Four. I’ve never really noticed faces (prosopagnosia) and assumed there was no help for it. But with all of these “games” you’ve been posting here on Cleo, I think I’m getting better. Even the ones I don’t know are at least now looking distinct, instead of all-the-same.
Hard to know whether I caught a tiny glimpse of the names, but I was trying not to look, and got almost all of them.
But the only reason I got Charly Chaplin and Buster Keaton is that those particular pictures are kind of famous, not because they look like they do in their films.
It was hard cos some of them show unfamiliar views… William Holden looking kind of blond, Orson Welles looking very young and not made up as a character…. Marion Brando and (of all people) Edward G Robinson smiling.
I did miss Lawrence Olivier, and I shouldn’t have!
A few of these words have survived more than he said here, either in slightly different modern versions, or with those of us who did Renaissance Faire.
For instance, I’ve never heard the word jangler, for musician… But the word jongleur is common in old writing for a minstrel, sometimes in court but usually itinerant.
Eirmonger for egg seller, no… but AFAIK monger is still fairly common in Britain. Maybe it’s quaint now…
But when I had English friends, as a child in the 50s they called the hardware store the ironmonger’s. And also said fish monger.
At Renn Faire most sellers were called mongers of one thing or another.
I’ve definitely heard the word brainpan used… A later form.
But since he’s a scholar and I’m not, and the words may be more uncommon now, he probably chose not to mention them.
Have you crossed paths with Justin Thompson, who does the Mythtickle comic at any Renaissance fairs? He used to joust. He said he did the one in Sterling, NY for 10 years.
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Cute. I guess he’ll grow into those feet.
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Much better than the atomic bomb one…
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That’s what I see.
Same.
Add me.
Yup
Ditto
BUNNY!!!
here His butt is the lower loop of the 5
If you say so.
I can kinda see it, I think….
Gotta squinch my eyes a bit
BUNNY!
Would not have seen it if you had not highlighted it.
It jumped right out for me; the ears did anyway.
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What did he do to rate the cone of shame?
Keeps him from snacking between meals.
They kept running out of communion wafers.
But the reception he gets is amazing.
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I got 18 without peeking at the names. Is that a pass?
Four. I’ve never really noticed faces (prosopagnosia) and assumed there was no help for it. But with all of these “games” you’ve been posting here on Cleo, I think I’m getting better. Even the ones I don’t know are at least now looking distinct, instead of all-the-same.
Who do you see when you look in the mirror? (Lord, I hope it’s not me.)
Not the same person I see when I look at photos of me (for one thing, the guy in the mirror parts his hair on the wrong side.)
Hard to know whether I caught a tiny glimpse of the names, but I was trying not to look, and got almost all of them.
But the only reason I got Charly Chaplin and Buster Keaton is that those particular pictures are kind of famous, not because they look like they do in their films.
It was hard cos some of them show unfamiliar views… William Holden looking kind of blond, Orson Welles looking very young and not made up as a character…. Marion Brando and (of all people) Edward G Robinson smiling.
I did miss Lawrence Olivier, and I shouldn’t have!
I hope nobody missed #20!
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Correct in the sense that, a grandfather is indeed a spoiler.
Mine was!
After being incredibly strict, or so I’m told, with my Dad and my aunt… though he must have been nice too cos they both adored him…
He indulged his grandchildren to the point of their parents’ supposed dismay… though I’m sure that was slightly faked.
True but the answer to a different question.
The question is how is A related to D…
So the answer, I would think…
And tell how A is related to D.
Right?
And I believe
& likely B as well.
“I’m her mother” – “I’m her sister”
Yes; I’ve seen that movie.
Yes…
Or A and B are siblings by adoption, and D makes a distinction in grand-parentage based on that.
My grandfather absolutely didn’t.
I’m my own grandpa?
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Now to find a 98 lb. weakling so I can kick sand in his face.
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…starry, starry night…
Is that you Vincent?
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Groan!
That last one? BOO! 😀
Plenty of seagulls live by the Bay.
You can find plenty of bagels by the sea.
I love it!
Even more chivalrous than Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cloak, if you ask me.
Ok, even if you don’t ask me.
So sweet, looking out for his little sister.
How about some of those little squeeze packs.
A few of these words have survived more than he said here, either in slightly different modern versions, or with those of us who did Renaissance Faire.
For instance, I’ve never heard the word jangler, for musician… But the word jongleur is common in old writing for a minstrel, sometimes in court but usually itinerant.
Eirmonger for egg seller, no… but AFAIK monger is still fairly common in Britain. Maybe it’s quaint now…
But when I had English friends, as a child in the 50s they called the hardware store the ironmonger’s. And also said fish monger.
At Renn Faire most sellers were called mongers of one thing or another.
I’ve definitely heard the word brainpan used… A later form.
But since he’s a scholar and I’m not, and the words may be more uncommon now, he probably chose not to mention them.
Fishmonger is in the song Molly Malone.
Have you crossed paths with Justin Thompson, who does the Mythtickle comic at any Renaissance fairs? He used to joust. He said he did the one in Sterling, NY for 10 years.
Strangely enough, he lives (or lived) in my area.
I wouldn’t have known had I not met him at the Schulz Museum, around 2009.
I was a volunteer, and he was part of an event, or possibly just attending it, cos his wife and kids were there. Young guy, compared to me.
I’d never seen his strip, but I like his artwork.
I added it to my queue and read it till I pretty much quit going to GoComics. (I keep intending to go back.)
We all talked, and said the usual see you, get together, do lunch kind of things and never did
But I didn’t know he did Renn Faires!
I only did the original one, at the northern CA event
Do you know him?
I never met him. I moved to NY in 2004, his last joust here was 2002. He is very nice in the comment section, and answers questions.
I’m with Claude…. Ok, not quite.
It’s not like I interrupt the waiter, or jump the gun.
But I have said, after “and I’ll be your waiter tonight”…
“Ok, and I’ll be your customer.” Or “your diner”.
Of course, sometimes it gets a laugh… and sometimes….a kind of a blank stare.
But I’m sure they have a good laugh later, when, you know, they realize it was funny… right?
Especially if you’d add “And my name is Karen” but don’t act like one plus tip generously.
Worth it.
Sorry no.
The name Karen is very popular… It’s been around for decades longer than YouTube, and so have the many grown women who have it.
No waiter would expect one to act like a YouTube “Karen”, just because she says “My name is Karen”.
Plus in deference to my old friend Karen, I don’t like that usage anyway.
I don’t know where it came from, but I wish it would go back!
I also hate the besmirching of perfectly good names. I can only imagine how all those named Dick have felt all these years.
Johns too.
I’ve known a couple of those who hated that.
And one who jokingly embraced it and collected old wooden toilet seats.
Or Susan.
The downside of getting older….
That is so entirely true.
The first swimmer emerging from the Seine river, in the Triathlon, stated the water quality was actually not that bad!
LOL, I love it!