Adore & abhor
could both fill in the blankness
& happen to rhyme.

2+2-5=0-1

I skip you.

Like one of those nice little flat rocks that skips at least seven times across the water and then you wish you had that one back. Anyway, I was thinking of a walk along the creek so that's what came to me.

Presumably they'll continue existing, & maybe get skipped again, someday.

Not about what's right:
if it's only what it is,
you know it's nothing.

(abs)

I took a nice walk with my dog along the Minnehaha on Sunday, with plenty of sweat & panting.

Talk about skippy rocks, I just saw it again since I was driving to Toronto last weekend. There's an interesting rock formation you can see from the N.E. Extension of the PA Turnpike just as you exit the Lehigh Tunnel northbound. It looks like a giant wall of boulders extending east-west quite a distance. Some boulders are a couple feet in diameter, others larger than a car. The long wall structure always made me think it was a moraine formed by advancing glaciers during the last Ice Age, but I pretty much made up that explanation so I'm looking for official confirmation of what the rock formation is. My other idea is that it might be the Great Wall of Pennsylvania built to deter the attacking forces of the barbarian New Yorkers from the north. uncle phil might know this since he's one of them.

uncle phil's solid,
but in my tiny mindset,
he's not "one of THEM".

surprisingly, this thread is still going strong!

A pleasant surprise,
I am hoping you find it,
no poke in the eye.

You said, poke.

In my next life, I definitely need to experience first person testosterone.

& I, estrogen,
with what all that engenders,
& understanding.

2+2+5+0=9

in theory, this could describe my emotional desires right now, to burn through
 

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Oil from under the earth, to in the water, to on the water, to in the air.
US Coast Guard photo of ”controlled burn” of oil from the BP spill in the Gulf.

Taken on 5/19/10


[flickr.]

It's not nice to mess with mother nature.

We need Hans Brinker.

If you don't mess with it, it stays the same. Hard to not try to stop a disaster you already caused, just for the sake of "Well, you did it in the first place; going to try for another wrong now, on top of the last? You're so arrogant.". (.?)


I also like this one:

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A sign marked a beach closed in Grand Isle, La., Thursday due to the Deepwater
Horizon oil spill. As BP tried the “top kill” method, President Barack Obama told
a news conference the government is in charge. He suspended planned drilling off
the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and on 33 wells currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico.


[WSJ.]

I would use a well placed nuke upon the wound.
Cauterize it.

Virginia is mostly covered by very tall trees.

So many varieties of pines I hadn't encountered before.

Achoo times 20.

And if you remember those two-to-three replies about this similar topic, (you're a TLTE Historian!)
I present to you, beloved audience, the newest (I think it is) theme that makes little sense, but still exists, nonetheless(er).

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv...e73ho1_500.png

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv...e73ho1_500.png

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv...e73ho1_500.png
hot chicks with stubbed toes making sex faces


post-script commiseration:
I once sneezed upwards and beyond 50+ times in one single day, around this time, however many decades ago, in grade school, and my eyes were near sewn shut by such a barrage of allergies that one fateful day.

They look like verdant yogaphiles.

That first lass looks like she is straining to evacuate her bowels.

I'm sure Mother Nature was the first lass. She's probably thinking of how BP helped relieve her internal pressures. But "BP" would be better off if they were Butt Plug.

I got in a fight last might, with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."

I'm thinking to have a couple grilled dogs for lunch:

"'Tis dogs' delight to bark and bite,"
Thus does the adage run.
But I delight to bite the dog
When placed inside a bun.

Two guys immigrate to America. On their first day off the boat they are wandering
around New York City seeing the sights. As lunch time approaches they decide they
are hungry. They then come up to a street vendor selling hot dogs. One says to the
other in a shocked tone, "My God. Do they eat dogs in America?" I don't know!" says
the other, equally appalled. "Well," says the first, "we're going to be Americans, so
we must do as they do." They approach the vendor bravely. "Two hot dogs, please."
The vendor hands them their food in a pair of paper sacks. The two immigrants sit
on a park bench to eat their lunch. One looks inside his sack, hesitates and
turns to his partner and says, "Uh, which part of the dog did you get?"

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx...ndvyo1_500.jpg
ロータス・プロトタイプカー

No better, no worse,
but again I'm trusting you
to own what you do.

(Hot dogs are a little bit odd, aren't they, Nick?)

2x2x5=20

True, but they don't seem as odd as scrapple and I also love scrapple. A nice thick slab say ~1/2" thick (12.7mm to our metrified friends) fried crispy on the outside but with that warm, soft texture inside, with the prevailing flavorful tastes of the finest parts of nose, cheeks, and other parts I don't want to hear about; on a couple slices of toasted bread topped off with a few soft boiled eggs and a dash of salt, pepper, and paprika...and a few drops of Tabasco.

