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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Perfect toy!

I always wonder whether they know.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

“Pookie has a boo-boo. Can you fix it?”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Pookie is hungry too!!!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Unless it’s somewhere in north Africa or the middle east, i have to doubt it.
All those things are way too top heavy.

Arfside
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Maybe Han Solo.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Pink?
I’ll bet that Barbie is driving.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Yellowish tan on my tablet.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Another one that’s gotta be AI.

It’s a strange world, when photographic proof no longer proves anything.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

It’s AI, doesn’t even look like a photograph, and wheels are meant to be round.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

How would you like to have to rotate the tires on that beast? Or pay for a new set?

Arfside
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Well, if I could afford it, I’d have my chauffeur (or maybe her assistant’s assistant) take care of it. Money is no object, but it had better be ready whenever I wish to use it!!!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

This must have an incredibly large turning radius! Not even the largest locomotives tried to take this many wheels around the curves!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Arfside
6 months ago

 
If the steering gear was designed properly the front six sets of wheels and the back six sets of wheels turn into each other and the turning radius becomes very much smaller (the design would have to include all wheel drive so the back end / or front end if in reverse / would not get jammed).
 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

I’ve seen large moving platforms like that. Used to move very large heavy things into very precise spaces.
All wheel steering and drive.

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Or they have multiple bogies.

It’s too many wheels for the load. That is a fairly hollow load (despite being top heavy). The wheel arrangement shown would be for moving huge stamping dies. Even battle tank haulers have fewer axels than that.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

This does remind me of the film ‘The Big Bus’, which was a spoof in the mode of ‘Airplane’

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

I remember that!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

We think the whole world was a lot more drab before the last 100 years or so…

Just because most dyes and paints weren’t colorfast in ancient, or even more recent historical, times, we think nothing was colorful.

The reality is that a lot of otherwise well preserved clothing, artifacts, and architecture have lost the bright colors they had in their times.

Maybe they weren’t as brilliant as some of the boldest aniline and other chemical dyes of today…

But certainly not the grayed and faded colors we think they’ve always borne.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Makes you wish you had a time machine to visit in its heyday.

Heck, I’d like to have copies of the library of Alexandria before it burned! Who knows what ideas have been lost?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

“I give up! I can’t take having these socks on my paws!”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I wonder whether there was a paw-chewing problem going on.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

My bed! My bed!! My bed!!!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

That’s some baaaad sailing weather brewing!!!

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

A sea of bubble bath in the background becoming a sea of Venus flytraps in the foreground.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Two hundred dollars?! I’d kill myself first.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I triple dog dare you!!!

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

I bet somebody would love to get this as a tattoo.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Yes!

Liverlips McCracken
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6 months ago

It would be logical for the science officer to also be the mixologist.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

“What would you recommend, Bones”
“Damit Jim! I’m a doctor, not a food critic.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Nighthawks ran this one by me, and I said I thought it was solvable, based on being halfway finished.

Well…. Some were easy, but I haven’t found the artist’s brush, and I’m not terribly happy with the hockey stick I think I found.

See what you think when you…

compare your findings with mine!

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I don’t have many colors in the app on my tablet, so I tried to use different shapes as well, to indicate what I’ve found.

This isn’t an art tablet, so the stylus isn’t an efficient way to draw… But you have the objects themselves to go by, as well.

If I covered anything up, just refer to the original puzzle to see what I’ve marked.

Am I right about the hockey stick?

Is the thing from the bush to the tree on the right supposed to be the watercolor brush?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Oh wow…. I just found the artist’s brush!

It’s
lying in the road, on our side of the boy on the big wheel (?) and twice as long as that tricycle.

It’s hidden in the streaks of the pavement, and the brush tip almost reaches the car behind it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

And I see that i failed to mark the sailboat.

Oops. I didn’t have a lot of time with this puzzle before it was time to post the solution.

The sailboat is

Upside down, with the little triangular side wall of the dormer on the roof, as the sail.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

SPOILER?
I have the hockey stick sharing a handle with the toothbrush, but the stick blade angles up to the right, to the porch roof. Also sharing space, I had the crown doubling as the saw blade.
Also,
SPOILER 2?
I do think the artist’s brush is the line from bush to tree.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

I got the same except I didn’t find the brush or the sail boat.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

I failed to mark the sailboat but I described its position in a reply to my post with the solution.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

I got all but those two on my own. I saw where you added the boat and brush to your original answers.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

I absolutely found the paint brush in the street, drawn exactly like the one in the clue, and the same size and orientation.

Look again at the tricycle…

Then straight down below the puzzle, at the clue.

In between them, in the street, and a tiny bit to the right, you’ll see the paint brush, a bit more faint but identical to the clue.

Also, I don’t think any object we’re seeking shares a part with another…. Or is much bigger or smaller than the clue.

I’m not crazy about my find for the hockey stick because of the angle…

But the one you guys are talking about is too big, has the wrong ends, plus a seam across it, and lacks its own handle.

Your mileage may vary but I’ll stick with mine.

…..

I can’t find a solution online… Just repostings of the picture with different captions.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

BUNNY!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Did you find it?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Yup! second thing i found. After the needle.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

OH BOY, Highlights. I feel like I’m back in the pediatrician’s waiting room.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

Yeah…. with it already marked up in crayon, and some incorrectly.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

 
The world is a lesser place.
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I saw this on yesterday’s strip.

So very sad.

We will miss you greatly, Dennis.
You’ve been part of our Cleo family from the very beginning.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I just want to cry.
Damn it!

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

I just did.

dorothea
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

Me, too.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I’ll say it for everybody: “Sh*t!!! Life isn’t fair!!! We lose too many good ones!!!

Now where will I go to get my cardboard pants inserts?

meadowmary
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

That’s just too sad!

Saint
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Just read Tigressy’s posting of this on Ballard this AM. I so enjoyed his commentaries and his store there had almost anything one could imagine.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I miss him.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

So sorry to hear this. We’ll all miss him.

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

Terrible punning.
Please do it again.

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Alexikakos
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6 months ago

 
Past, present, and future walked into a bar.
Things got a little tense.
 

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

Alexikakos
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6 months ago

 
I find it weird that I can easily read the English text of the dictionary which appears at 8 minutes 58 seconds considering it was published in MDCCLV (1755) or at least 267 years ago.
 

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Some mice are rather tame.

Was this mouse a little Wilder?

Liverlips McCracken
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6 months ago

Oy {face palm}

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6 months ago



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happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

Came across this on fb this morning.

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