yeah credit given for sure— as you can see the tan illusion is unsigned
(or perhaps the signature was removed. I try always to give credit when I know
who the artist is
If you made tacos for sinko de mayo, I hope you were able to find tortillas from La Tortilla Factory made with hatch green chiles. You might have liked Tapashio or Sir Gotcha sauce, but I prefer Chocula. And by the way, I don’t even try some of those goat peppers in mine;.
So far, I only find them at Albertson’s in my area. They used to be tucked down into a little corner of the bottom shelf, but seem to have been allowed to move up to eye level with more offerings. In grocery store terms, that’s something to make the manufacturer weep for joy. Paaaarty!!!
When I was in high school, Sister Celine was a Dodgers fan, and Sister Clara was a Giants fan. They had to be in their 70’s and put up all kinds of decorations in their classrooms. They were AVID fans.
He grew up in Brooklyn, before the Dodgers,, but always felt proud after they got a team, so he loved them.
That meant he hated the Giants… then they got Willie Mays… and he loved Willie Mays… but still not the Giants.
…
He had moved to California with his parents when he was in college. I don’t think there was a local team, but I don’t know…. before my time.
I’m a little fuzzy on what came first… but at some point later, the Giants moved to San Francisco, and he could finally support them and his baseball hero, Willie Mays.
…
But Oakland also got the A’s, and his parents lived near Oakland and supported them, so sometimes Dad did too.
We were military so he also supported the teams everybody rooted for wherever we lived.
A conflict when “his” teams played each other.
…
Later his previously beloved Dodgers moved to LA, but he had to root against them….for leaving Brooklyn and for being against his A’s … or his Giants.
Then Willie retired… and my Dad retired… and he and my mom moved to southern California.
I was down there for his birthday… I think he was 60…
Someone gave him a Dodgers t-shirt, and he told me he didn’t know what to do.
….
For football he had no problem… He only watched college ball, and didn’t care much about team loyalty, just the game and the coaching.
Me?
Not a sports fan and don’t know why people suddenly support a team because their city bought it.
Especially when the millionaire players live elsewhere anyway, and will go to another team if sold.
Supposedly not true of the Green Bay Packers, and I went to high school in Wisconsin… But that’s not enough to make me watch a football game.
I don’t watch any professional sports since they kneel against the Flag. It was nice, and enjoyable while it lasted. And you’re right about the millionaire players.
Nobody “kneeled against the flag”. Players with a concern beyond football kneeled, peacefully, respectfully, to draw attention to a very real problem. People who didn’t want to hear it made it about the flag, and drowned out the real concerns. The fact is that none of those who took a knee are against the flag, the anthem, or the country. It’s sad that some feel the need to attack those trying to make things better.
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Spring again… and of course, it did happen!
A bassetball movie, that is — though of course this one is a revival.
First clue: 20th Century Basset.
I bet they never thought about their name ever getting old when they started that studio, back in the1930’s.
In the late 20th century, a new real estate company opened called Century21…. I think it’s still around…
I remember l thinking, well, at least they’ve got 100 years before it looks old… unlike 20th Century Basset.
…
Haven’t seen it in a long time…. but I remember this being a funny movie.
Some sort of impossible chemical reaction creates a kind of rubber that’s repelled by wood….
perfect for “hitting” bassetballs amazing distances, of course…
which turns a nerdy professor into a bassetball star.
…
Seems like an obvious precursor to the “flubber” created in a much later Dogsney comedy….
which just may have kinda sorta borrowed the idea.
…
Doesn’t Jeanie look adorable in her little blue skirt, and … yes… purply eye shadow?
….
And Stel posted a human copy?
Hard to imagine humans making a movie where they have to chase balls!
Nah… they just hit them with the sticks… and then wait around for them to come back to them.
Not half the action of a bassetball game.
I mean… why bother?
Who wants to watch a bunch of humans standing around with sticks?
good one, Susan. The parochial school I attended in the 50’s actually played that movie and others ( The Jolson Story–Knute Rockne, All-America) for the whole school in the
auditorium…… surprising that they did that, the nuns and priests who ran the place were
kind hearted , I suppose……I know of at least one of those nuns would have preferred to
literally beat a student, rather than entertain him—(it was always the boys who were
discipline problems)
The name of Derrick’s strip was/is “Rogue Symmetry”. But, I’ll let him fill you in on more of the details, especially since my memory isn’t as good as it used to be, so dates are foggy.
Perhaps he’ll post a larger version of his avatar so that we can all see it, too….
As StelBel said, I used to draw Rogue Symmetry. Beviek, on Go Comics, would wander over to my comic and she quckly became one of my favorite morning comment conversations. She brought me over to Ballard Street and we had a wonderful time. Well, in 2014, I stopped drawing toons. But, I have to say, all this fun here on Cleo and Co is making me think I may need to start drawing them again.
