May 30, 2025

Ermoupoli, Syros,

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Um…. why are you staring at me?

I can’t help it if I think you’re color enhanced.

It’s the lavender eyeliner.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

The bloody nose looks real enough though…

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

I think I remember that from my “Paint by Numbers” kit…

baconboycamper
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2 days ago

The deft use of the artist’s palette knife brings such life and focus and emphasis of the situation presented.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Not quite ready to lay her eggs. She’s not totally full yet…

JP Steve
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3 days ago

Rodeo clowns really earn their pay!

SusanSunshine
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3 days ago

I knew one… about… oh… I dunno … 3,472 years ago.
Student during the school year, rodeo clown in the summer and maybe spring break.

I never saw him work… I don’t think I could have watched.

He was 19 or 20 years old, a funny, bright chemistry student.

We had a few “study dates”, and he showed me his collection of scars, knots and bumps, and pointed out all the bones he’d broken.

He seemed pretty nonchalant, but I wasn’t!

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2 days ago

Had a co-worker that was a bull rider, pro circuit, worked off-season in the same wood mill I was at. Same story – beat to heck. I honestly don’t understand why he kept going back.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

I’m calling shenanigans!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 days ago

On what?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

The flip and land on the back.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 days ago

A 2-10-2 ‘Santa Fe’ (Revised design). Good locomotives at slower speeds (Under 30mph) but could cause track damage at higher speeds due to unbalanced reciprocating mass inherent in the design. Sorted out in the replacement 2-10-4’s. The loco in the picture is as ‘Santa Fe’ owned and operated by the AT&SF who were the company that introduced the type.

That was an interesting rabbit hole to dive down.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
2 days ago

The extra set of wheels under the cab helped the dynamics that much? Impressive!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Anybody need a hint?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 days ago

The dock is a hint.

And the filename is a bigger one.

As for that guy…

I really want to quip….
“He coulda been a contender…. for the Oscar”… but in fact he won it… Best Actor, 1955, for this role. And another, years later, for The Godfather.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 days ago

No. Even i got this. 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Where not to buy a sandwich.

If say it’s more than half off.

I’d ask where it is, so I wouldn’t go there… But the labels are in another language, so maybe it’s someplace I don’t usually go anyway.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Anybody need another hint?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 days ago

Nobody our age.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  JP Steve
3 days ago

Yes please, I know Top Right, we did get that one over here.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

I know the two on the right. I loved Mission Impossible. They ruined the movies by making the REAL hero into the bad guy in the first one; I haven’t watched any of the subsequent ones.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  P51Strega
3 days ago

Thought that Bottom Right might have been the MI series, but couldn’t be certain. We did get that over here as well, but it must be forty-odd years since I saw an episode.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

Since there are questions….

We have….
Clockwise, from top left:

The Untouchables, with Robert Stack as Elliott Ness.

Star Trek… I’m sure you know them all…

Mission Impossible… silver haired Peter Graves, Greg Morris (I think) and sorry, I can’t identify the woman… there were several….

And the Lucy Show… her later series, with the indefatiguable, multi-series comic foil, and not just Lucy’s… Gale Gordon.

This is from memory, so I’m open to correction.

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Saucy1121
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2 days ago

Bottom right woman
Lynda Day George is the woman.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Luckily I have no idea what it is anyway.

happyhappyhappy
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3 days ago

I blew it up.
Its a Roadrunner cartoon with insects!

baconboycamper
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2 days ago

Spider chasing an ant into an anthill, then a bunch of ants chasing the spider. Anthill probably not the original ant’s home, judging by his own reception from the other ants (which are smaller)…
The hunter and victim both become the hunted. Such is Nature…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  baconboycamper
2 days ago

Thanks.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

You probably

remember…

Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as father and son, in The Rifleman

But do you

remember…
That Crawford started to look a bit older, during a time of teen idols, and American Bandstand…

So he became a teen singer, while still on the Rifleman. I think he actually had some hit records.

And did you know that he was small for his age… The program didn’t start till he was 13. He was probably 14 in this photo.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Sorry, Grandma… I’m afraid of heights.

I think I’ll just stay home.

happyhappyhappy
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3 days ago

I got the cartoon today! I dont have to use the phone to see it!

I hope lady dragon isn’t too upset when she finds out she made a mistake!

