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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

We are Siamese if you please…

JP Steve
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23 days ago

Darned AI planes — break up even before they hit the ground!

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
From sources around the web, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is reversed (and possibly altered) still from the Dutch movie “The Bombardment.”
I’ve set the clip below to start slightly before the shots showing the damgage to the plane.
It doesn’t post as a video for some reason, but open it in a new window so you don’t lose this page (you might want to turn your sound dow / or off, too).
 
https://youtu.be/tYNlewIxAvg?t=86
 
The movie was based on events that actually happened.
 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

Loved them all.

happyhappyhappy
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22 days ago

TZ is more likely Twilight Zone.

JP Steve
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23 days ago

I think I remember all of them!

(Tanzania Post?)

happyhappyhappy
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22 days ago

TZ is more likely Twilight Zone.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
22 days ago

I..um… kinda think he knows that😁

JP Steve
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22 days ago

Actually I didn’t! Isn’t it customary to put the country on a postage stamp?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

 
Artwork by     CHET PHILLIPS.
 

SusanSunshine
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23 days ago

Rod Serling printed these up to use on his mail……

The Post Office refused to unlock that door…. they said it was all in his imagination.

JP Steve
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23 days ago

No smiling! This is supposed to be a sweatshop…

JP Steve
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22 days ago

If they were working her correctly she should be too tired to smile, Bob Cratchit!

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
The caption below….
 
RADIO FACTORY, c1925.
Worker Mary Ramsey beginning the assembly of a radio set at the Atwater Kent factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photographed c1925.
 
 
…comes from     HERE.
 

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

I sword of like these…

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
There’s still five days to go, but you may have the last one of this year.
 
         G     🗡     N
             R      A
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             R      A
         G     🗡     N
 

JP Steve
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22 days ago

Thankew, thankew…

P51Strega
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Reply to  JP Steve
22 days ago

Epeeic!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

The artist doesn’t get much time to make these….

He works at a pretty fast clip, but sometimes it’s right down to the wire.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

Well, she didn’t enjoy Psycho, and she was there from the very beginning.

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
The tag like thing reads:
 
Not a six but an EIGHT for $895 and up delivered at Fllint, Mich.
*Transportation based on rail rates, state and local taxes (if any), optional equipment and accessories— extra. Prices subject to change without notice.
 

P51Strega
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22 days ago

I’d been to the “Buick City” plant in Flint a few times.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

So…. about a dozen years later the Buick Super was my Dad’s favorite car. He had a ’52 and then a ’56… the ones with 4 decorative holes in the side panel.

He said if my date was driving a Buick I should check… cos 3 holes meant they were only driving a cheaper Special.

It was a joke… I was a little kid. But I’ve always remembered!

These ’40s didn’t have those holes yet… but OMG that woody!
$1242 fob Detroit… how much in California with the white sidewalls and wheel shields?
And I may as well get the heater and air conditioner.

Tell you what…. three grand for two, and you got a deal.

Ok, ok… $3250. A dark green one and a root beer brown. You’re killin’ me.

JP Steve
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23 days ago

No he wouldn’t…

SusanSunshine
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23 days ago

Wood two!

JP Steve
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23 days ago

Boy! Can I! — Oh, you mean in the picture…?

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 

And the words and locations are….
… “Bloom” at the top of the tree, “Garden” in the flowers in front of the door (beginning at the bottom of his sleeve), and “Farm” at the top of the plant in front of the wheelbarrow.

 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

One is harder to see than the other two.

But it’s there.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
22 days ago

Did you now?

JP Steve
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22 days ago

That’s okay, you owed us an easy one after all those unsolvable ones!

happyhappyhappy
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23 days ago

Gots

JP Steve
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23 days ago

You’ve got Bette Davis tires…

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
The description at the Alamy site.
 
BETTE DAVIS fixing car tyre in THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. 1941 director WILLIAM KEIGHLEY story Kenneth Earl and M.M. Musselman screenplay Julius J> and Philip G. Epstein music Max Steiner gowns Orry-Kelly associate producer William Cagney
 
With her right hand in that position, she is fixing nothing (from the expression on her face she is apparently exerting great effort).
 

