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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2012-07-24 09:47 am
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Oh dear. Another time sink. Retronaut, that allows me to revisit the 60s and then be sorry I did. Though the pics of 60s London is exactly what I saw as a child there.

Found courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] sovay, who links Soviet Accident Prevention Posters with occasional HK Subtitle Factory translations. Accidents at the dinner table: 'Be careful with a spud', 'Be careful with forks' etc. And if anyone knows what an arbor is, I might be interested in hearing it. (Note for the squeamish: just colour drawings, but with occasional limbs caught in machinery.)

Big white cloud last night, looking like Harald Sohlberg's winter mountains, but with lightning flickering all through it. No rain, no thunder, just post-sunset blue sky and a flashing mountain floating in it.

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2012-07-25 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
aye a time sink it is. I went to look at some shoes apparently circa 1930's, and I am certain that some of the styles have resurfaced today.

I have always thought an arbor was to do with plants and trees, (I was assumiming that's where the term arboretum comes from). One of the online dictionaries says it is a a shady place for resting (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/arbor) and Capability Brown sort of comes to mind. And of course wikipedia has lots to say about Arboretums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboretum)

But that definintion says it is also an axe type thing for rotating machinery ... so yeah I'd be careful around those.

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Edited 2012-07-25 02:40 (UTC)

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2012-07-26 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
OK, axe type thing it is. No truth in packaging here.