He's got a chauffeur that's a genuine dinosaur

My humor blog got back to its roots, mostly non-humorous talk about comic strips and old time radio. Here's recent stuff:

• MiSTed: Safety First (part 4 of 16)


• Wait Wait Wait, Dennis the Menace Has a Middle Name?


• Statistics Saturday: Some Last Places To Look


• 60s Popeye: Popeye And The Polite Dragon, with a shocking revelation about Popeye's ancestors


• Pine Ridge is up for sale


• What's Going On In Alley Oop? Did a story start in the Sunday Alley Oop? February - May 2022


• Rounding up my head from the clouds


• MiSTed: Safety First (part 5 of 16)

And now to Pinball At The Zoo pictures. Hope you like them.

Though a pinball show people did bring in some video games, such as this Atari Football cocktail table that we didn't play. Note the request to not put things on the glass.

The backglass for 'Trident', which a card said was 'Trident 2021' and which had a modern sound system so that it positively rumbled in 5.1 sound.

The playfield. The card made me think the table was a modern retrofitting of some older game, but I see on the Internet Pinball Database that there was an Old Stern Trident game and it looked like this.

Here's the stereo system booming new life into this old game.

Mad World, an early-60s game that doesn't claim to be tied to be a movie tie-in but you never know. As ever, we must ask: what's with the guy in the wolf costume?

Lower playfield of Mad World, which somehow just keeps getting more timely.

Trivia: As part of reopening the British outpost at Michilimackinac in 1764, at the end of the Seven Years War, the British allocated an additional £20,000 for presents and other contingencies to give Indians trading through that region of the Great Lakes. Source: Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America, Michael A McDonnell.

Currently Reading: Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 6: Clean As A Weasel, Walt Kelly. Editors Mark Evanier, Eric Reynolds.