When Norah Met Sally

On January 16, 2025, we were watching the CBS Evening News, as one does around our house.  Something about Norah O'Donnell's dress intrigued me.

It was the embroidery or stitching or what-you-call-it on her left shoulder.  It reminded me of another raven-haired beauty, this one from the movies.

Yup, it was Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I wonder if anybody else watched the news that night and wondered if Norah could likewise unravel her arm from her body?

See you on Monday for the beginning of a MAXI MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!

  

The Wonders of Bulldog Clips

Behold the lowly bulldog clip!

To the unimaginative, these critters are only for office use.  But I say ...

Along with a couple of paper clips, use 'em to hang a calendar over a door!

Use as a gather to hold too-long straps out of your way!

Longing for the old days when those metal toothpaste tubes would stay rolled up?  With a bulldog, your toothpaste stays put at the nozzle end!

When your license-plate frame starts to curl up, bulldogs keep it trim and tight!

What uses have YOU found?  See you Thursday for the last entry in this year's APRIL FOOLISHNESS!

  

Misspellings Again Again

Yup, dat ole debbil de English languish kin snake upon ewe!

In this case, we have some spelling or lettering goofs from the comics page.

This Family Circus is from the April 22, 2020 Oklahoman.  Note that the name of the dog Barfy is misspelled "Barly."

However, the Tulsa World's version gets Barfy's name right.

Above is Dilbert, from the July 10, 2019 Oklahoman.  Look in the center panel and notice that "THE" is spelled "T E," with the center letter missing.

That word is correct on Scott Adams's website ...

... and as printed in the Tulsa World.

That Oklahoma City paper has got some gremlins, huh?  See you Monday.

  

Misspellings Again

Here's a phenonomal typo!

It's from a column in the July 30, 2022 Tulsa World.  So let's blame the syndicating service!

This one is from our own dear Blogger!  A screengrab from February 4, 2021, gives a whole new way of spelling "referring."  Ain't it grand?

  

Bathroom Visions #1

Ever since I started working in this building, I noticed something intriguing about the paper towels.  One end has a black cap, presumably for use in the paper-towel dispensers in the bathrooms, while the other end of the cardboard tube is left uncovered and open.

After biding my time, waiting for empties, I made my own optical illusion.  Don't YOU think of the starship Enterprise?

See you Monday.

  

You, Sir, Are NOT Harry Crews' "Car"!

Back around 1973, I read Car, an interesting read by Harry Crews, thanks to the New Arrivals table at the good ole Bartlesville Public Library.

This was more than fifty years ago.  I remember the absurdity of the premise, that, for a stunt, a guy promised to eat (suitably reduced to pieces) an entire car.  I'm sure the book is full of insightful characters and sharp commentary on consumer society, but I remember none of that.

I was amused when trying to recall the book, to come across a wacky image produced by the semi-fallible Google.  You know when you enter a search term, off to the right you would see other supposedly helpful, supposedly related info?

Check out the illustrated "preview" of Harry Crews' Car.  Ummm, I don't think so!

See ya Thursday for more silliness!

  

A SUPER Place to Work!

I work security for the good ole State of Oklahoma, at night when it's supposed to be peaceful.

And it usually is, giving me time to walk the building, watch the cameras, and consider deep thoughts.  For example ....

Doesn't THIS particular parking-lot view yield a painted set of lines that's suspiciously familiar?

I think it looks like Superman's shield!  However, I am sad to inform you that during the daytime there isn't a Super Car parked there.

See you on Monday, fellow Super Seers!

  

Two Canines I Could Understand

But two A-9s?

On the fine day of February 15, 2025, the fine ole Tulsa World did a silly thing.

It printed the SAME PAGE twice, in two different sections!  The above photo is from the first section.

And THIS above photo is from the same page, printed in the SPORTS SECTION.

Who knows what SHOULD have been on page 9 of the Sports, but probably not this.  Zoom in on the first photo to see the grand, mistaken scheme of things.  OOPS!

  

Welcome to April Foolishness - 2026!

One of my zillions of books on the mysteries of life is Peter Costello's  In Search of Lake Monsters.  My copy is the 1974 Grenada printing, seen below.

One critter discussed is known as the Monster of Yakut Lake, or the Labynkyr Devil.

Here is the illustration of the beast in the book. 

Now, I don't know why, but this image has always reminded me of one of our kitchen spoons.

Do you see the resemblance, or am I just crazy?

See you Monday!

  

But What Was He LIKE!?!?!

For all the emotional vampires who love the Sixties vibe, here's your chance to sneak into the Kennedy circus.

The November 1983 Ladies Home Journal clues us in.

If it doesn't say that he was a family man who insulted his family and God with multiple sexual liaisons with not-his-wife; if it doesn't say that this was a vainglorious man who allowed Khrushchev to take credit for ending the Cuban Missile Crisis; if it doesn't say that this apparently young and vigorous man suffered horrible physical pain every day ... Then you didn't learn what he was REALLY like here, either.

See you Thursday on a more lighthearted note with the commencement of 2026's APRIL FOOLISHNESS!

  

It's Art, Man!

This is a 1987 parody of Watchmen by a guy named Dan Burke.

So, misspellings and overcrowded panels aside, you have to admit that Burke did a pretty impressive job of squishing a simulacrum of the whole Watchmen story into 23 pages!

We can only assume, from the names, that some of the characters are satirizing folks who were hangin' about in the comic-book industry around then.

Once again, the evil profiteering corporations have it in for the creatives.  What else is new?  See you Monday.