Latest posts tagged with #ThingThursday on Bluesky
A lighter shaped like a frog sitting up with his mouth open and belching fire. His gaze always on the beautiful flame.
Been a while, but here's a #thingthursday for ya! My favorite lighter ever. Mom got it for me shortly after I was out of high school. I love my little metal froggy. He likes to start fires, just like me.
Do you have a favorite lighter? I'd love to see it if you do!
Kids in the Hall live show program on a fake wood vinyl floor
Not sure if this was from the show I got my head professionally crushed at on the big screen or not.
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Pack of cards with photo of Elvis on front
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Elvis: The Cards of His Life unopened pack (1992)
Image of a brown paper shopping bag with a handle. Text in red says: "Make This Bag Last! Paper is Vital to the War Effort; help save it. Parcels carried save gasoline, rubber and wrapping materials. EATON'S"
Make This Bag Last!
I note these are making a comeback, sans message, with at least one grocery behemoth.
#ThingThursday #WWII #Eaton's #Ephemera
MagnaCard business card magnet bundles. Adhesive magnets to stick business cards on
#ThingThursday is another reminder of a bygone era.
I'm going to use them to make homemade fridge magnets with my own designs.
Slightly quaint little thing for #ThingThursday - my Great-Grandfather Jasper Botten's Home Guard shooting competition trophy from 1941. It's barely 10cms tall, but I love it and my Grandfather was rather proud of his old man's achievement - he would have been ten in 1931...
A small old flashlight, opened up, batteries dead
A small old flashlight, opened up, batteries replaced, light on
The small old flashlight in hand, working
#ThingThursday this Energizer-brand flashlight I inherited: no way to open it up to replace batteries. I broke it open, replaced them, fixed it with packing tape. I was like, is this for real, a “single use” flashligh? Yes.
#ThingThursday - a second #Shrok has been built from the leftover rocks I had! I'm still waiting for the glue to dry & may add some more pieces for the arms, but this 2nd one could possibly "Fi-ore-na"?
Follow your dreams, everyone! 🪨
P.S. I'll be arranging shipping for both to @ziibiing.com soon.✨
Saw them at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on August 30, 1997 too. Weird Al opened.
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A white glass mug that has text in brown script that reads: “If you can’t dazzle them with Brilliance baffle Them with Bullshit.”
Since y’all seem to really enjoy drinkware for #ThingThursday, here is one of my favorite mugs. It was a thrifted gift from a friend and it’s too special for coffee. It lives on my desk and holds random crap.
It's #ThingThursday (it's a thing!), & is a little bit special. My great-grandfather Jasper Botten's Soldier's Small Book, his Pay Book, & a little pocket history of the 1st Royal Sussex Regt that he had clearly got from someone else. He spent the FWW on garrison duty, which maybe saved his life.
White coffee mug with a green graphic, featuring a leaping trout going after a fishing fly, with the fly fisher silhouetted in the background. Arching text around the trout reads "NEC-IV Grand River 1997" and below the trout in large all caps is "Flyfish@" "NEC-IV" stands for 4th annual Northeast Conclave, an in-person gathering of the "Flyfish@" email listserv. still hosted out of the University of Kentucky, it has members from all over the world but the biggest annual gatherings are in the Northeastern US. This 4th one was a rare Canadian exception
#ThingThursday following @robcruickshank.bsky.social 's sharing of Old (pre-social media) Internet souvenirs, here's a commemorative mug from the first IRL gathering i attended, of the #flyfishing email listserv i still subscribe to :)
Sadly, Facebook literally decimated the traffic on that group
#ThingThursday Longboarding club edition!
An embroidered patch of the old Ontario Longboarding Forum logo. OLF was a PHP forum, back in the early 2000s, and the focus of a close-knit scene here. Hard to believe how long ago it started and how so much of it is still going.
#ThingThursday from me is something my 2 Div uncle made. He was with 208 Field Company RE, with all that entailed from Dunkirk to Mandalay, via Kohima.
black and white sigil with lil red wheels connecting a line that runs through it. many symbols can be found.
this isn’t what i was looking for but it is what i found, this is a sigil i designed for a longboard club (lbc) we started in 2020
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A program from the Monkees 20th anniversary tour with Gary Puckett and the union gap, Herman’s Hermits, and the grass roots. I saw the show the Carlton celebrity room in Bloomington Minnesota in August 1986. The program is laying on a multicolored rug.
My souvenir from the August 20, 1986 show at the Carleton celebrity room dinner theater… not sure why I went for this instead of a shirt?
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A folding souvenir (1970s) booklet reproducing the Bayeux Tapestry. The cover is pin, orange and yellow with an illustration of a king on a throne, a cathedral and three ships setting off for England.
A souvenir booklet that unfolds to illustrate the entire Bayeux Tapestry in tones of beige and brown.
