Poochy appears to be taking a suitably cautious approach to these new neighbors. Don’t just go charging in there like Special Ops. Let’s see what they want, try to talk with them. Maybe they’ve got some treats?!
They are the largest arthropods, often 3 feet across, weighing up to 9 pounds.
They’re classified as hermit crabs, but only the very young use found shells. The adults’shells become hardened enough to protect themselves.
They are edible, but it’s not allowed except by native tribes, because they’re endangered. It’s okay…. er… no thanks
They climb trees looking for food, which is usually fruit and such, but they also eat carrion. (Actually so do the teeny hermit crabs from the pet store.)
Wikipedia says they’re not known to attack and eat people, but doesn’t completely rule it out.
A teeny bit comforting, maybe almost.
But these guys have claws powerful enough to open coconuts, and if they do pinch you, they can break your bones.
And they do eat carcasses, and some people have speculated about… um… why the remains of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared near here, were never found. Ewww.
Never even heard OF the song or the artists, let alone heard the song itself, but that was goofy enough to be fun. Definitely a “Demento” kind of tune.
An image of the flatiron building in NYC, taken by famous photographer Edward Steichen in 1904.
The copy reproduced here is a platinum print made in 1909, an old, individually printed technique, where real platinum replaced the silver then used in making photographs, and the negative was pressed directly against the matte-finished paper… a process that embedded the metal in the fibers, rather than making a shiny layer on top.
Then, just on this particular copy, he applied blue-green pigment gum bichromate over that, which gives this black and white photo its ethereal blue glow..
Apparently he made two other copies with different pigments, but this one became the second most expensive photograph ever sold.
It went for $11,840,000, at Christie’s New York, on November, 9th 2022… well above the pre-sale estimate of $2,000,000–3,000,000
It’s not clear in the caption, but Snickers, the racehorse, actually belonged to the Mars family.
They kept racing horses at their farm, which was actually a grand estate, called Milky Way Farm, in honor of the great success of their first chocolate bar.
Until the name was changed in 1990, ‘SNICKERS’ bars were known as ‘Marathon’ bars in the UK and Ireland. Reportedly because it was too close to the term ‘knickers’.
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At last! Someone who understands my kokes!
Um, is that supposed to say “Jokes”?
Um, yeah…
Epic sneeze in, three, two,…
Now THAT is a face. Reminds me of Chubby (Little Rascals).
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Coconut crabs. Scary guys!
Oh dear!
Poochy appears to be taking a suitably cautious approach to these new neighbors. Don’t just go charging in there like Special Ops. Let’s see what they want, try to talk with them. Maybe they’ve got some treats?!
Not cautious enough!
I kinda wish I hadn’t searched them.
They are the largest arthropods, often 3 feet across, weighing up to 9 pounds.
They’re classified as hermit crabs, but only the very young use found shells. The adults’shells become hardened enough to protect themselves.
They are edible, but it’s not allowed except by native tribes, because they’re endangered. It’s okay…. er… no thanks
They climb trees looking for food, which is usually fruit and such, but they also eat carrion. (Actually so do the teeny hermit crabs from the pet store.)
Wikipedia says they’re not known to attack and eat people, but doesn’t completely rule it out.
A teeny bit comforting, maybe almost.
But these guys have claws powerful enough to open coconuts, and if they do pinch you, they can break your bones.
And they do eat carcasses, and some people have speculated about… um… why the remains of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared near here, were never found. Ewww.
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“enis_with_a_p”??
My, my.
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Not necessarily. My dad’s mom used to climb up into a tree to escape the kids once in awhile.
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“Never smile at a crocodowl…”
Heck, I know a game of peek-a-boo when I see one!
Whooo are yoooo?
Whowho, whowho.
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Looks like my yard after the 2019 tornado. Took out all my mature cherry trees.
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“Oooooohhh, you brought me flowers!”
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And in Bitish Columbia…
But that one looks like a Bactrian (2-humped) camel, right?
Not a North African dromedary, a desert beast… but the Asian kind, more adaptable to your snow-shoe weather, up there in the frozen wastes 😀
Never even heard OF the song or the artists, let alone heard the song itself, but that was goofy enough to be fun. Definitely a “Demento” kind of tune.
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An image of the flatiron building in NYC, taken by famous photographer Edward Steichen in 1904.
The copy reproduced here is a platinum print made in 1909, an old, individually printed technique, where real platinum replaced the silver then used in making photographs, and the negative was pressed directly against the matte-finished paper… a process that embedded the metal in the fibers, rather than making a shiny layer on top.
Then, just on this particular copy, he applied blue-green pigment gum bichromate over that, which gives this black and white photo its ethereal blue glow..
Apparently he made two other copies with different pigments, but this one became the second most expensive photograph ever sold.
It went for $11,840,000, at Christie’s New York, on November, 9th 2022… well above the pre-sale estimate of $2,000,000–3,000,000
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OMG! Without scrolling down I thought they were serving up racehorse steaks!
«Sniffle»
It’s not clear in the caption, but Snickers, the racehorse, actually belonged to the Mars family.
They kept racing horses at their farm, which was actually a grand estate, called Milky Way Farm, in honor of the great success of their first chocolate bar.
It was clear to me.
Until the name was changed in 1990, ‘SNICKERS’ bars were known as ‘Marathon’ bars in the UK and Ireland. Reportedly because it was too close to the term ‘knickers’.
That’s funny, cos I’d think the word “snickers”, as in derisive little laughs, was also known.
If someone said of the knightly hero, “He snickers at Sir Martin’s tiny sword”, I doubt underwear would enter the thought process.
Or perhaps the horse was known to snicker at the thought of losing to his rival.
‘Knicker’ is also slang for the UK pound. Not sure how widespread, but I used to hear it when I was a kid living in East London.
“Want a job?”
“How much does it pay?”
“Thirty knicker.”
Claude Monet
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Nice save! Sometimes it pays to be young.
And he held onto his phone as well.
But what happened to the two who stayed on it?
Or am I seeing a gif wrong again?
Looks like they got wet.
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There are two numbers: “8” and “9”
Or, if you prefer, there are 201 numbers…
Yeah… I was going to say “no, there are way more than nine.”
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The church of the Holy Trinity, in Abbots Leigh, North Somerset, UK.
Very typical of the style and type of church seen widespread across the UK. The confines of the churchyard is also the graveyard.
Not a Bunny, a Hare.
But let us not split hairs over the difference.
Or hares!
Common Chaffinch (Fringilla Coelebs).
Buchfink in German.
Male in his best suit…