September 27, 2024

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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Your UFO or mine?

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Eww, they have antihistamines for that.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“You look like you need a dog to play with you.”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I see her looking down on daddy/mommy after he/she goes down, sliding on the water and spit near the water bowl.
Buddy looses a lot, but with those jowls…

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I dunno…those structures look like they could be just a mite unstable in an earthquake. Just sayin.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

 
Not to mention the force vectors at their bases caused by wind.
 

Tigressy
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1 month ago

Wind just flows around a round pillar.

happyhappyhappy
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1 month ago

That’s not true, but i don’t have the evidence right now to show you. You get a cycle of vortices that peel of the down wind side, one side after the other. Spain has some wind generators that are just straight poles with some kind of machinery at the base that taps into the energy of the wind as the pole vibrates in the wind. I’ll look on YouTube and see if i can find a story about it.

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P51Strega
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1 month ago

Correct, you get all sorts of cavitation at the leeward side.

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

I’m no engineer…. but I can see that wind (and other forces) in this case aren’t acting on a single round pillar, anyway.

A strong wind certainly doesn’t flow around the structures on top…

Look at a flag on a pole! The pole shakes when the flag does.

And a line of pillars all attached to a long object make a different structure from just one pole..

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P51Strega
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1 month ago

At low Reynold’s number (light breeze) it will behave as Tigressy says. But normal high winds (not storm gusts) you get separation on the back side creating a low pressure pulling the pole that direction. With storm winds you get the separation, and vortex shedding alternating sides. The vortex shedding will add a side-to-side force. Here is a Computational Fluid Dynamics image of airflow around a cylinder.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Um .. yeah… uh huh.

Accompanied by the sound it makes as it goes right over my head: “whoosh!”

P51Strega
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

If designed correctly, they’d be great in earth quakes. They are long and slender, very low natural frequency. Any quake with a moderate to high frequency should be damped by the time it reached the occupied structure.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Definitely The Jetsons.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

 
As for why Astro isn’t in the credits; wait until the end.
 

 

Tigressy
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1 month ago

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Bing Crosby was not amused…

P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 month ago

??

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
He and Marlon were both nominated for “Best Actor” that year.
Marlon won.
Grace Kelly won that year for “Best Actress.”
Bing and Grace were an “item” (or so he thought).
He discovered Marlon and Grace “in flagrante delicto” later that night.
 
LINK
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

Thanks, I didn’t know who the actors in the picture were.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Sorry I couldn’t get here in time 😁

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

All right, you can KEEP the box! I’ll go get another!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Of course it’s gonna land right in those plates.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I am the Walrus.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

I Think……
Son-In-Law?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Yes

or

Her daughterr.
I’d say there’s an equal chance, cos only the daughter is given as a choice but the illustration is a man.
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Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

True,

But….
Being a man, I took the question/problem literally….

😉

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Judging from the picture: Jackie Chan.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 month ago

With those limited choices?
Daughter.

But there are multiple options beside the given ones.

Greyhame
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Brothers and sisters have I none.

Yet this man’s Father is my Fathers’s son.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Let’s have a drink”, he said. “Just a little fun”, he said. “Yeah, fun, right!”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Love it!

Tigressy
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1 month ago

Her name should be Regan.

“Give Peas a Chance…”

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
Sent from Florida and published in today’s London “Daily Mail.”
 

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Liverlips McCracken
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1 month ago

I scoff at your Y2K concerns!

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

@ —comment image    Susan Sunshine

From yesterday.
Thanks for pointing out my “lego-man” photograph error.
Taking a closer look at it, I can now see the staging; she is much closer to the water than the (sculpture?).
 

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Yes… It was only a matter of perspective.

I didn’t mean to correct you…. in fact I thought that discription came from them.

I just wanted to point out that the person in the distance was an adult.

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Yecchh

Sorry Nighthawks… I remember the puzzle but I think I’ve blocked the cartoon itself 😁!

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

I lost connection in the middle of posting last night and it’s been out all day today till an hour or two ago.

And if course it came back WHILE I was on the phone complaining to my ISP…

I finally reached them after days of trying. They looked at my line and said nothing was wrong.

That was before I knew it was back, so I looked… you know….

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Anyway I never got a chance to say that yesterday’s poster was the one I once told Stel was my all-time favorite.

That was probably 8 years ago, and a lot more have come along, so I can’t really pick a favorite any more… But it’s still high on the list.

One reason admittedly being that the copydog human version is one I’ve loved since my teens, even though in college it was so popular it hung in lots of other campus apartments.

It appears to be signed “Vilà” but descriptions say artist unknown.

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One thing I love about the basset version is that it’s hanging on the wall in one of the “Great Bassets in History” strips.

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