1961…. If you haven’t guessed, it’s the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!
I’ve been having fun looking these up, because I find the unexpected… especially with this one.
It has two stories attached to it that surprised me.
For one thing, it was on a website that showed bloopers and mishaps from the parade.
Before the event was over, it began to rain heavily, and water filled a deep indentation, which you can’t see from this angle, in the top of Popeye’s huge sailor hat. A gust of wind made his head dip, and he poured gallons of icy cold water over a crowd of spectators, who got soaked while being televised.
The other claim to fame is more about this photo itself than which balloon it shows.
One of the results links in the image search led to a website about…. feminine hygiene products!
The picture was published in various newspapers, and some readers noticed a vertical billboard at the very left, over the Thom McAnn store.
It was the first billboard, erected just that year, though this was the 2nd version of it, for this product, even the first advertising that many had ever seen for it. Some were quite shocked to see it so openly on television or in the street.
Tassette was a menstrual cup, something unknown to most Americans in 1961… in fact, that brand failed long before more recent ones caught on.
Apparently it became quite a topic of conversation, sometimes controversy, in some circles, all due to this photo.
It’s the “A Ramp! I wanna jump it!!” kind of thought that can pop into the mind.
Probably brought on from all the similar things seen on TV and in films where a car hits an unexpected ramp in a car chase scene.
This guy has followed the impulse in a fairly non life-threatening way, by only travelling a few feet up the ramp before jumping off.
The clip starts with the bike approaching the ramp, the weaving through traffic is the bit just after he lands.
You’re right, these sorts of clips can be confusing until you work out where the clip it was taken from starts.
I kind of got the gist of the action but didn’t understand the jumping off part. Just that he was going up a ramp, then inexplicably back in traffic.
The confusion, for me, is amplified by the fact that my always very nearsighted eyes have gotten slower to focus on a new image.
It’s related, I’m sure, to the reason older eyes start to need bifocals… Not that we can’t see, but the muscles that focus our vision are slower and weaker, so we can’t switch as quickly between near and far, or, at least in my case, from image to image.
If presented with a barrage of them, my eyes just give up and blur them together, or sometimes leave some out…. so I might catch something on my third viewing that I didn’t see before.
I can see (sic) how that can be a problem. A slow (By modern speeds) refresh rate on the screen you’re using wouldn’t help either as it can’t keep up with the images being processed and sent to the screen resulting in blurring of the images.
I recently had to replace my monitors as they both died within a day of each other. They had a 2ms refresh rate, which is fast, and these new ones are 0.5ms. There is no blurring or ‘ghosting’ on the screen during movement, unless it was intended to be there.
Wow, I didn’t think I ever had close to as fast as your old ones… but I haven’t had a computer since maybe 2021, and my last desktop was bought think in 2008.
Can’t do much about the refresh rate if you’re buying the least expensive decent android tablet.
There are some cheaper off brands that tend to perform poorly… But i always end up finding the best deal on an 8″ Samsung. I’m on number 3 (bought I think in 2021)… Planning to buy no. 4 soon.
No 1 (2015) still works, but crashes, No. 2 has always been iffy, but I still use it in another room. Hopefully I’ll soon be using 3 and 4, instead of 2 and 3…. And maybe getting a small laptop again.
But once again I’ll be taking whatever specs come on the device I can afford. That’s always been true, but at least when I was putting desktops together I could choose what was most important to me, like more RAM or a better monitor, etc.
I hate that I’m getting so suspicious… but sadly, it keeps being proven that I need to be.
However, here’s the (edited) caption from a weather photography site:
“Amateur photographer and college basketball player Laura Rowe was out on a drive with her boyfriend this past Sunday …. checking out the salt lakes at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in Muleshoe, Texas, when they saw a small tornado touch down near Earth, Texas.
‘We followed it for about three hours down county dirt roads …’
Noticing the beautiful light, Rowe got out of her car and shot photos of the storm with her iPhone 11 smartphone and its wide-angle camera.”
The person who colored it got just a wee bit carried away with the bright white touch-up paint.
