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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

An extremely handsome dog, and backlighting him in blue over a black background creates a really striking portrait.
Are the dog’s ears pointed up like that as a result of some sort of surgical procedure? I am hoping no, but thinking yes. If its purpose is to make the dog look more intimidating than a floppy-eared version, then I suppose it’s “mission accomplished.”

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5 days ago

SusanSunshine
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5 days ago

A black Malinois (one type of Belgian shepherd )… Hard to see but I’m pretty sure.

I tried searching the image to verify but Google said ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

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This is a picture of a black Malinois according to Yahoo.

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Reply to  P51Strega
5 days ago

Most look more sleek than that one. There are also some with longer hair, but usually not fluffy.

They’re used by European police forces and by the US Navy…

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In the picture that started this thread, you have to look carefully to see the tall tips of his ears.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

We have seen this previously. It’s a beautiful piece of work.

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

I see Orion.

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

I only see the belt but not his shoulders.

I thought that was the little dipper, above the moon, to the right… but the shape is a bit off, and maybe Polaris isn’t bright enough.

No, I don’t know a lot of constellations, only a few.
I was told as a small child that I was born under Orion.

That was before I ever heard of astrology, and I don’t know if that’s compatible with Aries… But I always watched for Orion in the sky.

Anyway, if its AI, all bets are off.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 days ago

I remember trying to learn constellations. We had no street lights and the nights were very dark. I saw so many stars that picking out five or six for a constellation seamed impossible. It’s sadly easy now, only the brightest stars show at all.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

It’s a nice image, but the sky in particular looks AI generated to me.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

No idea who they are or what they are performing. But they look British to me. I’m clueless.

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Well, don’t be shocked…

but this is…
The Twilight Zone

featuring….
Suzy Parker, one of the first “supermodels”, as Doe, and Collin Wilcox as Marilyn… in the episode titled “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.”

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

 
The 1933 photograph of Clara Bow from which the painting was made (I can find credits for neither the photographer, or the artist other than gallery names).
 
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Reply to  Alexikakos
5 days ago

I’m pretty certain it’s not a painting…
It’s this photo, colorized… or more likely, tinted, in the 30s.

Look, for instance, at the tiny hairs on the top of her head and on her cheek. That detail is too photographic to have been rendered in a painting.

There’s a grayish, unnatural tone to her skin, making me think it’s hand tinted, because the flesh tone is somewhat transparently applied over the photo.

A computer will swap out the color, instead.

Photo tinting the old way is done with thin, translucent oil paint… leaving enough of the photo showing through to give the details and shadows, like on her lips.

It looks like a more opaque white has been used to brighten and “iron” her dress.

You see some old photos tinted with a heavier hand, obliterating details, to almost comic effect.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

 
The site “fineartamerica” calls it a painting.
I’m not providing a link, because I strongly suspect there is photo-shopping going on with some of the more risqué photographs.
 

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

Hard to tell. And, I’ll toss this out there…
I have a black and white portrait photograph of my grandmother and grandfather, it was colourized with paint back in the late 1940-early 1950 era (my grandfather passed in early 1954, I was born late 1953). Image is/was still quite sharp, you would nowadays think of it as a finely-detailed colour photo portrait. From what I was told by grandma and my mom, colourization of B&W photos were the agency of the well-to-do, and was quite the thing-to-do back then. B&W photos back then had MUCH better detail than the (emerging) colour photos.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 days ago

My Dad tried hand tinting photos in the way back. It’s the reason all my baby pictures look like I’m wearing lipstick…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
4 days ago

That’s just what you were told. How do you know your parents weren’t putting lipstick on you when you were a baby?

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Cloning? Mimeograph? Stone lithography?

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

Dachshundery

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

 
I’ve set this copy of the full movie (“Go West” / Buster Keaton) to start just before the scene in the gif (jiff). You can easily reset it to start at the beginning.
 

 

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

One of his best 🙂

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Surprisingly, in this case, I believe I can.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 days ago

I think I see them too!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Too fuzzy tonight. I’ll try in the morning.

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

Never mind. I found them.

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

I think so…

They look a bit fuzzy to me too, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got ’em.

Not that I wanted to … Not nice to make me find spiders.
Now I wanna take a shower.

What do you think?

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

Absolutely. 👌

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

What i see.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

Same ones I saw.

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

 

The answer (I didn’t bother looking for them).

 
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5 days ago

 
I’ve always liked this song.
 

