April 14, 2022

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MontanaLady
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

whoa, that’s a young David Bowie!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

The raindrop animation is great… but what are the moving white lines?

I know it’s late, and I’m sleepy… But I’m mesmerized…

I first thought rivulets of rain, but they’re mostly inside the room.

Then I thought they might be the edges of some very sheer curtains…

But there’s no bottom edge….

and though most of the way down, they’re inside the window, they seem to be outside the bottom of the wooden frame…. yet magically extending over the edge of the coffee cup?

They don’t show though the clear glass vase… or rather, pitcher… of flowers, either… But that was probably just too difficult to animate.

I think I need to go to bed… zzzzz…..

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

I think that they are the edge of some sheer curtains.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Not the best animation.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

i see that the left window is open a crack. the sheer curtains get pushed around in the breeze. don’t know where the bottom of the left one is.

i can see where you can get mesmerized!

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Baffled me, too. But I think I agree with majority that they are sheer curtains. Anyways, they made us look close.

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2 years ago

Liverlips McCracken
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2 years ago

The animation done to the song It Happens Every Spring was wonderful. It’s wise to keep in mind, as you watch these old cartoons, that each frame had to be drawn and colored by hand.

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2 years ago

See the Apr. 14 comic from Off the Mark over at GC. There’s been a basset sighting.

SusanSunshine
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2 years ago

Oh, yeah… it does happen every Spring….

A new bassetball movie, that is —
ever since the days when this one came out.
 
It’s been a long time…. but I remember this being a funny one, though.

Some sort of impossible chemical reaction creates a kind of rubber that’s repelled by wood….

perfect for “hitting” bassetballs amazing distances, of course…

and that turns a nerdy professor into a bassetball star.


 
Seems like an obvious precursor to the “Flubber” created in a much later Dogsney comedy….

which may have kinda sorta borrowed the idea…

Not that the inventions worked the same way, but the bookish professor invents a super goo that changes the game… and IIRC, helps nerd win fair lady.

 

Doesn’t Jeanie look adorable in her little blue skirt, and purply eye shadow?

Makes you wonder if it was hard to get the basset boys to chase anything but her when she was on set.

 
Still … they ARE dogs… and a ball is a magnet for a dog, even a slow-wobbling basset, when Jeanie leaves the room.

Just imagine humans thinking they should copy a movie where THEY have to chase balls on foot!

All humans know how to do with those balls is hit them with those big sticks and wait around for everything to come to them.

Not half the action of a bassetball game.

Why bother?
 
Stel’s poster is way better than the human one she posted!

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2 years ago

 
The different version of the human version poster is a link to the sadly inferior human version of the film, but, like Beethoven’s Fifth played on a kazoo, you know there’s a better version of it somewhere in the infinite number of universes (1 hour 26 minutes 41 seconds) .
You will have to click through some minor clutter, but the movie is all there.
 
 
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Now I want to hear Beethoven’s Fifth played on a kazoo…..

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2 years ago

perkycat
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2 years ago

Unbelievable!! Here I thought I was just joking……I should have known.

Tigressy
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2 years ago

And one of them is…

…wait for it…
PURPLIE!!!

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nighthawks
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

wait even longer
AHEEEE!

dennisinseattle
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Reply to  perkycat
2 years ago

Be careful what you ask for!

perkycat
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

So true, Dennis!!

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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

I’m not sure that would make the Five 0’clock favorite at Allclassical Portland.

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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

I only lasted 26 seconds

nighthawks
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2 years ago

great use for pecans. Pecan pie!

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Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
Throw in the nut type of your choice, and this will still be good.
 
From: “The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook”
By: The women of General Foods Kitchens
Published by: Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59 – 1084
 
“Pecan Pie”
 
1 cup dark corn syrup
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 eggs, slightly beaten
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla (real not artificial)
1 cup coarsely broken pecans
1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell

 
Combine syrup, sugar, and salt in saucepan.
Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
Boil 2 minutes.
Pour slowly over eggs, stirring constantly.
Add butter, vanilla, and pecans, stirring to mix well.
Pour into unbaked pie shell.
Bake in moderate oven (375° F.) for 50 minutes, or until done. (Pie should be completely puffed across top and firm.)
Cool.
Spread with sweetened whipped cream or dessert topping mix before serving if desired.
Note: Filling may be baked in 8 to 10 unbaked 3 1/2 inch tart shells. Reduce baking time to about 35 minutes.
Nuts may be toasted slightly for rich flavor. For this, simply heat nuts in a teaspoonful of butter in skillet over low heat. Stir until nuts are lightly browned.
 
PIE CRUST RECIPE AT THIS LINK IF YOU NEED ONE.     There is also another of StelBel’s excellent posters there too.
 

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2 years ago

A cup of corn syrup and three quarter cup of sugar?
no wonder it’s my favorite pie

nighthawks
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2 years ago

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bambushie
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2 years ago

Just a SOB!

happyhappyhappy
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2 years ago

Old Phart Plods
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2 years ago

Once a year whether we want to or not….

Good morning poster phans. Another phantastic adaptation by Stel.

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So many National days….

I’m gonna pick one. Dolphin Day!

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y’all have a swimming day! (((((HuGz!)))))

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MontanaLady
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2 years ago

every year our company would rent a luxury bus. we road in great comfort. they also sprung for great sub sandwiches, and we sang the ball game song over and over. all the way down to Dodger Stadium. i hear they did that until covid struck.

thanks for the memories, Stel.

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2 years ago

I was watching a Hallmark movie last night ~ ~ Curious Caterer Mysteries – Dying For Chocolate ~ ~ and it said it was in association with Basset Hound Distribution. What’s Cleo and Nighthawks gotten into now??

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