this is one of our earlier animations where we tried to time the average read so that the cup falls right when your eyes get to that panel.
later we just made our animations all in one panel
January 7, 2026
this is one of our earlier animations where we tried to time the average read so that the cup falls right when your eyes get to that panel.
later we just made our animations all in one panel
courtesy Susan Sunshine
What, the BMW?
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Looks like something Twiggs would do.
Take 1 cc. (Cubic Cat).
Our former tom-cat Moses once occupied the packaging of a cast iron spirit burner (for a wok) like that.
He fit so tightly, you could have closed the box…
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Saturday Night Fever?
More like Sunday Morning Hangover…
Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin in the silent, 1925, Phantom Of The Opera.
Funny to think of all the movies there were about music, band leaders, opera stars and such, long before they had sound.
oops!
oops?
S’OK
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Reminds me of the thin, flat packages of plasticine modeling clay I used to get. Grooved strips of different colors, side by side, in a clear wrapper.
Exactly what I was thinking!
I’m glad somebody else remembers, cos I couldn’t find a picture!
Yeah, thanks…. that’s the stuff, though fancier packaging. Lots more colors than the regular sticks
Back when I bought it, you got several longer, narrow strips of random colors, side by side, in a clear wrapper. No tray or knife.
You looked through the stack to find the package you preferred, or till some grown-up said “just take one, kid “
This would have been pretty dull, back before the world was colorized (according to Calvin’s dad).
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I had to guess at the signature.
I agree.
Yup. And I remember that box design.
I did a Google search for:
“sugar pops picture: guy Madison”
and confirmed it.
I remember the TV series “Wild Bill Hickok.” but don’t see him in the role…
One of my favorites when I was a kid! Now it’s shredded wheat or bran flakes 🙁
do you recall it was one of the few cereals to have aluminum foil type packaging because they turned stale fairly quickly?
I think Sugar Crisp was packaged that way too
Yes it was.
It was corn pops, sugar corn pops, sugar pops… I think in that order, but I’m not sure…
But for at least 30 years, no cereal has wanted you to notice all the sugar, so it’s corn pops again.
Sugar Smacks, Sugar Crisp, Sugar Frosted this or that… They’ve all dropped sugar from their names. Some went with Honey for a while, but not many still use that either.
That sugar is still in there, mind you. But shh! Don’t tell!
Oh at the pops are sweeter and the taste is new,
they’re shot with sugar
through and through!
Kelllllloogggggs Sugar Corn Pops!
Sugar pops are tops!
(from childhood memory)
I still like the wheat ones…. I think they were Post sugar crisps and Kellogs sugar smacks (who thought of that one?) but now they don’t say sugar… They may say honey.
I don’t remember because the ones I used to buy were off brand copies… but now I’m not allowed to buy them, ever.
I like them dry… They’re horrible with milk, wet and soggy. But dry, they’re like crunchy cookies… they’re one of the only sweets I overdo when I eat them.
You probably should stay away from the Almond Crunch that I make at Christmas (Almond Roca knockoffs). Sugar, butter, chocolate, and toasted almonds.
No…. I wouln’t stay away from that… except for it being a few hundred miles away 🙁
I’m actually pretty good with chocolate… I always have some in the house, and I can limit myself.
The thing about the cereal is that it’s not rich, not chocolate, not heavy…
It’s very light, and only mildly sweet. It doesn’t weigh much, or seem filling, so you can just keep eating it, till you realize you shouldn’t have.
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from Artsy.com:
Michael Carson (American Artist, born 1972)
“Purgatory Heaven”, 2024.
Oil on Panel, 121.9 × 91.4 cm (48 × 36 inches)
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Cat’s no dummy.
Supernatural = run.
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“September Sunrise” by Daniel van Benthuysen, on whose website I found it.
Oil on linen. Contemporary but I didn’t find a date.
Susan, what would I do without you? most of the images I use just aren’t accompanied by identifying text
Aw shucks.
Thanks, but you’d probably just post ’em with no info.
yes, but I’d feel less guilty
So I make you feel guilty?
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I saw these photos published on a website recently proclaiming the “newly discovered” bodies of Moai. The photos were taken by Thor Heyerdahl in the 1950s, and the bodies were known at least from Captain Cook’s time (1780’s!)
That would explain why the heads don’t fall over…
I think they always knew some had bodies, but the big ring of what they thought were just heads, all around the island were excavated in 1978, and, golly gee… were found to have bodies as well.
I read that some others were discovered quite recently… Maybe 2023. And every time, they’re surprised.
