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   margueritem said, 11 months ago

   Nothing a man like better than a good cigar…
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   Veridian said, 11 months ago

   Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick (Backed up by a wicked sharp Blade here on my left hip….)
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   Radish said, 11 months ago

   He’s got his hands full.
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   orinoco womble said, 11 months ago

   Ye stick is stuck in ye ground. Without that, he’d fall on ye face.
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   JohnnyDiego said, 11 months ago

   @margueritem

   Nothing a man like better than a good cigar…

   .

   And as Edie Adams used to say about a Muriel Panatela,

   “Why don’t you pick one up and smoke it sometime.”
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   Ice Hole said, 11 months ago

   An imagination of either it’s extention, or cooling down to become soft..
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   win said, 11 months ago

   is that a walking stick you’re grasping or are you just happy to see me?
8. 

   Arch Stanton said, 11 months ago

   “what are you thinking about, honey?”
   “oh, nothing really, just thinking back to the time I was in prison.”
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   Number Two said, 11 months ago

   Cane and able!
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    ghostkeeper said, 11 months ago

    That . . . looks to be a pizzle stick, which is a type of walking stick probably not made these days. See, what you do is take the . . . ah . . . how to put it . . . the . . . er . . . extension . . . of a bull, stretch it out, work it so that the pizzle becomes all stiff and hard . . . permanently so . . .
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    mabrndt said, 11 months ago

    Enlarged image (use browser zoom to enlarge more) available from here (last View All Sizes choice).
    
    Portrait of Alfred Potocki (click link for his Wikipedia page) has a much bigger click-to-enlarge image available from its current-location page (to get the click-to-enlarge image, click the image there, not in its Google translation). This has another portrait of him by a different artist. The artist’s Wikipedia page and collection.
    
    Third of the 4 works by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here, in the last 7 days — What is this, Jan Matejko week?
    
    P.S. The current-location links are really slow, perhaps the site is undergoing maintenance.
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    finale said, 11 months ago

    " I can’t believe the Marching Band is late again!"
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    leftwingpatriot said, 11 months ago

    @mabrndt

    Thanks.
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    Linguist said, 11 months ago

    I want to show you my magic stick. Wanna hold it?
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    Perkycat said, 11 months ago

    @ Ghostkeeper – TMI
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