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Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

“And this is my impression of the melted Wicked Witch of the West.
Or a pumpkin; likewise. Take your pick.”

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I think someone needs a hug…

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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I’m going to take a shot at naming

THESE GUYS
L-R Gary Cooper, Francis Albert Sinatra, Jack Benny, & Danny Kaye.
But there’s two of them I’m especially ambivalent about.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

I thought the same…. I’m not ambiguous about any of them, except I guess #3 is the least recognizable in this particular photo, so could maybe surprise me .

I haven’t checked yet.
I will.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

Yep.

I checked.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

I only had two for sure.

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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

He’s just a big old cuddlebug. I assume he is now also a steer, rather than a bull.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

His head probably weighs as much as she does.

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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Subtle.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Pleasant is hard when you’re surrounded by…well, you know…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
4 months ago

Six foot tall rabbits.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

Pookah.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
4 months ago

Hey, I didn’t take it that tcm meant Harvey made it hard to be pleasant.

I’d think Harvey helped with life’s unpleasantries.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

I was actually thinking I’m surrounded by too many people who make it hard to be pleasant. But yeah, Harvey would help. Like my hounds do. Knowing I can always get basset hugs and snuggles makes it all worthwhile.

Tigressy
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4 months ago
happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Well loved. What was his name?

baconboycamper
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 months ago

From a Google search:
Lorne Greene and James Arness did share the same horse, a buckskin named Buck (whose real name was Danny), from 1959 to 1973. The horse was ridden by both actors in their respective roles as Ben Cartwright on Bonanza and Marshal Dillon on Gunsmoke. After Gunsmoke ended in 1975, Greene bought the horse and donated him to a therapeutic riding center in 1979.a Google search:

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

One gorgeous looking animal!

DancingBuffalo
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4 months ago

And they come in thousands of amazing “flavors”! The Blue Dragon is one of my favorites.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
4 months ago

I prefer the Bunny…

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

He totally looks like vintage millefiori glass.

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DancingBuffalo
Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

Wow. I mean, yeah…just perfect. Even has the yellow handles 🙂

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Most snakes have round or oval pupils.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colubridae

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Amazing.

I wonder about the guys in the long legged big bellied costumes… and how that gets turned into what we see below.

Especially since they’re green, and I thought the green is what doesn’t show on film.

It wouldn’t make sense to be elaborately costumed if nothing of it shows… so I believe those must be part of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.

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DancingBuffalo
Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

You’re correct on the green – nothing there is actually on screen in the final movie. Those funny suits and stilts the actors are wearing are to use sensors to create computer reference points for the CGI animators to create the graphics with realistic motion. That’s why today’s CGI components look so amazingly realistic as they move and interact with the set and live actors around them.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Ok, I’ll give you “cute” …. trying not to see bits of “scary”.

I don’t think I can go as far as “adorable.”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

The scary ones are the ones with blue rings.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Every bengal I’ve ever known has been like that. Feisty. Up on top of everything. Into anything. Plus just plain unpredictable.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
4 months ago

I’ve only ever met one… and she wasn’t a cuddly sort of kitty.

Gorgeous… It felt like she knew it. And she didn’t really like associating with mere mortals.

Then again, she was a rescue, from a shelter that took in displaced animals after disasters, so she’d probably been through a lot.

Her owner said she was more affectionate when no one else was around.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Couldn’t find, at least not in the time I had, a good picture of the whole magazine…

But it’s a cover of True West magazine, and the story is Lost Pick Mine.

Here’s a copy sitting with other paper “ephemera”… I was going to say collectibles, but it can’t be too very collectible, since this whole batch is being offered for $10.

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DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Done. But we could have done without the (shudder) spiderweb…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Not the same one we had a couple of days ago.
I guess Mr. Dudas likes drawing polar bears and ghosts.

But these ghosts look a little like birds.

On some, the lines between their arms and their bodies are cut off by other ghosts right below them… My sleepy brain saw some little white birds with antennae.
Um…. no.

But yeah… the spider web is yucky.

DancingBuffalo
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4 months ago

Gettin’ down to brass tacks on the murder mystery! Love it, love it, love it!

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

I’m glad! I was getting worried cos nobody but me had commented on it. Feeling a bit guilty cos I begged for the serials to be rerun.

But I love them all!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

I’ve been reading it. One of my favorite.

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

I’m no Sam Basset…. but I detect two episodes in today’s offering.

Two, two, two strips in one ( picture me knocking them together, like those two girls in the breath mints ad, if you’re old enough to remember it.)(Was it Certs?)

One animated, one not.

I’m impressed by the animation… especially the passing train… “Whoooooo dunnit…. whoooooo dunnit?”

Was it Grace?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Yep… That’s the one!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

I remember the doublemint girls.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 months ago

I think they were a longer campaign… starting earlier, and probably lasting longer, with different sets of twins over the years.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

I think that there were a couple of doublemint guys.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 months ago

Maybe so… I’ve never seen any.

There was definitely a guy, maybe several, in the Certs commercials, cos I remember a man and a woman doing the arguing in at least one of them.

Dunno about two guys.

It makes me realise that Certs ads started earlier than I was remembering in my post above.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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4 months ago

Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

A fair ways north. Waterton Lakes is the Canadian park that adjoins Glacier…

happyhappyhappy
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4 months ago

This just popped up today.

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