I remember candy cigarettes. Some of them had a red-tipped (lit) end, and a brown-tipped (filter) end. I used to like them as a candy and a make-believe prop, but I never was tempted to take up tobacco.
I used to occasionally find it amusing to carry a pack rolled in my t-shirt sleeve, to mock guys who thought it looked cool with their real cigarettes.
Worked fine with the white candy ones, but a pack of my favorite chocolate ones melted.
Luckily those had white paper wrappers.
….
Candy cigarettes disappeared here in the 80s, and I was told they’d been made illegal.
But I recently saw some for sale, so I don’t know what the story is. Another question for my pal Mr. Google.
“Blue wizard Pallando ” By: DracarysDrekkar7 (Published: Mar 24, 2020 / Deviant Art)
Pallando is a character in “The Silmarillion” by Tolkien (I don’t remember anything of “The Silmarillion” except I struggled to read it and came to the conclusion that there was a reason it wasn’t published until after Tolkien’s death).
I just had to use Alexi’s link to find out how to throw a groovy party for $5.
Would be really groovy if you could get all this for $5 today.
I’m having a hard time believing you could even then.
I took the liberty of breaking it into paragraphs cos I can’t read solid blocks of texts very well.
“The big expense is always for refreshments. especially the soft drinks. Instead of buying a case of them, make your own punch. Just about any mixture of concentrated fruit juice and ginger ale makes a cheap but delicious, sparkly party drink.
You can put it all in a big bowl, decorate the surface with orange and lemon slices, and ask the guests to serve them- selves. Warning: Don’t put the ginger ale in until the last minute! You can keep ten thirsty people happy for about $2.50 this way.
That leaves you enough change to make some yummy eats. Get a couple of boxes of crackers and .some salami or bacon and cheese. Decorate the crackers with the cheese and meat and place on a cookie sheet. Bake until the cheese just begins to melt.
Pop a hefty batch of pop- corn (super-cheap) and place it in bowls around the room. Everybody in the world loves popcorn. There you are-food and drink for a gang, all for under $5.”
All for under $5!!
One pound of inexpensive cheese would be over $5.
If you found sales and used store brands you could maybe do this for $25, more like $35-40… which I suppose is like $5 back then.
If you don’t mind giving a party with Dollar Tree ginger ale and Walmart crackers.
But I guess this is advice for teenagers, so ok. Groovy, man.
Today’s Songs:
‘ In a Gadda da Vida,’ ‘ In The Still of the Night,’ ‘ In The Summertime,’ and ‘ In The Year 2525,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Asian Pickled Cucumber.’
‘In a Gadda da Vida’ is said to be the air-play version by the site I got the U.R.L. from.
Mungo Jerry is a Middlesex, England group.
Richard Evans of ‘Zager and Evans’ is credited for ‘In The Year 2525’ (to this day the jump to ‘x-year-10’ annoys me). They were from Lincoln, Nebraska.
“In the Summertime” was used, here in the UK, in a campaign about drink driving a few years ago. “Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find” was the lyric with a car wrapped around a tree.
M.C.T.S., an interesting bit of history, thanks.
I found the campaign video.
It’s in a spoiler box for a reason (brace yourself).
I hope they were all actors.
That’s the one, remember it well. The car was a Vauxhall (General Motors) Cavalier Mk2 (FWD).
The song also contains the lyric, “Speed along the lanes, do a ton or a ton and twenty five” (100mph, 125mph, the max speed limit is 60mph for cars, 50mph for LGV/HGV’s, and 40mph for tractors and farm machinery). Those of us who drive those sorts of roads all the time know that sort of speed, especially after having a drink, is just asking to embed your car into a tree or a tractor!!
Absolutely! To remain even slightly compliant, they should be climbing up the inside of the tower, and have outriggers, not to mention tying the tower to the tree 😉
The corned beef referred to in the recipe is not the canned version.
From:
”The Fannie Farmer Cookbook” (Twelfth Edition)
Revised by: Marion Cunningham with Jeri Laber
Illustrated by: Lauren Jarret
Published by: Bantam Books
ISBN 0-553-23488-9
“Corned Beef Hash”
The chopped corned beef is mixed with potato and onion,
doused with rich cream, and fried to form a crust top and
bottom. Thick slices of fresh tomatoes, warm bread, and butter
go well with it. So does a poached egg on each serving.
(SERVES FOUR)
2 cups chopped cooked corned beef
2 cups chopped boiled potatoes
2 small onion, chopped fine
freshly ground pepper
salt
4 tablespoons butter
5 tablespoons heavy cream
Mix the beef, potatoes, onion, and pepper and salt to taste (be careful:
the beef is salty!). Melt the butter in a 10-inch skillet: iron is best, if
you have one. Spread the beef mixture over the bottom and press
down with a spatula. Fry over medium-low heat for 15-20 minutes.
Use the spatula and take a peek at the underside. If it is nicely
browned, turn the hash over. Slide it out onto a dinner plate, and
invert the plate over the skillet. Pour the cream evenly over the meat
and cook another 15-20 minutes, until the second side is nicely brown. Red Flannel Hash. Mix 1 cup finely diced cooked beets with the hash
and fry.
