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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains...

Duke Ellington Centennial Edition 24 disc box set, issued in 1999

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 15/07/2026

*bows* Flat cap made in Manchester! (Linen for summer, and I have a wool houndstooth for winter)

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 20/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that's not Spinal Tap

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 16/04/2026

As I was about to say before Bluesky pulled a failwhale, WaPo has conflicting opinions on salad dressing. This is an actual juxtaposition.

WaPo can't decide whether salad dressing is good or bad.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 11/03/2026

Remember how great The Odd Couple was?

Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, with Roger Delgado as The Master, aboard the Tardis

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

Mozzie (may he rest in peace), Neal, and Peter from White Collar

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 23/11/2025

A movie that takes place where you're from

Breaking Away, set and filmed in my hometown of Bloomington, Indiana

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 12/11/2025

Already gone, it seems

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 28/10/2025

This is a recurring line in a book I read to my grandkids (about various animals whose surliness disappears when they don a hat), and I want to wear it in a shirt.

“Go away! I’m grumpy!”, a recurring line in the children’s book “Hooray For Hat”

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 23/10/2025

Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 14/08/2025

This was advertised and sold somewhere near 1920. A Milton Bradley product. Unintentionally hilarious.

All four images are ads for Milton Bradley’s Big Dick toy gun, early 1920s

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 14/08/2025

Roses are red Houses are brick The most awkwardly named toy gun Was known as

Milton Bradley “Big Dick” toy machine gun advert

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 04/07/2025

Next year, the US Mint is issuing commemorative coins to mark 250 years since 1776. The Mercury Dime was selected for Merc’s winged cap, celebrating freedom of thought. In a country that demands access to social media accounts belonging to those seeking entry.

Details of the 2026 commemorative dime from the US Mint website

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 25/06/2025

At least real humans plotted this one out. Eight years ago, at that.

Creatively mangled fast food logos and slogans, from 2017

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 24/06/2025

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life? (1776 twofer)

William Daniels as John Adams, proffering a quill pen to Thomas Jefferson, with which to write the Declaration of Independence

Ronald Holgate as Richard Henry Lee, exuberantly exuberanting in the Continental Congress

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 24/06/2025

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Howard Beale, in the film Network, encouraging viewers to open their windows and yell “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 17/06/2025

I ran into a couple of decent alternates, but I was after Radar. Here are the second panels that weren’t.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 08/05/2025

An earlier Pope Leo once remarked "Why, [the Giants are] the nicest guys in the world! And where are they? In seventh place! Nice guys! I’m not a nice guy – and I’m in first place. The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.” See the alt text for how this got misquoted over time...

Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher, famously misquoted as having said "nice guys finish last"; what he said was a sarcastic comment on a rival team whose standing was in last place in what was then a much smaller baseball league.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 08/05/2025

In his first official act, Pope Leo is speaking with the President of the United States.

West Wing picture; President Jed Bartlet and White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 05/05/2025

The Wild Turkey Rye label from the early 1990s (when Jim Beam's Rye label was various shades of yellow-to-beige) defies accurate capture in an image. It was deep but vivid. Kind of like Wild Turkey itself...

Wild Turkey Rye whiskey label, circa 1992

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 01/05/2025

Zuck: the average American has three friends

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 29/04/2025

Pfft. This is the badge to carry. :P #MyNameIsFriday #ICarryABadge

Sgt. Joe Friday’s police badge, from the title sequence of the television series Dragnet

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 21/04/2025

I’m not only a Bluesky Elder, I’m a Twitter Geezer. And I am trying to remember the name of the independent celebrity verification service that worked with agents, etc, before Twitter started its own checkmark system. This was nearly 20 years ago. I’m reminded of that now, with this.

List of handles that have been verified on Bluesky, announced by an unaffiliated bot

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 16/04/2025

A film that takes place where you’re from.

Breaking Away, set and filmed in Bloomington, Indiana.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 21/03/2025

Best Star Trek Crew, Wrong Answers Only

The Hoosier Hot Shots, a rural themed comic quartet who performed from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 19/03/2025

Post your favorite Doctor Who, wrong answers only

Philomena Cunk, the best Doctor who never was.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 13/03/2025

Okay, hear me out: A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor.

Neal Caffrey and Peter Burke from the television series White Collar

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 06/03/2025

I'm starting to see people post and repost various news items, commenting "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Friends, those words were written about indigenous nations, asserting they were not capable of continuity or object permanence. It's not what people think.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.

This, from "The Life of Reason", is the actual context for George Santayana's famous quote. It's really really bad, implying that "primitive" folk are incapable of continuity retention/object permanence, and thus are condemned to repeat a past from which they are incapable of learning.

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 25/02/2025

My neighbor’s li’l goats

Three small goats anticipating table scraps

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hubbit @hubbit.blog · 20/02/2025

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Calling yourself a dictipator, however, confuses the populace but not enough to let you actually get away with it.