The sign on the mezzanine is blurry at this resolution, but you can make out that it says “Happy Birthday” to someone.
A librarian, perhaps?
The ladder means it could represent someone’s personal bookshelves, but the little sign marking the rare books, and the traditional green glass lamps make me think it’s supposed to be a public library.
Whichever it is, somebody had fun cutting all those little book spines out of modeling fondant.
I only recognized four, and not the occasion….
so I had to look it up…
They are…
Standing: Lloyd Nolan, Tyrone Power (a big favorite of my mother’s), Raymond Massey and John Hodiak (who always looks familiar but I never remember his name or where I’ve seen him).
Seated: Charles Laughton (who looks very different smiling, doesn’t he), Anne Baxter, Dick Powell and Henry Fonda
No film was mentioned… one site said “a candid group photo, 1953.”
Those aren’t really empty spaces.. The ends of a baby’s long bones and some of the tiny whole bones are cartilage…which doesn’t show in an X-ray. They start calcifying in utero, but some are still soft at birth.
All the wrist bones are still cartilage in this image, too.
I’m not sure at what age it’s finished… I only know that kneecaps aren’t really hard bone until about kindergarten.
In fact, there are long bones that aren’t completely ossified until growth stops at puberty, cos that’s part of getting taller.
There’s also the possibility that it’s a multi-image composite…an x-ray superimposed over a still photo. With today’s digital imaging technology, it wouldn’t surprise me if they are able to take both images simultaneously.
The only way to look at it (pun intended) is to distance yourself from the physical experience by trying to “observe the event unfolding in front of you without considering that you are a part of the overall scene you’re seeing.” i.e. an out-of-body experience. My approach would be concentrate on the thought that “thank Dog I have no responsibility whatsoever to handle during this event. This person behind the wheel is a professional driver who has undoubtedly had some training in handling the car in dangerous conditions.”
Then, if there was still any fraction of a second left in my corporeal existence, I might add to the previous admonition ” And the people who designed and built this car actually considered the best way to protect the car’s occupants in a crash.”
that did work–once. the governing body said ‘nope–no more of that!’ in this case the tires and therefore the power can’t be applied to the track.
Here, the only contact to the racetrack is the side of the car
Yes…. Thanks… I could tell the car is on its side, like driving on the wall.
But I wasn’t sure if was a regular car, because I don’t understand that dark thing sticking out from the bottom of it, and running along the top of the wall.
Thanks but I was replying to the top picture…. When we’re looking at the car from outside, and it’s driving towards us on the wall.
I don’t see its front wheels, only a single dark thing sticking out.
I do have a problem following fast moving gifs, because apparently my eyes don’t coordinate quickly.
With a video you can stop it to look but not a GIF.
Pinups for the men, kitchenware for the ladies, poison for the mother-in-law…. sigh….. doesn’t every woman want a new garbage disposal, like maybe for Christmas?
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That is the cutest sack of potatoes I’ve ever seen.
That one needs to grow into both paws and ears.
The ears will probably get even bigger…. Or maybe just look bigger when the skull reaches adult proportions.
Right now its forehead is high like a human baby’s.
Hi!
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Wow! You can see forever from up here!
Dude is just high ground. That’s all. I’ll bet is name is Rocky.
They are clearly comfortable around him. I’m also sure they realize that he is alive and mobile.
That’s him: https://nickkleer.com/
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This is my seat, and don’t you try to take it!
I don’t know if it is a shady, cool metal bench on a hot day, or a sun-baked metal bench on a cool day, but Fluffy is soaking it up.
library cake
It’s a birthday cake!
The sign on the mezzanine is blurry at this resolution, but you can make out that it says “Happy Birthday” to someone.
A librarian, perhaps?
The ladder means it could represent someone’s personal bookshelves, but the little sign marking the rare books, and the traditional green glass lamps make me think it’s supposed to be a public library.
Whichever it is, somebody had fun cutting all those little book spines out of modeling fondant.
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Give me a minute, I’m sure I can recognize what it is supposed to be…
Some kind of pig?
It looks like the offspring of Miss Piggy and the Snuffleupagus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornean_bearded_pig
Adult male…
That is:
a) the face that sank 1,000 ships.
b) a face that not even a mother could love.
c) a direct relation to the Lee sisters, Hoam and Oog.
Who are they, in c)? Mr Google says ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Say the names out loud…
Duh. Thanks.
(Lowers head in embarrassment.)
It’s . . . WONNDERR WARTHOG.
As long as it’s not his brother…
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I think i have two of them. Maybe.
I only recognized four, and not the occasion….
so I had to look it up…
Standing: Lloyd Nolan, Tyrone Power (a big favorite of my mother’s), Raymond Massey and John Hodiak (who always looks familiar but I never remember his name or where I’ve seen him).
Seated: Charles Laughton (who looks very different smiling, doesn’t he), Anne Baxter, Dick Powell and Henry Fonda
No film was mentioned… one site said “a candid group photo, 1953.”
