Archive for October, 2009
Even all these years later, I can still close my eyes and envision the warm summer days of my idyllic youth, when all you needed to enjoy yourself was a bike, a local swimming hole and a cold Coca-Cola drunk straight from the glass bottle. I guess it’s no secret why I remain an avid collector of soda tin signs: Coke memorabilia reminds me of a simple, carefree time that will never be seen again.
My husband and I have acquired so much Coke merchandise over the years, in fact, that we’ve been forced to devote the entire spare bedroom to the tin signs. There’s a special nook for the company’s famous holiday campaigns. I especially like looking at the way Coca-Cola advertising has morphed over the years to appeal to different trends and demographics.
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superhero created by William Moulton Marston. First appearing in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941), she is one of three characters to have been continuously published by DC Comics since the company’s 1944 inception (except for a brief hiatus in 1986).
Wonder Woman is a member of an all-female tribe of Amazons (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) who was created by Marston as a “distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to ‘a world torn by the hatred of men.’” Her powers include super strength, super speed, stamina, and flight. She is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat and in the art of tactical warfare. She also possesses an animal-like cunning and a natural rapport with animals, which has in the past been presented as an actual ability to communicate with the animal kingdom. She uses her Lasso of Truth (which forces those bound by it to tell the truth), a pair of indestructible bracelets, and an invisible plane, which was later replaced with an ability to fly unaided.
Created during World War II, the character was initially depicted fighting the Axis military forces, as well as an assortment of supervillains and supervillainesses. In later decades, the World War II setting was often maintained, while other writers updated the series to reflect an ongoing “present day.” Wonder Woman has also regularly appeared in the team books Justice Society (from 1941) and Justice League (from 1960). Arguably the most popular and iconic female superhero in comics, Wonder Woman is also considered a feminist icon and is informally grouped with Superman and Batman as one of a “Trinity” of DC characters, regarded as especially important. Diana is regarded as extremely physically attractive even by the standards of the superheroine. She was named the twentieth greatest comic book character by Empire magazine.
In addition to the comics, the character has appeared in other media—most notably the 1975-1979 Wonder Woman TV series starring Lynda Carter, but also in cartoons such as the Super Friends and Justice League. Although a number of attempts have been made to adapt the character to live-action film, none have yet emerged from “development hell.” An animated film was released in 2009, with Keri Russell doing voice acting on the title role.
Kids of all ages love having their super hero’s to display. So why not treat the kid in your life to vintage tin sign super hero.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Olympic 1992–2008
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate’s hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.
In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan’s Central League and Pacific League; Cuba’s West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allow younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill.
If your a big baseball fan you will want this vintage tin sign for you.
The POW/MIA flag is an American flag designed as a symbol of citizen concern about United States military 
personnel taken as prisoners of war (POWs) or listed as missing in action (MIA). The POW/MIA flag was created by the National League of Families and officially recognized by the Congress in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, “as the symbol of our Nation’s concern and commitment to resolving as fully as possible the fates of Americans still prisoner, missing and unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, thus ending the uncertainty for their families and the Nation.”
This vintage tin sign can be yours or a great gift for Christmas.
Diet Bite
Counting Calories In Vegetables - Food Calories
Diet, Weight Loss Tips, Weight Loss Support, Weight Loss & Dieting Advice
When dieting, counting calories can render awesome results on your weight scales. Vegetables are tops for dieters because most all are ultra-low in calories and contain zero-minimal fat. Oh my, there is a pretty picture developing here - and that picture is YOU!
And vegetables make a healthy choice for anyone - dieting or not! Steaming your vegetables or enjoying them raw without added sauces/oils is the absolute healthiest means of preparation, though because they are so low in calories, a bit of sauce/glaze will certainly keep vegetables well within ‘diet calorie range’.
Be sure to wash all vegetables well before use to remove harmful bacteria and insecticides. No calorie butter spray can be used generously, so squeeze that bottle and in turn, squeeze those unwanted pounds away by enjoying something healthy and diet smart!
This vintage tin sign will make a great Christmas gift.
The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team currently based in Glendale, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey 
League (NHL). They play their home games at Jobing.com Arena.
The Coyotes were founded in 1972 as the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association (WHA), joining the NHL in 1979 and moving to Phoenix in 1996. Their home ice was at the US Airways Center (then known as America West Arena) for seven years until 2003, when Jobing.com Arena opened.
On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes filed for bankruptcy, leaving their future in Arizona uncertain.
For a great Christmas gift this coyotes license plate sign makes a great one.
Congratulations to the young and not so restless Pittsburgh Penguins in winning the 2009 Stanley Cup Championship.
Not since the 1971 Montreal Canadiens, has a visiting team won Sir Stanley’s mug on an opposing teams playing field.
Led by Evgeni Malkin’s playoff winning series MVP claim to the Conn Smythe Trophy, the young and robust Pittsburgh Penguins have won professional hockey’s “holy grail.”
