September 11, 2026

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

Suspenders?

Arfside
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Reply to  JP Steve
9 hours ago

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.
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
4 hours ago

Yep.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

Known here in the UK as ‘Braces’ (Hence the saying “Belt and Braces” when taking extra precautions). Suspenders hold up stockings…… 😉

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

I hope somebody remembered the wind-up key so we can get back home!

Voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

spoiler
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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

I can normally see these things, but all I see is a piece of carpet.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  Arfside
8 hours ago

Same here.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
4 hours ago

Me too.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

Red

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
4 hours ago

Um… Yeah… the number red.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 hours ago

I kind of maybe almost

can convince myself I see…
A three in the middle.

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.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
1 hour ago

It’s on the diagonal (Top left to bottom right), the numbers are not very plain/regular shapes.

But I see
0985

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

This one is plotting something.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 hours ago

World domination, of course.
Like all cats.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
9 hours ago

Looks like somebody is poppin in.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 hours ago

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.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

My take on it
2432902008176640000, which is n!

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

My take:
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.

That would make it 189.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  mr_sherman
3 hours ago

Yes, I started the same, but…

with two little tweaks…
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.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
7 hours ago

20 people shake 19 peoples hands.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 hours ago

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.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
8 hours ago

English actor Rex Harrison holding his basset hound named Homer.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
2 hours ago

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.

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4 hours ago

Tigressy
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3 hours ago

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SusanSunshine
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1 hour ago

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.

Last edited 1 hour ago by SusanSunshine
More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 hour ago

And these two are:
Paul Newman and Sophia Loren in 1965

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 hour ago

Chestnut-crowned Antpitta.

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