By this SITE, it’s a photograph taken on January 18, 2021.
It does look flat but that may be the effect the photographer intended.
You’ll have to scroll down a bit, but what you pass is really nice to see.
For years I’ve carried a jackknife in my hip pocket.
In the past when I was flying somewhere I’ve passed it (open) to flight attendants when they were having trouble with food cart (remember them?) packages, and they took it without a blink, used it, and passed it back with a “thanks.”
In fact, the only things I’ve discarded before boarding a plane (in Edmonton) were about half a dozen .22 long rifle shells I discovered in my parka pocket (having flown down from the N.W.T. on Piggly Wiggly Airlines; long since defunct / where there wasn’t any security at all at the airport) before going through the basic wanding by the relatively easy security check in those days; my jackknife, of course, passed.
As you said, “Good luck with that.”, today.
Looks a little small. We were taught to build a solar still from a sheet of clear dropcloth over a shallow pit. You could cook the water out of cut plants.
I’m thinking that lifeboats are equiped with a solar still.
Water bottles are very stiff, usually #1 or #5 plastic.
Some have a shallow molded trough in the bottom that looks like a shallow jello mold. Maybe you could use that, by cutting out just the center, but it wouldn’t hold much.
Cutting the straight sides shorter, and trying to curve them as in the picture would be impossible.
How would you get the cut edge to shrink enough to fit inside, much less get small enough to be the inner edge of that trough, or “gutter”?
I agree with your reasoning resulting in two possible answers.
Which kind of puts the official answer at Puzzles World (they’re brother and sister) in the trash can.
Going with the official answer there’s got to be a story behind why her husband and brother(s?) did not meet at their wedding.
Variation of the old “Brothers and sisters have I none, yet this man’s father is my father’s son”.
But, the author erred. As Susan pointed out, because the wife’s grsandfather is not specified as paternal of maternal, the answer is not specific.
Lovely painting, nice restaurant… except that the two views don’t quite match
Do any restaurants still serve something they call chop suey?
Not around here, with our large Asian population.
AFAIK, that’s American slang, that turned into a menu word, but it was never called that in China.
Another American thing in Chinese restaurants is fortune cookies, which they’ve never heard of in China either.
….
For some reason, the East and West coasts of the US also seem to get different Chinese dishes … Possibly due to immigration from different parts of China.
I’ve never seen anything here called Moo Goo Gai Pan.
…
Anyhow… tell ya what I’m gonna do…
Since I see that some of you have indeed been working on it, I will post the solution to the puzzle.
I missed one of yours, Susan, (and I know you don’t like these types of disputes), but I’m saying that the header should have read FIND THE TEN DIFFERENCES IN THESE TWO PANELS.
My reason is….
… nighthawks, (if you read this) you both moved the teapot and added (since Hopper’s original is on the right) the splash of sunlight and I counted both as differences.
So with the colour change in the sign’s bulb (the one I missed) there are ten very real differences between the two panels in my opinion.
It’s not that I don’t like the disputes, it’s that I can’t resolve them.
I don’t make the puzzles, so I can’t speak to the constructor’s errors or intent, or arbitrate the conclusion.
Occasionally I have an opinion, especially if I think it was a mistake, rather than an intended difference, but my opinion doesn’t count for much.
….
In this case, when you pointed it out, it looked to me, not like an intended splash of sunlight but from its shape, like a white space left by cutting out and moving the teapot along with part of its background.
I saw it briefly, but didn’t comment, and when I came back, Nighthawks had answered you and fixed it.
For anybody who’s interested, here are the official answers to the emoji country quiz from yesterday (I get the impression that English is not the first language of the puzzle maker).
1. Turkey
2. China
3. Iceland
4. Oman
5. Qatar
6. Japan
7. Germany
8. Portugal
9. Libya
10. Ukraine
11. Panama / Palau
12. Botswana
13. Haiti
14. Peru
15. Taiwan
16. Poland
17. Bangladesh
18. France
19. Singapore
20. Belgium
21. Norway
22. Iran
23. Thailand
24. Malaysia
25. Netherlands
Today’s Songs:
1. ‘Popcorn ,’ 2. ‘Proud Mary ,’ 3. ‘Purple Haze ,’ and 4. ‘Real Wild Child ,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Cool Cucumber Gazpacho ‘
1. This is ‘Hot Butter’ ‘s version. The original by its composer, Gershon Kingsley, is below. I just learned that while the song is indeed reminiscent of popcorn its title actually stands for pop (as in music) and kitsch (as in corn). The video of the original, below, is both interesting and fun.
