Let's go to the fair

For my humor blog it's been a rich week as I harvest the awkwardness and confused feelings following my realizing where I lifted an idea from. That plus comic strips. Here's the roster of recent articles:

• MiSTed: Safety First (part 5 of 16)


• In Which I Realize Two Horrible Things About That Pairwise Brackety Contest


• Statistics Saturday: Things I Remember About Dennis Miller's Short-Lived Early-90s Talk Show


• 60s Popeye: Have Time, Will Travel, a rich subtle web of continuity


• In Which I Politely Ask the Ghost of Brock Adams to Stop Haunting This Blog


• What's Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? Is anything real happening in The Phantom? February - May 2022


• Oh also it turns out GoComics carries Miss Peach now


• MiSTed: Safety First (part 6 of 16)

And here's a bunch of pictures from Pinball At The Zoo! Special bonus World's Fair content included.

Another pure mechanical, Gottlieb's 1932 Play-Boy (which one of the Wii Pinball Hall of Fame discs let you play in virtual form, if you got that like a decade ago). You can see how well I did on this table. Sincerely; as you can see, only three of the ten balls scored nothing at all.

And here from 1933 the more sophisticated World's Fair Jigsaw, by Rock-Ola. Landing a ball in one of the scoops in the jigsaw section caused the pieces in that column leading up to that hole to snap into place on the lower field.

The table says the game is from 1934; I have no explanation for this phenomenon. It was meant to fit with the Century of Progress expo, as you'd imagine from the title.

And here's the results of my game; I almost but not quite got the whole puzzle revealed.

Can't tell you how much I kept thinking I had the 1400-point target ready to go, and did not.

bunny_hugger takes her turn on Jigsaw, eager to see her interests in pinball, World's Fairs, and jigsaw puzzles combine.

Trivia: The Sporting Life reported in mid-May 1890 that the average Players League baseball game crowd was 3,006, while the National League had 1,564 (down from 3,039 in 1889). Source: Labor and Capital In 19th Century Baseball, Robert P Gelzheiser.

Currently Reading: The Final Mission: Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites, Lisa Westwood, Beth Laura O'Leary, Milford Wayne Donaldson. MSU Library book again and one that I wasn't perfectly sure I hadn't read already since, I mean, look at that title. Isn't that exactly the sort of book you'd think I had read already?