Train Smash Event

…annnnnd they’re off!

Yes, it’s time for the Train Smash Championship Stakes, at Aintree’s Grand National.  Sadly, though, the pics seem to have been taken before the pubs opened…

 

While some appeared to have not got the memo about only wearing weird and wonderful outfits…

Rather disappointing, in fact.  Maybe things will go pear-shaped later.

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Time For An Update

This is one of my favorite Reader games, and I can’t believe I haven’t run this in so long.

Here’s the setup.  It’s called HANG THE SOCIALIST, and starts with the well-known Hanging Tree:

Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to put a name to each number.  Your list ought to be in order of preference.  (I know, only 15?  Deal.)

Have at it in Comments.

Monday Funnies

So, to clear our heads, a little off-beat mirth:

Menage à trois — a French term, after all:

And in the same vein:

And while we’re in that territory, so to speak, some offerings from Frederic Leighton:

The last is not by Frederic Leighton.  But run off to work, anyway.

Monday Funnies

Here we go, into the week again:

So let’s get really painful.

This reminds me of the range where I used to shoot, until the pre-adolescent range safety Nazis got a little too much:

Time for a Modern Classic:

And finally, speaking of furrin womens…

Here’s what “pulling the train” means on Lesbos:

From Germany:

…and France:

Now head back off to your job…