First I thought this must be a spoofed photo, not a picture of a real toy.
But I searched for it, and found examples for sale.
….
Made by in Hong Kong, by Poynter toys, in 1978, it’s apparently a gag, for adults, not a child’s toy (whew!)
It was referred to as a miniature electric chair, but I don’t know how small they mean.
The joke is that it hides a 9volt battery (which is why I don’t think it’s dollhouse size, but just miniature for an electric chair).
It’s mostly plastic, with some metal parts.
When it’s lifted off a surface, some of the metal bits slide, and make contact with wires attached to the battery inside, and it gives anyone who picks it up a (hopefully mild, but startling) shock.
Hope you can hear the deep sarcasm in Cleo’s voice.
Luckily, we get to solve the puzzle before Claude pushes the button, cos that always makes his world fly apart…
It would probably be more complicated at that point.
But Claude never seems to worry… Not about his physical safety, nor about being stranded in the past, or on a distant planet….
Seemingly, nor even about not being home in time for dinner, which Cleo would find disastrous.
….
Meanwhile, I found this one a little tricky.
Then again, unlike most of these, it’s been through several modifications and transmogrifications, and conversations between myself and Nighthawks, since then, and is probably smoother sailing now.
You’ll probably find all nine differences…
And be pleasantly surprised when you compare your solution
with mine!
Sorry… Just realized my square covers up some of the wheel well… Look on the original if you can’t see what’s differentn there.
Agreeing with Bambushie about the tip of background guy’s front shoe, but it also appears to me that the color of the phone in his hand changes. So in addition to missing the change in the wheel well, I also overlooked the downshift of the brick in the upper left.
I was just complaining to the New York Times considering today’s “Connections” – exactly four signs of the Chinese Zodiac there (Dragon included), but nooooo: wrong answer.
I almost did that, and there were exactly four quadruped mammals, but that’s not one either. Those looked too obvious so I looked deeper before selecting. However the final group I got only by default
Really,
how well are those yoga poses known outside regular practitioners?
Fire is one of the five attributes, but not a sign,
and AFAIK only one country uses the Cat instead of the Rabbit, while the rest of the world mostly uses the Chinese signs, with a few other variants.
Then I found another use for Rat, so I only had two left.
I, too, had no idea of the yoga poses but got them when they were the only four left.
While the dictionary might say that a female bovine trained to the yoke may be referred to as an ox, I have never heard it used.
“Ox” almost universally refers to a castrated male bovine of any species, and as I understand it, is used in the lunar zodiac as a symbol of steady hard work and male energy.
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Wish it had a sound track. ๐
Love it’s call. And a Grebes. Red Wing Blackbird. Yellow Headed Blackbird.
Getting homesick for a home that is no longer there.
That’s what the call makes me feel.
Or, for me, a home that was never there.
.
If you want it to sell, put a baby or a dog on it.
Papa Dog… Do NOT be teaching that sweet baby to smoke!
“A treat instead of a treatment.”
Sorry … Neither!
2 NOSES
Glad to see the Nose Patrol back in action!
,
“It had my chicken! I had to save my chicken!.”
…at least i think that that is a chicken?
What? Were you going to use it for something?
“It was attacking Chuckie the chicken! I got here just in time! I had to rescue him from its evil clutches!”
“That’s what I do when you don’t let me have my Old Gold; it’s a treat.”
NOSE
Istanbul
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First I thought this must be a spoofed photo, not a picture of a real toy.
But I searched for it, and found examples for sale.
….
Made by in Hong Kong, by Poynter toys, in 1978, it’s apparently a gag, for adults, not a child’s toy (whew!)
It was referred to as a miniature electric chair, but I don’t know how small they mean.
The joke is that it hides a 9volt battery (which is why I don’t think it’s dollhouse size, but just miniature for an electric chair).
It’s mostly plastic, with some metal parts.
When it’s lifted off a surface, some of the metal bits slide, and make contact with wires attached to the battery inside, and it gives anyone who picks it up a (hopefully mild, but startling) shock.
Ha ha. I guess.
the kid in me was wondering if you could strap Barbie or Ken or G.I. Joe in that thing
…um…
I’m guilty. :)
.๏ปฟ
Heavens… That’s one of the oldest riddles there is.
Just in case anybody wants to know
Which is him.
