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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

I have been looking for a bandana for Buddy. I don’t know if they make what i want.
I want an orange bandana with 2 inch-ish Giants logos on it.
Orange and Black. 🙂

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
10 months ago

Giants as in the San Francisco Giants baseball team? The New York Giants football team? Goliath or Jolly Green?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
10 months ago

San Francisco Giants.
I forget that there is another… 🙂

jean VanLeuven
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10 months ago
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

This breed always looks surprised, and at least slightly concerned.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

NOSE!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

I must go one day.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

I don’t see Dennis.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Beautiful, but not what it looked like when I was there. The forest fires had reduced visibility to the point that you couldn’t see the mountains. It was still a fun trip. For me the two days in Olympic National Park were the best part.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
10 months ago

I was up there long before the relatively recent spate of fires.

Yes, the surrounding area is beautiful, but Seattle itself was confusing.

For me the 3 days lost on Channel Island were the worst part…

Even after I looked at my watch and discovered that it was really only 3 hours.

Honestly, I thought I’d never get home or see my poor soon-to-be orphaned doggie again. 😢

….

OK…. so I didn’t really have a dog.
But it was scary anyway.😁

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

We’d either stop in Bellingham or punch straight through to the Orgon Coast (Hi, Happy!)

The few times I actually drove through Seattle was some of the most terrifying driving I’ve ever done!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Not-man Robotwell?

This seems to be almost up there with the Mona Lisa in terms of the number of parodies I’ve seen.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

Um, yeah, I think some guy named Norman Rockwell did a pretty good parody of it…

With a human instead of a robot.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

Those four lads from Liverpool crossing the street must be close.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

NOSE?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

The woman in the red bathing suit is Elisani Silva, of Brazil…
A hair under 6’10”, and not the tallest woman in the world.

That “honor” goes to Rumeysa Gelgi, of Turkey, at just under 7’1″ , according to Guinness.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Spider Man?!
They rebranded balloons before.
But that does seem a long time ago.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

I love it. The Creature from the Black Lagoon makes for a stunning sight coming down the avenue as part of (I presume) the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

NOSE!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Look out from above!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

I keep thinking I see a polar bear in the middle of the curl.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

or something!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

One of the times simple algebra comes in handy…

I get…

7 pigs and 8 chickens make 15 creatures

(28 pig legs and 16 chicken legs makes 44 legs)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

And yes, you can do it lots of different ways, including trial and error….

If you actually want to see the algebra…

If c is the number of chickens, and p the pigs, we know that

c + p =15

With 4 legs per pig, 2 per chicken, we also know that

4p + 2c = 44

2c= 44-4p

c=22-2p

Substitute 22-2p for c in our first equation:

22 -2p +p =15

22 – p =15

So p=7, which means c=8

7 pigs, 8 chickens

28 +16 is 44 legs

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

I believe you!
I doubt i could remember my algebra.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

Yes.

Saint
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

I never believed it in high school, but here, decades later, you proved that algebra could indeed be useful later in life.

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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

 

8 chickens and 7 pigs (work and check in box)
P.S.:
No more comments today. I don’t have time.

 
Given:
Heads of pigs and chickens total 15
Legs of pigs and chickens total 44
 
Let “x” be the number of chickens
Then (15 – x) is the number of pigs
∴ 2x is the number of chicken legs and 4(15- x) is the number of pigs legs
So:
2x + 4(15 – x) = 44
expanding
2x + 60 – 4x = 44
collecting
-2x = -16
x = 8
∴ the number of chickens is 8
15 – 8 = 7
∴ the number of pigs is 7
Check:
2 legs × 8 chickens = 16 legs
4 legs × 7 pigs = 28 legs
16 legs + 28 legs = 44 legs
 

 

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
10 months ago

You’ve spoiled it.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

I can’t explain it or justify it, but I get a “vibe” from this beautiful photo that the lady is doing her impression of the dog, not the other way around. Or it’s totally photoshopped. That’s a fairly common expression for dogs, and this lady looks to me like someone who has a good sense of humor. This is her dog, who she loves and who loves her, and she sees the silliness in mimicking Fido. Her grandkids, if she has any, love it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

I didn’t think either was mimicking the other…

But more like sharing a funny story with an old friend.

Not really a joke, but laugh out loud memory…

“Remember that time we…. “

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

NOSE!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Happy, happy, happy!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

O. M. G. That is awesome. It is hard to pack that much bad taste into one logo, but they managed to do it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Parody by Steve Goad.

He did a series of them.

Can’t find the year but as art goes, it was fairly recent.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

I should know better by now, that these are frequently parody, but I guess you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
10 months ago

I didn’t realize your comment meant you didn’t know it was a parody.

The artist still packed a lot of poor taste into that logo, whether it was real or fake.

SusanSunshine
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10 months ago

Rene Dogritte

“The Son of Man and the Bone of Basset”

Perhaps Dogritte’s best known painting.

Oil and Alpo on canvas

Value: Est. 5 million Milkbones

Location: Private collection

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

I don’t remember seeing this before… I love it.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Hard pass: Frozen solid.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Better yet mid summer, when a splash might feel good.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Maybe the person choosing the dates lives in Phoenix.

Or even here.

Some of our local puddles may have been frozen around dawn, this morning, but certainly not by puddle-splashing time, which might be 3pm.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
10 months ago

Or in the other hemisphere where it IS the middle of summer.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Saucy1121
10 months ago

But rain is sparse there in some years.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 months ago

Speaking of blue-footed boobies …

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
10 months ago

😀

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