This took place in Colorado. Here’s a longer version of the video, and a U.R.L. leading to a New York Post article about it.
There are more camera angles and an interview with the store’s owner in the Post article.
Coincidentally, “nitrate” vs “night rate” seems to be the prime example used in linguistics class or books to demonstrate that we don’t pronounce some things identically when we think we do.
Then they point out that we don’t really rhyme “finger” with “singer” …. Or rhyme the two meanings of “number.”
Learning English pronunciation is crazy-making to people who speak languages with inflexible rules for the sound of letter combinations.
And we learn it by osmosis… most of us aren’t specifically taught when to pronounce that “g” and when it’s silent. We absorb it from what we hear, without even realizing that we never say “singer”.
Some homonyms and homophones in German – take your pick:
umfahren umfahren
ver-reisen ver-eisen
Mai-straße Mais-trasse
Automaten Au-tomaten
Staub-ecken Stau-becken
Notrufsäule
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“There is something very interesting buried under this snow here. My nose does not lie.”
NOSE knows!
there is a camouflaged doggie in this image—can you find it?
Is it back there behind the bear?
A very bear-ish dog, to be sure.
nothing bearish that I see
Of course, I don’t know for sure whether Happy³ and I are looking at the same thing…
Upper left. Standing a few feet back behind the roots of the downed or possibly just bent tree.
I’m on my tablet, can’t make an image.
Btw, what is circled in blue IS the authentic solution….not a guess! That’s Kasey, Nighthawks’ Dalmatian/Basset mix.
You got me!
Do you mean you’re still puzzled or now you see it?
So easy to see ~ now.
exactly!
Ok, I totally missed the dog.
Sorry Kasey… Where did you hide your spots?
The red is my bear… It was.
What’s the yellow?
what bear?
That dark blob that Stel pointed out. Even blown up i don’t see a dog, but the blob is a bearish kinda blob.
…kinda…
Kasey is lying down inside the blue circle, between the two trees, with his nose pointed towards us.
Once you see him, he’ll seem obvious.
Was your bear blob the one in the red circle? That was mine.
Just behind you – or waiting in the car.
i see 2 dogs! one is black & white, the other looks like cleo
Are they circled in Stel’s solution?
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They didn’t want to pay for an artist to actually sculpt Sigourney Weaver, so they pulled an old mold out of the vault.
It used to be Prince Valiant, but they added puffy pants.
When it’s assembled, they paint the hair brown.
incompetent robber
It’s all because his pants are falling off.
Wotta putz.
Most criminals aren’t known for being bright.
I wonder if that’s his car.
Hard to tell cos it’s cut right there, but in the half second at the end, he seems to be dashing across the street.
He could be running to the one parked behind it.
There are more camera angles and an interview with the store’s owner in the Post article.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/would-be-robber-drops-gun-pants-during-failed-hold-up/
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Fluffy just wants some tummy rubs and she’ll be on her way.
But it’s definitely time to take her off kitten food.
I suspect that she is more than capable of catching her own food these days.
Fluffy’s gotten tubby.
And, is that Fluffy from Citizen Dog?
Not unless Bruno is a skyscraper.
That’s Bruno! 😀
I am old. Still, i love it.
Oh, Claude! You gave me a good laugh!! And you are so right, Cleo!
Coincidentally, “nitrate” vs “night rate” seems to be the prime example used in linguistics class or books to demonstrate that we don’t pronounce some things identically when we think we do.
Then they point out that we don’t really rhyme “finger” with “singer” …. Or rhyme the two meanings of “number.”
Learning English pronunciation is crazy-making to people who speak languages with inflexible rules for the sound of letter combinations.
And we learn it by osmosis… most of us aren’t specifically taught when to pronounce that “g” and when it’s silent. We absorb it from what we hear, without even realizing that we never say “singer”.
Some homonyms and homophones in German – take your pick:
umfahren umfahren
ver-reisen ver-eisen
Mai-straße Mais-trasse
Automaten Au-tomaten
Staub-ecken Stau-becken
Notrufsäule
I had a rough day of baking yesterday.
My dough was tough and I got so mad I threw it through a window into the bough of a tree.
I pick Notrufsäule
Easy for you to say?
word balloons? i read them all the time, and i still don’t know what they’re saying!
THE ARGYLE SWEATER IS OF INTEREST TODAY, I THINK
Pickled Pete is back.
And please leave his groaner where it is…
Link, please. 🙂
He’s back to invisible already. 🙁
It was here:
https://www.gocomics.com/ripleysbelieveitornot/2023/01/25
And that groaner has scrolled out from his profile-page, too:
https://www.gocomics.com/profile/3203203
Thank you. 🙂
I almost posted it here.
Today’s Argyle sweater I mean.
Interesting, considering it’s also Robert Burns birthday, who happened to be Scottish.