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ON A LESS SERIOUS NOTE: Surviving Quicksand and Other 1970s Perils
In retrospect, it just may have been possible that many of those quicksand scenes were about featuring a damsel-in-distress getting wet.
But it wasn’t just pretty girls. The Skipper was almost lost to quicksand on Gilligan’s Island.
… as was Lord Beasley Waterford.
From Get Smart to Batman to Blazing Saddles and even into the ‘80s with The Princess Bride, quicksand was ubiquitous. If any of you lost friends or loved ones to quicksand during the quicksand epidemic, my apologies for the insensitivity of this post.
My dad had to go on a business trip to Puerto Rico, and I recall obsessing about his route, and being extremely upset that his employer would send him on a flight that skirted the mysterious black hole that was the Bermuda Triangle. From the archives, here is an old New York Times piece about the Triangle:
The early origin of the Triangle myth stretches as far back as Columbus, who noted in his logbook a haywire compass, strange lights, and a burst of flame falling into the sea. Columbus, as well as other seamen after him, also encountered a harrowing stretch of ocean now known as the Sargasso Sea. Ancient tales tell of sailboats stranded forever in a windless expanse of water, surrounded by seaweed and the remnants of other unfortunate vessels. In the past 500 years at least 50 ships and 20 aircraft have vanished in the Triangle, most without a trace -- no wreckage, no bodies, no nothing. Many disappeared in reportedly calm waters, without having sent a distress signal. Then there is the case of Flight 19. At 2:10 on the afternoon of December 5, 1945, five TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a routine two-hour training mission. Their last radio contact was at 4 PM. The planes and 27 men were never seen or heard from again. The official navy report said the planes disappeared "as if they had flown to Mars."When I heard about all the cruise ships sailing out of Miami, I wondered what sort of horrors the passengers on those boats were experiencing, and how many ships never came back at all. Suffice it to say, I was quite adamant that if the Throckmorton family ever went on a cruise, it would have to be a Pacific Ocean cruise. Preferably this one…
I’m not exactly sure why, but we felt safe from UFOs by day. After dark, however there was definitely an elevated risk level. Several blocks from my street there was a 7-11, which was the commercial hub of our childhood. From candy to baseball cards to slurpees to pinball, this was our favorite destination. Strolling over to the 7-11 with my grade school buddies on a weekend night was as good as it got, but the shortest route cut through the darkened school yard and an unlit park. Obviously, those dark open spaces were where UFO abductions were most likely to happen. So we either ran through those open areas, or we did the more prudent thing and added a couple blocks to our walk, staying on streets lined with houses. As everybody knows, UFOs don’t abduct kids on residential streets.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Ciampino -- Do we forget how tetanus happens? at January 06, 2023 08:00 PM (qfLjt)
From the previous thread: I know what the pencil test is but what is the pencil sharpener test?
Posted by: Ciampino - perkiness and waht else? at January 06, 2023 08:04 PM (qfLjt)
https://youtu.be/hlt3la8ritk
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 06, 2023 08:04 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 08:06 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:08 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Some Dude at January 06, 2023 08:08 PM (Iynsv)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:08 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:08 PM (ynpvh)
There were many, but almost all of them were emblazoned with the "Acme" logo.
Posted by: Wiley Coyote at January 06, 2023 08:09 PM (eOEVl)
Feeling comfy with new neighbors, good fields of fire, and your Calvin and Hobbs collection?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:10 PM (u82oZ)
From candy to baseball cards to slurpees to pinball, this was our favorite destination.
__________
Don't forget Playboy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:10 PM (SYZqE)
https://youtu.be/hlt3la8ritk
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 06, 2023 08:04 PM (xPl2J)
The La Brea Tar Pits.
La Brea means "the tar" in Spanish, so really
The (the tar) tar pits.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:11 PM (bfyic)
When I was in elementary school, they showed us an animated movie about infection diseases. Scared the living p*** out of me.
To this day, I fear syphilis.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:11 PM (eOEVl)
So I'm going with man eating sharks that kill thousands every year.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 08:11 PM (ZLI7S)
Then again, I embarrassed my parents mightily at the age of 5 or 6 when we went to Six Flags and went on the Jungle Cruise ride - the "captain" did a great job scaring the bejeezus out of me by mentioning that there were piranhas in the water. When I got splashed with some of the water, I began screaming uncontrollably. It took Dad a few minutes to calm me down.
I had a very active imagination....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 06, 2023 08:11 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Quite a few of those were found in the woods we weren't supposed to be in. Guess hobos liked to whack off a lot.
Posted by: Some Dude at January 06, 2023 08:11 PM (Iynsv)
La Brea means "the tar" in Spanish, so really
The (the tar) tar pits.
Brought to you by the same people who brought you the ATM machine.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:12 PM (eOEVl)
I taught myself, around the age of 10, to be able to identify Soviet bombers. Memorized all the silhouette charts.
Posted by: Bert G at January 06, 2023 08:12 PM (aCgRi)
Posted by: 496 at January 06, 2023 08:12 PM (F1I3H)
From the previous thread: I know what the pencil test is but what is the pencil sharpener test?
Posted by: Ciampino - perkiness and waht else? at January 06, 2023 08:04 PM (qfLjt)
She could fit a classic hand-cranked pencil sharpener in her inframammary crease and retain it there, no hands.
Huge yabbos.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:12 PM (4I/2K)
La Brea means "the tar" in Spanish, so really
The (the tar) tar pits.
Brought to you by the same people who brought you the ATM machine.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:12 PM (eOEVl)
And hot water heater. Because we don't need no steenkin' cold water heated, just hot water.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:13 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:13 PM (eOEVl)
From the previous thread: I know what the pencil test is but what is the pencil sharpener test?
Posted by: Ciampino - perkiness and waht else? at January 06, 2023 08:04 PM (qfLjt)
She could fit a classic hand-cranked pencil sharpener in her inframammary crease and retain it there, no hands.
Huge yabbos.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:12 PM (4I/2K)
Yabbo dabbo doo!
Posted by: Fred Flinstone at January 06, 2023 08:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Dorcus Blimlime at January 06, 2023 08:14 PM (Htl4B)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:14 PM (eoQWY)
Feeling comfy with new neighbors, good fields of fire, and your Calvin and Hobbs collection?
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Hey Salty! We are doing well - neighbors seem to be great folks, finally closed on the old place (and the check cleared!), and I'm within 5 miles of two public ranges and one private. So, life is good! Things good in your world?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:14 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: 496 at January 06, 2023 08:14 PM (F1I3H)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:13 PM (eGTCV)
You were afraid of diaphanous wear?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (u82oZ)
Damn.
Posted by: Bosk at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (ZVuYy)
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:08 PM (u82oZ)
Never fell out of one, but I remember the accomplishment when you got so high your head came through the leaves and the branches supporting you were thin as can be.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:16 PM (eoQWY)
Of course, I was too young to appreciate the titular redundancy.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:16 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 06, 2023 08:17 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:17 PM (u82oZ)
To this day, I fear syphilis.
Posted by: Archimedes
Bad as those films were, they couldn't have been as terrorizing as the USS VD Navy film. They showed actual d*cks in terrible stages of Rotyercockoff.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:17 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: 496 at January 06, 2023 08:14 PM (F1I3H)
Had younger brother deathly afraid of the some dishwashing meanie in the commercials. When the dishwashing detergent made him go, he'd stop crying and start laughing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:17 PM (ynpvh)
La Brea means "the tar" in Spanish, so really
The (the tar) tar pits.
Brought to you by the same people who brought you the ATM machine.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:12 PM (eOEVl)
Don't forget The Los Angeles Angels. The (the angels) Angels.
