September 21, 2025

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Be afraid! Be very afraid! Hisss…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Either there’s a great crested grebe that got cropped off of this picture, or this goose has delusions of grandeur.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Ahh, the delusions of gander.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
5 months ago

Good job goosing it up.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Casper and friend.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

It’s Moby Dirk, the white basset! Legendary nemesis of Captain Baha.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 months ago

“Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I don’t care whether it’s Casper the Friendly Basset or Moby Dirk… as long as it’s not the EWB.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Born to be a hot rodder.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Youthful exuberance ready to be transformed to Formula 1 (after they survive 16 years old or whatever age your country allows them to start to drive).

P51Strega
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Reply to  Arfside
5 months ago

Formula 1

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Here we have….
Cary Grant, set visitor Ann Sheridan, who is not in the movie, director Frank Capra and Peter Lorre on the set, with film crew, during the filming of Arsenic And Old Lace, in 1944.
Wonderful movie, even if the play is a perpetual sophomore year high school performance, and I’ve seen it so many times.. Fun watching 14-year-olds trying to play old people, in grey wigs and glued on mustaches…. but the movie, of course, is way better.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Now you’ve got me asking

Spoiler
who’s the guy between Ann Sheridan and Frank Capra?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 months ago

I wondered, too…

but…
Honestly, I only recognized Cary Grant and Peter Lorre on my own, and most sites only identified them and Ann Sheridan.

A couple listed Capra, as well.. but none mentioned that fellow, who doesn’t look familiar to me, or the one we partially see in the foreground.

Since the descriptions mostly said they were with the crew, I thought maybe that’s what they those two are… But they’re wearing suits, which seems a bit overdressed.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Man, these contacts aren’t working well at distances! I think it’s a bad prescription.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Shoulda gone home one beer ago.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 months ago

LMAO

Arfside
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 months ago

Or maybe LMDO?

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

BTDT

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 months ago

You’ve gotten a cat drunk?

Shame!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Oooh….

What else is there to say?

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Looks like that boy couldn’t draw a straight line if his life depended on it!

He was assigned to draw every petal exactly as they appeared. I’m afraid that we’ll have to fail him again! His father will be soooo upset! 😉

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I’ve been to Giverny but I didn’t see any windmills. Just lilies. Lots and lots of lilies.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

The boids is coming…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Such a patient model too.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

And such a realistic portrait, too.

Does he have a bunny on his head in the drawing?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

That’s what I see too.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I didn’t know Toulouse-Lautrec had an emotional support animal…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Im not surprised.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 months ago

I’m surprised it took him that long!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Well, it looks like he needed machinery to help him do it.

We still haven’t had the first president to fly… I mean, you know… unassisted.

TCM541
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

That really WAS Air Force One.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Sometimes something can be “good enough” till you find.it being hyped as magnificent… and then … well…

Like, I thought this was cute, but not great… and I was kinda annoyed by the bad imitation of a Van Gogh sky… but at least it’s a real acrylic painting, and oh well, I know I’m picky.

Then I tracked it down, and found the person who did it posting as “Van Gogh’ … and commenters calling it incredible…

… and somebody said “Van Gogh’s Starry Night is a masterpiece but it’s made better here by the addition of a cat”..

Better! Better than a famous Van Gogh masterpiece!!

No. No it is not.

Sorry… just pardon me, pretty please, while I run away screaming.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Aaaaugggh!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 months ago

Agreed!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Add the Gorzirra monster from below, and THEN you have an improvement on a Van Gogh painting. Poor guy just lived too soon, or he surely would have added at least one, or maybe a handful, right?

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5 months ago

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I would expect to see a little more of this in the one above.

Everybody is so nonchalant, so stoic.

But I suppose AI generated people don’t understand much about emotion.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Better than what I can draw. I do think it is great in the coloration. Expression is a little Meh though.

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Reply to  crazeekatlady
5 months ago

The person who made it didn’t draw it either… didn’t do anything great.

I’m talking about the one on top, with Godzilla.

AI means you tell the program what you want, and the computer assembles bits of drawings, color schemes and techniques it has copied … read that “stolen” ….from other people’s real work, and spits out a digital print, so you can put your name on it.

The supposed artist has nothing to do with the drawing or coloration beyond a few basic instructions, or sometimes pushing virtual buttons meaning “do another one with with bigger brushstrokes and more greenish tones”.

Expression is meh because the program has no feelings or reactions, and can’t judge what they should be.

The anime girl was probably drawn by a real person…. though there are programs to help with that, and by now probably AI too. You would have to tell it the expression you want.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Then why not comment on the one you meant?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Clearly a photograph.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

“Well, There Goes The Festival!” By K. Jackson Katts, who describes it as AI generated.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Who would have thought…

From the movie:comment image

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
5 months ago

Yeah, that’s probably part of what “trained” the AI.

One thing I love about those old Toho movies and collaborations is when the live crowd scenes are filmed completely separately from the stop motion monster scenes …

So they almost seem unrelated in spite of the people screaming and overreacting to things they can’t really see.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

2016…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
5 months ago

Oh… I can’t tell the difference.
I’ve seen too many, but none of the modern ones.

I don’t get to go to many movies, and don’t go to theaters at all since covid, though I know 2016 is pre-pandemic.

Is this one of the animatronic ones?

From what I can make out, the crowd looks just as detached as in the 1950s.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4262980
Tons of CGI, but live-action.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I don’t remember Van Gogh painting that one…

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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5 months ago

Must be ‘lion’ low….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 months ago

But it just can’t hide its lion eyes…

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Yup.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Yes I see them….

IF (partial SPOILER)….

… if we can assume that the clearly visible creature in the foreground is the elk.

If it’s not, but merely some innocent bystander-creature, like, I dunno, a stray donkey….and I’m supposed to see an elk elsewhere…. I don’t.

But I do see the mountain lion, in either case.

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happyhappyhappy
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5 months ago

Flying Fox with her baby. She will carry baby until it’s too heavy to carry, then she’ll leave baby in a communal tree.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 months ago

Love the expression on her face.

“Oh lordy, I wonder whether tomorrow I can leave him at the tree…
Will the other moms think he’s too light?
I just know that #&@! Florence Fox will tell me how she carried her precious little Freddy till he weighed 5 ¡#@! pounds…
But my back hurts.
Maybe Tuesday??”

mr_sherman
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5 months ago

And Cleo read them backwards.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
5 months ago

Hmmm….

Since toons use them to talk to each other, maybe speech balloons have some sort of built-in mechanism… kinda the way a gambrel keeps a candle upright when the ship rolls… that keeps them facing whoever is trying to read them.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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5 months ago

‘Sober Sue’

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5 months ago

If life hands you lemons….

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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5 months ago

As it’s ‘Bunday’…..

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 months ago

Awww…

SusanSunshine
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5 months ago

Just in case anybody still wants to know… I guess I was a little late coming back in the afternoon on yesterday’s page….

But I posted that cast list some people were asking about, and I researched that car that it turns out is neither a Rolls Royce nor a Mercedes…

And posted about the teapot gas station too, just for good measure. But not good timing.

Oh well.

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