Subject: random posts
Date: Mon Nov 21 12:19:52 2022
User: bil
Message:G0 Chiefs
Date: Tue Nov 22 18:12:01 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:If anyone is mourning the USMNT tie in their opening game, put yourself in the place of the Argentine fans who made the trip to Qatar.
Date: Tue Nov 22 20:14:13 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Wouldn't a more proper reaction be to have some sort of warm fuzzies for Wales, in only their second World Cup? Just wondering.....
Date: Tue Nov 22 21:23:35 2022
User: Klepp
Message:...occurred to me the other day "Yeah, it would be pretty cool being a Women's Professional Wrestling referee."
I mean sure, no one takes you seriously at all, but, you are right in the very middle of all the sweaty action...
Date: Wed Nov 23 11:30:07 2022
User: redberet
Message:While foot in mouth disease is not contagious, it sure afflicts a lot of people.
Date: Wed Nov 23 11:41:59 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:There are those who enjoy the taste of a good foot.
Date: Thu Nov 24 16:29:44 2022
User: redberet
Message:I know I enjoy the taste of my boy's harvest. Sure beats the good old days when the valley of hearts delight grew just fruits and vegetables.
Date: Sat Nov 26 03:40:32 2022
User: Klepp
Message:So like, the lead-in cartoon clip will be "Phish and Wildlife" King of the Hill, with main feature...
Link: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Date: Sat Nov 26 15:38:33 2022
User: outskirts
Message:I'm like George Costanza in that I *hate* to order a drink, and it's mostly ice.
Date: Sat Nov 26 15:42:56 2022
User: outskirts
Message:I've about had enough of 'necks, high humidity, and high temps year round in my adopted state of Florida. Seriously considering a move all the way to the GWN.
Date: Mon Nov 28 00:34:31 2022
User: Klepp
Message:That person looks as if they'd been pumped to Dig Dug tumescence just shy of eruption.
Link: Dig Dug
Date: Fri Dec 2 01:08:22 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Was fortunate to see this tonight, from way down here. The news report I hyperlink is just one of several. The below non-hyperlinked one gives a multitude of sightings with details - from all over the place.
It was quite impressive, and my details match up with others: slow-ish, bright, throwing off "sparks". MUCH larger, even down here, than the small points most meteors are. It had dimensionality. So much so that I wasn't positive it wasn't a plane on fire crashing down. Called 911 to report it, just in case. One of the two major fireballs of my life. ☄
https://fireball.imo.net/members/imo_view/browse_reports
Link: (Part of) the sky was on fire tonight
Date: Tue Dec 6 06:06:58 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I miss the old Kirstie Alley--you know, the 22-stone gal from a couple decades ago.
Date: Wed Dec 7 11:47:16 2022
User: redberet
Message:The more I think about it, the more I think this place would be great for a Sybil convention.
Date: Thu Dec 8 08:02:55 2022
User: Klepp
Message:"And an immensely pleasurable time was had by all."--Various
Date: Fri Dec 9 06:25:28 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Good thing Viktor Bout was released...geez, he has a family that loves him too...(colloquial damage is only imaginary in *some* assessments)...
Date: Fri Dec 9 06:27:28 2022
User: Klepp
Message:duh, "collateral"...colloquially speaking...
Date: Fri Dec 9 06:36:05 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:But "colloquial damage" is an interesting concept, no? I'm pretty sure there's been some of that in this forum. But don't ask me to define or point it out. 🤔
Date: Fri Dec 9 13:11:31 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I bought a $12 candy bar at the market the other day...large enough for three or four chocolate lovers.
Link: 360g Toblerone
Date: Fri Dec 9 14:08:24 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Give yourself a steady diet of those Toblerones, and you'll be as large as three or four chocolate lovers.
Date: Sat Dec 10 14:38:54 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I sometimes silently thank Mesoamerican culture (Olmec, Aztec, Maya) for its delectable contributions to my everyday diet--chocolate particularly, but also tomatoes, peppers, squash (to name a few)...
Date: Mon Dec 12 15:30:24 2022
User: Klepp
Message:If that doctor chick pedaling that Lume odor meliorator has such difficulties, maybe she ought to refine her diet...
(Vegetarian vag generally smell better than omnivorous vag (truth))...
Date: Tue Dec 13 03:44:23 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Texas head coach was very, very naughty (allegedly).
Date: Sat Dec 24 22:59:26 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Currently enjoying a capsaicin high...received a Mrs. Renfro's gift package jammed with ghost pepper and habanero... ahhh...
Date: Sun Dec 25 08:15:16 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Three days ago, a friend's mother passed away from a heart attack. When they told my friend of her mother's passing, my friend had a heart attack and passed away.
Link: https://youtu.be/lFamN-oXRMQ
Date: Sun Dec 25 12:23:10 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Thanks, TN!
Date: Fri Dec 30 06:33:55 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Can you imagine living so far outside the football bubble that you never heard of the cheezit bowl even though wiki claims it's been around thirty something years, and nope I don't have *the dementia*... I just like it outside the bubble... Congrats FSU
Date: Fri Dec 30 12:07:50 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Whoever gave you that information was only partially correct. (No indictment on you considering you pay no attention to football)
Thirty two years ago, the bowl was called the Blockbuster Bowl (as in the video store) and was played in Miami. It had four different names
and changed ownership before moving to Orlando in 2000. It has operated under six different names in Orlando, landing on the Cheez-It Bowl in 2020.