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:17 PM (bfyic)
Posted by: DB - light up a Kent at January 06, 2023 08:18 PM (geLO8)
Not nearly as much as me packing up all of my most treasured toys and dolls into a container and bringing it with me into the living room every Saturday morning so that I could watch cartoons on the color TV. If there was a fire, I would have my good stuff with me! (I knew not to go back into the house for anything if we had to bug out quickly)
Honestly, I don't know how my parents survived my childhood...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 06, 2023 08:18 PM (SRRAx)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCupueEFgD8
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 06, 2023 08:19 PM (3Or4S)
Well, if we're going there, there was nothing to compare to Signal 30.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:19 PM (eOEVl)
And just for the sake of historical accuracy, it's "major league yabbos".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:15 PM (eOEVl)
Apparently, hers were in a league beyond major league. Alas, never did meet the young lass to confirm. My roommate ran with a bunch of skydivers at that time and she was in that circle.
I was a wuffo. As in "Wuffo you jump outta a perfectly good airplane??"
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:19 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (uNylN)
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (bfyic)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (eGTCV)
They showed actual d*cks in terrible stages of Rotyercockoff.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:17 PM (qoGsy)
___________
Flies cause disease. Keep yours zipped.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (MoZTd)
And I did not like school at all until 3rd grade. I have no memory of K - 2nd grade.
Not too fond of school in general, come to think of it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: 496 at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (+A2Sh)
Posted by: Lee Also at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (Pp+oh)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 06, 2023 08:19 PM (3Or4S)
I used to visit Volo Bog near Chicago every so often which was a nice walk and had the great name, Volo Bog.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:21 PM (eoQWY)
Quicksand is real, but rare, and you'll never sink in it, at least below your head. However, you can get stuck in it -- think of getting your foot stuck in a muddy mire, the suction being so strong, it's hard to move.
There have been deaths due to exposure and dehydration from getting stuck in quicksand and muddy bogs and such, but they are very rare.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 06, 2023 08:21 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2023 08:22 PM (CaJIi)
>>Interesting timing. Jaws just came on AMC.
I have an UHD 4K remaster of Jaws, when that little Kinter boy gets it, he really gets it in 4K.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2023 08:22 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at January 06, 2023 08:22 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: InZona
The Johnny Quest theme song is one of the great ones. Great show until Race Bannon sued Dr. Quest for custody of Johnny. They couldn't get past the bad blood after that.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:22 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (bfyic)
it wasn't an alien, it was Dr Zinn's robot spy. I thought it was only a little spooky and cute when it was stunned by a tank main gun round hitting it.
Now the mummy episode, THAT was freaky. Music still gets me.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (ABZrG)
Saturday morning cartoons are so unique to the past. There are cartoons on somewhere now 24/7. There are probably hundreds of channels and streams devoted to them. But having cartoon silliness crammed into one morning on one day while the rest of the week was your own imagination I think made us better.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (dyALl)
I learned to hold my pee until morning, just so that I wouldn't get grabbed and dragged under the bed in the middle of the night
Just about jumped out of my skin when I saw that scene in The Sixth Sense where the girl grabbed Haley Joel Osment. And by that time, I was old enough to know better!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Lirio100 at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (w/VHS)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (+Wcyp)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at January 06, 2023 08:24 PM (mCh4j)
He literally just got it.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 08:24 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2023 08:24 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:24 PM (bfyic)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at January 06, 2023 08:24 PM (24fqN)
Honestly, I don't know how my parents survived my childhood...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 06, 2023 08:18 PM (SRRAx)
Sounds like if you got too frisky, they could just shout FIRE and you'd be outside for a while. Like seven years.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:24 PM (eoQWY)
I learned to hold my pee until morning, just so that I wouldn't get grabbed and dragged under the bed in the middle of the night
Just about jumped out of my skin when I saw that scene in The Sixth Sense where the girl grabbed Haley Joel Osment. And by that time, I was old enough to know better!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (SRRAx)
Give Poltergeist a miss then.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:25 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:25 PM (MoZTd)
Saturday morning cartoons are so unique to the past. There are cartoons on somewhere now 24/7. There are probably hundreds of channels and streams devoted to them. But having cartoon silliness crammed into one morning on one day while the rest of the week was your own imagination I think made us better.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (0fVbu)
Just don't watch them as an adult. A younger brother was watching "Thundar, the Barbarian" and he was flabberghasted as to how inane the storylines were.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:25 PM (ynpvh)
The United Arab Republic.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:25 PM (dyALl)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:25 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:26 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 08:26 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:26 PM (u82oZ)
Taking a ride from a stranger was a no-no.
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:25 PM (eGTCV)
___________
He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:26 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (xPl2J)
In Japan I enjoyed watching Sumo wrestling matches on TV, and paid close attention when the Shinto priests were blessing the event.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (eGTCV)
Concur. LSD, Dirty Hippies and the STD infected Dirty Hippie's Broads were the scary things.
The Manson Family was stalking every neighborhood back then...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (R/m4+)
I would just like to point out that there exists a two part episode crossover of Love Boat with Charlie's Angels. It is Charlie's Angels S4 E1 and E2 co starring Judy Landers and many, many bikinis.
https://tinyurl.com/yvbj5t6m
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (cupoy)
We were at Mont Saint Michel this summer and went hiking around the bay when the tide went out.
Our guide told us that there were areas of quicksand around the bay which were a problem for knights in armor in medieval times but not so much for us. To demonstrate this he got onto quicksand and let himself sink up a bit past his knees. Then sort of payed down on the sand and pulled himself out.
I tried it up to above my ankles.
Basically, if you don't stand around on it and don't move in place too much, it's not particularly dangerous.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (KLPy8)
Gangs, arsonists, pimps, junkies, muggers, corrupt cops, stoned parents...
You know, the usual.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (yQpMk)
We got a couple audio-visual warnings about playing with blasting caps. We all looked at each other: "Where do these lucky kids find blasting caps??"
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (24fqN)
IF WOTC deems your work has racist or discriminatory content, you are nuked.
WOTC can nuke your license on a whim.
No content like online character generators or video games are allowed. Only static electronic media is allowed. Or you get nuked.
You must report all revenue to WOTC and they decide what you owe them. There are three tiers and only the Expert, over $750K, will have to pay royalties. But WOTC reserves the right to change these thresholds to nuke you later.
If you fund raise using Kickstarter, WOTC only wants 20%. Other platforms, 25%.
WOTC claims a perpetual right to third party content created under OGL 1.1 without needing to paying for the content even if WOTC itself distributes it.
And yes WOTC can revoke OGL 1.0a because 'irrevocable' is not in that document's language.
So yes run away fast if this really becomes the new OGL. WOTC makes the Empire at Bespin seem like Mr. Rogers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (dyALl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:23 PM (dyALl)
Dr Zinn had style. Imagine building your spy so well it couldn't be damaged by tanks, flamethrowers, machine guns...but just in case Dr Quest just happens to have a new invention that will crash your spider-spaceship-plane and destroy it, you have repurposed the eyeball to receive a transmission from your secret lair so you can gloat at him before self destructing the eye.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:28 PM (eoQWY)
Anyway, we watched a presentation at church one evening-- about "barbs" and birth defects-- probably sponsored by the March of Dimes. Ugh! Photos!
And then there were the TV commercials. One (metlife?) showed a kid shooting up in his room, as his mom called him down for dinner...
It left a mark. I experimented in later years but could never bring myself to inject anything. And painkillers nauseate me, so no junkie here.
Posted by: JQ at January 06, 2023 08:28 PM (o0Fxd)
Not any particular teenagers.... this was a nameless, faceless blob of a villain, but it was always The Teenagers that every kid had to be afraid of.
Posted by: 496 at January 06, 2023 08:28 PM (+A2Sh)
Don't know where I got it but I was afraid of them getting chopped off by a boogie man.
Posted by: Bosk at January 06, 2023 08:28 PM (ZVuYy)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 06, 2023 08:29 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (yQpMk)
You need to save those kind of words for mummy attacks.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:29 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:20 PM (eGTCV)
Concur. LSD, Dirty Hippies and the STD infected Dirty Hippie's Broads were the scary things.
