Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani.
I found that in translation the title of this is “Domino Effect” (the site I found it at may or may not be accurate / it does seem reasonable thouth).
I’ve set this up to start at the solution. (Dudolf puzzles annoy me so I didn’t do this one / even 3 seconds of that sound is too much and you have to endure about 6).
My day started out with a big WHUMP that shook the house when she fainted in the bathroom and slammed the bathroom door against the exit door. Many hours later in the emergency room, she’s going to be OK (but with follow-up juuusssttt to make sure). Now I’m still up and can’t sleep as I keep an eye out for any wandering (not gonna happen, she’s too tired). Had fun watching grandkids before that, though — they grow up so fast!
Yow, that’s scary. Wake up on the floor with no idea how you got there. Lucky she didn’t hit anything too hard on the way down.
Best wishes for a smooth recovery.
@ — Susan Sunshine (and anyone else who may be affected)
Don’t send any mail to your sister until you check to see if the Canada Post strike is over (the union wants 24%, they’ve been offered 11.5% / both over four years).
I’m guessing the government will order them back to work, but it will still disrupt things.
Funny, I talk to my sister a few times a month, including yesterday, because my phone plan includes Canada, and she didn’t mention the strike.
Then again, I can call her free, and send long messages by email, with links, or with cute pictures like we used to buy on cards.
Postage OTOH is now $1.65…PLUS the card… so we rarely mail each other anything except birthday and Christmas cards 😁. So far I refuse to give up Christmas cards.
My feeling about mailing something during a strike is that I might as well drop it in the box, and it’ll probably get as far as crossing the border.
I’ve never heard that they throw away any mail… It just accumulates somewhere on your side till the end of the strike and then gets delivered when everybody’s working again.
If I keep it at home, it won’t be any safer.
I’d probably not hear right away when the strike is over, and that’ll only cause a further delay.
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Group shot at the Twilight Zone plastic surgeons convention…
Twilight Zone is right; I remember that episode.
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28? With a live cat(s)?
Oh yeah. I’m sure it happens all the time. 🙄
No thanks, I’m on a diet…
Beautiful job on the knives.
I love miniatures.
The little cereal boxes remind me of similar ones I got in Mexico, so these night be Mexican as well
Mine were milk and orange juice cartons, a Loteria set, and a Brillo box. They had little magnets glued inside so you could stick them on the fridge.
Apparently they’re popular enough that somebody makes the printed tagboard.
The rough box for the doughnuts makes me think they’re also from a Mexican mercado. Maybe the knives are too
Looks like they got into Willy Wonka’s shrink machine.
😉
Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani.
I found that in translation the title of this is “Domino Effect” (the site I found it at may or may not be accurate / it does seem reasonable thouth).
Watch yer back, Gramps!
Or is Grandpa the end effect created by all the choices that child makes during the course of his lifetime?
I dunno… But to me he looks like he’s at the end of a long line of falling dominoes.
His chair looks sturdy, but I don’t know whether it can stop the inevitable.
Maybe by that time the child is grown, and will upright the chair and take his seat…
Whereupon the next child will have replaced the dominoes and will start them falling again.
Lotta deep thought going on here!
“Deep” would be a flattering word for it 🙃
find three socks
Isn’t that always the way? You find an odd number of socks among your finished laundry?
And then your poor bear has one cold paw.
He’s got a hot cup of tea to warm it on.
So that’s where they went…
Some escape.
They often hide under the house with the runaway paper clips and pins.
Since I don’t have a washer and dryer, I must have inadvertently left a trail of them living in homeless sock encampments under various laundromats.
I tried to take them home with me.
It’s not my fault they preferred the open road, is it?
I think I found them.
They don’t look terribly sockish, but….
They were the only bits I found that seemed to be not part of a sweater
After I “circled” them (with green squares) they still seemed hard to make out, so I colored them….
That’s got to be them.
Though, I was about to suggest that at least two were out of sight because static cling had caught them inside sweaters.
That’s what I found.
That’s better than what i found.
No fair! Your puzzle had blue socks!
I dyed them myself!
And striped them.
Who wants to bother finding ugly socks?
