The Pangea Looks Good!
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63 responses to “The Pangea Looks Good!”
sarcasm is lost on the young ….
or is it a failure of our schools ?
I don’t see a glass of wine on the table. That’s Arlo’s problem! That and that Janis doesn’t seem to be there.
Arlo is wearing a tie, so that’s gotta be lunch on a work day. And he always seemed to have plenty of coping mechanisms for dealing with the stresses of work without resorting to alcohol. Well, without drinking it, anyway.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1998/01/05#.U15mCmdOXb0
Jean, I actually did watch Ally McBeal for a couple of seasons, although I now cannot remember why. Perhaps it was the short skirts. 🙂
One of my favorite dream-sequence-musical-moments on the show was when Ally woke up in her bedroom to find Al Green and his backup singers singing “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” to her, which was already (and still is) my favorite Al Green song.
Symply thinking of Jackie Monies and Jerry in FL and all the others here with Fargone issues bigger than mine. Wish you all well from my semilurking status…
DaveP:
‘or is it a failure of our schools?’
Some teachers/schools may avoid such topics because of the creedal objections of some parents, pastors, or school board members. This is still widespread in our supposedly non-sectarian public schools. I surveyed college biology classes occasionally, ’58-’94, and found that there continue to be many public h.s. classes where evolution and relevant geology are simply not taught, and some where creationism is specifically taught. That ‘public’ is not a typo.
If indeed further proof were needed that some people have too much time on their hands…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIpHhMINKys&list=UUUT2kKURqxc-Mv5ePck20uw
…there are apparently 75 of these videos on YouTube. The 21st century equivalent of inflicting home movies of the kids on visitors, I suppose.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVvGZ_tg8uk
Good morning, Villagers. YouTube is blocked for me at work. As I said, I don’t really mind. I just wish she would block Facebook so I don’t have to listen to my coworkers and their little spats.
Lily: Patients…can’t live with ’em, can’t take ’em out back and shoot ’em.
http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2014/04/28#.U15n_WdOXb0
I love most of my patients. I just wish my boss would put me in charge of hiring and firing
The last time I went for an in-person visit on my clinical trial (instead of just interviewing me by phone) they weighed me. They had me take my shoes off, empty my pockets and even take my belt off. And, I was fasting because they needed to take a fasting blood-draw. Three vials and a cup. Before breakfast.
“Pangea”! That’s really funny!
Ghost, I suppose those videos are for the family living several states away or across the country. But yes, the modern version of home movies. 🙂
I tried watching Ally McBeal, but it just didn’t click with me. I’m more the Criminal Mind and NCIS type.
Lily, as I just told a friend, breathe in…breathe out…breathe in…
Rats, I have lost the recipe for chicken with rice and veggies and I was going to make it tonight
nvm, I found it. Yay!
If you are going to eat alone at a sit-down restaurant, you better bring a book, ipad, laptop, or something to amuse yourself with. No need to berate the waiter when the final prep of the meal takes at least 20-30 minutes.
Symply had to look up Pangea; it takes a Fargone village to edjamicayte me!
EMB,
I’m happy to say that I attended a rural Arkansas high school in the late 70s. We were taught origin of species, evolution, and plate tectonics. At that point in history the church emphasis was the wall of separation between church and state, not running schools, towns, state or national government as if they were part of the church. For any of the evolutionary or geologic science to be believable, one has to accept that the Earth is more than six thousand years old. Fundamentalists are currently insisting that the Genisis account be literal, with a 168 hour creation week. There’s no way to reconcile the literal creation story with the apparent age of the earth. Accepting it as allegory or metaphor makes the two compatible. I don’t see any contradiction in understanding something about the science of creation along with having faith in the creator.
David:
‘I don’t see any contradiction in understanding something about the science of creation along with having faith in the creator.’
Neither do I, along with many other scientists. Unfortunately, many scientists who are not church members or people of faith have made that choice because they accept the selective literalists’ view that accepting the 6-day creation story, the Flood, and such is necessary for Christian, Orthodox Jewish, or some versions of Muslim faith. I am not worried about the salvation of such unchurched scientists. But Elohim* may have some questions to ask those who have driven them to reject faith. James 2:18.
*The name for God used in the first but more recent creation story [Gen. 1:1-2:4a]. Yaweh is the name used in the different and older creation story, Gen. 2:4b-2:25. Note that scripture was divided up into chapters and verses well after it was first written down, but well before the development of modern methods of biblical scholarship. None of this is original with me.
James R.: and it really helps a single woman eating alone to keep from inadvertently catching some creep’s eye. If they actually wander over and say something lame like, “Is this seat taken,” you just look up and look puzzled, as if they were speaking Hottentot, then register understanding, say “um” noncommittally, and go back to your reading, etc.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/peter-rubie/2014/04/what-exactly-is-a-book-today/
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If Arlo subscribes to The Catastrophic Theory of Tectonic Plate Shifting, then the lasagna arrived quite quickly, and the tapping fingers are a sign that he is sensing imminent disaster.
There is currently a storm that’s about as strong as it gets moving across Mississippi. It is far enough north to be no threat to me but our friends there should watch their local weather.
Hope all our group – and others – in the SE quadrant of the country are coping well with the stormy weather.
How is Pass Christian and our esteemed leader?