He’s wary. He’s seen what happened to the elephant’s child, and doesn’t want to meet the crocodile from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees:
Another great Howard Hawks comedy starring Cary Grant… he had directed Bringing Up Baby… this time co-starring Rosalind Russell, who is standing in the center with her arm upraised.
That looks like Hawks seated on the moveable platform, wearing white pants… I didn’t find the details anywhere, so I’m not absolutely sure. I don’t see Grant in this scene.
It’s based on The Front Page, a funny comedy about an ace reporter and his editor… in this version, the reporter is changed to a woman, and it’s even funnier, especially considering the direction.
And their bones are light, and full of air spaces too…. kind of like a honeycomb or a loofa,
Some of the air from their lungs goes right into their bones!
Plus their lightweight wings are huge in proportion to their bodies, and attach to a sort of sling under their chests, which helps take a load off their lower bodies, so they can have teeny legs.
I would not get that close for the simple fact that many vultures defend themselves by regurgitating on their attacker.
Half digested rotten meat (supposedly) has a unique sent…
A photo of a scene in a play, based on the playwright’s imagining of what’s going on in the famous Hopper painting.
“Nighhawks”, by Douglas Steinberg, directed by Stefan Novinski
At the Kirk Douglas Theater, August 27 – September 24, 2006
I read… okay, partially read, cos they were too long to finish.. a couple of reviews of the play. It didn’t seem to be very well received.
Without even seeing it, I tend to agree with the reviewers, who both thought that Hopper had already said what he meant to say, just by painting the scene, and the rest of the “story” world be extraneous… also pretending to know what’s happening beyond his vision seems presumptuous.
Couldn’t find the name of the supermarket, but it looks huge for those days… Look at the size of the produce department. I’m surprised that it’s 1955, cos it looks like 1962.
I saw some comments that the women were dressed like nurses… but people forget, or are too young to know, that coffee shop waitresses often dressed like that well into the 60s, and female supermarket workers wore similar uniforms, but usually not white.
I had to drop out of college for a while, and started beauty school, till my parents had a fit… And after I went back to the university, I got a part time job at an Orange Julius, basically a hamburger place.
I had to wear a white uniform in beauty school, though more modern than these, and without the cap… and it came in handy when I was required to wear one at Orange Julius.
Oh no. Once they hit the shopping mall’s food courts they were everywhere.
Back in the day i got mine with an egg blended into it.
No way i would do that now.
We had many in the malls up here in Calgary Alberta Canada.
Like Happy³, nowadays, I would never had one with a raw egg in it, I never did — although it was quite popular at the time but cost a tad bit more…
It was more years ago than I want to mention that I worked there, and it had already been there (in Berkeley, CA) for years…
I’m going to guess that it opened in the 1950s.
It was a franchise, and all of them had to buy their overpriced “Julius powder” from the company.
That’s what flavored them, and it’s the reason I wouldn’t waste money on them to this day.
People pay high prices thinking they’re “natural” …. indeed, we cut and squeezed gallons of orange juice. But it was nothing compared to the gallons of product we made.
We put orange juice only to the top of the tiny blades at the bottom of the blender jar, then filled the rest with sugar syrup and crushed ice. Then blend, with a scoop of.the secret powder, mostly orange coloring and flavor, with some thickeners.
If a customer wanted an egg (which, sorry, I thought was disgusting) you poured some of the mixture into a smaller blender to blend it in, them washed the jar.
When I came in, I had to cut and squeeze 50 pounds of oranges (2 25-pound boxes), and fill a 100 gallon stainless vat in the back room with water from a special hose….
then use a 2 pound measuring scoop to put in 50 pounds of sugar, and stir it with a 5 ft long wooden paddle. Maybe it was 100 pounds of sugar and 50 gallons of water… I don’t remember which, but I think the first one, cos that vat was 5 feet tall, and we used a little stepladder.
