The Longest Thread Ever!

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by Jetée

[ring]

It's the memory of taste.

If someone in your dream offered a tasty morsel you'd never had before....?

I suppose our amazing creative synapses might fill in the blanks.

I sense that scantily clad females will happen,

Tasty morsels are one blink away from a tasty dish.

Go for it.

oh my, Edward got himself in a pickle.

The linens have tales to tell, I bet.

[Jetée]

for BadNick's: sensibilites and anticipations:


In case you missed it.

[BadNick]

Thanks, Jet!

Here's me in Paris ...this was probably over 30 years ago and since I'm a pack rat, I still have that sweater and leather jacket though I haven't worn either in over 25 years:



Grace, occasionally I still dream about Paris. It's usually the same dream. I'm sitting in Maxim's and there is a rich aroma of cooked foods and I'm almost salivating from that, plus I'm looking around taking in that thick Belle Epoque atmosphere. The violin player is standing by my table playing my request, Ochi Chyornye ...Dark Eyes... since the French girl I'm with has very dark eyes and black hair. He leaves and I call over the maître d' to give him a tip to give to the violin player, but I can't speak French and the maître d' "pretends" he didn't understand what I said so he pockets the tip and sends over the violin player to my table. So I tip him "again" and the French girl and I laugh about me being a dumb American tourist getting ripped off by the French. Later in Montmartre at the sex shops we buy some of those funny condoms that have gargoyle heads molded into the tips, laughing and being romantic...then I usually wake up.


^ the gargoyle pic is not mine, I just like it.

[ring]

I traveled to Africa in one of my dreams. (never been there)

I do recall being able to smell the spicy soil & foods cooking I had never
experienced in waking life. So I take that back, I have experienced
smell in dreams.

I've dreamt traveled to other planets also. Those dreams are difficult to describe
with earth words.

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

^ the gargoyle pic is not mine, I just like it.

I like it, too. Perhaps you should seek to make the picture yours for the first time (by traveling there again).

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Salsa for a porterhouse:
onions & a young Hungarian
& butter & pie cherries.

It was delectable.

[Jetée]

Has anyone else here heard or seen of this?


Say hello to Gliese 581c. A possible new homeworld that has been newly discovered to be
completely covered in ocean; a waterworld deeper than ten times that of Earth’s deepest trenches.

- - -

an experiment I might like to try is see, if say, BadNick, might start a thread just based on the above's information, as well as maybe this article/webpage, and we simulatenously post the same thread (although I, first, would have to find out how to cross over into another multi-dimensioanl plane, wherein, we both still utilize the TFP, who would get the most replies?). I'm still never going to bet on myself. I can't foster a discussion here, on any relative terms greater than the value of a dime. I suck at extracting your thoughts and opinions, and it hurts.

[BadNick]

I just checked out your link, Jet. Interesting. I also noticed Gliese 581c mentioned in my Sky & Telescope pages. My favorite part was the Goldilocks Zone.

Gliese 581c did not strike me as a possible new homeworld unless one were a live steamed shrimp or similar extra-terrestrial creature. And if you are, please come visit me and bring some cocktail sauce with you...though if I got to know you better I might not want to eat you right away.

Selsis et al seem to state it closer to my own thoughts: even "a planet in the habitable zone is not necessarily habitable" itself, and this planet "is outside what can be considered the conservative habitable zone" of the parent star, and further that if there was any water there then it was lost when the red dwarf was a strong X-ray and EUV emitter, it could have surface temperatures ranging from 700 K to 1000 K (430 to 730 °C).



The planet's mass (i.e. stronger gravity), and proximity to it's star, strongly suggest that most of the water is in water-vapor form due to a runaway greenhouse effect. Also, the speed or orbit, 13 days vs our ~365 days, suggests that life there might feel like an amusement park ride. Also, since it is in tidal lock and only one side ever faces its sun, the other side is always dark, which to me means that there will almost certainly be neverending war between the darkees and the lightees. Not to mention violent geological activity, causing many highly active volcanoes and rapid plate tectonics action.

