Feb 15th 2013 07:39 am It’s A Guy Thing
So, today is the big day we’ve been told about, the day a small asteroid passes between the earth and the man-made satellites relaying the transmissions that enable many of us to watch television and surf the Web. That’s very close. Then, first thing this morning, news comes out of Siberia of a giant fireball from the sky, blowing out windows with its sonic boom and leaving a smoldering crater. I’m not prepared to say these events aren’t a conincidence, but I am prepared to say they’re a helluva coincidence!
Speaking of Eurasia, the old A&J cartoon above was drawn in early 2005, during my brief sojourn to la Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême, France. Notice the European influence evident in the window sill in the first panel. Hope to see you Monday!
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151 Responses to “It’s A Guy Thing”
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 7:47 am #
I’ve seen it before, but it still gets me every time. I had to wipe down my monitor and desk this morning, and co-workers were asking if I were all right. So I got to share it with them.
David in Austin on 15 Feb 2013 at 7:51 am #
The footage of the Russian fireball is spectacular! The morning shows on network channels have had experts saying that the fireball was indeed a coincidence. They said that if the asteroid was breaking up, that there would have been more than one fireball. The also said that the timing was off, that the known asteroid approach is later than the fireball.
Perhaps the fireball was the result of the same cosmic forces that formed the larger asteroid and sent it on the approach to Earth. One expert said that a fireball of the size seen in Russia can be expected every 10 years or so, but that there is a large expanse of the Pacific that might not have human witnesses. I would guess that would also apply to part of the Atlantic ocean and the Antarctic continent.
Mindy on 15 Feb 2013 at 7:53 am #
The only difference
Between a man and a boy,
Is the difference in cost
Of their toys.
sandcastler on 15 Feb 2013 at 7:55 am #
The Gods have spoken, we must sacrifice a virgin to save humanity.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 7:56 am #
To whom, sandcastler?
Mindy on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:02 am #
A virgin? Where, sandcastler? Where?
Jimmy, I believe in coincidences but, professionally and instinctively, I am very leery of them. They’re just to coincidental, as my old training officer once expounded. In this case (as in many cases, I hasten to add!) I agree with Mindy. I’ve always understood that an asteroid, like a comet, sheds and attracts fragments into its sphere of influence, for lack of a better term, some following and some preceding on the asteroid’s course. If the one approaching Earth is the size of a football field, which ain’t no small thing to have dropping into your living room, it stands to reason that any attendant fragments might well be a little larger than a bread box. Nothing else may happen, more may follow. I agree with Mindy (again) in that I wish we could target their paths! Isn’t the Gulf of Mexico the result of a rather large meteor/asteroid strike?
I retract the “virgin” joke, it was crude, insulting and in bad taste. I am a chauvinist pig and I beg forgiveness from all women and any interested males in The Village and I beg Mindy not to throw that precious NAVY shirt into the fire to punish me! Please, Mindy! You know how I love that shirt!
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:21 am #
As a compromise, I suggest we sacrifice a Virginian…
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:22 am #
Yes, but if the asteroid gets too close will Bruce Willis be able to save us?
I’m with Lost here…to whom do we make the sacrifice?
John in Richmond Texas on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:34 am #
Didn’t an asteroid take out most of Siberia around 100 years ago? and isn’t that what really started the Chicago and Peshtigo fires? . and we had a coincidence here last month, a big meteorite flashed across Houston but they said it wasn’t connected to the Geminids that were over a week later. . .. .and from yesterday’s string – songs being played to other tunes; nothing beats Norwegian Wood played to the Mission Impossible theme, it was something weird the Red Skelton show dancers did, there’s a recording of it on Rhino Records Golden Throats Collection. .. today’s retro was one of my favorite keepers the first time I saw it.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:36 am #
I like that Mindy is begging Mindy for mercy.
In one of the Niven-Pournelle collaborations, they claimed that all circular depressions were the result of such collisions. IIRC, they specifically included Hudson’s Bay, and at least parts of the Gulf of Mexico. The latter was, I think, the result of overlapping strikes.
Steve From Royal Oak, MI on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:38 am #
Somebody check on the wearabouts of Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman. I think Bruce Almighty may be at it again.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:44 am #
The Tunguska strike wasn’t very large, just very mysterious: It didn’t leave an impact crater, IIRC. Well, the explosion was large, according to Wikipedia.
JDS on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:51 am #
Dear curmudgeonly ex-professor: The scene you are thinking of maybe the one towards the end of Conquest Of Micronesia – Episode 12 at 24:30. It is cut from a longer scene of the beach on the island of Tarawa. The longer shot has been shown in other documentaries. The 2nd Marine Division, in their new LTVs, took very heavy casualties hitting the beach at Tarawa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-id7unO5Q
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 9:03 am #
Yup; the LTVs ran aground well off shore. ‘Twas a long slog to the beach.
Ghost Rider 6 on 15 Feb 2013 at 9:31 am #
There’s more than one way to sacrifice a virgin, you know.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 9:37 am #
Actually, there really is only way, and it does NOT involve death. (I think that’s a common misperception.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 15 Feb 2013 at 9:54 am #
Either way, you can sacrifice a particular virgin [of either sex] only once.
Too many statements re asteroids, meteors, etc. to deal with all here, and I’m no expert anyway. As to the makeup of asteroids, they vary a lot. NASA or whoever has visited a few close up. Some are loosely made up, some seem to be solid chunks. Several have smaller chunks revolving about them [actually two chunks revolving about a common center of gravity]. A meteor, if I have it right, is a ‘shooting star’ that burns up in the atmosphere [maybe the size of a sand grain], a meteorite a piece large enough to reach the ground. There’s also ‘meteoroid’; I don’t recall its definition. Best do a search on all three terms.
‘They’ can tell whether a particular meteor or whatever is associated with another by tracking both and calculating whether or not they follow similar orbital paths. E.g., if you are watching the Leonid meteors at 2 a.m. some Nov. 17th, any ‘shooting star’ whose path does not seem to come from the region of the constellation Leo is a stray following some other orbit and is not a Leonid.
Meteorology, frustratingly, is the study of the weather. It’s a few degrees below 0 F here this morning. It has not yet gotten to -40 this winter, which was a regular occurrence decades back. You get used to it.
Mindy on 15 Feb 2013 at 10:08 am #
Mindy will not take credit for Mindy blaming Mindy. John, all perfect computer maven that he proclaims to be, forgot to change the NAME. I always get blamed for that, now he doed it.
And I think Russia was hit in the early 1900s by an even bigger rock.
NOTICE: No VIRGINIANS will be sacrificed. End of discussion.
