Polly, Want Two Crackers?

The Joy of Life by Kunhardt
The Joy of Life by Kunhardt

Two jovial Chicago ladies, arm in arm, become bird perches at Miami’s Parrot Jungle. I love their smiles, the hat, the earrings, the glasses, the lace pocket, the buttons–every bit of it! Carpe diem, ladies.

Fixodent And Forget It

The Joy of LIfe by Kunhardt
The Joy of LIfe by Kunhardt

For the folks in Amsterdam who are neither potheads nor prostitutes, fun is often had by an affable after-dinner egg-blowing game. However, one woman blew so hard that her false teeth flew out of her mouth and landed on the table–to the delight of those around her.

For more on egg-blowing, visit last year’s post.

For more on keeping dentures in place, Fixodent and forget it.

If The Cowardly Lion and Ralph Malph Had A Son

1950 Cactus
1950 Cactus

Bert Lahr as the lion + Donny Most as Ralph Malph (aka Mouth)

 

P.S. Did you know Ralph’s middle name was Hector?

P.S.S. Did you know Bert Lahr’s real name was Irving Lahrheim?

When You Walk In On Your Roommate Sitting In Your Boyfriend’s Lap And You Want To Hurl Your Bowling Ball At Them But You Don’t Want To Drop Your Cig

1950 Cactus
1950 Cactus

What Wearing Two Belts Feels Like

One word: exhilarating.

photo by Danny Lehman, "Then and Now"
photo by Danny Lehman, “Then and Now”

Perhaps I should have titled this Splendor in the Marigolds. I don’t think I’ve felt that level of pure bliss since the 1900s, if ever. Perhaps it’s the Nick Cannon tilt of his hat that’s got him smiling so.

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Clearly they both like hats and grey vests.

Actually, the joyful prostrate man is a harvester in Bajio, Mexico in 1990, presumably done with a day’s marigold harvesting. As pretty as they look, the marigolds were solely used in chicken feed.

It’s true. Per www.fresheggsdaily.com, marigolds, as well as other plants that contain the pigment xanthophyll, are routinely added to commercial layer feed to artificially boost the color of egg yolks of the chickens eating the feed…According to a report from PoultryDVM, the entire Mexican marigold plant has been used to treat respiratory illnesses and eye issues- and feeding up to 3 grams of the dried petals to the chickens resulted in improved egg yolk color.

Now don’t go and discount egg yolk color. Do you think Neil Armstrong could have gotten to the moon if he hadn’t eaten bright yellow egg yolks for his last meal on Earth?

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Actually, that’s fried chicken and peaches. The Reddit image showed Armstrong having his “customary late dinner” in March of 1969, according to the caption of the TIME/Life photo. It was stated to be his last meal before the Apollo 11 mission. But it wasn’t his last meal before taking one small step for mankind.

It was steak and eggs–and he ate the meal (mid-left) with the rest of the crew members of the moon mission, not alone with a newspaper.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Oops! I appear to have gone off on a long rabbit trail. Sorry, readers!

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http://homeschoollegacy.com/