Faine Greenwood: Every day I try to be a real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace

Every day I try to be a real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace

story is from here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1908-03-16/ed-1/seq-9/

The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, March 16, 1908, Final Results Edition, Page ...chroniclingamerica.loc.gov The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, March 16, 1908, Final Results Edition, Page 9, Image 9, brought to you by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation, and t...

Old newspaper articles are often fascinating glimpses into the society at the time. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go straddle a bronco, ride a man's bicycle, crease my trousers, practice shooting my rifle, and serve as a second in a prize fight.

Ol’ Harry had quite a life. Good on him! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_A...

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My paragraph insisting nobody on board was drinking has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my paragraph insisting nobody on board was drinking

Target identified.

A little Beanie and Cecil Nightvale from my Larchives. Bob Clampett was the first animator name I ever learned from his cartoons :) I grew up singing RaggMopp! :)

Love it

doodle-e-do

This made my evening!

Wonderful to hear. Thank you :)

🎶a BOB ClamPETT carTOOOOOOON!🎶

“Capt. Mader’s sea serpent … was neighborly, well behaved, and sea broken.”

The best line.

hate to break it to you, but according to my 1800’s science book, sea serpents are real. and they have eyebrows

No one is upset about this ^_^

Okay I read the article and I am genuinely perplexed. Wtf was this thing? Two horns? 150 feet long? 20 foot diameter? I need to solve this mystery.

She’s a lady in the streets but a freak for the fleets

I’m going to draw the friendly sea monster

Yes!

here's that serpent

This has Temeraire vibes

Yessss. 😂

Did you make this?

No but i wish I thought of it!

It’s from the March 16th 1908 New York Evening World: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1908-03-16/ed-1/seq-9/

“Constant grin about half a mile” the rhymes and word choices make it so snappy and fun to read or say

It certainly lends itself nicely to an old-timey tune, something you might hear in a revue or a piano singalong.

Honestly didn't know whether it was a fr fr old-timey headline or a song lyric mocked up to look like such a headline.

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Wasn’t that the original name of The Weekly World News?

That's the kind of energy I aspire to have.

Bet nobody tells him to smile more.

@catnotcait.bsky.social life with me

Squad goals.

I like the rhyme in that. It’s a nice touch

gotta practice that very wide smile

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Certified Freak 7 Days a Week

lol

faine you really are an amiable sort of freak. wide smile. all that

Me, sliding into your DMs...

Hey why your teeth got teeth

Men told me to smile so many times that I got really good at it. 😎

That's a real good answer

Words to live by

The nicer sibling of the beast from 20,000 fathoms

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