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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Handsome boy.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Dam fine eyesight!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Tickle it with your finger. If it bites you it’s an Asian…

happyhappyhappy
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2 months ago

Don’t some carry TB? Or am i thinking of the wrong beetle.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Dunno. I didn’t think TB was vector-borne

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

It is entirely possible that i’m miss remembering something here.
I might even research that.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

I checked with Wiki. It’s got nothing on it. I must be wrong.

Tigressy
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

That’s definitely not an Asian ladybug.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Then you know it’s a love bug and not a lady bug…

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Go ask Alice…

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Ladybugs, love bugs, Now we’re into caterpillars?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I’m thinking maybe a shelf attached to the wall?

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Extended shelf, live?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 months ago

Sorry, not sure what you mean… but if you’re questioning its placement while in front of an audience, nothing suggests to me that this photo was taken during a live performance.

I just took it for a carefully posed photograph, meant to arouse wonder.

If you’re right, or if I’m taking your question correctly, and there were people watching, an accomplice could have pushed out a small (but sufficient) clear shelf through a slot, from behind the wall, while she danced or twirled, or otherwise distracted them.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

It was supposed to be a play on words…

Extended shelf-life vs. an extended shelf in a “live” situation.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Aha… So nothing physical at all holds her up….

Only Art 😁

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

What’s the big brass thing on the right? Not another AI I hope…

P51Strega
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Sorry. Pretty cool picture though.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 months ago

Hmmm, spurious tracks on the platforms, the loco looks to have some dubious features, and is missing the tender, and that thing on the right mentioned by JP Steve.

I’m going to say AI, but it does have a definite Steampunk feel to the image.

P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

I can’t seem to get a “like” to register. So here it is

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

The duplicate giant clocks and fancy overhead arches with glassed in, lighted rooms on all levels look quite fake to me.

The problem is knowing whether a human artist painted the fantasy, or a computer program.

3 AI detectors say this is AI… 61%, 81% and 99%…
But if you read my post from yesterday you’ll know how much I trust AI detectors.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

I have no doubt about this one. Even for fantasy, the clock markings are odd, and the two clocks aren’t marked the same. The tracks in the distance do some strange things too. I can’t imagine anyone deliberately portraying the tracks like that.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

And many more then that where men took the credit. And the Nobel Prize.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Really glad to see Rosalind Franklin getting the recognition she deserves — Watson did a real hatchet job on her!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Anyone know who the entomologist(?) named Hopper was? (Google didn’t help…)

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

I found a programer.

Tigressy
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2 months ago
JP Steve
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2 months ago

RIGHT! She found the “first computer bug…”

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2 months ago

Great name for an entomologist.

Alexikakos
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2 months ago

 
This is what I found, it seems to fit (I see Tigressy also found a different article about the same woman)     LINK TO ATLAS OBSCURA
 

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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I confess I know very few of those names, and I have no idea what the rest did in science other than assuming the graphic over their surname is related to it.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 months ago

Same here

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I wonder why most have a year mentioned, while two have a span.

Or did they win awards, Nobel prizes, etc, in those years, and those two won more than once?

I feel remiss in not recognizing more of the names… Then again, I couldn’t tell you the names of that many male scientists from those years either.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

The dates aren’t (necessarily) Nobel prizes. I know Curie received more than one and Hopper received none. In Hoppers case, it was a one time thing (moth inside the computer in 1952). Most of the others I don’t know.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Got this for Payne and sunspots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Payne-Scott

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Valentina Tereshkova?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

…duuude…

Liverlips McCracken
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2 months ago

Uh oh. Looks like death by puppies. Resistance is futile.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

At least 14.
Wow.

Could that be just one litter?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Nopenopenopenope…

JP Steve
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2 months ago

SusanSunshine
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2 months ago

That’s almost half a mile high…

Well not quite, but close enough for me.

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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I beg your pardon! What are you implying?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I’m pretty sure I found it… And pretty sure it’s ridiculous.

The only glove I could find…
Look at the copyright notice in the bottom left corner….. Just to the right of it is a tiny chicken just the tail and then the head, mostly hidden, with what must be a small red rubber glove instead of a comb.

Booo.

It’s emulating…
Feathers McGraw

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P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

I got that one too

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

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P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 months ago

With the rate my hair is going, I might try that soon. ☺

SusanSunshine
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2 months ago

I had put that exact picture in my spoiler box cos I thought it was too big a clue…

Funny that we chose the same one!

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Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

 

I didn’t bother looking, but here’s the official ansower as published by the London ‘Daily Mail’ (Susan is correct).

 
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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

What chicken…?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

What? I like this chair. It’s usually warm and it smells a lot like me.

happyhappyhappy
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2 months ago

Well, i’m toast.
Good night people and pets.

Liverlips McCracken
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2 months ago

Bonne nuit. 💆‍♀️😴

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Yes please.

SusanSunshine
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2 months ago

Oooh…. Ooooh…

We’re back on the Midnight Express…

Rejoining the mystery in progress!

Watching the greatest canine mind of sleuthery, gumshoe his way through an apparent murder… right here on the train!

I have to tell you, if you don’t already know… This story is set during Cleo and Company’s tenure on Comics Sherpa…

And it sounds as if SOMEBODY had plans to…. (gasp!)… e l I m i n a t e Sherpa!

Liquidate it!

It’s horrible, being turned into liquid!

What if WE were on board the train when it happened?

And what about all the toons?

Poor toons… they encounter such discrimination… Wantonly tossed aside whenever it suits SOME people.

Toon lives matter, too!

Think about our dear friends, the Cliffords, the ones with that sweet, adorable dog!

….

We didn’t want to see anything happen to Sherpaland!

But I digress…

Cos however evil this man seems to have been…

However many toon folk hated him….

Murder was and still is illegal!

….

Sam Basset…. super shamus… flatfoot extraordinaire…

MUST find the murderer…. so he (or she!) can be brought to cartoon justice!

And before she (or he!) can strike again… if that’s even part of his (or her) evil agenda.

I mean, maybe not… but you never know about evil agendas.

Agendii?

Agendices?

Ok…. I have just GOT to stop digressing….

And go to bed!

SusanSunshine
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2 months ago

I posted Tuesday afternoon, on Tuesday’s strip, while it was still “today’s strip”…

Answeted a few people, commented on the strip, and did some AI checking.

I know it was probably too late, but best I could do.

P51Strega
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2 months ago

It’s never too late (that’s what you told me when I joined parties after they’d already filled a page and were on page 2). I usually start my C&C on the previous day’s, so I saw your comments. I particularly like your take on the ship (that it’s sinking).

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
2 months ago

Thank you!

The only reason I say too late is that by early to mid-afternoon West Coast time, quite a few people don’t go back, especially easterners like Nighthawks, who misses some of my strip comments if they’re after East Coast dinnertime, even though it’s clearly still strip day to me.

I really appreciate those of you who do go back and check, often even after the next strip is posted!
I do that too, in fact I tend to check the last few days.
Doesn’t take long, and you can find interesting things!

Birthday parties are different, because while you can call a strip, say, the Wednesday one at 6pm Tuesday (which is when the new Cleo comes out for me), you can’t tell people when their birthdays are.

We celebrated them starting about 6pm the night before, at the start of the strip for the correct date.

But the honoree, for example, on a Wednesday birthday might well be just starting to celebrate at a party or late dinner when the Thursday strip comes out…
And if we ever do them again, should gladly look back and accept congratulations long after the flurry on Tuesday night!

I enjoy all the conversations here… I think Cleo and Company has a remarkable following!

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2 months ago

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