First year they had me putting wheels on Cadillacs

[austin_dern]

It's time for another roundup of my humor blog posts, so let me warm up to that with some pictures.

bunny_hugger deep in negotiations with a squirrel last year. The squirrel seemed like it might be coaxed into taking food directly from her.

The squirrel wouldn't have it, though, and only took the bread after bunny_hugger and set it down. I'm not sure if this is the same squirrel that's fairly intrepid about our presence this year.

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And of the things posted to my humor blog the past week? Consider these:

• Senior Physicist Sought! --- the major piece for this week. Based on an actual classified ad!
• From The Dream Game Show, or possibly an only partially written Monty Python sketch.
• After The Storms, as we got a lot of rain the other day.
• In Which I Am An Awful Person, in a minor way but still not my finest hour.
• A Funky Discovery, pointing out my mathematics comics and complaining about Funky Winkerbean.
• Statistics Saturday: What Father’s Day Cards Talk About Versus What I Need Them To Say, in which neither the greeting card industry nor I come out looking that good.
• Meeting Betty Boop’s Grampy, Maybe --- sure, she calls him Grampy, but what do we really know about him?
• Popeye Space Ark 2000 Pinball … Reconsidered, last week's major piece. The question: was one of the most notoriously awful pinball games of the 90s really all that bad? Or was it just crazypants?

Trivia: A 1613 census of Lima, Peru, found 114 Asians living there, about half of them women. It's believed the actual tally was higher. Many were employed as ``ruff openers'', fixing the mechanisms on the ruffs which the wealthy wore around their necks. Source: 1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created, Charles C Mann.

Currently Reading: ... The Heavens And The Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, Walter A McDougall.

PS: Reading the Comics, June 25, 2015: Not Making A Habit Of This Edition, my fourth mathematics post since the last roundup.

Comments

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

I only recall Grampy in his Christmas episode. Perhaps he's Betty Boop's sugar daddy.... ;o)

Nice observations on Fleischer Studios, too. I love how all the 30's companies expanded their cartooning techniques.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

His Christmas episode is one of the cartoons I'm looking at for future installments, in fact. It's his only color appearance.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I am now wondering, on the basis of that first photograph, whether bunny_hugger is reserving the role of Plio, or if I can safely claim that myself. ^_^

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh, you can take it. ... As it happens we forgot that movie even existed, even though Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum has this gigantic banner for the movie.