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80+ times around the sun. Many careers - industrial chemist, coal geologist, DBA, IT Systems mgr. Retired to cruising on yacht for 15 yrs, sailed Sth Pac, SE Asia, Japan. Grandad to 4, lawn bowler, ham radio operator, first licenced in 1975.

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I remember in the early days of Usenet there was the story of the perpetual motion caused by tying a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat. Buttered toast always lands butter side down, cat always lands on it's feet.

10.03.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How do the squareword colours work?

10.03.2026 07:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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πŸ”± 3+7+4=14

10.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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#thirdle #thirdle1434

πŸ† 4 / 6 πŸ”₯ streak 16

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10.03.2026 04:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Squareword - Daily Word Puzzle Game Play Squareword, the free daily word puzzle! Guess 5-letter words to uncover a 5x5 grid where every row and column forms a valid word. New puzzle every day!

squareword.org 1499: 7 guesses
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#squareword #squareword1499

10.03.2026 03:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#cats
My beautiful Fergie's 11th birthday today.
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10.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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#Wordle 1,725 3/6*
NYT AVE 3.3

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09.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Title page is decorated with a lot of flowers

Title page is decorated with a lot of flowers

Title page is decorated with a lot of flowers https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/title-page-is-decorated-with-a-lot-of-flowers

09.03.2026 10:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

JFC @ABCTV_AU, National Forum giving Jews another platform. For .2% of the population?

09.03.2026 09:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Moon, Swallows and Peach Blossoms

Moon, Swallows and Peach Blossoms

Moon, Swallows and Peach Blossoms https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/moon-swallows-and-peach-blossoms

08.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson

Evening bell at Mii Temple https://www.artic.edu/artworks/29490/

08.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel

Groups of Mountain Climbers (Shojin tozan) at the Summit of Mount Fuji, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjΕ«rokkei) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/206836

08.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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09.03.2026 04:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." - Mark Twain #Truth

08.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 1672 πŸ” 421 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 34
I don’t even know how to describe this. Honorable generals followed by kegsbreath, couchfukker, and trumpus

I don’t even know how to describe this. Honorable generals followed by kegsbreath, couchfukker, and trumpus

Okay, who sent us this photo titled β€œThe Devolution of Man”??

This is why we don’t intermingle with you outside species, the risks are too great

09.03.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 418 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 7

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πŸ”± 2 + 7 + 3 = 12

09.03.2026 04:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#thirdle #thirdle1433

πŸ† 3 / 6 πŸ”₯ streak 15
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09.03.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Squareword - Daily Word Puzzle Game Play Squareword, the free daily word puzzle! Guess 5-letter words to uncover a 5x5 grid where every row and column forms a valid word. New puzzle every day!

squareword.org 1498: 7 guesses
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#squareword #squareword1498

09.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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#Wordle 1,724 2/6*

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09.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes!!!πŸ’―πŸ‘

08.03.2026 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A high-ranking minister, Toru (822–895) was the son of an emperor. In this scene, he enjoys the company of two other men in his landscape garden overlooking the water. Here Hokusai may have illustrated a poem by Toru that mentions boats floating on the water in bright moonlight, shaded by the pines.

A high-ranking minister, Toru (822–895) was the son of an emperor. In this scene, he enjoys the company of two other men in his landscape garden overlooking the water. Here Hokusai may have illustrated a poem by Toru that mentions boats floating on the water in bright moonlight, shaded by the pines.

The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1142

08.03.2026 08:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Clarence Buckingham Collection

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Visitors to the Hachiman shrine https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24461/

07.03.2026 12:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
For this print, Hokusai was inspired by a play dramatizing a popular ritual performed on setsubun, the eve of the first day of spring in the old lunar calendar. On this day, people in Japan scatter dried beans in their houses to drive out bad luck. In the play, a demon personifies an evil spirit who has come into a widow's house, even though she had created a protective talisman. The clever woman offers the demon sake (rice wine) and he soon becomes drunk. In the end, she successfully drives him away by throwing beans at him. For this print, Hokusai depicted the last scene, with the woman holding her box of beans and the demon on bended knee clutching at her. The triumphant smile on her face and the gesture by the masked actor who played the demon shows the happy ending of the play.

For this print, Hokusai was inspired by a play dramatizing a popular ritual performed on setsubun, the eve of the first day of spring in the old lunar calendar. On this day, people in Japan scatter dried beans in their houses to drive out bad luck. In the play, a demon personifies an evil spirit who has come into a widow's house, even though she had created a protective talisman. The clever woman offers the demon sake (rice wine) and he soon becomes drunk. In the end, she successfully drives him away by throwing beans at him. For this print, Hokusai depicted the last scene, with the woman holding her box of beans and the demon on bended knee clutching at her. The triumphant smile on her face and the gesture by the masked actor who played the demon shows the happy ending of the play.

The Day Before the Beginning of Spring https://collections.artsmia.org/art/62728/

07.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't understand how you can get 1 starter then 5 correct. I'm new to this and it takes a lot of thought to get everything lined up horizontally and vertically. And that's with 2 start words.

08.03.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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πŸ”± 3 + 8 + 2. = 13

08.03.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Squareword - Daily Word Puzzle Game Play Squareword, the free daily word puzzle! Guess 5-letter words to uncover a 5x5 grid where every row and column forms a valid word. New puzzle every day!

squareword.org 1497: 8 guesses
#WQuers shoulda been 7.

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08.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ† 2 / 6 πŸ”₯ streak 6 Two! πŸ˜„

07.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Did he talk about the curtains?

07.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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07.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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πŸ”± 3 + 8 + 3 = 14
That's about as good as I can do.

07.03.2026 11:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0