August 6, 2026

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

I know that pose and that look. “I’m feeling frisky! Let’s play!”

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 hours ago

And I’d be right down there…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 hours ago

Oxford Circus, London… Horse-drawn traffic and fashionable shoppers, in 1909

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
18 hours ago

I hope that those ladies got paid well.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
17 hours ago

All the chairs they could eat…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
16 hours ago

I doubt that they got paid well.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
13 hours ago

From what I’ve read, they got paid quite poorly.

For one thing, it wasn’t a career. Very few were actually employed by the businesses on a long term basis. They might hire a banner lady for a day or two, to promote a sale, maybe eventually pose for a cabinet card… but not to stand around all year.

Women in general were paid about half a man’s salary if ever they got the same job… which was seldom. Secretary, saleslady, and other “women’s” jobs… even trained positions like nurse and schoolteacher… paid even less.
Being a banner lady was even lower on the scale.

It wasn’t a job a “respectable” woman would take, parading around for people to look at, especially men, because even though they were well covered up, it was considered rather brazen.

The same could be said for actresses… but they were also considered brazen and low class. Unless they got famous enough to draw an audience and demand higher pay, they weren’t paid much either.

Last edited 3 hours ago by SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

A Roscoe and Flash 1980 Dukes of Hazzard trading card.

No, I’m not saying that from memory. I’ve never seen it, but Uncle Google remembers.

What did one do with Dukes of Hazzard trading cards? Are there still people who cherish their old set?

I’m not trying to be snide… I just wonder.

I understand baseball cards, cos players got famous, got traded, had records that people still follow.

I even understand Star Trek and Star wars cards, because those turned into long franchises and still have devoted fans.

Are there Dukes of Hazzard conventions where people trade memorabilia and cosplay as Daisy Duke? Yeah I know her name, cos it became a nickname for miicro-shorts like hers.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

????

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
14 hours ago

Two boats passing underneath a bridge.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
13 hours ago

Oh! Thanks.

Now I gotta find out why the cars are just scattered about like some kind of bug infestation.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
13 hours ago

I think those are people.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
13 hours ago

Oh… I think you’re right.

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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

Okay, got it….

The Atyrau Bridge is a modern pedestrian bridge across the River Ishim in central Astana, Kazakhstan.

I thought it looked a little creepy, when I didn’t know what it was….

But it looks cool from inside…

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 hours ago

Cool is understatement … good find Susan.

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Reply to  Voxx
1 hour ago

Thanks!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

He looks like a friendly enough guy, though his eyes are a bit sunken.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

Wow… Super-fancy accommodations for the little ones’ lake tour.

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Reply to  nighthawks
12 hours ago

Elephants are incredibly devoted mothers, and will watch out for each other’s babies…

I’ve seen videos where they save other kinds of babies, too, if they’re having problems… One was saving a baby deer that was going to drown in a fast current, while its mother panicked on the river bank, not strong enough to wade in.

Another was pushing a lion cub to safety, not caring that it was a baby predator.

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Reply to  nighthawks
18 hours ago

Buddy as a puppy.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

“I killed this thing. It was out to get us and I knew it. So I got rid of it first. Am I cool, or what?”

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

I’m afraid even the extended warranty won’t apply because of – you know – drool…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

He’s not “remotely” sorry?

You know that line will push some people’s buttons?

Something you don’t have to bother trying on that device any more.

That dog should be tried for assault on batteries.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
14 hours ago

I got:
246

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How to work it out:
Add the two numbers to get the first two numbers of the answer, then subtract the second number from the first to give the third number of the answer.

E.G.
7+3 = 10
7-3 = 4
Combine:
104

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
13 hours ago

Same.

Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
12 hours ago

Yup.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
3 hours ago

Same here too!

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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

Hate these. “+” is being (improperly) used to symbolise “function”.

Function (x) = (a+b)x10 + (a-b)

Too lazy to look up the ASCII for the function symbol.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 hours ago

Where’s EWC?

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18 hours ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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14 hours ago

‘Evening at the Sea’, 2021, Vladimir Preobrazhensky (Russian, born 1960), Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 cm (11.8 x 15.75in).

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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14 hours ago

Red-tailed Hawk, Loch, Central Park, NYC.

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Tigressy
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59 minutes ago

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Reply to  Tigressy
56 minutes ago

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12 minutes ago

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