Hey! Frida is a personal friend of mine. She's not weird-ass-looking, she's beautiful. One critter I've taken a personal liking to. She's an angora, so she's extra woolly, which can be weird looking, but I think of her as the epitome of lagomorphic pulchritude. And she is the sweetest, fuzziest little varmint this side of the Manongahela. I haven't seen her in over two months--she moved out with my ex, but I hear she's getting along ok in her new digs.
Here is my bunny page, which I've de-linked from my homepage in anticipation of pulling it eventually, as it is irretrievable ex-spouse-soaked:
I grew up in a family that did secular versions of Easter (colored eggs, baskets with fake grass, jellybeans, Peeps, and a chocolate rabbit, with a big ham dinner in the afternoon) and Christmas. I forget that the default in this country is to go to church on Easter Sunday.
Don't get me wrong---weird-lookin' (and weird-ass-lookin', too) ain't no insult comin' from me! Perhaps I should have been more specific: Frida has an odd look in her eye in that shot.
It's touching that she was the first animule you bonded with.
ever seen Night of the Lepus (from 1972)? Janet Leigh is in it. It's one of those gooo `bad' movies. I like your rabbit pix....sorry to here they're not living with you anymore!
I saw a few minutes of it many years ago. But for the nine years I sepent living with Rabbits, I really wanted to see it but wasn't able to. Wasn't available on video, or broadcast anywhere I could see it.
Though other rabbit owners did talk about what side they were rooting for, and mentioned things like "I really loved that adorable Dutch--and that mini-rex was cute, too" And to be technical they should have called it "Night of the Oryctolagus." They were domestic rabbits, not hares.
squirrelykat took it the other morning at a place in Ypsi called The Bomber. A diner, basically, with a WWII bomber theme, on accounta there used to be an airplane plant (base?) in Ypsi.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was a plant, but I seem to remember hearing something about missions actually starting there, too. Seems like they'd burn a lot of gas before they got very far, though.
In January of 1940, America was being drawn into the growing war and our military was woefully unprepared. The Roosevelt administration asked Ford Motor Company to manufacture components for the B-24 Liberator bomber. Charles Sorensen, Vice-President of Production for Ford traveled to San Diego to observe Consolidated Aircraft's operations. Here is his description of the visit and how he conceived the Willow Run bomber plant that eventually manufactured 8,800 of these aircraft.....
the food is great, the atmosphere is great. the waitresses all have permed and dyed blonde hair, long fingernails, tons of gold chains, and everybody gets called `honey'.
I always loved the rounded twin tails that give the B-24 "Liberator" that hulking, obsolete, 1940's car or appliance look. I've always been fascinated by the aspects of aircraft design that don't really have any serious engineering rationale--they are just what someone thought looked "aerodynamic" at the time. As far as I can tell from a youth wasted building plastic airplane models, the planform of the rudder/vertical stabilizer tends to be as much an artistic outlet for the designer as anything. Or maybe they just designed my mom's old refrigerator to evoke the tail of a B-24.
So is there a waitress there named "Flo" who stutters?
There's no stutter, Peter! The two Fs together are pronounced as one might be. Recall that it's a contraction. I guess the first apostrophe could sub for "Buf" and thus I'd just be " 'F'lo ," but I prefer " 'Ff'lo ."
Intellectually, I know it should be read as "Flow" or maybe even hinting at "fa-low" but the littile voice inside my head that talks to me when the little squiggles come up on the screen always says "Faflow" to me, and you just can't argue with the voices in your head. Another LJ-er Iknow is qnvhrtz, which is based on her vanity licence plate to be read "Queen of Hearts." But the little voice in my head insists on saying "Quivenhurts." Brains. You can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em.
Yes the B-24 had a gunner in the belly, though several other bombers did as well. Distinguishing characteristic No. 1 for the B-24 was the twin rudders. If your model had them with that distinctive straight-sided oval shape, it would have been a B-24. Plastic kits of the B-24 would have been easy to come by. But there were other twin-tail bombers. Like the B-25 (also easy to come by), which had different, more angular rudders, but only 2 engines. Also, earlier versions of the B-24 had a "greenhouse" glass nose instead of the nose turret in the photo I posted (again, I know there was a Revell kit with the greenhouse nose, and a belly turret that was memorable because it was retractable if you made it right). So it is entirely likely you had a B-24, but it could have been something else.
