September 22, 2024

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

“Sssshhh. I’m on the verge of achieving zen.”

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

“Never in the field of human conflict…”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
7 days ago

Just like in the cartoons of him.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

 
Left to right:
James Coburn, director John Sturges, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson, on the set of “The Great Escape.”
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 days ago

Bronson, now there’s a face even a “face blind” guy can remember.

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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Peter Butterworth, English actor (Starred in several ‘Carry On’ films, amongst others), was turned down for a part in The Great Escape, because he didn’t look athletic enough (Or similar reasons). This was a bit of a slap in the face as he had actually been in the camp, and part of the escape committee, plus his experiences and information about that time were used in the writing…..

jean VanLeuven
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 days ago

Wow. I recall his name but don’t recall his face. Guess I’ll watch a CARRY ON to refresh my memory. LOVE the CARRY ON comedies.

jean VanLeuven
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Reply to  jean VanLeuven
6 days ago

Just googled him – yes – definitely remember him fondly!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Guess who copied. 😁

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 days ago

 
By this article on the     ESPN WEBSITE      this was at Ebbets Field in August of 1954
 
By the caption at this     WEBSITE     it took place at the Polo Grounds (III / there were three versions of the stadium) in 1957.
 
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
 
Here’s a copy you can use without letting anyone know it is…. 😜
 
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There are extra baseball history photographs at both sites, but tons more at the second.
 

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 days ago

Much more likely to have been the Polo Grounds, as that was the Giants home field in NYC. Ebbets Field was the Dodgers home park.

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 days ago

My first baseball hero.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 days ago

My dad’s favorite player.

Pretty sure not his first, cos he started watching baseball as a kid in the 1920s…

But his favorite while I lived at home, and probably longer. Not sure about after the Giants.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Goats.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 days ago

You goat it!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

♫♪ “I’m the king of the castle…” ♫♪

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 days ago

Apparently these tall goat structures are popping up in American and maybe Canadian fields.

Should we be worried about an international goats’ quest for dominance, or eventual takeover?

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 days ago

Goat pyramids honoring Quetzelgoatal?

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

The Adirondack Trout…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
7 days ago

Adirondack rainbow trout.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Howe nowe browne cowe?

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

I guess the rod in the back is for if you pop a wheelie.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Howe’d he do dat?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Sounds effective.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 days ago

It’s the real thing!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 days ago

And Coke isn’t!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

I found one that looks a heckuva lot like a rabbit.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
7 days ago

Yup. Bunny.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
7 days ago

All Dudolf(the puzzle artist’s) animals are basically the same… just add or subtract a salient feature or two.

So yeah, I think the rabbity thing is the sheep.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 days ago

Nope. It’s a bunny. I found the sheep and its a hornless goat.
Sorry for the little spoiler. That’s what i was looking for anyway and it still took some work to find.

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 days ago

Yay, I found the bunny!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 days ago

Oops, sorry.. I meant the bunny-like goat was a sheep… Not the real bunny 🐰, which I also see.

Wanted to tell you but my internet has been out all day.

I haven’t been about to reply to anybody or give likes, or finish commenting.

Last edited 6 days ago by SusanSunshine
happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

BUNNY!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Found it.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

What’s the thing wearing a carrot?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
7 days ago

I think it’s goat. There are horns on each side. I think.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
7 days ago

A unicarrot.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

Found iron the 2nd try.

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 days ago

 
I looked up a picture of both animals.
For cartooning purposes, both ear shapes are the same.
 

To find it….

 
… go to the left horn of the goat to the left of the purple “dudolf.com” in the puzzle and drop straight down to the next animal below the goat’s eye (I didn’t want to do the work with the video at the dudolf site to make it a picture).
 

 

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 days ago

I found one that wasn’t as horney as the rest.

Sorry, that was a sheep joke. OK, I better take it on the lamb before you guys come after me.

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Reply to  P51Strega
6 days ago

 
Your eyesight needs to be checked.
I don’t think any of them come remotely close to matching the beauty of this beautiful lady..
 
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I offer my humble apologies to Ms. Horne.
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 days ago

Don’t be sheepish.

Jokes are OK, even wooly baaad ones.

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Reply to  nighthawks
7 days ago

WanJin Kim

SusanSunshine
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6 days ago

I know someone quite well who understands computers the same way Claude does. For real!

She didn’t want to get a newer version of MS Word at one point, because she had some fonts she really liked, and thought they’d have to be thrown out with her old program.

In the days when we only had 2Mg email inboxes (really! That’s all!) she sent me a 1500kb picture. She couldn’t understand file sizes, or why it was a problem.

I told her i managed to delete it… so she sent a different one the same size.
Hotmail locked up my account and deleted important stuff I was saving.

She’s a bit better now but not totally.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

Hmmm, your server was only for light e-mails. Heavy matters, over two Megagrams, would have to be handled another way.

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Reply to  P51Strega
5 days ago

Yes, most email was still plain text.

Allowing first, HTML….then called by email systems “rich text” … and later, graphics, was still new. Not just my email… everybody’s email.

I’m assuming you mean two megabytes… I had no way to send anything that big except by physically.snail-mailing a disk.

I think I could have sent a 1 Mb file using my ISP address. Pretty sure that’s what this person did… but I mostly used Hotmail, which had a lower size limit on attachments.

And remember, we were on dial-up ISPs, nominally 57k per second but actually much slower, and had far slower computers. That 1 Mb image probably downloaded for an hour.

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