November 15, 2021

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MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Adorable!!!

Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago

Nice to see such a distinguished welcoming committee.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

So, which one is Nighthawks?

DennisinSeattle
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

The one on the far right.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

hahahahahaaaaa

Old Phart Plods
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3 years ago

That’s Petey

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I thought I knew quite a few of Our Gang on sight…

but the only ones I’m pretty sure of here are Stymie and Petey…and I think the little girl is Dorothy.

There were just so many of them, over so many years… and some of them changed as they got older.

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
This caption (you’re right about Dorothy) …
“Sherwood Bailey, Matthew ‘Stymie’ Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins, Kendall McComas, George ‘Spanky’ McFarland, and Pete the Dog in The Little Rascals (1955)”
…comes from…     …HERE.
 
Where the 1955 comes from I do not know. They’d have to be 24 years older than when they made “Love Business” in 1931.

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Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
Here is
 
“Love Business”
 

You’ll have to click the sound icon on the video (20 minutes)

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SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

I thought that toddler was probably Spanky, but it’s not a good picture of him… nor of Wheezer. I usually recognize them both.

The other two names are unfamiliar.

Note that it says “The Little Rascals” … the title used for running the old “Our Gang” shorts as a TV series.

1955 would have been at the height of their popularity … and for this sort of promotional material… which never mentioned that the actual films were 20 or 30 years old.

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
This caption for nighthawks’ picture…
“Posing” by Barbora Polivkova, Rainforest, Costa Rica. Commended.
…comes from…     …HERE.
 

Arfside
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3 years ago

After awhile, Claude and Clara decided Kibble wasn’t quite as bad tasting as they had expected. Well, when it’s the only thing you have…in fact, Cleo was beginning to look a lot more edible as time went on. Nighthawks had better get them off that island before bad things happen – – maybe a button on the tree that says Don’t Push???

mr_sherman
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Reply to  Arfside
3 years ago

Well, there went tomorrow’s comic surprise.

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Simultaneously, Claude and Clara are starting to look more edible to Cleo.

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
Just general yammerings.
 
1.)   I went online to find Bisquick. At $4.19 for a 1 kg. box I won’t be buying it.
Too, the U.S. Betty Crocker site has many complaints about a change in the recipe; since they’re complaints you know the change wasn’t considered for the better.
2.)   Yesterday I had my very first McDonald’s “Li’L Donut.” I won two of them as instant prizes in the just ended Monopoly contest. I won a medium fries too.
It wasn’t a doughnut, it was closer to an éclair. There was no hole. Here is the description from McDonald’s site.
This soft donut is filled with Bavarian cream, topped with a satisfying blanket of chocolate icing and chocolate drizzle. It pairs perfectly with your favourite McCafé beverage.
It did taste good though, and McDonald’s is back to $1.05 tax-in medium coffees for a while (normally $1.85 tax-in) so that’s good too.
3.)   I’ve just finished reading “November Man” by the late Bill Granger. I had read it before, I’m guessing when the movie came out, because I recognized scenes, and plot points. There are actually 13 books in the series of which “There are No Spies” (aka “November Man”) is number seven. I’m going to watch the movie just to see how the intricacies were handled. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is ready for me at the library; it’s only a mile or so away, so I may walk there at opening.
 

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Relax, vegetarians: that donut-filling is really just English cream (which doesn’t contain gelatin). No Bavarians in there.

MontanaLady
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3 years ago

I don’t know about you, but if I’m stranded on a deserted island, I’d really enjoy eating kibble.

Tigressy
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

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Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
This took me a moment.    🥴
 
Then I went looking:
In a welcome-to-your-native-tongue moment I discovered that one does not get one’s “just desserts (as I had always thought),” but rather one gets ones “just deserts.”
Both words come to English from the French, but desert comes from an Old French word meaning “to serve well,” and dessert comes from desservir meaning “clear the table.”
 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 years ago

…or you could just go with “desert – no more than one; thank you” and “dessert – two are welcome” regarding the “s”.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

I’m not sure about “really enjoy”….

but certainly tolerate.

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Cher, you gotta go! Now!
I do have a soft spot for the old Sonny and Cher songs.

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Expressionless females in black with red lips and dark eyes, where have I seen this before? Andy Warhol?

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

Vogue?

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

When Sonny and Cher first started out… a couple of years before this song…

they called themselves Caesar and Cleo.

Of course, our Cleo wouldn’t have allowed that to continue.

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
Susan, you have made my day.  —comment image
 

 
They hadn’t quite found their stride yet (but you can hear it’s there).

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Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago

Personally, I like the fact that there’s a chaise lounge, and that sunglasses-wearing Cleo is occupying it.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 years ago

I would have expected nothing less from her.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

We had one of these. It was butterscotch colored and we got a little road runner toy with it. I don’t think we got $50 off, though.

Old Phart Plods
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3 years ago

It’s a little bland, but not bad.

MONDAY! Whoohoo...I love retirement.
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Unless the numbers aren’t 1 or 2
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I’ll take this one.

Y’all have a great week! (((((HuGz!)))))

Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Rent a Teen Boy cleans out refrigerators

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Used to be our clean your refrig day was every Thursday. The meals were VERY interesting. That’s when I started putting things in the freezer instead.

(now, when did you say National Clean your Freezer Day is?)

dorothea
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

My self-cleaning oven always fries its electronic brains. Not worth the $300+. Stopped using the function (and cleaning it) 15-20 years ago. Broil often enough that most of the crud cooks off when I do.

StelBel
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3 years ago

BING picture of the day
Manatee In Florida
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Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
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3 years ago

Sometimes I see me as an old manatee

Heading south as the waters grow colder

He tries to steer clear of the hum drum so near

It cuts prop scars deep in his shoulders

That’s how it flows right to the end

His body’s still flexible but that

Barnacle brain don’t bend

Growing Older But Not Up, Buffett, J.

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3 years ago

MontanaLady
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3 years ago

Beautiful, Happy

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