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DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
25 days ago

Little one is taking singing lessons? I sure hope so. My current two and my previous two never sang with me. Sad. Non-howling hounds…it’s just not fair.

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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
24 days ago

They were obviously just enthralled by your singing voice. Speechless, so to say.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  Arfside
24 days ago

When I sing, they come running to find out if I’m hurt or something…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
24 days ago

Not even with passing sirens? Those always set my dog off.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
24 days ago

Nope. Those don’t bother them at all. Strange hounds.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
23 days ago

Cookie gets into barkfests with dogs on TV.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
24 days ago

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
24 days ago

Nice harmony… though it could be the background “music” for a horror movie.

D. Buffalo should play it for his dogs to see whether they howl along.

I wonder how they know it’s 33.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

Montana Lady would have loved this!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

Spoiler
OMG! It’s a wave!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
24 days ago

Yep!

By Australian photographer Ray Collins, who specializes in

just that thing….
Capturing photos of waves just when they look like mountains.

He has had gallery shows.

He says some are planned for months… buying tickets to travel to other locations, after collecting data about tides and weather, heading out in a small to just the right spot to set up and wait…. while others are pure serendipity.

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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

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Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

She wanted the role of “Nanny”.
Oh well…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

My sister-in-law never got over that.

Their kids were born in the early 1970s, when seat belt and car seat laws were more lax, and enforcement was more so.

She wanted them in car seats, but my brother didn’t like them. He was thrown out of a car in an accident when he was about 15, and it saved him, which is rare, but he always hated seat belts after that.

He and I used to… um… discuss… the fact that he didn’t make.his kids use them either. Even their baby seats often went unused, if anyone was in the car who could carry them, until a new law made them get a car seat for my niece when she was already about 5, which she complained about endlessly.

So his wife was constantly nervous about their safety, throwing her arm like that at any quick braking, if she were driving… which she was all the time after their divorce. By then the kids were adolescents, and chose to wear seat belts, but her arm was still flung across their chests.

She was so in the habit she did it to anyone riding in the passenger seat… Including me, and her adult friends, and of course, her kids, even after they were grown.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
24 days ago

Whenever I had a client in the van I would do that.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

And I have specialists or all of them!!!f

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
24 days ago

You go to a mycologist?
That must be some toenail fungus!

Personally, I try to shower often enough that I don’t carry enough dirt to interest a pedologist.

And I’ve been told I’m an airhead, but I’ve never been to an aerologist.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
23 days ago

You need to visit Granny Weatherwax — the world-class headologist!

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
23 days ago

(I’ve dated a couple of mycologists — does that count?)

dorothea
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

Ophthalmology is misspelled.

JP Steve
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Reply to  dorothea
23 days ago

Ophth course…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

Why would I want to carry these headshots around? In case I run into one of them?

Arfside
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
24 days ago

If you run into Andy Gibb, you’re sicker than you thought.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
24 days ago

Or Olivia Newton-John, or Jeff Conaway.

BTW I’ve never heard of Peter Barton.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
23 days ago

I thought Peter Barton looked vaguely familiar. He was in the Powers of Matthew Star in tht titular role.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Saucy1121
23 days ago

Thank you!

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
25 days ago

Maybe shoulda paid for two seats…

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

The face is much younger-looking than the hands.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
24 days ago

A sure sign of plastic surgery.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

Lycanthropy!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

Gee, thanks…/s

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

I’d really, really like to believe this…

Arfside
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Reply to  JP Steve
24 days ago

It looks like it is true. It’s in multiple internet sites. Here’s one:

A Doctor Saved This Man’s Life When He Was Born Early. Years Later, He Returned the Favor.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
25 days ago

12

Arfside
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
24 days ago

Looking at it again, I think you’re right.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
24 days ago

What?

I got the answer you just posted below.

Now I gotta figure out another way, as well, to come up with 12?

There are probably several ways to “solve” it cos there’s no explanation of what they mean by the false equalities.

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  SusanSunshine
24 days ago

9*(9+1)=90
8*(8+1)=72
7*(7+1)=56

3*(3+1)=12

Or, as Arfside did, extrapolate the missing set of equations. That way you’re working with existing information, and don’t have to start with an imaginary (missing) number as an assumption.

Last edited 24 days ago by DancingBuffalo
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  DancingBuffalo
24 days ago

Okay, that works.

It’s a right answer, maybe a better answer, but still maybe not the right answer.

Faced with two possibilities, I tend to choose the simplest….

So with nothing else specified, and these puzzles probably meant for general circulation, not for math majors, I’d think they’re probably looking for

the more obvious answer to the non-mathematically minded:
18
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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

The answer I get
9×10=90
8×9=72
7×8=56
6×7=42
3×6=18

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
24 days ago

Okay… We got the same answer.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

Obviously the “equalities” are false, so it’s a strange way to frame a puzzle…

But using the methodology they seem to have used,

I’d say that ..
each number in the left column is “equal” to itself times the number above it…

So 3 would equal 3 x 6, or 18

Last edited 24 days ago by SusanSunshine
Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
24 days ago

Looking at it another way
Some numbers were left out to see if you could find them
5×6=30
4×5=20
3×4=12

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Reply to  Arfside
24 days ago

Nah… I mean yeah, that works…

But if I have to invent the methodology plus add in parts that aren’t included…

It goes beyond what’s acceptable in my idea of puzzle compliance.

Not that saying that isn’t what they did, though.

Maybe it’s what they’re looking for…

But I refuse to accept it. 🙂

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
24 days ago

Sounds like Adam Savage from MythBusters. “I reject your reality and substitute my own.” Sounds fair to me, go for it!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

It looks like all you have to do is:
Multiply the number on the left by the number directly above it.

You have to assume that the number above the 9 is a 10.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
24 days ago

That’s what I did, and what I said in my explanation, and so did Arfside.

We got the same

answer…
18

That’s what you’d get

too!
3×6=18

But Dancing B had said 12, and Arfside figured out, and posted, how to get that instead.

That’s what I said could be right, but I reject it.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
23 days ago

I hope that question isn’t on a SAT test. Who knows how many people would miss going to Yale or Harvard just for missing it.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
24 days ago

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baconboycamper
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
24 days ago

Happy³,
Like Yogi Berra said…
“It’s déjà vu all over again…”

Almost the same photo as your posting May 26, just a slightly different angle.
Beautiful creature!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  baconboycamper
24 days ago

Yup. I got four snap shots.

Arfside
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24 days ago

Reply to the Oconto frogs of yesterday. From Gary Larson.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
24 days ago

Ew… But they actually made all sorts of jokes like that in Oconto.

Not that specifically, but about holding frog leg breakfasts to raise money, or writing a frog cookbook, different things like that.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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24 days ago

Freight wagons on Ute Pass, Colorado, 1878.

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Arfside
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
23 days ago

Like following a 36HP VW bus up a steep road. Everybody has to move at the speed of the slowest.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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24 days ago

Three chicks in the Red-tailed Hawk nest on Central Park South near Seventh Avenue.

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Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
24 days ago

…and that’s one reason you should keep small dogs on a leash.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
24 days ago

We have eagles where I live.

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
24 days ago

Dachshunds, national parks and birds of prey…

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