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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

“Okay, everybody. Meeting on top of mom’s head in 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 …”

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

“Have kids” they said. “You don’t know what you’re missing!” they said.

jean vanleuven
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

TinyKittens.com

Zoomies are fun.

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Reply to  jean vanleuven
8 months ago

That’s why when i was volunteering at the shelter i loved to go into the kitten room and socialize kittens.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

What would you do to avoid being eaten?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
8 months ago

Give up hemoglobin?

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Or muscles, or eating…

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Reply to  JP Steve
8 months ago

I wondered about eating, cos there seems to be no digestive system.

jean vanleuven
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Beautiful.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Google says it’s a baby surgeonfish, of a variety called the Blue Tang.

It’s also called a glass fish, but there are several unrelated fish that share that name (for a fairly obvious reason) so it isn’t specific.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Okay, so this is a real fish? First I thought it is from Glas like my two pieces …

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Reply to  Marge
8 months ago

Yes… a real live fish.

But they’re only transparent as babies… They grow up to be blue, or blue and black.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
8 months ago

10¢
Wow.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

I still think it’s spaghetti — what do trees have inside them that looks like that?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

I just watched a video about the Chernobyl meltdown. That reminds me of the elephant foot.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

I couldn’t believe it either, and my search results were mostly jokes about a spaghetti tree. A few just said it was a tree vascular system… but didn’t explain why it doesn’t look like the mostly straight lines I’ve seen in drawings.

But one link did lead to Snopes.com, where they sniff out myths, and sort fact from fancy.

They say it’s indeed a tree vascular system, but from burlwood, which has a convoluted structure. They consulted a botanist…

This is from him….

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

WOW!

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

LOL!

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Reminds me of the Saint Bernard I mentioned the other day, who was afraid of their cat.

That cat was black, too, adopted from a shelter that had periodic “adopt a black cat” days, with lowered fees, because due to old superstitions, it’s harder to get the black ones adopted.

She already had a name, but she was kind of wild, and scared, and didn’t respond to it. So they renamed her Lucky. She became a nice kitty.

But on day one, she hissed at the dog…. and that was it.

He never ran like this dog… I’m not sure a St. Bernard can… but he’d hide behind a chair.

If he was on the couch, and she jumped up, he’d get off. When she stole bites of his giant kibble, which I can’t imagine she actually liked, he stood by helplessly.

He wasn’t afraid of anything else that I knew about, and they had to be careful cos he could get a bit aggressive with human children.

Lucky was like his kryptonite. Maybe that should have been her name!

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

Both of my dogs defer to Kiki.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Lol…. Maybe dogs are superstitious about black cats too.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

And the inner circle moves in the opposite direction.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

It works.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
8 months ago

Oh, that’s right!

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

No, that’s not right!

meadowmary
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Reply to  Tigressy
8 months ago

I’m cross eyed!

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

It’s all about the teeny grey parallelograms that fool our eyes into seeing light and shade, or angles.

In Nighthawks’ image, they’re on the edges of the slightly bigger parallelograms, making them look embossed.

In Tigressy’s, they make up sections of the circles, and look like angular beads.

Motions of your head, even slight refocusing of your eyes, makes them seem to change angles, so our brain thinks they must have moved.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

I take it that the kid second in from the bottom right didn’t want to be there? And I hope that was a toy.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
8 months ago

Drinking from a water pistol.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Oh! You’re probably right.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
8 months ago

Hey, i did it too. Every boy that ever had one probably did. 😀

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Not just boys!

I’ve had plenty of water pistols, and I probably drank from one.

We also had cap guns and a few Dinky trucks, and I collected Matchbox cars…

Though I have to admit those were mostly cute cars… model t’s, 1930s sports cars, antique delivery vans and such

Not race cars…. and muscle cars hadn’t been invented.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
8 months ago

Today he’d be lucky if the Secret Service didn’t shoot him!

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

This is probably 1959 or 60, during the campaign.

Bored kid is maybe 8 or 9.

2025, he’s still bragging about it to his grandchildren….

“and I stood right next to him, and my Dad shook his hand!”

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

I love these!
They do such great work.

We’ve seen others before… maybe even this one… but in real life I could probably look at it for hours.

Did you notice that one of the cars has moved between the shots?
Maybe one of the teeny people had errands to run.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

My answers:

A
Gregory Peck
B
Jimmy Stewart
and
C
John Wayne.

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Our house… 🎵 is a very very very fine house…
With two cats in the yard…🎶 🎵

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Reply to  nighthawks
8 months ago

Hedwig!

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8 months ago

happyhappyhappy
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8 months ago

My kitten is brain damaged.

Governor of Calisota
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Oh my! What happened, Les? 🙁

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Reply to  Governor of Calisota
8 months ago

She’s an idiot. Kitten. Fearless. Jumps at shadows. Attacks anything that moves. Falls asleep mid pounce. Just nuts.
She might end up being as much of a goof as Buddy.

Governor of Calisota
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

🙄😵‍💫

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

Sheesh…. get us all worried!

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
8 months ago

She acts like every normal cat?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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8 months ago

At her home in Brentwood in 1954,

This is a very stylish:
Lauren Bacall

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TCM541
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8 months ago

OMG – Corgi in a fur bikini – just TOO adorable!

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