Pictures you didn't take

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[BigV]

I bet that feels weird to the bug. I imagine practically everything else it alights on is utterly solid.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Motorcycle auctions, like most car auctions, get crazy. The prices they pay for "barn finds" is ridiculous.
Brough was Lawrence of Arabia's favorite brand.. he died riding one.

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Dinosaur Planet in Bangkok:

[xoxoxoBruce]

maybe if they rev it up the fire will go out.

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Marine Sergeant Frank Praytor leans against sandbags in a foxhole. The soldier softly holds a kitten he has named “Miss Hap.” The kitten gets that name because Praytor says she was born at the wrong place at the wrong time. The kitten was left an orphan after another soldier killed its mother for making too much noise. “Miss Hap” had a sister but another soldier who adopted it, rolled over in his sleep and killed it by accident. Praytor’s kitten survived and eventually found its way home to the US with another soldier after Praytor was shipped out.

[BigV]

Sweeeeet

[lumberjim]

Thirsty?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, Monday.

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The first old man said "It sure is windy today.".

The second old man said "No, I think it's Thursday.".

The third old man said "Me, too. Let's go get a beer.".

[glatt]

I saw this on the web. Never saw ivy peel off like this. I always heard it would stick like a SOB to brick and was hard to get off.



So I searched around to find the story, and a million Pintrest false leads later, I found this picture from a guy who worked across the street. He said it had been rainy and the ivy just slumped off.


Apparently it's a thing that sometimes happens.

This one happened during a wind storm.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Damn, that's hard to believe. Even if the added water weight caused it to rip off, to leave no evidence of attachment points is unbelievable.

•Think Permanent: Climbing vines can be very difficult to remove later, so it’s best to consider them as a permanent installation. If you’re worried about your brickwork needing future repairs, you may not want to cover it with self-adhering vines like ivy and climbing hydrangea. Also consider your home’s resale value before planting, as vines may or may not be attractive to future buyers.
•Consider Less-Aggressive Vines: Rather than planting English ivy, whose aerial rootlets not only attach themselves to the brick but can find their way into cracks, consider friendlier vines that have less tendency to cause damage. Boston ivy and Virginia creeper are popular choices for older buildings, since their adhesive suckers don’t attach quite as aggressively as English ivy.

Maybe it's some pussy Ivy.
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Here's a better one...

English ivy (Hedera helix L.) is able to grow on vertical substrates such as trees, rocks and house plaster, thereby attaching so firmly to the surface that when removed by force typically whole pieces of the climbing substrate are torn off. The structural details of the attachment process are not yet entirely understood. We studied the attachment process of English ivy in detail and suggest a four-phase process to describe the attachment strategy: (i) initial physical contact, (ii) form closure of the root with the substrate, (iii) chemical adhesion, and (iv) shape changes of the root hairs and form-closure with the substrate. These four phases and their variations play an important role in the attachment to differently structured surfaces. We demonstrate that, in English ivy, different mechanisms work together to allow the plant's attachment to various climbing substrates and reveal the importance of micro-fibril orientation in the root hairs for the attachment based on structural changes at the subcellular level.

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i, ii, iii, and wait for it, iv! Ivy! iv! Get it? Huh? Do ya get it? Are ya getting it? I feel like you're not getting it...

[glatt]

You crack me up, grav.

And this ivy must be some different species. We have English ivy in our yeard that I have been fighting for decades, and it is hard to get off bark.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No no, smoke it or snort it, but no iv.