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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

Hot on the trail !

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

Why is everybody laughing at me? Poor Pup!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

Awww. Poor, unhappy pooch.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

I’d say he’s really in his cups tonight.
Or she, of course.

There’s no gender proclivity I’m aware of for enjoying a nice dry martini. And this one looks really dry.

BTW, I’m sure this is just for a photo. Maybe a way to have a moment’s fun, when the poor doggie has to be in the collar anyway.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

I’ll get them for this! The cone was bad enough….

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

Poochie doesn’t understand why she doesn’t always get treated this way.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

Actually, she probably does… though she also works hard.

I thought I recognized the dog (and I did!), but not the women, so I searched it.

From Getty images:

“Cleo, the ‘talking’ basset hound on Jackie’Cooper’s NBC-TV program, ‘The People’s Choice,’ is primped for her ‘pawtograph party’ at the Los Angeles Kennel Club show Saturday, November 27 by Actresses Elaine Edwards, Lori Mitchell and Elaine Riley.”

This was 1955, BTW, and Cleo was played for the run of the show by a basset named Bernadette.

Much like the Cleo we know, that Cleo was sarcastic and funny. She was voiced by a human actress.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but this kid looks unhappy.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

Pretty Birdy!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

Is that the same bird in both photos?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
10 hours ago

From what I could gather… no, if you mean did that exact baby bird grow up to be the adult one below.

But yes, if you mean are they the same kind of bird.

Both are Goffin’s Cockatoos, the top one when it’s just lost its baby down, and only partially fledged.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

“Would Your Majesty care for a big Mac?”

Arfside
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Reply to  JP Steve
11 hours ago

With kippered herrings and haggis?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
10 hours ago

If you mean for it to sound horrible… I love kippered herring and the Queen probably did too.

You wouldn’t mix that stuff together, but separately, it’s not like it’s torture.

I’ve always wanted to try haggis, but they can’t import the real stuff here, I think because it has lung in it.

People make fun of it just because it has that sort of parts in it, but it’s made with steamed oats, and it sounds like it might taste good to me. I love liver, and I’m willing to try the rest.

As for the Queen, she loved staying at Balmoral, in Scotland. They had vacations there, and I think even Christmases, so haggis might have been part of their celebrations.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

The photographer, Mark Stewart, described this image…”The Queen is taken by surprise as she takes tea with Eton schoolboys at Guards Polo Club, 2003.”

But I know Elizabeth II had a sense of humor, and liked to tease, and she was always, due to many years of training, in control of her physical reactions, and extremely polite.

It would be hard for me to believe she didn’t make this face on purpose, to be funny.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

Nah; too small. Throw him back.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

That looks in awfully good shape for being buried in sand and seawater for 18 years!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

I wonder how many babies they auditioned, to find one that could tolerate her(?) feet being licked.

I know I’m way too ticklish… I’d be on the ceiling in a nanosecond.

And I hate being tickled… I have no idea why people think it’s funny.
My hair stands up just looking at the picture.

This kid doesn’t even seen to notice… do you think it’s really two separate photos?

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 hours ago

One photo, but wonder how many Bassets they had to audition that wouldn’t treat the kid as a bag of kibble…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

She had a rather strained relationship with the photographer.

They’ didn’t like talking about it… but the photos did shed a little light on it.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

You’d better see a dermatologist about those blotches.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

Seen zoomed up, she has a tremendous number of freckles! More than I’ve ever seen on anyone before.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 hours ago

“The Hills of Holland”

Another great sky (along with the rest) from illustrator Franklin Booth… We haven’t had one of his for a while!

Drawn for Harper’s magazine, 1917

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

Whatever you do, don’t find 47!

Voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

It’s right there between two 68s

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 hours ago

Got it!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 hours ago

Got it.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

It’s right there!
surrounded by 68’s

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
10 hours ago

To me it sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb.

But I’ll give you yet another clue…

Big HINT
It looks just like 68, but backwards.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

AI at it’s best!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
12 hours ago

Just wait till they put it on the market.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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10 hours ago

This video predates AI by quite some time. It’s an old video.

JP Steve
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
3 hours ago

I was thinking in the broader sense as “robot intelligence…”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

Why am I laughing?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
12 hours ago

Knowing it’s a doll, it’s funny.

If it were a real baby, maybe not so much.

Voxx
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15 hours ago


we had the best music.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Voxx
12 hours ago

2018 and they were still kickin’ it. That may have been their last gig, though.

They and the song were pretty stunning back in the day, and still hold up here…. even if the group AFAIK had a few personnel changes doing the way, and the voices are older.

Last edited 12 hours ago by SusanSunshine
Greyhame
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 hours ago

My garage band got ahold of the “Life is Just a Chair ‘O Bowlies” album and learned to play the “Intermission” tune

Greyhame
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Reply to  Voxx
3 hours ago

Many moons ago, I was looking for ideas to organize my various music collections. I found I could go to the _Hit Parader_ website and copy/paste the yearly Top One Hundred to a text file. Before 1955, I did not recognize most of the songs. After 1975, the music started becoming mono-generic with the advent of Disco. For those twenty years, Popular music was show tunes, lounge tunes, Rock_N_Roll, TV themes, old classics. Folk music (and glamorized folk) started sneaking in late fifties/early sixties. Country music crossovers started sneaking in about late sixties.

For those twenty years, about every third song, I could still sing along with (mostly). I submit this as evidence that my generation enjoyed the best music ever.

SusanSunshine
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12 hours ago

Electrified or not… That little wire fence would be nothing but a silk handkerchief to a Jurbasset who could gobble up a bag of kibble that big.

Then again, every movie needs a plot device or six.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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10 hours ago

The Cnoc Fada Standing Stones, near the village of Dervaig on the Isle of Mull in Argyll, Scotland. Dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, there was originally an alignment of five standing stones.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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10 hours ago

Pied Kingfisher.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
4 hours ago

“Pied,” eh? Everyone’s a comedian.

happyhappyhappy
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3 hours ago

Has this been posted here yet?

Arfside
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 hour ago

I don’t recall seeing it. Thanks for posting. Love the strut!

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