SusanSunshine
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3 days ago

A boy dragon might love Cleo… She has a flamethrower and a bazooka!

SusanSunshine
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3 days ago

Okay… In the billion years I’ve had guy friends, I’ve always heard them say “Oh, I don’t like women who wear makeup. I prefer them to be natural.”

Then they run off with some painted tramp. It’s funny if I’m not involved; frustrating if he was the object of my (pretty much unpainted) desire.

Anyway… I ran into some pictures on the Internet (no it didn’t hurt)…

So here’s #1 of a quiz.

Here’s someone famous, without her makeup…

Do you know who she is?

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Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

I would say that’s
Madonna.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 days ago

Yup.

But that’s why it’s a quiz for the guys.

We know. About makeup, I mean 😁

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

And yes, that’s sexist.
But it’s only guys I’ve known that couldn’t see it.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

I struggle to identify people most times, but I got her without seeing the whole picture of her face. I think the eyes were the key.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

Hardly.
I recognize people from their eyes and mouths only most times.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 days ago

Me too. That’s my point!

So we’re not as fooled by makeup as are some of the men I’ve known.

I recognized her but I thought maybe the guys wouldn’t.

Anyway it’s a joke.

But whatever….

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P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 days ago

NOT FAIR! I have prosopagnosia, I have trouble recognizing male or female faces. Add or remove make-up, or change hair color or style, and boom, it’s a different person.
BTW, I find her much more attractive in this picture.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 days ago

I was wrong. I thought it was an older star.

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 days ago

I thought Hepburn.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  P51Strega
2 days ago

I was thinking Debbie Harry.

SusanSunshine
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3 days ago

Forgot to say… Ermoupoli is on Syros, a Greek island in the Agean Sea, almost halfway to Turkey, as the crow flies.

A beautiful place, from pictures, anyway.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 days ago

The inside of part of a printing press.

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Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
3 days ago

Guy being the most essential part.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 days ago

He’s the one who quickly writes all the stuff on each page.

Tigressy
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 days ago

He’s an imp?

JP Steve
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 day ago

A printer’s imp?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
2 days ago

Yeah .. look at his huge bicep. 😁

Greyhame
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
3 days ago

This is the operator side. The gears are on the other side.

This is an offset press, where the ink is transferred from the plate to a rubber blanket before being pressed on to the paper. One unit for each color ink.

Looks like the paper web moves vertically throught this design.

In case you haven’t guessed, I have been involved in building a few.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Greyhame
2 days ago

The guy stays in there? While it’s printing?

I thought he was just doing maintenance or some such.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 days ago

He is doing maintenance, the machine side we’re viewing is the operator’s side.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 day ago

That’s what Greyhame said…. so I thought he meant that fellow is the operator, and stays in there when he’s running it.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Oh, that is very sad news 🙁

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

I’m expecting no less than extraordinarily beautiful sunsets, ~rises, rainbows, whatever from now on.
She’s a free spirit again…

😭

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Heart-felt.
I can’t stop crying…
We had our differences, but I’ve always loved her as the good person she is.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 days ago

Dang it.
I don’t have the words.

Tigressy
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2 days ago

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SusanSunshine
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2 days ago

Nothing I can say that you don’t already know.

This is devastating.
And sooo not fair.

SusanSunshine
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2 days ago

We only just discovered about 6 weeks ago that she had a phone in her room again, after nearly two years of sending her unanswered cards and being told there was no way to speak to her.

She could sometimes pick up, and speak, though with difficulty, but was more improved than I had thought possible. Not 100%, or even close, of course… but still Candi.

We were so happy to regain the connection. And now I’m really glad it happened before…

Ok… I can’t.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 day ago

:’o(

baconboycamper
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

My heartfelt condolences nighthawks, and to everyone else mourning her passing.
Now, Free, to do once again what she did before.
May she fly among us all.
And Deep Peace to her soul and to her spirit.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

This is so sad. I send my sympathy to those who knew her. Like Happy³, I really don’t know what to say.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 days ago

While not unexpected, it’s still such very sad news.

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1 day ago

😞🖤

Marge
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1 day ago

Have not really known her, but read her name so often and can admire her Artwork here at Cleos. So sorry, for this loss! 😢

Dear Stelbel, now you are save and can rest in peace! 🕊

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