I’m on the road this morning, sitting in a McDonald’s actually, drinking unsweetened ice tea and taking advantage of free WiFi. I wouldn’t want the place to close down just because I took a little time over the Fourth. I’ll be back at my desk tomorrow!
160 responses to “ArachniVac”
Repeated from last run, / the info I need.
TIP BlogSpot:
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
It says ‘Moses’, but, IMO, those two boys are Jacob [L] and his ‘older’, red-head twin Esau, the favorite of their father Isaac, who is holding Esau’s hand. Some of you know how to track down a painting rather than search through multiple prints for sale ads. How?
Peace,
We’ll let Ghost evaluate the sincerity of this ‘student’.
http://www.gocomics.com/academiawaltz
Peace,
emb, I searched the artist’s name combined with Abraham and found this: http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=131991
If you use Google Chrome, you can click on an image and get a list of things you can do. Choose search Google for image and it will look for the closest match.
I woke up to an empty bed, thought I had lost Ghost! He came in dressing into his “tactical gear” which involves wearing a brand of tactical pants called 5.11 with lots of pockets, places for weaponry.
Puts his tactical belt and all gear on and buckles it and pants almost fell off! Had to take in to tighter notch to avoid mooning me.
He has taken in his belt four notches since February when he came to Oklahoma! He says he only has two notches to go before he has to get a new belt.
P.S. Ghost says that fortunately he was wearing tactical underwear under his tactical pants.
Mark: That’s Abraham, his sons Ishmael by Sarah’s slave girl Hagar, and Isaac, by his wife Sarah. Wonderful story. Peace,
I wonder if this inspired Arlo’s mention of the “spidernator”? I’ll bet it did.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cv3jHf6XYAAXxJQ.jpg
About today’s current strip and the wall nook, Think phone sex in the 1960s on one of those in the hallway wall niches one phone houses with a party line.
I was dating an affluent (think millionaire trust funds in teens) hottie who like his siblings had a private line and a phone in his bedroom. Gasp! This alone made them unique.
My mom’s house had that one darn party line in the hallway way up on Wall. With neighbors who listened in for entertainment.
“What are you wearing?” Pajamas.
“What are you doing?” Sitting on floor.
Never got any better at my end anyway.
The house (1945 post-war construction) in which I was reared did not have a telephone nook. The POT resided on top of the dresser in my parents’ bedroom. Out of nostalgia, I tried to find an on-line photo of the first phone we had, and I could not. Gads, I feel old. (Hint: It did not have a dial on it; calls were connected manually by the operator at The Phone Company’s local exchange. And our telephone number was 1175W.)
Re phone sex, I did engage in that, mainly over the summer, when I was home and my folks were at work. Of course, in that day, “phone sex” meant having a perfectly innocuous conversation with a member of the opposite sex.
If anyone would like to contact me for phone sex, try reaching me at the above number.
Jackie wanted me to post this as an example of the “phone sex” she and I mentioned.
The past is not just a different time; it is a different world.
http://arloandjanis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1996-03-19-ruth.gif
Jackie says I remind her of Arlo. Humm.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1996/04/08
emb: I did a google search for “original paintings -prints” and the first few hits wear for places selling original art, some for charitable purposes. At least it’s a place to start.
I can’t believe that my wife, who is even older than I, did not recognize a phone nook. We even looked at a Catholic parsonage to buy many years ago that had a phone nook in the hallway. Of course she did not know about older houses that had clothes chutes that ran from the second floor to the basement until she met me.
Off to Jackie’s PT session. I tell you, the woman is a slave-driver, making me carry her to a gym where there’s nothing for me to do but watch cute, fit little therapists in yoga pants and tight jeans. And skimpily attired female college athletes there for rehab. Well, another star in my crown, I suppose.
I really miss that Laundry chute. We had them in both homes in Royal Oak and it was wonderful. When we moved, we did not find any houses with them as Royal Oak and surrounding cities had basically banned them as a fire hazard. I’m not sure if that’s necessarily the case, but you can’t beat city hall.
