People used to ruin their screens playing Pong, burning in the stationary parts of the game. It happened to their TVs, when they had the early Atari players, and then to their CRT monitors.
It’s funny… It looks so much like the photo, but to me, something of the facial resemblance is lost.
Cover up the left side, with the iconic hair, feathers, and bracelets, maybe ignore the glasses, and I wouldn’t recognize it as Janis.
It’s like the artist tried to “prettify” her… Though maybe not on purpose. Might just be a standard method of drawing a face that didn’t catch the quirkiness of hers.
The shape of her face is wrong… especially her chin, which is way too long and pointed. Put your finger over it to shorten it, and the likeness is a bit better.
Her mouth isn’t drawn wide enough, and has been rounded to look more glamorous… Her real top lip is almost straight, her bottom lip much thinner… and her teeth don’t fill the space like that.
Her expressive eyebrows are missing, and some of the crinkles that give her cheek its expression.
Even if we sometimes vote opposite tickets, effectively cancelling each other out, it’s important to participate in the process. (Minus the name calling and mud slinging, of course!)
The only “fight” I remember my parents having was when they had voted for different parties. Not sure if they stayed mad with each other for five minutes or less…
It’s pretty complicated… But not really the 1950s… And it’s never all the issues, but only certain ones that flip flop.
I’m no historian, but I know that 150 years ago it was almost reversed.
Republicans like to say they’re the party of Abraham Lincoln. But his policies would be anathema to a conservative Republican now. He absolutely supported the right of the federal government to abolish slavery in the states, and to require universal (male) conscription.
And the Democrats were the so called states rights party… Against centralized government power, saying state laws superceded federal ones.
But for some, particularly in the south, it was a thin excuse to hang onto openly racist policies, and before the Civil War, slavery.
…
It’s true that in the 1950s, traces remained of so called Dixiecrats, fighting school integration, which was pushed by Republicans like Eisenhower.
But northern Democrats like my mother were much more like liberals of today. She supported Franklin D Roosevelt… who would still be a Democrat today… help for the poor, the New Deal, public job training, etc.
My dad was an Eisenhower supporter… But if Trump supporters looked at Eisenhower’s policies… Desegregation, distrust of the “military-industrial complex” (his term!) and big corporations, they’d call him a Marxist.
Plus the anti communist trend was in full swing in the 1950s, and was a Republican effort, mostly to discredit liberal Democrats. It’s the main reason Reps today still call Dems Communists.
I know my Mom hated McCarthy but my dad saw Communists in every cupboard.
….
I was taught in school in the 60s that Republicans still supported strong central government, and Democrats supported the sovereignity of individual states. But I saw little evidence of it, and today that issue is rather moot.
Thanks for all that! Certainly makes more sense that the shift happened gradually. The story I get (possibly as a foreigner) is how it was LBJ supporting integration that instantly turned the Republican party right-wing to steal all those Dixiecrats into their fold. Everything was black-and-white before Johnson and white-and-black after.
That famous photo of the little girl, all dressed up, being escorted by troopers to her first day in a previously all white school, where she would be the first Black student, was under Eisenhower’s desegregation orders.
Some anti-segregationist Republicans AND Democrats later became Republicans as that party shifted rightward, and Democrats under Kennedy became more liberal, and even more so under Johnson.
But George Wallace, long time governor of Alabama, who said “segregation forever”, was a Democrat, too, and ran against Johnson in the primaries.
He later ran as the right wing American independent party candidate.
I think Nighthawks got a little ahead of himself…
You’re right. This was meant to be Saturday’s puzzle.
I usually get a little lead time on solving it… That way, if I have a question or notice a problem I can email him before I need to post it, though that rarely happens. I usually send him my solution, anyway, just in case.
…
I was out this evening checking out the Wednesday Night Downtown Market for this summer. Every year, less farmer’s market, more overpriced prepared food… Sigh…
Then I went to Costco… Then I was tired, so I sat for a minute at a table in the food court and checked out coupons in the app.
Never one to resist also checking my email, I discovered that Nighthawks had indeed sent me Saturday’s puzzle. Good.
….
Got home, put stuff away…. doo de dooh..🎶
… glanced at Cleo…. Oops!
So I solved it….
and wouldn’t you know, for the first time in ages I could only find nine.
Couldn’t ask Nighthawks, so I searched for an earlier version…. Couldn’t find it.
So… I just had to sit there till I saw #10!
And I did.
I hope!
And here you have it….
Let me know if you found anything different!
Angus beef is premium here, and even ordinary sirloin is around that price now, unless it’s a really good sale. Forget Prime.
…
Actually, I just remembered… Costco had prime grade rib roasts for Christmas. Remember, Costco is the cheapest anywhere, and you have to buy large packages. And this was in 2024.
“Prime” means two things… a prime rib roast means only the ribs at the large end, starting with #1, the first rib.
But in this case, it means USDA grade prime… the best grade, which you rarely see outside of restaurants. I don’t know if this one includes rib #1, but it’s the large ribs.