2. ‘Proud Mary’ true name ‘Mary Elizabeth’ was actually a tug boat on the Mississippi river. Before that under her ‘New York’ (where she was built in 1905) names of ‘SARAH A. JENKS and later ‘OSSINING’ she transported prisoners ‘up the river’ to Sing-Sing (there’s a link to more of her history below).
3. Hendrix gave different answers of the title’s origin at different times, but the one I like is that it’s based on ‘Night of Light’ a novel by Philip José Farmer in which sunspots on a distant star produced a purple haze which disoriented the inhabitants of one of the star’s planets.
4. ‘Iggy Pop’; the original by Johnny O’Keefe, released in 1958, is said to be the start of rock and roll in Australia. The story goes it was inspired by a dance upstairs, an Italian wedding reception downstairs, and friction that resulted in a riot in the streets in which the police called in the Navy Shore Patrol for aid in bringing back order (the original is below / I’ve said it more than once, I’m having fun with this project).
5. With the exception of the hot sauce and jalapenos I’d eat all the ingredients cold (and un-puréed) separately; Puréed together cold? No.
The gif (by its late original programmer it’s pronounced “jiff”, like the peanut butter) Tigressy posted is from (in translation) the 1988 anime movie “My Neighbor Totoro” by Japan’s Studio Ghibli. Here’s a LINK to more about the E(lectric)V(ehicle) bus and the theme park it serves (thanks for the picture, M.C.T.S.).
Even amongst techies of all descriptions, there’s strong dispute about the pronunciation of .gif
While its inventor, Steve Wilhite, insisted it was “jiff”, his peers just as insistently called it a “giff”….(hard g)
pointing out that he also said it stands for “graphics interchange format”.
… not “jraphics”.
Polls have determined that most people in the technology field prefer the hard g… a minority use the soft g, and a few say G-I-F… similarly to URL, or LOL.
It was found also that English words starting with “gi” are about evenly divided…. girl, gift, give etc versus giraffe, ginger and gin, etc… but most people seeing a new one instinctively use hard g.
Stel and I, in fact, don’t agree. She uses the j sound.
I, like most people, apparently, will continue, though, to pronounce it like “gift” without the “t”.
.
Best hope that you are not small and fluttery.
,
OMG!! It’s HIM! Squeeee!!!
He’s looking a bit thin tonight, in profile.
Norwegian wood
It’s a collage.
Something was bothering me about it last night…
By this SITE, it’s a photograph taken on January 18, 2021.
It does look flat but that may be the effect the photographer intended.
You’ll have to scroll down a bit, but what you pass is really nice to see.
assuming of course if you have readily available saltwater
A Sun-Still.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
Just be sure you drink all the water and soda before you cut up the bottles.
In a boat after my plane crashed. – Where do I get a knife from?
in your handy-dandy survival kit you thoughtfully brought along
A knife. On a commercial flight.
Good luck with that.
For years I’ve carried a jackknife in my hip pocket.
In the past when I was flying somewhere I’ve passed it (open) to flight attendants when they were having trouble with food cart (remember them?) packages, and they took it without a blink, used it, and passed it back with a “thanks.”
In fact, the only things I’ve discarded before boarding a plane (in Edmonton) were about half a dozen .22 long rifle shells I discovered in my parka pocket (having flown down from the N.W.T. on Piggly Wiggly Airlines; long since defunct / where there wasn’t any security at all at the airport) before going through the basic wanding by the relatively easy security check in those days; my jackknife, of course, passed.
As you said, “Good luck with that.”, today.
Airline rafts are required to have survival kits which include a knife
And something to make seawater drinkable, I presume…
Yup!
Yup! A plastic water bottle and a soda can (both empty)
Yup!
