User comments: Femme_Appeal

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Crossword	Date	Comment
Torch of freedom	28 March 2017, 10:22	Great image, and terrific use of shadows. It was worth the hassle of doing a puzzle so tall on my laptop screen. :)
Chess elephant	28 March 2017, 9:03	There's an elephant gambit that I suspect the title is in reference to. It's a well crafted image.
Railway platform	28 March 2017, 7:22	Terrific detail.
Donkey	28 March 2017, 6:48	The lowest-rent Eeyore I've ever seen.
Lamb	28 March 2017, 6:14	It certainly doesn't look like a full-sized sheep, but I'm pretty sure lambs don't have horns - especially ones as big as its head.
Taxi	27 March 2017, 12:33	I think the stuff 'above' is supposed to be a cityscape. But what I want to know is what is with that huge spoiler on the cab?
At the computer	27 March 2017, 12:14	I almost wonder if its supposed to be more a microfiche machine than even an older computer, because if not that appears to be one very deep CRT.
Box of floppy disks	27 March 2017, 10:45	I actually still have one of these cases in the back of my closet.
Burning match	25 March 2017, 9:06	I don't disagree with the intended title, but it immediately made me think of the opening credits from the Mission: Impossible series.
Mortar and pestle	24 March 2017, 18:41	Definitely stylized like a the pharmacist's icon version. Though I think these days, when most people think of a mortar and pestle we picture the bowl shaped mortar rather than cup shaped.
Girl	24 March 2017, 18:35	That is A LOT of hair and a strangely long and straight neck. Also needs a break between the nose and the hairline because her left eye disappears and she looks slightly Elephant-manesque.
Love	23 March 2017, 13:25	It's actually a pretty unique and interesting image - nice job on making the eyes kind of unique.
Castle of horrors	23 March 2017, 11:17	Actually thought it was a coral reef until I looked at the title.
The invisible man	23 March 2017, 9:50	Very well done. My brain tends to zone in and not see the image before I'm done half the time, and as soon as I finished this I could see precisely what it was - and that it was pretty amusing. :)
Newspaper	22 March 2017, 17:38	I think any image that does such a good job conveying what it is, without a title to describe it, should get at least a 3. After all in our drop-downs 3s would be Usual and Normal. And we all know there are images on this site that fail to convey what they are, even WITH a title.
Armchair	22 March 2017, 17:27	For some reason it reminds me of Steve's chair on Blue's Clues.
Fencing	22 March 2017, 7:45	I doubt that's called fencing even in other countries. In the US it's generally called a barricade though. But it's a solid representation.
Safe	22 March 2017, 7:27	Good detail and shading for a such a basic image.
Bathroom	21 March 2017, 12:53	Um, a clawfoot that's got a single shower curtain rod going through it? Not really the way it usually works.
Magnetic field	21 March 2017, 11:38	Very cool. Reminds me of doing the iron fillings bits in grade school.
Workplace	21 March 2017, 10:48	I suspect it's supposed to be a drafting desk, but that might just be an effect of the angle.
Brain	21 March 2017, 10:32	That's a great image. Excellent detail. It reminds me of the yarn version I've seen. :)
Plane	20 March 2017, 1:32	I can't figure out how, even when I'll start in different spots depending on how the puzzle lays out, if there's a bird that consists of XX XX X It's always the last part I'm filling in.
Rose	18 March 2017, 12:16	You know Christiana, on occasion I add a comment to a puzzle just so I can go back and see if anyone replied to the more verbose or snarky comments already there, via the links in my profile. :) I also am regularly torn by the inclination to regurgitate those same two points. They really should add them to the FAQ page - as well as a note on how you will often counter Russian language and cultural references in these images.
Gardener	18 March 2017, 12:04	A Cybmerman with an electrocution device. But on a slightly more serious note - why do so many of the male-esque people in these puzzles end up looking like LEGO figures?
Victory Day (9 May)	18 March 2017, 9:41	It's not MAA, it's MAЯ, which is Russian for May (genitive case). The last letter is the Cyrillic letter Ya. I think the people thinking this is Sputnik are confused by the Ya too, because Sputnik was launched on March 9 - not May 9. I'm assuming the structure with the spire that looks vaguely rocket-like is Spasskaya Tower in Moscow. If you look at the Wikipedia page for Victory Day you'll see an image of the tower during a May 9th celebration.
Keyboard	17 March 2017, 4:55	Seriously can't decide if it's USB or PS/2. :)
On the beach	17 March 2017, 4:24	Okay... questions: Why are her eyes slits in 2 different directions? Why is her mouth lopsided like Sylvester Stallone's? What's with the crazy banshee hair sticking out in all directions? Is she actually wearing a bikini? Because her supposed bikini bottoms don't actually go all the way around her hip to connect to whatever is in the back. I acknowledge the shading on her top could be a bikini - since there are no visible nipples - but if it's meant to be a bikini top they went out of their way to give her long pendulous breasts so she has plenty of cleavage above said top. And is the rest of her left arm buried in the sand? FTR - I'm not bothered that she kind of looks naked - I find it very refreshing to see something this unusual instead of another machine gun or helicopter. I'm just vexed by the strange and varied oddities in how this entire image was put together - ESPECIALLY her eyes and mouth being all tilted. It looks like Latrine, from Robin Hood: Men in Tights, sunbathing. :)
Brontosaurus	16 March 2017, 11:30	Me too "Tim" - that one day, they'll find a brontosaurus on Pluto and the irony of it all will make creationists' heads explode.
