#pretty polly

[kitsunetsuki]

Eve Arnold - Pretty Polly Tights Ad (Photographis '74)

[nocternalrandomness]

Prettty Polly in the air at the 2021 Reno Air Races

[ascension-13]

Photography and cover art by Katiejane Garside

[Ruby Throat / Liar Flower]

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Ruby Throat (Live) - "Pretty Polly"

[tex6689]

[tornadoyoungiron]

Pretty Polly and an A4 being Scandalous. Smokebox door open in public, really?

I can't really read which number it is but it looks like the last number is 7, which makes this either; Silver Fox (60017), Merlin (60027) or Sir Nigel Gresley (60007).

I suspect it's Gresley since 60007 has a strange habit of being photographed with his Smokebox open, even now.

[hazel-of-sodor]

Pretty Polly? (A4s are Silver Fox in the doubleheader and i think Sir Nigel with the open smokebox) polly is lowkey my favorite A3..

One of my favorite engines!

She was purchased for preservation seceretly, revealed to have survived in the early 70s (shes the A13 in BR Blue).

[azulso]

[sampungmgadaliri]

Not to be that person... but I am going to be that person. My OTP from Old Gods of Appalachia is Miss Belle x Pretty Polly Barrow. If there is someone who change Pretty Polly, it's going to be Miss Belle.

[mudwerks]

(via Film Noir Photos: Girls Who Wear Glasses: Hayley Mills)

with Shashi Kapoor in A Matter of Innocence (Pretty Polly) (1967)

[mmhawkes]

Come go along with me

I wrote a little something about murder ballads and fairy tales for The Shadowes Are Icumen In! You can read it here:

“Come Go Along With Me”: Murder Ballads, Fairy Tales, and the Danger of Following Men into the Woods

[purefalke]

I love wearing these Pretty Polly 30 denier. They feel so luxurious on and also look great too 💋

[nocternalrandomness]

A rare P-63C carrying Race Number 63 at Reno

[jwgh]

Song spotlight: Modern Murder Ballad (Pretty Polly)

I guess murder ballads don't necessarily feature in most people's upbringings, and maybe I should explain what they are. They're a type of folk song that started centuries ago in Europe and eventually made its way to the United States, becoming especially popular in Appalachia. They can take different forms, but are usually about a relationship between a man and a woman that, for one reason or another, results in murder, usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man, and occasionally of just some random other person. American murder ballads in particular tend toward the gruesome.

I was thinking about these songs, and it occurred to me that, while a lot of my songs feature bad behavior of one kind or another, the actual body count is surprisingly low. So this is an experiment in what would happen if I tried to write a present-day murder ballad. Not to spoil the ending or anything, but everyone makes it out alive, though there is arguably a certain amount of emotional damage. I'm specifically satirizing the traditional song Pretty Polly. (There are a million versions of it out there, but here's one by Hilarie Burhans that I like: https://youtu.be/xH7dv85LfAk .)

Coming up with a name for this one was hard. I fiddled around with a few ideas before deciding on the most on-the-nose name I could think of, on the theory that, if the title can't be clever, at least it can be accurate...

I'm not totally sure what the target demographic is for bloodless parodies of 1800s murder ballads, but I'm hoping someone out there will enjoy it!

I want the song to be stark and driving and intense, so I went with an electric guitar on this one, and I've asked Ilana Katz Katz to come in and add some driving fiddle to the mix. I can't wait to hear what she does with it!

This will be one of the songs that will be featured on my new album, 'Totally Awkward'. To help fund it, go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jwghaller/totally-awkward-my-next-album , where you can pledge to get an early copy of the album (in digital or physical form) as well as other rewards and add-ons! The campaign ends soon, on Wednesday June 26.

[lizards-can-be-bookmarks]

Spoilers for the pretty polly arc!!!

I can't help but picture polly being sent to her room after she was poofed away by dear old dad, and her sitting on a twin sized bed in a child's room pouting and telling a stuffed animal that her daddy is dumb and unfair, I can't stop picturing it.

[dahliaduvide]

AKA: The Cruel Ship's Carpenter Origin: England, 1750s Descendent: Pretty Polly

The Real Story...

Location: Portsmouth, England Date: ~January 26-February 26, 1726 Victim: Unknown, called Molly and later Polly Murderer: An unnamed ship carpenter's mate on the HMS Bedford Motive: Unwanted Pregnancy

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting the LNER A1/A3 Pacific!