I hadn’t heard that song before. I can’t offhand think of things that spark musical accompaniments in my head, but I do think there are some. I know certain products will put their jingle earworms in my head.
About all the internet agrees on is it’s a King Fisher, and apparently lived in the Netherlands in 2017.
I’ve seen at least three different sites claiming usage rights.
Today’s Songs:
‘Fly at Night,’ ‘Fly Like an Eagle,’ ‘Fox on the Run,’ and ‘Game of Love,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Apple Pork Medallions.’
Steve Miller is credited with ‘Fly Like an Eagle.’
Fox on the Run is another favorite. You seem to hit one in every set. The rest are OK, but some just stand out. I recently discovered Sweet made a lot my favorite songs.
Sharp 1200…
Commodore VIC20 (1981)
Sinclair QL
Commodore Amiga 500 (used and defect, but easily repairable)
Amiga 3000
PCs until XP wasn’t supported anymore
Ubuntu most times since then.
my first computer was the Amiga 500—I had been working with higher end Amigas at work (using them for illustration and the beginnings of animated productions- working as an illustrator for the Postal Service)
we always felt the Amiga computer was way ahead of its time using windows
type technology before Microsoft
The first computer I played with was a Commodore Pet… the display model at a store called Mr. Computer. Really!
It was in the late 1970s. Two whole Kilobytes… you read that right… of RAM.
Like MCTS’s Sinclair, it used the TV for a monitor.
Couldn’t buy one… it was $2,000!
And it couldn’t do any mathematical calculations unless you bought a “math co-processor” for a few hundred more.
…
A few years later, my brother and his family had a Commodore 64, then I bought the latest thing: a Commodore 128.
Commodore immediately abandoned the 128 to develop the Amiga. Almost no 128 bit software was ever produced.
Amigas were definitely a step ahead. I wanted one and never could afford it, even though Commodore offered a discount to 128 owners.
They later put out a half as powerful model for half the price, but I’d moved on to an IBM compatible (and useless) 8088.
….
Even after that, and the rise of the PC, and Windows, Amigas were used for years as dedicated processors in some unexpected places, like the guidance system of a round the world light airplane flight.
I guess I was late to the game with my Commodore 64 in 1984. I made a corner desk for it, which I still use with my latest computer.
The ’64 originally used a tape drive and the TV for a monitor. Then I got a color monitor and the 5.25″ floppy drive for it.
I’d played around or watched as others did things on several computers…
Including a couple of demos on 7 foot tall mainframes in the 60s.
I got to try my brother’s Commodore 64, in maybe 1983, but the kids usually monopolized it, and the whole family played games, which isn’t what I wanted to do.
The Commodore 128 was the first one I owned, myself, and that was 1985. I got a modem (incredibly slow) maybe 2 years later.
I didn’t own a printer, which was frustrating. I got a used one for my IBM compatible 80286 in the early 90s.
Slow progression. Now I wish I’d gone a lot farther, as well… Maybe taken some courses and learned programming.
But I got my cosmetology licence instead. Hey, I like that too.
Number 7 may actually apply to real life. I took a hockey puck to the mouth, direct hit from a slap shot (thankfully not pro). It didn’t hurt. There was no pain for at least a few hours. Totally numb. Sadly I didn’t have a beautiful woman at the time to test the second half of the statement.
I’d always loved Seals & Croft songs, but they put on one of the most disappointing concerts I’ve been to. There was a lack of energy in their hit song performance, it was like listening to the records. They ended with a surprising, rousing bluegrass set that was the highlight of the concert. (yes I said bluegrass).
.
I would hate to be on the business end of that point.
that’s none of your business
But it could be his end.
Not that I love it, not that I don’t….
But somehow, every time I see a kingfisher, or hear the word, even after all these years, this ancient earworm pops into my head.
It’s like the bird travels with its own intro:
I hadn’t heard that song before. I can’t offhand think of things that spark musical accompaniments in my head, but I do think there are some. I know certain products will put their jingle earworms in my head.
I had that album, and played it a ridiculous amount.
About all the internet agrees on is it’s a King Fisher, and apparently lived in the Netherlands in 2017.
I’ve seen at least three different sites claiming usage rights.
Of course it is, internet agreeing or not.
And I bet none of the sites pays any royalties to the actual bird.
There are kingfishers in the US but I’ve never seen one with such bright blue plumage. I wonder if there are different sub-species.
There are lots of. All over the planet. A very successful body plan.
DZOIB!!!
,
Char siu meow
NOSE!
DZOIB!!
beak!
..
Cant read it. 🙁
Does “ctrl +” help?
Transcribed it for you, I’m thinking the cats dialogue should be read in an accent.
Mouse: “K.K.-”
Cat: “If coarse K.K.”
Cat: “My initials mins ‘Krazy Ket’, Y’know that dunst you doilin!”
Mouse: “Still there my beauty”
Cat: “Lil Tutsi-Wutsi thinks because I change my komplection I should change my name”
Meaning… in case you don’t know the story (kinda hard sometimes to follow these old comics):
Krazy Kat loves Ignatz the mouse. Ignatz hates Krazy, and usually throws bricks at him, but Krazy thinks that means love.
