A silverback gorilla: 4 or 5 hundred pounds of brute strength… on a vegan diet that’s about 60% fruit.
It annoys some body-builder promoters of high protein, mostly meat diets, or especially expensive animal protein-based supplements, cos they can’t explain it.
But actually, you can’t compare one animal’s diet or digestion with another’s… Gorillas have extra long intestines and some gut enzymes humans don’t, so they can digest and get protein we can’t from tree leaves and fruit.
And carry Fay Wray up the Empire State building with one hand. I’m pretty sure I saw one do that.
One of The Twilight Zone‘s more famous episodes, “The Hitch-Hiker,” helps cement the notion that the series kicked off with what amounted to its best season. Based on a radio play of the same name, the episode follows Nan Adams, who is harassed over and over by a hitchhiker who seems to be following her from state to state as she travels from New York City to Los Angeles. However, the episode also opens with Nan getting a flat tire in Pennsylvania, and it’s revealed that the shown accident was far worse: she never walked away from it, and the hitchhiker is actually the personification of death.
I was wondering about the pairings, some of which, probably most, are definitely not actual romances, and the out-of-step numbering, till I realized… Of course… they’re the count of movies each pair made together.
Myrna Loy and Dick Powell made 13! Even though only 6 were “The Thin Man.” Audiences loved to see then together.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were iconic, got along well, danced in famous harmony and I see made ten movies together….
So I was surprised recently to see a clip of an old interview, where he was asked his favorite on screen dance partner… and he said Rita Hayworth! I wonder what Ginger thought of that, or whether she knew.
When I first glanced at it, I thought it was a piece of embroidered material, like something from Africa or India, with metallic thread. Funny, the tricks eyes can play.
Anyway, I searched it, and found out what you plane buffs no doubt already know…
That they’re B-52s, and the reason they’re laid out in a pattern like that, with a section of dismantled ones, instead of piled in a heap, which would take much less land, is so that satellites can verify the count, in keeping with various disarmament treaties the US is party to.
Cute, probably influenced by Thibaud, or, more likely, some AI program that incorporated his style.
I liked it, till I saw it for sale on maybe half a dozen websites…. hard to count cos there are so many disguised links to the same ones… Art.com, Red Bubble, Etsy….some with no artist name, other times claimed by several “artists” with obviously fake names. One was Princessa Pink, another was Dorothea Tortilla.
It’s also in an ad for a tutorial on palette knife painting.
There were lots of similar ones, as well… And gee, you can get it on a tote bag or a wallet or a birthday card.
Minus the weapons belts, the sword, and the hat, the Bedouins I saw in Libya in the late 1950s dressed exactly the same. The striped material, two or three scarves and head coverings, layers of loose thin clothing.
They were separate from the regular Arab population, who mostly wore loose white shirts and trousers with vests and a red fez.
The Bedouins I knew about… and I was a child, so I’m sure there’s lots I didn’t know… lived in tents, or mostly, huts made of scrap wood and corrugated tin, scattered in empty spots.
They took jobs as guards and gardeners and such, or passed through the city with little flocks of goats or camels.
Imagine descending deep underground, into cold darkness, every morning, crammed into that thing… Six or seven days a week, with guys who rarely bathed, and coughed with black lung disease.
Coming up probably feels better… but they’re too tired to be overjoyed.
Seems to me that Cleo hanging her head out the window is one thing, but driving the car is another.
Another puzzle: Whose license will the cop ask to see?
I feel like we’re sliding back into easier puzzle territory with this one… Not that it’s totally easy. You may find a small challenge or two. And one difference that’s quite funny.
Check the angle. I think it’s easier to see on the puzzle, not my solution.
The leg is slanted in the left panel, pretty much straight up and down on the right. If it’s not obvious, it’s a bit more so, to me, in the angle it makes with the sign where they join.
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A silverback gorilla: 4 or 5 hundred pounds of brute strength… on a vegan diet that’s about 60% fruit.
It annoys some body-builder promoters of high protein, mostly meat diets, or especially expensive animal protein-based supplements, cos they can’t explain it.
But actually, you can’t compare one animal’s diet or digestion with another’s… Gorillas have extra long intestines and some gut enzymes humans don’t, so they can digest and get protein we can’t from tree leaves and fruit.
