May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
And may you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil even knows you’re dead.
With a basset there to greet you.
From a Wikipedia article on Chicago River: The tradition of dyeing the river green arose by accident in 1961 when plumbers were using fluorescein dye to trace sources of illegal pollution discharge into the river. The plumbers then proposed a continuing celebration to the administration of the city’s Irish-American mayor Richard J. Daley. The dyeing of the river is still sponsored by the local plumbers union.
Charles Laughton seated left, Henry Fonda seated right, and Raymond Massey towering over everyone at the back.
I can’t recall the names of the rest, with the possible exception of the handsome leading man-looking type fellow leaning forward in the dark shirt. But I’m not sticking my neck out for him.
Yeah, pretty sure I’ve googled this before, but quite a while ago, and I seldom save this stuff, cos tablets get full.
So here we go
again….
It’s (back row) Lloyd Nolan, Tyrone Power, Raymond Massey, and John Hodiak….
and (front row) Charles Laughton, Anne Baxter, Dick Powell and Henry Fonda.
Unlike Liverlips, I didn’t recognize Massey… in the back row I only knew Power. But I recognized the four in front, in spite of Laughton smiling, which I’m not used to seeing.
It’s above the Arctic circle, but I read that, because of ocean currents, it’s much warmer than you’d expect.
I wouldn’t call it exactly warm, though. The winter nighttime temps are not much below freezing…. But the “warm summer days” they described are around 40°F.
In between the card catalogue and Google, which actually came after Alta Vista, then Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and DogPile…
our library went all in on microfiche.
It was horrible! They spent a fortune replacing all the cards with microfiche, so instead of just pulling open a drawer and looking for a card, alphabetically, you had to wait for a turn at a microfiche reader, slide in a big sheet of film, and search all over it looking for the section you needed.
Sliding the film through the magnifier and all around gave me motion sickness, plus the information could be at the top, bottom, right or left, so I was nauseated by the time I found anything…
Luckily, within a year or two, you could wait for a computer instead. You could browse the catalogue, also reserve books, and check the other libraries in the system, through TelNet, and also go online with a text only browser called Lynx.
The problem was that there were only four computers, so you only got one hour, and you had to wait 48 hours to get one again.
About 2 years later, I think, I had a computer at home with a modem, and you could link to the library’s TelNet. I don’t think you can even do that any more! I wonder how many computers they have now.
All that and more, eh, Susan?
I remember having to go downtown to our city’s main library when I needed an electrical schematic for my car(s). Hunting through one microfiche to get the print number of the schematic, then heading off to another floor to find it on another microfiche and then loading that microfiche into/onto a print scanner, dropping the coins in and taking a print. Cumbersome to say the least. But, it was do-able, and back in the day (early 70s) we felt quite futuristic.
My, how times HAVE changed! Thanks for the memories, Susan!
We didn’t get the microfiches here till the later 1970s. At that time, there was only the main library downtown, and one branch in a shopping center farther from me, and they both got rid of the card catalogs.
I was so happy when they computerized it, I never used the microfiches again, so I have no idea whether they still have them, or a paper catalog, either.
Now I feel like checking! I hate to say I haven’t been to the library in years, cos I’m online so much.
But 10 years later, as a real estate agent (a brief career) I discovered that all the county records were on microfiche, and those had the system you describe, which I’d forgotten about.
You could put in coins to print a deed or a property map… They came out marked something like “not a legal document. For reference only”. If you needed it for escrow or probate or some such, you paid for a copy in better resolution with a county stamp or seal
Those machines also made me feel sick… I hated having to go up there and go through a lot of records.
As a HS kid, I was privileged to see the stage play performed by Jimmy Stewart and Helen Hayes, at Ms. Hayes’s own theater in Nyack, NY. Howlingly funny.
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May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
And may you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil even knows you’re dead.
With a basset there to greet you.
Erin Go Bark!
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I don’t see any good landing spots, Cap’n.
Why don’t you just try to set down on those ocean waves. They look a mite rough, but they’ll probably support us until we can be rescued.
Actually… Mt Everest from a plane window.
See? You don’t have to climb all the way up there to see it!
Works for me.
besides the danger, through fees it costs tens of thousands of dollars to even attempt the climb
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I knew it! Ghostbusters 2 was right! The city’s water is filled with slime!!! {^¿*}
Or maybe they dyed it for St Patrick’ Day?
Ya think?
☘️
Every year since an accidental spill years ago.
From a Wikipedia article on Chicago River:
The tradition of dyeing the river green arose by accident in 1961 when plumbers were using fluorescein dye to trace sources of illegal pollution discharge into the river. The plumbers then proposed a continuing celebration to the administration of the city’s Irish-American mayor Richard J. Daley. The dyeing of the river is still sponsored by the local plumbers union.
probably frozen today
,,
99% certain this is a repeat.
Yeah, pretty sure I’ve googled this before, but quite a while ago, and I seldom save this stuff, cos tablets get full.
