No worse than the lying garbage ads I’ve been seeing on YouTube and websites.
If the mop makes the dog happy, and he wears it, at least he’ll have “hair”.
If you take the bogus pills they’re pushing on the Internet, and rub the phony ointments into your scalp, you’ll be out lots of money and have nothing,
For 100 years, advertising and medicine were regulated in the US… now the Internet has pushed us back to the wild West.
Grow hair in 3 days, throw away your diabetes medication, cure illness by sleeping on linen or muslin or whatever is today’s fad.
A few hours ago I saw a video advertisement that had “actual footage” of Steve Martin talking to Martin Short about the “cure” that Bill Gates told him to take for memory loss. I didn’t click the link to get the price, of course… a good method for downloading malware.
But I did Google “Steve Martin video” and before I had typed another word, there was a link to Steve Martin warning people that he didn’t do it; that it was a “deep fake” using stolen and manipulated images.
Which of course is a really funny spoof of “Gone with the Wind”, in which Vivien Leigh, as Scarlett, makes a gown from the green velvet drapes of Tara.
Carol Burnett, in “Went with the Wind”, did likewise.
Cabaret Dancer Edmonde Guydens, performing at the Moulin Rouge, in Paris in a beautiful (IMHO) lace costume, 1926.
A fire destroyed the original Moulin Rouge in 1915, then WWI intervened, and it wasn’t rebuilt and re-opened till not long before this…. but now, 100 years later, it’s still going strong.
Nope – not plotting, executing. He wouldn’t have a thing to do with me all afternoon.
Poor boy has some skin condition that makes him oily. I’d bathe him once a week but that’s not good for him either. So as soon as the bath is over, he’s already working on needing his next.
They shouldn’t call it “math” without saying it’s a trick, cos as arithmetic, it would obviously be impossible.
But to do…
what they’ve done….
Which is just playing with the digits… it seems that you take the 2nd digit of each number, and subtract it from the first, then put the result next to the 3rd number, the new 2-digit number is the “answer”.
Ie: AB +C = (A-B)C
(For display purposes only! Neither AB nor the parentheses represent multiplication, as they would in real arithmetic)
So 92 +3 = 73 means that 9 minus 2, or 7, placed next to 3, is 73.
75 +2 = 22 means that 7 minus 5, or 2, placed next to 2 is 22.
97 +1 would be 9 -7, or 2, next to 1, or 21
PLEASE don’t share this with any kids who would be confused by the fake arithmetic. Real math is hard enough!
Yeah, Susan, I would agree, not a MATH puzzle, more a NUMBERS puzzle.
But, I did get it in the end on my own.
True, too, to NOT show this to any kid learning maths or arithmetics, they would never be able to distinguish the purpose of this “puzzle”…Would mess ’em for life!
I’m a big fan of fiction – some sci-fi, some fantasy, some crime, some spy thrillers, etc. Broad range of interests. I can get so engrossed in a series that the books seem more real than my normal life! Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth novels, for example: I started picking them up at used book stores, Goodwill, etc. until I had the whole set (at the time – more came later.) I was reading 3 or 4 hours a day for months. Going to work each day seemed less real than the story did.
Mom and I spend Saturdays hitting the antique/collectible/second hand and just plain junk stores. We don’t spend much money, but it’s funny how many things we come across that we never knew we needed, but just can’t live without 🙂
Anyway, to add to my vast selection of basset crap, I picked up this fine hand-painted portraiture of someone’s beloved hound dog:
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Ooh – long dogs, both short and tall…what a pack!
Are we there yet?
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Busted.
The policeman is supposedly catching boys peeking into the tent during rehearsals of the Bertram Mills circus, Luton, England, April 1938.
But with one boy smiling, and nobody running… I’m not convinced it isn’t staged.
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No worse than the lying garbage ads I’ve been seeing on YouTube and websites.
If the mop makes the dog happy, and he wears it, at least he’ll have “hair”.
If you take the bogus pills they’re pushing on the Internet, and rub the phony ointments into your scalp, you’ll be out lots of money and have nothing,
For 100 years, advertising and medicine were regulated in the US… now the Internet has pushed us back to the wild West.