If the man in the picture’s father is HIS father’s son, of which there is only one… that has to be him, as well.
So he’s the father of the man in the picture, who has to be his son
…
That’s a lot of peach cobbler.
Oh… I thought they were oranges.
Can’t really see the leaves.
In either case, I’ve never seen a tree that crowded with fruit!
I have been known, on exceedingly rare occasions, to be wrong. If they were oranges, I couldn’t imagine that the tree would hold all that weight.
Me too, on both counts.
But peaches that size weigh more than oranges, or about the same.
….
The large oranges right now at Safeway are 10 to an 8 pound bag.
I look for smaller ones.
The fancy peaches at the farmer’s market weighed about a pound apiece, at $5 a pound!
Way out of my league!
Hmmmmmโฆโฆ.
Grapefruit?
Maybe.
Google Lens seems to think oranges, but a couple pics were grapefruits, and since lots were unlabelled I couldn’t draw a conclusion.
.,.
If it’s not Dali than it’s a student of him.
My search says it was painted by Irish surrealist artist Colin Middleton, in 1942.
got all nine, at least I think I did, time will tell, I’m early for a change!
I got three!
You’ll find more….
Keep going!
Six! ๐
Hope you can hear the deep sarcasm in Cleo’s voice.
Luckily, we get to solve the puzzle before Claude pushes the button, cos that always makes his world fly apart…
It would probably be more complicated at that point.
But Claude never seems to worry… Not about his physical safety, nor about being stranded in the past, or on a distant planet….
Seemingly, nor even about not being home in time for dinner, which Cleo would find disastrous.
….
Meanwhile, I found this one a little tricky.
Then again, unlike most of these, it’s been through several modifications and transmogrifications, and conversations between myself and Nighthawks, since then, and is probably smoother sailing now.
You’ll probably find all nine differences…
And be pleasantly surprised when you compare your solution
Sorry… Just realized my square covers up some of the wheel well… Look on the original if you can’t see what’s differentn there.
Nope, only 7.
what about the guy in the background with the right shoe?
Agreeing with Bambushie about the tip of background guy’s front shoe, but it also appears to me that the color of the phone in his hand changes. So in addition to missing the change in the wheel well, I also overlooked the downshift of the brick in the upper left.
Some people haven’t done the puzzle yet…
That’s why we use spoiler boxes.
Thank you!
I was just complaining to the New York Times considering today’s “Connections” – exactly four signs of the Chinese Zodiac there (Dragon included), but nooooo: wrong answer.
I presume I won’t be the only one.
I almost did that, and there were exactly four quadruped mammals, but that’s not one either. Those looked too obvious so I looked deeper before selecting. However the final group I got only by default
I had the same first thought but
Fire is one of the five attributes, but not a sign,
and AFAIK only one country uses the Cat instead of the Rabbit, while the rest of the world mostly uses the Chinese signs, with a few other variants.
Then I found another use for Rat, so I only had two left.
I, too, had no idea of the yoga poses but got them when they were the only four left.
Um…
It might be a language or semantics thing…
The lunar zodiac includes an Ox, not a Cow.
While the dictionary might say that a female bovine trained to the yoke may be referred to as an ox, I have never heard it used.
“Ox” almost universally refers to a castrated male bovine of any species, and as I understand it, is used in the lunar zodiac as a symbol of steady hard work and male energy.
“Cow” means “female.”
Even “a pair of oxen” refers to two males.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox_(zodiac)
Wow… That’s the opposite of what I had just read on a Chinese site about what the ox means in the lunar zodiac…
That’s where I got the bit about male energy.
But it was a touristy kind of site and I didn’t keep a link anyway… so I’ll take yours.
My view of “ox” stems from Western usage, but perhaps it doesn’t apply.
cream cheese brownies
YUM!
I just realized it’s a stack of brownies…
I’d thought it was an awfully wobbly looking slice of cake!
Sounds good, whichever it is!
Could we put that off for a few days, please?
We’re just getting a break in the rain
I know we need more… But it’s on the way soon enough!
Can I please ๐ please enjoy the sun today without feeling guilty?
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
์ํด ๋ณต ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์ผ์ธ์!
์ ๋ ๊ณ ๋ง์์!
Water Dragon?
Asian dragons are always connected to water.
This is the year of the Blue Dragon in Korea, but it’s also the Wood Dragon – Water was twelve years ago.