This is a European turtledove, according to my image search.
It’s identified that way on numerous Facebook, IG, and other sites… BUT… they’re all using the same photo.
If you go to a site like Audubon birds, Wikipedia, or any bird identification sites, you won’t see descriptions or photos with those yellow feathers, or the purplish ones, or this exact pattern of orange and brown.
It’s a much less colorful bird, and usually more obviously long and slender, not shaped like a chicken.
I have to think that this one has been altered, probably with Photoshop, maybe by hand coloring, or even AI.
I have a couple of Thai restaurants within walking distance (1 to 1-1/2 miles). I haven’t seen most of these dishes, but the food is soooo tasty. One is located in an old Pizza Hut location that’s changed hands 3 or 4 times, until this one came in. Location’s bad, but the food is good. It’s packed most of the time when we go in.
This chart is weird. I’m wondering whether they let AI write the labels… Or just someone who doesn’t speak much English?
They leave out a lot of the main ingredients, maybe trying to show what’s used in the preparation, without saying what’s being prepared. But some of the other words are misspelled or just gibberish.
I wanted to know, so I even googled a few… Nope.
So I think Fugar must be sugar, and Fis Saliscae, fish sauce.
Gai tod is fried chicken, and hoy tod, which says rice flour and bean sprouts, is a sort of omelet or eggy pancake, with oysters in it. I don’t know a lot of the others. But pad Thai is ubiquitous, and that ain’t it.
It’s been a while since I’ve had any of it, cos my favorite local Thai restaurant closed, and I no longer work in the mall where I made friends with the woman who had a Thai restaurant in the food court… an amazing thing to find, when most of the rest is fast food.
Not to mention that restaurants in general have gotten ridiculously expensive.
But I really miss Tod mun pla (fish cakes) and Khanon jeen nam phrik, a shrimp and noodles dish I may have misspelled.
Whoa… This is Ernie Bushmiller, drawing Nancy, at a National Cartoonists Society party in NYC, in 1950.
Members were invited to “test” a new waterproof pen by drawing on bathing suits worn by models. Besides Bushmiller, the cartoonists included Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon), Otto Soglow (The Little King), Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka), and others.
Bernard Hoffman of LIFE magazine photographed the party and the “Ball Point Bathing Suits,” but the LIFE editors decided that the images were inappropriate for a family magazine and never published them.
In 1950??? I had a collection of 1940’s Life Magazines that delighted in slipping scantily clad ladies into their pages! (I only kept them for the historical interest, of course…)
According to WikipediaTen-Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by the Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium, on June 4, 1974. Cups of beer were 10 cents (equiv to 65 cents today), instead of 65 cents ($4.24 in 2026), with a limit of six beers per purchase but no limit on the number of purchases made during the game.
But 6 days earlier, the Indians and the Rangers had been involved in bench-clearing brawl; so the game drew a belligerent crowd. Massive alcohol consumption further agitated them, and many threw lit firecrackers, streaked across the playing field and openly smoked marijuana.
Most sober fans departed early, leaving the unruly mob behind. In the ninth inning rioting fans rushed the field. Players were forced to protect themselves with their bats. The game was declared forfeited in Texas’s favor.
That dizziness point is about where the plastic surgeon cut me. I think he was trying to remove my third eye. You can call me Scarface now, but I don’t do blow.
Was at the dermatologist with my wife (I’m her backup memory, and I call her Spot). Asked about a spot on my nose just above where the pad on my glasses hit. She immediately proceeded to to cut it out about 1cm (3/8 inch) diameter and biopsy it. Benign, but the abnormal cells extended beyond the tissue sample. Sent me to a plastic surgeon to do some more extensive cutting, just to be sure. Tissue is out to a lab in San Diego. If it’s clean, no more cutting. Otherwise, he’ll go in again in about 3 months. Benign, but a nasty cancer if it develops. The actual operation was kind of like going to the dentist, but with sutures that will be removed on Thursday. Fun times. 😉
Fur Babies is worth checking out! Nancy has worked in all the big animation studios (and it shows!) Her reminiscences are almost as good as her artwork!
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Does this dress make me look fat?
Apparently.
This is a European turtledove, according to my image search.
It’s identified that way on numerous Facebook, IG, and other sites… BUT… they’re all using the same photo.
If you go to a site like Audubon birds, Wikipedia, or any bird identification sites, you won’t see descriptions or photos with those yellow feathers, or the purplish ones, or this exact pattern of orange and brown.
It’s a much less colorful bird, and usually more obviously long and slender, not shaped like a chicken.
I have to think that this one has been altered, probably with Photoshop, maybe by hand coloring, or even AI.
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Aw! I just ate. Now I’m hungry again!
I have a couple of Thai restaurants within walking distance (1 to 1-1/2 miles). I haven’t seen most of these dishes, but the food is soooo tasty. One is located in an old Pizza Hut location that’s changed hands 3 or 4 times, until this one came in. Location’s bad, but the food is good. It’s packed most of the time when we go in.
I love Thai food.
This chart is weird. I’m wondering whether they let AI write the labels… Or just someone who doesn’t speak much English?
They leave out a lot of the main ingredients, maybe trying to show what’s used in the preparation, without saying what’s being prepared. But some of the other words are misspelled or just gibberish.
I wanted to know, so I even googled a few… Nope.
So I think Fugar must be sugar, and Fis Saliscae, fish sauce.
