Love the witch/which doctor gag, as well as the Abbott and Costello clip. As far as Johnny Angel, that is an earworm from my childhood that I could live without.
I had never heard Johnny Angel as far as I can recall. Your antipathy toward it is well justified. I knew who Shelley Fabares was and was curious to see her as a kid. As the song was clearly dubbed and the lip-syncing just as obviously off, I was left to wonder if Ms. Fabares actually sang the song or not?
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When I found out Saturday that my birthday had been celebrated here Friday and read the kind words some had left for me, I thought I should try to repay it somehow. So, I left the second comment yesterday. Since that produced replies that totally missed the point; maybe I should have explained it further. Here’s another attempt.
Every weekday, I leave a That Is Priceless comment at GoComics.com providing details about the painting used for that day’s strip.
You probably know about Wikipedia. Wikimedia Commons is where the images shown by Wikipedia webpages are stored.
The end of an image’s internet address (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tiff, or whatever) tells a browser what format to use to display the image.
The (WordPress) software, that processes your comments here, as you probably know makes posting an image very easy. Just post the image’s internet address (URL) and the image appears in the comment. The same is generally true for posting links to webpages. Just post the webpage’s internet address (URL) and the URL turns into a clickable link.
My That Is Priceless comments of late have had the same format, the title of the painting on the first line, and the URL where you can find an image of the painting along with details about the painting on the next line.
The URL nearly always points to a Wikimedia Commons webpage.
So, just for the heck of it, as a test, I tried to post that URL here, and instead of generating a link, the comment processing software generated the “?” box
you saw in yesterday’s comment. Why didn’t it work?
Well, when you upload an image to Wikimedia Commons, the internet address of the webpage it generates to show the image, ends with the same characters (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tiff, or whatever) as the image’s filename (for an image on the internet, its address should have the same ending as its filename).
What the comment processing software thought was an image, is really a webpage, and the browser gets confused in trying to display it.
For it to be treated as a webpage, you have to first get rid of its internet address ending characters. Wikimedia Commons won’t change its address. But, what you can do is use URL shortening software such as https://bit.ly. The URL it generates to point to the actual URL has removed the ending characters.
You may never have to do that, but if you get the “?” box where you expected a link in your comment, now you should know what to try (my repayment).
I didn’t get a “?”, but “comment image” which – right-clicked – let me choose “Open link in New Tab” among others which led me to the intended page. (Firefox, Ubuntu)
Even at now 75, I learned something. Thanks!!
Control-clicking (the right-click equivalent on a Mac) the “?” box works. I was right about why the “?” box appeared; I was wrong about it being useless.
Regarding the Wikipedia page you pointed to: I guess I chose a poor example, one with its own Wikipedia page. Not all Wikimedia Commons images have Wikipedia pages devoted to them. But, if anyone wants to know where my avatar came from, thanks for pointing to it.
While it worked for me, and now I know that when I see the “?” box, it doesn’t necessarily mean following it further would be futile, I would still use the https://bit.ly, to generate a clickable link, in this case https://bit.ly/3AvdMRH, and use that in the comment instead of just leaving the “?” box there. Having spent over 20 years programming computer software professionally, I consider myself quite computer savvy; but, even I didn’t think of your tip. Other readers are used to seeing a clickable link in this situation.
Also, wrt your first reply: on a Mac, both the Google Chrome and Firefox browsers also generate “comment image” instead of the “?” box, just to let you know it isn’t just a “Windows” thing. Safari is my default browser.
So, a double thank you, for not just the tip (I really do appreciate it), but also letting me know that not all browsers display things the same.
That is a testament to human spirit.
65 and a bit years after they were declared free, still being treated as slaves for the most part, (and while they may not have been innocent, their sentences were most likely beyond the pale) singing subversively about the captain raping a woman.
“The baby had blue eyes.” — “It must have been the captain’s.”
Hope everyone had a safe weekend. “Turd” slept through the fireworks, both neighborhood and the professional ones a 1/4 mile away. Hope everyone else’s fur babies did as well.
Loved the Abbott and Costello routine too.
Of course the yellow polka dots…
If you have it off, or if you don’t, y’all stay safe. (((((HuGz!)))))
From: The St. James’ Womens Auxiliary Cook Book (sic)
Compiled by the Uptown Branch of the Anglican W.A.
Flin Flon Nineteen Forty-Nine (Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada)
Recipe credited to: Mrs. R. Horsefield
The proceeds from the sale of this cook book went to fund the building of St. James Church.
GINGERBREAD CAKE Credited to: Mrs. L.D. Hamilton
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup butter & lard mixed
1 cup molasses
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp salt
Cream shortening and sugar. Add beaten egg, molasses, then dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Add hot water last and beat until smooth. The batter is soft, but it makes a fine cake. Bake in moderate oven 325/350 deg.
