Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, March 15, 2019

Because It's Friday

PS Natchez gets under way in New Orleans.

Posted by on or about 09:30
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2 comments:

Deadstick said...

Not much of a wake...

3/15/2019 11:07 AM
Stewart Dean said...

I grew up in Louisville KY, 50's & '60s, when there were still a few working paddlewheelers about...there are still a few 'for show' of them around.
At full bore and travelling speed, a paddleboat's wake is something else: a long, long set of parallel rollers marching perpendicular to the direction of travel behind the wheeler, shown here at the opening of Mississippi Queen video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbj3HxhIAck
Back then I once sailed in a Thistle behind a paddlewheeler. It took us a minute and a half to stop bouncing.
The big ship building yard of Ohio is JeffBoat across the river from Louisville and the successor to Howard Shipyards, founded in 1834, which built many of the paddlewheelers (including the Mississippi Queen).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbj3HxhIAck
There also is the wonderful Howard Steamboat Museum
http://www.howardsteamboatmuseum.org/
in Howard's original mansion. When I wuz a kid, I bicycled over there and visited it....at the time the last of the Howards were still alive, two fluttery spinster sisters who opened their home and told the stories. Tons of gorgeous models of all the different sorts of wheelers, including the cotton boats, which were just a framework to stack cotton bales on, like some enormous cross between a haywagon and a paddlewheeler.
http://www.louisianahistorymuseum.org/images/red-river-cotton-packet-1800s.jpg
At Derby Week, part of the festivities are contests between the Belle of Louisville (smaller and slower but more maneuverable) and the Delta Queen (bigger and faster), a race and a calliope duel. https://youtu.be/q1-pPTDqNfI

3/16/2019 3:07 AM

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