You know, I made something over 200 plastic airplane models during my adolescence (I inherited my brother-in-law's dad's collection of unbuilt models when I was 12 or 13, so I had an essentially unlimited supply). As a result I have an immense fraction of my brain full of geometric trivia about WWI and WWII aircraft. I haven't dusted off those corners of my brain in probably 20 years. I've kind of repressed all of that, and I'm in serious danger of geeking out on plastic airplane models if I'm not careful.
My brother, following in my father's footsteps, was also fascinated with WWII aircraft. After my mother died I ceded all the books in a series on aircraft to him in exchange for claiming the one about spacecraft. I still have it---I'll have to show peteralway sometime.
Which reminds me, J.---I still have that thing for him from you/MR!
I took a small part of the household's aviation library with me. A lot of the books are still in tnatj's basement now. I might have room for those in the not-too-distant future...
My dad was really into aviation. There is a collection of hundreds of aircraft photos he took at museums and airshows in my brothers' basements. It's really a shame that they aren't available for viewing. Maybe someday I should scan in a selection of them.
I can't remember the rudder set-up, but I do remember mine had the greenhouse nose. Must have been a B-24 then. I went through a phase of building model planes. Much fun. My faves were a P54 Mustang and a Fokker triplane. And I agree with squirrelykat: there are definitely worse things you can waste your time with.
I looked into the depths of my hobby room today--I actually have a partially-built B-24 model in its box. I got it because my condo complex was, I was told, built in WW II to house the bomber plant workers (I have also been told it was built after the war). I told people it was "Rosie the Riveter's old house. In fact, I think I have some original art a guy did for me on that theme. I'll have to see if I can find it and scan it in.
My dad's favorite was the P-51 Mustang. I actually still have a little 1/72 Fokker Triplane stored in a box. I should find a place to display it.
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So I see you're not in church this morning.
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Frida is a personal friend of mine. She's not weird-ass-looking, she's beautiful. One critter I've taken a personal liking to. She's an angora, so she's extra woolly, which can be weird looking, but I think of her as the epitome of lagomorphic pulchritude. And she is the sweetest, fuzziest little varmint this side of the Manongahela. I haven't seen her in over two months--she moved out with my ex, but I hear she's getting along ok in her new digs.
Here is my bunny page, which I've de-linked from my homepage in anticipation of pulling it eventually, as it is irretrievable ex-spouse-soaked:
http://members.aol.com/riin/rabbit.htm
I grew up in a family that did secular versions of Easter (colored eggs, baskets with fake grass, jellybeans, Peeps, and a chocolate rabbit, with a big ham dinner in the afternoon) and Christmas. I forget that the default in this country is to go to church on Easter Sunday.
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It's touching that she was the first animule you bonded with.
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Janet Leigh is in it. It's one of those gooo `bad' movies.
I like your rabbit pix....sorry to here they're not living
with you anymore!
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Though other rabbit owners did talk about what side they were rooting for, and mentioned things like "I really loved that adorable Dutch--and that mini-rex was cute, too" And to be technical they should have called it "Night of the Oryctolagus." They were domestic rabbits, not hares.
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the "bomber"
In January of 1940, America was being drawn into the growing war and our military was woefully unprepared. The Roosevelt administration asked Ford Motor Company to manufacture components for the B-24 Liberator bomber. Charles Sorensen, Vice-President of Production for Ford traveled to San Diego to observe Consolidated Aircraft's operations. Here is his description of the visit and how he conceived the Willow Run bomber plant that eventually manufactured 8,800 of these aircraft.....
the food is great, the atmosphere is great. the waitresses all have permed
and dyed blonde hair, long fingernails, tons of gold chains, and everybody
gets called `honey'.
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So is there a waitress there named "Flo" who stutters?
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Don't know nuthin' 'bout no aerodynamics.
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You know, I made something over 200 plastic airplane models during my adolescence (I inherited my brother-in-law's dad's collection of unbuilt models when I was 12 or 13, so I had an essentially unlimited supply). As a result I have an immense fraction of my brain full of geometric trivia about WWI and WWII aircraft. I haven't dusted off those corners of my brain in probably 20 years. I've kind of repressed all of that, and I'm in serious danger of geeking out on plastic airplane models if I'm not careful.
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there are worse things to waste brain power on....
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Which reminds me, J.---I still have that thing for him from you/MR!
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My dad was really into aviation. There is a collection of hundreds of aircraft photos he took at museums and airshows in my brothers' basements. It's really a shame that they aren't available for viewing. Maybe someday I should scan in a selection of them.
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That is actually a current lego set. Here is the online description:
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=10024&cn=57&d=14&t=7
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My dad's favorite was the P-51 Mustang. I actually still have a little 1/72 Fokker Triplane stored in a box. I should find a place to display it.