Today’s classic A&J is from August of 1994, and it first appeared mere days before the changeover to digitalization. In other words, it was one of the last daily strips actually to be shipped by Federal Express to the syndicate offices in New York. Speaking of digitalization, remember when I mentioned earlier this year that I wanted to revamp this Web site? I’ll bet you haven’t forgotten. You just assumed I had. Well, I haven’t. I have decided, though, that I need professional help. With Web-site design, I mean. I have been in contact with said professionals, and I’m hoping I might have something new to show you early in 2015. I know we go through this sort of thing a lot. Believe me, I know, but please humor me. I’m going to ask you, again, to make suggestions for the new Web site if you’d like. That way, I’ll have your input all in one place and fresh when I meet with the Web people after the Thanksgiving holiday. Any new suggestions, or restatement of old suggestions, will be appreciated. And I haven’t forgotten about the T-shirts, either.
But seriously, folks…
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251 responses to “But seriously, folks…”
Sorry; still having trouble getting past the “topless” and “sugar” parts. 🙂
Antique collecting note: most really old sugar jars did not have tops with a hole for spoon (ie. modern ones) because sugar then was often in chunks (not cubes either) or coarse. The spoons were kept on top of table in a spoon jar and each person took out his own spoon to scoop out sugar if wanted.
You can tell if one came with a lid, as there will be a rim/lip for it and the lid has probably been broken and is missing. Or it may never have had one, hence topless.
Ghost probably has some from his grandmother I bet!
Not bikinis! Love, Jackie
Re; yesterday’s strip. Watch this if you are interested in silent directors.
Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. I sure did.
About honey. Honey was kept in a fairly low square dish/jar with a lid to cover it from flies. That was because most honey in those days had honeycomb still with it and you cut it with a utensil sort of like a cake knife to serve. Although some had honey strained and that was often served in a jar taller than the sugar and had a lid to keep out bugs.
Since we were on subject of a “poshly” set table.
Don’t get me started on coffee, tea and cocoa pots and cups and saucers. There is a different one for each and all were fashionable.
Love, Jackie
I t would help if I added the link, wouldn’t it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT2u804FwEY
Don’t forget the salt cellars! We don’t collect things so much as we continue to keep the things our families acquired. I have pressed glass salt dishes that were given to my grandparents (married in 1906) and the pink glass that my parents got in 1928.
(no, I’ve not read any of the above…sorry)
But, Mark,…just caught tail ending of movie Man Manter”..background music caught my ‘hear’…and now I know it’s not Knoepfle….but, have you ever heard:
Ooooppssss…here’s the link Mark…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B1qxn-RoWA
(inhale…aahhgguuu)…yes, GR 😉 bad to the bone (there’s a song there 🙂 )
Debbe, I like the Manhunter movie and have watched it several times. Didn’t know who had done this song used in it. That’s one thing about Michael Mann, interesting choices of music for his movies/tv shows.
Here’s something from Thief, starring James Caan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgkF2hTO8Y0
With my Kroger loyalty card, I paid $2.039 per gallon for gasoline today. I felt like I was in a…a…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-vgGuTD8A
Ghost – I *knew* that’s what that link was before I even clicked it. Not helping – been in an over the top, hyper mood all day. Off Saturday through Monday: that doesn’t have a thing to do with it. Ha!
The best price I’ve paid this week was $2.59 at a Sam’s Club in the Salt Lake City area. Today it’s down to $2.49. And those are the best prices we’ve seen since BHO took office and the prices started going up (national average in Jan 1009 was $1.69 if I remember right).
Here’s the chart showing the past 6 years:
http://www.GasBuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?city1=USA%20Average&city2=&city3=&crude=n&tme=72&units=us
Among the many items to set a “posh” table in the past were bone plates. These are not plates made of bone china but oval small plates that fitted at top of dinner plates. They were for purpose of placing the bones from your plate to the “bone plate”, like with chicken or fish I suppose.
Knew what they were but somehow inherited two sets from Mike’s aunt when she died. Of course I no longer own a large table or dining room to seat large parties. I keep foisting stuff like this off on youngest daughter.
Have not heard from her how the giant house party of relatives has gone. A friend of mine who knows her pretty well said he had been watching the news (he lives in same area) to see if a housewife had gone berserk and shot guests at Thanksgiving!
Love, Jackie
Without the discount, the gasoline would have been $2.389. Still nothing to sneeze at.
Geez, Lady Mindy, whatca want? Freakin’ elevator music. 😀 Remember Dr. Ghost prescribes “Rum, p.o. PRN”.
Ghost, I never would have picked you as a Rocky Horror Show fan. But then I remember you are possibly closer to my oldest daughter in age than to me. She and her friends used to go hold parties and do RHS routines, Houston ran it in a theater in the clubbing district continuously back then.