The Manson Family was stalking every neighborhood back then...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (R/m4+)
"Reefer Madness" was waaay before my time.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (24fqN)
^^Totally this.^^
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 06, 2023 08:29 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Archimedes
Oo! Oo! They also showed 'Mechanized Death' to us in Drivers Ed. A great one!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:30 PM (qoGsy)
We looked at each other for a minute and dad asked if I was OK. I scrabbled around and couldn't get a purchase to pull myself out, and said something like, "I am stuck like a bogged cow" and then because it was too silly, I started mooing frantically.
Dad was not amused
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 08:30 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2023 08:30 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2023 08:30 PM (TgNpw)
Hmmm, maybe I should have read the content...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2023 08:31 PM (Do5/p)
Not any particular teenagers.... this was a nameless, faceless blob of a villain, but it was always The Teenagers that every kid had to be afraid of.
Posted by: 496 at January 06, 2023 08:28 PM (+A2Sh)
Yeah, when the pack of us were running the woods across the creek the one thing we were on the lookout for was "The Teenagers". Sometimes they had built a treehouse or a fort we could sneak onto or play on, but if they caught you there, DEAD.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:31 PM (eoQWY)
Ever since the "this is your brain on drugs" psa, I can't eat fried eggs. Scrambled is okay. Ironic.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:31 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2023 08:22 PM (CaJIi)
When I grew up and had children of my own, I recognized the wisdom of the mothers of my childhood - poor things just wanted to be able to eat lunch in peace!
I employed a very similar trope when we would go "camqping" with my husband's family near a river. Told the kids that the river didn't "open" until 10:00 am. Got to sleep in past the Crack of dawn AND eat breakfast as well.
(Unfortunately, DD#2 "caught" me when she asked the people at the campground office why the river didn't open earlier in the day. Busted!)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:25 PM (4I/2K)
I was about to mention that clown. Yeeesh!
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (bfyic)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:29 PM (eoQWY)
I swear the bad guy died in a rhyming couplet:
No, No, it cannot be
The Spirit of Anubis
following me
Aiyeee!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2023 08:31 PM (Do5/p)
We're supposed to read the content?
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (+B4ds)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (4I/2K)
We were there looking for sharks teeth. My friend grew up doing it, wandering around the sand pits looking for sharks teeth, so he really scored big -- he found one as big as his hand.
Posted by: Lee Also at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (YPgjG)
On the other hand, our quicksand didn't have any buxom lasses in need of rescuing. That certainly would have changed my risk-reward analysis.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (CkFy6)
That was true.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Mr Garrison at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (+Wcyp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:33 PM (dyALl)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (ynpvh)
Hmmm, maybe I should have read the content...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2023 08:31 PM (Do5/p)
___________
Let's not start acquiring bad habits.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: kallisto at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (AJkyX)
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (bfyic)
>>Anyone been on a plane hijacked to Cuba?
No, but that would make a hell of a plot to a Michael Mann movie.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (bfyic)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:29 PM (ynpvh)
What's funny is how clean cut the drug addled crazies are in the shows. I remember one I got a VCR tape of where a biker gang leading the guy? Girl? down the "Route" to drug addiction were so clean cut with white or grey cloth jackets that your mom would have made you marry them right there.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (4I/2K)
Ever since the "this is your brain on drugs" psa, I can't eat fried eggs. Scrambled is okay. Ironic.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 08:31 PM (eOEVl)
Good thing no PSA for going to prison:
This is you ass BEFORE prison: °
This is you ass AFTER prison: O
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:33 PM (dyALl)
That gives me chills to this day!
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (bfyic)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (u73oe)
Forty some years later my mom asks if I want the clock. She felt terrible after I told her why I didn't want it.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (PX01u)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (ynpvh)
Well now you don't have to fear, they won't lock him up in the first place.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (eoQWY)
The Periscope channel on YouTube has all these old drug and alky films, along with plenty of other nostalgic ephemeral films. I never run out of fun stuff to watch there.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (24fqN)
Posted by: Toad-O at January 06, 2023 08:36 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: JQ at January 06, 2023 08:36 PM (o0Fxd)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 08:36 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (eGTCV)
They poach better in milk
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (eoQWY)
Everybody in Dragnet was clean cur.
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Toad-O at January 06, 2023 08:36 PM (cct0t)
And Fred Flintstone. A karate chop-chop....
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (bfyic)
Forty some years later my mom asks if I want the clock. She felt terrible after I told her why I didn't want it.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (PX01u)
I had one of those Kit Kat Clocks just as they got a bit trendy and thus overpriced. It worked ok for a long time.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (eoQWY)
Anyone been on a plane hijacked to Cuba?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:32 PM (MoZTd)
Can't say I have. That's oddly specific...
Was on a flight once that was taking off from Denver. I tuned the radio to the pilot channel and as we lifted off, we made a somewhat sharp turn in the air. The tower said, "That was a sharp turn..." Pilot responded, "Yeah, sorry" or something to that effect.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Annie Rose at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (c+Du/)
Posted by: JQ at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (o0Fxd)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:37 PM (eGTCV)
Not the hippies.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:38 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 06, 2023 08:38 PM (oWBc3)
So yes run away fast if this really becomes the new OGL. WOTC makes the Empire at Bespin seem like Mr. Rogers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (dyALl)
The former WOTC exec who wrote 1.0 has apparently said that it was absolutely the original intent to not ever change it and his successors are worthless assholes. But that's not the sort of thing that would matter until there's lots of lawyers duking it out in court.
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (mCh4j)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (dyALl)
126 I remember a preacher in Bible camp cooking an egg in a glass of alcohol.
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (eGTCV)
LOL, church school terror was always the best!
I mean, hell!
Posted by: Auspex at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (rsCxw)
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:38 PM (eoQWY)
Okay they had long hair but they were clean.
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (h7ejD)
She also had an uncanny similarity to Bette Davis in The Nanny.
_____________
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" still creeps me out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem
It always makes me smile to think of folks that just happen upon this place randomly and read for 30 minutes or so.
What da fuque is that?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (ynpvh)
Well now you don't have to fear, they won't lock him up in the first place.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:35 PM (eoQWY)
Well that, and he's dead. Mostly that he's dead.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (ynpvh)
I've camped in the Savannah River swamp dozens of times and never seen the wickalar, but I've heard him, or her as the case may be.
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (0OP+5)
There's a Wolf Moon on the rise tonight. In the Indian lore of full Moon names, the January full Moon was called the Wolf Moon, because they thought the howling of the wolves at the Moon was particularly woeful and baleful due to the slim pickin's of prey in the dead of winter.
So, make sure to go out and howl at the Moon tonight. It's a howling Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (Mzdiz)
Kids on bikes were open season. Really hated wolfhounds.
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (mCh4j)
____________
We didn't think much of you either.
Posted by: Hadrian's Borzoi at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (oWBc3)
PS I still hang them all in the same direction.
Posted by: Wenda at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (uFqRH)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at January 06, 2023 08:40 PM (24fqN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
"The Bad Seed" put the freak into me also.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (qoGsy)
I so regret not going there when I was in France.
Posted by: kallisto at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (AJkyX)
Posted by: Toad-O at January 06, 2023 08:36 PM (cct0t)
Had a dream like that once. Dreamt there were people working way down in a canyon/hole. I fell in and was falling, and falling and falling...then when I hit the bottom, stood up and it was only three feet deep. Woke up on the floor, having fallen out of the top bunk bed.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: InZona at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (bfyic)
Heh. I spent a fair portion of my childhood growing up in Maryland at the rim of the Appalachians. Up in the hills there was a shack where the fabled and feared "mountain man" lived. As kids, we used to give that area a wide berth.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (ZLI7S)
Now they are teaching our kids in schools...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (BpYfr)
https://youtu.be/hlt3la8ritk
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 06, 2023 08:04 PM (xPl2J)
The La Brea Tar Pits.
