Congrats on the anniversary! I’m so glad I stumbled on Cleo and Company while strolling down Ballard Street. Both brighten up my day and get me off to a good start.
There’s a reason for that, I think, Alexi. I believe I’ve proven that my MSN browser was preventing me from embedding YouTube videos. I downloaded Google Chrome, and now have no problem, except Chrome prevents my avatar from animating.
I only use Chrome for the videos, but I forget to close it after, thereby causing my avatar to take a break. I’ve just closed Chrome, so I think that the ol’ Evil Queen should be moving again.
Thanks, mabrndt! As for the date, I was working on it yesterday, and apparently, I was stuck on the fifteenth….just a simple case of not paying attention. I never even saw it until just now after reading your comment. Thanks for pointing it out.
I’ll fix it at some point after today.
Good to see you!!!!
Alexikakos
Member
Famed Member
3 years ago
I can only imagine what the canines at Bassett Pictures did with the “Stabbing-in-the-heart” scene. I hear the humans at Tristar pictures had to tone it down. Wwwoof!
Alexikakos
Member
Famed Member
3 years ago
@
P51Strega From yesterday:
You may already be using this, but if you’re not this might help somewhat with easier reading.
If you’re running Windows 10, holding down “ctrl” and tapping the “+” key will magnify the page (in steps) a good number of times without loss of clarity.
Holding down “ctrl” and tapping “0” (zero) will instantly return the page to normal.
Thanks, I’ve used that but like Ctrl^{scroll} a little more. Unfortunately I often find the lack of focus offsets the size gain (especially true with Dinette Set).
Misirlou (Egyptian girl) Old Arabic version
by Maestro Clovis – Ya Amal
Lebanon 1948
Many countries claim this song as theirs and “the melody has survived
longer than we can document with sound recordings and movies. The melody
has been recycled for generations by Greeks, Turks, Persians, Arabs and Jews.”
[Dick Dale and the Del Tones recorded their version in 1963 (the one in Pulp Fiction)
and The Black Eyed Peas recorded it in 2005 as “Pump It”.]
DennisinSeattle
Member
3 years ago
Uma Thurdog makes Johnny Tragrowler look good in this picture!
Good morning, Cleo pals, and movie fans…or Cleo fans and movie pals…
and wow, Stel… amazing job on that poster.
So many names! And such a beautiful portrait of Uma Thurdog! Of course, it would be hard to find a photo of her that is NOT beautiful…
But she looks especially fetching in her purplie eye shadow, and high black collar… with an expression on her face that clearly says “Don’t get any ideas. I am not fetching anything for anybody.”
This film launched her as a major star.. and restarted John Tragrowler’s flagging career…
It’s consistently ranked among the best basset films ever…
In fact, it put both Basset Pictures and Quentin Taranbasset on the map, and single-pawedly started a renaissance of independent film-making.
…
The plot can be described as “Everybody shoots everybody.”
I…er… I hear it’s amazing…
…
It’s back for a limited engagement at the BassetPlex II and III, allowing them to fit in 6 showings a day between the two.
I have passes for the first 26 Cleo fans who want to see it, including spouses or a friend… good for this coming Thursday night, or Saturday afternoon, including a free small kibblecorn.
So just talk amongst yourselves and let me know when you want to go, OK? Together or separately.
…
I’ll… um… be right here, waiting for your glowing reports.
A good friend who is somewhat of a movie tester for me told me that the Scaredy Cat row will not do for me this time, because every time someone tells me it’s safe to open my eyes… KAPLOWIE!
Someone else unexpectedly goes down in a flash of gunfire and sometimes blood.
well, Susan, it’s a little slow but now if you click on the NUMBER of likes, you’ll
get a list of the ‘likers’. Unfortunately , another downside of not having a WordPress
account (and avatar) is that if they ‘like’ a comment, they lump them together with
other persons who don’t have an account (they’re called GUESTS).
on behalf of Cleo, Clara, Claude, Perro, Sam Basset,Superbasset,Batbasset, Robin Hound, Secret Agent James Hound, the Dogfather the evil white kitty-cat and anybody
else I may have forgotten, thank you Susan, I had forgotten the exact date
Quarter Pounders; so you’ve got a whole pound of beef there. Not too fatty, and if any doggie doesn’t agree with the cheese, just make them plain. The burgers, that is.
