I could tell it was from an old silent film, but no matter how or where I open it, the animation only works once…. I have to refresh the whole page to see it again.
Since it’s very fast, and doesn’t loop, I never got a good look at it.
We still had a popular milk delivery service here in the 1970s and 80s… maybe longer. Not sure when it stopped.
The milk came from a small group of local dairies.
It was pasteurized, and not homogenized, but we don’t get many freezes to tempt bad boys to steal the cream off the top.
Noticeably great milk…. but a luxury.
It costs far more to run a home delivery service for one product than to deliver it to a central location, like a grocery store, so supermarket milk was quite a bit cheaper.
And as time passed, people had better refrigerators, and could pick up much cheaper milk at the store, and keep it longer. More women worked, so nobody was home to bring in the milk.
We had insulated metal boxes on the porch but that’s only good for an hour or so, if that, on a hot day.
They added all their products to the service… I remember excellent cheese, butter, and sour cream, but I no longer subscribed. My brother’s family did while they had small kids at home.
I still have my insulated box somewhere in the shed… It’s a collectible now
We got milk delivery until I was in my teens. We stopped when they started delivering at 2 AM and my dog would start barking when the truck turned the corner. It got old getting wakened in the wee hours every week.
Depends partly on whether you mean dangerous to humans, and whether you define danger as killing.
If yes to both… I’ve read that mosquitoes kill about twice as many people as other people do.
…
I don’t know why, but the numbers vary..
I got a flyer about mosquito control at the county fair, from the “vector abatement” agency. They’re eager to have people cover ponds and drain ditches.
It said mosquitoes kill about a million humans a year. But I’ve also seen 750,000.
They had a chart showing that dogs, rats, hippos and rhinos (IIRC), all often named as most dangerous, even combined, made up only a fraction of the total.
With the exception of snow, i have had all the weathers today.
Rain (of course), wind, hail, wind, blowing rain. sun breaks, sun showers, hail, thunder and lightning, rolling thunder, and to top it all off there is tornado warnings east if Salem.
Did i mention the rain? Can’t miss it today.
A geologist guy on YouTube said that was to be expected there.
Different soil types. You got a little of everything up there. Bedrock to alluvial plains.
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Do I get to do this first?
I as thinking more Monty Python.
It’s animated – but you have to open it in a new tab.
It’s from the movie “The Haunted House” (1921).
I could tell it was from an old silent film, but no matter how or where I open it, the animation only works once…. I have to refresh the whole page to see it again.
Since it’s very fast, and doesn’t loop, I never got a good look at it.
Looped it!
Thank you!
Is someone gonna tell me this is real??!!
Yes, but they’ll be lying.
Real.
Somebody’s been playing with the toothpaste again!
See? Lying!
We seem to have a difference of opinion — Could we get a ruling from the field judge?
You don’t think Happy³ was just lying to be funny?
You wanted.(or dared) someone to tell you it was real… so he did.
Even though it obviously wasn’t.
Bit we can call in someone to judge.
Cleo?
Oh, yeah! Why did they get so much harder to talk to when they got older?
Because they know how you think, but we don’t know how they think!
Yup. The male one track mind.
Probably because of kids like me that went round on winter’s mornings and ate the “ice cream cones” off the top of the frozen bottles!
My grandfather was a milkman
My uncle was.
We still had a popular milk delivery service here in the 1970s and 80s… maybe longer. Not sure when it stopped.
The milk came from a small group of local dairies.
It was pasteurized, and not homogenized, but we don’t get many freezes to tempt bad boys to steal the cream off the top.
Noticeably great milk…. but a luxury.
It costs far more to run a home delivery service for one product than to deliver it to a central location, like a grocery store, so supermarket milk was quite a bit cheaper.
And as time passed, people had better refrigerators, and could pick up much cheaper milk at the store, and keep it longer. More women worked, so nobody was home to bring in the milk.
We had insulated metal boxes on the porch but that’s only good for an hour or so, if that, on a hot day.
They added all their products to the service… I remember excellent cheese, butter, and sour cream, but I no longer subscribed. My brother’s family did while they had small kids at home.
I still have my insulated box somewhere in the shed… It’s a collectible now
We got milk delivery until I was in my teens. We stopped when they started delivering at 2 AM and my dog would start barking when the truck turned the corner. It got old getting wakened in the wee hours every week.
“That thing moves!?! I’m gonna have to just run around like a crazed loon!”
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Female mosquito…
Or not… Should be more eyes and less whiskers…
Hubba hubba!
The most dangerous animal on earth.
After man…
I’m not sure of that.
We are fairly harsh on ourselves, but i think they edge us out.
Double.
Depends partly on whether you mean dangerous to humans, and whether you define danger as killing.
If yes to both… I’ve read that mosquitoes kill about twice as many people as other people do.
…
I don’t know why, but the numbers vary..
I got a flyer about mosquito control at the county fair, from the “vector abatement” agency. They’re eager to have people cover ponds and drain ditches.
It said mosquitoes kill about a million humans a year. But I’ve also seen 750,000.
They had a chart showing that dogs, rats, hippos and rhinos (IIRC), all often named as most dangerous, even combined, made up only a fraction of the total.
They suck.
Yes! Yes they do!
My little sister reacted bad to bites. She ended up with goose egg sized raised welts from the bites. Not a good thing for a young tomboy.
Worse for a young debutante…
This is about as wholesome as you can get.
“Who loves you, baby?”
12 bucks to clean your sneakers 8 times.
Some people have too much money.
And…
“Not enough brains!”
as my dad would say…
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I see a bad moon a-rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earth quakes and lightnin’
I see bad times today
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Got it. First pass through.
I also see a little bird and butterfly.
Me too.
Hi, there! Little bird was the first I saw (thinking: oh what funny drawing of a fish ☺), second fish, last butterfly.
I see a ghoti. Does that count?
Only if you’re not trying to get double points by using two spellings for the same thing.
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They don’t deserve a bad rap. Great flyers.
With the exception of snow, i have had all the weathers today.
Rain (of course), wind, hail, wind, blowing rain. sun breaks, sun showers, hail, thunder and lightning, rolling thunder, and to top it all off there is tornado warnings east if Salem.
Did i mention the rain? Can’t miss it today.
A perfect spring day here, just a few miles north…
Did you feel the earthquake?
No, but people in the local mall did.
A geologist guy on YouTube said that was to be expected there.
Different soil types. You got a little of everything up there. Bedrock to alluvial plains.
Is this an AI commentary? Pretty creepy sounding if it’s human…
It has to be a synthesized voice. No one speaks with that sort of accent and rhythms.
Did you hear we got another one this morning?
Just choose the right outfit!
Decommissioned Saab 32 Lansen jet fighter operating as a snow blower. Lulea Air Base (F 21), Sweden, late 1970s.