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This is thought to be the only surviving picture of Honor Knightly (aka “Satin”) the elusive department store heiress and stenographer for the Kairian Luncheon Club. She was quite fond of changing clothes and of gentlemen standing in doorways to avoid the rain.
Thorne Smith thought very highly of her but she still faded into obscurity behind Cosmo Topper and the ghost-dog, Oscar (or "Neil" if you've seen only the TV or Movie Version).
Honor became known as a fashion-plate and clothes horse to those who knew her at the shelter. She spent most of her leisure time, which was most of her time, removing address labels from subscription magazines and learning French Toast.
She worked part time as a lab assistant at a sperm bank but was fired eventually for combining specimens to save space. “They all look the same!” The sperm bank gave her a handsome “retirement” package on the condition that she would not discuss her employment with anyone.
Her father, department store tycoon and co-inventor of knee-high panty-hose, left her a comfortable income. Not needing to work for a living then, she was able to spend most of her time with her first love, trying on hats at the local charity shop.
Late in life she bought a very rural home on the plains in western America and lived well into this century. From her home, she managed a successful business selling thousands of prairie dogs on eBay, believing them to be chinchillas. While she often had to refund the original purchase price to disappointed (and surprised) eBay customers, she amassed a fortune in deposit interest at a small local bank where the funds were temporarily held.
Being rich, she of course died under very mysterious circumstances. Controversy surrounded the local coroner’s report which stated Honor died of prolonged exposure to boredom. After the conspiracy theories began to dim, the coroner was seen wearing Honor’s socks and the whole furor started up again. Rumors persist to this day (nearly a month later) that she is one of the three people buried at Fort Sumner in William H. Bonney’s grave.
(Source: Wackipedia (King Jake's edition), page four or five.)
Labels: Found Photograph, humor, humour, Old Photograph, photographs, story
![]() ![]() | ![]() Where will it all end? WILL it all end? Do we want it all to end? Do we all want it to end? Which end are we talking about? Is there an end in sight? Do we need to see the end? Do we want to see the end? Does that depend on whose end we have in sight? Is that naughty? Can I have dessert anyway? Let’s credit the brilliant leadership of ![]() the Cosmic Collective Creativity of ![]() Here now, is your extra credit assignment: You are searching in pitch darkness for a wet spot in the bedding, and you find it. The question of the day is: Do you wish you hadn’t found it or do you wish you hadn’t felt around for it? (You will be grounded for using any word beginning with "B" in your essay.) The quote of the day is: “Never say always; always say never.” (---Arnold Auk,upon waking from a coma induced by jumping on his brother’s bed and striking his head on the apartment ceiling. Yes, he was told repeatedly not to jump on the bed. His brother was away at the time. His sister was married and living in Alberta , but that’s certainly another story.) For background on this and other unrelated evidence of global worming CLICK HERE! |
Labels: humor, humour, photograph tricks, What Is Going On Here?
![]() ![]() | ![]() Cracked heart ..., originally uploaded by soozika ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I just decided to today that I'd mark any (well, almost any) pictures of mine that have been blogged somewhere or other! ![]() Thing is, I missed ALL of the others too! Got that corrected this afternoon. Finding all your blogged pictures. Now that's a project. You can do that with technorati or something can't you? ![]() ... I'm still not quite sure what you mean by "miss linking" pictures, since all the pictures in your blog are properly linked to their originators ...? :) ![]() (I rambled on about this all morning but after a little more coffee, I edited back to this.) ![]() Think I'll have some coffee as well. ![]() While it’s not exactly a major issue, maybe there should be some discussion to clear up some foggy areas or perhaps to confuse some areas that otherwise were rather clear. Mostly this blog has collected pictures of a similar theme and placed them together, their collective beauty producing a stunning effect. Other times only one picture with an interesting discussion is given its own page. Yes, Flickr automatically links a blogged picture back to the original Flickr photostream which is definitely as it should be. But also, when using a photograph from Flickr, it seems appropriate to go back to the original posting and put a link back TO THE BLOG in the comments section under the picture. That lets the photographer know the photo has been blogged. The photographer can respond pretty quickly if they don’t want the picture used in that venue. Most on Flickr are pleased or ambivalent about blogging but there is one now and then that gets all fussy about it. There were only two so far, actually. Since there are less than 200 photographs from friends on Flickr used in this blog, that’s about one in a hundred that was not comfortable with it. It’s difficult to understand their thinking, but their wishes must be respected. They DO have the option of turning off the blog button if they don’t want their photo blogged. They do have option controls if they don’t want larger sizes available and downloadable. They do have three levels of privacy controls if they want to limit viewing to a select few. They don’t have to post on Flickr at all, actually. There are about 450 million photographs on Flickr today. The hearts for the valentine page were collected mostly from the familiar circle of friends. Wandering about Flickr found the others. There are more than 58 thousand photographs tagged with “heart” and 150 thousand mention “valentine” somewhere in the text. There are thousands of photographs with an approving blog button and pleasant conversation in the comments. There are thousands without distracting borders and watermarks and signatures inside the frame. So considering all that, if someone doesn’t want a photo used, there is usually no trouble finding an alternate example. In reality, using a photograph on this blog is just an extension of the “photo-sharing” theme of Flickr. There are no ads on this blog and the pictures are not used to promote anything except the excellence of the photographer or to expand on an interesting discussion of either or both. Looking back, none of this is very interesting, is it? Oh well, I got out of mowing the back yard. |
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