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November 26, 2008 |
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Ahh, Life Is Good, Fellas
FOUND by Shane Speal
in York, Pennsylvania
I found this picture shoved in an old book.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
nick nick nick! ... swampfire.
This guy's pose is similar to Lee Harvey Oswald in the famous photo where he was just shot by Jack Ruby. I'm sure I only noticed it because this week (45th anniversary) I saw a Photoshop version of that photo where Oswald was singing into a microphone and Jack Ruby was playing a guitar.
Guess this was in the days before slogans like: "Stay alive, don't drink and drive."
We were just discussing how detectives in old movies, and TV right up to the 80s did a lot (I mean a *lot*) of drinking and smoking...ahhh the days of product placement! But then how could you smoke like a chimney and drink like a fish, and yet run up and down stairs and across roofs after the bad guys (which they always did, the "stairwell shot" is legendary) let alone climbing the occasional hurricane fence, without having a coronary from all those ciggies? The magic of television and suspended belief.
Meanwhile, that necktie could start a fire all on its own.
I love the idea that the wine he's drinking caused the purple spill on the corner of the photo.
Off screen lacky: "So boss, we robbed da liquor joint, kidnapped the bar maid and drove to the forest, whats next?"
Boss *grabs a beer and rubs his nipple*: "Things are going to get interesting....."
Prohibition Photo?
@ the man behind the curtain in oz...
What does "nick nick nick! ... swampfire" mean? I've been thinking about this and I just don't get it. Is this some sort of 20 something reference that us old people don't get? (or maybe it's just me)
This is either Dean or Dain. I could never tell them apart.
And coming to us from York, PA conjures up all sorts of possibilities: clean-shaven Amishman on a bender; businessman escaping drudgery of his Baltimore job; legislator down from the state capitol doing some 'campaigning' (wink, wink); former 5th-grader on his way toward world domination .... Possibilities are almost endless.
Never drink and drive - that's why I always do all my drinking before I drive...
I don't drink half as much as I use to - I cut out the mixers....
I joined Alcholic's Anonymous... I still drink but nobody knows who I am...
We'd like to start Happy Hour sir... could you please leave?
(I miss Rodney Dangerfield...)
Darkshines.. hahahaha! A beer is almost always more satisfying when accompanied by a little nipple rub...
douche.
I wonder how many pictures there are of the best man/groomsmen having a nip at the car before the wedding service?
hee-hee - I said having a nip, then just read the nipple rub comments. I don't think he's rubbing his nipple, FWIW.
I like this O.G. What the gang sign/nipple tickle means, I dunno.
Can anyone figure what what the button on his lapel says? It looks like a campaign button. If we could read it, we'd know alot more about the year of the photo.. although we can sorta date the car, it might have been old when the photo was taken. I think this could have been any year from the 1920's to the 1960's. Men's clothing doesn't change much with time.
Where I live, men almost never wear suits anymore, even businessmen. We're pretty casual on the west coast. However, on the news recently, I've noticed that the men's ties are more interesting, all different. (Remember when they all wore red "power ties"? Boring.) And the suits now are black and shiny, with wide gray stripes. And often the color of the shirt, some pastel shade, doesn't go very well with the tie or the suit.
He is holding something in his left hand. It looks like a flask or an envelope or maybe a handful of cash.
Maybe a baggy of coke or pot.
Fuck prohibition!! YEAH!! WOOH!! Down with The Man.
This dude totally just robbed a bank.
Whatever he is holding in his left hand makes it look like he has an extra finger on that hand....
he's holding an empty liquor bottle in his left hand.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
now let's get this honeymoon started!!
I don't think that's a button (or an empty bottle), I think it's a rose in his lapel. So he's going to a wedding. In fact he's probably the best man.
Though my first thought was 'The Lost Weekend'.
Now, come on all you chaps -- what's the car?
Oh, now I see it. I still think it's a rose in his lapel, but isn't that one of those flat half-bottles of Scotch in his left hand?
Pretty sure he's about to whip his jacket off and helicopter it over his head.
This guy looks like he is sucking on that bottle like there is no tomorrow.
Coca Cola. Don't things go better with Coke?
If he was trying to look sexy, I have to say that it's not working on me.
Carnation in lapel, hip flask in hand.
And he looks like he's saying, in the immortal words of either Morcambe or Wise, "I have a long-felt want!"
...There's no answer to that, is there Jonathan?
This guy has two pinkies!
i thought this would be another find from Robert Keim.
It's not a pin! it's a carnation...and he's not rubbing his nipple, if you magnify the pic and look at it very careful you can see he is holding a crystal clear bottle (spring water comes to my mind)...
my guess is that he didn't have a glass to mix the spring water and whiskey
nice!
@feeling in coherent. Nick etc swampfire! is a reference to Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider every time he would take a slug of whiskey. I probably should have explained rather than leaving it hanging.
he's taking a swig while he's doing the famous Chicken Dance..
(squwak with your hands,
flap your chicken wings,
shake your tail feathers..)
Man, he really looks like he is sucking on that bottle.
notice the angle of the car? He was drinking long before he drove and now is in the ditch and doesn't care.
That is a carnation in his lapel.
America's 25th President William Mckinley wore a red one in his lapel for good luck, but I don't know how much relevance that has to this since the car, style of the mans hair, and clothing all make this picture seem like a more 1930's-1940's era photo.
Overall I love this picture.
Stuck in @ work
"This guy has two pinkies!"
Nah! You've just been hitn' the same bottle.
Nah! You've just been hitn' the same bottle.
Follow my finger
http://sudoku.com.au/Prizes/H617.jp
Maybe he's Mafiaoso..Bugsy, or private, underground own Mafia Crew!
It looks like he should be holding a ciggy and a gun in his left hand, but I think it's a Sterling Silver Whiskey Flask, myself. (My mom's Uncle, whom has now passed, lived to be 96 and he gave my mom his engraved Sterling Silver, Sheffield Flask...which I now own...Love it!! It's...over a hundred years old!) I've used it at many of concerts and games! (Sports) I dunno...he looks happy, that's obvious!
Looks like a MADE-MAN to me..that is for sure.
Love these 'oldy-moldy photos!
i love this so much
First question.. why are BOTH doors open on the car? The driver could very well haven been taking the picture, but why leave the car door open??
Second question... anyone else think at first glance it was Lee Harvey Oswald? (besides geek and me?)
And....
maybe it's not a bottle he's got in front of his mouth, maybe it's a old-style megaphone...
he's trying to say "CONGRATS BUDDY! Oh finally settling down... wedding is tomorrow, but we can still get hookers tonight, right????"
The only thing missing from this photo is Bonnie holding her gun...
Wow, I am so in love with this photo!
What a great story it conjures up.
Also thinking prohibition, men gettin' all dressed up to go out in the middle of no where to drink.
Thank you so much for posting it!