Thanks for the capsule summary and the toon. I can see why it was well-received.
I remember Beviek from the Ballard Street comment crowd. I had been there for a year or two when she had problems with the Overlords & left. Her ability to rapidly find fascinating images online that connected to the joke in some way was delightful.
From: EGGS TODAY (Light, fast, and easy meal solutions for today’s busy life!)
Published (and co-published) by:
Canadian Egg Marketing Agency
Place de Ville, Suite 1900
320 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 5A3
Numbered as: CKMT-350M-2/93 (All 10 provincial egg boards are listed as well.)
Crêpes with Fruit
“This elegant dessert can be served in just a few minutes when you make the crêpes ahead and freeze.”
4 eggs
1 Cup milk (whole milk 3.25% milk fat)
1 tbsp melted butter or margarine (use butter)
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbsp sugar
Dash Salt
1. Whisk or process all ingredients together until smooth. Let stand 1/2 hour to let bubbles escape; stir before using.
2. Lightly oil crêpe pan and heat over medium-high heat. Pour 1/4 cup batter into hot pan and immediately tip to coat entire bottom.
Place on burner and cook until edges begin to brown and batter loses its shine.
3. Transfer crêpe to cooling rack. Repeat until all batter is used. Crêpes can be stacked if being used immediately: layer with waxed paper if refrigerating or freezing.
Makes 12 crêpes.
Notes from me: A “dash” is defined as 1/16 teaspoon in some cookbooks.
No crêpe pan? Any full size frying pan will work well.
Raspberry Coulis
2 Cups unsweetened fresh or frozen raspberries
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp cornstarch
2 tbsp raspberry liqueur or juice
1. In small saucepan cook raspberries over medium heat until soft. Combine sugar and cornstarch; stir into raspberries, mixing well. Cook over medium heat about 5 minutes or until thickened and bubbly, stirring constantly.
2. Strain sauce through sieve; stir in raspberry liqueur.
Makes 3/4 cup sauce.
Note from me: Crêpes, folded over any fruit , make a good breakfast.
You will likely hear good things about Netflix’s / Sony’s animated film “The Mitchells vs. The Machines.” Don’t believe them.
The review I heard in its praise this morning prompted me to go looking for it in my usual place; it was there.
I again got about five minutes in and couldn’t even be bothered skipping around to see how much worse it could get. It don’t think it could, but I didn’t want to waste any more time to find out I was right.
It’s apparently aimed at ‘tweens to mid-teens, but in my opinion the vast majority of that audience will get bored and leave even earlier than I did.
I don’t know what Netflix charges, but for this Netflix should pay you.
Human Poster
…
@StillTheBelle
Okay, so it happens every Spring. But WHERE does it happen?
Cleveland, OH?
Springtown, TX?
Belcherwherever, MA?
well, in the human version it was St. Louis
I’m messin’ with @StillTheBelle – you stay out of this.
Ray Milland–Star scientist/baseball pitcher from the 1949 film
…all of the above, including Belchertown!
That’s a fine play. Andrew McCutchen?
yes!–he plays for the Pirates
not to take anything away from an excellent grab, but that glove is BIG
He used to play for the Pirates. Won a MVP award with them. Now with the Phillies, I think.
,,,
“Corner House” by Hungarian contemporary artist István Orosz.
Credit where credit is due.
…
Interestingly… well, to me, anyway… he also did this, which I had saved. I think it’s earlier, but I haven’t found the dates.
This purplish one is simpler, and with the corner pointing upwards, it’s easier for my eyes to flash back and forth and see the illusion.
The yellowish one, in Nighthawks’ post, is harder to see, but maybe that just adds to the bewilderment.
I like them both.
yeah credit given for sure— as you can see the tan illusion is unsigned
(or perhaps the signature was removed. I try always to give credit when I know
who the artist is
Wasn’t criticising… Just attaching the credit.
A lot of illusion and metamorphical painting is stripped of credit and posted as puzzles or in collections of optical illusions.
I googled this one… Then realised I had a similar image saved on my laptop, and compared them.
I found a new copy to post, though, because the one I had was small.
It should be titled “DeLusional”
I like that!
A great classic!!! Thanks Arfside!
If you made tacos for sinko de mayo, I hope you were able to find tortillas from La Tortilla Factory made with hatch green chiles. You might have liked Tapashio or Sir Gotcha sauce, but I prefer Chocula. And by the way, I don’t even try some of those goat peppers in mine;.
I guess I haven’t been paying attention… I didn’t know you could get my hometown tortillas so far away.
I can’t handle really hot peppers these days, and prefer my tortillas sans extra heat…
La Tortilla Factory also makes some really good (if a little pricey) “handmade” style mixed corn and wheat flour ones.
