Spokesman said "No Comment"

It gets worse.



The ferry "Riverdance" was struck by a freak wave on the night of January 31st, 2008, in the Irish sea. Her cargo shifted as she rolled, and was unable to recover from a 60 degree list. The vessel lost power, and, broadside to the waves, drifted some 16 miles. Rescue helicopters fought the storm to lift crew and passengers off.
Eventually she ran aground off the town of Cleveleys, north of Blackpool on the NW coast of England. Salvage attempts were hampered by several further severe storms.
Just scrap metal now.
Sinking into the sands.

Pictures via Cargolaw.com
Cargolaw's site is a source of many of the internet's ships in trouble pics. It's huge, and well worth a visit. If you're involved in any way with ships or cargo, it should be compulsory to regularly visit this site...

Betty Boop- Betty for President-1932

Betty Boop:-Snow White, featuring Cab Calloway 1933

In the number St James' Infirmary, Koko the Clown/the Ghost were really Cab Calloway. The animator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Crandall, used the tecnique called 'rotoscoping' to trace around film of Calloway, and synchronise the characters with Calloway's dance moves. By the way. If you think Michael Jackson invented the 'moonwalk', you might think differently in a couple of minutes.

Dynosphere.

A very aged uncle once gave me a tinful of old cigarette cards, from maybe the nineteen twenties.
I've still got them- somewhere. One of them had a picture of The Dynosphere. Picture my glee: by chance, here it is on the internet!

Going Camping?

Bobby Finders

In 1903, a London businessman by the name of Alfred Dunhill became one of, or possibly was, the very first motorist to be prosecuted for speeding. ( he had, it is said, the third motor-car ever to arrive in Britain) The speed-limit in all of Britain was then 12 miles per hour. Alfred's car was seen by a policeman doing the unthinkable speed of twenty-five miles per hour. Alfred was fined the sum of one pound. The charge was 'driving furiously'.
Irate, and incensed by this injustice, as he saw it, he decided to work to obstruct the police, and abet the motorist, and very soon was advertising 'Dunhill's Bobby Finders', (Bobby being a slang term for a policeman).His device was a pair of binoculars, which were fitted to driving goggles, and hinged, so they could fold up, or be brought down to see the road ahead.His slogan was "Will spot a policeman at half a mile -even if he is disguised as a respectable man."
An early fore-runner of the radar warning devices, and speed camera alerts.

A similar device in Portugal in 1914 was blogged at Gatochy's Blog yesterday, though that looks to be aimed more at the theatre or opera enthusiast.

Never, Just Never, Fill Your Tyres With Helium.

Yuk House

Sounds delightful.