Fire hazard: hadn’t thought of that. When younger son & wife built a house nr Cambridge, MN, in the ’80s, they put in a laundry chute. She had grown up w/ one, he not. They now live in a rehabilitated ’20s[?] bungalow in SE Mpls; think it has one. Nearby ’20s Mpls home does not, I think. Childhood friend’s new ’40 house nr Pawling, NY had one. NYC apts. that I lived in had none; next fl. down was somebody else’s place. Peace,
My daughters 1890 home has laundry chutes and a dumb waiter for servants. She is trying to figure out how to make both functional again since they had spaces used for plumbing and electrical lines in 1960s.
We had both in the boarding school I went to in 1950s in Pennsylvania. They were a wonder to a Southern poor girl like me. Most things were.
Like indoor plumbing. I had never seen a claw foot tub either.
I guess I can see the fire hazard idea. Without self-closing doors at each end, it would act as a chimney if the fire started at the lower level. Grandmother’s post WWII house had the phone nook in the hallway and that’s where I first saw telephone growing up. When they built an extension on the house the nook stayed put, but they got a wall phone installed in the kitchen. Nana kept that same phone there till she died, over 40 years. How’s that for dependability?
Ursen – my house isn’t (what I’d call) old (i.e.., < 50 years), and it has a laundry chute from 2nd floor to basement. Fire marshals (and some fire codes) don't like them though.
Guess I should have “refreshed” before posting.
My parents house that I grew up in had both, the laundry chute and phone nook. Never thought about a fire hazard. The house is still there. I wonder if the chute is.
Having worked for Ma Bell for 30+ years I saw a lot of “old” phones still in working condition. I remember going into a lawyer’s office in downtown Chicago on a “frayed cord” report and there sat a beautiful “candlestick”. (Look it up). I wanted to replace the phone (and of course try to figure out to keep the old one). He wouldn’t hear of it and we had to special order a cord for it.
I had to go to Wiki for that one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_telephone
I’ve only seen them in museums and in old films.
In my parents’ parsonage in NYCity – built 1940-1941 – we had the table squatly-modeled phones. There was one on the pantry counter top for the downstairs – said pantry was the connection among living room, dining room, kitchen, and bath so that phone was quite centrally located. One flight up, and off to the side [it was over the garage], was dad’s office with a second of those phones. It had the same number, so maybe the term is “extension”. The true second floor had a central hall amid 4 bedrooms and a bath, but no phone.
In some places, both business and domestic, I recall seeing candlestick style phones; they were not uncommon in my early years (1940s). I suppose people got them in earlier times and didn’t see much benefit to changing styles.
As a kid, I learned very early how to answer the phone and take accurate messages. Ministers of large congregations are most often not home and do receive a lot of calls. I doubt that any recording devices were then available, so having live persons at home to take calls was a plus, even if those persons were youngsters.
TR
The only moron is me – it WAS a typo. Mom was LDS.
Grandma had a Candle Stick.
We had the low style – Lorain 8 (Washington Heights)
We had an Art Deco Telephone Table (Half round just large enough for phone and
phone book- Half round column tapered to smaller half round base) was in the hall.
Dumont NJ was a wall phone Dumont 4 33** (better leave that off)
You had to be really rich to have an extension. Then again most houses were
small enough that you were only 5 or 6 steps from the phone.
We still use phone that was in house when in-laws bought this farm in ’65
Did add a wall phone in cellar so FIL did not have to remove boots to call town.
It cost 25 cents to call next town – 7 miles.
Less than 30 YA it cost 15 cents a Min. to call me 16 miles away.
Trucker: Thanks for that URL. Will fwd it to 2-3 b.c. groups.
Remember lots of candlesticks, both w/ and w/o dials, but don’t recall from where. We had no phone in NYC in apt. 4F 1932-41 [my ages 2-12], used the janitor’s phone in their 1st fl. apt. for needed outgoing calls. W/ no phone #, we never got incoming calls. Got a standard dial phone [Watkins 4-7857] when we moved to a slightly larger efficiency apt. in a slightly worse Village neighborhood in fall ’41, just before Pearl Harbor. Learned about party lines when I visited folks in the country. Peace,
All this talk of telephones is great. Very interesting and informative. Please remember that the old fashioned phones were not called “candlesticks” at the time. Someone much later must have thought of that. Can one of you folks tell me what that style was really called? It must have had a real name from the phone company.