Cold & Wet

Woke up yesterday to grey and gloomy skies, with occasional drizzle and a chilly breeze.  More like Britishland than like Texas this spring, so far.

I love it.  The Texas spring, that is, because the longer it stays like this (it won’t, according to the forecast) the longer that the temperatures of Texas Broil a.k.a. summer are kept at bay.

Britishland spring, on the other hand, is nothing like this — more like Texas winter, in fact — as witnessed by yesterday’s start of the racing season at Cheltenham, where the ladies’ clothing was more shall we say sensible:


(note to my Murkin Readers:  scarlet trousers for men are generally an infallible sign of the upper classes Over There)

What’s definitely not a mark of the upper classes would be outfits such as these:

Ugh… quick, back to the totties:

 

Quite disappointing, really;  but Cheltenham usually is, being more of a classy event than the others.

Never mind… soon it will be the turn of the Grand National at Aintree.  Can’t wait.

Old-Time Favorites (2)

Following on from last week’s B&W pics, here are some full-color lovelies from the same source:

Alexandra Maria Lara

Amy Smart

Brittany Mason

Carina Tyrrell

Claire Sweeney

Jill St. John

Claire Goose

Danielle Lloyd

Elizabeth Rohm

Juanita Lamas

Kirsty Gallacher

Letitia Dean

Pamela Des Barres

Sharon Corr

Shilpa Shetty

 

As I may have said earlier, I have no idea why these particular pics ended up in some obscure folder on my laptop (other than perhaps the obvious reasons), but anyway, there they are.

Random Totty

Okay, Fiona Vroom is one of them Canucki chicks, so you’d think she looks like this:

…or even like this:

But not really.  In fact:

And as the above pics show, that face is exquisite:

And the rest isn’t bad, either:

But that face…

Random Totty

Apparently there exists one of those Internet-famous things named Naomi Brockwell, of whom I know nothing because I don’t even dip my toes into those waters, let alone swim in them.  Still, having discovered her, I think she’s worth a look, for obvious reasons:

Apparently, she made John Stossel look like an idiot when she discovered that his smartphone was basically a conduit for scam artists or something.  And now you know as much about her as I do.

Quite toothsome, however.

Old-Time Favorites (1)

While going through my laptop’s hard drive, trying to organize it into something which could be transferred to New Computer without too much loss of life, I stumbled across a sub-folder named “Favorites” in my “Movies” photo database.

Here’s a selection of the black & white pics.  Some I may have posted before, so forgive me;  but I can’t remember that far back…

Adrienne Ames

Anita Ekberg

Ashley Greene

Robyn Lawley (I think, or else Candice Huffine)

Carole Landis

Dawn French

Delia [Somebody]

Jane Russell

Joan Bennett

Marilyn

Sophia

Suzanne Pleshette

Veronica Lake

I think it’s rather obvious as to why they ended up in a “Favorites” folder.  Next week, I’ll pick some more, this time in living color.

That Leap Year Thing

According to some legend or other, February 29 (tomorrow) is the date when women are “allowed” to propose marriage to men, as opposed to vice versa, which catastrophe may fall on any other day of the year.

So let’s play another one of Kim’s Silly Games.

Assuming you were of the age and (non-)marital status to be able to take advantage of said Leap Year foolishness, from which of the five options below would you entertain such a proposal?  (And no, you can’t chicken out and nominate your current wife because that would be too easy.)  To make life easier, you can rank said proposers if you want.

Another assumption (and this is a difficult one) is to imagine that none of the choices is batshit fucking crazy.

Here are the options available to you, O Lucky Man (and the names are linked, for any background you might need).

Anna Magnani

Dawn Addams

Peggy Cummins

Joan Bennet

Romy Schneider

Rank away, in Comments.