Notes from me:
Rich (or heavy) cream is cream that is 36% or higher in milk fat.
Whipped cream, 35% milk fat, will work.
Medium-low heat on an electric range is around 45° from low heat side of your off switch.
The combination of flavors is very weird, and had little to do with “Asian”.
Like yesterday’s (?) “Asian” something… oh yeah, mussels … that involved some almost Asian spices with a ton of tomatoes, tomato paste, black beans and “crusty bread”.
” Pupsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little basset hounds don’t amount to a hill of kibble in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.”
The only thing that could make it better (maybe) might be to have the animations as just some of the panels in a series of strips, to illustrate even more of the film, like you did with Sam Basset.
.
I think he’s taunting us. Nya, nya, ♫ you can’t ♪ catch me.♫
Derp!
Looks like Kiki after she’s been cleaning.
NOSE!
,
Uh oh. This could be trouble.
He found the Main Drain!
..
It would be great if he was going up.
How do we know he’s not?
NOSE!
need help on the translation!
It’s a “Find the…” puzzle.
I’ve found the solution, and I don’t consider it a particularly fun (or fair) one.
LINK TO THE SOLUTION
WO SIND DIE ÜBRIGEN RAUCHER? by Google translate is: WHERE ARE THE OTHER SMOKERS?
Tigressy? Is Google accurate?
Agreed. It is pretty stupid.
Yes.
Yes. this is what it says!
I remember candy cigarettes. Some of them had a red-tipped (lit) end, and a brown-tipped (filter) end. I used to like them as a candy and a make-believe prop, but I never was tempted to take up tobacco.
I used to occasionally find it amusing to carry a pack rolled in my t-shirt sleeve, to mock guys who thought it looked cool with their real cigarettes.
Worked fine with the white candy ones, but a pack of my favorite chocolate ones melted.
Luckily those had white paper wrappers.
….
Candy cigarettes disappeared here in the 80s, and I was told they’d been made illegal.
But I recently saw some for sale, so I don’t know what the story is. Another question for my pal Mr. Google.
Even after looking at the “solution” …. which does not show anything I consider reasonable representations of anybody…
I can’t find the same images here in the puzzle.
It might be the resolution on my tablet, but that’s rarely a problem because it’s so easy to expand images in Android…
and it’s even more likely to be the resolution of the puzzle itself, especially as it’s a reproduction of an older printing process…
But for whatever reason, the detail shown in the solution is simply not visible here.
Boo!
PS… My tablet has autocorrect; I’ve tried to turn it off in the settings but it refuses to go away.
I’d say roughly 10%… no, make that 7%… are useful corrections… 89% are merely annoying… and about 4% make me laugh.
Example… I typed (in a manner of speaking) “solution” in the first sentence of this.
I saw it. I know it said “solution”.
But when I reread my comment just now, before posting it, my ever helpful autocorrect had changed it to “cool lotion”.
I don’t have to remember all those spelling rules because I have Autocorrect, and for that I am eternally grapefruit.
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“Blue wizard Pallando ” By: DracarysDrekkar7 (Published: Mar 24, 2020 / Deviant Art)
Pallando is a character in “The Silmarillion” by Tolkien (I don’t remember anything of “The Silmarillion” except I struggled to read it and came to the conclusion that there was a reason it wasn’t published until after Tolkien’s death).
Ya, I never made it through.
Nor did I.
A friend years ago called it his favorite book, so I tried again…
Didn’t even get as far as the first time.
Took me 3 tries, but I finished. Don’t remember much about it and not tempted to read it again. Hobbit and LOTR I’ve read multiple times.
,
LOL, very bad taste. I assume this is a spoof.
Thank heavens!
,
Give it your best Pat Paulsen voice as you click the link. SILLY, SILLY, SILLY. Just click on the cover and subsequent pages to read the story.
Got through about ten pages.
Your stomach is stronger than mine.
I just had to use Alexi’s link to find out how to throw a groovy party for $5.
Would be really groovy if you could get all this for $5 today.
I’m having a hard time believing you could even then.
I took the liberty of breaking it into paragraphs cos I can’t read solid blocks of texts very well.
“The big expense is always for refreshments. especially the soft drinks. Instead of buying a case of them, make your own punch. Just about any mixture of concentrated fruit juice and ginger ale makes a cheap but delicious, sparkly party drink.
You can put it all in a big bowl, decorate the surface with orange and lemon slices, and ask the guests to serve them- selves. Warning: Don’t put the ginger ale in until the last minute! You can keep ten thirsty people happy for about $2.50 this way.
That leaves you enough change to make some yummy eats. Get a couple of boxes of crackers and .some salami or bacon and cheese. Decorate the crackers with the cheese and meat and place on a cookie sheet. Bake until the cheese just begins to melt.
Pop a hefty batch of pop- corn (super-cheap) and place it in bowls around the room. Everybody in the world loves popcorn. There you are-food and drink for a gang, all for under $5.”
All for under $5!!
One pound of inexpensive cheese would be over $5.
