mrwaverly:
And yes, I despise football with every atom of my being, but this football means more than just a silly game. This leather sphere meant: 'Stop. No more. We CAN be friends. For a while at least'. This ball meant hope, even the tiniest glimmer of it.
mrwaverly:
Taken, unknowingly by two gentlemen who were taking photographs (glass plate negatives) for 'Country Life' magazine.
superbabzy:
Wee buggers!
mrwaverly:
Oddly, this seems to sync to any music playing. Try it - it makes it even funnier.
usagimomo:
"Oh long johnson" rmix...
mrwaverly:
From the UK TV show 'Sapphire & Steel' [1979-82]. A properly scary programme shown early in the evening so as to give young kids nightmares. It succeeded. My younger brother could be frightened by a whistled tune from the second story, or by the threat of the bloke above. It also made use of sinister phrases such as: "Doctor McDee must die..." The show starred Joanna Lumley [Sapphire], and David McCallum [Steel].
mrwaverly:
He's dressed in silver painted cardboard, and could only move, by shuffling like a penguin. The poem he's reciting is just nonsense words, like "A daba rodou", and "Dub mut gub".
mrwaverly:
Colonel Breen finds the truth the hard way, in 'Quatermass And The Pit' [1967]