And carry Fay Wray up the Empire State building with one hand. I’m pretty sure I saw one do that.
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The caption below ….
One of The Twilight Zone‘s more famous episodes, “The Hitch-Hiker,” helps cement the notion that the series kicked off with what amounted to its best season. Based on a radio play of the same name, the episode follows Nan Adams, who is harassed over and over by a hitchhiker who seems to be following her from state to state as she travels from New York City to Los Angeles. However, the episode also opens with Nan getting a flat tire in Pennsylvania, and it’s revealed that the shown accident was far worse: she never walked away from it, and the hitchhiker is actually the personification of death.
…comes from here…
Meanwhile…..
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Looks like trouble!
Fluffy looks PO’ed.
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I was wondering about the pairings, some of which, probably most, are definitely not actual romances, and the out-of-step numbering, till I realized… Of course… they’re the count of movies each pair made together.
Myrna Loy and Dick Powell made 13! Even though only 6 were “The Thin Man.” Audiences loved to see then together.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were iconic, got along well, danced in famous harmony and I see made ten movies together….
So I was surprised recently to see a clip of an old interview, where he was asked his favorite on screen dance partner… and he said Rita Hayworth! I wonder what Ginger thought of that, or whether she knew.
,,.
Penelopy is a leaper.
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Boneyard.
When I first glanced at it, I thought it was a piece of embroidered material, like something from Africa or India, with metallic thread. Funny, the tricks eyes can play.
Anyway, I searched it, and found out what you plane buffs no doubt already know…
That they’re B-52s, and the reason they’re laid out in a pattern like that, with a section of dismantled ones, instead of piled in a heap, which would take much less land, is so that satellites can verify the count, in keeping with various disarmament treaties the US is party to.
,,.
Cute, probably influenced by Thibaud, or, more likely, some AI program that incorporated his style.
I liked it, till I saw it for sale on maybe half a dozen websites…. hard to count cos there are so many disguised links to the same ones… Art.com, Red Bubble, Etsy….some with no artist name, other times claimed by several “artists” with obviously fake names. One was Princessa Pink, another was Dorothea Tortilla.
It’s also in an ad for a tutorial on palette knife painting.
There were lots of similar ones, as well… And gee, you can get it on a tote bag or a wallet or a birthday card.
,
Minus the weapons belts, the sword, and the hat, the Bedouins I saw in Libya in the late 1950s dressed exactly the same. The striped material, two or three scarves and head coverings, layers of loose thin clothing.
They were separate from the regular Arab population, who mostly wore loose white shirts and trousers with vests and a red fez.
The Bedouins I knew about… and I was a child, so I’m sure there’s lots I didn’t know… lived in tents, or mostly, huts made of scrap wood and corrugated tin, scattered in empty spots.
They took jobs as guards and gardeners and such, or passed through the city with little flocks of goats or camels.
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Imagine descending deep underground, into cold darkness, every morning, crammed into that thing… Six or seven days a week, with guys who rarely bathed, and coughed with black lung disease.
Coming up probably feels better… but they’re too tired to be overjoyed.
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When a nature photographer gives them too little privacy.
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I don’t think somebody took a picture of them riding… I would bet they were put on the donkey to pose for a picture.
I say this because as a little girl, I had my picture taken on a donkey. And my English friend, 10,000 miles away, got the same thing at the seaside.
Both were years later than this picture, but probably the same thing.
Don’t ask me where I was …. I just know it was a tourist thing, and they put a sombrero on my head and put me on a donkey.
My sister was teeny and screamed bloody murder… I think my brother was a baby… So I was the only one who got a donkey picture.
Seems to me that Cleo hanging her head out the window is one thing, but driving the car is another.
Another puzzle: Whose license will the cop ask to see?
I feel like we’re sliding back into easier puzzle territory with this one… Not that it’s totally easy. You may find a small challenge or two. And one difference that’s quite funny.
Find all nine….
X – 1. Apparently the one I missed
The leg is slanted in the left panel, pretty much straight up and down on the right. If it’s not obvious, it’s a bit more so, to me, in the angle it makes with the sign where they join.
Yep, that was the final one for me, and, Yeah, that one IS a toughie!
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Well…
Great! Now I’m going to have to wash my hands before I can turn the page.