To commemorate being completely skunked by overcast skies during Sunday’s lunar eclipse, I give you this Sunday from last year. I don’t think there’s been a regularly scheduled celestial event in years that hasn’t been obscured by clouds where I live. It’s been a frustrating run. I plan to be in the path of the total eclipse of the sun as it traverses the central United States in 2017. At least I know that if it’s cloudy that day, it will still get creepy dark!
And, of course, pisces…
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270 responses to “And, of course, pisces…”
Staying with the Southern Cross for another post.
Having spent time on four continents prior to meeting Loon, I promised to show her the world. We had made a good start on that promise when this song came out. It has become our unofficial theme song. Enjoy and hope it inspires. Who knows we might even meet and share a beer in some port.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=&ved=0CB8Q8TUwAGoVChMI07vo2vWeyAIVSJ6ACh0tiQhl&usg=AFQjCNF1sHlk2z9QIx28jtvfnGP_UlkifA&sig2=9xp-kRTMXHK4H1bBW4i5zw
Bad link, my fault. Second try.
https://youtu.be/iuLBhxZUkmU
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Strange BlogSpot.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace, emb
Debbe: You’re welcome. I rarely do movies, so you must tell me. Good
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Peace, emb
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid
Sand, thank you and thank you for Loon too.
When we had the blue water boat husband canceled the round the world cruise and when we had the boat still and life shifted he sold it and we should have gone.
That is why I am going to tattoo a compass rose, True North and the Southern Cross on my skinnier butt. Ink isn’t as easily taken off as a ring. Love.
Anonymous, as a young teen I preferred reading “Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid” in Mad Magazine:
http://landsurvival.com/mad/1970's/1970/MAD136.pdf
The story starts right after the TOC and the letters section (page 6 of 52 if you download it and open it in Adobe Reader).
emb, this will explain the caption of Debbe’s post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHXK2t50S-8
Gang is trying to rob a train. Need to blow safe open to get money. Not experienced with dynamite.
emb- it was indeed Halley, and I still regret that it did not live up to its previous performances. Next time it comes around I won’t be here to see it. Hopefully my grandchildren will take a peek and remember Grammy and Opa getting excited about stars and such.
First watched Butch and Sundance in Vietnam. Best friend still proudly wears his handle I gave him after we saw the movie.
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Judy:
“it was indeed Halley, and I still regret that it did not live up to its previous performances.” Actually, it likely did “live up to its previous performances.” But Earth was not in right place for us to to see it when it did. The problem was not CH, but the planet we are part of. Perspective, not performance.
Be happy we don’t happen to be in the right place to see up close a Type 2 supernova blow up, at least in this stage of Earth’s existence. It would be spectacular, but we would all die of radiation sickness or, close enough, simply fry.
Peace, emb
All of this talk about comets reminds me of my Junior year of High School when Kohoutek arrived. We were doing experiments and I had my workbook at my station. A couple of times I placed the still hot glass on inside cover of the book causing a burn that resembled a comet. So I wrote Kohoutek underneath it and my teacher got a laugh out of it.
A while later I placed something slightly larger on it produced quite a hole. So I labeled it “Skylab”, which at the time was still actively orbiting the earth. Little did I know that 6-7 years later, Skylab would suffer a burning demise.
We also had fun mixing chemicals. I misread one and mixed in a beaker that was over a burner and a purple smoke suddenly appeared. My lab partner sang “Purple Haze” while my teacher suddenly ran over. The smoke settled onto the ceiling and when I returned to the classroom 5 years later, the purple spot was still on the ceiling.
Steve, I’m assuming you do not work as a chemist. 🙂
Two chemists walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender, “I’ll have an H2O.”
The second one says, “I think I’ll have an H2O too”…and he died.
Giving a whole new meaning to the word “locavore”…
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Ghost, “More Brainnnnssss!”
Ghost and Debbe, what line is this movie from? “send more paramedics”.
Judy: “Next time it comes around I won’t be here to see it.” We don’t know for sure [None of us does, IMO], but maybe we will be able to see it from where we are, or maybe even ride along with it. Temperature should not be a problem, nor vacuum.
Peace, emb
Send more paramedics was/is British band.
The Living Dead. Zombies per Ghosts tractor sign.
Mark, Treasure of the Sierra Madres. “We don’t need no steeking paramedics.”
Anonymous, close. Here’s the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWTyl2_rfj0
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