I really wanted to look it all up but I’m half asleep… Maybe tomorrow.
Looking at the lower left photo.. that had to be taken in the 70s… or later, but I’m thinking probably the ’78 excavation, if I have the year right.
I don’t think you could find any men with long hair, beards, and sweat bands around their foreheads in the 1950s. Even bare chested was rare in that era.
The original posters made the same arguments — and also about the sky-blue jumpsuit Heyerdahl is wearing. However, the photograph absolutely was published in Heyerdahl’s 1957 book “Aku-Aku.” (I used to have my own copy, bought some time in the 60’s)
Interesting… Must mean 70s style is copied from Pacific Islanders!
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see the pear?
or the hamster?
No, and no.
Or a pear of hamsters?
I found something sort of mouse-ish, but the pear escapes me. Perhaps when everything I see isn’t quite so fuzzy.
I’m inclined to think the little mouse is the hamster
The resolution is poor, making it difficult to see…. but I think this is
ah. I specialize in poor resolution
This one is somewhat low res, but even worse, the artist drew all the lines squiggly as well, I imagine to imitate the kernels of corn.
Ah! Corn! I didn’t think of corn, cos to me they’re leaves… they’re not shaped like corn cobs.
I doubt it, but maybe corn is different in Hungary, where he’s from.
But the bad resolution makes all the lines look wiggly, even the ones he drew smooth.
You must really hate New Year!
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Could you find the “Superglue” one?
Thank you.
I wish i could. I happened to download that from fb.
Somebody once did that to my crossword puzzle!
He used to mock my crossword addiction… So once he did that, and told me he’d solved my puzzle, and another time he filled in the grid with random words.
Before he could do anything else like that, my death threats must have worked.
Complete with tortured voodoo-dolls.
You bet!
Okay…. That has better resolution… the pear is smooth and the mouse/hamster more clear.
“Only at the entrance”
Macaw feathers… Nature’s tie-dye.
Your timing was impeccable! Although I have to admit I saw it coming 🙂
And, more than once, I’ve been through every one of those scenarios – hand stuck to things, fingers stuck together, tools practically ruined. Yet despite all the hassles super glue remains high on my list of “shop essentials”.
I use it as a high-gloss finish for wood-turning projects.
It’s also the basis of nail glue… fingernail, not carpenter’s nails.
It used to be regular superglue, put in a pink bottle, or whatever, and labeled nail glue, for three times the price.
But now they make a version that leaves out a couple of ingredients, and substitutes less lethal stuff….
But I still won’t apply or wear fake nails and tips. Neither the glued ones, nor the ones made with acrylic powder and solvents. Yuck!
I often glue my fingers to hearing aids I’m trying to fix.
I lost a crown on my left lateral incisor yesterday. The whole thing broke off at the gum line. I will admit, I briefly considered super glue.
An odd one, but funny.
I think Quimby hadn’t hit his stride yet,
Tex Avery was odd. 😀
Inside the church in Roquebrune Vieux village, France. Until approx 150 years ago the region was part of Monaco.
Female Rusty Blackbird (And no, that’s not snow, that’s Snow Goose feathers).
This cartoon, honestly, was the reason I didn’t try gluing the handle back on my coffee mug, when it broke off last year. Not from worries about superglue, but remembering Claude’s goofy expression.
When I first saw the strip, I thought “Oh, the weight of the coffee is going to break that right off”, and it did.
But for some reason, I considered doing the exact same thing, maybe a year ago, when the handle fell off my favorite mug….
and what suddenly popped into my head, though I hadn’t seen it in ages, was Claude standing there with his arm straight out, and remembering this animation.
Who knows, maybe it would have worked. But I just couldn’t do it.
Life lessons from Cleo and Company.
Cleo and Company–a public service
I think Gorilla Glue would work better.
Maybe, but I still don’t trust any glue to hold a lot of weight on a vertical split, without reinforcement.
Like all those stick-on tabs and mixable compounds that are supposed to hold towel racks or heavy pictures on the wall… they’ve all eventually failed me.
So yeah, maybe I’m paranoid, but I’d glue on the handle for a pencil cup, but not to hold hot coffee to my lips… And not stinky gorilla glue near my food.
You can buy twin epoxy syringes that dispense equal amounts of resin and hardener onto a surface where you can mix the 2 with a toothpick or whatever. A few drops of that will hold anything together especially if it’s porous. I get the “kit” at a dollar store .
ymmv.
I just learned they drive on the left in Pakistan.