I liked the Bad joke,
& whatever's in hot dogs,
& head-cheese, & such.

(& palindromes!)

Oh man, I wonder how many decibels my sneezes have.

I let 'em rip. If you don't, you could blow an irreplaceable gasket, or two.

AHHHHHHHHH....AHHH........CHOO!

Thanks for the Ian
on the lyrics that fit you:
We're on the same boat.

Gesundheit!

Dual avatars not dueling would be fitting.

No reasons to fight
but for those we imagine
are acceptable?

to me sneezing has always been somewhat orgasmic ...so when I feel it coming on I go through my foreplay ritual, holding it back for a bit, let the tension build up, then I either look at a light or even just imagine a bright flash and POW!! excuse me if I got some on you.

Eons ago, in a thread here at tfp.

Someone called it a nosegasm.

Do you snort it?

Magic has its place-
Science has its place-
Fiction has its place-
So feel our playcements.

(I swear I had a wonderful haiku to go with the sneezing.)

I own my ideas, but sometime I relinquish those as well.

Speaking of which:
The above photograph is but one of the thousands of examples I have accumulated this month to spawn my newest idea for atoppic (in which I most certainly will be inhabiting all by my lonesome: "Modern Life is Rubbish".

Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says "If an emergency, notify:" I put "DOCTOR". What's my mother going to do?

Jet, I've had Nathan's many times and they are very good. I have not yet had Sabrett's which so many New Yorkers seem to love and say are the best. While I was looking for a clever pic of a gorgeous girl eating a Sabretts dog, I found a pic for your food as art thread so I'll go post it there shortly. I'm not calling you "shortly", I mean I'll go do it soon...I'm also not calling you "soon" ...though I might if I knew your phone number...assuming you have a phone number and I knew it.

I love that idea, Zook. I'm using it next chance I get.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...pwi0o1_500.jpg

(I also have a good robotic form of BP, but at this time, that doesn't seem to be rightfully portrayed; they're the villian, I guess.)

Today I purposely steered clear of getting gas at a BP station and went to the adjacent Shell station. I suspect if we look closely at them all, we'd be riding bicycles and walking.

I just noticed we're both back on the waves again, in sync.

I, too, I also remembered about saving this photograph just yesterday; hope you do enjoy it.

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(from my personal, but lackadaisical "blogging" endeavor... bonus point if I spelled the 'L'-word right.)

And because I'm so backed up (years now, and still other parts, months only) I just came across this headline:

Deepwater Horizon spill declared worst in US history.

(I probably won't get a chance to read it until next month, I'd guess, if even, at all.)

Hilarious question. :thumbsup: Thank you again.

We'll have to be extra careful now that our boards will be more slippery.

I like synch'ing my iTouch, which I inherited from my youngest son, which seems sort of backwards but I'm glad it's a two-way street. He can re-inherit it sometime in the future. I hope it's still nice around here then.

(2+25)/3=9

I hope it's still nice
the day after tomorrow.
Today is perfect.

It's quite nice here today, too; not too hot, a bit of cloud cover. Tomorrow will be sunnier and mid 80's of the Fahrenheit kind. Monday sunny and 90F. Grillin' and chillin' is my goal for the next couple days ...plus I'm copying every CD I have to my itunes library and synching my itouch until there's no more space on it.

Running out of space?
It's funny you should say that,
all bits considered.

I wish I had an "iTouch". I'm only in between a '-mini' and a 'dinosaur'.

It's so hard to ride the flow of time's waves ever so fluidily. Did I ever tell you what year I was left behind in, and through, so far as up 'til now?

Well spaced out, out of space ...not much difference. On my ithing it's merely a temporary inconvenience since Apple has more space for sale than I have money.

Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?

My original course of mind was once we attained the goal, and then afterwards, once we reach our own milemarker of perhaps 23K+ or 25+ posts here, that we could perhaps be considered Hall-of-Fame-worthy?

When you lose your mind,
do your thought processes stop,
or only slow down?

It just tracks down info onto another medium, but doesn't register altogether.

I still have them somewhere in storage.


*goes looking for a topical picture

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/...eefc72ab_m.jpg
Bolivian Brain Box by Sam Brewster

A brain in a box,
way too far realistic:
Part of the problem.

We carry these things
in constructs of this nature
only to save them.

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Reach [Photo by Stuart Gibson, a photographer from Tasmania. Photo shot in North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii.]

That one'd be a fool
to trade-in his potential
for something that's dead.

unless you were a hermit crab. Then it might make sense since it's a bit more real estate, but still depending on what the price is.

22/55=.4

hermits have only
their belief in their being:
money's not matter.

that's true. I've had fleeting moments of wanting to be Assisi but I like the birds and bees too much for that.

