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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I wish i could still sleep anywhere.

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday.

Tigressy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Good morning!

And yes, Happy Birthday, Happy³….

Sorry, we’re still trying to keep it all low key, here on Cleo… but I do hope you have a wonderful day.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Signed more paperwork today. 🙂

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

As usual, I’m late to the party. I wish all the best for you.

Arfside
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

I hope all goes well, and it’s a great birthday gift that you have given yourself.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I would keep that cake topper. 😀

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Tsk tsk … Hope you’re not wishing anybody a sh… a poopy birthday!

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Pass.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Trying to figure out whether this depicts an event, or perhaps people leaving one…

Did a show just let out?

Is that a yellow cab stand middle right? How would that grey car ever get to leave, hemmed in so tightly?

And is that a bus with an open top deck, across the street?

There’s a policeman with a whistle directing traffic in the middle of the street.

So maybe there’s a small crowd because that’s a crosswalk…
Or was that black car, from left, involved in an accident?

The picture needs to come with narration, like those zoos and museum exhibits with keys you can turn to hear more information.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Me too… it’s like a big story full of tiny people.

Have there ever been double decker buses in NYC?

Ok… I just image searched it, and found a bit of conflicting information. Some was obviously incorrect…. One labeling it early 1920s, and another 1050s.

But several places had the probable truth. NYC 1936, an ad for Republic Steel… Which seemed odd till I found this caption:

“Fifth Avenue: 1936

From Fifth Avenue to Main Street, alloy steels have changed the driving habits of America. Republic Steel, 1936.”

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

The 1050’s?!? Definitely an unreliable source.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

Oopsie! 🤭

What gave it away?

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Emulating yesterday’s mountain goat…

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I don’t think that rope will help him.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Maybe it’s attached not far below, so he can’t drop all the way down?

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

A 10′ drop, stopped by a rope around waist seems like a good way to break one’s back. I really though the rope was to help those coming after, but I just realized that it’s slack.

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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Maybe he’s moving up to a spot where he can belay the next climber.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Yodelodle away-hee-hee!

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

I forgot to post my translation…

Alpinism would be mountaineering, or climbing… In the “Chimney”… which must be a nickname for that vertical rift.

It appears to be an ad for Liebig (brand, I presume) real meat extract.

The Red Bull or protein shake of its day, I guess.

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1 month ago
SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

I know it has nothing to do with Red Bull!
And Red Bull has nothing to do with meat.
You saw my translation!

I was making an analogy, and kind of a joke…

Just saying it was the magic “potion” of its day.

Back then they thought meat extract would give you energy and strength, the way they believe in Red Bull and protein shakes today.

I think it’s all bogus.

Sorry you didn’t get it.

The phrase “the ___ of its day” means a comparison, not that you think it’s the same thing.

Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
Tigressy
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1 month ago

It’s not bogus; the German entry clearly says that Liebig’s friend’s daughter quickly recovered after being fed that meat extract. She was too sick to keep solid food inside.

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

LOL !!!!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Amazing for a guy to find that funny. 😁

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

It’s the same thing my head does in that situation 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Is this ratcheting up the situation?

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

 
I have normal colour vision, but this one defeated me. I’ve set this to start at the answer (again, the choice of music is terrible).
 

 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

Yeah, I made it slightly different, and it did take some looking to see the numbers.

I made it:
20103

P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Similar,

I got
26103

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

I got
Nuffin

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I can usually see them too… But for this one, nada.

Close, farther away, small phone screen, larger tablet, moving, still…
for just a moment I thought it said “Kind” in a stencil type font.

But no.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Love this!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Tell me more about Diamond-navel Nancy…

Tigressy
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Was she in “Das Indische Grabmal” or “Der Tiger von Eschnapur”?

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
This is all I could find (sadly / the attachment is the same as the side blurb below)….

 
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I finally found the daisy!

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I think i got it.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I can’t – I keep falling asleezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

I think I found it, I think it’s:

Here!
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Alexikakos
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

 
You’re right.
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Same as I found.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

The problem i had with this solution, when I found it (though I knew it was obviously correct)

was two-fold
The chick is gigantic… half as big as a sheep!
And sheep don’t have feet to stand on.

So we have to think of this a just a hidden picture… Not part of the scene.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

 

I just went looking for the solution because I didn’t feel like solving it.

 
Go to the top left corner.
Go down to the fence.
Continue down past the half sheep to the puff of the next sheep’s tail.
Move right to the fence and the butterfly.
Continue right two sheep to the fence.
Go to the left fence post and go to the sheep directly below it.
The chick’s beak is directly below its ear.
 

 

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Uh .. Alexi…
I know you love complicated directions…

But

All you have to do is …
Count down six sheep from the top right corner (including the half sheep, and the one below, whatever it’s doing…

The sixth sheep is jumping over a fence.

The chick is standing on the feet of the sheep to the left of the sixth one, hiding by blending in with his body.

Or if you didn’t want to count, just find the only bit of fence actually touching the right edge, a bit over halfway down…
There’s a sheep jumping over it… The chick is hiding on the next step to the left.

Simpler still… Look at MCTS’s solution, which was posted hours before.

😁

Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Story of my life.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

The first for alert, the second to target, the third to… well, you know the rest.

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1 month ago

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

This is worth showing again.

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
Titled “Rails V.”
And if you forced me to guess, I’d say somewhere in Saskatchewan.
 

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Al Capone in jail

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Good place for him. He should have died in jail.

P51Strega
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

He looks happy. Maybe it was a relief for him to get away from “business”.

I hate to say it, but I’d like to see a little more misery from the monster.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Who knew he played the banjo?!

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
I have never put ale in rarebit, but it sounds good !
 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

I forgot:
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”

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1 month ago

 
Another from today’s “Daily Mail.”
Probably more than you wanted to know.
His death at 54 was sad (his ashes were scattered at sea).
 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

I loved his movies.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

I loved the movie about him… “Ed Wood” with Johnny Depp.

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

Pink brassiere and knickers, eh? But if he was a marine, he had to be tough.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

But, when do you add the rabbit?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

When you can catch one… But it’s hard.

That’s why it’s a rare bit.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

It’s essentially cheese on toast.

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

Now this one sounds good.

Americans (and I’m not sure about Canadians) need to know that what’s called a grill in the UK is called a broiler in the US.

They don’t mean do it on your charcoal grill.

I’m thinking instead of two saucepans, and possibly scorched cheese to clean, I’d heat the ale and make the topping in a couple of glass measuring cups in the microwave.

BTW I’ve never used ale, but strong dark beer is very good in it, along with the sharpest aged cheddar you’ve got.

Last edited 1 month ago by SusanSunshine
P51Strega
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1 month ago

FRANKENBASSET… I love it. It’s not as scary as Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein. I can even watch it from the first row.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 month ago

Me too! On both counts.

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1 month ago

I, for one, had no idea. Happy Bird-day, Happy(3)!

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