2024 The Smile for Today

[Serinde]

Welcome to 2024! This is the thread to share bits and pieces that make us smile.

[richardandtracy]

Let's start off with a very lucky kitten. The furious look at 0:32 is what really made me smile:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1 ... indshield/

Regards,

Richard

[Mabel Figworthy]

Wow. This doesn't often happen in our part of the country

[Serinde]

Holy Moly!! one lucky kitten, who seemed more non-plussed than threatened (youth and inexperience). The hawk, on the other hand, was like, what the heck happened there?

[Mabel Figworthy]

Sounds straight out of beatrix Potter - a mouse who tidies up overnight!

[richardandtracy]

That is just so.. strange. And amazing. It's really hard to credit.

Regards,

Richard

[Serinde]

But utterly adorable.

[richardandtracy]

It is that.
I saw the article on the broadcast news and one animal behaviourist said that it was probably due to the mouse trying to hide the food from other mice. I'd be amazed if that was true, as mouse noses are very acute.

Regards,

Richard

[richardandtracy]

Why do I feel I have this on a daily basis at home?
https://cheezburger.com/9860268288/open-that-door-now

Regards,

Richard

[Serinde]

I raise you a toddler and a cat at the door...

[Mabel Figworthy]

Only one cat here, but definitely recognisable!

[Mabel Figworthy]

Works for grandchildren too...

[Serinde]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[richardandtracy]

We converted an old Mercedes Sprinter into a motorhome. The ceiling was an odd shape, so I bought headliners from Mercedes as being quicker. These came in huge boxes. At the time the girls were small and followed Albert into the boxes, then they made a box camp in the dining room, and all 5 of us just had to be in the box. We even had a drink and little meal in there.

Cat Albert was very confused, and he ears nearly unscrewed. HIS box was being invaded..

Regards,

Richard.

[Roland]

Richard, your post reminded me about a time when I was little.

My dad got a new gas furnace and my brother and I got the box. We made a Rocketship out of it, because every morning we watched Rocketship 7.

https://youtu.be/kZU0SksrjmI?si=udKwgUaswi5q8Xpu

Commander Tom was my first crush.

[richardandtracy]

Roland, lovely story.
I had entirely missed the series (if it was ever broadcast in the UK). My parents bought their first TV so we could watch the moon landings in '69. We had it installed (too difficult to install such complex and high tech equipment yourself) about a month before the landings. I was 4 at the time & hugely excited by the idea of a TV. I had no real idea what it was for, but it was something new.
And then I stayed up late to watch the take-off live, I think I can remember the BBC explaining how complex a process it was to beam live images a third of the way around the globe as if to pre-emptively explain away any signal drop-out - but such memories may be not entirely true.
Anyway, after the moon landing we really only used the TV to replace the radio news and watched almost nothing else except the 15 minutes of children's programming at lunchtime ('Andy Pandy', 'The Flowerpot Men' or 'The Herbs' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Pandy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Herbs).

Regards,

Richard

[richardandtracy]

Cheesy snake joke:
https://cheezburger.com/9862288128/you- ... ake-before
Just happened to make me smile.

Regards,

Richard

[Mabel Figworthy]

teeheehee

[Roland]

Funny what we remember. I have no memory of the Apollo take off or landing, which were daytime here. But I remember staying up late to see the first step on the moon.

[richardandtracy]

I'd forgotten that the actual arrival time was different.
As a 4 year old 'staying up late' probably meant I went to bed at 7pm instead of 6pm (or 7.25pm as probably was the case..).

I have looked up the BBC programme schedule for the day and found my memory was much at fault. I must be remembering staying up for the landing not the launch as that was in the afternoon our time.
Launch:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/s ... 1969-07-16 (Programme started 1.50pm, ended 4.05pm)
Landing:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/s ... 1969-07-20 (Programme started at 6.45pm, ended 7.25pm). Can you imagine only 40 minutes of TV for such a momentous event now? There'd be wall to wall coverage on multiple channels over virtually the whole day.
And it was broadcast in colour. Never knew that, our first TV was black & white and we didn't get colour until 1980 when my parents bought a colour TV for their wedding anniversary. When in Germany in the 1970's we used a 12" portable TV as our main TV - we were outside the reach of the army TV broadcasts and listened to/watched only the programs the Anglophone programming the German TV companies subtitled rather than dubbed. Meant we saw quite a lot of things like 'The Virginian', 'Blakes 7' and 'Space 1999', and a lot of westerns from Universal Studios.

Regards,

Richard