I was just looking up the artist, who was a famous British painter of animals and children…. when I noticed that it says “Pears” on the wrapper of the little box.
That distinctive way of writing it is the logo of Pears soap… and it doesn’t appear on the original painting and prints.
The wrapper happens to be drawn about the size of a soap wrapper, so I’ll bet Pears, which used many beautiful prints of children in their advertising, licensed this painting for that use as well, adding their logo…. quite possibly after Barber had passed away.
That cat is either incredibly brave, incredibly stupid…. or has amazing faith in his friendship with a creature who could easily eat him for breakfast.
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! That was the go-to when I was growing up and skinning my knees (and just about everything else!) It almost hurt more than the original injury! Certainly a reminder not to do that again!
Well, the last time it was used on me was 60-65 years ago, so my memory might be a touch hazy. It could have been Merthiolate, although I think both were used at one time or another. Here’s a comparison of the two antiseptics:
Both of them burned like fire when they went on, so we complained a lot, especially when we were younger. We used to ask for Bactine, but it was more expensive, and money was tight.
IIRC, mercurochrome was what moms used because it didn’t burn like iodine…
though there are different solutions of mercurochrome, and you had to buy the non burning one.
Iodine, though, stung more. We were all scared of iodine.
BTW the mercurochrome of the 50s and 60s was banned at some point because it contains mercury… you can buy it again now but they’ve replaced the mercury with other stuff.
Or either one of mine.
The squirrels in my yard love to tease both my pups.
They cling head down on the trunk, in plane sight, flicking their tails.
Buddy barks and Fawn tries to climb the tree.
I thought it was the camera…. but it seemed impossible that they’d use something so noisy it might scare away the serval.
Yes, I’m sure it’s much louder to us than the cat, because it’s probably a long lens, and we’re hearing noise right at source…. but still, they have sensitive ears.
It may look funny, but we had to do almost this for my Dad.
Clear tape over bits of paper labels, where we’d drawn big symbols, like a red X for “Stop” …. and not quite so much covered.
In the end it didn’t work… he couldn’t point it the right direction, forgot what the symbols meant, and kept trying to peel off the labels.
We had to take it away when he managed to open the taped over battery compartment… I caught him sucking on a AAA battery. So glad he didn’t swallow it!
And this is Half Dome…. a famous peak in Yosemite.
Ansel Adams made a similar shot that was on a calendar I had long ago.
At first I thought this was it, but this one was taken by Jim Dohms (kind of funny name coincidence)… Adams’ photo is more crystal clear and not snowy; this one more atmospheric.
They were an alternate. The path split to go steam, diesel, electric, down one path, and hamster, rat, cat, fox, wolf, horse, cheetah, down the other. Water and wind powered ones, along with geothermal, were niche types.
Western film star Tom Mix on a Henderson motorcycle, 1919.
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; 1880 – 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films. He was one of Hollywood’s first Western stars and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.
A curiosity: Mix became friends with Wyatt Earp, who lived in Los Angeles and occasionally visited Hollywood western movie sets. He was a pallbearer at Earp’s funeral in January 1929. The newspapers reported that Mix cried during his friend’s service.
I used to have a Tom Mix “Look-Around Ring” … a cereal premium from the early 30s.
When it was new, someone had to send in cereal boxtops to get it.
It was made of thin metal… The top was shaped like a tiny flat box, embossed with a Tom Mix logo of crossed guns.
Two adjacent sides were open… Hard to explain, but there was a sliver of mirror in inside, so if you looked into one side, you could see a reflection of what was out the other side, like a flat periscope.
A tiny little reflection, so instead of looking at something directly, you could hold the ring up to your eye and squint to “secretly” look at (a sliver of) something off to the left…. which of course no one would notice you doing.
Pretty exciting, I guess, if you were 9 years old in 1932.
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I nose I’ve been a baaaad boy…
..
it’s really you, Lucy!
Stuck her finger in a light socket?
She bought some furniture, and Ricky was mad… remember this was the 1950s when women needed permission….
so she tried to save money by making her own new dress, and giving herself a home permanent.
Here’s the 4 minutes that says it all ..
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“The stag at eve had drunk his fill,
Where danced the moon on Monan’s rill…”
I had to look that up.
Thank you. 🙂
Charles Burton Barber
The dog’s prayers might be a bit different from hers…just sayin’.
Looks like the kitten has the same prayer.
I was just looking up the artist, who was a famous British painter of animals and children…. when I noticed that it says “Pears” on the wrapper of the little box.
That distinctive way of writing it is the logo of Pears soap… and it doesn’t appear on the original painting and prints.
The wrapper happens to be drawn about the size of a soap wrapper, so I’ll bet Pears, which used many beautiful prints of children in their advertising, licensed this painting for that use as well, adding their logo…. quite possibly after Barber had passed away.
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Yeah, like I said, beautiful prints of… um…
never mind.
….
GOAL!
Fawn got up and moved away. Hilarious!
That cat is either incredibly brave, incredibly stupid…. or has amazing faith in his friendship with a creature who could easily eat him for breakfast.
Maybe all three.
Is their name Buttons?
Looks exactly like our Romy (minus the collar).
