August 18, 2026

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“I didn’t mean it, Mom! Please take me back!”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Too cute!
Adorable!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

This looks so completely staged, it’s kind of creepy. So creepy, I’m betting it’s AI, even though it’s better done than most.

We all know it must be getting better, and that one day soon, we won’t know what’s real and what isn’t, so this is just probably another step along that path.

Besides the people artfully scattered about, unrealistically standing outside their vehicles…. you can’t see any car logos, there’s a weird sign that says “drivers”…

And look at the fellow just left of the center, that AI has put somehow leaning on the wrong car, because the perspective makes it look tall enough, when the one actually next to him is too low.

That’s the kind of thing I hope will always trip it up… a lack of.human judgement.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

They are…
Gale Storm and Charles Farrell,

in a publicity shot

for…
“My Little Margie”.

I was a bit young for that one, but we always watched her next show, “Oh Susannah!”

It was set on a cruise ship, and had Zazu Pitts as her friend, a manicurist.

Solstice-1947
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1 month ago

I remember this one.
Farrell played Vern Albright, Margie’s widowed father, but he pronounced her name “Maahh-jee.” And Willie Best did a Stepin Fetchit imitation as, I believe, the elevator operator in their apartment building.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

They’re called red sprites, a TLE, or transient luminous effect, appearing after a storm in Oklahoma.

Red sprites are one of several types of TLEs that scientists are still trying to explain… I’d know more, but that’s when National Geographic told me to sign up or go away.

Meanies.

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1 month ago
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

This one doesn’t hold still for a moment.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
30 days ago

That’s for sure!
To me, it has a pulse...

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

LOL…. I dunno whether the white poodle is the jealous “wife”, the jealous rival, or Mommy just trying to teach her pup some manners…

But what’s loud and clear is, “You get your tongue back in this basket right this minute!”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
29 days ago

View from Hunts Mesa overlooking Monument Valley.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

We loved the animated TV commercials…

That little boy always said “I want my Maypo!” in the cutest voice, that I tried to imitate for years.

Voxx
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
30 days ago

During Captain Kangaroo or was it Mighty Mouse ?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Voxx
30 days ago

Because I remember the commercials, and I remember Captain Kangaroo in the early 1960’s, I’m going to go with Captain Kangaroo as the source.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Voxx
30 days ago

I don’t remember it being limited to one program…. though of course, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Good eats if you cook it up with some olive oil or butter and garlic.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

I hope that’s just a break in the edge, and not some teeny creature I can’t quite see.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

A 1910 photo of twin brothers who had fought on opposite sides in the Civil War.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

The frustrations of image search.

We had this photo once before, quite a while ago.
I searched it, found out all about it, and posted the information.

I remember that she’s a model. I think it’s part of a fashion shoot, maybe for Vogue… but searching tonight, none of that comes up…. and I have no idea when I posted it before.

The only thing that I can find tonight is that the photographer was Gleeson Paulino, from Brazil.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I’m going to go …

with..
the Queen of hearts, the Jack of clubs, and the 5 of diamonds

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

That’s what I got.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Take away it’s credit card!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Oooold joke, but always funny.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Just what is it that’s stopping him?
I can’t tell what’s making the noises.

Whatever it is, even though it apparently worked, I really don’t think I’d just sit there in my car, waiting for him to try again.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
30 days ago

It sounds like the starting of an engine to me, albeit more like a lawnmower than a car.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
30 days ago

Yeah…. maybe an engine, but it sounds too weak to be a car.

Almost more like an electric motor turning something that makes inadvertent noise, like fan blades hitting the casing.

If it’s really a combustion engine, a small one.

Who knows, though… I’m no expert. I suppose it could be a quiet car.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
30 days ago

It is the car. My guess is that the low idle sounds similar to a lion’s growl. While I doubt a single lion would take on a rhino, the rhino would expect more lions to be nearby, which is why it left.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I’m guessing that what appears to be its “eyes” are actually sensors of some kind (heat?) as the actual eyes are outside of the frame of the picture.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Yes, this is only the lower, central portion of its face, carefully cropped and lighted to make it look menacing.

Its eyes are big, flat, ovals, higher up and far to the sides.
And those orange “teeth” are actually little hairs called cetae.

I doubt that “nose” is a nose as we know it… but who “nose”?

Steve… Where are you?

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Nighthawks, I hope you (and everybody else!) don’t mind my re-posting this…

You posted this puzzle, without the caption, about a week ago, maybe a bit less, on a day when we had a lot of trouble with WordPress, and I think the site was down part of the time.

I added “Find the Panda” … But by then it was kind of late, and it seemed like very few people actually came back and tried it.

It’s such a cute puzzle… So I wanted to give everybody another chance to Find the Panda!

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

I see it.

For those struggling:
Left edge, about half way down.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

No point in hiding her identity, she has it printed on the side of the bike trailer.

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1 month ago

Spotted Towhee.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
30 days ago

Obviously, it’s spotted. Someone took its picture.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
30 days ago

Another towhee perching on a branch.

I think I’ve commented here about them before…I believe we get this kind too, but mostly we see very plain, dull greyish brown California towhees, with only a faded touch of that rusty brown color.

Lots used to come to my mother-in-law’s feeder, but we rarely saw them on the perches, or in trees.

They stayed on the ground, especially if any other birds were around, and cleaned up the dropped or rejected seeds below, apparently finding things that were missed by hastier birds knocking them out of the way.

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