October 13, 2025

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mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Floating away on a word balloon?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

X-Wing Starbasset.

TCM541
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Sooo cute! Lincoln gets on his back like that sometimes, but I’ve never caught it on camera. As soon as I move, he flips right-side up. He also likes the piniped position – back legs dragged out behind him.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Shotguns can be so messy!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

It evokes a feeling of flamenco for me.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

“Fire” by Karina Llergo

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Looks like an animation of a protein.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 months ago

It does!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

“View Across 42nd Street” (NYC) by Beverly Brown

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

E.T. come out of your shell…

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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Can this guy really retract all of that head and neck back into his shell?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Tried to search the image to find the species….. but instead I found this video about it…. sorry… sort of…

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Hi, Zeeba neighba!

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
4 months ago

Life as a prey animal is kind of stressful.

Arfside
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

Life as lunch is kind of stressful, too…at least for a short time.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
4 months ago

Funny I was thinking that too….

Satchel is visiting Pearls, but he’s kind of shy

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

Um… he really does look like Satchel from behind…

But I’m pretty sure he’s a she… And she’s a lioness.

Poor Zebra.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

You can ascribe any of a number of stories to that painting.

Arfside
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

I don’t think I’d share it with someone who just lost a dog.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Makes me wonder…
Who is the one saying, “Goodbye”?
This one hits.
Hard.
I did not see that it was actually that close, not yet.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Nope!

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 months ago

Nope!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
4 months ago

Nope!

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I love work. I could watch it for hours.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

My search results all seemed to treat it as real.
The file itself is Human Brick Throwing Machine.

I followed a link and found it as a few moments of video…. it seems a little more believable…. but still a few steps from possible. How do you throw four bricks so they stay together as a unit?

But I may have to believe it.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

Nope!

baconboycamper
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

I’d vote Nope.
No settling of the bricks when they land.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

“Red Poppies and Daisies” — 1890

A painting of a vase of flowers sounds like it could be something trite or boring…. But Van Gogh shows what it could be instead.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I remember not seeing that one…

Liverlips McCracken
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4 months ago

instantrimshot.com

voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

“here we go gathering nuts in May”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I like that they have the photo on their wall.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Could you get away with calling a heroine “Pussy” today?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  JP Steve
4 months ago

Absolutely. It is no more shocking now than it was then. It’s all in how you market it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I dunno…. I loved the movie, and I’m no kind of prude…. but at the time, I thought the name was a little offensive.

Not really because of the crude language… my vocabulary wasn’t that pure, even then. I was too inexperienced to have the words for it, but I guess because it was objectifying.

I got the humor, so I let it pass…. but I remember wishing she had a different name, that made her a character, not a sex toy.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

You don’t say.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 months ago

No, he really didn’t.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Feel free!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

Not so far….

Greyhame
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

I see a bird-like image.

Alexikakos
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4 months ago

 

The official answer (I missed it).

 
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TCM541
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Reply to  Alexikakos
4 months ago

I saw that, but had to zoom way in (past what my laptop can handle efficiently) to actually tell it’s a bird.

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

They’ve gotta be kidding!

I saw it, but didn’t even think to zoom in see the shape.

It’s not like somebody started out to make a puzzle…. more like they just “borrowed” a random picture off the Internet and stamped a tiny bird on it.

It’s an eye test, not a hidden object.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

You’re a good man, Robin Brown…

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
4 months ago

True to his role as Patch Adams years before…

happyhappyhappy
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4 months ago

If you are at all interested in military history or aviation history might be interested in my post yesterday afternoon.

Alexikakos
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4 months ago

 
That was time well spent. Thanks!
 

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
4 months ago

We were probably watching it at the same time!

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

Two strips in one!

I want to see Clara and Claude… Cleo too, for that matter… “just” boosting themselves up onto that speech balloon.

But in a dream, I guess you can do things like that, even if in real life (or whatever passes for real life for cartoon characters) it’s hard to boost yourself onto the couch.

Still, good thinking, Cleo… or Claude. (Honestly, I bet it was secretly Nighthawks.)

Clara’s the one who knows how to dream!

BTW I really like the Cleo animation underneath the strips.

TCM541
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

I used to have animations similar to that one posted under my email signature at work. The boss made me stop. He said it wasn’t “professional” enough or some such wacko reason.

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

I took a brief course in resume writing, in the early part of this century, taught by two professors at the junior college. I think it was 2007.

I was already doing some resumes for people, but I wanted to see what the experts suggested. Of course, I had to act as though it was for creating my own resume.

I’d been putting email addresses on any I made, and also on business cards. Believe it or not, these “professionals” were still divided on whether to do that.

I personally had a Hotmail address, and had recently gotten a Gmail one. Horrors!

I was told that if I were going to use my email address in any professional situation, I must never use those. Professional email addresses were from ISPs or business associations, and included your full, real name.

Using popular email programs or made up user names meant you were at least unprofessional, and quite possibly unstable. You’d think from their attitude that you were identifying yourself as a psycho killer.

A gif would have killed them on the spot.

TCM541
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

Yeah – I remember all that idiocy. My business cards at work didn’t have my email address on them because that wasn’t considered a professional method of communication. Hah! Look at me now – half a dozen email addresses, four phone numbers, and a different job description depending one who I was talking to.

SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

And job postings often say emailed resumes only, or offer only an email address.

Soon it’ll be text only.

I know a couple of youngish people who don’t do email, only text… and we’ve known since they were 12 they want texts instead of phone calls, even from Grandma.

Now that they’re becoming manager age, that’s starting to extend to professional situations as well.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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4 months ago

Black Crowned Night Heron.

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SusanSunshine
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4 months ago

My earworm for tonight….

G’night…

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Alexikakos
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4 months ago

 
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
P.S.: Happy Thanksgiving everyibody.
 

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
4 months ago

Happy Thanksgiving to you, and to all you North-of-the-Border Cleoites!

Thanks for reminding me!

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JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
4 months ago

Oh my! That may beat the fish slapping dance!

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