I say that cos I’m pretty sure i remember my parents saying our 1956 Buick Super, my dad’s pride and joy, which the Air Force damaged in shipping, cost $3,000 …
And people would gasp and say “wow… that’s as much as a Cadillac!”
Ahh…..the Classic Cleo Collection showcasing the amazing talents of Miss Cleo on her scooter! ….one of the all-time greats! And yet, Claude and Clara couldn’t be more blasé…
That must be a really good show they are watching. I think Cleo is wanting some attention.
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
3 years ago
Those sailors are in a marginally less precarious situation than the group of a few days ago. Probably feels like they went from the frying pan into the fire, though.
I guess they shouldn’t have called it a “squid-brain.”
Unfortunately my place is to small for a scooter… even if I could scoot on one.
The internet will have to do.
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
3 years ago
Those poor, defenseless playmen, quaking in fear at the advancing Basset-zillas. Powerless to resist their determined charge. Ah, the carnage! OH, the humanity!
Kracky, youu bad boy! Where have you been? You put that ship down right this instant! No, no, no, don’t try that ink release trick again! You’ll just be more sorry when I catch up to you.
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
3 years ago
Even before Cleo appeared on-screen, I could somehow “hear” the sound of the approaching electric motor. nnnnnNNNNNNNnnnnnn nnnnnnNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnn
On that last pass, she looks as if she’s in some sort of exotic yoga pose.
I could say that Nighthawks has shown great skill in keeping Claude and Clara unmoved through Cleo’s pleas for attention. I could also say that he was lazy and didn’t bother to have them move until the end. But that can’t be right.
When you told me you had found the Oz books online at both Amazon and Gutenberg I went looking.
Sadly, I have to report that Gutenberg is not immune from the affectations of the vile “book sanitizers” (who know better than all of the rest of the world what should and should not be read) as it purports to be.
I looked up “The Patchwork Girl of Oz” and was happy to find it, as I thought, page for page the original book of my childhood.
SCREECHING HALT ! ! !
The song on the record on page 137 as played by Vic (the crooked magician’s Victrola) was altered to:
“Ah wants mah Lulu, mah cross eyed Lulu;
From the original Baum writing of:
“Ah wants mah Lulu, mah coal-black Lulu;
As far as I’m concerned this alteration is not right.
I am disgusted by the smug, self aggrandizing person, (or committee of persons) who thought we should not be allowed to read what was originally written because we need to be protected for our own good and do not have the brains to take into account that it’s a book written in 1913, and that was the tenor of the times.
THEY’RE JUST PLAIN STUPID ! ! !
Or as they would probably spell it, stooped, because they’re brainless fools.
(And please don’t get me started on the copy of “Huckleberry Finn” I scanned through at “Chapters” one day.)
You’ll hear the word “dash” used for it, casually, even in my comment…. but technically, the single-width punctuation mark on the keyboard, the one usually used in a URL, is a “hyphen”.
It’s used to separate syllables in spelling a word, or to make “hyphenated” names and words like “three-year-old.”
…
An actual “dash” comes in two lengths, known to printers as an “n-dash” and an “m-dash”.
The “n-dash” can’t be typed on a keyboard… it’s a little longer than a hyphen.
…
Most word processors, though, will convert a double hyphen into the even longer “m-dash”.
Both are correctly used to separate thoughts and phrases — like this (if it works) — not in a URL or a hyphenated word.
I think a dash will work in a URL, but they’re not generally used.
Hyphens more-or-less stick things together, dashes separate them.
Just noticed… the double hyphens in my comment did get converted to m-dashes… but If you look where it says “Click to Edit”, I think that’s an n-dash before the time.
We just call both sizes a dash… and often use that word for a hyphen too, especially if we’re spelling something aloud.
this 1953 Corvette was listed at $3498–in today’s U.S. dollars–$34,477
If I knew then what I know now ………………. I’d be a lot older cause I hadn’t been born yet!
I’m still holding out for a Deusenberg. This one might do.
That was a LOT for a car in 1953.
As much as a Cadillac.
I say that cos I’m pretty sure i remember my parents saying our 1956 Buick Super, my dad’s pride and joy, which the Air Force damaged in shipping, cost $3,000 …
And people would gasp and say “wow… that’s as much as a Cadillac!”
Is that you in the picture, Nighthawks?
And yet you’ll have to come up with $59,000 in today’s dollars to buy a new one.
I LOVE the theme to the Magnificent Seven !!! ……always have! Good choice tonight, NH!
Agreed! The best remake of a Japanese movie ever! But why does Yul always keep his hat on?
Maybe back then they didn’t think bald was sexy?
But Yul Brynner didn’t need a hat…
If he didn’t want to be bald in this film, he could have just stopped shaving his head.
I think Elmer Bernstein is the best!!! Of course, he doesn’t hold a candle to Yul Brynner! (sigh).
Thanks for the ear worm of the day, NH!
I just wonder what the heck scared them all up into the tree…..?
You really don’t want to know. Definitely worse than a barrel of monkeys.
I think it’s a fraternity prank.
What kind of tree can support what, 10 bears? 12? 15? I would like to see what happens when it starts to bend to the ground.
Maybe the ‘woods’ was full?
Ahh…..the Classic Cleo Collection showcasing the amazing talents of Miss Cleo on her scooter! ….one of the all-time greats! And yet, Claude and Clara couldn’t be more blasé…
Translation: Claude and Clara are crocked.
That must be a really good show they are watching. I think Cleo is wanting some attention.
Those sailors are in a marginally less precarious situation than the group of a few days ago. Probably feels like they went from the frying pan into the fire, though.
I guess they shouldn’t have called it a “squid-brain.”