Mushrooms	15 March 2017, 15:33	Not necessarily David. Mushrooms grow on things; tree stumps, patches of grass or moss, anthills or piles manure. It's not at all unusual to find a group of mushrooms all growing in a mound this way.
Winnie-the-Pooh	13 March 2017, 15:31	LOL, well pointed out Christiana.
Cat	13 March 2017, 14:10	Are it legs made out of hedge clippers?
Hare	13 March 2017, 5:25	Looks like Frank from Donnie Darko - which makes it even more disturbing to look at.
Bear	12 March 2017, 12:56	Looks more like a lion cub than a bear.
Woman	12 March 2017, 11:52	Funny I just made a comparison between another image and a LEGO figurine, and this definitely has a hairless LEGO head.
Dog	12 March 2017, 11:20	Uh no, that is definitely not Blue. For starters, she has a nose, and her ears look nothing like that. In fact if you wanna go with a kid's show character, I imagine this is what a baby Mim-Mim might've looked like, if he wasn't a biped at first. But I think even Happy Bunny would look at this thing and go, "WTF?"
Dolphin	12 March 2017, 11:02	This isn't even mixing animals, it's a weird fake one. The body shape and thinness does resemble more of a bottlenose dolphin than an orca. But neither of those animals has a set of bottom fins or a break in their top fin. And the head looks nothing like a bottlenose dolphin. FTR - Orcas actually are members of the dolphin family. So it's important to specify that you're talking about comparing it to a bottlenose dolphin - the type of dolphin most of us associate with the word. Because technically an orca is a dolphin. But more to the point, if anything this picture looks more like a catfish than any ocean dwelling mammals.
Elephant	12 March 2017, 10:29	If you look at a photograph of any elephant, the hip contours are almost always clearly defined. And depending on the lighting, there can be a pretty distinctive shadow along that area. Now there really should be the same definition line/shading along the shoulder area as well, if they were trying to get an elephant image with a little more realistic definition, but that the shading exists on the hind leg is pretty easily explainable. You might as well question why LEGO figurine has ab or cleavage lines.
Flag	12 March 2017, 10:13	Have to agree with David. Even as simple puzzles go, this is way too simplistic.
Gangster	12 March 2017, 8:08	That dude has a very strange head.
A month	9 March 2017, 10:31	They're also connected in English etymology, as well as Saxon, Germanic, Greek, Dutch, Norse, etc.; the list literally goes on and on. In many ancient languages the words for month and moon were nearly interchangeable - and in most current languages, the words for moon and month also start with M. You gotta figure that in just about every early culture months were tracked via lunar cycles, so it makes a lot of sense that the words are related in many languages, and that the moon would've been a common topic shared among different cultures.
The hippopotamus who was afraid of vaccinations	9 March 2017, 7:59	Google it Jay - it's an old kid's cartoon in Russia.
Still life	9 March 2017, 7:30	I'm not an art expert by any means, but I think that most still life paintings that were of the impressionists' style were outdoors scenes - the play of the light and nature being an integral part of the style. I also suspect there's a table or shelf behind the curtain with a quill sticking up on it.
Boat	7 March 2017, 21:28	A hamster, with long hair, in a remote control speedboat? Best I got.
Scottish Terrier	7 March 2017, 1:15	Looks like K-9 wearing a ghost costume.
Kiss	6 March 2017, 10:58	It looks like something quite creepy rather than cute - like two distorted small children melting into each other.
Pacific	6 March 2017, 10:02	Pacific, "tending to make peace," from the Middle French pacifique and the Latin pacificus - i.e. pacifism. Not only was the symbol part of the CND, when it really took off it wasn't just a "Peace Sign," it was specifically a symbol for the pacifist movement. It's not vague at all, it's a spot on title. Also it would be good if more people took a moment to remember that this is NOT an English-language-first website. Sure, we all know there are titles which are just plain wrong or the English translation is a little wonky, but when it's the latter it doesn't do to complain it's the former. And in this case, I'd say it's technically a more accurate title than the title we'd all think of first. Also I'm with you Palouday - I prefer a variety in difficulties, and am happy to have a simple and easily identifiable puzzle in the middle of more challenging ones.
Man raising a flag	4 March 2017, 11:56	Actually it looks more like Johnny Five putting up a flag.
Skull	4 March 2017, 9:41	Jaylee James - Not bloody likely. That's one creepy configuration.
Africa	2 March 2017, 10:48	I think they were going for some kind of pictographic interpretation of African masks, but yeah, just naming this image Africa is in bad taste.