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Our Daily Thread 5-30-13

Good Morning!

On this day 1416 Jerome of Prague was burned as a heretic by the Church.  😦

In 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. 😯

I don’t think I much care for the 1400’s.

In 1783 the first daily newspaper in the U.S. was published by Benjamin Towner. It was called “The Pennsylvania Evening Post”

In 1854 the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.

In 1896 the first automobile accident occurred in New York City.

In 1911 Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis Sweepstakes, the 500-mile race that would later be known as the Indianapolis 500.

In 1922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.

In 1958 unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. 

 And in 1967 Evel Knievel jumped 16 cars in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.

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Quote of the Day

“That’s all folks!”

Mel Blanc

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Everyone in America, and most of the world, has heard Mel’s voice at one time or another. Almost 500 voices in over 5000 cartoons. Here’s a clip with a bunch, from way back when Letterman was actually funny.  🙂

And here’s some music.

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QoD

Which Mel Blanc character was your favorite?

Here’s a list of Looney Tunes characters to refresh your memory, from Wikipedia

And more here, also from Wikipedia

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77 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 5-30-13”

  1. Good evening everyone. Thanks for the warm welcome. AJ, I appreciate that you post the videos, but we pay by the megabyte and if a video doesn’t have my grandkids in it, I don’t watch. Sorry

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  2. 1. Tweety – a hilarious mixture of sweet innocence and clear-headed tough guy, his exclamations always made his victories over his pursuers look like sheer accidents
    2. Yosemite Sam – was there ever a more voluble and utterly futile villain?
    3. Bugs – the American version of Sam Weller, he had a smart remark for every situation

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  6. Good night all. Tomorrow morning is Friday and the morning I go down the hill to market. Our market is from 6:30am to 7:30 MWF and the only place we get fresh fruit and vegetables. I am not very friendly at 6:30, rather a forced smile.

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  8. I never saw “I Walk the Line”. I really don’t see many movies, not even on TV.
    I understand that it was June who was instrumental in getting John to trust Christ and straighten up his life.

    We had lots of mosquetoes in SC, but the worst I saw them was on Baffin Island, up in Canada. They assurred me they didn’t carry disease. I don’t have trouble with them up here.

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  10. In the 1900’s killing became a science. OTOH, when I visited the Antietim Battlefield, the Park Service Ranger said that with modern medicine, at last half of those injured there could be saved.
    A brother of one of Elvera’s ancestors “died of wounds” recieved at Anitetim. They count him “killed at Antietim”, but he lived almost two weeks after the fight.

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  11. Before I posted here I went looking for the liner notes to June Carter Cash’s album Press On. The woman had a very strong faith. June and her family really helped Johnny Cash. I have read several of his biographies and autobiographies. He retold the story in a couple of books about crawling in a cave in Tennessee to give up and die and when he crawled out they were waiting on him.
    He was always honest about his alcohol and drug addictions and it was always June who pulled him out.

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  12. I think it was Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror that says if you were suddenly transported back into the 14 th century, the frst thing you would notice was everyone had rotten teeth and pock marks and nearly every woman between 14 and 45 was pregnant.

    No thanks.

    I like Tweety and, surely, he was “Beep, beep,” the Roadrunner, too? 🙂

    I’m off to spend the day in the Oswald Chambers special collection at Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Library. I’m starting in a box marked “ephemera.”

    Should we buy a vacant lot? Kim’s community is too far from the adorable 4.5 grandchildren. Of course that may be a different story 13 years from now when there are four teenage girls!

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  14. I like Marvin, too. Bugs was the main Looney Toons character, and the best known. He was my favorite for a long time. I can’t say for sure which was my favorite, but I know which one I didn’t like: Foghorn Leghorn- a little too overdone (though he may have been good fried.)

    Some of the characters showed perseverance and tenacity in spite of failure, such as Elmer Fudd and Wile E. Coyote, not to mention Sylvester. But why a cat would try so hard for a small mouthful of canary, I don’t know.