So here we go
and (front row) Charles Laughton, Anne Baxter, Dick Powell and Henry Fonda.
Unlike Liverlips, I didn’t recognize Massey… in the back row I only knew Power. But I recognized the four in front, in spite of Laughton smiling, which I’m not used to seeing.
,..
I do not think I would want to be standing where the fellow is foreground left.
Same here. Let’s hope he’s a cardboard cutout.
“There goes the neighbourhood!”
You know, they always talk bout mushrooms.
That looks like a cauliflower!
..
Looks a bit isolated. And chilly.
It’s in the Lofoten Islands of Norway.
It’s above the Arctic circle, but I read that, because of ocean currents, it’s much warmer than you’d expect.
I wouldn’t call it exactly warm, though. The winter nighttime temps are not much below freezing…. But the “warm summer days” they described are around 40°F.
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Sunday driver!
That was quite the butt slap.
“He came outta nowhere!”
“Did anyone get the licence plate?”
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Who among us has not BTDT?
Remember it with fondness.
In between the card catalogue and Google, which actually came after Alta Vista, then Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and DogPile…
our library went all in on microfiche.
It was horrible! They spent a fortune replacing all the cards with microfiche, so instead of just pulling open a drawer and looking for a card, alphabetically, you had to wait for a turn at a microfiche reader, slide in a big sheet of film, and search all over it looking for the section you needed.
Sliding the film through the magnifier and all around gave me motion sickness, plus the information could be at the top, bottom, right or left, so I was nauseated by the time I found anything…
Luckily, within a year or two, you could wait for a computer instead. You could browse the catalogue, also reserve books, and check the other libraries in the system, through TelNet, and also go online with a text only browser called Lynx.
The problem was that there were only four computers, so you only got one hour, and you had to wait 48 hours to get one again.
About 2 years later, I think, I had a computer at home with a modem, and you could link to the library’s TelNet. I don’t think you can even do that any more! I wonder how many computers they have now.
All that and more, eh, Susan?
I remember having to go downtown to our city’s main library when I needed an electrical schematic for my car(s). Hunting through one microfiche to get the print number of the schematic, then heading off to another floor to find it on another microfiche and then loading that microfiche into/onto a print scanner, dropping the coins in and taking a print. Cumbersome to say the least. But, it was do-able, and back in the day (early 70s) we felt quite futuristic.
My, how times HAVE changed!
Thanks for the memories, Susan!
We didn’t get the microfiches here till the later 1970s. At that time, there was only the main library downtown, and one branch in a shopping center farther from me, and they both got rid of the card catalogs.
I was so happy when they computerized it, I never used the microfiches again, so I have no idea whether they still have them, or a paper catalog, either.
Now I feel like checking! I hate to say I haven’t been to the library in years, cos I’m online so much.
But 10 years later, as a real estate agent (a brief career) I discovered that all the county records were on microfiche, and those had the system you describe, which I’d forgotten about.
You could put in coins to print a deed or a property map… They came out marked something like “not a legal document. For reference only”. If you needed it for escrow or probate or some such, you paid for a copy in better resolution with a county stamp or seal
Those machines also made me feel sick… I hated having to go up there and go through a lot of records.
,,
As a HS kid, I was privileged to see the stage play performed by Jimmy Stewart and Helen Hayes, at Ms. Hayes’s own theater in Nyack, NY. Howlingly funny.
Here’s the movie (colorized; sorry):
https://archive.org/details/harvey-colorized-1950-720p_202601
Smaller file:
https://archive.org/details/harvey-colorized
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This appears
Yeah, yeah… I didn’t hide it cos people were trying to guess Homer, but so I didn’t have to show his father’s name.
“Ghostbusters” a Vanity Fair article.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/11/ghostbusters-family-photos
find the 3 leaf clover
♫ I’m looking over
the three leafed clover ♪
.. Wait. That can’t be right. ..
Okay okay…..
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Keep your eye on the shadow of her hands.
Wendy will be right over.
Not sure sewing them on will work… But hey, worth a shot.
Sam one
See the toast above. He’ll be there.
For some reason this popped into my head yesterday.
Probably thinking of Annette Kellerman.
I always liked 10cc.
I’ve refreshed and refreshed…. But I still don’t see a strip for today.
Only the three videos I presume are beneath it.
But since I don’t see any strip comments, either, I don’t really know whether there is one
Maybe Nighthawks got into the green beer a bit early.
So I’m not alone?
I don’t see one either.
sorry, I was WordPressed-
the cartoon was there last night when I posted it….and this morning, gone!
A likely story. 🙂
never too early—around here we have a sporting event in which it’s perfectly normal to break open a beer at the crack of dawn
thank goodness it’s only once a year
Snake-whacking day?
Round tower in Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland.
I bet tourists walk around underneath thinking it’s clever to look up and shout “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!”
I shouldn’t mock them… I might too
Harlequin Duck, County Donegal, Ireland.