Five o’clock this morning Lincoln went outside. Came back in, climbed into bed, and stretched out half on top of me. I never did get back to sleep. But he was content. Sleeping hounds are so funny.
another victory for AI (/s!) It has discovered that “Great balls of fire” is the English translation of the (implicitly German) comedy “Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss” but it won’t tell me what “Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss” means in English!
Ya gotta love his totally fake cowlick, to try make him look like the comic strip.
And BTW… As some of you no doubt already know, there’s a totally different Dennis the Menace in the UK (and probably Ireland)…. I think it’s still part of Beano.
You can base various bar bets and trivia questions on asking which came first. Some people are quite adamant, not to say arrogant, about knowing the answer, one way or the other.
The truth is that…
They coincidentally came out on the very same day, in 1951. That’s one reason neither has ever sued the other or changed its name, except for sales across the pond.
The US one is just “Dennis” in the UK; the UK one is “Dennis and Gnasher” in North America.
Must be those healthy cigarettes… maybe one of the brands “doctors” recommended in old magazine ads.
Most tennis courts had rules prohibiting clothing that wasn’t white, and any type of bathing suits.
Maybe this court is part of a swim club or gym of some sort.
If this is the 1930s, as labeled, it’s quite early, perhaps 1931 or 32. Short hair, skimpy, dark-colored bathing suits… smoking…
All still a bit shocking.
The women are posing to great effect, and I’m sure they know it.
I don’t know where they got their data, but this is outdated and pretty inaccurate.
You can still find lists with these short dates, but even the USDA, concerned about food waste, has a web site pushing back against it…. And practical experience tells me much of it is nonsense.
There’s a big difference between quality and safety, and a lot depends on how things are stored. They don’t mention refrigeration or freezing.
Bread lasts till it gets stale or moldy. Some kinds of brands last longer than others, and it keeps for months in the freezer.
When the oldest of us were children, chickens were allowed outside, and their feed was natural. In winter they laid fewer eggs, with pale yolks. Supermarkets sold “storage eggs”… summer eggs, refrigerated till winter.
Why would dry pasta spoil?
Some friends bought a 50 pound bag of white rice and ate it for a couple of years.
Whole grain products do get rancid… whole wheat flour, pasta, brown rice. But it takes a long time.
Sharp cheese is aged for years. Most unopened packaged cheese will keep for months in the refrigerator.
When I was very new to cooking, I bought a big box of dry beans in a thrift shop… They were selling them for bean bag filling. My then boyfriend and I cooked and ate them for months. A few years later, when I got into collectibles, I realized that the label was from the 1920s or 30s.
Maybe they had lost a little something… I didn’t notice.
I’m still here.
I can confidently identify most of the TV stars (and Peanuts characters) pictured here with the following exceptions:
Is the dark haired woman to the right of Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore supposed to be Joan Collins? And at the upper corner to the right of Larry Hagman (J.R.), are three people. The man with the blue tie could be Dan Rather. The other two look familiar, but I can’t quite place them. Finally, those Muppets shown may have names, but I don’t know them. Can anyone help?
Definitely Bruce Willis, and I have the same feeling as you about the guy next to Vanna. I think he had a lead in a sitcom in the seventies or eighties, and I keep thinking “Greg” or “Ted,” but I don’t know if that’s the actor’s name or the character he played. I shouldn’t let it, but this is gonna bother me.
The “arm” that’s holding the wheel to the left is almost the same colour as the stripe in the carpet making it look invisible but if you look closely once you see it , it will always be visible.
Fawn does that to me.
She’s a stick chewer and she will find a nice long one and bring it over to me to chew on. In the act of settling down for a bit of a chew she will smack my legs with at least a couple of times.
My little dog adored tennis balls. She’d accept any type of rubber ball, though, and steal them anywhere.
If she were not on a leash, like at someone’s house, she stand near people playing catch, grab any balls they dropped, and run. With little kids, unless I saw and stopped her, she’d play “pickle in the middle”, and try to snag them in midair.
What was really funny was that she had no size perception from a distance. She’d run towards dropped basketballs and get frustrated cos she couldn’t carry them… But she once carried off a soccer ball because of the seams.
