You totally missed the point (that you can’t point to the file in the comment, just the image at the file, without tricking comment software).
If you try to point to the file, you get the, which the comment software thinks is an image (because it ends in .jpg). It isn’t. It’s a file.
So, you have to trick the software by using https://bit.ly (in this case that returns https://bit.ly/3ApD8R0 – did you even click that?) or something else that gets rid of the .jpg at the end.
I went to “comment link” above, right-clicked and opened it in a new tab, copied the image/image-link there and pasted that here.
No editing. And the image’s here.
Again, it is not about the image, it is about the file with the .jpg suffix that includes the image. I already knew how to post an image here (as does probably everyone else who wants to). I did so again (my knowledge predates Cleo and Company being here) near the start of the comment that started this exchange. If you click the “?” box in either my comment or reply, it just opens a bigger screen with a “?” inside, even though the “?” is pointing to the file’s address. That’s how persistent the WordPress comment software is about addresses that end with .jpg (or any other common image suffix). It tries to show it as an image even though it isn’t one. File: is even part of the Wikimedia Commons (WC) address I was trying to point to. Why WC chose to end the address with .jpg when it isn’t an image, I can’t say; but, they must have their reasons.
And, my comment is not asking you how to do anything; I’m telling people how to overcome a glitch in the WordPress comment software. That’s all.
The easiest way that I’ve found to avoid things like that happening is to not use the main address bar U.R.L. at all.
What I do instead is right click on the image I want to post and copy its address directly which in this case comes up as…
…and will post directly as the image.
I’ve put an attachment below (as if I had the choice to put it above) to illustrate what I mean.
Right click and open the attachment in a new window for easy legibility.
If I’m wrong about knowing you can do this… — — …at me.
I posted the comment to provide an answer (to help people overcome a glitch in the WordPress comment software), not ask a question. The “?” box in my comment was generated by the WordPress comment software. It isn’t part of the comment’s text. Not sure what you did to show the URLs as text (and actually, I couldn’t care less); but, text is all they are, and not a link. https://bit.ly/3ApD8R0, a shortened version of the first, also shows the second (the default is better quality than 800px, not sure why you or Tigressy chose that). It is a link. I don’t need your help.
I just learned that July 3 (still today for me) is the 50th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death. The Doors were my first concert. I understand that they are not popular with millennials..
perhaps that run-in with the law in Miami the year before his death had something to
do with the unpopularity you mentioned….that’s the only ‘stain’ on the Doors’ and Morrison’s reputation I can see. There was a charge of indecent exposure that was
appealed and never resolved.
Morrison’s music, of course, speaks for itself
The original, original painting, is depicted above.
There are at least fourteen versions of “The Spirit of ’76” painting; painted by Archibald M. Willard (1837 – 1918), himself.
Its first iteration was actually a humourous sketch titled “Yankee Doodle” done in either 1874 or 1875 for a Fourth of July celebration
Willard later used the sketch as the basis for the more serious painting for exhibition at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.
Willard’s father is the model for the central figure, Hugh Mosher, a friend , and soldier in reality, is the model for the fife player, and one of the two sons of John H. Devereux (Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad), Henry Kelsey Devereux, is the model for the drummer boy. Devereux senior bought the original painting in 1880 and gave it to Marblehead, Massachusetts. It still hangs in Abbot Hall there.
American revolutionary war.
Wednesday, April 19, 1775 (Clashes at Lexington and Concorde, Province of Massachusetts Bay) — Tuesday, November 25, 1783 (England withdraws from New York).
Did I ever mention that I once rented an apartment to “Miss Cleo” before she adopted her new identity and accent? She was working in a nearby African American theater center, where they also fell under her spell. At the time I sold that duplex, the tenants still maintained a Miss Cleo shrine. Ironically, of course.
You’re welcome. Seriously.
There may be misunderstandings (and quarrels even) sometimes (which all can be resolved), but I consider the whole pack here as friends – and I have some physical ones nearby as well.
I remember this from last year…..I admit I’m getting a lot of milage out of that 3 year
old Independence Day animation. too late I realized I hadn’t done anything new in
that time span. If we’re all still up and running next year, I hope to do some new stuff,
especially for holidays
Nice contributions! It is 8:45 PM, Pacific, and the booms are just starting in my neighborhood. Since we lost my girl Spicy, we don’t have to worry about it. The cats don’t care.
Thanks for the Drum & Fife tribute! And a Happy Fourth to everyone. We’re planning to sit just above our driveway and watch all the fireworks displays down in the entire Valley. Culminating with a neighboring town’s city display. What a treat!
Listed as 2 hours 5 minutes 36 seconds
Again, at this site just hit “x” on anything you don’t want, and then go full screen to stop the upper right interfering-pop-up; you’ll have to “x” one or two things after you do go for full screen, but the movie is there.
Just to nitpick a couple of edits on today’s comic: There is a superfluous “out” in the description of the dashing mustache. And, I would argue, a superfluous “the” in the explanation of Robin Hound’s choice of target. Although I do not believe the use of “the” is ungrammatical. Also, an extra set of quotation marks in Bark Kent’s job description.
