It’s the bare shoulder/arm/back of the brunette in the foreground in an unfortunate juxtaposition. Does make you do a doubletake though before you realise.
Um… thanks but … Gosh! I guess I didn’t say what I meant to say!
Of course I understood the picture, and the faux nudity! As a matter of fact I’m pretty sure I saw it years ago on a site featuring that kind of goofs.
When I said I didn’t know what was going on, I meant the scene in the picture.
I thought maybe the woman in white was a bride… and this accidental “bare butt” was spoiling her wedding picture.
But it looks like a restaurant, where a waiter is grabbing her arm … if she’s being arrested she has even more reason to not want the picture.
I thought this might be what happens when windblown tumbleweed collects on neglected telephone poles…
But it’s actually in the Kalihari, in southern Africa… giant nests of a bird called the Sociable Weaver…
According to National Geographic (edited) they “construct communal nests that are amongst the largest built by any bird…
(which) can house over 100 pairs of birds, several generations at a time.
(They provide) a more advantageous temperature relative to the outside…. can weigh up to a ton or more and … are tailored to house individual pairs or small family units.
The birds experience heightened safety due to their numbers, and ….collaborate in tasks like maintenance, food collection, and guarding. Some of these nests have witnessed Sociable Weaver life for over a century.”
Other sites said that the weavers traditionally nested in trees but big trees are rare, so they’ve adapted to telephone poles. The nests are so big, other species also move in and share the space.
Lady Diana Spencer, 19 years old, in 1981, not yet Princess Diana, but engaged to Prince (now King) Charles, meeting Princess Grace, of Monaco, the former Grace Kelly.
I recognized (soon-to-be Princess) Diana but not Princess Grace, so I searched it. Grace was 51 here. She would die in a car crash at 52; as would Diana 15 years later.
I’m ambivalent. The last vehicle I had with those was Dad’s ’72 Suburban. By the time I bought the car, they didn’t seal well anymore and were noisy. Not my problem now…had to sell the old beast early this year. Used the proceeds to help with plumbing work…replacing all the polybutyl pipe. Big job. Not cheap.
When I was a kid, my Dad hated drafts. Actually all his life, he went around closing windows and turning off fans.
The rear wings were the only.windows in our car that children were allowed to touch. The excuse my parents used was that we might fall out if we.rolled down the big ones.
They called the wings the kid’s windows, so I honestly thought that’s what they were for.
Are those boxes in the foreground actually tall enough to be cabins people live in? They look shorter than the 1 story house in the background…. But they have roofs.
Or some other type of out-buildings. Storage for farm implements, etc. There’s no path to them from the road, so I can’t imagine people using them much.
I got caught in one in Vancouver. A playground on the next street over with a one-house-wide dogleg onto the street I was on. They even provided a parking lot across the street where they could rack up their victims…
Nighthawks, you said you weren’t going to start a serial till after spooky season was over… but now we’re getting the longest one (I think). Fine with me!
For those of you too new to Cleo and Company to have seen this before… It’s got some characters from old times.
…
Cleo started out on a special part of GoComics, called Comics Sherpa, where amateur and would-be professional cartoonists could showcase their strips, many hoping to be picked up eventually for syndication by Universal, the owners of GoComics, and included on the regular pages.
In fact a few were. (In a huge mistake on their part, IMHO, Cleo wasn’t.)
The characters in this story include the main characters from several Sherpa strips, another representing a quirky GoComics strip, and one from the Universal syndicate itself.
….
You can certainly enjoy it without knowing who they are…. in fact I didn’t, and still don’t, know some of the Sherpa characters, cos I never read their strips.
This story takes place when we were worried that Sherpa would be discontinued, and that someone in particular was trying to kill it off. That doesn’t really affect the plot of this series… It’s just a bit of background extra.
In fact, we were wrong about some things… but Sherpa did end, and with it, so did most of the strips. Cleo and Company managed to find a hiding place and keep, and grow, its audience… which now includes YOU!
Oh… and I almost forgot to say… it stars private detective Sam Basset… one of my favorite characters.
