One Of My Very Own
EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com
LOOK WHAT I GOT TODAY!!!!
The owner got all excited and said he had something for me. He trotted back to his office and brought me my very first free beer from a cherished viewer. I was like a little kid on Christmas. I would like to thank the viewer more than they could ever know...not so much for the beer, but for the story.
In case more of you would like to show me your appreciation, here is the address again.
It's only two fucking dollars to make an old man's day. Have a heart.
And now we wait.
And now we wait.
VEHICLES
Motorcycle Dragster in the US in 1958.
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The Sir Vival car in 1958.
(That is a cool ass name.)
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The Sizaire-Berwick armored Car in France in 1915.
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BMW Schneekrad which was an all-terrain motorcycle in Germany in 1936.
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The Sigvard Berggren "Ford" V8 streamliner in Sweden in 1959.
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A Carden single transport vehicle (cyclecar) in the UK in 1916.
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The Schlörwagen, an experimental vehicle, in Germany in 1939.
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A monowheel, also known as the Dynasphere spherical car, in the UK in 1930.
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F16 Afterburner Test
Illustration of how that works.
And here's why it is important.
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Front seat view
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My 9yo drew a picture of me throwing away their drawings which, ironically, was the one picture I saved.
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ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT HUMOR
The best movie ever made.
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The phrase "Time being" gets weird when you think of it as living and breathing.
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First time seeing a snake.
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Lobster Whisperer?
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There is something about cameras that makes all living beings soil the surroundings.
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Why do we all laugh when somebody falls down?
Except for old people. You have to be a real badass to laugh when an old person falls.
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Don't let me interrupt.
Oh, my.
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This clip popped up on my feed at the bar. It's a pulsating sea creature and somebody asked me what it was, and I said, "Yeast infection."
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FBI PROFILER, LOOKING AT PHOTOS OF MY HOUSE: White male, mid-30s, doesn't have a lot of friends or close associations, probably read a lot about serial killers as a kid, eats a lot of bullshit food, no real skills
ME: I'm right here
FBI PROFILER: Talks like an idiot
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PROVOCATIVE OLDER IMAGES
Locals pull out the mummies of the cathedral of Venzone in Italy for a photo shoot with Life Magazine in 1962. The mummies go back to the 1600s and are still on display today.
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A man smirks as he poses with his aboriginal "prisoners" in Australia in 1909.
Look at those faces.
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A young boy shines the shoes of another boy in NYC in 1955.
Look at that little prick's face.
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A man being strapped to an electric chair at Sing Sing prison in New York in 1926.
Looks like the face of a man who just wants it to end.
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Mel Brooks and Cleavon Little discussing an upcoming scene on the set of Blazing Saddles in 1974.
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A simpler time...
Pretty, young unarmed girls used to hitchhike all over the country. My wife used to also.
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Filming a scene with Tracy Reed for the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964.
Could her foot be that dirty?
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Health Ledger without his Joker makeup about to film the opening scene in The Dark Knight in 2008.
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A Chinese soldier prepares a suicide bomber with an explosive vest made out of hand grenades for an attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang in China in 1938.
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Hitler's future wife Eva Braun doing blackface for her role in the film "Me as Al Jolson" in 1937. Life Magazine collected a number of her pictures over the years.
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A man transports a mannequin in Osaka, Japan in 1958.
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Jodie Foster and her stunt double for Taxi Driver in 1976.
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48 hr deodorant only lasts 8 hours. Welcome to my TED Talk.
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PROVOCATIVE NEW IMAGES
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Indian bat with a pup.
Looks like it's wearing clothing.
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This girl is jailed by Islamic police in Iran. Crime? Putting dance video on Instagram.
Iran is like if the town elders from Footloose ran a country.
And this guy was caught drinking a beer.
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Moiré pattern art
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Running from police
When will they ever learn?
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Cool ski boots grandpa!
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An elderly lion, in its last hours.
Yeah, he kind of looks like I feel.
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Holy shit!
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The theory goes like this: If you took all the money in the world and shared it equally with every person on the planet, 30 years later the situation with ultra-rich holding most of it would be back like it was.
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