Wednesday 27 March 2024

At The Market

 

Sorry, I can't stop.

No time to talk.

Gotta keep moving.

Or clowns will eat my face.

Bonus - Clowns

Bonus 2 -

CLOWNS


Tuesday 26 March 2024

The Thing

 

Just ... The Thing.

No info on the slide (as usual) except a processing date of 1991. Thanks.

But, I think it's a piece of Seljuk Glass, maybe this one.

More info - The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enamelled Glass in Context

Bonus - North Korea TV censors Alan Titchmarsh's trousers

Sunday 24 March 2024

The Little Colonists

 

I have a bunch of similar slides in this set...clearly a family vacation, visiting one of the early colonial towns. Georgetown, or Williamsburg, or whatever.

I can only imagine what the costumed host is thinking, especially as this was in the early sixties.

Bonus - So, those kids who torture ants with sun + magnifying glass. What do they do when they grow older?




Saturday 23 March 2024

The Last Snows of Spring

 

It's March, and here in Slideville, it's turned chilly again.

All the more reason for some Schnapps unt some Spongecake.

Bonus - Desperately Seeking The Pickle Sisters



Friday 22 March 2024

I'll just leave this here, and leave

 

No idea what this is, and I suspect I don't WANT to know what this is.

It's from the Medical Slides box, and ...well. I suppose it could be a Album Cover for an LP by Throbbing Gristle. Maybe.

Bonus - Also on a theme of Yeuch.   Aphex Twin's Windowlicker is 25 years old.



Thursday 21 March 2024

Devils Lake, Wis South End 1956


 It's nice when a slide has a written description, and I'm guessing that Wis is short for Wisconsin.

Devil's Lake is a lake in the South Range of the Baraboo Range, about two miles south of Baraboo, Wisconsin, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. It has no surface outlets, so by some definitions, it is endorheic; however, it possibly drains by underground channels into the Baraboo River, which would make the lake cryptorheic. 

Bonus - Cats that sailed on ships until the mid-20th century to catch rodents had passports signed with their paw prints

Wednesday 20 March 2024

Go outside and play with your cardboard box

 

The Seventies were a different time. 

It didn't matter if it was a bright but chilly February, when Uncle Bob visited your mum, you want outside to play with your favourite box.

Bonus - Shock of the old: 10 rotten and repugnant artefacts from dental history

Tuesday 19 March 2024

You want Tedious on a Tuesday?

 

You Got It.


First image is what you would see .... as a human. Yup. Very Boring.


Second Version is the same image, as viewed by a Crawshaw's Salamander. That's an odd little amphibian, which uniquely, sees images not in RedYellowBlue, but in MauveWhitePaisleyLemon.


Bonus - How many times must you fold a paper to reach the Moon?


Monday 18 March 2024

Sunday 17 March 2024

Ryan, filling the Diving Pool

 

There's quite a few pictures of this pool, in various states of empty/fullness.

This one ... is today's.

Sorry,  I'm not very talkative today - Overnight, my right know seems to have decided to experience extreme pain for any motions.

Bonus -  Remember - There was no CGI 81 years ago... 


Saturday 16 March 2024

Distant Words with the Family

 

One of the delights of this here slide-collecting lark is finding images like this. Just a quick captured moment in a life.

What a great image.

Bonus - 


Friday 15 March 2024

"Are you 'aving a Giraffe?"

 

Friday is sometimes Zoo Day, here at The Slide Guy.

And these are ....checks notes .... Giraffes.

Bonus - 

Americuh!

Thursday 14 March 2024