Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable… A famous scene from “It Happened One Night”, which won the top 5 Oscars in 1934.
Best picture, actor, actress, director… and… um… I don’t remember what the 5th one is. I’ll try to remember to look when I’m not so sleepy.
Anyway…a great movie! Still funny.
Here she’s proving she can get them a ride when he fails.
“Fish out of water: La Truite au bleu” (1952), by Dorothea Tanning, according to the links I just followed, another half-forgotten female surrealist painter.
Surrealism when it began was dominated by men; the women tended to come to it via relationships with famous male painters, and were subsequently overlooked, as was Tanner.
She was already an artist, but turned to surrealism as the lover and then wife of Max Ernst.
But, born in 1910, she lived to be 101, long after Ernst, and enough time to come into her own. She was given a 2019 retrospective at the Tate, in London, and was finally recognized as an important surrealist.
BTW… Truite en bleu, usually truite au bleu, is a French dish… just caught trout is soaked in vinegar, which turns it slightly blue, and poached, which makes it curve (hence looking up at her). I know because I’m a fan of MFK Fisher, who wrote that it was the best fish she ever ate.
At least this one, according to my search, is glass, being sold as an empty decanter, and not trying to pretend it’s a famous whiskey.
I saw it being offered on several websites, at wildly different prices. On one supposedly fancy liquor review site it was $62… hovering around $30 on Amazon. And $14.95 at Walmart.com… but out of stock.
I didn’t know what episode, but Kirk and Uhura kissed in one of them, and for a long time it was thought to be the first interracial kiss on television.
Of course someone later dug up an earlier one. It just wasn’t on a show as well known as Star Trek.
Also, quite a while before Trek, Nichelle Nichols had dated Gene Roddenberry.
He seems to exist according to Smithsonian Magazine, a source I tend to trust.
An article about studying neanderthal nasal structures (gotta love Smithsonian) says this is “Altamura Man,” discovered in 1993 in a cave in southern Italy.
“The Altamura Man is ‘potentially the most completely human fossil skeleton ever discovered,” says study co-author Giorgio Manzi, an anthropologist at Sapienza University of Rome, in a statement. “It continues providing us with unprecedented information’.”
“The Neanderthal’s bones, which are between 130,000 and 172,000 years old, are embedded in rock and covered in popcorn-like calcite deposits, so the Altamura Man cannot be moved. To work around this limitation, scientists brought their equipment right into the cave.”
It also mentions that ideas around Neanderthals have changed in recent years. Rather than the brutes we once learned about, they’re now thought to have made art, cooked complicated meals, and sometimes mated with humans.
I’ve read that modern people’s DNA is often thought to contain some Neanderthal genes.
They were a vigilante organization that would hold meetings around a bonfire atop a treeless, rounded hill (a bald knob).
While originally a kind of Robin Hood vibe, they tended to degenerate into brutal bullies.
I think I might know what BatBasset asked Santa for this Christmas…
OTOH, in his secret identity as wealthy Bruce Whine, he can probably afford a better computer than what poor, overwhelmed Santa Claws can provide. After all, ol’ Santa has a good heart, but about 2 billion puppies for whom to provide presents.
So maybe BatBasset didn’t ask, but just ordered one from Amazon Superprime, where the superheroes buy their supergear, and Batdevices are made to order.
I hope by now they’ve gotten it… If the old one still used floppy disks, it was about time.
They may have found the solution to that problem, but as you see, there was also the problem of finding differences between these two panels. Can’t expect our heroes to spend time on that puzzle… It was our job!
Hope you’ve found all nine…
When you’re ready, see whether my findings are the same….
My friend makes me one every year for Christmas, complete with marzipan and hard icing, and it’s a treasure, though she has to use American peel and cherries, which are sweeter than the English ones.
It’s been my Christmas present from her for almost 50 years! After the first few, I used to give her back the little wooden ornaments to reuse… and after ten years or so, we agreed that she should just leave them undecorated.
American fruitcake, not so much, though there are some good ones, especially home made. I used to make it myself, including a chocolate one I gave for gifts, but only to others who loved it.
Those ones you order from monasteries and such have gotten worse over the years, though terribly expensive. I can’t afford them anyway, but my mother-in-law used to try a different one every year.
Grocery store fruitcake… No thanks!
Another friend used to make stollen, but doesn’t any more, so I have to buy it… usually when it’s on sale after Christmas.
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“Let us paws to reflect…”
I think hat they are bigger than Buddy’s feet.
