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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

“Yes, the Beemer’s mine and so’s the boy. Incidentally, his name is Beamer.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

Looking good. Probably starved (according to HIS account, anyway).

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

2 NOSES!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

For some people, being born is a long, drawn out process.

It only ends when they’re fully adult.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Some of us took longer i think.
I’m not so sure that i am yet.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

All the grandkids don’t think of me as an adult. I’ll grow up with them when I have to. In the meantime, I’ll enjoy them as they are at this age.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Even then they tend to be a bit sketchy.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

Not to put too fine a point on it.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Reminiscent of Escher’s hand drawing itself.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

My thought too… it’s close enough that I’d call it an homage.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Substitute for your left leg fallen off?

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

GROAN!

Tigressy
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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

…or his right leg, for that matter.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Makes me think of this website:

https://thealternativelimbproject.com/

How do you make yourself stand out if you’re not “normal”?

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Arfside
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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

This might appeal to the artists the most. While I’ve created 3D printed and mechanical objects, many of these are way beyond my skills.

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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

I have a friend who makes 3D printers. He made a 3D bioprinter (print veins & arteries with living cells) for his PhD project. He went to Africa with a bunch of 3D printers and set them up for making simple prostheses. I will forward your link to him.

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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

Beautiful

Derrick G Wood
Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

But how did he draw the pen?

Tigressy
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Reply to  Derrick G Wood
1 year ago

Faster than anyone else in the Ol’ West.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 
“The Daily Mail” on #160;     DAN LESTER
 

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Restroom line at a Taylor Swift concert.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

They look dehydrated.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

My mom used to do that, but with the gas burner.

She stopped smoking when I was in high school.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Eep! I feel better NOW, knowing that your mother gave up that habit. Actually, both of them. And I realize that these events you describe were more than three years ago.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

It may surprise you to know that I’ve been out of high school for over ten years!

Then again, it may not.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

one of our kids just had a 40th year celebration of GRAMMAR school graduation,8th grade!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

Good thing you weren’t born till he was in 7th grade.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

I see a PBR.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Ok….

Performing Bull Rider

Pure bred Rottweiler

Plant biology researcher…

Professional Bus Repairman

Uh..

Political … button retailer..

Peanut butter …. um…. rollup…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Silly me. Of course.

I’ve even called them that.

Dunno why I didn’t see it sitting right there!

I blame the Covid.

I blame it for everything.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

That works.

Greyhame
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Professionial Bull Riding.

Sponsored by, Ta-Da, Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Yes, it IS a thing.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

What they said. 🙂

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Oops.

🤭

jean VanLeuven
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

daleandkristen

Impressive catch!

Derrick G Wood
Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Seems reasonable.

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P51Strega
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Reply to  Derrick G Wood
1 year ago

It’s the best time in your life to start smoking.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

I am over 65. I’ve never smoked a day in my life. Yet doctors and medical people continually ask me if I smoke. I have taken to telling them that I’m considering taking it up “because I want to be one of the ‘cool kids’.”

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

I just went through a couple of days of that.

I had a question for my doctor, and one for the pharmacy at my HMO.

It’s the same if you’re caling to make an appointment, though you can also do that online.

You can’t just call anybody any more.

You have to call the “Appointment and Advice Line”.

It’s answered by a person who takes the details of your question, but turns out not to be the one who gives you advice, but the one who directs your call to the nurse or pharmacist who gives you advice.

In the case of the nurse, she didn’t answer my question either, but had a doctor call me.

At every level of those encounters, I was asked a list of questions, whether or it not I had just answered them.

Are you allergic to any medications?
Which ones?
Have you ever been diagnosed with COPD, pneumonia or another breathing disorder?

There are about six more, including do you smoke or have you ever smoked.

I said things like “why don’t you just ask the person who answered this call?”

They don’t get that I’m joking.

I told the doctor maybe smoking would be a good way to occupy myself while waiting through these layers of calls.

At least he laughed.

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Reply to  Derrick G Wood
1 year ago

Hot summer, three weeks after the demise – I’ve seen (and smelled) that.
Voluntary college class “Legal Knowledge”, field trip to the local pathology.

Derrick G Wood
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1 year ago

Ohhhhhh, that’s some nasty smell from what I’ve heard. That’s why first reponders have Vicks for their noses, right?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Look at the size of the paws on those pups. Those are going to be some BIG dogs.
Plus, I love that they are so curious about what “dad” is doing.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

You should see Buddy’s. He has paddles.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

7 NOSES!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 
This caption (of not quite the same photograph) “Directing animator Eric Larson with Dalmatian puppies” comes from     HERE.     Again, I’ve just discovered it was a book before Disney’s movie.
Best of all, there’s a copy of the book available at a branch of my library, I’ll be picking it up today.
 

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

First they call her “Young lady” when she’s obviously a grown woman… she looks well out of her 20s to me.

Then they suggest women might want to commit suicide if a few hairs are out of place, as in the illustration.

Then they try to sell us a little jar of vegetable oil and lanolin to grease it up with and make it look tidy.

None of that is patronizing, right?

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Of course not! If she had a brain, none of that would affect her in the slightest, right? Then again, if she was a typical girl/woman/young lady, this ad could hit her right in her weakness. At least, that’s what these moronic ad people are relying on. Well, how well did Charles Antell Formula 9 and Shampoo sell, based on this ad? Did somebody get a bonus because sales went up? Or did they change to another ad agency because this one just had no feel for the demographic at that time?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

Apparently Formula 9 sold quite well for a while.

