How about a ten-lined June Beetle (Not that big, but big enough!) climbing up your leg inside your jeans? I demonstrated the world’s fastest strip tease and still became an entomologist several years later!
The cat I had back in college was very feisty and independent, not cuddly, though very affectionate on her own terms.
Even petting her when she acted like she wanted it would get you nipped or scratched when she changed her mind.
…
She got some kind of skin problem, and the vet wanted me to bathe her… but getting her anywhere near a sink full of water turned her into a vicious ball of teeth and claws. I thought I’d be killed.
Then I discovered that if I picked her up, quickly, by the scruff of her neck, she would go instantly catatonic.
Her mouth would open, her eyes roll back, and her legs hang down straight and stiff.
I think in a few cats it must be a holdover from early kittenhood, when Mama carried them. The second you let go she would spring back into action.
If I filled the sink first with warm water, and put her in it, in that state, she didn’t mind when she came to… She seemed to enjoy the warm bathing.
She didn’t enjoy the toweling off or the being wet, but at least I lived through the experience.
It looks too thin to be an older spanner, and combination spanners weren’t very common back in the ’50s & ’60s, at least here in the UK. Only very high quality spanners of that sort of vintage were that thin. I have a set of good quality Britool spanners from the early 1980’s that are thin, but most of my colleagues’s sets were quite a bit thicker.
I got my power back tonight while i was at my clients pm shift. Probably just after i left for the shift. By the time i got home it was up to almost 60º. Its now up to 64º and I’m very happy.
By the time got home the water was hot enough for a long (luxurious) shower and it made me happy.
I’m in a warm bed with crisp clean sheets and that make me happy.
Freezing rain is forecast for tomorrow.
As long as i stay warm and stay on the road i don’t care. Right now i’m warm. And with my pets. And nothing tops that.
Same forecast here. There will be “Eispanzer” “mit entsprechenden Auswirkungen auf Verkehr und Infrastruktur”.
You bet that tanks made of ice will jam traffic and infrastructure…
Two days and nights.
It was far more brutal than i would have thought. I’m not as young as i used to be.
What made it worse is i was seeing the kids down the street out running around in the cold having a blast.
Brrrrrr!!!
Stel often asked me (till recently, of course) for suggestions about what posters she should rerun… It’s hard to keep making that decision, and to find what hasn’t been seen for a while, and such.
Of course, favorites play into it. Even though she created them, there are some of her own posters she likes better than others… And she and I have different taste in her work, which is kind of funny.
I suggested this one a bunch of times, but she’s always found some reason not to run it… I think I like it better than she does.
…..
Like Hello Doggy on the poster, I have some stuff from Hello Kitty I like to wear.
When this poster came out, I had to rush to the Sandoggio store and get some Hello Doggy jewelry.
Not that it means a whole lot, but I certainly did not see anything. Lots of people in his neck of the weeds having severe weather. Could have lost power, a la Happy(3).
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That is actually a friendly-looking face. Unless you’re an insect, I presume.
The lizard with the magic quantum force feet.
Thanks for posting this. ☺
He/they put out good stuff.
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No, thanks, I’ll just stay over here.
Isn’t he the cutest thing!
Um…
I suppose his mother thinks so.
But… no.
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Uh… Steve… I think I’d be scared to come to tea at your house.
All for show. And wrassling with other big beetles.
No worries! I hardly ever put beetles in my tea…
imagine him running up your arm towards your face
Forget what i said to Susan now!
(shudder)
How about a ten-lined June Beetle (Not that big, but big enough!) climbing up your leg inside your jeans? I demonstrated the world’s fastest strip tease and still became an entomologist several years later!
All joking aside, that is a very striking insect. I’ve always liked how shiny beetles can be.
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I found it!
Yes!
Of course it is. 😉
i found it, too.!!!
“No.” That was easy!
Got it. P51 Strega is correct.
Ooh… I see it.
Not what I was expecting… so expect the unexpected!
I was going to post it but it looks like maybe P51 already did…
Gotta check.
Yes, he did.
So I will only say this, by way of a hint, if you want one…
It’s more realistic looking than what you’d guess from the rest of the image.
Got it!
Found it!
With a red box around it for those who still can’t locate the car.
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??????? Fluffy enjoys a nice soak?
He’s doing the catpaddle!
The cat I had back in college was very feisty and independent, not cuddly, though very affectionate on her own terms.
Even petting her when she acted like she wanted it would get you nipped or scratched when she changed her mind.
…
She got some kind of skin problem, and the vet wanted me to bathe her… but getting her anywhere near a sink full of water turned her into a vicious ball of teeth and claws. I thought I’d be killed.
Then I discovered that if I picked her up, quickly, by the scruff of her neck, she would go instantly catatonic.
Her mouth would open, her eyes roll back, and her legs hang down straight and stiff.
I think in a few cats it must be a holdover from early kittenhood, when Mama carried them. The second you let go she would spring back into action.
If I filled the sink first with warm water, and put her in it, in that state, she didn’t mind when she came to… She seemed to enjoy the warm bathing.