The bowl tends to get decent teams with loyal fans willing to travel to see their team play a final, albeit meaningless, game for the season. This year, highly ranked Florida State (9-3) played the reeling Oklahoma (6-6) in one of the worst mismatches of the bowl season. FSU needed a last minute field goal to narrowly escape.
Date: Fri Dec 30 22:01:48 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Babwa Wawa is gone..............at 93.
Date: Sat Dec 31 16:05:17 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Oddly enough, I had a crush on her in the early 1970s.
Date: Sun Jan 1 02:10:53 2023
User: ix
Message:
Date: Sun Jan 1 20:09:56 2023
User: olblue
Message:My memory gets better as I get older. Why, I can even remember last year as clearly as I remember yesterday!
Date: Mon Jan 2 07:44:54 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Local lawyer: "Like real gators in swamps, we bite back."
Me: Could you say something stupider?
Date: Mon Jan 2 20:41:11 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Fireball whiskey + apple cider = mmm
Re that lawyer - of all the local lawyers who constantly advertise, he is the most likeable and the cutest. He has been known to use his former Gator football player status. But that's cool. I just think the "real gators in swamps biting back" is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Date: Tue Jan 3 00:01:27 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I'm trying (yet failing) not to think about it.
Link: Consciousness
Date: Tue Jan 3 10:46:26 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:Be careful there, lest you be afflicted with consciousness-ness.
Date: Tue Jan 3 15:52:46 2023
User: redberet
Message:I used to think consciousness was just about being awake. There sure are a lot of ism's in that thesis.
Date: Tue Jan 3 19:35:41 2023
User: Klepp
Message:I thought Renner did a decent rendition of Dahmer--but whoa--most people should NEVER operate heavy machinery without much proper training...nice that he only injured himself and not some local kid playing in the snow...
Date: Tue Jan 3 19:53:49 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Have we been given any details? Last I heard, details were scant.
Date: Wed Jan 4 16:07:02 2023
User: outskirts
Message:Why does that moon pod guy think he invented the bean bag chair? And have you checked prices? It's just an expensive beanbag folks.
I suspect it's as big a scam as mypillow, an expensive sack of shredded foam rubber.
Date: Wed Jan 4 16:34:28 2023
User: Klepp
Message:"Based on our investigation, Mr. Renner's personal vehicle, which was being driven by a family member, had become stuck in the snow near his home," Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said. "Mr. Renner went to retrieve his PistenBully [snowplow] or snowcat, an extremely large piece of snow removal equipment, weighing at least 14,330 pounds, in an effort to get his vehicle moving. After successfully towing his personal vehicle from its stuck location, Mr. Renner got out of his PistenBully to speak to a family member. At this point, it is observed that the PistenBully started to roll. In an effort to stop the rolling PistenBully, Mr. Renner attempts to get back into the driver's seat of the PistenBully. Based on our investigation, it's at this point that Mr. Renner is run over by the PistenBully. An eyewitness detailed seeing Mr. Renner get into the PistenBully and not seeing him again until the PistenBully came to a rest in a pile of snow in front of his driveway. At this point in the investigation, we do not believe Mr. Renner was impaired at all, and we believe this is a tragic accident."--some local law enforcement agency
He plain screwed up, with a seven-ton piece of equipment...least not drunk...
Date: Wed Jan 4 16:38:40 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Those are some solid details.
Date: Thu Jan 5 01:11:01 2023
User: redberet
Message:I was fortunate in that I had the opportunity to learn speed reading at a young age. I read the works of Twain, Poe and Uris. Classics such as Treasure Island, 1001 Arabian Knights, Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Brothers Grimm., Uncle Tom's Cabin. Not to mention countless Bradbury and L'Amour's. That was all before I got to high school. A real bona-fide bookworm. Reading a broad spectrum really does give insight into having an open mind. You just never know where you'll find it.
I just finished a book 800 pages long that I tried to milk as long as possible because I just didn't want to finish it. While there are still plenty of books left for me to read, I will never enjoy or be affected by another book as much as that one. Funny how you just know things.
Date: Thu Jan 5 19:12:34 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Decades ago it took me four months to read James Joyce' Ulysses...I began reading it again recently, but gave it up...though I still do occasionally dip into Melville's tome, as some dip into the Bible: wherever it opens...
Date: Thu Jan 5 23:15:21 2023
User: redberet
Message:Let Captain Ahab be a precautionary tale for those of us who are driven. I know there are plenty here.
At least your way, you don't have to worry about losing the bookmark.
Date: Thu Jan 5 23:28:09 2023
User: ix
Message:
Date: Fri Jan 6 00:11:44 2023
User: redberet
Message:It can be a heavy read if one is trying to analyze the character for a book report. Not for a youngster who's reading it for enjoyment. I consider books like Gone with the Wind and War and Peace to be heavy reads. War and Peace to this day is only book that I didn't make a dent much less finish. The former is quite a read.
I'm not familiar with Dawkins.
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