 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
5 days ago

Another classic!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

I will admit that I had to go look this up, but that is none other than

WHODAT?
Robert Mitchum
in
TRUE SPOILER
The Night of the Hunter.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 days ago

Got it right away — that outfit is classic!

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

This is
Robert Mitchum

in
Night of the Hunter.

It’s from the 50s but I saw it later, as a teenager, and found it very disturbing.

More….
Not a horror movie, but Mitchum plays… I guess today you’d call him a serial killer… posing as a priest, and you just know he’s going to kill the widow whose money he’s after.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

Very similar to the role he was to play later in Cape Fear.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 days ago

Sorry… I must have been typing when you posted.

If you don’t mind, I’m leaving it because of the box that says “more”.

And yes, he was good at that psychological menace.

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

He has “L O V E” on one hand and “T E ?” on the other. What is tattooed on his left hand?

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Reply to  P51Strega
5 days ago

IIRC, the left hand is “HATE”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
5 days ago

Yes.

Actually you can read the A, as well.

A tattoo still popular in jail, and amongst bikers and street people 😁

Alternatively, ANGEL on the right hand, DEVIL on the left.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

That’s easy for you to say!

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Translated, it says…

“The first children’s publication in Malayalam
Children’s Deepika

Vol 64 Issue 13. 2020”

Somehow not what I expected.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

I’m surprised. I thought it was more AI gibberish. The dog has black nails on the right and tan nails on our left; is that common?

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Reply to  P51Strega
5 days ago

Dogs often have differing coloration on their toenails based on the location of the melanin in the cells. They are usually pretty much one color, but the dark claws on the dark paw and light claws on the light paw would be expected.

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Okay, I’m too tired — spent way too long trying to figure out the “Ornamental Font”

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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

Me too.

When I realized it wasn’t in English, I thought maybe I couldn’t get a translation because of the font.

I was amazed that the computer could just read it.

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5 days ago

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

 
The original singer of “Hello My Baby,”
 

 

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5 days ago

 
The CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PROTAGONIST IN THE LYRICS     while meant innocently, was a product of its time.
 

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5 days ago

 
One of my favourite cartoons, by the way, thanks.
 

happyhappyhappy
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5 days ago

You ain’t lame until you can cross a pickle with a bathmat.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

Is that a quote from somewhere?

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5 days ago
happyhappyhappy
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5 days ago

I found it. I Have a copy of this in my (still boxed) library,

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SusanSunshine
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5 days ago

Lame jokes?
Did somebody say lame jokes?

Aww, Cleo… Claude too…. There are millions of them out there.

I sneaked in one of my favorites here the other day….
Try this:

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies prefer a banana.

Not working?

Wait, that must be cos it’s not lame.
It’s funny, right? Um… I said right?

….

What happens to ducks that fly upside down?
Wait… That one’s not lame enough either.

Okay… what did the duck say when the waiter brought the check?

Just put it on my bill.
That’s gotta make the cash pour in!

….

I’ll be back to check.
No, not with a check….

I got no money but I got lame to spare.

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5 days ago

I’ll try one then:

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Two fish in a tank, one says to the other,

“How do you drive this thing?”

.

Anything yet? C’mon, something must be stuck somewhere!

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

Let’s try these…..

Why did the moron stop eating his watch?

It was very time-consuming.

Anything yet?

….

Well, speaking of that… did you hear about the guy who went to the second hand store to buy one for his watch?

No? Dang!

….

Did you like that new restaurant on Mars?

Well, the food was okay, but I didn’t like the atmosphere.

..

Oh c’mon already….

….

Okay… even more lame… 2nd grade level lame…

Why did the tomato turn red?

He saw the salad dressing.

If that doesn’t do it…..

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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5 days ago

OK, you know who this is, but might not recognise him at this age.

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Everybody knows….
Farrokh Bulsara

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OK, OK, I guess that might not be such a clue, but I promise you, you do know him!

.

You’ll know him as:
Freddie Mercury

Seen here at age 12
at St. Peter’s Boys School in Panchgani, India, 1958

.

See! I told you you know him 😉

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

I recognized him from the picture!

The exclamation point is because I surprised myself.
I didn’t think I could be right.

I admit, I think a lot has to do

with
his teeth.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

Our oldest friend’s youngest son looks just like him as an adult.
Our friend complies.

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Reply to  Tigressy
5 days ago

Hope he doesn’t have the extra teeth.

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