Samica

help me find this girl in red I just wanna talk
Samica

This gal is great. Yes, she's young, she's beautiful and she's definitely several levels higher than I am, and the stuff she talks about is like hearing about life on another planet. But mostly I think I like her because she is sweet, or soft, or kind or something. Okay, she's gawd awful good looking, and that's really enough.

Kitchen Knives

Seems to be a theme today.

Not to mention there seems to be a lot of slicing and dicing in our current serial Killing Eve.

Sarah Lezito

I believe I can fly
Sarah Lezito

French woman has a bunch of videos up on YouTube. She is a treat to watch.

Is it Cheesecake? Or is it Memorex?

Cute girl

Pull up a story about unemployment statistics on ZeroHedge and this photo pops up. Or is it a photo? I suspect it is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) generated image (her right hand might have too many fingers). Her attire and the office setting are entirely incongruous. Also, there are no credits.

The story was impenetrable, or maybe I'm just too lazy to expend the energy trying to understand it. The gist of it, I think, is that unemployment continues to be high and the government continues to lie about it, so nothing really new there.

Barbie

Barbie | Main Trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures

Very silly, very funny. If there was any substance, I missed it. Cinemax / HBO

Pat Wise

Pat Wise on a 350 Manx Norton
First woman in Isle of Man Tourist Trophy

Her first race at the Isle of Man was in a sidecar but eventually she started riding her own bike. She passed away in 2012. Links:

• Cycle Cult has more pictures
• TTwebsite has a short article

From Russia With Love

From Russia With Love (1963) Official Trailer - Sean Connery James Bond ...
Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

A fine movie with plenty of action, a plausible plot and plenty of pretty girls. Highlights:

Armalite AR-7 Survival Rifle

Armalite AR-7 Survival Rifle, disassembled

• secret agent briefcase with fifty gold sovereigns, a hidden knife, a booby trap and an AR-1 25 caliber, single shot sniper rifle.

Periscope, Kerim Bey & James Bond

• periscope into the Russian Embassy in Istanbul

Gypsy Camp Scene - From Russia with Love - James Bond Source Music
Fictional Music

• gypsy girls, gypsy girl dancing, gypsy girls fighting. Did I mention there are gypsy girls? Oh, that's right I did.

1960 Ford Ranch Wagon

• Ford Ranch Wagon. Seeing this car really struck a chord with me. My inner ten year old really likes the 1960 Ford Galaxy and the 1961 Thunderbird.

My approximation of Bond's escape route from Istanbul to Venice

Simplon Orient Express

• The fight with the SPECTRE agent on the Simplon Orient Express
• The truck versus helicopter fight.

Fairey Huntress Powerboat

Islands off the coast of Istria near Futana
Possible location of boat chase

• The flight across the northern end of the Adriatic Sea from Istria to Venice in a power boat with 200 gallons of fuel in 50 gallon drums held in a rack on the back.

Webley Flare Pistol

• The destruction of the incompetent bad guys by dumping the gasoline in the water and setting it afire with the Very flare gun.

Rosa Klebb's shoe dagger

• Klebb uses her pointy shoe to fight with Bond.

P. S. The scenes of Bond and the girl in Venice were shot on a green screen. It's pretty obvious they weren't actually in Venice. Someday I need to find out how they did that.

Free on Amazon Prime

Thunderball

Thunderball (1965) Official Trailer - Sean Connery James Bond Movie HD
Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Another day, another Bond film. Life doesn't get much better than this. I was thinking about looking up all the girls and finding some cheesecake shots to post, but then I stumbled over this video, so I'm taking the easy way out.

The Bond girls of ...Thunderball! [Behind the scenes]
Frogwoman Org Reloaded

Thunderball has appeared here before.

