Episode 12 A Sam Basset Mystery (Cleo and Company)

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Remembering Charlie

 “Charlie James Gregory-Hammett crossed the rainbow bridge Sunday, September 13th peacefully in the arms of his mom,” the obituary read.

“Born July 15th, 2013, in Easley, South Carolina, Charlie was the son of Sallie Gregory Hammett, and four years later was also adopted by his loving dog dad, David Hammett. He is survived by his grandparents, four aunts and uncles, and his adored cousin Captain. He was predeceased by his sisters Gracie and Scout Gregory (who welcomed him cheerfully on the other side).”

“We will carry him with us everywhere”

“Charlie’s favorite activities were walking, stick collecting, swimming, smiling, and snoozing. If we’re being honest, Charlie loved everything life had to offer (except stairs. He hated stairs). Charlie loved the beach, car rides, bananas, and socks. Charlie always loved going to his Grandma and Grandpa’s house, where he could get treats, chase squirrels, and pee everywhere cousin Captain peed. Charlie went tailgating, camping, hiking, and fishing. He lived the very best life.

More than anything else, Charlie loved his mom. He was always there to greet her with some kisses and a firm grip on her arm. He was her constant companion. There through heartache, moves, grief, and joy. He was good at a lot of things, but he was best at unconditional love. He taught everyone he met about loving people, and always seeing the good in everyone.

Charlie lost a hard-fought battle with lymphoma after five months of bravery. Charlie spent his last days in his favorite place, the beach. He relaxed in the Charlie-sized holes he dug himself, and dove straight into the oncoming waves. His last days were so happy and will be cherished forever.”

“He left behind his fierce love, which never wavered”

“We will think of him every time we open the peanut butter. We will miss him every time we see a sock on the floor or pass a stick on a walk. We will carry him with us everywhere.

He will be forever missed and forever remembered, but he left behind his fierce love, which never wavered. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you give all your pups some extra love in honor of Charlie.”

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Spineless hedgehog

Read about hedgehogs here.

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Frog Applause / 2020 November 29

https://www.gocomics.com/frogapplause/2020/11/29

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History of Mark Trail

The first Mark Trail comic strip

https://www.markcarlson-ghost.com/index.php/2020/11/21/mark-trail-confidential/

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Surveillance Pickle #1

Birdfeeder pillage

The surveillance pickle has been spotted

Feral boar transport

Fake pig attack

Dancing to the Froglandian National Anthem

Help! Someone has stolen the lyrics to the Froglandian National Anthem. Please do your patriotic duty and send them to me to post. 

Somebody is about to be put on the "Naughty List".

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Pomegranate earrings

 

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A slap in the face

It's sort of a slap in the face to keep seeing "Shoecabbage" being promoted by GoComics on my "Frog Applause" page even though it was unceremoniously removed from their site on November 6, 2020.

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Frogs

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Thanks, rad-ish.

Bottoms

Rock Bottom

 

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Unicow

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200 words or less...

Lame Readers: Write a story, poem or other creative endeavor (in 200 words or less) that uses the image above as your inspiration. I will post your masterpiece here. Email me privately or post your writing on the Frog Applause page at gocomics.com. If emailing me, kindly let me know how you want your identity to be published.

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3hourtour:

I tended to become blind to the sea in the background, but that was only because the wind that skipped across it was so familiar with its damp saltiness. How I hated being  here. 

I hated the fishing boat, but also the bakery. I was drawn to neither. The building so old and ill maintained that the spackling ever itself decided a generous retreat. 

I smelled the bread, but I did not come for that. Grandma laid close to her final rest. That was my excuse for being her. Anna was why. 

I went to light a cigarette. The wind took offense. I backed into a nook. The smoke laughed and danced at the breeze's expense.  

The frothy bastard.

It controlled everything here. 

I flicked the half smoked fag to the street.

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coltish1:

Lawyers and public officials in the Tuscan town of Luogo di Nascita del Deficiente went scrambling to their legal volumes: they needed to research dominio eminente (eminent domain). It seems the grading crew prepping for the new Tuscany highway bypass got a little carried away and removed part of old Signora Cafarelli’s house. The legal cognoscenti knew they had to look up a specialized section of the statute and case law, because the house dated from 1740.

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Howard'sMyHero:

Hayaku Haiku #1:

DRUNK

Lath needs plastering

Downhill side is hungover 

Living in a binge

Hayaku Haiku #2:

CURTAINS

Dilapidation

Really driving me crazy

But it’s Home Sweet Home

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Suzanne Duchamp

Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (20 October 1889 – 11 September 1963) was a French Dadaist painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsman. Her work was significant to the development of Paris Dada and modernism and her drawings and collages explore fascinating gender dynamics. Due to the fact that she was a woman in the male prominent Dada movement, she was rarely considered an artist in her own right. She constantly lived in the shadows of her famous older brothers, who were also artists, or she was referred to as "the wife of." Her work in painting turns out to be significantly influential to the landscape of Dada in Paris and to the interests of women in Dada. She took a large role as an avant-garde artist, working through a career that spanned five decades, during a turbulent time of great societal change. She used her work to express certain subject matter such as personal concerns about modern society, her role as a modern woman artist, and the effects of the First World War. Her work often weaves painting, collage, and language together in complex ways.

Broken and Restored Multiplication, 1918

Scottish Espagnole, 1920

Funnel of Solitude, 1921

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Exclamation mark

Sign in New Zealand

In Spanish, a sentence or clause ending in an exclamation mark must also begin with an inverted exclamation mark (the same also applies to the question mark): ¿Estás loco? ¡Casi la matas!, 'Are you crazy? You almost killed her!'

