I didn’t know about this one, but I’m not surprised.
In the 18th and 19th centuries it wasn’t uncommon to use the remains of worn-out ships to stabilize the earth and rocks packed into and around them, to extend the land in growing cities, where building lots were valuable.
Especially waterfront lots… so they filled in the existing waterfront, depriving those owners of access, and created a new waterfront with landfill.
This happened extensively in San Francisco… Many thousands of people came for the gold rush in the 1840s. Nobody was traveling the other direction.
Ships that had rounded the Horn from the East Coast, or sailed all the way from China… even some from Australia, bringing prisoners being relocated… many were no longer sea worthy even if anybody wanted to go back.
Tour guides point out the burial spots of ships under the financial district, which is no longer near the water’s edge, Chinatown and the old “Barbary Coast”. Some were only rediscovered when the land was excavated for skyscraper foundations 100 years later.
Start both hourglasses at the same time, when the 4min one runs out there is still three minutes to go in the 7min one. Turn the 4min one back over, and when the 7min one runs out there is one minute left in the 4min one.
Start counting now, and then once the 4min one has run out, turn it over twice more (Eight minutes) to give the nine minutes required.
That implies that there is a “least favorite,” or even a “most disliked,” grizzly. Maybe more. Ponder that; being a known-on-sight-or-scent acquaintance of multiple apex predators.
According to the YouTube description, this was in 1966, on a TV show called “Where the Action Is.”
I didn’t remember it, but Wikipedia says it was hosted by… you guessed it… Dick Clark, whose voice introduced the musical acts, though he didn’t appear on screen.
In any case, it looks funny in 2025 to see a happy, laughing all White group of affluent-suburban-looking teenagers, with straw party hats and balloons, enjoying Lee Dorsey, performing a song about being tired from working in the coal mines.
Both…. If it’s anything like Dick Clark’s other programs, including American Bandstand, and his later New Year’s Eve shows, audiences were thoroughly screened, and there was a “cast” of regulars, with a long waiting list.
Some of the Bandstand regulars, just Philly teenagers who danced to the music, and sometimes voted or made short comments on the new songs, became so well known they had fans, and even a magazine about them.
And young people in general were much better behaved in the 60s!
I remember, cos I was one of them! I don’t mean I ever went on TV… I didn’t. Just that I was a young person then.
And even though I started participating in civil rights and other demonstrations, we were always very polite.
The Caped Canine Crusaders have es-“caped” their cage!
Onward, now, to foil their captors, defeat the forces of Evil, and save the arches of all the Earth.
Hey, what if I have some impertinent questions?
Okay, fine, I’ll save them for later.
Our heroes have work to do!
First, a minor problem to solve… their temporary smallness.
Oh… and a menacing arachnid, something a normal-size BatBasset could dispatch in a nano-second, but when you’re only as big as a banana, looms large… literally.
But I have faith.
They have their wits about them, and they are witty, to boot.
Just watch! Their wits and wit will help them win!
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I think that we have seen this before. You can show it again any time.
We seem to have a lot of Barn Owl pics lately. Is it Barn Owl season? (I thought it was Elmer season…)
I hear that it is tourist season
Too bad you can’t shoot them…
…
Good idea.
“And uphill, both ways!!”
..
An Entiswheel!
This Ferris wheel has been “slow to load” for quite a while now.
A fairies’ wheel.
Chernobyl.
….
A tornado of Starlings
,
Are they going to land?
It certainly looks that way.
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I do not remember hearing about this.
Looks like it’s true, though.
I didn’t know about this one, but I’m not surprised.
In the 18th and 19th centuries it wasn’t uncommon to use the remains of worn-out ships to stabilize the earth and rocks packed into and around them, to extend the land in growing cities, where building lots were valuable.
Especially waterfront lots… so they filled in the existing waterfront, depriving those owners of access, and created a new waterfront with landfill.
This happened extensively in San Francisco… Many thousands of people came for the gold rush in the 1840s. Nobody was traveling the other direction.
Ships that had rounded the Horn from the East Coast, or sailed all the way from China… even some from Australia, bringing prisoners being relocated… many were no longer sea worthy even if anybody wanted to go back.
Tour guides point out the burial spots of ships under the financial district, which is no longer near the water’s edge, Chinatown and the old “Barbary Coast”. Some were only rediscovered when the land was excavated for skyscraper foundations 100 years later.
