I must admit, it’s a big week around here. The college football season begins in a big way this weekend. I resolve, as usual, not to wind up like Arlo above. I know it’s all a big racket, and I’ve certainly been critical of big-time college sports in the strip over the years, but then, doggone it, my alma mater has a year like last year. It certainly was one of the most interesting seasons ever; even non-sports fans were watching the replays and talking about the end of the Auburn-Alabama game. It’s going to be another exciting year for us, I think, but there’ll never be another last year.
234 responses to “All in the Game”
Yeah, the last time I had a brush with the federales, they were like, “You were doing 82 in a 65 MPH zone” and I was all googly-eyed “Are you sure officer? I don’t think this MG will go that fast.” 😀
When Neesh bit that drunk, I was all “Just the facts, ma’am.”
When stopped by the police always begin your interaction with them by insulting their intelligence. Yeah, that’s a good plan.
Might work for you Lily, but I’m not nearly as small, cute or female as you are. 🙂
And before someone asks, “What intelligence?”, let me cite my SWAT ninja firearms trainer. He’s just your typical redneck Southern cop…with a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. And a masters in Political Science.
Worked for me, Ghost. I didn’t even get a warning. He actually laughed and said, “Well, I guess it doesn’t happen that often.” 😀
It seems to be the way of life in Southwest Asia, and look how pleasant life is over there. Seriously, shooting someone through the door, sight unseen, should be a criminal offense in itself.
Watching the Cincinnati Reds baseball game in their stadium right by the river. Showed the name of a boat moored there; it was the Arrrr & Arrrr.
And had a pirate flag….
That’s very clever, NK in AZ — thanks for letting us know. It made me smile! I hope Jackie Monies sees it.
Ed: Seriously, shooting someone through the door, sight unseen, should be a criminal offense in itself.
It’s certainly foolish. You should always wait until you have acquired a target. Warning shots (and blindly shooting through a door) just waste ammo.
The real problem is that the people inside the home have their adrenaline flowing, their hearts pumping, and their brain stem taking over with the fight/flight reaction to the perceived threat. Rational thought is hard under those circumstances.
Retribution is a way of life for some in our society today. And I am speaking of US-born citizens, not immigrants. We had a man shot to death this past weekend here while in a business. His crime? Dating another man’s ex-wife. The dead man leaves behind a young daughter and a church full of grieving friends.
National Geographic quote of the day: “Four new species of see-through frogs, three of which have green bones, have been discovered in northern Peru. “
Must be the Peruvian frog demo models.
sounds like a model kit I had when I was a kid! Looked like this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/198349800/vintage-visible-dissecting-frog-model
We’ve known about these for ages, and I just put the wandering stones aside, figuring there’s a natural explanation and I’ll learn of it someday. Seems this is the day.
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/08/28/slithering-stones
I had read about the stones a couple of times. The theory I saw last was that a thin film of water on the clay made it possible to move the stones in a moderate breeze. The combination of ice and water actually makes quite a lot of sense. Take a melting ice cube, in a puddle, and it has practically no friction.
Debbe, The Gulf is doing fine and making the “experts” look silly every day. Since we are talking about shooting people, and real people were the targets we were discussing, allow me to do a what if. What if there are reports of ebola in Mexico? What do you think would happen? Does that make you go hmmmm? That’s nothing. What if ebola breaks out in China? Does that make your head explode?
Emb, thank you for the link to the “slithering stones”. Very interesting! And the ad that came beside the story, for Hamline University, I read as “Hemline University” until I looked again. I do this sort of thing quite often and find it really amusing. I should start writing them down.
Then there are the sailing stones in Death Valley:
http://www.livescience.com/37492-sailing-stones-death-valley-moving-rocks.html
It seems strange that such a hot spot could also have freezing temperatures in the winter!
Oops, should have read the other article first! Whether you call them slithering or sailing rocks, they move!
“It seems strange that such a hot spot could also have freezing temperatures in the winter!”
Cold air sinks, and DV is the lowest spot in the US. We get our first frosts in the low spots. Deserts are often cold at night; as air cools in the mts. around DV, I suspect it can cool to freezing pretty fast, maybe not just in winter.
Yeah, I had read about the moving stones in the past and saw an online article earlier today. Like emb, I’d never really worried about. I just blamed it on ghosts. 🙂
Charlotte, I too see a lot of “Hemlines”. 😉
Jerry, if China gets wiped out by the virus, would that mean our debts to them would be cancelled?
But if there were an outbreak in Mexico, we’d probably know it about a day later, when we realized we were having an outbreak, too, and traced it back to Mexico.
emb: Also, dry air both gains and gives up heat much more rapidly than moist air, giving the potential for some surprisingly cold nights in the desert, at all times of year. The same mechanism makes for very rapid temperature drops after sundown in the wake of a winter cold frontal passage (FROPA), even in the Deep South.
I didn’t mean to get weird but I was reading a 1995 Time magazine article about ebola and as bad as it sounded then the situation is so much worse today. There was a book about ebola that came out several years ago that was really interesting but I can’t remember the title right now. I have occasionally seen copies in used book stores.
Oh yeah, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.
Now that I’ve had time to think about it, fairly modern but totalitarian regimes such as China may well fair better than we would in case of a deadly worldwide pandemic. They can more easily prohibit travel to prevent its spread; sweep up infected patients; and intern them in “medical camps” to wait for the infection to burn itself out…all the while making sure that the members of the ruling classes have access to whatever medications are available to prevent/treat the disease in order to preserve continuity of government. You know, all the possibly effective steps that wouldn’t likely fly in Western democracies.
Yep, I’ve been reading too many dystopian novels lately.
Debbe 😉