I’ve read some of those stories that you have to page through…
“Human interest” type stuff. Maybe about a found treasure, or a child or a dog, told with a paragraph and a picture or two on every page.
It used to be annoying when it was 20 pages to get to the point… Now it’s 50 or 60…
The pictures are not the real people or pets involved; their faces, ages, even race, and breeds of pet, sometimes change on every page.
I hardly ever looked any more, but now I’ve stopped completely, because you get to the end and it says “This story was a work of fiction written for your enjoyment”
Another underwhelming back-of-comic-book mail-order toy.
This ad says 1966… our comic book was much earlier, and the ship itself way smaller than a foot long… so couldn’t have been exactly the same model.
Ours was disappointingly featureless, a very plainly molded little piece of plastic with no way to select or control the advertised functions.
…
Due to our mother’s resistance to spending more money on little pellets, we discovered that a little dry baking soda and a teeny drop of vinegar worked just fine for fuel.
Up, down, float, “cruise”, all were random, and only lasted for seconds at a time, mostly depending upon how much of it was left in the fuel chamber.
IIRC, it also turned over all the time, and did some of its cruising belly up.
My late brother (10 years older than me) got a chemistry set when he was about 16. He wasn’t much interested in it (same with the microscope etc.).
Guess who took it…
Mine was about 1″ long and came in a box of corn flakes. They told us to use baking soda but (IIRC) forgot to mention the vinegar. It spent a lot of time floating…
My first flight was in the rival DC-8.
The first jet liner in service was Britain’s Comet. This was a bit smaller but beat Boeing by a good two years. It was doomed by the designer’s insistence on rectangular windows. The corners formed cracks which led to explosive decompression at altitude. The Comet was pulled from service. By the time they figured out the cause of the crashes and fixed it, the 707 & DC-8 were in service.
I’m sure they also sometimes pass by when it’s open…. or could make an effort, just to get out of that ice cold, sticky white stuff.
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Meanwhile, as I said, I no longer arbitrate differences beyond the first nine. In this case, it’s Nighthawks’ call.
I can only give my opinion, which is that neither he nor StelBel, as she stated last week, would include a difference so slight you only think it kind of seems to you to be different.
Remember, the idea is to look for purposely included differences, meant for you to find, not tiny mistakes.
Occasionally a puzzle creator does miscount… but that rarely includes a little glitch that he or she didn’t even notice.
…
Oh, OK, just to satisfy myself… this particular difference is easy to test.
Don’t look, anyone who hasn’t finished the puzzle.
10th difference TEST.
I pasted relevant sections side by side, including one of the actual differences, so you could see that one section came from each panel.
Then I used a tool to pick up the color from each cap, and draw with it in the other, on the background and on the cap… the lines on the caps are invisible because it’s the same exact color.
Hard to see how it could be a difference.
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BTW…thanks… you showed me a new word… “bobcap“!
I Googled it, and it does exist… but seems to be a British-ism, which you might hear more often in Germany than I do in California, being closer to the UK and UK tourists, and maybe British television.
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Do you Canadian guys use it, along with “toque”??
In my circles we just call them knit caps, or “watch caps”, but the latter is usually a dark color, without a pompom, cos I think that name stems from Navy issue caps.
I’ve seen them lately called beanies, too… but a beanie to me is something different, more like a Brownie (Girl Scout variety) cap or even a yarmulke.
This particular Canadian has never heard a toque called a bobcap.
I ‘ve always heard them referred to as “toques” regardless of adornment.
Side note:
In Saskatchewan, hoodies are known as “bunny-hugs”.
Yes. I may change a color completely, such as orange to purple. But NEVER will a difference include the same color but with a shade lighter or a shade darker. I hope that’s clear to everybody! We do realize that monitors differ. Changing the shades would make it way too difficult to discern, so that simply won’t happen…..EVER.
Your monitor could well show a difference, mine sometimes does too, but the attachment shows the R.G.B. colour and hue codes of Claude’s toque taken from the centre (top attachments) and on the pom-pom (bottom attachments).
Left and right correspond with the puzzle.
There is no difference by Microsoft’s Paint.
LINK TO NOVEMBER 14, 2021 FOR MY GRANDMOTHER’S PANCAKE RECIPE The page is worth visiting simply for the history of this site.