Yes. The purpose was to keep the heat from going upstairs if no one was going to be up there. Some heat would radiate through the ceiling of the lower floor so it wouldn’t get too cold to damage anything up there. The door would be opened a few hours before anyone going upstairs to stay more than a few minutes. I had a Great Aunt in Hill City South Dakota with a closed off upstairs like that. I spent a few nights up there in the wintertime. Yes, it was d*** cold!
But it wasn’t freezing.
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Well, that ought to give you something to chew on for a while.
Now that you caught it, what do you plan to do with it?
Yipe! Something bit me!
My friend’s cat used to play with his own tail, bite it, squeal, and run away.
Not the sharpest blade on the pocket knife.
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Wait .. .. how many ears does this sleeping hound possess?
And, BTW, pleasant dreams.
Five o’clock this morning Lincoln went outside. Came back in, climbed into bed, and stretched out half on top of me. I never did get back to sleep. But he was content. Sleeping hounds are so funny.
curved escalator
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Not gonna claim that I remembered it….
But a little bird* told me…
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* …cough…
One of the German titles:
Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss
Not even close…
I love that movie.
…and here it is:
Okay, I’m confused…. I see words above your comment, that I guess are supposed to be in it.
I thought it was a WordPress glitch… and maybe it is… but I’ve refreshed a few times. I’m not sure how they got there!
They’re run together, but I’m pretty sure they say “Not even close. I love that movie.”
So now I’m confused about what isn’t close. I didn’t guess at anything!
Meanwhile, since I only know a tiny bit of German, I asked my friend Google (who isn’t always reliable) to translate….
Is this about right?
“The Strange/Odd Taming of the Gangster Bride Sugarpuss”
Serious glitch. WordPress.
The German title isn’t even close to the original one.
Thanks!
From what I read, cos I haven’t seen it, unless I’ve just forgotten it, the German title is closer to actually describing the movie, though.
another victory for AI (/s!) It has discovered that “Great balls of fire” is the English translation of the (implicitly German) comedy “Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss” but it won’t tell me what “Die merkwürdige Zähmung der Gangsterbraut Sugarpuss” means in English!
I posted what it means a few comments up in this thread.
It’s an American film, though. Nothing I read says it copied a German one.
Tigressy just said that was the title in Germany.
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Okay….
Around 1960.
AFAIK, she’s not all that well remembered, but it seemed rude not to give her a spoiler box.
Poor kid! If she’d only landed a more charismatic first role than Margaret!
Ya gotta love his totally fake cowlick, to try make him look like the comic strip.
And BTW… As some of you no doubt already know, there’s a totally different Dennis the Menace in the UK (and probably Ireland)…. I think it’s still part of Beano.
You can base various bar bets and trivia questions on asking which came first. Some people are quite adamant, not to say arrogant, about knowing the answer, one way or the other.
The US one is just “Dennis” in the UK; the UK one is “Dennis and Gnasher” in North America.
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Must be those healthy cigarettes… maybe one of the brands “doctors” recommended in old magazine ads.
Most tennis courts had rules prohibiting clothing that wasn’t white, and any type of bathing suits.
Maybe this court is part of a swim club or gym of some sort.
If this is the 1930s, as labeled, it’s quite early, perhaps 1931 or 32. Short hair, skimpy, dark-colored bathing suits… smoking…
All still a bit shocking.
The women are posing to great effect, and I’m sure they know it.
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a less imposing version
i was terrified by the scary guy on the train from O’hare to Chicago till I saw he was wearing a “Guardian Angels ” jacket…
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Most last much longer – but oil gets rancid.
Yes, it’s odd that they single out oil as indefinite, yet it spoils, while they say other things spoil long before they do.
I don’t know where they got their data, but this is outdated and pretty inaccurate.
You can still find lists with these short dates, but even the USDA, concerned about food waste, has a web site pushing back against it…. And practical experience tells me much of it is nonsense.
There’s a big difference between quality and safety, and a lot depends on how things are stored. They don’t mention refrigeration or freezing.
Bread lasts till it gets stale or moldy. Some kinds of brands last longer than others, and it keeps for months in the freezer.
When the oldest of us were children, chickens were allowed outside, and their feed was natural. In winter they laid fewer eggs, with pale yolks. Supermarkets sold “storage eggs”… summer eggs, refrigerated till winter.
Why would dry pasta spoil?
Some friends bought a 50 pound bag of white rice and ate it for a couple of years.
