According to Google Lens:
This image appears to show a street vendor selling suspenders in New York City, captured in 1896 by pioneering photographer Alice Austen.
The photograph is part of Austen’s famous “Street Types” series documenting working-class New Yorkers.
The scene is set near the New York seaport around Wall and Front Street.
The vendor holds an armful of suspenders (also known as braces) with a sailing ship visible in the background.
And here, garters hold up sleeves or stockings, as they have for centuries on both sides of the pond.
But in the UK, it only means in the original usage… a strip of cloth, or nowadays, a ring of elastic, worn around the arm or leg. I believe you still have that word for things like sleeve garters and wedding garters, and certainly the Order of the Garter.
In the US, we kept that word, garter, for the kind that dangle fasteners, as well, whereas in the UK, those became suspenders. So we have a garter belt, you have a suspender belt… Well, not you, personally, I presume, much as I hate to presume.
It’s funny that we say suspenders for devices with the same sort of fasteners, but for pants, while you drop that name to call them braces… or maybe that came first. In which case, why not stocking braces? We certainly never say pants garters!
I’ve never heard the expression “belt and braces”. I can’t even think of what we do say!
You’re right! It’s very like an African flag, but not quite any I saw.
Red, yellow(or gold) and green are the Pan African colors, used for about half (I think) of the flags on that continent.
Because they’re the colors of the Ethiopian flag, they’re also the colors of Rastafarianism, and associated with reggae.
That’s what supposedly influenced Boy George to use the line Red Green and Gold in Karma Chameleon to describe the perfect colors of his dreams, for which he took some flak.
Lithuania is an outlier, using them, I think, coincidentally.
But order is important in a flag.
I just looked, and none of them have then in the order yellow, red and green.
But I’m not sure, because, while it’s vaguely a bit darker than its surroundings, there’s another similar marking, to the right and lower, that isn’t a recognizable symbol (AFAIK), so I’m not sure either is a number.
Sometimes when you search an image, you find out nothing.
Other times you find out too much. Like in this case, where I found more information than what fits a description of one picture.
Like… three titles, and two different media. Same artist though.
So this is either British artist, Derrick Fielding’s
“There She Goes”, 2023….. acrylic on canvas
Or… his oil on canvas “ The Night, or What Dreams Are Made Of”.
Each title and description was given on several websites… the third title was only mentioned once, so it’s probably incorrect.
Meanwhile, I thought it was going to turn out to be an illustration for the book Steve is alluding to… but no. He apparently just stole her and put her in his painting.
19 (The first person shales the hand of 19 other people.)
Plus 18 (The second person shakes the hand of the other 19 people after shaking the hand of the first) Plus 17, etc. until the next to last person shakes the hand of the last person. That would make 19 + 18 + 17 + 16 + 15 … down to 3 + 2.
The first doesn’t matter, it just semantics…. But for clarity… you correctly put “plus 18”, so I’m pretty sure you mean the 2nd person shakes the hand of the other 18 people …
However, the other thing is….. the 2nd to last person still has to shake the hand of the last person, so there’s +1 at the end, making 190.
I wanted to do it algebraically, but I couldn’t remember the formula, so I googled “combination of 20 taken 2 at a time”, which I think describes this situation, though I’m very rusty… and guess what… It’s 190.
So I’m thinking that’s right, until somebody more mathematical says otherwise.
When the second to last person shakes the last person’s hand, that leaves the last person with no ones hand to shake but themselves. That’s why I have 189 instead of 190.
you’re still leaving that one out. You’re ending with the third to last shaking the last two, when there still one more to go.
And 190 turns up in the mathematical solutions, so I think it’s correct.
Don’t forget it says only once… So when Tom shakes Dick’s hand, it no longer counts when Dick shakes Tom’s hand… and after they both shake Harry’s hand, he can’t count shaking either of theirs.
Eliminating the duplicates is what complicates the math.
I used to know formulas for this stuff, but when you don’t use something for decades, it (quite unfairly, if you ask me) falls right out of your brain.
To determine the number of unique handshakes when 20 people shake hands with each other exactly once, we can use the combination formula for selecting 2 people out of 20. This is because a handshake involves 2 people, and the order doesn’t matter (i.e., Person A shaking hands with Person B is the same as Person B shaking hands with Person A).
The formula for combinations is:
Number of handshakes=(2n)=2n×(n−1)
Where:
n=20 (the number of people in the room).
Plugging in the values:
Number of handshakes=220×19=190
So, there are 190 unique handshakes in total.
The photo was taken when Homer was visiting him on the set of My Fair Lady, in 1963, which he did a lot because they were inseparable.
The Telegraph reported in 1998 that Mr Harrison confessed in an interview (hopefully a bit tongue in cheek) that he preferred Homer to any of his six wives, despite the dog’s reputation for being a little flatulent.
In a Perfect World…
Yes. Perhaps.
A Solemn Day. Other than nighthawks way up at the top, you are the only one, up to this time of time. Even Canadians, too, will never forget. Deep Peace, Tigressy.
