I know they didn’t think so then, but with 2026 eyes…. or at least, eyes trained for 2026, since mine were manufactured much earlier… I can’t help noticing how ill-fitting that suit looks.
Right, cos a panda cub will buy that mama and papa panda walk upright, feel like polyester, and have weirdly green hands, and of course smell exactly like humans.
I’d really love to know if spending several hundred dollars on a panda costume actually makes a difference, or if they’re just assuming.
The suits do add a lot of fun to the Christmas party, anyway.
All that (exceedingly modest, of course) sheer drapery is carved out of the solid marble… necessitating figuring out not only where the nose will be, or an eye, or the curve of a breast, but envisioning also where the folds of the thin, translucent material will drape and stretch across it….
And not accidentally cutting away a single tiny layer or fold when you hammer on your chisel to shape it.
Marble is rock, not clay, and it takes force to remove bits of it… you can’t smooth it over later, or put back a dainty fingertip you broke off.
I’m always in awe. I can picture modeling things in clay… I’ve crudely carved small objects in soap and once, alabaster, which is soft enough to scrape smooth with a heavy knife… but this is beyond imagining.
I wonder why condensed milk… It’s full of sugar, more like the icing on cinnamon buns than milk.
[ Um …assuming they’re giving them the milk, not the empty cans 🙂 ]
I’d think that coming from the USSR, they’d have had access to some sort of dried fish, or other protein, to feed what are primarily carnivorous bears.
I know food was short there after the war…. but condensed milk is usually kind of a luxury item.
But who knows… Maybe you can bribe polar bears with sugar, since it’s not natural in their diets.
For myself, I enjoy the hunt, but I do definitely want to see the solution(s) if I fail in my endeavours.
But it is interesting that you did provide a hint by showing the one singular, so that I have a guiding sampler — after all, my idea of what an object should look like is oft different from that of the artist.
In this instant case, I did manage to find all five without the hint, so…
Me with my Type A Personality, I’d like the closure provided by a conclusion.
My
Still, I like the closure aspect and knowing the solutions…
As for the maple-leaf penny in Canada, we’ve been without it for quite some time now. Minting for circulation stopped in 2012, with the last distribution in 2013, due to rising production costs, the copper content was actually much more than the face value of the coin.
The only Canadian one cent coins featuring Chuckie on the obverse side are in the Canadian Royal Mint’s collector sets (uncirculated sets), or so I have been told.
There is talk up here about having our current five cent coin, it too may be under review…
TV listings from the date 22nd of January 1980 from here in the UK.
This is the entirety of the TV and Radio services available in the UK at that time, and notice that in those days the TV service was not 24 hours. Three channels, BBC1 and BBC2 were the non commercial channels that were paid for by the TV Licence (You have to have a TV Licence to use a receiver in the UK), and the third channel was ITV (Independent TV) which was the commercial station with adverts.
Which flavour of ITV you got depended upon where you lived in the country, I was living in London at that time (I was fifteen and still at school for another year) so our ITV station was ‘London’. I now live in East Anglia, so my ITV station became ‘Anglia’.
There were a couple of independent radio stations that could be tuned into such as Radio Luxemburg and the ‘Pirate’ Station Radio Caroline.
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It’s Deputy Dawg!
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“No horses were harmed in the filming of this scene…”
You have great faith, I see
from Susan S
Howcum they never do this on the West Coast Express?
The West Coast Express doesn’t have a stop in 1949, I’m afraid.
You have to find a train that goes there.
But a warning… be prepared to disappear when it passes the station where you got on.
I know they didn’t think so then, but with 2026 eyes…. or at least, eyes trained for 2026, since mine were manufactured much earlier… I can’t help noticing how ill-fitting that suit looks.
Yeah, but you’re not a man…
Decidedly. 🙂
,.,
I wonder if they’re furries on their off hours…
And maybe in their on hours.
Right, cos a panda cub will buy that mama and papa panda walk upright, feel like polyester, and have weirdly green hands, and of course smell exactly like humans.
I’d really love to know if spending several hundred dollars on a panda costume actually makes a difference, or if they’re just assuming.
The suits do add a lot of fun to the Christmas party, anyway.
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All that (exceedingly modest, of course) sheer drapery is carved out of the solid marble… necessitating figuring out not only where the nose will be, or an eye, or the curve of a breast, but envisioning also where the folds of the thin, translucent material will drape and stretch across it….
And not accidentally cutting away a single tiny layer or fold when you hammer on your chisel to shape it.
Marble is rock, not clay, and it takes force to remove bits of it… you can’t smooth it over later, or put back a dainty fingertip you broke off.
I’m always in awe. I can picture modeling things in clay… I’ve crudely carved small objects in soap and once, alabaster, which is soft enough to scrape smooth with a heavy knife… but this is beyond imagining.
