IMAGE ROUNDUP

Indignity Image Roundup: Cool

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 156

JOE MACLEOD, Tom Scocca

02 Sep 2025 — 8 min read

CHONGQING -- A panda has an ice cube in its arms for COOLness at Chongqing Zoo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, July 18, 2017. The hot weather has been lasted in Chongqing for days recently, and Chongqing Zoo took various measures to COOL down animals according to their different life and dietary habits. (Xinhua/Tang Yi via Getty Images)

Let Those Breezes In

GOOD EVENING! Today is Indignity's first working day in September, so, owing to the season's final SUMMER FRIDAY last week, we find ourselves a few days in on the new month, presenting the August installment of our monthly GETTY IMAGES ROUNDUP.

To keep you, the readers, supplied with visually appealing, topically appropriate, and legally licensed images in our newsletters, Indignity maintains a paid subscription to the Getty Images service. Because even the lowest available tier of the Getty plan still offers more photos and illustrations than we generally use, and because we want to make sure all of us get our full money's worth, at the end of each month we prepare a bonus collection of images to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate.

In salute to the end of meteorological summer, and in hope of a pleasant autumn, we present an image roundup in the key of COOL.

Kristin Randall and Leandra McCormick use an umbrella to keep **COOL** at the Commencement 2000 ceremony at Chapman University in Orange. (Photo by Robert Lachman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Two boys crouch down in front of an electric fan to keep **COOL** during a heat wave, London, UK, May 1922. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

"Klaus" a 14-year-old Doberman enjoys a drink from the faucet at the Encino Dog Park. His owner Linda Good (cq) of Sherman Oaks, had brought her three dogs to the park to try and **COOL** off. photo made 8/7/00 (Photo by Boris Yaro/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The Honeycomb, Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland, c 1850-1900. NORTHERN IRELAND - JUNE 25: The Giant's Causeway is an impressive rock formation on the North Antrim coast, consisting of 40,000 largely hexagonal basalt columns. Ancient legend has it that the mighty giant of Ulster, Finn McCOOL, built the step-like causeway in order to bring a female giant from the island of Staffa, to his side. From a collection of 57 albumen photographs of rock and glacial formations in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Ashanti Hall 11, of Minneapolis **COOL**s off from the hot and humid weather at the North Commons Community center pool. Sunday's high was expected to reach 94 degrees with a heat index near 100. (Photo by JERRY HOLT/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

(1962) Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.'s balance mechanism (semi-circular-canals) is tested by running **COOL** water into his ear and measuring effect on eye motions (nystagmus). (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Luke (Paul Newman) wins the respect of his fellow prisoners when he eats fifty hardboiled eggs, in **COOL** Hand Luke, 1967 (Photo by FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)

PITTSBURGH - 1943. The Homestead Grays pose in Pittsburgh in 1943 for their team portrait. In the back row, **COOL** Papa Bell is second from left, and Buck Leonard, second from right. Ray Brown is in the front row, far right. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

Wayne de Champs, a fire fighter from Calgary, Canada **COOL**s off after putting out oil fires on August 13, 1991. He worked at Greater Burhan oilfield in Kuwait. When the Gulf War ended in February 1991, the Iraqi forces retreated and hundreds of wells were blown up. Expert teams mainly from USA and Canada arrived and the last fires were put out in October 1991.

An angler is reflected in the **COOL** waters of Hansen Dam Lake in Lake View Terrace Friday morning August 11 2000. (Photo by Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

1st July 1920: Farmers keeping a pig **COOL** at the Surrey Show in Oxted. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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WEATHER REVIEWS

New York City, September 1, 2025

★★★★ Cloud cover thickened a little, thinned again, and finally dissolved into discrete individual clouds. An older man sat on a bench with his shirt unbuttoned down the chest; on the next occupied bench a woman sat with her collar turned up; neither seemed a reasonable reaction to the moderately warm sun or the moderately cool breeze. People pitched some kind of lawn game underhanded on the last upslope of the Great Hill. The crown of it smelled of grass. Soap bubbles spewed out of a battery-powered toy at industrial density, drifting from north to south. Sitting still in full sun did raise a little sweat behind the knees, after all. The green of the trees seemed just a little faded. Low grills sat on level-ish rocks, either waiting to be lit for dinner or cooling down from lunch. Down on the Pool, a brilliant blue soccer ball floated on the blotchy surface of the backwater end, riding so high above the duckweed and algae it seemed to be resting on mangy astroturf. Someone sat on the benchlike stump where the low-sprawling tree had been removed and tossed peanuts to chipmunks and to a rat, without distinction.

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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.

WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of sandwiches selected from Assiniboia Cook Book, compiled and published by the Women's Association of the St. Paul's United Church, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada, published in 1925 and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.

OMELETTE SAVAYARDE. — This is an omelette similar to our present day Denver sandwich. It is as palatable cold as it is hot, and in Savoy the peasants offen take the same with them to their work and make their mid-day meal of it. Arranged as a sandwich it is greatly relished by men when shooting. Fry in some good butter, chopped onions and a little lean bacon cut up in small dices. When the bacon begins to turn brown, add the eggs beaten. The omelette should not be any thicker than a pancake. Brown on one side and turn as a pancake. Season with salt and pepper.
—A. Nougaret.

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