I know it’s kinda late… but I thought this was fake
…
I just searched, though, and found this on Facebook:
“Cherry Alexander from UK took this stunning photograph of Antarctica from a ship off the South Sandwich Islands in 1995. Prehistoric ice with a group of Adelie penguins and a …..”(a petral, which was misidentified, according to comments).
Speaking of being late… I also answered a couple of people on yesterday’s comments… Arfside and JPSteve about an image…. Oh… And Steve in another place, about awnings.
Kind of a strange way to list them… They’re numbered, so it looks like they’re putting them in order of their fame, but that can’t be.
No way is Louis-Vuitton more famous than Samsung or Toyota.
And there are 5 cars and I think 8 airlines, and a lot of things I’ve never heard of, not that my lack of familiarity proves anything. I don’t get out much.
Of course, first you have to define “famous”. Does it mean recognizable? The logo, or the product, or the brand itself?
For years, Coca-Cola was #1 by almost any metric… It’s recognized in tribal villages at the far ends of the earth. But I’ve heard that Apple has surpassed it.
But the main thing is, famous brands don’t conveniently come 1 per country….
America gets only one slot. But Coca-Cola would still be ahead of most of this list, and I’ll wager that so would McDonald’s, and Amazon. I’m not saying that’s good or bad, just that I bet more people have heard of McDonald’s than Tata or Chang.
What a strange slogan…. Truthfully, the whole message leaves me baffled.
If nature in the raw isn’t mild, so they don’t use raw tobacco… are they calling their brand unnatural, cos natural cigarettes would be.. um… attacking you, like those “savages” who massacred Custer… or wait….
Um… explain again… what does Little Big Horn have to do with toasted tobacco?
As for mild…. when I was a kid, if you saw an empty Lucky Strike pack on the ground, you could stamp your foot on it, call “Lucky Strike!” … and slug the person you were with. Not quick with such things, I was more often the sluggee than the slugger. That doesn’t seem very mild.
Yeah, yeah… that has nothing to do with the tobacco.
But neither does George Armstrong Custer firing a pistol at Indians.
the illustration of the infamous Custer/Native American clash serves here as an attention-grabber.
Of course it has nothing to do with Lucky Strikes, but if you can draw the eyes to an advertisement, then you’ve won half the ‘battle’, so to speak
“Отцы везут детей в школу под дождём, Париж, 1920 год.”
Choosing Ukrainian in Google translate:
“Fathers take their children to school in the rain, Paris, 1920.”
Sure beats having to climb a lot of stairs to get to the top floor. Just walk to it on level ground. Coming back down is also a cinch. Saves the cost of an elevator, too. 😉
That’s OK, yesterday I failed to notice that the three balls equalled the “30” via the balance when I tried to work it out and wondered why the answer I got was different to everyone elses…..
Seeing this puzzle makes my eyes roll back into my head …some people are very logically minded while others are more artsy-fartsy. Right side of brain vs left side if you subscribe to that theory.
Around the same time my paternal grandparents got their first car too…. cos I’m pretty sure my dad said he was 5, and that would have been 1922 or 23, cos he was born in late 1917.
They lived in Brooklyn, with city streets.
My grandma sneaked off and got her hair bobbed, to look fashionable on their drives. She thought she’d be in trouble but Grandpa loved it.
Them she learned to drive the car… which was really modern and fashionable, so she had to learn to smoke cigarettes, too.
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“Get. Out. Of. MY. Chair.”
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I know it’s kinda late… but I thought this was fake
…
I just searched, though, and found this on Facebook:
“Cherry Alexander from UK took this stunning photograph of Antarctica from a ship off the South Sandwich Islands in 1995. Prehistoric ice with a group of Adelie penguins and a …..”(a petral, which was misidentified, according to comments).
Speaking of being late… I also answered a couple of people on yesterday’s comments… Arfside and JPSteve about an image…. Oh… And Steve in another place, about awnings.
I’ll go check…
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A sophisticated diet.
Perhaps M. Escargot would prefer to have his mushroom braised in a little vin blanc?
Sorry I can’t join you for lunch… that looks like it might be some kind of agaric, and many of those are a bit too poisonous to humans for my taste.
He’s looking for that hookah smoking caterpillar …apparently he’s got some really good stuff
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Kind of a strange way to list them… They’re numbered, so it looks like they’re putting them in order of their fame, but that can’t be.
No way is Louis-Vuitton more famous than Samsung or Toyota.
And there are 5 cars and I think 8 airlines, and a lot of things I’ve never heard of, not that my lack of familiarity proves anything. I don’t get out much.
Of course, first you have to define “famous”. Does it mean recognizable? The logo, or the product, or the brand itself?
For years, Coca-Cola was #1 by almost any metric… It’s recognized in tribal villages at the far ends of the earth. But I’ve heard that Apple has surpassed it.