Have a good trip on the Midnight Express!
If you have any questions, I’m sure everyone here will be glad to help.
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“…mine?…”
I think that it needs to be a mural on the side of a large building.
“You the guy that was looking for a white bird with a hooked beak?”
Just imagine your eye at the viewfinder while this guy is pecking at his reflection in the lens.
I know it could be telephoto, or even cropped from something farther away… but it looks right up close, with a scary immediacy.
Whatever it\’s looking at, it’s thinking “food?”
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I thnk the next caption belongs to this picture!
No way does that look like a boat in the ocean. Or a couch.
You don’t see a boat in the ocean on a couch?
(Then how about a picture that alters your perception of reality?)
I don’t know what’s going on, but I bet she was not happy when she saw the pictures.
Nothing wrong there.
Or revealing.
It’s the bare shoulder/arm/back of the brunette in the foreground in an unfortunate juxtaposition. Does make you do a doubletake though before you realise.
Um… thanks but … Gosh! I guess I didn’t say what I meant to say!
Of course I understood the picture, and the faux nudity! As a matter of fact I’m pretty sure I saw it years ago on a site featuring that kind of goofs.
When I said I didn’t know what was going on, I meant the scene in the picture.
I thought maybe the woman in white was a bride… and this accidental “bare butt” was spoiling her wedding picture.
But it looks like a restaurant, where a waiter is grabbing her arm … if she’s being arrested she has even more reason to not want the picture.
I first saw a Bobby’s helmet instead of a San Deago ball cap.
Me too!
Well, not a Bobby’s helmet, but a police hat.
Sorry, misunderstood. Looks like some kind of party or ‘Hollywood’ bash.
My fault! I wasn’t very clear.
.
Okay.
I see the boat.
I see the leather.
My brain hurts.
If that boat is really a coincidental rip in the leather, what’s that inside it?
Or is it actually a tiny model boat someone purposely posed on the “waves”? The caption doesn’t say it’s not.
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De agony of de hemorrhoids…
Doing number 2 at the beach.
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YouTuve videos of short take off and landing aircraft.
“Any landing you walk away from…”
The plane is a radio controlled model.
Still, it’s a great save!
Thank you!
I was half asleep and thought everybody was laughing at an actual plane accident.
If you watch the bottom of the gif you can see the controller in his hand.
Nope! They’re cheering for the guy who made a successful R/C landing on one wheel.
A broken radio controlled model…
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Thing 1 and Thing 2, off to pursue mayhem…
Or may not hem…
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A very nice specimen… both wings intact.
It took way too long for me to figure out what you meant! 🤣
It was just the reverse for me…
That was how I saw it first
Took me a moment to realize it wasn’t a Petri dish, and those tweezers were a vapor trail.
Nobody else saw a plane landing on an orange?
Well, I didn’t take a survey… but that wasn’t what I saw.
At first glance I didn’t even see a plane.
I saw a lit-up Petri dish, presumably full of translucent agar, and a pair of long tweezers.
When I looked to see what was being placed there… that’s when my brain did a double take.
Even when I saw the plane, for a few seconds it was still tiny, and held by lab tweezers.
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I think the Wichita Lineman has been falling down on the job…
At least he has something soft to land on.
I thought this might be what happens when windblown tumbleweed collects on neglected telephone poles…
But it’s actually in the Kalihari, in southern Africa… giant nests of a bird called the Sociable Weaver…
According to National Geographic (edited) they “construct communal nests that are amongst the largest built by any bird…
(which) can house over 100 pairs of birds, several generations at a time.
(They provide) a more advantageous temperature relative to the outside…. can weigh up to a ton or more and … are tailored to house individual pairs or small family units.
The birds experience heightened safety due to their numbers, and ….collaborate in tasks like maintenance, food collection, and guarding. Some of these nests have witnessed Sociable Weaver life for over a century.”
Other sites said that the weavers traditionally nested in trees but big trees are rare, so they’ve adapted to telephone poles. The nests are so big, other species also move in and share the space.
.