Me too.
Even up here in Canada, we picked up our daughter from her High School at the end of classes and tried to explain, to a 15 year old, on how this world would be changing. Innocence lost.
I’m in the flightpath for LAX (but the planes are very high). I remember being so happy / relieved after a week when we saw the first planes being allowed to fly overhead again. I still look at the planes overhead and remember that day.
I’m on one of the landing/take off routes for Norfolk International Airport. I remember the quiet and hating it. I’m so used to the occasional plane and the traffic on the nearby interstate, it’s just calming background oise.
Yay! Today was supposed to be the last day of this heat wave we’ve been having… only 90°.
We’ve had more than a week of 95 or more, this week, hitting 100 or 101 Monday through Wednesday.
At least we don’t have the punishing humidity you get in other places. Since I’m without air conditioning, like most of us here, I don’t think I’d make it at 101° and humid. I am not good at hot weather.
Dropping back into the relatively safe 80s.
I may… that’s may…. turn back into a person soon. I’ll let you know.
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Suspenders?
According to Google Lens:
This image appears to show a street vendor selling suspenders in New York City, captured in 1896 by pioneering photographer Alice Austen.
Yep.
Actually at least three sailing ships visible in the distance…
Known here in the UK as ‘Braces’ (Hence the saying “Belt and Braces” when taking extra precautions). Suspenders hold up stockings…… 😉
And here, garters hold up sleeves or stockings, as they have for centuries on both sides of the pond.
But in the UK, it only means in the original usage… a strip of cloth, or nowadays, a ring of elastic, worn around the arm or leg. I believe you still have that word for things like sleeve garters and wedding garters, and certainly the Order of the Garter.
In the US, we kept that word, garter, for the kind that dangle fasteners, as well, whereas in the UK, those became suspenders. So we have a garter belt, you have a suspender belt… Well, not you, personally, I presume, much as I hate to presume.
It’s funny that we say suspenders for devices with the same sort of fasteners, but for pants, while you drop that name to call them braces… or maybe that came first. In which case, why not stocking braces? We certainly never say pants garters!
I’ve never heard the expression “belt and braces”. I can’t even think of what we do say!
“Belt and suspenders.”
I’ve never heard that either!
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I hope somebody remembered the wind-up key so we can get back home!
Reminds me of a African flag for some reason.
Flag of Lithuania?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Lithuania
Same colors, wrong order.
Good guess!
You’re right! It’s very like an African flag, but not quite any I saw.
Red, yellow(or gold) and green are the Pan African colors, used for about half (I think) of the flags on that continent.
Because they’re the colors of the Ethiopian flag, they’re also the colors of Rastafarianism, and associated with reggae.
That’s what supposedly influenced Boy George to use the line Red Green and Gold in Karma Chameleon to describe the perfect colors of his dreams, for which he took some flak.
Lithuania is an outlier, using them, I think, coincidentally.
But order is important in a flag.
I just looked, and none of them have then in the order yellow, red and green.
Correct, none in this exact same order, many others in various orders…
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I can normally see these things, but all I see is a piece of carpet.
Same here.
Me too.
“Well, I was going too say I saw a ducky and a horsie but I changed my mind”
Okay Linus…
Red
Um… Yeah… the number red.
The number red is 2. The number green is 7. The number 5 is blue.
Um… I’ve always thought everybody’s synesthesia was different.
I’m curious… is this your personal pattern, or are you saying there’s a set code?
I kind of maybe almost
But I’m not sure, because, while it’s vaguely a bit darker than its surroundings, there’s another similar marking, to the right and lower, that isn’t a recognizable symbol (AFAIK), so I’m not sure either is a number.
It’s on the diagonal (Top left to bottom right), the numbers are not very plain/regular shapes.
I see a bird.
Does anybody have the actual answer ?
I vote for carpet.
Okay – I dropped this into Photoshop Elements. The answer is 0985.
I agree.
On yours I can make that out… dunno whether I would have if you’d put your answer in a spoiler box, but I read it first.
Looking back at the original posted, I can’t see it.
What did Elements do to it? I’m guessing it did something or you would have just given the answer, and not posted the image again.
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This one is plotting something.
World domination, of course.
Like all cats.
Move over. I’m coming in!
Don’t spill the hot chocolate!
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Looks like somebody is poppin in.
Sometimes when you search an image, you find out nothing.
Other times you find out too much. Like in this case, where I found more information than what fits a description of one picture.
Like… three titles, and two different media. Same artist though.
So this is either British artist, Derrick Fielding’s
“There She Goes”, 2023….. acrylic on canvas
Or… his oil on canvas “ The Night, or What Dreams Are Made Of”.
Each title and description was given on several websites… the third title was only mentioned once, so it’s probably incorrect.
Meanwhile, I thought it was going to turn out to be an illustration for the book Steve is alluding to… but no. He apparently just stole her and put her in his painting.
Steve? Who’s Steve?
