To be fair, the top photo is cutting them into wedges, the bottom photo is attempting to cut a pre-sliced tomato into 3/8″ or so cubes. No chopper is gonna do that very well. Even when I worked at a Mexican restaurant, we chopped tomato halves through a potato chopper (designed to cut French fries). If we had sliced the tomatoes first, it would have been the same mess.
I looked at it on several web pages, including auctions, Instagram and Facebook, and nobody mentioned what I’m pretty sure is true… It was meant to be just a little naughty. An item for the den.
The outside is an example of the Art Deco Egyption design craze of the day… The gilded woman inside is removable… If you turn her around you can see her backside.
I had a rich uncle… my mother’s much older brother… who had several such items, that I saw as a teen. Nothing this fancy, that I know of, or maybe he didn’t show me.
He had a bronze dish or ashtray shaped like an art nouveau lady… If you turned it upside down you could see her derriere. And a pair of ceramic frog ashtrays that had genitalia underneath. I’ve seen modern copies of those. And a couple of other things I can’t think of at the moment.
He wasn’t trying to be inappropriate. My father was there, and my uncle knew we both liked a joke.
He also, BTW, gave me one of his business cards he’d saved from the 1920s… It had the face on it that MAD later renamed Alfred E Neuman, and on the other side, under his name, etc, it said “What, me worry?” So Mad didn’t invent that… It was a very old joke.
Speaking of hump day… This is a. 88lb humphead wrasse, also known as a Napoleon wrasse, a very endangered fish found among coal reefs.
I got different stories googling it, some saying it was caught during a “catch-and-release” fishing excursion off Fiji, others that it was caught accidentally, while sport fishing, and released.
In any case, it was released. Not to imply that the motivation for that wasn’t just pure altruism… but anyone caught not releasing them can incur heavy fines and jail time.
Comments were full of people scolding those who caught it, even if to be released, because it’s traumatic for the fish…. or if it was accidental, for keeping it out of the water long enough to take the picture.
It’s probably too late, but just in case you see it in time and do want to delete your answer post…
I put the answer sheet in a spoiler box for you.
It looks like you were trying to use a direct upload from your computer, which is fine for posting an image, but you can’t hide it in a spoiler box.
You have to upload the picture to a hosting site, and post the resulting link inside the box, instead.
You can let my post stand, or just steal my link, and repost it in your own spoiler. It’s okay. You might also want to post instructions for the puzzle.
Unfortunately I can’t see it well enough to do much of it.
To delete your post, just click where it says “Click to edit” near the bottom, and click delete. After a moment, it will go.
About this issue:
I remember my older brother getting this back in April 1959. It stayed in my memory because it was very different from all other covers and I liked the puns even as a seven year old.
I hope you enjoy the picture, and I give a special Thank You to Susan for cleaning this up for me.
The towhees seemed to shy away from competition with other birds, but just scoured the ground under the feeders, seeming to find seeds the others dropped or didn’t want… kind of like avian peasants.
Actually, I never see them here, but ±35 miles south, this is what the ones in my in-laws yard looked like.
Some of the images show them on branches, but I picked this one cos I only saw them on the ground, and IIRC they also weren’t as round as some of the others.
I thought some had black on their heads, but I didn’t see any pictures like that so I must be thinking of another bird.
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Chocolate mooses.
Just in time for Easter … No more chocolate bunnies!
Can’t I have both?
Sure. But like I tell my wife…
“Aren’t you sweet enough?“
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The photographer took pains to say the kitty just fell asleep near a flowering bush, and a breeze showered her with petals.
now, I’m not saying I have some doubts about that photographer , but….
yes, I am having some doubts
sniffle…. Well, I hope he’s telling the truth.
He said it was his own cat.
And of course I can’t be sure, but to me, her ears look pricked up, like she’s somewhat aware of his presence.
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This is inside a mall in Istanbul, of course, where everybody takes care of homeless dogs and cats.
the top image is from the company selling these things
and the bottom image is reality
To be fair, the top photo is cutting them into wedges, the bottom photo is attempting to cut a pre-sliced tomato into 3/8″ or so cubes. No chopper is gonna do that very well. Even when I worked at a Mexican restaurant, we chopped tomato halves through a potato chopper (designed to cut French fries). If we had sliced the tomatoes first, it would have been the same mess.
Plus skin first…
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Art deco lamp, by Louis V. Aronson, 1923.
I looked at it on several web pages, including auctions, Instagram and Facebook, and nobody mentioned what I’m pretty sure is true… It was meant to be just a little naughty. An item for the den.
The outside is an example of the Art Deco Egyption design craze of the day… The gilded woman inside is removable… If you turn her around you can see her backside.
