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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Dude!

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

Dudette…

JP Steve
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

(Actually, I don’t really know how to tell these guys apart…)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

But we call them ladybugs, whether they like it or not.

I doubt they know or care what humans call them, so they’re all ladies to me…. even the boy ladies.

While in their own little buggy universe, they carry on quite obliviously, doing whatever nature calls them to do.

Marge
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5 days ago

Hi, dear Susan – wikipedia.org tells me among others: “The males barely differ from the females externally. With the help of a microscope, the males can be identified by a tuft of hair on the second-to-last sternite. The sternite is found on the ventral or thoracic side.” I love this tuft of hair -Smile-

Hope you will have a wonderful day! 🌞

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Marge
5 days ago

It must be a very… appealing tuft of hair, to the lady ladybugs!

Marge
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

You bet…it will
…gigglegiggle

Marge
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

Hi, Steve.. we call them here in Germany Marienkäfer – and now I am really curious about the name of this little bug and found this – hope you like –
from Wahrig Herkunftswörterbuch (Etymology Dictionary)
Marienkäfer (translated with Google):

One of the few animals with a religiously motivated name is the ladybug, which is also associated with the Virgin Mary in other European languages: In British English, it is called ladybird and in American English ladybug (after Our Lady, Maria), Danish mariehøne, Croatian bubamara (from buba “beetle” and a derivation of the name Maria), Spanish mariquita, and Northern French bête de la vierge “virgin animal.” These names may have originated from the seven spots often found on the wings, which were associated with the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary. According to another interpretation, our ancestors believed that the Virgin sent the ladybug to exterminate pests and save the harvest. Since the ladybug also protects against witches and misfortune in popular belief, it is also seen as a lucky charm. Although not referring to the Virgin, but to God, the Russian equivalent is bož’ja korovka, which literally means “little cow of God”.

Marge
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Reply to  Marge
5 days ago

There name is also Siebenpunkt-Marienkäfer or Siebenpunktkäfer – seven points or – you would say seven dots? I have so much fun hier to improve English! Thank you for your help!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Marge
5 days ago

You are doing good! 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Marge
5 days ago

You do very well!

JP Steve
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Reply to  Marge
4 days ago

“Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle” is a name North American entomologists would recognize.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Marge
5 days ago

Interesting!

I wondered why we called them all ladies.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Marge
4 days ago

That’s a lot of information I didn’t know — thanks!

Marge
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Oh, I love these little beetles! 🐞

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Marge
5 days ago

I was very small I was told it was lucky if one landed on me.

So in spite of my squeamishness about other bugs, I never minded ladybugs.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

I don’t think they’re feeding him enough…

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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

He agrees with you.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Great. Traumatize another little kid

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

That’ what i figured you would say. Did you see the vid i posed late yesterday?

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

I just clicked away the request to log in and had no problem watching the video.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
5 days ago

It doesn’t get that far for me.

Some Facebook pages do.

If I get to Facebook and it says to log in, I can sometimes ignore it, and click directly on the page…. but sometimes that doesn’t work.

For that link, though, I only get an error message, exactly as I said.

I just went back and tried again…. Same.
“Page not working.”

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

It was the same thing, but with a full grown man.
H got a little traumatized himself.
My takeaway for all three videos, never turn your back to a predator.

Earthling
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Bad kitty! No no

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Someone moved Mount Fuji!

Tigressy
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

While we stayed in South Korea for 2 months in 2010 (April and May) we were extremely lucky: Cherry-blossom festivals everywhere we went over a couple of weeks!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Trick question! There’s only eleven!

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

It is a terrific movie. No way can I name all twelve, but I can name several.

Without placing them in the above:
 E.G. Marshall, Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, & Martin Balsam. I recognize at least two more but can’t ID them. I thought I remembered Lee J. Cobb, but he isn’t shown above.
Also, if memory serves, the
ACCUSED
is played by Sal Mineo.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Off we go…into the wild blue yonder….

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

I was going to research it, but I didn’t have to….

The file name is Policeman-59th-Street-1964-New-York.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

The actor looks familiar, but no name comes to mind.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 days ago

Not an actor… A policeman.

See my post above…. we probably commented around the same time.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Classic!

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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Timeless.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

What could possibly go wrong.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
5 days ago

Everything! 😀

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

I love the cartoon physics in these animations 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Those jeans are (supposedly) fashionable again in 2025.

The difference is, not as street wear for teenage girls, but as high fashion for women in their 30s with $450 -$1000 to spend on “couture” ready-to-wear jeans.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Let’s see…she looks to be about 14 in 1977. That would have made me…mumble, mumble…let’s not talk about it anymore.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Arfside
5 days ago

I was 12 in ’77.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

Sigh…..

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

Graduated in 76.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 days ago

Me, too.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 days ago

’67…

Arfside
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Reply to  JP Steve
4 days ago

Me too.

Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

15 most of it.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

I was 25.

Kid.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
5 days ago

I was…..um…. never mind.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 days ago

Just coming into your prime.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Nope…

JP Steve
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

Okay, got him!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 days ago

Yup!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

Sure, if you it accept that it’s a mouse.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 days ago

Just in case you’d like to see where I found him….

Here he is….
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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

BUNNIES!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

And one rodent.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

Don’t specifically have any pictures of rodents (Though I could find some easily enough), but instead (Because I’m lazy this morning and I had my online repository open already) have a Clouded Leopard.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

I’ll loo at those all day.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

Maybe if he wouldn’t drink so much, he could be a regular leopard.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 days ago

Have a bunny.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 days ago

And a handsome one at that!

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 days ago

LAGAMORPHS!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 days ago

I’m woking on it. Ive got two life coaches helping me learn.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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5 days ago

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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5 days ago

Charlemagne’s Throne in Aachen. From then until 1531, it served as the coronation throne for thirty-one Kings of Germany.

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Alexikakos
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5 days ago

 
Happy first day ofcomment image , everybody!
 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
5 days ago

And to you as well.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
5 days ago

They tell me it has sprung.

Doesn’t quite feel like it… But soon!

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
5 days ago

The forsythias are in full bloom here.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Tigressy
4 days ago

Good for you. We only have three sythias in bloom here.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 days ago

Ouch.

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