Black Cat, Moon Vintage Poster
A black cat sits on a crescent moon in this vintage poster.
DESIGNED BY: By: VivianAllen Charlotte ,US
…..by the internet…..
Edited in at: 10:36 E.D.T.
Further research indicates the original artist was French, and that this was used around 1917 on a French post card.
To me this seems to be credible.
I don’t know why the one Nighthawks posted is cut off… but the whole image is clearly signed by someone… I can’t read it, but I’m pretty certain it’s not someone named Vivian Allen.
Maybe “designing” a poster nowadays just means cropping or re-framing someone else’s vintage artwork, and claiming it…. I see a lot of that on Etsy and DeviantArt.
I, like you, have no idea what the “Times” problem is.
From:
The New Oxford Dictionary of English
Published by: Oxford University Press (1998)
ISBN 0-19-861263-X
puttee ► noun a long strip of cloth wound
spirally round the leg from ankle to knee for
protection and support.
■ N. Amer. a leather legging
— ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Hindi patti ‘band,
bandage’.
I had never heard of the Spelling Bee. My husband and I play Wordle and we are going to try this out. Thanks! I haven’t played it yet, but I will say “tsk tsk”!
You’d think just sitting there finding words would be boring… But I get obsessed.
I think you can get it online for free but maybe only the newspaper version, where you use paper and pen. I’m not sure you find out what words are not allowed that way.
I found a half price nyt games subscription, actually crosswords, a few years ago. Still an extravagance for me… $20 a year… But they’ve kept it that price, instead of $40, so I hang on.
I saw that advertised again very recently… Let me know if you’re interested.
Spelling bee is interactive that way…. You click letters, and know instantly if your word is accepted.
And unlike Wordle, you can come back, adding words till the next day’s puzzle is uploaded at 3am Eastern.
is there a tradition behind the pretty rug the bride is standing on?
dennisinseattle
Member
1 year ago
Usually by the time they get to the disclosures, they are showing entertaining and unrelated video to distract you.
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
1 year ago
The announcer mentioned anemia and kidney failure twice. Does that mean you can keep using zitbegone if only one kidney fails, or you only get anemia once?
Last edited 1 year ago by Liverlips McCracken
dennisinseattle
Member
1 year ago
Three good songs. Jim Croce’s “Operator” inevitably calls to mind Johnny Rivers “Memphis.”
Colts vs. Broncos:
All 15 points are field goals (two Colts,/ three Broncos).
17 minutes left in the game.
Colts’ interception at just about the 2 minute mark in their own end zone.
Thus far bumbling up the field; but still going up field.
At one minute Colts’ first down after Broncos’ penalty. No scoring in 4th thus far.
Colts find a hole 3rd and 1 13 seconds.
Colts: delay of game 3rd and 6.
Trying for tie and O.T.. Successful. O.T. next.
Colts won the ball in O.T. toss
5 min 50 secs Colts by 3 (but they’re standing in their own way).
Broncos at Colts 14.
They blew it. Final Colts 12 Broncos 9.
I think I’d gladly eschew that medication, and accept some zits, even if I didn’t have any, previously, if they came with a guarantee of NEVER getting any of those side effects.
no, I didn’t–going back there now—-
thanks, Susan. as I said it was just an experiment, but it’s not really my style.
but being a huge Crumb fan, I had to give it a go—
I saw a video of him cartooning–he didn’t do a pencil sketch first, then inking it in. He
just started right in , inking. I only have one word to say about that—wow!
Thanks to der Googles and livescience.com, the average drug label lists 75 side effects. Probably so the litigators would tire out before they found one that wasn’t listed.
I’ve been told that when drug companies do trials, if one more person in the trial group complains of a symptom (say a headache) than in the control group, it is listed as a possible side effect. In truth, it may not have had anything at all to do with the medication in question.
..
A cat walking on shadows of kicking legs?
”a walk on the wild side” kitty?
Black Cat, Moon Vintage Poster
A black cat sits on a crescent moon in this vintage poster.
DESIGNED BY: By: VivianAllen Charlotte ,US
…..by the internet…..
