Apologies to the early commenters! We had a miscommunication, so I wasn’t prepared to post anything tonight. Better late than never….!!
Alexikakos
Member
Famed Member
3 years ago
@
From yesterday:
It is now 23:58 EDT and I have just finished watching the documentary “Titanic Death of a Dream.”
No hyperbole:
OH, MY GOD ! !
People, if you can find it in a version viewable in your country it is well worth the hour and a half to get an as close to factual account of the Titanic’s sinking as I have ever seen.
Great, isn’t it. I have it on VHS tape, but every time it comes on TV (it hasn’t for a while) I can’t stop watching it all the way through again!
BTW there’s the sequel “The Legend Lives on” if you want to get gripped for another hour and a half!
Alexikakos
Member
Famed Member
3 years ago
@
SusanSunshine
From yesterday.
I watched your video reference three times to make sure I wasn’t imaging it (later confirmed again by JP’s link).
What am I talking about?
At the time, boats’ names were painted on their sterns for the most part.
I find it rather odd that there are coinciding “film scratches” on both tugboats’ sterns whenever said sterns would be visible to the camera.
There’s weird things happening again.
The video below is right at the top of the article you posted, at least on my computer.
It’s actual silent footage, with explanatory captions, about the preparations on the Titanic before she left Southhampton on Wednesday, April 10, 1912.
I suggest muting your sound as the spliced in music does nothing to improve the film short (4 minutes 50 seconds plus modern day commercial) in my opinion.
I get the grayed out screen from YouTube behind the “play” arrow; but with the avatar like picture in the top left, I clicked on it anyway to see if it would run, and it did without a single problem.
I find it strange the blocking message from A&E about the “Titanic Death of a Dream” documentary reads “in your country,” I can understand the network blocking it for copyright reasons, but A & E is headquartered in New York City; just a glitch, I guess.
Another Stel-lar movie poster graces the page and it’s translated from the original language.
NATIONAL PURPLE UP! DAY (guess we know which one is the only one that counts)
– GET TO KNOW YOUR CUSTOMERS DAY NATIONAL BANANA DAY NATIONAL HIGH FIVE DAY NATIONAL TITANIC REMEMBRANCE DAY NATIONAL TAKE A WILD GUESS DAY NATIONAL RUBBER ERASER DAY NATIONAL GLAZED SPIRAL HAM DAY
Whatever it is that you found, Alexi, it’s not showing up here. Do you mean the English version of the poster? I was so in a hurry last night, that I just couldn’t find it quickly enough. I had lost the original a few years back when I lost all my files after a computer crash. If that is, indeed, what you’re referring to, could you post it again so that I may save it? Thanks.
It showed up for me last night when I clicked on the link…
I should have saved it, cos now I get an error message… in Japanese.
weird cos it isn’t even the Japanese version.
Last edited 3 years ago by SusanSunshine
Alexikakos
Member
Famed Member
3 years ago
As it is “National Banana Day” The Tiki might be running a special on these.
From: “The Bartender’s Bible” by Gary Regan
Published by: Harper Collins 1991
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 91-55104
BANANA DAIQUIRI
2 ounces light rum
1/2 ounce Cointreau or triple sec
1 very ripe banana sliced
1 ounce lime juice
1/2 teaspoon superfine sugar
1 cup crushed ice
In a blender, combine all of the ingredients. Blend well. Pour into a collins glass.
After a few (or more than a few) the imbibers may begin to make guesses as to when nighthawks will start paying his staff.
WILD ! ! !
MontanaLady
Member
Famed Member
3 years ago
Beautiful poster, Stel. Love that hint of that color we can’t mention.
Did our costume department sew all those beads on by paw as Susan said? Wow! What dedication they showed. They sure deserved extra biscuits at the end of each day.
“Savannah Menagerie” is the name that the Microsoft Jigsaw program gave to the picture and that I am continuing to use in my files. I’m currently working on a series of Museum Exhibits of Wildlife that were made into jigsaw puzzles, and some of them, when finished, are so amazing, that I’ve been saving them. I really don’t have any other information than that to offer, but I’m glad that you and Liverlips McCracken enjoy it as much as I do!
I think I’ve probably seen the diorama in real life. Is it in the Los Angeles County Museum, or the Carnegie? or the Page? I just hung out in too many museums in my day!
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
3 years ago
What a beautiful poster! Such dignity. Such gravitas. Such a tight grasp on those biscuits.
That’s why it could only be a still-life in a museum, or maybe a painting. There is no way that such a gathering would be possible in real life, right?
bambushie
Member
Famed Member
3 years ago
ooh, I’ve been promoted to a noble member! Leaps and bounds!
original movie poster
…
2 fists full of biscuits.
