It is funny how Gary Larson went from a niche cartoon that you would find on mostly biology people’s noticeboards to widely popular meme fodder. He was in the 2020s back in the 1990s? Or the nerds took over? Or… both?
Maybe specifically a false memory, but I think I asked dad to explain Cow Tools. Some other Larson cartoons for sure.
@jhilden Got a Larson compilation when I had to spend time in a hospital due to a knee operation in early ’90s. Made an impact then. Ship of fools / car of idiots…
@jhilden Okay, so I have not one but two of these. The first one is a reprint from 1992, I think I got it in 1993. Both have close to 200 pages, with mostly four cartoons per page. The amount of quality stuff seems to be quite absurd.
One thought after a quick look: there’s a dark side to the far side but it’s not pretentiously edgy like so many things in the ’90s. (Well, the material in these is from the ’80s, but anyway…)
On kyllä silmiä avaava kuvaaja. Joku vois tuolle toimittajalle kertoa, että joskus kuvaajia ei kannata tehdä sillä perusoletuksella, että y-akseli lähtee nollasta. Kuten tässä tilanteessa, jossa arvot vaihtelevat 58,9 ja 60,1 välillä...
@paavokassi@menneisyytesi Don Alberto My Way – mistä tulee mieleen Mäkelänkadulta toinen, n. 15 v. sitten näkemäni kaikkien aikojen ravintolanimi. Joka jäi vain lapuksi remontoitavan ravintolatilan oveen, eikä liian kauniina tähän maailmaan koskaan auennut.
Does your language use the terms staccato and crescendo outside of strictly musical contexts? According to today’s breakfast table discussion they might be much rarer in metaphorical use in Finnish compared to English or Swedish. Esp. in English it is fairly common to describe something happening in a staccato rhythm. #language
@jhilden Yep, nothing wrong with using them, and your example hopefully broadens the vocabulary of the readership, but there’s a slight Erik Tawaststjerna has entered the chat kind of feel.
Huom. @jhilden & kekä meitä sludgepikkuoravien ystäviä muita oli:
”Paikallisilla artisteilla on kesäkuun alkuun asti aikaa tehdä muutoksia musiikkiinsa, jotta niitä voitaisiin esittää julkisesti myös uuden bpm-vaatimuksen astuttua voimaan.”
Is this unique to Helsinki, or does this happen elsewhere too now?
A loose ”new urban environmentalist” movement, that is very interested in protecting urban trees and parks, and against what is perceived as ”too much housing development” but also, curiously opposes cycling, sometimes even vehemently.
The song also became a hit in the UK, but in a speeded-up version, due to British DJs not realizing that the American 12" single was recorded at 33 rpm instead of 45 rpm.[34]
