September 4, 2024

5 2 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
70 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Does that say 1860 on the bottom?

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Yes, but it can’t be a date… for one thing, the clothes aren’t from the 1860s… Think Civil War era…
though at that time you’d also see eastern European peasant type clothing.
Not that snazzy straw boater (hat).

Speaking of which, you also wouldn’t see a big, thriving Jewish neighborhood in the 1860s… Not for another 30 or 40 years.

….

Here’s a caption I found on the website of the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy:

“Workers dig the street along the sidewalk on the north side of Delancey Street, New York, July 1908”.

Greyhame
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

I see 1460.

baconboycamper
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  Greyhame
2 months ago

I, too, see 1460.
My guess that it’s a print tracking number for referencing, I’ve seen similar in the past elsewhere.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  baconboycamper
2 months ago

Yeah, I see it that way now as well.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
2 months ago

Vlad! Long time, buddy!
Vlad wouldn’t do it, would ‘ya chum?!

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
2 months ago

Is it just me, or does the site keep crashing with a “Bad Gateway” message?

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Got that a couple of times.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

I thought it was just me!

P51Strega
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

OK I was having trouble too. Did they tell you to send all the cache to them?

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Send them a couple of Czechs.

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
2 months ago

Getting a lot of this: 502 Bad Gatewaynginx/1.21.6

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

😀

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

First untethered spacewalk.

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II approaches his maximum distance from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in this 70mm photo from Feb. 7, 1984. While testing out the nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled back-pack device called the manned manoeuvring unit (MMU) for the first time, McCandless’s fellow crewmembers aboard the reusable vehicle photographed him. The MMU allowed crews to move outside of the cargo bay and perform activities away from the safety of the spacecraft. “It may have been one small step for Neil,” he proclaimed, “but it’s a heck of a big leap for me.”

Info scrounged from https://www.nasa.gov/

baconboycamper
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

All I have to say about this photo, is…

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II has a LOT OF FAITH in science!

As Happy³ is wont to say:
“Nope Nope Nope”

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Thisoneis very actives i scroll.

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Pond water under a microscope — I’ve seen loads of it!

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Wow… some magical ponds!

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Yay!

We all know Lassie belonged to Jeff, not that upstart Timmy!

P51Strega
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I like your comments, but respectfully disagree. I can’t tell you how many times I had to ask our dogs “what is it, is Timmy down the well again?”

I don’t know if I started watching later or just never paid that much attention to names, but I don’t remember Jeff.

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

You’r all too young! Roddy McDowell (And Elizabeth Taylor) was the original. 1943 “Lassie Come Home”

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Now you’re going to try to make us believe you saw that when it was new!

Ha!

I know you didn’t.

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

I remember it being shown in the school gym ca. 1960. Everyone cried at the end…

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  P51Strega
2 months ago

You’re probably just enough younger than us to have missed Jeff, and started with Timmy.

At least Jeff didn’t go falling into wells.

P51Strega
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

If Jeff was ’54-’57, then, being the young lad I am, I wasn’t born yet.

Tigressy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

In case anybody wonders…

…they are Peter O’Toole to our left and Anthony Quinn to our right in “Lawrence of Arabia”.

dorothea
dorothea
Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

My minister’s wife, when I was a teen and she was not quite 30), told a story of her college roommate who accepted two dates on one day – afternoon and evening. Both took her to see Lawrence of Arabia! All 222 minutes, plus overture, intermission, and exit music.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Looks like a souvenir metal plaque from Disneyland or the Franklin Mint.

The newspaper purports to be a one year anniversary issue from 1866, but the fonts look modern.

The faded text and tattered edges are very fake, and the round dots near the corners look like placements for nails or screws.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Not tonight.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

How do we know what a pea looks like when it’s laughing?

Does it have blue tears like the laughing emoji 🤣?

I thought peas were supposed to look alike… like peas in a pod.

Last edited 2 months ago by SusanSunshine
P51Strega
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

A very peasful scene.

mr_sherman
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Maybe whirled peas isn’t such a good idea.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  mr_sherman
2 months ago

C’mon… Give peas a chance!

Tigressy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

I had hoped nighthawks would comment with that…

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

What is wrong with your nose, baby?

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
2 months ago

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
2 months ago

Oooh…. the Midnight Express seems to have hit a slight bump in the rails.

Well…. maybe not the train… but ace gumshoe Sam Basset seems to have been thrown a bit off the track….

I mean, by this Grace person.

….

Sure, she’s one crazy dame, I can see that…..

But listen up, Basset: Ya can’t let her get to ya.

Cos if I were a murderess…

Pardon me? No… this is purely hypothetical…

aww, c’mon… you guys know I couldn’t be a suspect…

As I was sayin’…

If I’D just been very very bad girl… and I wanted to knock some nosy sleuth off the scent…

I might just buy myself a ticket on the crazy train.

I’d hop ANY “loco”-motive some long-eared shamus would be scared to board.

She ain’t as dumb as she’s tryin’ t’ look.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
2 months ago

Yesterday i forgot to ask permission before putting the GoFundMe up.
Tell me no if i have overstepped.
https://gofund.me/eb34f7f9

Hey there! I’m working on securing a cozy home for Buddy and me, but I’ve hit some unexpected fees for inspections and title costs. Your support, no matter how small, would mean the world to us and go directly toward creating a safe space for Buddy and any future playmates—if you can, please consider donating or sharing the link! https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f60a.svg

If you go there you wont see Buddy. I didn’t have a good photo of him handy so i used Kiki.

And this is the place i’m buying.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/177-Siletz-Hwy-Lincoln-City-OR-97367/60355612_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

baconboycamper
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Very nice looking place!

Tigressy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

…unless it’s really, really good!

(exit to the right)

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

This is a reversal from your past request for family friendly content.

Does it mean you’ve given up all hope of distribution or syndication? 🥺

Sad cos this is such a great strip and you’re such a talented cartoonist.

….

(Um… er… wait… I didn’t mean to pay you such a big compliment. gulp…
Can i go back to being snarky now?)

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I might have to post some Hilda pinups then. 🙂

mr_sherman
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Wasn’t that the witch’s name in the Bugs Bunny cartoons who was leaving hairpins in her wake when she took off on her broom?

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  mr_sherman
2 months ago

Witch Hazel IIRC

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Looks great! Much nicer than I would have expected (But I’m used to Vancouver prices!)

P51Strega
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Gorgeous setting.

70
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x