Apologies to the early commenters! We had a miscommunication, so I wasn’t prepared to post anything tonight. Better late than never….!!
@
From yesterday:
It is now 23:58 EDT and I have just finished watching the documentary “Titanic Death of a Dream.”
No hyperbole:
People, if you can find it in a version viewable in your country it is well worth the hour and a half to get an as close to factual account of the Titanic’s sinking as I have ever seen.
JP, thank you.
Great, isn’t it. I have it on VHS tape, but every time it comes on TV (it hasn’t for a while) I can’t stop watching it all the way through again!
BTW there’s the sequel “The Legend Lives on” if you want to get gripped for another hour and a half!
@
From yesterday.
I watched your video reference three times to make sure I wasn’t imaging it (later confirmed again by JP’s link).
What am I talking about?
At the time, boats’ names were painted on their sterns for the most part.
I find it rather odd that there are coinciding “film scratches” on both tugboats’ sterns whenever said sterns would be visible to the camera.
Try this
LINK
For possible access to “Titanic Death of a Dream” (it’s a slightly different U.R.L. than the one JP posted and may work for you).
Alexi… I’m a little confused…
I posted a link to an online article… facts and figures, with a few pictures. I didn’t post a video.
I just took another look now, to make sure that I didn’t miss a video link on that page… but no.
So I’m not sure where you saw the video of tugboats.
…
Meanwhile, thanks for trying with your video link…
but once again, I get the same black screen I got with Steve’s link.
It says
“Video unavailable
This video contains content from A+E Networks, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds”
…
There’s weird things happening again.
The video below is right at the top of the article you posted, at least on my computer.
It’s actual silent footage, with explanatory captions, about the preparations on the Titanic before she left Southhampton on Wednesday, April 10, 1912.
I suggest muting your sound as the spliced in music does nothing to improve the film short (4 minutes 50 seconds plus modern day commercial) in my opinion.
I get the grayed out screen from YouTube behind the “play” arrow; but with the avatar like picture in the top left, I clicked on it anyway to see if it would run, and it did without a single problem.
I find it strange the blocking message from A&E about the “Titanic Death of a Dream” documentary reads “in your country,” I can understand the network blocking it for copyright reasons, but A & E is headquartered in New York City; just a glitch, I guess.
Oops. I must have missed seeing that that pic was a video.
Try this link it works for me, part 1:
Part 2:
Thank you!
I was at first only planning to watch Steve’s short clip…
But if everybody thinks it’s so good, I just may have to see it all.
That is one regal looking Basset Hound!
Amazing!
This is one of my favorites…..
So beautiful…. like a 16th century painting come to life.
…
I can’t believe the hours Cate Basset must have sat in the make-up chair!
To say nothing of the teams of little dogs, sewing bead after bead, couching golden thread,
and attaching realistic-looking gems and pearls, onto costume after costume…
a truly magnificent wardrobe.
…
Stel posted the human imitation….
You can see that their star totally lacked those big brown eyes….
and what about those long silky ears?
…
I remember looking for a human version myself… and I, too, I could only find a Japanese poster that copied the dress and hair.
Yet this Queen …um… doesn’t appear to be Japanese… or a basset hound.
And note…. she is NOT holding the Royal Biscuits!
Not being an actual Basset… or royalty… she’s probably not allowed to touch them!
Nice to see that you’re branching out and consulting on Brewster Rockit scripts this week.
Nah… he never asks me….even though I do know some corny puns.
I don’t stalk him asking for the job….
…
I just go somewhere like
https://www.gocomics.com/brevity/2021/04/15
and do my own thing.
…
(Kind of an experiment here to see how that link posts.)
It did
Good morning, fellow Cleomaniacs!
Another Stel-lar movie poster graces the page and it’s translated from the original language.
NATIONAL PURPLE UP! DAY (guess we know which one is the only one that counts)
– GET TO KNOW YOUR CUSTOMERS DAY
NATIONAL BANANA DAY
NATIONAL HIGH FIVE DAY
NATIONAL TITANIC REMEMBRANCE DAY
NATIONAL TAKE A WILD GUESS DAY
NATIONAL RUBBER ERASER DAY
NATIONAL GLAZED SPIRAL HAM DAY
Y’all have a purplie day! (((((HUGZ)))))
Deal me a slice, Riff-Raff.
In honor of the tax filing deadline?
