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For you. Thanks for your comments.
Pour vous. Bon vendredi et Bon WE.
**pas chaudes les fins de journée en février. J'étais contente d'avoir ma tuque!
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Polar Bears Nobby and Nissan (swimming)
Project Polar
Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Doncaster
March 2017
bonavistask8er posted a photo:
Another pick from my shoot with Itohan from a couple weeks back at Middle Cove.
Strobist:
SB910 into 26" Rapidbox, above camera. Held on a monopod (by me) and fired by Nikon CLS from my D7100 as master.
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Crooked or askew; not level.
Out of balance, needs straightening.
twisted, tilted, or slanted to one side.
slightly crazy : topsy-turvy .
sloping to one side.
“Cockeyed” is an interesting word. It first appeared in print in the early 19th century, although we can assume it had already been in oral use for some time prior to that date, and since that time it has developed a number of meanings. Its original use was to mean “squint-eyed,” as if, for instance, the person was displaying a skeptical or suspicious attitude (or, of course, simply suffering from myopia).
By the 1890s, “cockeyed” had developed nearly the opposite meaning, that of “wide-eyed, unrealistic and perhaps slightly crazy.” This is the sense of “cockeyed” in the song “Cockeyed Optimist” from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” (“I have heard people rant and rave and bellow / That we’re done and we might as well be dead / But I’m only a cock-eyed optimist / And I can’t get it into my head”). We also use “cockeyed” to describe anything unrealistic, eccentric or flamboyantly unconventional, from artistic expression (“Her cockeyed melodies, emphatic beats and creative vocal arrangements are unusual but catchy,” NPR, 1/4/2011) to building code violations (“In that cockeyed shack, with a roof so low that I could stand up only on one side,” 2010). “Cockeyed” is also used as a synonym of “askew” (“When it’s summer in the North, it’s winter in the South. Completely cockeyed,” A. Koestler, 1945) and to mean literally “out of alignment” (“Bob’s car wouldn’t do over ten miles per hour because of the cockeyed wheel”).
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