For the blueberry version of pancakes, pour a 1/4 cup of batter into a 1/3 cup and add room temperature fresh or thawed frozen blueberries to taste (cooking technique remains the same).
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I do want to know how the person who posted this would have any idea that the note was from a “concerned old lady.”
It doesn’t particularly look like “old lady” handwriting, or even “lady”… or “old.”
Only somebody who doesn’t know the word “fawn”.
….
Makes me think somebody found an opportune photo op… and then, dissatisfied with what seemed a lack of drama in the picture…
faked the note as a way to get more “likes” for it on instagram or some such.
You’re becoming quite the cynic. Though, honestly, you echo my own thoughts about most “awww” posts. Those things are so easy to stage.
I’ve read some of those stories that you have to page through…
“Human interest” type stuff. Maybe about a found treasure, or a child or a dog, told with a paragraph and a picture or two on every page.
It used to be annoying when it was 20 pages to get to the point… Now it’s 50 or 60…
The pictures are not the real people or pets involved; their faces, ages, even race, and breeds of pet, sometimes change on every page.
I hardly ever looked any more, but now I’ve stopped completely, because you get to the end and it says “This story was a work of fiction written for your enjoyment”
,
Lucia Heffernan
Kitty Throne
cute!
.
I could not watch more than 4 minutes
I’d almost forgotten about “Fury”!
We watched it every Saturday morning.
boy! Mr. Phelps sure gets around!
..
± $18.40 U.S. today.
± $2.65 for pellet refill
Another underwhelming back-of-comic-book mail-order toy.
This ad says 1966… our comic book was much earlier, and the ship itself way smaller than a foot long… so couldn’t have been exactly the same model.
Ours was disappointingly featureless, a very plainly molded little piece of plastic with no way to select or control the advertised functions.
…
Due to our mother’s resistance to spending more money on little pellets, we discovered that a little dry baking soda and a teeny drop of vinegar worked just fine for fuel.
Up, down, float, “cruise”, all were random, and only lasted for seconds at a time, mostly depending upon how much of it was left in the fuel chamber.
IIRC, it also turned over all the time, and did some of its cruising belly up.
Maybe it didn’t agree with the baking soda and vinegar… (rim shot)
Almost exactly my idea when I saw the price of those pellets, but I would have used crystalline citric acid if available.
That’s your idea as a grown-up…
I was 8 years old, or maybe barely 9 and the oldest of the three of us.
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I’m pretty sure I didn’t know much about “crystalline citric acid” or have a clue where to get any.
I was only allowed to go shopping on my own occasionally at one particular dime store, and my mother didn’t can or preserve anything.
We were excited enough just to figure out that the sodium bicarbonate pellets were just baking soda from the kitchen.
“if available”
Whoa that’s weird… You were replying to my comment at the very moment I was editing it, because it posted before it was ready!
“If available” still means it was something you’d heard of.
At 8, you’d had to have heard of it and known about substituting acids.
My late brother (10 years older than me) got a chemistry set when he was about 16. He wasn’t much interested in it (same with the microscope etc.).
Guess who took it…
Mine was about 1″ long and came in a box of corn flakes. They told us to use baking soda but (IIRC) forgot to mention the vinegar. It spent a lot of time floating…
Come to think of it, maybe ours came from a cereal box, too.
We were so rarely allowed to order things.
I would have said it was maybe 2 or 3 inches long, but i was 8 years old many many years ago.
The memory is a little dusty… and things look bigger when you’re small. LOL
Found all nine in under 10 minutes.
me too for a change
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ON THE AIRCRAFT ON “RUNWAY NUMBER NINE”
There are two pictures there. A customized version was in service as “Air Force One.”
My first flight was in the rival DC-8.
The first jet liner in service was Britain’s Comet. This was a bit smaller but beat Boeing by a good two years. It was doomed by the designer’s insistence on rectangular windows. The corners formed cracks which led to explosive decompression at altitude. The Comet was pulled from service. By the time they figured out the cause of the crashes and fixed it, the 707 & DC-8 were in service.
I found eight fairly fast, then took a break. Number nine showed up almost immediately.
Not playing tonight. I’m watching figure skating and just checking in during commercials.
What? You can’t find nine differences during the commercials….
with one hand tied behind your back?
Here I am, boys and girls, Cleo fans and puzzle people… I’ve got a nice warm solution on a chilly day.
