Things that bring a smile to your face

[chasfh]

Old pictures of big cities always bring a smile to my face. This is looking down Woodward Avenue toward downtown in 1942. Great color.

[CMRivdogs]

I admit the song has become a bit of a cliche thanks to the Red Sox and Fenway Park, but Neil Diamond leading a chorus of Sweet Caroline does bring a smile.

The man was a consummate performer in his prime...and still does a good job.

 

[oblong]

21 hours ago, chasfh said:

Old pictures of big cities always bring a smile to my face. This is looking down Woodward Avenue toward downtown in 1942. Great color.

I'm 'guessing that's taken from the maccabes building on the WSU campus.  that's Woodward and Warren.  They didn't have drones then 🙂

 

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

the maccabes building on the WSU campus

That is St Paul's in the left foreground which puts the pic just about at Warren so I would say that's a good call. There has always been good sized radio/TV mast on that building. Maybe someone had gone up the antenna to do maintenance and grabbed the shot.

LOL - and the stonework on Book tower was already sooted black in '42.

Edited December 6, 2022 by gehringer_2

[smr-nj]

Found the nun puppet my brother had given my mother, oh.. maybe 30 years ago. It throws a neat left hook. 🙂 She loved it, and would poke my father with it, when she felt he needed it.

I’ve been laughing my butt off all morning. 😂

[Tigeraholic1]

Any of you older timers have one of these in your town?

 

[casimir]

On 12/14/2022 at 11:33 AM, smr-nj said:

Found the nun puppet my brother had given my mother, oh.. maybe 30 years ago. It throws a neat left hook. 🙂 She loved it, and would poke my father with it, when she felt he needed it.

I’ve been laughing my butt off all morning. 😂

You know, it seems like toy manufacturers missed out on the Catholic school nun action figure market.  They could come with boxing gloves as a default I suppose.  But then you also sell rulers and coffee mugs and chalk and chalkboard erasers and books as additional weapons for separate purchase.

[Motor City Sonics]

I tend to like Christmas movies that have a darker edge to them, but still funny. 

I love the movie Bad Santa because it's just so beautifully awful. 

Best line in the movie

 

"Is Granny spry?"

[chasfh]

On 12/15/2022 at 7:56 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

Any of you older timers have one of these in your town?

 

I have never seen one exactly like that, but I don't think it's a problem, either. At least they change the pitch of the slid halfway through so you don't keep accelerating a la Newton until you crash at the bottom.

[Biff Mayhem]

[Jim Cowan]

I was in the car with one of my kids last week with an oldies station on the radio, and a song by the O'Jays came on, and I said what an unfortunate choice that name had been.  He said yes, they had missed an opportunity in the 1990's to reverse that negative image, they could have renamed themselves The Cosbys.

[Biff Mayhem]

21 hours ago, Jim Cowan said:

I was in the car with one of my kids last week with an oldies station on the radio, and a song by the O'Jays came on, 

Speaking of the OJays, If you've never visited this then you're missing out on a terrific performance.

 

 

[oblong]

On 1/4/2023 at 8:06 AM, Biff Mayhem said:

This reminds me of a friend of ours who shared a story with us.  Her mom died about 7 years ago.  Her niece, one of the granddaughters of the mom, had grandma's signature tattooed on her arm.  What she didn't know is that the signature was actually my friend signing her mom's name to the Christmas cards every year.  They are an Italian family and b/c of that the penmanship to English wasn't so great so our friend would sign both names.   Of course she isn't going to say anything.  

 

[CMRivdogs]

4 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Speaking of the OJays, If you've never visited this then you're missing out on a terrific performance.

 

 

Good stuff..

[Biff Mayhem]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

This reminds me of a friend of ours who shared a story with us.  Her mom died about 7 years ago.  Her niece, one of the granddaughters of the mom, had grandma's signature tattooed on her arm.  

 

I have an audio spectrogram of my children saying "I love you Dada" tattooed on my forearm.

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

 

[oblong]

From the Apollo 10 transcripts.  this flight was a full dress rehearsal for the first moon landing.  Young and Cernan late commanded lunar missions and Cernan holds the distinction of being the last man to walk on the moon  Young flew the first space shuttle mission along with another.  Combined those with his two Gemini  and two Apollo missions, plus the launch from the lunar surface, he holds the record for most blast offs  (seven). I suspect he’s the culprit for this blast off. 

 

Tom Stafford: "Oh... who did it?"
John Young: "Who did what?"
Eugene Cernan: "Where did that come from!?"
Tom Stafford: "Give me a napkin quick, there's a turd floating through the air"

 

[Biff Mayhem]

Chiefs’ Nnadi sponsors shelter dogs following Super Bowl win (fox4kc.com)

[LaceyLou]

Not sure how I missed seeing this building before, I must have walked by it hundreds of times. My city does have some beautiful architecture. 

[Biff Mayhem]

Something that brought a smile to my face today: I learned the phrase "show your ass" that southerners use when someone is acting foolish.

[CMRivdogs]

A FB friend posted a recent Cadbury commercial today..which led me down the rabbit hole

[smr-nj]

[Tigeraholic1]

[smr-nj]

Hallmark is selling this for Mother’s Day.

(I find myself compelled to consider…)

[Biff Mayhem]

On 4/21/2023 at 11:08 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

I play volleyball with a bunch of 20-somethings and they supply the music. Its forgettable (although strangely not annoying) but definitely follows a cookie cutter formulaic creation process.