I remember the incident, the Russian fighter really crashed, just like that, during an airshow. However, I think this particular image is a composite. The fighter is way out of scale with the foreground planes.
Isn’t that the receiver cord, snaking across the desk, from the back of the phone(which we can’t see), past the blueprint, over the edge, and up behind the man’s arm?
They weren’t always curly back then.
Pretty sure the line going straight back, past the lamp, isn’t a cord, but the edge of the desk blotter.
The wall cord would also be attached to the bottom of the phone, next to the other one, maybe looping a bit towards us on its way to the wall…
and we can’t see that bit of the phone or desk.
From this angle is hard to tell exactly what’s part of her face and what’s not… At first glance, the observation windows (?) in her forehead looked like the glasses Geordi wears on Star Trek NG.
There is one of the 21 built, in the US Airforce Museum in Dayton. That is the only one you can get close to. I believe all of the radar absorbing materials have been removed.
Searching this image, I found multiple sites saying it’s a Chinese Fringe Tree… and comments on a couple of them that it’s “AI enhanced.”… whatever that means.
I thought real was real, and AI was not.
I googled Chinese Fringe Tree, and it is indeed real, and very pretty. They call it a small ornamental flowering tree… But then say it “only” grows to 15 or 20 meters… Like, 90 feet is a small tree? But some varieties do stay 10 or 12 feet tall.
It’s in the same large family as olive trees, and a bit more distantly, lilac, ash, forsythia, and several others.
But… the accompanying photos are not as full, not as fluffy…. and I’m voting not this tree. I think it’s AI.
I love those things! Used to watch them for hours under the microscope. (When I was supposed to be working…) Something the size of a Paramoecium walking around like a bear!
Yeah, I was going to say the description leaves out the fact that they’re ± half a millimeter long (that’s about 50 to the inch!).
A few of the biggest are maybe twice that, and just barely visible to the naked eye, but you really need a microscope.
It’s not like you can keep one in a little doggie bed and take it for walks on a leash.
For perspective:
One whole millimeter is about the length of a tiny vintage seed bead…
Not the bigger seed beads people use nowadays for, say, embroidering on buckskin, or putting between bigger beads, as “spacers” on earrings… If that means anything to you. Those are about 2½ mm.
Certainly not the 5mm ones you get in a children’s set for making bracelets.
I mm beads are found on very delicate 150 year old beaded purses, or as the tiny black faceted specks embroidered on nineteenth century collars.
Some large tardigrades are that size, in length, but thinner… Most are half that.
I’d pull some dried moss of a handy tree, put it in a drop of distilled ware and wait. After an hour or so the drop would be full of Tardigrades, Rotifers*, Nematodes and Paramecia!
I’ve read exactly one “Biggles” story because I couldn’t find any more at the time which was unfortunate. Project Gutenberg has an online copy of “Robinson Crusoe” which I’ll have to read again maybe fifty five years after I read it the first time. I just reread “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” around October of last year.
I may or may not have read “The Last of the Mohicans.” I just don’t remember, but Gutenberg has that one too. Of course pictures of dinosaurs are always fun to look at (remember, us humans have to last another 164 and a half million years to match their longevity).
Not that long. Dinosaurs as group lasted that long, hopefully mammals can match it. I don’t know what the longest living single species record is. Of course crocodilians predate dinos, and they’re still going strong. Regardless, I doubt humanity can survive half a million years.
“He appeared in several Universal B-musicals of the early 1940s, including Private Buckaroo (1942; in which he clowned onstage with The Andrews Sisters during their performance of “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”), Strictly in the Groove (1942), How’s About It? (1943), Moonlight and”
… the above cite comes from HERE.
Scroll down to his portion of the article, the cite appears between his pin–stripe suit photo and the one below.
Commenting also seems possible on past strips, but all the previous posts have been stripped. The forums all say “Be the first to comment”.
Then again, it’s only day one. This afternoon I couldn’t get into the site, then I could. Then there were no comment forums; now there are.
It’s possible (though I think not probable) that they’ll be restored.
I checked a few minutes ago and the little calendar had a link for April 2nd but only the April 1st strip appeared.
I’m assuming the April 1st comments won’t dissappear, but one should never assume.
None of the comics I view have been updated yet (07:30 UK) and they are normally up about 06:00. The new ‘My Comics’ page is going to get some getting used to. I’ve been able to comment on a couple of strips, and you can save the strips without resorting to a script anymore. Unfortunately the filenames are garbage, worst of all, the garbage filenames carry over to “The Far Side” website where I was archiving the strips there.
I’ve just noticed that while my ‘My Comic’ page is showing the correct date, the three strips that are showing are from yesterday, plus all of my other comics (Accessed from below the “Give us your money” blue panel) all link to yesterday’s strips, with yesterday’s date.
