March 16, 2024

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Love that face.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Apparently taken on one of the grotesques of the Chrysler building in NYC.

That’s all i could find out so far.

The bathing suit looks like one from the early 1950s.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

 

Originally taken as part of a 1949 beach photo shoot.

 
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mr_sherman
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Then photoshopped.

P51Strega
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Reply to  mr_sherman
6 months ago

Not a particularly good one. Here hand seems to have lost it’s color, and her feet have lower saturation than the rest of the picture as well.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

It’s could have been done before there was Photoshop…

Earlier cut and paste techniques were much less precise.

In fact i did some before computers, when it was literally cut and paste.

Photos or clipbook images, text that had been set on white paper to cut out…

Sometimes pasted on paper, sometimes pressed onto waxed white cardboard.

Then the whole thing was sent to the printers to be re-photographed.

You could lose a lot of detail and picture quality, especially from images that were transferred several times before the final print.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

My dad was a commercial artist, he did a lot of that. I did a little photo-copier art in the pre computer art days. I still find the loss of color in her hand odd.

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Translated from the Italian by Google Lens, it says from

“THE SUNDAY OF THE COURIER”
(Which is probably the Sunday Courier.)
20 JULY 1918

“Defeated by the roses. Near the Turin-Lingotto station, along a lonely path, Miss Guida Concetta Rinino, 28 years old, who was going to a relative with a beautiful bouquet of roses, was attacked by an unknown young man. The girl, rather than losing heart, defended herself with extraordinary energy, using the bouquet of flowers as a weapon. The fact was that the scoundrel, with his face all scratched up, had to flee. (Drawing by Walter Molinos)”

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

My mind went the same place.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

 
WALTER MOLINO SPECIALIZED IN DISASTER ART.
There’s a short article, and then a really good sampling of his work.
 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

“Roses again?!
I told you carnations!”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Coming back i realize that i must have been sleepy…

It’s not 1918 just because text recognition software read it as 1918, and the style of illustration is old fashioned.

The clothes, the hair, the purse the shoes, are obviously not WWI vintage.

No woman in the western world would have gone out the door in a skirt or hair that short, or a blouse that revealing.

I’m not saying she would have anywhere else, either, just leaving room for something i might not know about Eastern dress.

The resolution is very poor… but looking at the date myself, i think it says 1968, possibly 58.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

 
I found one with better resolution:
It’s the 20th of July, 1958 edition.
 
 

OOPS !
I forgot this.
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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Thanks.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

It looks like Paddington…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I got nuthin.

The white edges kinda make the cow look photoshopped in.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

It is, it looks quite flat as well as the white edges.

Greyhame
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

My first thought was a vintage cardboard cutout.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Advertising.

They like to throw money around in advertising.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

If anybody’s playing the “guess the adult celebrity” game….

this is…
Steve McQueen

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

In the film…

The
Great Escape

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P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Yup, scene it. (sic)

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

 
He’s 100 metres from the Swiss Border.

Or 328.08398950131233595800524934383… feet.

 

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Poor fish

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

When i was sent the image for this puzzle, it was labeled Nine Differences, but Nighthawks said there might be ten.

I did find ten, and he changed the title… but, sigh… not for me.
So i did what i could.

My solution was done on exactly the same picture you see… the only difference is in the title.

That shouldn’t make a “hole” lot of difference 😁

I want to say “Hope you can dig it”, but that is just painfully out of date.

Word on the street is that it would be a sign of old age.

Here you go…

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Schwing!

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Maybe?
The hydrant looks darker to me in the second image.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

A Nighthawks question, not a Susan question.

I just solve the puzzle… I don’t resolve issues concerning what counts.

Susan opinion, though… I looked, but i don’t see what you see there.

If others do, yes, it could be a very slight difference, probably unintended, which usually doesn’t count. Only Nighthawks can decide.

And if it did count, something else about that thing is already a difference, and all the changes to one thing can only count as one difference, so it’s moot.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

I found all ten.

P51Strega
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Reply to  mr_sherman
6 months ago

Me too. Cheers!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

S’ok…. I found some clothespins.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

 

How I missed the…

 
…fire hydrant…..
 

 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Actually, that was the 2nd last one i found, and the very last was embarrassingly, glaringly, obvious.

i hate to admit, it was the
waistband on Claude’s jacket.

Sometimes eyes and brains just don’t coordinate, or they choose to play tricks.

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

I got nine real fast.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

TEN!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

On the theme of “First World Problems” I bought myself a new (To me) vehicle during the week, a 2019 Ford Ranger Wildtrak, to replace my 2004 Fiat Doblo small panel van. I had a company supplied Ranger Limited for six years, which unfortunately they refused to sell me when I retired two years ago, so I’ve bought myself a Wildtrak. I’ve been going through the settings/entertainment/navigation systems setting things up as I want them, and hit a snag.
One of the things I need to do is download the Ford App to my phone so I can access all of the functions like remote start etc. which is where the ‘FWP’ has kicked in, my phone (An iPhone 7) can’t install the App as the operating system can’t be upgraded to the minimum required (iOS 16), it can only go up to iOS 15…

So I’ve had to upgrade my iPhone, to a newer one that will run the newer iOS, so I can install the App that I need to access all the functions on my new vehicle…….!!

Like I said ‘First World Problems’!!!!!

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Here’s a picture of the new (To me) truck, the colour is Sabre Orange 🙂

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Rangers are considered large vehicles over here in the UK.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

Looks like a large vehicle to me, and I drive a Toyota Avalon. The Avalon is categorized in the USA as a large car.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

Just looked up the Toyota Avalon, the Ranger is approximately 20 inches longer than the Avalon according the specs. I did read that because the ‘standard’ size of truck in the US is F150/RAM/Silverado sized, Rangers are considered ‘Medium’ sized trucks. Certainly compared with a normal sized saloon/sedan, the Ranger is somewhat larger.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 months ago

I drive a Leaf most of the time, but i have an Uplander van i use on Friday for shopping for my client and transporting a friend to her church on Sundays.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

My other vehicle is a long wheelbase Ford Transit, great vehicle to drive, and can carry a couple of tons, but can be a problem to park due to its size.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

You hardly use the van for work any more, transporting clients?

It was such a project, with people contributing and everything… I thought you were still doing that, and it was a good gig.

You may have said on Ten Cats or elsewhere on GoComics but I’m pretty scarce there.

Alexikakos
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6 months ago

 
The strength of this insect….

 

 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

I was rooting for him to carry off the big piece.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

We’d finished a wonderful T-bone dinner, and two bees came and landed on the bones. I couldn’t tell what they were doing, but my wife zoomed in with her phone and videoed them cutting off scraps of meat and carrying it off.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

I’ve done that many times while camping.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Wasp or hornet, It’s hard to tell on video.

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