It was Tommy Rettig, as the teenage Jeff, who was with Lassie when I was little.
When Jeff got to be about 18,he and the actress who played his mother both left, and a younger boy, Jon Provost, became Lassie’s human companion, Timmy.
I was confused by the change. How could Jeff leave Lassie???
I refused to like Timmy because he wasn’t Jeff.
…
Jon Provost grew up to be a realtor in a nearby town to where I live…
I never went to his office but I heard he had some Lassie memorabilia.
I thought it was pretty funny that he wrote an autobiography about his acting career, and called it “Timmy’s in the Well.”
Accepting the year as 1875 (“Have Gun – Will Travel” opening) and the mean of the U.S. census years 1870 and 1880 (44,373,790) as the U.S. population then Snake-Bite Center’s bad guys accounted for the 52.898312269472587308859576790714 % of the U.S. population (23,472,987 people) that wanted to be sheriff there.
From 1783 (the U.S. revolution’s end) that’s a little over 255,141.1630434782608695652173913 sheriffs a year. This is not the full cartoon. (that runs 7 minutes and 19 seconds).
Sorry, Susan, I am still wiped out from three days of cooking and two days of eating (and drinking wine, to be honest). Maybe tomorrow I will have the energy to attack this one.
Drawing smoke, with its transparency and sheer layers, is more complicated than a line drawing….
I believe those didn’t quite match perfectly, after he had made a correction in something else…. but he thought the remaining difference was so very slight that no one could reasonably count it.
…
Or, as I usually say… you can count it in your personal accounting, if you like, but if it were up to ME, I wouldn’t officially call it “Ten differences”.
That’s because no one is required to see it in order to feel that he or she “solved” the puzzle “correctly.”
In fact, on my tablet, it’s pretty much invisible, though I can just barely see it on my laptop.
(Remember, this is a human-drawn endeavor… You’re solving for fun, not big cash prizes or even trophies.)
Don’t quote me though, because, as I said, it’s NOT up to me.
thanks, Susan—my downfall was the see-through attributes of smoke —
perhaps if I had been doing this for a hundred years (like a certain famous cartoonist has) I might have gotten it right—but …..probably not.
my reputation for accuracy on these silly puzzles has taken a hit lately and
if you can’t trust that there are nine and only nine diffs then it’s no fun.
Would you guys prefer NOT to have to suffer through these on Saturdays?
there’s a definite difference there that was unplanned.
all this would have been avoided if I had just posted a
note with it stating to not look for differences in the smoke,
which is what I was thinking about doing, but I thought that made it seem amateurish …..which in the end, it turned out to be anyway.
We’ve seen puzzles where smaller differences than the one Alexikakos and me noticed were valid.
And with no number of differences given beforehand it’s only fair (in my humble opinion) to ask if it is one or not.
You’re in no position to call it nit-picking – if nighthawks himself decides calling it that, I’m OK with his decision.
One method to make certain there are only the desired number, “x”, differences in a find-the-“x” differences puzzle.
1. Determine the value of “x”
2. Count out and put in a line the number of pennies that equal “x”.
3. When a difference is made ( and only when a difference is made ) in the test puzzle panel remove a penny from the line.
When you’re out of pennies, the puzzle is finished and ready for its vic….solvers.
This does, of course relies upon the puzzle maker’s ability to remember to remove the appropriate penny as necessary, and to keep the “pennies-removed pile” separate from the”pennies-to-be-removed line;….hmmmm…. maybe this won’t work after-all.
not a bad idea. just keep finding differences until you don’t feel like looking for any more differences.
then, under wraps, Susan can reveal how many there actually were.
could be one, could be ten
“Joc-a-mo-fee-no-ah-nah-nay, Joc-a-mo-fee-nah-nay” is a ritual chant used by the Mardi Gras Indians which has been around for so long the words are no longer clearly distinguishable, and it has a well understood meaning of its own. Very, very loosely translated it signifies “we mean business” or “don’t mess with us”. Originally it would have been Cajun (a liberal mix of French and English) and literally translates to “the fool we will not play today.”
