Ah yes, Mondays:
So let’s get on with it:
I don’t see a beer fridge, but it’s probably just offscreen somewhere. And speaking of beer:
I think I’ll skip the breakfast gin today for something more… hoppy.
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Classic Beauty: Mara Corday
Dancer, actor, Playboy pinup (in the days when there were no airbrushes or Photoshop)… and lifelong buddy of Clint Eastwood.
Oh, that Playboy spread, you ask?
Back In Town
Okay, WordPress has finally allowed me access to my own website again, and about bloody time. (Thanks to Tech Support II — I imagine — for putting things right.)
As it’s the weekend, there’s only one post today — a two-parter — but it’s about a subject near and dear to my heart.
Enjoy.
Train Smash Women: Aintree 2022
Ah yes, it’s time for the Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool. And as always, the Scouser Train Smash Brigade was much in evidence:
Amazingly, some looked halfway decent:
…by Aintree standards, that is:
And then came Ladies’ Day, oh yes it did:
Observe this one:
…and realize that she came as part of a matched pair:
Body adornment there was a-plenty:
And I think that someone thought that just dressing as a woman qualified:
…kinda hard to tell these days. though.
And then towards evening, the booze started flowing:
…an aria from Carmen, no doubt.
There are more, so many more… but you’ll have to follow the links above to see the complete awfulness, if you have the stomach for it. The ones I’ve loaded are the best.
Aintree never fails us, does it?
Caption Competition #224
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Crash Diet
Well, I suppose that’s one way of losing weight:
“For the first time, this generation is going to go into a store and not be able to get what they want. And we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice.”
I don’t know how much credence to give this alarm — I can’t vouch for the source and quite frankly, I find it hard to believe anyone these days — but having just paid $106 to fill my Tiguan over the weekend, I’m still in shock so all the stuff on the article seems plausible.
Worse till, even if it’s halfway true, there’s going to be a whole bunch of pain going on, and the current Maladministration is going to make things worse and not better, before we can try to correct it in November.