OT Things to ponder

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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: scout1

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

What if the two brothers and two sisters had the same two parents who happened to be fraternal twins? I was born in West Virginia, I've heard of things like that. [:'(]

If you were truly born in WV, you would have used the correct description "West By God Virginia"
Those of us born there, know this .......[:-]

Oh no. There's more than one gorn in this forum. And he has seniority. What am I to do? I can either defect to a forum that discusses the intricacies of tiddley-winks, or I can submit to his commands. What shall I do?

Chuck Yeager was from West By God Virginia and he twern't a Gorn .... Though his flight suit was green ......

[geofflambert]

What the effing eff is this crap? Option one: set BING as your default search engine. Option two: set BING as your default search engine.
Option three: there is no option 3, just surrender to Microsoft you pusillanimous piece of dreck.

[geofflambert]

At least I can always change my settings to go eff myself! From the tools menu. I actually get to choose the tool I get to use to go eff myself! How effing convenient!

[geofflambert]

I reported this to Microsoft as a scam. In every field I could type in I typed "stop trying to force me to use BING". One field that wanted to know how much I paid for the bogus service in the scam said I could only use 25 characters, so instead of saying "stop trying to force me to use BING" I typed "BING sucks!". Hooray for the little man, er, little gorn!

[geofflambert]

At least they promise to stop websites from "silently" changing my settings. They can silently change my setting to Barbados if they like. I turn my sound off anyway so I don't have to listen to all those m - effing ads. Oh gee, I can click on "go eff yourself" to learn more. How nice they are. Killing me Microsoftly with their song.

[geofflambert]

Here's a little story about rhubarb. If you're not familiar with it you should take any opportunity to try some rhubarb pie. Some people like rhubarb/strawberry pie but I like it straight up and with a graham cracker crust best. Two times in recent years I have tried to grow some without success. You buy rhubarb roots and plant those. Every few years you have to divide the roots and replant the parts (if you wish), otherwise they get too big for the area you planted them in. Anyways, the first year I planted six roots and only one came up, and after awhile it just withered. That year we had six weeks where every single day the temperature peaked over 100°F. I tried watering them with refrigerated water but it did no good. The next year I tried again and that time all six I planted came up but then it got blazing hot and they all withered. When I was a kid my mother grew rhubarb in the back yard. Now the leaves are somewhat toxic but the stems, which resemble celery but most varieties are red, are wonderfully tart and sweet and nobody doesn't like rhubarb. We had a dachshund named Ginger who once tore one of those poisonous leaves off a plant and we all took off after her, chasing her around the yard worried that she'd be poisoned. If she ever had any interest in consuming the leaf it was immediately superseded by the great fun of getting everyone to chase her. From then on, anytime she got off her chain or her leash the same mini-drama would take place. Anyways, if I were ever going to make a pie that wasn't straight rhubarb I would try mixing it with Granny apples, not strawberries.

[geofflambert]

That year of the six weeks; I usually grew okra every year. Okra pods are edible before they mature, tender and perfect for gumbo. If you don't harvest them in time they collect more and more cellulose and are like wood, and completely unedible. That year of the six weeks I grew okra but there was never any point where the pods were not wooden. One thing I know of that you can grow and it will thrive no matter how hot it gets are peppers (I don't know about bell peppers, never have tried to grow those) and jalepenos in particular just get bigger and fatter the hotter it is. In case you're not aware, green bell peppers, they're no different from red ones or yellow ones except for one thing: they aren't ripe. They're crunchier and have that powerful chlorophyll taste because they're not ready yet. Fancy that. Here's something most of you probably don't know: Take red cabbage. The stuff that is in the red cabbage (and most other vegetables that are red) that makes them red performs the same task that chlorophyll does in all those vegetables that are green and is a chemical relative, maybe a second cousin, of chlorophyll. Same with red algae and many other things.

One year I did plant poblano peppers but, while adequate, did not compare in quality or size to the ones you can buy in the stores hereabouts.

[geofflambert]

For those of you who are familiar with Lucille Ball, her hometown (or somebody) commissioned a sculpture of her.
I saw a pic of this sculpture some years ago and could not ascertain what if any resemblance it had with our Lucy.
The only reason I don't compare her visage to that of my gorn mother-in-law is while there is some resemblance, the sculpture is of a creature far uglier even than her.

