A lot of unlabeled versions of this out there, and a couple that mentioned streets, not the city.
But from what I can gather, this is three views of the same street in Coventry, England, one before, one immediately after, and the last long after the Coventry Blitz, one of several, and the heaviest, of WWII bombing raids on the city.
Carpot?
A log or a basket is the Library of Alexandria?
The asp is wearing glasses… And there may or may not be an alternate face for it, ie, that otherwise unidentifiable little thing below the scroll on the right.
Cleopatra herself is supplied with three faces…. and appears to be a dwarf, or at least, her feet are about where her knees would be, if she weren’t.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being a dwarf, but I think the history books would have… you know… maybe mentioned it.
A couple of posts on Facebook and Instagram identify this as a mother and daughter at a market in Istanbul, in 1987, and the same pair at the same market 33 years later… Which, if my arithmetic doesn’t fail me, was 2020.
It took strength and stamina. Local guides had to help people up the huge steep rocks.
Today you can’t climb it… and you’d be in trouble for dressing so disrespectfully almost anywhere in Egypt except on a beach.
Even then, I doubt you’d wear a bathing suit, bare feet or high heels, either on such a rough climb or in front of the guides.
I couldn’t find any specific information about them, but I can only imagine that this group changed clothes once they were up there, and posed this way as a joke.
The picture below was taken in 1930… But the ones I saw from 1870 and 1910 looked almost the same, except for the ladies’ Victorian dresses.
Some sites note that the pyramids were once covered in smooth slabs of limestone, but centuries ago, that stove was removed, mostly stolen to become the facades of newer buildings.
Before those thefts, there were limited ways to reach the top on the slanted faces.
Lol, I was scrolling past this the first time just as the gif was scrolling upwards… It was a weird sensation. Like the tree was growing huge.
Then again, they are huge.
Standing next to one, you realize how puny we are, and how important they are, benign lords of the forest, to whom we little creatures are temporary annoyances, who only live at most a century or so.
Actually, this house, I discovered, is part of something called the Heidelberg Project, founded in 1986, in one of the poorest neighborhoods, known as Black Bottom, in East Detroit.
From Wikipedia: “It is an outdoor museum that consists of a two block area with houses that are decorated to look colorful and intriguing. …(it was started )…to take the neighborhood from a hard core inner-city neighborhood to a safe place where visitors are welcomed.”
Jeez..
Last time this ran I’m sure I gave Claude some really lame jokes.
You mean, they didn’t work?
They were pretty awful…. just how lame do they need to be?
Sigh…. I’ll try to give you some more….
Maybe if I scrape the bottom of the barrel?
Hey, I see an old pencil down there… a little broken, but maybe I can use it to write them down.
Nah, that won’t work. I can tell from up here it’s pointless.
….
Do you guys know what happens to ducks that fly upside down?
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.
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They quack up!
(A five-year-old kid told me that one… He’s 54 now, so it’s properly aged.)
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We haircutters have jokes, you know….
Why do you think we get to work before everybody else?
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.
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We know some good short cuts.
…..
Okay… One of my favorites… But it’s better told out loud…
What did the termite say when he walked into the bar?
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A little hippy.
Dog haiku for today:
I sound the alarm!
Neighbor’s cat – come to kill us all!
Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!
Oooops!
Um…. Now where have I heard that one before?
The two went well together, so I included it.
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Oh, look! The Hummingflowersa re in bloom…!
A bit strange….
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You’re kinda cute…. come here often?
Hammy and Sammy.
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A lot of unlabeled versions of this out there, and a couple that mentioned streets, not the city.
But from what I can gather, this is three views of the same street in Coventry, England, one before, one immediately after, and the last long after the Coventry Blitz, one of several, and the heaviest, of WWII bombing raids on the city.
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“Nile Queers…?”
More low-quality A.I.
Maybe supposed to say “Nile Queen’s Roman boyfriend is…. ___”??
Wow I can’t even come up with anything for that last word.
None of it makes sense.
Carpot?
A log or a basket is the Library of Alexandria?
The asp is wearing glasses… And there may or may not be an alternate face for it, ie, that otherwise unidentifiable little thing below the scroll on the right.
Cleopatra herself is supplied with three faces…. and appears to be a dwarf, or at least, her feet are about where her knees would be, if she weren’t.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being a dwarf, but I think the history books would have… you know… maybe mentioned it.
Carpet maybe?