So far, I only find them at Albertson’s in my area. They used to be tucked down into a little corner of the bottom shelf, but seem to have been allowed to move up to eye level with more offerings. In grocery store terms, that’s something to make the manufacturer weep for joy. Paaaarty!!!
Nope, nothing so mundane. We had shrimp with an ancho and orange sauce. Tan delisioso!
Got mine at the local Mexican place. Fish tacos for me. 🙂
Is that really Frankie dancing alongside Gene Kelly? Who knew?
Frankie and Gene. What a team. Love their striped suits
Everybody at a certain age?
Take me out to the BRAWLgame, at Dodger Stadium.
We spent many a night at Dodger Stadium. Always a fun evening. Of course we were in the nosebleed section…..
You couldn’t afford a motel?
Susan!
:))
…
ewwwwww!
It’s a guy thing.
Dodgers and Giants always had a hate going against each other.
When I was in high school, Sister Celine was a Dodgers fan, and Sister Clara was a Giants fan. They had to be in their 70’s and put up all kinds of decorations in their classrooms. They were AVID fans.
My dad always had a problem…
He grew up in Brooklyn, before the Dodgers,, but always felt proud after they got a team, so he loved them.
That meant he hated the Giants… then they got Willie Mays… and he loved Willie Mays… but still not the Giants.
…
He had moved to California with his parents when he was in college. I don’t think there was a local team, but I don’t know…. before my time.
I’m a little fuzzy on what came first… but at some point later, the Giants moved to San Francisco, and he could finally support them and his baseball hero, Willie Mays.
…
But Oakland also got the A’s, and his parents lived near Oakland and supported them, so sometimes Dad did too.
We were military so he also supported the teams everybody rooted for wherever we lived.
A conflict when “his” teams played each other.
…
Later his previously beloved Dodgers moved to LA, but he had to root against them….for leaving Brooklyn and for being against his A’s … or his Giants.
Then Willie retired… and my Dad retired… and he and my mom moved to southern California.
I was down there for his birthday… I think he was 60…
Someone gave him a Dodgers t-shirt, and he told me he didn’t know what to do.
….
For football he had no problem… He only watched college ball, and didn’t care much about team loyalty, just the game and the coaching.
Me?
Not a sports fan and don’t know why people suddenly support a team because their city bought it.
Especially when the millionaire players live elsewhere anyway, and will go to another team if sold.
Supposedly not true of the Green Bay Packers, and I went to high school in Wisconsin… But that’s not enough to make me watch a football game.
I don’t watch any professional sports since they kneel against the Flag. It was nice, and enjoyable while it lasted. And you’re right about the millionaire players.
Nobody “kneeled against the flag”. Players with a concern beyond football kneeled, peacefully, respectfully, to draw attention to a very real problem. People who didn’t want to hear it made it about the flag, and drowned out the real concerns. The fact is that none of those who took a knee are against the flag, the anthem, or the country. It’s sad that some feel the need to attack those trying to make things better.
Spring again… and of course, it did happen!
A bassetball movie, that is — though of course this one is a revival.
First clue: 20th Century Basset.
I bet they never thought about their name ever getting old when they started that studio, back in the1930’s.
In the late 20th century, a new real estate company opened called Century21…. I think it’s still around…
I remember l thinking, well, at least they’ve got 100 years before it looks old… unlike 20th Century Basset.
…
Haven’t seen it in a long time…. but I remember this being a funny movie.
Some sort of impossible chemical reaction creates a kind of rubber that’s repelled by wood….
perfect for “hitting” bassetballs amazing distances, of course…
which turns a nerdy professor into a bassetball star.
…
Seems like an obvious precursor to the “flubber” created in a much later Dogsney comedy….
which just may have kinda sorta borrowed the idea.
…
Doesn’t Jeanie look adorable in her little blue skirt, and … yes… purply eye shadow?
….
And Stel posted a human copy?
Hard to imagine humans making a movie where they have to chase balls!
Nah… they just hit them with the sticks… and then wait around for them to come back to them.
Not half the action of a bassetball game.
I mean… why bother?
Who wants to watch a bunch of humans standing around with sticks?
good one, Susan. The parochial school I attended in the 50’s actually played that movie and others ( The Jolson Story–Knute Rockne, All-America) for the whole school in the
auditorium…… surprising that they did that, the nuns and priests who ran the place were
kind hearted , I suppose……I know of at least one of those nuns would have preferred to
literally beat a student, rather than entertain him—(it was always the boys who were
discipline problems)
.,..
What a face! What’s not to love?
Aww…..what a sweetie!!
You remember THIS photo I did for you? Those were the days…
Pretty cool!
For those of us who don’t know all about you, could you fill (at least me) in. What strip did you draw?
The name of Derrick’s strip was/is “Rogue Symmetry”. But, I’ll let him fill you in on more of the details, especially since my memory isn’t as good as it used to be, so dates are foggy.