Ghost Rider 6 on 15 Feb 2013 at 10:17 am #
Stoopid NAME box.
nickchick on 15 Feb 2013 at 10:33 am #
I’m sure everyone is aware of the cruise from H*** that finally ended last night in Mobile. After mishap and misfortune and just plain bad luck for those poor passengers (including the tow line breaking right before they entered Mobile river), I just read where one of the 100 busses that Carnival hired to transport those tired, dirty, hungry passengers all the way to New Orleans in the middle of the night BROKE DOWN between Mobile and New Orleans. They had to wait for another bus to be sent to pick them up. OMG! What bad kharma!
They should have let them check into a hotel 2 blocks away from the cruise terminal instead of making them ride another 2 hours to get to a shower and a bed. Rumor is that Carnival was just trying to keep the passengers away from the media. So wrong!
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 11:03 am #
Mindy, that “Russian rock” was the Tunguska event mentioned above as “tak[ing] out most of Siberia.” The explosion wasn’t THAT large, but it was interesting nonetheless. Especially since it didn’t actually hit the ground.
Media avoidance is seldom a good idea.
David in Austin on 15 Feb 2013 at 11:26 am #
The Alverez work on the discovery of an Iridium layer of sediment and the possible planet-killer meteor in the Gulf of Mexico did a lot to spur the development of fiction on the topic. Collisions with the Earth from space objects is a fairly common theme in science fiction. Niven and Pournelle have at least two. “Lucifer’s Hammer” is a story about an comet collision with the Earth. “Footfall” is the story about an interstellar invasion where the alien’s use chunks of asteroids as weapons. Arthur C. Clark penned “The Hammer of God” about an asteroid impact. All are decent reads. Clark also used meteor impacts in the Rama series. Even Asimov used a meteor to open “Starship Troopers” with the attack on Buenos Aires. There are many others, but I don’t have a list at hand.
The potential risk of something that could almost instantly destroy our civilization has an almost perverse fascination for many. Of course, it will be a serious problem if any of the super volcanoes happen to erupt. Some geologists say that Yellowstone is well overdue, based on estimated timings of previous eruptions. Earthquake and tsunami are also significant events as we saw from the recent event in Japan. Of course, we also have the “smaller” scale events like hurricanes (Andrew, Katrina, Sandy) and local events like tornado and wildfire.
The risk of giant cataclysms like an asteroid strike or super volcano (though infinitesimal) make the almost certain rise of the oceans (slow and steady) to seem to nothing in comparison. Of course, if you are part of that 10% (about 634 million) of the world’s population that live within 30 feet of sea level you may have a different opinion.*
*http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9162438
Ghost Rider 6 on 15 Feb 2013 at 11:29 am #
I wondered how Arlo and Janis celebrated Valentine’s Night…until I saw today’s cartoon.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 11:53 am #
Yeah, I’d wondered a bit about that, too, Ghost Rider. Of course, ’twas left to Janis to clean up after them. :/
“Starship Troopers” was by Robert Heinlein, not Isaac Asimov, and the destruction of Buenos Aires was more than half-way through. Still and all, ’tis a common enough deus ex machina.
When XKCD reminded me of the Yellowstone supervolcano, I took a look at the Keystone Pipeline route. It appears to be far enough east to not pass over Yellowstone. Furthermore, if that volcano lets loose, a pipeline spill would be the least of our problems.
I’d link to the XKCD cartoon, but I can’t find it right now.
OK. What’s the difference between “cartoon” and “comic”?
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 11:54 am #
Oh, but this one is SO appropriate to the discussion!
David from Austin on 15 Feb 2013 at 12:16 pm #
So I guess the memory is the second thing to go… : ( Heinlein it was. Asimov used asteroids in the Lucky Starr stories, but I guess he didn’t drop any.
Robin in FL on 15 Feb 2013 at 12:27 pm #
nickchick
I wouldn’t necessarily call that the cruise from hell, unless you call roughing it not having a mint on your pillow. True hell is parking at the Denver airport and having bunnies eat your car’s wiring.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler/article/298419/58/Bunnies-attacking-cars-at-Denver-International-Airport
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 15 Feb 2013 at 2:02 pm #
David: There’s also ‘Fist of God’ mountain, in Niven’s [right?] ‘Ringworld’.
Comics/cartoons: Location, location, location, but even that doesn’t always work. Comics appear on weekday comic pages, and are usually multi-panels, though JJ and others often merge them into one long panel. Some papers relegate Doonesbury to the editorial p., because it is largely political. On Sunday, however, both D. and equally political Mallard Fillmore are in the comics section. Single frame cartoons show up both places. Magazines [New Yorker, Playboy] mostly run single panel cartoons but sometimes also multi-page comics that are not serials in that they continue a story line; they may continue a single outworn theme, as in Little Annie Fannie, which this Village has covered or uncovered > adequately.
David in Austin on 15 Feb 2013 at 3:06 pm #
Okay, so my last asteroid link of the day. Just in case anyone missed it, there is actually a commercial venture starting that plans to mine asteroids. Here’s an article from “Wired” magazine on the topic.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/deep-space-asteroid-mining/
Lost in A**2– That XKCD is hilarious, in a sad, morbid sort of way.
EMB– Indeed, it was the Fist of God. For anything smaller than a ringworld it would have been a planet killer. Luckily it was powerful enough to stretch the scrith far enough that the ring did not lose all the atmosphere!
PS– Surely the “village” could never adequately wear out the topic of sex? I had a professor that said “On average, men think about sex more than any other single topic. It’s an incentive that enhances the likelihood of survival of the species. The more one thinks about sex, and acts on those thoughts, the more likely one’s genes will survive.” I’m guessing that there are a few members of the community that will definitely successfully transmit their genes.
John in Richmond Texas on 15 Feb 2013 at 3:13 pm #
aw man, my coworker’s cell phone woke me up. Friday afternoon and before a Monday holiday, dead, dead dead. BUT I’m looking forward on the way home to a few stops at a CVS, Walgreens or Kroger for at least 50% marked down candy
Tom from the Front Range on 15 Feb 2013 at 3:26 pm #
Oscar Pistorius, the Blade Runner, had an endorsement contract with Nike, world’s largest maker of sports shoes.
Am I the only one that sees the irony here?
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 3:56 pm #
Today’s Wall Street Journal had a piece on Nike’s endorsement practices: It’s almost never about the product, just the idea. Most of their athletes haven’t used their products: Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong, for instance. Joe Paterno didn’t, either, although his team probably used some. Michael Jordan is the only direct end user who comes to mind.
