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.
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
There is a brain glitch in the box below, it should read “step five”
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
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).
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”…
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.
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).
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.
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Good baby. 🙂
Two babies
Wha’d’ya think, Doc?
Is Lamby gonna be OK?
“My baby. Mine, mine, mine.”
NOSE!
How can you look into those eyes and not see someone looking back?
,
,,
Looking at the light saber, and Carrie Fisher’s hair, I’m virtually certain this is a photo shop.
Yes, Leonard Nimoy’s head has been swapped in place of Mark Hamill’s.
You called it!
And it was placed at an odd angle, besides
i know……. the one on the left is the older celebrity…..
..
AN ARTICLE IN “THE DAILY MAIL ABOUT THIS
Rob Gonsalves
I think this is sad… All those trees replaced by tall buildings.
…
Just checking.
I mean, you never know… There could be a fish up there.
cute!
The style looks familiar.
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.
Not enough bumper-to-bumper traffic!!!
..,
Got it.
Ya gotta trust me.
I keep forgetting how to spoiler box because jut don’t use the thing.
And the 7 is wrong?
Yes… Should be 8!
I didn’t think to check the last one, after all the rest were correct.
And we were both wrong
…
Yup! 🙂
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).
There is a brain glitch in the box below, it should read “step five”
A lot easier than it looks.
What goes in that circle
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
Aagh!
Wrong….
What a difference…
8 isn’t wrong… WE were!
That’s cruel!
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”…
And not smugly rely on your answer being correct, and the puzzle creator being wrong.
Sigh…
Yep! I shoulda known, it was “too easy to be true”!
Last time i eat there.
What’s the string made of? Hair?
Excellent choice of music tonight.
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.
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.
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).
Thanks!
Thanks, I’m honored (I think). I’ll go back and look when I finish here ☺.
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.
Cool !
At present, it’s about four miles from my house.
I’ve been there several times.
That whole place is fantastic.
This is the Hercules that papa flew.
His was a B model. 3 props per engine.
cleo, you sure know how to give us a GROANER so early in the morning!!!
you must not have had your early groaner detection radar turned on this morning
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chocolate chocolate chip cookies
Yes, please.
Indeed !
Christmas gingerbread man cookies
With some hot coco, please.
Hah, I celebrated Cheetah Day yesterday… I cheetah’d.
You just can’t hide your cheetan eyes.
Or your lion eyes either.