Was he ripped?

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I don’t know but the word riptide only conjurs up the tv series Riptide with Perry King in my mind.I don’t know how often I saw an episode but it must have left an impression.The IMDB rating is 6.8 which is respectable for an 80s series. Anyway, the word and the memory pushed me down a rabbit hole.

I found out that Perry King, who looked like a blond version of Tom Selleck back in the day, complete with 80s moustache, has matured very nicely, thank you. In fact, reading about the series (since I don’t remember much beyond the title) it seems it was a cheap copy of Magnum P.I.: three friends work as private investigators somewhere near the South Californian coast, two Vietnam war veterans and a technical nerd (not quite like Higgins but an odd one out). They even have a helicopter.

I found out that the latest part Perry King played was in a 2023 podcast called “The signal” which got the near perfect score of 9.7 on IMDB. Almost too good to be true, I don’t remember ever even seeing a 9.7 rating. Maybe because there are only 9 ratings, no actual reviews. It’s classified as sci-fi and available for free on the platform where I listen to podcasts.So I am, listening that is. Started with episode 1. So far, reminiscent of radio plays from years gone by. So far not even close to 9.7, maybe it will get better.I don’t know if I’ll stick with it. Or if I will be caught in a riptide.

Still photo from Riptide
Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Riptide

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Rather late than never

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Some street names are generic (Main Sreet, Church Street, etc.), some are named after famous people. In some periods streets were named after people or places which don’t transport well into newer times..

In 1933 Joseph Goebbels asked German towns and cities to name places and streets after Gdańsk to manifest the claim the German state was asserting to incorporate Danzig/Gdańsk into the German state. Danziger Straße (as in my hometown) is inoccuous enough, similar to Prager Straße, Londoner Straße, Moskauer Straße, Warschauer Straße… But adding “Freiheit” (freedom or liberty) is something else. “Danziger Freiheit” (Freedom of or for Gdańsk) is definitely a Nazi slogan. Koblenz finally changed the infamous name to “Esther-Bejearano-Straße” in 2022. Esther Bejearano was a survivor of the the Auschwitz deathcamp.

I like that they left the crossed-out name to show that a change was (finally) made and to show a connection between the two names.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Change