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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

Trying to look this up… whoa…. you have to wade through controversy.

Posted widely as “pink moss bridges in Ireland”, it has a slew of admirers and defenders…

But it’s just as vehemently proclaimed a fake.

Wikipedia makes no comment.

Irish people comment “no way”, a tourist claims to have seen it on the West Coast of Ireland (but is called out as a liar ).

The truth seems to be that it’s a garden in Tokyo, turned pink either in Photoshop, or as some say, by special film that turns greenery pink.

The green image could be manipulated too… But some posts say this is the reality….

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Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

It’s not uncommon in Japan to manipulate gardens to look ancient.
The picture certainly is real.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
17 days ago

Oh… Yes, and it definitely looks more Japanese than Scottish. The land of bonsai is unsurprisingly also a land of artful landscaping.

I never meant to question the photo itselt… I should have made it more clear that i meant only the color.

There were a few (crazy IMHO) commenters insisting the forest was actually pink, and the green color was fake.

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17 days ago

I don’t have it anymore, but I did a border in Photoshop using a single hibiscus flower, changed to a dozen or so different colors, repeated randomly around the page edges. Looked great. Turning that green into pink is really easy. (I might not have saturated it as much though.)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
17 days ago

You don’t even need Photoshop to do that… I’ve done plenty of it when all I had was MS Paint (the built-in Windows drawing program, for you non-Windows folk) and an online photo editor.

I don’t have a good program for cut and paste on my tablet. I used to be able to easily change the color of an entire photo, though it was fiddlier, and I have fewer color options, than on a computer.

They’ve changed that app, and now AI tries to make you keep it more realistic, but I’m sure there’s still a way.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

Now that I can believe!

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Reply to  nighthawks
18 days ago

A flower shower!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

My mom did that, or tried it, she said… But she was trying to do it herself, and it was too hard to get the lines straight.

Believe it or not, a crooked seam was a fashion faux pas, and so were bare legs, or a run… So women were caught between a rock and two hard places.

She mostly chose bare legs, though she hated it, and even more so, later, when my sister and I went bare-legged by choice, in the late 60s and after.

But even in 1968, in college and working part time, while I would go to class with bare legs, I wouldn’t dream of going to work, or, say, to San Francisco, without stockings.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

My late (eldest) aunt did that in Lower Bavaria right after WW2 and went dancing with the G.I.s.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

Got him! Those caterpillars won’t be eating any more of these leaves while I’m around. Burp!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that’s Mickey Mantle.
Just a hunch.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

And maybe the small print below the picture?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
17 days ago

Shhhhh…..

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

“Hunch? What hunch?”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

It doesn’t say whether any are still alive.
I know of a few who are definitely gone.

I’ve never heard of several, and it would take too long to look them all up.

But Dick Van Dyke turned 100 in December, and Eva Marie Saint is 100 or 101, and they’re both alive and well

Saucy1121
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

If I remember correctly, Betty White missed it by just a few days.

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Reply to  nighthawks
18 days ago

“I didn’t say ‘stop.'”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
18 days ago

Doggy!
(Fawn does that!)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
17 days ago

Are there dogs that don’t?

It’s not so bad. For comparison, I had a cat who would bite you if you stopped…

But when she’d had enough, she’d bite you to stop.

Either way you’d get bitten… and deciding not to pet her at all wasn’t an option. Cos she’d bite you.

Yes, I know… a lovely kitty. But once she’s your kitty, whatcha gonna do? And she had her good qualities.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
17 days ago

Doggy!

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Saucy1121
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

Cookie is very good at doing that.

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Reply to  nighthawks
18 days ago

An interesting idea. Does it exist?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

It looks like you retract it when you’re inside.

But i wonder what you do when you’re outside, yourself, wanting to get in.

Maybe you can’t retract it when you leave, or maybe that slot is a card reader, and the knob pops out if you use the proper card.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

And what happens when it goes wrong?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

If I remember right they’re in a hotel somewhere. I remember seeing this a few years back.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

Everybody else block. Charlie, you go long.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
17 days ago

LOL

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
18 days ago

I have a guess.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

It looks to me

very much like…
Candice Bergen…

But I’ll Google it to make sure….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

Yep!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

I was wrong.

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Reply to  nighthawks
18 days ago

At first glance, this seems to me to be a poorly constructed and/or worded puzzle.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

I can’t see how

it isn’t…
Nine

But if there’s a trick we need to see, we can’t get there with that link.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

How do we know all the blocks are the same size? Poorly worded puzzle.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
17 days ago

Yeah, I guess I was assuming that part… And I should know better.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

And George Strait….

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

Wow… This is recent!

Artemis II just launched on April 1st.

According to Google and Wikipedia, it’s carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a ten day flyby of the moon…

….the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since  Apollo 17  in December 1972.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

With a stinky toilet and 2 versions of Outlook that don’t work. Gonna be a long 10 days.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

Texan chili?

Arfside
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Reply to  Tigressy
17 days ago

That usually burns coming out.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

I just knew I didn’t want to google this and find out what it was… But I did it anyway, and now I have to tell you.

It’s Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known as Mata Hari, having a last glass of wine, moments before being executed, in October, 1917.

She’s barely tied, refused a blindfold, and blew a kiss to the firing squad before falling.

She was a Dutch born exotic dancer, a famous seductress, and did do some minor spying for the French in WWI, but the Germans convinced them she was a double agent, spying for them, as well, which she always denied.

She was nonetheless tried and executed for it, a wanton woman being a convenient scapegoat for some military losses, with the case never having been actually proven. No one will ever know.

Tigressy
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17 days ago

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SusanSunshine
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17 days ago

Yes….. it’s time for Easter fun, Cleoites!
(I meant to post this earlier… Thanks for reminding me!)

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

Yes… The Beaver, Dennis the Menace (American version) and… um…. what was her name? The youngest Williams daughter, added to the Danny Thomas show halfway through… And later to be Penny Robinson.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
17 days ago

And one of the VonTrapps.

SusanSunshine
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17 days ago

And…..

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SusanSunshine
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17 days ago

Don’t you mean the pup, Cleo?.

As in, Cleo Clifford, the pup-etrator.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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17 days ago

And these two are:
Dorothy Malone, and Humphrey Bogart

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In:
‘The Big Sleep’ (1946) directed by Howard Hawks

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