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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

This is

the cast of
SCTV, in the mid-1980s

who are:
Standing in back, John Candy and Martin Short … takes me back to remember when the latter used to do that to his hair!
In front, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, and Eugene Levy, who also looked pretty different in those days.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

In case anybody else is as confused as I was, at first….

Amity Island

is the fictional New England beach town where.the events of “Jaws” took place.

I didn’t remember that, and didn’t recognize it, I believe,

partly because….
the artist who did this poster seems to draw well, but not excel at catching likenesses.

I didn’t recognize the caricatures of Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider, which would have immediately given it away, in spite of my forgetting the name of the town

Which I did, so yes, I’m not saying it isn’t mostly my own fault.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

Not too late to attend the 50th anniversary!
https://www.mvy.com/2024/01/18/jaws-50th-anniversary-celebration/

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Saint
2 days ago

Wow, it’s sold out, so I can only guess at how much the tickets went for.

I’m sure it wasn’t $20.

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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

It’s funny… I thought they were well drawn, if this makes any sense… But I didn’t recognize them.

It was late, and I was tired… even so, I usually recognize a lot of the celebrity pictures posted here… tried. Certainly Richard Dreyfuss.

Yet I was staring at these drawings wondering whether I should know who they were.

I only realized when I read that Amity Island was from Jaws, and looked at them again.

The other thing is, I’ve only seen Jaws once, way back when it was new… I liked it, but I’m not a huge fan.

So I didn’t remember the characters’ names either, which would have helped.

It’s not like I can help it, or I intended to be critical.
I just thought someone else might be confused too.

Edited later… I just got home and looked at my post… I can’t believe I wrote Dustin Hoffman instead of Richard Dreyfuss!

I don’t know where my brain was wandering… I’ve always known it was Richard Dreyfuss, even in the caricature I didn’t recognize at first…
How did Dustin Hoffman show up on my post??

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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Oops I accidentally thumbed your comment down, but I think I fixed it. Should be up now.

It’s easy to touch the wrong thing on this tablet…

And sometimes my “likes” don’t work the first or second time, either.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

I suspect a story here…

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

A category one disaster…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 days ago

Cat-ass-trophy.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

Thereby hangs a tail.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

EWC!
They grow (up) so fast…
Honey, I Blew Up the Cat

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

“Mine. All mine.”

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

So did he win?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Actually, I believe she did…. though it was hard to find a conclusive answer.

Must of the results I found were in other languages… not even ones I could tease any meaning from, being written in non-Roman alphabets.

But I did find a couple captioned in English where all it said was something like “I’m glad she still won!” And “Rolling for the win!”

But one said “Judges are waiting for the photos, to see whether she stepped into someone else’s lane.”

Apparently that’s a disqualification… but rolling across the finish line isn’t.

I wonder what percentage of the race you’re allowed to roll!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Of course, but it’s also true that two of the borders don’t match the other three.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

SPOILER
No. 2; no shadows.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Apparently not!

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 days ago

Sorry… But the actual difference

I found…

Is that #3 is different, because the eye holes are “backwards”. They point to the middle instead of outwards.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

 

The official answer from the ‘Reader’s Digest’ site.
Very poor puzzle in my opinion both Susan and Liverlips observed valid differences.

 
Answer: Mask number three doesn’t belong. On all the other masks, the pointed side of the eyes aims outward.
 

 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 days ago

I posted my first comment without a spoiler because I said it was something “also” true… but not the difference.

The actual difference is what I posted to Liverlips before I saw your post… But it’s the same.

I didn’t post that, because I thought it was so obvious.
I guess it’s not!
Sorry.

It’s true… it’s a poor puzzle that has two many extra differences.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

You can tell this doggie was a goofball.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

 
The picture (another view) is a link to an article about these caves.
 
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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

That is an ice cave. Under a glacier.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Bless you!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Well, it wasn’t strictly forbidden…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

We talked about this before…. some- a these here young’uns ain’t never heered of Jeff!

(Said in my old-timer voice.)

Alexikakos
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3 days ago

 
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
 

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
2 days ago

It looks good, but it isn’t a pancake.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 days ago

In the UK, flapjack means something totally different from a pancake.

It’s a chewy, sweet oat bar, like a cross between a bar cookie and a granola bar… usually as in the above recipes, but without the raspberries, which seem like they’d make it soggy.

They were around long before most of us knew about granola, much less granola bars…. but I don’t know which came first, British flapjacks, or American use of the word for pancakes.

Alexi posts recipes from British and Canadian sources, without considering that we might have different cooking terms, and available ingredients from the UK. Canadian recipes can be in between.

Types of sugar, different sorts of syrup, cuts of meat, grilling vs broiling… the list is long.

Also, most of us don’t use metric measurements or temperatures, and we tend to use volumetric measures, like cups and tablespoons, when they use weights. Even their pints and quarts are a different size from ours.

Luckily I have English friends of long standing, and an English cookbook or two, so I can usually interpret.

But I don’t think in metric, and neither do my English friends, because they left England before it was common, and by now they’re used to our measures anyway.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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2 days ago

We rarely use the term “quart” over here, we’ll just say ‘two pints’. I watch several US youtube channels about cars and machinery, and often hear the people on them, when checking the oil on an engine, “It looks about half a quart low.” I have to restrain myself from saying to the computer “Well, that’ll be a pint then.”

Two countries separated by a common language.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 day ago

I can’t imagine anyone here saying “a pint of oil”, because it comes in quart containers, and you’re actually, I think, referring more to the container than the measure.

They even say a quarter of a quart, though rarely, cos such a small amount doesn’t matter so much… but never a cup.

It carries over even to mechanic shops that buy it in bulk… though I’ve noticed my mechanic uses branded quart containers.

For cooking, recipes will often say 8 cups of water instead of 2 quarts… Never four pints.

You also drink in pints… an American bar offers “glasses” and, for groups, “pitchers” of beer, both of undetermined volume.

And of course, your quarts, and pints are bigger than ours, your ounces a bit smaller. A US half a quart of oil is less than a British pint.

And a British pint of beer is almost twice the glass you get here.

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Alexikakos
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3 days ago

 
Solid evidence that animals care about one another (the humans aren’t bad either).
 

 

Alexikakos
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3 days ago

 
Someone’s programming is not quite right (but it must have been fun building those things).
 

 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 days ago

A customer warming himself at the big stove in a Middlesboro, Kentucky general store – 1940’s.

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SusanSunshine
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3 days ago

Yes, Claude… I imagine you do feel a great big “Confound it, Cleo!” welling up in your chest…. rising up from the very depths of your being.

You feel proud, and masterful… so powerful… ready to tame the savage beast.

It’s too bad you don’t feel quite enough power to walk over there and take the weapons away from two small animals.

Okay, one smallish but mean animal, and one sturdy one that’s probably… oh, maybe only a third of your weight, but stubborn.

Still… You’re human.
Cartoon human, but nonetheless, supposedly in charge.

Who buys the kibble in your house?

Never mind… You’ll never get it.

I suppose it’s not your fault. Like Jessica Rabbit… you’re drawn that way.

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