos and more  here.]

The H.R. Giger Bar

H.R. Giger Bar …and Museum.
Château St Germain, Switzerland

Brain Salad Surgery, Emerson Lake & Palmer (1973) Cover art by H.R. Giger

The Summit Meeting

Ladies in sensible flats don their finest LSU purple and enjoy a pre-game tailgate lap luncheon.

Possibly the founders of The Michael J. Pollard Fan Club.
[Photo by Philip Gould/Corbis found here.]

“Just lie still and don’t panic. It’s only a CT scan.”

“WHAT DID YOU SAY??”

[Found here.]

90 Minute Floater

[Found here, and it’s available here.]