In the Post-Decemberish Season
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rain_gryphonApparently the Brits have never seen bread bowls before.
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The New York Public Library's collection of pictures about Punishments of China. If you search by subjects, there's an incredible store of pictures here, reference pictures for almost any imaginable subject. You can get pictures of stuff like Hairstyles, Handbags, Handguns, Harbors, Harps, Hats, etc. many of them sorted out by period and region. It's all the fascination of sitting in the library poring through books of old pictures, but online :)
The "Collections" section has some amazing stuff too - thousands of cigarette cards, book covers, Japanese prints, etc...
A series of rather emotionally needy looking Qats from Players. You can tell from looking at them that they want to be petted. I'm guessing the backs told about the breeds.* I love the idea of someone saving up his cards, and slowly building a collection of Qat pictures. A lot of the cigarette cards are touching in their choice of subjects and art. I can see working men saving the cards on topics that interested them, in an age when it was hard to come by coloured pictures.
*Edit: They do. There's a 'View Verso' choice that I'd overlooked.
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oliver_otter been to see her?
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"We need supplies up here urgently particularly of cooking oil..." I've noticed and remarked upon this before. Every time there's a disaster or unrest in Africa or South Asia, cooking oil seems to be one of the primary relief supplies. A bottle of cooking oil lasts me two months or so. These people apparently go through the stuff at an enormous rate.
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How they colour baby chicks. I had no idea. I always thought they were just bathed in dye. You used to always see these on sale around Easter in the early to mid 60s. In a few weeks, their feathers grow out in the normal colour.
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The New York Public Library's collection of pictures about Punishments of China. If you search by subjects, there's an incredible store of pictures here, reference pictures for almost any imaginable subject. You can get pictures of stuff like Hairstyles, Handbags, Handguns, Harbors, Harps, Hats, etc. many of them sorted out by period and region. It's all the fascination of sitting in the library poring through books of old pictures, but online :)
The "Collections" section has some amazing stuff too - thousands of cigarette cards, book covers, Japanese prints, etc...
A series of rather emotionally needy looking Qats from Players. You can tell from looking at them that they want to be petted. I'm guessing the backs told about the breeds.* I love the idea of someone saving up his cards, and slowly building a collection of Qat pictures. A lot of the cigarette cards are touching in their choice of subjects and art. I can see working men saving the cards on topics that interested them, in an age when it was hard to come by coloured pictures.
*Edit: They do. There's a 'View Verso' choice that I'd overlooked.
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Baby Otter in Phoenix. Has
oliver_otter been to see her?*****
"We need supplies up here urgently particularly of cooking oil..." I've noticed and remarked upon this before. Every time there's a disaster or unrest in Africa or South Asia, cooking oil seems to be one of the primary relief supplies. A bottle of cooking oil lasts me two months or so. These people apparently go through the stuff at an enormous rate.
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How they colour baby chicks. I had no idea. I always thought they were just bathed in dye. You used to always see these on sale around Easter in the early to mid 60s. In a few weeks, their feathers grow out in the normal colour.
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Date: 2008-01-05 02:19 pm (UTC)Nope. Well, maybe very informally, but until I did a bit of reading I had no idea that the concept was established in North America. I've never, ever seen it in a restaurant here.
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Date: 2008-01-05 07:20 pm (UTC)David Williams, the managing director of Butt Foods
Ha ha.
Mr Williams says Butt's bowls
Also, in America a butt bowl is something entirely different.
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Date: 2008-01-05 08:18 pm (UTC)I noticed that the idea didn't quite translate, yeah.
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Date: 2008-01-05 06:16 pm (UTC)If only cooking oil had a contraceptive side effect. :-/
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Date: 2008-01-06 06:01 pm (UTC)Or else the Third World goes through a great deal more french fries than I thought.
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