Especially the perfectly round circles on all the tires, but also a streetlight or a hat or shirt front here and there… Makes it look like a Christmas card.
More cars than I’d expect in 1910… but it is London, after all, not Ohio.
Yep – streets back then were just pain filthy, and there’s no way those rubber tires stayed that white. My uncle restored Model A vehicles, and drove them on our nice paved streets and the tires were always a dingy gray.
The things is, Piccadilly Circus is a wide roundabout, or traffic circle, with half a dozen or so streets coming into it, and a statue in the middle.
Then you have that big hole being dug in the middle of traffic( and it may not be the only one), plus cars being fairly new to the road, no formalized rules for them except horse and buggy ones… and those horses being scared by engine noises and beeping horns.
I would. It might take all day, but I’m going up. Longest “up” I remember doing was a lighthouse in St. Augustine Florida…219 steps. That was like 15 years ago, and no one else in the family wanted to go up with me. My legs hurt for two days. This photo, the temple has 365 steps. I’m sure I’d feel it for at least a month!
20 or 30 years ago I might have tried that many steps, but never in my life the exposed height…
The steep face with no rails or walls, no turns or landings, would have terrified me at any age, as do stairs that are open instead of having solid risers, so you can see through, between the steps.
Since those are solid, there’s a maybe 11% chance I could have gotten to the top, if I didn’t look at anything but the steps in front of me…. but an approximately –173% chance I could have walked back down.
One of the strangest climbing experiences I’ve had was climbing a ladder. I was working in a 132kV substation, and we were checking the dropper connections on the busbars. This involved putting a long ladder against the horizontal busbar, climbing up and checking the bolted connections for corrosion/tightness etc.
Doesn’t sound a problem, until you realise you’re climbing in free space with nothing behind the ladder (About three quarters of the way up the first climb!). Normally when you climb ladders, you’ve got the wall, or pole to look at through the rungs, but not in this case.
It was only 25′ or so, but it made climbing the ladder a strange experience, and I’ve climbed transmission towers where you use ‘step bolts’ on the outside of one of the legs!! At least when you’re doing that you’ve got the steel angle of the leg to look at as you’re climbing.
I’ve climbed down hook ladders to work on the contacts of an underslung 132kV Isolator, but the experience was quite different. For a start, you’re already got a safety lanyard connected (Retractable type), and you’ve got the support insulators of the Isolator in your field of vision. Plus you’re concentrating hard on not going so far down the ladder that you’d step off the bottom rung, some twenty-odd feet above the ground. I will point out that the ladder is long enough that there are usually three or four rungs below your work position, but it does concentrate the mind somewhat.
If you did accidently step off the bottom rung you’d be fine because of the safety lanyard and harness, but you’d never hear the end of it from your colleagues…
You’re right – it’s a pretty steep incline coming back down…being in my mid 60s now, and on a beta blocker that causes some dizziness, I’d probably think twice. Walking stick…I’d need a walking stick.
Of course, if they greased the sides and put a water pool at the bottom, I’m all in for a swift slide back down.
I’m reminded of going to the school I attended while in fifth and sixth grade. It was over 150 steps to the top. Luckily, there was a landing just over halfway up with a bench to rest on if needed.
I just noticed the angle of the walls on top, and realized that the whole picture may be rotated about 45°, to make the climb look steeper… in which case some of the climbers aren’t standing upright.
Yay! The puzzle is here! A day late but still fresh, and none the worse for wear. Nighthawks keeps them carefully preserved.
Not every day that you stop your car at the corner, and find yourself staring into the mouth of a cannon.
Time to pull off and maybe, oh…I dunno… waste some time in the drug store, until that other car is a few miles down the road. Just to be sure, when you do leave, choose another direction.
…
Am I remembering right, that the original strip is an animation? I seen to remember watching the trunk open, and the cannon stick out.
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I can’t solve the problem of cars driving around with heavy artillery (probably making Cleo jealous)..
But I think I’ve solved the obviously easier question of what makes panel two different from panel one.
So if you’re stuck behind a car with a robot cannon in the trunk, you’re on your own… Sorry.
But if you want to see the differences I’ve found between these two panels….
