BANG UP. (WHIP.) Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
@CarveHerName@histodons@7ikozu the singular courage to do this. 1932. makes my head spin. crash, or just have a very simple engine fault; you're dead. if i was amelia, i'd look pretty pleased with my accomplishment as well!
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🥥 Amelia Earhart said of her solo Atlantic flight: “We all fly Atlantics in our own way. If someone does something against tradition, neighbourhood opinion and so called “common sense” that is an Atlantic…I flew the Atlantic because I wanted to…To want in one’s heart to do a thing, for its own sake; to enjoy doing it; to concentrate all one’s energies upon it – that is not only the surest guarantee of success. it is also being true to oneself.” 🥥 #AmeliaEarhart
Well it's nice to hear that Saint Reagan wasn't so preoccupied with murdering Catholics in Latin America to attempt a death bed conversion of his atheist father in-law by testifying to how prayer cured a peptic ulcer. Really puts a human face on an impersonal god.
CAT CALL. A kind of whistle, chiefly used at theatres, to interrupt the actors, and damn a new piece. It derives its name from one of its sounds, which greatly resembles the modulation of an intriguing boar cat.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
What do you do when you're a happy camper but your partner is less keen on a night under canvas? Wally Byam's solution was to invent the Airstream, which started in the late 1920s as a wooden platform atop the chassis of a Ford Model T and by 1937 was a sleek aluminum-clad trailer marketed as "an airplane without wings ... luxurious in the extreme." Here, @Smithsonianmag looks at the origin and evolution of this American classic.
@CultureDesk@Smithsonianmag@histodons Often overlooked in retro appreciation of the Airstream is that buying one also put you in a cult; you didn't just buy a trailer, you bought into a large continental community. That's why they all had that big red number on the bow.
My parents had a few friends in the Airstream tribe, and we visited them from time to time when they docked in the Airstream "Land Yacht Harbour" at the edge of or town. They were a fun bunch of people.
@Tinido Wundert mich nicht, kenne genug zeitgenössische protestantische "interessante" Figuren ... glaube, das zeigt eigentlich nur, dass Kirche eben auch ne Parallelgesellschaft ist, die ganz eigene Existenzformen ermöglicht ... @eulemagazin@histodons