Also could be carport…. but neither make sense for labelling a face!
No crown when she was delivered to Cesar – wrapped in a carpet…
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I guess she survived…
A couple of posts on Facebook and Instagram identify this as a mother and daughter at a market in Istanbul, in 1987, and the same pair at the same market 33 years later… Which, if my arithmetic doesn’t fail me, was 2020.
One of those “recreate a childhood photo” things?
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It was not an easy climb up there.
It took strength and stamina. Local guides had to help people up the huge steep rocks.
Today you can’t climb it… and you’d be in trouble for dressing so disrespectfully almost anywhere in Egypt except on a beach.
Even then, I doubt you’d wear a bathing suit, bare feet or high heels, either on such a rough climb or in front of the guides.
I couldn’t find any specific information about them, but I can only imagine that this group changed clothes once they were up there, and posed this way as a joke.
The picture below was taken in 1930… But the ones I saw from 1870 and 1910 looked almost the same, except for the ladies’ Victorian dresses.
Some sites note that the pyramids were once covered in smooth slabs of limestone, but centuries ago, that stove was removed, mostly stolen to become the facades of newer buildings.
Before those thefts, there were limited ways to reach the top on the slanted faces.
That could be one heck of a climb. I can imagine people getting part way up and just pooping out, hardly able to climb back down again.
I’m sure that happened… Or people running out of breath due to the height, or having panic attacks.
One if the pictures I saw was of the Prince of Wales… I can’t remember which one, but maybe the future Edward VIII… making the climb.
Embarrassing if he’d had to give up.
A photo of another, older, climbing party included at least one small child.
It must have been Pyramid Power…
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Yep, been there a few times. They’re just about that impressive!
Same here.
Lol, I was scrolling past this the first time just as the gif was scrolling upwards… It was a weird sensation. Like the tree was growing huge.
Then again, they are huge.
Standing next to one, you realize how puny we are, and how important they are, benign lords of the forest, to whom we little creatures are temporary annoyances, who only live at most a century or so.
Must be Treebeard, or one of his cousins.
for once, this is an accurate use of the example of the oft-used word ‘awesome’
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Now, of course, I’ll have to look for mine in the mirror… Tomorrow, when it’s warm enough to take off my sweater.
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Could be this person is bearly hanging onto their sanity. Throwing in a few critters other than bears for misdirection.
Actually, this house, I discovered, is part of something called the Heidelberg Project, founded in 1986, in one of the poorest neighborhoods, known as Black Bottom, in East Detroit.
From Wikipedia: “It is an outdoor museum that consists of a two block area with houses that are decorated to look colorful and intriguing. …(it was started )…to take the neighborhood from a hard core inner-city neighborhood to a safe place where visitors are welcomed.”
Got him!
I can’t believe I recognized him from the young picture.
I just had a feeling.
I told myself I’d see how foolish my guess was when I opened the spoiler box…. But it was right!
I’m going with
👍
,..,
If you pick them when they’re still green will they ripen?
Kitty traction?
!!!
Sir Lunchalot.
So AI can be cute — who knew?
Ya gotta have a lasagna on the table.
Jeez..
Last time this ran I’m sure I gave Claude some really lame jokes.
You mean, they didn’t work?
They were pretty awful…. just how lame do they need to be?
Sigh…. I’ll try to give you some more….
Maybe if I scrape the bottom of the barrel?
Hey, I see an old pencil down there… a little broken, but maybe I can use it to write them down.
Nah, that won’t work. I can tell from up here it’s pointless.
….
Do you guys know what happens to ducks that fly upside down?
.
.
.
.
They quack up!
(A five-year-old kid told me that one… He’s 54 now, so it’s properly aged.)
…..
We haircutters have jokes, you know….
Why do you think we get to work before everybody else?
.
.
.
.
We know some good short cuts.
…..
Okay… One of my favorites… But it’s better told out loud…
What did the termite say when he walked into the bar?
“Say… Where’s the bar tender?”
No?
…
Okay okay … Try this:
Knock knock…
Who’s there?
Boo!
Boo who?
Don’t cry… They’re just silly jokes….
Two fish in a tank, one says to the other, “How d’you drive this thing?”
Children cross the Panaro River using pulleys on their way to school in Modena, Italy, 1959.
We had it worse! We had to swim across! Both ways!
LOL
Upstream.
Both ways!
You got to swim? We had to walk across the bottom…
Dunnock.