Being a sissy's
not a whole lot harder than
a raging penis.

It's my turn again so can any of you guys help me find a place to be for the "where in the world am I?" thread? Suggestions are welcomed and thanked.

19° 10′ 20″ s, 127° 47′ 44″ e



.

Thanks, Zook. Maybe next time or when you're not paying attention. As you'll see, this time I'm somewhere in America.

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firepower
is where it has been:
beneath us.

Where have we been?

out in left field? way out there

I know, but my friend,
the flock astray, I don't lead,
though I might like to.

I'd vote for you

If I'm counting right,
that makes one for the good guys,
& that's all it takes.

I'd vote for you, too.

thanks. I know some vices so I feel qualified for the VP spot.

I have a treasured chest, so I'm qualified for the treasurer spot.

Funny you say that.
I was just thinking something
pretty similar.

I can already see we're way more qualified than other governments I know.

We might also look for a Secretary of Nonsense, Fun, and Peace.

Then there came poets,
vastly unreasonable,
but with strange beauty.

(I still want to be the guy that sits on the corner with his broom)

btw, I believe Kay Ryan is still the Poet Laureate of the U.S. and she has something to say about uncle phil

Say Uncle

Every day
you say,
Just one
more try.
Then another
irrecoverable
day slips by.
You will
say ankle,
you will
say knuckle;
why won't
you why
won't you
say uncle?

uncle?

you're so easy


I saw my younger son earlier today sitting in our town so I texted him and he said

I saw you looking
thinking it was me
but it wasn't

So... is this really TLTE????

for TFP of all the years since it started, YES.

Others eclipse this
by orders of magnitude,
but this one is ours.

This one happened not too long ago.

The longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium enters India at Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala and exits India at Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu on January 15, 2010.

BNik -
I finally remembered that the Stanley Cup Playoffs are still ongoing, watched it tonight, and it was a barnyard clinic. Can you tell me the history of these two teams? neither one looks defensively stout, nor does it look as though there is a "hot goaltender" on either side of the ice, let alone one static and appointed bearer of the facemask.
Also, I never heard that either one of these teams were considered "fiery", as in they had much scoring potential or stars. Am I wrong about that? (Was wishing that the Habs would've took the spot instead.)

- - -

ring -
I am very glad to be out of that horrendous(-ly) egomaniacal, self-loathing, and surreptitiously-degrading snit of a thread, however popular it may be with the "masses". I normally don't care about a lot of things, even things that I say I like, follow, and actually comment upon, but this one bag of portentedness, I actually hold within myself a great deal of disdain for, and towards. So much so, I avoid it at near all costs (but they keep abasing me there, knowing half-obliviously-well I will n'er forth step my fingers' thoughts within it again).

But, of one good thing I found and took from it, was this, and I thank you for giving me a (hidden) challenge.

Here's the scoop: Concentric Rings 04a by ~Debaser2020


author's comments:
Based on MC Escher's drawing 'Concentric Rings'

There were no results on TinEye using the image, but I just thought to see what the filename-affixtion had in a simple Google search it popped right up. I am one with the machine in this image (although that film that I'm thinking about right now was terrible.. oh! and that other one, too - it made no sense.)


[im-possible.]

I posted that image because it is spireless.
Its pointlessness was a thing of great beauty.

I hadn't noticed this abasing you speak of.

Plenty of leisure time I have these days.
(I'm recovering from a nasty bleeding ulcer episode.)

So, I shall peruse the entire thread where this abasing has taken place.

Should I take those unwashed masses to task?

Perhaps it might be best to just let the hurt & disdain melt out of your hands.

I'll paraphrase a quote. I do believe Tecoyah has it as his signature.

"Holding on to anger is like holding on to hot coals, you only end up hurting yourself"

Thanks for re-posting that image, Eddy. I find it's a pleasant image for meditation time.
& and its electric blueness, appeals to my Aquarian nature.

I forget by not participating (there, but somehow, I still find myself peeking). And while I love having a reason for (re-)vengeance, I still like to hold true my idealization of non-violence and quelling of disputes through unfolding understanding and reason.

And (:apart) while friends and acquaintances of mine calling by a myriad of names, least of all anything close to my name, there's still something weird when I see someone refer to me, in writing, as 'Eddy'. It feels weird, near as weird as someone calling me 'Ed'.

I'm doing away the (in)formal-ized denominations. I do like being called 'Jetty', though.
Also, I want my new name to catch on as well: EA. (initials)


Question: I was wondering, not intensely, though, but only those few instances recently when it occurred, as recently as maybe less than five pages ago, and no longer a time period than a year ago when (I believe) I made the off-comment about this: Is thy real name 'Grace'?

Yes, my name is Grace.
If you prefer the less familiar, Jetty; I shall honor that request.