Officer Pupp tries to stop Ignatz and clubs him or takes him to jail.
…
This time Krazy went to the beauty shop and came out white.
Ignatz didn’t recognize him/her and fell in love.
But when he finds out it’s really Krazy Kat he goes back to get his brick, not realizing officer Pupp is waiting for him.
Thanks Susan.
James Christensen
Is that the same little bird we saw in Nighthawks’s initial post above?
This I’m pretty sure is a bluebird; that was a kingfisher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin
DZBOI!
You’re back!
On the bright side, I’m still at 100%.
OMG… He has apparently looked the same most of his life, too!
I didn’t recognize his face at first, but that smile was a giveaway.
If you don’t know who he is, focus on his expression.
Sadly, he’s not doing so well any more.
aka daleandkristen
Ah! The smile I knew……thanks for the reveal. Good clue and yet didn’t guess it.
door knocker
Poor Mousie, caught for eternity.
2 NOSES!
Charles Edward Perugini
He was Charles Dickens’ son in law.
‘Fly at Night,’ ‘Fly Like an Eagle,’ ‘Fox on the Run,’ and ‘Game of Love,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Apple Pork Medallions.’
Steve Miller is credited with ‘Fly Like an Eagle.’
Fox on the Run is another favorite. You seem to hit one in every set. The rest are OK, but some just stand out. I recently discovered Sweet made a lot my favorite songs.
From yesterday.
I followed your instructions and
If you’re wondering what this is about, go back to yesterday..
it worked
Thank you !
You’re welcome.
I stumble over pictures like that every other day. Like those from gocomics…
Did you see my response to you HERE?
I did now, thanks!
Now I have to find “Ape in Cape.”
My local library doesn’t have a copy. ☹
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, which I bought in early 1983 iirc.
It used the TV as a monitor, and used audio cassettes to load and save programs.
Sharp 1200…
Commodore VIC20 (1981)
Sinclair QL
Commodore Amiga 500 (used and defect, but easily repairable)
Amiga 3000
PCs until XP wasn’t supported anymore
Ubuntu most times since then.
my first computer was the Amiga 500—I had been working with higher end Amigas at work (using them for illustration and the beginnings of animated productions- working as an illustrator for the Postal Service)
we always felt the Amiga computer was way ahead of its time using windows
type technology before Microsoft
The first computer I played with was a Commodore Pet… the display model at a store called Mr. Computer. Really!
It was in the late 1970s. Two whole Kilobytes… you read that right… of RAM.
Like MCTS’s Sinclair, it used the TV for a monitor.
Couldn’t buy one… it was $2,000!
And it couldn’t do any mathematical calculations unless you bought a “math co-processor” for a few hundred more.
…
A few years later, my brother and his family had a Commodore 64, then I bought the latest thing: a Commodore 128.
Commodore immediately abandoned the 128 to develop the Amiga. Almost no 128 bit software was ever produced.
Amigas were definitely a step ahead. I wanted one and never could afford it, even though Commodore offered a discount to 128 owners.
They later put out a half as powerful model for half the price, but I’d moved on to an IBM compatible (and useless) 8088.
….
Even after that, and the rise of the PC, and Windows, Amigas were used for years as dedicated processors in some unexpected places, like the guidance system of a round the world light airplane flight.
I guess I was late to the game with my Commodore 64 in 1984. I made a corner desk for it, which I still use with my latest computer.
The ’64 originally used a tape drive and the TV for a monitor. Then I got a color monitor and the 5.25″ floppy drive for it.
Not late, to me.
I’d played around or watched as others did things on several computers…
Including a couple of demos on 7 foot tall mainframes in the 60s.
I got to try my brother’s Commodore 64, in maybe 1983, but the kids usually monopolized it, and the whole family played games, which isn’t what I wanted to do.
The Commodore 128 was the first one I owned, myself, and that was 1985. I got a modem (incredibly slow) maybe 2 years later.
I didn’t own a printer, which was frustrating. I got a used one for my IBM compatible 80286 in the early 90s.
Slow progression. Now I wish I’d gone a lot farther, as well… Maybe taken some courses and learned programming.
But I got my cosmetology licence instead. Hey, I like that too.
My hair thanks you and your fellow cosmetologists. It’d be a dull world if we all did the same thing.
my first computer was a commodore
A floppy desk drive? Man, that IS old!
Not much I like in the music choices tonight. Here’s one I like:
Montana Lady, no offense to MMM!
Number 7 may actually apply to real life. I took a hockey puck to the mouth, direct hit from a slap shot (thankfully not pro). It didn’t hurt. There was no pain for at least a few hours. Totally numb. Sadly I didn’t have a beautiful woman at the time to test the second half of the statement.
all made perfect sense to me!
15 is so true!—‘Kill Bill’ comes to mind
From yesterday.
Thanks for that !
I used to be a lot more fit than I am now, but I was never that fit.
Thanks.
Oh Yeah!
I’d always loved Seals & Croft songs, but they put on one of the most disappointing concerts I’ve been to. There was a lack of energy in their hit song performance, it was like listening to the records. They ended with a surprising, rousing bluegrass set that was the highlight of the concert. (yes I said bluegrass).