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  15. Who voiced the characters before Mel? I grew up watching a VHS of old wartime WB cartoons. There was a Tweety episode, although he wasn’t called Tweety, and he used characteristic phrases like “my wit’l head” and “dat poor puty tat” He was hunted by two cats, one slim, wily and resembling the later Sylvester, the other was fat, bumbling and always had to do the dirty work. Later, I realized that the two cats were modeled after Abbot and Costello, the fat one even whistled like Costello. I wonder if they got big stars to do the voices as part of the war effort.

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  17. I remember that Chuck Jones was the director for the Looney Tune Cartoons and Mel was the voice for the Cartoons. Today, the writing for the cartoons is really lacking in quality. Pixar does a pretty good job, but the themes are not really the subtle humor that Chuck Jones always employed in his cartoons. Guess I am just an old dinosaur still living in the past.

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  18. Anonymous #1, is that Michelle? If I were still in Chicago (ten-plus years ago, sinve I loved the end of April), I’d try to come out to Wheaton to see you, or see if we could meet in Chicago.

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  20. Place names from yesterday: there’s a town in Alberta named Waskatenau – bet no one can guess how it’s actually pronounced!

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  21. Karen, Waz Ka (accent there) Tay new? Total guess.

    Hi all, I have been truant here due to plain old business. Good to know I can still recognize people even when they inadvertently post anonymously.

    Welcome Jo! I tried to scroll through to find out why you are saying goodnight first thing in the morning. Where in the world are you? Australia?

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  23. I caught up on reading WV late last night. I too lurked for years. Started reading when I ordered a sub of World for a SIL and got hooked. I was working away from home, and don’t do TV, so would read about your lives and pray for you. Now, I am just have my hands too full to post most of the time. Usually at least one little one is cuddling when I read the computer.

    So Katie’s finger is almost healed. She ended up losing about 1/2 of the part they sewed back on. It looks really good though. The children are out of school for the summer. My little man is potty training. Working at keeping the other 4 productively occupied. Will also have other grandchildren off and on during the summer.

    In March, I was asked to fill in at the Emergency Room temporarily. As the project that my husband is working on was to end within a few weeks, we decided I would do it. So with the Obamacare fiasco, out facility, as are all healthcare facilities, is deeply in the red. They have not hired for the position that I am “temporarily” filling, and won’t in the near future. Hubby is still working, Praise God. We feel like we meet ourselves coming and going. But we are able to pay our bills. 🙂

    And, we have to cows that are fresh, We got 4 new calves this weekend, and chicks, and garden, and……………We could use your prayers.

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  30. I can’t seem to shake the image of critters crawling in boxes of cornbread from last night’s thread. Ewww.

    And the week rolls on. Now that I’ve moved on from writing about West Nile-bearing mosquitoes (scratching), it’s back to sea lions today with another release of rehabilitated pinnipeds on the beach. Throngs of 1st and 2nd graders also supposed to be in attendance.

    It’s all probably Tout-worthy.

    Back to Cash-Carter — I found it especially poignant that he died only 4 months after she did.

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  31. Has anyone seen Carnival of the Animals with Bugs and Daffy? I love that! We got it when our son was young so I have not watched it in years.

    For whatever reason all the videos on here are shown as blacked out on my home pc.

    My husband has a church meeting this afternoon so we stayed home from work. Playing hooky with the hub. 🙂 We went to recycle plastics at the local Farmer’s Mkt. and did a little shopping. I was reminded why we don’t shop together often. He puts enough in the bag for a family of ten and I buy for our downsized family of two. At least I have a bunch of brussel sprouts to share with someone at the office who loves them. She will be happy tomorrow.

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  32. Up on Lookout Mountain there is an area called Fairy Land. It is not pronounced as it looks by the locals. I am not sure how it is pronounced except to say it is something along the lines of “Farlnd” The town of Beaufort is a tricky one, too, as well as the county name, Houston.