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EDIT!:
08:25 (UK) and the (at least some of them) comics have been updated for the 2nd.
Progress…..
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Additional Edit!!:
One of the strips that shows on my ‘My Comics’ page (Back to BC) is showing today’s strip, if I go to the ‘Back to BC’ page is still shows yesterday’s strip….
One step forward, half a step back!
They’ll get things sorted at some point no doubt.
It said we needed to create new passwords, which I’d already figured out… But among other things, it also says
“Throughout 2025, we are committed to polishing up some of your favorite features from the past GoComics and launching original functionality”.
Okay, we’ve had plenty of promises from them that were broken… Notoriously some concerning how many days till the revamped Sherpa site of our dreams… But maybe they’re actually going to bring back pictures and links in the forums….. I know, I know…. and maybe cows will fly.
But I saw an image in the forum on one page I checked out, then I got a phone call and lost track of where it was. I’m not sure whether it was posted by a regular user or a GoComics person.
Right now I’m a paid user, and they’re giving me a discount on my renewal, meaning more than I pay now, but not the new rate. I’m not sure yet what I’ll do… depends on whether I’ll actually go back there like I’ve been promising myself for two years.
But I won’t like it if they don’t restore a way for us to be notified of replies to our comments.
UFO has a post with what looks like a picture, but I suspect is just a large animated emoji. Links are still banned – see #6
“We do not allow comments that: (1) are sexual in nature, indecent, obscene, threatening, defamatory, inflammatory, abusive, harassing, violent, offensive, or otherwise objectionable (2) contain profanity or expressions of hatred, bigotry, racism, bullying or name calling (3) are illegal or would otherwise constitute or encourage a criminal offense (4) contain advertising, solicitations, or promotions, (5) infringe or violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret, publicity/privacy right, or other rights of any third party (6) links (7) could be considered spam, (8) are believed to be alternate account of a previously banned account or (9) include any personally identifiable information about yourself or others or are an attempt at impersonating someone else.”
They have a spot to click to insert an emoji, and a spot to insert a GIF. The GIF’s are fairly large. UFO had a GIF of toast. I haven’t experimented too much, but I think you’re limited to the images in their collection.
Thanks for the info, missed that button. Had a quick look at what they’ve got, there seems to be a fair few. I would think you’re correct that the user is limited to the ones they’re hosting.
I still can’t sign in and therefore can’t comment. They did send a code (or 3) at 1 AM. Now, of course, they don’t work. Tried again. No code. Timed out. Tried again, no code.
My work around is going to A-Z, opening in new tab all my A’s. Read one, close tab, rinse and repeat for rest of the alphabet.
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I think we’ve found Cleo’s avatar!
..
“Are you going to help a lady down the steps, or not?”
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oops…
We might have a small problem at the air show.
Or we might have a totally man-made image. (more likely, IMHO)
Considering the fighter jet is at least twice the size of the transport plane to the right of it, it’s a fake.
I remember the incident, the Russian fighter really crashed, just like that, during an airshow. However, I think this particular image is a composite. The fighter is way out of scale with the foreground planes.
The caption (in translation) comes from HERE.
Wow. I don’t remember that at all.
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“Sell all my stock! quick!”
And buy ACME fire extinguishers!
There’s no cord to the phone!
It’s one of those new hybrid cellphones.
Isn’t that the receiver cord, snaking across the desk, from the back of the phone(which we can’t see), past the blueprint, over the edge, and up behind the man’s arm?
They weren’t always curly back then.
Pretty sure the line going straight back, past the lamp, isn’t a cord, but the edge of the desk blotter.
The wall cord would also be attached to the bottom of the phone, next to the other one, maybe looping a bit towards us on its way to the wall…
and we can’t see that bit of the phone or desk.
No jacks in those days… Everything hard wired.
Grant Wood
This just looks like about fifty yards of really BAD road. In a blizzard.
Somebody should write a song.
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Looks like she’s wearing a Zorro mask…(or Geordi La Forge?)
LOL we said that together.
YUP!
From this angle is hard to tell exactly what’s part of her face and what’s not… At first glance, the observation windows (?) in her forehead looked like the glasses Geordi wears on Star Trek NG.
Great minds?…
But of course. What else?
And humble!
That too!
The official rejoinder is “fools seldom differ…”
I had to go back and look. Yup!
,,,
Why am I hearing “Also Spracht Zarathustra?
Looks like a finger puppet.
Stick your middle three fingers into the… um … fuselage? Body?
Te first thing that came to my mind when i first saw it was Batman!
R.i.p. Val Kilmer.
From Wikipedia>
I can remember when all that was TOP SECRET!
There is one of the 21 built, in the US Airforce Museum in Dayton. That is the only one you can get close to. I believe all of the radar absorbing materials have been removed.
,.
Litterbugs!
,..
