The Saturday Picture Show, July 8, 2023

 

The world lost a great talent when Bruce McCall died recently. He was both a writer and a cartoonist for the National Lampoon, The New Yorker, and other publications. This page of fake ads from the Lampoon in 1973 reminded me, any time after that when I was looking for a job, that Airline Mail Sorters Eat Steak. 

I know, Calvin, I know. Just two weeks ago, everyone was hollering about it being chilly, and now look!

This campaign poster is from 1935, supporting the re-elections of Franklin Roosevelt as President and Herbert Lehman as Governor of New York. As more states see fit to de-regulate labor, you will see children doing factory work again, and then someone will say it's time to abolish child labor. Bad things run in cycles.

I have no idea where this house is, but I am fairly certain it's near a beach. Hence the 148 windows to catch that sea breeze.

We are glad to have a whole-house policy with a local utility for plumbing, appliance, HVAC, and appliance repair. This is what a kitchen sink looks like when someone's cousin's brother-in-law shows up with a tool kit.

Kentucky is urging people to get off the interstates and try the local highways and byways. I worked with a guy whose brother got lost down there once, and had a state trooper advise him to get back on the interstate and not go sightseeing, or he might never be heard from again. All right, then.

I never understood the concept of "evaporated milk." If something evaporates, it dries up, am I wrong? 

This AM radio station in Livingston, Montana, is one of the hundreds of local AM stations that have "gone dark" in that past few years.  AM, which once ruled the airwaves, is now home to one or two big legacy stations in each city, and a dozen or so others running inane sports talk, foreign language or religious programming. 

This is a colorized picture of a banana boat unloading in the early 1900s. Some of these bananas are just now ripe enough so that someone will say, "Hey! Don't throw them out! I'ma make banana bread, first chancet I get!"

We will remember the Canadian Wildfires tinting our sunsets and polluting our air.