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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Phones in the very late 1870’s, electricity … only in Manhattan… came in 1882…

Oh… but telegraph lines got there about 30 years earlier.

Still… look how many wires in the air by 1887!

Maybe mostly telephone and telegraph lines, judging by those glass insulators… I’m not sure whether power lines had them… anybody?

Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
One of many styles. The caption is below.
 
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GE Cable 11KV Rated Voltage Glass Power Line Insulators High Temperature Resistance – glass electrical insulators manufacturer from GE Cable
 

perkycat
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Sure glad they figured out a different way.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

a little cleaner than 1887?

…..ooooops……

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

 
Concerto
 

Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
The range map is a link to an article in Wikipedia about the caracal cat.
There are more pictures of caracals accompanying it; both wild, and domesticated.
Click on a picture, and and it will zoom up and become a slide show.
 
 
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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Shikamoo has one for her avatar… not that we ever see it at Cleo and Company.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

a cross between Perkycat and Tigressy.

dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

Ka-Whump and Floop! Thanks Ikea!

MontanaLady
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2 years ago

luckily the closest IKEA is south of Salt Lake City.

dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

“Why torture me?” Terry you idiot, you are torturing yourself.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 years ago

Mustn’t leave out the floggle-toggle!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 years ago

Is it related to a thing-a-ma-bob and a doohicky?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

It’s the bit that attaches to those two 😉

Actually a recurring thing from the old 1960’s UK radio show “The Navy Lark” 🙂

Alexikakos
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 years ago

 
The very first episode.
 

 

SusanSunshine
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2 years ago

A friendly gas station mechanic told me long ago, jokingly, about “pocket parts.”

Those are the leftover bits, usually lying on the floor, that the mechanic swoops up and sticks in his pocket, when he sees you coming to get your car.

He waits till the last moment in case he suddenly remembers where one of them belongs.

He laughingly insisted he had none from my car….

and added that his flat overall pockets meant he was a good mechanic.

If you go to one whose pockets always seemed to be bulging, you probably should find somebody else.

SusanSunshine
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2 years ago

Not exactly the same… but almost the same phrase…

In beauty school, which I later went to, in a midlife career switch, an instructor joked about “pocket curls”…

Those are the curls of hair that come off with the rod (gasp!), when you’re taking them out after a perm…
It means you over processed it, and broke the client’s hair off.

She made almost the same joke, about how you shouldn’t get a perm from a stylist with bulging pockets.

I promise, I have never made a pocket curl!

But honestly, anybody could

If a client’s hair was bleached or permed too recently, or she just had anesthesia, or has a henna product in her hair … those are only some of the reasons her hair might break off.

(Or his, of course… I’ve just never given a guy a perm.)

You always ask… but sometimes they’ll lie, so you don’t refuse to do it.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

never did like tapioca.

perkycat
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

My favorite pudding.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I love tapioca.

Usually you get the kind with much smaller “pearls” … either this glass dish is tiny, or those pearls are huge.

They’d be really chewy, if they’re big… but I’d probably still like it.

Not bubble tea, though.

Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
This bit of fluff was posted by Randy B on “Frog Applause” yesterday.
 

 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Formally a ‘flash’ animation from the early days of the internet, along with The Llama Song!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 years ago

In the even earlier (but not earliest) days of the internet, I loved the Hampster Dance.

I don’t like the “fancied up” YouTube versions I can find, and the audio isn’t continuous on the recreated web pages….

So far I haven’t found one I want to post, that would just give the “flavor” of those rows and rows of endlessly dancing, very simple little cartoon hamsters.

It was something you linked to in an email, when web animations felt new, and many people had never seen a gif, just to drive your friends crazy.

Old Phart Plods
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2 years ago

Looks like a key. Must’ve been the key part…. snort

TGIF fellow cleoites! Animation Friday at that.

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Y’all have a great weekend sees ya in the morning. (((((HuGz!)))))

Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
Not a big fan, I’ll eat it if served, but I don’t make it.
 
From: ;
Creative Cooking DESSERTS
Published by Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. 1992
Compiled and edited by: Marian Hoffman.
Designed by: Ruth Ann Thompson.
 
“Tapioca Custard Pudding” Serves 6

 
1/2 cup minute tapioca
2 cups milk, scalded (whole milk 3.25% milk fat)
2 eggs slightly beaten
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter
 
1.  Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2.  Place tapioca and milk in top of
double boiler; cook over hot water
for 30 minutes.
3.  Beat eggs, sugar and salt
together in bowl. Add 2 tablespoons
hot tapioca mixture to eggs, then
gradually stir eggs into remaining
tapioca mixture in top of double
boiler.
4.  Place tapioca mixture in buttered
pudding mold. Add butter. Place
mold in pan of hot water. bake for
30 minutes. Serve warm.
 

Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Me either, but for the next 5 days it’s soft food and protein shakes.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
2 years ago

was this your ‘dental’ day? good luck. you have the patience of a saint!

mr_sherman
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2 years ago

Last night we gave some camp kitchen equipment and a propane stove to a young couple with a small child. Since it was done after posting yesterday’s cartoon, does it count for today?

perkycat
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2 years ago

Ask a silly question, Claude, and the answer is right before your eyes.

Saucy1121
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2 years ago

Guess Claude never read this bit from Ben Franklin.

“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”

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