Neal in Bahstawn on 15 Feb 2013 at 4:03 pm #
The two most interesting things to come out of the Siberian fireball were a) the word ‘bolide’ which I had never heard of, and b) the existence and reason for the Russian dashboard camera. Here’s what the New York Times had to say about the latter:
Some of the numerous videos that quickly emerged of the incident highlighted a distinctly Russian phenomenon: the viral dashboard-cam clip. As the blogger Marina Galperina explained last year, they are commonplace in Russia partly because of the dangerous driving conditions that lead to so many accidents, and with an unreliable police force such cameras can provide valuable evidence after a crash.
The conditions of Russian roads are perilous, with insane gridlock in cities and gigantic ditches, endless swamps and severe wintry emptiness on the back roads and highways. Then there are large, lawless areas you don’t just ride into, the police with a penchant for extortion and deeply frustrated drivers who want to smash your face.
Psychopaths are abundant on Russian roads. You best not cut anyone off or undertake some other type of maneuver that might inconvenience the 200-pound, six-foot-five brawling children you see on YouTube hopping out of their SUVs with their dukes up. They will go ballistic in a snap, drive in front of you, brake suddenly, block you off, jump out and run towards your vehicle. Next thing you start getting punches in your face because your didn’t roll up your windows, or getting pulled out of the car and beaten because you didn’t lock the doors.
These fights happen all the time and you can’t really press charges. Point to your broken nose or smashed windows all you want. The Russian courts don’t like verbal claims. They do, however, like to send people to jail for battery and property destruction if there’s definite video proof.
Jerry in Fl on 15 Feb 2013 at 4:28 pm #
As proof of my predictive ability I bought a new large umbrella a couple of days ago in case not all of the pieces fell in Russia. The news now reports over 1000 injuries (strangely no fatalities) and more than one piece falling. As a matter of fact, one video showed one spliting into at least two trails. One Russian authority (?) was quoted as saying “We thought that it would burn up in the atmosphere”. That tells me that someone knew that it was coming and second, because split second timing is not sofisticated enough to know the exact second of atmosopheric entry, there was no way of knowing very much in advance where it might hit. I assume though that telescopes on that side of the planet were watching it approach. Did anyone advise the public to keep their collective (well, it is Russia) heads down. I don’t think so. Avoiding panic? If you have a large object about to strike the planet, panic is the last thing to worry about. I would certainly like to know if our government took any precautions. Not a political comment and I don’t want any. I’m just curious.
Mark in Boston on 15 Feb 2013 at 4:30 pm #
Way back in the 1950′s Mad Magazine did a piece about celebrity endorsements and what would happen if the trend continued. They had Mickey Mantle endorsing Acme Blast Furnaces, and Rin Tin Tin endorsing men’s hats. Well, the trend did continue.
Jerry in Fl on 15 Feb 2013 at 4:33 pm #
BTW, Yesterday made me a 15 year veteran of marrage. I can never remember, is it marital or martial? Anyway, Happy Anniversary to us all.
Mary in Ohio on 15 Feb 2013 at 4:38 pm #
I bet Oscar ain’t got that Nike contract anymore!
Speaking of songs (and I may have learned this here several years ago, so if you’ve heard this before…) You can sing Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” perfectly to the tune of “Hernando’s Hideaway.” You’re welcome.
Norm in Utah on 15 Feb 2013 at 4:54 pm #
As far as Janis cleaning up after Valentine’s Day – is she looking for the handcuff key again?
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 15 Feb 2013 at 5:18 pm #
I knew I had heard of the Tunguska occurrence!
Louis: Who are you guys?
Dr Ray Stantz: We’re the Ghostbusters.
Louis: Who does your taxes?
Dr Ray Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual.
Louis: I know!
Dr Ray Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
Louis: Felt great.
Dr. Egon Spengler: We’d like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Louis: Okay.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 5:22 pm #
“The difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘I’.”
Mindy from Indy on 15 Feb 2013 at 5:23 pm #
Trapper Jean, You are my hero of the day. I LOVE Ghostbusters! (The movie, Ghost. No harm intended to you or Angus.)
Ghost Rider 6 on 15 Feb 2013 at 6:09 pm #
I was just going to remark…GHOSTBUSTERS!?
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 15 Feb 2013 at 7:46 pm #
JDS & Lost: Thanks; I just may try to find that scene. BTW, It was at the Tarawa invasion that actor Eddie Albert saved dozens of troops, for which he received a medal. You can Google that. I always wondered what he, who saw legitimate severe Pacific action, felt during the making of “Longest Day” in which he had a significant role.
Recent Russian air event: I was given to understand that the major reason for the non-prediction of the event was the small size of the object – something like only 30 feet wide. No doubt, those seeking out space-originated objects start seeking the big ones, for those would bring the most damage. This is parallel to the legal profession’s “De minimis non curat lex” (“The law is not concerned with trifles.”)…though I cannot say why the air event brought a legalism to mind!
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 15 Feb 2013 at 8:47 pm #
Concerning astronomical events > predictable > bolides, but still apt to disappoint, below is the latest from Sky & Telescope on comet PanSTARRS.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/skytel/beyondthepage/Comet-PanSTARRS-Updates-185665152.html
Find yourself a clear view of the western horizon, and take binocs. You may need them to see the comet in the bright twilight. Dress more warmly than you would if you were planning a brisk walk. I’ll have to drive a short distance; the snow is 3′ deep between me and the ideal flat western horizon in the field n. of the house.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 10:07 pm #
Eddie Albert served in the Pacific? I thought he met Ilse after being shot down or otherwise separated from his unit.
Lost in A**2 on 15 Feb 2013 at 10:24 pm #
Lisa, not Ilse.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 15 Feb 2013 at 10:45 pm #
Mindy from Indy, it’s one of my favorite movies, too!
Lost, don’t worry, Arnold Ziffle would have corrected you. (And the sad part is, I can still sing the entire theme song to Green Acres.)
TruckerRon on 15 Feb 2013 at 11:10 pm #
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean — What’s sad about being able to sing a theme song to a funny show? I sing Gilligan’s Island and the Beverly Hillbillies for my kids. Someday I’ll be singing them for my grandkids. Eventually they’ll give me that free comfortable room with 3 squares a day up at the state hospital and I won’t have to shovel any more snow!!!
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 12:06 am #
As Dave Barry said, “The human mind is a marvelous thing. Half the time I can’t remember where I left my car keys five minutes ago, but I can remember every word of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song.”
Jerry in Fl on 16 Feb 2013 at 2:06 am #
How many guys were in the 3 Stooges?-6 Who were Joey’s 2 friends in Fury?-Packy and Pee Wee-Have you seen my glasses? What is the major industry in the area of Russia struck by the meteorite today? The manufacture of nuclear weapons. Whatta coinkidink.
