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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Shenanigans!

JP Steve
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 day ago

A surfeit of toebeans!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 day ago

Ive seen polydactyl cats, but not like that. If it’s real it must be some kind of record!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 day ago

The record is 28 altogether, but I don’t know whether that means one paw can have 8 and the others fewer.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Creatures with extra toes are called polydactyl.
There are actually a fair number of polydactyl cats.

This one’s paw looks just a bit too, I dunno… regular, I guess.
Usually the toes aren’t so perfect.
Makes it look like it might be AI.

But there are cats that look ALMOST like that.

This is a picture of Daniel, a very real polydactyl cat from the Milwaukee Animal Shelter, who was used in their fundraising campaign around 2010.

(If you recognize it, it might be because x_Tech used it for his avatar for years.)

Daniel had 26 toes altogether. Two extra per paw.
The shelter asked people to donate $1 a toe, and got quite a few $26 donations!

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1 day ago

Apparently I can’t post two pictures in one comment.

This one shows one of Daniel’s paws more clearly.
His other paws are more divided.

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jean vanleuven
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Puts my Oliver to shame! What a pawfull – impressive!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

“I am Monarch of all I survey…”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Where she belongs.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Dumb Russians labelled it a Mig-18…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

I seem to remember reading in a Popular Science or Mechanics that at one time you could buy one, in the box, and have it imported into the US.
Customs would remove the guns and any under wing hard points and you had a certified airframe mechanic put it together.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 day ago

Wow!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Am I missing some detail, or is that extremely unsafe?

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 day ago

It’s okay, she’s wearing gloves…

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 day ago

It’s fine, it’s just the flammable gas with a bit of oxygen, she hasn’t opened the oxygen valve more yet to give the blue flame. The amount of oxygen you add is dependent upon what you’re wanting the flame to do.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 day ago

I think Liverlips concern was that the item she was about to torch looked suspiciously explosive…

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  JP Steve
17 hours ago

Which is a hatch cover.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

More cartoon physics: The boulder lands on Wile E. before the rope he pulled on to release the boulder has hit the ground.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 day ago

Galileo hadn’t been invented yet…

jean vanleuven
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Normally I don’t laugh at these but today I did.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  jean vanleuven
1 day ago

It’s the absurdity that gets me. 😀

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Hints of M.C. Escher.

Liverlips McCracken
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1 day ago

I’m thinking along these lines. You’re on/in a spaceship of some kind. You are at an airlock, and you see this on the other side of the airlock. What do you do now?

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

That’s one ANGRY pineapple!

Arfside
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 day ago

I was thinking strawberry, but I think you’re right. Probably dizzy by now.

Thinking of that, churrascarias do a great job on broiled pineapple with cinnamon and sugar.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

According to my search:

“A 3D animation of liquid mercury, created by Cubicle Ninjas. This visual effect was used in a product showcase video for a speaker system to represent high-energy music. ”

Okay…. My interpretation:

Mind you, this is not a photograph, but a made-up animation, representing the supposed effect of the sound of the music on a ball of mercury. I don’t know whether any scientific research was done.

It’s.part of a mock ad, for a product that doesn’t exist, created to display the type of advertising this company can produce.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

My first impression was ferrofluid and a magnet.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

I can smell cherry blossoms.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 day ago

I just finished a re-read of Terry Pratchett’s “Night Watch” and could only see lilacs.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Yikes, that guy must be like 20 heads tall.

And the woman is probably related to all those toon men on Ballard Street with pipe cleaner legs.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

They do shrink when you get them wet…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

I think i have seen his work before.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Wonderful modeling work!

You can see that some bits are not the same between the pictures…
like the rearmost vehicle is a black car in one and a red truck in the other… And the luggage(?) is placed differently.

It must be so much fun to build and arrange.

I don’t know for certain whether it was done by the same person (or team?), but quite a while back we saw a street scene like this.

It looked real, but a longer shot showed that it was really miniatures on a table across the street.

I imagine it came from the same hands.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Somebody should wear that to the Oscars or the Grammys. Lots classier than some of the dresses that I’ve seen

JP Steve
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Reply to  Arfside
23 hours ago

Less revealing too…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

It had to belong to an early ancestor of Cher!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

A reflection from the recent past?

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 day ago

It’s the only way I’ll get them!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Yes…. A couple of weeks ago maybe?

I recognized his kid picture… I’m not sure how, myself…

But

I somehow knew
it was Cary Grant

I gave some details about his hard-knock early life, and even posted his favorite poem.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

Join the club.
No need to apologize.

And this way everybody gets a second chance !😁

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

If there’s ever an apartment available on that street….

Don’t bother telling me!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 hours ago

By the light of the eyeball-y moon
I want to run
Tell my honey, I’m done… no fun..

Eyeball moon, if you’re shinin’ in June
Your scary beams will bring our screams…

We’ll be running quite soon,
From the eyeball-y moon!

Liverlips McCracken
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1 day ago

Really a wonderful poster from Stel Bel. And proof that as an actor, Cleo has the range to play “masculine”, testosterone-soaked roles.

happyhappyhappy
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1 day ago

Musical sound track by Ennio Marricone.

Arfside
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 day ago

Ennio Marrowbone.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 day ago

Yeah that Marricone guy was just a copydog human.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
23 hours ago

Good though…

happyhappyhappy
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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 day ago

2CV Draisine, set up to run on the railway.

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Alexikakos
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1 day ago

 
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
 

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1 day ago

To specify the cause of death: He dared people to hit him into the stomach without getting hurt. But that last guy did that without a warning; Houdini hadn’t time to tense his solar plexus…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 day ago

I lust for that car.
Boss 302?

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
23 hours ago

Betcha coulda got it cheap after the chase scene…

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