The reason its front legs are held up over its head, is that it’s pretending to have six legs and a pair of antennae, instead of its actual eight legs.
It will spend its life trying to look like a weaver ant, its main prey.
If you look at its abdomen, you’ll see two black bumps, larger than its eyes, but more the size and shape of a weaver ant’s eyes.
Now, as you can imagine, there’s not much room inside a weaver ant for a lot of brains.
According to Wikipedia, the ants don’t notice that the larger crab spider “ant” has its eyes and antennae at opposite ends of its body. Or that the spiders are hanging off the twig they’re walking on by a thread, rather than being part of their group.
So the ants aren’t afraid, and the crab spider can jump up and grab them as they walk by, and eat them.
A small design in beading or embroidery, or sometimes an openwork pattern, was fairly common on one’s fancy or dress-up stockings from the late Renaissance all the way through the early 20th century, but it was usually confined to the outside of the ankle, and was called, for some reason, “clocking”.
I’ve never seen such an old pair with an almost all-over design. I don’t know whether you’d call them clocked, but I imagine they belonged to a well-to-do lady, and were worn for quite fancy occasions….
Unless, of course, such ladies didn’t wear gaudy snakes, so these belonged to a woman who would not have been considered… um… lady-like and who became well off enough to afford them due to her… professional talents, whether they lay in acting… or elsewhere.
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He looks like he’s all ready for bed in his fleecy PJs.
Yeah, I have a “gotch” eye, so what?
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I haven’t searched it yet… But I confess to some doubts.
I’m sorry, my father would never approve.
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Brilliant box!
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I had to Google it to see whether it was domestic bliss or a movie.
Turns out, it was a bit of both…
They’re breakfasting, cigarettes in hand… but…
on the set of The African Queen, where Lauren had accompanied her husband on location, though she’s not in the film.
Yup. Recognized them, too. And the movie.
That would explain the five o’clock shadow…
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What a cutie! And SO strong!
A long-tailed weasel… also, like several such creatures, called an ermine when he’s white like this, in winter.
You can’t see it in the shadows, but the tip of his tail stays black, even when the rest of him is white.
Thank Dog those fur-coats nowadays are artificial.
I think his is real…
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Uh, oh! Bedtime…
Just a few more
minutes… um… hours… please!!Good luck sleeping through all that racket.
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I didn’t realize till I searched…. These are some of the first pictures of Earth released by NASA that were taken from Artemis II!
That second pic looks suspiciously like the pocket on a slingshot. Conspiracy theorists, here’s your chance! {^¿*} 😉
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Okay, this is a strange little creature…
It’s a species of crab spider.
The reason its front legs are held up over its head, is that it’s pretending to have six legs and a pair of antennae, instead of its actual eight legs.
It will spend its life trying to look like a weaver ant, its main prey.
If you look at its abdomen, you’ll see two black bumps, larger than its eyes, but more the size and shape of a weaver ant’s eyes.
Now, as you can imagine, there’s not much room inside a weaver ant for a lot of brains.
According to Wikipedia, the ants don’t notice that the larger crab spider “ant” has its eyes and antennae at opposite ends of its body. Or that the spiders are hanging off the twig they’re walking on by a thread, rather than being part of their group.
So the ants aren’t afraid, and the crab spider can jump up and grab them as they walk by, and eat them.
Not a good bedtime story for the kiddies
That settles it: Weaver ants are the main target of AI-created pictures.
It’s not AI, and it wasn’t the only picture of them.
(sigh) I know.
That was supposed to be a joke.
So the ants don’t know if they’re coming or going?
Exactly.
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Let’s have a little holiday music…. just for this special day…
There’s an echo in here – in here – in here – in here –
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All grown up…. Though even the second pictures appear to be from… a few years ago
And I don’t recognize any of ’em!
Oh, wait…
Yes!
Sorry … I should have said.
The hat gave it away for me.
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Overheard at Walgreen’s… “And a package of the 4-foot Q-Tips, please.”
Yes please.
Well, it isn’t as small as the cleaner’s elbow…
That’s why it’s okay, right?
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Beautiful!
A small design in beading or embroidery, or sometimes an openwork pattern, was fairly common on one’s fancy or dress-up stockings from the late Renaissance all the way through the early 20th century, but it was usually confined to the outside of the ankle, and was called, for some reason, “clocking”.
I’ve never seen such an old pair with an almost all-over design. I don’t know whether you’d call them clocked, but I imagine they belonged to a well-to-do lady, and were worn for quite fancy occasions….
Unless, of course, such ladies didn’t wear gaudy snakes, so these belonged to a woman who would not have been considered… um… lady-like and who became well off enough to afford them due to her… professional talents, whether they lay in acting… or elsewhere.
More Floozies !
♫ If you knew floozy ♫
♪ Like I know floozy ♪
♪ Oh! ♪ Oh! ♪ Oh what a gal! ♫
The US Navy had two coal fired side paddlewheel aircraft carriers.
I’ve got seven tonight.
Claude! Did you make that hole by pushing a button?
I mean… did you send 2 stores and 62 apartments into outer space??
You have got to stop pushing random buttons! One day you won’t come back!
If it wasn’t you, some construction crew has been mighty careless.
A basement-deep (at least!) excavation with no fence, no warning signs. In this lawsuit-happy world, they’re remarkably nonchalant.
But never mind…. Right now, we’re here to find some differences… Maybe you can dig some up.
(I’d say “see what I did there?” if I didn’t find it so obnoxious and pathetic when people say “see what I did there?” )
Anyway…. Time to do that and….
Found them all PDQ.
Me too!
A IMHO easy one for a change.
Same thoughts for the button here.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sendlinger-loch
Hemmmm, can’t believe I didn’t see the one I missed! Only nine, but did find them fast, and that was probably the reason.
Blazing Saddles was shot on the same set as Westworld, apart from the shop names, of course.
WestWorld…
Where nothing could
go wrong…
…go wrong…
…go wrong…
…go wrong…
I once posted a picture of, I think the same set, in use for Maverick, and another Western.
Even if it was a different set, it shows that they reuse them.
There’s a suburban frame house I’ve seen pictures of, on the universal studios tour, that’s been home to several sit com families.
To judge from the “Closed for filming” signs, my city park must be in every movie, TV show and commercial Hollywood produces!
Clouded Leopard for Caturday.