The morning shift would use the syrup from yesterday afternoon, the afternoon shift would use the morning’s batch. Same with the juice.
My boss found a company that sold a similar powder. He dropped his franchise agreement, closed for a week, and reopened with a different name.
If you serve lunch of cheeses and meets on a cutlery board, what kind of dessert would be appropriate for a palate?
I first thought pudding, but that would be too messy.
The really scary part is that proofreading is also disappearing… Sooner or later, we’ll start seeing this stuff in actual instruction manuals, after nobody checked.
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He’s wary. He’s seen what happened to the elephant’s child, and doesn’t want to meet the crocodile from the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees:
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1299/the-elephants-child/
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Another great Howard Hawks comedy starring Cary Grant… he had directed Bringing Up Baby… this time co-starring Rosalind Russell, who is standing in the center with her arm upraised.
That looks like Hawks seated on the moveable platform, wearing white pants… I didn’t find the details anywhere, so I’m not absolutely sure. I don’t see Grant in this scene.
It’s based on The Front Page, a funny comedy about an ace reporter and his editor… in this version, the reporter is changed to a woman, and it’s even funnier, especially considering the direction.
the actors in this hilarious movie are amazing. the dialog between them is the fastest pace I’ve ever heard and the takes are long and mistake free.
archive.org/details/HisGirlFriday_201901/The+Front+Page+(1931)+720p+BluRay.mp4
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Wow!
…
“Hi, come here often?”
Hard for me to buy it as anything other than a person in a bird suit with those thick legs.
I thought so too but I looked at other pictures and yeah, they do have those legs.
Some look a little thinner, but some you would swear came out of a box from the costume shop.
Yet an Andean condor like this, 4 feet tall with thick legs and a 10 foot wingspan “only” weighs about 25 pounds, because birds are built so lightly.
Airbags. They are full of airbags.
And their bones are light, and full of air spaces too…. kind of like a honeycomb or a loofa,
Some of the air from their lungs goes right into their bones!
Plus their lightweight wings are huge in proportion to their bodies, and attach to a sort of sling under their chests, which helps take a load off their lower bodies, so they can have teeny legs.
Though this condor doesn’t!
I would not get that close for the simple fact that many vultures defend themselves by regurgitating on their attacker.
Half digested rotten meat (supposedly) has a unique sent…
Eewww! But maybe these ones in Peru are so used to tourists they don’t feel threatened.
,,
Wait, let me guess…
Hmmm…. this is a bit strange, IMHO.
A photo of a scene in a play, based on the playwright’s imagining of what’s going on in the famous Hopper painting.
“Nighhawks”, by Douglas Steinberg, directed by Stefan Novinski
At the Kirk Douglas Theater, August 27 – September 24, 2006
I read… okay, partially read, cos they were too long to finish.. a couple of reviews of the play. It didn’t seem to be very well received.
Without even seeing it, I tend to agree with the reviewers, who both thought that Hopper had already said what he meant to say, just by painting the scene, and the rest of the “story” world be extraneous… also pretending to know what’s happening beyond his vision seems presumptuous.
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Contents unknown too?
Nope. They contain pie. What more do you need to know?
Nom! Nom! Nom!!!
Couldn’t find the name of the supermarket, but it looks huge for those days… Look at the size of the produce department. I’m surprised that it’s 1955, cos it looks like 1962.
I saw some comments that the women were dressed like nurses… but people forget, or are too young to know, that coffee shop waitresses often dressed like that well into the 60s, and female supermarket workers wore similar uniforms, but usually not white.
I had to drop out of college for a while, and started beauty school, till my parents had a fit… And after I went back to the university, I got a part time job at an Orange Julius, basically a hamburger place.
I had to wear a white uniform in beauty school, though more modern than these, and without the cap… and it came in handy when I was required to wear one at Orange Julius.
BTW it sure looks like right behind the pies is a shelf of drain cleaners.
And laundry detergent.
Yeah… I saw that too, but it’s farther below, and less lethal.