Most SUV’s look similar to each other, all to do with wind tunnel design. The F-Pace uses an alloy chassis, and was designed alongside a couple of their other models, and they class it as a ‘Sports Crossover’ rather than an SUV.
The old BBC Series ‘Top Gear’ did a skit on SUV’s with James May continually driving off in the wrong one because of how similar they all looked to each other.
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“No thanks, I’ve eaten.”
(Not wanting to trust putting my hand in the water, but don’t tell the bear…)
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1961…. If you haven’t guessed, it’s the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!
I’ve been having fun looking these up, because I find the unexpected… especially with this one.
It has two stories attached to it that surprised me.
For one thing, it was on a website that showed bloopers and mishaps from the parade.
Before the event was over, it began to rain heavily, and water filled a deep indentation, which you can’t see from this angle, in the top of Popeye’s huge sailor hat. A gust of wind made his head dip, and he poured gallons of icy cold water over a crowd of spectators, who got soaked while being televised.
The other claim to fame is more about this photo itself than which balloon it shows.
One of the results links in the image search led to a website about…. feminine hygiene products!
The picture was published in various newspapers, and some readers noticed a vertical billboard at the very left, over the Thom McAnn store.
It was the first billboard, erected just that year, though this was the 2nd version of it, for this product, even the first advertising that many had ever seen for it. Some were quite shocked to see it so openly on television or in the street.
Tassette was a menstrual cup, something unknown to most Americans in 1961… in fact, that brand failed long before more recent ones caught on.
Apparently it became quite a topic of conversation, sometimes controversy, in some circles, all due to this photo.
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Pretty sure it should say “pensamientos intrusivos” (with an “i” in it) and pretty sure that means “intrusive thoughts”.
Not at all sure what’s happening, or what it has to do with intrusive thoughts.
The bike appears to drive up a ramp, I thought onto a flatbed truck, but the next instant it’s lane-sharing on a busy street.
As I’ve said, I often can’t make out what’s going on in these fast-cut speedy gifs.
It’s the “A Ramp! I wanna jump it!!” kind of thought that can pop into the mind.
Probably brought on from all the similar things seen on TV and in films where a car hits an unexpected ramp in a car chase scene.
This guy has followed the impulse in a fairly non life-threatening way, by only travelling a few feet up the ramp before jumping off.
The clip starts with the bike approaching the ramp, the weaving through traffic is the bit just after he lands.
You’re right, these sorts of clips can be confusing until you work out where the clip it was taken from starts.
Thanks!
I kind of got the gist of the action but didn’t understand the jumping off part. Just that he was going up a ramp, then inexplicably back in traffic.
The confusion, for me, is amplified by the fact that my always very nearsighted eyes have gotten slower to focus on a new image.
It’s related, I’m sure, to the reason older eyes start to need bifocals… Not that we can’t see, but the muscles that focus our vision are slower and weaker, so we can’t switch as quickly between near and far, or, at least in my case, from image to image.
If presented with a barrage of them, my eyes just give up and blur them together, or sometimes leave some out…. so I might catch something on my third viewing that I didn’t see before.
I can see (sic) how that can be a problem. A slow (By modern speeds) refresh rate on the screen you’re using wouldn’t help either as it can’t keep up with the images being processed and sent to the screen resulting in blurring of the images.
I recently had to replace my monitors as they both died within a day of each other. They had a 2ms refresh rate, which is fast, and these new ones are 0.5ms. There is no blurring or ‘ghosting’ on the screen during movement, unless it was intended to be there.
Wow, I didn’t think I ever had close to as fast as your old ones… but I haven’t had a computer since maybe 2021, and my last desktop was bought think in 2008.
Can’t do much about the refresh rate if you’re buying the least expensive decent android tablet.
There are some cheaper off brands that tend to perform poorly… But i always end up finding the best deal on an 8″ Samsung. I’m on number 3 (bought I think in 2021)… Planning to buy no. 4 soon.
No 1 (2015) still works, but crashes, No. 2 has always been iffy, but I still use it in another room. Hopefully I’ll soon be using 3 and 4, instead of 2 and 3…. And maybe getting a small laptop again.
