I saw a ring like that on the finger of woman when I was out somewhere. I had about the same reaction.

It's worth bringing up the anecdote again about how she decided to take the (famously anti-women-drivers, and now recently deceased) King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for a tour around Balmoral, and trolled him by driving the car herself.

She still knows her way around under the hood of a car too.

They want us to believe a goddess like Eleanor Parker actually had to pluck her eyebrows and do other tedious, pedestrian things for beauty like mortal women? Haha bitches please, the baroness is above such peasantry.

Recently, a gentleman in his 70s was telling me about swimming in the ocean off Brighton Beach (the one next to Coney Island) sometime during the Nixon Administration, when a lady he'd never seen before swam nearby, who was stark naked and holding something in her hand that turned out to be her bathing suit—the idea…

I'm less familiar with women's fashions from that era, so I'll have to take a closer look :)

Aussie Annette Kellerman — record-breaking professional swimmer, actress, author, in her SCANDALOUS one-piece, c. 1907. ...because fast-moving aquatic women ain't got time for that pantaloons and frou-frou business.

I agree with your estimate of the time - based on the hats the men are wearing, it's at least 1910.

I was wondering about the date British Pathe had put on this film! 1898 seemed really early.

One morning, our Mika was standing right outside the bedroom door, making urgent, muffled sounds. My husband stumbled out of bed without his glasses, saw that she had something in her mouth, and went to grab it. Turned out to be a still living mouse. The noise he made was indescribable, and the cat was huffy all day…

If the no pizza and burger thing doesn't work, my cat lost a whole ton of weight chasing and catching mice in the empty lot across the street. It's important to casually cast aside the corpses on my front porch rather than consume them. RIP mice.

"he reached roughly the weight of 4 or 5 dachshunds"

Once you have it down, though, and if you don't mind using cheap fabric, it does save money. My mother, for example, used to make much of my clothing (yes, I was a very popular child). Fortunately for her, she knew how to sew, and I was a very dumb child who really thought he needed, say, 5 pairs of Jamz shorts (look…

I'm going to be 'that guy' (or girl) and point out that there's probably a third reason too: the main physical difference between Cosby and Collins...

BETTER.

I'm not certain, but I think there's a " Let It Go" joke in this.

Just once I'd love period education to be accurate and truthful. "Look, this is going to suck in various ways for five days a month until you're sixty. You're going to ruin some pants, feel incredibly embarrassed and hate your entire existence. If you're lucky you'll get some brief agonizing cramps. Pop some aspirin…

Actually, it was more "escaped with his family from Greece, mother went mad, lived with a series of relatives in France, sent to bleak boarding schools in England and Germany, then joined the British navy."

Might I suggest a dash of Nancy too.

By the photograph, I think this is intended to be salacious rather than informative. The "available from your doctor" was a pretense to get around pornography laws.