We need to keep looking. And while we're looking, find a way to travel that far, an estimated 20.3 light-years away, within a few life-times or less, and even with that velocity, only the great-grandchildren of the original crew who would have been born on the way there, would ever get there...I suspect the kids would not agree with the adults and they'd change their minds and goals and head someplace else...like back home.

[ring]

So, the wedding is a no-go, eh?

[Jetée]

very cool insights, BadNick. But the problem with scientists is that they compare every "habitable" planet to our own, and the human chemistry, and that's just not sound to do in order to cross whatever planet off the list for life. Different evolutionary and galactic conditions produces entirely different results (unless we follow the premise for Stargate).

ring's post also reminds me of my idea to start a wedding-based theme, but I'm sure that will never get off the ground.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I'm married to you;
you don't seem to remember.
Should this give me paws?

2-3+0=1-2

[BadNick]

Very true, Jet. If we're looking for intelligent life elsewhere (as if there was any here) they might very well be totally different types of beings and need completetly different conditions.

Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?

...give me paws?...

sniff your way to Sirius Sirius - The Dog Star. Puppy Love for Ocm?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Dogs tend to love me.
So do various bitches.
Let's go star-gazing...

[Jetée]

I am the best in the world! (..when it comes to cornering, capturing the coincidental cosmic forces of kismet that courses through my specific environment of creation)

Illustrated:

[Ourcrazymodern?]

With too fine a point
one's perceptions go missing
through fancy glasses.

2x3+0=1x6

[Jetée]

the better to see extraterrestrials with, (They Live!) my dearie.

[BadNick]

I forgot to add that we should also search other dimensions ...when we figure out how. That way we don't have to leave home to explore the universes.

[ring]

I really should start that Botox-free zone, thread.
Only images of people with character lines,wrinkles & jowls will be allowed.

Should I? Will I?

[BadNick]

Only The Shadow knows!

...and ring, in case they are not one and the same. After all, who knows? I mean other than The Shadow and ring.

I'll start digging out my appropriately aged photos, just in case. Ahh, it's a sweet old world, right Lucinda? I love her song Lines Around Your Eyes. Well, I like most of her songs.

[ring]

That reminds me of a Marianne Faithful song- 'At the age of thirty seven', were
part of the lyrics. Alas, the sound card on my computer is fried.

I can hum it it my head though. Good enough for now.

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

I forgot to add that we should also search other dimensions ...when we figure out how. That way we don't have to leave home to explore the universes.

I'm really starting to want to believe in multi-dimensional theory; it makes so much sense (tangent vortex triangles)!

[Jetée]

I also think I queue too many new ideas and threads to start, when it is mainly just used to entertain myself, and by measure of, share my joy with the TFP. Still, it would be nice to get a good word now and again.

(and I'm sorry I have yet to create my "Why Do we say that?" thread, the "chicks + bikes" topic, the "knowledge we hold" discussion, the "creative advertising" commons, and the "music videos as short subjects", subject. My procrastinator-ish imp inside me really hates working for things that, in all likelihood, will never be fully appreciated by the masses, like much of my image-based, discussion-prompting meta-themes. I suck so many eggs, and I don't like eggs all that much, unless they're devilled.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Wishing Mom Happy Birthday,
"You noticed I drew eighty candles?"
"But I'm only thirty-nine!"

...old family joke.

[BadNick]

Happy Birthday, Mom. If I may call you Mom, Ocm?'s Mom.

Originally Posted by Jetée

I also think I queue too many new ideas and threads to start, when it is mainly just used to entertain myself, and by measure of, share my joy with the TFP. Still, it would be nice to get a good word now and again...

Jet, I also find your plethora of interesting ideas to be joyful, thought provoking and entertaining, as well as pleasingly coincidental.

"Plethora" is my "good word".