I thought you wanted to be Steve and not JP?
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Yeah, that’s a keeper. A photo for the ages.
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I sure got it wrong. I treated it as multiplicative instead of additive.
Plus 18 (The second person shakes the hand of the other 19 people after shaking the hand of the first) Plus 17, etc. until the next to last person shakes the hand of the last person. That would make 19 + 18 + 17 + 16 + 15 … down to 3 + 2.
That would make it 189.
Yes, I started the same, but…
However, the other thing is….. the 2nd to last person still has to shake the hand of the last person, so there’s +1 at the end, making 190.
I wanted to do it algebraically, but I couldn’t remember the formula, so I googled “combination of 20 taken 2 at a time”, which I think describes this situation, though I’m very rusty… and guess what… It’s 190.
So I’m thinking that’s right, until somebody more mathematical says otherwise.
Yes, but
And 190 turns up in the mathematical solutions, so I think it’s correct.
#19 shakes 18 hands = 37
#18 shakes 17 hands = 54
#17 shakes 16 hands = 70
#16 shakes 15 hands = 85
#15 shakes 14 hand = 99
#14 shakes 13 hands = 112
#13 shakes 12 hands = 124
#12 shakes 11 hands = 135
#11 shakes 10 hands = 145
#10 shakes 9 hands = 154
#9 shakes 8 hands = 162
#8 shakes 7 hands = 169
#7 shakes 6 hands = 175
#6 shakes 5 hands = 180
#5 shakes 4 hands = 184
#4 shakes 3 hands = 187
#3 shakes 2 hands = 189
#2 shakes one hand = 190
20 people shake 19 peoples hands.
Yes, but there aren’t 19 handshakes all 20 times.
Don’t forget it says only once… So when Tom shakes Dick’s hand, it no longer counts when Dick shakes Tom’s hand… and after they both shake Harry’s hand, he can’t count shaking either of theirs.
Eliminating the duplicates is what complicates the math.
I used to know formulas for this stuff, but when you don’t use something for decades, it (quite unfairly, if you ask me) falls right out of your brain.
The formula for combinations is:
Number of handshakes=(2n)=2n×(n−1)
Where:
Plugging in the values:
Number of handshakes=220×19=190
So, there are 190 unique handshakes in total.
And they all said we’d never need algebra after high school…
Personally, I do prefer that question with “toasting to”.
I’m still sticking with my answer.
I just replied to you about that.
And I replied to you.
🙂
Yeah, thanks. .. That’s the formula I was trying to remember.
I had given that answer last night, in my reply to Mr. Sherman, but I said I couldn’t remember the formula for combinations.
Instead of googling it, I googled the answer, which matched my answer, so I figured it was ok.
My take on it
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English actor Rex Harrison holding his basset hound named Homer.
The photo was taken when Homer was visiting him on the set of My Fair Lady, in 1963, which he did a lot because they were inseparable.
The Telegraph reported in 1998 that Mr Harrison confessed in an interview (hopefully a bit tongue in cheek) that he preferred Homer to any of his six wives, despite the dog’s reputation for being a little flatulent.
Flatulence in bassets is actually rather common. Many of mine have shared that “feature”.
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In a Perfect World…
Yes. Perhaps.
A Solemn Day.
Other than nighthawks way up at the top, you are the only one, up to this time of time.
Even Canadians, too, will never forget.
Deep Peace, Tigressy.
I exactly remember where I was and with whom back then.
And our feelings. And wishes…
Me too.
Even up here in Canada, we picked up our daughter from her High School at the end of classes and tried to explain, to a 15 year old, on how this world would be changing. Innocence lost.
We were with a best friend of ours and his very young son.
My husband received the news on IRC…
I’m in the flightpath for LAX (but the planes are very high). I remember being so happy / relieved after a week when we saw the first planes being allowed to fly overhead again. I still look at the planes overhead and remember that day.
I’m on the flight path to YVR. For months I panicked every time I saw a airliner overhead…
I’m on one of the landing/take off routes for Norfolk International Airport. I remember the quiet and hating it. I’m so used to the occasional plane and the traffic on the nearby interstate, it’s just calming background oise.
Yay! Today was supposed to be the last day of this heat wave we’ve been having… only 90°.
We’ve had more than a week of 95 or more, this week, hitting 100 or 101 Monday through Wednesday.
At least we don’t have the punishing humidity you get in other places. Since I’m without air conditioning, like most of us here, I don’t think I’d make it at 101° and humid. I am not good at hot weather.
Dropping back into the relatively safe 80s.
I may… that’s may…. turn back into a person soon. I’ll let you know.
Best of luck.
Thanks!
Today won’t even hit 80′!
I think I made it… though maybe not all the way back to human. You guys will have to decide that part:)
Sorry to whine… I was just at the end of my (melting) rope.
Chestnut-crowned Antpitta.
What a little cutie… he looks teeny.
Maybe he’s not, but i guess i just can’t imagine a big round ball on skinny sticks.