The Longest Thread Ever!

[BadNick]

fun makes even the longest day seem shorter

[Jetée]

Oh, I forgot.

[BadNick]

infinitely large or infinitely small pose similar conceptual problems for me

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Stunts do some dulling
of their meanings & meaners
& I believe you.

(2x3)-2=4=4

[Pearl Trade]

Your dimple, and your dimple, oh, your goddamn dimples.

[BadNick]

What a coincidence, PT! Facial cheek dimples, butt cheek dimples, or those cute dimples some women have on their lower backs right above their butts...I like those a lot.

[Jetée]

Thank you for bumping this thread.

(something I've had in my notes for over a month)

Lucy Star (?)

[BadNick]

poor Lucy she's just a K short of Lucky

[Jetée]

Is there an anime series called Lucky Star?
It'd be very coincidental if there was.

[Zooksport2]

So anyways, I'm tootlin' along, sittin' on me 100, (km/hour) headin North, middle of the day. Only half a load of hay on, so tyre heat is not going to be an issue. Lots of roadkill layin' about, with crows and eagles getting their fill. A couple of dead cows here and there, but mostly roo's. The bar up front has hit many roos in its lifetime, along with a cow, a camel, and even an owl. I swear he hit ME! I was almost completely stopped, when "THUD", and this bleedin' owl slaps into the windscreen. Lights must have blinded it, poor thing. He flew away though, so that was nice...
Anyhow, back to the crows and eagles... Most of them fly off a ways when they hear a vehicle approach, but the eagles are slow, so you gotta give them a little lee-way. I'm on a long straight, and I see a big eagle atop a dead roo, right in the middle, and as I approach, he's not looking up, 'cause he's busy getting a belly full.
I ease up a little, and toot the air horn. He sits up and looks over his shoulder, and sees me bearing down on him. He starts to take flight, so I gets back on the gas. But hang on, the dummy has decided to fly north too, instead of veering off to the side.

I catch up pretty damn quick too, and although I don't want to hit him, I'm not too concerned if I do. I give a few more blasts of the horns, and start braking, hoping he will veer off, but the fellow just keeps on going straight.
He's about 4 feet off the ground, and I'm looking down on him, as his huge wings slowly flap up and down, as he tries to gain altitude. He must have a full load, cause he's not gaining height very quick. He dissapears out of view, below the windscreen, and it looks as though he just managed to get away....

I don't see feathers or anything in the mirrors, and don't have a great view out the left hand mirror, to see if he's off to the side, so I'm thinking all is cool, and get back into it...

Stay tuned for part II...

[Ourcrazymodern?]

^looking forward to it!

//If part of our ground,
& mostly ephemeral,
constitutes problems,

I'd gladly bow out
but find it impossible,
I know you know why.

If you don't, I'm limited
in trying to communicate this:
We're really fucking needy

So loud, mean, & too vicious,
we can't span the gaps between ourselves
even when they're very small.//

(abs)

[BadNick]

cool story Zookman. I await part ll with bated breath. Which might bring up the question, is it "bated" or "baited"? To which I defer to the Bard:

...Or
Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;
'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;...

or

Geoffrey Taylor, in his little poem Cruel, Clever Cat used the confusion over the word to good comic effect:

Sally, having swallowed cheese
Directs down holes the scented breeze
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.

On another note, I figure the shortest route to Australia from here is boring right through the Earth. Of course, or "off course", if I am off by a mere 1 degree in my boring direction, though I'm sure they would be interesting, I would miss my groundbreakthrough by 138 miles.

[Jetée]

Eager.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Without electrolytes,
so Gatorade would tell us,
we have to slow down.

(2x3)-(2x5)=-4

[BadNick]

Here's aqiss for you AQiss = Instant Nano Hydration and Cell Armor technologies, providing instant, direct delivery of rehydration...


disclaimer: I have beloved family involved in this business

[Jetée]

The sort of family I can't refuse, eh, Nick-o?

EDIT-Re-confirmed:
Ah, you were right Nick. There is an anime called Lucky Star.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...me.php?id=7222

Maybe not as much as a coincidence as it was a typo. Did you just guess?

[BadNick]

Well so far I haven't gotten any free cases of the stuff, nor would I expect to. But I love my cousin.

[Jetée]

(sighs from the nose)

I was supposed to disappear an hour ago. I don't like feeling this need to overachieve in order to assert my well-meaning aims, never have, and even moreso does it dishearten how definitively (I looked up the stats) others go to avoid my attempts at apperception and dialogue.

