Hoff, someone sent you a hologram. I am *not* twirling and flinging snakes, though the image is hilarious. The poor, beautiful dark-grey young snake was in shock, and I cuddled it up to my warmth, and walked quite slowly, and I really hope it slithered away.
However, I entirely can see why you thought me cruel, because you are in the midst of trebuchet hurlings and flingings, and my patient is lying on the ground with possibly ouchy stuff strewn about!
Mr. Hoff, I was planning to go to sleep, but do you need a nurse on duty right now?
:::looking about the flooded area, desperately searching for an Expand-a-brain repair kit:::
:::watching in horror as Mischka twirls a grass snake around and around like a lasso, then flings it at a wall. Snake bounces off top of wall and falls to ground::;
I adore horses, and can actually ride (though Heidi blows me out of the water). I would never ever harm a horse, except maybe through pampering. American racing Thoroughbred trainer D. Wayne Lukas? Who runs horses into the ground, so that they're useless after the year's Derby? Him, I would cheerfully harm.
I love animals so much that when I found my cat snatching a grass snake in the back yard yesterday, I gently took it from his jaws and carried it over to a neighbor's yard. It was small, and I think Mama snake has already been Feline-ocided.
We are friends. I will always send you fresh produce from Florida's wonderful horse country.
Now that is exactly why I like Jigidi. I'm always learning something new. A big thanks today goes to (Hey) Juba for a new word. "trebuchet"... which I learned means "three bouquets" in French.... used in a sentence: "when the French Foreign Legion laid siege to Fort Thigh in the middle of Lapland, they used a barrage of three bouquets to destroy Fort Thigh's parapet." (and these were not "bargain" bouquets. These bouquets were upgraded with the best baby's breath and Queen Anne's Lace available.... The poor Lappers didn't stand a chance....
I don't THINK Fi... uh Fifi...erm, Fiona is Scotch, I think she's Californi - um - Floridian. I know Hoff likes her to, you know, be severe, but knocking out? Really?
@rswestley -- that's remarkable, I also keep my "Tach-Matter Labs" t-shirt in a special safe place. It's from a Bugatti-sponsored conference I attended on scientific attempts to speed up matter to hyper-velocities.
For anyone who remembered it was Sheb Wooley who had the #1 hit "Purple People Eater" in the late 50's... you have won a gift certificate from the Mayo Clinic for the removal of one eye. In addition, if you live in a large metropolitan area, "Purple Lives Matter" will provide free purple epidermal transcoloration. (Being old fashioned, I still prefer people in the old black & white format)
And yes, at the urging of my wife, I have safely tucked my "Black Labs Matter" t-shirt (standard issue for persons involved with dog rescue groups) between the mattresses of my bed.... right next to my AK-47
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater "I like short shorts" Flyin' little people eater What a sight to see! (Purple People?)
There are times, even with my custom titanium keyboard with the claw spaced letters, that I simply get too excited by the comment that I no longer actually care what letter I hit. I am, of course, humble enough to admit that.
Ok, taking all of this highly scientific information, sending short short to all the females, what other preparations do we need to make to swap planets? Are we going to dock with the new planet to make the transfer, do we have to jump? Van I bring beef jerky? is Scotch allowed? Is the a humble upgrade available?
Lol! I was expecting someone to crack wise about that. The term was coined by a male editor, and I'm sure all the other male editors and writers loved it and joked about it. And the women, too, when they got into the boys' club. The science fiction crowd tend to be just as bawdy as any other clique (as I'm sure you know).
Mischka, I can't honestly say I am impressed with Fredric Brown, even if he was famous for his short-shorts. You have to remember I am a crotchety old dinosaur that dropped out of politically correct school and I say guys in short-shorts bad. Girls in short-shorts good.
Fredric Brown has a funny story, "Placet is a Crazy Place," from 1946. "A man attempts to manage a research station on a planet in a distant system, where the weird laws of physics cause people to have hallucinations for 4 hours a day, and where birds composed of dense matter flying through the dense matter bedrock destroy the foundations of any building."
Here's a pirated copy (with a few typos): https://e-libra.ru/read/592890-placet-is-a-crazy-place.html
Brown was famous for his short-shorts, which would run about 1 page or less. The collection of his Best Of is just one of the greatest books ever.
A quote:
You see, the rotation of Placet isn't an even fraction of the period of its orbit and there's the Blakeslee Field in the middle between the suns—a field in which light rays slow down to a crawl and get left behind and if you've not read the Blakeslee reports on Placet, hold on to something, while I tell you this: Placet is the only known planet that can eclipse itself twice at the same time, run headlong into itself every forty hours, and then chase itself out of sight.
OK then, make it Neptune. Plenty of room to breathe (hydrogen, helium & methane: squeaky voice parties).
A trapezoidal path would mean everyone & everything not bolted down, getting thrown off the planet four times a year as Earth rounded a corner... plus alternate scorching & freezing times. But people would have more interest in geometry; might that be a good thing?
ron, all this unearthia stuff is well beyond my expertease. If earth is moving in an angular unearthia path around the sun, does that mean earth is now moving in a trapezoidal path? and we are distined to crash into Saturn's Used Planet Emporium? I guess that's not all bad. It's about time we traded earth in for a different planet
Hoff, it's true Spam withdrawal does give me the shakes, which is why in WWII the Army Air Corps wanted me to advise them when they bombed Nagishaky... that may be where the confusion lies.
This is a common sight in arid portions of the world, like in Arizona where lakes are on the endangered species list. With the shortage of lakes, the local Mafioso had to give up using "cement overshoes" and began using "asphalt burritos" as pictured here. A professionally made asphalt burrito will not groan when a car passes over it
rob, I see nothing depressing about angular momentum. My favorite type of milkshakes are made in a blender using angular momentum (the rotational equivalent of linear momentum) .... but not chocolate. I prefer the position vector/momentum vector flavor with just a hint of torque
High time to buy stock in shock absorber manufacturers.
For Mischka, and all others who are close to "tilt" today. Depressingly accurate slogan seen on a 2" round pin-it-on-your-shirt button: Angular momentum makes the world go round.
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