Edited in at: 10:36 E.D.T.
Further research indicates the original artist was French, and that this was used around 1917 on a French post card.
To me this seems to be credible.
I don’t know why the one Nighthawks posted is cut off… but the whole image is clearly signed by someone… I can’t read it, but I’m pretty certain it’s not someone named Vivian Allen.
Maybe “designing” a poster nowadays just means cropping or re-framing someone else’s vintage artwork, and claiming it…. I see a lot of that on Etsy and DeviantArt.
I was dubious myself, that’s why the …
“…..by the internet…..”
must be national black cat day?
Black Cat day is Thursday, October 27 this year (it started in 2011).
thanks.
“ Witch way to murder ” By: Tristan Elwell
….
Is this a goof or are we supposed to spend 45 minutes trying to find the 9 differences?
They’re out of sync. Does that count?
And #2 is larger.
Is that two differences?
So they’re dist-sync pictures?
another black cat. hmmmmmmm…
,.
“ The Bookstore ” By: Kristina Vardazaryan
,,
All I can find:
WW I
She’s British, he’s Canadian; one of maybe 35,000 grooms and war brides from that conflict.
They make a handsome couple. Hope he survived.
If she’s a war bride, this might already be just after the war…. maybe he came back, fiancee in tow, to Canada, where they married.
Not a lot of time to meet and get married during the war, though of course it did happen.
Those wraps on his lower legs, commonly worn as part of WWI uniforms of various countries, are called “puttees”.
Somebody please tell the New York Times, cos they won’t accept “puttee” as a word in Spelling Bee.
(She said to nobody who knows what she’s talking about or cares… sigh… but sometimes you just gotta complain.)
I, like you, have no idea what the “Times” problem is.
From:
The New Oxford Dictionary of English
Published by: Oxford University Press (1998)
ISBN 0-19-861263-X
puttee ► noun a long strip of cloth wound
spirally round the leg from ankle to knee for
protection and support.
■ N. Amer. a leather legging
— ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Hindi patti ‘band,
bandage’.
Thanks… but in Spelling Bee, a daily online NYT puzzle, it’s not about.the word being in the dictionary, but being a “common” word
As defined, most of the time, by ONE person…
its editor, a young man on the east coast.
And “common” being not specific to, say, a particular profession or hobby.
….
The object is to make as many words as possible out of the seven letters given each day, all including one letter in particular.
I’m addicted.
…..
He accepts some slang that probably ISN’T in the dictionary, and a very few foreign words,
mostly Spanish and French, I’d say, and largely food, if commonly used here… like “taco”.
Here on the west coast we use more Spanish words that he doesn’t accept.
He accepts a few words I’ve never heard of, or that I consider very uncommon, yet doesn’t seem to know some fairly common flowers, birds, or fabrics.
If enough people complain via email, he consults with NYT puzzle editors, and sometimes a word is added or subtracted.
…
That’s why I said nobody would know what I was talking about… you pretty much have to know how the puzzle works.
But I thought there COULD be a Spelling bee player here to commiserate or say “tsk tsk”.
I had never heard of the Spelling Bee. My husband and I play Wordle and we are going to try this out. Thanks! I haven’t played it yet, but I will say “tsk tsk”!
You’d think just sitting there finding words would be boring… But I get obsessed.
I think you can get it online for free but maybe only the newspaper version, where you use paper and pen. I’m not sure you find out what words are not allowed that way.
I found a half price nyt games subscription, actually crosswords, a few years ago. Still an extravagance for me… $20 a year… But they’ve kept it that price, instead of $40, so I hang on.
I saw that advertised again very recently… Let me know if you’re interested.
Spelling bee is interactive that way…. You click letters, and know instantly if your word is accepted.
And unlike Wordle, you can come back, adding words till the next day’s puzzle is uploaded at 3am Eastern.
Yes, I tried it. Enjoyable. I keep forgetting to use the center letter. Makes it tough some times.
is there a tradition behind the pretty rug the bride is standing on?
Usually by the time they get to the disclosures, they are showing entertaining and unrelated video to distract you.