I'm a miasma-cloud wielding coin-counting bunny. They must hate me for it.
(I love speaking in hypotheticals and paranoia and melodramatics, don't I?)


by James Elston

[BadNick]

Yes and I had no idea there was a Lucky Star anime when I said that. But I did know there was no K in Lucy. So I chalk it up to just another lucky guess...which I think does have an element of coincidentalness to it.

[ring]

I'm mellow-dramatic.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I can vouch for that,
though of course not in public,
except I just did.

2/3 + 2/6 = 1

[ring]

Mathematics Zen.

[BadNick]

you're inspiring

23 from 26 = 3

[Jetée]

Is a sigh from the nose a 'snort', or does this sort of action even have a word?

[BadNick]

I don't think so, Jet. A snort is sort of a bit more vulgar sound, and a bit harsh and with a tinge of rasp to it. A sigh ..well, it's a sigh. Although my search about "nasal sigh" did turn this up:

cyanocobalamin nasal
Generic Name: cyanocobalamin nasal (sigh ah no ko BALL ah min)
Brand Names: Nascobal

Otherwise, this being the longest thread and not the nasal sigh thread, I found out that Australia Hwy 1 is the longest national highway in the world. It circumnavigates the entire Australian continent at approximately 9000 miles in length, which is enough to make me let out a nasal sigh.

[Jetée]

I very much like your random tangential research, BadNick.

It's also quite cool (and confusing) as to how the same highway passes over a pass in the Pacific to link up to that smaller island below (I'm guessing: could that be Tanzania?).

[BadNick]

Close, and I know what you mean, but it's Tasmania, home of the Tasmanian Devil.

A little over an hour ago I was watching a documentary on TV about hippos and they talked about the special communication sounds that hippos emit from their nostrils, including hippo nasal sighs...now there's another coincidental surprise! I didn't know that hippos are most closely related to whales...very closely, in fact. They used the analogy of humans are to apes as whales are to hippos. They said that hippos are the only animal on earth that can communicate both above and below water. But I don't know about that, since I recall seeing those alligators vibrating their throats to transmit sounds through the water and this also transmits sound through the air which, to me, seems like it effects other alligators nearby on land.

[Jetée]

Hm, shifting to animals I see.

Ever since I started reading Moby Dick three years ago (I'm halfway done) I've been pondering what land mammal whales used to be - there has to be a reason pirates use the term 'you slimy seadog' and 'that scallywag of a sea-rat', so I just am assuming that a whale used to be an overgrown rodent who really liked to swim a lot, and then adapted to it.

Same with pigs, deers and I think, hippos as weel: they all evolved from rats of varying sizes and circumstances.

(ah, yes; is 'the devil' of Tasmana a rodent as well? I learned some very iteresting facts about this animal the other day - it is quite the glutton!)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Seems I've always thought
the Tasmanian Devil
is marsupial.

...could easily be wrong; I've tended to think hippos were related to horses...

[BadNick]

You're right in the sense that if we go back far enough, all living things merge. For example, see that Pegasoferae ..ala Pegasus!... is in the horse family, while the Cetartiodactyla eventually led to the Hippo and Cetacea (whales), so if we step back to the Ferungulata they're from the same family.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

While fancying that,
also freely admiring
your wild research skills.

As I've often said,
the higher & deeper piled,
the better we know.

[BadNick]

"ferungulata" sounds like something I like to do with my tongue, maybe to Laura Siatheria

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I have to agree;
did you post it on "naughty"?
//this thread's lead has slipped//

[ring]

I slipped my lead along time ago.
Takes one to know one.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

so I sez, "Can't you arrest me for something?"
She looked at me like I was fucking with her & sez, "No, not right now."

-2-3=2-7=-5

[Jetée]

I forgot about the other term: the "sea cow", mighty manatee. They look very similar to Hippos, but had thought to lose the stumpy legs in favor of more able-bodied flappers and flubbers.

The mini-horse used to have fingers.

[BadNick]

We know trees and other vegetation communicate via chemcial pathways, perhaps others, also. I wonder if my very large and old willow tree in back of my house is trying to tell me something. About half hour ago, a huge branch on one side broke and fell on my neighbor's garage, and some of the upper small branches on the hood of his car; it also pulled down some wires behind our houses. The electric company hasn't showed up yet but we still have power; if it's Big Bird who comes, I'll ask for his autograph. When it broke it sounded like a bunch of firecrackers going off and that's what I thought it was until I looked outside. The several branches that were snapping made loud, sharp sounds.

[Zooksport2]

Happy Fathers day, all you blokes what are fathers....

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Trees, always telling,
by being, all kinds of things,
like a father should.

[BadNick]

Thanks, Zook. I'm a 3 timer.

I just realized Aussies do it on Sept. 6 or maybe it's the first Sunday in September. On you sofa, we do it 3rd Sunday of June.