Dr. No Official Trailer #1 - Sean Connery Movie (1962) HD

Dr. No Official Trailer #1 - Sean Connery Movie (1962) HD
Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

Pretty great, even after 60 (!) years. Available on Amazon Prime. I watched the four Daniel Craig Bond movies this summer while I was recuperating. At that time, those were the only ones that were free (if you are a Prime subscriber), but all the others required an extra payment. Now they are all 'free'. Ursula Andress provides the eye candy:

Ursula Andress

Ursula has appeared here before.

More Girls in the News

From left, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Oct. 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Michaels Reynolds/Pool via AP

It seems two Republican women representatives have both filed bills of impeachment against President Biden. Lauren Boebert from Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia are the two instigators.

PJ Media has a story by Lincoln Brown and it is very entertaining. The introduction:

You would think that, with information on the Biden family and the complicity of the DOJ and IRS spilling over like an RV toilet tank at a cheap roadside campground, Republicans would somehow find a way to stay on the same page long enough to make some headway. I mean, the recent news alone should be enough for the elephants in D.C. to link hands and sing “Kumbaya” and even hoist some frosty mugs of whatever beverages they favor for a few choruses of The Beatles’ “All Together Now.” Didn’t anybody else watch Rep. Jason Smith’s presser yesterday? Didn’t they read Hunter’s WhatsApp message to Zhang? I know that the efficacy of Kevin McCarthy’s leadership is up for debate and that there are herds of RINOs grazing on the Republican plains inside the Beltway. But can’t everyone just stay on target?

Via Sondrak's Gulch

Miss Universe National Costumes that made me "👁👄👁"

Nuts? Amazing? Spectacular? I think I'll go with spectacular.

Album Cover of the Day

Charli XCX Crash Album Cover

I find it curious that the older I get, the more I appreciate good looking women. I tried listening to some of her music, but it did nothing for me.

Dagmar

I bought a RARE 1949 Cadillac Fastback, and making it my 70 year old daily driver! Amazing Restomod!
Hoovies Garage
I'll find a YouTube channel I like and I'll follow it for a while but eventually I get tired of whoever-it-is and wander off. Hoovie is one of those. Yesterday though I watched this one and enjoyed it. He does include a little bit of mid-20th century history of the automobile industry so that was a bonus. 

Two door cars look cooler than four door cars, but they are much more impractical. Getting into the back seat of a two door car is inconvenient at best. But I just had a thought - they would be good for families with small kids. You could stuff them in the back seat and they would stay there. They wouldn't be opening the door and jumping out at the stop sign and running away, nor would kidnappers be able to open the door and drag one of your little inmates away. So, security. Don't know if that ever occured to anyone. I think I only had one two door car, a 196x Buick Special that I bought from my dad for a hundred bucks in the late 1960s. It didn't last long.

But back to the video. Hoovie is drooling over the cars styling when he mentions that the bullet like protrusions on the front bumper are called Dagmars, a term I had never heard before, so a-Googling I go.

Virginia Ruth Egnor - aka Dagmar

Street Muscle Magazine has the story along with some fine photos of human and automotive torpedoes.

Dagmar was the persona of a 1950s sensation–born Virginia Ruth Egnor, this gorgeous blonde was an American actress, model, and television personality. According to Wikipedia, “As a statuesque, busty blonde, she became the first major female star of television, receiving much press coverage during that decade.”

Woman sometimes complain about men staring at their breasts, but that's like complaining about wolves howling at the moon. It's a trait that a zillion years of evolution and social conditioning has ingrained in the male psych. It's instinctive. When a pair of large female breasts enter a man's field of view his gaze is going to be instinctively focused on them. It takes considerable effort to overcome this attraction. So lighten up ladies, you've got the guy's attention and if that's not what you are after there are any number of ways to discourage it.

Eileen Sheridan (cyclist)

Eileen Sheridan

Eileen was quite the cyclist:

Eileen Sheridan on her record-breaking ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats in 1954. She did the 842 miles in 2 days 11 hours and 7 minutes. - daily timewaster

Google estimates it would take you a bit longer:

Land’s End to John O’Groats via bicycle
(83 hours)

A commenter on daily timewaster tells us she road a Hetchins bicycle. Sheldon Brown has one.