I’ve set this up to start at the solution. (Dudolf puzzles annoy me so I didn’t do this one / even 3 seconds of that sound is too much and you have to endure about 6).
A very realistic puzzle, I can’t find my own socks half the time.
For a moment I thought it was a baby unicorn.
I still thought it was..
I’m surprised the kid (goat) would hold still for long enough to take the picture.
Maybe he enjoys the cuddle.
C’mon Dumbo, it’s a magic feather!
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You’re probably wondering why I called this meeting…
“You only get ahead if you stick your neck out…”
So if they had short necks, they wouldn’t have gotten heads?
How did your day start out?
Woof. If that’s me I am definitely going back to bed until next week.
Sometimes, the world really is out to get you!.
My day started out with a big WHUMP that shook the house when she fainted in the bathroom and slammed the bathroom door against the exit door. Many hours later in the emergency room, she’s going to be OK (but with follow-up juuusssttt to make sure). Now I’m still up and can’t sleep as I keep an eye out for any wandering (not gonna happen, she’s too tired). Had fun watching grandkids before that, though — they grow up so fast!
You can’t help worrying, but remember the E.R. people wouldn’t have released her if they didn’t think she was on the mend.
Yow, that’s scary. Wake up on the floor with no idea how you got there. Lucky she didn’t hit anything too hard on the way down.
Best wishes for a smooth recovery.
Yikes!
Sorry to hear.
Didn’t exactly want to put a like on that comment…. But I hope you’re both OK…
And that this was a one-off, not something you have to worry might be a regular occurrence.
Watchful sleeping is exhausting, and takes a toll.
Be well.
¡Hola Cleomigos y Cleomigas!
Perro™ RIDES AGAIN!
OK… sigh…. you’re right…. we don’t see him riding…. but he had to ride to get there, didn’t he?
In any case… figuratively… he rides.
He rides to save the poor and disenfranchised… whose franchises are being dissed at this very moment, as we watch!
Get ’em, Perro™!
….
Obviously, he has been practicing with the bullwhip.
(Back at the hacienda, Fernando wishes that practice had come a leettle bit sooner in the tale.)
“Destituto” indeed… even if it doesn’t actually mean anything in Spanish… we get the idea.
And that idea is that 9 pesos was a large chunk of change in…. um… in whatever year this is set…. and very necessary, to a poor family.
…
Sadly, had Señor Destituto saved his pesos…not even considering the devaluations in between…
Today’s peso is worth less than a US nickel.
Life is still hard for the Destitutos of this world…
But it might be even harder, had we never had campeones (champions) like Perro™!
A little musical accompaniment:
(I know it’s not nearly as good as the Perro original, but it’s all that I could find.)
Wow… You’re right, it’s not as good…
But those human copydogs came very close to the Perro™ theme song!
There oughta be a law!
They caught me in the kitchen again.
5 minutes, okay.
40…. um…. I’ll…. er… get back to you on that, ok?
I only made about halfway through it.
Leslie Caron with Shirley MacLaine, 1958.
I always think of Leslie Caron as young… I guess because of Gigi.
And Shirley MacLaine never had a youthful look, to me.
But in this picture, if they’ve both had their 1958 birthdays, they are 27 and 24, respectively.
Right now, in 2024, Leslie is 93, and Shirley is 90!
they must have done something right
Don’t send any mail to your sister until you check to see if the Canada Post strike is over (the union wants 24%, they’ve been offered 11.5% / both over four years).
I’m guessing the government will order them back to work, but it will still disrupt things.
Thanks…
Funny, I talk to my sister a few times a month, including yesterday, because my phone plan includes Canada, and she didn’t mention the strike.
Then again, I can call her free, and send long messages by email, with links, or with cute pictures like we used to buy on cards.
Postage OTOH is now $1.65…PLUS the card… so we rarely mail each other anything except birthday and Christmas cards 😁. So far I refuse to give up Christmas cards.
My feeling about mailing something during a strike is that I might as well drop it in the box, and it’ll probably get as far as crossing the border.
I’ve never heard that they throw away any mail… It just accumulates somewhere on your side till the end of the strike and then gets delivered when everybody’s working again.
If I keep it at home, it won’t be any safer.
I’d probably not hear right away when the strike is over, and that’ll only cause a further delay.