Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I can see that you’re busy and aren’t free to talk with me about your cleaning supplies. I’ll just come back later when you have more time. Enjoy the rest of your day, sir.
I’m not certain I am supposed to recognize whoever that is. But I do know that I have no idea who that is, other than it appears to be someone of the female persuasion.
This is Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist, married not once but twice to the much older and better known Diego Rivera, though both marriages were turbulent, and somewhat abusive, famous for infidelity on both sides.
She’s napping with her beloved hairless ixquintle, Mr Xoloti – a Mexican breed of dog with an ancestry traceable back to the Aztecs.
She kept many pets, including several monkeys and a fawn, and painted self-portraits with some of them.
There are sites that call him White Wolf, others by his reservation name, “John Smith”. He’s a Chippewa, or Ojibwe, Indian Chief, sometimes claimed to have been 138 years old when he died in 1922.
That would make him the oldest known person in the history of mankind with (supposedly) a valid proof of age. However, other estimates of his age vary from 88 to 98 years. 19th century Native Americans had different ways of counting years and recording births.
Wikipedia has an article about it, saying his old age was noted in a 1918 French periodical, where he’s called Rapid Arrow.
They also say that in his old age he rode the trains free in the area of his reservation, and sold cabinet cards of his likeness to tourists and visitors, being a local celebrity.
I will add that instead of working through the equations in the correct scientific manner, I arbitrarily assigned values to the cat and rabbit and worked through to see how far I was out. I guessed right the first time, much to my surprise!
Yours is just a different manner to get to the final result. It was the result that was asked for, not the rational behind the calculations. There are probably another way or two to get to the same conclusive number, as More_Cats_Than_Sense stated above.
THAT is the folly in all of this.
It’s titled “Rainy Day in San Francisco”, but it looks like one of those halfway mass produced paintings, no artist name, no guarantee he or she has ever been to either place.
Being sold as prints on Amazon, again no name, different sizes, described by a pile of keywords that have nothing to do with it, in case someone is searching for “moody urban impressionist abstract living room condo bedroom colorful San Francisco” etc etc…
Another NYC fruit vendor, in the late 1930s.. This one looks a bit more upscale…
He’s at 59th St at 3rd Ave, under the El station… but I don’t know New York neighborhoods. The customer is dressed up, though… maybe coming home from work.
All I know is, I’d like to get three pounds of peaches, for a quarter. No, make that six, please.
They’re on sale this week at Safeway for $2.99 a pound.
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I didn’t put it together until now, but Cleo has some French basset in her family. Why else would she use the word “homme”?
It’s good to see that she loves and is loved by the Cliffords. That’s a danger-strewn road she has to travel.
I have not watched near enough Glenn Ford, at least not since I was able to appreciate his skill. In “3:10 To Yuma” he plays a textbook sociopath. If you watch his eyes, there are scenes where you can watch the wheels turning as he cooks up his plots.
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Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I can see that you’re busy and aren’t free to talk with me about your cleaning supplies. I’ll just come back later when you have more time. Enjoy the rest of your day, sir.
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I’m not certain I am supposed to recognize whoever that is. But I do know that I have no idea who that is, other than it appears to be someone of the female persuasion.
This is Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist, married not once but twice to the much older and better known Diego Rivera, though both marriages were turbulent, and somewhat abusive, famous for infidelity on both sides.
She’s napping with her beloved hairless ixquintle, Mr Xoloti – a Mexican breed of dog with an ancestry traceable back to the Aztecs.
She kept many pets, including several monkeys and a fawn, and painted self-portraits with some of them.
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When in the south, don’t pitch your tent near the creak.
♫ Good morning, ♪ sunshine. ♫ The earth says “hello” ♫
It’s wise to keep your food covered because of flies.
LOL!
Took me a minute before I understood what you wrote.
Good ‘un!
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Think this man has seen his share of tragedy, pain and suffering in his life? I do.
There are sites that call him White Wolf, others by his reservation name, “John Smith”. He’s a Chippewa, or Ojibwe, Indian Chief, sometimes claimed to have been 138 years old when he died in 1922.
That would make him the oldest known person in the history of mankind with (supposedly) a valid proof of age. However, other estimates of his age vary from 88 to 98 years. 19th century Native Americans had different ways of counting years and recording births.
Wikipedia has an article about it, saying his old age was noted in a 1918 French periodical, where he’s called Rapid Arrow.
They also say that in his old age he rode the trains free in the area of his reservation, and sold cabinet cards of his likeness to tourists and visitors, being a local celebrity.
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Someone’s umbrella isn’t going to be of much use in a moment.
Robert Cromie (“The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue”) should be standing by to take notes…
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I wonder how often they all have to move.
Negative cats?
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It’s a tremendous image, albeit a CGI one. I hope whoever occupies that house and barn built a good tornado shelter and are all in it by now.
It looks like the love-child of a tornado and Cthulhu, about to unleash its cosmic powers.
That is one HUGE elephant dangling its trunk down ready to wreak havoc on a small farm. I wonder what they did to make him mad?
Too close, fer sure.
The shapes and lighting contrasts are reminiscent of Thomas Hart Benton.
Yes… definitely reminiscent, but a bit fanciful for him.
I got no results for an artist when I searched it… except that it’s being sold as a “diamond paint by numbers kit”, whatever that is…
And it probably isn’t even true, because all the links that showed this image actually led to different pictures, and none were this one.
That’s why I didn’t comment on it last night.
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Wow, I’ve been awake for almost sixty minutes and I am realllyy gettinggggg sleeepy. I think I’ll just take this opportunity to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
He’s a special breed… I think it’s called a French Throwpillow.