Great minds…
The fish was easy despite all the cuttle~, star~, shell~…
perkycat
Member
3 years ago
What a great poster! So many great names!! And, of course, the *…….* eyeshadow which shall not be named. Interesting movie, but not one of my favorites.
I do a lot of posters that I either haven’t seen the movie or didn’t care for the movie. Yet, the poster is interesting to do. In fact, in some cases, the original poster is better than the movie!
I guess I’m the only one who’s never seen this film. I’ve never been one for ‘shoot em up’ movies. (We just watched ‘The Princess Bride’ the other night. That’s more our speed.)
You can see Stel put a lot of work into today’s poster. Well done!
No, ML, you’re not the only one. I haven’t seen it either, and I’d be willing to bet that Susan hasn’t seen it, as well. Thanks for liking the poster, though.
I like that movie, but you lot won’t. It’s brutal and bloodthirsty – but funny in a crooked way nonetheless. A very good friend of ours doesn’t like it, either.
I respect that. Tastes are different, and that’s a good thing.
We’ll always have Paris err Cleo and Company!
well, it’s a little slow, but if you click the number of likes, you’ll see who ‘liked’ it
and if you click ‘dislike’ , it won’t subtract from the likes
original Pulp Fiction poster
…
Great poster, Stel! (And the human version was pretty clever too…)
Hey, everybody!
Sorry I’m a bit late…….the paint is still wet on the poster!
Congrats on the anniversary! I’m so glad I stumbled on Cleo and Company while strolling down Ballard Street. Both brighten up my day and get me off to a good start.
Thank you!
Thanks so much!! It’s always a pleasure to see you here, dorothea !
I’m here every day, but sometimes I keep quiet.
Yep…..me, too!
Something weird.
Your avatar is now sometimes animated and sometimes not.
I was going to ask you yesterday, “What happened to your animated avatar?” then it came back just as I was ready to post.
When I made my first two posts this morning, it was animated, as of now 09:16 hrs. Eastern Standard Time it’s still again.
It is now 09:49 hrs. Eastern Standard Time, and your avatar is back to being animated.
Thanks for checking.
There’s a reason for that, I think, Alexi. I believe I’ve proven that my MSN browser was preventing me from embedding YouTube videos. I downloaded Google Chrome, and now have no problem, except Chrome prevents my avatar from animating.
I only use Chrome for the videos, but I forget to close it after, thereby causing my avatar to take a break. I’ve just closed Chrome, so I think that the ol’ Evil Queen should be moving again.
Love the poster!
Thanks, P51Strega !!!
Kudos again, StelBel!! But, why 3.15.2021 on 3.16.2021? It was great regardless!
Thanks, mabrndt! As for the date, I was working on it yesterday, and apparently, I was stuck on the fifteenth….just a simple case of not paying attention. I never even saw it until just now after reading your comment. Thanks for pointing it out.
I’ll fix it at some point after today.
Good to see you!!!!
I can only imagine what the canines at Bassett Pictures did with the “Stabbing-in-the-heart” scene. I hear the humans at Tristar pictures had to tone it down. Wwwoof!
@
You may already be using this, but if you’re not this might help somewhat with easier reading.
If you’re running Windows 10, holding down “ctrl” and tapping the “+” key will magnify the page (in steps) a good number of times without loss of clarity.
Holding down “ctrl” and tapping “0” (zero) will instantly return the page to normal.
That’s what I did, no fuss, no muss!
Thanks, I’ve used that but like Ctrl^{scroll} a little more. Unfortunately I often find the lack of focus offsets the size gain (especially true with Dinette Set).