Although not part of dictionary words, exclamation marks appear in some brand names and trade names, including Yum! Brands (parent of fast food chains like  Taco Bell and KFC) and Web services Yahoo! and Joomla!. It appears in the titles of stage and screen works, especially comedies and musicals; examples include the game show Jeopardy! ; the '60s musical TV show Shindig! ; musicals  Oklahoma!  , Oliver! and Oh! Calcutta! ; and movies Airplane!  and Moulin Rouge! . Writer Elliot S! Maggin and cartoonist Scott Shaw! include exclamation marks in their names. In the 2016 United States presidential campaign, Republican candidate Jeb Bush used "Jeb!" as his campaign logo.

The English town of Westward Ho!, named after the novel by Charles Kingsley, is the only place name in the United Kingdom that officially contains an exclamation mark. There is a town in Quebec called Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, which is spelled with two exclamation marks. The city of Hamilton, Ohio, changed its name to Hamilton! in 1986, but neither the United States Board on Geographic Names nor mapmakers Rand McNally recognized the change. The city of Ostrava, Czech Republic, changed its logotype to Ostrava!!! in 2008.

Some comic books, especially superhero comics of the mid-20th century, routinely use the exclamation point instead of the period, which means the character has just realized something; unlike when the question mark appears instead, which means the character is confused, surprised or they do not know what is happening. This tends to lead to exaggerated speech, in line with the other hyperboles common in comic books. A portion of the motivation, however, was simply that a period might disappear in the printing process used at the time, whereas an exclamation point would likely remain recognizable even if there was a printing glitch. For a short period Stan Lee, as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, attempted to curb their overuse by a short-lived ban on exclamation points altogether, which led to an inadvertent lack of ending punctuation on many sentences.

Comic book writer Elliot S! Maggin once accidentally signed his name with an exclamation due to the habit of using them when writing comic scripts; it became his professional name from then on.  Similarly, comic artist Scott Shaw! has used the exclamation point after his name throughout his career.

In comic books and comics in general, a large exclamation point is often used near or over a character's head to indicate surprise. A question mark can similarly be used to indicate confusion.

In chess notation "!" denotes a good move, "!!" denotes an excellent move, "?!" denotes a dubious move, and "!?" denotes an interesting, risky move. In some chess variants such as large-board Shogi variants, "!" is used to record pieces capturing by stationary feeding or burning.

In Scrabble, an exclamation mark written after a word is used to indicate its presence in the Official Tournament and Club Word List but its absence from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, usually because the word has been judged offensive.

The band !!! (pronounced "Chk Chk Chk") uses exclamation points as its name.

In 2008, the pop-punk band Panic! at the Disco dropped the exclamation point in its name; this became the "most-discussed topic on [fan] message boards around the world". In 2009, the exclamation mark was re-inserted following the band's split.

The band Bomb the Music Industry! utilizes an exclamation mark in its name, as well as several album and song titles and promotional material. Examples include their songs "(Shut) Up The Punx!!!" and the album Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited by Nothing!!!!!!!.

American musician Pink stylizes her stage name "P!NK", and uses three exclamation points in the subtitle of her 2010 release, Greatest Hits... So Far!!!

The exclamation mark was included in the title of Dinah Shore's TV series, Dinah! The exclamation mark was later the subject of a bitter argument between Elaine Benes and her boyfriend, Jake Jarmel, in the Seinfeld episode, "The Sniffing Accountant". Elaine got upset with Jake for not putting an exclamation mark at the end of a message about her friend having a baby. Jake took extreme exception to the trivial criticism and broke up with Elaine, putting an exclamation mark after his parting words: "I'm leaving!"

Source: wikipedia

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Hervé Bazin's orthography and punctuation (1966)

In his 1966 essay Plumons l’Oiseau ("Let's pluck the bird"), Bazin proposed a nearly phonemic orthography for the French language called "l’ortografiǝ lojikǝ" (logical orthography). In doing this, he proposed six new "points d’intonation" (punctuation marks).

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Living into your 90s - 60 Minutes

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Ping pong balls and mousetraps

Ping pong balls and mousetraps demonstrate social distancing impact. 

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Big tent

Big tent or catch-all party is used in reference to a political party's policy of permitting or encouraging a broad spectrum of views among its members. This is in contrast to other parties that defend a determined ideology and seek voters who adhere to that ideology and convince people towards it.

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Victor David Brenner and his Lincoln cent

For many, the “VDB” initials are an important if faceless feature on the Lincoln cent. But there is a face behind the “VDB” and the man to whom those letters belong. His name is Victor David Brenner, a celebrated medalist and sculptor. Victor David Brenner was born on June 12, 1871 in  Šiauliai, Lithuania.  Brenner moved to America in 1890 at the age of 19, and lived in New York City. At a young age, Victor's father had taught him the skills for gem and seal engraving along with sculpting. After he moved to America, those were the skills that helped him get by. 

Read more here and here.

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Episode 11 of A Sam Basset Mystery (Cleo and Company)

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Bad goat!

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MISSHAPENED PRODUCE

One of the most popularly cited problems in the food industry is the amount of produce that goes entirely unconsumed in the developed world. By some estimations, it’s more than half. To combat this waste, a new class of for-profit start-ups has emerged: ugly-produce boxes. Companies like Misfits Market, Imperfect Produce, and Hungry Harvest aim to fill the logistical gaps and provide new markets for growers by buying up farmers’ “ugly” or excess produce.

Read more here.

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