With regard to the costumes, I have to favor Cleo-patra for the colorful costume and the pun.
..
I would love to find my Walden Pond.
Have i mentioned lately how much i am looking forward to retirement?…
No, really?
Why don’t you mention it again! I love hearing it.
When’s the happy day?
A few more years yet.
I hope i make it. 🙂
From “Wrong Hands” by John Atkinson…
https://wronghands1.com/
Thanks, nighthawks! Now I don’t have to read all those books……(not that I was going to). Well, I have read some and you are right on.
…
I always did like that song. Thanks!
Now that’s a tiny dancer!
If she danced on the kitchen faucet… would she be a tap dancer?
Boo! 😀
Groan!!!
There is, unfortunately, an ad that none of my usual tricks gets rid of, but here is a…
…link to some real tap dancers.
No ad; just the usual.
They look like flamingos.
yes.
I had no idea my birthday was being celebrated here Friday. Thank you all for the kind words.
My pleasure. 🙂
Honestly, neither did i until i got here. 😀
I hope you had a good day!
Nobody did …I just didn’t have a chance to send email invitations…
We did all the birthdays that way on Ballard St 2007-2010.
…
For WordPress, I’ve been trying to send e-mail like I used to do for Ballard Street, pre-Cleo…
but I have to remember in time, and have a couple of hours free to compose them.
It has to be sent the night before, cos I get up late on PDT,,,
I just can’t promise that will all come together for every birthday.
Thats cool. Pleasant surprises then. 🙂
Yay! I am glad you came by!
You’re welcome.
Not all .jpg files can be posted here.
If you want to point to the Wikimedia Commons file for this painting (perhaps of interest to nighthawks),
you can’t just post the Wikimedia Commons file
you have to disguise it from whatever processes these comments as
https://bit.ly/3ApD8R0
Went to the (“comment”) link, c&ped the image.
You totally missed the point (that you can’t point to the file in the comment, just the image at the file, without tricking comment software).
If you try to point to the file, you get the
, which the comment software thinks is an image (because it ends in .jpg). It isn’t. It’s a file.
So, you have to trick the software by using https://bit.ly (in this case that returns https://bit.ly/3ApD8R0 – did you even click that?) or something else that gets rid of the .jpg at the end.
I went to “comment link” above, right-clicked and opened it in a new tab, copied the image/image-link there and pasted that here.
No editing. And the image’s here.
Again, it is not about the image, it is about the file with the .jpg suffix that includes the image. I already knew how to post an image here (as does probably everyone else who wants to). I did so again (my knowledge predates Cleo and Company being here) near the start of the comment that started this exchange.
If you click the “?” box in either my comment or reply, it just opens a bigger screen with a “?” inside, even though the “?” is pointing to the file’s address.
That’s how persistent the WordPress comment software is about addresses that end with .jpg (or any other common image suffix). It tries to show it as an image even though it isn’t one.
File: is even part of the Wikimedia Commons (WC) address I was trying to point to. Why WC chose to end the address with .jpg when it isn’t an image, I can’t say; but, they must have their reasons.
And, my comment is not asking you how to do anything; I’m telling people how to overcome a glitch in the WordPress comment software. That’s all.
I didn’t have any problem here. So maybe it’s not wordpress.
I THINK I know what’s going on here (both the U.R.L.s below have been, to use a chemical term, denatured)
mabrndt — If I’m correct, the U.R.L. below is what you originally posted, which resulted in the much detested “comment image”
https: //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942 .jpg
The easiest way that I’ve found to avoid things like that happening is to not use the main address bar U.R.L. at all.
What I do instead is right click on the image I want to post and copy its address directly which in this case comes up as…
https: //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942.jpg/800px-Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942 .jpg
…and will post directly as the image.
I’ve put an attachment below (as if I had the choice to put it above) to illustrate what I mean.
Right click and open the attachment in a new window for easy legibility.
If I’m wrong about knowing you can do this… —
I posted the comment to provide an answer (to help people overcome a glitch in the WordPress comment software), not ask a question. The “?” box in my comment was generated by the WordPress comment software. It isn’t part of the comment’s text.
Not sure what you did to show the URLs as text (and actually, I couldn’t care less); but, text is all they are, and not a link. https://bit.ly/3ApD8R0, a shortened version of the first, also shows the second (the default is better quality than 800px, not sure why you or Tigressy chose that). It is a link. I don’t need your help.
peace!
I just learned that July 3 (still today for me) is the 50th anniversary of Jim Morrison’s death. The Doors were my first concert. I understand that they are not popular with millennials..
perhaps that run-in with the law in Miami the year before his death had something to
do with the unpopularity you mentioned….that’s the only ‘stain’ on the Doors’ and Morrison’s reputation I can see. There was a charge of indecent exposure that was
appealed and never resolved.
Morrison’s music, of course, speaks for itself
Why aren’t they popular with millennials?
You come up with some interesting stuff.
My first thought at the description was “Cribbage.”
“The Spirit of ’76”
The original, original painting, is depicted above.
