Brenda Lee was always tiny… She had hit records in her teens, but either it was her manager or her record company that capitalized on her size and her childhood start by putting on her records that she was even younger.
Some of her early album covers said she was 9 years old when she was 12 and 13… So it’s really hard to figure out how old she actually was when she became popular.
Here she is with Elvis… she’s actually almost 13 but dressed like a little girl. I’ve seen pictures of her nowadays… She’s still very short, with the same face, but unfortunately, it hasn’t aged well.
I’ve never seen one on tv… but I lost my TV service in 2008 when the US went digital (my roof antenna was too old to pick up a good enough signal for the converter box I bought, and we’re not allowed new rooftop antennae.)
So I’ve only watched television at other people’s houses, less and less as years go by, and you can’t count on me to know what’s on nowadays.
I watched a lot of them when I was looking yesterday… Monday……. many with Alpenhorn, but I was trying to find one with a bear to post, preferably in English.
As I said a while back on August 26 in response to J.P. Steve’s posting of the “Third Man Theme” I put the book by Graham Greene on hold at the library.
I have read it again, and again I have enjoyed it.
You have to remember that Harry Lime was not the Orson Welles’ sort-of anti-hero of his radio show “The Adventures of Harry Lime” nor the international private detective played by Michael Rennie in the ’50’s – ’60’s television show where Jonathon Harris (later Doctor Zachary Smith, the villain in “Lost in Space”) played his butler, but an out and out black marketeer selling watered down penicillin in the post war years.
If your library has a copy it’s well worth the read (or if you find it in a used book store buy it).
Our Gang started in the 1920s, with silent films. This looks like right around 1930… Stymie is still a little kid.
He stuck around but most of the rest were gone by the time Alfalfa was part of it, or Spanky, Darla, Mickey, or Froggy…
In fact, Spanky probably wasn’t born yet… He was a toddler in his first films, in the early 30s.
It’s the mid to late 30s group we know best because they have a more modern feel and were shown more on 1950-60s television.
Also, in the earlier days, cast members were replaced if they started looking older… but later, the popular ones stayed into their teens, so we had more years of their films.
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White men (and bassets) can’t jump.
White girls can’t throw either.
Wrong.
I’m the tallest in my family, so I became a basketball player…
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Brenda Lee was always tiny… She had hit records in her teens, but either it was her manager or her record company that capitalized on her size and her childhood start by putting on her records that she was even younger.
Some of her early album covers said she was 9 years old when she was 12 and 13… So it’s really hard to figure out how old she actually was when she became popular.
Here she is with Elvis… she’s actually almost 13 but dressed like a little girl. I’ve seen pictures of her nowadays… She’s still very short, with the same face, but unfortunately, it hasn’t aged well.
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It really is a blue planet.
Point Nemo.
Thank you. I was trying to remember the name.
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Looks like a covered shopping mall, not a street…. So they probably have big signs saying “No Skates”, “No Scooters”, etc.
Gee… I wonder why.
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There’s something off about that.
It’s real!
The blue-spotted glass frog, found only in the rain forests of Ecuador and Columbia.
It’s mainly arboreal, and somewhat endangered.
And in case it doesn’t look strange enough… Its belly is transparent. You can see all its organs, and watch its heart beat.
It’s kind of cute, though. You can’t have one, but if I did, you can probably guess that I’d name him Spot.
WoW!
The white at the bottom of the legs and feet make it look like a cutout. 😀
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Ricolahhh…
Um…. we have Ricola, but I’ve never seen a commercial for it. Of course, not having a TV might matter.
But I figured that’s what you meant, so I went looking, and found several with a… um… a “bear” that looks suspiciously like a marmot….
Couldn’t find one in English, but this is funny:
Really? We used to get ads all the time with Swiss thingy herders (usually with an Alpenhorn) yelling “Riccccolah…”
I’ve never seen one on tv… but I lost my TV service in 2008 when the US went digital (my roof antenna was too old to pick up a good enough signal for the converter box I bought, and we’re not allowed new rooftop antennae.)
So I’ve only watched television at other people’s houses, less and less as years go by, and you can’t count on me to know what’s on nowadays.
I watched a lot of them when I was looking yesterday… Monday……. many with Alpenhorn, but I was trying to find one with a bear to post, preferably in English.
You see how close I got. Not very… But cute.
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Looks like the honeymoon is over…
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Job interview? Gotta get it right.
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Looks almost like the motel I just spent last week at.
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/2639.svg
free WIFI, though, right?
“Anybody know where I can find a good mason?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antakya
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My old statistics textbook has a picture of a blue lobster on the cover and says that approximately one in every 20,000,000 lobsters is blue.
Am I ♪ blue… ♪♪…
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I first saw moose.
Not fair! Mooses are much bigger than squirrels!
Figured it out after i found the mouse.
Well, judging by that “mouse”, relative size in real life doesn’t matter to this puzzle creator anyway.
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My favorite moose.
I found it!
The inventions some people come up with! ! !
Toy for a hobbyist. 😀
Fun as a demo … like having your own little train.
But I wouldn’t want to ride it on a hot day.
And I’d think the boiler and firebox would both be dangerous in a collision!
Someone offended the elephant years ago and the elephant didn’t forget…
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As I said a while back on August 26 in response to J.P. Steve’s posting of the “Third Man Theme” I put the book by Graham Greene on hold at the library.
I have read it again, and again I have enjoyed it.
You have to remember that Harry Lime was not the Orson Welles’ sort-of anti-hero of his radio show “The Adventures of Harry Lime” nor the international private detective played by Michael Rennie in the ’50’s – ’60’s television show where Jonathon Harris (later Doctor Zachary Smith, the villain in “Lost in Space”) played his butler, but an out and out black marketeer selling watered down penicillin in the post war years.
If your library has a copy it’s well worth the read (or if you find it in a used book store buy it).
Sovereign (2025) – Jonathan Noon.
Must be purplie…
not quite.. my scream has an H;
not an I
The gang and their moms.
It must have been before Alfalfa joined the gang.
Our Gang started in the 1920s, with silent films. This looks like right around 1930… Stymie is still a little kid.
He stuck around but most of the rest were gone by the time Alfalfa was part of it, or Spanky, Darla, Mickey, or Froggy…
In fact, Spanky probably wasn’t born yet… He was a toddler in his first films, in the early 30s.
It’s the mid to late 30s group we know best because they have a more modern feel and were shown more on 1950-60s television.
Also, in the earlier days, cast members were replaced if they started looking older… but later, the popular ones stayed into their teens, so we had more years of their films.