Notes from me:
My mother acquired this cookbook the year my parents married.
The shortening is the butter/lard mixture.
The soda is baking soda.
I’m guessing about 35 minutes in a pre-heated oven on the second rack (Top rack is first.). Check for doneness by sticking a knife in the centre of the baking pan; if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
What a GREAT ‘toon today! NH, you completely outdid yourself!!!! Not only was it funny, but you captured the mannerisms, clothing and background to perfection!!! WooHoo. (can you tell I liked it?)
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They look totally unprepared for their shot!
I was thinking they look like such babies…
Then I realised…in 1958, they WERE! Or teenagers, anyway.
I double checked…. and yes… depending on which month this was taken….
…
If it were say, around the middle of the year. in June…
Ringo and John would both be 17… Ringo soon to turn 18, John not till later that fall.
Paul would be 15, almost 16… and George, the youngest, would have only just turned 15 in February.
…
In their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, early in1964, they were still only ages 20(barely) to 23.
I forgot to say that, of course, Ringo didn’t know them yet at the time of this picture, when they were called the Quarrymen.
This picture was taken even before Pete Best was the drummer.
Meanwhile, Ringo was 17, but somewhere else…. until he joined them in …I think… 1962, and became the oldest Beatle, by a few months.
.
Here’s some history on the Glenwood stoves if you’re interested:
Very sexy stoves! Hubba Hubba!
That’s why they would have had to cover their ankles in the Victorian age.
Well done Nighthawks!!! An entirely new riff on that old routine.
Love the witch/which doctor gag, as well as the Abbott and Costello clip. As far as Johnny Angel, that is an earworm from my childhood that I could live without.
I had never heard Johnny Angel as far as I can recall. Your antipathy toward it is well justified. I knew who Shelley Fabares was and was curious to see her as a kid. As the song was clearly dubbed and the lip-syncing just as obviously off, I was left to wonder if Ms. Fabares actually sang the song or not?
When I found out Saturday that my birthday had been celebrated here Friday and read the kind words some had left for me, I thought I should try to repay it somehow. So, I left the second comment yesterday. Since that produced replies that totally missed the point; maybe I should have explained it further. Here’s another attempt.
Every weekday, I leave a That Is Priceless comment at GoComics.com providing details about the painting used for that day’s strip.
You probably know about Wikipedia. Wikimedia Commons is where the images shown by Wikipedia webpages are stored.
The end of an image’s internet address (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tiff, or whatever) tells a browser what format to use to display the image.
The (WordPress) software, that processes your comments here, as you probably know makes posting an image very easy. Just post the image’s internet address (URL) and the image appears in the comment. The same is generally true for posting links to webpages. Just post the webpage’s internet address (URL) and the URL turns into a clickable link.
My That Is Priceless comments of late have had the same format, the title of the painting on the first line, and the URL where you can find an image of the painting along with details about the painting on the next line.
The URL nearly always points to a Wikimedia Commons webpage.
So, just for the heck of it, as a test, I tried to post that URL here, and instead of generating a link, the comment processing software generated the “?” box
you saw in yesterday’s comment. Why didn’t it work?
Well, when you upload an image to Wikimedia Commons, the internet address of the webpage it generates to show the image, ends with the same characters (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .tiff, or whatever) as the image’s filename (for an image on the internet, its address should have the same ending as its filename).
What the comment processing software thought was an image, is really a webpage, and the browser gets confused in trying to display it.
For it to be treated as a webpage, you have to first get rid of its internet address ending characters. Wikimedia Commons won’t change its address. But, what you can do is use URL shortening software such as https://bit.ly. The URL it generates to point to the actual URL has removed the ending characters.
You may never have to do that, but if you get the “?” box where you expected a link in your comment, now you should know what to try (my repayment).
I didn’t get a “?”, but “comment image” which – right-clicked – let me choose “Open link in New Tab” among others which led me to the intended page. (Firefox, Ubuntu)
How does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Désespéré work for you?
Even at now 75, I learned something. Thanks!!
Control-clicking (the right-click equivalent on a Mac) the “?” box works. I was right about why the “?” box appeared; I was wrong about it being useless.
Regarding the Wikipedia page you pointed to: I guess I chose a poor example, one with its own Wikipedia page. Not all Wikimedia Commons images have Wikipedia pages devoted to them. But, if anyone wants to know where my avatar came from, thanks for pointing to it.
I’m glad it worked. 🙂
While it worked for me, and now I know that when I see the “?” box, it doesn’t necessarily mean following it further would be futile, I would still use the https://bit.ly, to generate a clickable link, in this case https://bit.ly/3AvdMRH, and use that in the comment instead of just leaving the “?” box there. Having spent over 20 years programming computer software professionally, I consider myself quite computer savvy; but, even I didn’t think of your tip. Other readers are used to seeing a clickable link in this situation.