But once again I’ll be taking whatever specs come on the device I can afford. That’s always been true, but at least when I was putting desktops together I could choose what was most important to me, like more RAM or a better monitor, etc.
I was going to ask if that meant “drive like a jackass.”
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R. Buckland
Our first Christmas card of the season!
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I know we’ve talked about it before… but every time there’s a new clip or photo I have to say it….
One of the best movies ever!
And that’s such a great bit of dialogue.
A classic film.
Still incredibly funny, after who knows-how many viewings, 80-some years after it was made.
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That is a three toed ungulate, So it’s related to horses. So that’s a Unicorn.
Outta my way!!!
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Perfection
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Wow.
I’ve heard of this previously, though if it was other than here, I can’t recall the origin.
Info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hegdahl
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Is that one of those famous rhinoceros clouds?
Ok gang… this one is supposedly real.
I hate that I’m getting so suspicious… but sadly, it keeps being proven that I need to be.
However, here’s the (edited) caption from a weather photography site:
“Amateur photographer and college basketball player Laura Rowe was out on a drive with her boyfriend this past Sunday …. checking out the salt lakes at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in Muleshoe, Texas, when they saw a small tornado touch down near Earth, Texas.
‘We followed it for about three hours down county dirt roads …’
Noticing the beautiful light, Rowe got out of her car and shot photos of the storm with her iPhone 11 smartphone and its wide-angle camera.”
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This, of course, is a great one too.
I don’t have to do a spoiler box this time.
I love the font used for the names and title.
Cursive! Who can read cursive any more? /s
Meee!
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The person who colored it got just a wee bit carried away with the bright white touch-up paint.
Especially the perfectly round circles on all the tires, but also a streetlight or a hat or shirt front here and there… Makes it look like a Christmas card.
More cars than I’d expect in 1910… but it is London, after all, not Ohio.
Yep – streets back then were just pain filthy, and there’s no way those rubber tires stayed that white. My uncle restored Model A vehicles, and drove them on our nice paved streets and the tires were always a dingy gray.
Looks like it was essentially a free-for-all. You can steer your conveyance in any direction you wish at any time you choose.
Thank doG for traffic lights.
The things is, Piccadilly Circus is a wide roundabout, or traffic circle, with half a dozen or so streets coming into it, and a statue in the middle.
Then you have that big hole being dug in the middle of traffic( and it may not be the only one), plus cars being fairly new to the road, no formalized rules for them except horse and buggy ones… and those horses being scared by engine noises and beeping horns.
All that equals a bit of mayhem.
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The sculpture of Abraham Lincoln was finished and added in 1920.
Greek Doric columns – the style found on the Parthenon.
You can’t see it very well from this angle, but if you look at the space between the columns, you’ll see the shape of a grecian urn.
What’s a Grecian urn? 😜🤪
About ten shillings a week……
👍👍
but for a Grecian urn, I’m thinking Drachmas—or at least Euros
Top photo about 1914. Cranes were being used in the construction of the Lincoln Memorial, on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
The Lincoln Memorial was built to show people what is on back of the US Penny.
What’s a US penny?
Something soon to be discontinued, a dozen or so years behind the Canadian one.
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Nope.
Same.
I would. It might take all day, but I’m going up. Longest “up” I remember doing was a lighthouse in St. Augustine Florida…219 steps. That was like 15 years ago, and no one else in the family wanted to go up with me. My legs hurt for two days. This photo, the temple has 365 steps. I’m sure I’d feel it for at least a month!
20 or 30 years ago I might have tried that many steps, but never in my life the exposed height…
The steep face with no rails or walls, no turns or landings, would have terrified me at any age, as do stairs that are open instead of having solid risers, so you can see through, between the steps.
Since those are solid, there’s a maybe 11% chance I could have gotten to the top, if I didn’t look at anything but the steps in front of me…. but an approximately –173% chance I could have walked back down.
One of the strangest climbing experiences I’ve had was climbing a ladder. I was working in a 132kV substation, and we were checking the dropper connections on the busbars. This involved putting a long ladder against the horizontal busbar, climbing up and checking the bolted connections for corrosion/tightness etc.
