December 17, 2025

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Quick, Henry, the umbrella!

Last edited 2 months ago by JP Steve
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

You have to figure out how to get Rover to perform that little maneuver outside.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

All my hounds do that. Not in slow motion though – that’s a great talent to have!

I spent Reggie’s entire life cleaning slobber off my world. Walls, furniture, appliances, TV screen. And the inside of the car too…including the head liner. Messy, messy boy. (I still have stains on the wood dresser in my bedroom – I don’t think I’ll ever refinish that piece.)

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Every day. Don’t get me wrong, I love all my dogs – past and present – but Reggie was special. He and Dexter were quite the pair.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

She certainly does look sad.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Marilyn?

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

For various values of “Art…”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

And rubber gloves.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I can’t imagine how it feels.

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Tight?

Saucy1121
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Hot and sticky.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Wit 7,000 fingers? Probably quite well…

Liverlips McCracken
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2 months ago
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Frail?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

It bears repeating.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Is that the Ugly Duckling?

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

“The Little Prince?”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Impressive.

But next time, can we please stay inside by the fire?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Gee thanks, Nighthawks.

Sigh…..

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

LOL… I didn’t want to look too closely, so I didn’t see that it was pizza.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

At first i thought it was a pork chop.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

I thought it was bacon.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

“Pal Joey”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

What are you doing out??!

I think your Mama’s calling you.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

…bunny?

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Roo.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 months ago

Bunnyroo!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

“Oo’s playing? George Formby? ‘Arry Lauder…”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

According to several Facebook groups….

“Patients at No. 15 Convalescent Depot at Trouville watching a boxing match, 17 August 1918.”

They didn’t already see enough fighting?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Not any with a referee and rules.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

One I know. Go figure. Maybe the law of averages has to pan out.

SPOILER
Oscar Wilde

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 months ago

Who else.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Wan’t it shameful to be a stripper in 1915?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Well apparently it’s the rose petals that are getting stripped, probably against their will… so maybe this is trafficking.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

This “factory” appears to be lacking any machinery.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 months ago

All the machinery is wearing dresses.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 months ago

“Manufactory” Literally “made by hand.”

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

He must have wanted/needed to get up there for some reason. Fluffy may or may not have been involved, but is certainly curious about what is happening on her rooftop.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I’ve had this in my folder to post for a while, no need to now.

“Photograph by Leonard McCombe, Dublin, 1957”

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

So Fluffy is Irish. How does “meow” sound with a brogue?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 months ago

Just fine!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Somebody please tell him to come down.

I can’t cos I can’t look.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

This photo was taken just before the urge to “Push the thing off the edge” became too powerful for the EWC to hold back!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

Nooooo

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I couldn’t make sense of this, so finally I searched the image, and found out it’s actually a comic…

It’s from xkcd, a web comic I used to read… it even showed up on GoComics for a while, but now, in spite of good intentions, I visit neither.

Anyway… It’s a joke. Kinda funny but not till I found an explanation.

A longish explanation, which I think is interesting, but YMMV, is here…

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1213:_Combination_Vision_Test

My shorter (albeit incomplete) version: it’s a parody of those color blindness tests where some of the small dots or numbers are in light green and some in pale red, and they’re arranged to form a large number you can’t read if you’re colorblind.

But if you have synesthesia, your brain assigns colors, or other attributes, to things like letters or numbers or music.

So if your brain sees numbers in certain colors, you’d see that some of the small ones above are arranged so that it works like those tests, and you do see large numbers in the picture, but one of them is lost if you’re also colorblind.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

I’ve been to xkcd.com – it usually went over my head. Like this one.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
2 months ago

The website i linked to apparently was made for the purpose of explaining xkcd strips.

They go into more detail about this one, and there’s even an illustration.

Lol…

I didn’t check out any other pages.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

going with the rivers’ proper names none of the choices is correct.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 months ago

So the correct answer is in denial?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

{snort} 😆

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Actually, I’m in denial about the correct answer.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Boo! 😀

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 months ago

That’s my answer too….

But Google says we’re wrong.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I basically agree with Alexi…

because…
Three of the choices are totally impossible, since one or both countries are far west of the Nile.

That only leaves Tanzania and Sudan.

I’ve always been told that the Nile starts in Lake Victoria, and from there it flows north, all the way to the Mediterranean.
It does pass through Sudan on the way.

I thought Lake Victoria was north of Tanzania, but to make sure, I looked at a map, and I see that its southern shore does lie in the northern part of that country.

But rivers flow north there, so there’s nothing flowing into Tanzania. No part of the Nile.

But Google AI and Wikipedia both say…
Because other rivers flow through Tanzania into Lake Victoria, and are thus tributaries of the Nile, the Nile can be said to flow through Tanzania. I say “Okay, if you say so.” I’m no geographer, and plenty of experts contribute to Wikipedia, so….

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Hair splitting at its worst.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

That’s like saying the Alleghany flows through New Orleans.

JP Steve
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
2 months ago

Or since rain from Canada* falls in Africa, the Nile flows through Canada…

*Sorry, we’ve been getting a lot of Canadian rain lately…

Liverlips McCracken
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2 months ago

Uh oh, Cleo. I see that guilty side-eye at Claude. Let’s remember who pays for all those weapons and ammunition. And legal settlements.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 months ago

These are:
Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress’ and Toshirō Mifune

Photographed on location in Almería, Spain.

On the set of:
‘RED SUN’ (1971), Directed by Terence Young.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

Capitalizing, or trying to, on the fame of Seven Samurai and its American remake (more or less) The Magnificent Seven… but a decade later…. by using the star of the first, and one of the leads of the second. Plus some pretty ladies for box office appeal.

Much more lightweight than its famed predecessors, IIRC, and never a huge hit.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 months ago

Eastern Bluebird.

Eastern-Bluebird
happyhappyhappy
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2 months ago

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Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

“Who was that masked mane?”

mr_sherman
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 months ago

Definitely by the great Don Martin.

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