So, just in case you are not familiar with Lucy, the pic on the left really looks like her and is beautiful. The pic on the right is of some deportable alien.

[geofflambert]

This is a better image of her by far

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

For those of you who are familiar with Lucille Ball, her hometown (or somebody) commissioned a sculpture of her.
I saw a pic of this sculpture some years ago and could not ascertain what if any resemblance it had with our Lucy.
The only reason I don't compare her visage to that of my gorn mother-in-law is while there is some resemblance, the sculpture is of a creature far uglier even than her.

So, just in case you are not familiar with Lucy, the pic on the left really looks like her and is beautiful. The pic on the right is of some deportable alien.

Hmmmm - that deplorable alien on the right does look pretty Gornish!

[geofflambert]

Right, how could anyone utter "Lucy! You have some 'splainin' to do!" to that thing on the right?

[geofflambert]

I live in a duplex, and am half owner of it. The other half owner lives in the other unit. He mows the grass, of which there is a considerable expanse. One year he was mowing the back yard and mowed across the entrance to a rabbit warren neither he nor I was aware of and a baby bunny leapt up out of fear from the warren straight into the blades of the mower. Glad I wasn't doing the mowing that day. So this year I spotted a warren freshly dug and pointed it out to him and gave him a milk crate to put over it whilst he was mowing so that hopefully that wouldn't happen again. Today, while out watering things, I ran into two baby bunnies, one not far from the entrance to that warren. I dialed the sprayer I was using to "mist" and misted them down, because it was oppressively hot. They did not seem to mind.

[geofflambert]

I know what you're thinking. You're right, I will be feeding them to a lady gorn friend in the near future.

[scout1]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I know what you're thinking. You're right, I will be feeding them to a lady gorn friend in the near future.

Are their actually lady gorn's ?
If so, do they have the "Mom Voice" feature which human females excel at ?

[geofflambert]

Well, there's a lot of debate about that. Some scientists claim that in a single sex environment some of us can become female and thus reproduce. Others say that we can reproduce asexually. I frequently try to do that, but without any luck so far. In any case, if you are a male gorn and you have successful carnal relations with a female, expect to be consumed by her in order to feed your young. If you have unsuccessful carnal relations she will not know the difference and eat you anyway. My advice, for any gorn out there, is try the asexual method instead.

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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I live in a duplex, and am half owner of it. The other half owner lives in the other unit. He mows the grass, of which there is a considerable expanse. One year he was mowing the back yard and mowed across the entrance to a rabbit warren neither he nor I was aware of and a baby bunny leapt up out of fear from the warren straight into the blades of the mower. Glad I wasn't doing the mowing that day. So this year I spotted a warren freshly dug and pointed it out to him and gave him a milk crate to put over it whilst he was mowing so that hopefully that wouldn't happen again. Today, while out watering things, I ran into two baby bunnies, one not far from the entrance to that warren. I dialed the sprayer I was using to "mist" and misted them down, because it was oppressively hot. They did not seem to mind.

Gruesome. I would be ill if I did anything like that.

We have a lot of rabbits around here. They build warrens under the blackberry bushes.

The rabbits don't stay still long enough to spray water om them, but I do mist the praying mantises in the greenhouse when I see them.

Bill

[geofflambert]

Okay, so the cicadas are getting really out of hand. I am told that they are neither the periodical 13 or 17 year varieties but the annual sort. That may be so but they are getting really, really loud to my experience. I've had cats that loved to eat them. One cat I had broke his leg somehow and it was put into a cast. He managed to hobble around pretty well and succeeded in capturing a cicada and bring it into the apartment. Now he wanted to bat it around like cats do, playing with it before the denouement. Well, that denouement came early as he lifted his leg in the cast and brought it down and it went splat!

[geofflambert]

Just a little music to listen to. It sounds like country, it sounds like Cajun, delivered by Chicanos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0coPhlpy4

[geofflambert]

The lyrics are actually rather dark. That's art.

[geofflambert]

We need to find some way to keep steel wire from being abused in this way: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/beet ... uzXT0mA.97
Perhaps we could use up all the steel wire for a while rebuilding the Berlin wall?