Jerry in Fl on 16 Feb 2013 at 2:11 am #
BTW ex P, the trouble with trifles is that they multiply so fast.
Jerry in Fl on 16 Feb 2013 at 2:13 am #
But thanks for letting us know that they are also called mini me’s.
Mindy on 16 Feb 2013 at 3:30 am #
Good morning, Debbe.
FOOD!!!!
John, slogging half awake between rooms told me to type (.)(.) because that would set Ghost off on another quest. So I typed (.)(.) and I await Ghost’s neo-questiness. Perhaps he and the Virgin Mindy [who has been strangely absent in recent days, I wonder why?] can pair up and, as David in Austin foretold. Foretelled? Foreimplied? May I be the first to extend to you all our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Not to mention Easter, 4th of July, Whit Keebler’s birthday, and Halloween.
Mindy on 16 Feb 2013 at 3:41 am #
Okay, Debbe, Jean, and Lady Mindy, I realize that (.)(.) isn’t what Ghost really wants, that he’s enamored with something more like ( . ) ( . ) — typical male that he is. It is true that males spend a lot of time thinking of sex, far more so than females do. What the sociologists and psychologists don’t realize, even the women members of either profession, is that sex is so prevalent in the minds of males that most of us [women] simply elect to not waste time with duplication and allow the males to do the thinking for us. That way we can concentrate on more important things…such as luring the males into actually painting that wall or fixing that doorbell so it doesn’t play “They’re Coming to Take Me Away,” or that front step railing that was bent and loosened when Marjorie ________ lost her balance after having her center of gravity raised two feet due to ( . ) ( . ) enhancements to 48 Quadruple E Industrial Size.
Ghost must be in hog heaven right about now with all the talk about…He thinks Bob Hope’s closing song was “Thanks for the Mammarys.”
Lost in A**2 on 16 Feb 2013 at 4:25 am #
Jerry, only if you feed them too much.
Debbe59 on 16 Feb 2013 at 5:13 am #
Food morning Mindy, John and Ginger too
Fired up this early a.m., ain’t ya Mindy…they remind me of the effects that gravity has on breasts (there, I said it)…lol….coming to take me away, aahh haa.
Mark in Ttown….Skynard’s favorite song for me is “Simple Man”…I sing it to my son every time it comes on the car radio while in route to here and there. I told him I want it played at my funeral, along with George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”. At least I want to pick out the music if I can’t be there
Ah, it’s Saturday….gotta work on taxes, drather do that than…..the other is too much work…housework….talking about housework!!!
Mindy…just when do you sleep? I’m operating on about 4 hours of sleep now. Going through some serious sleep deprivation in the past few days.
Debbe59 on 16 Feb 2013 at 5:18 am #
What was it JJ said about Tenn being a Nanny State…another case in point, they mistook the Ohio Buckeye state logo for a pot leaf..
http://www.yardbarker.com/college_football/articles/msn/tennessee_cops_embarrass_themselves_mistake_buckeye_logo_for_marijuana_leaf/12923743
Mindy on 16 Feb 2013 at 6:58 am #
Debbe, I sleep very little and usually in fragments. About once a week to ten days I crash. That’s when John and Ginger do naughty things that they pay for dearly later, such as tying my big toes together with shoe laces…and progressing downward from there. Revenge is sweet, though.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 7:14 am #
Yes, Debbe, gravity sucks. Stoopid gravity.
Mindy, ( . ) ( . ) ? I don’t get it.
Ah. Sleep deprivation. That explains much.
Virgin Mindy? As I have stated previously, a gentleman never tells.
Debbe59 on 16 Feb 2013 at 7:18 am #
Mindy…I’m the same….after I get my belly full at around 6ish pm, I take about an hour power nap, get up try to go back to sleep, might get in an an hour to three, but when that dreaded three am lights up my led alarm clock….ping….eyes wide open.
Be glad they don’t handcuff you to the bed when you crash….I woke up sh__ed one time
but that’s a story for another day…………..GR…have fun filling in the blanks..
Emily Litella on 16 Feb 2013 at 7:27 am #
What’s all this I hear about shooting puppies from the top of a tank? Puppies are sweet, adorable little creatures that should be loved and petted and caressed. So why would you want to shoot them? Much less from a tank top. And tanks are much too dangerous to be in the hands of civilians. No one needs a tank.
What’s that? Oh, I see. Well that’s very different. Never mind.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 7:38 am #
A haiku for Lady Mindy:
Ghost will be quite good
Angus will be quieter
Just don’t bust us please
Debbe59 on 16 Feb 2013 at 7:42 am #
Who’s shooting puppies….or am I missing something here? I guess some of my neurons are firing.
…and GR, guess I’ll have to look up haiku, boy I sure do use the dictionary a lot in here.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:06 am #
Debbe, Ms. Litella, bless her heart, seems to have misunderstood a comment I made recently about something being so easy it would have been like “shooting pokies in a tank top.”
OK, I’ve waited to comment on this, hoping someone else would, so that Ghost wouldn’t be accused by someone (you know who you are) of not ever thinking of anything but “things like that” (you know what I mean). But in yesterday’s (2/15/13) “day after Valentine’s Night” cartoon, what exactly is that Janis has picked up and is holding along with the bed linens in panel four? I have an idea, but I’d like to hear others.
Also, someone should note that I made no direct comment on Janis having to change the bed linens.
sandcastler on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:08 am #
^°^°^°^°^°^ is a puppy snuggled.
Heck, even fond of fizzy kittens. 
JDS on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:13 am #
curmudgeonly ex-professor: I need to proof read my posts – I should have typed LVT, not LTV.
In the Longest Day, actor Richard Todd plays the part of Major John Howard in the dramatic capture of the Pegasus Bridge by British glider forces. One of the high points of the movie is the arrival of British paratroopers to reinforce the beleaguered defenders at the bridge.
In real life, Captain Richard Todd was among those first British reinforcements to arrive at the bridge. He was offered the part of playing himself in the movie, but he said that he wouldn’t feel right playing himself.
sandcastler on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:14 am #
Err, snuggled, Siri hates me.
sandcastler on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:14 am #
Siri, snuggler.
Debbe59 on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:19 am #
Thank you GR…and I meant to say “neurons aren’t firing”…..FIRE IN THE HOLE…
Sandcastler, did you mean fuzzy kittens or are you talking about fizzy kitten cocktails
Debbe59 on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:36 am #
GR…re yesterday’s strip, and reading some of the comments below, panties is the #1 suggestion, why, someone even said that Janis is holding a riding crop in the 4th panel )
Lost in A**2 on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:38 am #
(Apparently, I’m not the only one who hasn’t watched much of Saturday Night Live. Emily Litella was one of Dana Carvey’s characters. She was a sincere old lady who had an editorial opinion spot during the news broadcast. She would get really worked up about something, then, just as she reached the fever-pitch of her screed, the director would point out that she had mis-understood the original statement. She would then look embarrassed and meekly apologise, closing with, “Never mind.”)