And “ctrl -” will reduce the size stepwise too
Misirlou
Misirlou (Egyptian girl) Old Arabic version
by Maestro Clovis – Ya Amal
Lebanon 1948
Many countries claim this song as theirs and “the melody has survived
longer than we can document with sound recordings and movies. The melody
has been recycled for generations by Greeks, Turks, Persians, Arabs and Jews.”
[Dick Dale and the Del Tones recorded their version in 1963 (the one in Pulp Fiction)
and The Black Eyed Peas recorded it in 2005 as “Pump It”.]
Uma Thurdog makes Johnny Tragrowler look good in this picture!
I agree.
What a great poster from StelBel! She is not worried about riling up the mobs, she just lays it all out there!
Thanks. I try.
Good morning, Cleo pals, and movie fans…or Cleo fans and movie pals…
and wow, Stel… amazing job on that poster.
So many names! And such a beautiful portrait of Uma Thurdog! Of course, it would be hard to find a photo of her that is NOT beautiful…
But she looks especially fetching in her purplie eye shadow, and high black collar… with an expression on her face that clearly says “Don’t get any ideas. I am not fetching anything for anybody.”
This film launched her as a major star.. and restarted John Tragrowler’s flagging career…
It’s consistently ranked among the best basset films ever…
In fact, it put both Basset Pictures and Quentin Taranbasset on the map, and single-pawedly started a renaissance of independent film-making.
…
The plot can be described as “Everybody shoots everybody.”
I…er… I hear it’s amazing…
…
It’s back for a limited engagement at the BassetPlex II and III, allowing them to fit in 6 showings a day between the two.
I have passes for the first 26 Cleo fans who want to see it, including spouses or a friend… good for this coming Thursday night, or Saturday afternoon, including a free small kibblecorn.
So just talk amongst yourselves and let me know when you want to go, OK? Together or separately.
…
I’ll… um… be right here, waiting for your glowing reports.
A good friend who is somewhat of a movie tester for me told me that the Scaredy Cat row will not do for me this time, because every time someone tells me it’s safe to open my eyes… KAPLOWIE!
Someone else unexpectedly goes down in a flash of gunfire and sometimes blood.
But you guys… um… enjoy, OK?
Thanks for your glowing review. I understand how difficult it is when you haven’t seen the movie. (BTW, nice play on “fetching”)
Maybe there’s a Dogsknee movie playing that we can go to, while others are enjoying “Pup Fiction”. Whadya say?
Maybe they’ll play the Princess Diaries movies. Julie Andrews still has ‘it’.
well, Susan, it’s a little slow but now if you click on the NUMBER of likes, you’ll
get a list of the ‘likers’. Unfortunately , another downside of not having a WordPress
account (and avatar) is that if they ‘like’ a comment, they lump them together with
other persons who don’t have an account (they’re called GUESTS).
Great stuff! (Unfortunately you also get to see the dislikes as well…)
Though I’d as soon the system didn’t offer thumbs down, if we DO have them, I’d much rather see them separately than leave it as it was…
Cos until today, there was only a combined total displayed.
…
Every dislike would anonymously subtract a like…
and do it invisibly, until there were no more likes to remove.
If you saw a zero, it could mean no one had rated it…. or that there’d been an equal number of likes and dislikes.
…
Thumbs down can be useful, I guess, on a forum with contentious political or social commentary…
For registering disapproval, or refusal to side with hateful remarks.
But I hope that sort of dialogue never appears here on Cleo in the first place.
…
We have one dislike already today… from an unidentified “guest”.
To my mind the person should have just said, politely, of course, what he or she found bothersome.
But often, and maybe this time, a thumbs down is used to merely to disguise something OTHER than an opinion about particular content…
And always anonymously.
Today being the 16th of March, it marks another occasion…
something to celebrate here in our new home.
