The Saturday Picture Show, January 27, 2018

I was always fascinated as a kid with Uncle Scrooge McDuck. His sole focus seemed to be amassing as much gold as he could. Imagine that!

On the left is a new uniform shoe for a member of the Royal Guardsmen at Buckingham Palace; on the right, the same shoe after a year of service.

If you've always wondered about what a soda machine looks like inside, perhaps we will find one for next week's Picture Show. This is the inner workings of a pool table. 

Every once in a while, you see a tomato on the vine after the season ends, but this was an apple that hung around until December. 

We get the surname "Holloway" from the word for pathways that have been traveled for so many years that they have actually worn a ridge into the trail, like an uncovered tunnel, until it becomes a hollow way. (This is serious and on the level, not one of my bad puns!) Here is a road abandoned by cars, and becoming a part of the woods it once cut through.

America will always be the greatest country in the world, as long as we have the ingenuity to make ersatz corkscrews out of drywall screws and copper wire.

...But we bow to the greatness of Costa Rica, where four presidential candidates met at a Burger King to vie for the Foosball championship.

Imagine how many cheeseburgers you could have bought if you were a billionaire real estate developer, casino entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed genius in 1962.