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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

A regal animal — he has King Charles’s ears!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

So which Twilight Zone is this?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 days ago

Since you asked….

The one titled “Midnight Sun” … According to my search it ran November 17, 1961, even though to me it looks like somebody wrote 8-11-61 in the upper left corner.

That’s Lois Nettleton as Norma, in her New York City apartment, trying to help Betty Garde (as the elder Mrs. Bronson) as the Earth orbits closer to the sun.

I got this info from Getty images but I can’t say so

I mean… um..

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

 
Here it is.
Again it’s easy to click through the clutter if you pay attention.
Don’t forget to open in a new window.
 
https://www.lookmovie2.to/shows/play/1689809440-the-twilight-zone-1959#S3-E10-139001
 

 

With this episode go back a few television years and think…. (Susan, your memory needs a ;pepper-up’ pill. I think / or maybe Getty Images needs a better researcher)

 
…Pamela, and Bobby Ewing.
I remembered the ending the moment I saw the picture.
 

 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 day ago

I tried your link twice.

It takes me to a page where I have to click that I’m not a robot, then sits on another page that says loading Twilight Zone, approximately forever.

Both times, I let it be for about half an hour while I was doing something else, but it never got any farther.

As for your spoiler comment… I’m sorry, but I have no idea what you’re talking about.

My memory has nothing to do with a description I got from Getty images… I didn’t recognize this episode at all, or remember it.

In fact, I was very busy with school at that age, and even missed some episodes, though I think I’ve seen most of them over the years in reruns.

That’s why I searched for it. If Getty is wrong, I wouldn’t know

But why are you bringing up two famous, mostly 1980s, Dallas characters ( a woman, Victoria Principal and a man, Patrick Duffy)…

When we’re talking about a picture of two unfamiliar (to me anyway) women in a 1961 Twilight Zone episode?

You can’t think this is their picture, can you?

The connection is way beyond me.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Green eyelashes?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

That sure doesn’t seem possible, since the base of my eyelashes is visible.

That gunk looks big enough to see with the naked eye. Yuck.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

 
Caption at Alamy
 
Image details
Contributor:Science Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo
File size:2.3 MB jpeg
Releases:Model – no | Property – noDo I need a release?
Dimensions:4843 x 4049 px | 41 x 34.3 cm | 16.1 x 13.5 inches | 300dpi
Date taken:14 February 2002
Photographer:STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
More information:
Eyelash hairs and skin. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin. The shafts of hair (green) are
anchored in their individual hair follicles in the surface of the skin (blue). Hair is made up of a fibrous protein called keratin. The outermost skin layer, the stratum
corneum, also consists of keratinized dead cells that detach from the body. The squamous (flattened) cells that make up the stratum corneum arise from the lower,
living layers of skin. The tails of eyelash mites (Demodex folliculorum) are seen protruding from the base of several eyelashes. Magnification: x50 at 6x7cm size.
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 days ago

I suspected false color SEM. Electron imaging has no intrinsic color as the electrons are far smaller than the wavelengths of visible light.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Spoiler
Smokey and the Bandit?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  JP Steve
2 days ago

Yes.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

And of course

they are…
Sally Field and Burt Reynolds..

Who were actually going together for several years around this time.

This was only one of the movies they appeared in together during their relationship.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 days ago

For once I knew the movie, characters, and actors. WOO HOO

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

218 mph in 1935?!

And the majority of the parents of the drivers had probably driven horse carriages.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Do we have an Italian expert? Does bimotore mean it has two engines?

happyhappyhappy
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1 day ago
JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

That is one crazy athletic supporter!

P51Strega
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 days ago

When your cajones are the size of bowling balls, you need all the support you can get.

JP Steve
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 day ago

That’s what she said…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

It looks like it would feel just a little too close and personal.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

 
Is anyone else worried about exploding lithium-ion batteries?
 

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Bite first and ask questions later…

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

LOL

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

 

The answer is….

 
…1 (b)
 

 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Alexikakos
2 days ago

That’s the answer I got too.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

I know what I’d say but there’s always a curve ball I miss…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

I refuse to get into these any more…

They’re not just arithmetic problems, they’re arguments over the order of operations…

But in reality it’s grouping that comes first.
Which means you can’t get a meaningful answer everyone wlll agree with without more parentheses.

Sloppy equations that are puzzles to relatively educated adults can literally make planes fall out of the sky… so tighten them up before getting people to solve them.

