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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

“Be sure you get my profile in the sunset.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
9 months ago

Gloria Swansdog.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

Must be a butcher shop nearby.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

Flame on!!!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

NOSE!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

Not so much. That is kinda frightening for some reason. Lifeless.

Alexikakos
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9 months ago

 
The only thing I can come up with is this MAY be a wallpaper designed for Samsung.
 

Liverlips McCracken
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9 months ago

Reading material entirely appropriate for a NYC pigeon.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

I don’t know how to put this delicately…

Maybe it’s just an indelicate observation.

But considering the guidebook he’s reading… And yeah it’s probably about the food scraps and crumbs and such.

But considering what else pigeons like to do, as they fly about the city, and its monuments and points of interest…

And noting where he’s sitting in this picture…

Isn’t he… um… well…. wasting ammunition?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

 
Stool Pigeon”      By:  Lucia Heffernan
 

Liverlips McCracken
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9 months ago

All those things cause death in perspective, eh? Who knew? Or even suspected?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

 
THIS ARTICLE,      from the “Oxford University Press,” cites the United Kingdom National Health Service as the source of the infographic.
 
I zoomed in on the chart so I could get a reasonably accurate diameter of the smallest (war) and the largest (heart and circulatory disorders); the difference in their areas is a factor of 1,764.
I think somebody is trying to drive a point home with overly dramatic graphics.
 

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

This may be deceiving. I’d like to see “old-age/used up” broken out from “Heart & circulatory disorders“. I suspect that a big chunk of that yellow circle is not “disorders” but rather reaching the end of a normal life span.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

Perhaps a more informative view would causes of death of people under 60years old. In fact a series by decade (under 60, under 50, etc.) would give the real perspective.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

They are just as amazing coming out of the water.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
9 months ago

How do you know which he’s doing in this photo?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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9 months ago

The fish in his beak is a bit of a clue as it doesn’t look like a flying fish 😉

And unless it’s a stunt Kingfisher, they don’t tend to enter the water backwards!

Last edited 9 months ago by More_Cats_Than_Sense
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
9 months ago

LOL!

I was half asleep and somehow thinking the picture was taken underwater, near the bottom.

But of course that makes no sense.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
9 months ago

What she said! 😀

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
9 months ago

Do you mean he?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

That has to be

SPOILER
Peter Falk

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

I think
that’s Peter Falk.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

 
Yes, seriously.
 

Tigressy
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9 months ago

mean anything to you?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

Pretty obvious one for anybody familiar with him as an adult.

His face has a well known “tell.”

Not only that, his expression and the angle of his head are also almost iconic.

Of course, if you don’t know him from his most famous role, it might not tell you much.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
9 months ago

Or
“The Great Race”, “The Cheap Detective”, “Murder by Death”,…

Saint
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Reply to  Tigressy
9 months ago

<spoiler>Or my favorite: Princess Bride</spoiler>

Tigressy
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Reply to  Saint
9 months ago

You might want to edit that…
But yes. He always stole the show.

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P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
9 months ago

🙁
I didn’t know until I read the comments.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
9 months ago

I didn’t mean to imply that someone might not recognize him from all his other roles… Of course I remember him on film.

But that particular expression, and that other peculiar trait, seem linked to his arguably most famous role.

Your memory might trick you into remembering a different actor in those films….

But never in the one role that totally depended on his characterization.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

i got1…!!!

P51Strega
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Reply to  MontanaLady
9 months ago

🙁 not me

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

It took a moment, then the eyes.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

NOSE!

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

Disobeying this usually results in the bear being deemed “dangerous” and being killed. It’s not fair!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 months ago

NOSE, again!

Liverlips McCracken
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9 months ago

I bet Claude put Cleo up to that just so he could make that pun.

happyhappyhappy
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9 months ago

Where does she get all that stuff?! Acme?

Last edited 9 months ago by happyhappyhappy
SusanSunshine
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9 months ago

When she buys on her own credit card, she can order from Acme, famed supplier of weaponry to Comics Union card-carrying cartoon characters.

But when Clara or Claude is indulging her, they can’t buy from there.

Oh wait… Yes they can!

I keep forgetting…. they’re cartoon characters too.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
9 months ago

Wait – what. They’re not real?!?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
9 months ago

I know. Right?

happyhappyhappy
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9 months ago

Alexikakos
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9 months ago

 
Now if that was the only thing that happened to Claude….
(good find   🙂 )
 

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9 months ago

 

Today’s Songs:
1. ‘Limbo Rock,’ 2. ‘Little Arrows,’ 3. ‘Little Town Flirt,’ and 4. ‘Lodi,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe 5. Cinnamon Fruit Swirl’
1. The first released 1961 instrumental version by ‘The Champs’ (Wikipedia) is below (the poster, Footsteps 11, says 1962). Chubby Checker released his version with vocals in 1962 (‘Telstar’ kept it out of the number one spot).
2. It’s a silly little song, but I like it. Leapy Lee’s 1962 release never topped the charts, but Spanish singer, Karina, (as ‘Las Flechas del Amor’) took it to number 1 in Spain for six weeks in 1969 when she was 22 (it’s below / she’s still with us).
3. The ‘B’ side of this Del Shannon/Maron McKenzie song was ‘The Wamboo’, (if you listen to it you may, like me, think it should have been a ‘C’ side / it’s below).
4. John Fogerty chose Lodi, California as the song’s name because it had ‘the coolest sounding name.’. Lodi has gotten into the spirit, setting up events using the song as a theme.
5. I bought whipped topping once, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t what I expected. I’d use whipped cream, or use the mix as a topping for ice cream.

 

 

 

 

 
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Last edited 9 months ago by Alexikakos
SusanSunshine
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9 months ago

What Cleo really represents is a rebel without parental control.

Actually, even “rebel” might be a misnomer.

Trotting out one threat after another, and meeting no resistance … can we call it rebellion when there’s no line to cross?

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