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StelBel
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I couldn’t figure out at first just what was going on with the guy in the foreground. Then, I realized that his left arm and hand are blurred. He must have been moving it just as the picture was taken.

Great photo! And, I can’t imagine being on the sewing committee and producing more than a quarter million masks in only THREE DAYS!!! Lord Almighty!

BTW, which one are you, Dennis?? (hehehe)

Alexikakos
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2 years ago

 
Accepting that everyone worked at the same speed:
It is impressive (I hope I’ve done the math correctly).
 
(260,000 masks)  ÷  (120 workers)  =  2,166 2/3 masks/worker
2,166 2/3 (masks/worker)  ÷  3 days  =  722 2/9 (masks/worker)/day)
722 2/9 (masks)/worker)/day)  ÷  8 (hours/day)  =  90 5/18 (masks/worker)/hour
90 5/18 (masks/worker)/hour  ÷  60 minutes/hour  =  1 109/216 (masks/worker)/minute
 

Last edited 2 years ago by Alexikakos
Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

I get about 1 mask every 2 minutes per worker, too – but I doubt that they worked without sleep. Make it nearly 1 per minute.
First liners indeed.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Don’t forget potty breaks…

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

 
Under Canadian and American road rules, she is both using the wrong arm and the wrong signal for a right turn.
What the rules are in the Netherlands, I have no idea.
 

Last edited 2 years ago by Alexikakos
dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

You are right of course. But those rules are designed for cars with a driver on the left side. They are not all that logical for a bike rider with two arms available to signal. As long as you communicate, I am fine with it.

StelBel
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

You’re right! That she’s using signals at all is a big plus!

The painting has a lot of detail to unpack. Everything is very well done!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I know! I know!
Pesky contrails.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Hooray! I saw them, too.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Obviously.
She’s doing it perfectly right.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

 
Remember, it was you that brought this on yourself.     🙂
 
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         G     🦨     N
 

 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

No pun intended – the rules are that way here!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

 
I just learned something today.
But as our mother’s used to say:
“That’s for all the times I didn’t catch you.”
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

I use the hand on the side that I am turning. I know the proper signals (all with the left arm (& finger?)) but figure most drivers don’t know them. So pointing right with an outstretched right arm should be clear to anyone.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

There’s actually a movement in the US to eliminate the bent left arm/right turn signal, as invisible to drivers, and use only the right arm out.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Yeah right. – Turning left riding a bicycle without losing balance?
I don’t think so.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

I’m not sure what you’re disagreeing with.. I never mentioned turning left.

I was talking about the “left arm/right turn” signal that we were taught in school…

Left arm out, bent at the elbow into an L shape, with forearm and hand pointing straight up.

Unfortunately, these days, not all drivers know that a left arm pointing upwards signals “right”.

….

“Left” is left arm out.

“Stop” is left arm straight down.

Early cars and carriages had no signal lights, so this system was designed to accommodate their drivers, who sit on the left in the US.

We still use those old signals.

Now safety experts want bicycle right turns legally signaled with the right arm for better visibility and understanding.

That said, I rode many many crosstown miles on bicycles, being very late to learn to drive a car…

I always signaled left turns with my left arm straight out… No problem.

You learn to balance… and besides, your hand is back on the handlebars once you’re actually turning.

….

How do bicycles signal left turns in Germany?

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Left arm…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

One hard-ridin’ granny!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

“Who was that strange masked basset?”

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Those things do have a practical use! 😀

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 years ago

Especially for a basset with a headache…

Tigressy
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 years ago

Oh yes. Make that a migraine.

StelBel
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

What a great sleep mask!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

 
“Since they can’t see me, I can stay here all day.”
 

Last edited 2 years ago by Alexikakos
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

But can s/he do it on purpose, that’s what I’d like to see.

JP Steve
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2 years ago

Wow! Got ’em all before bedtime!

dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

Me too!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

You guys did notice that there are TEN?

Just checkin’….

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Yes, I did – and I really got all ten. Real ten.
I still do remember the tricky one from last time.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Since I don’t remember this puzzle, do I get an extra reward?

Tigressy
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Reply to  MontanaLady
2 years ago

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JP Steve
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Reply to  MontanaLady
2 years ago

Yes! You get double the points for a super solution!

dennisinseattle
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Yes, Susan.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

LOL

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Yeah, when I posted I had only found nine, then went back and found the tenth!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 years ago

And I got all 10 right now!

happyhappyhappy
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2 years ago

Grey Hares!

StelBel
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 years ago

That video was excellent! Arctic Hares are too cute!

(their role in the food chain was hard to watch, though….thankfully, it was very brief.)

mr_sherman
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2 years ago

I GOT ALL NINE!

