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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I’ve seen cat trees, but…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Really??!

Are there farms where you can pick them yourself?

How do you tell when they’re ripe?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

What a beautiful doggie.

I didn’t think those fungi were strong enough for anything heavier than a bird to sit on

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Those are as hard and sturdy as wood.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 months ago

That’s news to me too. I’ve seen a lot of shelf fungus while hiking but never had the urge to touch it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 months ago

There’s some I’ve touched, but it was soft and kind of spongy.

It was also smaller, unless that dog is way more tiny than s/he looks.

Either it hardens when it dries, or there are different types.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Sounds like Angel Wings — a distinctive edible mushroom. The big Bracket Fungi are quite solid and woody — not very good eating at all…

Tigressy
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2 months ago
JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Oh poo!

Alexikakos
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2 months ago

 
I’m going to say this is the 1965 book cover (the parody appeals to my sense of homour).
 
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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Gotta love the logo (lower left corner):

YCR
Your Childhood Ruined

I can’t make out the picture in it.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

 
Kitten maybe?
 

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Governor of Calisota
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2 months ago

That’s what I see, too 🐱

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Yep, ’tis a kitten, as captured below (from a different book-cover)…
Amazingly enough, there is an actual Facebook site that caters to these altered book-covers:
YourChildhoodRuined

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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

You mean that scene in Fantasia isn’t true?

JP Steve
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Reply to  mr_sherman
2 months ago

The Dancing Hippos were fake too…

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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Really? Dang it! That was my favorite part.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

So they never got to use their Thagomizer on a Tyrannosaurus?

Tigressy
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2 months ago

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JP Steve
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 months ago

Gary Larson named it, and paleontology listened — that is now the proper anatomical name…

Tigressy
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

I know.

There’s more fun stuff out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwa_tyleri

JP Steve
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 months ago

Gonna be a lot less if they really outlaw honorifics. (No more Strigiphilus garylarsoni for one…)

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

That looks like an Allosaurus on the receiving end. The time period would be appropriate and the head is different than T-Rex’s.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

But how does it stay up?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 months ago

It goes fast so it doesn’t fall….

This is actually true, though technically it is actually falling all the time, but the angular momentum is the crucial component that prevents gravity winning.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Or clothespins.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Them moonshiners will go to all sorts of tricks to avoid the revenooers. That there is a fancy looking still tucked away in the Space Shuttle.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
2 months ago

Is that why the shuttle is smiling?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Sad 😥

Governor of Calisota
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2 months ago

☹️

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I remember this one from a View Master reel!

meadowmary
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Who’s taking the photo?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  meadowmary
2 months ago

Guys in the lander.

Governor of Calisota
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2 months ago

The picture was taken from the Lunar Module

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

 
Here’s the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.”
 

 

 

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Damn drones!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I think I saw a stack of those flying saucers at the dollar store, with the other straw hats.

Alexikakos
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2 months ago

 
If I ever knew these characters existed, I had long since forgotten them (and with good reason as far as I’m concerned).
Read the advertisements; they’re the funnest (I know, I know but you get the idea / ain’t Engilsh amazing?) part of the comic.
 
LINK TO THE ISSUE NIGHTHAWKS POSTED
 

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Alexikakos
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2 months ago

 
Here is a     LINK     to this one.
 

Alexikakos
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2 months ago

 
Open in a new window so you don’t lose this page.
 
THE ANSWER FROM THE BRAINXFACTOR SITE
 

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

The message makes the maze easier!

Spoiler
“Trust the process”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

I got the same.

P51Strega
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Reply to  JP Steve
2 months ago

Got it

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I find with maze puzzles it’s always easier to start at the finish and work backwards.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

For me too, usually… But I can’t say always, because this time, it’s not.

With a phrase to find, backwards would be much harder.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Well, the way I did it was to find the route first, by working back from the finish, then retrace the route forwards to get the phrase.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

I’m not generally great at mazes, but having to follow the words makes it way easier.

You’re not going to follow impossible letter combinations.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

Laika lives!

SusanSunshine
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2 months ago

I’d love to think so!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 months ago

On “Brewster Rockit”, she was rescued by aliens, learned to speak English and is alive and well.

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2 months ago
More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 months ago

This is:
Hedy Lamarr

In:
‘The Heavenly Body’ – 1944

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Arfside
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

That’s Hedley!
Oops, wrong movie.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 months ago

She looks very uncomfortable.

I’ve heard the moon is cold and rocky.

Alexikakos
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2 months ago

 
From today’s London “Daily Mail” (pudding rice is simply short-grain rice).
 

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Alexikakos
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2 months ago

 
Also from today’s “Daily Mail” (prepare to groan).
 

Why did the computer keep freezing?

 
Bcause it left its Windows open.
 

 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 months ago

Boo! 🙂

SusanSunshine
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2 months ago

It’s an old computer tutor joke…

(basically the same thing….)

You MUST remember to close ALL your windows when you shut down at night…

Otherwise your computer will freeze.

SusanSunshine
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2 months ago

What a great clip from Annie Get Your Gun….

Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, in 1950.

Musical comedy legends, both of them.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 months ago

Thanks for the ID.

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