There are at least fourteen versions of “The Spirit of ’76” painting; painted by Archibald M. Willard (1837 – 1918), himself.
Its first iteration was actually a humourous sketch titled “Yankee Doodle” done in either 1874 or 1875 for a Fourth of July celebration
Willard later used the sketch as the basis for the more serious painting for exhibition at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.
Willard’s father is the model for the central figure, Hugh Mosher, a friend , and soldier in reality, is the model for the fife player, and one of the two sons of John H. Devereux (Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad), Henry Kelsey Devereux, is the model for the drummer boy. Devereux senior bought the original painting in 1880 and gave it to Marblehead, Massachusetts. It still hangs in Abbot Hall there.
American revolutionary war.
Wednesday, April 19, 1775 (Clashes at Lexington and Concorde, Province of Massachusetts Bay) — Tuesday, November 25, 1783 (England withdraws from New York).
A link to an unofficial assignation of the stars of the American flag to a given state by its date of admittance to the union.
A link to details about the parts of the American flag.
There’s more to the second link than my description provides.
The article itself lists it as a 9 minute read.
https://www.gocomics.com/theflyingmccoys/2021/07/04
More cowbell!
Did I ever mention that I once rented an apartment to “Miss Cleo” before she adopted her new identity and accent? She was working in a nearby African American theater center, where they also fell under her spell. At the time I sold that duplex, the tenants still maintained a Miss Cleo shrine. Ironically, of course.
What a character!!!!!
(what was her number again?)
Yes, I do remember that you had mentioned it, but a longgg while ago! That’s cool.
All three hounds get to blink, but at different times. Nice detail, Nighthawks.
Until you pointed that out, I hadn’t noticed.
It is a nice detail.
I had forgotten that.
Wowie zowie…. Love the paper doll!
But what do I do now about the holes in my screen?
thanks, Susan. I was beginning to think WordPress was hiding that image from everyone but me and Stel
I saw it right away. Fun stuff. 🙂
You should check on Ballard Street more often…
thanks so much for posting the link to Cleo on there , Ty!
I hope you sent someone this way
You’re welcome. Seriously.
There may be misunderstandings (and quarrels even) sometimes (which all can be resolved), but I consider the whole pack here as friends – and I have some physical ones nearby as well.
Yes, I love the paper doll. Very clever and fun. Well done!!
Uh oh….time for another new computer!
Time. for my annual posting of music to accompany this brave little fife and drum trio.
First time I’ve tried it on WordPress.
[audio src="https://archive.org/details/MusicOfTheRevolutionaryWar/EarlofDorchestersMarch.mp3" /]
…
OK… refreshing keeps changing the link into un-clickable HTML code…
I’m going to re-post it below with a spoiler label, which so far seems to keep it a live link,
My suggestion is that you right click and open it in a new window… or whatever the Mac version of that would be.
Otherwise you lose this page, and have the music but not the marchers.
…
It comes up as a page with “Earl of Dorchester’s March” highlighted… click it to play it.
You can also choose other selections to play…. but I don’t know how to make any of them start automatically.
Happy 4th of July, everybody!
Yes, we’re celebrating Independence Day, here in the US…
but wherever you are, unless you use a different sort of calendar, it’s the 4th of July.… so have a happy one!
…
Like children, fireworks should be seen but not heard.
I remember this from last year…..I admit I’m getting a lot of milage out of that 3 year
old Independence Day animation. too late I realized I hadn’t done anything new in
that time span. If we’re all still up and running next year, I hope to do some new stuff,
especially for holidays
If we’re still up and running next year… That sounds ominous. Did Go Comics buy/steal WordPress?
I was worried about the same thing!
that would be ironic, would it not? but no, nothing is in the air, except
for my standard pessimism
Nice contributions! It is 8:45 PM, Pacific, and the booms are just starting in my neighborhood. Since we lost my girl Spicy, we don’t have to worry about it. The cats don’t care.
Thanks for the Drum & Fife tribute! And a Happy Fourth to everyone. We’re planning to sit just above our driveway and watch all the fireworks displays down in the entire Valley. Culminating with a neighboring town’s city display. What a treat!
As far as the paper doll ‘toy’, Miss Cleo is my favorite!
Oh, with that ‘teaser” from Yankee Doodle Dandy, I’ve got to watch that before the fireworks tonight.
Link to “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
Listed as 2 hours 5 minutes 36 seconds
Again, at this site just hit “x” on anything you don’t want, and then go full screen to stop the upper right interfering-pop-up; you’ll have to “x” one or two things after you do go for full screen, but the movie is there.
Thanks, but we still have the DVD.
Alex, you’re a treasure.thanks for being here
Just to nitpick a couple of edits on today’s comic: There is a superfluous “out” in the description of the dashing mustache. And, I would argue, a superfluous “the” in the explanation of Robin Hound’s choice of target. Although I do not believe the use of “the” is ungrammatical. Also, an extra set of quotation marks in Bark Kent’s job description.
With regard to the costumes, I have to favor Cleo-patra for the colorful costume and the pun.
Instead of an extra “the” in Robin Hound’s explanation, perhaps the “only” is unnecessary?
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