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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

The tip of his tongue must be transparent.

Wait… maybe it’s her tongue.
Looks like she was designed with a permanent little green bow on her head.
We know from the cartoons that animals with bows on their heads are female.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

She has those too!

Yellow, spiky cartoon-y eyelashes, like Bart Simpson’s hair

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

What a cutie!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Hopper would do this so much better.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Absolutely.

If it weren’t kinda sad, I’d think it might be a menu cover.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

I’m getting ‘Bar in a movie theatre’ vibes from this one.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Maybe even in a fancy bowling alley.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Bowling alleys here often have bars… But they have doors to separate them from the family areas.

It also used to be a thing to have some late night adults only hours, where they played music and served cocktails right near the lanes…

Sometimes those nights were advertised as singles mixers. Dunno if it still happens. Most of the bowling alleys are gone.

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

To me, it’s got melancholy written all over it…
And a kind of sadness… Of loneliness…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  baconboycamper
6 months ago

That’s what made me compare it to Hopper.

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6 months ago

 
A      LINK       to the London “Daily Mail” article about the National Geographic photography awards..
. The caption for this one appears below. The others are equally spectacular
 
Honourable Mention: Photograph taken by Prasenjeet Yadav of a rare ‘green meteorite’ on top of the Western Ghats, a mountain range in South India. Yadav slept next to the camera and set it to take 999 images. It wasn’t until the following afternoon that he noticed the image
 

JP Steve
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

So batting .0001…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

LOL… First I thought it was AI because they’re on the wrong side of the street. Then I realized it was from England, where they drive on the wrong side of the street on purpose.

Then I thought… wait… but the car has left-hand drive.
So I googled it.

It’s an album cover, based on a Hopper painting!

This is from Instagram, the only result that described the artwork, not just the record:

” ‘Crush’ from 1985 is the 6th studio album from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), a pioneer of electronic music.

For the cover art they turned to Paul Slater to produce an Edward Hopper style painting. Slayer based his artwork on Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning from 1930 which is part of the Whitney Museum’s collection.”

Now somebody tell me why the car has left-hand drive.

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Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Imported car.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

The funny thing about the image is I saw the OMD name up the top and knew it was an album cover first, then I saw the corner post and thought ‘Hopper’.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

I’m ashamed to admit I saw the words and knew it was English because of “Manœuvres” … but I didn’t know it was the name of a band.

And I didn’t think Hopper at all, but having been told, I can kind of see it.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

1980’s band, electronic music, album name is ‘Crush’, as you said, you can see the title under the rear bumper of the car. The early Eighties was a wealth of new electronic music developing on from the early synthesisers of the late sixties and seventies.

And the American LHD car goes with the Hopper scene, which doesn’t look like the UK at all to me.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Yes… it looks to me rather like the American Midwest, but it would be odd anywhere to have such isolated urban buildings with the bigger buildings so far in the distance.

The 1930 Hopper painting the artist said he based it on depicts 7th Avenue in New York City…. which is packed into a very urban environment.

Artistic license. Trying to set a mood.

The car doesn’t look American to my eyes… early “streamlined” cars were rather massive .

I remember that genre of music, but not this band.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

If there were grills on the trunk, then I would have said it was something like a Porsche. You’re right, there’s a lot of artistic licence going on.

Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

A Beetle convertible.
German car.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

The license plate shape looks American too.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

Yes… But to me, not the car

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Early Sunday Morning by Edward Hopper, 1930

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Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Of course.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

Seen this done a few times in videos. In my village a junction on the main road has a ‘Pelican Crossing’ (Pedestrian controlled traffic light crossing) just to the right of the junction, and it’s a lot easier to get out of the side road at peak times if someone wants to cross the road and activates the crossing.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Here too.

JP Steve
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

The one place I really need it, the pedestrian crossing is way too far from the merge point. (And there’s never a pedestrian around when you need one!)

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

“Anybody home? It’s raining. At least open the barn door.”

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

He did…

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Needs more cow bells.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

Same for the Blue Oyster Cult music above…

NEEDS MORE COWBELL…!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  baconboycamper
6 months ago

I’m sure you know they were the band in the original SNL sketch! 😀

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

MOOOOOOOOOO…?

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

ALL I CAN TELL IS
Mia Farrow in a phone booth.
Don’t know which movie.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Obviously that’s from
“Rosemary’s Baby” – look at her baby belly.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

I could only think “Tippii Hedrin in The Birds.” But that’s not Tippi Hedrin!

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I hate when a camera crews show up and films me while I’m in a phone booth.

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6 months ago

Peek-a-boo. Don’t mind the thorns.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I really wondered what was coming till I scrolled all the way down!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Mind the bend in the road.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Somehow I’m hearing “Slip Sliding Away..”