Also, unlike that sirloin, this is entirely bone-in… You’re supposed to buy about one pound per person cos the bone is half the weight.
I took this picture to send my sister cos I couldn’t believe people had them in their carts…
Cookbooks vary, saying maybe 15 to 30% of the weight is bones.
But that’s for people like me, who eat every scrap.
For delicate flowers who only eat the perfect central portion of a slice, and won’t touch the ring around the outside that might have some fat or gristle, or the tougher meat between the bones, it’s going to be more like 40% meat, 60% bones and other scraps.
At $21.59 a pound, that makes the “good part” about $50/lb!
Besides, they also say to buy 1 lb per person…. So they must not really believe it’s only 25% bone, cos they wouldn’t suggest that each person needs 12 oz of meat.
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They look like honeymooners.
People used to ruin their screens playing Pong, burning in the stationary parts of the game. It happened to their TVs, when they had the early Atari players, and then to their CRT monitors.
Miss you over at Ballard St. !
Aww… Thanks.
Dunno whether you’ll see this… But i keep meaning to get back over there.
This new “upgrade” came along and has been very discouraging.
Things are getting better over there now, IMO. And No. 6 is back and trying to rejuvenate the place with puzzles and limericks.
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How can you tell it’s brooding?
Wouldn’t you be brooding, if you had to carry around and hatch all those eggs?
,,
bingo
find the sniper
Easy!
Yeah, easy with a close-up shot like this. Look again from a hundred yards away, and you’ll never see who shot you.
Got ’em.
That’s what he said!
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It’s funny… It looks so much like the photo, but to me, something of the facial resemblance is lost.
Cover up the left side, with the iconic hair, feathers, and bracelets, maybe ignore the glasses, and I wouldn’t recognize it as Janis.
It’s like the artist tried to “prettify” her… Though maybe not on purpose. Might just be a standard method of drawing a face that didn’t catch the quirkiness of hers.
I think it’s her eyes
And the shadows – we see only a flat image in the artwork that is missing the depth of field in the photo.
That Could be it. The whole thing is flat.
Much more than shadows or eyes….
The shape of her face is wrong… especially her chin, which is way too long and pointed. Put your finger over it to shorten it, and the likeness is a bit better.
Her mouth isn’t drawn wide enough, and has been rounded to look more glamorous… Her real top lip is almost straight, her bottom lip much thinner… and her teeth don’t fill the space like that.
Her expressive eyebrows are missing, and some of the crinkles that give her cheek its expression.
That’s why she looks flat.
..
Clearly
Didn’t we already do this one?
I think so…. But I still had to search tonight.
Same place as a couple of days ago.
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anti-suffragette propaganda
Yes, actually, you should.
Even if we sometimes vote opposite tickets, effectively cancelling each other out, it’s important to participate in the process. (Minus the name calling and mud slinging, of course!)
My parents cancelled each other out for decades…
Neither dared miss an election or the other would “win.”
The only “fight” I remember my parents having was when they had voted for different parties. Not sure if they stayed mad with each other for five minutes or less…
My parents actually laughed about it… Surprising, considering my dad’s temper.
But he did respect her right to vote, and they always voted opposite in partisan elections, so it became a joke.
She was a lifelong Democrat. He became a Republican in the 1950s, regretting his wild college liberalism… which is part of his hatred for mine.
We keep being told that in the 50’s Democrats were conservative and Republicans were liberal. Is that more alternate reality?
It’s pretty complicated… But not really the 1950s… And it’s never all the issues, but only certain ones that flip flop.
I’m no historian, but I know that 150 years ago it was almost reversed.
Republicans like to say they’re the party of Abraham Lincoln. But his policies would be anathema to a conservative Republican now. He absolutely supported the right of the federal government to abolish slavery in the states, and to require universal (male) conscription.
And the Democrats were the so called states rights party… Against centralized government power, saying state laws superceded federal ones.
But for some, particularly in the south, it was a thin excuse to hang onto openly racist policies, and before the Civil War, slavery.
…
It’s true that in the 1950s, traces remained of so called Dixiecrats, fighting school integration, which was pushed by Republicans like Eisenhower.
But northern Democrats like my mother were much more like liberals of today. She supported Franklin D Roosevelt… who would still be a Democrat today… help for the poor, the New Deal, public job training, etc.
My dad was an Eisenhower supporter… But if Trump supporters looked at Eisenhower’s policies… Desegregation, distrust of the “military-industrial complex” (his term!) and big corporations, they’d call him a Marxist.
Plus the anti communist trend was in full swing in the 1950s, and was a Republican effort, mostly to discredit liberal Democrats. It’s the main reason Reps today still call Dems Communists.
I know my Mom hated McCarthy but my dad saw Communists in every cupboard.
….
I was taught in school in the 60s that Republicans still supported strong central government, and Democrats supported the sovereignity of individual states. But I saw little evidence of it, and today that issue is rather moot.
