Pick me! Pick me! I’ll always stay cute and cuddly, and never make a mess of your house when I shake my head with water and food on my ears!
(yeah, it takes an understanding owner, but isn’t it worth it?)
Wow. Ifrane is high in the Atlas mountains, in northern Morocco.
It was established by the French in 1929, and apparently looks nothing like the rest of Morocco.
It’s a skiing destination, with temperate weather, including snowy winters, and is also considered one of the cleanest cities in the world.
A never to be missed show, in our family, when i was a child.
The only star whose name i always remember is
the older man….
Leo G Carroll, who played Cosmo Topper, a stuffy banker.
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But I used to know
the others too …
the younger couple, Anne Jeffries and Robert Sterling, who my mom said were married in real life, which confused me because I didn’t know that most TV couples weren’t.
And Topper’s wife, played by Lee Patrick. And the St. Bernard, Neil, played by Buck.
Topper and his wife had bought a house not knowing it had belonged to the younger couple, who had died in a skiing accident.
But they soon started haunting it as ghosts, along with the ghost of Neil, who had tried to save them.
It doesn’t sound funny, does it? But it was… especially cos Neil liked to get drunk. Lots of scenes of a tipsy St. Bernard.
Only Topper could see the ghosts, not his wife or the neighbors, so he had to explain things moving around, getting broken, and such.
Lunch! Although there wouldn’t be much left after you cleaned it. Kinda like Hummingbird tongues, you need a lot of them to make a meal, or even an appetizer.
Actually, I searched this image, to find the breed, cos I didn’t quite believe it…
Opinion seems unevenly divided, I’d say 30-ish percent on Selkirk Rex, an actual somewhat curly breed, and 70-ish percent on AI.
I’ve known Rex cats,; my sister tried to breed them, and ended up broke, with great pets, which is what happens to amateur breeders.
But hers were called English Rex… I’ve never seen a Selkirk. The pictures do look a lot less curly, and their faces are long and lean, like other Rex cats.
Actually, I’ve seen the pictures, so my comment was tongue-in-cheek. Some farms have changed their ways so they don’t actually have to force feed them any more. I still doubt that foie gras will be allowed in California again in my lifetime. Very tasty when well prepared, but I’m not going to drive out of the state just to get some again.
I always enjoy the back and forth banter. Sometimes it helps to explain some point to the rest of the crew. My brother, sister and I start out with one subject and it devolves from there to the point where we almost don’t remember where we started (nor care). 😉
Actually…. Actress Jacquie Monier, feeding swans in the Bois de Boulogne, in 1929… By Hungarian American photographer André Kertész
She was probably French, given her name and location, but I’m unfamiliar with her. So I tried to Google her, and all the results I found were about this photo, which was apparently well known…
Nothing else about her, or her career. But it’s a beautiful photo.
Joan Crawford, in the silent film “Sally, Irene, and Mary”, 1925.
I’ve always wondered why in the 40s they usually cast her as a glamorous femme fatale, because I couldn’t see the attraction… though I admit, as a straight woman, it’s not mine to judge.
Don’t really know TBH, I can only go by the captions on the pictures I find. I couldn’t even find Utah on a map of the USA if the States aren’t drawn in and labelled.
Loosely, I’d say most of us know where the states are… but it’s a big country.
I’d think the average American could touch the location of, say, California, Texas, Florida, maybe New York… some know both Washingtons… but very few could draw their outlines freehand on a blank map.
To pinpoint inland states, like Utah, Idaho, Missouri… I doubt it. It’s hard enough for most of us even to try to label all 50 on a map that already has their outlines.
Oh… I just remembered. A couple of years ago,.a booth at the fair, actually there for the purpose of voter registration, was giving out flag pins to anyone who could put all 50 labelled state-shaped puzzle pieces into an empty wooden map of the US.
The people running it said very few succeeded.
It makes me wonder whether people over there could do it with counties in the UK, or even just England.
“It makes me wonder whether people over there could do it with counties in the UK, or even just England.”
I can say with confidence, Nope!
We’re a much smaller country, but we have lots of Counties, and the boundaries get redrawn every so often. For some years the County of Rutland disappeared entirely!
I got interested in a couple of things I saw here, I think day before yesterday (?) then forgot to post what I found….
One was that cool set of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, with deteriorating columns on the spines.
I thought it was Photoshop or AI…. but it’s real!
It was the 1946 Limited Editions Club publication with spines “designed by Clarence P. Hornung to depict a Roman column gradually crumbling across the seven volumes, symbolizing the decline of the empire.”