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  33. Donna, 11:25. It happens often. My dad lived six months longer than my mom.
    In our SS class, we have lots of widows, very few widowers.
    Sometimes, when she goes, he has nothing left to live for.

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  34. Beaufort isn’t tricky if you know what state it’s in. Strangely, it’s NC that has the French punounciation, Bofort. in South Carolina it’s Beau fort.

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  36. We live near Kamiah, the place of ropes (where hemp grows and the locals used to go there to make rope), it is often mispronounced. I was raised in Moscow, not ma’s cow.

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  42. Cheryl, no I didn’t, LOL! Chas, I’ll rephrase your statement to read, “Only some women would notice that.” 😉

    BTW, everybody, I heard that American Public Media’s Performance Today is celebrating Mel Blanc’s birthday today with a few excerpts from classic cartoons and highlighting classical music that those cartoons often featured. You can listen at the PT website anytime today, I think (and maybe other days, too?), if you’re interested.

    http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/playlist.php?year=2013&month=5&day=30

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  45. I was checking to see if the goats were still in the pasture. We put the horses in that pasture to eat the grass down and the goats to eat the weeds down. The horses are hiding in the shelter, from the rain we will say.

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  46. I am actually in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, north of Australia. There is a 10 hour difference with the east coast, but we are a day ahead. So time to go to school and teach my Kinder class this Friday.

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  50. Computer has been down most of the day, but we had things to do so I guess that was okay. I got three new tires and husband got four new hubcaps. It has been a tiresome day 🙂

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  51. Also working on our tax return, you know, just the kind of thing tax accountants do during the off season 😦 . It has been a taxing day, too! 🙂

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  52. Now I am mixing up dough to make some coin shaped pendants for children to paint and hang on leather lacing for a VBS project. Did not know I was going to be doing this tonight until I got a call while I was at the tire dealership getting those installed. I have been searching over the house looking for something to use to stamp onto the pendants. I have found a design on a piece of crystal. I will try to see if it works or if it is just a sticky mess. Now, time to go kneed the dough. Yes, we need dough to pay the tax bill 🙂 If only it were that easy! Somehow I don’t think IRS would accept my coin pendants as payment. 😦

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  53. Waskatenau = Wah SET nah
    For those of you who were wondering 🙂

    Janice, I love playing hooky with my husband. I have one more day of work before we have 2 weeks of holidays. We’re going to work on our acreage and go canoeing and fishing and hiking. Looking forward to it.

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  56. Janice – Do you use Firefox as your browser? I notice that if I use Firefox, the videos are blacked out, so to speak, but using Google Chrome, on the same computer, they come in. (Now if only the audio would work on this computer.)

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  57. I use Firefox, Karen, and the videos aren’t blacked out on mine. Don’t ask me why, though; I am probably the least knowledgeable computer user there is. 😉

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  58. The videos were blacked out earlier but seem to be okay now. I don’t know what goes on with this computer. It has a gremlin or something. I do not use Firefox. My brother uses that because he thinks it has stronger security. I guess my brower is Internet Explorer if that is a browser. I really don’t understand what a browser is. We have Clear as our current internet provider and clearly it is not working well for us. I have told my husband to please cancel it. He said he would at the end of the month. Well…I’d say we’re about there. So I will see if he remembers.

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  59. 6 Arrows – I’m the least tech-savvy person in our family. I still think it’s cool that I finally learned to copy-&-paste (a few years ago) & learned how to right click to get to the “Open in new tab” option. What more do I need? 🙂

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  60. Karen, I learned copy-&-paste — ha, I started typing that, then I decided to copy and paste it from your post) 🙂 — maybe within the last year. And how come when I right click, I don’t see an “Open in new tab” option? (I copied and pasted that, too!) I see 11 options when I right click, but not that one. Oh, well! 🙂

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  66. OK, I’m going to get all sentimental on you guys now. I’m posting this a day ahead of time because I’m not sure I’ll have an opportunity to get on here tomorrow.

    Tomorrow, May 31, is my first anniversary! One year since de-lurking at World Mag Blog. 🙂 And what a year it’s been!

