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USApat said:
A note to @Racer88

You might consider another forum subject in the Cantina that is for off the wall videos that cover all sorts of topics that aren't jokes, or not appropriate for full discussions. There are plenty of single videos all over the place that folks see on Twitter, Tik Tok, Youtube, etc..., where they don't fit into the jokes thread, nor are they a fit for lengthy discussions in other forums. I have seen other users here probably with the same dilmema post videos in this joke thread that aren't jokes, but merely unique videos to share. I could have started one in it's own for this video, but stuck it here in the jokes category.

Because there are so many videos online, it would appear that they would need their own main forum headline IMHO. I have dealt with this for awhile and have wanted to post videos up, but didn't feel like they should be in the jokes thread? Just like the one above.

@BeerHunter used the WUT emoji to respond to the video above. I guess he's asking what the guard is doing and what's the joke here???? It's not a video meant as a joke. It's a Royal Guard acknowledging the kid's action out of respect to the kid and letting the kid know in the best way the guard can without breaking the protocol of interacting with the public. It's what the guards do. Rarely do they give a reaction to folks that interact with them. Typically when they do react, they are shouting or telling someone to move and quit acting like an idiot because the person is trying to provoke the guard to react or simply harassing them. In this video, the guard is showing respect to the kid. The kid will remember this for the rest of his life and tell his friends when he is grown up that he got a reaction from a Royal Guard. Something very, very hard to do. I don't know if folks know about the Royal Guards, but they are supposed to remain mostly motionless unless it is necessary to move, or they are doing their duties. I thought everyone knew this, but I did live in London for some time.

Sidenote:
I have never seen the guards move before reacting to a person and I lived pretty close to Buckingham Palace for a couple of years less than a mile away directly between Hyde Park and the Palace at Knightsbridge/Sloane St/ Brompton Road intersection. The changing of the guards riding horses would go by each day as I walked the dog through Hyde Park. She was a herding dog, so she always wanted to chase the horses, so I took her out to pee pee before they came by each day. One day, she was loose and she took off after them and boy oh boy was that a pain getting her back. I didn't ever let her off the leash after that. She was a great dog, but her one caveat was chasing critters no matter how big they were. She was a foot tall at most, but not scared of anything. She was a Sheltie so very smart, but liked her food bowl and chasing things that run or move. And on the other corner of the park was "Speaker's Corner". If you ever wanted to hear some nonsense, you would go to that corner. I only did it once or twice. It gets old hearing the whining and rambling of British politics and extraneous thoughts! Hey! that sounds like some things in this forum!
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We do have this:

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The "sticky" thread would be a good place to post such videos. Or you can start a separate thread in the "Anything Else You Want to Talk About" section.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
Looks like an Italian design. Beautiful. What a shame modern cars have no style. You have to get an exotic or close to it to get anything that doesn't look like every other car on the road.
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Everyone attributes the design to Raymond Lowey. It was actually one of his employees, Robert Bourke who designed the body. Not sure how much if any input Lowey himself had in the design, but the Lowey influence is apparent.
It was at least a decade ahead of the Big 3 offerings at the time in styling. Ad copy at the time called it the "European Look".
An Art Morrison chassis with IRS and an LS engine would make the performance live up to the looks.

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no4mk1t said:
Everyone attributes the design to Raymond Lowey. It was actually one of his employees, Robert Bourke who designed the body. Not sure how much if any input Lowey himself had in the design, but the Lowey influence is apparent.
It was at least a decade ahead of the Big 3 offerings at the time in styling. Ad copy at the time called it the "European Look".
An Art Morrison chassis with IRS and an LS engine would make the performance live up to the looks.

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Reminds me slightly of the Bugatti 101. 1950 or so

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Bongo Lewi said:
I remember as a little kid seeing a T-Bird that had that body style - which I believe lasted thru 66 - and thinking that was the coolest car I ever saw. To me, it looked like a rocket ship inside.View attachment 21372
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A rocket ship inside, and those gorgeous round rocket engine tail lights. Definitely a design language cue from "the space age", albeit with very minimal fins....
 
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Except I was already in my 20's in the '80s and my ride was more smokin' than the model pictured! ;)
 
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