27 thoughts on “Spotted yesterday”

      1. I read in a book on Warner Bros. that the line was originally “titty tat” but it didn’t get by the censor.

  3. I even watch these as an adult with our nearly complete dvd collection of Warner Bros cartoons.

    1. There was almost always an additional layer of humor that could only be picked up on by people with a bit more experience than children.

      One thing that is kind of sad is that enough time has passed that current generations don’t have the cultural referents to “get” some of the stuff in these cartoons. Particularly the earlier ones.

      1. I have to admit there are some pretty good and even ‘deep’ cartoons on now. Adventure Time and The Amazing World of Gumball will even surprise me. But the WB series still holds up of course.

      2. For example, the Bugs and Daffy episode with an abominable snowman based on Lennie from “Of Mice and Men”.

        1. I was just thinking about that! I often pat my dog in that annoying way and say, “I want to pet my wittle bunny wabbit! I will pat him a love him…” until she gets totally annoyed and runs around all wound up.

          1. I used to watch Warner Bros. cartoons when I was a kid in the 1960s, and even then there ere plenty of references I didn’t get–jokes about rationing, air raid wardens (“Turn out that light!”), current catch phrases (“Don’t you believe it!” “Mmmmm . . .could be!”), caricatures of celebrities (a strange looking character kept popping up in cartoons; I later learned that it Bob Hope’s band leader Jerry Colonna), etc. Of course, there was enough humor that I DID get to make the toons funny.

    2. Isn’t it a tw**t in a pie? And who could object to that? (Apart from the tw**ter.)

  7. I love my 10-year-old Element! I can’t believe Honda has stopped making them: they’ve turned themselves into Elementophobes, even though the plate proves that Elements are supremely righteous.

    1. The Car Talk guys (we miss you Tommy!) made some joke about the Element resembling the box it came in!

    2. All the new Hondas look like jelly beans:-(
      My 2001 CRV was the best car ever( passed it on to my son). I only got rid of the Element because I found it had too many blind spots for my 5’2″ frame. Great for road trips and hiking, though the back doors would annoyingly slam on you in the wind…

      1. I hate it when that happens. Driving hatchbacks is always a challenge when you’re short too.

        I had to sell my Honda Civic when it was only 1.5 years old because the seats were horribly painful. I used to think Japanese thought that North Americans were just really big and fat so they designed their Honda seats that way.

        1. There is only one PT Cruiser in our village and it is black. Whenever I see it,happily not very often, the thought goes through my mind that this (fictional) guy tried to convert a London Taxi into a hearse. He got half-way into the project and said,”Screw it” and gave up!

          1. Not knowing what a PT cruiser is … but that casts my mind back to getting picked up while hitch-hiking once by a hearse (minus coffin) on the way back from delivering a customer to a recycling site.
            Then there’s the mad Edinburgh caver who used to drive around the Highlands in a London black (Manganese Bronze) Cab. You could get a dozen people in the back. But you had to find a designated driver for the way back to the hut.
            Then there’s my colleague who drives around Wales in a Ukrainian nuclear missile launcher converted into a Festival-mobile. That always gets the rise out of the CND-ers, until the FoE-ers discover there’s an oilfield geologist on board.

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