OTOH…. The video of the pretty girl eating a big hamburger, and putting it down to run out onto the field and kick a goal, in high heels…
That’s NOT real.
It’s a demonstration for an AI program.
She’s completely fake, and so is the premise.
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Honestly! I do love you!
Pick me! Pick me! I’ll always stay cute and cuddly, and never make a mess of your house when I shake my head with water and food on my ears!
(yeah, it takes an understanding owner, but isn’t it worth it?)
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Not gorgeous in the spaghetti sauce, though.
I’ll take mine undecorated, thanks.
Actually, if that’s sand, that must be a teensy tiny mushroom… the size of a small pea?
So it’s ok; I’ll just get some bigger ones for the sauce.
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They forgot Hec Ramsey with Richard Boone.
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Got them both right, but didn’t know the location.
Oops… I hadn’t refreshed for a while, so I just posted mostly the same thing.
I’ve deleted it.
But for those who want to know… It’s an Alfred Hitchcock film, considered one of his best, from 1954.
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Wow. Ifrane is high in the Atlas mountains, in northern Morocco.
It was established by the French in 1929, and apparently looks nothing like the rest of Morocco.
It’s a skiing destination, with temperate weather, including snowy winters, and is also considered one of the cleanest cities in the world.
Who knew….
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A never to be missed show, in our family, when i was a child.
The only star whose name i always remember is
But I used to know
And Topper’s wife, played by Lee Patrick. And the St. Bernard, Neil, played by Buck.
Topper and his wife had bought a house not knowing it had belonged to the younger couple, who had died in a skiing accident.
But they soon started haunting it as ghosts, along with the ghost of Neil, who had tried to save them.
It doesn’t sound funny, does it? But it was… especially cos Neil liked to get drunk. Lots of scenes of a tipsy St. Bernard.
Only Topper could see the ghosts, not his wife or the neighbors, so he had to explain things moving around, getting broken, and such.
Okay, okay .. I know… but it was the 50s.
So, similar premise to Beetlejuice?
And similar to a current TV series on CBS “Ghosts”.
That one I haven’t seen.
If they were detectives.
I don’t remember a detective in BeetleJuice or Topper, so I don’t know which “they” you mean.
What am I forgetting?
It’s been years!
Except in BeetleJuice, IIRC, the ghosts want to drive the new family out, and sent a funny lunatic to do it.
The ghosts in Topper are very sophisticated socialite types. They’re just trying to have fun, and there are no out and out nut cases.
It was hilarious. The explanations were genius and delivered in such a way you could fall over laughing.
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Meat on the hoof! When she gets to land, I’m gonna eat sooooo good!
Are you just hungry tonight?
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Who do you think deserved more?
Richie Havens and Country Joe
Joe Cocker and Santana.
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“Perm.”
I guess I just don’t have much imagination because that just looks like Curly to me.
Ramen.
😄
Lunch! Although there wouldn’t be much left after you cleaned it. Kinda like Hummingbird tongues, you need a lot of them to make a meal, or even an appetizer.
Cats??
You want to eat a kitty?
They’re a lot bigger than hummingbird tongues, even minus all that fur.
Lambchop?
Actually, I searched this image, to find the breed, cos I didn’t quite believe it…
Opinion seems unevenly divided, I’d say 30-ish percent on Selkirk Rex, an actual somewhat curly breed, and 70-ish percent on AI.
I’ve known Rex cats,; my sister tried to breed them, and ended up broke, with great pets, which is what happens to amateur breeders.
But hers were called English Rex… I’ve never seen a Selkirk. The pictures do look a lot less curly, and their faces are long and lean, like other Rex cats.
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She’s force feeding them to make foie gras.
Yeah, by holding food over their heads.
If you’ve ever seen actual force feeding (of geese, BTW, not swans) it looks horrible, not sweet like this.
Actually, I’ve seen the pictures, so my comment was tongue-in-cheek. Some farms have changed their ways so they don’t actually have to force feed them any more. I still doubt that foie gras will be allowed in California again in my lifetime. Very tasty when well prepared, but I’m not going to drive out of the state just to get some again.
I know you were joking… My first line was sarcastic.
But the old method of forcefeeding is so cruel.
I always enjoy the back and forth banter. Sometimes it helps to explain some point to the rest of the crew. My brother, sister and I start out with one subject and it devolves from there to the point where we almost don’t remember where we started (nor care). 😉
Actually…. Actress Jacquie Monier, feeding swans in the Bois de Boulogne, in 1929… By Hungarian American photographer André Kertész
She was probably French, given her name and location, but I’m unfamiliar with her. So I tried to Google her, and all the results I found were about this photo, which was apparently well known…
Nothing else about her, or her career. But it’s a beautiful photo.
