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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Today’s dog haiku

Look in my eyes and
Deny it. No human could
Love you as much I do

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Case in point.

(Freefall webcomic)

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Just a weee bit… .uh… well…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Furries! Gotta love’em!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

She’s a Bowman’s Wolf, uplifted by genetic manipulation, and there’s been no impropriety between Florence and Winston. They’re looking at getting her species (There’s only 14 of them) classified as part of the Homo Sapiens genus so they can get married. Dr. Bowman (Not pictured) is an uplifted Chimp.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Creepy.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Yu need to visit Discworld. A human who thinks he’s a dwarf having a relationship with a Werewolf who would rather be human…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Okaaay…..

But…. hey, how could a human not know whether he was a dwarf?

No mirrors?

And I thought werewolves were human, unless the moon were out.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson was a foundling brought up by Dwarfs, and he just thought he was an oddly tall Dwarf (He’s 6’6″ tall). Constable Angua von Überwald is indeed a werewolf.
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Ankh-Morpork_City_Watch

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

The live tips of a cactus are very sharp and pointed.

A good thing for advice.
Not such a good thing for, like, shaking hands, or backing into.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

BTDT…

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

You better turn his bottom half around or it ain’t gonna work! His feet are pointing up.

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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 month ago

The plight of a Lego guy, with unbending ankles.

With his lower half turned, his toes will keep him uncomfortably up off the bed, in push-up position. … And I don’t think you can connect them sideways.

Maybe they have to lie on their backs, butt upward.
But I think the toymaker didn’t want you to notice his Lego-induced disability

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I was amazed at how many I couldn’t recognize, then I started seeing more and more!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Me too.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I don’t know who they all are, but there is certainly a lot of them.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I found the caption, but I was searching for one that said why they were all holding up one finger.

Didn’t find it… But I’m guessing it’s just a “We’re number one!” sort of gesture.

Most complete but still concise caption I found…
“In January 1987, to celebrate Paramount Pictures 75th Anniversary, every living star associated with the company was gathered… from L to R: (front row): Martha RAY, Dana Andrews, Elizabeth TAYLOR, Frances Dee, Joel McCrea, Harry Dean Stanton, Harrison FORD, Jennifer Beals, Marlee MATLIN, Danny DeVito. (2nd row) Olivia DE HAVILLAND, Kevin COSTNER, Cornel Wilde, Don AMECHE, Deforest Kelley, Tom CRUISE, Charlton HESTON, Penny Marshall, Bob HOPE, Victor MATURE, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert DE NIRO. (3rd row) Andrew McCarthy, Henry Winkler, Anthony PERKINS, Robert Stack, Mark Harmon, Faye DUNAWAY, Buddy Rogers, Gregory PECK, Debra WINGER, Timothy Hutton. (4th row) Jane RUSSELL, Mike Connors, John TRAVOLTA, Janet LEIGH, Charles BRONSON, Ted DANSON, Lou Gossett Jr, Ryan O’NEAL, Rhonda Fleming, Leonard Nimoy. (5th row) William SHATNER, Peter Graves, Molly RINGWALD, Dorothy LAMOUR, Olivia Newton-John, Cindy Williams, Matthew Broderick, Gene HACKMAN, Walter MATTHAU, Robin WILLIAMS. (back row) Ali MacGraw, Burt LANCASTER, Scott Baio, Rhea Perlman, Bruce Dern, James CAAN, Glenn FORD, Fred MACMURRAY, Shelley Long, James STEWART. Photo by Terry O’Neill.”

I do have to say….
I’d think there’s a bit of hyperbole in calling it every living star associated with the company. Surely a line had to be determined between star and non-star, and the boundary was fuzzy. And there must have been some who were too busy, too ill… or just said no.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I bought a few red bananas at the Mexican grocery store.

They cost way more than yellow ones, but I kept reading about how wonderful they were, and I had to find out. And even triple the price of three yellow bananas isn’t like buying a diamond bracelet. I think it was about $2.

They were quite sweet, otherwise not much different from yellow. Certainly not raspberry flavor. Of course, there must be more than one variety.

But produce marketers seem obsessed with raspberry. Occasionally in the last few years we’ve been able to get blood oranges. They’re blotchy orange and deep red outside, and ruby red to orange inside, with a bit of a bitter kick.

I ate them as a kid in Libya… Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I like them, and when they’re on sale or marked down, I buy some.

A couple of years ago, somebody started marketing them as “Raspberry oranges ™”.

I think it’s to soften the image, because they think people don’t like buying “blood” oranges. They taste nothing like raspberries. I think they gave up, cos I haven’t seen that trademark for a while. After all, people drink sangria, and that name comes from the Spanish for blood.

Now the Cara Cara oranges at Costco, which are pinkish inside, have a sign that says they’re extra sweet, with a hint of raspberry flavor. They’re not, and they haven’t got that.

