The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Yes it's true. So far I have noted that 10 billion butterfly sneezes will not move a single hair. It was not easy to get the butterfly's to all sneeze at once. Science can be truly taxing.

I sorry.

It was the whole "no power" thing. I could have gotten a generator, and/or tried a devious experiment manufacturing my own electrical power plant, but decided against it at the last moment. I had bushels of lemons just ready to make a giant battery, but made lemonade instead. Plus I had to share them with a lost herd of goats that came to visit. I can read between the power lines - no matter how twisted and knotted and/or showering sparks they are - I luvs you too Merle!

Rjaye - thanks for the offer, but all I hear they are asking for is money. They are saying send money to the Red Cross. Maybe the Red Cross needs your money. But we are used to getting whomped with tornadoes in this part of the country. About every 15 years (ok, every other year lately ...okay several times a year lately) we get twistered. We've got rescue teams well rehearsed now - everything was in action within hours. Thanks for sending the well wishes and offer of help - your-alls well-wishes and good thoughts count most. [PS. George W. Bush arrived a couple of hours ago...it's all in good hands now...nothing to look at here...move along please, move along... (gulp )]

Howdy Billard!! !

(Postie - the part of that clip that reminded me of Ike was the first few seconds of close-ups - when Tarzan Dog looked like a horse . The Tarzan Dog face close-ups reminded me of Lupine's avatar )

Nap time - then backs to woik. But first - the shower that you would all insist I take immediately if you were anywhere near me....

Oh jeeeze, I read that wrong last night. I thought she meant irrigated.

I heard that the origin of the phrase comes from the diary of the command staff officer of a British force in Burma (19th century, I think). He tried to build morale after their force had been defeated in battle. He wrote that he told them it could be worse, it could be raining, and the entry continued "Half an hour later it started to rain".

There are so many hits for the phrase, I've given up on trying to check whether the story is true. No guarantees.

I suppose I'm quite happy with the idea that some urban myths (when they result in no misinformation, beyond the tale itself) are just better than the reality.

Given the choice between a Burmese military campaign, a dejected staff officer trying to raise morale, and an unfortunate inversion (double entendre?)... and a script writer's joke, I know which I'd pick.

Sumner County - my home town. I work nights in Hendersonville. (The music maybe ain't so good, but the mess ain't either):

2006: A woman was paralyzed from the waist down protecting her son. An army of volunteers rebuilt her a new home in one weekend:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_XN_gL81A[/youtube]
2007: this one demolished Vol State Community college where my sister teaches (she had left campus for lunch just 20 minutes before it hit). They taught outside afterwards and in trailers for 3 months while we rebuilt the campus:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZwWioQZnW4[/youtube]
the last go around ...I'm situated within miles of Castalian Springs, Hartsville, and Gallatin (small towns in Sumner County):
(tornadoes weren't enough. We had to have a plane crash and a "natural gas" pipeline and station explosion at the same time. What? No locusts? )
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwx7WlkhSOQ[/youtube]

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I still want to know where Chuck got a bushel of Lemons. I thought our lemon was pretty unique.

But on the other hand..... (kind of like, "nothing up this sleeve") I do think there are some practical applications. However I am torn on pictures, so I will endeavor to paint one myself. It would be better if lemon did.

You know how Chuck (Charlie Brown) visits Lucy's sometimes Lemonade/The Doctor is in, stand? Yup, ok, I can see Chuck at the end of his driveway, a real work at home job. A combination of, The Doctor is in 5 cents, Lemonade 10 cents, Chuck Art free, Guided Cave tours free, parachutes 25 dollars.

hahaha! Bedtime now, for real. At least a nap. Have fun 'til I get back. I'll make an amusement park for you-unses.

(...it occurs to me that Red Cross is asking for money to buy us suitcases, hoping we'll finally clue in and leave... ...)

If they offer you a suitcase, take it. If Bush is there, it just might start raining houses. (and we all break into song, The Witch is Dead...yes, most thoroughly and assuradly dead.)

Vermont is looking pretty damned good, you know?

Other than it being heavily populated by yankees.

I have to ask, what is the difference between a yankee and other Americans?

Vermont is beautiful and they have skiing.

"Ding dong the witch is dead, which, oh which, the wicked witch,
Ding dong the wicked witch is dead"

She's gone where the goblins go, below, below, below.........."

I'm having lyric issues lately!

Chuck, nice to see you're ok. But, dude, you did NOT just say you-unses.

You could take those suitcases and move here to the desert. We have no tornadoes, hurricanes, or other assorted natural nastiness (120 degree heat doesn't count. That's just par for the course). And as an added bonus, we will have you referring to everyone as 'dude' in 6 months.

Did I mention the guacamole?

(just kidding about you-unses, dude. Ah yoused to have a healthy dose a Tecksas in mah own voace)

Oh, there is a HUGE difference. Ah, yup.

Yikes! John Wayne just rode by!