written in old German script (even those who can read German may have difficulty; it does have some illustrations though). Chrome does attempt to translate it – click the “OCR full text” link to see the “translated” text, and “Facsimile” to return to the German text with illustrations.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s blog entry for yesterday (November 13, 2016), accessible by the Check Out The Blog! box in the right hand column; so, I won’t point to it here.
BE THIS GUY over 7 years ago
Gustav went down to the local veterans’ office hoping to get a new crutch but all they had for him was a violin.
Funny_Ha_Ha over 7 years ago
Got to admire how he holds up that peg leg so motionless with his bad leg.
orinoco womble over 7 years ago
Putting the “stool” in “firestool.”
katzenbooks45 over 7 years ago
“I’m barefoot, pregnant, my MIL lives with us, and if that peg-legged fool plays ‘Turkey in the Straw’ one more time, I’m gonna snap!”
Coolhand70 over 7 years ago
“I need shoes. . .not another hodown you peglegged bitch!!”
Knightman Premium Member over 7 years ago
Oh My!!! He still can’t play very good can’t he!!!
Radish the wordsmith over 7 years ago
He’s playing Smoke on the Kitchen
maltmash3r over 7 years ago
If he keeps playing that badly, I’ll keep cooking this badly.
x_Tech over 7 years ago
Nero fiddled while momma’s butt burned.
J Short over 7 years ago
Killing time while the oven is on automatic clean cycle.
Helen Ferrieux over 7 years ago
Oh heck! Can’t they see Darth Vadar behind them?
Call me Ishmael over 7 years ago
“Ruby – don’t take your love to town”? (It wasn’t me that started that ol’ Franco-Prussian War…")
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 7 years ago
“He’ll have on his formal peg when he appears with the philharmonic, but around home he goes with the leisure peg.”
dianamek Premium Member over 7 years ago
I like the Google translation on the second page:
“To reiterate: pelvic Gran is a typical Aünstler- shape in the age of property Art.”
Und das ist alles, was sie schrieb.
mabrndt Premium Member over 7 years ago
2 URLs (copy each as one line):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hermann_Bek-Gran_Der_Veteran.jpg
has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate linked pages, if necessary).
The artist doesn’t have a Wikipedia page currently, and I couldn’t find much online about him, other than a 25 page German art journal article
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kuh1908_1909/0013
written in old German script (even those who can read German may have difficulty; it does have some illustrations though). Chrome does attempt to translate it – click the “OCR full text” link to see the “translated” text, and “Facsimile” to return to the German text with illustrations.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s blog entry for yesterday (November 13, 2016), accessible by the Check Out The Blog! box in the right hand column; so, I won’t point to it here.
danketaz Premium Member over 7 years ago
So much for toe-tapping music.
cameron_scarlett over 7 years ago
“…I still don’t know, it seem awkward to sing, ‘Cuz hell’s broke loose in Azerbaijan, and the Devil’s dues are hard.”
“Karlo, Mama says you should change the setting. How about Georgia?!”