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 16 Feb 2013 at 8:48 am #
Ghost, I’m not sure, but it looks like one of those cat-toy stick-with-feathers things. I suppose it could have, umm…other uses. tickletickle!
Mindy, I have a friend who just had reduction surgery to ease the stress on her back and shoulders. She was a size O [( . ) ( . )] and is now, as she puts it, a perky size D. She was overjoyed to realize that she can now walk into a WalMart and buy a bra for less than $75.00.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 9:01 am #
Emily Litella was portrayed by Gilda Radner, rest her soul.
Dana Carvey’s female character was The Church Lady. “Well, isn’t that special?”
Jean, one possibility would be a peacock feather. Perky size D? What an intriguing picture that paints.
The Church Lady on 16 Feb 2013 at 9:05 am #
And who exactly do you think that Ghost Rider character actually is? Oh, I don’t know; maybe…SATAN?”
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 9:15 am #
I saw a well-ycelpt vanity tag on an automobile the other day that read “DBL D”. Couldn’t see enough of the female driver to see if it was accurately descriptive.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 9:23 am #
By the way, Debbe, dictionary.com’s word for the day is “paraph”. I think I shall endeavor to develop one.
Lost in A**2 on 16 Feb 2013 at 9:35 am #
Ah. I had the description right, though? As I said, I’ve not watched a lot of SNL. So it’s kind of amazing I was as close as I was.
sandcastler on 16 Feb 2013 at 9:55 am #
^°^°^°^°°^ < paraph.
Mindy on 16 Feb 2013 at 10:54 am #
Ghost is Satan? I think not. End discussion.
But Ghost’s fetish peeks out again, don’t it, Ghost? Debbe, couple of days ago we were discussion why there are no help-you books for skinny people and I suggested using Fish Oil for appetite. Still recommend that but forgot to say, DO NOT take more than 1200 mg per day, perhaps less depending on your metabolism. At one time John was taking 2000-2200 mg/day…the DIA, CIA and several international agencies and committees investigated him for development and possession of major WMDs. The flatulence was killing even him! And, as an aside, Ghost, don’t you dare tell me you don’t know what (.)(.) is! I think Jimmy did a wonderful libido stimulation for his readers, challenging us to determine in our own fevered imaginations [Ghost's is the most fevered, I admit, Ms. Judgmental Church Lady, and check your scripture for the part, Judge not lest ye get your face rearranged, or something like that, thank you very much] but I see wine glasses, lace undies, and…
Remember what I said about the fish oil.
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 16 Feb 2013 at 11:11 am #
The recent discussion of vitamins and other supplements reminds me of my husband’s grandmother (a story I may have shared here at some time in the past). Gommy was a great believer in natural remedies, including diet and acupuncture. When she expressed concern about memory issues, her doctor recommended vitamin B6 (I think – this was at least 25 years ago). She laughed and told him that she had some on her shelf at home but had forgotten why she was supposed to take it.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 11:31 am #
sandcastler, my paraph is bigger than yours.
Thanks, Mindy. I always wondered what was the source of the “air bubbles” one often sees rising in bodies of water. Now I know that fish must be responsible.
Mindy on 16 Feb 2013 at 11:38 am #
Golly, Ghost, you have no idea just how thrilled I am that I could in some small way educate you on the wonders of nature.
sandcastler on 16 Feb 2013 at 11:42 am #
GR6, not the paraph size but, the style that matters.
Jerry in Fl on 16 Feb 2013 at 11:45 am #
Although it was well before my time, I believe that WC Fields had an explanation why he would not drink water.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 12:12 pm #
He did indeed, Jerry. He also claimed he drank alcohol only as a remedy for snake bite but added that he always carried a snake with him.
Mark in TTown on 16 Feb 2013 at 1:05 pm #
Debbe59, I like that one too. My first exposure to Lynyrd Skynyrd was in 1975. I was in the Navy, coming home on leave after being gone over a year. On the plane’s music selection was “Sweet Home Alabama”, which I had never heard, by a group I never heard of either. One listen is all it took to get me hooked. I also got hooked on another new group from the same flight, Kraftwerk. There’s an odd pairing of bands. My favorite Pink Floyd tune is “One of These Days”, not for the lyric, but the music.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 16 Feb 2013 at 1:47 pm #
I take two 1000 mg gel caps a day, except when I have sardines on toast for breakfast. Doesn’t seem to make much difference, one way or t’other.
Ghost et al.: I believe it was at the Am. Soc. of Mammalogists* mtg. at the U. of Florida Gainesville in ’83[I think] that someone showed an underwater movie of Florida manatees. They, like horses, are herbivorous hindgut digesters, primarily. Cattle and other ruminants, in contrast, are primarily foregut digesters. Cows et al. burp a lot. Manatees remind observers frequently that they are mostly hindgut digesters. Fishes I don’t know much about, but either burping or flatulence would yield bubbles.
*That’s obviously an illegitimate word. It should be Mammalologists: -ologists that study mammals. It looks like a misspelling of a word that would imply -ologists that study (. ) (. ) [a 3/4 view!]. Many of us do, but that’s an avocation. As time passes, more and more ASM members are female [we've had female presidents]; about half the younger, grad student types are. I don’t pry into any of their avocational studies.
*Theriologists is an alternative. An international outfit and maybe some overseas national outfits use that. Theriology = the study of ‘beasts’, all of which, except bats[?] were created, along with us, on the 6th day. Yes, some early biologists classified bats with birds. There will be a quiz.
Mindy on 16 Feb 2013 at 1:52 pm #
Jean, I’m sorry, but I missed your post in my haste to get past Ghost’s Hefner fetishes. The poor woman you mentioned must have been in constant agony! I can only imagine her relief following the reduction! Men never stop to think of the physiological negatives. At least, most of them don’t. Let’s make all the big boob lovers wear an 80-pound back pack up front and see how that goes over…
Mark in Boston on 16 Feb 2013 at 1:53 pm #
Concerning the objects in the sky that may hit us: If you can see it moving (i.e. it’s in a different place each day) then it’s moving crosswise to us and not coming toward us.
If it’s coming straight at us, it will look like it’s not moving. When you can actually see it get bigger, then it’s already pretty close.
sandcastler on 16 Feb 2013 at 2:35 pm #
Mark in Boston, those objects coming from behind are the blindsiders.