She didn’t enjoy the toweling off or the being wet, but at least I lived through the experience.
NOSE!
Some few cats do like warm water.
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The other creepy convention was including the dead brother…
😀
makes sense to me….
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I’d like to be her copilot ☺
That looks like an old Soviet trainer behind her, but I don’t know the model.
With that hint from you, I went looking. The nose on this Yak-18a seems to match.
Busy again today.
Looks like!
Notice the fire extinguisher?
I’ve never seen a flightline without several around. Usually far bigger than the one shown.
Holding a wrench. I guess we are to infer that she fixes as well as flies them.
that’s for fending off P51Strega in the cockpit
LOL ☺ ☺ ☺
Not really a vintage picture.
Just posed for guys like you.
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(Her makeup, her tight trousers, with slanted pockets, and the fit of her shirt didn’t exist in the era it supposedly represents…
Not to mention the empty belt loops and those thin soft leather push-up sleeves.
All stuff you have to be able to recognize when you sell vintage clothing.)
Hey! I resemble that remark.
It’s also a modern spanner (Wrench).
How modern? I think this trainer was built in the 50’s but used well into the 60’s.
It looks too thin to be an older spanner, and combination spanners weren’t very common back in the ’50s & ’60s, at least here in the UK. Only very high quality spanners of that sort of vintage were that thin. I have a set of good quality Britool spanners from the early 1980’s that are thin, but most of my colleagues’s sets were quite a bit thicker.
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“Hello, Joe’s plumbing? We have a leak…”
Some water is falling…
Pardon me. I must run to the little boys room.
I want to got there!
I got my power back tonight while i was at my clients pm shift. Probably just after i left for the shift. By the time i got home it was up to almost 60º. Its now up to 64º and I’m very happy.
By the time got home the water was hot enough for a long (luxurious) shower and it made me happy.
I’m in a warm bed with crisp clean sheets and that make me happy.
Freezing rain is forecast for tomorrow.
As long as i stay warm and stay on the road i don’t care. Right now i’m warm. And with my pets. And nothing tops that.
When i was in the shower Buddy came in and stole my boxers off the toilet seat.
I noticed because i heard my glasses hit the floor.
Little sh**. 😀
Maybe he had a hot date and just wanted to get dressed.
Same forecast here. There will be “Eispanzer” “mit entsprechenden Auswirkungen auf Verkehr und Infrastruktur”.
You bet that tanks made of ice will jam traffic and infrastructure…
I’ll show myself out.
I hope you weren’t out of power for long.
Two days and nights.
It was far more brutal than i would have thought. I’m not as young as i used to be.
What made it worse is i was seeing the kids down the street out running around in the cold having a blast.
Brrrrrr!!!
the warm shower made you happy–that’s one
the clean, crisp sheet made you happy–that’s two
need one more!
You missed the first one: “By the time i got home it was up to almost 60º. Its now up to 64º and I’m very happy“
you’re right!–now I am complete
I have no idea why this popped into mind…
I love this poster!
Stel often asked me (till recently, of course) for suggestions about what posters she should rerun… It’s hard to keep making that decision, and to find what hasn’t been seen for a while, and such.
Of course, favorites play into it. Even though she created them, there are some of her own posters she likes better than others… And she and I have different taste in her work, which is kind of funny.
I suggested this one a bunch of times, but she’s always found some reason not to run it… I think I like it better than she does.
…..
Like Hello Doggy on the poster, I have some stuff from Hello Kitty I like to wear.
When this poster came out, I had to rush to the Sandoggio store and get some Hello Doggy jewelry.
Isn’t it pretty?
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you’re darn tootin’
Makrout.
Somewhat similar in looks and ingredients, but quite different in taste and texture.
The cookie part of a Fig Newton is rather soft and dry, a bit crumbly, and the filling bland. Easy to eat by the handful.
The makrout I’ve tried was much sweeter and very sticky, and had rosewater or some such in it and spices, and the filling used dates instead of figs.
I don’t know how typical it was, because it wasn’t from a bakery. A neighbor used to make it for her Turkish husband.
She taught me to make baklava, though, j and it was great. Of course we used purchased phyllo… And I leave out the rosewater.
I haven’t made it in years, cos it’s still a pain, and quite expensive.
She got the recipes from his mother.
I’m not about to stretch my own phyllo dough OR my grandmother’s strudel, which, sadly, I never got to taste.
I like that Hello Doggy is sporting a Hello Kitty bag.
Meant to ask for a couple of days….
Did I miss DennisinSeattle saying he was going anywhere?
He hasn’t been here in quite a while, nor on GoComics either.
I don’t like to raise the alarm too early, but by now I’m getting concerned.
Not that it means a whole lot, but I certainly did not see anything. Lots of people in his neck of the weeds having severe weather. Could have lost power, a la Happy(3).
It’s been a couple of weeks.
If a city the size of Seattle were out of power for that long, I’d like to think it would be in the news.
i was wonderin the same thing. t hope eveerything is okay….
Me too!
Gonna email him, for what it’s worth.