Monday, December 14, 2009

Prettiest Hunting Coat in France...

FINALLY, enough crazy signs and such. A block of hunting reports coming. But first, the prettiest hunting coat in France:


Land of pretty hunting coats.



Sunday, December 13, 2009

The Toy Museum in Copenhagen...

The Danish J is pronounced as the English Y, and inside the "Toysmuseet" this is a tiny bit of what you'll see.

This post is really just to add the co2 of one particular person's envious fury to our planet's burden. Angry AND depressed, now that's the way to be! Don't be a h8r.

Well, maybe a little.

But this is a genuinely A grade museum, a Louvre, Victoria & Albert, or Guggenheim in its own narrow specialty. One of two in Denmark, the other I'll post about in a few days.

So- Size matters....


That carronade on the end is a 96 pounder!
Breechloading grasshopper gun-iron carriage.
WTF again?
Another Gatling.Ho hum.
Proto tank, or dawn George Foreman grill? You decide...
Tankette!


Let's go upstairs, shall we?Montigny...

one of the various Nordenfeldts....
Gardners...
Gatlings in various sizes...



And in the display cases-

the oldest known gun...
Pocket crossbow...
Snaphaunce revolving rifle...Matchlock and wheellock arquebuses- of which there are many, factory new and un-bubbaed...


Yes, it's a .577...

WTF???
That's a six shot broomhandle...
Yes, Jennings & Hunt rocket ball repeater...
Bang! (one of four, plus a cutaway)
System Girardoni abound....
Only one Villar Perosa, though! Or is it two?



High tech in its time- an original leather cannon!


As requested, a 4 bore...As is this, I think...Some in here...What bore is inch and a half?

Even larger...
Oh, yes-

I did...


Here's their link.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Friday, December 11, 2009

Not Exactly The Same To A Native English Speaker...

Alternative title, Zen bread.

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

You Are So Sweet...

kind, responsible, open...

Love to hear that:




"Hey, can I borrow your apartment this afternoon? Met this guy at lunch, he was so polite and considerate I almost raped him right there in Starbucks."



"Score! I lucked out myself, blind date Mother set me up with from the other night. She said he was a real gentleman, she was not lying!

He respected me so much I couldn't keep my hands off him.

Integrity like you wouldn't believe, I trusted like seven or eight times.

Use the place all week end- I'm in Paris.

Flying him in tonight, off to Louboutin and A. P. to get ready."

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Monday, December 07, 2009

It's REAL....

This actually is a popular Danish breakfast cereal. I can't read the ingedient, but Edward G. Robinson does not appear therein.

Friday, December 04, 2009

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Are These Made From Naked White People? Racial Slurs in France Even...


It's not bad enough that I have to put up with it at every other freeway exit, but to see this sort of thing in France...

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Cigarette Flavoured Biscuits!



Also available in Menthol?

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

The John Calvin Anniversary Envelope…



Issued unstamped. Almost perfect- there shouldn't be a space for an address, either.

Because if it is meant to get there, it will…

Monday, November 30, 2009

A Huge, Genuine Woody!


Yes, it actually is a truck made out of wood- not just painted to look that way. I've seen several over here.

Take that, Beach Boys!

And if you are building a truck out of wood, what do you call your company?