But the main thing is, famous brands don’t conveniently come 1 per country….
America gets only one slot. But Coca-Cola would still be ahead of most of this list, and I’ll wager that so would McDonald’s, and Amazon. I’m not saying that’s good or bad, just that I bet more people have heard of McDonald’s than Tata or Chang.
Seattle 1942
The early version of the Space Needle.
The Space Awl.
That’s probably awl they had back then.
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They could have at least mentioned that it was originally called New Amsterdam aftr all the Dutch references
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Rock Dove.
A cross between a rock lobster & a mourning dove?
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What a strange slogan…. Truthfully, the whole message leaves me baffled.
If nature in the raw isn’t mild, so they don’t use raw tobacco… are they calling their brand unnatural, cos natural cigarettes would be.. um… attacking you, like those “savages” who massacred Custer… or wait….
Um… explain again… what does Little Big Horn have to do with toasted tobacco?
As for mild…. when I was a kid, if you saw an empty Lucky Strike pack on the ground, you could stamp your foot on it, call “Lucky Strike!” … and slug the person you were with. Not quick with such things, I was more often the sluggee than the slugger. That doesn’t seem very mild.
Yeah, yeah… that has nothing to do with the tobacco.
But neither does George Armstrong Custer firing a pistol at Indians.
We’re even.
I know you can’t be suggesting that tobacco companies have been anything less than honest and forthright in their marketing.
Of course not!
the illustration of the infamous Custer/Native American clash serves here as an attention-grabber.
Of course it has nothing to do with Lucky Strikes, but if you can draw the eyes to an advertisement, then you’ve won half the ‘battle’, so to speak
I know… It’s just annoying.
,.
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Paris Pedicabs for child delivery?
???
Never mind that nonsense about storks.
It took me a bit to understand your reply, then….
**SMACK**
right between the eyes!
“Отцы везут детей в школу под дождём, Париж, 1920 год.”
Choosing Ukrainian in Google translate:
“Fathers take their children to school in the rain, Paris, 1920.”
Where are you finding the Ukrainian caption?
Yandex.
Had to have been before the second small global disagreement because the guy on the right has a toothbrush moustache.
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“I drew it, YOU build it.”
Getting to the topmost floor can be really tiresome. Just when you think you’re there …
Sure beats having to climb a lot of stairs to get to the top floor. Just walk to it on level ground. Coming back down is also a cinch. Saves the cost of an elevator, too. 😉
Pretty steep… Look how all the potted plants have slid to the low end.
Design by Escher Architecture.
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♫ Keep your eyes on the road ♪
♫ and your hands upon the wheel. ♫
keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead……
“You have reached your destination.”
Or your destiny.
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Let me guess: Is her name Alexandra?
Or Anastasia?
….
Yeah… I didn’t want to, cos it looked tedious, but then I realized the first two lines just kinda fell into place…
See MCTS below
5×2 + 2 =12
5×2 – 4×2 =2
So ∆=4
Slight error with the two circles on line three, you have them as two different values.
Oops… I was just posting to Tigressy when I realized that in line 3, I had switched the values between the first two variables, so I deleted the post.
I was just going to delete my solution too, and redo it….. But that would delete your comment as well.
So I’ll leave my silly mistake, just so people can see your correct solution.
Sigh….
Hm.
That’s OK, yesterday I failed to notice that the three balls equalled the “30” via the balance when I tried to work it out and wondered why the answer I got was different to everyone elses…..
s * (c +1) = 12
s = 2
c * (s – t -1) = 0
c <> 0 , divide by it , add t on both sides
2 – 1 = t = 1
Yikes I hope nobody saw it when I accidentally hit “post”…..it was up for a moment before I finished the spoiler box and reposted.
I know we all open the boxes anyway, but I hate to see the solution or a big clue, if I haven’t solved it yet.
That’s what I got.
Seeing this puzzle makes my eyes roll back into my head …some people are very logically minded while others are more artsy-fartsy. Right side of brain vs left side if you subscribe to that theory.
see the cat?
Got him/her!
Yup!
To me, it’s primarily a picture of a cat.
if you squint…..
I don’t have to squint, but I do have to use both eyes at once.
With my left eye alone, it’s touch and go… but with my right eye alone, I don’t see the cat unless I scroll the picture. Weird.
Cheshire?
Family posing with their first car, a Ford Model T, Wisconsin, 1922.
Around the same time my paternal grandparents got their first car too…. cos I’m pretty sure my dad said he was 5, and that would have been 1922 or 23, cos he was born in late 1917.
They lived in Brooklyn, with city streets.
My grandma sneaked off and got her hair bobbed, to look fashionable on their drives. She thought she’d be in trouble but Grandpa loved it.
Them she learned to drive the car… which was really modern and fashionable, so she had to learn to smoke cigarettes, too.
Bunny, for Bunday.
Buff-throated Saltator.
🤣