Take that dog for a walk!
I understand cabin fever…
Unfortunately my place is to small for a scooter… even if I could scoot on one.
The internet will have to do.
Those poor, defenseless playmen, quaking in fear at the advancing Basset-zillas. Powerless to resist their determined charge. Ah, the carnage! OH, the humanity!
Don’t you mean the plasticity?
Kracky, youu bad boy! Where have you been? You put that ship down right this instant! No, no, no, don’t try that ink release trick again! You’ll just be more sorry when I catch up to you.
Even before Cleo appeared on-screen, I could somehow “hear” the sound of the approaching electric motor. nnnnnNNNNNNNnnnnnn nnnnnnNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnn
On that last pass, she looks as if she’s in some sort of exotic yoga pose.
I could say that Nighthawks has shown great skill in keeping Claude and Clara unmoved through Cleo’s pleas for attention. I could also say that he was lazy and didn’t bother to have them move until the end. But that can’t be right.
@
When you told me you had found the Oz books online at both Amazon and Gutenberg I went looking.
Sadly, I have to report that Gutenberg is not immune from the affectations of the vile “book sanitizers” (who know better than all of the rest of the world what should and should not be read) as it purports to be.
I looked up “The Patchwork Girl of Oz” and was happy to find it, as I thought, page for page the original book of my childhood.
The song on the record on page 137 as played by Vic (the crooked magician’s Victrola) was altered to:
“Ah wants mah Lulu, mah cross eyed Lulu;
From the original Baum writing of:
“Ah wants mah Lulu, mah coal-black Lulu;
As far as I’m concerned this alteration is not right.
I am disgusted by the smug, self aggrandizing person, (or committee of persons) who thought we should not be allowed to read what was originally written because we need to be protected for our own good and do not have the brains to take into account that it’s a book written in 1913, and that was the tenor of the times.
Or as they would probably spell it, stooped, because they’re brainless fools.
(And please don’t get me started on the copy of “Huckleberry Finn” I scanned through at “Chapters” one day.)
https://freeditorial.com/en/books/the-patchwork-girl-of-oz
You’re welcome.
She’d rather be surfing, but you take what you can get.
A funny thing happened a while ago on my way back here tonight…. I thought the site was down…
and it took a coincidence for me to run into it and figure it out.
Normally I would have missed it…. which might have been better.
But I just realised maybe I should say.
…
I posted here earlier on my tablet, by using the link on yesterday’s page.
Then I came out to my laptop in the living room.
…
I usually shut down completely, but last night I just shut the lid and went to bed…
so I still had yesterday’s page open from last night.
…
Instead of refreshing it, which takes a long time with my slow internet, to get the link to today, I just did the ol’ geeky thing…
I quickly changed the URL in the address bar…
from https://cleoandcompany.net/april-8-2021/ to
https://cleoandcompany.net/april-9-2021/
which always works… unless it doesn’t, the one night I try to use it.
…
Coincidentally, I was writing to a GoComics friend who had asked how to find Cleo, so I also copied that link into my reply to her.
But then when I hit enter I got “Page Not Found” !
I didn’t post it on Olde Ballard St… I just gave it a while, to see whether it would come back, or I should alert Stel…
I’m glad I didn’t…
…
Finally it occurred to me to go to my main page bookmark, and click on today…
where I found that today’s working URL is
https://cleoandcompany.net/april-92021/
(without the dash after the 9.)
…
I coulda been here!
PS… I also e-mailed a PS to my friend.
Sorry for confusing you, if you see this!
I experienced the same, but the “Next Link”-thingy worked.
Is it really a dash or a hyphen rather? – Serious question.
You’ll hear the word “dash” used for it, casually, even in my comment…. but technically, the single-width punctuation mark on the keyboard, the one usually used in a URL, is a “hyphen”.
It’s used to separate syllables in spelling a word, or to make “hyphenated” names and words like “three-year-old.”
…
An actual “dash” comes in two lengths, known to printers as an “n-dash” and an “m-dash”.
The “n-dash” can’t be typed on a keyboard… it’s a little longer than a hyphen.
…
Most word processors, though, will convert a double hyphen into the even longer “m-dash”.
Both are correctly used to separate thoughts and phrases — like this (if it works) — not in a URL or a hyphenated word.
I think a dash will work in a URL, but they’re not generally used.
Hyphens more-or-less stick things together, dashes separate them.
Thank you; then I’ve remembered it right – my last name contains a hyphen.
Just noticed… the double hyphens in my comment did get converted to m-dashes… but If you look where it says “Click to Edit”, I think that’s an n-dash before the time.
We just call both sizes a dash… and often use that word for a hyphen too, especially if we’re spelling something aloud.
Must dash now….
n-dashes are used for ranges e.g. 9–12
m-dashes separate thoughts and phrases—as Susan states
Depending on your style guide, spaces may or may not be used before and after the m-dash
no worries.
I stay confused
Right there with you!
Me too.
Happened to me this morning and I was just opening the page from my home screen
Mantis selfie
Long-armed and dangerous.
Good morning, Cleomaniacs! Q Date: 392.98870.16 T – 5D 3H 50M
Animation Friday and Cleo is giving “Scooting on the carpet.” a new meaning, Leave it to our favorite K9 to lead the way.
Y’all celebrate your Scottish roots if you have them. It’s National Unicorn day!
(((((HUGZ)))))
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Ohhhh. Pretty!
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,.,
Cabin fever?
I think we all can relate this to last year! It’s time to get the ole scooter tuned up and go for a ride. (of course I’d have to buy one first)
N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945): Blind Pew, 1911.
(A STICK IS AS GOOD AS A BLADE TO A BLIND PEW)