Looks a little small. We were taught to build a solar still from a sheet of clear dropcloth over a shallow pit. You could cook the water out of cut plants.
I’m thinking that lifeboats are equiped with a solar still.
Heck, the radio beacons will get you rescued in time for dinner any more.
Coming back and actually reading the directions…
Step 3 seems physically impossible.
Water bottles are very stiff, usually #1 or #5 plastic.
Some have a shallow molded trough in the bottom that looks like a shallow jello mold. Maybe you could use that, by cutting out just the center, but it wouldn’t hold much.
Cutting the straight sides shorter, and trying to curve them as in the picture would be impossible.
How would you get the cut edge to shrink enough to fit inside, much less get small enough to be the inner edge of that trough, or “gutter”?
All I can picture is split or crushed plastic.
It’s something to keep your mind occupied as you die of thirst.
.,,
There are at least three claimants to the rights to this photograph, but they all agree it was taken on the island of Mykonos, Greece.
The original Lois Lane (both movies and television).
Here’s the serial.
Thanks. I’ll check that out later if i find the time. 🙂
The poster art had me intrigued.
,,,
Such a handsome boy.
NOSE!
.,..
He is her uncle, and his name is Bob.
Brothers have the same father, so his brother’s father would be HIS father too.
If their father was her grandfather’s only son, that son could be her father as well, making both men her brothers…
Or her mother could be her grandfather’s daughter, making the brothers her cousins.
No?
I agree with your reasoning resulting in two possible answers.
Which kind of puts the official answer at Puzzles World (they’re brother and sister) in the trash can.
Going with the official answer there’s got to be a story behind why her husband and brother(s?) did not meet at their wedding.
#corona
Variation of the old “Brothers and sisters have I none, yet this man’s father is my father’s son”.
But, the author erred. As Susan pointed out, because the wife’s grsandfather is not specified as paternal of maternal, the answer is not specific.
LOL… I hope she’s not married to her own brother!
Problem is, “this man”, grammatically, should refer to the previous “a man”, whom she is introducing to her husband.
But if it refers, instead, to her husband, his father is her grandfather. Oops.
They must have disallowed the goal…
Asteroid was my game.
Got ’em!
Got them, or so I think.
Eight tonight. I’ll look again in the morning. Before checking Susans answers. 🙂
Lovely painting, nice restaurant… except that the two views don’t quite match
Do any restaurants still serve something they call chop suey?
Not around here, with our large Asian population.
AFAIK, that’s American slang, that turned into a menu word, but it was never called that in China.
Another American thing in Chinese restaurants is fortune cookies, which they’ve never heard of in China either.
….
For some reason, the East and West coasts of the US also seem to get different Chinese dishes … Possibly due to immigration from different parts of China.
I’ve never seen anything here called Moo Goo Gai Pan.
…
Anyhow… tell ya what I’m gonna do…
Since I see that some of you have indeed been working on it, I will post the solution to the puzzle.
Then when you’re ready, you can
I missed one of yours, Susan, (and I know you don’t like these types of disputes), but I’m saying that the header should have read
FIND THE TEN DIFFERENCES IN THESE TWO PANELS.
… nighthawks, (if you read this) you both moved the teapot and added (since Hopper’s original is on the right) the splash of sunlight and I counted both as differences.
So with the colour change in the sign’s bulb (the one I missed) there are ten very real differences between the two panels in my opinion.
Same here. Including the missed one.
But I’ve suspected something like that.
you’re right—so, I fixed it.—-back to nine!
I’m always right……………
some lines from the movie ‘The D.I.”:
Boot: I’m never wrong sir!
Jack Webb: NEVER?
Boot: Sometimes I’m not exactly right, but I’m never wrong, sir!”
The inspiration for Lorne Greene, Lenoard Nimoy, and William Shatner?
Leonard Nimoy could sing!
It’s not that I don’t like the disputes, it’s that I can’t resolve them.
I don’t make the puzzles, so I can’t speak to the constructor’s errors or intent, or arbitrate the conclusion.
Occasionally I have an opinion, especially if I think it was a mistake, rather than an intended difference, but my opinion doesn’t count for much.
….