The 2 to 1 victory by the visiting Penguins has set a number of new standards in the new NHL of today. Penguin Captain Sidney Crosby and his young Trojans turned the tide on a veteran savvy Detroit Red Wing team that had won the prize in 2008 at the Penguins home “igloo.”
Detroit was on the verge of being declared the first 21st century dynasty in the modern day NHL until Crosby et al derailed this popular and storied franchise.
Sidney Crosby has just become the youngest player to win the Stanley Cup at the ripe old age of 21 years and he is only finishing his his third full NHL season. It took his “landlord,” personal friend, mentor, and team owner, Mario Lemieux a surprising seven years to win his first of two Stanley Cups in 1991 and again in 1992.
For Crosby, Malkin and goaltender Marc Andre Fleury this young and gunning Penguin squad has “the world as its oyster” as they now, go on to challenge, their former teacher and mentor, the Detroit Red Wings in trying to forge ahead and begin a dynasty in today’s NHL, in what has become a very competitive and level playing field for professional sports.
As they say in the NFL: “on any given Sunday” and in today’s NHL, this could easily be said: “in any given season.”
Pittsburgh’s midseason decision to promote rookie head coach Dan Bylsma, only five years removed from playing pro hockey himself and hired to replace NHL veteran bench boss Michel Therrien after an early February Saturday night fiasco in Toronto, where the Pens lost a humiliating five to nothing decision to a re-building Maple Leafs squad, had no idea that he was about to embark on the quest for hockey’s premier holy grail.
Bylsma subsequently went on to turn, a then struggling Penguins squad, from a forgotten, 14th place ‘08 Stanley Cup bridesmaid, to a virtual overnight contender in the very competitive NHL Eastern Conference.
Bylsma and his rookie coaching style with his patented “Disco Dan” energetic exhuberance, revitalized this Crosby/Malkin led team into believing, again, that they were worthy of competing in Sir Stanley’s end of the season tournament, known as the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Congratulations to Disco Dan and his entourage of coaches and personnel for leading this team through adversity and character building, while re-focusing, on a born again hockey team that eventually would believe in themselves as true potential and future champions.
This Penguin juggernaut had to take on and beat substantial challengers such as the Ovechkin led Washington Capitals, the upstart and just as youthful Philadelphia Flyers and the disciplined and underdog Carolina Hurricanes.
With Sidney Crosby limping into the third period and the game still undecided, Andre Fleury and the Conn Smythe winning—and maybe league MVP—Evgeni Malkin turned the disappointed “teacher” Detroit Red Wings into a bystander as “Stanley Cup Doubter” Marian Hossa stood by and watched his former teammates raise the Stanley Cup on Hossa’s pond in a turnaround of last years championship game!
Who knew how to write a sequel to last years Stanley Cup, I guess you could say: ‘what comes around goes around’!
For the record, the Pittsburgh Penguins have never lost a Game Seven in franchise history, don’t ever bet on this underdog or shall I say Penguin. Today they truly have “happy feet!”
Congratulations again to owner and Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux and his 2009 Stanley Cup Champions!
Mark Keilty
You can have this license plate sign for your very own.
Over the years I’ve been able to save untold amounts of money on car maintenance and minor repairs, and it’s all thanks to my dad. Ever since I can remember, he’s been sneaking away to his garage to tinker with a classic muscle car or to do a favor for a friend who had just experienced an automotive breakdown. I’ve always said that the only thing that separates him from being a genuine mechanic is that there’s no office – and definitely no paperwork.
That’s not to say the garage doesn’t look like a real auto shop. Dad has collected all the tools of the trade and has them carefully lined up along a tool bench. Even the walls are decorated with old automobile tin signs, advertising products that no longer exist anywhere but inside an aging mechanic’s fondest memories. Every year I find a few new signs online and bring them to his garage in person.
The Detroit Red Wings is a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of 
the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL), and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL.
The Red Wings are one of the most popular hockey franchises in North America, so much that fans and analysts have nicknamed Detroit “Hockeytown.” The Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships of any NHL franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total NHL championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs . They currently play home games in the 20,066 capacity Joe Louis Arena after having spent over 40 years playing in Olympia Stadium.
Between the 1933–34 and 1965–66 seasons, the Red Wings missed the playoffs only four times. After almost two decades as an also-ran, the Red Wings have made the playoffs in 23 of the last 25 seasons, including the last 18 in a row. This is the longest current streak of post-season appearances in all of American professional sports.
You can have your very own Red Wings license plate sign or give as a gift.
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
He’s making a list,
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town
He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out!
You better not cry.
Better not pout, I’m telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town.
Santa Claus is coming to town.
I know it seems a little early to talk about Christmas all ready. I have had a pretty bad week and thought I’m not the only one, but Christmas is not that far off. So why not beat the rush and get started on Christmas shopping with this license plate sign.