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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

i am so there.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

No fair!
Too adorable!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Interesting character.

He let the whole world call him “Wrong Way Corrigan” and a damn fool for the rest of his fairly long life, without ever admitting that he flew East instead of West on purpose!

An experienced pilot and airplane mechanic, he’d been denied permission for that exact flight, over and over, with his old, repaired and patched up plane grounded at various times for safety reasons.

He flew all alone, with no radio, and almost no food, for over 24 hours, and claimed he didn’t know he was headed for Ireland instead of California.

He was a hero to some people and an idiot to others.

Gotta wonder which his wife thought.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

No question in my mind that he flew his intended course. He was still an idiot for doing it in that plane.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Cool, reunion of the lost.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I have a feeling something really bad is about to happen…

Saint
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Reply to  JP Steve
6 months ago

No hot water?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
6 months ago

Someone flushes the toilet?

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
6 months ago

AAAAaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I used to have 2 or 3 issues of this magazine from around the same time.

Gorgeous!

25 cents was a lot of money for a magazine in 1914, and most cars were expensive too… you could tell it was aimed toward rich people, probably not Model T owners.

I think it’s the same Motor Magazine that became a car enthusiast mag, full of technical articles about auto repair, that you see lying around in the waiting room at the mechanic.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

five…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Got em all… Eventually.

But 5th grade algebra has little to do with getting a PhD.

I’ll post my solution later.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Took some work, but I got them all. My first time through the equations I was stymied by the 4’s, 8’s, & 9’s. Going back through, once I got the 4’s, the 8’s & 9’s were easy.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

I was stumped by the 4’s and almost gave up, but I got the 5’s and kept going.

When I got to the end I went back to the 4’s and thought “well, duh!”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Is my solution…

the same as yours?

(3×3) -3

(4²/4) + √4

(5/5) + 5

(6×6)/6

7 – (7/7)

(8²/8) –
³√8

(9²/9) – √9

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Of course there are multiple solutions for all, and all of your answers are correct.

But mine were:
(3×3) -3
√4 + √4 + √4
5 + (5/5)
6 + 6 – 6
7 – (7/7)
³√8 + ³√8 + ³√8
(9²/9) – √9

The bold ones are different from your answers.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
6 months ago

5’s are the same… Just in reverse order, but of course addition doesn’t care.

I think maybr i like your 4’s and 8’s better than mine… but it all works just the same.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Is he wearing boots?

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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6 months ago

Yes

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Nothing like new footwear to make everything ducky.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Hearing Stevie Nicks “Edge Of Seventeen” while I watch this. The timing is nearly perfect!
Nighthawks, how did you pick such a perfect pairing?

P51Strega
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Reply to  Arfside
6 months ago

♫ Just like the white wing duck ♪ sings the song…

Alexikakos
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6 months ago

@ —comment image    Susan Sunshine

and

@  —comment image    happyhappyhappy

From yesterday.
I do hope the two of you appreciate the pain the index finger of my right hand is suffering because I forced it to click on website after website after website after….(you get the idea) in pursuit of the latest of nighthawks’ Hopper parody yesterday.
I was finally successful.
The denizens of the diner are from the British television series “Peaky Blinders.”

 
Here is the     WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE     on the series.
 
The parody itself was done by an artist who goes by the “art name”
 
NORROBEY. 
From the artist’s avatar at the site, I think he inserted himself into the picture (caution: a not very well disguised obscenity appears in the title of the work).
 
Here is a YouTube clip from the series (the obscenities are not disguised at all).
 

 

Last edited 6 months ago by Alexikakos
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Thank you!

Arfside
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

Well done. We appreciate your diligent research to round out Nighthawks (sometimes) obscure and interesting forays into finding obscure pleasures for us Cleo-Ites.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
6 months ago

That site was the first hit looking via yandex.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

I imagine it depends on your search terms.

I don’t think he means after he knew the name of the series, but while searching for what the painting might represent.

Meanwhile, I’ve never tried Yandex. Thanks.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

I just fed the image to yandex…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
6 months ago

I’m a little nervous about Yandex being a Russian site, though I read that they sold it to a Dutch company to cut ties with the Kremlin.

I know that it’s widely used in Europe, yet my Firefox still warns me if i go there.

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

No list of songs about being seventeen seems complete without this one.

RIP Meatloaf.

(Disclaimer: If you’re easily offended by teenage lust, please don’t listen. It’s not by any means X rated, though.)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

2nd disclaimer: Much as I like this, it’s totally outside my life experience.

P51Strega
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6 months ago

The combination of Picasso’s Don Quixote and that Van Gough is brilliant.

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