lol Thank you Rayray I appreciate this.
Now we know who we are talking too.
Of course the 'younger you' pic is my favourite.
But alas, we cannot turn back the clock.

Viv;
But - please read my gallery-posted item entitled "The Murine Time-Bender" (half way down the page of gallery posts). LOL

Nice to meet you Rayray

I think the lack of upper dentures ( I think you did this intentionally, so we'd stop swooning) make you look a lot like actor/ comedian Robin Williams. Still not bad.

I, too, shall read "The Murine Time-Bender". Sounds interesting, my friend.

You are right Heidi, there is a touch of Robin Williams there.

I think you might have been having fun when you posed for this! I see a twinkle in your eye even behind those glasses. So who was the photographer?

I'm still in love, Rayray! I can't tell you how wonderful you look, cos you won't believe me! Noticed the mostly empty bottle of wine on the counter - is that what gave you the courage to do this? Now you know that there was no need to fear!

. Oooooh! Sorry!
Ah!! That's better!
Hi Vivacious Viva-diva wi' the gorgeous lips an' aching heart;
Ha ha ha! - Fooled ya!
That's no bottle o' wine! That's ma vegetable cookin' oil, as ah keeps in ma unlabelled empty wine bottle. I buy oil by the gallon - cheaper that way, but ah haven't no space fur a gallon keg there - that's in ma cellar.
Also that way a-punishes folks as tries a-stealin' ma wine wi-out ma seein' um, and wi-out they askin'. The oil gives 'um the trots. Safer and more space-savin' than a-fillin' a bottle wi' urine - safer 'cos ma own memory's not sa good as it wuzwen I wuz 32, an' I don't much care fur the taste o' urine myself; nor o' sausages sizzled in the stuff!

LOL, RR and PMSL! I can hear your accent because I have many neighbors out here in the boonies that talk like that!

Aha! The present day Rayray!
I am pleased beyond belief to read that you use cookin' oil to sizzle those sausages and not the other "stuff"! lol

Floidaceous Kathy:
My best mate took the picture. He has great ability in making make me laugh

Vici... You have many neighbors that sound like that? I'm on the edge of Appalachia! The comic strip Li'l Abner was based on Kentucky. That is exactly the accent /verbal laziness I hear every day. You did it very well, Rayray. You need to come to Kentucky to perfect it, though. Please don't bring any sushi, though. I don't want tapeworm again.

Heidi: My sushi has no tape-worm eggs. I take great care. If I experiment with any new unusual fish, (which I do not do often), or use raw queen tuna, I use pure alcohol as a sterilant. Sometimes I even flash seal the tuna strips as well.

Heidi: Somewhere in my 'library' I have a copy of a little book called "The Specialist". This is a wonderful piece of humour about building outdoor privvies in Kentucky, and is written in that style.

Darn, Rayray, I had this image of a cold stiff Englishman and here you are looking like fun guy!

Ray Ray....I love it, and you for finally giving in and letting us see you as you are....a true wit, and yes, you do favor the very talented Robin Williams. I also thought you had the wine bottle there as bottled support for posing until I read that it was your coking oil....very clever.....LOL

Mamacita 2:
The picture was not 'posed' in any way at all. My best mate was visiting me and had just obtained a new camera and was trying it out on me as an experiment. That bottle is always there and it is my cooking oil. There is little space in my kitchen, but it is efficiently organised and reasonable clean

Rayray I have decided that your glasses are too big! In your sultan pic your face has a slender look and it's because I believe your glasses shorten your face. Sooo a thinner frame up and down should give you the regal look as promised in your sultan picture! Of course you may take this as my babbling but my fashion sense says you look better without your glasses.

Shosho:
Troubles are:
(1) if I do not wear my specs I can't see properly (after all, they are for seeing with).
(2) if I wear contact lenses they tend to migrate behind my eye-balls and are difficult to extricate.
However:
(a) sometimes I do not care whether I can see or not.
(b) it's nice to be 'natural'.