Cover illustration by Neysa McMein… one of the foremost female illustrators, or maybe just foremost illustrators, of the first half of the 20th century.
Starting in 1916, she did dozens of Post covers, and a bit later, for a time, did all of the McCall’s magazine covers. In the 30s, she created the original Betty Crocker, who looked so real she got letters at General Mills.
She marched for women’s sufferage, entertained the troops in WWI, painted recruiting posters…. and lived an artsy, Bohemian existence, hanging out with the Algonquin Round Table, and knowjng everybody, it seemed, in the entertainment world.
And tonight I had to Google her, because, I’m embarrassed to say, I keep forgetting her first name… which she made up on the advice of a numerologist.
Well, it’s pretty obviously AI, unless you believe that Leonardo actually designed “yog histioaiod” mechanical systems and painted the “Muon Lise”.
It’s too bad, really.
An AI app obviously researched and compiled the information, and with possibly a bit of human guidance “designed” the poster…. no doubt stealing the basics of the layout and illustrations from previous human work, because that’s how AI works.
Much as I hate that aspect of it, it could probably be a useful tool, especially in situations where educational materials are scarce, or unaffordable.
But the human who used AI to create it obviously had no interest in accuracy, and just churns out this sort of thing to fill a web page, or build traffic, or (I hope not!) even to sell, and was too lazy or hurried to even read and correct it.
Or it might be a non-English speaker, using it for the above purposes, without a clue as to the content. They’re not the kind of mistakes that come from merely limited English, by confusion with words or rules of a different language. They’re pure nonsense, so someone didn’t care.
Is. Back on Tuesday. 105. Loots of fun, but mostly not outside. Very close to the borderish. Great Tex-Mex. Cattleman’s Steakhouse was great. Might go back. Going to a gulf coast-type seafood house tonight. Here’s a pic of a REAL dog. :‐)
“Ready in minutes” because the dough was raised with baking powder, like a biscuit (American meaning, a bit like scone dough), instead of yeast. But IIRC.. and I might not… there was a tiny bit of yeast in the mixture, for flavor, but no time for it to do the work.
The sauce was bland like canned spaghetti, closer to thick tomato soup than Bolognese, and the cheese a little packet of dried Parmesan.
Chef Boyardee was, in fact… still is… a maker of canned spaghetti, and raviolis, but they couldn’t put pizza in a can.
Pizza was still a novelty in many parts of the US… outside big city Italian districts. Eventually I think Americans got more familiar with what it was supposed to taste like, and this product disappeared.
I still makea quick “sort-of”-pizza with naan (it seems more like pizza crust than those weird packaged pizza crusts).
Real mushrooms, bell peppers, mozzarella (I almost always have string cheese on hand) whatever I have that seems pizza-ish. Either make a quick sauce or use a bit of sauce from a jar.
I meant, before you ask us whether we see the mistake, you should be seeing a mistake.
Therefore, the mistake shouldn’t be the punctuation at the end of your question, it should be whatever you were looking at before you even asked us to find it.
However if bacon boy is right, they’re trying to pull that trick anyway..
Search says it’s a huge honeycomb, found in South India.
Commenters online say it’s not a honeycomb, per se, but a brood comb… the cells are open, and dry. Some are full of pollen, not honey, and some are empty.
They say it’s bad for the bees to harvest brood combs; some surmise that it was harvested for beeswax, not food.
just in case
It’s the sound effects that make the comic.
Thacklthack!
I have always contended that
The only reason the Three Stooges is funny at least to me, is the sounds.
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That is the most trustworthy face I’ve seen this month.
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I hope you can hang on to it…
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Looks good enough to take a bite out of it. I bet the resident pup is confused & conflicted.
Nah… They go by smell… Probably doesn’t know what it’s supposed to look like.
It’s me who’s confused and conflicted.
Took me longer than any dog to figure it out.
I’ve seen cheesy furniture before, but this might take the ….cake? Or do I have to say the pizza?
The pie?
…is it soft?
There’s a straight line if I ever heard one
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Irony is a beautiful thing.
Not when there’s a lamp-post. True story.
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Cover illustration by Neysa McMein… one of the foremost female illustrators, or maybe just foremost illustrators, of the first half of the 20th century.
Starting in 1916, she did dozens of Post covers, and a bit later, for a time, did all of the McCall’s magazine covers. In the 30s, she created the original Betty Crocker, who looked so real she got letters at General Mills.
She marched for women’s sufferage, entertained the troops in WWI, painted recruiting posters…. and lived an artsy, Bohemian existence, hanging out with the Algonquin Round Table, and knowjng everybody, it seemed, in the entertainment world.
And tonight I had to Google her, because, I’m embarrassed to say, I keep forgetting her first name… which she made up on the advice of a numerologist.
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Proud Mommy.
Yes, we think they’re adorable too.
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AI?
The graphic might be, but the accomplishments aren’t.
Their descriptions are.
Not everything but a significant percentage.
I thought some other guy invented the Model T Ford…
Jeez, I didn’t even notice.
Thanks!
Funny thing… (Duh) Leonardo’s cart design was for a CART. I don’t think it was ever built, but it looked nothing like an automobile.
Well, it’s pretty obviously AI, unless you believe that Leonardo actually designed “yog histioaiod” mechanical systems and painted the “Muon Lise”.
