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My humor blog spun something out of a clickbait article I encountered this past week! Can you spot what it was? And I bring back thinking about a very old article I never got around to reading; all this and more in ...
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 7
- It’s Not That Albany Is Fearsome, It’s Just You Have Enough Problems Without Them
- Statistics Saturday: 20 Things I Do Not Know About _Napoleon Dynamite_
- So Why Was Spunky an Only Kangaroo Anyway?
- This Is a Relief, I’ve Needed Something New to Be Smug About
- What’s Going On In Olive and Popeye? And what’s going on in Thimble Theatre? February – May 2024
- I Suppose the Socks Would Say They Can’t Alp Themselves
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 8
And now, a chance for you to see more Gilmore Cars on Museum:
Here's a figure on front of one of the motorcycles and I don't know if it's supposed to be a take on the vintage Pontiac logo or something. Hold this thought, not for very long.
Train switching tower that used to be on the Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad. The sharp-eyed among you may notice that's not a car thing, but, you know, you get offered a tower like this are you going to turn it down?
These are the vehicles lingering over from a show of ... whatever model cars these are, that was one of the smaller Gilmore Car Museum shows they do.
I'm just going ahead and supposing they swiped this intersection sign for Ransom E Olds Avenue and William Durant Drive from Lansing.
And now to the exhibit that most fascinated me: hood ornaments! Or as they explained, ``car mascots'', which, especially in the earliest days, were seen as ways for people to add some artistic flair and personality to their radiator caps. In fact ... wait a moment. Computer, enhance.
``Doughboy killing German'', it's labelled, and while it's more a subhuman beast than an actual Hun it is something I did not expect I was going to see when we set out to this museum. It promised this was going to be a more interesting room than just ``lots of hood ornaments'' would have forecast.
A chrome woman doing a very stretchy yoga pose for a 1934 Olds hood ornament.
I would like to know more about, for example, the chrome wolfman, like who was it made for and was it ever actually used on a car's hood or was it just to be funny that someone would have quite so much cartoony animal for an ornament.
Here we have a traffic cop whose arms would swing around, and a flying bird --- the label that the wings are articulated suggests they move too --- and, off to the right, an Olympic Athlete.
Here's one of a girl riding a dolphin, where dolphin here means one of those ornate fish-based creatures that decorate old-timey water fountains.
You know this one is a hare from the label, of course, and from the eyes that are bugged that far out. Also, you've probably notice but here I can't avoid pointing out, there's a mirror behind the shelves so you can see the whole figure as well as the people looking at and photographing them.
Puss in Boots! I remember kind of liking that movie, I think.
Trivia: Of the 138 distinct (not counting reflections or rotations of other games) there are 138 possible ends to Tic-Tac-Toe. X wins 91 of them; O wins 44. Only three end in a draw. Source: Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games, Marcus Du Sautoy. Also Tic-Tac-Toe.