Does 5×5÷5 mean 25 divided by 5 because you’re using PEMDAS, …. or 5 times 1 because you’re using PEDMAS?

+5 and -5 cancel each other out if you did the multiplication OR division first… So the fraction could be 5/5, resulting in 1, or 1/5, and taking 1/5 to the fifth power gives a tiny fraction … 1/3125…. not on the list.

I see a couple of ways to get 1, one way that someone could (wrongly, I believe) get 0, but not a way to get 5.

Nonetheless, the real solution to this problem is to buy a big bag of parentheses, and sprinkle them generously into all such nebulous equations.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 days ago

 
I must disagree with you,
Another way of writing the equation is:
 
((5 + 5 × 5 ÷ 5 – 5) ÷ 5)⁵
 
Then by simply following the “order-of-operations” (interior of brackets / multiplication and division in order from left to right / addition and subtraction in order from left to right / apply exponent) everything easily solves to the answer I put in the spoiler box.
 

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Did he produce anything other than mud that year?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 days ago

I don’t know, but I do know he gave away all the milk he had on hand, and also lots of empty milk bottles full of water, and what food he could, to festival attendees.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Funny thing is, he was a conservative Republican, Vietnam war hawk.

But he said he was trying to understand the “kids” … and help close the generation gap. He was only in his (late I think) 40s himself… But he had young adult kids of his own.

He made a short, now famous speech at the festival, saying he was impressed that all these kids could get together and have such a peaceful, happy gathering… I’m paraphrasing, cos I’m too sleepy to look it up .

He ended up selling his farm and moving away.

SusanSunshine
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2 days ago

¡Hola, mis Cleomigos!

The adventure continues!

But today, Perro™ doesn’t even have to ride… cos trouble finds him!

Even in his identity as the somewhat cowardly Don Doggo… trouble seems to recognise him…

and it aims straight for his heart…. with… gasp! .. the tip of a sword!

¡Ay! ¡DiosMio!

And el Padre said “heck”! You heard him!

¡Madre mia! Such a word is a bit strong for a priest!

Maybe he can claim innocence, not having a total command of English… or um… any command of English…

When I was a child, I was allowed to say “darn” but not “heck.”

Why? Because “they” said so.

I’ve always thought they were equal degrees from meaning anything.

And en español, from what I’ve heard, even little kids say “Dios mio.”

Then again, today’s little American kids text “OMG” with no thought to its meaning.

Dunno about a priest, though.

Meanwhile.. are we trusting el padre now?

He does seem ready to help our hero.

Will Perro™’s secret be safe???

We can only wait and see….

Comic strips being of an intermittent nature, as they are…. often one moment per strip.

We shall have to ride with Perro™ another day… and probably several… and beyond… to find out!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 days ago

Philadelphia circa 1908. Delaware Avenue, foot of Market Street.

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happyhappyhappy
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2 days ago

I’ve decided to retire.
Since the passing of my client i no longer have any reason to get up in the morning. And i have so much to do in the new home now anyway. And i’m tired. And sore.
The arthritis is in my lower back causing sciatica. as a result i’m on muscle relaxers at least twice a day. I have a hernia. The bursitis isn’t getting any better either. And my hands are about useless for anything where i need strength or dexterity.
And i have been doubting my mental acuity. Too many forgotten tasks.
I’m retiring into poverty anyway so i doubt what little difference there is between now and June is going to make that big of a difference.
Sometime later when i’m better settled in and i can find a cat setter i’m going to take a trip down to California to give my best friend a hug.

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 days ago

Good luck, better health and lots of virtual hugs!!!

baconboycamper
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 days ago

Retirement. It is a really big step, forward, for anyone Les. Because for the most part, there is no turning back, the pensions and all that are starting up, and you are basically locked in.
The following Facebook link came across my feeds on the day you announced Bill’s passing. It is somewhat strange that these sorts of “random occurrences” do, in fact, happen spontaneously. Is it fate? Is it a coincidence? Or of evidence of a Higher Power? I cannot profess to know the answer.
Regardless. 
Hoping that your mind and your soul AND YOUR BODY are recovering.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=943520047821139&set=pcb.943520571154420

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 days ago

Good luck. I hope the reduced stress will allow some of your other health concerns to abate some. Take it easy.

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1 day ago

Best of luck (is BOL an accepted shorthand?) in retirement.
I can empathize with most of your ailments. Old age is not for the faint of heart.
Take care of yourself first.

JP Steve
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1 day ago

Go for it! You’re worth it!

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