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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 20, 2024 16:06:27 GMT -5
 A bunch of little kids in a greased pig chasing contest at my hometown's annual Corn Fest. (no pigs or kids were harmed). They had fantastic food for lunch today, the best midwestern small-town church social type stuff: Corn on the cob, chicken nuggets, pork loin, fried chicken, coleslaw, baked beans, mashed potatoes, fresh pickled cuckes with tomatoes and onions, watermelon, all kinds of fresh baked goods. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jul 20, 2024 19:16:25 GMT -5
Way too much pickleball. At least tomorrow's matches will be indoors so we don't have any rain delays.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 22, 2024 17:39:25 GMT -5
What I believe to be a bobcat, dead, on the parking lot of the schoolhouse i own. There were no signs of struggle, violence, or injury. I have a picture of it if anybody has expertise in identifying Lynx Rufus Illinoisus, but I hesitate to post it here since it is, after all, a picture of a dead animal.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Jul 22, 2024 17:44:01 GMT -5
What I believe to be a bobcat, dead, on the parking lot of the schoolhouse i own. There were no signs of struggle, violence, or injury. I have a picture of it if anybody has expertise in identifying Lynx Rufus Illinoisus, but I hesitate to post it here since it is, after all, a picture of a dead animal. You own a schoolhouse? Like a little one-room schoolhouse? |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 22, 2024 20:32:50 GMT -5
What I believe to be a bobcat, dead, on the parking lot of the schoolhouse i own. There were no signs of struggle, violence, or injury. I have a picture of it if anybody has expertise in identifying Lynx Rufus Illinoisus, but I hesitate to post it here since it is, after all, a picture of a dead animal. You own a schoolhouse? Like a little one-room schoolhouse? It is a one story brick schoolhouse, 6000 sq ft, which had 4 classrooms and a cafeteria/stage area.It was built when they closed the one room schools in the district and parents didn't want their kids used into town. It was built in 1953, and operated as a school until about 1970. Although I grew up about 2 miles from it, I never went to school there because I lived across the line ina different district. I have owned it since the early 90's. It was half house and half business /warehouse. I lived there off and on until 2011 when I inherited my parents farmhouse. We are renovating it to move back into. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Jul 26, 2024 2:59:19 GMT -5
These are actually from a month or two ago and I forgot to post them. Anyway... Two (2) signs on the Glasgow underground. The first one to most people sounds like a simple advert for an island getaway but to the denizens of the Shoutbox sounds like a suicide note... ![]()  And secondly, an old classic which has for 40 years been doing the rounds (literally - Glasgow's subway is a circle). It has now, thanks to the introduction of swish new carriages, been consigned to history but is preserved, here, in TIF-land in all its glory.  Marvellous. |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 28, 2024 22:36:01 GMT -5
Yesterday I saw a guy in a Steak and Shake uniform going into a White Castle.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 29, 2024 11:57:56 GMT -5
And secondly, an old classic which has for 40 years been doing the rounds (literally - Glasgow's subway is a circle). It has now, thanks to the introduction of swish new carriages, been consigned to history but is preserved, here, in TIF-land in all its glory. Marvellous.  |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 29, 2024 15:39:47 GMT -5
A bobcat, walking along the trunk of a tree that was downed in the tornado we had in May. It disappeared into the woods before I could get a picture.
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Post by ganews on Aug 16, 2024 20:08:53 GMT -5
The Waymo car in San Francisco, and lived to tell the tale
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 16, 2024 22:11:53 GMT -5
The Waymo car in San Francisco, and lived to tell the tale
Congratulations!
There was one yesterday pulling out of the parking lot opposite of me at the 4-way-stop intersection. It had the left turn blinker on and it was there first. So I waited for it to turn, since I wanted to pull *in* to that parking lot. It just sat there for several seconds. Then it abruptly turned right instead. Fully driverless. Sigh.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Aug 19, 2024 14:15:34 GMT -5
It was this weekend, but I saw this dude, a bigger dude with a solid beard, in cowboy hat, cowboy boots, and cut-off jean shorts, cruising along on a skateboard with his rad looking dog running next to him. Just an iconic dude.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Aug 25, 2024 7:12:23 GMT -5
Hot day, I was standing near a tree. A guy walked up near and said something to the effect of "Whoa--it's a lot cooler over here!" I believe I watched a man in his thirties discover the concept of "shade".
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Sept 2, 2024 22:35:13 GMT -5
Sign painted on a corrugated metal fence that said JOAN JETT FOR PREZ!
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 12, 2024 18:24:05 GMT -5
James K. Polk's tomb.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 12, 2024 18:50:56 GMT -5
The Napoleon of the stump? |
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 15, 2024 20:00:08 GMT -5
It was last week, but varying numbers of large-billed crows. They big. Raven big. Squawking and jousting for position near piles of food rubbish left by revelers of evenings' past.
Oriental Turtle Doves were about. Easy to casually mistake for a pigeon when viewing at a distance.
Grey Heron in a pond outside of Ghibli Park. Poignant, eh?
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 16, 2024 14:28:20 GMT -5
Interstate 69.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 16, 2024 15:46:17 GMT -5
A pair of juvenile hawks dancing around on the street, chasing grasshoppers.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Sept 16, 2024 20:57:48 GMT -5
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Sept 25, 2024 6:16:38 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 25, 2024 7:10:04 GMT -5
I don't think pictures ever really prepared me for how utterly ridiculous these things look in person. |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 25, 2024 9:40:10 GMT -5
I don't think pictures ever really prepared me for how utterly ridiculous these things look in person. I saw one for the first time parked at the Ren Fair a couple weeks ago with the vanity plates "LOLZ". The thing is just absurd. And bigger than I thought. But I guess it is a "truck." |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Sept 25, 2024 9:59:20 GMT -5
I don't think pictures ever really prepared me for how utterly ridiculous these things look in person. I liked the description of them as "the elegance of a urinal at a minor-league ballpark." |
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Post by Trurl on Sept 27, 2024 5:56:56 GMT -5
A nondescript white sedan parked next to the highway, festooned with "police line do not cross" tape
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Sept 28, 2024 17:13:20 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 29, 2024 12:40:06 GMT -5
Devastation.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Sept 30, 2024 14:32:48 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Oct 17, 2024 22:16:18 GMT -5
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Post by Powerthirteen on Oct 18, 2024 16:12:56 GMT -5
I was walking over to the library and paused to wait for a light next to a currently vacant older commercial building. There were a gaggle of older tourists on the sidewalk next to me, and as I waited one of them looked intently at her phone, wheeled around, pointed at the building, and said with absolute assurance "Oh! This is the Basque Museum And Cultural Center!" It was not the Basque Museum And Cultural Center.
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