He’s either hunting some kind of ground nesting birds, or they are in the arctic and that’s an elephant gun. For the bear.
Does he deploy his retriever after or before he shoots?
There is a well known grill and bar up here that has Pointers on the men and Setters on the ladies. I’ve seen others like that, but not in public spaces.
Not enough funny in the world!
I went there with a friend, quite far from where I live. They had redone the interior of the place, with phony Western decor, and had somebody hand paint pictures of the dogs on the restroom doors, which said only Pointers and Setters.
I wondered aloud whether all the customers got it.
He told me much later that they had painted new pictures, with the dogs dressed in human clothes… so I guess not 😁
We had one of those elevators – unsigned – here in Munich. Marienplatz subway station of all places. At the wee exit… 😉
It ran not vertical but diagonal (parallel to the escalators) but doesn’t exist anymore. Pity, Should have installed CCTV.
I’ve never seen a diagonal elevator!
I wanted to see what you meant, so I googled it various ways.
I saw pictures of one at Marienplatz Tower … Beautiful building!..
and read that there used to be one in the subway station. Wow.
I’m still trying to figure out what you meant about the connection to what Steve or I said about restrooms.
Maybe you’re trying to be subtle… cos of the delicate subject… But is it possible to say more?
You know, I have some sympathy with people who can’t find a public restroom…
But there are probably nice ones in an old, cultured city like Munich…
And besides that, I can’t imagine it’s the women doing that.
Much more likely to be men… And it’s so much easier for them than for us to find some sneaky place outdoors, instead of defiling an enclosed public space…
While we have to suffer with being unable to do either, because… well, you know.
…
I can only think of one elevator here that has that problem… It’s in a multi level parking structure.
The really maddening thing is that there’s a city operated free public restroom… one of a very few in town… right next to the elevator on the ground floor.
Free public restrooms are a problem here or the lack thereof.
Not open all the time, no soap. no paper.
The ones in bars, restaurants etc. aren’t free but less expensive (you have to be a patron there) than the ones at central station which are time-limited, too…
The ones in big stores are free, but none of the businesses are open around the clock.
Grocery stores don’t have toilets open to the public.
Leaves those at gas stations but…you know…
Wow, I thought the situation would be better there than here… but I guess not.
In the US, laws about this tend to be regional.
We have a few city-owned public toilets where I live… I can only think of two downtown, but there are some in several city parks. Most are locked up after about 6pm.
Most stores and restaurants have them… during one drought some places tried closing them, but they’re mostly back.
All of those are free, though many say customers only.
At the supermarket and the discount stores you may need to ask for a code, or an employee to unlock it, and if they’re suspicious they lie and say it’s out of order.
…
When I was growing up, mostly in the midwest, there were a lot of pay toilets while fancy stores and restaurants had staffed ones, where you tipped an attendant.
But in the 70s there was a political movement to ban them. By then I lived in California, which was one state that enacted a ban… so we haven’t had any for about 50 years.
I’ve read that some states are reversing the bans.
…
It’s also law in California that no one can stop you from using the one that conforms to your chosen gender identity.
A close relative of mushrooms, said to be really delicious.
I’ll probably never taste one, cos they’re not grown commercially.
In the wild, they’re very hard to find, and you have to know exactly how to distinguish them from other fungi that mimic them, but are poisonous. You also have to contend with all the other people out looking for them, getting them before you even see them.
Some mushroom hunters sell fresh ones to high end restaurants… they’re not as expensive as truffles…. but that’s like telling me a Mercedes is cheaper than a Bentley, when I drive a 98 Saturn.
The only way I’ve ever seen any for sale in a store was dried, and still incredibly expensive.
The year after our elm tree died we had a crop in the backyard. Daughter had some in the first year in her new house about a decade later. Youngest daughter goes hunting for them and other mushrooms every spring. Can usually find a good haul. NB – real morels are hollow.
We have a market that sells fresh ones this time of year. Pricey but oh, so good. This year’s first were there last week. But we passed. May buy some tomorrow. Sometimes our Farmers Market also has them.
The same market sells the dried ones year round.
Very time limited to a few weeks in May. This weekend is the Morel Festival in Boyne City MI.
They are “common” around here.
The 2 biggies i Oregon are Morel and chanterelle.
Ive gone picking with a cousin before.
There are lots of mushrooms up here that are edible.
