OT Things to ponder

[BBfanboy]

Just when you thought it was safe to invade the Solomons ....

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41427689

[geofflambert]

The article doesn't say so but it was found on Vangunu, SE of New Georgia.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

The article doesn't say so but it was found on Vangunu, SE of New Georgia.

I'm not surprised that "The Great Old One" has some giant rats along for terrestrial defense. How they found his lair from satellite images is astounding.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

The article doesn't say so but it was found on Vangunu, SE of New Georgia.

I'm not surprised that "The Great Old One" has some giant rats along for terrestrial defense. How they found his lair from satellite images is astounding.

No good will come of this.


[:'(]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

The article doesn't say so but it was found on Vangunu, SE of New Georgia.

I'm not surprised that "The Great Old One" has some giant rats along for terrestrial defense. How they found his lair from satellite images is astounding.

I thought the colour of the fur on those giant rats looked familiar! Makes sense they would match the "Great Old One".
Apologies to witpqs for going where he dared not ...[8D]

[geofflambert]

Is this "The Great Old One"?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Is this "The Great Old One"?

Insufficient tentacles

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Is this "The Great Old One"?

First we learn there are coconut cracking rats. Then we see the coconut cracking crabs! How the h*** does a man keep his coconuts safe if he lands there?!

[geofflambert]

Well, I expect they are at least the minions of Cthulhu.

[geofflambert]

There are some foolish pirates who call this "The Flying Spaghetti Monster". I am sure they are mistaken.





Had to clean that up. Sorry about that.

[geofflambert]

I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

[geofflambert]

I find this to be a pretty amazing story regardless of the truth of it. Supposedly this story was taken to be a diary entry of Hemingway when he was 10 yrs old of a trip to Ireland for his parents. He didn't travel to Ireland when he was 10, so now they realize it is fiction. Now they are assuming he wrote it when he was 10. However, you can see drawings of a ship that resembles the Titanic and he says "yesterday we saw an iceberg". Did he really come up with this story when he was 10 or write it after the Titanic disaster?

[geofflambert]

Here's that pic a bit larger for you

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

Human capacity for error is infinite.[:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I had a pretty good scare this a.m.. Woke up and checked my email and there was a note from American Express saying I hadn't paid my bill. I pulled out my current statements, which aren't due yet. I have a green card which is non-revolving and a blue card which is. Doesn't matter, I pay both of them off in full each month regardless. I mail a check for each account in separate envelopes with the bill stub included. Checking the statements I see they applied both checks to the blue card account, leaving me a credit, and nothing to the green card account. I called them up and got that straightened out. I asked "Does this sort of thing happen often?" Reply - "Oh, yes. Some of our customers have up to five cards and things get mixed up sometimes". ! My question is this: If they can misapply a check to the wrong account, what's to keep them from applying it to the account of a different customer?

Human capacity for error is infinite.[:D]

Not to worry - we have computers now to helps us do that faster! [:D]

[MakeeLearn]

Been trying to find the Island of Talura and Island of Wangbu in WitPAE.. for.. ahhh.. a base.

[BBfanboy]

OK, time to inject some new wildlife into this thread!
Just when you thought you knew how good Allied radar is ....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41528521

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

OK, time to inject some new wildlife into this thread!
Just when you thought you knew how good Allied radar is ....

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41528521

A different kind of chaff. Could they be trained to fly over German radar in a certain other game?

[Lecivius]

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[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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So that the fridge can be used in Sweden during the day. [;)]