I was wrong all the way around.
Truth to tell, two of my four were pretty much only guesses that turned out to be correct.
I did recognize my mom’s favorite, and the not very good photo of the fellow at far right.
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Forgot to post this… Oops.
A finalist in the UK’s Royal Meteorological Society’s 2025 weather photography contest…
Three fishing boats, during a gorgeous sunrise over Myanmar’s Inle Lake, captured by Aung Chan Thar.
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What a noble beast!
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Up to what age?
Those aren’t really empty spaces.. The ends of a baby’s long bones and some of the tiny whole bones are cartilage…which doesn’t show in an X-ray. They start calcifying in utero, but some are still soft at birth.
All the wrist bones are still cartilage in this image, too.
I’m not sure at what age it’s finished… I only know that kneecaps aren’t really hard bone until about kindergarten.
In fact, there are long bones that aren’t completely ossified until growth stops at puberty, cos that’s part of getting taller.
Now somebody can explain to me why we seem to see the outside of the hand in this image… even the folds of flesh.
I’ve had X-rays of my hands and wrists, and they’re grey shadows with white bones. These bones look like drawings.
There’s also the possibility that it’s a multi-image composite…an x-ray superimposed over a still photo. With today’s digital imaging technology, it wouldn’t surprise me if they are able to take both images simultaneously.
That’s what I was thinking too…. That the outside has to be a regular photo, because an X-ray can’t possibly show it.
But what’s weird in that is the transparency, where the fingers overlap each other, and the chubby palm overlaps the thumb.
Inside and outside images might be taken simultaneously with a scanning movement, rather than a single shot.
,….
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Nope, definitely not!
The only way to look at it (pun intended) is to distance yourself from the physical experience by trying to “observe the event unfolding in front of you without considering that you are a part of the overall scene you’re seeing.” i.e. an out-of-body experience. My approach would be concentrate on the thought that “thank Dog I have no responsibility whatsoever to handle during this event. This person behind the wheel is a professional driver who has undoubtedly had some training in handling the car in dangerous conditions.”
Then, if there was still any fraction of a second left in my corporeal existence, I might add to the previous admonition ” And the people who designed and built this car actually considered the best way to protect the car’s occupants in a crash.”
I don’t think that’s allowed…
What IS it?
If it’s a car, where are the front wheels, and what is that keel-like projection?
The car is on its side, underneath is against the wall.
If he kept his foot in he’d have overtaken all of them! 😉
that did work–once. the governing body said ‘nope–no more of that!’ in this case the tires and therefore the power can’t be applied to the track.
Here, the only contact to the racetrack is the side of the car
Yes…. Thanks… I could tell the car is on its side, like driving on the wall.
But I wasn’t sure if was a regular car, because I don’t understand that dark thing sticking out from the bottom of it, and running along the top of the wall.
That’s not his foot??!
I think you might (?) be seeing the shadow on the wall?
Yes! You might be right.
Those are just reinforcement bars to keep the windshield in place.
you are looking out the front windshield; you can’t see your front wheels
Thanks but I was replying to the top picture…. When we’re looking at the car from outside, and it’s driving towards us on the wall.
I don’t see its front wheels, only a single dark thing sticking out.
I do have a problem following fast moving gifs, because apparently my eyes don’t coordinate quickly.
With a video you can stop it to look but not a GIF.
That can’t be good.
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Howcum the sperm whales always get the bum rap?
They look dramatic in pictures.
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Missed again!
I refuse to believe that i am right.
Guessed right again!
The world’s going to end…
Naaaah. But Hell is going to experience a cold snap.
Didn’t get it.
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I wish I still looked that good!
Beautiful models really shown to perfection by the clothes they’re modeling. A natural pairing.
What a cutting-edge store… So trendy to have a maternity menswear department.
‘New York Movie’ -Edward Hopper-1939
Haven’t we seen that as a puzzle before?
Most definitely.
Yes.
How to offend almost everybody!
Pinups for the men, kitchenware for the ladies, poison for the mother-in-law…. sigh….. doesn’t every woman want a new garbage disposal, like maybe for Christmas?
Sorry, I mean every “girl”, of course.
Sunrise behind Mt Rainier, with its shadow cast on the clouds.
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
It’s simple and sounds good (I can’t imagine an apple type that wouldn’t work).
In the US that would be called apple butter.
The recipe sounds like apple butter; the picture looks more like apple pie filling.
Maybe it just isn’t cooked long enough to be apple butter, which is smooth and dark brown.
Last time I made it it was in a crockpot. Let it cook all night and half of the next day.
Last time I made it was in….
Um… about 1980-something.
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We’ve had this picture a couple of times, and I remember cos I thought it was just a dressed up dog.
It took me forever to notice the photoshopped human ear and hairline.
I still love it. I tinker’s her eyes that get to me. 🙂
This is my favorite living astro physicist.
Dr. Becky.
I can actually visualize what she is explaining so she must be a great communicator.
She’s very enthusiastic about her work, and it comes through in her presentation.