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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I’ll take the dog, thanks…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

That is a handsome pooch, and a friendly-looking one.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Great box! Very clever.

I’m surprised no one else (that I know of) has done it… I’d think it would have become really popular and widely imitated.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

You don’t think the hats would give them away?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

They look a scurvy lot to me.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I would suspect Twilight Zone…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I feel like I recognize them all, but I have no names. I will say, though, that the second guy from the right looks like Antonin Scalia.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Interesting!

DeCruz (Simon Oakland), Brooks (Lew Gallo), Erbie (Robert Mitchum), and Farwell (Oscar Beregi) appear in The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 60 “The Rip Van Winkle Caper”.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-the-twilight-zone-foreshadowed-planet-of-the-apes

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 month ago

But…..

I looked at the third fellow intently, but no way could I convince myself it was Robert Mitchum, who was at the height of his popularity, with recent films like Cape Fear and Thunder Road.

I know his face too well… But this face looked a little familiar, too

I followed your link, and saw that the picture was captioned as you report… but the accompanying article correctly identifies him as John Mitchum… younger brother of Robert, and less successful actor.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I guess she really did get you. And your little dog too…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Yeah, that’s when I usually bail on a situation. When houses burst into flames and start flying around on their own, I advise bailing.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Burnin’ Down The House

Tigressy
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Up!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

If I can believe what I found, this is by David Dhzanov, who also posts on deviantart.com as deviangread…

It’s called “The Burning World of the Past.”

I’m pretty sure it’s true.

The only reason I sound a bit skeptical is that I’ve run into several “artists” on DeviantArt claiming work that doesn’t belong to them… sometimes even amassing likes and followers among the apparently gullible.

One posted a probably 19th century genre painting of a sailing ship, obviously not in the acrylic he claimed, and had numerous accolades and likes. I tried to find its actual origin but gave up after wasting too much time.

There was one with pages and pages of fantasy art by obviously different hands…

And another was even claiming several known works by different impressionists. Someone commented “Wow, you should get an agent! Your as good as Renwoir (sic)” which I copied and saved for a while😁

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Spoiler
Willie Nelson’s wanted poster?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

 

Picture
is of him on his 1996 album “Spirit,”

 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

This was actually considered by some an attractive picture.
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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Old man. 🙂

Greyhame
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

And still touring.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Look! Supermodels!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Spoiler
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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

I’ll second that.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

A bit late but I’ll…um…. third it!

P51Strega
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Yup, got it.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

 
The video quality is not the best (there is distortion at points) but Paul Henderson’s winning goal (announce by the late Foster Hewitt) in the 1972 “Summit Series” is shown.
This was the end of a long international drought in Canadian Hockey.
 

 
Surprisingly, neither hockey (winter), nor Lacrosse (summer) were recognized as Canada’s national sports until 1994.
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

I recognized all of the Canadian players named, except Henderson, who scored the goal.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

I was walking through the cafeteria at SFU when the place erupted in cheers. I had just walked in on the winning goal!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

None of that. They were all cheering because you had just entered the room. You should have immediately begun bowing; big, sweeping, theatrical stage bows. If I had been in those shoes, and on my toes, I know I would have.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Must have taken a lot of flying saucers to build all those!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Detection of Enemy Aeroplanes Before the Invention of Radar Technology.

Bigger brother of yesterday’s personal version.

Detection-of-Enemy-Aeroplanes-Before-the-Invention-of-Radar-Technology
mr_sherman
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Can you hear me now?

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

@  —comment image    happyhappyhappy

and

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From yesterday.
Here is the proper site link for the description of the Dutch version of manual hearing enhancers and the pictures of other versions.
 

Aircraft detection before radar, 1917-1940


 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

 
Here is the U.R.L. that I inadvertently posted in my properly put together link (the link was properly put together, the U.R.L. was wrong).
 
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/aircraft-detection-radar-1917-1940/t
 
How that “t” got there, and how it works, I don’t know, I must have hit it accidentally somehow and it does take you to old Taco Bell advertisements.
 

JP Steve
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

Wow! What a collection. Rube Goldberg would have been proud!

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

I’ve always loved today’s strip…. Steel and I discussed the animation in progress, by phone.

Then she did one joining photos of herself and me in Christmas sweaters… hers was an actual sweater, mine was faked… And added lights and glitter.

So I did this very realistic one of myself (cough) in a Hanukkah sweater…

Which I usually post every year, especially if this strip runs.

(Just for the record, it’s a secular Christmas I celebrate, not Hanukkah… but ya gotta love this sweater, right? Watch out for the flames.)

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JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Which gives me the right to re-post the sweater I created at the time (which Stelbel thought was genuine!!)

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

I remember it!

It’s very beautiful.
You mean, it’s not really hand knit?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

You too look adorable. Maybe not as adorable as Cleo, but that’s a pretty high bar.

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