It’s usually the male Gharial who ferries the babies around.
This is an odd angle… But they have bulbous eyes, which I think are those two bumps in front of the kids… long skinny snouts (his is mostly underwater here), and the males have a large protuberance near the tip, called a ghara… which is what you see in the foreground.
Since it’s not cut all of a piece with the whole roof, which would be impossible, I think it would have to be joined at some point.
It looks to me like the round piece at the top is a carved snake, or some such, and below that, a smaller, thinner ring is used to attach the first link of the one piece chain.
The third link of the chain looks smaller, and possibly split near the bottom… It’s impossible to see it clearly.
Second link is iron, that’s what I meant. It looks (To me) that the chain is carved along with the corner stone underneath the lip of the roof, which would have been fitted to the rest of the structure along with the snakes but I could be wrong.
I couldn’t believe the 50 grand price… So I just did a little googling.
I wanted to know what “authentic altered” means. Apparently PSA is a… company recognized by collectors for grading sports cards. They examine the card, judge its authenticity and give it a condition rating, which they guarantee to a buyer.
They have rated this one as authentic, but altered means it may have been trimmed, cleaned, or maybe even touched up with a little dot from a marker.
This is Mantle’s rookie card, and was referred to as the holy Grail for collectors.
Believe it or not, I saw a couple that were not rated “altered”….
They were for sale for up to ten times this price! 299 to 499 thousand dollars!
About 26 years ago, someone kindly made me a copy, which I may still have somewhere in storage, of his commercially produced digital collection of every issue of MAD, from the first to around 1998… both on… sigh… a big pile of floppy disks.
Floppy disks.
I suppose it’s not as bad as all the people who trusted scanning, with a 1990s quality scanner, their whole life’s collection of photos, documents, and paper memorabilia, and storing it “forever” on floppy disks… and then got rid of the originals.
It’s not the end of the world… I mean, you can get floppy disk readers for modern computers.
You’ll just never get back the image quality…. and of course, you need a computer… which I currently have not got one of.
In 1934 Katharine Hepburn won the first of four Oscars for Best Actress, a record which has not yet been matched, for the 1933 film Morning Glory. She received 8 additional nominations between her first and second win.
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Good mama!
Papa.
It’s usually the male Gharial who ferries the babies around.
This is an odd angle… But they have bulbous eyes, which I think are those two bumps in front of the kids… long skinny snouts (his is mostly underwater here), and the males have a large protuberance near the tip, called a ghara… which is what you see in the foreground.
Thanks. I was wondering what it was, then got distracted fixing problems and never got back to looking it up.
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Is it popcorn… or brains??
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The “Absolute World Towers” in Mississauga, Ontario (it’s a condominium project).
Here’s Wikipedia on it….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_World
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Looks like one of the links has been replaced at some point.
Since it’s not cut all of a piece with the whole roof, which would be impossible, I think it would have to be joined at some point.
It looks to me like the round piece at the top is a carved snake, or some such, and below that, a smaller, thinner ring is used to attach the first link of the one piece chain.
The third link of the chain looks smaller, and possibly split near the bottom… It’s impossible to see it clearly.
Is that where you mean?
Second link is iron, that’s what I meant. It looks (To me) that the chain is carved along with the corner stone underneath the lip of the roof, which would have been fitted to the rest of the structure along with the snakes but I could be wrong.
I wonder how many times the artist had to try while learning to make it?
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You can see the gears going round and round!
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I couldn’t believe the 50 grand price… So I just did a little googling.
I wanted to know what “authentic altered” means. Apparently PSA is a… company recognized by collectors for grading sports cards. They examine the card, judge its authenticity and give it a condition rating, which they guarantee to a buyer.
They have rated this one as authentic, but altered means it may have been trimmed, cleaned, or maybe even touched up with a little dot from a marker.
This is Mantle’s rookie card, and was referred to as the holy Grail for collectors.
Believe it or not, I saw a couple that were not rated “altered”….
They were for sale for up to ten times this price! 299 to 499 thousand dollars!
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Pretty clever kitty.
Looks like she’s breaking into, not out, of something.
So not escaping a cage, but getting into the house?
Very smart indeed!
Keep your eye on the silverware, when kitty wants treats!
Of course, she is a cat… maybe she can’t tell the sterling from the stainless. Whew…
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It’s called the Valley of Lights in in the province of Brescia, Italy.
if you find the 4-leaf clover,
you’ll have good luck today
I wouldn’t want anyone to not have good luck.
So just in case you don’t see it
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She knew she shouldn’t have let Sally talk her into a blind date with that new guy from accounting..
Joan Weldon …and friend
About 26 years ago, someone kindly made me a copy, which I may still have somewhere in storage, of his commercially produced digital collection of every issue of MAD, from the first to around 1998… both on… sigh… a big pile of floppy disks.
Floppy disks.
I suppose it’s not as bad as all the people who trusted scanning, with a 1990s quality scanner, their whole life’s collection of photos, documents, and paper memorabilia, and storing it “forever” on floppy disks… and then got rid of the originals.
It’s not the end of the world… I mean, you can get floppy disk readers for modern computers.
You’ll just never get back the image quality…. and of course, you need a computer… which I currently have not got one of.
Instead of one illustrator we get all of the “Mad Magazine” illustrators.
Another good one by Pete Beard.
In 1934 Katharine Hepburn won the first of four Oscars for Best Actress, a record which has not yet been matched, for the 1933 film Morning Glory. She received 8 additional nominations between her first and second win.
Service takes furrever.
“Au feu de bois” means from a wood fire, ie wood-fired… I can’t imagine a huge pizza oven in that tiny trailer.
But no wonder it takes a while.
Doggie is obviously patient… doesn’t look like she often gives up on food.
way overfed
Exactly.
Mistle Thrush.
Claude should know from reading Cleo and Company that it’s never the poor table that wins.