Okay, not a startled dog this time, but a cute bat. And who could blame a creature that uses echolocation to navigate its environment for having large, complex earbones?
Look at that hood! It must have been a 16-cylinder at least! and that bumper? the toy makers knew that kids would crash it into walls (and each other’s jalopys). No self-respecting kid could avoid doing it!
The membership instruction page to become a rocket ranger is a link to the comic.
With only 24 pages at the site, I don’t think it’s the full comic (and once again, the cover has no relation to the pages shown). Happy³, Frank Frazetta’s signature is much clearer at the site.
Probably not. The parachute hasn’t fully deployed and it would be extremely low odds for the parachute to open and pull him up in the initial pop before hitting the ground.
BTW, Liverlips is most likely correct about it being a fake photo because the sunlight reflection of the pilot is on the right side and the sunlight reflection of the jet is on the left, like on the tractor. There is no exhaust coming from the jet and the landing gear is fully deployed. Also, that is an extremely lucky photographer to get such a shot.
That is an incredibly serendipitous photo if it’s genuine. Plus I don’t expect the situation ended well. Happy(3)’s question hits the nail on the head.
It’s real. The picture of the wreckage is a link to the story of the crash which took place on Thursday, September 13, 1962. The pilot, George Aird, survived, but not without injuries.
Amazing picture. It’s hard to believe that it’s real, but I don’t see any errors. I don’t see the ejection seat or canopy, though. He likely survived, the BAC Lightening used Martin-Baker ejection seats, the best you can get.
The sad thing is that what we call “nursing homes” are often “end-of-the-line” care, as opposed to “convalescent” hospitals or homes, where a higher percentage are expected to recover.
They all take people to the ER, if they can be saved; they know that otherwise, the relatives would sue.
But nursing home residents are more likely to be quite elderly, experiencing multiple system failures, or terminal illnesses.
Many have “DNR” orders posted (a legal document signed by a person with authority, meaning “Do not resuscitate”, in consultation with a doctor) because life saving efforts at that point cause more trauma than benefit.
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My father assigned me “Medical Power of Attorney” years before his Alzheimer’s and extreme physical decline.
In his final two years he had nine heart attacks.
The severe pain, combined with ambulance trips to the ER, painful resuscitation attempts, disorientating medication, and confusing stays in ICU caused trauma to the point of his screaming all day for a week, every time.
I reluctantly signed a “DNR” order because he had no idea what was happening, and we siblings and his doctor agreed he’d be better off passing than suffering.
But the home ignored it and continued to send him to ER, till the one they couldn’t save him from.
So yes, with discretion, some are allowed to pass.
If I’m ever in that condition I hope I’m one of them.
My son, a DPT, told about bringing a comatose patient back to the point where he could spend some with his family and deal with some reconciliation before he finally passed. In another instance, he was able to at least bring a patient out to a patio area to visit her family and her dog a few times before she passed. “Don’t treat the hole in the patient, treat the whole patient!”
He had severe Alzheimer’s and couldn’t legitimately deal with anything.
He had it for 10 years but it kept getting worse.
Mostly he recognized us; sometimes he didn’t.
Sometimes he seemed to enjoy our visits.
But he was uncomfortable most of the time, complaining of the cold in warm rooms because his circulation was going, would forget how to use CD player… Or his fork, or sometimes how to swallow… and get furious.
Thought his caregivers were stealing his things, couldn’t see well, so he threw his books at people. Cried every day because he’d think he lost his wallet or his keys…. or his little children, one of whom was me.
Put him through agony, with electrical shocks to his heart, terrifying recovery, drugs that made him paranoid and literally crazy… they did that every couple of months so he could come back to that “life”!
I cannot personally see Cleo, no pun intended, as a “seeing-eye” dog. Service dogs require a certain temperament, call if selflessness, that I would say Cleo lacks.
No, wait. That’s probably too harsh. Let’s say she doesn’t possess abundant quantities of selflessness.
I’ve had a long evening….. But I’ve got your puzzle solution.
Sheesh… since I’m using a tablet instead of a computer, I have a virtual keyboard with autocorrect. I try and try to turn that feature off, but it keeps on correcting me.
But more accurately, let’s say it keeps on writing what it thinks I ought to be saying, instead of what I typed.
Tonight it doesn’t like the word “solution”.
I had to retype it half a dozen times because it got changed to whatever autocorrect liked better, including “soup collection” “allocation” and “doll lotion”.
I think the blind guy here could do it better.
meanwhile… do your best to see the differences, and then check here!
Note… The difference in the parking sign should be more clear to you than it looks in my solution.
Nighthawks redid the puzzle to make it more obvious, but I was out and had already uploaded this. It was too late, when I got home, to do it over
It really doesn’t matter, because you had his final version to work on and my circle is in the same place.
1008
0.5x + 34 are f-to-f, so the remainder are 0.5x – 34, so:
0.5x – 34 = 5/7x -250
Use a common denominator of 14:
7/14x – 34 = 10/14x – 250
216 = 3/14x
x=1008
I figured out what was wanted, but while solving I realized that the problem itself has a fatal flaw, rendering it meaningless.
