April 23, 2025

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Nope, they aren’t butterflies, they are True Bugs. Order Hemiptera: Family Membracidae….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
17 hours ago

They look like elephant flies.

JP Steve
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Reply to  JP Steve
13 hours ago

Sorry, those are Fulgorids. Membracids are a different kind of weird bugs…

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

I thought those were tomatoes till I saw the look on the cat’s face.

That’s not a tomato stare.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
9 hours ago

Surprisingly…
I just see such sadness, indescribable sadness.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

It’s ok, pupper…. It’s no crime to go under.
They’re not watching anyway.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Harrison Ford doesn’t look that time-ravaged in other current pictures, and he had a role in the 2025 Captain America movie.

He also reprised his arguably most famous character in the 2023 Indiana Jones film.

I’m not saying he looks young… his hair is silver and he doesn’t look like an action hero these days….

But the people who love to make this sort of composite image either look for the least flattering photos they can find, or, as I suspect, use filters or Photoshop to make them look even worse…
like the obviously altered image the other day of Macauley Culkin.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
17 hours ago

That was funny!

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
17 hours ago

First red robin of spring…
I’ll show myself out.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

It doesn’t look the least bit stable.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 day ago

Any design with the single wheel at the front never can be. If the single wheel is at the back, they are much more stable.

Reasons for a three wheeled design:

The original reason is as long as a vehicle had no more than three wheels, and no reverse gear (Important), then they fell under the same legislation as a motorbike and sidecar combination, and so it meant that they could be driven on a motorbike licence. The weather in the north of England is, shall we say, not the best, so in the winter being enclosed rather than sitting on a motorbike out in the horizontal rain….

They were cheaper to build, and cheap to buy and run.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 day ago

When we lived in Libya, there were a lot of little 3 wheeled cars that were almost like enclosed motor scooters in back, with the single wheel, but like a tiny car in front, with 2 wheels, a 2 person seat and a real steering wheel.

Most of the ones I remember were made by BMW, and the whole front opened like a door.

My Dad called them putt-putts, but I think that was just him…. he said that you could l drive them in England and Europe, but they weren’t legal in the US.

I remember being rather surprised years later, when BMWs were spoken of as high end cars, because I’d only known them as motorcycles and 3 wheelers.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 day ago

Isetta!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta explains why the door is the front…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 day ago

Thanks… I was about to look them up.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 day ago

It’s a classic.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
22 hours ago

The bad part of the Isetta is that on a front end collision you are trapped. It’s the only door.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

It’s Steep Street Week here on Cleo and Company!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Skysails and moonrakers on a galleon? Nope, just nope…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 day ago

That little round circle near the lower right is a miniature of the logo of the sellers of this print, a company called Imagion.

It’s a pretty logo, but this site won’t let me post it small, and I don’t want to post a big black square…. or advertise for them, actually.

They call it “Digital art”…. created by their “master digital craftsmen.”

Uh huh.

They don’t give any credit by name, and never use the word artists.

I’m not surprised if their digital craftsmen don’t know what belongs in the picture.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

I’ve made some roses for cake decorating by rolling out gumdrops on a sugar dusted surface till they get really thin, and if you’re lucky, a bit sparkly.

Then you form them into petals, to create a flower.

They’re a little stubby looking, and shallow, after you stick them together and trim the bottom. Pretty, but not deep and delicate enough to be a real rose.

This looks kind of like my gumdrop roses.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 hours ago

Probably a big hit in the Bible belt.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Little guy stands his ground!

I think he knows he has the power of cuteness and innocence, and that the big one wouldn’t dare hurt him with humans around.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

No I don’t…

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

This one popped right out at me.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 day ago

Me too.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 day ago

Me three.

dorothea
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 day ago

Me four

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

This reminds me that, just on the off chance anybody still wonders, I’m pretty sure I figured out what those strange creatures were, besides the pineapple, in yesterday’s puzzle.

A couple of people agreed and JPSteve posted a picture that makes it seem correct… Thanks Steve!

I didn’t want to bring it all over to today and bore everybody… but if you’re curious, just look back at yesterday😁

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
22 hours ago

Got it this morning.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

For a moment I almost didn’t recognize

him….

But that’s Robert De Niro, standing, in the hat.

with
director Francis Ford Copella, seated

They are…
shooting a flashback scene for The Godfather.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Here’s the report of that crash and the results for those of you who are interested:

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/333781

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 day ago

A sailor from the USS Hartford (SSN-768) clears the hatch following surfacing through in the Arctic Circle, 16 March 2016.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 day ago

This picture perfectly describes how age, and medication (Betablockers and blood thinners), has changed my attitude to cold weather. When I was younger, I’d be the guy working in -5°C (23°F) in a short-sleeved Tee-shirt, and not thinking anything of it. Nowadays, I’m the guy in the heavy gear when it gets to 10°C (50°F). I feel cold and have to put on a jacket if it’s 20°C (68°F)!!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 day ago

You’re right in step with everybody around here in most of northern California.

There are areas north of me it at higher elevations that get some snow… But where I live we’re acclimated to 50°F being a midwinter day, requiring a thick jacket or several light layers.

It’s even more so in southern California, where 50° means dragging out the fur coats or down jackets.

I lived in Wisconsin as a teenager… that’s in the Midwest. We threw off our jackets on the first day in March that the temperature was a degree or two above freezing, and proclaimed it spring.

Today was 65° and I wore a thick sweater.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

So blood circulates from Toronto in the summer to Florida in the winter? Sounds about right…

Tigressy
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1 day ago

Those aren’t her peers!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 hours ago

Maybe, but I’d think Cleo’s would have weapon emplacements.

It’s really a pair ‘o docks.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Tigressy
13 hours ago

She needs fire hydrants, not litter boxes!

happyhappyhappy
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