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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

Good baby. 🙂

happyhappyhappy
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11 months ago

Two babies

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

Wha’d’ya think, Doc?

Is Lamby gonna be OK?

Liverlips McCracken
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11 months ago

“My baby. Mine, mine, mine.”

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

NOSE!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

How can you look into those eyes and not see someone looking back?

Alexikakos
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11 months ago

 
Looking at the light saber, and Carrie Fisher’s hair, I’m virtually certain this is a photo shop.
 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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11 months ago

Yes, Leonard Nimoy’s head has been swapped in place of Mark Hamill’s.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
11 months ago

You called it!

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And it was placed at an odd angle, besides

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MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

i know……. the one on the left is the older celebrity…..

Alexikakos
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11 months ago
SusanSunshine
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11 months ago

I think this is sad… All those trees replaced by tall buildings.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

Just checking.

I mean, you never know… There could be a fish up there.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

cute!

happyhappyhappy
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11 months ago

The style looks familiar.

Alexikakos
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11 months ago

 
Done by the late Klaüs Burgle, German illustrator.
I can find no date or title for this, but it has been used as a magazine cover and the cover illustration of the 2010 calendar featuring his art.
 

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

Not enough bumper-to-bumper traffic!!!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

Got it.
Ya gotta trust me.
I keep forgetting how to spoiler box because jut don’t use the thing.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
11 months ago

And the 7 is wrong?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
11 months ago

Yes… Should be 8!

I didn’t think to check the last one, after all the rest were correct.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
11 months ago

And we were both wrong

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
11 months ago

Yup! 🙂

Alexikakos
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11 months ago

 
We do trust you, but if you look below at my posting of the official answer I’m going to guess that you got the same (thinking, like the rest of us, that the “7” is incorrect) wrong answer as we did.
 
I’ve put 7 pictures with explanations in the spoiler box below on how to set up a spoiler box. It covers, to the best of my ability, all the steps necessary.
If anything is unclear, please ask.
Remember, you cannot put any more than three links to outside sources in comment or spoiler boxes separately or combined without following the work around steps I’ve learned (I used those steps in this box, and in all of the my music postings / if anybody wants those steps I’ll post them).
 

SPOILER BOX INSTRUCTIONS

 
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There is a brain glitch in the box below, it should read “step five”
 
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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

A lot easier than it looks.

What goes in that circle

is
15

Because….

The number in the top right-hand circle, the one with the left-pointing arrow, minus the top left-hand circle gives the answer in the circle they’re both pointing at.

In the first case that’s 99 minus 72 gives 27 in the next circle.

Now take the 27 and subtract it from the next right-hand number, 45.

45-27 =18 in the answer circle

Similarly subtract the 18 from the next right-hand number, which is 39.

39 -18 = 21

Take that answer, 21, and subtract it from the next right-hand number, 36…

36 minus 21 is 15

In that answer circle, instead of “?” it should say 15.

You can check by taking that 15 from the next number, 28, and you get 13…

However as Happy³ points out, the last subtraction is incorrect.

21-13 is 8, not 7…. Oops

But so many were correct I’m convinced that was a typo, and not something that negates or changes the rest of the solution

SusanSunshine
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11 months ago

Aagh!
Wrong….

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

Yes.
15. And 8 instead of 7.
What a difference…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
11 months ago

8 isn’t wrong… WE were!

Alexikakos
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11 months ago

 

The official answer from ‘The Guardian’ newspaper of Wednesday, November 9, 2016 (ALL the numbers in the puzzle as presented are correct / which means we all got the wrong answer).

 
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P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
11 months ago

That’s cruel!

baconboycamper
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11 months ago

Thanks for the explanation, Alexi; like others here, I came to the same number, and once I got that one done I quit, and unlike Happy³ and Susan I never went any further. Interesting, but now it all makes perfect sense. It just goes to show you that ya gotta look at the “whole picture”…

SusanSunshine
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11 months ago

And not smugly rely on your answer being correct, and the puzzle creator being wrong.

Sigh…

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baconboycamper
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11 months ago

Yep! I shoulda known, it was “too easy to be true”!

happyhappyhappy
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11 months ago

Last time i eat there.
What’s the string made of? Hair?

happyhappyhappy
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11 months ago

Excellent choice of music tonight.

SusanSunshine
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11 months ago

Kind hearted Cleo.

Always ready to rescue a fellow creature.

Well… not a human, I’m sure… Or a cat, or a squirrel… And maybe not another dog…

And she’d gladly swat a fly, if it were buzzing around.

But this poor fly was drowning, and she saw that it had so much to live for… So much potential

Especially potential to annoy the human.

It just melted her heart, thinking about that poor drowning fly, and how much…. if it survived… It could annoy the human.

Her course was obvious.

Alexikakos
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11 months ago

 

Today’s Songs:
1. ‘Blue Velvet,’ 2. ‘Celebration,’ 3. ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep,’ and 4. ‘Cinnamon Girl,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. ‘Chicken Piri Piri (low carb).’
1. Yesterday we had black velvet, and today blue. Tony Bennett first did it in 1951 and it made the top 20 (his version below); Bobby Vinton took it to number 1 in 1963.
2. A collaboration by the whole band. As of 2016 it’s in the Grammy hall of fame, and, by Wikipedia, In 2021, the Library of Congress selected ‘Celebration’ for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being ‘culturally historically or aesthetically significant’. The song held the number one spot for two weeks in 1981 before ‘9 to 5’ overtook it. It was the band’s sole number one hit.
3. Originally released in Italy by its composer, Lally Stott (video below / not well shot in my opinion / the song’s still good though), and then the record company gave it to both ‘Middle of the Road’, this version, from Scotland (after a bit of a struggle it made number 1 in the U.K.), and Mac and Katie Kissoon, a brother/sister duo from Trinidad (probably the version people on this side of the Atlantic know). Stott’s version made it big in Australia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
4. Look up ‘Cinnamon Girl’s’ Wikipedia article, it defies summing up.
5. I won’t be making this. Piri Piri is the Portuguese name for the African bird’s eye (also called the African devil) pepper which has a rating of 175,000 Scoville Heat Units.

 

 

 

 

 
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Alexikakos
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11 months ago

@ —comment image    P-51 Strega

From yesterday.
When I finally saw it, I gave you an award for your answer to Tigressy’s kangaroo picture (you have joined an elite club / Tigressy, by the way, was the first recipient of this prestigious award at this site).
 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
11 months ago

Thanks!

P51Strega
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11 months ago

Thanks, I’m honored (I think). I’ll go back and look when I finish here ☺.

Alexikakos
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11 months ago

@ The lovers of aircraft on “Cleo and Company”.

The film of the “SPRUCE GOOSE” (officially the H-4 Hercules) in flight begins at 6 minutes 20 seconds; but there’s a whole lot more in this 12 and a 1/2 minute documentary.
 

 

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
11 months ago

Cool !

mr_sherman
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11 months ago

At present, it’s about four miles from my house.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  mr_sherman
11 months ago

I’ve been there several times.
That whole place is fantastic.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
11 months ago

This is the Hercules that papa flew.
His was a B model. 3 props per engine.

MontanaLady
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11 months ago

cleo, you sure know how to give us a GROANER so early in the morning!!!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

Yes, please.

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
11 months ago

Indeed !

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 months ago

With some hot coco, please.

Tigressy
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11 months ago

P51Strega
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11 months ago

Hah, I celebrated Cheetah Day yesterday… I cheetah’d.

SusanSunshine
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11 months ago

You just can’t hide your cheetan eyes.

Or your lion eyes either.

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