It never states that those two categories are mutually exclusive, so some could be repeat prescriptions issued by a doctor, face to face. They each count as one x, not two.
I know at least two people who complain that their doctors refuse to refill a prescription more than once without seeing them…
And most doctors won’t prescribe something for longer than a year without a visit, where the decision is made to refill the prescription.
Whether you carried it home, or the doctor called it in afterwards, it still “arose” from that visit.
….and another thing.
Accepting that your exposure of the flaw in the problem does not apply (although it well might) even if the G(eneral) P(ractioner) surgery is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week (unlikely as Britain’s NHS website strongly implies one doctor per GP surgery); examination to prescription issue time is 10 minutes per patient per hour (again accepting 7 days per week: 5 minutes per patient at 12 hours per day / 3 minutes 20 seconds per patient at 8 hours per day) on average (keep that GP away from me! ! !).
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BUNNY!
Uh… Yeah.
A … bunny. Let’s go with that.
Just look at those ears!
Must be at least part jack rabbit. 😀
Die Flederbunny
😀
Okay, not a startled dog this time, but a cute bat. And who could blame a creature that uses echolocation to navigate its environment for having large, complex earbones?
It’s smiling!
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Was there a separate Blondie figurine that you could put in the car?
This one is incomplete.
The top looks open in this photo, but it’s actually tin like the rest of the car, with two holes, from which attached heads are supposed to stick out.
I think they rotate when the car rolls, and the hats are loose and wiggly.
I thought they were Blondie and Dagwood, but I just found a picture and it looks more like Dagwood and Alexander.
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Here’s the other side, which shows Cookie and Daisy…
But blaming her for any dents.
well, of course!–everyone knows about women drivers 😉
Especially when it comes to (parallel) parking – it’s hard for a guy to block more than two parking spaces with those miniature cars nowadays.
Look at that hood! It must have been a 16-cylinder at least! and that bumper? the toy makers knew that kids would crash it into walls (and each other’s jalopys). No self-respecting kid could avoid doing it!
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Why does the monster always go for the skinny girl? He’s got twice much meat on his bones.
And is that Frank Frazetta’s signature? He did comics as well as cover art.
Nope – just swollen from being too long in the water.
Well, it was a male monster! They knew the difference in those days!
The membership instruction page to become a rocket ranger is a link to the comic.
With only 24 pages at the site, I don’t think it’s the full comic (and once again, the cover has no relation to the pages shown).
Happy³, Frank Frazetta’s signature is much clearer at the site.
“Secret” card, and a lapel pin so everyone knows you have one. Hmmm
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Did he survive?
Probably not. The parachute hasn’t fully deployed and it would be extremely low odds for the parachute to open and pull him up in the initial pop before hitting the ground.
BTW, Liverlips is most likely correct about it being a fake photo because the sunlight reflection of the pilot is on the right side and the sunlight reflection of the jet is on the left, like on the tractor. There is no exhaust coming from the jet and the landing gear is fully deployed. Also, that is an extremely lucky photographer to get such a shot.
That is an incredibly serendipitous photo if it’s genuine. Plus I don’t expect the situation ended well. Happy(3)’s question hits the nail on the head.
It’s genuine – just search for the license plate of the tractor.
The pilot broke both of his legs…
https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-48463.html
Thanks
He survived! Wow!
It’s real. The picture of the wreckage is a link to the story of the crash which took place on Thursday, September 13, 1962. The pilot, George Aird, survived, but not without injuries.
The ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING (full specifications) can exceed the speed of sound in a vertical climb (and Mach II on the level).
The tractor looks to be a Nuffield model.
WOW
Amazing picture. It’s hard to believe that it’s real, but I don’t see any errors. I don’t see the ejection seat or canopy, though. He likely survived, the BAC Lightening used Martin-Baker ejection seats, the best you can get.
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Same artist as the other B&W with blue. I like it.
I have only one question. Did the ball go in the tower before the windmill blade came down to block the entrance?
had to ponder that one a couple seconds….
good one!
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And now just think how many could have survived if taken to the ER.
How many died of cat-scratch fever?
Self full-filling prophecies?
The sad thing is that what we call “nursing homes” are often “end-of-the-line” care, as opposed to “convalescent” hospitals or homes, where a higher percentage are expected to recover.
They all take people to the ER, if they can be saved; they know that otherwise, the relatives would sue.
But nursing home residents are more likely to be quite elderly, experiencing multiple system failures, or terminal illnesses.
Many have “DNR” orders posted (a legal document signed by a person with authority, meaning “Do not resuscitate”, in consultation with a doctor) because life saving efforts at that point cause more trauma than benefit.
…
My father assigned me “Medical Power of Attorney” years before his Alzheimer’s and extreme physical decline.
In his final two years he had nine heart attacks.
The severe pain, combined with ambulance trips to the ER, painful resuscitation attempts, disorientating medication, and confusing stays in ICU caused trauma to the point of his screaming all day for a week, every time.
