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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

That’s a happy face. 😊 Lying in some grass, with flowers nearby, with your human, … everything smells good.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I read someplace that there is a group tryin to get the funding for a period piece, much closer to the book. It showed some pre production storyboard art that showed the Martian machines as tripod machines. Not Pal’s manta ray.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I’m questioning whether they really got the most lurid shade of red available.

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3 months ago

“The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one, he said”
“The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one, but still, they come….”

-Jeff Lynn, ‘War of the Worlds’

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 months ago

I don’t speak German… But the article appears to be about a bus accident??

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

A tragedy rather.

I tried to provide the page in English – the google-translate-tool for Firefox is quite handy – but that doesn’t look good with copy&paste.

Would a screenshot of the translated page be sufficient? Just tell me.

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Reply to  Tigressy
3 months ago

That would be great, if it’s not too late or too much trouble

I tried to use the Google “translate this page” feature on my tablet but on this small screen, the sections didn’t stay open.

That meant the page was mostly closed sections and links. Some worked in translation and some didn’t.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

You’re welcome! Hope it helps.
That happened on my late mother’s 70th birthday, and she lived here in Munich, too:

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Reply to  Tigressy
3 months ago

Thanks

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 months ago

Yes… Thank you.
I didn’t get back yesterday.

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Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

No problem.
I understand.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

It’s a thin copper sheathing… AFAIK it never looked bright gold, but reddish brown.

France gave the statue to the US, funding it with donations from the people of France to honor American liberty.
The US was to gather donations from the American people to fund the pedestal… It almost didn’t get built.

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor, wanted us to also gold plate the copper, but that proved far too expensive.

Inside, the statue is made of various materials, mostly metals, over a hollow steel frame designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, who was hired by Bartholdi.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I know him! I can’t dredge up a name! I hate my brain! 🙁

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 months ago

Jim? Jay? Dang it! 🙁

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 months ago

If my search is correct it’s nobody famous.

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 months ago

 
A descriptive caption for this     ANNIE KATZ     photograph.
I looked but could not find either his name or any film or tape of their performances.
 

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

We have seen this previously. IIRC someone found out that it was two images photoshopped together.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

According to a photography website I found via an image search….

a woman named Annie Katz, who has been a sports photographer for the Miami Herald and a freelance wildlife photographer, won honorable mention with this photo in their photojournalism contest in 2016.

Their description of the photo:

“To make money in Cuba you have to be ingenious.
This man has three dachshunds that he dresses up in various attire and they SING together!
The dogs have watches, leather jackets, sunglasses, beads….anything you can think of…and they all sing in harmony into the microphone.
Tourists love the act and because of his ingenuity, this man & his dogs are a hit on the streets of Havana!”

I thought it looked photoshopped, mostly because of the white edges of the dog. But if you look closely, it’s wearing Cuban pins on its bow-tie.

The site seemed legit, but who knows

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

But that doesn’t look like a dachshund!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  meadowmary
3 months ago

I know.

Maybe it’s mixed.
Also the tiny ones have faces kind of like that.

That caption is the only thing I found.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Still reminds me of someone. A comic?
It will come to me.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 months ago

Jim Varney maybe?

Aka “Ernest”.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

That’s it! Thank you.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

This one is not as jumpy. I like it. 🙂

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 months ago

Your eyeball must be more stable than mine…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

<3

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I’d like to think those are their actual pets….

I saw a couple of different pictures with the same dogs, so I suppose it’s possible.

Then again, it’s just too perfect… The big guy with the little dog, and vice versa.

Gotta love the leash on the little guy.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

 
By     GETTY IMAGES,     these are indeed their dogs.
 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 months ago

I saw that, thanks.

But it’s a studio publicity picture.

In those days actors posed for a lot of stunts that might have been true, but might have been merely composed as comedy.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

If this is Jane Wyman, it’s the prettiest picture of her I’ve ever seen.

In fact, I don’t mean to be catty or anything, but it’s so pretty I really don’t think it’s her.

Jane Wyman (Ronald Reagan’s first wife, BTW) was nice looking, but not a perfect, classical beauty like this. She had very prominent cheeks, and not this delicate oval face.

I’m thinking this is Vivien Leigh… who played Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind.”

One of the most beautiful faces ever in Hollywood.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

.
 
Same photograph.
Out of stock at Amazon, Italy
Description is in translation from the site.
 
Vivien Leigh Retro Actress Wall Poster (19) Home Decor Canvas Poster 60x90cm
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 months ago

Aha… I thought I recognized her.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

He’s hanging on the railing!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Is it?
In the left bin of hay just to the upper left of the giraffe’s rear end? It sure looks a bit like a face.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
3 months ago

Oh… for some reason I missed your post.

I think we’re seeing the same thing.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I’m thinking

IT’S
The front of the cap on Junior’s head.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 months ago

That would be cheating… but it could very well be.

I also see something else sort of monkeyish…

It’s…

in the basket/giraffe feeder (or whatever those are) on the pole on the left… In the middle square of the top row of square openings… Is that a monkey face?

I’m not quite convinced.

I think I vote for the hat decoration.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 months ago

That’s what I picked too.

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Reply to  P51Strega
3 months ago

After the posts got scrambled you can’t tell who I’m agreeing with LOL. I agree with LiverLips on this one.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

 

Mr. Sherman has it.
Here is the official answer.

 
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P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 months ago

BAH! I still agree with LiverLip’s answer.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 months ago

Thank you. 😉👨‍🦳

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Hot rock on one side, sunshine on the other. Life is good.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

A very confident kitty, sleeping so close to sliding off into the water.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Could be in Busan near a place we used to be as patrons.

Liverlips McCracken
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3 months ago

Cleo has got the hammer part down. What she needs to learn now is the throw part.

SusanSunshine
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3 months ago

I expected to see that 6 pound metal “shot”, followed by a whirling Cleo, flying straight into the front window, and smashing it!

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3 months ago

BTW, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”, illustrated with photos of Ingrid Bergman, is sung by Engelbert Humperdinck

(Who was born Arnold Dorsey, and originally recorded under the name Gerry Dorsey.

I guess he wanted something a little easier to spell.)

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Engelbert Humperdinck is the actual name of an actual person. He was a German composer, born in the mid 1800’s, died in the 1920’s. He wrote operas and vocal music, Hansel und Gretel being his most famous. Why Mr. Dorsey chose it for his stage name is anyone’s guess.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
3 months ago

Yes, I heard that his manager picked it out of a book and he said OK.

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