See, if you get yourself a ball python, and a tube of Crest toothpaste, and somehow convince them to mate…. and you’re lucky… in a couple of months you might get some of these… not this big yet, of course.
If they mate and you’re not lucky, instead of beautiful Crest-colored snakes, you mighr be breeding yucky gold and black toothpaste.
I couldn’t find any information about this one, no artist, not even where to buy it on a tote bag….. only links to it being used as profile pictures on a ton of Facebook and Instagram accounts, mostly Asian…. a few were in blue or grey color combinations instead of green.
I kinda think that means it’s AI, but I’m willing to be shown that it’s not .
Nope… I know you’re joking, but the reality is funny too.
This is ‘Eclyse’, taken in June 2007, at Safaripark, in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany.
The caption said he was a “zorse”, which what all such animals tend to be called.
But a site about “zebroids”, or zebra crosses, says a zorse is actually the offspring of a male zebra and a female horse, and identifies him as being a “hebra”, the opposite cross… son of a male horse (stallion) called Ulysses and a female zebra named Eclipse.
If the horse parent is a solid color, the offspring will generally be that color, though muted, with a pattern of dark stripes on all or part of its body.
But a piebald horse…. one with white and another color, passes on a gene for pure white patches, which means the zorse or hebra can only have stripes in its grey or brown patches, like Eclyse.
Zebroids only occur in captivity, and like mules and hinnies, almost all are sterile.
Mind you, that’s the good ones along with the bad ones… he’s lost credit for a few brilliant thoughts and useful innovations, but at the same time, he’s been saved from a few dangerous stunts.
I don’t think Cleo can actually distinguish them .. she (rather unfairly) shoots them down sight unseen. A few leak out, so Clara keeps watch, to keep him from climbing tall ladders and starting fires.
It’s not that he never gets to have a good idea… Just that they have to be… you know… carefully screened. But I think Cleo takes it a bit too far.
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Anyway, Claude’s so busy ruminating, he may not have noticed that his workspace changes a bit between these two panels.
Hopefully, you’ve found the nine differences that Claude can’t see.
and maybe they’ll be the same as what I see!
BTW, Nighthawks, nice job on the desk supplies and accoutrements… I can picture you sitting there on a rainy day, trying to drum up ideas for the next brilliant strip, while you sketch your Sharpies and tape dispenser.
even though this was done double-digit years ago , I’d given up the old drawing table with accoutrements in favor of my trusty Wacom tablet —(as you probably know anyway)
I probably just searched images for the accoutrements…I like that word. almost
as much as onomatopoeia
I’ve always been big on drawing from images and back in the eighties , if we needed reference images for complicated subject it was a trip to the library —-
those young whippersnappers don’t know what hell they missed be born into
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Where’d you get those peepers?
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“Ooh, I have a crick in my neck like you wouldn’t believe.”
See, if you get yourself a ball python, and a tube of Crest toothpaste, and somehow convince them to mate…. and you’re lucky… in a couple of months you might get some of these… not this big yet, of course.
If they mate and you’re not lucky, instead of beautiful Crest-colored snakes, you mighr be breeding yucky gold and black toothpaste.
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I couldn’t find any information about this one, no artist, not even where to buy it on a tote bag….. only links to it being used as profile pictures on a ton of Facebook and Instagram accounts, mostly Asian…. a few were in blue or grey color combinations instead of green.
I kinda think that means it’s AI, but I’m willing to be shown that it’s not .
Should’a been’a uni corn!
It is, isn’t it?
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Is it trying to phone home?
Exactly what I was going to tell if to do!
Until I scrolled down and saw your comment, I mean.
I was thinking more Sid the Sloth.
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“You raped Thrace thrice?” …A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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At first I thought it was a rainy day, and all the books had gotten soggy.
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Tat’s hilarious! I frightened the kitten! Instant karma.
I’m claiming shenanigans.
The speed limit sign appears to be falling before impact.
I saw that.
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A 1957 publicity photo
IMHO, a non-great idea.
I recognized Asta.
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No.