I remember when the brick floor of a Barbary Coast establishment was uncovered.
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Just don’t nibble on it.
An owl and his brolly!
see the doggie?
Yes.
Not clearly, but yes.
,.
What’s up with the person in the red glasses, the top of whose head we can just see at the lower left of the image?
Peeping Tom!
Start counting now, and then once the 4min one has run out, turn it over twice more (Eight minutes) to give the nine minutes required.
since it’s late …
More than one solution then.
,..
Like there was any doubt.
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Is that a goat?
Long necked pup by the looks of it.
Posting at the same time… But yeah
It has a certain goatish look, but more so canine, to me.
Oh… The file name is “Dog-helping-cat-friend.”
I vote dachshund. They have long necks and goatish energy.
Once again we see a dog recognizing babies of another species. Poochie is curious about the new family members, and anxious to help welcome it/them.
that’s the ultimate trust to not even react when doggie was helping out….they must have grown up together
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He seems nice…
Presumably the photographer survived, though one wonders how…
And who’s taking the picture of him taking the picture?
Going by the size, that looks more like Dad than Mom standing there… so where is Mrs. Silverback? Not like her to be far from the kiddos.
Oh… maybe she’s taking the picture… I mean… okay, no, of course not.
No eye-contact.
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give ‘im a big hug
After you, sir.
That implies that there is a “least favorite,” or even a “most disliked,” grizzly. Maybe more. Ponder that; being a known-on-sight-or-scent acquaintance of multiple apex predators.
I’ve yet to meet my favorite Grizzly bear.
think I’ll keep it that way
working in coal mine..
According to the YouTube description, this was in 1966, on a TV show called “Where the Action Is.”
I didn’t remember it, but Wikipedia says it was hosted by… you guessed it… Dick Clark, whose voice introduced the musical acts, though he didn’t appear on screen.
In any case, it looks funny in 2025 to see a happy, laughing all White group of affluent-suburban-looking teenagers, with straw party hats and balloons, enjoying Lee Dorsey, performing a song about being tired from working in the coal mines.
wait a sec. I didn’t guess Dick Clark!
There’s two songs here. The other is “Ya Ya,”
I like them both.
Either the audience is hand picked, or they were better behaved back then.
Both…. If it’s anything like Dick Clark’s other programs, including American Bandstand, and his later New Year’s Eve shows, audiences were thoroughly screened, and there was a “cast” of regulars, with a long waiting list.
Some of the Bandstand regulars, just Philly teenagers who danced to the music, and sometimes voted or made short comments on the new songs, became so well known they had fans, and even a magazine about them.
And young people in general were much better behaved in the 60s!
I remember, cos I was one of them! I don’t mean I ever went on TV… I didn’t. Just that I was a young person then.
And even though I started participating in civil rights and other demonstrations, we were always very polite.
We were?
Well, we were…my “we”… I don’t know about your we.
But last time I looked you were Canadian, so I refuse to believe you weren’t.
“… Goin’ down, down, down.
Who piddled?
I think it’s just rainwater seeping in… meant to reinforce the damp, dank nature of the cold basement in which they’re confined.
But they will rise!
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I KNEW IT!
An R.Crumb self-portrait!
And I think it’s new… well, from this year, anyway.
He has a new comic out in 2025, the first in years. And it’s called “What Is Paranoia?”
I don’t think the quote is purely his. It’s been around since the 70s… I’m pretty sure he did an illustration of it long ago, with Mr. Natural.
The Dynamic Doggie Duo have done it again!
The Caped Canine Crusaders have es-“caped” their cage!
Onward, now, to foil their captors, defeat the forces of Evil, and save the arches of all the Earth.
Hey, what if I have some impertinent questions?
Okay, fine, I’ll save them for later.
Our heroes have work to do!
First, a minor problem to solve… their temporary smallness.
Oh… and a menacing arachnid, something a normal-size BatBasset could dispatch in a nano-second, but when you’re only as big as a banana, looms large… literally.
But I have faith.
They have their wits about them, and they are witty, to boot.
Just watch! Their wits and wit will help them win!
Artist Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941) ‘Mountain landscape on a sunny winter day’ (1923) Oil on canvas (128.0 x 201.0 cm).