Showing off the freshly cut nails!
I know this one! Just watched it. Not going to give it away though.
A classic!
you should like this, then
I would stop for that.
Can someone find a clip of the next scene where the driver decides to stop?…
At the end.
Thank you! 😀
Ok, I’ll tell…
Best picture, actor, actress, director… and… um… I don’t remember what the 5th one is. I’ll try to remember to look when I’m not so sleepy.
Anyway…a great movie! Still funny.
Here she’s proving she can get them a ride when he fails.
“If you don’t eat me, i’ll grant you a wish!”
And this one’s fishy too… (You got them in the wrong order, Nighthawks!)
“Fish out of water: La Truite au bleu” (1952), by Dorothea Tanning, according to the links I just followed, another half-forgotten female surrealist painter.
Surrealism when it began was dominated by men; the women tended to come to it via relationships with famous male painters, and were subsequently overlooked, as was Tanner.
She was already an artist, but turned to surrealism as the lover and then wife of Max Ernst.
But, born in 1910, she lived to be 101, long after Ernst, and enough time to come into her own. She was given a 2019 retrospective at the Tate, in London, and was finally recognized as an important surrealist.
BTW… Truite en bleu, usually truite au bleu, is a French dish… just caught trout is soaked in vinegar, which turns it slightly blue, and poached, which makes it curve (hence looking up at her). I know because I’m a fan of MFK Fisher, who wrote that it was the best fish she ever ate.
Boiled picked fish.
Look, i like fish. If it comes out of the ocean i’d probably try it. At least once.
But that kinda sounds weird. 🙂
Not pickled. Look up the recipe.
I’ll look it up. Now i’m intrigued. Like i said, i do like me some fish!
It’s briefly soaked in vinegar but very fresh.
I’ve never had it cos to have it made correctly, you have to use just-caught trout.
But I love fish, including pickled herring.
Especially with sour cream. I’d probably like pickled trout too.
so, anybody buying this one?
Nope!
At least this one, according to my search, is glass, being sold as an empty decanter, and not trying to pretend it’s a famous whiskey.
I saw it being offered on several websites, at wildly different prices. On one supposedly fancy liquor review site it was $62… hovering around $30 on Amazon. And $14.95 at Walmart.com… but out of stock.
Yeah, sorry, my attempt at a joke made me scream too.
I was trying to figure out why anyone would recreate the painting as a snack….
Then I realized:
He or she had the Munchies.
Dang… This was for the top picture but came out below my other comment.
still worked, though. Happy caught my sentiment!
Boo! 😀
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I didn’t know what episode, but Kirk and Uhura kissed in one of them, and for a long time it was thought to be the first interracial kiss on television.
Of course someone later dug up an earlier one. It just wasn’t on a show as well known as Star Trek.
Also, quite a while before Trek, Nichelle Nichols had dated Gene Roddenberry.
LOL!
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Nope.
ah, come on!
Nope. I’m with him.
He seems to exist according to Smithsonian Magazine, a source I tend to trust.
An article about studying neanderthal nasal structures (gotta love Smithsonian) says this is “Altamura Man,” discovered in 1993 in a cave in southern Italy.
“The Altamura Man is ‘potentially the most completely human fossil skeleton ever discovered,” says study co-author Giorgio Manzi, an anthropologist at Sapienza University of Rome, in a statement. “It continues providing us with unprecedented information’.”
“The Neanderthal’s bones, which are between 130,000 and 172,000 years old, are embedded in rock and covered in popcorn-like calcite deposits, so the Altamura Man cannot be moved. To work around this limitation, scientists brought their equipment right into the cave.”
It also mentions that ideas around Neanderthals have changed in recent years. Rather than the brutes we once learned about, they’re now thought to have made art, cooked complicated meals, and sometimes mated with humans.
I’ve read that modern people’s DNA is often thought to contain some Neanderthal genes.
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My cat got a super hero mask from brudder and SIL. NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA CAT CAT!
Strange, she(?) doesn’t look like she’s about to kill the photographer…
here is a kitty that definitely wants to kill the photographer
the EWC!
Look at those yellow eyes!
I hope her ears aren’t inside those pink hair ties.
Baldknobber!
They were a vigilante organization that would hold meetings around a bonfire atop a treeless, rounded hill (a bald knob).
While originally a kind of Robin Hood vibe, they tended to degenerate into brutal bullies.
Lone Ranger had his mask factory fitted 😉
To me, looks more like BatCat, cos the Lone Ranger’s mask is smaller.
