Then he's gonna screw you just like that

My humor blog this week enjoyed the return of Fatty Raccoon, the return of my thinking about Fly Me To The Moon, a bit of cookie nostalgia, and me being upset my feet aren't more warmer-er. If it's not already filled your RSS feed, you can enjoy it here and now:

• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 17


• I Knew This Would Fail but Not How Much It Would Fail


• Statistics Saturday: Things I've Tried To Warm My Feet Up


• A Thought about Happiness


• What's Going On In Judge Parker? How was that a detective story? December 2022 - March 2023


• Come Fly With Me


• On the Other Hand Maybe I Don't Want to See Exciting Places


• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 18

Here, I run out of pictures of the Bells and Chimes tournament. But I close out with some pictures of something at the destination farmer's market on the west side of town, where we stopped to get groceries and vegetables and all, and I finally had a real camera (as opposed to my iPod Touch or my cell phone) to get some snaps of one of its less explicable features. Enjoy.

Just regular old play, folks having fun after the tournament and taking advantage of the free play time.

And another row of pinball machines. Behind Flash are Alien Poker --- a game from about 1980 that plays like a much older one --- and then Total Nuclear Annihilation, a retro-style game. And Robo-War, a fun late-80s Gottlieb table. I don't know why this row was so much less popular.

So here we are at Horrocks. For some reason near the flower section and the grand piano they have this three-quarters-scale replica of a 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash, the first mass-produced automobile built with interchangeable parts on an assembly line, provided by and promoting the R E Olds Transportation Museum.

A large teddy bear drives the Olds. It's hard not to notice how much of the mechanism looks like bicycle technology, when you see it like this.

The plaque under there explains about the car this is a replica of, and invites people to the R E Olds Transportation Museum, which neither bunny_hugger nor I have visited even though, if you add it up, we've spent over a third of a century in walking distance.

The back of the Curved Dash replica, with what look like Keystone Cops paddywagon doors there.

Trivia: In 1825 the United States Congress authorized the postmaster-general to establish a post road to the courthouse of any newly established county seat, without waiting for the federal government to specifically create that road by law. Source: The American Mail: Enlarger of the Common Life, Wayne E Fuller.

Currently Reading: Gemini 4: An Astronaut Steps Into The Void, David J Shayler.