Mindy from Indy on 16 Feb 2013 at 3:37 pm #
Re yesterday’s 4th panel. I took it as Janis picking up Arlo’s Cupid costume and the long stick was an arrow. Arlo has taught Luddie how to hula, dances on the couch, and has worn Bermuda shorts to work – of COURSE he is going to dress up as Cupid!
Tom from the Front Range on 16 Feb 2013 at 3:40 pm #
MinB,
I wondered why the baseball was getting larger and larger. Then it hit me.
Lost in A**2 on 16 Feb 2013 at 3:54 pm #
Steady bearing, decreasing range, change course.
I’m reminded of a conversation between a couple of talent agents:
A: I represent a young lady with a 72″ chest.
B: What does she do?
A: Sit up!
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 5:34 pm #
Arlo in a diaper? Thanks, Lady Mindy; it will take the rest of the weekend to get that picture out of my mind.
I’m still trying to remember what I’ve ever said to make Mindy and/or others think I have a thing for excess boobage. In fact, I believe I’ve stated previously I’d choose shapliness over hugeness anytime.
Mindy from Indy on 16 Feb 2013 at 6:35 pm #
Round is a shape.
Ghost Rider 6 on 16 Feb 2013 at 9:09 pm #
Typo’d that one, didn’t I?
Shapely (n) having a pleasing shape, especially with reference to a woman’s figure.
That’s the dictionary definition. So if “round” is pleasing to the beholder, then it would certainly qualify as “shapely.”
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 16 Feb 2013 at 11:10 pm #
Mindy, she said it was either reduction surgery or major back surgery to fuse several vertebrae together. She couldn’t stand up for longer than 20 minutes at a time. Serious pain there. I will go along with your 80-pound pack idea wholeheartedly!
Ghost, you’d understand if you saw her “before and after” pictures.
Arlo as Cupid? Now there’s an image!
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 2:49 am #
Ghost, you don’t have to have “said” it for me to tease you about it. That’s part of the Female Imperative, after all. Sandcastler? You’d be totally proud of me! I did quite a bit of Google-ing today…yesterday, since this is now early Sunday and I’m up feeding the kids who shamelessly woke me with their loud begging…and all I used was Google! No Bing or YAHOO or DIRTYSEARCH or anything. Just GOOGLE. But you have to admit, that is a really silly LOOKING name in all caps, no pun intended.
Jean, I could get the legislation introduced in Virginia, you could do the same in Georgia, and if the other sympathetic women in The Village would do the same we could have all 48 States covered in no time at all!
Debbe59 on 17 Feb 2013 at 3:45 am #
Good morning to all Villagers…
Food morning Mindy….John and Ginger too (why does Gilligan’s Isle always pop in my mind when I type Ginger? She had that mole thing on her face going for her too besides her endowments; and why do men find a mole on a woman’s face sexy? Cindy Crawford is another one :.)
Yes, I’d say an 80 lb bag of rocks strapped around a man’s neck might do the trick, then let’s tie a bag of rocks around their stomach for nine months and add about 5 to 10 lbs of rocks each month
Mindy…what ya fix the kids? Cheerios? They’re round!
Mark in Ttown…Pink Floyd’s ‘On the turning away” is my favorite, for the words and yes I do like ‘One of these days: As a matter of fact it’s bookmarked under Pink Floyd U tube: Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrNQCYh70Y&feature=related
Watched college games yesterday…GO IU, and Duke lost…just why is it we love to hate Duke, my husband always makes a comment about the coach’s face…he calls him ‘Rat Face”
Anyone else here enjoy the college hoops hysteria going on now?
Debbe59 on 17 Feb 2013 at 4:02 am #
Nothing like a wake and bake morning to get the tunes started….
Mindy….here is the Stone’s song “Time Waits for No One” it’s reeferd to as Mike Taylor’s ‘swan song’….and it’s not over until you hear the tick tock,oh, and it’s also a great slideshow. They show some old newspaper headlines…just gotta watch it to enjoy…those were some good years, I miss the seventies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrNQCYh70Y&feature=related
Debbe59 on 17 Feb 2013 at 4:07 am #
Oh….and a little Wiki history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Waits_for_No_One_%28song%29
Debbe59 on 17 Feb 2013 at 4:15 am #
GR..on the subject of vocabulary, this one’s for you:
http://www.gocomics.com/the-born-loser
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 4:51 am #
Oh, gosh! Did you give Ghost a single cartoon…or have you just called him a born loser? Either way, I love it!
John in Virginia on 17 Feb 2013 at 4:54 am #
Lead story on MSN.com is that Michael Jordon has turned 50. Wow! That sure puts the problems of the world — and the blessings — into perspective, doesn’t it?
John in Virginia on 17 Feb 2013 at 4:54 am #
Good morning back at you, Debbe. Mindy says she forgot to say that and that I should spank her.
Debbe59 on 17 Feb 2013 at 5:33 am #
John…do you have a ‘furnished’ basement too
Ghost Rider 6 on 17 Feb 2013 at 5:49 am #
Good morning, morning people.
Oh, now I get it, Mindy. If I might just possibly may be going to think about something, then I can be teased about it. Well, that certainly seems fair.
DIRTYSEARCH? Not familiar with that one. I do often use gOOgle.
Wake and bake? Debbe, sometimes I wonder about you, girl. But I love you anyway. Have a blessed day.
Lost in A**2 on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:34 am #
My guess about the mole was that Norma Jean Baker had one, according to something gOOgle turned up. I thought I had found a more general answer, but the link to that answer was dead.
Ginger on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:35 am #
Mr. Ghost, at least Mindy the Evil gives you credit for sometimes being able to think about something. Did I say “Mindy the Evil?” Oh, good heavens! These wicked fingers just seem to have a mind all of their own…and the things they do! Oh, you just wouldn’t believe! Even I blush. Occasionally. Good morning, Debbe! And how are you this fine Sunday morning in the middle of February with the temperature outside being only a gentle +17.2 degrees farenheit? Farinheit? Farrenheit? Fahrenheit? Oh, good! Spell Check finally accepted a spelling! Busy fingers, busy busy!
Lost in A**2 on 17 Feb 2013 at 7:23 am #
‘Twas 11F when I came in this morning. They promised us snow for Thursday evening; it finally arrived yestermorn. Just a little, even this morning. But SNOW!
