May 14, 2026

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Draw me like one of your French poodles. “

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Wait! So – at the end of a rainbow – where you used to find a pot of gold – you now encounter a tornado? Things have really gone to seed under this government.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Hey, Mr. Leprechaun – your rainbow is leaking!

DancingBuffalo
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1 month ago

And speaking of leprechauns, is this a truck load of gold?

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

If they are really specific to Siberia, I can see why they might tend toward fluffiness.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

I’ve had fluffy cats, I can confirm this is the case with respect to the body/fluff ratio.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I must be really healthy.

I hate ice in my drinks, including ice water.

I don’t put bottled water in the fridge, or my Brita pitcher when I had one. I’ve occasionally asked for tap water in restaurants.

While I rarely drink soda, I do prefer it refrigerated, but if the only cooling option is putting ice cubes in it, I’ve been known to have a Coke straight out of the car.

You can call me crazy. I don’t care… you won’t be the first.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

 
Where do you buy a car full of Coke (and how do you carry it)?
 

Greyhame
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

I had a summer of working in the field when every lunch was out of a hot trunk. Coke and Pepsi taste terrible warmed up. Seven-up and RC Cola aren’t too bad. Best is Dr. Pepper.

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Reply to  Greyhame
1 month ago

I don’t drink them actually hot, if I can avoid it.

I just meant normal car-ish temperature.

If it’s a hot day, and they’re actually hot, and there’s no cooler to put them in… I’d rather drink the warm bottled water than a soft drink… but whatever.

I don’t like most soft drinks anyway, so I’ll take a warm Coke or Dr. Pepper over some of the others cold.

Like root beer. I can’t imagine why people drink that.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Maybe to a Dr. Pepper, though I’ve never tried it. Or cream soda.

Doesn’t go well with Coke.

Nothing could help a root beer.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Root beer doesn’t need help. It’s great as it is! 🙂
But it’s also great with ice cream, especially when there’s a lot of ice cream and you stir it in really well until it’s sort of melted!

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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Thanks anyway….

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Nope. I want my water cold, flavored, and carbonated.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Ice cold. Extra ice. (Although I’ve knocked off the sodas almost completely – too much sugar, usually too much caffeine, etc.)

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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
1 month ago

I drink a Coke if I buy a hot dog at Costco, which isn’t often, but it comes with it.. or maybe on the rare occasion I’m somewhere where someone offers me a soft drink out of a cooler.

The last 12-pack I bought was on sale for $4, so you know it was long ago. I’d put 2 in the fridge, 2 more when they were gone. The last few got so old they leaked, and I threw them away

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Snowball Earth.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

The mark of Zorro!

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

So who took the photo?

voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Some very creative type setting if that was real.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Beautiful job on the bindings.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

You may not judge those books by their covers, but you are able to tell their names instantly.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Buddy!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

This wouldn’t be my first choice for a garden decoration!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Well sure, who wouldn’t have a use for a spare set of tires, or even snow tires?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I like it!

I would have painted it in less rattler-ish colors, but I think it’s clever.

If you drive from here out towards what we call the west county, you pass dairy farms, vineyards, small country properties, and bits of redwood forest, and a popular decoration for all this stuff is planters made of inside-out tires, usually with zig-zag edges.

The snake would be a cool addition.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Nary a one. I’m sure somebody here watched all those sitcoms (or whatever), but it wasn’t me.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Sure. George, Margaret, Wesley, Pat, Fred, and Florence. There. Got anything else that needs naming?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Oddly enough, I can’t remember/recognize any of them.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

In HEELS!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Here, hold my beer.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I’m sure they’re built level, not slanted upwards like the camera would have you think.

Scary looking, but better than what looks like the unsupported ones that slid down in the bottom set of pictures.

I wouldn’t like it… but I’d try to remind myself that I cross bridges in a car, which weighs s lot more than a few people.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

No way in hell.

voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Get a house overlooking the valley” they said.
“The view will be fantastic” they said

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

A

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

PEDMAS
C

Tigressy
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Exactly.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

When I was learning maths I was taught that this kind of presentation of a maths problem is lazy. Any parts that either need to be done before others, or are grouped, should be in brackets to denote this.

So I would jot this down, assuming I’m working through a problem as:
(5×5) – 5 + (5/5) = ?
Then rearrange to become:
(5×5) + (5/5) – 5 = ?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Every time we have these I say they’re impossible without parentheses… Especially because kids are taught differently now from when I learned.

It’s easy to get A or C, though to me C is most correct. I can’t get B or D right now… But some people might get 23 [25 minus 2], or 19 [25 minus 6] and none are right or wrong without the problem being correctly specified.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Arfside’s answer is correct. Just for fun, I used my calculator (TI36X Solar) and came up with the same answer. Interesting that it’s smart enough to do it according to PEDMAS when the “=” sign is pressed.

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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 month ago

Oh good.

Or I should say “Phew!”

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

And these three are:
John Wayne, Kim Darby, and Glen Campbell,

In:
True Grit (1969)

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Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Got one actor and the movie right.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Got all but the actress.
Gawd, they were all young back then…!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Male Wood Duck.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Looking quite robust and well fed.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

That’s a great job of carving!

Oh, wait. I thought you stated wooden duck.

Sorry.

JP Steve
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Reply to  mr_sherman
1 month ago

I’ve seen ones that are that well carved!

Tigressy
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Recipe please.

happyhappyhappy
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1 month ago

My goddaughter took this photo of a laughing gull in Texas. I got curious so I went to Wikipedia and found the video.
[video src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trim.F419E503-74D1-4BE4-90FA-31A0C888E761.webm" /]

happyhappyhappy
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1 month ago

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

For some reason the photo I wanted to post won’t.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Seagulls – I loved the Disney version in “Finding Nemo” – Mine! Mine! Mine!

I remember eating outdoors at the beach, throwing French fries up in the air and watching seagulls crash into each other trying to grab them.

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DancingBuffalo
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1 month ago

“a Republic picture”? I’d have thought it would have been “a Repuplic picture”.

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