The first actual Cleo cartoon, not counting a “Coming soon” introductory page, was posted to Comics Sherpa on March 16th 2014…
So today, Cleo and Company is 7 years old…
and I just want to say…..
on behalf of Cleo, Clara, Claude, Perro, Sam Basset,Superbasset,Batbasset, Robin Hound, Secret Agent James Hound, the Dogfather the evil white kitty-cat and anybody
else I may have forgotten, thank you Susan, I had forgotten the exact date
Are you saying that we’ve been going south for the past 7 years?
I see you and your collaberator are now each a “Trusted Member.” Does that mean you have super powers?
WOW! Seven years…..it seems like only yesterday……
Happy Anniversary to this great C&C Crew!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLEO AND COMPANY!
Have a home-made Royale (or several) – low-carb, too…
Are those Royales ‘actual size’? Yikes!
Quarter Pounders; so you’ve got a whole pound of beef there. Not too fatty, and if any doggie doesn’t agree with the cheese, just make them plain. The burgers, that is.
Bad dog! That’s a very, very, bad dog!!
But very well drawn.
Thanks!
Just telling the truth.
I love that iconic scene where his fingers, in sideways ‘vees’, are over his eyes.
That move is the “Batman.”
Good morning, Cleoites. T-28 days.
Welp. After a year of self isolation, counting down the days to full vaccination.
And today’s Stel-lar poster of Uma Thurdog with her purplies! humma humma!
Y’all Be safe. (((((HUGS for all.)))))
Chuckle…chuckle…..thanks, Plods!
We had our first ones the same day….
If your second dose is March 30th, like mine (3 weeks for Pfizer), our countdown will be the same.
There’s something rather hypnotic about those frogs…..
I find them hypnotic, too.
but just a tad
Groan…. (“a tad”)
I wouldn’t touch that comment with a pole.
Alright, better. Builds on a foundation of sand, but does it surprisingly well.
I’ll allow that this time, but only because you’re the site administrator.
find the fish
Found the fish right away. Found the french fries, too. Oh, those aren’t french fries? Darn!
They look like French fries to me! Must be lunch time!
Found it!
I finally found it! WooHoo!
Easy one! Seahorses are fish, right?
Pretty fishy for horses, anyway.
Why? Have you lost one?
And why do a bunch of them look like a Simpson?
Great minds…
The fish was easy despite all the cuttle~, star~, shell~…
What a great poster! So many great names!! And, of course, the *…….* eyeshadow which shall not be named. Interesting movie, but not one of my favorites.
I do a lot of posters that I either haven’t seen the movie or didn’t care for the movie. Yet, the poster is interesting to do. In fact, in some cases, the original poster is better than the movie!
Thanks, PC!
Hey, I named it!
You are braver than I am.
I guess I’m the only one who’s never seen this film. I’ve never been one for ‘shoot em up’ movies. (We just watched ‘The Princess Bride’ the other night. That’s more our speed.)
You can see Stel put a lot of work into today’s poster. Well done!
No, ML, you’re not the only one. I haven’t seen it either, and I’d be willing to bet that Susan hasn’t seen it, as well. Thanks for liking the poster, though.
I like that movie, but you lot won’t. It’s brutal and bloodthirsty – but funny in a crooked way nonetheless. A very good friend of ours doesn’t like it, either.
I respect that. Tastes are different, and that’s a good thing.
We’ll always have Paris err Cleo and Company!
And the Oxford Comma. Serial.
Another noseeum right here!
I said in my post that I heard that it was good….
But I couldn’t go see it, even in the Scaredy Cat row.
Sorry Stel…..
…
But yeah, a Dogsknee movie sounds good.
Or even a grown up movie.
I hear … though it’s only a rumor…. that they make SOME without bullets and blood!
No to the movie for me as well.
well, it’s a little slow, but if you click the number of likes, you’ll see who ‘liked’ it
and if you click ‘dislike’ , it won’t subtract from the likes
I worry a bit about the dislikes. That’s what sank Comics.com years ago…
Yay! Thank you!
I appreciate you doing the research into the dislike function. I worry about its availability, however.
Happy Birthday (anniversary?) to Cleo and Company. I look forward to many more years!