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Cobwebbing, a pattern of fine lines on the face of a horse, zebra or other equids.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Cobwebbing
Sally said:
A pattern of fine lines on the face of a horse, zebra or other equid is called cob webbing - I think...
[omitting photo till your computer is up and running]
PS: I am sorry to read of your ailing computer. Since I consider my computer my lifeline, I am feeling for you... I hope this doesn't cause you to pack it in, I (for one), would really miss BCE. That being said, I will continue my pledge until the final day!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Cobwebbing, a pattern of fine lines on the face of a horse, zebra or other
equid
Adam answered:
Cobwebbing.
Alan J responded:
Cobwebbing
Marian replied:
cobwebbing
MAM wrote:
Cobwebbing
Cobwebbing: Concentric darker rings on the forehead
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And, Joe S answered:
Cobwebbing, a pattern of fine lines on the face of a horse, zebra or other equid. Heck, everybody knows that.
Marty don't quit.
PS I had a friend take a roll on pictures of me in uniform, one of which I sent and Marty published on Veterans day. (Thanks Marty) of all the photos only two remain the rest were lost over many years and many moves. The hat I was wearing appeared in only three of the pictures and the hat was purchased for the pictures. Of course the only two pictures I have feature the hat. I never wore it again except for goofing around in the barracks. It was totally impractical in my line of work.
Very early Friday morning, my computer received one of those annoying updates from Mr. Gates.
When the computer re-booted, something happened, and I was left with a black monitor and a tower that didn't sound quite right.
The monitor has been losing it's resolution for a while, but, turned out that wasn't the problem.
Spent the afternoon with the tech, and, well, it's dead. Another fried motherboard.
I'm currently using the back-up - Bill Clinton was in his first term when it was new. It's horribly slow, has a very small memory, and saves all artwork as bitmaps.
Of course, all the trivia and TV files are in the dead computer, so I'll try to cobble something together until I see what happens next.
The new motherboard will set me back $547, but I should have my old computer back by Tuesday.
OTOH, I'm starting to think maybe it's a sign to pack it in.
Sigh.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', then a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Once Upon A Time', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Pan Am'.
The CW fills the night with local 'news' and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons, then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Allen Gregory', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another 'How I Met Your Mother',, then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Hell On Wheels'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] Top Gear: Best Of 10-11-Episode 1
[7:00AM] Top Gear: Best Of 10-11-Episode 2
[8:00AM] Hammerhead
[9:00AM] Animals: Extreme Lives
[10:00AM] The Tudors-Episode 1
[11:00AM] The Tudors-Episode 2
[12:00PM] The Tudors-Episode 3
[1:00PM] The Tudors--Episode 4
[2:00PM] The TudorsEpisode 5
[3:00PM] The Tudors-Episode 6
[4:00PM] The Tudors-Episode 7
[5:00PM] The Tudors-Episode 8
[6:00PM] The Tudors-Episode 9
[7:00PM] The Tudors-Episode 10
[8:00PM] BeowulfB
[10:30PM] Beowulf (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Delta Farce', 'Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts', 'Tosh.0', and 'Nick Swardson's Pretend Time'.
FX has the movie 'Pineapple Express', followed by the movie 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', then the movie 'Adventureland'.
History has 'IRT Deadliest Roads', 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'IRT Deadliest Roads'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Flakes
[7:45AM] AV Club's One Track Mind
[7:50AM] United We Stand
[8:00AM] Bookies
[10:00AM] Daltry Calhoun
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Visiting Ours
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Charity Drive
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-My Mother the Car
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-In God We Trust
[2:00PM] Flakes
[3:45PM] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[5:45PM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[8:00PM] The Shining
[11:00PM] Onion News Network-Today Now! Special
[11:30PM Onion News Network-Today Now! Special
[12:00AM] The Shining
[3:00AM] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[5:15AM] Mr. Show With Bob and David-It's Perfectly Understandishable (ALL TIMES EST)
[6:00A] Toots
[7:30A] This Is Not A Robbery
[8:45A] Hotel Gramercy Park
[10:00A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - The Perfect Couple
[10:30A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Three's a Crowd
[11:00A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Baby On My Mind
[11:30A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Matchmaker Matchmaker
[12:00P] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Flying Blind
[12:30P] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Great Expectations
[1:00P] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Out of the Closet
[1:30P] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Til Death Do Us Part
[2:00P] Love Lust & Comfort Food
[3:00P] Love Lust & The Undead
[4:00P] Toots
[5:30P] This Is Not A Robbery
[6:50P] Wilco Live: Ashes Of American Flags
[8:25P] Five Fingers
[10:00P] Monster's Ball
[12:00A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Out of the Closet
[12:30A] GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS - Til Death Do Us Part
[1:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Other People's Mothers (Episode 10, Season 1)
[2:00A] UNLEASHED BY GARO: A Little Bit of Pain (Episode 4, Season 1)
[3:00A] Love Lust & Comfort Food
[4:00A] Monster's Ball (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Prey', followed by the movie 'Primeval'.
Mad Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones, left, Jack Davis and Al Jaffee, right, speak with Savannah College of Art and Design professor John Larison, second from the left, during an event hosted by SCAD and the National Cartoonists Society, Friday, Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Aragones, Jaffee and Davis are among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion.
Photo by Stephen Morton
Think of them as the senior class of the "usual gang of idiots." Or the original MAD men perhaps.
There's Al Jaffee, who at 90 still draws the optical illusion fold-in gags for MAD magazine's back page. And Sergio Aragones, still whipping out eye-straining and gut-busting miniature cartoons in the magazine's margins after 48 years. And Jack Davis, who was there at the beginning, drawing the horror spoof "Hoohah!" that appeared in MAD's debut issue in 1952.
