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After the subject of 'weathering' of tanks, and then of human soft tissue came up, I thought it would be interesting to put a few faces to names and oddball aliases (No cutting and pasting from movie mags, boys..) Well, below you'll see me at 18 in pre-polyfilla days (don't use 'Bondo in UK!)...'tis old, and we wrote in runes then, but tis I. Then, There's a pic when I changed sides briefly in WW2! Like my helmet?!! (Nothing lewd, please, boys..) Merry Christmas..from the Crypt!! (In german, coffin-dodgers are known as 'Grufties' Gruft=Crypt..):-

OK, I'll play along. Here's me, Gramps, and a Camaro named Rhonda. Gramps is gone now, but I've still got Rhonda (and that T shirt).

Here ya go



Live Long and Prosper My Fellow Humorists

ALPHA

Somewhere I saw a mention of Hawaii in connection with your good self, Sir Alpha. Don't you still have the Union Jack as feature of your Flag? If so, dump it quick..it has the effect of inducing severe eccentricity (Montyus Pythonismus)...and now, where did I leave that straitjacket??
Max..so, when the car misbehaves, do you sing..'Help me Rhonda, help help me Rhonda?" Ohh well..I can't sit here for long, as my busted pedal extremity is meant to be at jaunty
Hitler-salute angle for the next few weeks, making life hard at the trusty old iMac..
Merry Christmas to you, Gramps and, of course, your furry friends!!

Oops, so very sorry, Max, I didn't see the bit about Gramps. I'm sure you had a great time together through life, and retain some amazing memories of him, along with his stories and anecdotes. I never knew my scots grandfather. He died in 1940 when the war was raging, and the other (Irish one) was crippled and soured by the Great War; scowling his way out of existence when I was just six. Anyway, sorry again and have a great Christmas, hopefully with the best news possible about Nancy.

Roy.

43rdRecceReg wrote:Somewhere I saw a mention of Hawaii in connection with your good self, Sir Alpha. Don't you still have the Union Jack as feature of your Flag? If so, dump it quick..it has the effect of inducing severe eccentricity (Montyus Pythonismus)...and now, where did I leave that straitjacket??

....yes indeed...we still have the Union Jack ...which could explain a lot about us who live here
Now about that Jacket It isn't quite what you might think 43...but it's the closest I could find on short notice

ALPHA

Brilliant I absolutely used to love 'Mad' magazine. Only someone as crackpot as yourself could find a picture (superb graphic style, to boot!) of Alfred E.Neuman, dressed as Green Lantern, evicting foreign bodies from his nostril. Now where did that cigar store indian go to?.......Well, it used to be lonely in the loony bin Now I can hear the manic tones of 'Napoleon 14th' wafting through the decades: "there coming to take me away, Ha.Ha, they're coming to take me way ho!ho!...etc.," Probably still available on iTunes.
must screen grab the Neuman and print it!
One example of 'Mad' humour (correct spelling): scene, flight deck of Starship Enterprise. Captain Kirk, and First Officer Spock locked in intense discussion, when a puzzled Spock announces: 'I can't believe my ears, Captain!'. Captain eyes him curiously, and observes: 'Neither can I, Mr Spock" ..... Puerile, yes, but the drawings said it all

I would agree about Mad Magazine lol...that periodical rode the thin razors edge between humor and lunacy
One thing I particularly enjoyed were the Rube Goldberg styled inventions that went from front inner cover to back ...I recall holding the bulk of the magazine together lifting it in such a way that both sides could be viewed all it once

ALPHA

Yep...nice to meet another fruitcake! I used to have a large poster of Alfred E.Neuman on my wall, sandwiched between the buttocks of Diana Rigg (as 'Emma Peel'), and the Greek Parthenon. Don't ask. Eclectic eccentric...

43rdRecceReg wrote:Yep...nice to meet another fruitcake! I used to have a large poster of Alfred E.Neuman on my wall, sandwiched between the buttocks of Diana Rigg (as 'Emma Peel'), and the Greek Parthenon. Don't ask. Eclectic eccentric...

Now that paints a more than interesting mental picture
Hot babe that Diana Rig...

Though I do think someone should have taught her how to hold a gun

ALPHA