I thought something must be going on, to have so many people blocking the street… So I searched the image to see whether it was a special occasion.
Turns out they’re what were known as curb brokers, an outdoor stock exchange conducted on the street.
It was noisy, with people shouting their trading, and in comparison with the NYSE, with which it later merged, a little ways down the street, there were a lot more very speculative stocks, and more swindling.
If you want to know more about the curb exchange… Here’s Wikipedia…
It’s only the gates to Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch. No reason not to be gentlemanly and let a lady pass with her small children in tow.
Either the Vikings get their act together against the Lions, or they’ve already lost at the beginning of the third quarter.
Yes, it is only a one point game right now, but they’ve blown pass after pass after pass.
News for followers of Swan Eaters on Goat-Cronics (GoComics)
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Georgia Dunn’s (Of Breaking Cat News fame) other comic strip Swan Eaters is returning on 20th January, (Page has been updated today) after almost four years on hiatus. This is great news for those of us who were waiting for its return. It went on hiatus after Georgia had a nasty medical episode, and she was determined to complete all the remaining strips before recommencing the run to make her daily strip-producing workload a bit easier.
It may be a miserable cold, wet, and windy, dreary Monday outside here in ‘Sunny’ Suffolk (UK), but the future is looking bright!*
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I’ll se your cute cat and raise you a cute dog…
Aww… It’s a fennec fox.
The smallest fox… And also the one with the proportionately biggest ears.
They come from the African desert.
Tripoli isn’t in the desert, but when I lived there, a looong time ago, sometimes we’d see one on a leash.
Usually it would be trying to run in crazy little circles, attempting to hide or get away.
I didn’t know the name then… We called them desert foxes.
Doesn’t look much like a German General, does he?
Have an excellent day!
Thanks!
I think it’s a little baby serval.
A serval kitten, I guess they’re called.
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It looks like a memorial picture. Sniffle…
The dogs are over there congratulating each other on a job well done.
“Gimme five, Jake. Or four… whatever ya got.”
Mary Pickford
.. and her biggest fans?
“I Never Changes My Altitude” 1937
Fond memories. Bluto always getting what he deserves.
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I thought something must be going on, to have so many people blocking the street… So I searched the image to see whether it was a special occasion.
Turns out they’re what were known as curb brokers, an outdoor stock exchange conducted on the street.
It was noisy, with people shouting their trading, and in comparison with the NYSE, with which it later merged, a little ways down the street, there were a lot more very speculative stocks, and more swindling.
If you want to know more about the curb exchange… Here’s Wikipedia…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curbstone_broker
Cool, thanks.
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Frazz likes it.
Messerschmitt 262
Same.
Me too.
I found 13, but I count 16 circles in the solution.
Three of those are invisible to me:
There’s another one I wasnt sure I was seeing, but it’s circled here.
The buck on the far left looks singular to me, and I can’t see anything across the way from where all the deer on the right are facing.
Nor do I see anything in the tree, right above the “rec” symbol.
I can’t find any if Postimage won’t let me zoom in. (Which is what they aren’t letting me do today…)
‘Some Like it Hot’ oops!–make that ‘The Seven Year Itch’- 1960
Yeah, who could ever forget him?
And they’re going to a 1954 movie.
…..
Those cliff swallow nests are getting out of control!
Look! It’s the Duck of Windsor!
Happy Birthday to you!
Thank you!
It’s only the gates to Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch. No reason not to be gentlemanly and let a lady pass with her small children in tow.
At least someone got their ducks in a row…
Either the Vikings get their act together against the Lions, or they’ve already lost at the beginning of the third quarter.
Yes, it is only a one point game right now, but they’ve blown pass after pass after pass.
That’s it, the Vikings have lost with just over two minutes left in the third quarter. I’m no longer going to watch. Vikings 9 , Lions 17.
(I think I know who you were wanting to win)
you know what the used to say in Brooklyn — ‘wait ’til next year’
Could just not get the image I wanted to upload today to actually do that, so have these instead.
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those’ll do!
And a little something for Happy³
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Cool!
Stuck?
News for followers of Swan Eaters on Goat-Cronics (GoComics)
.
Georgia Dunn’s (Of Breaking Cat News fame) other comic strip Swan Eaters is returning on 20th January, (Page has been updated today) after almost four years on hiatus. This is great news for those of us who were waiting for its return. It went on hiatus after Georgia had a nasty medical episode, and she was determined to complete all the remaining strips before recommencing the run to make her daily strip-producing workload a bit easier.
It may be a miserable cold, wet, and windy, dreary Monday outside here in ‘Sunny’ Suffolk (UK), but the future is looking bright!*
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* – NB: Swan Eaters is NOT a ‘Bright’ comic.
Thank you for your info about Swan Eaters!
In northern Upper Frankonia (DE) it is also cold and windy, but wet it was yesterday…
I need this.