EA. Cool, it's like the first two letters of Earth.

hi EA. I never knew you are an "Ed". I do know that I've spent a bunch of money on EA toys my boys like, well I like some of them, too ...i.e., Electronic Arts. That also seems like a quite fitting association for you.

The Flyers didn't do so well yesterday. As far as how the teams and players stack up against some standard of hockey measure, I have no idea. But I have a visitor today from Westinghouse who is staying at the local Holiday Inn Express so I'll ask him what he knows.

I entirely forgot that Westinghouse was/is actually a town; in Pennsylvania, I'll guess.

I write a lot of words, too, I notice, but they just roll off of my mind's wave. You do know I only think when pressed (remaining static, unnassuming and without a care at any other time) and this topic gives me a good reason to ponder.

Oh, and to call upon my coincidence monster again, to "coincide" with me actually having cable again, too (but only on the weekends), I've come to notice one universal and generational truth: everyone on television is named "Edward". Everywhere. Any network. Any realm of situation. Any gender (which is weird). So many "Ed's" everywhere. No other name comes to mind with such ubiquitous status, not even a 'Marie', or a 'John' (well, there quite a few more Maries now that I think about it).

Have you seen this film?

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Edward Scissorhands

Or this one?

Two films starring Johnny Depp with the same character name.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...gy/edwood1.jpg
Ed Wood.

In case you ever want to go hide there in that game we play here, I would like you to be geographically correct. So you might want to know that there is no town named Westinghouse in PA, at least that I know of. But the Westinghouse company, from where my visitor has come, has a long and illustrious history as a U.S. company.

Westinghouse Electric was an American power company. It was founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997.

It was historically the rival to General Electric which was founded by George Westinghouse's arch-rival, Thomas Edison.

Perhaps he was thinking of Bethlehem Steel Co.

Perhaps you are correct. We do have a Bethlehem, PA, and we did have a Bethlehem Steel Co., once the second largest steel producer in the U.S. and one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the world, as well as one of the most powerful symbols of American industrial manufacturing leadership. But it filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Now it's the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, which, ironically had difficulty finding structural steel for construction, thanks to a global steel shortage.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ehem_Steel.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...8e9a7c46ec.jpg

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Last time I couldn't find steel,
I looked for the ore & recycling,
& called my psychologist.

I thought Thomas Edison's arch-rival was Nikola Tesla

el correcto, Jeto

The Westinghouse Electric Company pioneered long-distance power transmission and high-voltage transmission. Westinghouse Electric received the rights for the first patent for alternating-current transmission from Nikola Tesla and unveiled the technology for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company included William Stanley, Nikola Tesla, Oliver B. Shallenberger, Benjamin Garver Lamme and his sister Bertha Lamme.

El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama

http://i49.tinypic.com/24bkhvr.jpg

- - -

by the way, not to get all silly, but that History Channel doc chronicling (sp?) the rivalry between Edison and Tesla is among one the best I have ever seen, anywhere, either produced by the BBC, A&E Networks, Nat'l Geo, PBS, or the Discovery Corp.

It outshines the conglomerations.

they were POLAR opposites.....:D:D

I band no focus,
you know it's only homing,
& I like pigeons.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2mcvpg6.jpg


[lukejudge.]

Do me a favor?
Post "Five Years" on Insula.
Otherwise, ring will.

I'll need to look that up.

You know what: I know not that of which you speak.

But, seeing as I'm still living in mind and (un)sound as though it may be and still quite is: 2007; and furthermore, as seeing as though I just got through reading a wiki of a tune of which I've not heard of either, but read the synopsis of, and therefore, this, and only thus... popped up in a mind's eye.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...s56do1_500.jpg
(would you happen to know of what and where it is from, contextually, and cinematically?)

O, now, and nay, I see. But know.

You meant the topic, no? But did you also mean the tune, of which I hinted at above? (link-y)

I'll need to find and audibilize it, for I have not yet laid ears upon it; to add, I don't believe I've contributed to your topic at all, seeing as I'm trying to eschew my penchant for "chaos", however nonsensical that may seem. Being in this topic's aim is my only way to channel it.

(I have rummaged a bit inside, though; and it is quite pretty.chuckles-worth, even.)

You amaze me, Jet.

22-5-9=8

But did I get it right? I've stalled too long to listen to the tune, I think.


I'll post it now, and listen to it as I do.

(I don't usually like or allow youtube videos to embed in topics where they are not warranted, but I think I'll pass up on that idiosynrasy of mine, if only for once. Additionally, I was about to post the '72 Live version, but next to it, I saw it reprised, alongside Arcade Fire, and well, I got captured by the moment.)

Did you enjoy it?
It ran through my head last night...
Thank you very much.