In this case, when you pointed it out, it looked to me, not like an intended splash of sunlight but from its shape, like a white space left by cutting out and moving the teapot along with part of its background.
I saw it briefly, but didn’t comment, and when I came back, Nighthawks had answered you and fixed it.
He’s the only one who can.
I got all 9. Apparently I got here after Nighthawks corrected for Alexikakos’s comment, because I don’t see what he referred to.
EGADS!! i missed 2 easy ones!
How do i miss those! Argh!
1. Turkey
2. China
3. Iceland
4. Oman
5. Qatar
6. Japan
7. Germany
8. Portugal
9. Libya
10. Ukraine
11. Panama / Palau
12. Botswana
13. Haiti
14. Peru
15. Taiwan
16. Poland
17. Bangladesh
18. France
19. Singapore
20. Belgium
21. Norway
22. Iran
23. Thailand
24. Malaysia
25. Netherlands
Wow! Some I can’t see at all and others are real stretches.
Back to yesterday again. Here’s more on the pooch that ate the money.
1. ‘Popcorn ,’ 2. ‘Proud Mary ,’ 3. ‘Purple Haze ,’ and 4. ‘Real Wild Child ,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Cool Cucumber Gazpacho ‘
1. This is ‘Hot Butter’ ‘s version. The original by its composer, Gershon Kingsley, is below. I just learned that while the song is indeed reminiscent of popcorn its title actually stands for pop (as in music) and kitsch (as in corn). The video of the original, below, is both interesting and fun.
2. ‘Proud Mary’ true name ‘Mary Elizabeth’ was actually a tug boat on the Mississippi river. Before that under her ‘New York’ (where she was built in 1905) names of ‘SARAH A. JENKS and later ‘OSSINING’ she transported prisoners ‘up the river’ to Sing-Sing (there’s a link to more of her history below).
3. Hendrix gave different answers of the title’s origin at different times, but the one I like is that it’s based on ‘Night of Light’ a novel by Philip José Farmer in which sunspots on a distant star produced a purple haze which disoriented the inhabitants of one of the star’s planets.
4. ‘Iggy Pop’; the original by Johnny O’Keefe, released in 1958, is said to be the start of rock and roll in Australia. The story goes it was inspired by a dance upstairs, an Italian wedding reception downstairs, and friction that resulted in a riot in the streets in which the police called in the Navy Shore Patrol for aid in bringing back order (the original is below / I’ve said it more than once, I’m having fun with this project).
5. With the exception of the hot sauce and jalapenos I’d eat all the ingredients cold (and un-puréed) separately; Puréed together cold? No.
PROUD MARY LINK
CCR! YES!
Popcorn is a fun tune. The only thing kitschy about it, is that it does sound like popcorn. So I think both sources for the name apply.
The gif (by its late original programmer it’s pronounced “jiff”, like the peanut butter) Tigressy posted is from (in translation) the 1988 anime movie “My Neighbor Totoro” by Japan’s Studio Ghibli. Here’s a LINK to more about the E(lectric)V(ehicle) bus and the theme park it serves (thanks for the picture, M.C.T.S.).
Even amongst techies of all descriptions, there’s strong dispute about the pronunciation of .gif
While its inventor, Steve Wilhite, insisted it was “jiff”, his peers just as insistently called it a “giff”….(hard g)
pointing out that he also said it stands for “graphics interchange format”.
… not “jraphics”.
Polls have determined that most people in the technology field prefer the hard g… a minority use the soft g, and a few say G-I-F… similarly to URL, or LOL.
It was found also that English words starting with “gi” are about evenly divided…. girl, gift, give etc versus giraffe, ginger and gin, etc… but most people seeing a new one instinctively use hard g.
Stel and I, in fact, don’t agree. She uses the j sound.
I, like most people, apparently, will continue, though, to pronounce it like “gift” without the “t”.
Until I retired 20 years ago (1/2/04), all the old farts like me I know used Wilhite’s pronunciation. I never heard it pronounced with a hard ‘g’.
Interesting.
I didn’t work in tech, but the techs I knew around that time used hard g.
Maybe it depends on where you were and who you worked with, since groups tend to develop their own slang and pronunciations.