I reluctantly signed a “DNR” order because he had no idea what was happening, and we siblings and his doctor agreed he’d be better off passing than suffering.
But the home ignored it and continued to send him to ER, till the one they couldn’t save him from.
So yes, with discretion, some are allowed to pass.
If I’m ever in that condition I hope I’m one of them.
My son, a DPT, told about bringing a comatose patient back to the point where he could spend some with his family and deal with some reconciliation before he finally passed. In another instance, he was able to at least bring a patient out to a patio area to visit her family and her dog a few times before she passed. “Don’t treat the hole in the patient, treat the whole patient!”
My dad was long past that point.
He had severe Alzheimer’s and couldn’t legitimately deal with anything.
He had it for 10 years but it kept getting worse.
Mostly he recognized us; sometimes he didn’t.
Sometimes he seemed to enjoy our visits.
But he was uncomfortable most of the time, complaining of the cold in warm rooms because his circulation was going, would forget how to use CD player… Or his fork, or sometimes how to swallow… and get furious.
Thought his caregivers were stealing his things, couldn’t see well, so he threw his books at people. Cried every day because he’d think he lost his wallet or his keys…. or his little children, one of whom was me.
Put him through agony, with electrical shocks to his heart, terrifying recovery, drugs that made him paranoid and literally crazy… they did that every couple of months so he could come back to that “life”!
I feel badly for your dad, your siblings, and especially for you.
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Great camo on the dog.
It took me a couple of seconds to realize that there was only one dog in the picture. 🙂 🙂
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Cleveland is much closer than Reno, but the Cleveland races ended before I was born. Now that they’re kicked out of Reno, maybe they’ll move closer.
Eight! Woo Hoo!
That one difference
I think I’ve got them all, but it’s always best not to be too sure of oneself around this crowd.
I cannot personally see Cleo, no pun intended, as a “seeing-eye” dog. Service dogs require a certain temperament, call if selflessness, that I would say Cleo lacks.
No, wait. That’s probably too harsh. Let’s say she doesn’t possess abundant quantities of selflessness.
Naw… You can say it. None. Zero.
Here I am! Here I am!
I’ve had a long evening….. But I’ve got your puzzle solution.
Sheesh… since I’m using a tablet instead of a computer, I have a virtual keyboard with autocorrect. I try and try to turn that feature off, but it keeps on correcting me.
But more accurately, let’s say it keeps on writing what it thinks I ought to be saying, instead of what I typed.
Tonight it doesn’t like the word “solution”.
I had to retype it half a dozen times because it got changed to whatever autocorrect liked better, including “soup collection” “allocation” and “doll lotion”.
I think the blind guy here could do it better.
Note… The difference in the parking sign should be more clear to you than it looks in my solution.
Nighthawks redid the puzzle to make it more obvious, but I was out and had already uploaded this. It was too late, when I got home, to do it over
It really doesn’t matter, because you had his final version to work on and my circle is in the same place.
It took me longer than it should have, but I got them all.
NINE
I’m grrring over the one i missed.
I found all nine. Now to see if I’m correct.
Woo-Hoo!
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I think I need to try them both.
You know… just to see which one is better.
I think it’s going to be the top one…
But if I’m not sure, I might need to try them again.
That’s a really funny Cleo comic in today’s puzzle.
x = (5x/7 – 250) + (x/2 + 34)
x = (10x/14 – 250) + (7x/14 + 34)
x = 10x/14 + 7x/14 – 250 + 34
x = 17x/14 – 250 + 34
14x = 17x – 3500 + 476
-3x = -3500 + 476
-3x = -3024
x = 1008 (this agrees with the published answer)
Must have been asked by a “health” insurance.
My answer: Figure it out yourselves, that’s your job, beeep…
0.5x + 34 are f-to-f, so the remainder are 0.5x – 34, so:
0.5x – 34 = 5/7x -250
Use a common denominator of 14:
7/14x – 34 = 10/14x – 250
216 = 3/14x
x=1008
I figured out what was wanted, but while solving I realized that the problem itself has a fatal flaw, rendering it meaningless.
It never states that those two categories are mutually exclusive, so some could be repeat prescriptions issued by a doctor, face to face. They each count as one x, not two.
I know at least two people who complain that their doctors refuse to refill a prescription more than once without seeing them…
And most doctors won’t prescribe something for longer than a year without a visit, where the decision is made to refill the prescription.
Whether you carried it home, or the doctor called it in afterwards, it still “arose” from that visit.
….and another thing.
Accepting that your exposure of the flaw in the problem does not apply (although it well might) even if the G(eneral) P(ractioner) surgery is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week (unlikely as Britain’s NHS website strongly implies one doctor per GP surgery); examination to prescription issue time is 10 minutes per patient per hour (again accepting 7 days per week: 5 minutes per patient at 12 hours per day / 3 minutes 20 seconds per patient at 8 hours per day) on average (keep that GP away from me! ! !).
Sorry, I don’t know why you say the flaw I mentioned might not apply, or what point you’re trying to make with those figures.
I’m not about to multiply all those numbers, or try to guess at what conclusion you’re drawing.
If it all means something just say so!