The Longest Thread Ever!

[Cat_Eyes]

Yes, you do. Now, make him go back to sleep. It's late.

[Zooksport2]

Originally Posted by BadNick

See, I do have a way with cats. If only my hand could reach over there and scratch its back, that would seal it.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

& then came the clubs
& a fur coat for missus
& PETA, enraged.

[BadNick]

^ reminded me of Cat People, strange movie I liked and not just because Nastassja Kinski was in it.

[Jetée]

I saw a film one early morning called The Tiger Makes Out (I think).

I'm not sure what the overall point of it was, so I classified it as a bad movie in my head.

I'll find a picture that reminds of the film's title.. (as well as getting around to re-finding that animated .gif of the planets and stars' scale).

[ring]

Jet, if I recall correctly, There is a vid somewhere in the Found on the net forum.
(The planets and stars' scale)

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by Jetée

...(as well as getting around to re-finding that animated .gif of the planets and stars' scale).

After you recently mentioned that, I searched hi and lo and inbetween for such an animated gif but didn't find it.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I'm thinking searching
"hi and lo and inbetween"
becomes the seeker.

[BadNick]

I was just inspired to search this and found that some people have named their children "Google"

Though it sounds sort of cute, I would not want a child named "Dogpile"

[Ourcrazymodern?]

If it referred to
communal activity
& not the other?

2x3=6/1+0

[BadNick]

true....getting into a pile of bodies is a nice thing

I've found that wrestling with a few dogs or rolling around with a few humans are both enjoyable activities.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Dogs are easier,
'cuz despite their giant teeth,
we're thinking faster.

[BadNick]

I almost added "simpler" to the dogs part above, along the lines of your "easier". But not because of intellect, more because rolling around with humans seems to bring up ulterior motives for me....especially human women. They're just too enjoyable.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

The freedoms we feel
are those we tend to cling to
be me thee or he.

[Jetée]

previously:

1)


2)

[ring]

You found it.

Diligence is a fine thing.

[BadNick]

ahh, cool gif. Thanks, Jet. So apparently Canis Majoris is the big dog!

For anyone interested in this, check this one out! I can't figure out how to embed it, but here's another one I just found and I like this one, too:

VY Canis Majoris ? the largest known star : Clickplay.TV

[Ourcrazymodern?]

23618

When you can't believe you eyes,
& your ears haven't owned dependance,
which sense are you gonna use?

(i have a theory...)

[Cat_Eyes]

Nice video.

My cat, Peanut, found some dirty oil somewhere and had to have his first real bath!



Yes. Yes, I am a slob.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I once had a cat
in the shed with the mower,
& "liberals" whined.

[Zooksport2]

[Jetée]

Cool incarnate, Zooks.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

[Jetée]

I don't run into much anymore, but I'm glad to have had one last chance to speak.

Have you noticed the endeavor yet? I've gotten on about it (finally).

Now, tho, what lies in wait is actually spreading it to the masses (via posterous, or something else... a blog.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Save the whole damn thread;
Not to worry, copyright!
Nobody owns this.

[Jetée]

Yeah, but too many ideas and not enough time to investige 'em all really bogs me down.

Can anyone remind me when the bulk of my whole calendar shift, mathematical alignment, 24 to 27-hour day research was? I think it was before the summer transition eclipsed in the sky, but I'm not sure that translates into a page number.

I'll remind myself to forget about it again by finding it.

[Zooksport2]

Page 531, post #21226
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/2759534-post21226.html

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/2759540-post21227.html

[BadNick]

Just in case size matters, here are some long and large ships:


N.A.I. Superba class: 381.9 meters / 1,253 feet
Built by Eriksberg Mekaniska Verkstads in Göteborg, Sweden. It was a massive ship with only two ships in it's class.