Whoever is trying to convince everyone that a touch of red tastes like raspberries… just stop it!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I’m guessing the dog knew who they were by their scent.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Yeah, I was about to say that I’m pretty sure the dog wasn’t buying it.

He recognized friends… a silly costume won’t fool a dog. They seldom attach meaning to unfamiliar clothing anyway.

“You want to interrupt my dinner with your tomfoolery? Get lost!”

BTW… What were those costumes supposed to represent? I’m not sure I approve!

And BTW again… I added the word “unfamiliar” above, because I’ve known dogs who absolutely knew the meaning of certain familiar clothes.

I had a dog who would quite obviously pout when I put my work uniform on… She knew I’d be leaving.

And a friend’s dog would jump on her coat, trying to knock it off the hanger, when she wanted a walk. She did it even in summer, when my friend didn’t wear the coat.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Meh. Call me when something important happens.”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

In-cent-ivised.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Pizza never lasts long enough around our house to try that.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Not even going to eat any first?

Anyway… Cute trick, solves the problem of getting the pizza box into the fridge; but no thanks.

Costco pizza boxes are heavier than that… I don’t think I could get one to fold so easily. Plus leaving the pizza for a day or two sitting at directly on the box will make it taste like cardboard, and it’s not airtight, so it’ll dry out.

It’s easier just to stack the slices two by two in a big ziplock bag, or if you have one, a flat plastic or glass container so you don’t need single use plastic.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

:’o(

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

This looks like Legos to me.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Speaking of pizza boxes.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, 1973, Brutalist architecture.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I guess fava beans would spoil, so you have to provide fresh ones, the way you have to add an egg to boxed cake mix

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Here I come ♪ to save the day…♪♪…

Well…. a teeny bit of it, anyway.
The bit that needed the puzzle solution.

I thought this one looked hard, but once I started solving, it seemed to fall into place. There are, it’s true, a couple of quite small and/or subtle differences, but look closely, and you’ll find them.

I do like that the lady seems unfazed by the robot and his dog. Then again, it’s New York City. I think New Yorkers aren’t all that…. um… fazeable.

Give it a try….

then let’s compare!
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

BTW I apologize for a stray red mark, and you may also be able to see a slight correction in my solution. Neither should be earth shattering, and I didn’t have time to do it all over.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

I even had a stray red mark on my solution. Just not in the same place as yours.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

You have no need to apologize! These people are darned lucky to have you to help them out! If they don’t like it, they can go to CoGomics.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Thanks!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Wow, I’m so excited! I had the same ten marked, but some were so minuscule I had little confidence in them. Surprised myself.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

I felt the same, till I counted them up and there were ten, and only ten, so I figured they had to be the ten.

I was especially skeptical

about
the little spot where the leashes cross… Did I really see that?
But a difference is a difference, and it definitely looked purposeful.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

OK, thought I had ten, because I found ten differences, but they’re not the ten differences you found Susan. I mean, nine of them are, but I missed one of yours and found a different one.

The other one I found, and the one I missed.
Far right of the cloud top right where it meets the frame is one that I spotted. The one I missed is the point where the leads cross.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

I saw that too but figured it was just a minor deflection on the copying process, that nighthawks just didn’t crop it exactly.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  baconboycamper
1 month ago

Exactly… But StelBel, who made the New York Times puzzles and the Tues-Thurs movie posters.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

OK, and Noted.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Interesting. Looking at that place you found… Yeah, it’s different all right.

While I’m not the arbiter of what constitutes puzzle differences, I did say I think a difference is a difference.

If we kept score, or there were prizes, and I had to judge, and you’d stopped looking after finding this as one of the ten, I’d have to say “Okay, IMHO you get the lollipop.”

I can tell you, though, that knowing the actual creator of this puzzle, she would probably explain that it’s a mistake… not something she’d have done on purpose.

The way you make a puzzle like this is by duplicating an image… Be it a New Yorker cover, a Cleo cartoon, or whatever… and making slight changes.. It’s impossible to redraw the whole image, making it a tiny bit different.

Some people do a little alteration here, a little there, on both copies. Some people do them all on one copy… as long as you end up with the requisite number. You try to make changes you can easily hide, that don’t require too much easily discovered repainting, or color and line matching.

Examining this one… What I’m thinking is that after making the changes, Stel added the frames to the panels. Either she made a tiny goof or the program she used did it, but in panel one, the frame is shifted a bit to the left down the whole right-hand side, covering a teeny bit more of the image.

You can see it in little bitty parts of the tree… In fact the trunk is visibly closer to the edge in panel one. It also cropped off that extra little bit of cloud that’s visible in panel two… And you spotted it!

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1 month ago

Street Art by Explicit Citizens, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Cool but a teeny bit scary when you walk out into the patio with your morning coffee in hand, before you’ve had any

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

I like the way the cat appears to be, from this angle anyway, looking at the tree to see if there are any birdies in it.

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1 month ago

Pallas’s Cats for Caturday.

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Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) in India – Photo Nelson George.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

What a well dressed little fellow.
Wearing Birdie Benetton.

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