BatCat even has those ears.
Yes, I probably would have named him ‘Batman’ or ‘Batcat’, but he came to me already named, and he did suit his name.
Oh… sorry! I didn’t realise he was your cat, and that was actually his name.
I thought you were joking about a picture you found on the Internet. LOL
He’s awfully pretty, whichever way he’s named.
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Mmmmm! Licorice swirl!
Not so new…
Well, it was new to me.
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Nope!
Yep!
It’s a mandrill. I’ve seen them in real life, though in zoos, not my back yard.
They’re cool. They display their huge incisors sometimes as aggression, but to other mandrills, usually as a friendly gesture.
They have blue striped cheeks, yellow beards, bright pink noses and also, multi-colored butts.
here’s another species of mandrill
hee hee!
I got a little blue box with the question mark.
Barbara Mandrell
A mandrel is also a metal rod used for sizing and resizing rings…
And the name for several attachments for lathes and drills.
I forgot about that one.
A mandrel is also the name of a type of arbour for mounting rotary tools/discs.
Yeah, that’s kinda what I meant by an attachment for drills and lathes…
And other tools that turn, I guess.i don’t use them, so I didn’t know how to say it.
I thought that these were Mandrells
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“You had one job to do…!”
And now you don’t know where to do it.
perhaps somewhere in the middle
That might be an oopsie.
Especially while you’re standing there trying to decide.
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“Urban cowboy” — right?
drums keep-a poundin’ a rhythm to the bra-in…..
I godchew babe.
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I aprove.
Bassets do tend to be quite snuggly. Mine will stay with me for hours like that.
I hope that’s not a “goodbye” kiss…
I dunno why it would be…
But the image is rotated 45% for some reason. I think that angle kinda makes it look like a waiting room, maybe a vets office.
If you tilt it back so the lamp and wall are standing up at 90°, the way they should be, it looks more cuddly and relaxed.
At first seemed kinda hospital to me too.
I think I might know what BatBasset asked Santa for this Christmas…
OTOH, in his secret identity as wealthy Bruce Whine, he can probably afford a better computer than what poor, overwhelmed Santa Claws can provide. After all, ol’ Santa has a good heart, but about 2 billion puppies for whom to provide presents.
So maybe BatBasset didn’t ask, but just ordered one from Amazon Superprime, where the superheroes buy their supergear, and Batdevices are made to order.
I hope by now they’ve gotten it… If the old one still used floppy disks, it was about time.
They may have found the solution to that problem, but as you see, there was also the problem of finding differences between these two panels. Can’t expect our heroes to spend time on that puzzle… It was our job!
Hope you’ve found all nine…
When you’re ready, see whether my findings are the same….
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Yes; got them all.
Same here 🙂
You are missed over at The Dinette Set.
Wow… I thought that strip ended!
Thanks.
I haven’t been on GoComics in ages. I tried going back to Ballard Street a few months ago, but nothing much was going on.
Limericks and haiku among others.
It paused for a while, but is now back in reruns.
I prefer a Stollen.
With or without the marzipan stuffing.
With, please.
I like fruit cake, especially the ones my neighbour makes. Cut a thick slice, spread butter on one side, wonderful 🙂
I do like that kind, if you put the butter side down in a skillet and brown it.
Mmmm…
I’ve never had butter on it.
I love English fruitcake.
My friend makes me one every year for Christmas, complete with marzipan and hard icing, and it’s a treasure, though she has to use American peel and cherries, which are sweeter than the English ones.
It’s been my Christmas present from her for almost 50 years! After the first few, I used to give her back the little wooden ornaments to reuse… and after ten years or so, we agreed that she should just leave them undecorated.
American fruitcake, not so much, though there are some good ones, especially home made. I used to make it myself, including a chocolate one I gave for gifts, but only to others who loved it.
Those ones you order from monasteries and such have gotten worse over the years, though terribly expensive. I can’t afford them anyway, but my mother-in-law used to try a different one every year.
Grocery store fruitcake… No thanks!
Another friend used to make stollen, but doesn’t any more, so I have to buy it… usually when it’s on sale after Christmas.
Sally Storch (American, b.1952) ‘Voyage’, Oil on canvas – 40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127cm).
Clouded Leopard.
From yesterday.
I finally got around to listening to the Christmas tree lecture by “The History Guy” I learned things which is always good.
Thanks.
I like that guys work. 🙂
Jumping spiders! Fascinating creatures!