I’m afraid I didn’t quite get the punchline. Can somebody help me out please?
May 16, 2018 at 5:05 am
Bill
One of the things silly putty was used for was rolling out into a pancake and sumushing it onto a color cartoon printed on newsprint. There’s enough ink on the page to be transferred to the surface of the silly putty that when the silly putty was removed from the newspaper, the image was transferred to the surface of the silly putty. You then had a reverse image of the comic on the putty. Why a backwards image of the cartoon is significant I’m not sure. This song might explain it best. https://youtu.be/d8MnyLI7blM
May 16, 2018 at 7:15 am
PaulS
Because then you could stretch and distort the image for more entertainment.
Sheesh… 😉
May 16, 2018 at 10:25 am
Fronk!
Aha! Of course!! Thank you, I had forgotten about that property of Silly Putty… Thanks for helping out an ageing, forgetful Baby Boomer!
May 16, 2018 at 5:13 am
Bill G
One feature of Silly Putty is that when pressed down onto newsprint, and I don’t recall what else, it creates a copy of the print, or the comics, on the surface of the silly putty when it’s peeled back off.
(And Chris took me a LONG way back for that memory!)
May 16, 2018 at 10:24 am
Fronk!
Thank you!
May 16, 2018 at 12:35 am
Pamela
Did Hillary get any of that mixture Javier created?
Might explain why some days she looks fresh…
May 16, 2018 at 1:29 am
Vince
Applied with broad and narrow putty knives.
May 16, 2018 at 8:22 am
Bob in Houston-Vast Right Wing Basket of Deplorable!
I’d be surprised if even Satan would trust Hillary.
May 16, 2018 at 3:25 pm
John
I sometimes wonder of Hillary saw “Death Becomes Her” and then had a talk with her mentor.
He thought it was a hoot.
May 16, 2018 at 4:50 am
Bill
To quote the Howie Carr Show. “Ha.” “Ha, HA Ha.”
May 16, 2018 at 5:20 am
Rick
That’s so Meta …
May 16, 2018 at 5:44 am
Cat Hat
you probably have to be at least 60 years old to get the punchline. the image could be transferred from the Silly Putty by pressing it onto another piece of paper. you could also distort the image by stretching the Silly Putty. didn’t realize Mr. Muir was that old.
May 16, 2018 at 10:32 am
Chris Muir
I am 60!
May 16, 2018 at 10:35 am
JSStryker
We are the same age Chris!
May 16, 2018 at 5:34 pm
Bob in Houston-Vast Right Wing Basket of deplorable!
Nah, you’re 30, with 30 years experience!
May 16, 2018 at 7:35 pm
Old Codger
Stripling! August will see me 67 and married 46 years.
Doesn’t work worth a shit…I have splotched silly putty all over my screen multiple times and it didn’t pick up one single DBD boobeh…
May 16, 2018 at 11:27 am
Bill
Great point. If so, you could only make them bigger!
May 16, 2018 at 1:19 pm
Bob in Houston-Vast Right Wing Basket of deplorable!
Oh good, I’m not the only one…
May 16, 2018 at 11:41 pm
Deplorable B Woodman
Reminds me of the blonde secretary…..how do we know she’s blonde? From the whiteout all over her computer monitor.
As well as being older than dirt, that joke has SO much unPC……sexist, “abelist”, stereotype,….did I forget anything?
May 17, 2018 at 12:05 am
NotYetInACamp
Anti-blonde.
May 16, 2018 at 11:19 am
DonS
Thanks for all the links to cool stuff (Bill, and all y’all)… you broaden my cultural horizons every time! Never heard of the Geezenslaw Brothers, but now I have… ’nuff said, LOL!
Here’s a song I found down that rabbit hole you might enjoy: “I think my dog’s a Democrat…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VLqLLWxbQ
BTW, today my personal odometer rolled over 65… whoohoo! My three brothers and I grew up without a TV in the house, so the Sunday funnies were a high point in our entertainment landscape. Silly Putty showed up in our Christmas stockings one year, as did ping pong ball guns; fun times!
May 16, 2018 at 11:30 am
Bill
Here’s another goodie. Sammy Allread the mandolin player died this last week.
DonS, congrats and happy b-day! My six-five moment comes in August.
BTW, that whole Sexagenarian thing is a cruel hoax. 🙁
May 16, 2018 at 11:41 am
Pamela
They still have Funny Pages out there somewhere….
May 16, 2018 at 3:55 pm
JackDeth72
Nice Blast From The Past, chris.