Yeah – common to have morel hunters in our area. Funny thing…when I bought my house the previous owner had firewood stashed in a shed. When I cleared that out, the next year I had morels growing there. I didn’t know what it was, so I just kicked ’em down and raked ’em up and tossed ’em in the trash…probably about $100 worth. Oh well…
She’s a seventy y.o. married lady that followed her zoologist parents’ steps, becoming a mammalogist and bat expert. You can find out more going to her Wikipedia page. 😊
Good evening, ladies, gents and bassets… or good morning, or afternoon, if you don’t see this till Saturday.
Summer’s coming up fast!
So are the cars in this race… in 1920, it was on a Monday, but in 2025, it’ll be this Sunday. That’ll be tomorrow, when you’re looking at this on Saturday.
I was looking for basset ears on this poster… took me a minute to realize it’s the human race.
Wait… That sounds wrong. Not “the human race”, in general, but an automobile race, in which the cars are driven by humans.
Probably not as interesting as the one where the drivers are basset hounds… Maybe that’s why it’s been given a little extra interest, by having two copies, with nine differences between them.
Did you see them? All nine?
Okay then… You might want to compare the ones you found with
I’ve found either eight, or nine, depending upon what’s being counted. I’ll have another look a bit later and then look at your solution to see what I missed (If any).
Hey everyone! I’m making This comment from my phone. But I cannot post Tonight or Tomorrow. Because There is an a t t Outage in my area which prevents me From posting on cleo. They told me this could take two Or 3.
Days.
Please don’t give up on me and continue to and and see if i’ve started posting yet. I’m so sorry about all this.
Um… a little confusing, but look again: he didn’t say “there is a tt Outage”.
He said “there is an a t t Outage”.
I’m sure he meant “an AT&T outage”, in spite of the slightly confusing capitalization. Most people can’t be bothered with the ampersand and just type ATT.
AT&T, which formerly stood for. American Telephone and Telegraph, is the largest provider of telephone service in the US, and one of the largest providers of both cell and internet service.
It’s been through approximately 4 zillion name changes (also ownership, though highly regulated) in the last 100 years, but eventually came back to one of the earliest….
so Nighthawks must have AT&T Internet.
That doesn’t look like your common pocket panther.
It doesn’t look like a common house cat, because it isn’t one
It’s never been in a house… it lives on the savannah.
It’s a melanistic… e.g. black… serval.
If it were a melanistic leopard or jaguar, it would be an actual panther… but it’s just nomenclature.
Servals have golden tan coats with black spots, but they’re much smaller than leopards, and when they’re black, they’re just called black servals.
Not fair? I don’t think they’ve noticed. They’re too busy hunting.
The ears gave it away! 😀
Its legs and nose are super long, too.
.,
He ain’t heavy, he’s my best buddy!
He’s either hunting some kind of ground nesting birds, or they are in the arctic and that’s an elephant gun. For the bear.
Does he deploy his retriever after or before he shoots?
Got news for ya…bassets ain’t retreivers…they’re lovers. About all they’re good for…snuggles and laughs.
Arn’t all dogs?
Buddy is asleep on my right foot and Fawn is velcroed to my hip.
Buddy is snoring.
,
.
I liked this movie when I was very young, but I don’t really remember anything much about it now….
Except that
Bell, Book and Candle
And there was a cat.
Piewhacket?
Yeah! That’s it… except it’s spelled Pyewacket.
It was named after a witch or spirit from a few hundred years ago.
https://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2020/03/pyewacket-familiar-spirit-with-origins.html
Somebody tell me 🙏🏻 what’s going on here?
Dog groomer playing with one of his customers.
It’s a clip rom an add for a veterinarian office.
I’ll see if i can find it on you tube
I was wrong. But the one i thought it was is still fun.
Yeah we’ve had this video here a few times.
It’s great.
I can watch this a million times, and still tear up…!
..
…
If you just read their signatures (uh huh, sure) you will know…
But just in case that’s a wee bit difficult, besides the fact that they look different from usual…. I will tell you….
Tombstone.
I’m thinking this is
Um… yeah.
That’ll teach me to update before clicking [post comment].
LOL… I do that too.
….
That’s funny!
You’d never see it in the U.S… we’re actually pretty prudish around here.
There is a well known grill and bar up here that has Pointers on the men and Setters on the ladies. I’ve seen others like that, but not in public spaces.
Not enough funny in the world!
I’ve seen that in a bar too…
I went there with a friend, quite far from where I live. They had redone the interior of the place, with phony Western decor, and had somebody hand paint pictures of the dogs on the restroom doors, which said only Pointers and Setters.
