July 19, 2026

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DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
6 hours ago

“Get. Out. Of. MY. Chair.”

Last edited 6 hours ago by DancingBuffalo
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

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.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

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.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

The early version of the Space Needle.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 hour ago

The Space Awl.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 hour ago

That’s probably awl they had back then.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

Rock Dove.

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 hour ago

A cross between a rock lobster & a mourning dove?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

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.

Last edited 1 hour ago by SusanSunshine
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 hour ago

I know you can’t be suggesting that tobacco companies have been anything less than honest and forthright in their marketing.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
6 hours ago

“I drew it, YOU build it.”

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

♫ Keep your eyes on the road ♪
♫ and your hands upon the wheel. ♫

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

“You have reached your destination.”

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

Let me guess: Is her name Alexandra?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 hours ago

Or Anastasia?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

Yeah… I didn’t want to, cos it looked tedious, but then I realized the first two lines just kinda fell into place…

and I get….
4 which is wrong..

See MCTS below

If you want the calculation … never mind don’t look here
5+5 =10
5×2 + 2 =12
5×2 – 4×2 =2
So ∆=4

Last edited 17 minutes ago by SusanSunshine
More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
47 minutes ago

Slight error with the two circles on line three, you have them as two different values.

Third line has to be:
(5×2) – (1×5) = 5

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
28 minutes ago

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….

Last edited 19 minutes ago by SusanSunshine
Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

I’ve got
c = 5
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

Last edited 1 hour ago by Tigressy
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

Got him/her!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 hours ago

Yup!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

To me, it’s primarily a picture of a cat.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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46 minutes ago

Family posing with their first car, a Ford Model T, Wisconsin, 1922.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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45 minutes ago

Bunny, for Bunday.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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44 minutes ago

Buff-throated Saltator.

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