I haven’t done this in a while, but today’s “comic strip” is a mash-up of panels from daily strips that will appear next week, a preview of cartoons beginning March 6. I know: it makes no sense really, but don’t you hate it when you sit through a three-minute movie preview and feel as if you know exactly what’s going to happen in the two-hour version? And when did “previews” become “trailers?” Have you ever sat in a theater and been invited to view “Trailers of Coming Attractions?” Somehow, I blame Turner Classic Movies for this. I believe TCM introduced me to the Hollywood term “trailer.” Now, the film and video landscape is littered with trailers.
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Mindy, good luck with the new job!
Anyone else having issues with Gocomics this morning? Every time I move to another comic I get one of those surveys that you have to do to see content – same survey each time for a product I know nothing about, doesn’t respond to “ask me another question”, does eventually respond to “skip”. Oh, and it didn’t help when I gave answers to the survey.
TIP BlogSpot:
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Melcher’s line is funny, but that spiked helmet is German. I thought maybe he was from the draft board, telling the peasant [serf?] to sign up, but no, the painting is ‘Prussian expulsion of Poles.’ How like them! [Sorry, two or three political comments there.]
If I remember, the former detached East Prussia is now part Polish, part Russia [non-contiguous].
Peace,
Peace,
Snow was gone yesterday, but it snowed again. Possibly raining now.
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Peace [just once],
Jackie is just fine in South Louisiana. We got in on end of a girls’ weekend and ended up drinking several bottles of wine with some of the girls and had a late night.
We have been officially invited back for entire weekend with the girls. And are coming. The girls have booked entire house for last five years to block other guests, so this is an honor and a privilege.
Will bring a case of wine because I left case in Black Jack’s trunk in Oklahoma.
OK, the daily is hilarious and appropriate. We have been drinking whatever presented itself.
Blessings on your new job Minday. It is always hard leaving coworkers behind when you know the situation is bad.
March came in like a lion, woke up to lots of wind, rain, and thunder with small tree limbs bouncing off of our tin roof.
Ruth Anne, get AdBlockerPlus. [There may be space(s) in that name.]
I can’t wait to see the real deal for those trailers . . . unfortunately by the time March 6+ rolls around I will have forgotten…
(Please, don’t take that as reason to leave the trailer/preview here for to insure my rememberance…) ;-P 🙂
Pretty paper. Pretty ribbons. Empty box.
Finally got over problems today. Was able to work 6 hours. Still have the missing 9 to make up. At least I don’t have to deal with potential holdups, vigilantes and all the things that make a convenience store career overly exciting. Congratulations on your new job Mindy. Hope it’s good for you and that you can stay as long as you like!
Just had crab cakes, boiled shrimp and gumbo out on deck looking at Bayou Teche. Spring peepers were peeping. Beautiful night.
The crab cakes and gumbo sound good to me too. Yum
Elaine and I and former students had Maryland crab cakes in DC and also in VA just across the river. Scrumptious. Late ’80s, I think.
Watched OF for the first time in ages after sunset. It was on schedule and probably a good eruption, but the W wind was so strong no jets got higher than a yard or two. [Would meter have been political?]
Peace,
Finally caught up again.
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From comments along the way
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Loved my Corvair (’64 Monza Spyder) key was to keep tires inflated properly
and weight in the front.
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Greg in MS – it is 1300 miles to my Church.
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Steve from RO
You answered your question – Canadian eggs generally have lighter
yolks because they feed more wheat and we feed more corn (generally)
the redder color probably came from supplements.
Most if not all airlines will cater to your dietary restrictions if you tell them at booking.
Of course that may mean an Oyster Cracker instead of a pretzel. And it doesn’t make it
taste any better.
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emb
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There will be a program on Humming Birds on Lakeland Public TV – maybe national
on March 8. I think it is a repeat but it was good.
For those of the Iron Horse persuasion:
http://www.losttracksoftime.com/p47324941
He thought a bit about his composition.
Matthew’s comments about above photos:
I attended both weekends, with my primary focus being both the men who operate the equipment and the collection of operating oil lanterns at the museum. I incorporated both into my photographic compositions, striving to have the human element at the forefront of my images.
Worth noting is photo #33 – motorman Stewart Rhine with Railcar #4, a replica of SR&RL track crew car #2.
This image was captured with my 1951 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye vintage film camera.
Thanks for the pictures. He has an excellent eye for photography. I had not seen such a crew car previously. I have a couple of old cameras and I may try using them. I had not thought about it.
I thought that this strip fits this blog pretty well….
https://comicskingdom.com/lockhorns
There are now many videos online of murmurations of starlings. There are also videos of starlings that have been taught to talk like parrots. Murmurations are a beautiful example of collective intelligence. Also I notice that no matter how thickly they are flying they never seem to bump into each other. When starlings fly over us they are always headed south. Since we are just a few miles north of the gulf I wonder where they are going?
According to the map at this site,
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/European_Starling/lifehistory
starlings at present don’t migrate across the Gulf and Caribbean to SA. Peace,
Good morning. Hard to describe waking up in a four huge carved bed with plantation shutters around ten foot windows and 15 foot ceilings in a home built in 1832.
Gone With the Wind and Rhett?
Beautiful, Old Bear! Thanks 🙂
Frankly [our] dear[, Jackie, we] don’t give a, …, wait, that sounds pretty awesome, and you know what we do give…