Since everybody's talking (at least in the UK) about the #BayeuxTapestry, here's a '70s souvenir from Normandy.
The booklet opens to display the tapestry in full, but is too long to photograph flat. [Now to carefully refold!]
📷by me.
#ThingThursday #Mediaeval #Ephemera
It's #ThingThursday - and today I have gone with an original picture I bought recently showing Lee tanks of 25 Dragoons moving up towards the 'Tortoise' position in the Razabil 'Fortress', on the Mayu Range at the end of January 1944 (pic 3 aerial photo of Tortoise)
Canada Post stamps celebrating Canadian cartoonists. Clockwise from upper left: Kate Beaton (Ducks/Hark! A Vagrant!) Jimmy Beaulieu (22°C/Non-aventures) Julie Doucet (Dirty Plotte/The Madame Paul Affair) Michael Nicoli Yahgulanaas (Red, A Haida Manga) Brian Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim/Seconds) Guy Delisle (Aline et les autres/Pyongyang)
Images of a representative sample of each cartoonist’s most famous works
For #ThingThursday, my new Canadian cartoonist stamps!
This is Canada Post’s second run of cartoonist stamps celebrating the wide variety of fantastic graphic novel creators from the Great White North. Thanks to @pwnny.bsky.social and @andrewencer.bsky.social for getting these to me!
A push-button pay phone mounted in a nook on the basement level of an art museum. The walls are formed with small bronze and steel tubes, making the phone, with its polished chrome faceplate, coin return chute, burnished black metal coin box, coiled stainless steel cord, and heavy-duty black plastic handset, stand out. The phone is in excellent condition but, sadly, nonfunctional. There is a silver bench seat mounted on the wall below and to the left of the phone, but there is no phone book.
A long-distance dedication to @2600.com. #ThingThursday #LNK
Stereopticon card with two photos of a Great Lakes steamship docked in Toronto harbour, c1900-1905. Patches of snow on the ground and cloudy sky overhead.
Still sorting through my #stereopticon cards of 1900-ish #Toronto. Here's "Steamer Kingston at Toronto in Winter."
#ThingThursday #GreatLakes
An instrument from Taylor that tells the temperature and the humidity
The Humidiguide from Taylor is approximately as old as I am and still works. Unlike me.
(Badumtss.)
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Can we make #ThingThursday a thing? Anyway, this is my Microphone Hand No.3. A common handset used across the British & Indian Armies, including in tanks as a back up, or by the wireless op if the tank was stationary and the engine off. The Infantry box on the back of tanks sometimes had one too.
Black & White contact-print of a 120/620 6-by-9-shot showing a tiny, toothless old lady dressed in a plaid overshirt & a dark wool skirt tucked into her workboots in such a way it looks more like slacks. She's holding a little poodle-dog (almost as toothless as she) under her left arm, & keeping a much-larger-hunting-dog to-heel by the collar with her right hand, as she smiles at the photographer. Behind her are 2 fencerows of rough-hewn, hand-hammered-posts (one immediately behind her; the other in front of a farm house across the dirt road) on a northern Indiana dirt road.
![Loose-leaf-sheet detailing "Story from Bernice [my great-grandma]--recounted June 1, 1996 //G-ma Ledger, farm house in Mich. City,* had a little dog, no gun. One day, two hunters came through her field. She grabbed her best weapon, a silver-handled knife, grabbed her dog under her arm, went out & told hunters 'You'd better turn around & go thru those woods or I'll have to rip you up.' And those hunters turned around & went thru the woods. [At this point, Bernice started cackle-laughing, at recalling] 'Here was this little old woman, standing there, who probably couldn't run if she had to [and yet those men listened & stayed off her land].' *-[farm was] across from old school."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreieduhc6ukrwfskhu4ehyak5bprimqezbniyqsw4m4azrcmdjky36m)
Loose-leaf-sheet detailing "Story from Bernice [my great-grandma]--recounted June 1, 1996 //G-ma Ledger, farm house in Mich. City,* had a little dog, no gun. One day, two hunters came through her field. She grabbed her best weapon, a silver-handled knife, grabbed her dog under her arm, went out & told hunters 'You'd better turn around & go thru those woods or I'll have to rip you up.' And those hunters turned around & went thru the woods. [At this point, Bernice started cackle-laughing, at recalling] 'Here was this little old woman, standing there, who probably couldn't run if she had to [and yet those men listened & stayed off her land].' *-[farm was] across from old school."
A bit late for #ThingThursday, but here's a snapshot I found among my Great-Grandma's souvenirs--of HER Great-Grandma, ca. 1926 (when she'd've been right around 80). 70 yrs later, my g-gma shared a story about her, that I had the presence of mind to jot-down (which I just rediscovered) #SaveYourLore
There wasn't even a question in my mind what I would post as soon as I learned about #ThingThursday.