Wasn’t this a Far Side cartoon?
Crunchy on the outside, chewy in the middle.
Not to mention dragons and knights.
This is BBC wildlife photographer Gordon Buchanan, working on a 2013 David Attenborough documentary, “The Polar Bear Family and Me.”
A small crew had been tracking and filming this 8 ft tall mother bear and her two cubs for 12 months.
The description didn’t say whether this was the first time, or it had happened before, only that the hungry mama had spotted his cage, and attacked.
The cage is made of strong steel and plexiglass, but the temperature was so low that day, they had some fear of its becoming brittle and snapping.
He said he was so frightened, knowing he might be eaten, you could hear his heart beating in the audio. Luckily, she gave up.
“Where’s the stinking CAN OPENER when you need it?
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Someone got into the paint cabinet.
I’m betting the horse got painted – you wouldn’t get that close to a zebra!
Looks like this one is a zorse.
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/zorse.htm
Yes .. Sorry… I was typing while you posted.
Gonna leave it cos I looked up a lot of stuff.
Nope… I know you’re joking, but the reality is funny too.
This is ‘Eclyse’, taken in June 2007, at Safaripark, in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany.
The caption said he was a “zorse”, which what all such animals tend to be called.
But a site about “zebroids”, or zebra crosses, says a zorse is actually the offspring of a male zebra and a female horse, and identifies him as being a “hebra”, the opposite cross… son of a male horse (stallion) called Ulysses and a female zebra named Eclipse.
If the horse parent is a solid color, the offspring will generally be that color, though muted, with a pattern of dark stripes on all or part of its body.
But a piebald horse…. one with white and another color, passes on a gene for pure white patches, which means the zorse or hebra can only have stripes in its grey or brown patches, like Eclyse.
Zebroids only occur in captivity, and like mules and hinnies, almost all are sterile.
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Yup. You get used to it if you are owned by cats
After Moses did that once, we tied the tree to some sturdy furniture.
Define “sturdy…”
The trees never fell again.
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Now I see why I didn’t recognize the little guy in the front…
Well, maybe it’s because of who he is, but in my case, I didn’t recognize him because he doesn’t usually look like that.
For a moment I thought he was made up to be some sort of ape man.
He looks like he has more than the normal share of Neanderthal genes.
“Mr Smith Goes to Washington”, 1939
Actually, I thought it wasn’t a very recognizable photo of any of the three in the center…. and I never seem to recognize the fellow at the end.
Bad light. Too harsh.
I’ve been saying that for years
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Wow! I guess when this legendary director says “cut!”, he means it!
Triceps extension! Who would have suspected that Hitchcock was a meathead?
keep those elbows close to the body!
“We must, we must, we must improve our bust…”
Poor Claude… All his bright ideas get shot down.
Mind you, that’s the good ones along with the bad ones… he’s lost credit for a few brilliant thoughts and useful innovations, but at the same time, he’s been saved from a few dangerous stunts.
I don’t think Cleo can actually distinguish them .. she (rather unfairly) shoots them down sight unseen. A few leak out, so Clara keeps watch, to keep him from climbing tall ladders and starting fires.
It’s not that he never gets to have a good idea… Just that they have to be… you know… carefully screened. But I think Cleo takes it a bit too far.
…
Anyway, Claude’s so busy ruminating, he may not have noticed that his workspace changes a bit between these two panels.
Hopefully, you’ve found the nine differences that Claude can’t see.
BTW, Nighthawks, nice job on the desk supplies and accoutrements… I can picture you sitting there on a rainy day, trying to drum up ideas for the next brilliant strip, while you sketch your Sharpies and tape dispenser.
Success!
I only got eight.
even though this was done double-digit years ago , I’d given up the old drawing table with accoutrements in favor of my trusty Wacom tablet —(as you probably know anyway)
I probably just searched images for the accoutrements…I like that word. almost
as much as onomatopoeia
I’ve always been big on drawing from images and back in the eighties , if we needed reference images for complicated subject it was a trip to the library —-
those young whippersnappers don’t know what hell they missed be born into