I’m sorry I missed updating yesterday. I’m trying to do better about that. Actually, I was away from my lair yesterday and am again today, but Gene and Ruth resume their 1996 conversation. To be a stickler about it, it is their second conversation, and Gene’s confidence grows. However, I am going to interrupt our own conversation about adult Gene and the other coast people—and the boat—for at least a day. Thank you for coming by!
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I am a fan of Travis McGee and John D. McDonald myself, and hate to read about the removal of the plaque. Guess it wasn’t making any money for the current owners. Should be happy they haven’t melted it for scrap. Perhaps they should donate it to the local library. That would be a fitting new location for it. Or the folks who placed the plaque should reclaim it and find it a new home. Carl Hiaasen should get involved in this. McGee was a forerunner of his kind of Florida fiction.
http://assets.amuniversal.com/e96251f0d34701334be1005056a9545d
Debbe: http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2016/MGG-2016-04-02.gif
Debbe 😉 Only you wouldn’t waste it on a horse, would you? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0_QSmxKJ8M
Looks like everyone ran off and did things this Saturday morning without checking in… or are y’all sleeping in?
Where is everybody this morning?
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Looks like Australia’s answer to Gary Larson: http://whyatt.com.au/cartoons/
Mark, Whyatt’s talented, but most of his strips on that page couldn’t run in “family newspapers” in the US. That doesn’t mean I didn’t laugh at them. 😉
For the mature among you, or those younger [like my elder son] who were fortunate enough to be brought up culturally aware, the site below has many hours of instructive and mostly humorous listening. Elaine would want you to. [Some of it may not be PC.]
Peace, emb
—–Original Message—–
From: [elder son]
Subject: Tom Lehrer is still alive?
According to this guy (and according to Scott Simon of NPR) it’s Tom Lehrer’s birthday.
http://www.hesherman.com/2016/04/09/88-years-on-88-keys-tom-lehrer-the-salinger-of-the-satirical-song/?platform=hootsuite
Will try to send a URL for the following [which I just sent to 3 overlapping blind-copy groups].
Couple of interesting items. Hope it’s clear for those of you with even moderate telescope or good binocular access to watch Aldebaran* peek out from behind Luna tomorrow. Local time details should be in the click to “read more.” As noted in the attachment, I had a JHS science teacher who asserted that the moon could not be seen in the daytime.
Evolutionary implications of the two supernova bursts some 2 BYA are noteworthy.
*Now in my A&J dictionary.
Peace,
Two separate URLs: Didn’t work. Suggest two searches. One for:
supernovae-showered-earth-debris-
and the other for:
crescent-moon-occult-Aldebaran
Peace, emb
Guess you had no access to the email’s attachment, a combo of two copyrighted columns from 1990 and 2000 Bemidji Pioneers. Here are the relevant paragraphs:
“Miss Holscher was a horse of another color, whose name is legion. She was an eighth or ninth grade science teacher. Miss Holscher was certain, but often wrong. She seldom checked what she “knew” against observation. She told us only introduced insects were harmful (Colorado potato beetles?), and that, due to the sun’s brightness, you cannot see the moon in the daytime. I had often seen it, and even Venus, in the daytime.
“You say, “Surely she was kidding, Evan [not the other Evan]; she was just trying to stimulate discussion.” No, Miss Holscher didn’t do discussion. She once used this true/false item: “The sun will last for eternity.” She marked “true” correct. I objected that Sol would eventually stop shining (not knowing the explosive details then). She said no, since humans would no longer exist then, eternity would be over. Savvy pupils know not to argue with ignorance cloaked in authority.”
Peace, emb
Mark: ‘Where is everybody this morning?’
Sol is still up, so it is still Shabat, and our colleagues are all [some closeted] Orthodox Jews, who think playing here is work.
Shalom, emb
Don’t know where everyone else has been, but I was at the office. Time to prepare the annual budget… *sigh*…
I was at beauty shop getting the works.
It did make me feel better actually and I fell asleep getting facial and massage. Give me a good beautician any day over medications.
Ghost would like this one, beautiful woman, worked in China for 17 years as a masseuse. I have no idea how she got here but I love her to pieces and am grateful. She looks French more than oriental but from deep interior of China, met her American husband there. Oil?
I know a strangely beautiful young woman, one of several young and old who have adopted me since Elaine died [some specifically because of their love and regard for her, but not this one, who never met her]. Anyway, turns out her looks result from her maternal grandmother’s being full-blooded Japanese, presumably a marriage arising from the American occupation 1945ff. She no longer lives in town. Peace,
Jackie, I’ve nearly gone to sleep in barber chairs, at times. When they begin working on my neck, it is almost like getting a neck massage with the pressure/motion of the clipper. Very relaxing.
Here I am awake again for last hour. Wish my sleep cycle, cricket time or whatever it is would return from the Far Side of the World.
testing…………..
ok…good morning villagers…
Good morning Villagers….
…..are you still up Jackie? I too have a disturbing sleep cycle…my internal clock goes off at about 3 to 4ish…so I toss and turn and this get my cat, Snowee, going too….she doesn’t leave me alone…so I just get up. Then by 8ish pm, I’m asleep in the recliner, wake up at around 10ish and go to bed. I can’t break this cycle as it’s been this way now for years.
Mark, thanks for the Mother Goose and Grim…going to have to remember to add them to my comics list. Always read them in the comics page of the local rag. Was Larson the one who did The Far Side? He was good, and yes, I did laugh at Whyatt’s page…
emb…I found this link, unfortunately, we are supposed to have 100 percent chance of rain this afternoon and evening.
Someone forgot to turn the water back on at the other hen house. They went last weekend without water until Monday morning…..we have a check list, and on that check list you are to check all forty water nipples…it was checked off that it was done….Skittles. Now the Corp wants no teens to sign off on check list….and they’ve decided to molt the little Miss Prissies….so lights go off at 1:30 pm and come on at 6 am and they are fed, but not nutritionally…they’ll rebound, and be good for about another six months of egg laying.
later…..
Emb…..it would not let me post the link on the crescent moon…….sky watch site…but I did find it
GR 😉 I listened to that young child’s voice…that’s the first time I have heard of her. Going to check out the other songs listed on the side. Thanks.
Oh, and you’re right, not on any horse, of course…..
….and because it’s the Lord’s Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCLyFGgVdZM
I can identify with this 🙂
http://cheezburger.com/8763244544
Why do you people stay up all night? It must be catching. Woke up at 0335 and couldn’t get back to sleep. Problem on my mind [not personal health]. Damn.
That ‘Damn’ reminds me of an article posted in Anu Garg’s A.W.A.D. Mail. Will try to post a link. Peace,