This is probably more than you asked for!
Thanks for all that! Certainly makes more sense that the shift happened gradually. The story I get (possibly as a foreigner) is how it was LBJ supporting integration that instantly turned the Republican party right-wing to steal all those Dixiecrats into their fold. Everything was black-and-white before Johnson and white-and-black after.
That famous photo of the little girl, all dressed up, being escorted by troopers to her first day in a previously all white school, where she would be the first Black student, was under Eisenhower’s desegregation orders.
Some anti-segregationist Republicans AND Democrats later became Republicans as that party shifted rightward, and Democrats under Kennedy became more liberal, and even more so under Johnson.
But George Wallace, long time governor of Alabama, who said “segregation forever”, was a Democrat, too, and ran against Johnson in the primaries.
He later ran as the right wing American independent party candidate.
,..
America needs more men of action like this.
Not the kind of high-kick he had hoped for.
Do we get till Sunday to solve it?
I know you’re joking, but I always want to say… you always get as long as you like!
That’s one reason my solution is in a spoiler box, and why we like other people to hide their clues and spoilers too.
Who knows when you might want to solve one you skipped in 2017.
And we’re getting another one Saturday!
Isn’t this a day early? Or have I begun to just lose entire days of consciousness?
Two days, it’s Thursday today.
White House Renovation 1950’s.
It doesn’t look quite finished, it might need another coat of paint.
To quote the current occupant: “What a dump!”
I think I’ve found all ten. I wait with bated breath to learn the truth.
Well, Cleo pals…. This was a surprise.
I think Nighthawks got a little ahead of himself…
You’re right. This was meant to be Saturday’s puzzle.
I usually get a little lead time on solving it… That way, if I have a question or notice a problem I can email him before I need to post it, though that rarely happens. I usually send him my solution, anyway, just in case.
…
I was out this evening checking out the Wednesday Night Downtown Market for this summer. Every year, less farmer’s market, more overpriced prepared food… Sigh…
Then I went to Costco… Then I was tired, so I sat for a minute at a table in the food court and checked out coupons in the app.
Never one to resist also checking my email, I discovered that Nighthawks had indeed sent me Saturday’s puzzle. Good.
….
Got home, put stuff away…. doo de dooh..🎶
… glanced at Cleo…. Oops!
So I solved it….
and wouldn’t you know, for the first time in ages I could only find nine.
Couldn’t ask Nighthawks, so I searched for an earlier version…. Couldn’t find it.
So… I just had to sit there till I saw #10!
And I did.
I hope!
And here you have it….
Let me know if you found anything different!
Same as those I found.
I waited until I found them all before verifying. I was correct.
uh…what she said
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
Another bit from today’s “Daily Mail.”
The attachment works out to $23.38 Canadian and $16.72 U.S.per pound.
Is that supposed to be shockingly high?
Angus beef is premium here, and even ordinary sirloin is around that price now, unless it’s a really good sale. Forget Prime.
…
Actually, I just remembered… Costco had prime grade rib roasts for Christmas. Remember, Costco is the cheapest anywhere, and you have to buy large packages. And this was in 2024.
“Prime” means two things… a prime rib roast means only the ribs at the large end, starting with #1, the first rib.
But in this case, it means USDA grade prime… the best grade, which you rarely see outside of restaurants. I don’t know if this one includes rib #1, but it’s the large ribs.
Also, unlike that sirloin, this is entirely bone-in… You’re supposed to buy about one pound per person cos the bone is half the weight.
I took this picture to send my sister cos I couldn’t believe people had them in their carts…
That was 12.66 pounds… 6 or 7 people.
If you’re willing to buy an even bigger roast, including the smaller ribs, and even bonier…. here’s a 22-pounder at a better price per pound. Right.
Standing rib roasts used to be no where near as expensive as today. Pop would buy one and make steaks out of it.
That used to be what butchers recommended cos roasts, being bigger, were less per pound.
I couldn’t afford rib roasts, but i used to split up other big cuts… Even chuck, when it was about $2 a pound.
I can’t imagine having a couple dozen people to dinner and spending $426 on the roast, or cutting either of those into steaks for the freezer.
I love roast beef… But close to Thanksgiving you can get a 25 pound turkey on sale for $10 or $15.
Guess which you’ll get at my house!
$273 and it’s got BONES in it? No #@$^$ way!
Lotsa bones… big ones.
Cookbooks vary, saying maybe 15 to 30% of the weight is bones.
But that’s for people like me, who eat every scrap.
For delicate flowers who only eat the perfect central portion of a slice, and won’t touch the ring around the outside that might have some fat or gristle, or the tougher meat between the bones, it’s going to be more like 40% meat, 60% bones and other scraps.
At $21.59 a pound, that makes the “good part” about $50/lb!
Besides, they also say to buy 1 lb per person…. So they must not really believe it’s only 25% bone, cos they wouldn’t suggest that each person needs 12 oz of meat.
A day of mourning at C&C :’O(
that’s my kinda posting