Photo fun.

[Wild Root]

Here is a photo of me trying to look like FDR.

Enjoy.

 

[Dismuke]

Hmmmmm.

Gee Wildroot, now you can perhaps go out and find yourself a cute little mate who looks just like Eleanor!

Yikes! :beer:

 

[jamespowers]

Root, looks like a you have the pose pretty well down but the hat should have two side dents not forward dents. FDR like to wear his hat with the 20s-30s- style bash. Of course that was his contemporaneous time.
Geez! Bismuke! I just ate. You know when your aunt tells you that you are the ugliest member of the family for generations ---you're UGLY. Eleanor----geez. When you look up ugly in the dictionary her picture is there. [huh]
You don't really want Root to marry his cousin do you? Sort of reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy---If you go to family reunions to find a date......


Regards to all,

J

 

[Dismuke]

Geez! Bismuke! I just ate. You know when your aunt tells you that you are the ugliest member of the family for generations ---you're UGLY. Eleanor----geez. When you look up ugly in the dictionary her picture is there. [huh]

So I take it that you don't find her physically attractive?

Hmmmmmm.

You know, I once heard that she frequented the same spa for beauty treatments that modern day hotties such as Janet Reno and Madeline Albright go to.

 

[jamespowers]

You know, I once heard that she frequented the same spa for beauty treatments that modern day hotties such as Janet Reno and Madeline Albright go to.

That explains a lot. You should tell us what spa that is so we don't go there by accident. What's the name Chez Uglie?

Regards to all,

J

 

[Dismuke]

That explains a lot. You should tell us what spa that is so we don't go there by accident. What's the name Chez Uglie?

I forget its name. But it doesn't matter because the place has been booked up solid for many months by some big Hollywood production company that is bringing out a remake of The Munsters. And it comes at an especially convenient time because their most famous clients, Madeline and Janet, both are out of town and busy getting ready for some really big upcoming photo shoots: Madeline's is for the next Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Issue and Janet will be featured with her own line of products in the next Victoria's Secret catalog. Hmmmmm. Some people, in fact, say that she is Victoria's secret!

 

[jamespowers]

I forget its name. But it doesn't matter because the place has been booked up solid for many months by some big Hollywood production company that is bringing out a remake of The Munsters. And it comes at an especially convenient time because their most famous clients, Madeline and Janet, both are out of town and busy getting ready for some really big upcoming photo shoots: Madeline's is for the next Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Issue and Janet will be featured with her own line of products in the next Victoria's Secret catalog. Hmmmmm. Some people, in fact, say that she is Victoria's secret!

Hmmm... Now everytime I see those two sea hags I will hear the Munsters theme song. Thanks!
I can see it now---the Reno teddy will be called the Grizzly.
Geez, I hope Mad wears one of those swim suits from the 1890s---with the hat.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Wild Root]

Ok, this thread has gone to the Dogs. And I don't mean Mrs. FDR.

Root.

 

[jamespowers]

Ok, this thread has gone to the Dogs. And I don't mean Mrs. FDR.

Ruff, ruff! Ok, I am done now. You started it.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Dismuke]

Ok, this thread has gone to the Dogs. And I don't mean Mrs. FDR.

Root.

No - it would not be polite to call Mrs. FDR a dog. I am sure she would not have approved of that - and neither would Fala.

 

[jamespowers]

Yes indeed. Fala looked like quite an example for his breed.
Tell Fala to straighten that picture on the wall behind him.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Wild Root]

Good boy!

Root.

 

[jamespowers]

Wow! If he does windows he is hired! He can talk too?! Gee, if he can sing and dance he has a place for him in Hollywood next to Rin Tin Tin. :cheers1:

Regards to all,

J

 

[Dismuke]

Yes indeed. Fala looked like quite an example for his breed.
Tell Fala to straighten that picture on the wall behind him.

Yes - I noticed that picture. Pretty odd that it is crooked like that. I am sure that photo ops back then were just as staged as they are today - probably even more so. In fact, the press back then willingly went along with the PR campaign to keep the American public in the dark about the extent of FDR's disability.

I have never been a fan of FDR in terms of his policies and politics. But I have always admired how he refused to allow what, for many, would have been personally devastating to stand in the way of doing what he wanted to do. And I have always thought it was sad that it was necessary for his political survival to keep what was, in fact, a highly admirable personal achievement on his part, a secret. I don't think that such a disability would be held against a politician today - and in that sense, things have improved since the "Golden Age."

FDR's long time affair with Lucy Mercer was also well known to the press and that, too, was never revealed to the American public until many years later.

Can you image the press keeping stuff like that quite today? Absolutely not - which, I suspect, is probably a pretty good thing in some respects.

As for the picture - perhaps it was deliberately made crooked on the premise that it would "humanize" the President and the place appear more "homey"

 

[Dismuke]

Good boy!

Root.

That's cool! Photoshop?

One of these days I am going to have to break down and buy it. I have a feeling that, unlike a lot of other things having to do with computers, I will otherwise be holding my breat for a long while waiting for its price to drop.

 

[scotrace]

As for the picture - perhaps it was deliberately made crooked on the premise that it would "humanize" the President and the place appear more "homey"

I read an article in an old Life that tried to delicately explain that Hyde Park was not fussed over. Repaired furniture, tattered carpets. And crooked pictures. Of course, this one is a scene from the White House.

 

[ITG]

That's cool! Photoshop?

One of these days I am going to have to break down and buy it. I have a feeling that, unlike a lot of other things having to do with computers, I will otherwise be holding my breat for a long while waiting for its price to drop.

Dismuke, there's a program called Photoshop Elements for a fraction of the cost. It's like a smaller scale version of the big Photoshop. By the way, tomorrow is Fala Day here in Arlington:
http://northtexasscottierescue.com/faladay.html

If I wasn't going to a Star Wars convention, that's where I'd be with little Bogie (my Scottie).

 

[Matt Deckard]

Could slimer be the ghost of Eleanor?

 

[Dismuke]

Could slimer be the ghost of Eleanor?

Remarkable similarity.

I know - let's ask Hillary Clinton! After all, back when she was First Lady, she had a number of conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt's ghost!

 

[jamespowers]

Teeth, eyes and shape of the head are the same. Who you gonna call?

Regards to all,

J