They're among the cartoonists who put MAD on the map in the 1950s. Over the next six decades, they blended celebrity caricature, pop-culture parody and political satire in a way that would influence American comedy from Saturday Night Live to The Onion and more. And some of them are still churning out gags for MAD, in defiance of the ever-expanding generation gap with the magazine's young audience.
Aragones, Jaffee and Davis were among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion on the Georgia coast. With their homes and studios spread across the U.S., the artists who put their work side by side in hundreds of MAD issues don't often meet face to face.
This weekend, the cartoonists are being honored and humored by their hosts, the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society. Their art is hanging in a gallery, while their schedule includes workshops with the college's art students and a panel discussion on MAD's history and their work.
Actor Fred Willard arrives at a screening of "The Adventures of TinTin" during the closing night gala of AFI FEST 2011, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Los Angeles. "The Adventures of TinTin" opens in theaters Dec. 21, 2011.
Photo by Matt Sayles
Grammy-winning jazz crooner Tony Bennett is championing a rebuilding effort to help New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
At the site of the 101st and final house built by Project Home Again, the 85-year-old singer said Friday that bringing people home is important to protecting the culture and traditions of New Orleans.
He looked on as a gospel choir clapped and swayed while singing "Oh Happy Day" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" to commemorate the project founded by his friends, New York couple Leonard and Louise Riggio.
After seeing Katrina's devastation on their TV sets following the 2004 storm, the Riggios pledged to build homes for low- and middle-income families who were forced from their homes with little hope of returning.
CBS is bringing in some big guns for a revamp of its low-rated morning program "The Early Show" -- talk show hosts Charlie Rose and Gayle King, according to a report in Friday's New York Times.
Citing CBS staff members who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Times said Rose and King were among several new hires joining co-hosts Erica Hill and Jeff Glor in a makeover of the show, which has long trailed competing programs on NBC and ABC.
CBS, which the Times said plans to make a formal announcement on Tuesday, declined to comment on the changes which will take place early in 2012. Rose and King also both declined comment.
According to the report, the new two-hour news show will depart from the conventions of the traditional lightweight format that has prevailed in the 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. timeslot.
Mad Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones, center,and Jack Davis, right, speak Savannah College of Art and Design sequential art chair Anthony J. Fisher, left, at an event in their honor, Friday, Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Aragones and Davis are among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion.
Photo by Stephen Morton
Some parents have filed complaints with the Parent-Teacher Association after a former adult film star said she read to children in a classroom at a Los Angeles County elementary school.
Sasha Grey, a 23-year-old ex-porn actress who has appeared in mainstream shows like HBO's "Entourage," was a guest earlier this month at Compton's Emerson Elementary School for Read Across America Day.
Grey tweeted Nov. 2 that she spent the day reading to students in the first and third grades.
Grey has not appeared in porn films in over two years. She has been a regular on "Entourage" and appeared in the 2009 film "The Girlfriend Experience."
Dudnath Raghunath, of Miami, Fla. holds a sign expressing his views at the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in New York.
PHoto by Mary Altaffer
The latest "Call of Duty" video game generated $400 million in sales in its first 24 hours in stores, breaking its own record set this time last year.
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" is the third game in the military shooter series to set such a record. Last year, "Call of Duty: Black Ops" raked in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale. "Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2," sold 4.7 million copies in its first 24 hours to reap $310 million
The latest installment of the game from Activision Blizzard Inc. went on sale at midnight Tuesday in North America and the U.K.
Sean McCauley, of, Sewell, N.J. holds a sign expressing his views at the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in New York.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
Nazi-occupied Paris was a terrible place to be in the waning days of World War II, with Jews, Resistance fighters and ordinary citizens all hoping to escape. Disappearances became so common they often weren't followed up.
And one man used the lawlessness for his own terrible purposes, killing perhaps as many as 150 people.
Yet it wasn't until thick black smoke seeped into buildings in a fashionable part of the city that firefighters and police were called to an elegant townhouse where they found body parts scattered around -- setting off a manhunt that led them, eventually, to Marcel Petiot.
The crime was very much of its time, said David King, who chronicled the hunt for Petiot in "Death in the City of Light."
Petiot, as it turned out, was a respected physician who turned serial killer by night, preying largely on Jews desperate to leave Paris by luring them in with promises of escape. He was accused of murdering "only" some 27, but authorities suspected his real toll was far higher.
A protester carries a placard in front of the Reichstag building during an Occupy Berlin protest denouncing current banking and financial industry practices in Berlin November 12, 2011.
Photo by Pawel Kopczynski
Five murals by Mexican artist Diego Rivera will go on display on Sunday in a new exhibit that reunites works that struck a chord across a broad social spectrum when they were unveiled during the Great Depression.
The works, which were first shown in 1931 and 1932, are the highlight of "Diego Rivera, Murals for The Museum of Modern Art," which runs through May 14.
The murals were painted at MOMA, which sold all but one. Museum director Glenn Lowry said the works, particularly "Frozen Assets," still find resonance today.
Weighing nearly 700 kg (1540 pounds), "Frozen Assets" was flown to New York after being removed from its home at the Dolores Olmedo Museum in Mexico City.
The show's other murals, "Electric Power" and "The Uprising" were also brought for the show from Rivera's native Mexico and are rejoining the U.S.-held "Agrarian Leader Zapata" and "Indian Warrior."
Panda Po sticks out its tongue inside its enclosure at the Madrid Zoo & Aquarium November 11, 2011. Po and its twin panda De De, born September 7, 2010, were conceived through artificial insemination in a joint effort by Spain's National Research council and scientists from China. The cubs are the first of their species to be born in Spain since 1982, according to Chinese veterinarian Yuan Bo, and have been reunited with their mother for the first time since their birth.
Photo by Sergio Perez
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