La Brea means "the tar" in Spanish, so really
The (the tar) tar pits.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:10 PM (ynpvh)
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Sounds like they came from Mongolia.
Posted by: Ciampino - Tartaric acid is not from petroleum at January 06, 2023 08:42 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 06, 2023 08:42 PM (Er3sM)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:42 PM (dyALl)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (ynpvh)
I had a dream like that, it was War of the Worlds and I was escaping Martian machines on a bike. Got hit with the heat gun and crashed and woke up off the bottom bunk near the wall, on top of the heating register for the room and it was on.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:43 PM (eoQWY)
126 I remember a preacher in Bible camp cooking an egg in a glass of alcohol.
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (eGTCV)
LOL, church school terror was always the best!
I mean, hell!
Posted by: Auspex at January 06, 2023 08:39 PM (rsCxw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsAE2HK0FA
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:43 PM (ynpvh)
my sis, who is 4 years older than me, was scared stiff of the place
when i was 12, I rode my bike up to the house. My sis, thinking I would be eaten or something, called the cops from a woman's house
they eventually tore down the house and Eastfield College now sits on the site
my sis who believed in the myth went onto graduate from Rice and just retired from her medical practice
all kinds of people believe in ghosts and stuff
Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2023 08:43 PM (us2H3)
Such a great movie. From a child's perspective it was pretty scary. Bette Davis was so good in that.
Posted by: kallisto at January 06, 2023 08:43 PM (AJkyX)
https://youtu.be/KTmatjyd4KM
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:42 PM (dyALl)
I love a good howl as long as it isn't coming from my backyard.
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (eGTCV)
And that touch of OCD that makes life such a comfortable place sometimes.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (PX01u)
Now they are teaching our kids in schools...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 08:41 PM (BpYfr)
Kids in our neighborhood would have 'gone through' a van with candy like Sherman through Atlanta. Without even knowing he was a pedo. We were maniacs.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (4fYsM)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (ynpvh)
Hahaha...yup. One time a group of hippies came thru our skool parking lot and were sitting under a tree....smoking cigarettes and talking about hiking cross country in search of Jesus. All five of them looked like Charlie Manson.
We knew what they really wanted...I think one of our teachers made them move on in their search.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis 2024 at January 06, 2023 08:45 PM (lzd36)
I worked with a woman who was born in Cuba and had to leave by plane about 1961.
Soldiers took her and her sister to a separate building at the airport and took all their jewelry. Oddly they let her brothers keep their watches, which were more valuable.
She still had nightmares 50 years later.
Posted by: Auspex at January 06, 2023 08:45 PM (aNEWQ)
https://youtu.be/-FsWAS-C6UQ
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 06, 2023 08:45 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 06, 2023 08:45 PM (oWBc3)
And that touch of OCD that makes life such a comfortable place sometimes.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (xhaym)
I spent a few months just getting all the same type of hanger that had a pivoting top so it could be quickly twisted to come off the same way.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:45 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at January 06, 2023 08:18 PM (SRRAx)
Sounds like if you got too frisky, they could just shout FIRE and you'd be outside for a while. Like seven years.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:24 PM (eoQWY)
I never told them WHY I did that!
Then again, Dad was scared that we would get malaria from the house seized mosquitoes that hung around in the backyard in Houston.
Or that the guy driving the ice cream truck would lace our frozen greats with LSD.
Or that we would get skin cancer from being out in the sun (this was BEFORE anyone had even heard about that; I was a bit of a social outcast thanks to Dad....)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 08:46 PM (SRRAx)
I'm suddenly seeing a LOT of ads, multiple per day, wanting this US Navy Retiree, to join... the Army?
I know they are havin probs meeting quota, but as these ads ARE paid for by my Tax dollar... kinda pisses me off.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 08:46 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Mark1971
I had completely forgotten about that one.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:46 PM (qoGsy)
I blame my mother, who professed to hate cats.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 08:46 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:47 PM (MoZTd)
Dodged snow snakes ... all the time ... tricky little bastards ....
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 06, 2023 08:47 PM (pNxlR)
my sis, who is 4 years older than me, was scared stiff of the place
when i was 12, I rode my bike up to the house. My sis, thinking I would be eaten or something, called the cops from a woman's house
they eventually tore down the house and Eastfield College now sits on the site
my sis who believed in the myth went onto graduate from Rice and just retired from her medical practice
all kinds of people believe in ghosts and stuff
Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2023 08:43 PM (us2H3)
You don't want me talking about the strange stuff I've seen and experienced...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:34 PM (ynpvh)
When I was little we lived in NY when Son of Sam was committing murders. I remember my mom talking to the downstairs neighbor about how he was targeting girls with long brown hair, and I was afraid he was gonna get me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 06, 2023 08:48 PM (o1JBI)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis 2024 at January 06, 2023 08:45 PM (lzd36)
They never got our neighborhood but there was the 73 Xenia strike where a half dozen leveled this town. We had a bus driver who took us in through the national guard lines to her neighborhood on a field trip to see it. Lots of houses better than ours scattered and flattened. Then next to it others perfectly fine.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:48 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (4fYsM)
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Damn...That's a pretty harsh punishment for shoplifting...(about the most serious crime we ever considered...)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 08:49 PM (BpYfr)
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2023 08:49 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 08:50 PM (Mzdiz)
I'm suddenly seeing a LOT of ads, multiple per day, wanting this US Navy Retiree, to join... the Army?
I know they are havin probs meeting quota, but as these ads ARE paid for by my Tax dollar... kinda pisses me off.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2023 08:46 PM (oHd/0)
During Gulf War I, there was an 89-year-old that was called back to service.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 06, 2023 08:51 PM (SLnCd)
I blame my mother, who professed to hate cats.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 08:46 PM (Mzdiz)
To be fair, I did encounter a rabid bat once. It was daytime and he was under a trailer. Animal control took it, and sure enough it was rabid.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at January 06, 2023 08:44 PM (4fYsM)
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Damn...That's a pretty harsh punishment for shoplifting...(about the most serious crime we ever considered...)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2023 08:49 PM (BpYfr)
I felt I owed it to them. Fresca?
Posted by: Judge Smails at January 06, 2023 08:52 PM (4I/2K)
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I don't know about cultural but perils is what childhood and teenhood is all about. While Mothers were busy and at the age of 4-5 a bunch of us kids 4-7 in age, walked down our street to the river, The Nile at its source from Lake Victoria, in order to play by the shoreline made up of rocks and flowing water. We didn't think about crocodiles and there were plenty. Our fun was ended within the hour by the arrival of extremely agitated Mothers.
Posted by: Ciampino - Denial is also a river in Africa at January 06, 2023 08:52 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: jim
"SGT Smuckatelli, get your sorry. . . "
Hey LT, go f*ck yourself. What are you going to do? Cut my hair and send me to the sandbox?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (0OP+5)
I blame my mother, who professed to hate cats.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 08:46 PM (Mzdiz)
Yeah, cats *can* do that they just usually don't. And they tend to give fair warning. When we got bit or scratched Mom would ask what we were doing and yes, it was usually us at fault. I just didn't mind having something that might be dangerous but could be understood.
Dogs, though, some of them are just coming at you to bite ya.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (eoQWY)
Playing basketball at the hoop next to the street . . . Until 10 pm on a school night and 1 am in the summer.
Riding bikes, walking around talking, exploring new construction sites, just disappearing for an entire day at a time. Such glorious freedom in 1970s Eugene Oregon.
I still catch myself grinning about some of the stupid shit I managed to survive. My childhood was perfect.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (233bX)
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at January 06, 2023 08:27 PM (24fqN)
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Right? That was the closest we'd ever get to finding land mines.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:54 PM (dyALl)
1. Dont go north of 92nd St
2. Dont call from the cops, we're not coming
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2023 08:54 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2023 08:54 PM (TgNpw)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:50 PM (ynpvh)
For our parents 50th wedding anniversary us kids sent the parents on an Alaskan cruise. I made up a fake recall order for my dad and had a NG officer buddy deliver it to his house in full dress uniform.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 08:55 PM (PX01u)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 08:17 PM (qoGsy)
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We had a kid faint.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 08:55 PM (Dc2NZ)
Thought you said land mimes...
