Just for fun

Derek owns a fruit and veg stall and is taking inventory of his stock. He has 12 pineapples left over from yesterday and took 2 deliveries of 4 pineapples this morning. He writes this down and gives the calculation to Jimmy so he can tell a restaurant how many pineapples they're going to deliver. Jimmy rings the restaurant and tell them they're going to deliver 56 pineapples. How many pineapples does Derek have and why did Jimmy say 56?

The story so far...

Tarzan is the heir to the title of Lord Greystoke, born on the west African shore to his marooned parents, who both die tragically soon after his birth. He's saved from certain death by the anthropoid ape Kala, as she grieves for her recently deceased child. Brought up by his new mother, Tarzan leans the ways and language of this band of apes, which is how he acquires his name, which means white ape in their primitive tongue.

 

By happenstance Tarzan discovers the abandoned hut of his parents and their remains. Many of the belongings of his parents survive unscathed amid the decay and detritus of the abandoned hut, amongst these are language tutorials and dictionaries, from which Tarzan learns to read and write English. He accomplishes this prodigious feat without any tuition, with only the material available in the hut.

 

His mastery of English is so complete that when he finds that visitors from abroad are intruding upon his hut, he is able to draft a note and leave it for them.

 



THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE

KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK

MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH

ARE TARZAN'S.TARZAN WATCHES.

 

TARZAN OF THE APES.

 

That's the story so far, now what is the inconsistency with this narrative?

Red -- not pink

So a while ago I found a collection of representations of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character Deja Thoris by various artists. One of those artists being Bruce Timm who did a quite lovely little number in colour. Well it is lovely, except that the colour's wrong, she's supposed to be red not shocking pink, Burroughs generally describing her as copper coloured.

So I re coloured her as, making her coppery as all red Martians should be rendered. It was just a quick thing, so the eyes need some attention, probably some highlights on the eye lids and under the brows along with some general tidying up. While I was colouring it, it was interesting to note, that despite Timm's highly abbreviated style, his anatomy is pretty accurate. The only deviation from my interpretation of anatomy being the straight clavicle he gave Deja Thoris in this picture, which is open to some discussion. Women can have very curvy clavicles or slightly curvy but rarely straight ones, although when dancers take up first position, it looks as thought they're straight.