I always think I’m supposed to be impressed by displays like this… But that’s actually what it looks like… a display.
The gift boxes look empty, and the whole thing could adorn the escalator at the mall.
Sure, the person who designed it was artistic and talented… but it could have come in a kit.
…
I prefer trees covered with twinkling lights and tinsel, and years of collected ornaments, of all colors and sizes.
It doesn’t matter if they don’t match and some are hung upside down by small children.
The gifts, too, wrapped by the givers hands, at their own varying levels of skill and choices of paper, reflecting care about the recipients, instead of care about the color scheme.
Have you been lying about your age to get the senior discount? You can’t be a day over 35. We’re all 35 here as long as we don’t post pictures of ourselves.
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“Same to you, pal!”
Mom told you your face would freeze that way!
The infant reacts to the cold stethoscope
So do I !!!
Ninotchka of the North doggedly paddles her way up the St. Lawrence to seek her roots.
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A bit too organized and perfected for my taste. Maybe too lifeless, if that’s a good description.
Agreed.
Sterile.
I always think I’m supposed to be impressed by displays like this… But that’s actually what it looks like… a display.
The gift boxes look empty, and the whole thing could adorn the escalator at the mall.
Sure, the person who designed it was artistic and talented… but it could have come in a kit.
…
I prefer trees covered with twinkling lights and tinsel, and years of collected ornaments, of all colors and sizes.
It doesn’t matter if they don’t match and some are hung upside down by small children.
The gifts, too, wrapped by the givers hands, at their own varying levels of skill and choices of paper, reflecting care about the recipients, instead of care about the color scheme.
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Good thing her door opens inwards…
Nothing beats a hot cuppa when it’s snowing.
Typical.
The waitress is flirting with the guy in uniform.
That was my thought too.
You can barely see the little sign that says “cafe”.
I am moved to tears.
A sharp picture, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder (or beerholder), and, well, eww.
This is as bad as all the pictures I saw of diseased eyes while working for Bausch & Lomb.
To quote my friend P51Strega…. Eww.
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Is Little Lulu #1 still the most expensive comic?
More than Superman (Action Comic) #1?
Sorry, but that sounds like some kind of old wives tale.
I can’t find any information to the effect that it was ever even close to being in the running for that spot.
A copy of Action #1 sold for 3.2 million a couple of years ago….
Highest estimate of value I found for Little Lulu #1 was $3,200, but that was on a site advertising for sellers to list with them.
The highest actual sale price I saw for it was less than $600.
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But yeah, this IS one… Just not that one.
Two out of three ain’t bad. L – R
A Twilight Zone episode (of course) called Death Star.
Again, here’s the “raw” U.R.L..
https://www.lookmovie2.to/shows/play/1689809440-the-twilight-zone-1959#S4-E6-138966
As of this posting, I haven’t watched it.
Nope, don’t watch TV, not having one, or any streaming subscriptions… not for my 8″ tablet.
But yeah…. Oops!
see the little demon?
Up to some skullduggery, no doubt…
Migraine?
I feel like I see something that MIGHT be part of something….
But so far I can’t make it look to my eyes like a little demon.
Or a big one.
Or anything specific.
17 hours later, according to WordPress… still can’t see it and didn’t manage to Google an answer.
I don’t suppose YOU have one, Mr. Nighthawks?
Just asking.
I’m glad they got a photo of that. LOL
And their feet. – Happens all the time.
I thought the feet were on purpose… like, to say, kind of, “This isn’t posed… I just walked over here and look what I found”.
Otherwise he could have easily cropped them out.
Joining his pack.
Who’s Yin and who’s Yang?
(Bipolar bears?)
Well, the noses probably get colder than the rest of them. Good way to share the warmth.
Polar bears in pictures seem to be very huggy types.
But I don’t think the way they hug humans is quite so affectionate.
Betcha the cats had a hand in decorating that one!
Definitely decorated by small children. That poor tree.
This is a stark contrast to the one above. Less organized, but probably more loved.
I thought a cat or a child might have had something to do with rearranging the decorations.
But if you look at it closely, you can see that the separate parts are separately decorated, and closely wrapped in tinsel and garland.
There’s also a bit of black twine or thin rope holding the stray bit closer to the rest.
It looks almost like there’s a big mitten underneath the greenery, with the twine supporting the thumb.
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It’s in a plastic pot, with a saucer, so it’s presumably living.
Maybe they got a bargain on a shapeless live tree, and they’ll prune and train it to the form they want after they plant it.
Or maybe it’s last year’s tree, still in its pot, having had a few odd spurts of new growth.
Looks to me like a potted bush that was brought in from the porch and cinched up and (over) decorated with love!
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree.
this one was to offset the sterile, staged xmas tree above
Candles on a tree = bad idea.
It’s part of a costume… I think it’s just greenery, attached to that curlicue staff, held up by the little soldier.
I doubt he’d be dancing with candles in real life.
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That said, I’m sure you know candles on Christmas trees were still very common before widespread electricity… and so were the house fires they caused.
I used to have a set of old clip-on tin holders, the kind that were once very inexpensive, that were used on Christmas trees for generations.
They held candles slightly larger than birthday candles, so small menorah candles were just right 😁
If course I never actually lit them
Hence you are still here to tell the tale.
Exactly.
It took a while, but I got all nine.
Thank you. I love these.
Life can be hard.
Is everybody waiting for a solution?
I’d love to help, but, sorry, there nothing I can do about most of it.
I’ll tell you what, though…. I do have a solution for tonight/today’s NutBiscuit puzzle!
Sure hope that helps!
Do your best to find all nine differences before you peek.
That little dancing soldier has a big ol’ sword — almost some sort of scimitar… to fend off cheaters.
Not that I think anybody here would cheat! For one thing, you already know Cleo has a bazooka or three.
Then when you’re ready….
Missed an easy one, and only got eight.
That makes two of us.
I did far better than i thought i was wit eight.
I still haven’t looked at the answer yet. Its another rainy day. I have no plans to go out.
It’s been a while, but NINE, yay.
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Seville.
In the 1970s we thought they were horrible gas guzzling, planet destroying, half ton symbols of gross overconsumption.
In the 21st century we think they’re beautiful and we want one. 😁
Of course, I no longer commute to work or drive all the other miles that would put this back into that first category.
(sigh)
that IS one of Stel’s very best—oh, and a happy B-day!
And I’m honored being part of it. It was for my 60th, no less! – Metal Cow; cycle completed.
Thanks for the sausages!
Well, you should enjoy this one as well.
Have you been lying about your age to get the senior discount? You can’t be a day over 35. We’re all 35 here as long as we don’t post pictures of ourselves.
I hope your birthday is wonderful.
Happy birthday… If Nighthawks said it I can too.
Sorry… I didn’t understand the metal cow reference.
Chinese Zodiac, 1961 and 2021.
Oh!
Ok, thanks.
Happy birthday!
Damn! That links good!
I wouldn’t mind having a slice myself!
I never sausage a cake before.
Forty lashes with a wet noodle for that one.
Well, Happy Birthday anyway! Surely Basset is a natural.
Happy Birthday! Here’s one that I can recycle, too.
Thank you all for the unexpected congratulations!
And happy geburtstag from me too!
Are you kidding me?
No way?
Not gonna find anything in that mess!
Once again I’m a bit lost.
It must be me.
https://www.gocomics.com/rabbitsagainstmagic/2024/12/14