I had a rich uncle… my mother’s much older brother… who had several such items, that I saw as a teen. Nothing this fancy, that I know of, or maybe he didn’t show me.
He had a bronze dish or ashtray shaped like an art nouveau lady… If you turned it upside down you could see her derriere. And a pair of ceramic frog ashtrays that had genitalia underneath. I’ve seen modern copies of those. And a couple of other things I can’t think of at the moment.
He wasn’t trying to be inappropriate. My father was there, and my uncle knew we both liked a joke.
He also, BTW, gave me one of his business cards he’d saved from the 1920s… It had the face on it that MAD later renamed Alfred E Neuman, and on the other side, under his name, etc, it said “What, me worry?” So Mad didn’t invent that… It was a very old joke.
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Not much of a toreador, but he’s a pretty good magician, making that giant anvil appear!
It’s awfully awkward and heavy, to say nothing of huge, to just pull out of hammer space.
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You don’t think of Elvis as skinny (he’d be 20 or 21 here).
I do!
Young Elvis, on Ed Sullivan, was quite thin, and it was still true even in the photos showing him being inducted into the army.
I’d lost interest in him by the time of his Las Vegas shows… his music had lost its rough edge. He wore studded jump suits and started gaining weight.
Love me Tender was the biggest Saturday matinee ever at the Regent Theater, (North Burnaby, BC) when I watched it in 1956
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Koleston Naturals are hair colors.
So yeah… the natural blonde, red and black colors are beautiful…
but what are they advertising the rest of the time?
On nice sunny days her hair will be a bright “natural” blue, and of course, on rainy or foggy days, she won’t be covering her grey.
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More mad mad madness.
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I assume that’s ‘find’
Got ’em. Now what do I do with them – I hate bananas.
Even banana bread? You could make some.
Or I’ll take them… I love bananas.
I won’t even say it’s odd to hate them, cos everybody tells me it’s weird that I hate mangos and papayas, when I can’t figure out what’s to like.
Bunny!
Bunny.
That’s a pretty one.
Not that any are not pretty… but this one is particularly so.
I really wanted to post
But… sigh….
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Speaking of hump day… This is a. 88lb humphead wrasse, also known as a Napoleon wrasse, a very endangered fish found among coal reefs.
I got different stories googling it, some saying it was caught during a “catch-and-release” fishing excursion off Fiji, others that it was caught accidentally, while sport fishing, and released.
In any case, it was released. Not to imply that the motivation for that wasn’t just pure altruism… but anyone caught not releasing them can incur heavy fines and jail time.
Comments were full of people scolding those who caught it, even if to be released, because it’s traumatic for the fish…. or if it was accidental, for keeping it out of the water long enough to take the picture.
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Hump day, says the speed hump on the carpet…
A perfect day to try this:
Here’s the answer. Unfortunately I tried to put it in the spoiler box, but it didn’t work and now I can’t delete it at all. Sorry.
It’s probably too late, but just in case you see it in time and do want to delete your answer post…
I put the answer sheet in a spoiler box for you.
It looks like you were trying to use a direct upload from your computer, which is fine for posting an image, but you can’t hide it in a spoiler box.
You have to upload the picture to a hosting site, and post the resulting link inside the box, instead.
You can let my post stand, or just steal my link, and repost it in your own spoiler. It’s okay. You might also want to post instructions for the puzzle.
Unfortunately I can’t see it well enough to do much of it.
To delete your post, just click where it says “Click to edit” near the bottom, and click delete. After a moment, it will go.
In case Mr Sherman has deleted his post….
Here’s the
About this issue:
I remember my older brother getting this back in April 1959. It stayed in my memory because it was very different from all other covers and I liked the puns even as a seven year old.
I hope you enjoy the picture, and I give a special Thank You to Susan for cleaning this up for me.
Dave.
You’re quite welcome!
Nils Olav inspects the Kings Guard of Norway after being bestowed with a knighthood at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland
White Pocket, Arizona (2023).
Spotted Towhee.
Wow… Our towhees are dull brown.
My mother in law had several birdfeeders.
The towhees seemed to shy away from competition with other birds, but just scoured the ground under the feeders, seeming to find seeds the others dropped or didn’t want… kind of like avian peasants.
Much more dramatic than ours.
Actually, I never see them here, but ±35 miles south, this is what the ones in my in-laws yard looked like.
Some of the images show them on branches, but I picked this one cos I only saw them on the ground, and IIRC they also weren’t as round as some of the others.
I thought some had black on their heads, but I didn’t see any pictures like that so I must be thinking of another bird.
yeah, Towhees are kinda bottom feeders. You don’t get a lot of “there’s a Towhee on my shoulder…”
I got those!