September 26, 2025

5 3 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
79 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Did that bully at school do that to you?

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Look at the size of those paws!

If it was the class bully, he’s headed for a come-uppance before long.

tcm541
Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

I like big paws and I cannot lie…

(my kids all have four big paws)

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  tcm541
5 months ago

That’s Buddy. Fawn’s paws are quite dainty.

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Pity Atlas. He looks as though he has the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

His life is just this. Him against the world.

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Conan the lobster…

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Don’t forget to shave your pits!

Tigressy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Kiwa hirsuta.
I prefer ~tyleri because of the nick “The Hoff”…

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  Tigressy
5 months ago
SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I’d heard they used some footage of the Empire State Building in the movie, but Kong himself was a model in the studio.

This makes it sound like Ms Wray was actually filmed at or on the actual building, as well. I wonder!

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I like this. I see a slightly manic type that just loves to play with something.

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Looks to me like an image of “a hard-bitten and very wary Private Eyehound. Who also happens to be packing a roscoe, so mind your manners.”

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Or cat, or flying fox bat… (BTW, they’re called “Daddy Longlegs” in England…)

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  JP Steve
5 months ago

Oops! Daddy longlegs in America, harvestman in England…

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I see a black cat.
FROM HELL !!!`

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I see a dog because there’s a darker oval with two teensy yellow dots at the bottom of the “face”, marking the end of its “muzzle”.

It looks exactly like a black German Shepherd. The head of one, anyway.

The rest of the creature looks like… um…. dddid I ever t-ttell you howww much I …um… hate horror …. mmmoovies?

I… um… think I hear the kettle… I mean… the phone….

Yeah … the phone…

Important….. gotta run!
.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Now i see the dog!

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I don’t care what it’s called. I just want it out of my lunchbox.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Think i know more than just Him!

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Yes….

it’s ….
Alfred Hitchcock and Janet Leigh

on the set of
Psycho

But don’t be afraid…. that’s not…
Tony Perkins ….

It’s actually….
John Gavin… I don’t remember him in it, but you tend to forget everything but the shower scene. Ok, I do, anyway.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Thanks…. I remembered the character, but not a clear picture of him.

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

It was that scene that convinced me to take up a career in taxidermy.

Just kidding, honest!!

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I recognize…
Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck

But I had to Google

The movie…
“Sorry Wrong Number”…
Which doesn’t ring any bells.

Pun not intended.
And if you believe that, you don’t know me very well.

It’s true, though, that I’ve never seen it… so I don’t know whether this is a scene from it or just taken on the set.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

1: It’s the hardness of the lead.
2: To ensure that the switch is actually making a connection.
3: Have you ever tried to get inside a TV?
4: Beer.
5: We don’t. (UK has extremely few roads called ‘Parkways’)
6: The first is when someone wants you to do something, the second is your chance of doing it.
7: We do, and why do some American singers sound English when they sing?
8: You intentionally sit next to people? What is wrong with you!!
9: Few clouds = ‘Partially cloudy’, mostly clouds with a few breaks in them = ‘Partially Sunny’.
10: No.
11: They’re filming for “Worlds funniest videos.”

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 months ago

#6 wins the page today.
You made me wake up Fawn.
😀

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 months ago

Lol… Are you saying sliced bread is now better than beer?
Wow… are you sure you’re English?

There aren’t really many roads called “parkways” here either.

At the moment, I can’t think of one I’ve ever driven on.

And I’ve looked this up before: one of my weather apps defines partially cloudy/sunny just the opposite of that… partially sunny means more sun than clouds, and v/vsa

Whereas another always uses partially cloudy at night and partially sunny in daylight. You can be looking right at it, at the stated time for sunset, and the page will change to darker blue with a moon instead of a sun, and the days will change labels too. It’s weird!

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I read an article once about #7… not that I can remember what it said.

But a lot of British people DO sound British when they sing… you can hear the Beatles’ Scouse accents loud and clear, especially in their early songs.

And you could never convince me that Peter Noone (Herman’s Hermits) is a Yank!

You’re IN a show that’s ON TV, just like you’re in a movie that’s on a screen.

But I confess to #2, though it’s not a TV remote… a mouse, a flashlight… anything you’re trying to coax a little more life out of.