It sort of sounds like a Japanese flying sea monster who may have destoyed Sapporo. I chose Sapporo since I don't recall that it's had its share of monster-induced destruction. Shortly after Plethora destroyed Sapporo, I imagine you (Jetée) joined forces with Shobijin, since two cute little powerful partners are usually better than one. Together, this Triad of Power may very well have been the conception for Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. Part of this weird thought stream may have been caused by my association of "Mom", otherwise Mother, with Mothra. But I'm not yet sure.

[Jetée]

Shibojin sounds, concidental?

I know the Japanese word (kanji) most commonly associated with the romaji 'Jin' refers to a 'human', or 'being'.

I wonder what the 'Shibo' stands for, though? (something in my rusty Japanese vocabulary is telling me it might mean 'dog', but I think, contradictorily, that word in question might verily be 'shiba' instead.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

A monster, flying,
quite coincidentally,
made you say my name.

(Where's the spaghetti?)

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by Jetée

FSM + Koshka by ~cave-baby on deviantART

*context (I can't believe this has a wiki page, and so long, too!)

[BadNick]

Maybe we can have a Pastafarian reunion? ...no disrespect intended toward Rastas. My wife makes a mean spaghetti pie.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I'd like to taste it.

While reading "Hunters of Dune"
I was thinking of shaving my balls
& lost track of "Deep Space Nine."

[Jetée]

I have bad luck timing today; for the time in probably half a year, I venture into portraits, take a minute glance around, and notice every one packed up and moved away from me (just today).

It's also taken me approximately 2-3 weeks to mow the lawn through and through, and that doesn't really pertain, but I'm just disapp-pointed in myself so, enough to let it out.

I'm trying to help oliver, as well as myself, in uncovering the particular film this scene is from; would any of my fellow fogeys know the context, if not the actual title of this cinematic adventure?

[BadNick]

Jet, that's from this flick, Barney Oldfield's Race for Life circa 1913, check it out

YouTube - Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (Part 1)

YouTube - Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (Part 1)

[Jetée]

You are like a (flattering complimentary noun) in the sky, BadNick!

Have you ever heard of the film red balloon, by (some director)? I have the name scribbled somewhere in my notes, and its because I watched the short film some weeks ago, but I wonder when I'll be fully unfulfilled with something to do at the moment before I finally get around to searching for it.

It's weird when your life comes to a point where you just pray to have nothing at all to do, perhaps not even open your eyes, or eat, for the entire session of the date, just to be able to recoup from the stress of always shifting around like a molecule.

[BadNick]

I love Red Balloon! I consider it one of the best short films ever made. I first saw it back in 1956 when it was first released; it was shown in Philadelphia in "Cinerama" at the old Boyd Theatre on Chestnut St. This was a large semi-wrap-around screen with multiple projectors to give a more enraptured view. Red Balloon was the second feature, the 1956 version of Around the World in Eighty Days was the main attraction. I remember the popcorn was also very good.

[ring]

Originally Posted by BadNick

Ever since I was a little kid and first saw it, I really like this 1 luft balloon

I found it!

---------- Post added at 08:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:45 AM ----------

Originally Posted by BadNick

Ever since I was a little kid and first saw it, I really like this 1 luft balloon

I found it!
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[BadNick]

thanks, Grace. It seems you have a wonderful memory.

Now that you guys reminded me of it, I'll have to rent Red Balloon and force my kids to watch it....I'll pretend I'm not really forcing them so they don't resist.

[ring]

You landed on post: 23,000 also.
A very happy belated congratulations, Nick.

[BadNick]

Thank you. I noticed the 23,000 a couple days after it happened.

So now that I just looked, I also see that the 23032 post above was another palindrome.

[ring]

It can be a comfort to believe we know where we are in the scheme of things.

Waxing Gibbous, 83% of the Moon is Illuminated

[BadNick]

Anybody else want to go on a balloon ride around the world? Since I'm the captain, I can assure you that we're only floating in nice weather, day and night, and there will be no bandits shooting at our balloon.