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:54 PM (dyALl)
Silent...and deadly...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:55 PM (ynpvh)
Seriously. Why?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2023 08:54 PM (TgNpw)
This sounds vaguely familiar...I think it was because they brought one of those old WWII battleships out to play and he was the only one left who knew how the thing worked.
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 08:55 PM (UewuT)
Ah, crap, I missed the exact moment of syzygy for the Wolf Moon tonight. That occurred at 23:09 Zulu, or 6:09 PM EST.
That would've been the precise moment to howl at it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 06, 2023 08:56 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2023 08:49 PM (xhxe
Oh I read lots. Then I started noticing that incidents that in other books were UFOs or something were also in this book as well. Then I looked at maps for some of them and noticed that a lot of the incidents weren't in the triangle.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 08:56 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Mister Scott
Soon
Posted by: Antartica at January 06, 2023 08:56 PM (6JIrT)
Seriously. Why?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2023 08:54 PM (TgNpw)
Believe or not, a Gov't FUBAR. He'd been in the reserves as a surgeon, but had retired years before.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 06, 2023 08:56 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 08:56 PM (dyALl)
I doubt Jesus would interrupt Julie Andrews. It would be rude.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 08:57 PM (ZLI7S)
Seriously. Why?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2023 08:54 PM (TgNpw)
In our office, one Army guy's middle-aged (really, elderly) dad was called back in during Gulf War II because he was a logistics guy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 08:57 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 08:58 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 08:55 PM (UewuT)
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Because they had to fight the aliens!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 08:58 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:51 PM (ynpvh
My sister rescued a mole from the jaws of our cat. To thank her, it bit her and was killed during its rabies test. No rabies.
Posted by: Piper at January 06, 2023 08:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 06, 2023 08:59 PM (bUGMk)
Dude....
We're not worthy!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 08:59 PM (SRRAx)
Thought you said land mimes...
Sea mimes are the worst. Every one of them thinks that their rendition of "silent jellyfish" is so edgy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 06, 2023 08:59 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 08:51 PM (ynpvh
My sister rescued a mole from the jaws of our cat. To thank her, it bit her and was killed during its rabies test. No rabies.
Posted by: Piper at January 06, 2023 08:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
Yeah, something about accessing that brain tissue is lethal.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (ynpvh)
I stepped on a lot of nails,too. I have ghost pain in the ball of my left foot where the nail nicked something important.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (Eeb9P)
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (h7ejD)
Did they pick the Yankees up for free?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 06, 2023 08:51 PM (SLnCd)
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For me, it was seeing "The Omega Man".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (Dc2NZ)
I’m not exactly sure why, but we felt safe from UFOs by day. After dark, however there was definitely an elevated risk level.
I'm right fooking here, ya know.
*peeks through living room window at nubile girls*
Posted by: Fauk Creek Monster at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: Wenda at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (uFqRH)
off boggy creek sock
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:01 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 08:55 PM (UewuT)
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Because they had to fight the aliens!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 08:58 PM (Dc2NZ)
ThunderChild part II!
There's a great YT video by naval historian Drachinifel about the fictional gunboat that intervenes to save a boatload of refugees from England from the martian tripods and is then destroyed. He figures out a design, all kinds of things.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:01 PM (eoQWY)
I've read about that in history books.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 09:01 PM (ZLI7S)
My father was one of the nicest guys in the world and he thought that the right way to calm me down was to tell me not to worry because the man was very nice and would guard the house.
He thought wrong.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at January 06, 2023 09:01 PM (CkFy6)
The movie The Dark Crystal. Scarred my childhood.
Posted by: Mainah at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (j7IgZ)
Posted by: Mister Scott
Soon
For some reason, "quickice" is much less feared than it's cousin quicksand.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (eOEVl)
I stepped on a lot of nails,too. I have ghost pain in the ball of my left foot where the nail nicked something important.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (Eeb9P)
yeah, stepped on more than one hidden on wood in high grass. Even had the experience of stepping on a yellow jacket nest in tall grass; it was like a cartoon scene: a yellow jacket stinging my leg over and over and then feeling the pain.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Eromero
------------------------
They need y'all more than they know.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Russkilitlover at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (iyVGU)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (233bX)
Had someone ask me to describe my childhood. My one word answer was, "Idyllic". Just lucky guess.
Posted by: Javems at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
mmmmmm. brains.
- anonymous zombie
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: screaming in digital at January 06, 2023 08:51 PM (SLnCd)
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For me, it was seeing "The Omega Man".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (Dc2NZ)
Got up in the middle of the night, parents were watching some movie where a demonic statue came alive and killed people. Gave me nightmares for years.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: dartist at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (9X/y4)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (eOEVl)
Blackice is bad. No traction, down you go on your butt.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (Dc2NZ)
- anonymous zombie
I don’t think mole brains would even constitute an appetizer.
Posted by: Piper at January 06, 2023 09:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
me and my buddy did a lot of remote camping with his dad in the Absarokas and Bighorns, and we did indeed see and hear some weird stuff. But, you know, kids.
I also lived in a haunted house. True fact.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 09:04 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Don't know why, but this reminds me - In the scrub/swamp aboard Naval Weapons Station at Goose Creek there is an monster abandoned brass screw just sitting there. It isn't near any roads, trails or paths. It's been there for decades. I wonder what the story of that thing is.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2023 09:04 PM (qoGsy)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 08:55 PM (UewuT)
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I bet it was one of those windup BB and he knew where the key went and also were the key was.
Posted by: Ciampino -- Denial is also a river in Africa at January 06, 2023 09:04 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:05 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (ynpvh)
Was that the one with the little African dude with the two knives chasing a colonizer around? That was a scary one, but I like the end where the shaman gets a delivery of a British officer doll in return.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:05 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: IrishEi at January 06, 2023 09:05 PM (3ImbR)
Everyone have a great evening
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2023 09:05 PM (xhxe8)
My father was a contractor in GWI. He had spent 30 years in the Navy, but they asked him if he would go to Kuwait on a ship to supervise the installation of a ship to shore fuel line he developed. They couldn't have kept him away with a crowbar. He was 64.
He laughed when he got back and said all the young swabbies treated him like glass and thought he was Methuselah.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 09:06 PM (eOEVl)
~~~~~
They have books in Rhode Island?
Posted by: IrishEi at January 06, 2023 09:05 PM (3ImbR)
Its a smallish book but lots of pages.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:06 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Mister Scott
Soon
For some reason, "quickice" is much less feared than it's cousin quicksand.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (eOEVl)
At first I thought you wrote something else first.
Man in a restaurant is looking over a menu. The waitress, a real looker, comes up and asks for his order. He looks her up and down and says, "I'd like a quickie".
She leaves in a huff, then comes back a few minutes later. Guy looks her up and down again, and says, "I'd like a quickie". This plays out one more time, at which point, the waitress slaps him in the face and leaves.
Man on another takes says, "I think that's pronounced Quiche".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 09:07 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Wenda at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (uFqRH)
I gots ta know! What is this plan?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:08 PM (eoQWY)
- anonymous zombie
I don’t think mole brains would even constitute an appetizer.
Posted by: Piper at January 06, 2023 09:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
And no zombie ever goes around saying, "Leftist Brainzzz..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:08 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 06, 2023 09:08 PM (+Wcyp)
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 06, 2023 09:08 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Piper at January 06, 2023 08:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
My sister was once bitten by a moose.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 06, 2023 09:08 PM (uvymP)
they wont do shit
but jawbone and spend more money on Ukraine
Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2023 09:08 PM (us2H3)
The movie The Dark Crystal. Scarred my childhood.
