The Obove

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Wow, look at all that ultraviolet radiation!!!! ;) Lucky we have a protective ozone layer around the Earth.

Based on very recent reports, it seems the ozone hole depletion has stopped. I hope they're right. Right now I'm helping my son write a short report on it for his chemistry class.

2x3x4/8=3

234 ate 4 which might be why she has a tummy ache

My tummy's happy
full of some cuttlefish balls
& oyster mushrooms.

yum, cuttlefish balls! that's probably why 234 ate 6 this time.

Eating them makes me
think that something that brainy
shouldn't taste so good.

They are amazing critters. I don't think I've ever tasted them. Do they taste like squid or octopus? I can also think of a couple other brainy things that taste good.

brine-brain i feel i can make a joke from this, its just not working, my brine-brain

salty dogma...Pirates of the Cerebellum

avast, matey!

That reminds me I haven't gone bowling in a while. I think the local lanes have a Friday beer bowling night....must go again.

A little more head
& they can splatter apart,
strangely unbalanced.

As a young kid I used to be a "pin boy" at the bowling alley in the basement of our school. We didn't have automatic pin pickup so my job was to pick up the fallen pins and drop them into the pin resetter machine as needed and then activate the resetter at the appropriate time. For a few extra bucks greasing my palms, during competitions I could arrange for your score to improve by tossing an extra pin down just as your ball hit the head pin.

Surprising to hear
you would ever take a bribe...
were you ever caught?

Yes, but the ensuing battle involved the two competitors and not me. I confess to having done it 3 times for two different bowlers. Hopefully this is not a mortal crime and I'll just burn a bit longer for it, though not for the longest possible sentence.

It really had nothing to do with the bribe. I did it because it sounded mischievous.

Smiling my ass off,
BadNick, at your reasoning:
I knew you were GOOD!

Longest tenpin bowling marathon world record set by Stephen Shanabrook Plano, Texas USA
Stephen Shanabrook, 24, physical therapy technician of Plano, bowled at The Plano Super Bowl, (which is open 24 hours), for five days and five hours (125 hrs) - setting the new world record for the Longest tenpin bowling marathon.

Shanabrook bowled an average of five games an hour, and saw his scores range from 5 to 198 this week at the 24-hour Plano Super Bowl.

"I've always liked bowling, but you just get into a routine and it gets mundane," Shanabrook said. "But then you've got to think back to why you started this in the first place, and that's for the charities it is supporting."

Proceeds generated by the event went to charity, allowing Shanabrook to take part in a hobby that he loves while also helping out those in need.

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The previous Guinness World Record for the Longest tenpin bowling marathon was 120 hours by Andy Milne (Canada) at Classic Bowl, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada from 24-29 October 2005.

A score of just 5?
I wonder how that happened?
Maybe he dozed off?

2+3=5+0+0

The bowling ball looks like our spinning planet.

Roast dinner for tea. I shouldn't, but what the heck...

since we've been using
I agree with "what the heck";
Fire's useful within.

does anyone else know what this Sweetest Day thing is all about?

Maybe the reason
such things tend to seem so strange
is because they are.

infalling matter, for instance.

Theres some soup on my fly!

Maybe somebody's drooling.
Are there veg'table chunks or somethings
more identifiable?

negative, chunks of carrot are crushin the little fella

I never heard of it but since I was in Ohio this past weekend, they seemed to know all about it. Apparently several states have jumped on the bandwagon to promote sweetest card sales and spending.

Swiss celebrate digging world's longest tunnel
Associated Press/AP Online By FRANK JORDANS

SEDRUN, Switzerland - Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end of the tunnel - the world's longest - when it was completed Friday.

The $10 billion, 35.4-mile (57-kilometer) tube will connect Europe's high-speed rail network and is part of a larger effort to cut in half the number of trucks - now at 1.2 million - that thunder through the Alps each year.

The joy and pride felt throughout Switzerland over digging the Gotthard Base Tunnel reflected the one cause that unites the country's wealthy city dwellers with those living in traditional villages: Protecting the beauty of the mountains.

"Together we risked a lot," said Swiss Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger. "Together we achieved a lot."

Happy belated birthday, Zooks! Hope it was a good one.

The longest tunnel's
evocative images
were very boring.

...heh?

I like this one:

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As the huge drill-head
came so grandly through the wall,
I felt a tingle.

That story makes me long for it.

(i should get so lucky)

surety's such a nice word
i should be happy i haven't got
if such strange things i could have...

(You saw the video, didn't you?)

I have seen some vids of the boring machine but not sure which one you mean. Is it this one?

YouTube - swissinfovideos's Channel

gotthard, yes!
you're reading my mind,
as I like.

Why thank you, Ring.
nice and quiet... just how I like em...

.

You're welcome.

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hey, my mother's old laptop works..here.