Seen in Print

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...I'm also seeing another lass, in the first row, who appears to be holding a bottle of booze in a paper bag.

I wouldn't be surprised if we've been bamboozled ....

Well, as the Rufus mentioned, seeing that as you have stated might be seeing it through the lens of our modern times, too. However, I can't imagine what else it might have been - a sack of porn ?

[HONDO74]

The lady right below the sign, in the center, seems to be wearing a crown, and some purty fancy vestments. Was she the Temperance Queen? I'm also seeing another lass, in the first row, who appears to be holding a bottle of booze in a paper bag.

I wouldn't be surprised if we've been bamboozled by a replacement sign.

Ever wonder why everyone in this "prohibitionist photo" has such a cartoonish expression? Because they were actors. This image actually comes from an old Thomas Edison film made sometime between 1893 and 1901.

Edison's early films often parodied suffragists and women of the temperance movement during the late 19th century. This pro-temperance message wouldn't have been out of place in some circles at the turn of the 20th century. But it's an image that was meant to lampoon the anti-alcohol movement. And it appears that it's still working over a century later.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[HONDO74]

[sleepmac]

Hondo, love it!

Dan Weinhold

[Roy]

Creative use of cheese. But, is it alluding to a ghost, the KKK, or the mob - who used pizza places to launder money?

[HONDO74]

It's the new Canadian flag.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Mayonnaise on everything...........

[HONDO74]

Mayonnaise on everything...........

I think I will pass if they put it on POUTINE.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It was announced on the News, today, that not exercising is worse for your health and quality longevity than smoking.

Translation for me =
Less snacking and more walking would be good as a continuing weekly regimen.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It was announced on the News, today, that not exercising is worse for your health and quality longevity than smoking.

Translation for me =
Less snacking and more walking would be good as a continuing weekly regimen.

Yes, but not smoking will help, too.

[Roy]

Eat right; exercise; die anyway.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Eat right; exercise; die anyway.

Some few would like to delay that end point while also avoiding some of the uglier options in route. So eat wrong, turn into a slovenly pig, and die early from obesity related cardiac failure if that's what you find attractive.

Then again, some people text while driving, text and play with their phones while crossing highways, or just walking down corridors into elevators that aren't there.

Either you care enough to survive or you don't.

[Roy]

Some few would like to delay that end point while also avoiding some of the uglier options in route. So eat wrong, turn into a slovenly pig, and die early from obesity related cardiac failure if that's what you find attractive.

Then again, some people text while driving, text and play with their phones while crossing highways, or just walking down corridors into elevators that aren't there.

Either you care enough to survive or you don't.

Care enough to survive; do everything consistent with that; die anyway. We Americans don't seem to get it that:

1.) We're all going to pay taxes,

2.) We're all going to die.

[webenda]

Rufus's "Eye in Palm of Hand" avatar is as unnerving as Bethanie's "Eye Looking Out of Eye Patch" was last Halloween.