The Conquistador's Picture Of The Day

[a9127]

Well I'm all set to go as "Deadpool" to my company's Halloween party. Just need a date...

Of course you know who my #1 choice is. Her eyes even turn green when she's about to go evil. Is that my kind of girl or what?

(Shit, I'd go as Mickey Mouse just to get a date with Dove. )

[Boner]

I hope Dove takes you up on that date because she sure is cute!

[Howsoon]

Drop dead gorgeous I reckon!

[a9127]

Originally Posted by Boner

I hope Dove takes you up on that date because she sure is cute!

I hope so too... Beautiful pics. Thanks!

[a9127]

Many communities across the United States have their own way of celebrating the night before Halloween. Detroit Michigan is somewhat unique in the destructive “Devils Night.” Allegedly a tradition going back to the 1800’s it perhaps reached it’s peak in 1984 when the Tigers won the World Series. I am far too young to remember any of that but have heard there were between 300-500 fires set. By 1992 I was old enough to venture out with friends. We didn’t have anything in mind but guess we thought it was cool or something. Somehow my Dad got wind of it and went out looking for us. He found us down the street, asked us “what do you dumbshits think you’re doing?” made us get in the car, and took us back home. It was a Friday, so we stayed up all night watching MTV, playing videogames, and looking at my friend’s brothers Playboy and Penthouse collection.

We lived in the suburbs so the worst that ever happened was our mailbox got blown up once and a rock was thrown through one of our windows scaring my Mom. My Dad and I went out looking for whoever did it but no luck. Indiana has been quite tame by comparison. The worst I’ve ever seen down here are “TP’d” trees…

Happy Halloween!

[JamieTS]

Originally Posted by a9127

Many communities across the United States have their own way of celebrating the night before Halloween. Detroit Michigan is somewhat unique in the destructive “Devils Night.” Allegedly a tradition going back to the 1800’s it perhaps reached it’s peak in 1984 when the Tigers won the World Series. I am far too young to remember any of that but have heard there were between 300-500 fires set. By 1992 I was old enough to venture out with friends. We didn’t have anything in mind but guess we thought it was cool or something. Somehow my Dad got wind of it and went out looking for us. He found us down the street, asked us “what do you dumbshits think you’re doing?” made us get in the car, and took us back home. It was a Friday, so we stayed up all night watching MTV, playing videogames, and looking at my friend’s brothers Playboy and Penthouse collection.

We lived in the suburbs so the worst that ever happened was our mailbox got blown up once and a rock was thrown through one of our windows scaring my Mom. My Dad and I went out looking for whoever did it but no luck. Indiana has been quite tame by comparison. The worst I’ve ever seen down here are “TP’d” trees…

Happy Halloween!

LOL yeah suburban kids were a little different than inner city kids and bot were different than rural kids. I grew up rural and we always hit the most "sinister graveyards" on Halloween night to get high in. One of my great aunt's was even buried in one and it was down a road called China Grove in Central Arkansas if you look it up. It is kind of a triangulation between Alexander, Benton and Sardis town wise.

[a9127]

From "Newsweek" 11/17/2017:

The U.S. Navy was forced to apologize on Wednesday after one of its pilots pulled a stunt involving phallic imagery.

Indeed, it seems a member of the U.S. military drew a penis in the sky. One might say this pilot was a little too cocky.

Officials from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington state sent a statement to KREM 2 News admitting one of their aircraft was used to create the sexually charged sky art after a local mother reached out to the news station to complain. The mother was reportedly worried the imagery could have a negative impact on her children.

(Maybe he just wanted to be "Top Gun." )

[a9127]

Courtesy of “NASA.gov”:

“New data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That aspect ratio is greater than that of any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date. Its elongated shape is quite surprising, and unlike asteroids seen in our solar system…

The observations and analyses were funded in part by NASA and appear in the Nov. 20 issue of the journal Nature. They suggest this unusual object had been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years…”

After seeing the picture below, my first thought was of course about the possibility of life on other planets. Who knew “ET” was so well-endowed?

[Boner]

Originally Posted by a9127

Well I'm all set to go as "Deadpool" to my company's Halloween party. Just need a date...

Of course you know who my #1 choice is. Her eyes even turn green when she's about to go evil. Is that my kind of girl or what?

(Shit, I'd go as Mickey Mouse just to get a date with Dove. )

I know you're still waiting for Dove to show up for that date, Andy. Hopefully when she does she'll be dressed like she is in this picture!

[a9127]

Originally Posted by Boner

I know you're still waiting for Dove to show up for that date, Andy. Hopefully when she does she'll be dressed like she is in this picture!

Nice. Thanks. She turned 22 Monday. Catching up to me...

Here's a recent pic. Think it's from the premiere of Descendants 2 last summer. Maybe if I'm lucky she'll swing by here in that limo for our date.

[a9127]

According to a news story I read earlier today someone has created a "robot priest" that gives blessings and forgives sins.

Personally I would rather "confess" my sins to the robot in the second picture and suffer my penance...

[a9127]

Today (January 25) marks the 40th anniversary of the “Blizzard of 1978.” Starting in the Ohio Valley it intensified and dumped up to 36” (91 cm) of snow on the Central and Eastern parts of the United States. Wind gusts of up to 100 mph (160 km) were recorded and 70 people lost their lives.

Although my family lived in Detroit at the time and I was not yet around, my Dad took an 8mm film of the aftermath. We did not get the snow that other areas got. Still we had drifts that covered our garage. In many areas all the snow that piled up did not melt until June.

This picture is of the I-65 Zionsville exit in Indiana looking North (on the way to Chicago) after the worst had passed through Indiana. I take this exit everyday home from work. Where I live today is about a mile East on W. Stonegate Dr. across from the Elementary School. The sign says “334.” Could it be the same one after all this time? This is the “Oak St.” referenced in many of my stories. Downtown Zionsville is several miles to the East. Forty years ago it looks like nothing was there. Today it is all businesses, condos, and shopping centers. Amazon has a large distribution center just to our North.

[a9127]

Many of us on TLB have tech backgrounds or degrees. I work on the weekends and was just checking my mail. This was in my inbox - thought some of you might enjoy these...

[a9127]

My recent post about Françoise in "Grand Prix" got me thinking (besides about her) how much the cars have changed since 1966. The advanced technology inside a modern racing car is something else entirely. Kinda like a several-million dollar computer on wheels that goes over 230 MPH (370.15 km).

"Safety" in the movie appears to be nonexistent. Drivers run into hay bales and trees, spectators line the course without any form of grandstand or barrier and get onto the track, at least one driver is almost decapitated when his car runs under a guardrail, and one of the main characters is killed tragically at the end when his car runs off a high banking and explodes.

Here are a couple of Ferrari "concept" cars for 2019. The third picture is Lewis Hamilton winning the United States GP in 2007 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I was fortunate to see this race as well as the inaugural event in 2000 won by Michael Schumacher. Bringing F1 here was a good thing IMHO. Indy screwed it up of course and lost out for 2008 and beyond. Now F1 runs a race in Austin, Texas at the Circuit of the Americas. Lewis Hamilton has won six times.