The announcer mentioned anemia and kidney failure twice. Does that mean you can keep using zitbegone if only one kidney fails, or you only get anemia once?
Three good songs. Jim Croce’s “Operator” inevitably calls to mind Johnny Rivers “Memphis.”
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=p_eSHTNZFSE
Colts vs. Broncos:
All 15 points are field goals (two Colts,/ three Broncos).
17 minutes left in the game.
Colts’ interception at just about the 2 minute mark in their own end zone.
Thus far bumbling up the field; but still going up field.
At one minute Colts’ first down after Broncos’ penalty. No scoring in 4th thus far.
Colts find a hole 3rd and 1 13 seconds.
Colts: delay of game 3rd and 6.
Trying for tie and O.T.. Successful. O.T. next.
Colts won the ball in O.T. toss
5 min 50 secs Colts by 3 (but they’re standing in their own way).
Broncos at Colts 14.
They blew it. Final Colts 12 Broncos 9.
Bye Russell. Seattle is not missing you. Coaches were right to not “let Russell cook.”
It’s dessert month.
chocolate covered pretzels
There’s a pretzel recipe… … HERE (at comment #27,.382).
This one is comment 35,572.
A fav of mine! ♥
/
frappe
YUMMMMMM!!!
I’ve made a screen snip of the Wikipedia Article about the history of the frappé and expanded the bit about its inventor (it’s Grecian from 1957). p>
I think I’d gladly eschew that medication, and accept some zits, even if I didn’t have any, previously, if they came with a guarantee of NEVER getting any of those side effects.
@Nighthawks… I hope you saw my reply on yesterday’s page, to Liverlips and you and Dennis about yesterday’s art… cos I liked it.
no, I didn’t–going back there now—-
thanks, Susan. as I said it was just an experiment, but it’s not really my style.
but being a huge Crumb fan, I had to give it a go—
I saw a video of him cartooning–he didn’t do a pencil sketch first, then inking it in. He
just started right in , inking. I only have one word to say about that—wow!
Check out the movie “Crumb”, if there’s a way to find it… though the theater experience was probably even more powerful.
It’s incredible.
It’s about him and his two brothers, all artists… He’s the slightly least crazy.
Watching them draw, seeing their lives.
….
Parts are sad, parts hopeful… all intense.
To me it was absorbing.
I’m a Crumb fan too, as you may notice. I’ve never watched ANYBODY draw with his speed and accuracy.
I came away feeling a little crazy myself, but it was well worth it.
I’ve seen it before and again a couple months ago.
Sad that his brother killed himself
Very sad. I felt the other brother’s life was also sad.
It sounds crazy but I’d have to say that movie changed my life in some subtle way I can’t explain.
A better understanding of insanity, maybe, and what it means to be a real artist, also more empathy for both.
Susan, I didn’t mind the rough drawings, but I did not like the use of filler patterns. I don’t think Crumb ever did that.
Thanks to der Googles and livescience.com, the average drug label lists 75 side effects. Probably so the litigators would tire out before they found one that wasn’t listed.
TGIF Cleo phanatics and D&D!
Have a frappe and a smile. (((((HuGz!)))))
Where’s the ‘nat’l black cat’ day?
you mean i was wrong?
again???
According to the Google it’s the 27th
Interesting to note that while it’s National LED light day, they show a compact fluorescent bulb. Definitely NOT the same thing.
I’ve been told that when drug companies do trials, if one more person in the trial group complains of a symptom (say a headache) than in the control group, it is listed as a possible side effect. In truth, it may not have had anything at all to do with the medication in question.
WOO HOO! for once claude was the smart one.
Discontinue if you experience death?? I think that is a given!
Not if the drug companies had their way!
Just wait… they’ll figure SOMETHING out.
“If the zit takes on a life of its own …”
If they can make a buck!
If your antidepressant causes tardive dyskinesia, take this medication to treat it. But, it may cause depression.
I’ve yet to figure that one out.
The medication I take for a liver problem “may cause liver and kidney problems”. Thanks.