October 2021 – Never Jet Hot

Old bus abandoned in woods

So this guy finds a bus in the woods…

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October 31, 2021October 31, 2021

Highways and Byways

Abandoned bus in the woods

1960 baby shoes

My shoes ain’t got no soul

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October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

As luck would have it, my mother saved my baby shoes all these years. I must have been a lazy baby! They look like new! Why aren’t the toes scuffed...

Vicks cough drops matchbook

COUGH COUGH I took another puff

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October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

Here's a matchbook advertising Vick's cough drops. It's a MATCHBOOK. The person that needs cough drops probably smokes. Why not quit the cancer...

Garden lady in old Ma Bell ad

Working from home… It’s not new.

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October 25, 2021January 17, 2022

Ephemera, The Advertising

Not so many years ago, we all depended on "Ma Bell" and Western Electric... It was fine for doing business though. You didn't have to see each...

part of Seattle World's Fair poster

An alarmingly good time at the World’s Fair

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October 24, 2021October 25, 2021

Back in My Day, Highways and Byways

However, they left behind a lot of fun stuff, the Space Needle of course, the monorail, the "bubbleator" - an elevator that was a big plastic...

57 local dairy princess is sick of milk and even cheese

Milk makes her fart

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October 23, 2021October 23, 2021

Mildly Interesting

Here's the 1957 Dairy Princess fixing to enjoy a glass of whatever passed for milk back then, probably some un-homogenized whole milk- Here we drink...

Worst. Party. Ever.

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October 23, 2021October 23, 2021

Ephemera, Flotsam

I was thinking about surprising my wife with a birthday party this year. Our living room is not configured to have people hiding behind the...

Computer game dreams shattered.

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October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

Mildly Interesting

Hey gang, remember Wacky Packages? Here's one mocking the game Battleship... It's BattleSHEEP. As in "Ewe sheared my Battlesheep"!!

Cement company old matchbook cover

Travel light for better mileage

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October 16, 2021October 16, 2021

Why did Campanella and Cardi hire this scrawny, skinny little guy to drive one of their huge industrial cement trucks? Is he somebody's nephew?

Otter the Haggen mascot

WHIMSICAL OTTER WEARS BASEBALL CAP BACKWARDS

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October 16, 2021October 17, 2021

The Advertising

I was perusing the local free newspaper a while back and was stopped in my tracks by this enticing coupon. Haggen’s is a little upscale for our...

■ 7/4 Teresa says some dude blew his thumb off, but I don't know where. That dude will never hitchhike again!
■ A "Life hacks" email I get says to relieve headaches, eat a teaspoon of mustard! Can you imagine? Maybe Grey Poupon will do something for constipation? ("poupon")
■ I cleared the bathroom sink drain with Liquid Plumber. It was very effective, but now the bathroom smells like a poorly run municipal swimming pool.
■ HOW DO DOGS TELL TIME- Our dog has a huge appetite, the vet advised us to give him a mid-day treat of frozen vegetables, which we do at 2:30- Now the dog pokes me with his nose PRECISELY at 2:30 every day. It makes me wonder what other things he can perceive that I cannot.?
■ Sept. 11 2023 ANACORTES WA • Anonymous party called stating that an elderly female neighbor was beating several carbon monoxide detectors with a hammer. Officers located smoke detectors in the garage smashed next to a frying pan with bacon in it. The homeowner stated she was cooking bacon and all the alarms started going off. (Don't they have reset buttons?)
■ More warped prose in this old Stephen King book; "Opal! Diamond! Sapphire! Jade! I smell Gary's Lemonade!" I wonder what his parent-teacher conferences were like?
■ I WAS on YT and ran across an outfit called "TypingDNA" - Serious big brother stuff here! Here is what it does. "By continuously authenticating your workers’ identities by the way they type on their devices, ActiveLock mitigates threats that arise with remote work such as fraud, device sharing, and unattended devices — giving you peace of mind that only trusted users are accessing your company’s computers."
GEEZE LOUISE I am SO GLAD that I am retired, discarded from the rat race back when rats stood a chance of winning.
■ I have half a mind to make some Jello, but put grapes, carrot peels, and other kitchen castoffs in it. Like they do at the juvenile detention facility.