February 25, 2023

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Aye aye, Sir.

dennisinseattle
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

High Five! (err, four)

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

I see nothing at all.
8:18pm west coast.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

I came by not long after and saw a few things… But not the puzzle.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

The commissioned portrait of Samantha, the cat, by Eldar Zakirov.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Like.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Gotham?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

It’s the 1932 art deco Niagara Mohawk Building, in Syracuse, New York.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 
patrician ”      By:  Christopher St. Leger (Nov 21, 2011)
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

I just noticed… Is there a person, high up in that tree?
Maybe wearing a snowsuit?

If not, what is that?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 

 

Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
What can you do?
WordPress.
 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 year ago

Not in this case; but what you did: Posting the link for the video, not from the overview.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Love that group.

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

Now i see it!

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

I got six.
I’ll try again in the morning.

Liverlips McCracken
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1 year ago

I’m sitting on my normal eight. So I am invoking the schmutz clause in my contract and claiming I’ve found all nine.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

I’m sorry to inform you, but under paragraph 162.3, Section 27, subsection b, of Chapter XVII, in the December 31 2021 revised International Comics and Cartoon Code, Volume III which is the most current update to that code, all schmutz clauses have been rendered null and void, as of July 1st, 2022, due to the extreme and rising volume of bogus schmutz claimed in the years 2018 through 2021, inclusive.

All known possessors of contracts containing such clauses were at that time offered just compensation in the form of a check for $0.027, to be obtained by writing to any board-registered cartoonist and requesting such, including your name, a photocopy of the relevant page of your contract, and a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

….

If you did not receive timely notification of this change, this post shall serve as your official notification, and you may still apply for this compensation in the same manner, and also request that payment be rounded upward to the amount of $0.03, to offset any inconvenience caused by the delay.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Last edited 1 year ago by SusanSunshine
Liverlips McCracken
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1 year ago

{sigh} Okay. I’ll send my request, with SASE, via next-day delivery on Monday. I’ll expect that check by the end of the week.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

Thank you for your cooperation.

Please note that we are not responsible for delivery times in excess of reasonable expectations, due to postal holidays, delays, error, or misdelivery.

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

I stopped by earlier and the puzzle was not visible, so I made dinner instead of posting the solution…

Didn’t want to make it too tempting to look at the answer instead of the question, so to speak.

Another StelBel reworking of a doggies-in-Central-Park New Yorker cover.

Who knew they ran so many?

Different artists, different dogs… But they’re great.

I love the little puppies playing in the dirt in this one. I want to take home the one with the pink bow.

It’s a bit later, now, than I had planned to come back…

But here I am, all nine differences in tow, for your perusal…

As soon as you give solving it the ol’ Cleo try!

When you’re ready, CLICK HERE!

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P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

I got eight. There is another odd difference. It’s not between the two images, it’s the same in both. It’s between the boots of the doggie in the gene vest: one low heel and one spiked.
And, for any fans of the “Bird Brains” comic, look at the doggy face in the top leaf blob of the right-most tree.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

how did Cleo get in that tree?

StelBel
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1 year ago

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Of course, the more you enlarge an image, the more resolution you lose. But, the boot heels are actually both rather low-heeled and what makes it look like a spiked heel is some not-well-done shading.

And, thanks for pointing out the doggy face in the tree!! Cool!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

i only got 7 today. bummer!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

 
I only got 7 this week.
 

mr_sherman
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

I found eight. I’ve been busy today, so I didn’t get to it until after 3:30. I still have things to do so I’ll see what I missed.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 year ago

You’re kidding me!?!
All these decades of being told NOT to pay attention to a woman’s “shape”, you put the slight waistline difference in! Shame on you!

/s.

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Saucy1121
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 year ago

Look again
I don’t think that’s the difference. It’s the fence post. Present in one, absent in the other. I needed a magnifying glass to see it though.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Saucy1121
1 year ago

Yep.

Check out my explanation to Mr Sherman.

Last edited 1 year ago by SusanSunshine
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 year ago

Saucy is correct…

Explanation…
There is a rather faintly drawn fencepost in the left panel, missing in the right one.

I confess that I had a hard time seeing it myself.

I can see what you mean, though, but barely…

If that elegant doglady looks a tiny bit slimmer on that side, it’s because there’s a small snippet of her hip missing.

I’m guessing Stelbel’s stylus accidentally grazed her, so lightly she didn’t notice, when she was “painting” out the post to create a difference.

Had that actually been the difference we were looking for, I would have circled it, not a blank space beside it.

Last edited 1 year ago by SusanSunshine
dennisinseattle
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

The change in hip was at least visible when pointed out. But I cannot see this fence. Is it made of plexiglass? If I can’t see it, how can I tell when it was removed??

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Yeehaa! Finally found the ninth. Took me way too long.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

Ah, you see? No schmutz.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

I’ll be expecting that check.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

Only if you sent in proper documentation, right?

Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
Have I told you yet I detest clams?
  
From:
 
“THE GREAT COOKS’ GUIDE TO SOUPS” (The Great Cooks’ Library)
Senior Editors: Wendy Afton Rieder, Kate Slate
Published by: Random House, New York
ISBN: 0-394-73608-7
 
“NEW ENGLAND CLAM CHOWDER”   Credited to: Emanuel and Madeline Greenberg
6 to 8 servings
 
2 DOZEN LARGE HARD-SHELL CLAMS, WELL RINSED
2 CUPS WATER
1/4 POUND SALT PORK, DICED
1 MEDIUM-SIZE ONION, CHOPPED
4 MEDIUM-SIZED POTATOES, PEELED AND DICED
PINCH OF DRIED THYME
SALT, TO TASTE
PEPPER, TO TASTE
4 CUPS HALF-AND-HALF (cream 10% milk fat)
2 TABLESPOONS BUTTER
 
1.  In a heavy,2 1/2-quart pot, combine the clams and 2 cups of water. Cover the
pot and bring the water to a boil; reduce the heat and simmer until the clams
open.
2.  Strain the liquid into a bowl and reserve it.
3.  Remove the clams from their shells, chop them and set aside.
4.  In the same pot, heat the salt pork until the fat is rendered and scraps are
brown and crisp. Lift out the scraps (cracklings) and set them aside.
5.  Add the onion to the pot and cook until softened.
6.  Measure the clam broth and, if necessary, add enough water to it to make 3 1/2
cups. Add the broth, potatoes, thyme, salt and pepper to the pot.
7.  Bring the mixture to a boil. Partiall cover the pot and reduce the heat; simmer
until the potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes.
8.  Add the half-and-half, chopped clams and butter to the pan. Bring the chowder
just to a boil. Taste for seasoning.
9.  To serve, garnish each portion of chowder with some salt pork cracklings and
accompany with Common* (as they are known in New England) crackers.
*A large, rather dense, unsalted white cracker.
 
The above is this year’s entry     HERE     is last year’s entry from my Laura Secord cook book.
 

 

Last edited 1 year ago by Alexikakos
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Why DO we say that?

Has anyone ever interviewed a clam about it’s joys and sorrows, or even asked one the degree of pleasure it finds in feeling clammy?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

As I understand it, the full expression is “happy as a clam at high tide.” Because high tide affords them some protection from predators.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

That makes more sense!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 
I do not recall that at all.
It is in a word weird !
 

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

It’s been a while since they lifted the bridge.

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

They raised it to 12 foot 4 inches. ( 11 8 + 8 )

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