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My apologies, I failed to convey that it was 100% tongue in cheek 😔

Following the sage advice of Broderick Crawford, the music in the video clip is intended to be the accompaniment for the narration below the clip: "Whenever the rules of the Queen's English are violated, a highly motivated group of men spring into action to correct these breaches. They also go above and beyond duty to correct other items such as alternative spellings and the correct location of steering wheels in various vehicles. This is the story of the heroes of the U.K. Grammar Patrol"

https://news.ohsu.edu/2022/05/05/new-study-reveals-the-effect-of-extended-space-flight-on-astronauts-brains

You nailed it right there! I was around 10 yrs old when it came out, loved it. Sometimes I would go to my friend Charlie’s house to watch it because his family had a color TV, loved the oversaturated colors of that show. During the fight scenes, we would sit within 2 feet of the screen to get the full effect of all the POWs & BAMs. At one time years ago, I was a civilian employee at the Military Police Desk at the Presidio of San Francisco. One of the direct lines we had was to the dispatch center of the San Francisco Police Dept. We had one of those Dymo label makers On a slow day I made a label that said ANSWER BY SAYING “YES, COMMISSIONER GORDON?” and placed it on the handset of the phone, just to see how long it would take before anyone noticed. Eventually, people started to see it, we had a good laugh, etc., so we just left it there. Months later, a newly assigned private happened to be standing next to the SFPD phone when it rang. He picked up the phone, read the label and said “Yes, Commissioner Gordon?” The Desk Sergeant and I looked at each other as we thought “Oops!”. Then we looked at the private, who stood silently listening with a very confused look on his face. The Desk Sergeant asked him “What are they saying?” The private responded “They haven’t said anything, they’re just laughing for some reason”.

I've read about this before, about what the workers who first started making them went through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls "After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip;[1] some also painted their fingernails, face and teeth with the glowing substance. The women were instructed to point their brushes in this way because using rags or a water rinse caused them to use more time and material, as the paint was made from powdered radium, gum arabic and water." " U.S. Radium Corporation (USRC) hired approximately 70 women to perform various tasks including handling radium, while the owners and the scientists familiar with the effects of radium carefully avoided any exposure to it themselves; chemists at the plant used lead screens, masks and tongs.[6] USRC had distributed literature to the medical community describing the "injurious effects" of radium. In spite of this knowledge, a number of similar deaths had occurred by 1925, including the company's chief chemist, Dr. Edwin E. Leman,[7] and several female workers. The similar circumstances of their deaths prompted investigations by Dr. Harrison Martland, County Physician of Newark.[8] "An estimated 4,000 workers were hired by corporations in the U.S. and Canada to paint watch faces with radium. At USRC, each of the painters mixed her own paint in a small crucible, and then used camel hair brushes to apply the glowing paint onto dials. The rate of pay, for painting 250 dials a day, was about a penny and a half per dial (equivalent to $0.317 in 2021) or about $75 per day. The brushes would lose shape after a few strokes, so the USRC supervisors encouraged their workers to point the brushes with their lips ("lip, dip, paint"), or use their tongues to keep them sharp. Because the true nature of the radium had been kept from them, the Radium Girls painted their nails, teeth, and faces for fun with the deadly paint produced at the factory.[9] Many of the workers became sick; it is unknown how many died from exposure to radiation." Gruesome deaths would occur after this exposure.

As Harry Carey used to say, https://www.drodd.com/images6/beatfun.wav

"Fly Air Alcatraz!"

My first thought was prisoner transport livery.

Yes, that was it 😸

BINGO!

That sounds very familiar; it’s not a recent show, is it? If it’s the same one I saw, that was a totally cool show, it was broadcast here on PBS.

Last year I saw an interesting film, "Kedi", a documentary about the stray cats of Istanbul. It follows several individual cats who go about their rounds and interviews the people who care for them: I remember one guy they interviewed talked about how he's always had cats, and one of the lessons they teach is coping with the fact that eventually beings that you love, whether human or animal, die. When he and his brother were younger, they had a little cemetery for the cats they took care of in a corner of their back yard. They figured what was missing from their own burial rituals for their cats were grave markers. They had seen the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and remembered the cemetery scene. They were Muslim, but it would be impossible for them to have tiny engraved stone markers, so they made crosses out of twigs to both honor the cats and have a cool tie-in to the movie they loved. Eventually their father saw this and freaked out that his sons were "turning into Christians" and immediately threatened to send them to Koran school 😆

https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/333022-wearable-cat-ears-use-eeg-to-move-with-your-state-of-mind

Yes, cats can display a sense of loyalty/justice. We used to have a cat, Ollie, who was very gentle, never scratched or bit another cat or person. But any hint of trouble, he would rush and place himself into the middle of it. If it was a dispute between cats, he would place himself between them and roll around the floor on his back, which would de-escalate the situation. My favorite example was about four months ago. My wife and I were in the kitchen along with Tigger, our youngest but largest cat, who sat in front of the refrigerator and observed us. My wife got mad at me about something I can't even remember, but it had to have been about something trivial. Maybe I put the can opener in the wrong drawer (we all have our quirks, I'm definitely not perfect, but my wife has a tendency to channel her inner Barney Fife, stuff has to be done a certain way or else). I didn't want to escalate or continue discussing it, as it was simply not worth the stress. So she was in a huff about it, and began to leave the kitchen. As she passed Tigger, he jumped up and bit her on her calf, causing her to scream. I instantly bit my lip to keep me from laughing, as that would have made her even more furious. After she was out of hearing range, I said "All right Tigger, my buddy, you got my back!" Tigger rendered his verdict on the whole situation by showing my wife the "red card", or more precisely, the red marks on her calf.

Thanks for that, it was an interesting read. The thing I'm curious about is what is the mechanism that transfers the flow of fuel from the tank to a fuel line on a spinning rotor?

What could possibly go wrong? 😂

I remember during the Arab oil embargo of 1973, when I was in high school, when a time change came, they adjusted it by 2 hrs. instead of 1 CORRECTION: I checked if my memory was correct on this, and found out what actually happened was that in January of 1974, the U.S. switched back to Daylight Savings Time with the intention of saving energy due to the oil embargo: https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/

The current one that makes me laugh is “wicked good”. My sense is that it’s used in the northeast U.S. I think “OK, what is it? Wicked? Good? So so?”🤔

Hershey’s tastes different than Cadbury, but like chin hairs⁉️

I remember during the Arab oil embargo of 1973, when I was in high school, when a time change came, they adjusted it by 2 hrs. instead of 1, so when I went to school at 8:00 AM, it was still pitch black and freezing, definitely felt weird.

Yes, those were the days. We had lots of wind (near Ocean Beach), we were always flying kites. Something so simple can be so fun. Like said above, we sometimes combined all our strings to one kite to see how far we could get it to go. The name I remember was Hi-Flier kites: https://www.antiquetrader.com/collectibles/hi-flier-rise-and-fall I also had a Jolly Green Giant kite that was huge. Got it by sending some Green Giant labels to get it (remember getting stuff from cereal companies? Send 2 box tops & 25 cents to: 😄). http://www.junkbox.com/kites/GreenGiantPromoKites.shtml In later years, I used to borrow kids (nieces, nephews, cousin's kids, etc.) and take them kite flying. Purely selfish on my part; I wanted to fly kites, so having some kids along made me not feel so out of place as an adult flying a kite alone, but the kids always enjoyed it too. 🤣