The Saturday Picture Show, July 10, 2021

 

In India, a country ravaged by the COVID, this villager brought corn as his way to thank the doctors for giving him his life-saving vaccine. Here, we offer people money and beer and baseball tickets to come and GET the shots. Perhaps we should offer them corn, as well.

Those of you who never worked with tapes, either reel-to-reel or cassettes, will never know the heartbreak of seeing your music or your dictation or whatever you had on tape reduced to a pile of brown spaghetti.

Those Lacoste polo shirts that everyone used to call "alligator shirts" - that was a misnomer. Alligators are not native to France, which is where René Lacoste became a tennis legend. During a Davis Cup match in Boston in the 1920s, Lacoste and his coach got into an argument over a crocodile suitcase, and he decided to play on his fame, and produce white piqué collared shirts in which to play tennis. The shirts all had wee crocodiles on the left breast, so Americans immediately started calling them "alligator shirts," and what can be done about that?

Instead of chopping down the tree, the Mexicans who constructed this apartment built it around the tree, and let the tree thrive.

I'm all for everyone seeing the 1988 movie "Mystic Pizza," starring (l to r) Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor, and Julia Roberts, before she decided that all she had to do was open her mouth very wide and guffaw. Great performances all around, and reminders of the lessons we all had to learn.

I won't cross this, the Shahara Bridge in Yemen, when I come to it, because I will never come to it. But if it were a mile from my house, I wouldn't cross it either.

My reminder that fall is not that far away! Right now, the people who do the ordering at your local coffee and latte shop are ordering fake pumpkin spice flavorings for you for the end of August.

If this isn't the coolest RV on the road, I don't know what is. It even has a little front porch!

I know that going Paleo and eating like a cave dweller is all the rage, but you can't top this guy for inventing the raw PB & J.

There are warehouses and boxes and desk drawers full of these old disks. No one wants to throw them away because there might be some file they need someday on them. I hereby authorize you to toss them, and if your boss hollers about it, tell him some guy in Baltimore told you to go ahead.