I suspect these ladies are discussing the “Royal Wee…”
I recognized (soon-to-be Princess) Diana but not Princess Grace, so I searched it. Grace was 51 here. She would die in a car crash at 52; as would Diana 15 years later.
A tragic coincidence.
,.
Got three tonight. I think.
Hmmm…
Sweetpeas? (Sweet P’s) (At first it looked like “candy for peace” but that makes no sense.)
Row 2: Foxglove
Ready steady go (Red E steady go) (Doesn’t work exactly right, but I think that’s what they want)
Row 3: ??
No time to lose. (No time 2 “lose”)
Hmmm…
I’m guessing that’s bacon, anyway.
You got the ones that i got.
2 ?
3 fox glove
4 ready steady go 5 ?
6 no time to lose
I think I have 1 and 2… but I’m not sure about 2.
Today I looked for the official answers…. something I rarely do… but couldn’t find them, only links to a book on Amazon.
I thought maybe you’d find them, but I guess you didn’t either.
…..
Almost missed him!
…,,
I miss them.
I’m ambivalent. The last vehicle I had with those was Dad’s ’72 Suburban. By the time I bought the car, they didn’t seal well anymore and were noisy. Not my problem now…had to sell the old beast early this year. Used the proceeds to help with plumbing work…replacing all the polybutyl pipe. Big job. Not cheap.
When I was a kid, my Dad hated drafts. Actually all his life, he went around closing windows and turning off fans.
The rear wings were the only.windows in our car that children were allowed to touch. The excuse my parents used was that we might fall out if we.rolled down the big ones.
They called the wings the kid’s windows, so I honestly thought that’s what they were for.
..,,
Shouldn’t the road be yellow?
I thought that was only if it’s brick.
It is when you get a good buy on yellow bricks…
I’m having a little trouble with the perspective…
Are those boxes in the foreground actually tall enough to be cabins people live in? They look shorter than the 1 story house in the background…. But they have roofs.
Animal shelters of some kind?
Or, I’ve seen feed like hay in covered feeders to keep the rain and snow off.
(???)
Or some other type of out-buildings. Storage for farm implements, etc. There’s no path to them from the road, so I can’t imagine people using them much.
Shadows are on the wrong side of the trees for this to be a sunset.
hope the old scalawag sees this
I got hit by one of those here in Oregon. Except it was a poto trap at 2:00 AM. .
I got caught in one in Vancouver. A playground on the next street over with a one-house-wide dogleg onto the street I was on. They even provided a parking lot across the street where they could rack up their victims…
The creatures that exist on this planet ! ! !
Amazing, right?
“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”…………JBS Haldane.
Yay! Murder on the Midnight Express!
Nighthawks, you said you weren’t going to start a serial till after spooky season was over… but now we’re getting the longest one (I think). Fine with me!
For those of you too new to Cleo and Company to have seen this before… It’s got some characters from old times.
…
Cleo started out on a special part of GoComics, called Comics Sherpa, where amateur and would-be professional cartoonists could showcase their strips, many hoping to be picked up eventually for syndication by Universal, the owners of GoComics, and included on the regular pages.
In fact a few were. (In a huge mistake on their part, IMHO, Cleo wasn’t.)
The characters in this story include the main characters from several Sherpa strips, another representing a quirky GoComics strip, and one from the Universal syndicate itself.
….
You can certainly enjoy it without knowing who they are…. in fact I didn’t, and still don’t, know some of the Sherpa characters, cos I never read their strips.
This story takes place when we were worried that Sherpa would be discontinued, and that someone in particular was trying to kill it off. That doesn’t really affect the plot of this series… It’s just a bit of background extra.
In fact, we were wrong about some things… but Sherpa did end, and with it, so did most of the strips. Cleo and Company managed to find a hiding place and keep, and grow, its audience… which now includes YOU!
Oh… and I almost forgot to say… it stars private detective Sam Basset… one of my favorite characters.
Have a good trip on the Midnight Express!
If you have any questions, I’m sure everyone here will be glad to help.
I like a good long story arc.
Automobile Traffic in Gothersgade – 1925.
They ought to ban those things!
People?