“How long can you tread water…”
said God to Noah
And that’s supposed to look enticing?
I’d think it would make ’em all want to stay home!
It’s all fun till the other guy starts firing back!
Personally, I don’t want to fire, either.
But that’s just me.
,.,,
Pussywillows — big cat version.
Any chance this is real?
I want it to be cos it’s so pretty.
Id like to know what kind of tree it is.
Searching this image, I found multiple sites saying it’s a Chinese Fringe Tree… and comments on a couple of them that it’s “AI enhanced.”… whatever that means.
I thought real was real, and AI was not.
I googled Chinese Fringe Tree, and it is indeed real, and very pretty. They call it a small ornamental flowering tree… But then say it “only” grows to 15 or 20 meters… Like, 90 feet is a small tree? But some varieties do stay 10 or 12 feet tall.
It’s in the same large family as olive trees, and a bit more distantly, lilac, ash, forsythia, and several others.
But… the accompanying photos are not as full, not as fluffy…. and I’m voting not this tree. I think it’s AI.
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Such a handsome puppy.
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I love those things! Used to watch them for hours under the microscope. (When I was supposed to be working…) Something the size of a Paramoecium walking around like a bear!
Yeah, I was going to say the description leaves out the fact that they’re ± half a millimeter long (that’s about 50 to the inch!).
A few of the biggest are maybe twice that, and just barely visible to the naked eye, but you really need a microscope.
It’s not like you can keep one in a little doggie bed and take it for walks on a leash.
No way i’d see them with my eyes, unless they were florescent on a black background.
For perspective:
One whole millimeter is about the length of a tiny vintage seed bead…
Not the bigger seed beads people use nowadays for, say, embroidering on buckskin, or putting between bigger beads, as “spacers” on earrings… If that means anything to you. Those are about 2½ mm.
Certainly not the 5mm ones you get in a children’s set for making bracelets.
I mm beads are found on very delicate 150 year old beaded purses, or as the tiny black faceted specks embroidered on nineteenth century collars.
Some large tardigrades are that size, in length, but thinner… Most are half that.
How the heck do they make beads that small?!
I use 2mm beads as pulleys on ship models. I’d use 1mm if I could find them!
The only ones I’ve had were Victorian, maybe Edwardian.
They came threaded on little cut loops of silk thread, fastened into bunches.
The holes were too small for any needles I had, especially for the part where the new thread goes through the eye.
Moss Piglet!
That’s my kind of pet… you can’t kill them.
you mean they live a long time?
They also survive almost anything you can do…. Cold, heat, dehydration, radiation, starvation and most attempts to crush them.
There are things that can dissolve or crush them, but when frozen or dehydrated or without food they just sort of dry up and wait.
I’d pull some dried moss of a handy tree, put it in a drop of distilled ware and wait. After an hour or so the drop would be full of Tardigrades, Rotifers*, Nematodes and Paramecia!
*Remember him?
Aren’t the bullets supposed to come out of the ammunition box?
It does look backwards.
I thought at first that the frames were reversed, but the incoming bullets are moving forward.
If those are spent casings, where are new ones coming from?
The poofs are going into barrel.
You’re right!
It’s gotta be running backwards… But the incoming gunfire doesn’t look backwards.
Probably something happening in the cartoon to explain it.
The frame rate of the original movie doesn’t match the frame rate of the recorder when it was digitalized. In other words, it’s a strobe effect.
“The Barnyard Battle.”
The gif starts at 3:58 and it is running backwards.
I knew you’d find it!
,…
Immediately.
Baaa! Humbug!
Well, yeah…
Should I post a solution?
I’m looking again in the morning. Especially if gremlins are still inhabiting GC.
oop! Never mind. I found it.
Another not tonight for me. It too PINK. My eyes are starting to strobe.
Yo Yo Ma, Cleo isn’t.
I’ve read exactly one “Biggles” story because I couldn’t find any more at the time which was unfortunate. Project Gutenberg has an online copy of “Robinson Crusoe” which I’ll have to read again maybe fifty five years after I read it the first time. I just reread “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” around October of last year.
I may or may not have read “The Last of the Mohicans.” I just don’t remember, but Gutenberg has that one too. Of course pictures of dinosaurs are always fun to look at (remember, us humans have to last another 164 and a half million years to match their longevity).
Doubt we make it.
Not that long. Dinosaurs as group lasted that long, hopefully mammals can match it. I don’t know what the longest living single species record is. Of course crocodilians predate dinos, and they’re still going strong. Regardless, I doubt humanity can survive half a million years.
The guy with the Andrews sisters looked like Moe Howard from The Three Stooges.
He was a stooge, but it’s Shemp, not Moe…
“He appeared in several Universal B-musicals of the early 1940s, including Private Buckaroo (1942; in which he clowned onstage with The Andrews Sisters during their performance of “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”), Strictly in the Groove (1942), How’s About It? (1943), Moonlight and”
… the above cite comes from HERE.