Posted by: Mainah at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (j7IgZ)
Once I determined that there was no place in my house that could fit all the puppeteers I quit worrying about that.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:09 PM (eoQWY)
Book. We share it.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 09:07 PM (ZLI7S)
lots of pictures?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 09:10 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 06, 2023 09:10 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 06, 2023 08:48 PM (o1JBI)
I was living in Mass. about 30 miles south of Boston Strangler territory. I remember we moved to a new house in 1968 (when the movie came out) and my aunt thought she saw someone looking in the window and that it could be the Boston Strangler.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 09:11 PM (Mzdiz)
The movie The Dark Crystal. Scarred my childhood.
Posted by: Mainah at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (j7IgZ)
Once I determined that there was no place in my house that could fit all the puppeteers I quit worrying about that.
Posted by: Oldcat
i just knew that bigfoot was real. growing up in the kisatchie national forest, that shiz was skeery.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:11 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2023 09:11 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Piper at January 06, 2023 08:59 PM (ZdaMQ)
My sister was once bitten by a moose.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at January 06, 2023 09:08 PM (uvymP)
My dad was once bitten by a lion. True story. When he was a kid, he went to the local zoo where they had a lion cub for the kids to pet. When he went to pet it, it bit him through the middle of his hand. The next day, he came to school with it all bandaged up. Teacher asked him what happened. He said, "A Lion bit me". Teacher told him, "xxx, go to the corner and stay there until you learn to stop lying!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 09:03 PM (Dc2NZ)
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This must have been 1951-52, same place by the Nile. Parents wake up Sister and me. The wall by our headboards is just streams of army ants going up. Parents' room same story and the rustling noise of millions of little legs had woken up Mum. Insecticide pump with just kerosene did the job. Smell of kerosene for days.
Posted by: Ciampino - the red ants had a nasty bite at January 06, 2023 09:12 PM (qfLjt)
The movie The Dark Crystal. Scarred my childhood.
Posted by: Mainah at January 06, 2023 09:02 PM (j7IgZ)
Once I determined that there was no place in my house that could fit all the puppeteers I quit worrying about that.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:09 PM (eoQWY)
Talking Tina freaks out my wife.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 06, 2023 09:13 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:10 PM (ynpvh)
~~~~~
No doubt. And sticky pages.
From candy. Candy!@!!
Posted by: IrishEi at January 06, 2023 09:13 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: DB - light up a Kent at January 06, 2023 09:13 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 09:14 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 09:15 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: N.Lurker at January 06, 2023 09:14 PM (eGTCV)
That's funny.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:11 PM (3CCua)
That never worried me and not because I was in Ohio. I just knew that there's no way a gang of 8 foot dudes scavenging about where people are are going to produce more evidence than one faked Super 8 movie and a couple of prints. I mean we have thousands and thousands of footprints of dinosaurs and lizards in rock all over the West and that's from millions of years ago.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:15 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 06, 2023 08:58 PM (Dc2NZ)
I'm a millennial, so I'll freely admit that there is a distinct possibility that I am confusing things that happened in my single-digit years with the plot points of a shitty movie. In my defense, I do remember reading articles about the military's difficulty in getting some of the toys sufficiently operational for a war against an opponent that is more powerful than Grenada.
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:15 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at January 06, 2023 09:16 PM (duT0u)
Posted by: DB - light up a Kent at January 06, 2023 09:13 PM (geLO
Heh. I also lace my shoes and boots the same way I was taught in basic. And I never wear a jacket without gloves. And I remove my cover when I enter a building.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 09:16 PM (UQUAY)
Those shrubs were GREAT! My sister and I would spend hours on summer mornings playing in the cool shade they provided. Once they were cut down, the porch was like Equatorial Africa - no more playing out there.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 09:16 PM (SRRAx)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSy8Ko1vSKQ
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:16 PM (ynpvh)
But then the hippies ran them off smoking weed there, by the time I got to high school.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2023 09:17 PM (TgNpw)
I better find a steel building to stay in during closest approach just in case.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 09:17 PM (dyALl)
This must have been 1951-52, same place by the Nile. Parents wake up Sister and me. The wall by our headboards is just streams of army ants going up. Parents' room same story and the rustling noise of millions of little legs had woken up Mum. Insecticide pump with just kerosene did the job. Smell of kerosene for days.
Posted by: Ciampino
reminds me of a short story i read in high school. thought it was hemingway, but it isn't. dude in a wheelchair is backed upmto a stream with piranah by army ants. wildlife is flowing through his camp, and getting eaten by the pirahna as the ants draw closer.
good suspense. wish i could find it again.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:17 PM (3CCua)
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I still do it to this day.
Posted by: dartist at January 06, 2023 09:18 PM (9X/y4)
It must have been a hormone/puberty thing. Some kids would get sexy dreams with Erin Grey in Buck Rogers attire, my brains like "no! Everyone does that, let's have mystery and suspense against the grand eerie vastness of the universe! Can you picture it! Can you?". Thanks brain.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: DB - light up a Kent at January 06, 2023 09:13 PM (geLO
Heh. I also lace my shoes and boots the same way I was taught in basic. And I never wear a jacket without gloves. And I remove my cover when I enter a building.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
thank God I'm not craycray. i still do this too.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (3CCua)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:12 PM (ynpvh)
I got one of my worst cat bites from a tiny abandoned kitten that was starving and when I tried giving milk on a finger took the whole thing. Those baby needle teeth went in all the way like a hot knife thru butter. Poor thing died a few days later from some disease he had caught.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 08:53 PM (0OP+5)
My dad covered the last gas chamber execution in the state of Oregon as a reporter for one of the papers. He got a tour of the facility at the pen ahead of time, and at some point the guide wandered off or turned his back, and he had his photographer take a shot of him in the chair.
It hung on the door of the fruit room in the back room for years because Mom wouldn't let him hang it in the house.
I miss dad. He was a kick in the slats.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (+Wcyp)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 09:20 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: Tommy at January 06, 2023 09:20 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 09:20 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2023 09:20 PM (dyALl)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:12 PM (ynpvh)
I got one of my worst cat bites from a tiny abandoned kitten that was starving and when I tried giving milk on a finger took the whole thing. Those baby needle teeth went in all the way like a hot knife thru butter. Poor thing died a few days later from some disease he had caught.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (eoQWY)
Dude! What illness did you give it?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (3CCua)
~~~~~
Then I guess I am craycray because I do it and I've never even met a drill sergeant.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 06, 2023 09:22 PM (3ImbR)
good suspense. wish i could find it again.
Posted by: BifBewalski
He used the scent following instinct of the ants to make them move in two big spirals which merged.
Posted by: davidt at January 06, 2023 09:22 PM (SYTee)
I especially remember seeing a Saturday B&W movie about these guys who were exploring a tropical island, full of friendly, happy natives. 2 little native girls were playing hide and seek, when one of them stepped on the wrong plant. It quickly closed on her as her little friend started screaming, alerting our adventurers. I vaguely remember one of them (pith helmet and all) drawing his revolver and shooting the plant, either to kill it or put the little island girl out of her misery. I'm not sure I was so terrified I ran from the room. I'd love to see that movie again, no doubt hokey but something that haunted my dreams for many years. So I'd believe anything about man eating plants. Unless of course they sang.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at January 06, 2023 09:23 PM (zB/T/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSy8Ko1vSKQ
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:16 PM (ynpvh)
I admit my sister's dolls that had the eyes that move did freak me out a bit. The ones that have the pivoting eyes also had the nicely formed teeth that looked like they could bite real well.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (UewuT)
I was quite the logical child. My mom tells the tale of one day I looked about at all my bros and sisters each with a blanket and various ways of sucking a finger/thumb and tried it and just made a face and gave it up.
It didn't take much thinking for realizing the only exhaust our house had on the roof was about 2 inches in diameter.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (R/m4+)
good suspense. wish i could find it again.
