Random photos, comics, etc.

[Frank Cox]

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[Frank Cox]

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[Jim Cassedy]

Our Actual "BOOTH MONKEY" !
Some time around Christmas last year, we found this pair of stuffed monkeys under a seat
after one of the shows. (It's a 'mama monkey" with a mini monkey clutching onto her back)
We have assigned seating, but unfortunately the people sitting in the seats near where it was
found all paid cash, so we couldn't identify them through their credit cards. We've been holding
on to it since December, and nobody has ever claimed it or inquired about it at Lost And Found.
. . so, today, we adopted it as our official "booth monkey" We're trying to figure out a name for it.

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It's an ironically appropriate mascot, since, haven't almost all of us, at one
time or another, known at least one projectionist with 'a monkey on his back'?

[Jim Cassedy]

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"That's All Folks!"

[Harold Hallikainen]

On the high hotel room price, people key in wrong stuff. Zillow says we bought our house for $300.

[Leo Enticknap]

Japan has offered to send help to re-open the Strait of Hormuz:

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[Leo Enticknap]

As with the Lego ayatollah, she seems rather more cheerful than she should be under the circumstances (the photo shows Dubai Airport shortly after being hit by an Iranian missile):

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[Leo Enticknap]

Is Barco moving in to missile and drone defense systems?

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[Leo Enticknap]

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One would hope that it I were to push the "verify eligibility" link, the first step in that process would be to ask a rather obvious question! If not, it would seem that obtaining a license to practice law in California does not require even the most basic knowledge of human biology.

[Frank Cox]

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[Leo Enticknap]

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I'm not sure why the Ayatollah has a smiley face, under those circumstances...

[Ed Gordon]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VSwE54Na-uI

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[Jim Cassedy]

It looks to me like there is no cardboard tube in the middle
of the roll. I wonder if another patent was filed when someone came up with that?

The patent drawing shows items in the center of the roll marked 'e' and 'f', however the
text of the patent does not reference either of these items. Judging from the picture, the
paper seems to be wound around a wooden dowel ("e") with a hole in the middle ("f")

[Leo Enticknap]

It looks to me like there is no cardboard tube in the middle of the roll. I wonder if another patent was filed when someone came up with that?

[Jim Cassedy]

Earlier today, I was looking up a patent online, and I mis-typed the patent
number, and instead of the patent I was looking for, I got the original
patent for toilet paper! Or, more specifically, for toilet paper ROLLS.
Some quick research discovered that prior to this, TP was sold in
sheets that came in flat packs, like dinner napkins or Kleenex™️.

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But, more importantly, does this patent diagram finally solve the
long standing debate over which way the toilet paper should hang?