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23 days ago

From an old tow truck driver: Teach all your kids how to change a tire. You never know when they’ll be stranded out of cell phone range. The car runs just as well when the gas tank is above half full. Checking the oil (and changing it as required) will save you thousands of dollars. Keeping your tire air pressure within a reasonable range makes them last at least twice as long! Just start with that. If they pick up on it, you can go along to the rest of the basics.

SusanSunshine
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23 days ago

Amazing what can be done with a few Legos and a lot of determination.

Especially by a weaponry-obsessed basset hound.

2nd Christmas tree Cleo has wrecked this year, BTW… but who’s counting, right?

SusanSunshine
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23 days ago

I posted this around sundown, my time… which means it was posted late on yesterday’s strip…. and not everyone goes back (though you can often see more that way.)

We have a rare holiday overlap this year.

So once again….

For those who celebrate it:

Chag Sameach!



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SusanSunshine
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23 days ago

Nighthawks must have been listening to my brain!

I don’t know how that’s possible…. But “Don’t Stop” has been an earworm for me all week!

I don’t know where it came from and I can’t make it go away.

You don’t suppose I could have caught it way ahead of time, from this posting tonight?

Besides that, I was at the grocery store last week when their Muzak or whatever sound system they use played Man-eater… I remember thinking it seemed pretty old for them to be playing.

Then again, they make a lot of strange choices, including repeatedly playing Uncle Kracker and Mungo Jerry.

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
Mungo Jerry I remembered, but if I ever knew that Uncle Kracker sang this I had forgotten it.
 

 

SusanSunshine
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23 days ago

Actually I never knew, back when he was actually popular.

They play that one and his other big hit…

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Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
Today is the first time I have heard that.
Further research tells me that while “Drift Away” was sung by him it was a cover of Dobie Gray’s original.
What that means is basically I’ve never heard of him at all until today.
 
Here’s Dobie Gray….
 

 
…and here’s Mungo Jerry.
 

 

SusanSunshine
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22 days ago

Actually, Dobie Gray wasn’t the original singer of Drift Away either… but he had a big hit with it, years before Uncle Kracker

In the first video you posted, starting at 2:00 minutes, a much older Dobie comes onstage to sing it with him…

They alternate through much of the rest of the track.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
22 days ago

Yes!

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
22 days ago

Aha! Your brain was actually telling you “Don’t, Shop, save it for tomorrow!”

Governor of Calisota
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23 days ago

A very sad Christmas for me. Yesterday afternoon my half Chihuahua Mafalda, pushing 22, left for the Rainbow Bridge. We’ll meet again; until then, for me the World will be a sadder place 💔

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23 days ago

I’m sorry for your loss!
Been there (at Christmas Eve 1983)…

Arfside
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23 days ago

You know that your love lasted and loved you as long as possible. They aren’t forever, even as much as we can wish that they were. In time, it’s time for you to share your heart with another, so that they too can share that special bond that can only form between a human and a dog. The rainbow bridge can hold an incredible amount of love.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Governor of Calisota
23 days ago

Aww… I’m so sorry.

If she was almost 22, you must have given her a safe, comfortable life.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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23 days ago

Sorry to hear that, please accept my condolences 🙁

One of my neighbours lost her cat to a massive heart attack yesterday evening, very sudden, and a huge shock.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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23 days ago

Pets are family.

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Reply to  Governor of Calisota
23 days ago

So, so sorry for your loss, you will meet again, all my prayers

meadowmary
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23 days ago

I’m so sorry for your loss.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Governor of Calisota
23 days ago

Pretty baby. I’m so sorry.

Alexikakos
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23 days ago

 
Take comfort in that she had a long and wonderful life with you, and she will waiting for you.
 

baconboycamper
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22 days ago

I think a lot of us here are sharing tears with you today. Mafalda’s eyes show so much love and devotion.
My condolences. 22 years, a good life for both of you.

Marge
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22 days ago

Oh, dear Giusy, what sad news to read about your sweet Mafalda. I am so sorry about your loss. RIP little Mafalda!

JP Steve
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22 days ago

Sorry for your loss.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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23 days ago

In 1957, a production version of the Boeing 707 flew for the first time. Here are Boeing 707-121s on the Boeing factory flight line awaiting delivery to Pan Am in 1958.

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22 days ago

That’s a B-52 in the back.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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22 days ago

Obviously the “Loner” for when one of the 707’s in in for service/repair 😉

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23 days ago

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