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 7:26 am #
Oh, how I am tempted to give Ginger a finger! Just to help [gender specific pronoun deleted] out, a helping hand, so to speak. Remember the Yellow Pages motto? Changing subjects, a flock of ducks just landed in our backyard. On snow days we put out bird seed and I suppose the ducks decided to check out the menu. They haven’t eaten, don’t seem too interested, but they have all found places under the non-bamboo shrubbery. The smaller birds have all disappeared into the trees. Can you spell Hawk? John’s out looking to see if the Broad Tail that sometimes feasts on the feeding birds is lurking. Film at eleven.
sandcastler on 17 Feb 2013 at 8:13 am #
Mindy, glad you are Goggling. It is the way to go girl.
GR6. Me thinkth DIRTYSEARCH that Mindy speaks of is just Google in incognito mode, leaves no browser history.
Big Rodeo and Livestock Show begins this week in old Houston Town. Party tents will be going up soon, y’all come down and party. If you find our tent in the maze say hi, first few drinks and all the hugs will be on me.
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 8:20 am #
No browser history? How do that work?
Ghost Rider 6 on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:06 am #
Mindy, perhaps the flock of ducks in your yard is Mother Nature’s way of saying…no, I won’t say it. Again, that would be like shooting pokies in a tank top. That’s SHOOTING POKIES IN A TANK TOP, MS. LITELLA.
Now, I think I’ll gOOgle “hOOters girls.”
Mark in TTown on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:38 am #
Debbe59, thanks for the link. Great to start the morning with lively music! My favorite video version comes from the Live at Pompeii recording. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2HaZInOK8
And yes, “On the Turning Away” is my favorite of the later Pink Floyd songs.
Have a great Sunday.
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:48 am #
No pokies in GOOgle or HOOters, GhOst? [That’s an encrypted way of saying you can be a big…oh, never mind, that’s like having pokies in a tank top.
sandcastler on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:48 am #
Mindy, it works quite easy. Open your Google Chrome browser. Click the settings icon, in upper corner the little gear on PC or three squares on Android, select New incognito tab. All sites visited while in incognito tab leaves no browser history. Happy browsing.
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 10:46 am #
I don’t use Google Chrome, sandcastler, so I guess I’m out in the cold. Thanks anyway.
sandcastler on 17 Feb 2013 at 10:56 am #
Mindy, Chrome is a freebie, just go to this site: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 3:54 pm #
I’ve tried Chrome, sandcastler, but don’t like it as much as my Firefox. Believe me, I’m not trying to be difficult! And hush, Ghost!
sandcastler on 17 Feb 2013 at 4:05 pm #
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:32 pm #
The Village died? Everyone left?
Mindy on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:33 pm #
I’m using Google, for crying out loud! Just not Chrome! Come back! Come back, Shane! Come back!
Mark in TTown on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:39 pm #
It’s ok Mindy. You haven’t ended up in The Twilight Zone. I’m still here, just not much going on today. Maybe there are a lot of basketball fans or something. We finally got a sunny and warmer day after yesterday’s clouds and freezing temps. I use Chrome because I like it better than Explorer but I wouldn’t stop talking over that kind of difference. Better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and prove it.
Mark in TTown on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:41 pm #
Oh, and the incognito setting only means you have no history in your browser. It doesn’t stop the sites you visit from recording whatever info they can get on you. Says so right in the popup you get when you open the incognito window.
sandcastler on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:53 pm #
^°^°^°^°^°^°^ been outside all afternoon helping wife with spring gardening chores. Have the drip irrigation system checked out and a new circuit installed. Nurseries and home centers getting in plants.
Ghost Rider 6 on 17 Feb 2013 at 6:55 pm #
Going to watch “Killing Lincoln” on NatGeo @ 8:00 EST. Repeats @ 10 and 12.
Mindy from Indy on 17 Feb 2013 at 7:10 pm #
Just finished watching “Scent of a Woman.” Knew nothing about it going in beyond the one sentence synopsis: basically Pacino is a grumpy, blind man and O’Donnell gets the pleasure of “baby-sitting” him for the weekend. What an understatement!
Galliglo in Ohio on 17 Feb 2013 at 7:47 pm #
Just downloaded Google Chrome… mainly because my system is XP and I cannot get the latest IE browser. I might like it… we’ll see…
Jerry in Fl on 17 Feb 2013 at 8:01 pm #
That was a great movie. We went to see a group called Souled Out last night. They’re from Boston and they were the best cover of the Temps and Tops that I’ve ever seen. Speaking of Pink Floyd, is it my imagination or did they have a hit with the House of the Rising Sun long after Eric Burdon?
Lost in A**2 on 17 Feb 2013 at 8:05 pm #
I was disappointed by the book, Ghost Rider; I had expected exposition of the effects of the assassination on the polity and on subsequent events. It was little more than a retelling of the key actors’ days in March and April of 1865. I had planned to follow _Killing_ _Lincoln_ with _Killing_ _Kennedy_ but decided that Mr. O’Reilly probably didn’t have more to add my knowledge of late 1963 than he had of early 1865.
David in Austin on 17 Feb 2013 at 8:11 pm #
Outside working in the yard (mostly sitting in the sun…). It was too nice to be inside, on the computer! The temperature made it up to 70 here in central Texas.
Lost in A**2 on 17 Feb 2013 at 8:21 pm #
I don’t feel a need to experiment with browsers: It took a couple of years for me to move from Mosaic to Netscape. I use Safari on my own machines. The machines at work have IE and Firefox installed. Occasionally, I’ll see Chrome on the desktop, installed by a co-worker, but I stick with the ones I know.
I use both IE and FF at work because we use Outlook Web Access, which requires a separate browser for each open mailbox. I keep two mailboxes open, so I need two browsers.
Firefox and Safari are descendants of the same ancestor, so you can probably guess why I prefer FF to other Windows offerings
TruckerRon on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:23 pm #
Is anyone else having trouble with the GoComics site and Safari? Yesterday and today the site was badly displayed; it was OK with FireFox on my Mac.
Lost in A**2 on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:36 pm #
It works on my iPod.
sandcastler on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:43 pm #
GoComics has been working fine in Chrome browser running on various Android devices. OS ranges from Gingerbread to JellyBean.
Mark in TTown on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:55 pm #
No problem with GoComics on Chrome running in Windows 8 on my PC.
Garden centers getting plants and fertilizer, etc here. But West Alabama has roller coaster cold snaps through mid-April so I learned never to plant anything early!
Mark in TTown on 17 Feb 2013 at 9:59 pm #
Jerry in FL, according to Wikipedia, Frijid Pink did a version. I don’t think Pink Floyd ever did.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 17 Feb 2013 at 11:04 pm #
I must admit, while I like pretty much everything Pink Floyd did, my favorite song is Comfortably Numb. There have been times in my life that I wish I could have been…!
Indy Mindy, the only scene I’ve seen from Scent of a Woman is the tango one, and if the rest of the movie is that good I’m going to have to put it on the NetFlix list. As it is, I’ve been watching the Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Neat little British cop-type show.
