November 10, 2024

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

Wow, a light-up mushroom!

The latest in fairy decor?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

😁

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

As they should!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

The Lens results seem to show that they’re real.
I thought so, but I get suspicious these days.

Sadly, a lot of the links were to…. sniffle… cooking instructions.

Being sad seems hypocritical, I guess. I eat other fish, and also chickens.

But these guys look more like songbirds.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

I don’t mean to be cynical … But this kinda looks like it’s from one of those sites where you can add text to a picture.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

It looks like it could be from one of the Doo Dah Parades. The one from Ocean City New Jersey is especially relevant, as it features the Annual Basset Hound Waddle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Dah_Parade

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

 
As near as I can tell, this is the 2019 “Maple Leaf Parade” in La Crosse, Wisconson.
The parade is part of the city’s Oktoberfest celebrations.
 
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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

A house with two breaker panels!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
12 days ago

If those are breaker panels, I hope nobody trips anything in the top one on a dark stormy night.

Those aren’t low ceilings…. so you’d have to go outside with an 18ft ladder to reset it… or, I’m thinking, actually to change a fuse.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

 
The artist is Kaoru Yamada (I cannot find any titles for her works).
She works in digital and A.I. art.
She is also an illustrator.
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

Carrie was born in 1956, so this must be about 1960-ish?
It almost looks like someone is saying it’s in 2017.

She and her Mom both died in the year before that.
RIP, ladies.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

Does
Trying to solve the puzzle
count as one of the mistakes 😉

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
12 days ago

Yes.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago
  1. She wants the 824 bus
  2. He’s not a real bus driver.
happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

He shouldn’t have his elbow on the window sill.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

I didn’t see any obvious or funny errors, like in some of these types of puzzles… no ducks wearing boots, and I don’t think that’s an apple on the roof or a sausage on the ground.

Beyond that, it’s very hard to tell artistic licence and/or minimal use of details from deliberate errors.

For instance is that a front license plate, and was it even meant to have a number on it? I’m betting no, so I’m not proposing it.

A few possibilities….

She’s got her umbrella up, but it’s not raining.

There’s no destination on the bus sign.

I don’t see any windshield wipers… but some fold down into a groove when they stop, and you can’t see them.

No rearview mirror?

Shouldn’t the door be open when she’s that close?

And of course, we’re assuming this is in North America… If it’s England, the bus is on the wrong side of the street, and the driver’s seat on the wrong side of the bus.

I’m sure there are other things.

Last edited 12 days ago by SusanSunshine
P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 days ago

Excellent! I floundered with he same questions and couldn’t find any universally wrong faults. Did you see the spoiler box Nighthawks posted below the puzzle? Based on that, two of your guesses are indeed the correct answers.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
12 days ago

No… I forgot to look till your comment.

Hmm… One was the same but I thought it might not be….

The other the same but a different type.

I’ll take it anyway, thanks!

Greyhame
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 days ago

How about:

Spoiler
The reflection of the right headlight on the sidewalk shows vertical pairing instead of the actual horizontal pairing

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Greyhame
12 days ago

Silly me….
I didn’t even realise what it was supposed to be reflecting. I thought a traffic light.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Greyhame
11 days ago

Bing bing bing, we have a winner! I can’t believe I missed that.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 days ago

1954.

Ulysses was new, that dress was fashionable, and that was a pretty new model car for a cab.

But in NYC you have to keep up!

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 days ago

Taxi cab work is about the most abusive way you can operate a car, they don’t last long. An exception is the white roofed, yellow cab in the background, it appears to be a checker motors cab. Checker motors built ultradurable cars designed to be taxis. They were painted per the customer fleet requirements (so mostly yellow in NY). They were not only durable, but quite spacious in back.

SusanSunshine
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12 days ago

One of my now ex exes started a very small (1 car) cab company in southern CA about 20 years ago.

He’d been driving for another company but thought he’d do better on his own.

They don’t require a medallion there so anybody can do it, after s background check.

It was before Uber so there were regulations, though.

Ever the inpatient and incautious type, he bought a car at auction, and paid almost $2,000 for the modifications required to make it a cab… paint job, signage, better tires, a roof light (luckily removable).. I don’t remember all.

But he failed to notice that cabs there have to be under 10 years old.

There were delays getting the work done, and by the time it was ready, it had less than a year to go.

He thought maybe they wouldn’t say anything (yeah right) but when it turned 10, he immediately got a notice in the mail.

End of cab company.

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BTW Where I’ve lived the Checker cabs were checkered, and used for Checker Cab.

Old ones, bought at auction, were prized hippie and counterculture family cars.

Last edited 12 days ago by SusanSunshine
Liverlips McCracken
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12 days ago

“Sophisticated” That’s us, alright. 🙄

SusanSunshine
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12 days ago

Clara!

You know Cleo and Company has to keep up!

Besides, cartoon leaves are much more loosely attached than real leaves, and a good cartoonist who’s all paid up on his dues gets access to a special leaf lever in the basement.

Don’t imply that Nighthawks hasn’t paid his dues.
What do you think Sherpa was all about?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 days ago

It was for a while a great place, an admirable idea.

Family squabbling apparently killed it.
People not liking it or not wanting to allow something just because someone else did.

Discontinuing the image and video links was one thing….
Their space, their rules.

Didn’t like it but could put up with it.

Ending their hosting of the forums was a nasty move, denying exposure to cartoonists who had worked very hard on building a following.

Not too bright, either, IMHO…

Even though they were technically on Sherpa, I’m sure the comment sections brought more eyes to the ads and the other strips on GoComics, and probably more paid subscriptions.

Luckily we had set up Ballard Street as a hiding place.

But pulling the whole rug out from under their faithful … and paid… participants was a truly heartless blow.

Thanks for getting WordPress together.

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