Die Hard ties with Arsenic And Old Lace for 2nd place, followed by Die Hard 2 on 3rd.
Which is kinda odd as Arsenic And Old Lace is set on Halloween. But it’s always round the middle of december when I feel like watching it. In fact my better half and I watched it last sunday.
I was going to write something about this being a photo from an alternative timeline where cloning was invented and perfected in the 30ies but lex parsimoniae intervened and insisted they are wearing company-issue workclothes (aka uniforms) and a popular haicut.
And before you ask: lex parsimoniae is a fancy way of saying Occam’s razor (also written as Ockham’s razor, from William of Ockham who wasn’t a barber but a Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian from Surrey).
August 1942. “Testing small diameter” women employed by Republic Drill & Tool, Chicago,
Interesting about the date. During the war, it was illegal too quit employment without justifiable reason. It was boring wouldn’t cut it with the AUTHORITIES.
In a weird way, though, I think I’d almost prefer this to the ideas a boss of mine had that we’d all be so much happier if we were all in each other’s faces, in this stupid open-workspace plan with no barriers and always able to see what everybody else was doing.
Hellish doesn’t have to look like the obvious traditional notions of hellish to be so.