Posted by: BifBewalski
___________
Probably C.S. Lewis.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (CkFy6)
I know they were just movies, but they scared the crap out of me.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Maximum Overdrive at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (4I/2K)
He used the scent following instinct of the ants to make them move in two big spirals which merged.
Posted by: davidt
YES! please tell me you got an author name
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:25 PM (3CCua)
__________
Don't forget Playboy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 06, 2023 08:10 PM
In my neighborhood we had corner stores where you could buy "returned" 3-pack comic books with the top cover removed, or for a few dollars more as a bribe, returned 3-packs of OUI, Penthouse, etc.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 06, 2023 09:25 PM (xttsV)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (R/m4+)
Thems good eats
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:25 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:21 PM (ynpvh)
I assumed it was the rat he was chewing on when i found him since my blood is likely instant death to something that tiny.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:26 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:26 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: Maximum Overdrive at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (4I/2K)
If mother Gaia gets some comet tail, does that make her a lesbian?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:26 PM (ynpvh)
There's Day of the Triffids. Looks like the author wrote a sequel in 2001 called Night of the Triffids.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 09:26 PM (0fVbu)
When kidnapping first caught on in the early 30's, they were going on in every city. It kind of went out of style. Old ladies never shut up about it in the 50's.
Shorter 'Spades, I suspect: all morning we shriek and rave about Kids Now-a-Days. On ONT we giggle about what bullshit that was, when we were the kids.
Maybe Kamala is right, and there is some significance to "the passage of time." But she's not getting that Yellow School Bus stuff past me.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 06, 2023 09:26 PM (jYCXf)
Posted by: Wenda at January 06, 2023 09:00 PM (uFqRH)
It was always either "Just for fun let's do it this way" or "I need to have it done this way, I am not explaining"
Though, "I am your spouse and I want this" would be worth a shot too.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 09:27 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:27 PM (OTzUX)
https://tinyurl.com/yy9rjn9t
Posted by: Ju at January 06, 2023 09:27 PM (aTmM/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:21 PM (ynpvh)
I assumed it was the rat he was chewing on when i found him since my blood is likely instant death to something that tiny.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:26 PM (eoQWY)
A few years back, my wife had just gotten back home from her chemo treatments. The next morning, I found a bug dead. Apparently it bit her during the night and died for the chemo...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: davidt
YES! please tell me you got an author name
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 06, 2023 09:25 PM (3CCua)
Sorry, don't know the author. I remember it because it was a cool story. I think it was in a collection of short stories.
Posted by: davidt at January 06, 2023 09:28 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: Maximum Overdrive at January 06, 2023 09:24 PM (4I/2K)
that would be cool. Hot Fudge Sundae that Falls on a Tuesdae. I'm at altitude. Should be good.
Closest comet I've seen is Hale-Bopp in 1996. There was that other one a couple-three years ago. Saw that in Utah, but it was not as close as Hale-Bopp.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 09:28 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 06, 2023 08:48 PM (o1JBI)
Son of Sam sparked my interest in True Crime. I was so fascinated--I was cutting articles out of the paper about it, and keeping them in one of my scrapbooks. I think about if one of my own children had done such a thing, I might fear they were psychopathic. Wonder if my mom ever found those, and wondered?
Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at January 06, 2023 09:29 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:19 PM (UewuT)
Our son-in-law's mother still tells the tale about how his Kindergarten teacher had to call her to tell her about how Matthew had made all of the other children cry because he laid out - in detail - how Santa Claus couldn't possibly be real, because the logic didn't work.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 09:29 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 06, 2023 08:48 PM (o1JBI)
Son of Sam sparked my interest in True Crime. I was so fascinated--I was cutting articles out of the paper about it, and keeping them in one of my scrapbooks. I think about if one of my own children had done such a thing, I might fear they were psychopathic. Wonder if my mom ever found those, and wondered?
Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at January 06, 2023 09:29 PM (OX9vb)
As long as she didn't find the bodies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at January 06, 2023 09:23 PM (zB/T/)
I'd guess the job of taking sticks and banging every plant in the area to see which will grow up into a man eater would be given to the 8-12 year old boys. We didn't even have those in Ohio and we spent hours smacking things with our stick of the day or week.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:30 PM (eoQWY)
Or maybe even greater miracle that ..... all the freedom didn't have any price in terms of actual deaths, at all.
Feel very sorry for most kids today, and marvel at some of the parents, who were young enough to have experienced the tail end of Free Childhood in America, but nonetheless are somehow convinced that a holocaust awaits if some 10 year olds walk home from school in a boring safe prosperous suburban neighborhood.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:31 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 09:20 PM (SRRAx)
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Well we never had lions. Hippos at night would invade gardens nearer the river or lake, eat all the flowers and destroy carefully manicured hedges. We left them alone as they were dangerous. The worst wild mammals encountered almost weekly were hyenas as they would try and raid the trashcans. I remember on more than one occasion as a teen, Dad and I with sticks, and the dog, chasing a hyena round and round the house late in the evening Thinking back that was not smart. Fortunately they are chicken.
Posted by: Ciampino -- the red ants had a nasty bite at January 06, 2023 09:32 PM (qfLjt)
if it looks like it's going to hit, I will try to get some good photos
Posted by: DB - light up a Kent at January 06, 2023 09:32 PM (geLO8)
I loved that pickup.
Posted by: huerfano at January 06, 2023 09:33 PM (dTFZY)
if it looks like it's going to hit, I will try to get some good photos
Posted by: DB - light up a Kent at January 06, 2023 09:32 PM (geLO
I think I read that best viewing will be around Feb 1.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:33 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:34 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Wenda at January 06, 2023 09:34 PM (uFqRH)
She's got a great ass!
Posted by: SM at January 06, 2023 09:35 PM (6JIrT)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:34 PM (OTzUX)
So the Repubs will bend over AND make oh-ah noises whiles being screwed by the dems?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:35 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Snuffy Smith at January 06, 2023 09:35 PM (dXilO)
Posted by: SMOD at January 06, 2023 09:36 PM (6JIrT)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:36 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 09:36 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:37 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 09:36 PM (0fVbu)
Just don't cut off your balls and put on purple Nikes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 06, 2023 09:37 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 09:38 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 06, 2023 09:38 PM (8AONa)
Apparently a Deal has been reached, which sounds interesting if description is true. Vote will be in 30 minutes. We'll see.
Posted by: rhomboid
Any deal that puts Mrs. Luntz in the Speakership is a sellout. Jokers need to understand that failure -- which that would be -- is not an option.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 06, 2023 09:38 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 06, 2023 09:38 PM (8AONa)
I think they work for the same organization that goes after you for removing those labels from your pillows and mattresses.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 09:38 PM (0OP+5)
Think that was Hale Bopp. Comet K was the overhyped bust, much like Halley's latest return.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:39 PM (eoQWY)
Apparently a Deal has been reached, which sounds interesting if description is true. Vote will be in 30 minutes. We'll see.
Posted by: rhomboid
Any deal that puts Mrs. Luntz in the Speakership is a sellout. Jokers need to understand that failure -- which that would be -- is not an option.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 06, 2023 09:38 PM (pNxlR)
For Congress, failure is the ONLY option.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:39 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:40 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2023 09:38 PM (0OP+5)
Think that was Hale Bopp. Comet K was the overhyped bust, much like Halley's latest return.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:39 PM (eoQWY)
I could barely see Halley's in...was it 1987? Don't expect to be around for its return.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:40 PM (ynpvh)
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Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:39 PM (ynpvh)
National Lampoon's "Crime" magazine cover had someone tearing off the mattress tag while a Dame recoils in horror.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2023 09:41 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:40 PM (OTzUX)
So an orgy.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:41 PM (ynpvh)
And the gnashing of teeth? That's important.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 06, 2023 09:42 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:42 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:43 PM (UewuT)
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:43 PM (UewuT)
Not good for triscadecaphobics.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 09:44 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:31 PM (OTzUX)
We live 3 or 4 walking blocks from the elementary/middle school our kids went to - it's a straight shot.