BTW, No 2 pencils are the most popular, but No.1 pencils are quite appropriately the best.

Unless you’re one of those people who actually like writing with hard, scratchy, useless shards of overbaked clay, like Number ….ugh… 3’s.

Tigressy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

You’re referring to H…
2B or not 2B…

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  Tigressy
5 months ago

Yes…..Dunno whether it’s the same in Europe, but here they are labeled H and B if they’re drawing pencils, and numbers if they’re writing pencils.

Number 2 is usually the same as HB (some brands have slight variations.) No. 3 is H, No. 1 is B

And when I say No. 1 is best…. I actually like 2B better… so yes… 2B!

No 1 is the softest writing pencil, unless somebody makes a softer one nowadays.

I bought them because drawing pencils usually cost more and have no attached erasers.

In high school I used to go to the stationary store instead of the school shop, and buy boxes of a dozen Dixon Ticonderoga No.1s. One of my teachers hated them.

I had an artist friend who actually liked drawing with 4H pencils…. That would make me crazy.
I liked to draw with a 4B.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

When I was doing Technical Drawing at school, we used 2H pencils to do the construction lines (Like doing a feint first draft), and a 1H pencil for the finished drawing. I still have my pencils from that time somewhere.

More about the hardness of pencils: https://pencils.com/pages/hb-graphite-grading-scale

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 months ago

If there are no Bs I’d never bother looking for them 🙂

Greyhame
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

Softer leads are harder (in this case, more difficult) to erase. Critical for art or drafting to remove guide lines.

Or if you make mistakes.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  Greyhame
5 months ago

Yeah, that’s the theory, but in reality, iit’s impossible to erase what I draw with a hard pencil, cos I press so hard trying to make lines I can see, that I engrave the paper…. or cut through it.

A good soft or kneaded eraser will erase my 4B lines…

And what are these things called “mistakes”?
Why would I make those?

Greyhame
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

#6: “Fat Chance” is derived from the language of the ancient and sacred Sarcas.

I speak fluent Sarcastic.

Saucy1121
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

You need to find one of the many Imponderables books. One of them (I can’t remember which) addresses #5.

Oh, and why to they call it “Common Sense” when it’s so rare?

Last edited 5 months ago by Saucy1121
happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Poor thing’s thirsty.

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I like grapefruit, too. As long as he’s not on simvastatin, he should be fine.

Arfside
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 months ago

Not good for people on thyroid medication, too. I have to watch out for my wife, so I learned about it.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 months ago

Don’t have to tell me about simvastatin. I can’t take it. I get all the bad side effects.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
5 months ago

Calcium channel blockers are also incompatible with grapefruit.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Wasnt there a moose here recently?

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Nothing better than a dip in your private pool on a hot day.

JP Steve
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

In the room?

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  JP Steve
5 months ago

We don’t talk about that.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

Got ’em.

mr_sherman
Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 months ago

Same here.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

I don’t know how you’d get it to stay in one place.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  SusanSunshine
5 months ago

They are supposed to sit on a frame that has rollers on it.

Tigressy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  happyhappyhappy
5 months ago

A work in progress…

Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

That is one smart cat.

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
Reply to  nighthawks
5 months ago

What a noble schnoz.

Alexikakos
Member
Famed Member
5 months ago

 
Have you ever wondered how the character Popeye became associated with spinach (not to mention his origin)?
Have you ever wondered what the television show “The Wonderful World of Disney” was financing?
Have you ever wondered about the origin of the television show “The Love Boat” or what became a bigger draw in Las Vegas than the Bellagio Fountain or the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign”?
Then listen to this episode of       UNDER THE INFLUENCE       and find out,
The “detail” control appears at the bottom when the arrow is clicked.
 

happyhappyhappy
Member
Famed Member
5 months ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Member
5 months ago

Concretesaurus.

Concretesaurus
Liverlips McCracken
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
5 months ago

Grazing, it appears.

SusanSunshine
Member
Famed Member
5 months ago

A bird and a birdie, a duck and a ducky.

It’s fowl play!

Alexikakos
Member
Famed Member
5 months ago

 
From today’s London “Daily Mail.”
Either they’re trying to drum up interest, or they know they’ll be sold out by December at the latest.
 

Garth-Brooks
79
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x