Emma Mærsk: 397 meters / 1,302 feet
A container ship owned by the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. When she was launched, Emma Mærsk was the largest container ship ever built. As of 2009 she and her 7 sister ships are the longest container ships constructed and the longest ships currently in use.[1] Officially, Emma Mærsk is able to carry around 11,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) according to the Maersk company's method of calculating capacity,[2] which, at her introduction into service, was about 1,400 more containers than any other ship is capable of carrying. - wikipedia.org




Esso Atlantic class: 406.6 meters / 1,334 feet
A supertanker that was built in 1977 by Eddsso Eastern Marine.




Batillus class: 414.2 meters / 1,359 feet

The biggest ships by gross tonnage ever constructed were four Batillus-class supertankers built in France at the end of the 1970s, having 555,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT) and a 414-meter length. Built in the Louis Joubert Lock, they were launched from the shipyard Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire. The only other ship considered by many as larger was the Knock Nevis (ex Jahre Viking, Happy Giant and Seawise Giant) of 1981, which was originally designed with a smaller tonnage than the Batillus class, but had her length and tonnage increased during construction. -wikipedia.org




Knock Nevis: 458.5 m / 1,504 ft

The Knock Nevis is a massive ship, last used as a floating storage and offloading unit (FSO). She was previously a supertanker and was the longest ship ever built, as well as possessing the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement tonnage was 646,642 tons, the heaviest of any ship of any kind. For these reasons she was generally considered the largest ship ever built.-wikipedia.org



"With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh,"

With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,
Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed;
Some lying fast at anchor in the road,
Some veering up and down, one knew not why.
A goodly vessel did I then espy
Come like a giant from a haven broad;
And lustily along the bay she strode,
Her tackling rich, and of apparel high.
The ship was nought to me, nor I to her,
Yet I pursued her with a lover's look;
This ship to all the rest did I prefer:
When will she turn, and whither? She will brook
No tarrying; where she comes the winds must stir:
On went she, and due north her journey took.

William Wordsworth

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Size matters, BadNick,
no matter what 'they' tell 'us',
you've done it again.

2x(3+6)/2=9

[ring]

I forgot what I was going to say.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

If I believed that,
I'd have to think you're human,
but you're my goddess!

[ring]

Palindrome! Thanks, Spidey, for the tip.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

If you could keep it
& I could still feel the thing,
we'd not need facebook.

[ring]

---------> Room.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

[BadNick]

you two make my head spin

[Jetée]

Man, it's already been a year.

I never get anything done.

(Thank you, Zooksport.)

I've gone ahead and exasperated myself (and my meaning to life).

(post-script: why is this daylight savings time exchange a week late?)

[Jetée]

This is quite a difficult poem to process, in the rhyming sense...

Originally Posted by BadNick

"With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh,"

With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,
Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed;
Some lying fast at anchor in the road,
Some veering up and down, one knew not why.
A goodly vessel did I then espy
Come like a giant from a haven broad;
And lustily along the bay she strode,
Her tackling rich, and of apparel high.
The ship was nought to me, nor I to her,
Yet I pursued her with a lover's look;
This ship to all the rest did I prefer:
When will she turn, and whither? She will brook
No tarrying; where she comes the winds must stir:
On went she, and due north her journey took.

William Wordsworth

It seems to go
A
B
B
A
A
B
B
A
C
D
C
D
C
D

Ah, now that I map it out, it makes a tad more sense in the rhythm and time.

(fun fact: most poems that employ an elementary rhyming scheme attached to its structure, if spoken aloud by thine, ends up being read to the tune of Gilligan's Island. I'm not sure when exactly I lost my way into reading poetry the way it was intended, but if it has a similar, or even a totally different order to its verse of rhyme, I usually try to make it fit to the tv show's tune first, and then I shake my head, because I can't escape from this isle of monotonous speech patterns. It's embedded.)

[Jetée]

Edward Gorey

[Ourcrazymodern?]

See that man sleeping?
Can you tell if he's awake
if he can't see you?