My Darling Vivian

 Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto and mother of his four daughters. Heartbreaking.

Sorry, age restricted. Must watch on Youtube.

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Buckingham Palace

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Thanks to coltish1.

Mother Nature will find a way...

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Thanks to coltish1.

Cargo Ship (more like Cargo Shift)

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Thanks to coltish1.

Some of the bathmats being exported to Liberia might be permanently late.

Safe to move back in now...

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Thanks, coltish1. 

The Imp of the Perverse

 Excellent, gigagrouch. Thank you for the suggestion!

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What are some perverse things you have thought about doing? In the meantime, I'll work on some examples on my own.

Nina Simone

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Acrasia

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Many thanks to The Old Wolf...

Dolmus

 Dolmus is the name for a Turkish minibus that works similar to a  shared taxi.

The minibus drives along set routes and travel times. Along the route, the dolmus usually stops at any location to allow passengers to get on or off.

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Cow Tools

A cease-and-desist letter, especially from Gary Larson's lawyers, can't be something anyone would welcome. I can only imagine how quickly the guys who wanted to call their (then) new comic "Cow Tools," came up with a different name. 

Homework for today: Find out which comic (currently running) is being referred to above. Include the original creators of that strip as well.

Good job, Tudza. Sorry for not posting this sooner.

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June 27, 1905 - June 27, 2023

I don't know why I'm posting this, but if my grandfather were still alive, he'd be 118 years old today. Happy Birthday, Thomas B. Adams!

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Skeuomorphs

Electric light bulbs imitating the shape of candle flames

A skeuomorph (also spelled skiamorph) is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic purpose in the new system. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal and a software calendar that imitates the appearance of binding on a paper desk calendar.

Read more here.

Thanks to Randy_B for introducing me to this design term. So interesting. I'm open to learning new things. Send me links to other fun stuff. Please.

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Noisy, hungry frogs...

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Wildflowers

Wildflowers outside the home of "Back in the Day" and "1 and Done" cartoonist/creator Eric Scott. Who can identify the various flowers? Camera-shy insects may also be hiding from view.

Thank you, Randy. I can always count on you to share your mastery about everything from wildflowers and trebuchets to toothbrush drones.

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Robert "Say" McIntosh

Robert Robinson McIntosh, known as Robert "Say" McIntosh (January 16, 1944 – June 2023), was an American political and civil rights activist from his adopted city of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was born in Osceola in eastern Arkansas but reared in the Granite Mountain area of Little Rock. During Bill Clinton's terms as governor, McIntosh was a persistent gadfly for state politicians.

When a tree ceremoniously planted on the Arkansas capitol grounds on the national holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., McIntosh showed up the next day and chopped it down in front of the press: "No black man was invited to be present for the tree planting. I'm cutting it down till blacks are invited to be part of the political process in Little Rock."

He made frequent allegations that Bill Clinton had several affairs around Little Rock and had fathered a child out of wedlock named Danny Williams. (The Star tabloid later determined through a DNA test that Clinton was not Williams' father.) McIntosh posted a flier during Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign which read "The Hottest Thing Going: Bill Clinton's Dick Will Keep Him From Running for President of the United States of America" with a picture of Danny Williams. Secret Service agents were seen around Little Rock with paint scrapers removing the fliers.

Some of his campaigns have resulted in self injury, e.g. he once crucified himself on the capitol steps, strapping himself to a large wooden cross to protest racism by state officials. There was a problem with the setup (he wore thermal underwear on the hottest day of the year, telling reporters they would trap his sweat and keep him cool), and he developed heat stroke and required several days of hospitalization. Earlier in the week, McIntosh set up his cross in front of the Governor's Mansion. Governor White was entertaining foreign dignitaries at the mansion that day, and when they asked him why the man was on a cross outside his residence, White deadpanned: "He displeased me." In 1983, McIntosh placed himself on a cross in front of the Pulaski County Sheriff's office, quickly taking himself down when Sheriff Tommy F. Robinson appeared with a chainsaw to cut him from the wood.

His critics have called him a loose cannon, but few debate that he has been a major part of local color in Arkansas. McIntosh is known as "The Petey Greene" Of Arkansas. John Robert Starr, the longtime managing editor of the since-titled Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, referred to him as "Robert 'You Don't Say' McIntosh", and "McIntrash".

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Zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes, jalapeños, bell peppers

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Bass Reeves

Bass Reeves was born a slave in 1838 in Crawford Country, Arkansas. After the 13th amendment was passed, Reeves became a free man. Interestingly, his time with the Native population landed Reeves his first job as a tour guide of Native territory. What makes Reeves a legendary figure is that he became the first deputy US marshal of African descent. He quickly rose up in the ranks because of his solid reputation in law enforcement. All in all, he made 3,000 arrests of dangerous criminals.

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First Amendment Audit

Not all first amendment audit videos are the same. Amagansett Press (with father Jason and his son Ben) are exceptionally well done. Some auditors are out to create unnecessary drama.

On Feb. 24, 2020, a YouTube channel called Amagansett Press posted a 51-minute video of a man and his son entering the post office on a “First Amendment audit” to test their right to “take video and photographs in public and from publicly accessible places.” After police asked the man filming inside the post office to desist and leave the premises, the man threatened legal action, and the town of Silverthorne, Colorado, eventually agreed to pay a $9,500 settlement, as per Summit Daily News, a local newspaper serving Summit County, Colorado.

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Anemometer

• In meteorology, an anemometer (from Ancient Greek άνεμος (ánemos) 'wind', and μέτρον(métron) 'measure') is a device that measures wind speed and direction. It is a common instrument used in weather stations. The earliest known description of an anemometer was by Italian architect and author Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) in 1450.
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Carrier pigeon postage stamps

Ifni was a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands.

Croatia

Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Paraguay

(former) Czechoslavakia

Estonia

India

Israel

Iceland

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Carrier pigeons

Inside the corner of a corrugated iron shed. Two pigeons are standing on perches and a third bird is sitting in a roost. Both of the standing birds are missing a leg. Army horses, messenger dogs and carrier pigeons were all very vulnerable, not only to enemy fire, but also to gas and to disease.

 

In the middle of the carnage in which so many men died, wounded pigeons were being treated. However, they could still be used for breeding and were, therefore, a valuable resource.

 

--National Library of Scotland

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Posts

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Thanks, Luke!

Embrace the hate, Amanda

The hate I can handle. What I get upset about are my careless errors or typos.  Amanda's line, "Did this person think our cat was an immortal Scottish swordsman?" gets me every time. Best comeback line ever!
 

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Oops...

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Two photos...

I found these photos side-by-side on the Instagram page of Doug Savage, the guy who creates the comic "Savage Chickens'. 

https://www.instagram.com/savagechickens/

I'm not sure if these photos are connected, but I'd like to imagine that they are. What is that cat looking at? It has to be what is at the bottom of the stairs, right? What say you? What do you think?

I thought it was a wolf spider. The legs look too thin for a tarantula. If there is a spider expert among us, please let us know. 

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Centuripe, province in Enna, Sicily, Italy

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Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dobrodošli, prijatelji iz Slovenije. Ste oboževalec mojega stripa? Pišite mi, prosim!

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Ruby-tailed wasp

 

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All Romances

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