I’m reading John Lescroart’s (by the author himself in a previous book: John “Less Kwah”) “The Missing Piece” right now, and what showed up as part of a clue?
The “New Yorker” magazine of April 15, 2019 with Mark Ulriksen’s “Double Play” as the cover.
His “Summer Treat” from August 9, 2021 was posted by nighthawks yesterday .
“The Missing Piece” is Lescoart’s 30th novel at the time of publishing, March of this year, and features his regular protagonists of Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wes Farrel.
The novels themselves all stand on their own (although some back story is referred to in all I’ve read of his, it does not interfere with understanding the plot of the book being read), and while I haven’t read anywhere close to all thirty, I’ve always enjoyed the ones I have. The cover I’m referring to is below.
believe it or not, I’m rereading George Orwell’s ‘1984’ for the first time in sixty years.
it’s frightening the way ‘the party’ keeps the people in line has many parallels in modern times
Having reread it myself a few years ago, I was startled to realize how mercenary Orwell had written the character of Julia.
Too, “101” has come to mean the basics of in the simplest form of anything, but remember Winston Smith was taken to Room 101 to be tortured by his greatest fears.
Maryanne Ellis
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TV Guide ran from Saturday to Sunday, so this has to be from 1955.
It was Tommy Rettig, as the teenage Jeff, who was with Lassie when I was little.
When Jeff got to be about 18,he and the actress who played his mother both left, and a younger boy, Jon Provost, became Lassie’s human companion, Timmy.
I was confused by the change. How could Jeff leave Lassie???
I refused to like Timmy because he wasn’t Jeff.
…
Jon Provost grew up to be a realtor in a nearby town to where I live…
I never went to his office but I heard he had some Lassie memorabilia.
I thought it was pretty funny that he wrote an autobiography about his acting career, and called it “Timmy’s in the Well.”
,
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Is that Humphrey Gobark in Casablanca?
Yes! But I believe it was “Casabasset”
“Casablanca Basset Hound” By: John LaFree (August 26, 2017)
In the clearer resolution I found, those are definitely chess pieces.
Maybe it’s me, but I don’t see how anyone could see them as anything else at the posted resolution… which is pretty big.
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Welcome home!
Aww! 🙂
Annnnd a Saturday morning cartoon
Accepting the year as 1875 (“Have Gun – Will Travel” opening) and the mean of the U.S. census years 1870 and 1880 (44,373,790) as the U.S. population then Snake-Bite Center’s bad guys accounted for the 52.898312269472587308859576790714 % of the U.S. population (23,472,987 people) that wanted to be sheriff there.
From 1783 (the U.S. revolution’s end) that’s a little over 255,141.1630434782608695652173913 sheriffs a year.
This is not the full cartoon. (that runs 7 minutes and 19 seconds).
,
love, love, LOVE daffy duck!!!
Where are all my puzzlers, Cleo Pals?
Yoo hooo…. I didn’t think everybody ate that much Tryptophan yesterday!
I know today’s puzzle looks a wee bit intimidating, and we’re all still a teensy bit sleepy…
But you can do it!
….
Tell you what… I’m going to go ahead and post the solution…
You guys work on it, and then when you’re ready…
And not before…
Take a look
And make sure we found the same differences.
…
You have to try, cos without you solving the puzzle, we might not get one…
And if we don’t get one, I’ll lose my job…. and all those zeroes on my paycheck…
probably even my key to the virtual employee restroom!
Where will I virtually rest?
Please get busy puzzling!
I take it there are nine differences?
Yup yup yup….
Sorry, Susan, I am still wiped out from three days of cooking and two days of eating (and drinking wine, to be honest). Maybe tomorrow I will have the energy to attack this one.
My solution will still be here 😁
Maybe 10?
I caught that one too.
Always up to Nighthawks to say what counts.