I wondered aloud whether all the customers got it.
He told me much later that they had painted new pictures, with the dogs dressed in human clothes… so I guess not 😁
But I do get confused when I see that middle symbol used for an elevator…
You see the restroom symbol on elevators?
Yeah, I can see where that would lead to confusion … And some embarrassing or downright unfortunate situations.
We had one of those elevators – unsigned – here in Munich. Marienplatz subway station of all places. At the wee exit… 😉
It ran not vertical but diagonal (parallel to the escalators) but doesn’t exist anymore. Pity, Should have installed CCTV.
I’ve never seen a diagonal elevator!
I wanted to see what you meant, so I googled it various ways.
I saw pictures of one at Marienplatz Tower … Beautiful building!..
and read that there used to be one in the subway station. Wow.
I’m still trying to figure out what you meant about the connection to what Steve or I said about restrooms.
Maybe you’re trying to be subtle… cos of the delicate subject… But is it possible to say more?
That elevator always smelled like pee.
Ohhh!
You know, I have some sympathy with people who can’t find a public restroom…
But there are probably nice ones in an old, cultured city like Munich…
And besides that, I can’t imagine it’s the women doing that.
Much more likely to be men… And it’s so much easier for them than for us to find some sneaky place outdoors, instead of defiling an enclosed public space…
While we have to suffer with being unable to do either, because… well, you know.
…
I can only think of one elevator here that has that problem… It’s in a multi level parking structure.
The really maddening thing is that there’s a city operated free public restroom… one of a very few in town… right next to the elevator on the ground floor.
Free public restrooms are a problem here or the lack thereof.
Not open all the time, no soap. no paper.
The ones in bars, restaurants etc. aren’t free but less expensive (you have to be a patron there) than the ones at central station which are time-limited, too…
The ones in big stores are free, but none of the businesses are open around the clock.
Grocery stores don’t have toilets open to the public.
Leaves those at gas stations but…you know…
Wow, I thought the situation would be better there than here… but I guess not.
In the US, laws about this tend to be regional.
We have a few city-owned public toilets where I live… I can only think of two downtown, but there are some in several city parks. Most are locked up after about 6pm.
Most stores and restaurants have them… during one drought some places tried closing them, but they’re mostly back.
All of those are free, though many say customers only.
At the supermarket and the discount stores you may need to ask for a code, or an employee to unlock it, and if they’re suspicious they lie and say it’s out of order.
…
When I was growing up, mostly in the midwest, there were a lot of pay toilets while fancy stores and restaurants had staffed ones, where you tipped an attendant.
But in the 70s there was a political movement to ban them. By then I lived in California, which was one state that enacted a ban… so we haven’t had any for about 50 years.
I’ve read that some states are reversing the bans.
…
It’s also law in California that no one can stop you from using the one that conforms to your chosen gender identity.
..
WOW!
I’ve never seen that sign.
Seems like it would cause confusion…
And maybe invite disaster.
I’m confused! 😀
There’s no cause to be confused….one’s a pointer and one’s a setter.
I get it now, but it’s still wrong.
I try not to p up. 😀
The confusion is cos it’s an elevator button, not a rest room sign.
Gender shouldn’t matter on the elevator… and apparently it doesn’t, cos there’s only one button, with both on it.
I believe that is a yummy.
Yes, it’s a morel.
A close relative of mushrooms, said to be really delicious.
I’ll probably never taste one, cos they’re not grown commercially.
In the wild, they’re very hard to find, and you have to know exactly how to distinguish them from other fungi that mimic them, but are poisonous. You also have to contend with all the other people out looking for them, getting them before you even see them.
Some mushroom hunters sell fresh ones to high end restaurants… they’re not as expensive as truffles…. but that’s like telling me a Mercedes is cheaper than a Bentley, when I drive a 98 Saturn.
The only way I’ve ever seen any for sale in a store was dried, and still incredibly expensive.
The year after our elm tree died we had a crop in the backyard. Daughter had some in the first year in her new house about a decade later. Youngest daughter goes hunting for them and other mushrooms every spring. Can usually find a good haul. NB – real morels are hollow.
We have a market that sells fresh ones this time of year. Pricey but oh, so good. This year’s first were there last week. But we passed. May buy some tomorrow. Sometimes our Farmers Market also has them.
The same market sells the dried ones year round.
Very time limited to a few weeks in May. This weekend is the Morel Festival in Boyne City MI.