Wait.

You mean there’s one more?

mr_sherman
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Reply to  mr_sherman
2 years ago

Found it!

SusanSunshine
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2 years ago

Puzzle day again, my Cleo Pals…

And yes… It’s Sam Basset, P.I. again as well ….
hard at work, solving some puzzles of his own.

Corned beef or pastrami for lunch?
Where did i put my keys?

Why do the pretty dames always turn out to be the ones who try to kill me?

Wow… is that guy out in the hallway here to kill me, too?

What would Dick Tracy do?

…..
 
And just think…. all YOU guys have to do is find TEN little differences.

An extra one this week or it’s too easy for Sam… in fact, he probably already sniffed out 27.

But 17 are false leads… sorry, Sam.

Ten’ll do it.

I see some of you already have ’em…
.
So you may not even (sniffle..) need my solution…
But here…. I made it for you anyway. (Snif…. ):

You can still go ahead and compare.

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Last edited 2 years ago by SusanSunshine
StelBel
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Reading your write-up was most entertaining!!! Well done and always a treat!

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

I will posit that there are, in fact, eleven differences, as I found what I believe constitutes another that is not included in your solution. Yes, that also means that I missed one of yours, and it was an easy one too. Dang it!

another difference?
The phone cord is not only more bowed out below the mouthpiece, but also bowed out above the earpiece.

Last edited 2 years ago by Liverlips McCracken
Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

Well… No.

That’s what I was referring to.
When the puzzle was published on sherpa, I thought so back then, too. Nope; it was considered as one.

bambushie
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

got em all, pastrami is just too salty for me, now Corned Beef, I’m in!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  bambushie
2 years ago

Me too, but it’s not the salt, it’s the pepper.

Some people like biting into peppercorns… but for me it ruins the taste.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

I surprised myself with ten!

Tigressy
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2 years ago

Tigressy
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

He turned 95 half a year ago. Mazel tov!
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MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Is this a preview of your next crime story?

dennisinseattle
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2 years ago

The music is playing in my head.

Alexikakos
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2 years ago

@ —comment image

From yesterday.

 
Finally made the time to look at part two. Again, an eye opener.
But what occurred to me as I was watching it was the importance placed on propaganda by all sides. The physical and monetary resources necessary to produce it throughout either conflict must have been substantial; printing ink, paper, presses, transport vehicles, electricity, heating gas, building maintenance costs, water, etc. etc. etc… and none of those resources going to produce front line equipment.
 
I’m adding this here because I think it relates.
You may have heard of a new publication…
 
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
A Cold Case Investigation
by Rosemary Sullivan
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER (ISBN)
9781443463041 (hardcover)
9780062892355 (hardcover)

 
…which purports to have solved the mystery of who betrayed Anne Frank, her family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer
 
The book’s investigative techniques and conclusion have come into question; enough so that publication has been suspended by the Dutch publisher, and the German publisher is considering following suit. This     LINK     leads to a 12 minute broadcast item by Matt Galloway, host of CBC’s “The Current,” beginning with a recap of his interview with Rosemary Sullivan, and continuing on to his interview with Dutch Holocaust historian Johannes Houwink ten Cate on the February 04, 2022 broadcast of “The Current.”
I have the book on hold at the library, but I’ll be reading it with a somewhat more skeptical mind-set after hearing this.
 

Last edited 2 years ago by Alexikakos
Jay
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

60 minutes just did a story on this

Old Phart Plods
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2 years ago

Ten of these things are not like the others….

Good morning Cleo puzzlers!

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…and my personal favorite:
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It’s gaming weekend at the plods castle. More geeks. My poor DIL

Y’all have a great weekend. (((((HuGz!)))))

Last edited 2 years ago by Old Phart Plods
Alexikakos
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
2 years ago

 
Some will call this pedantry, but I call it proper interpretation.    🍚
What is shown is ice cream with breakfast and therefore is not a proper celebration of the holiday; which is “Ice Cream For Breakfast Day”, and not “Ice Cream Accompanying Breakfast Day.”
 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

Different type of waffle… not a big deal.
Wafer, cornet, ice-cream cone – take your pick(y).

Old Phart Plods
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 years ago

So eat the ice cream first and the waffle for dessert? snerks

Tigressy
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
2 years ago

(burp)

P51Strega
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2 years ago

Ten 10 ten 10 ten

Tigressy
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Reply to  P51Strega
2 years ago

Breakfast, not dinnerdinner…

happyhappyhappy
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2 years ago

Saucy1121
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2 years ago

Yay! I finally found all 9!

Oops there’s 10 today. Back to looking for the last one.

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