August 14, 2026

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DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Watch me strut my stuff!”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

ANNOUNCEMENT

Everything is fine… Just a few hours delayed!

I already posted this at the end of the day, but it came out on page 2…

So I’m reposting it attached to the top comment, so everyone (I hope!) will see it.

At Nighthawks’ usual posting time, the site was down for some reason…

It seems to be fine now, but it hadn’t fixed itself before he went to bed…

He’ll be back with Saturday’s stuff as soon as he gets up, which is usually very early.

Be sure you come back, too, for, among other things, this week’s “Find the Differences” puzzle!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

You do NOT want to sit in those chairs on a hot day like we’ve had. Especially with shorts on!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

When I was a little kid, every inexpensive motel in the Midwest had several of those… in my memory mostly painted minty green, but some this color.

They were old, sometimes rusting or peeling a bit… but they rock a little, and when you reach the requisite weight you can make them bounce. When I figured that out, I loved them.

But yeah… We were taught to put a towel on them before sitting.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Got to be the same artist as yesterd…. Yep… Linda Nickell.

I hadn’t seen her work before, but it reminded me of a time when artists Wayne Thiebaud and Richard Diebenkorn both taught at Cal Berkeley. Their styles were different, but sort of meshed well, and seemed to influence every art show I saw.

Everybody painted beach chairs, and landscapes with pale peach and sandy colors, very light blues and greens… big touches of white.

So I googled her… But nope, she’s in Kansas City.

So much for my ten minute career as an art critic.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Just think how many people this startled in 1850.

Most people had never seen a photo… I’m not saying those who saw this one had probably never seen another, but just that most people in the world had never seen any.

Then maybe they saw one of a building… or maybe the President or the King… I guess in 1860s England it was the Queen… but for some, it was a neighbor, or their mother.

This one just happens to be extraordinarily clear… and probably induced some gasps.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

A striking photo, certainly!
For me, it is her eyes, they have seen a lot, in her life.
Forlorn, perhaps.
Has she seen such tragedy?
Haunting? Loss?
The eyes, hers are mesmerizing to me.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

The bassets makes a mundane posed picture into an iconic picture!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Isn’t it funny; I don’t remember any bassets in that scene.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

.. talk about a moment frozen in time …

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

It’s a special kind of black lava from an erupting volcano…

But it totally reminds me of when an eagle… or was it a hawk… dove at Claude’s head.

It was the one about irritable fowl syndrome.

Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

No need here! We get those things washed up on the shore all the time!

Arfside
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Beef bones? 😉

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Or human legs?

With or without shoes?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

meadowmary
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Great catch!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

It’s contagious.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Using PEMDAS:
(20/4) – (3×2) +7 =?

Simplifying:

5 – 6 + 7 = 6

Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Precisely.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

That’s what I got too…

though a case could be made for…

–8
Because PEDMAS ends with addition before subtraction,

x= (20/4) – ((3×2)+7), or 5 – (6+7).
5 -13 = –8.

But I don’t like it. If the maker of a math puzzle is too lazy to use parentheses, to show the actual intent, I’m going with what makes sense to me, which is 6 .

Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Again, like with all of these, there’s no way to assign sets of numbers. Without any link,

There’s no way to assign:
the 7 to the 3×2.

These sorts of things are meant to be clickbait in (Un)Social Media (Especially Farce Book)

Last edited 1 month ago by More_Cats_Than_Sense
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

I guess I’m not sure what you mean by “assign”, cos I’d think the plus sign would establish their relationship.

Without parentheses, though, the order of operations will always be in dispute, because there are students being taught PEDMAS, PEMDAS, or another way I saw insisted upon in a video where operations are just performed in written order.

And yeah… Last night I was tempted to call them ragebait.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Neither.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Neither one of ’em. They’re both bozos.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

Oops. Hadn’t read through all the prior responses before posting.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

This one moves.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Funkiest-looking peacock I’ve ever seen.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Grocery Store in Harlem, 1940 … Aaron Siskind

Gelatin silver print made in 1980, on display at the MOMA

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

The bishop looks sort of like LBJ.

Voxx
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1 month ago

spoiler
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Last edited 1 month ago by Voxx
Arfside
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Reply to  Voxx
1 month ago

I believe that 3rd number is a
4

mr_sherman
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

That’s what I got.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  mr_sherman
1 month ago

Same here.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Yes… Me too.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Yup!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

That was an interesting break. I’ve worked on items that were similar for repairing a C-spine. Again, it’s almost carpentry using braces and pedicle screws.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Lucky to be alive.

happyhappyhappy
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1 month ago

I went and saw Minions Vs Monsters with friends.
It’s fun!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

The Red button…

autobutton08
More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Red Button again….

autobutton09
More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Roger (The Racoon in ‘The Whiteboard’) first encountered the ‘Red Button’ back in 2012-05-03.

https://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobutton01.html

But.. As I’m thinking you hadn’t read the strip from its inception back in 2002, concurrent invention is also a thing 😉

‘Doc’ didn’t animate any of his, so be as arrogant as you like! 🙂

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Took me a while to locate the start of the TWB RB strips, it might have taken a lot less time, if I’d looked at the copyright date on the strips I posted…. DOH!!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Great button-pushers think alike. Yours are always amusing.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I did see your versions of the red button before I found TWB, which was only a couple of years ago.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Cleo is NOT a failed comic strip!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

And these two are:
Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton, photographed in1939.

EL-CL
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Recognized him, but not her.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

His wife of many years.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Female Greater Yellownape (Chrysophlegma flavinucha), native to South and Southeast Asia.

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