I’m not getting into the Browser Wars because I don’t know enough to. Technology doesn’t like me on a good day. I’m not going to make my computer mad at me by saying I should add something it doesn’t have.
And, it’s still too goldang cold here to even think of spring. Our high for today was 37. That’s from 21 this morning, and we’ll be back there tonight. Of course, tomorrow it could be up in the 60s. If you don’t like the weather in Georgia, wait 10 minutes; it’ll change.
Jerry in Fl on 18 Feb 2013 at 1:12 am #
I just remember that I liked that version and apparently some part of what used to be my brain remembered the Pink part of it. I’ll have to see if I can find it. Back in the day I was primarily a singer and didn’t play much. The only two that I recall was the very simple Satisfaction and I could fake the rythym guitar part of House of the Rising Son. BTW the founder of the Dave Clark Five just died. I think that he was 70.
Jerry in Fl on 18 Feb 2013 at 1:32 am #
I jjust watched the video-great. Another alt version that I like is the Blue Suede/Blue Swede version of Hooked on a Feeling. Uba chucka, uba chucka.
Debbe59 on 18 Feb 2013 at 4:21 am #
Good morning to all Villagers
Gonna be raining here all day today, and it wax too cold out yesterday to venture out, for me it was anyway. Fixed barbeque ribs, ate and ate, napped watched some college hoops, napped, watched some NatGeo Wild, napped, finally gave it up and went to bed.
Good morning Mindy….sleeping in? Hope you are…say good morning to John and Ginger.
Mark in Ttown…thanks for the link…I see we have a few Floyd fans here…..and Jean, yes, “Comfortably Numb” is a great one…you should read the background on the song, it’s based on true facts of Roger Water’s being injected, oh I’ll look it up:
“According to Rolling Stone, the lyrics came from Roger Waters’ experience when he was injected with tranquilizers for stomach cramps by a doctor prior to playing a Pink Floyd show in Philadelphia on the band’s 1977 In the Flesh tour.[7][8] “That was the longest two hours of my life,” Waters said, “trying to do a show when you can hardly lift your arm.” The experience gave him the idea which eventually became the lyrics to this song.”
So, GR, how was the movie? Nat Geo followed our paramedics around in Afghanistan as they tended, treated, and transported our wounded soldiers. I’m not sure when it’s going to be on, I just caught a quick interview with two of the medics on Fox News…any idea when that’s coming on?
Mindy, or Mark….did either of you watch the video of the Stones’ link I posted above, it has a great slideshow to the music. And the lyrics are timeless too.
Well, think I’ll check up on the rest of the current events…
Ya’ll have a blessed day………
And I love the movie “Scent of a Woman”….oorah! Did you notice Mindy from Indy that Al Pacino never blinked in the movie?
You know you’ve reached the senior life whenever the cover of AARP magazine has Dustin Hoffman on it, and you get excited.
Debbe59 on 18 Feb 2013 at 4:40 am #
They stuffed Knut the polar bear!
Mindy on 18 Feb 2013 at 5:39 am #
Mindy McCready died, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot. I’m fairly certain that it wasn’t me.
Good morningl, Debbe. I didn’t see any Stones link. Musta been sleepy. Will scroll back up and try to locate it. Started to go surfing yesterday afternoon but the creek had too much ice on it. Will try again in July or August. And, yes, Ghost, I’ll do it topless. Sorry, Ms. Collins, but Ghost need titillation from time to time to keep his feet warm. It’s a mercy thing that I do in the name of friendship and charity. I won’t tell you how I accomplish that with John because you might put it in some bulletin or something like that.
Scent of a Woman was probably Pacino’s best movie, Lady Mindy, [May I call you that also, rather than Other Mindy or Mindy Who Is Not Me?] but that doesn’t mean I like Pacino. It seems that his “best” drama in the bulk of his movies is to open his eyes really wide, Googling, as it were, and shouting something that’s supposed to be cool at the top of his voice, which means his voice is taller than he. I prefer DeNiro. He plays a lot of the same way, as does Little Al [not to be confused with Fat Albert of Global Warming fame] but he has more range. IMHO.
Ginger on 18 Feb 2013 at 6:09 am #
Debbe, what Mindy isn’t saying is that the originally thought “Scent of a Woman” was an XXX-Rated flick, or, at the very minimum, a hard R. (I throw the bait out and publicly admit that I want to see how Mr. Ghost responds to “hard R.”) Pacino’s best role, other than the first Godfather where all he had to do was look away from people and mumble a lot, was in the movie with Kenya Reeves (not Steve, the other one) and Charlize Theron where he played Satan. Is it okay to say someone played Satan in here or does that bring out the Extreme Right censors and Bringers of the Only Truth? (I know, I’m going to roast in Hell for that and Al Pacino is going to be poking me in the bum with a three-pronged pitchfork he stole from Davey Jones but not the one from the Monkees.) Hello, Debbe. I forgot to say that. And Mr. Sandcastler, I use Google all the time.
Ginger on 18 Feb 2013 at 6:11 am #
Phooey. “That SHE originally thought” is correct and proper, my mistake. Stoopid keyboard can’t spell worth a nickle.
And, yes, Mr. Ghost, I came ever so close to goofing up again and using PP instead of the intended consonants.
Virgin Mindy on 18 Feb 2013 at 6:20 am #
Proof positive for all ye heathens and morons that the Ginger is an inept as (gender specific pronoun irrelevant) mentor, Mindy of Mental Malfunctions. Pitiful, but what else could I expect in here in the Land of the Loons?
Mark in TTown on 18 Feb 2013 at 6:37 am #
Good morning to you all. Jean in Dahlonega and Debbe59, there is one song on the last Pink Floyd album “The Division Bell”, that really struck a chord with me. Not at the time I bought it, but years later. That is “Wearing the Inside Out”. It is the best description of what deep depression is like that I have found.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Feb 2013 at 7:46 am #
Sweetheart, it’s not nice to call people heathens and morons and loons. There are some very nice people here who don’t deserve that. But have a lovely day.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Feb 2013 at 7:55 am #
Ginger, I always thought hard-D might be more descriptive than hard-R, but maybe that’s just me. Ms. Theron was lovely in that movie, particularly in one scene I recall in which her pokies were NOT in a tank top. The same way Mindy’s will apparently be when she surfs the creek this summer.
Mercy pokies, Mindy? Charity? Really?
TruckerRon on 18 Feb 2013 at 9:52 am #
The only Pacino flick I enjoyed and watched more than once was “S1m0ne” (2002). Huh, my speeling checker didn’t like that one at all!