After the office Christmas party

"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. " -Phyllis Diller“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. “
-Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Ada Diller was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.
.12/3/2024—22 Days to Christmas
“Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches #4”—Each post uses a holiday-related quote to generate AI sketches.
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Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday - A holiday for introverts
Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches #3
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“Cyber Monday: Finally, a holiday for people who don’t like being around other people.
Steve Olivas
Steve Olias, a nationally renowned speaker, author, and behavior consultant, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Middle Tennessee.

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“Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches”—”Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches”—Each post uses a holiday-related quote to generate AI sketches.
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Spirit of Christmas

Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches #3
That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
-Jerry Seinfeld
.12/1/2024—24 Days to Christmas
“Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches”—Each post uses a holiday-related quote to generate AI sketches.
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Black Friday

Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches #2
“A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.” Franklin P. Jones, American journalist 1908 – 1980
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We have never really done “Black Friday.”

Navigating the stores and shopping centers for Christmas shopping often seemed more of a hassle than an adventure.

And buying something just because it is a bargain has never made sense to me.

“Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches”—”Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches”—Each post uses a holiday-related quote to generate AI sketches.
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‘Tis the Season

Winter is coming
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Thanksgiving Dinner

Holiday Quotes and AI Sketches #1
I am doing a few posts using AI sketch images generated from quotes from personalities..
I am sure there are a few folks still around who remember columnist and humorist Erma Bombeck.
“The average time for eating a Thanksgiving dinner is 12 minutes, which, incidentally, coincides with halftime.” — Erma Bombeck
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Indiana Harbor Belt R.R. Switch Engine

in yard near Calumet Park stockyard, Calumet City (near Chicago), Illinois

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Photographer: Jack Delano
Original color transparency image created: January 1943
Lib. of Congress—Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection

This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 11/29/2005 © MpG

Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov


Post from one of my abandoned blogs – Images from the Public Domain – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/27/2011 – page


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Locomotives in the roundhouse

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C & NW RR; at Proviso yard, Chicago, Illinois

Photographer: Jack Delano
Original color transparency image created: December 1942
Library of Congress—Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection

This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 11/29/2005 © MpG

Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov


Post from one of my abandoned blogs – North Farnham Freeholder – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/26/2011 – page


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One-room hut housing family of nine

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One-room hut housing family of nine built over chassis of abandoned Ford in open field between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee, near Tennessee River

1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm
Created: March 1936
Photographer: Carl Mydans
Lib. of Congress—Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection

This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 01/02/06 © MpG

Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov

More vintage images available at reflets – images from the public domain


Post from one of my abandoned blogs – North Farnham Freeholder – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/28/2011


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Road to Emmett, Idaho (July 1941)

Road cut into the barren hills which lead into Emmett, Idaho - Photographer: Lee Russell, July 1941

This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 12/08/2005 © MpG
Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov


Post from one of my abandoned blogs – North Farnham Freeholder – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/28/2011 – page


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