Doesn’t sound a problem, until you realise you’re climbing in free space with nothing behind the ladder (About three quarters of the way up the first climb!). Normally when you climb ladders, you’ve got the wall, or pole to look at through the rungs, but not in this case.
It was only 25′ or so, but it made climbing the ladder a strange experience, and I’ve climbed transmission towers where you use ‘step bolts’ on the outside of one of the legs!! At least when you’re doing that you’ve got the steel angle of the leg to look at as you’re climbing.
I’ve climbed down hook ladders to work on the contacts of an underslung 132kV Isolator, but the experience was quite different. For a start, you’re already got a safety lanyard connected (Retractable type), and you’ve got the support insulators of the Isolator in your field of vision. Plus you’re concentrating hard on not going so far down the ladder that you’d step off the bottom rung, some twenty-odd feet above the ground. I will point out that the ladder is long enough that there are usually three or four rungs below your work position, but it does concentrate the mind somewhat.
If you did accidently step off the bottom rung you’d be fine because of the safety lanyard and harness, but you’d never hear the end of it from your colleagues…
another nope!
“Only” 25 feet? Well then, you may have it all.
None for me, thanks.
Nope!
You’re right – it’s a pretty steep incline coming back down…being in my mid 60s now, and on a beta blocker that causes some dizziness, I’d probably think twice. Walking stick…I’d need a walking stick.
Of course, if they greased the sides and put a water pool at the bottom, I’m all in for a swift slide back down.
And…. another polite “no thank you” from me.
Unless somebody tries to force me… in which case the kicking, screaming, and, I admit, invective, might seem less polite.
365 steps on all four sides.
91 steps per side, with an extra one someplace.
Going up may be ok, but going down? No thanks! I’d arrive at the bottom 20 minutes before the paramedics…
I’m reminded of going to the school I attended while in fifth and sixth grade. It was over 150 steps to the top. Luckily, there was a landing just over halfway up with a bench to rest on if needed.
I just noticed the angle of the walls on top, and realized that the whole picture may be rotated about 45°, to make the climb look steeper… in which case some of the climbers aren’t standing upright.
Yay! The puzzle is here! A day late but still fresh, and none the worse for wear. Nighthawks keeps them carefully preserved.
Not every day that you stop your car at the corner, and find yourself staring into the mouth of a cannon.
Time to pull off and maybe, oh…I dunno… waste some time in the drug store, until that other car is a few miles down the road. Just to be sure, when you do leave, choose another direction.
…
Am I remembering right, that the original strip is an animation? I seen to remember watching the trunk open, and the cannon stick out.
….
I can’t solve the problem of cars driving around with heavy artillery (probably making Cleo jealous)..
But I think I’ve solved the obviously easier question of what makes panel two different from panel one.
So if you’re stuck behind a car with a robot cannon in the trunk, you’re on your own… Sorry.
But if you want to see the differences I’ve found between these two panels….
I’m sure Cleo is pawing her Amazon app just as fast as lightning trying to find one for herself!
Eight (Again….).
I looked several times, but still couldn’t see the ninth 🙁
I feel your pain. I, too, found eight.
yes indeedy, this was from one of our animations
Not sure I need to spoiler this, but I will just in case anyone wants to guess the make and model of the car….. 😉
Back when they were classy cars that you’d want to own.
Saw a Jaguar SUV the other day. Didn’t look much different than my $35k Kia.
Most SUV’s look similar to each other, all to do with wind tunnel design. The F-Pace uses an alloy chassis, and was designed alongside a couple of their other models, and they class it as a ‘Sports Crossover’ rather than an SUV.
The old BBC Series ‘Top Gear’ did a skit on SUV’s with James May continually driving off in the wrong one because of how similar they all looked to each other.
Here’s one for sale. Pocket change to most of you, right?
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/jaguar/xkss
For Bunday.
One of Cleo’s squeaky toys?
Bet the pharmacy sells a lot of first aid kits.
I would think brooms and dustpans to pick up the ashes.