Seen this morning. Whatever you do, don’t use the “M” word. He’ll go totally librarian-poo.
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(Now I am genuinely curious what kind of car that is)
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It’s an Australian 1980 model Ford Escort. The Escort badge was applied to different cars in Europe and the US, so if it doesn’t look like an Escort you know, that’s probably why.
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Found in the restroom of a Tex-mex joint
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BakaNeko
November 26, 2021, 10:10pm
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It looks like the Ford Corcel.
The Ford Corcel ("stallion" in Portuguese) is a car which was sold by Ford do Brasil in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela. It was also assembled in Venezuela (along with the Del Rey). The French-influenced styling of the Corcel was unique to Brazil until late 1977. From this year, the redesigned Corcel II (as it was originally sold) bore a strong resemblance to the European Ford Escort and Ford Cortina of same era, but its Renault underpinnings remained the same. The Corcel was ev Th...
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A mountain of frozen turkeys at a local supermarket
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FGD135
November 27, 2021, 10:36am
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From a distance. Squinting.
Australia and New Zealand always had the Euro-Escort.
The Americas, now that is quite a different beast.
The Ford Escort is a small family car that was manufactured by Ford of Europe from 1968 until 2000. In total there were six generations, spread across three basic platforms: the original, rear-wheel-drive Mk.1/Mk.2 (1968–1980), the "Erika" front-wheel-drive Mk.3/Mk.4 (1980–1992), and the final CE-14 Mk.5/Mk.6 (1990–2002) version. Its successor, the Ford Focus, was released in 1998, but the final generation of Escort was phased out gradually, with the panel van version ending production in 2002...
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'nanner progress, 27 November:
flowers and baby bananas to behold. just look at 'em, hey!
there are more under the reddish sepal leaves beneath the exposed bananas.
this is the first time for this tree and the first I have ever witnessed, so forgive my exuberance
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I’ve never seen a banana in progress. It looks like such a pretty tree!
Will not grow here unfortunately
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my granddad lived in Austin and grew nanners. yup got one harvest one year, many moons ago.
you’re somewhere around there, I thought?
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I’m north of Austin. Maybe one will grow then! I’ll have to do some more research
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BakaNeko
November 27, 2021, 10:38pm
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Oh. It is very beautiful. When we were kids there was always some banana trees in our backyard.
Do you know that some people eat it? We call it umbigo (bellybutton) or Coração (heart) da Bananeira (banana tree).
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Saw these in charity shop yesterday.
100€ it had an old price sticker for 285 Finnish markka that’s about 63€.
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Pawn shop auction. Starting bid was 150€ final bid was 180€.
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Mini gallery of finds from Walmart today
(Yes, your car can now smell like desperation)
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This leaf has about the same width as a salad plate:
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You can put anything for the license plate #
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