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

Something tells me someone didn’t apply the bonding coat before laying the asphalt…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Classic!

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

I recently wrote something about him here. I don’t remember whether it was from this role… For some reason I think it might have been from a Western.

But he is…
Richard Kiel, 7’1″ tall, who played “Jaws” in a couple of Bond movies.

and she is….
Susan Cummings

Together in…
Arguably the best known episode of The Twilight Zone…
“To Serve Man”.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Ill be back on the morning when my eyes are working better.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Similar to yesterday’s puzzle, many things are hidden within this landscape, and not all of them are listed in the margin.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Yes… So far I see a sailboat, a coathanger, a mallet, a fishhook, what is probably a mixing bowl, and what might be a hubcap.

But I don’t see the thumbtack yet.

BTW the hedge at bottom left looks very happy.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I’m finding lots of stuff from other puzzles (fishhook, coat hanger, sailboat…) Not so many from this one though!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Um…. riiight….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Yeah… Same.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Do I want to know what’s going on here?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I think that’s a spoonbill, and it looks to be preening.

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Isn’t that what you get after having ordered soup?
(I think you’re right.)

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

😀

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Yes… I’ve seen spoonbills but I didn’t know some were so pink, or that their heads looked so skeletal till I just looked them up.

The color, like that of flamingos, comes from eating shrimp and other bearers of carotenoids…. and those heads really look like dinosaurs.

Supposedly, some call the babies “teaspoons”… But that sure sounds like something put in the article as a joke!

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

I remember with fondness when mom would fry some sausages and then add Bavarian style long enough to warm it through and deglaze the pan.
You have no idea how much I would love to have some. I always do something wrong and it’s just not right.

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

OK, Bavarian style what? I think I’m missing a word or two here, or I just don’t get the reference.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Arfside
6 months ago

Sauerkraut.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Arfside
6 months ago

What she said! ^

Tigressy
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6 months ago
Arfside
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

Thank you. I enjoy sauerkraut, and this looks like it takes it to the next level.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

I like fresh cabbage cooked slowly with onions, bacon and beer, and sometimes potatoes… or that mixture added to slow cooking sausages or beef… but I’ve never tried it with sauerkraut.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

WOW!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

You mean teaspoons…. 😉

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happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

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Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

Hey!
I don’t look that grumpy in real life.

😉

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

😀

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

LOL!

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6 months ago

 

@ —comment image    Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP’S BUTT Thalweg

Welcome back, we’ve missed you.
 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

Taken in 1975, this picture is of:

A very recognisable,
Tim Curry.

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SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Hungry pet tortoise….

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

He needs that cup of coffee…

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

I love cabbage, cooked or especially raw… I make and eat tons of cole slaw, usually a couple of days a week, and lots of cabbage borscht, other cabbage soups, or sometimes stuffed cabbage, in cooler weather. Ooh and stir fried cabbage, too.

And I love pickles, and pickled beets, and pickled sweet peppers.
(And especially pickled herring, but I guess that’s kind of unrelated.)

I can’t figure out why I have always hated sauerkraut. I keep thinking I should like it… but no.

I don’t mind the smell of cooking cabbage, either. But sauerkraut? Even those tiny cups for the Costco hot dogs…. No no no.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Without something added I don’t like it either.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Susan …try soaking the sauerkraut in water about an hour, draining then frying it with some butter until it’s a nice golden colour. This is how my Ukranian grandmother used to serve it.

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Reply to  voxx
6 months ago

Thanks. It sounds good…

But I wonder whether all that soaking and draining turns it back into plain cabbage, which is abundant and much cheaper, unless you make sauerkraut as a way to store cabbage.

I like plain cabbage fried in a pan with butter, sometimes with cooked potatoes… Also hash of corned beef and cabbage and potatoes (also good made with beets.)

I’ve been hoping to learn to like uncooked sauerkraut, because of the benefits of eating raw fermented foods.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

There are kinds of kimchi (which is basically sauerkraut) out there that are not that spicy. You may use cabbage instead of napa ~.
maangchi.com shows how to make some of those, too.

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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

Yeah, I’ve watched Maangchi make it, and other kimchi videos… thought I might make some myself to see if I liked it, but never did.

I’ve tried kimchi from jars, and different kinds that two friends have (separately) made…

One ate it every day, and insisted that i needed it for “gut health”.She even made me some that was not spicy at all.

But it’s all had that sauerkraut smell that I just don’t like.

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6 months ago

I only used to like sauerkraut on a Reuben sandwich. (Technically, I’m not supposed to like any of the ingredients in a Reuben, but…) Then I liked it on a hot dog, then… Now I keep a jar in the fridge and slap it on all kinds of stuff!

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