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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Wow….he hasn’t moved a muscle since yesterday…..

(Sorry)

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Still sleeping, eh? Must be shagged out from chasing squirrels.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Best pic we’ve had for this dog haiku:

I lie belly-up
In the sunshine, happier than
You ever will be

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

You can bet that was one happy pooch. He probably thought he had hit the lottery.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

As far as I can tell, dogs see what IS.
They’re very pragmatic.

They do long for things… food, certain people, a run in the park…. but AFAIK, they don’t understand luck.

It’s too abstract, comparing possible outcomes, or mulling future scenarios, like what they’ll do IF something happens.

I’m sure he was wildly happy, but it probably never occured to him, once he found them, to picture any other ways it could have gone.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Oh, when we love them, we anthropormormise the heck out of them. Is that a regular word, or did I just make a new one up?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Very true.

So maybe in our minds they buy lotto tickets.

As for the word… Nothing wrong with making up words… some days it’s the only exercise I get.

That one, though, is very very close to a real one… except for a teensy weensy glitch.

S’OK.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

The word you are looking for is “anthropomorphize.”

Arfside
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
30 days ago

Thanks. It was right on the tip of my…now what was that word?

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

MICROCHIP them!

Saucy1121
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Reply to  Arfside
30 days ago

And register the chip! My Cookie was found as a stray. Collar with no tags. Chip was not registered. It was registered to me before we left the shelter. She has a collar with a tag that has 2 phone numbers for me.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Hope it’s a true story.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Ship of the desert being properly displayed!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

You may already know

this is….
Henry Winkler, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi and Ron Howard

If you don’t… It’s also in the filename.

I Googled it, though, to find out the occasion… But all I could find was that it was 1981.

On one site, there was text on the image, saying they were together to celebrate “the 200th episo…” And it cut off right there.

I couldn’t think what it might be… But the 200th episode of SNL was much later, with a later cast, and not many other shows seem to fit this group.

So it’s probably not even true.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Reminds me of Disney’s first Fantasia (1949?), with the sprites touching each leaf and blossom with dew.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

You too!

And everybody else, of course.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
30 days ago

Cats don’t walk like that, they move opposite diagonal legs together.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“We’re just going to move you a little way down the…” “NO!!!!”

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Must be the wall of the cardiac ICU.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
30 days ago

Entrance to the morgue?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Just a cheerful little Christmas decoration….

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Does posting comments count as “Social Connection”? If not, I’m in trouble…I’m pretty much a hermit.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
1 month ago

Recluse here.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
1 month ago

Me three.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Didn’t mean to leave you out, you just posted after I did. Happy Friday (at the moment). Always glad to see you here.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Thanks, and likewise.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Hi DB and Happy3, how are you doing? Isn’t life great? Sure beats the alternative! Found out that my grandson (8 years old) is starting baseball. His dad is ecstatic. I’m sure a few more people here will respond to you as well. Enjoy!

Saucy1121
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Reply to  nighthawks
30 days ago

Eat your veggies every day for 100 years and you will live a long life.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Maybe how astronauts would sleep as well, given lots of room around them.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

So you can guess too
Ooooh yeah, Sky King and Penny.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Yep!

That’s when we also watched Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, and Sgt Preston of the Yukon.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

That’s some DRY skin! Looks like she needs a LOT of hydration!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I thought for a moment that it was a real person who’d endured hours of special make-up… But I soon realized it couldn’t be, with those eyes.

It wasn’t till then that I noticed that it’s tiny… Only a face, not a whole head, being held between someone’s thumb and forefinger.

The file name says it’s a sculpture….

Google says “This intricate artwork is a micro-mosaic sculpture created by Italian artist Rebecca Di Filippo, depicting a human face using hundreds of tiny, iridescent sea shell fragments.”

Pretty amazing… Its gaze seems to shift as it’s moved.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I can’t read that.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

“Human Statue of Liberty
18,000 officers and men
at
Camp Dodge, Des Moines IA
Col. Wm. Na__man, Commanding
Col. Rush S. Wells, Directing”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

Newman, I think

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

Thank you.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“He raped Thrace thrice?” ………A funny thing happened…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

“My daughter’s a eunuch?”

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Oh sure, but I’ll bet they had lots of different names before the little guys were conquered and consolidated.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 month ago

Yes… And many of them joined and divided and reassembled and split again….

Some of these names were used for tiny segments of the current nations, others were for vast areas that once encompassed some of today’s separate nations.

Still, there’s probably some historical basis for all of them

DancingBuffalo
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1 month ago

With apologies to Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller.

And no, I didn’t do the modification…

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SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Happy Cinco de Mayo Eve Eve Eve!

This is as close as we’re gonna get with a Saturday puzzle, and we’re creatures of habit around here.

No Tuesday “Find the Differences” puzzles…. even if Cinco is coincidentally Taco Tuesday this year!

I thought this one looked daunting, but IMHO it’s actually not subtle.

I do recommend a right click to open it in a new window, or preferably a download, to enlarge it a bit… On a tablet or phone, two fingers to stretch it.

The wide format makes it look smaller… but everything is pretty visible anyway…. And it’s got the normal nine, not a diabolical ten differences.

So find them… I’m sure you can…

And then ….

¡Mira aqui!*
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*(Look here!)

Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Schwing!

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Got them!

baconboycamper
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Thanks Susan.
They were a bit easier today, with no “watch out for diabolical masterminds” required.

Solstice-1947
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1 month ago

By the way, I finally thought of the name of the actor pictured next to Vanna White yesterday.
He’s Alan Thicke. I knew his face, even though I didn’t watch his show.

Solstice-1947
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Reply to  Solstice-1947
1 month ago

And to continue beating a dead horse, I now wonder …
… if the blonde is supposed to be Joanne Kearns, (Thicke’s TV wife). Maybe the Wheel is related to whoever is seated on the coach next to Dr. Ruth.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Solstice-1947
1 month ago

Hmmmm….

I’d say…
You’re probably right that it’s Alan Thicke, even though the face I’m picturing isn’t his. Thicke has a rather delicate face compared to the drawing or to the actor I’m thinking of…

But I can see that it could be him, too, and it makes more sense, because of “Growing Pains.”

I still think the blonde is Vanna, because I “saw” her right away… But who knows. It’s a fairly generic face that could be either of them.

The person next to Dr. Ruth has kicked off her shoes. I don’t know any anecdote about Vanna doing that… But if there is one, I’ll change my mind. Or maybe somebody else is known for kicking off her shoes on the Dr. Ruth Show, so we’re supposed to recognize her.

It all surprises me, because Mort Drucker was a great caricaturist, and his subjects are usually recognizable.

Voxx
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30 days ago

It’s too quiet in here for a Saturday night .
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Featuring the Langley Sisters on strings who are altogether quite easy on the eyes.

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