Why do the two characters to the right have no helmets? They appear to be father and son. Are they somehow able to breathe the air there, despite the fact that the others cannot? Are they robots? But then, the robot in the scene has a helmet!
The artist knew that on December 23, 2025 Liverlips McCracken would see the picture and decided to bug him by putting contradictions into it (the meanie).
Or you use this one:
[video src="https://archive.org/download/the-bishops-wife_202408/Cary%20Grant%201947%20-%20The%20Bishop%27s%20Wife/The%20Bishops%20Wife.mp4" /]
The beautiful Canadian Pacific Christmas train goes to various cities in the US and Canada, carrying musicians, and giving free concerts, collecting money and food for food banks in both countries.
This year they had Bare Naked Ladies, among other performers.
Unfortunately, they don’t come near my area…. but I read that they went to San Francisco last year.
Ooh … I look forward to seeing the 12 days of Basset Christmas every year… such a beautiful and amusing production…. from a stagefull of basset drummers to the lone hound dangling from the Christmas pear tree.
Imagine the grace of ten basset hounds leaping, and nine more, in lovely pink tutus, artfully dancing…. sigh….
And the sheer beauty of 5 golden bassets!
But I also love the adorable turtle bassets… and the fact that one of the calling bassets has a Motorola DynaTac.
Dunluce Castle, on the North Antrim coast, Northern Ireland. Built around 1500 by the MacQuillan family, siezed by the MacDonnell Clan in 1550, abandoned in 1639 after part of the kitchens fell into the sea.
You’re right. That one was only just broken in, like a good shoe. It was simply that the broken part fell into the ocean. For people who had known how to build kitchens like the destroyed one for at least the past 170 years, building replacements should not have been a monumental obstacle.
They used to nest on rock ledges, for the ocean view, or in tall trees near rivers, for the fish… safe places for the young to fly…
Now all anybody wants is good cell phone reception. I suppose today’s young nestlings care less about flying over the ocean, and more about playing Angry Birds on their phones.
Just this morning. I love the place that I live.
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Is this another proto-Jetsons magazine cover?
Why do the two characters to the right have no helmets? They appear to be father and son. Are they somehow able to breathe the air there, despite the fact that the others cannot? Are they robots? But then, the robot in the scene has a helmet!
The artist knew that on December 23, 2025 Liverlips McCracken would see the picture and decided to bug him by putting contradictions into it (the meanie).
I knew it! Those &#^@%! They are out to get me!
They do look better without the ear-bobbing nonsense!
More than nonsense…. crime.
The 1948 NYC premiere of “the Bishop’s Wife”, during a snowstorm.
If you look closely, you can see the long lines to get into the theater.
The clutter is straightforward if you read carefully.
THE BISHOP’S WIFE
Or you use this one:
[video src="https://archive.org/download/the-bishops-wife_202408/Cary%20Grant%201947%20-%20The%20Bishop%27s%20Wife/The%20Bishops%20Wife.mp4" /]
A better link than mine for sure. Thanks.
Pangolin! (Where’s Alice Otterloop?)
It looks like a piece of the Antikythera (sp?) Mechanism.
Pangolins are so cool!
Unfortunately, they’re threatened not only by loss of habitat, but being poached and trafficked for food and their scales.
This picture actually shows a mother curled tightly around her baby.
My first impression was that it was some sort of Roman dragon medallion, maybe a brass button from the uniform of a Centurion.
Below is a mother pangolin and her slightly older baby, uncurled.
Or babies.
♫ Is this the way to Armadillo… ♫
Apologies to Marie for being late.
Is that what the booksellers called “slightly foxed?”
That’s not what Frosty had in mind asking for a nose job.
Hah! Got your nose!!!
Does she hear the bell ring?
Not till the very end, IIRC.
It beats placing the heads of your enemies on top of spikes.
That might be what they are waiting for.
Where’s lunch?
The beautiful Canadian Pacific Christmas train goes to various cities in the US and Canada, carrying musicians, and giving free concerts, collecting money and food for food banks in both countries.
This year they had Bare Naked Ladies, among other performers.
Unfortunately, they don’t come near my area…. but I read that they went to San Francisco last year.
Duh.🤪😴
Now I need a cold shower…
The Rape of Proserpina… marble, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ca 1621.
Bernini was only 23 years old when he finished it!.
Proserpina is being abducted by Pluto, god of the underworld.
It looks almost impossible for it to be carved out of solid marble, but it is… and 400 years old.
I wonder what Gian’s Mom had to say about that…
AI, Susan?
I certainly thought so… and would have searched the image, but I didn’t have to, because Toonerific posted the link below.
It’s apparently real, but unfinished, and has been abandoned since 2019.
This video is included in the article… You’ll find others, and a very brief Wikipedia page, if you Google Burj Al Babas.
https://www.unthinkablebuild.com/burj-al-babas-turkeys-200-million-disney-inspired-ghost-town/
Wow.
Thanks!
I guess Turks have better taste than the developers gave them credit for…
You know the old adage: A Man’s Home is his Castle? These folks took it to heart.
Who in his right mind would want a nice house like that sitting 20 ft beside an identical one.
.
Just, no.
Not even AI would produce something that ugly!
Boy, so much variety, vibrancy and vivacity! Va va va VOOM
I wish I could say it’s AI, cos I’d rather believe it’s not real… But it’s actually residential buildings in Hong Kong.
Looks like a dull, dreary, polluted life.
hard to imagine
No comic today. I’ll look at my phone in the morning.
Ooh … I look forward to seeing the 12 days of Basset Christmas every year… such a beautiful and amusing production…. from a stagefull of basset drummers to the lone hound dangling from the Christmas pear tree.
Imagine the grace of ten basset hounds leaping, and nine more, in lovely pink tutus, artfully dancing…. sigh….
And the sheer beauty of 5 golden bassets!
But I also love the adorable turtle bassets… and the fact that one of the calling bassets has a Motorola DynaTac.
Not to leave out the beautiful White Christmas snowglobe.
Such quaint charm.
Say….. Is Bing doing a little gnawing on Rosemary’s ear?
Down, boy!
Paul McCartney called “God Only Knows” his favorite song ever.
He was impressed by not just the music, but the Beach Boys performance of it, and the extra instruments and musicians it employed.
Dunluce Castle, on the North Antrim coast, Northern Ireland. Built around 1500 by the MacQuillan family, siezed by the MacDonnell Clan in 1550, abandoned in 1639 after part of the kitchens fell into the sea.
Nobody could be bothered to rebuild a kitchen?
It was only 169 years old… As castles go, that’s still new!
You’re right. That one was only just broken in, like a good shoe. It was simply that the broken part fell into the ocean. For people who had known how to build kitchens like the destroyed one for at least the past 170 years, building replacements should not have been a monumental obstacle.
But where should they have placed it?
Inside the castle. Putting it outside is just asking for trouble. 🙂
Bald eagle pair on a cell tower.
They used to nest on rock ledges, for the ocean view, or in tall trees near rivers, for the fish… safe places for the young to fly…
Now all anybody wants is good cell phone reception. I suppose today’s young nestlings care less about flying over the ocean, and more about playing Angry Birds on their phones.