It comes with plenty of shade in the summer, so you can stay cool, and offers pretty good protection from heavy storms and snow in the winter. Plus the yard is enormous! Plenty of room and space for the kids to run around and explore.
I’m sure it comes with some particular headaches as well, but on balance …
A panda has poor vision, but can determine the size, sex, age and sexual maturity of another panda from the scent of a few drops of urine, and finds bamboo species by scent.
So of course, they can be fooled into thinking that humans in cartoon-y, cotton sheeting panda costumes are actually pandas.
Not to mention that pandas are quite solitary, and avoid other pandas, anyway, unless they’re mating…. and they don’t think much of humans either.
I was on the wrong end of that kind of thing in college…but our momentum had carried us out to the edge of the mat…I went down hard on the back of my head on the wood floor. They say my head bounced up, I looked around, then my eyes crossed and closed, and my head banged down on the floor a second time…out cold. For over 10 minutes. EMTs, ambulances, etc. all over the place when I woke up. They hauled me off for observation. I never wrestled again.
Thank God for airbags and all the other safety features in modern cars. People at work all the time say they miss the old big heavy cars from the middle of last century. But after an accident like this one in a car like that, the odds of walking away (much less surviving) were practically zero.
Wow I’ve never seen a slingshot with no stretch, whether it’s rubber bands, like in that picture, elastic cord, balloons, or slices of inner tube.
My uncle had a big one for hunting, carved out of wood, with inner tube straps…
We weren’t allowed to touch it, but one day he let me try it. I was 7 or 8, and not strong enough to even pull it back. My mother was angry that I handled it.
His son, my slightly younger cousin, already had slingshots.
He’s the one who got a BB gun at 2 and a real shotgun at 6, while I begged for a Red Ryder BB rifle till I lost interest at about 10!
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If it’s made out of plain, unstretchy cord, you’d have to fling the whole thing pretty hard, to launch anything.
Then again, didn’t they write about slingshots in biblical times?
Such a classic Golden Face.
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I bet she looks pretty scary to him too!
She looks more dismayed than frightened, especially in the bottom picture.
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She’s just waiting for the Mother Ship to swing by and pick her up.
Mable Dwight
” That mister Bates is such a nice man. He’d never do anything like that…”
Yeah, but Mr. Krueger isn’t nice… and he might.
Corner of Elm and Clover.
No loitering.
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“Tune in next week. Same Gene time Same Gene channel…”
In his day he owned more radio stations than anybody.
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It comes with plenty of shade in the summer, so you can stay cool, and offers pretty good protection from heavy storms and snow in the winter. Plus the yard is enormous! Plenty of room and space for the kids to run around and explore.
I’m sure it comes with some particular headaches as well, but on balance …
“Tree Who Must Be Obeyed”.
“It’s tiny now, but wait till it hatches…”
Yeah, right.
A panda has poor vision, but can determine the size, sex, age and sexual maturity of another panda from the scent of a few drops of urine, and finds bamboo species by scent.
So of course, they can be fooled into thinking that humans in cartoon-y, cotton sheeting panda costumes are actually pandas.
Not to mention that pandas are quite solitary, and avoid other pandas, anyway, unless they’re mating…. and they don’t think much of humans either.
I don’t blame him for rolling his eyes.
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You learn something new every day.
Even things it turns out you didn’t want to know.
Karate Kid — the early years….
So funny, when his coach(?) suppresses his… er… unsportsman-like gesture.
I was on the wrong end of that kind of thing in college…but our momentum had carried us out to the edge of the mat…I went down hard on the back of my head on the wood floor. They say my head bounced up, I looked around, then my eyes crossed and closed, and my head banged down on the floor a second time…out cold. For over 10 minutes. EMTs, ambulances, etc. all over the place when I woke up. They hauled me off for observation. I never wrestled again.
Good idea to quit if that happened. I enjoyed it in high school, but it got in the way of paying for college.
Beautiful scene, but I’m not sure I would want to be in the midst of it.
“Row, row, row your boat…”
Perhaps not gently….
I was sleepy last night, and didn’t even realize it was a skull 💀!
Kind of a visual pun, cos pairs of oars (for one person) are called sculls…. but I can’t see whether there are one or two people in the boat.
I see two people, but nether seems to be rowing…
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I know the movie and the actors.
Great movie, great acting. And not just them.
For anyone who needs to know them, that is
how many bunnies do you see?
Even “illuminated” as they are, there are several I still don’t see.
BUNNIES?!
I do see a rabbit in this one. 🙂
I’m sorry…. I’m as pareidolia-prone as anybody…. But no.
I looked, then checked the “solution”.
I’d found the obvious one (5), and thought somebody might see 8 or 6 as a rabbit but it was poorly done…. the others never occurred to me.
Looking at them knowing the supposed solution doesn’t make them into bunnies.
Maybe better resolution would help, or maybe not
Yikes! That looks like it was no fun at all for anyone involved.
Thank God for airbags and all the other safety features in modern cars. People at work all the time say they miss the old big heavy cars from the middle of last century. But after an accident like this one in a car like that, the odds of walking away (much less surviving) were practically zero.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he had to change his pants.
Wile E. is evergreen.
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What nice mix of people in that neighborhood.
Kinda Crumb-y, actually.
Hopper’s nightmare?
I’d like to have a cup of tea with Mr. Natural.
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Carlyle (from yesterday) … I said hello there.
Hoping you come back!
It gets a little old, explaining over and over….
But you see, Clara…. most people don’t give up features they want in their cars (or houses… or lives…) because their dogs will misbehave.
Most people will simply not allow their dogs to…. oh…. never mind.
I’m speaking a foreign language to you.
I don’t know how to translate that word…. “allow”….. into something you understand.
Clara knows.
Claude’s the culprit.
I dunno…… If your husband refused to train your destructive doggy, wouldn’t it fall to you?
I don’t let her off so easily.
Besides, she’s totally complicit in buying the pizzas and chips, and the long range missiles, which she herself stored in the laundry room
Clara didn’t want a sunroof.
Pop said that when he as a kid they called those bean-flips.
Those?
Rubber band “sling shot “.
A true sling shot is just to peaces of cord with a pocket for the projectile.
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We know them as a catapult over here.
Emphasis on the sling…
Wow I’ve never seen a slingshot with no stretch, whether it’s rubber bands, like in that picture, elastic cord, balloons, or slices of inner tube.
My uncle had a big one for hunting, carved out of wood, with inner tube straps…
We weren’t allowed to touch it, but one day he let me try it. I was 7 or 8, and not strong enough to even pull it back. My mother was angry that I handled it.
His son, my slightly younger cousin, already had slingshots.
He’s the one who got a BB gun at 2 and a real shotgun at 6, while I begged for a Red Ryder BB rifle till I lost interest at about 10!
…
If it’s made out of plain, unstretchy cord, you’d have to fling the whole thing pretty hard, to launch anything.
Then again, didn’t they write about slingshots in biblical times?
They didn’t have rubber back them.
David & Goliath.