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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

The tragedy of male-pattern baldness…

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

Dad! Great selfie!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
14 days ago

Why, thank you, son.
Of course, you know it will happen to you, too.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
13 days ago

Sorry… I don’t understand people thumbing down comments here… unless, I suppose, they’re rude or somehow unacceptable…. But I don’t think this one was.

It’s possible to disagree with it, because male pattern baldness is carried on the X chromosome, and you generally need two, so it’s mostly passed from your maternal grandfather, not your dad.

But this was a joke, anyway.

An I missing something?

BTW… It you ever do a thumbs down (or up) accidentally, or change your mind, hitting the opposite thumb will erase it.

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mr_sherman
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
13 days ago

From Dancing Buffalo, I take it as sarcasm. I’m hoping the guest is doing the same.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 days ago

I’ve wondered about that! Thanks!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

Wow! It’s real!

It’s a Bald Uakari, sometimes called the Red-faced Monkey, that lives in flooded forests of the Amazon basin.

Close-ups like this of its face look a bit creepy, like an AI space alien… But they actually have beautiful long shaggy coats, and fairly short (for a monkey) super-fluffy, non-prehensile tails.

They’re arboreal, and suffering a loss of habitat, considered vulnerable on the endangered species list.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 days ago

Flooded forests? So the red face is from holding their breath?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
12 days ago

LOL.

The real reason is almost funny… The blood vessels in their faces are very close to the surface… nobody knows why.

But if they only look a “healthy” pink, they’re very ill.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

 
Looks like Mickey Rooney.
 
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Reply to  Alexikakos
13 days ago

🤣

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

You could have picked me as your national bird, but nooo — you had to go with the turkey….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

Wayne Thibaud, “Boston Cremes” – oil on canvas, 1962

I noticed that only the “T” of Thibaud was at lower right, so I looked at other images, and this copy is indeed cut off on the sides.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

I know this one!

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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

He is
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.
I cannot recall the girl’s real name, but
her character
goes by “Scout.” The film is To Kill a Mockingbird.
Appropriately, this film marked the movie debut of one Robert Duvall as “Mr. Arthur (Boo) Radley.”

JP Steve
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
14 days ago

Mary Badham — had to Google i!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
14 days ago

She was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the role…

She was great, but somewhat understandably lost to Patty Duke, for The Miracle Worker.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
13 days ago

Forgot to say… Her older brother is director John Badham, though he didn’t direct TKAM.

Also Harper Lee wrote a sequel in this century, that completely changed the characters, making them more bigoted. Sad, to me.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  JP Steve
13 days ago

The stage play came to my area last year. Mary Badham had the part of the racist old lady.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

No flash!

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  SusanSunshine
13 days ago

Yep. Damages the pigments in the paint. Conservation of these masterpieces is essential. Digital copies just don’t show the genius of the artists.

I stumbled across a showing of the Tutankhamun exhibit a number of years ago. Small university, very few viewers. We were allowed to use our digital SLR cameras, no flash, no tripod (for safety of other visitors.) But even shooting handheld we got a number of decent photos. A number were grainy or motion blurred, but that’s to be expected, since the exhibit lighting was subdued, for the same reason as the restrictions on flash usage. Still, they’re a favorite part of my collection.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
13 days ago

I saw the major Tut exhibition in San Francisco in the 1970s.

Tons of people… one of the first museum shows to issue tickets to enter at certain.alloted times… but once you were in they didn’t kick you out.

This was before digital cameras… My.pictures weren’t great, with no flash… but I bought a catalogue.

It was incredible.

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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

I can only imagine the Moonlight Serenade.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

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Addicted to catnip, Fluffy was forced to fund her habit by delivering lewd performances for the perverted chickens of the neighborhood.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

He was doing so well until the flea bit…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

By Mexican “metamorphic surrealism” painter Octavio Ocampo.

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Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

I’ve recognized the movie at once: It’s
Amelie.

Tigressy
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14 days ago

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
13 days ago

This one is

also..
James Stewart,
But with…
Kim Novak playing a witch and a different kitty.. I don’t know this one’s name either, but his character’s name is Pyewacket, which I’ve always remembered.

in a different movie, which I think is more famous…
Bell, Book and Candle

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

This is

as you probably guessed…
James Stewart

and…

an unknown kitten

in…

a scene from “Magic Town”

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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

Walter, you wild man! 8 MPH! That’s a 7.5 minute mile. I’ll bet that, even in 1896, men could run a mile faster than that.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

I just did this on Facebook — Ulyses S. Grant 1866…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
14 days ago

I’m sorry… but… ??

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 days ago

I’m really glad this isn’t some puzzle I have to solve…

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14 days ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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14 days ago

The Crooked House, oldest teahouse in England, circa 1687.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
14 days ago

Did it stand straight back then?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
14 days ago

Probably a bit less than it does now, but probably not perfectly.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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14 days ago

Kea – New Zealand.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
14 days ago

Te only alpine parrot.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
13 days ago

Looks like a beaked pinecone.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
13 days ago

It was rather damp.

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