Grow hair in 3 days, throw away your diabetes medication, cure illness by sleeping on linen or muslin or whatever is today’s fad.
A few hours ago I saw a video advertisement that had “actual footage” of Steve Martin talking to Martin Short about the “cure” that Bill Gates told him to take for memory loss. I didn’t click the link to get the price, of course… a good method for downloading malware.
But I did Google “Steve Martin video” and before I had typed another word, there was a link to Steve Martin warning people that he didn’t do it; that it was a “deep fake” using stolen and manipulated images.
Nobody’s stopping them!
Here’s another take on hair restorers by Robert Service:
The Baldness Of Chewed Ear
https://www.best-poems.net/robert_w_service/the_baldness_of_chewed_ear.html
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rural mail delivery-1914
Is this early Post Office? Proto Amazon? What’s in the box?
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Everything looks better with a nice set of drapes.
Which also reminds me of a Carol Burnett skit.
Which of course is a really funny spoof of “Gone with the Wind”, in which Vivien Leigh, as Scarlett, makes a gown from the green velvet drapes of Tara.
Carol Burnett, in “Went with the Wind”, did likewise.
Cabaret Dancer Edmonde Guydens, performing at the Moulin Rouge, in Paris in a beautiful (IMHO) lace costume, 1926.
A fire destroyed the original Moulin Rouge in 1915, then WWI intervened, and it wasn’t rebuilt and re-opened till not long before this…. but now, 100 years later, it’s still going strong.
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I hate it when that happens.
Ouch. Just ouch. No way that didn’t hurt…
Philadelphia PA-1958
..with a line of museum pieces parked in front
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Korean War era Mig 17
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I’m sure Otis felt just like that today when it was HIS turn to get bathed.
But was he plotting revenge like this guy?
Nope – not plotting, executing. He wouldn’t have a thing to do with me all afternoon.
Poor boy has some skin condition that makes him oily. I’d bathe him once a week but that’s not good for him either. So as soon as the bath is over, he’s already working on needing his next.
Best thing about my lab. Unless they get onto something oily or greasy you don’t need bathing. The closest Buddy has been to a bath is a hosing off.
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Oh good….
We got the same… uh… not gonna call it an answer.
Let’s say we came up with the same number.
They shouldn’t call it “math” without saying it’s a trick, cos as arithmetic, it would obviously be impossible.
But to do…
Ie: AB +C = (A-B)C
(For display purposes only! Neither AB nor the parentheses represent multiplication, as they would in real arithmetic)
So 92 +3 = 73 means that 9 minus 2, or 7, placed next to 3, is 73.
75 +2 = 22 means that 7 minus 5, or 2, placed next to 2 is 22.
97 +1 would be 9 -7, or 2, next to 1, or 21
PLEASE don’t share this with any kids who would be confused by the fake arithmetic. Real math is hard enough!
Yeah, Susan, I would agree, not a MATH puzzle, more a NUMBERS puzzle.
But, I did get it in the end on my own.
True, too, to NOT show this to any kid learning maths or arithmetics, they would never be able to distinguish the purpose of this “puzzle”…Would mess ’em for life!
Got the same answer.
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Popeye must be smoking the good stuff.
“Spinach” – my posterior!!!
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I’m a big fan of fiction – some sci-fi, some fantasy, some crime, some spy thrillers, etc. Broad range of interests. I can get so engrossed in a series that the books seem more real than my normal life! Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth novels, for example: I started picking them up at used book stores, Goodwill, etc. until I had the whole set (at the time – more came later.) I was reading 3 or 4 hours a day for months. Going to work each day seemed less real than the story did.
Billions and billions of books…
New piece for my fine art collection!
Mom and I spend Saturdays hitting the antique/collectible/second hand and just plain junk stores. We don’t spend much money, but it’s funny how many things we come across that we never knew we needed, but just can’t live without 🙂
Anyway, to add to my vast selection of basset crap, I picked up this fine hand-painted portraiture of someone’s beloved hound dog:
The Old Man of Storr, Skye, Scotland.
Oak Titmouse.