July 31, 2023

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

That’s a campaign photo if I’ve ever seen one.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

NOSE!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

(with a big smile on my face!)

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

amazing!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Hard to believe the top picture is 1965… It looks way older, but I think that’s because it’s in England, where workmen still wore caps.

Anyway, it looks like the same building, below.

In 1964 I was taken to see some computers in a chilly basement lab at UC Berkeley…. each as big as a couple of refrigerators, and towering over me.

In 1979, my programming pocket calculator had more memory.

…..

Speaking of computers, I’m still using a tablet to comment.

They’ve come a long way… . but now I have to contend with autocorrect thinking it knows more than I do, and constantly “re-correct” it, back to what I meant.

Sometimes it’s ok, or close… but when I wrote “Looks like the same building” my autocorrect substituted

“Loud like the dead bulldog.”

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

You can’t be too careful. Those dead bulldogs can be deafening.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

Well, at least their bark is usually worse than their bite.

If they’re bitin’, I’m outta there!

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Shipboard?

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

My grandfather preferred Hudsons. Fixed a spun bearing with bacon rind one time. Brought a family back from Oklahoma to California in the Depression one time, supposedly without ever stopping sleep. He’s the same guy who said, “I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll tell a story a hundred ways to keep from lying.”

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mr_sherman
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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

A Hudson was my dad’s favorite car, also.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

Some friends I used to see in the 1980s had a 1950 Hudson… gorgeous car. About the same color as this one.

He was a mechanic, and spent years restoring it on a limited budget.

She pretty much wasn’t allowed to drive it, not that I think she wanted to.

We kind of lost touch after they had a baby, in the early 90s.

I’ve wondered whether the kid ever drove it… with or without permission.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Break the wall leading to the picture from outside.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

or, break the window?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

The painting isn’t worth much after being jaggedly sawn from its stretcher and frame with whichever dull knife he chose.

And he certainly couldn’t use the dim lightbulb that lit in his pea-brain to give him this plan.

BTW I wonder what they’re calling a fanlight… It usually means a semi-circular transom window over a door.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

NOSE!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Hi!

Arfside
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1 year ago

More interesting stuff on filming and animation: Watching a documentary on Max Fleischer and Betty Boop, I came across his patent on rotoscoping. It’s a technique that is being used even now and has developed into more computer generated imaging. He especially used it to image Cab Calloway, whose dance moves were more fluid than most cartoon characters animation at the time.

Enjoy this later example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250MMq0fTrU&ab_channel=JuanjodeGoya

Here’s the info on rotoscoping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

MontanaLady
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1 year ago

reading the word balloons. whatever will cleo think of next?

clever girl!

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

Hey, you have to give Cleo SOME credit… she correctly read and repeated some fairly complicated words off those balloons.

I read posts on the comics, and especially on YouTube, where people can’t spell words, even characters’ names, that are written right on the page where they’re commenting.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Tsk tsk, talking about me before I even get here.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

LOL…. I don’t recall you having any spelling problems, but if I took any inadvertent potshots at you or any of my Cleo pals, I truly apologise!

I never fault people on inability to spell…

No matter the temptation, I consider spelling and grammar correction on forums quite rude.

A lot of it is typos anyway, and everyone makes them.

But I do laugh (usually only to myself) when people on some strips mutilate the title character’s name.

Last edited 1 year ago by SusanSunshine
MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

(or it’s medical like my problems) 🙂

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