    I’ve been reminiscing today about the first day I commented at WMB. I remember Whitney’s QoD asking us what was memorable about the month of May, and that pulled me out of lurker status because of all the special things that had happened on May 14 in previous years (births of two children, and also the date I had met my husband).

    I won’t ever forget the day I popped on the scene. All y’all (see, I’m learning 😉 ) gave me such a warm welcome, and I will be forever grateful for that.

    I remember Donna asking me for the pet report. 😉 Four cats. No dogs. (Then.) Now it’s three cats (one went with 2nd Arrow) and about half a dog. 😯 (The neighbor dog likes hanging out here when his “other family” are all gone to school and work during the day. They feed him. We love him.) 🙂

    I remember Chas exclaiming “Ouch” when I stepped on toes. 🙂 That first-born comment of mine.

    And there are so many other great memories from all through the year.

    AJ, I’ll say it again. I am so very grateful that you started your blog when World Mag Blog ended its run. I’ve been blessed beyond measure coming here, giving us a place to continue the conversation, to pray and to be prayed for, and to just generally enjoy good Christian fellowship.

    You guys just don’t know what you mean to me. You’re all a blessing.

    And just one more thing: If there are any lurkers here, come on in! The water’s fine. 🙂

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  68. Ha. Half a dog. Reminds me of the story that makes the rounds on FB from time to time — an older dog kept showing up at this family’s door. He’d come inside where he’d curl up on the floor and just sleep the day away. Then he’d leave.

    They finally figured out the dog belonged to a family with 7 kids. The mom apologized, said the dog just needed to get away from all the chaos and get some rest during the day. Then she asked if she could come with him next time?

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  71. Donna, That may be where Piper disappears to sometimes. She doesn’t like kids, or dogs, or cats. Basically she just likes Hubby.

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  73. My cat Annie recently banged on my neighbor’s front door last week (she’s been known to give her treats and apparently, unbeknownst to neglectful me, the cat’s feeder was empty).

    She gets wet food in the morning and evening when I feed the dogs, but without her stead supply of cat kibble during the day she apparently gets quite demanding.

    The neighbor gave her some treats, figuring she was quite desperate and on verge of starvation.

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  74. Cats can really make a ruckus.

    Reminds me of when I was a young teen during the Watts riots in the mid-1960s. We didn’t live that far away from all the unrest (National Guardsmen with rifles were stationed on the rood of the local department store). There had been warnings that the riots might spread to our community.

    My dad was working nights at the time so my mom was up late waiting for him to get home — and rather worried about the state of affairs, of course.

    Before long, she heard a banging on the back door. Then again. And again. Bang-bang-bang.

    She was sure the rioters had found their way right to our backyard.

    But as she investigated further, she discovered it was just Nancy, the humongous/overweight tri-colored cat we’d inherited from the woman next door who had died the year before.’

    Nancy apparently was heaving herself against the back door, trying to get in.

    It worked.

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  75. my computer was stolen last August and when I finally got back online you had all vanished from Worldmag blog. I emailed and asked what happened and they linked me to the article saying the blog was ending. I emailed back and said I understood, but felt like I had just lost part of my family. Then they gave me the address of this blog – such a blessing to have you all back again

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  77. Jo, I’d wondered what would happen if anyone asked World about us. I’m glad they kept our forwarding address!

    As it turns out, my husband and I were going out of town the week after the blog ended, and I wondered “What if we’d left that week, and I’d come back and everyone was just gone?” I’d have probably checked in while we were gone–my husband usually takes his laptop–but what if I hadn’t? And even if I’d checked in, I wouldn’t have been able to be there for all the sad goodbyes we had before AJ gallantly jumped in and got us a lifeboat.

    It was nice of them to give us several days to say goodbye, but the night it closed up shop I kept checking in and one time I checked in “poof!” we were all gone as though we had never existed. (We were all trying to be the last one to post . . . but whoever was the last one was hardly immortalized.) I was glad I wasn’t out ot town that week.

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