Also, wrt your first reply: on a Mac, both the Google Chrome and Firefox browsers also generate “comment image” instead of the “?” box, just to let you know it isn’t just a “Windows” thing. Safari is my default browser.
So, a double thank you, for not just the tip (I really do appreciate it), but also letting me know that not all browsers display things the same.
What else is new (not) ;-D
Munich’s municipal website doesn’t work with Firefox most of the time. I try Chromium if any website doesn’t agree with Firefox.
My husband has a degree in Computer Science (we fell in love both studying IT), but you always learn new things – and curse a lot… X-)
I’m a “try and error” person concerning links.
It’s a holiday. He can go back to bed.
Cute!
Here’s the original version of “Black Betty” at a Texas prison in 1933. Ram Jam covered the song in 1977.
Good find!
That is a testament to human spirit.
65 and a bit years after they were declared free, still being treated as slaves for the most part, (and while they may not have been innocent, their sentences were most likely beyond the pale) singing subversively about the captain raping a woman.
“The baby had blue eyes.” — “It must have been the captain’s.”
Remember the Albert Einstein – Marilyn Monroe picture I mentioned a few days ago? – It’s pearlsbs’s avatar:
If I squint and move around, I get a glimpse of her once in a while, nothing that lasts.
Try a smaller version: https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2880082
Now I can only see Marilyn!
Hide behind the couch time for me. Sorry, Tigressy.
I’m sorry for frightening you.
Which doctor?
Oh… right.
I’m just going to leave this riiiiight here ….
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I don’t think so. Unless your’re a fan of BIG cities. (Maybe that is why we’re in Montana.)
Our harbor is best. 🙂
https://www.usharbors.com/2021/06/best-harbor-2021-contest-winners-announced/#:~:text=“Best%20Harbor”%202021%20Contest%20Winners%20Announced.%201%20PACIFIC%3A,Red%20Brook%20Harbor%2C%20MA%20Princeton%2FPillar%20Point%20…%20
https://www.usharbors.com/2021/06/best-harbor-2021-contest-winners-announced
Alas, fame is short lived.
Pretty cool, Happy.
It really is a wonderful little harbor. We even have two Coast Guard Lifeboats here.
Wow, it’s gorgeous!
Congrats to Depot Bay.
Good morning, Cleophanatics and Dry!
Hope everyone had a safe weekend. “Turd” slept through the fireworks, both neighborhood and the professional ones a 1/4 mile away. Hope everyone else’s fur babies did as well.
Loved the Abbott and Costello routine too.
Of course the yellow polka dots…
If you have it off, or if you don’t, y’all stay safe. (((((HuGz!)))))
A novelty song from 1971 which I quite like.
Which is your favorite part??
I’m just sorry she apparently found the parts of her bikini “off-stage,” as it were —
But seriously, the video is cute, but it’s one of those…
I–like-the-song-without-the-video,-but-I-wouldn’t-like-the-video-without-the-song.
…things.
The song. Both of them.
From:
The St. James’ Womens Auxiliary Cook Book (sic)
Compiled by the Uptown Branch of the Anglican W.A.
Flin Flon Nineteen Forty-Nine (Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada)
Recipe credited to: Mrs. R. Horsefield
The proceeds from the sale of this cook book went to fund the building of St. James Church.
GINGERBREAD CAKE Credited to: Mrs. L.D. Hamilton
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup butter & lard mixed
1 cup molasses
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp salt
Cream shortening and sugar. Add beaten egg, molasses, then dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Add hot water last and beat until smooth. The batter is soft, but it makes a fine cake. Bake in moderate oven 325/350 deg.
Notes from me:
My mother acquired this cookbook the year my parents married.
The shortening is the butter/lard mixture.
The soda is baking soda.
I’m guessing about 35 minutes in a pre-heated oven on the second rack (Top rack is first.). Check for doneness by sticking a knife in the centre of the baking pan; if it comes out clean, the cake is done.
veggie burger day!
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He’s not black. He’s blue. Can’t we do something to cheer him up?
Excellent, nighthawks!! Love this. Very well done ~ creative and clever. Now which doctor was it???
We must be traveling on the same wavelength, Perky! We must be twins. While I’m typing, so are you! Funny.
I’ve been saying that for years
Funny or scary? 😁😳🤭😱 🎵 Won’t you be my sister🎵
Ask David Seville, he’s a friend.
oo ee oo ah ah
ting tang
walla walla bing bang
right
What a GREAT ‘toon today! NH, you completely outdid yourself!!!! Not only was it funny, but you captured the mannerisms, clothing and background to perfection!!! WooHoo. (can you tell I liked it?)
Me too! 😀
never knew about those guys……..also never heard
that a large critter like that could function sexually as a male OR female.
uh…..wow!
so, we need More! post more stuff like this as you come across it..
the more the merrier