Caption This for 08/13/10

Yeah AAA I have a car problem and need assistance.

"Hi mate ... got any WD40?"

"Hello... Oh, yes, I would like to order a large pepperoni pizza for delivery..."

No, I didn't say "a tipsy fairy"! I said...

I realise that many of the leading economic experts were warning us all, about a "wave" of cheap Chinese auto imports comimg upon our shores in the near future, but I didnt think that they meant it so literally, or so soon!

A scene from the movie Inception?

Ring, Ring, click...

"Pontoons-R-Us. How can we help you?"

"Have I got a deal for you!"

Does Lloyd's of London cover this kind of maritime calamity?

"OK, now fellows, and ladies; if you can all steer a hard right, on and move forward about 2 metres, then we'll be just all jolly right up again I says."

(Damn this new, green crop of wannabes in the 'synchronised driving on a barge' competition.)

If we want to make it to the next Olympics in this endeavour, as an exhibition sport, we have to at least make it past the regionals.

Hi, Tornado;

I just did a brief Gooooooooooooooooog.... search for "Rodin redux". Still wondering? - please explain in 404,274,985,121 words or less, AYC

Got some snuff on his artistic portrayals and expressions, but not much more.

Loupy

PS - I know that Rodin is a "famous" painter/sculpter.

Perhaps Auguste Rodin's most famous sculpture is "The Thinker," whose pose resembles that of the man in the picture. "Redux" basically means "revisited."

23 words << 404,274,985,121.

Tornado - Think you very much - Loupy

That Thinker guy makes you think a little bit, don't you think?

Thank you for responding and giving me the lowdown on the Rodin "revisited" quip. - GA

Yes....

The original marble sculpture resides in the Musée Rodin in Paris. There is a replica (in bronze, as I recall) in the Maryhill Museum near Goldendale, WA, USA. This is about 80 miles from where I grew up, and is where I first encountered this work.

There is a middling length story about this, which I will share if there is enough interest.

we love stories...

One.

Tornado, perhaps you should post the outcome of our brief discussion, here on this "caption this" blog postings - perhaps into a comment posted by you on "General" category, re; Rodin's "Thinker" - if it has not already been "redux".

I've only "talked" to you a couple of times on this posting, although it should be considered as "off topic".

My own interest in the subject has been somewhat rekindled since your last post, and I will re-investigate it as an adult, and not as an ignorant, brash stupid school-kid, dismissing and placing aside, anything that resembled history, or philosophy or science, as I did when I was a child - Loupy.

Two.

Three

Four

Whilst we're on the subject have you seen ......The stinker

Four - Shut the door, Five, Six......

Here ya go Mate. some real art!

GEEAYE!

GEEAYE!

This cargo overboard

Hey Honey, ya, I think I "sunk" the cars......

Typical overloaded Chinese auto transporter....

Remember that old "sea shanty" (come on, sing along with me...):

"What do you do with drunken sailor, oh what do you do......

I think I might have found Nessie...

Bill?

"Yeah?"

That cement lorry you stowed on the lower deck..

"what abaht it?"

Was it amidships?

"Nah. Couldn't be bovvered moving those kit car shells Jake loaded. Stuck to the port side, or was it Starboard? I nevva can remember..."

Was it empty?

"Why?"

"PlbMak? OK. It's about your new motor. I need to revise the delivery date....."

"No, mate. I think BP has plugged the oil well now. Interesting little experiment, though...."

"Hallo, is that Weightwatchers? Finally today my wife has decided she must lose some weight!"

I told them not to load all the Smart Cars on the same side.

Toyota did WHAT??

"Row, row, row your car,

gently down the......

PEbobimm

Several readers have expressed interest in some further story about "The Thinker" and Sam Hill's Maryhill Museum. I just did a page or so on this, but when I tried to insert some supplemental links, the main post vanished. I apologize for the delay, but will attempt to reconstruct it.

I hate when that happens.

thank you microsoft.

Thomas?

Yeah?

Ben here.

Yeah?

I've called to inform you about a leak!

A leak? What? Where are you? I can barely hear you!

I'm in Boston. ... CLIK ... Thomas? Thomas? Mr. Hutchinson ... you there?

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OK lets see who gets this one.

Inspector ... have you figured out what happened?

Yes Commissioner ... It was a very foggy last night and the vehicles on the port side were all smuggling ShamWows.

After drinking too much port, the pilot in port, overdid port.

Hello Doyle? Yeah..... you know that valve marked "Kingston Valve" on the ballast tank? Yeah thats it..... well I found out what it does.

4............................Hello. Customer service. We just had your stereo lithography unit installed last week. I think it needs to be releveled.

"The Thinker" at Maryhill Museum

Samuel Hill (often called Sam) was a lawyer/engineer who worked for a time with James J Hill's Great Northern Railway. This fascinating individual had many cultural, travel, and engineering interests. He married James J's daughter Mary, who thus became Mary Hill Hill. The marriage was troubled, and Sam later had acquaintances, affairs, and two more marriages with other women.

After leaving Great Northern, Sam Hill moved west. In the early days of automobiles, he became an advocate of good highways. Near the south middle of Washington State, along the Columbia River, he built an experimental road with seven types of paving systems, including pioneering asphalt (macadam) types. He also spearheaded the origin of the Washington State Department of Highways.

A short distance west of where the now Highway 97 crosses the Columbia, Hill built a mansion named Maryhill after his wife, but it was never used as a residence, perhaps owing to the breaking marriage. In his travels, Sam became acquainted with Loie Fuller and Queen Marie of Romania.

Loie Fuller was an American stage-lighting inventor and modern dancer (Fire Dance, Serpentine Dance), who flourished in France in an art/literary circle that included Stephane Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Isadora Duncan, Auguste Rodin, Queen Marie, and many others. She suggested that Sam turn Maryhill into an art museum, which was later dedicated by Queen Marie.

This rural treasure features memorabilia of Fuller and Marie, a collection of ornate chess sets, and a collection of about 12-inch fashion dolls in costumes of the time. The "Thinker" replica that resides there came from Loie Fuller's connection with Rodin. (The original marble one is in the Musée Rodin in Paris.) I have enjoyed a traveling Dale Chihuly glass exhibit there, too. Sam's old experimental highway (lying just east of Hwy 97 as it rises from the Columbia to Goldendale) has been refurbished. It is now known as "Maryhill Loops Road," and is a venue for road rallies, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and skateboarders.

A Google or Wikipedia on "Loie Fuller", "Maryhill", "Maryhill Loops Road", and "Samuel Hill" will tell you much more.

Sam Hill also designed the Peace Arch monument at Blaine, WA, USA; and a Stonehenge replica in memory of the Klickitat County war dead in World War I.

that is a story indeed. good un.

Thank you kindly.

Someday I might tell the story of the Russian student choir waiting in line at the Goldendale Observatory (in the same neck of the woods).

please just start a story thread...and everyone else can chip in... and no story will be off topic.. must be 500 words or more....hahahahaha.

are you saying "Loose Lips Sink Ships"?

Hey, I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.

About the "Story Thread", fiction or non-fiction?

the truth is stranger than fiction!

I have started "Story Thread", preferring true stories. But there are no limits.

Now let me think - what could have caused this. Was it arrogance? Gluttony? Greed? Or did the ferry just have to take a dump?

In an attempt to solve the limited city parking dilemma, a driver studies a new angle of offshore parking.

The good news is that the barge arrived on time to the correct dock. The bad news ...