Perhaps he’ll post a larger version of his avatar so that we can all see it, too….
Done! Thanks for letting me know someone cared about lil ol me!
As StelBel said, I used to draw Rogue Symmetry. Beviek, on Go Comics, would wander over to my comic and she quckly became one of my favorite morning comment conversations. She brought me over to Ballard Street and we had a wonderful time. Well, in 2014, I stopped drawing toons. But, I have to say, all this fun here on Cleo and Co is making me think I may need to start drawing them again.
Here is one of my more well received cartoons.
I don’t get it. {^¿^}
Neither does the T-Rex.
Maybe we can recruit Claude to help out your short-armed T-Rex. Sounds like a great combo once in awhile.
NOW we know why Kangaroos evolved.
Thanks for the capsule summary and the toon. I can see why it was well-received.
I remember Beviek from the Ballard Street comment crowd. I had been there for a year or two when she had problems with the Overlords & left. Her ability to rapidly find fascinating images online that connected to the joke in some way was delightful.
She was definitely a whiz with her abilities! I miss chatting with her, but we do exchange emails sometimes, so that’s nice too.
I remember that! Whew…..that was a while ago!
Of course….
And you’re only 20 days late!
Thanks, Derrick!
Then happy late birthday!!
Excellent review, Susan! (but, we’ve grown to expect nothing less from you! Thanks!)
But no pressure, right?
Of course not…
Good morning, Cleo Phans and ML!
Today’s Stel-lar old timey movie poster about a baseball repelled by wood. Oh yeah and something about playing a game and a scientist.
National Nurses Day
Y’all air hug a nurse today. (((((HuGz)))))
Good Sunny morning Plods and Cleophanatics.
Well, maybe not today, but every time she brings my grandkids by I hug her (and then go out and play with the kids :-).
Thanks again, Plods!!
Lloyd Bacon’s name was just beggin’ for this parody. Well done.
Thanks!!
And the others
From: EGGS TODAY (Light, fast, and easy meal solutions for today’s busy life!)
Published (and co-published) by:
Canadian Egg Marketing Agency
Place de Ville, Suite 1900
320 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1R 5A3
Numbered as: CKMT-350M-2/93 (All 10 provincial egg boards are listed as well.)
“This elegant dessert can be served in just a few minutes when you make the crêpes ahead and freeze.”
4 eggs
1 Cup milk (whole milk 3.25% milk fat)
1 tbsp melted butter or margarine (use butter)
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbsp sugar
Dash Salt
1. Whisk or process all ingredients together until smooth. Let stand 1/2 hour to let bubbles escape; stir before using.
2. Lightly oil crêpe pan and heat over medium-high heat. Pour 1/4 cup batter into hot pan and immediately tip to coat entire bottom.
Place on burner and cook until edges begin to brown and batter loses its shine.
3. Transfer crêpe to cooling rack. Repeat until all batter is used. Crêpes can be stacked if being used immediately: layer with waxed paper if refrigerating or freezing.
Makes 12 crêpes.
Notes from me: A “dash” is defined as 1/16 teaspoon in some cookbooks.
No crêpe pan? Any full size frying pan will work well.
2 Cups unsweetened fresh or frozen raspberries
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp cornstarch
2 tbsp raspberry liqueur or juice
1. In small saucepan cook raspberries over medium heat until soft. Combine sugar and cornstarch; stir into raspberries, mixing well. Cook over medium heat about 5 minutes or until thickened and bubbly, stirring constantly.
2. Strain sauce through sieve; stir in raspberry liqueur.
Makes 3/4 cup sauce.
Note from me: Crêpes, folded over any fruit , make a good breakfast.
.,.
You will likely hear good things about Netflix’s / Sony’s animated film “The Mitchells vs. The Machines.” Don’t believe them.
The review I heard in its praise this morning prompted me to go looking for it in my usual place; it was there.
I again got about five minutes in and couldn’t even be bothered skipping around to see how much worse it could get. It don’t think it could, but I didn’t want to waste any more time to find out I was right.
It’s apparently aimed at ‘tweens to mid-teens, but in my opinion the vast majority of that audience will get bored and leave even earlier than I did.
I don’t know what Netflix charges, but for this Netflix should pay you.
come on, Alex. how do you REALLY feel about it?
Another great poster! I can imagine Lloyd Beggin’strip has a good following.
Thanks, PC !!
Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.
Eddie BARKley is one of my favorite actors! 😀
Hey Dry! When are you going to become a member and stop being a guest?
guess those guys are going to need another death star
oops
Nope. They’re only allowed one.
Nope…
why do those Storm Troopers’ uniform look like the Patriot’s uniforms?
Could it be that both are evil, conniving and dishonest?
Surely, you can’t mean the New England Patriots!
What…. That’s not next Tuesday’s poster?