One day when my dad was visiting, he decided he was going to pick the middle 2 up after school, but they wanted to walk home with their friend. He tells me how dangerous our neighborhood is, because as he was following them in his car (to make sure they stayed safe), somebody driving another car come by towards them turned around, pulled up next to them, and was talking to them from his car.
Asked the girls about it.
Turns out the guy in the other car noticed this old bald guy slowly following the girls home, and wanted to be sure that they were aware of his presence. Even offered to follow them until they got to their house, just to keep them safe.
Dad didn't find it as funny as I did.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 09:45 PM (SRRAx)
The worst imaginable thing was a call home from the school, or a neighborhood dad bringing you home with a charge sheet he delivered verbally, or gawd forbid a cop doing the same.
Imagine a society where kids had respect for authority like that. Ha! I won't even relate the full story of the stunning (to me) incident in Georgetown back in the 90s involving, probably, a 9-yr old boy who was busted trying to steal a bike in broad daylight.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:45 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 06, 2023 08:48 PM (o1JBI)
For a while there was a woman murdering men that have my exact name. It's pretty popular. I'm kind of the Mohammed Mohammed of the WASP world. It was some life insurance scheme where she was offing guys who had the name and she had an easy way to make claims on it. My mom told me about it after they caught her and I was still in junior high so I felt pretty safe from marriage murderers.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2023 09:45 PM (0fVbu)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (fldlK)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (OTzUX)
We used to go swimming in a manmade lake that covered farm land. There was "muck" on the lake bottom in some parts that would suck at your feet, and I found that scary, too. When the dam was being repaired one spring, Dad got some heavy plastic sheets, laid them overlapping, and covered them with sand so we could have a beach and a clean swimming area.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (/+bwe)
My father had it up to here one day and said, "What is there to be afraid of? If it does happen, we'll all be dead, so no need to worry."
Posted by: RondinellaMamma 45 is STILL our duly elected president at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (l0Cy4)
Im coming to this late.
Its probably already been answered but why does cave woman in quick sand wearing a bra?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (anj39)
Q: What's the difference between Congressman Kevin McCarthy and the armless failure Abaddon the Despoiler?
A: Abaddon only needed 13 tries to get what he was after.
Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2023 09:47 PM (UewuT)
Im coming to this late.
Its probably already been answered but why does cave woman in quick sand wearing a bra?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (anj39)
You'd think she'd deploy her flotation devices...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:47 PM (ynpvh)
In the final episode of The Rifleman Mark and his girl friend get caught in quicksand.
https://tinyurl.com/ypavd7ut
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2023 09:48 PM (63Dwl)
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I forgot quickSAND isn't always wet. Sand will swallow you up too.
Posted by: dartist at January 06, 2023 09:49 PM (9X/y4)
Posted by: DB - light up a Kent at January 06, 2023 09:32 PM (geLO
I have been reading about the possible evidence of a Saginaw Bay meteorite strike, and the link it might have to the beginning of the Lower Dryas ice age. They suspect there were chunks of ice thrown as far as the Carolinas.
So we might have that to look forward to.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 09:49 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 09:50 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2023 09:51 PM (PX01u)
, Terror Out of the Sky (197.
The Swarm was a big-budget Irwin Allen disaster flick starring Michael Caine and Katharine Ross.
BEWARE THE KILLER BEES
Posted by: WillowViney at January 06, 2023 09:51 PM (gYAkw)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 09:50 PM (Mzdiz)
***
Okra sucks.
And not in a good way.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:52 PM (anj39)
The Swarm was a big-budget Irwin Allen disaster flick starring Michael Caine and Katharine Ross.
BEWARE THE KILLER BEES
Posted by: WillowViney at January 06, 2023 09:51 PM (gYAkw)
Yes, killer bees. Were getting into SoCal in the mid-late 1980's.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 09:52 PM (oINRc)
And not in a good way.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:52 PM (anj39)
Deep fried is pretty good.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:52 PM (ynpvh)
Its probably already been answered but why does cave woman in quick sand wearing a bra?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (anj39)
Hays code, probably
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2023 09:53 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 06, 2023 09:53 PM (W+kMI)
In high school we had an exchange student from Denmark. Hanne. She was like a poster child for Danish girl. Very cute. Also funny, and fluent in English. My buddy was obsessed with the USSR and nuclear conflagration, and he was once grilling her about what it was like to be so close to the Soviet Bear, etc. I was annoyed and kept trying to change the subject. And she was also annoyed. She finally said, almost yelling "Look, we just live our lives. We do not give it much thought." Friend seemed perplexed, but finally let it go.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 09:53 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: WillowViney at January 06, 2023 09:53 PM (gYAkw)
Posted by: WillowViney at January 06, 2023 09:51 PM (gYAkw)
Yes, killer bees. Were getting into SoCal in the mid-late 1980's.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:52 PM (ynpvh)
***
BEWARE THE KILLER TOMATOES!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:53 PM (anj39)
Has The Phone Company ever fessed up about the Phone Cops described by Johnny Fever? Somehow we knew that phones were not to be tampered with.
Posted by: 2009Refugee
Have you ever seen The President's Analyst?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2023 09:54 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: WillowViney at January 06, 2023 09:53 PM (gYAkw)
Great team names. Killer Bees vs Murder Hornets!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:54 PM (ynpvh)
While doing the nasty. Mark hammers and manages to finish, but his girlfriend sinks under the sand, unfulfilled.
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at January 06, 2023 09:55 PM (uU9te)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (anj39)
The sixth grade boys got in trouble with the teacher for suggesting that the Barbie dolls that I used as part of my Prehistoric Diorama were historically inaccurate because they had (skimpy) clothes on, as opposed to nothing at all.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 09:55 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 06, 2023 09:55 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:54 PM (ynpvh)
Saw that match at a WWF house show in the Garden in 82.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 06, 2023 09:55 PM (Angsy)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2023 09:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cliff at January 06, 2023 09:56 PM (fTPsX)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 09:55 PM (SRRAx)
That wasn't Ellsworth Elementary was it?
;-)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:56 PM (anj39)
Posted by: Bobby K at January 06, 2023 09:58 PM (8okGi)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 06, 2023 09:58 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2023 09:58 PM (anj39)
But a hornet the size of my thumb? Damn skippy that would freak me out.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 09:59 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 06, 2023 09:46 PM (/+bwe)
That was partially filmed in the town I lived when I was a little girl, when I was 3. The Colonial Theater in Phoenixville was the one they all came running out of. I saw Gone With the Wind there. And Mark of the Devil. And Jurassic Park.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 09:59 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2023 10:00 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: WillowViney at January 06, 2023 09:51 PM (gYAkw)
Which movie was the one where Donna Mills got caught in a VW bug (I think) that was covered in Killer Bees, and Gary Collins (I think) told her to just drive the car into the newly-completed Astrodome (or Superdome), because that was the only place that could bring the temperature down low enough to cool the bees into a stupor?
Talk about rolling my eyes....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AOS Ladies' Team plucky comic relief at January 06, 2023 10:01 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Zettai at January 06, 2023 10:02 PM (OaInD)
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Me too! Watched all the TV shows, read all the Scholastic and other books about them. Thought of them as scary in that unknown way, not the hairy serial killer way. Later on as an adult I learned that Bigfoot is alive and well in eastern Ohio. Who knew? Was also afraid of ghosts back then too, because I was a kid and Halloween was about ghost stories, not weirdos messing with candy and stranger danger. Really good stories too, not the "friendly ghost" crap.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 06, 2023 10:02 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at January 06, 2023 10:03 PM (UQUAY)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2023 09:50 PM (Mzdiz)
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WUT
Unless they were underground, how could they have helped?
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No, well see, I never actually made a sound when I said that, so haha!
-- Kev
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