Black Hawk Down, Part I

Or should I say “brown ostrich down”?

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First, he was upright, pecking away at the dirt.

Elgin - Flowers 035And then he dropped to his feathery torso, like an adolescent at a 1964 Beatles concert. I thought he’d go unconscious, but nope–he kept pecking while prostrate. Oh, that’s a better title for this post: Pecking While Prostrate. 

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I’ve eaten in several positions in my lifetime: sitting, walking, in a car (furiously pounding Sonic tater tots as dinner before a meeting), even eating nachos and Hot Tamale candies while rollerskating, but never while lying down on my belly, face to the ground. Perhaps he was “playing possum” to hide from a predator, but I hardly think that precious boy proves an imposing predator.

Only he knows for sure.

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Politically Incorrect Yearbook Comics 1949

This is all in good fun, but folks would cry “domestic abuse” in this day and age.

49Comet007When I think of Mary Wana, I think of hippies, not high school students in 1949. My bad.
49Comet005Fun with intentional homicide!49Comet006Uh-oh, bestiality!49Comet004 Mental illness was a laughing matter.

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Hints of polygamy…

49Comet008And the grand finale of I-Don’t-Get-Itness…a bowlegged sheriff fondling a cactus made of student’s heads, as a vulture flies overhead. Because that’s normal.

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Dick With A Box

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Yep, it’s another yearbook picture sans caption, so we are left wondering why Dick Van Dyke (or his twin) is carrying a box of problems up the aisle.

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And why are there no chairs? And what a pretty cherry dress!

Here is the other half of the picture, showing a man in a cape behind Dick, fanning him with a palm leaf. What the what??

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My Precious

Mary Catherine Beck

Never come between a varsity cheerleader and her megaphone, or she may go all Miss Piggy karate-chop on

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