Streetcar named destroy!

Last updated on July 24th, 2017 at 01:06 pm

Via Lileks, one of the most nightmare-inducing images you’re ever likely to see:

I am High Pants, terror of mono-headlighted Urban Rail! Now I come to feast on YOU!!!

1. “Hey little girl – want some candy”?

   Posted by JayC on 09/05 at 03:41 PM • permalink

1. “These pants are like a fancy hotel.  Nice ballroom.”

   Posted by Carl H on 09/05 at 03:52 PM • permalink

1. I’ll still take that over guys wearing their pants so low that several inches of their underwear is on view.

   Posted by Achillea on 09/05 at 04:20 PM • permalink

1. I read Lileks’ Bleat first thing every morning—when I saw this I thought I’d hit the wrong button! You have NO idea how relieved I am…

   Posted by Auntie KC on 09/05 at 04:26 PM • permalink

1. I used to find trolley cars that looked like busses unacceptable but I think it’s sort of cool now.

   The guy looks like Charlie Chan.  “Man without relatives is man without trouble.’’

   Posted by rhhardin on 09/05 at 05:14 PM • permalink

1. There!  You see what you end up with when you leave the buses parked during the hurricane?

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/05 at 05:18 PM • permalink

1. Look at Lileks’ picture of the only woman senator.

   As Dr Hannibal Lecter said to Senator Ruth Martin: ‘LOVE your suit!’

   Posted by David Morgan on 09/05 at 06:54 PM • permalink

1. its not that his pants are high, its his 3/4 length jacket that creates the illusion. I like the photo – reminds me of Sydney Greenstreet, which immediately brings to mind Peter Lorre, who puts me in mind of……

   Posted by larrikin on 09/05 at 08:01 PM • permalink

1. It’s Charles Laughton.

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/05 at 08:16 PM • permalink

1. Lileks makes a good point about the now-unthinkable: politicians taking public transport.  I’ll never forget seeing a bit of old newsreel footage of Churchill, back around 1910 as Sec. of State for the Home Office, getting out of a cab at Westminster, and rummaging in his pocket to pay the driver.  Of course, you have to have a city in which it’s possible to reach the seat of government by public transport, which eliminates Canberra.

   Posted by cuckoo on 09/05 at 08:27 PM • permalink

1. by jove, sir, I think you’re right

   Posted by larrikin on 09/05 at 08:30 PM • permalink

1. speaking of low pants, how DO those chickies keep those muffin-pants hipsters on? Do they have velcro or something?

   Posted by kae on 09/05 at 09:58 PM • permalink

1. kae — If you were wrapped that tight around a hotcha hootchie’s hips, would you let go?

   Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/05 at 10:13 PM • permalink

1. #13
   er, Richard, not sure what you mean. Anyway, these are below the hips, way below the hips. I used to wear hipsters (Amco jeans) in the 70s, and we didn’t need velcro then – they were on or just above the hips.

   Posted by kae on 09/05 at 10:23 PM • permalink

1. Almost as scary as Quasimodo.

   Posted by reverse_swing on 09/05 at 10:23 PM • permalink

1. And the Pilsbury Doughboy changes out of his costume and into civvies and heads home after a long workday.

   Posted by RebeccaH on 09/05 at 10:35 PM • permalink

1. The Old Gringo exits the bus…

   Posted by duh on 09/06 at 12:02 AM • permalink

1. Certainly not budgie-smugglers- you could hide bloody pterydactyls in those daks.

   Posted by Habib on 09/06 at 02:26 AM • permalink

1. Kae- peaches jeans.
   I reckon its The Man Who Knew Too Much.

   Posted by crash on 09/06 at 08:55 AM • permalink

1. Yeah, Crash, Amco Peaches. “It’s an Amco kinda world.”

   I used to get Pythons from JayJays, real cheap, before stretch jeans were invented! They were tight.

   Posted by kae on 09/06 at 06:45 PM • permalink

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