Gai tod is fried chicken, and hoy tod, which says rice flour and bean sprouts, is a sort of omelet or eggy pancake, with oysters in it. I don’t know a lot of the others. But pad Thai is ubiquitous, and that ain’t it.
It’s been a while since I’ve had any of it, cos my favorite local Thai restaurant closed, and I no longer work in the mall where I made friends with the woman who had a Thai restaurant in the food court… an amazing thing to find, when most of the rest is fast food.
Not to mention that restaurants in general have gotten ridiculously expensive.
But I really miss Tod mun pla (fish cakes) and Khanon jeen nam phrik, a shrimp and noodles dish I may have misspelled.
My aunt lived to almost 103. Born in about 1906. Talk about seeing inflation!
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Whoa… This is Ernie Bushmiller, drawing Nancy, at a National Cartoonists Society party in NYC, in 1950.
Members were invited to “test” a new waterproof pen by drawing on bathing suits worn by models. Besides Bushmiller, the cartoonists included Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon), Otto Soglow (The Little King), Ham Fisher (Joe Palooka), and others.
Bernard Hoffman of LIFE magazine photographed the party and the “Ball Point Bathing Suits,” but the LIFE editors decided that the images were inappropriate for a family magazine and never published them.
In 1950??? I had a collection of 1940’s Life Magazines that delighted in slipping scantily clad ladies into their pages! (I only kept them for the historical interest, of course…)
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I recognize that place from a Tomb Raider game!
It’s beautiful. Keep an eye on the weather, and don’t get stuck in there if the water’s rising.
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Plaid bell bottoms? I’d have to be wasted to wear those.
According to WikipediaTen-Cent Beer Night was an ill-fated promotion held by the Cleveland Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Stadium, on June 4, 1974. Cups of beer were 10 cents (equiv to 65 cents today), instead of 65 cents ($4.24 in 2026), with a limit of six beers per purchase but no limit on the number of purchases made during the game.
But 6 days earlier, the Indians and the Rangers had been involved in bench-clearing brawl; so the game drew a belligerent crowd. Massive alcohol consumption further agitated them, and many threw lit firecrackers, streaked across the playing field and openly smoked marijuana.
Most sober fans departed early, leaving the unruly mob behind. In the ninth inning rioting fans rushed the field. Players were forced to protect themselves with their bats. The game was declared forfeited in Texas’s favor.
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He looks a little bit like Festus in the middle one…
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I didn’t know the Mayans got that far north!
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That dizziness point is about where the plastic surgeon cut me. I think he was trying to remove my third eye. You can call me Scarface now, but I don’t do blow.
What was he really doing?
Was at the dermatologist with my wife (I’m her backup memory, and I call her Spot). Asked about a spot on my nose just above where the pad on my glasses hit. She immediately proceeded to to cut it out about 1cm (3/8 inch) diameter and biopsy it. Benign, but the abnormal cells extended beyond the tissue sample. Sent me to a plastic surgeon to do some more extensive cutting, just to be sure. Tissue is out to a lab in San Diego. If it’s clean, no more cutting. Otherwise, he’ll go in again in about 3 months. Benign, but a nasty cancer if it develops. The actual operation was kind of like going to the dentist, but with sutures that will be removed on Thursday. Fun times. 😉
Hope it’s okay!
I think I need a root canal. A long, slow, root canal ! 🙂
Thanks for the wishes. It will be OK. Minor, compared to what other people are putting up with every day.
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They do that a lot. It gets them up into the water column where they can filter feed in currents.
I didn’t know that! Fascinating creatures! I don’t remember ever having live basket stars in my tanks.
He’s very fancy!
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I hate it when my food looks at me like that…
I really really really want to say it’s the proverbial melon-collie baby…
But it’s obviously not a collie.. it’s a pink water terrier.
That image looks exactly like the puppy, Sirius, from Nancy Bieman’s comic FurBabies!
I know I’ve seen him too, and I’ve never read FurBabies
I thought maybe Tin Tin, but it’s not Snowy, and I looked at the old strip, Skippy… not his dog, either.
He’s white, in my mind picture.
I’ll have to check out Sirius… But I think he’s elsewhere, somewhere, too.
Fur Babies is worth checking out! Nancy has worked in all the big animation studios (and it shows!) Her reminiscences are almost as good as her artwork!
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you don’t recognize the gang from ‘Stand by Me’?
Not until you mentioned them. My kids would.
…or the bullies from ‘Karate Kid’?
Same here.
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OOPS!
They really handled it gracefully.
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Yes
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Looks like a pretty good way to end it. Well, except for the drowning bit. 😉
The Force of that water looks like it would really do some damage to him before he even got to the drowning part
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Google says (so far) that it’s real, in Kenya.
My doubts and I need to go to bed, for now.
Never go to bed with doubts
‘Pigeons in the Rain, Abbey Courtyard’, 2016 – Peter Brown (British Artist, born 1967) – Oil on Canvas, 152 x 122 cm (60 x 48 in).
Vermilion Flycatcher.
I guess I’m not supposed to ask where he finds vermilion flies, right?
Ver der rest of der flies congregate in der millions.
Ooh! that vas bad!
They’re really inexpensive. No more than $5 ver million.
Yesterday:
♫ Tiptoe through the tulips ♫
(Yes, I realize those are not tulips.)
Yup, That’s what I thought.