Drawing smoke, with its transparency and sheer layers, is more complicated than a line drawing….
I believe those didn’t quite match perfectly, after he had made a correction in something else…. but he thought the remaining difference was so very slight that no one could reasonably count it.
…
Or, as I usually say… you can count it in your personal accounting, if you like, but if it were up to ME, I wouldn’t officially call it “Ten differences”.
That’s because no one is required to see it in order to feel that he or she “solved” the puzzle “correctly.”
In fact, on my tablet, it’s pretty much invisible, though I can just barely see it on my laptop.
(Remember, this is a human-drawn endeavor… You’re solving for fun, not big cash prizes or even trophies.)
Don’t quote me though, because, as I said, it’s NOT up to me.
…or the number of differences.
thanks, Susan—my downfall was the see-through attributes of smoke —
perhaps if I had been doing this for a hundred years (like a certain famous cartoonist has) I might have gotten it right—but …..probably not.
my reputation for accuracy on these silly puzzles has taken a hit lately and
if you can’t trust that there are nine and only nine diffs then it’s no fun.
Would you guys prefer NOT to have to suffer through these on Saturdays?
It’s not the smoke, it’s something in Claude’s right hand? Or a charred handle?
Below where they touch is something that might be part of an oven mitt hanging from the stove… it’s hard to tell, because it’s only partially seen.
OK, I just magnified it 300%… here’s a comparison.
…
…
At that size I can see a small shadow … and the right panel is a teeny bit smokier. But these are pretty much invisible to me at normal size.
You are somewhat younger than me or Nighthawks… perhaps we don’t see quite as well.
I’m pretty sure I don’t, actually, but I get along in the world.
….
I’m afraid that if you’re going to require perfection at 300% magnification, you’re probably in the wrong place.
It won’t happen in these puzzles because a human draws them.
Congratulate yourself on your good vision and count it for yourself, if you like… but I don’t consider myself to have missed something significant.
Everybody’s mileage, as they say, may differ.
Haven’t you noticed that I’ve only asked questions?
there’s a definite difference there that was unplanned.
all this would have been avoided if I had just posted a
note with it stating to not look for differences in the smoke,
which is what I was thinking about doing, but I thought that made it seem amateurish …..which in the end, it turned out to be anyway.
Don’t you dare stop because of a little nit-picking!
Most of the Puzzle People will consider themselves fortunate to find nine…
And I can’t afford to lose my job and that all-important key!
…
The problem is, you have one group that can’t find fairly broad differences, and another group that wants every pixel perfectly aligned.
I think most of us fall in the middle, and enjoy the puzzles wherever they land on that scale.
We’ve seen puzzles where smaller differences than the one Alexikakos and me noticed were valid.
And with no number of differences given beforehand it’s only fair (in my humble opinion) to ask if it is one or not.
You’re in no position to call it nit-picking – if nighthawks himself decides calling it that, I’m OK with his decision.
I am NOT going to argue with you …
“Nit-picking” was my word to Nighthawks, not to you.
Did you not see his reaction to your “questions”?
He asked whether he should quit making puzzles!!
…
I do the solution every week, and I’ve not seen any differences I had to magnify to that extent in order to make them visible.
As I said, if you don’t think that one is nit-picky and you want to count it as a difference for yourself, that’s fine.
I already said, as well, that I have no authority…
I personally wouldn’t call it an official difference, but it’s always up to Nighthawks!
pax omnibus!
One method to make certain there are only the desired number, “x”, differences in a find-the-“x” differences puzzle.
1. Determine the value of “x”
2. Count out and put in a line the number of pennies that equal “x”.
3. When a difference is made ( and only when a difference is made ) in the test puzzle panel remove a penny from the line.
When you’re out of pennies, the puzzle is finished and ready for its vic….solvers.