Whole grain products do get rancid… whole wheat flour, pasta, brown rice. But it takes a long time.
Sharp cheese is aged for years. Most unopened packaged cheese will keep for months in the refrigerator.
When I was very new to cooking, I bought a big box of dry beans in a thrift shop… They were selling them for bean bag filling. My then boyfriend and I cooked and ate them for months. A few years later, when I got into collectibles, I realized that the label was from the 1920s or 30s.
Maybe they had lost a little something… I didn’t notice.
I’m still here.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles? Master of all he surveys?
What’s the lumpy thing in his left shoulder?
I thought it was just a trick of the light, but I can’t make it blend in.
“Hump? What hump?”
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Mort Drucker ?
Definitely a “Mort”.
Not quite a “Jack Davis”.
Yes … and search says it’s the back cover of MAD #266, October 1986.
I searched it to find its provenance..
Did find out what it is, but no list of subjects.
I recognize most of them too…
My first thought about Mr. Blue Tie was Morely Safer, which is funny cos they’re both from 60 Minutes. But I think you’re right, it’s Dan Rather.
And I absolutely know that next fellow’s face. I can picture it in real life. But I just can’t place it!
Joan Collins, yes. And I’m guessing that’s Bruce Willis next to Cybill Shepard, but it doesn’t look like him
Definitely Bruce Willis, and I have the same feeling as you about the guy next to Vanna. I think he had a lead in a sitcom in the seventies or eighties, and I keep thinking “Greg” or “Ted,” but I don’t know if that’s the actor’s name or the character he played. I shouldn’t let it, but this is gonna bother me.
I replied on the 2nd
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Actually, it jumped right out at me. Good thing I have the reflexes and agility of a Jedi.
Three of the ‘Ones’ are rotated 90º to the left…..
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You’re right
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Five people put likes on this…. Maybe one of you can tell me what it is? Or anybody?
I see a broken chair… But I also think I must be wrong.
The “arm” that’s holding the wheel to the left is almost the same colour as the stripe in the carpet making it look invisible but if you look closely once you see it , it will always be visible.
Thanks!
I can’t say it’s always visible, cos I have to make myself focus… But I can see it.
anybody still not getting these?
As in, not seeing the picture, or not getting the joke?
I see all the animations, but sometimes can’t tell what’s happening in gifs.
This one, I get in both ways!
That was Wylbur, my Jack Russell. Throw him a stick, he’d bring back a tree!
With friends like that .. ..
Fawn does that to me.
She’s a stick chewer and she will find a nice long one and bring it over to me to chew on. In the act of settling down for a bit of a chew she will smack my legs with at least a couple of times.
My little dog adored tennis balls. She’d accept any type of rubber ball, though, and steal them anywhere.
If she were not on a leash, like at someone’s house, she stand near people playing catch, grab any balls they dropped, and run. With little kids, unless I saw and stopped her, she’d play “pickle in the middle”, and try to snag them in midair.
What was really funny was that she had no size perception from a distance. She’d run towards dropped basketballs and get frustrated cos she couldn’t carry them… But she once carried off a soccer ball because of the seams.
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My niece got one of the Lego Cats, her real cat wasn’t very impressed when she put it together.
‘Map Room’, 2019 – Heather Neill (American Artist, born 1958) – Oil on Panel, 24 x 26 inches (61 x 66 cm).
Looks like you could shut off the upstairs… probably to save heat when no one was up there….
But I can’t help thinking maybe to keep someone from coming downstairs.
It’s strangely dilapidated… badly peeling paint, but only in some places; the ceiling torn down… And a lot of wood stacked in the next room.
Is it a horror movie or simply a remodeling job?
Yes. The purpose was to keep the heat from going upstairs if no one was going to be up there. Some heat would radiate through the ceiling of the lower floor so it wouldn’t get too cold to damage anything up there. The door would be opened a few hours before anyone going upstairs to stay more than a few minutes. I had a Great Aunt in Hill City South Dakota with a closed off upstairs like that. I spent a few nights up there in the wintertime. Yes, it was d*** cold!
But it wasn’t freezing.
Thank you!
Lots of old Quebec homes did that but it was a trap door on the top of the stairs.
Red-tailed Hawk.
For some reason this popped into my head yesterday.