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Four tourists on the back lot?
Pretty famous….
during the making of “The Trap.”
Knew the three men, but not the lady.
Me too. And not the movie.
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Floppy desk?
When it falls down and knocks you over, you might need the mercurochrome from the monitor to help fix your boo-boos.
mecurochrome indeed!
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! That was the go-to when I was growing up and skinning my knees (and just about everything else!) It almost hurt more than the original injury! Certainly a reminder not to do that again!
Are you certain it wasn’t iodine in your case?
Well, the last time it was used on me was 60-65 years ago, so my memory might be a touch hazy. It could have been Merthiolate, although I think both were used at one time or another. Here’s a comparison of the two antiseptics:
https://thisvsthat.io/mercurochrome-vs-merthiolate
Both of them burned like fire when they went on, so we complained a lot, especially when we were younger. We used to ask for Bactine, but it was more expensive, and money was tight.
Firey spit of The Devil?
IIRC, mercurochrome was what moms used because it didn’t burn like iodine…
though there are different solutions of mercurochrome, and you had to buy the non burning one.
Iodine, though, stung more. We were all scared of iodine.
BTW the mercurochrome of the 50s and 60s was banned at some point because it contains mercury… you can buy it again now but they’ve replaced the mercury with other stuff.
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Shhhh…. we wouldn’t want Cleo to notice.
Or either one of mine.
The squirrels in my yard love to tease both my pups.
They cling head down on the trunk, in plane sight, flicking their tails.
Buddy barks and Fawn tries to climb the tree.
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The Passenger Pigeons have returned!
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Black serval.
Wonder what all that noise is from.
At least there’s no stupid music.
Sounds like (D)SLR camera motorised shutter to me, and a (Presumably Camera Bag) zipper, along with beeps etc. from a phone.
I thought it was the camera…. but it seemed impossible that they’d use something so noisy it might scare away the serval.
Yes, I’m sure it’s much louder to us than the cat, because it’s probably a long lens, and we’re hearing noise right at source…. but still, they have sensitive ears.
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“Don’t give up the
ship… I mean the stump!”Life finds a way.
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It may look funny, but we had to do almost this for my Dad.
Clear tape over bits of paper labels, where we’d drawn big symbols, like a red X for “Stop” …. and not quite so much covered.
In the end it didn’t work… he couldn’t point it the right direction, forgot what the symbols meant, and kept trying to peel off the labels.
We had to take it away when he managed to open the taped over battery compartment… I caught him sucking on a AAA battery. So glad he didn’t swallow it!
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That was easy…
Yes.
The cats are MOST interested!
Is that a parrot?
I’m not sure i’m seeing the same thing you guys are.
Yes, me too.
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Might be a little harder to see than the parrot.
Not hard just maybe less easy.
Not if you know cats…
Ansel Adams
Yosemite is worth the trip to see. I’d like to get up to Lake Louise and Banff, but that’s probably off my plans now.
And this is Half Dome…. a famous peak in Yosemite.
Ansel Adams made a similar shot that was on a calendar I had long ago.
At first I thought this was it, but this one was taken by Jim Dohms (kind of funny name coincidence)… Adams’ photo is more crystal clear and not snowy; this one more atmospheric.
I swear that didn’t say Ansel Adams last night!
I know I’ve missed top captions before, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t there!
Anyway, I just searched again, and still came up with Jim Dohms as the photographer… And here is the Ansel Adams one…
Famous for its detail….
Here’s something from Shel Silverstein:
The Perfect High
Silly Cleo, the first computers were clockwork, not the later, more fancy, steam powered ones!
Were the ones with hamster wheels, like mine, right after steam, or an alternate?
Such a pain to clean every day… but I wouldn’t have had room to store coal.
They were an alternate. The path split to go steam, diesel, electric, down one path, and hamster, rat, cat, fox, wolf, horse, cheetah, down the other. Water and wind powered ones, along with geothermal, were niche types.
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; 1880 – 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films. He was one of Hollywood’s first Western stars and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.
A curiosity: Mix became friends with Wyatt Earp, who lived in Los Angeles and occasionally visited Hollywood western movie sets. He was a pallbearer at Earp’s funeral in January 1929. The newspapers reported that Mix cried during his friend’s service.
I used to have a Tom Mix “Look-Around Ring” … a cereal premium from the early 30s.
When it was new, someone had to send in cereal boxtops to get it.
It was made of thin metal… The top was shaped like a tiny flat box, embossed with a Tom Mix logo of crossed guns.
Two adjacent sides were open… Hard to explain, but there was a sliver of mirror in inside, so if you looked into one side, you could see a reflection of what was out the other side, like a flat periscope.
A tiny little reflection, so instead of looking at something directly, you could hold the ring up to your eye and squint to “secretly” look at (a sliver of) something off to the left…. which of course no one would notice you doing.
Pretty exciting, I guess, if you were 9 years old in 1932.
(No, I wasn’t, thank you.)
I just found a picture of one!
And it looks just like I remember…
I recommend the movie “Sunset” from 1988…
https://archive.org/details/sunset_20250224
Funniest-looking horse ever.
A Bunny for Bunday.