Scroll down to his portion of the article, the cite appears between his pin–stripe suit photo and the one below.
Regarding GC: You can’t get back further than one month unless you pay.
But you can block that request via ABP…
The comments are gone anyways.
No updates for today (that, they’ve practiced a lot lately).
No comments possible/loading at the moment.
I can read and make comments on April 1st strips.
Commenting also seems possible on past strips, but all the previous posts have been stripped. The forums all say “Be the first to comment”.
Then again, it’s only day one. This afternoon I couldn’t get into the site, then I could. Then there were no comment forums; now there are.
It’s possible (though I think not probable) that they’ll be restored.
I checked a few minutes ago and the little calendar had a link for April 2nd but only the April 1st strip appeared.
I’m assuming the April 1st comments won’t dissappear, but one should never assume.
None of the comics I view have been updated yet (07:30 UK) and they are normally up about 06:00. The new ‘My Comics’ page is going to get some getting used to. I’ve been able to comment on a couple of strips, and you can save the strips without resorting to a script anymore. Unfortunately the filenames are garbage, worst of all, the garbage filenames carry over to “The Far Side” website where I was archiving the strips there.
I’ve just noticed that while my ‘My Comic’ page is showing the correct date, the three strips that are showing are from yesterday, plus all of my other comics (Accessed from below the “Give us your money” blue panel) all link to yesterday’s strips, with yesterday’s date.
.
EDIT!:
08:25 (UK) and the (at least some of them) comics have been updated for the 2nd.
Progress…..
.
Additional Edit!!:
One of the strips that shows on my ‘My Comics’ page (Back to BC) is showing today’s strip, if I go to the ‘Back to BC’ page is still shows yesterday’s strip….
One step forward, half a step back!
They’ll get things sorted at some point no doubt.
Reply to your edit…
I read your comment and checked again…
My page has updated, and so have the few comics I opened and checked.
Yesterday’s comments are still there, but nothing previous. Not that I had high hopes of their restoration.
I found an email from GoComics I’d missed…
It said we needed to create new passwords, which I’d already figured out… But among other things, it also says
“Throughout 2025, we are committed to polishing up some of your favorite features from the past GoComics and launching original functionality”.
Okay, we’ve had plenty of promises from them that were broken… Notoriously some concerning how many days till the revamped Sherpa site of our dreams… But maybe they’re actually going to bring back pictures and links in the forums….. I know, I know…. and maybe cows will fly.
But I saw an image in the forum on one page I checked out, then I got a phone call and lost track of where it was. I’m not sure whether it was posted by a regular user or a GoComics person.
Right now I’m a paid user, and they’re giving me a discount on my renewal, meaning more than I pay now, but not the new rate. I’m not sure yet what I’ll do… depends on whether I’ll actually go back there like I’ve been promising myself for two years.
But I won’t like it if they don’t restore a way for us to be notified of replies to our comments.
UFO has a post with what looks like a picture, but I suspect is just a large animated emoji. Links are still banned – see #6
“We do not allow comments that: (1) are sexual in nature, indecent, obscene, threatening, defamatory, inflammatory, abusive, harassing, violent, offensive, or otherwise objectionable (2) contain profanity or expressions of hatred, bigotry, racism, bullying or name calling (3) are illegal or would otherwise constitute or encourage a criminal offense (4) contain advertising, solicitations, or promotions, (5) infringe or violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret, publicity/privacy right, or other rights of any third party (6) links (7) could be considered spam, (8) are believed to be alternate account of a previously banned account or (9) include any personally identifiable information about yourself or others or are an attempt at impersonating someone else.”
They have a spot to click to insert an emoji, and a spot to insert a GIF. The GIF’s are fairly large. UFO had a GIF of toast. I haven’t experimented too much, but I think you’re limited to the images in their collection.
Thanks for the info, missed that button. Had a quick look at what they’ve got, there seems to be a fair few. I would think you’re correct that the user is limited to the ones they’re hosting.
Well they f***d that whole thing up royally … if it’s not broken don’t try to fix it.
Not the first time.
But how else are they going to be able to squeeze users for more money!!!
I still can’t sign in and therefore can’t comment. They did send a code (or 3) at 1 AM. Now, of course, they don’t work. Tried again. No code. Timed out. Tried again, no code.
My work around is going to A-Z, opening in new tab all my A’s. Read one, close tab, rinse and repeat for rest of the alphabet.
And I’m a paying member.
Jayne Mansfield with her Chihuahua, Phillip, and Great Dane, Lord Byron – Circa 1955
As The Great Dane is named ‘Lord Byron’……..
Something for when I’m awake…. Zzzzzz
I managed to get signed in at GC but i can’t like, share, or comment.