If you found sales and used store brands you could maybe do this for $25, more like $35-40… which I suppose is like $5 back then.
If you don’t mind giving a party with Dollar Tree ginger ale and Walmart crackers.
But I guess this is advice for teenagers, so ok. Groovy, man.
‘ In a Gadda da Vida,’ ‘ In The Still of the Night,’ ‘ In The Summertime,’ and ‘ In The Year 2525,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Asian Pickled Cucumber.’
‘In a Gadda da Vida’ is said to be the air-play version by the site I got the U.R.L. from.
Mungo Jerry is a Middlesex, England group.
Richard Evans of ‘Zager and Evans’ is credited for ‘In The Year 2525’ (to this day the jump to ‘x-year-10’ annoys me). They were from Lincoln, Nebraska.
“In the Summertime” was used, here in the UK, in a campaign about drink driving a few years ago. “Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find” was the lyric with a car wrapped around a tree.
I found the campaign video.
It’s in a spoiler box for a reason (brace yourself).
I hope they were all actors.
That’s the one, remember it well. The car was a Vauxhall (General Motors) Cavalier Mk2 (FWD).
The song also contains the lyric, “Speed along the lanes, do a ton or a ton and twenty five” (100mph, 125mph, the max speed limit is 60mph for cars, 50mph for LGV/HGV’s, and 40mph for tractors and farm machinery). Those of us who drive those sorts of roads all the time know that sort of speed, especially after having a drink, is just asking to embed your car into a tree or a tractor!!
That isn’t In A Gadda Da Vida; that’s a snippet from In A Gadda Da Vida. And the whole song is another on my favorites list.
True; though great as the song is, they wouldn’t give them 17 minutes of air time.
Love the story of Janna and Murphy!
And Lonnie Morgan does a great job with the Beach Boys.
1:07 when it finally clicked that he did know her.
daleandkristen
Me too. Watched twice.
I like the sentiment, but the complete lack of logic goes beyond even my sense of the absurd.
#comicphysics
Absolutely! To remain even slightly compliant, they should be climbing up the inside of the tower, and have outriggers, not to mention tying the tower to the tree 😉
Play it again Nighthawks.
corned beef hash
The corned beef referred to in the recipe is not the canned version.
From:
”The Fannie Farmer Cookbook” (Twelfth Edition)
Revised by: Marion Cunningham with Jeri Laber
Illustrated by: Lauren Jarret
Published by: Bantam Books
ISBN 0-553-23488-9
“Corned Beef Hash”
The chopped corned beef is mixed with potato and onion,
doused with rich cream, and fried to form a crust top and
bottom. Thick slices of fresh tomatoes, warm bread, and butter
go well with it. So does a poached egg on each serving.
(SERVES FOUR)
2 cups chopped cooked corned beef
2 cups chopped boiled potatoes
2 small onion, chopped fine
freshly ground pepper
salt
4 tablespoons butter
5 tablespoons heavy cream
Mix the beef, potatoes, onion, and pepper and salt to taste (be careful:
the beef is salty!). Melt the butter in a 10-inch skillet: iron is best, if
you have one. Spread the beef mixture over the bottom and press
down with a spatula. Fry over medium-low heat for 15-20 minutes.
Use the spatula and take a peek at the underside. If it is nicely
browned, turn the hash over. Slide it out onto a dinner plate, and
invert the plate over the skillet. Pour the cream evenly over the meat
and cook another 15-20 minutes, until the second side is nicely brown.
Red Flannel Hash. Mix 1 cup finely diced cooked beets with the hash
and fry.
Notes from me:
Rich (or heavy) cream is cream that is 36% or higher in milk fat.
Whipped cream, 35% milk fat, will work.
Medium-low heat on an electric range is around 45° from low heat side of your off switch.
Now that’s better.
I never fry mine in a solid cake, but I might try it some time.
I doubt I’d put cream on it. The salt and fat is already high enough, and I don’t buy cream.
I rarely have corned beef, but you can make hash with leftover roast beef (like I have that, either) pot roast, or turkey.
I suppose even Spam. Not me, though.
Until I saw this picture, it had never crossed my mind to put cinnamon in chocolate milk.
And I’m glad it hadn’t.
But vanilla yogurt in today’s cheap thrills recipe. Yuck.
I’m not particularly fond of plain yogurt either.
Agreed.
The combination of flavors is very weird, and had little to do with “Asian”.
Like yesterday’s (?) “Asian” something… oh yeah, mussels … that involved some almost Asian spices with a ton of tomatoes, tomato paste, black beans and “crusty bread”.
There’s cinnamon in Mexican hot chocolate, too.
It’s traditionally made very light and milky, and whipped to a froth with a special beater.
I prefer mine without it, and darker… but to each his own.
” Pupsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little basset hounds don’t amount to a hill of kibble in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.”
I love this strip!
Great artwork, and funny
The only thing that could make it better (maybe) might be to have the animations as just some of the panels in a series of strips, to illustrate even more of the film, like you did with Sam Basset.
But this is fine.
I’m not greedy.
love this rendition of one of the best movies! thanks, NH!!!
Sorry, folks. I fell asleep. Will post very soon.