Good luck finding the four-leaf clover
It took me forever to find it! Love all the cute expressions.
damn!—-you mean forever is over already?
and here I thought it was just getting started
Love all your puzzles. Keeps my brain awake.
found it and much quicker then Saturdays fun!
It is so obvious once you see it. At first I thought it must be the one at the bottom where you see one leaf ~ with the other three hidden.
About 10 seconds.
Unusually fast for me concerning this kind of puzzle.
Those piggies are too cute as they are!
Yeah, I enjoy these when you post them, thanks.
Love the couple of incidental two-piggy dramas in this one.
If you look at the piggies, you will never find it. I found it first, then went back to enjoy the piggies.
Love the poster, Stel!
Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods)))) and Miss Susan.
Thanks so much, Dry!!
Found the human English version.
Whatever it is that you found, Alexi, it’s not showing up here. Do you mean the English version of the poster? I was so in a hurry last night, that I just couldn’t find it quickly enough. I had lost the original a few years back when I lost all my files after a computer crash. If that is, indeed, what you’re referring to, could you post it again so that I may save it? Thanks.
It showed up for me last night when I clicked on the link…
I should have saved it, cos now I get an error message… in Japanese.
weird cos it isn’t even the Japanese version.
As it is “National Banana Day” The Tiki might be running a special on these.
From: “The Bartender’s Bible” by Gary Regan
Published by: Harper Collins 1991
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 91-55104
BANANA DAIQUIRI
2 ounces light rum
1/2 ounce Cointreau or triple sec
1 very ripe banana sliced
1 ounce lime juice
1/2 teaspoon superfine sugar
1 cup crushed ice
In a blender, combine all of the ingredients. Blend well. Pour into a collins glass.
After a few (or more than a few) the imbibers may begin to make guesses as to when nighthawks will start paying his staff.
Beautiful poster, Stel. Love that hint of that color we can’t mention.
Did our costume department sew all those beads on by paw as Susan said? Wow! What dedication they showed. They sure deserved extra biscuits at the end of each day.
oh, you can mention it….
as long as you don’t mind all the screaming
They sure did, and they do get a generous bonus of the best biscuits available.
Thanks, ML!
Does that wildlife image have a name? May I suggest Horn of Plenty? Or Plenty of Horn?
(Hah! I crack me up.)
Your name for it is better. 😉
Right-click on it and choose Save Image. Savannah Menagerie comes up in the box. Then you can choose save or cancel.
Oh the tricks I’ve learned from everybody in CleoLand!
Thanks, Arf….
“Savannah Menagerie” is the name that the Microsoft Jigsaw program gave to the picture and that I am continuing to use in my files. I’m currently working on a series of Museum Exhibits of Wildlife that were made into jigsaw puzzles, and some of them, when finished, are so amazing, that I’ve been saving them. I really don’t have any other information than that to offer, but I’m glad that you and Liverlips McCracken enjoy it as much as I do!
(and, LM, you crack me up, as well!)
The filename says it all.
I think I’ve probably seen the diorama in real life. Is it in the Los Angeles County Museum, or the Carnegie? or the Page? I just hung out in too many museums in my day!
What a beautiful poster! Such dignity. Such gravitas. Such a tight grasp on those biscuits.
LOL!!!
Savannah Menagerie looks like a meat-eaters paradise. The lions are saying, “Quick, where is it? I’m drooling myself to death here!”
That’s why it could only be a still-life in a museum, or maybe a painting. There is no way that such a gathering would be possible in real life, right?
ooh, I’ve been promoted to a noble member! Leaps and bounds!
How cool is that?
Love this poster! Love it better than the original……which might be better if she was holding biscuits in her hands.
In the original “original” (that I’ve lost), if memory serves me, she was holding a royal orb and a royal sceptre.
Nighthwks, I found the four leaf clover “right off the bat”. Upper right hand corner! 🙂
Thanks, Dry! Now, I don’t have to look for it! LOL
Stel is joking… but after this, PLEASE don’t tell.
Or at least put SPOILER ALERT on your comment.
Some people come late, or even the next day, and still want to solve it. Sometimes even me.
…
If you register and log in, you get formatting tools in the comment box where you type… I don’t know whether you see them posting as a guest.
If you do, there’s a button that helps you hide a spoiler comment….
…
To use it, if you have it…
You highlight the part that gives away the answer, and click the thing that looks like [+]….
A little box pops up in which you type “spoiler” or “solution”.
After you post, the part you highlighted will be hidden under that box.
Great Job
Luna!
My husband got to know and love her music via exactly that video a few years ago.
I got him a CD back then…
Yes, she is amazing, is she not?