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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

Sing
Sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong

Sing of good things
Not bad
Sing of happy
Not sad

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

I didn’t know it had a red ring around it!

Okay okay… yeah yeah…. but did you know it’s bigger than Pluto?

Not a huge feat, actually… cos I think four of Jupiter’s moons are bigger than poor little Pluto, and so is our own moon.

That’s one reason Pluto doesn’t get to be a planet any more….

But don’t worry Pluto, you’ll always be a planet to me.

Io, meanwhile, has a very volcanic personality.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 hour ago

That planet is super hot. It’s Mag, Ma!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 hours ago

Obviously a shoe store… I love the little kids’ boots at the top of the sign.

But what’s the other stuff?

I thought so those loopy things kinda looked like keys, but they don’t have the actual key part. Then it occurred to me they’re probably button hooks… I can’t see a hook, but they’re small, and the resolution not that clear.

You don’t see a lot of button hooks with loops, but there are some, and some even have advertising on them…. Maybe the name of this shop.

But what about those other things? Ties? Cravats? Beaded bags?

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SusanSunshine
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3 hours ago

I keep meaning to say that I’ve been absent a bit, though not much, and late a lot, because I’ve been going to the county fair…
I still have a vendor friend who gives me tickets, so why not.

Saturday night was the (almost) annual Elvis impersonation contest, where they have six guys… actually this year it was five guys and one fairly obvious woman… I mean, not really trying to hide it or trans or anything… just doing her (unfortunately not that great) best…. all trying to imitate Elvis.

It used to be really funny, totally amateur, some good Elvises, some awful, and we in the crowd got to clap to choose the winner. Most applause took the $100 prize.

Now it’s gotten more professional, both the entrants, including their costumes, and the judges, and the prize is $1500, so everybody takes it more seriously. The acts are mostly better, and the judges get together and pick the winner without audience participation, which I miss.

I have to say, none of them were as good as one guy who wasn’t in it this time, but used to win the old contest about every other year. I knew it was rigged cos he always got the most applause but they said he didn’t, cos they didn’t want him to win every year.

But none of them, not him, not this year’s contestants…
None of them matched the guy in the picture above.

There was and will always be only one Elvis.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

The Parkroyal Hotel in Singapore

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

Yeah, an extra large, long, heavy leather flight jacket and knee high boots, and a helmet with goggles, always evoke the tropics in my mind.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
27 minutes ago

The adiabatic cooling rate is between 2.7°F (moist air) and 5.4°F (dry air) per 1,000 feet of altitude. That’s why you usually want to bring a jacket or sweater when you take the Palm Springs tramway up to Idyllwild. It’s typically 30-40°F cooler than down on the desert floor.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

Oooey, gooey goodness!

Voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

Chocolate cake with Ganache …Mrs’s Voxx’s specialty.

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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

What do you think the movie is? Benji?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 hours ago

We have so many basset classics to choose from.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

Inventive and whimsical.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

The mailman has access to your living room?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

They’re looking at a new map of Europe, posted on a wall in Philadelphia, right after WWI, in 1918.

I should say a map of the new Europe, since so many boundaries and place names had changed.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

Another candidate for “Find the 9 differences”.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

I was actually expecting it to say “Find the ___” …. you know, butterfly, or duck or something.

I do see a goat! Do you?

What I’ve never seen is a cute little truck full of tomatoes like that. I’d love some nice tomatoes… though he seems to be having a problem just now.

This is an interesting place.

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mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

My solution
1 x 3 + 2 = 5
2 x 4 + 3 = 11
3 x 5 + 4 = 19
5 x 7 + 6 = 41

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 hour ago

You could also get the same solution

by….
Ignoring the first digit, multiplying the second and third, and subtracting one.

abc= bc-1

123= 6-1
345 =20 -1
567 = 42-1

Does it make sense? No

I’m too sleepy to think about how/whether those two methods are related.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 hour ago

Same for me.

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Reply to  nighthawks
19 minutes ago
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9 hours ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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4 hours ago

Bay of Fires – Tasmania.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 hours ago

Many-Colored Fruit Dove, found in Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga.

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Tigressy
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3 hours ago

According to this, that would be the 51st: 8 human years converted to basset-hound years.

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What that has to do with anything? I wonder…

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