And Wham-O \’s original Silly Putty and Super Balls are still available through Bed Bath & Beyond and numerous home aid and novelty catalogs.
May 16, 2018 at 10:52 pm
Kafiroon
Catalogs. Those shiny pages things next to the hole in the outhouse.
And never mind how old I might be.
May 16, 2018 at 11:29 pm
Interventor
Wham-O is still around.
May 19, 2018 at 2:18 pm
Henry
Wow! I never realized that Silly Putty was a Wham-O product. I always thought their blockbuster entry into the market was the Frisbee. I still have the one my folks bought me in 1960, with years of play scuffs on it.
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(Groan!)
Good one, Chris!
I’m afraid I didn’t quite get the punchline. Can somebody help me out please?
One of the things silly putty was used for was rolling out into a pancake and sumushing it onto a color cartoon printed on newsprint. There’s enough ink on the page to be transferred to the surface of the silly putty that when the silly putty was removed from the newspaper, the image was transferred to the surface of the silly putty. You then had a reverse image of the comic on the putty. Why a backwards image of the cartoon is significant I’m not sure. This song might explain it best. https://youtu.be/d8MnyLI7blM
Because then you could stretch and distort the image for more entertainment.
Sheesh… 😉
Aha! Of course!! Thank you, I had forgotten about that property of Silly Putty… Thanks for helping out an ageing, forgetful Baby Boomer!
One feature of Silly Putty is that when pressed down onto newsprint, and I don’t recall what else, it creates a copy of the print, or the comics, on the surface of the silly putty when it’s peeled back off.
(And Chris took me a LONG way back for that memory!)
Thank you!
Did Hillary get any of that mixture Javier created?
Might explain why some days she looks fresh…
Applied with broad and narrow putty knives.
Thats not silly putty, thats spackle.
Spackle.
You mean crack spackle; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yICoZNmTCo
She uses the Oprah size.
That’s because of a pact she made with Satan
I’d be surprised if even Satan would trust Hillary.
I sometimes wonder of Hillary saw “Death Becomes Her” and then had a talk with her mentor.
He thought it was a hoot.
To quote the Howie Carr Show. “Ha.” “Ha, HA Ha.”
That’s so Meta …
you probably have to be at least 60 years old to get the punchline. the image could be transferred from the Silly Putty by pressing it onto another piece of paper. you could also distort the image by stretching the Silly Putty. didn’t realize Mr. Muir was that old.
I am 60!
We are the same age Chris!
Nah, you’re 30, with 30 years experience!
Stripling! August will see me 67 and married 46 years.
Late bloomer! 65 in Aug, married 47.
71, young whippersnappers!
At least it’s not as permanent on R200’s skin as the impression left behind on the Nazi weasel’s hand in the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
Good point!
Doesn’t work worth a shit…I have splotched silly putty all over my screen multiple times and it didn’t pick up one single DBD boobeh…
Great point. If so, you could only make them bigger!
Oh good, I’m not the only one…
Reminds me of the blonde secretary…..how do we know she’s blonde? From the whiteout all over her computer monitor.
As well as being older than dirt, that joke has SO much unPC……sexist, “abelist”, stereotype,….did I forget anything?
Anti-blonde.
Thanks for all the links to cool stuff (Bill, and all y’all)… you broaden my cultural horizons every time! Never heard of the Geezenslaw Brothers, but now I have… ’nuff said, LOL!
Here’s a song I found down that rabbit hole you might enjoy: “I think my dog’s a Democrat…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VLqLLWxbQ
BTW, today my personal odometer rolled over 65… whoohoo! My three brothers and I grew up without a TV in the house, so the Sunday funnies were a high point in our entertainment landscape. Silly Putty showed up in our Christmas stockings one year, as did ping pong ball guns; fun times!
Here’s another goodie. Sammy Allread the mandolin player died this last week.
https://youtu.be/0NR8no4Fp5Y
DonS, congrats and happy b-day! My six-five moment comes in August.
BTW, that whole Sexagenarian thing is a cruel hoax. 🙁
They still have Funny Pages out there somewhere….
Nice Blast From The Past, chris.
And Wham-O \’s original Silly Putty and Super Balls are still available through Bed Bath & Beyond and numerous home aid and novelty catalogs.
Catalogs. Those shiny pages things next to the hole in the outhouse.
And never mind how old I might be.
Wham-O is still around.
Wow! I never realized that Silly Putty was a Wham-O product. I always thought their blockbuster entry into the market was the Frisbee. I still have the one my folks bought me in 1960, with years of play scuffs on it.
“…catalogs.”
That anything like this “comics section” Damon speaks of? 😉