Happy to say Charles Antell is long out of business though.

I couldn’t find much about the company.

One website that didn’t give any source material said he was driven out of business in 1954 cos his “lanolin” was actually lard…

But comments from others about using it, maybe even in the 60s, seem to refute that.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 
From 1953.
I know this product was still around in the late sixties, I can’t find any evidence of its existence today.
 
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

There are sooo many abandoned people. I get mail every day wanting me to help ALL of them. Sorry, there aren’t enough of me to do that. I’ll help a few, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  Arfside
1 year ago

So true. Thousands of worthy causes and charities, but impossible to help them all. Like most people, I have a few that I contribute to; food banks, the Arts, environmental issues, public broadcasting, historic preservation. Some are hyper-local, some national.

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

Tonight’s puzzle was a bit of a challenge… but you can find all ten.

I’m posting the solution earlier than usual, just so I don’t end up posting it late.

Happy hunting!

When you’ve done your best….

End your hunt HERE!

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1 year ago

 
Today’s puzzle is based on another work by Peter de Sève.
The title is apparently “The Man Who Was Eaten Alive”, but I don’t consider the sites that have that title reliable.
I’m just not into doing the puzzle today (I’ve looked at Susan’s solution though).
While searching this one I finally came across a title for     THIS ONE     “Jurassic Paris”.
 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 year ago

The scene would’ve been a bit more fun if he was trophy hunting with a rifle.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

My 9 check out.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 year ago

Haven’t looked at the puzzle today, I’ve only recently got back home after exhibiting a layout at my Model Railway Club’s annual running day. We hold our annual exhibition earlier in the year, and do a smaller running/open day at the village hall where we hold our monthly meetings around this time of year. I then went on to deliver a layout to one of our members who had asked me to rewire and convert to digital control, and fit a sound chip to the model locomotive he runs on it. It’s been quite a long day, and I’ll give the puzzle a look tomorrow.

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1 year ago

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

Thank you! Fun stuff!

P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

Love those two!

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1 year ago

I do have a Wallace and Gromit themed layout aimed at kids. It’s set up that you get a kid to try and knock Wallace’s stovepipe hat off (He’s the loco driver) with a hot air balloon that slides down a wire while the train travels around the track. It’s quite fun at exhibitions.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 year ago

cool!

Liverlips McCracken
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1 year ago

The really funny thing about today’s FTTD is that all those predators are actually converging on the butterfly. The guy with the camera is just collateral damage.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

You beat me to it.
Poor little day-flying-moth! Hasn’t earned its instrument ratings so it has to fly during the dangerous daytime.

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

I can’t see tonight.
I’ll see you all in the morning.

Liverlips McCracken
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1 year ago

I may have found all ten differences, but don’t tell anyone. It’s a secret.

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 year ago

Your secret will be safe here….

Just hide it in this empty

spoiler box.

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

 
Wikipedia on      ELIZABETH COTTEN
 

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Today’s Songs:
‘Rebel Yell,’ ‘Reelin’ in the Years,’ ‘Renaissance,’ and ‘Ride Captain Ride,’ and the ‘Cheap Thrills Cuisine’ recipe ‘Baked Cranberry Brie.’
There’s a bonus video of a 1930 Library of Congress film clip of civil war rebel veterans giving the real rebel yell (I think Billy Idol was under a misapprehension as to what it actually sounded like).
For the longest time, I thought it was ‘Reelin’ in the sheaves…’ (on the bright side I know it’s ‘ting tang walla walla bing bang…’).
I like it, but it’s always struck me as ‘gloomy’.
I always thought you sailed on a ship, but the song’s neat. Mike Pinera (guitarist) went on to join ‘Iron Butterfly’.

 

 

 

 

 
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1 year ago

(I think Billy Joel was under a misapprehension as to what it actually sounded like)

I think Billy Idol was as well! 😉

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1 year ago

 

AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH ! ! !

(but I did fix it / thank you)

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1 year ago

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

Yes.

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1 year ago

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Tigressy
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1 year ago

X-rated…
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 year ago

Laugh my ass off! XD

P51Strega
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1 year ago

That puzzle was crazy hard (9), but absolutely beautiful.

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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

that’s why i didn’t even try it.

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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

Always try!

You never know… And you feel so good when you succeed.

If you only find 3, you still found them. And you don’t have to tell!

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

you make sense! i will try next week….

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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

I hope you at least took a good look at the picture. I particularly liked this one.

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1 year ago

The weirdest thing had happened here, when I came back and refreshed, just before my most recent comments.

About halfway down, some videos had moved up the page to replace the ones above them.

Hard to explain…

But first, I thought Tigressy had reposted Happy³s Elizabeth Cotton video to MCTS.

I got down to Happy³s post, and that video had been replaced by his Pete Seeger video from the comment below!

Next, his Seeger video below that was blank.

I refreshed the page again, and Wallace and Grommet showed up in Tigressy’s post, as intended, and Happy³s videos were back in their proper slots.

I’ve never seen that happen!

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1 year ago

It just happened again, 2 hours later!

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1 year ago

Things like that have happened sometimes in the early days of this site.

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