Nah.. it probably won’t add 10° to the temperature outside… but maybe it’s a little cheering to see that you’ve done well?
…
If I were Claude or Clara, I’d be tempted to at least go in and price those tickets.
Of course, they probably wouldn’t go if Cleo couldn’t also board the plane.
If you, also, have to stay home instead of visiting Hawaii… a puzzle could be a nice little distraction.
Just find nine simple differences… then
I’m sure you were right…. now, don’t you feel just a little warmer?
They’re closed…
OK; got those nine – and again,
I’m sure they also sometimes pass by when it’s open…. or could make an effort, just to get out of that ice cold, sticky white stuff.
…
Meanwhile, as I said, I no longer arbitrate differences beyond the first nine. In this case, it’s Nighthawks’ call.
I can only give my opinion, which is that neither he nor StelBel, as she stated last week, would include a difference so slight you only think it kind of seems to you to be different.
Remember, the idea is to look for purposely included differences, meant for you to find, not tiny mistakes.
Occasionally a puzzle creator does miscount… but that rarely includes a little glitch that he or she didn’t even notice.
…
Oh, OK, just to satisfy myself… this particular difference is easy to test.
Don’t look, anyone who hasn’t finished the puzzle.
I pasted relevant sections side by side, including one of the actual differences, so you could see that one section came from each panel.
Then I used a tool to pick up the color from each cap, and draw with it in the other, on the background and on the cap… the lines on the caps are invisible because it’s the same exact color.
Hard to see how it could be a difference.
…
BTW…thanks… you showed me a new word… “bobcap“!
I Googled it, and it does exist… but seems to be a British-ism, which you might hear more often in Germany than I do in California, being closer to the UK and UK tourists, and maybe British television.
…
Do you Canadian guys use it, along with “toque”??
In my circles we just call them knit caps, or “watch caps”, but the latter is usually a dark color, without a pompom, cos I think that name stems from Navy issue caps.
I’ve seen them lately called beanies, too… but a beanie to me is something different, more like a Brownie (Girl Scout variety) cap or even a yarmulke.
Ah, language.
Bobcap – new to me, too; I looked for “Pudelmütze” on google translate because “woolen hat” just seemed boring to me.
This particular Canadian has never heard a toque called a bobcap.
I ‘ve always heard them referred to as “toques” regardless of adornment.
Side note:
In Saskatchewan, hoodies are known as “bunny-hugs”.
Thanks, Susan.
Yes. I may change a color completely, such as orange to purple. But NEVER will a difference include the same color but with a shade lighter or a shade darker. I hope that’s clear to everybody! We do realize that monitors differ. Changing the shades would make it way too difficult to discern, so that simply won’t happen…..EVER.
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Any Canadians I know always call it a “toque.” (And to me a “beanie” is the kind of crown-like felt hat Jughead Jones always wears…)
Yeah, a Brownie cap and a yarmulke are the same as Jughead’s cap, sewn together in sections, like half of a beach ball…
except his might have a sort of cuff around the bottom. Gotta look.
…
Recently I’ve heard the word “beanie” used for a knit cap or toque, though. Strange to me.
Actually Claude’s hat is too long to be called a watch cap.
Your monitor could well show a difference, mine sometimes does too, but the attachment shows the R.G.B. colour and hue codes of Claude’s toque taken from the centre (top attachments) and on the pom-pom (bottom attachments).
Left and right correspond with the puzzle.
There is no difference by Microsoft’s Paint.
i just ran out of time. so i only got 8 today.
Same here. Missed one I should have seen.
I got ’em! I got ’em! I got ’em!!!!
blueberry pancakes
LINK TO NOVEMBER 14, 2021 FOR MY GRANDMOTHER’S PANCAKE RECIPE The page is worth visiting simply for the history of this site.
For the blueberry version of pancakes, pour a 1/4 cup of batter into a 1/3 cup and add room temperature fresh or thawed frozen blueberries to taste (cooking technique remains the same).
MMM is the pancake person in this house. so he’ll enjoy this ‘national day’.. but i’ll enjoy the blue berries, though.
Nine 9 Nine 9 Nine !!!!!
And, BTW Angel of the Morning is one of my all time favorites.
OK after watching today’s skating (Free Dance) I had time to come back to my favorite funnies. Found all nine (I think). I will check with Susan.
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