This does, of course relies upon the puzzle maker’s ability to remember to remove the appropriate penny as necessary, and to keep the “pennies-removed pile” separate from the”pennies-to-be-removed line;….hmmmm…. maybe this won’t work after-all.
victims.
your first thought was correct
“Wait, what – no number given? – Let’s see how many are there today.”
You knew that? Impressive.
I’m always looking forward to the puzzles.
not a bad idea. just keep finding differences until you don’t feel like looking for any more differences.
then, under wraps, Susan can reveal how many there actually were.
could be one, could be ten
or, we’ll just keep on keeping on
do we use Canadian pennies or U.S. pennies?
or pennies from heaven?
i still only got 6. i can’t look any more, so i stand on 6.
as far as your question, i really enjoy the weekly challenge. if it’s too hard on you…..
As bad as i am at it, the struggle is fun.
Don’t stop.
Please don’t stop the puzzles. I never seem to get all the differences, but I do enjoy the challenge.
TTHHBBBPPPTT! That’s the sound of Snoopy’s Sopwith Camel going down, and me crashing and burning on today’s FTND.
by gum, those two sounds do sound rather similar
I’m stuck at six.
The first four came fast.
Always liked Iko Iko, but there is a line I cannot understand. Anyone know what they are singing in the second line of the chorus?
I love onions too! What would we do without them! Don’t forget garlic.
The following quote…
“Joc-a-mo-fee-no-ah-nah-nay, Joc-a-mo-fee-nah-nay” is a ritual chant used by the Mardi
Gras Indians which has been around for so long the words are no longer clearly
distinguishable, and it has a well understood meaning of its own. Very, very loosely
translated it signifies “we mean business” or “don’t mess with us”. Originally it would have
been Cajun (a liberal mix of French and English) and literally translates to “the fool we will
not play today.”
…comes from HERE.
Thanks Alexi!
I’m reading John Lescroart’s (by the author himself in a previous book: John “Less Kwah”) “The Missing Piece” right now, and what showed up as part of a clue?
The “New Yorker” magazine of April 15, 2019 with Mark Ulriksen’s “Double Play” as the cover.
His “Summer Treat” from August 9, 2021 was posted by nighthawks yesterday .
“The Missing Piece” is Lescoart’s 30th novel at the time of publishing, March of this year, and features his regular protagonists of Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wes Farrel.
The novels themselves all stand on their own (although some back story is referred to in all I’ve read of his, it does not interfere with understanding the plot of the book being read), and while I haven’t read anywhere close to all thirty, I’ve always enjoyed the ones I have. The cover I’m referring to is below.
believe it or not, I’m rereading George Orwell’s ‘1984’ for the first time in sixty years.
it’s frightening the way ‘the party’ keeps the people in line has many parallels in modern times
This and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”.
Having reread it myself a few years ago, I was startled to realize how mercenary Orwell had written the character of Julia.
Too, “101” has come to mean the basics of in the simplest form of anything, but remember Winston Smith was taken to Room 101 to be tortured by his greatest fears.
It’s cake day today.
Here on Cleo we’re celebrating onions, too.
Not the worst idea to smoke the turkey for a few days, but not on high heat and not starting on actual Thanksgiving!
Anyhoo… I was on my way to bed, about an hour ago, when I realised I’d forgotten to post something, so I came back….
But I got distracted.
…
Once again, I posted this yesterday afternoon, California time, which is too late for some of you to have seen it… so I’m re-posting it:
This is from an email message I got from PLODS… in response to my Thanksgiving e-card:
…
“Sorry I haven’t been on but I’m dealing with some sh…tuff. Looks like my recovery is going to take a lot longer than I anticipated.
Need more pt than I’ve been getting.
Give everyone ((((((Hugs)))))) from me.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁 🦃 ”
….
If you see this… I hope you’re doing well today, Plods!
Just keep healing.
Note that air-to-air combat between flying fighters is called a “dogfight.”
Claude might consider changing his expression to “Turkey’s finished!”
Or this:
Thank you for updating the site.
Wonderful animated tribute!
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