There are some exceedingly talented people about.
Or at least, this shows that there was one about in 1752.
It is obvious that he chiseled away all the stone that wasn’t the intended finished product.
Yes, that was how Michelangelo famously said he did it, so many later sculptors followed that advice.
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I wonder why condensed milk… It’s full of sugar, more like the icing on cinnamon buns than milk.
[ Um …assuming they’re giving them the milk, not the empty cans 🙂 ]
I’d think that coming from the USSR, they’d have had access to some sort of dried fish, or other protein, to feed what are primarily carnivorous bears.
I know food was short there after the war…. but condensed milk is usually kind of a luxury item.
But who knows… Maybe you can bribe polar bears with sugar, since it’s not natural in their diets.
The Marshal aid plan probadly overstocked them with chewing gum and condensed milk…
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“Who are those guys?”
lol!
.from Susan S.
It’s called Bicycle for Three, 1920s, with no other info.
Took me a minute to see the third.
Looks remarkably like Leslie Howard…
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Must be the entrance to the Tunnel of Love.
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A watchcat.
A guard kitty.
So is there a catalogue, where you can order the poster that looks the most like your kitty?
…catalogue…
Can I get a dogologue?
You find those mostly at the dog park. Occasionally on the sidewalk or in the yard.
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You sure don’t want to be a fish looking up at that.
or a fish at all
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Hope nobody was out there when it started to thaw!
can you find 5 carrots?
Yes. In my refrigerator.
In my lasagna soon.
Once I found the first one, I knew what to look for, and found the rest… but I’m not going to say “easily”.
I don’t like to tempt people to give up, by posting the solution so early….
But if you’re getting to that point, and you’re really sure you just want someone to show you what one looks like, so you can find the others,
I’ll post the whole thing tomorrow.
It’s this a good idea or do you wish I’d posted the whole solution now?
Or nothing?
For myself, I enjoy the hunt, but I do definitely want to see the solution(s) if I fail in my endeavours.
But it is interesting that you did provide a hint by showing the one singular, so that I have a guiding sampler — after all, my idea of what an object should look like is oft different from that of the artist.
In this instant case, I did manage to find all five without the hint, so…
Me with my Type A Personality, I’d like the closure provided by a conclusion.
My
Thanks for the reply!
Actually, I did plan to post my full solution today… maybe right now, or I might have been able to a couple of hours ago…
I just wanted to give a hint, last night, and as I said, not tempt people to give up too early by peeking.
Didn’t matter, cos Alexi ignored that and posted the solution right after anyway.
A lot of times I don’t post the solutions I get, cos I don’t want anybody thinking I’m showing off when I’m just trying to help.
After all, finding a few carrots in a puzzle isn’t some huge talent worth bragging about 🙂
And BTW… Are those collectible? Didn’t they stop making them?
Did they make any Charles III ones before they stopped?
Still, I like the closure aspect and knowing the solutions…
As for the maple-leaf penny in Canada, we’ve been without it for quite some time now. Minting for circulation stopped in 2012, with the last distribution in 2013, due to rising production costs, the copper content was actually much more than the face value of the coin.
The only Canadian one cent coins featuring Chuckie on the obverse side are in the Canadian Royal Mint’s collector sets (uncirculated sets), or so I have been told.
There is talk up here about having our current five cent coin, it too may be under review…
That makes cents!
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Images like this always evoke France for me.
I get England on the top and China on the bottom!
It IS supposed to be Paris, but I didn’t comment on it cos I hate to keep pointing out AI.
New York City in 1931. I would think the picture was taken from a Zeppelin, or other airship.
Well … Manhattan, anyway.
TV listings from the date 22nd of January 1980 from here in the UK.
This is the entirety of the TV and Radio services available in the UK at that time, and notice that in those days the TV service was not 24 hours. Three channels, BBC1 and BBC2 were the non commercial channels that were paid for by the TV Licence (You have to have a TV Licence to use a receiver in the UK), and the third channel was ITV (Independent TV) which was the commercial station with adverts.
Which flavour of ITV you got depended upon where you lived in the country, I was living in London at that time (I was fifteen and still at school for another year) so our ITV station was ‘London’. I now live in East Anglia, so my ITV station became ‘Anglia’.
There were a couple of independent radio stations that could be tuned into such as Radio Luxemburg and the ‘Pirate’ Station Radio Caroline.
Palm Warbler.
People can be… ulp…. banished …. for perfectly good puns??
(Asking for a friend.. Nobody you know.)
Elba seems nice, though.
And they have great pasta. My wife simply loves Elba macaroni…
Boo! 😃
lol!
Those are some baaaad puns, alright. But exile worthy? I guess I just don’t understand the French mindset.