And is gonna go totally medieval if somebody tries to lie on him.
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Same here.
I will add that instead of working through the equations in the correct scientific manner, I arbitrarily assigned values to the cat and rabbit and worked through to see how far I was out. I guessed right the first time, much to my surprise!
Well,
1 and 9, or 2 and 8 seem unlikely, too…. so it pretty much has to be 3 and 7, or 4 and 6….trial and error is about as fast as algebra.
Same. Followed the pictures, got
Dog+Cat=24 :: means Cat=14
Dog+Cat+Rabbit means 2 Rabbits=6/2=3
Cat+Dog+Rabbit=27
Um…. You got the right answer…
Where are you getting “dog-cat=10?”
I feel like the arithmetic you wrote is not what you actually followed.
Cos I’m sure you knew that cat can’t weigh 14 if cat plus bunny weighs 10.
Yes, I can see that.
As Tigressy eludes below…
Yeah, I definitely agree with your thoughts about the weight of the cat, but that’s up to the originator’s folly…
No, sorry…
Dog +bunny = 20
Cat+bunny =10, so yes, the difference is 10…
But that doesn’t mean the cat=14
It means the dog weighs 10kg more than the cat.
(Dog+cat) – (dog +bunny) = 4
Or .. 24 – 20 = 4
That means the cat weighs 4kg more than the bunny.
I don’t see any folly. All the numbers work.
Yours is just a different manner to get to the final result. It was the result that was asked for, not the rational behind the calculations. There are probably another way or two to get to the same conclusive number, as More_Cats_Than_Sense stated above.
THAT is the folly in all of this.
A + B – C equals 2 bunnies = 6 kg => Bunny weighs 3 kg.
C + 3 kg = 27 kg.
Everybody got the right answer, but I’m having trouble following other people’s arithmetic.
Here’s mine….
Cat+Bunny=10kg
Dog +cat weighs 24, which is 4kg more than dog + bunny.
That means cat weighs 4kg more than bunny.
Or cat=(bunny + 4)
So…. bunny plus cat, or [bunny plus (bunny +4) =10]….. or 2 bunnies +4 =10
So… 2 bunnies=6, so bunny=3 and that means cat=(10-3), or 7
Dog + 3kg bunny =20 kg, so dog=17kg
Dog + 7kg cat = 24kg, so dog = 17kg… Checks out!
All three together =17 +7+3 =27
OK, I sat down this morning when my brain was working and produced this, hopefully everyone can follow the process.
The mathematically correct(ish) way is to go:
Cat + Bunny = 10
Dog + Bunny = 20
Cat + Dog = 24
Cat + Dog + (2x Bunny) = 30
(Cat + Dog + (2x Bunny)) – (Cat + Dog) = 6
2x Bunny = 6
So Bunny = 3
Therefore Cat + Dog + Bunny = 27
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Or, Algebraically:
C + B =10
D + B = 20
C + D = 24
C + D + 2B = 30
(C + D + 2B) – (C + D) = 6
Rearranging to put B and 6 on opposite sides of the ‘=’ sign gives:
C + D + 2B = C + D + 6
Subtract C + D from both sides leaving:
2B = 6
Dividing both sides by 2 gives:
B = 2
Therefore:
B + C + D = 27
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It’s Toothless!
Aren’t most birds toothless?
Kind of creepy
From the movie “How To Train Your Dragon”.
Which ones are?
Um… all of them?
Or did you mean aren’t?
Cos so I can think of is some birds have a temporary “egg tooth” for cracking the shell.
I only said “most” kind of facetiously.
Check out a Merganser’s bills. If they don’t have “teeth” then neither do saws!
Disguised as a snake?
And Nighthawks are a kind of Nightjar — but you knew that already, didn’t you?
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Vancouver? Looks more like Vancouver than San Francisco!
It’s titled “Rainy Day in San Francisco”, but it looks like one of those halfway mass produced paintings, no artist name, no guarantee he or she has ever been to either place.
Being sold as prints on Amazon, again no name, different sizes, described by a pile of keywords that have nothing to do with it, in case someone is searching for “moody urban impressionist abstract living room condo bedroom colorful San Francisco” etc etc…
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Could be Sam Spade, or Philip Marlowe.
Or Poncho…
(From when Stel Bel and I were still able to exchange our creations…)
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Another NYC fruit vendor, in the late 1930s.. This one looks a bit more upscale…
He’s at 59th St at 3rd Ave, under the El station… but I don’t know New York neighborhoods. The customer is dressed up, though… maybe coming home from work.
All I know is, I’d like to get three pounds of peaches, for a quarter. No, make that six, please.
They’re on sale this week at Safeway for $2.99 a pound.
I didn’t put it together until now, but Cleo has some French basset in her family. Why else would she use the word “homme”?
It’s good to see that she loves and is loved by the Cliffords. That’s a danger-strewn road she has to travel.
Aww… she’s only a doggie. Her spelling might not be perfect.
Or it might be that she’s singing, and holding that note… “hoommme”.
Especially on the Internet, where commenters on puppy videos seem to think “cuteeee” is pronounced “‘cuuute”.
yep–that was my attempt at depicting a note-hold
I have not watched near enough Glenn Ford, at least not since I was able to appreciate his skill. In “3:10 To Yuma” he plays a textbook sociopath. If you watch his eyes, there are scenes where you can watch the wheels turning as he cooks up his plots.
Peanut loafing in the sun, for Bunday.
Red-necked Tanager – Of the species family Thraupidae.
WOW!
The graphics are amazing and the gameplay is just addictive. I had a great time winning some decent amounts yesterday. Love q444game so much.