It’s too bad, really.
An AI app obviously researched and compiled the information, and with possibly a bit of human guidance “designed” the poster…. no doubt stealing the basics of the layout and illustrations from previous human work, because that’s how AI works.
Much as I hate that aspect of it, it could probably be a useful tool, especially in situations where educational materials are scarce, or unaffordable.
But the human who used AI to create it obviously had no interest in accuracy, and just churns out this sort of thing to fill a web page, or build traffic, or (I hope not!) even to sell, and was too lazy or hurried to even read and correct it.
Or it might be a non-English speaker, using it for the above purposes, without a clue as to the content. They’re not the kind of mistakes that come from merely limited English, by confusion with words or rules of a different language. They’re pure nonsense, so someone didn’t care.
Yeah. And THIS is supposed to be the FUTURE?
God help us!
Agreed.
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Can I get him to clean my kitchen?
That was very well done. The man is a pro.
Wow… Mopping as an art form.
Practicing for the Olympic squeegee team.
Since you’re doing the job anyway, it helps to have fun with it!
Hi…
How was Texas?
Is. Back on Tuesday. 105. Loots of fun, but mostly not outside. Very close to the borderish. Great Tex-Mex. Cattleman’s Steakhouse was great. Might go back. Going to a gulf coast-type seafood house tonight. Here’s a pic of a REAL dog. :‐)
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Aw… a cutie.
Unless a real dog hates being called cute.
105 isn’t for humans. Or dogs.
From scenic drive. The big red X is in Mexico. And, no, it’s not part of any word, despite facebook legends.
That path (?) is cool… But I’m confused… I don’t see an X, big, small, red or otherwise.
And there’s an X in Mexico.
Waay out kind of centered near the horizon in this pic, which includes Juarez.. The artist ONLY put up a huge red steel X, nothing else.
“X” marks the spot…
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Great… something new to fear.
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My Mom made it a few times.
Weird stuff.
“Ready in minutes” because the dough was raised with baking powder, like a biscuit (American meaning, a bit like scone dough), instead of yeast. But IIRC.. and I might not… there was a tiny bit of yeast in the mixture, for flavor, but no time for it to do the work.
The sauce was bland like canned spaghetti, closer to thick tomato soup than Bolognese, and the cheese a little packet of dried Parmesan.
Chef Boyardee was, in fact… still is… a maker of canned spaghetti, and raviolis, but they couldn’t put pizza in a can.
Pizza was still a novelty in many parts of the US… outside big city Italian districts. Eventually I think Americans got more familiar with what it was supposed to taste like, and this product disappeared.
I used to make it all the time
used to put canned mushrooms and cut up hotdogs on it
The real thing it missed was mozzarella.
The only cheese was Parmesan.
Maybe it was around longer than I remember.
I still makea quick “sort-of”-pizza with naan (it seems more like pizza crust than those weird packaged pizza crusts).
Real mushrooms, bell peppers, mozzarella (I almost always have string cheese on hand) whatever I have that seems pizza-ish. Either make a quick sauce or use a bit of sauce from a jar.
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This guy looks like a serial killer.
I couldn’t see it last night… but I kinda do now.
A bit of a crazed expression.
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Monday.
?
Mondays are a mistake.
It is simply the single word…
MISTAKE
You are actually looking for the word, “MISTAKE”.
I know, dumb and confusing.
No, not really.
If they’re saying it’s a mistake cos it starts with Monday… European calendars usually start with Monday, and so do lots of business calendars here.
And bedsides, it’s a list, not a calendar. Nobody said it even had to be in calendar order.
There’s no question mark after “mistake”… but that shouldn’t be the mistake cos there should have been one before the question was asked.
If it has something to do with the picture, itself… I don’t see it.
why would there be a question mark before a question?
I wasn’t too clear, I guess.
I meant, before you ask us whether we see the mistake, you should be seeing a mistake.
Therefore, the mistake shouldn’t be the punctuation at the end of your question, it should be whatever you were looking at before you even asked us to find it.
However if bacon boy is right, they’re trying to pull that trick anyway..
It is simply the single word…
MISTAKE
You are actually looking for the word, “MISTAKE”.
I know, dumb and confusing.
Is that your answer, or an official one?
If you thought of it… Yeah, maybe. Good guess.
But it shouldn’t be.
If it’s official, yes… dumb and confusing.
Mostly my own, with researching via Dr Google.
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Silly me… I thought it was giant bread.
Search says it’s a huge honeycomb, found in South India.
Commenters online say it’s not a honeycomb, per se, but a brood comb… the cells are open, and dry. Some are full of pollen, not honey, and some are empty.
They say it’s bad for the bees to harvest brood combs; some surmise that it was harvested for beeswax, not food.
I was always told it was none of my beeswax
Yeah, me too.
Maybe this kid decided he was tired of being told that, so he got his own.
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Mademoiselle Scheel with Lions, Ringing Bros circus, 1905 …. photographer Frederick W. Glasier
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Is this what waterskiing looks like when you’re 95?
How you gonna get her up?
Same way they got her down?
Like me. Slowly.
London Street at night.
…Andy? Is that you singing?…
Male Horned Lark in the Caja del Rio area west of Santa Fe, New Mexico
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“MMMMM Boort Boort Boort.”
“Completely feral…”