Friday, December 6, 2013

The Waterloo Open Thread

"Waterloo Bridge At Sunset" Claude Monet (1903) 

"Waterloo Sunset"  The Kinks (1967)

13 comments:

chickelit said...

Monet painted the bridge under a variety of lighting conditions. Click on the painting here and then on the forward arrow.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

I can see the bridge all the way from Foggy Bottom

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

It's a good thing you cleared this up for me...

I could have associated waterloo with British for toilet... then I thought maybe this river was a toilet at one time?

Don't believe everything the poets tell you?... something I picked up at Althouse.

chickelit said...

Meinst Du vielleicht Wasserklo?

chickelit said...

Odor Klo Wasser?

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

There was also a big battle, the battle of waterloo. But that was not the first thing I thought of.

chickelit said...

Lem, Waterloo is so 1815.

Say, why is it that last year no one said a peep about the War Of 1812 bicentennial?

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I don't want this thread to be "open." CLOSE THIS THREAD NOW!!!

chickelit said...

It's amazing (in retrospect) that Britain lost and won two great wars in the span of 3 years: The War of 1812 and Waterloo three years later.

If you ever have a chance, go to the Imperial War Museum in London; it's not far from Waterloo Bridge.

It's all there. All of it.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Watched Bush 43 on Leno. I missed it when it first aired. It re-aired tonight.

The Dude said...

The war of 1812 was a big deal where I used to live - Francis Scott Key was a local lawyer.

He's dead now, has been for over 100 years, according to that liberal shit who has no grasp of history. Okay, that didn't really narrow it down much. Never mind.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Yikes... I got Jake Tapper and J Carney mixed up on twitter.

virgil xenophon said...

Anybody here ever catch the Kinks live? I did once at Felixstowe Pavillion, Felixstowe-by-the-Sea, Suffolk, UK in 1970 in a small 300+ venue. Great live show..