I just don’t think today they’d be cutting pie without checking on whether it’s 3″ from the bottom of a potentially leaky can of drain cleaner.
Your faith in OHS is very touching…
I thought Orange Julius was purely a New York thing. I’ve never seen one outside of NYC.
Oh no. Once they hit the shopping mall’s food courts they were everywhere.
Back in the day i got mine with an egg blended into it.
No way i would do that now.
We had many in the malls up here in Calgary Alberta Canada.
Like Happy³, nowadays, I would never had one with a raw egg in it, I never did — although it was quite popular at the time but cost a tad bit more…
Yup. Vancouver too…
It was more years ago than I want to mention that I worked there, and it had already been there (in Berkeley, CA) for years…
I’m going to guess that it opened in the 1950s.
It was a franchise, and all of them had to buy their overpriced “Julius powder” from the company.
That’s what flavored them, and it’s the reason I wouldn’t waste money on them to this day.
People pay high prices thinking they’re “natural” …. indeed, we cut and squeezed gallons of orange juice. But it was nothing compared to the gallons of product we made.
We put orange juice only to the top of the tiny blades at the bottom of the blender jar, then filled the rest with sugar syrup and crushed ice. Then blend, with a scoop of.the secret powder, mostly orange coloring and flavor, with some thickeners.
If a customer wanted an egg (which, sorry, I thought was disgusting) you poured some of the mixture into a smaller blender to blend it in, them washed the jar.
When I came in, I had to cut and squeeze 50 pounds of oranges (2 25-pound boxes), and fill a 100 gallon stainless vat in the back room with water from a special hose….
then use a 2 pound measuring scoop to put in 50 pounds of sugar, and stir it with a 5 ft long wooden paddle. Maybe it was 100 pounds of sugar and 50 gallons of water… I don’t remember which, but I think the first one, cos that vat was 5 feet tall, and we used a little stepladder.
The morning shift would use the syrup from yesterday afternoon, the afternoon shift would use the morning’s batch. Same with the juice.
My boss found a company that sold a similar powder. He dropped his franchise agreement, closed for a week, and reopened with a different name.
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“My Precious…”
“Excuse me.”
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“Gilligan’s Island,” right?
Uh…. whatever you say.
I’m sure they were wishing it was a three hour tour.
,…
Seen this oe before. That’s okay. I like it.
,..
I see him!
Me 2
Not tonight.
I’ll try in the morning.
Got ’em.
Instantly.
Typical RJ.
Less than 10 seconds…
Just happened to look in the right place…
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Gorgeous! Looks like Happy’s country!
Yes it does.
And right now it’s that grey.
That was yesterday.
Today we got sunshine!
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Someone always asks to see the dessert tray.
If a palette suits your palate, rock out.
If you serve lunch of cheeses and meets on a cutlery board, what kind of dessert would be appropriate for a palate?
I first thought pudding, but that would be too messy.
Where’s the kaboom? I wanted to see a big kaboom!!!
The squirrels that tease my two aren’t that evil.
Launch that sucker!
Under the Eye of Yuttahih (2023) – Mark Maggiori
Random Clouded Leopard for Happy³ to start the week off right.
(I’ve had a couple of weeks of turmoil)
Um… hope you’re soon un-turmoilated.
What she said! ^
Foiled again.
Public service announcement.
Yup! Looks about right…
The really scary part is that proofreading is also disappearing… Sooner or later, we’ll start seeing this stuff in actual instruction manuals, after nobody checked.
It really is a nice fire!
Like the one in the movie “Murder by Death”…
https://archive.org/download/murder-by-death-movie-1976-alec-guinness-maggie-smith-peter-falk-360p/Murder%20By%20Death%20Movie%201976%20Alec%20Guinness%2C%20Maggie%20Smith%2C%20Peter%20Falk%20%28360p%29.mp4
https://archive.org/details/murder-by-death_202502 (higher quality)