..,
Lol…
I thought at first it was a gharial.
They’re those long skinny-nosed South Asian crocs, that we saw pictures of, with the males carrying dozens of babies on their backs.
But no, it’s not.
Indians are vegan, right? No wonder it’s skinny.
Did anybody see it?
You gotta turn it sideways.
It won a photo contest.
Now it makes sense …thanks SS
…oooh… !!!
I absolutely did not see it! Thanks for the heads up!
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Now, chew on his arm!
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Is that a blue and a green in the middle?
Yes, and besides the assumption of PEDMAS ( in this case EDMAS, cos they keep leaving out the Ps), which you really can’t assume any more…
the answer depends on the unspecified relationship between them, ie, does overlapping them mean (G+B) or (GxB).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It may be (G x B) as I have seen (AB) to mean (A x B) in math books.
Yes… I get the same…
if we make those assumptions, which is probably, though not necessarily, the way it was meant….
Assuming multiplication first, green is 7
Blue would be 10
And assuming blue and green together represents their multiplication….
4+ (7×10) + 10 =84
Who and green together?
Thanks… I’ll fix it.
It’s my stupid keyboard.
Autocorrect gone mad.
It not only changes words, it adds and deletes them, and sometimes I miss it.
One thing it almost never does is actually correct misspellings, its only real job.
And it won’t turn off.
You’ll have to get the Pentagon to look at it.
Oh I almost forgot … ask to see General Settings.
I’ve had it with with General Settings!
I’ve done everything I’m supposed to do… made choices, pushed buttons, and gone back over and over.
Every time I go there, I think I hear laughter coming from somewhere.
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I like the music…. I was just wondering about… any connection to the picture?
just the dress.
Thanks… but wow, you must have good eyesight. LOL
The only thing I can see of Stevie in that video is her face and hands, wearing a long sleeved black shadow.
Believe it or not, this is…
I’ve always wondered why in the 40s they usually cast her as a glamorous femme fatale, because I couldn’t see the attraction… though I admit, as a straight woman, it’s not mine to judge.
But maybe Hollywood still saw her this way.
As a straight man, I have to agree with you.
Just come on back in from the kitchen. Maybe if will come back then.
Red Canyon, Utah.
Near Bryce Canyon, right? It’s been about 18 years since I was there so I don’t remember for certain.
Don’t really know TBH, I can only go by the captions on the pictures I find. I couldn’t even find Utah on a map of the USA if the States aren’t drawn in and labelled.
Don’t feel bad…. neither can most Americans.
Loosely, I’d say most of us know where the states are… but it’s a big country.
I’d think the average American could touch the location of, say, California, Texas, Florida, maybe New York… some know both Washingtons… but very few could draw their outlines freehand on a blank map.
To pinpoint inland states, like Utah, Idaho, Missouri… I doubt it. It’s hard enough for most of us even to try to label all 50 on a map that already has their outlines.
Oh… I just remembered. A couple of years ago,.a booth at the fair, actually there for the purpose of voter registration, was giving out flag pins to anyone who could put all 50 labelled state-shaped puzzle pieces into an empty wooden map of the US.
The people running it said very few succeeded.
It makes me wonder whether people over there could do it with counties in the UK, or even just England.
“It makes me wonder whether people over there could do it with counties in the UK, or even just England.”
I can say with confidence, Nope!
We’re a much smaller country, but we have lots of Counties, and the boundaries get redrawn every so often. For some years the County of Rutland disappeared entirely!
Couldn’t do it if my life depended on it and you gave me a day’s head start to study.
Bunny, for Bunday.
“Don’t make faces – it could get stuck like that!”
Second year King Penguin chick.
I love the fur trimmed royal robe!
Oh…. BTW..
I got interested in a couple of things I saw here, I think day before yesterday (?) then forgot to post what I found….
One was that cool set of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, with deteriorating columns on the spines.
I thought it was Photoshop or AI…. but it’s real!
It was the 1946 Limited Editions Club publication with spines “designed by Clarence P. Hornung to depict a Roman column gradually crumbling across the seven volumes, symbolizing the decline of the empire.”
OTOH…. The video of the pretty girl eating a big hamburger, and putting it down to run out onto the field and kick a goal, in high heels…
That’s NOT real.
It’s a demonstration for an AI program.
She’s completely fake, and so is the premise.
I saw others, but that was the most realistic.
If this works… look at this one…
Entirely fake.