Have been watching Oliver North doing war program on General Patton. Listened to it for awhile in office, then walked in and watched a little. Had forgotten about that conspiracy theory.
Love, Jackie
Good morning Villagers…..
I couldn’t get out of that city fast enough yesterday……people are crazy drivers too, on Black Friday. Only stopped to get cat food and Dew’s….
Mark, never saw the entire movie “Manhunter”, hope they run it again….Rotten tomatoes gave it 4 stars, never saw the movie “Thief” either. Clicked on your link, loved the astronomy pics….at 2:02, they show “the eye of God”……thanks
GR 😉 a Rocky Horror pic fan, you’re not going to believe this, but I’ve never sat through the entire movie anytime…just did not get into it at that time. I knew people who could almost recite the whole move….and that was enough for me.
Back to work…..hope Ian and Andrew fixed that bottom auger that popped out again…sheesh, wish the Boss would give it up and put in new auger…about three feeding troughs need new auger. I’ve got the two 15 year olds today….Dakota being one of them. He has a new nickname…’Skittles’….the packer spit out a tray of eggs up and flipped eggs all over the floor….his response “well ___t me a rainbow and call me Skittles”. Never heard that one before.
Heh….ya’ll have a peaceful Caterday
Debbe, I’ve never sat through Rocky Horror in a theater that ran it as a Midnight Movie, and the audience brought hot dogs (Frank Furters), rice, newspapers and squirt guns, and the lot. I do know most of the songs, though, and can do the Time Warp!
Jackie, I have a cookbook written by Vincent Price and his wife Mary. In the introduction he mentions that when they give cocktail parties and buffet suppers they use their daughter’s silver christening cup to hold celery.
Oh, and while we’re talking Rocky Horror and Vincent Price, he attended the opening night of the first production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Today’s TIP BlogSpot is neat*
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
but I don’t get today’s A&J. Facebook bar?
*Dig the glaze on that pitcher. Wonder if he did still lifes? [Speelczech wants that to be lives, but it’s wrong.]
Nor has Ghost ever watched RHPS in its entirety or seen it in a theater. I do recall some of the music, and that song popped into my head when the thought occurred to me that paying near-sub-two dollar a gallon prices for gasoline seemed almost like slipping into a time warp.
I also recall a snatch of an interview with Barry Bostwick, who seemed to indicate that during the making of the film the cast consumed cannabis in an amount that would have equaled the annual production of a couple of northern California counties, much of it during the Time Warp scene. Somehow, that’s not surprising.
emb, I believe the Book of Faces reference relates to the fact that there are now so many cutesy animal videos posted to the InterWebNets that one of a cat symply falling off a fargone couch would not make the cut.
I once heard a comedian comment that he loved online cat videos. “What’s amazing about that,” he said, “is that i don’t even bleeping like cats.”
I hope those of you who did the “Black Friday” thing were able to find significant bargains while not being trampled by galloping herds of similarly-inclined shoppers. So that makes today like, what, “Gray Saturday”? I’m still not going to get out into that fray, if I can avoid it.
Yesterday, I read an interesting article about how and why online merchants use (and misuse) “bait-and-switch” tactics to lure you to their sites and compete for your Black Friday and Cyber Monday dollars. And no, bait-and-switch is not unlawful, as long as a few of the items advertised as loss-leaders (“Low, low prices while quantities last!”) actually exist and are sold. And “a few” can be two or three. That are gone in less than a minute.
Back in the early 1960’s I worked for Sears in the interior decorating department (yes, they had them then) They seemed to have already perfected bait and switch sales long before then because we would have bed spreads “Special 19.95 Any Choice”
except the bin would have a couple that had originally sold for more than that and a hundred that would be $15.95 at normal markups. Or less.
So that Ghost gets a little tidbit, back in those days we had to wear black dresses or black skirts, high heels and hose to work every day. That included stocking those darned bed spreads and the warehouses in back of department were up to three “floors” high which meant some tall ladders in tight skirts. No warehouse men!
In garter belts, panty hose really hadn’t come on the scene.
Love, Jackie
About Rocky Horror Show, I watched the youube clips after Ghost posted and realized it was Tim Curry in the corset. Oh my! Not that he wasn’t good, he was. But I hadn’t thought about that movie since the 1980’s when daughter and her friends took part and a lot of my gay friends did too. Very cultish thing.
The Tim Curry I was familiar with was his later years as he’d aged a little and did things like Muppet Treasure Island. My daughter’s second husband kept reminding me of someone I thought I knew until I realized he looked exactly like Tim Curry with beard, etc.
Never in a million years did I connect him with THAT Tim Curry! I am not going there. I will ask younger daughter who agreed he looked and sounded like Tim Curry, however!! Ha!
Love, Jackie