They are “common” around here.
The 2 biggies i Oregon are Morel and chanterelle.
Ive gone picking with a cousin before.
There are lots of mushrooms up here that are edible.
Yeah – common to have morel hunters in our area. Funny thing…when I bought my house the previous owner had firewood stashed in a shed. When I cleared that out, the next year I had morels growing there. I didn’t know what it was, so I just kicked ’em down and raked ’em up and tossed ’em in the trash…probably about $100 worth. Oh well…
We used to have a mushroom seller at the farmer’s market where I worked once a week… He picked a few things wild, but mostly grew what he sold.
He said we didn’t have many morels growing around here, and they’re very difficult to cultivate.
I also had a friend who was in a mushroom hunting club… he’d never gotten any.
He wanted me to come with them some Saturday… but I thought their attitude was too offhand.
He said every now and then one they’d picked had made some of them sick… But don’t worry — it was “just” throwing up… Nobody died.
.,
Love his stunned expression.
…what just happened? 😀
I read the story in Readers Digest.
Tough girl!
Wonder what she’s doing now.
She’s a seventy y.o. married lady that followed her zoologist parents’ steps, becoming a mammalogist and bat expert. You can find out more going to her Wikipedia page. 😊
Thanks. I’ll look that up!
,
Hell no!
Man, I just hate this rush hour traffic.
.
Who, rather unbelievably, at the time were engaged.
THE STORY ISN’T A HAPPY ONE
I’ve got seven so far.
All on my phone screen!
Wow! ! !
Good evening, ladies, gents and bassets… or good morning, or afternoon, if you don’t see this till Saturday.
Summer’s coming up fast!
So are the cars in this race… in 1920, it was on a Monday, but in 2025, it’ll be this Sunday. That’ll be tomorrow, when you’re looking at this on Saturday.
I was looking for basset ears on this poster… took me a minute to realize it’s the human race.
Wait… That sounds wrong. Not “the human race”, in general, but an automobile race, in which the cars are driven by humans.
Probably not as interesting as the one where the drivers are basset hounds… Maybe that’s why it’s been given a little extra interest, by having two copies, with nine differences between them.
Did you see them? All nine?
Okay then… You might want to compare the ones you found with
I’ve found either eight, or nine, depending upon what’s being counted. I’ll have another look a bit later and then look at your solution to see what I missed (If any).
Should be an easy ID.
Not for me (I had to open your spoiler),
I said “Should,” not “Is” 😉
I didn’t. I think the hat covering half of her face made it harder.
As soo as i read your spoiler she popped out at me.
I am kinda partial to the quiet, pretty little Norma Jean rather than the glamoroous bimbo Marilyn she usually played.
Popped right out at me.
Hey everyone! I’m making This comment from my phone. But I cannot post Tonight or Tomorrow. Because There is an a t t Outage in my area which prevents me From posting on cleo. They told me this could take two Or 3.
Days.
Please don’t give up on me and continue to and and see if i’ve started posting yet. I’m so sorry about all this.
We’ll keep a light on for you!
Sorry this is happening.
Can’t you log in and/or continue to post in the comments with your phone?
I’m doing this on my phone right now.
In any case we can all stick around on today’s page and entertain each other.
Psst…. Hey gang…
Don’t tell nighthawks but I’m wondering whether he’s really just playing hooky so he can go to the race tomorrow 😁
Jk, NH!
Honest.
The latest news, If it’s true, is That my Internet service Will be restored Today…
Too late to post for today…. With any luck I should be able to post tonight( For tomorrow)
I’ll keep checking in.
I’m retired, got nothing better to do. 🙂
Ain’t it great?
If you know what a ” t t Outage” is please tell me.
A Google search comes up the Tik Tok, and I can’t think of how that fits here.
Um… a little confusing, but look again: he didn’t say “there is a tt Outage”.
He said “there is an a t t Outage”.
I’m sure he meant “an AT&T outage”, in spite of the slightly confusing capitalization. Most people can’t be bothered with the ampersand and just type ATT.
AT&T, which formerly stood for. American Telephone and Telegraph, is the largest provider of telephone service in the US, and one of the largest providers of both cell and internet service.
It’s been through approximately 4 zillion name changes (also ownership, though highly regulated) in the last 100 years, but eventually came back to one of the earliest….
so Nighthawks must have AT&T Internet.
I need my eyeballs checked.
Thanks ! !
I saw my first whale spout of the season today!
Stay tuned for my next set of postings.