Things you increasingly don't see anymore

[82_28]

Midgets beating each other in the park.

That's awsome, bro. Care to show us where in history this actually fucking happened to a degree of like say, payphones or something?

I must admit that was hella funny though. Midgets always fucking make me laugh.

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The guy who founded Revell now makes utopian and/or dystopian claims for a living. (Jacques Fresco, of Zeitgeist Addendum and The Venus Project.)

Yer kiddin' me?

Nope.

Revell was founded in 1943 (some dates say 1945), as a plastics molding firm called Precision Specialties in Venice, California, in the United States by Lewis H. Glaser (1917–1972) and Jacques Fresco (1916 - ). They apparently made a variety of products contracted for different companies (Maui Historical website; Pentago 2010). One of the first toy related products were HO scale (1:87) train sets including locomotives, and a variety of cars along with buildings. The building line was extensive, including a farm group, a suburban passenger station, and a variety of utility structures. Many of these Revell originals were later reproduced in other scales. Reportedly, the name Revell came from the French word reveille meaning "new beginning". The Revell logo at the time was an almost spooky ragged prototype of today's design.

There's a little editorializing going on in that one, isn't there? It's the same guy, though. (LINK.)

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Speed's not nearly as pretty as it used to be.

[Hammer of Los]

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Many of these Revell originals were later reproduced in other scales. Reportedly, the name Revell came from the French word reveille meaning "new beginning".

Spooky ain't the half of it.

Believe you me.

The new dawn awaits.

Their Peals call me to Reverie,
Like to the Sound of Reveille;
For Some Times when we Dream, we Wake:
To Take the Grail our Thirst to Slake.

Does it feel cold in the Shadow of the Hierophant?

Er.

Rambling alert!

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[Iamwhomiam]

You've just been looking in all the wrong places H_C_E. Seriously. Common stuff, midgets fighting. However, what's really become a rarity is feeding midgets to the lions. Really.


Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight
Skulls of victims of the Khmer Rouge regime
An African Lion much like this is responsible for the death of 28 Cambodian Midgets
Spectators cheered as entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against African Lion

Tickets had been sold-out three weeks before the much anticipated fight, which took place in the city of Kâmpóng Chhnãng.

The fight was slated when an angry fan contested Yang Sihamoni, President of the CMFL, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters.

Sihamoni takes great pride in the league he helped create, as was conveyed in his recent advertising campaign for the CMFL that stated his midgets will "... take on anything; man, beast, or machine."

This campaign is believed to be what sparked the undisclosed fan to challenge the entire league to fight a lion; a challenge that Sihamoni readily accepted.

An African Lion (Panthera Leo) was shipped to centrally located Kâmpóng Chhnãng especially for the event, which took place last Saturday, April 30, 2005 in the city’s coliseum.

The Cambodian Government allowed the fight to take place, under the condition that they receive a 50% commission on each ticket sold, and that no cameras would be allowed in the arena.

The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back.

Sihamoni was quoted before the fight stating that he felt since his fighters out-numbered the lion 42 to 1, that they “… could out-wit and out-muscle [it].”

Unfortunately, he was wrong.

[Hammer of Los]

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Ha ha ha.

Looks like the Lion is the Strongest One there Is.

King is He.

Shame about the midgets though.

Don't diss midgets.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells.

Whilst Hammers Fell.

Like unto ringing bells.

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Spooky ain't the half of it.

Believe you me.

The new dawn awaits.

Their Peals call me to Reverie,
Like to the Sound of Reveille;
For Some Times when we Dream, we Wake:
To Take the Grail our Thirst to Slake.

Does it feel cold in the Shadow of the Hierophant?

Mystifyingly.

[justdrew]

server-side imagemaps

[NeonLX]

Impromptu conversations between strangers (in person, that is).

[Twyla LaSarc]

Sounds cheezy, but going to McDonald's was a real treat once.

Only one rung below a holiday with gifts, when I was little. There was nothing on the menu except hamburgers, cheeseburgers, shakes, and fries, IIRC.

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On what feels to me like a related note, the Sear's catalog was a flat-out photo tour of PARADISE, as far as I was concerned. I lived for that thing, even though I took it for granted that I couldn't have anything in it.

For some reason, I felt similarly about the Castle cake...



...in Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls. But I don't know why. Presumably, making it would have been within the bounds of possibility if I'd thought it was.

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I don't know, though. In my heart, I still really feel that it can't be done, tbh.

I remember that castle cake- and the boy and girl illustrations that were so dated by the time I received that book somewhere around 69 or 70, probably from the grandma who gave me dresses with Peter Pan bib collars and stupid games like 'What shall I wear?' and 'Mystery Date'.

That cake broke my heart as much as the 'lil angel' hairstyle in the children's Toni perm booklet did. Both held out a kind of perfection I simply could never live up to.

[Twyla LaSarc]

Summer nights spangled with lightning bugs. Driving thru a corn field full of bats. The sussurations of cicadas, crickets, grasshoppers and amphibians that once made up the summer night symphony. The long migratory trails of birds, thousands of birds long, going to winter shelter.

So much gone or growing dimmer in my lifetime.

These things...even turtles crossing...and a biblical plague of frogs on the roads after every rain are still very much part of life (like it was when I was a kid 40 odd years ago) here in Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Sounds like one of the few places left...though we are under the airspace of Trenton RCAF base...

Hold it to your heart like there is no tomorrow. Once one could once see these things in the american midwest even twenty years ago, but the times I have gone back, the pavement has encroached for mall parking and the small things of the earth are gone unless you go deep in what is left of the wild that someone can be arsed to protect anymore as state preserved land is sold for managed budget deficits.

Our heritage in the US is at the whim of the highest bidder. That wildlife is a nuisance that will disappear when you pave over that pond or put in BT/roundup crops.

[JackRiddler]

Iamwhoiam, because otherwise it would have upset me all day long, I am grateful to learn that the story about the atrocity in Cambodia (28 human beings sent to die against a lion in an arena) is, in fact, a complete fabrication. Did you know, or is this shenanigans?

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/lionmidget.asp

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[Iamwhomiam]

Yes and yes. If you don't see a link in one of my postings, be suspicious.
Source.

For penance, I shall immediately don my cilice...

[Allegro]

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Many of you stirred memories of looking at covers of old sheet music. I think my grandmother had some that was added to my mom’s collections and purchases, and now I’ve a collection that contains some beautiful artwork on vintage sheet music in an oversized box in a special place in a special closet.

These photos of vintage covers don’t come close to the beauty you’d see when holding them in your hands. Then, I’ve not found online any covers that come close to the beauty on ones I’ve collected.

Here’s a start in a sort chronologically
ordered, I would think. From Kampko Shoppe.

[barracuda]

Naked women. I increasingly don't see them anymore. In the flesh. At all. Frankly. And people dressing up for air flight. Everyone on planes these days looks like they just woke up and decided to go down to the 7-11 for smokes before taking a shower for the day.

[seemslikeadream]