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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Is this another drawing by that pen and ink artist you like to put up? Fred/Frank Booth, maybe? If so, it’s an incredibly detailed piece. Well actually, if it’s a pen and ink drawing it’s an incredibly detailed piece. Doesn’t matter if that’s the person who drew it.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 years ago

I would shoot myself before trying to draw all those leaves on the trees!

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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

me, too!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 years ago

I like the image, so I Googled it.

It’s a photograph, not a drawing, of Lincoln Park in Chicago.

Apparently published in the Chicago Tribune ca1906, it’s now available via vintage photo bog Shorpy.com.

The date it was taken was variably given as sometime between 1897 and 1906… but I most often saw it labelled “A Walk in Lincoln Park 1900.”

The uniformed fellow in the London Bobby-style helmet is a member of the Lincoln Park Police.

Meanwhile Franklin Booth is one of my favorite illustrators, too…

The story is that, unable to go to art school, he taught himself to draw by copying newspaper illustrations, which he didn’t realise were actually engravings.

That’s one reason his work is full of in incredible detail, with everything shaded in tiny, fine lines, like those etched into copper.

But however detailed, you can always tell they’re drawings, laid out with his artistic vision.

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DennisinSeattle
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Glad to learn that it is a photo!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

 
The specifications for the Mig 17 in the attachment come from:   HERE
 

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P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

The Sabres tangled with MiG-17’s slightly less nimble older brother, the MiG-15. The ’17’s gave our more advanced, supersonic fighters a hard time in Vietnam. I don’t know the veracity of this, but at one airshow they claimed the 1954 MiG-17 was the most maneuverable fighter in the world until the F-16 came along in 1978.

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
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3 years ago

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I passed through Cleveland on my way to Wolverton Mountan.
Question: What does Cleveland have against jake brakes?
Another Question: What are jake brakes?

Alexikakos
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The picture is a Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc. Jake brake and is a link to the company’s description (the brake was patented by them) and explanation.
 
 
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When you hear that very loud braaaap noise from a truck, the trucker has just used his Jake brake.
 

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 years ago

Ah yes. When I hear that sound and I’m around other people, I like to say “excuse me.”

Liverlips McCracken
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I was going to say it wasn’t a thing at all, but a proper name. The city of Cleveland does not want Jake Brakes coming within city limits. Jake was told to leave and not come back years ago, and the signs are there just to make sure he (and his descendants) do not forget.
But then Alexi came along and spoiled it for everyone else (read: me) by revealing actual facts. The nerve.

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3 years ago

@    —comment image

Your late post yesterday about the Arecibo telescope collapse was well worth the time (and you’re right, he does make it easy to understand). Thanks.
 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 years ago

My pleasure! 🙂

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Glen Campbell could pick a good lick back then!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

He was a gentle soul. Loved his style.

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
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3 years ago

What would you expect from a guy from Delight, Arkansas?

MontanaLady
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Awwwwwwwwwwww!

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

Is Claude so greedy he expects, not just a larger piece of pie, but two pieces to be set before him at once?

If so, Cleo’s naughtiness aside, he deserves what he gets.

Good thing Cleo didn’t offer him sixteen pieces…

the poor table would be kindling, instead of maybe-just-possibly reparable firewood.

You know, I do enjoy the freedom of Cleo having her own site…

but a small problem I occasionally have with all the wonders and …um… not-such-wonders being shared here,

is that sometimes all the distraction means nobody says a word about “Cleo and Company”….

the strip that’s the real reason I’m here.

Is the third illustration meant to point out that in panel three, Claude had a “close encounter” with flying pottery, or even Cleo’s axe blade?

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

I come for Cleo, first. Then the camaraderie of all these fun folks, and my earworms for the day.

perkycat
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

I totally agree. I like to read the comic and comment on it.

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

I posted a pictoral reference to the Clifford’s hometown. Isn’t that enough? (I have the high ground here)

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I can see Uranus.

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good one!

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

I dare to post the daily link on gocomics.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

You’re welcome.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

It depends on the day. Mostly for any fun/funny stuff. The posters are always a blast. Even the puzzles. Even the ones i su… stink at. 😀

Tigressy
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3 years ago

“Female dogs named Cleo.”

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

April 29, 2019…

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I remember that! Why not.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I like mine with chili.

DryandDusty
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3 years ago

Good morning Balladeers, ((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.

MontanaLady
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3 years ago

The reason Claude only gets the last piece of pie?

He ate the rest of them in his midnight refrig raid!!!!

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Lasagna pie, of course.

perkycat
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3 years ago

Cleo is very inventive. I’m surprised she didn’t want the second piece for herself. As for the table…………

MontanaLady
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Reply to  perkycat
3 years ago

Why bother. Claude never scolds her.

happyhappyhappy
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3 years ago

When i was young the science explainers were older men…

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3 years ago

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