Curly Stays on a Hetchins bicycle

The curly stays might be unique. I've never seen the like before. Back when I used to ride bicycles, I was taking to a guy at the local bike shop and he's telling me that he finds a steel frame bicycle is more comfortable to ride, possibly because the steel flexes and aluminum frames don't. I never noticed, but then I was pretty much focused on just getting one more turn of the pedals. I was never a powerful rider.

Hetchins is also known for their fancy lugwork:

Hetchins custom handlebar stem

According to Wikipedia, Eileen is only 4'11" tall and is still alive.

Smoking and Food, Part 2

Yami Nu looking yummy
Sports Illustrated 2022

Handwaving Freakoutery echoes my sentiments about weight and smoking, but does it with numbers and pictures.

Dick Allen smoking a cigarette
Sports Illustrated 1972

You can still see people smoking in European TV shows, but seldom, if ever, in American ones. You can see what it used to be like here.

Vanishing Point

Gilda Texter

Road & Track has a fine story about the movie Vanishing Point and how it's, er, vanishing. The story mentions Gilda (above) and three tunes:

• Vanishing point (1971) soundtrack,Jerry Reed-Welcome to Nevada
• Vanishing point (1971) soundtrack,Jimmy Walker-where do we go from here
• Audioslave - Show Me How to Live (Video)

The first two only have a single still image, the Audioslave one has a bunch of clips from the movie.

I don't think I ever saw the movie, but the Road & Track story is pretty great, and who doesn't like naked chicks on motorcycles?

Via Tamara Keel on Facebook

Signal

Signal Trailer
iflix Malaysia

Korean cop show about a cold case squad. Two coppers start communicating over walkie talkies, except the are operating at two different points in time, 25 years apart. Totally unbelievable, but it makes for a good story. 

Kim Hye-su

It got a little slow and soap-opera-y at times, but the very attractive Kim Hye-su made up for it. It's kind of ridiculous how much I enjoyed watching her.

The above trailer has subtitles, but it's very short, so here's a longer one. No subtitles, but it gives a better idea of the flavor of the show.


[#시그널] 6분 하이라이트!
tvN drama
Jack tells me that a few years ago there was a discussion in ham radio circles about some kind of delayed radio transmissions. A little Googling turned up this story on VICE:

Radio Ghosts Have Haunted the Airwaves for Nearly a Century

These ghost signals are only few seconds old, not fifteen years. On the other hand, no one has figured out just what is causing them. And delays can only account for receiving messages from out of the past, we still have no method of sending messages back in time.

All of which sounds a whole lot like another movie I saw many moons ago:

Frequency - Original Theatrical Trailer

Warner Bros.

Frequency came out in 2000 and was something of a hit. Wikipedia has the story.

On Netflix, from 2016, 16 episodes.

Biker Chick

Nancy setting off for a motorcycle rally in England, 1934.
80 piece jigsaw puzzle

Nancy Debenham and her sister Betty were avid bikers back in the 1930s. Sheldon's EMU has a note about them.

Sheldon't EMU seems to be quite the motorcycle site:

Sheldon's Emu began as a collection of articles, letters and emails about European motorcycles, the result of research and correspondence dating back to 1994. It now covers several thousand different marques, many of which have extensive archives including images and specifications. The site relates to vintage, veteran and classic motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, with numerous pages on road-racing and off-road competition machines.

Beauty

Beauty
300 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Found nothing about the girl, but the dress is available at several places.

Das Leibchen

Das Leibchen

Skimming the latest postings and this picture pops up and I stop. She is a lovely woman. But why are a woman's breasts so attractive? Yeah, I know, biology and evolution and all that, but it's a little disconcerting how much effect they have. I wonder, do they have a similar effect on other women? I suspect not.