Oddities and Humor

Letty, I have never heard that particular Willie Nelson song. Quite a trip of a cool song I'd say.

THanks. That's pretty neat.

Yep, tsar, that was funny.

More oddities and humor.




Painting chimp Jimmy draws crowds to Rio zoo A retired circus chimpanzee is the Cezanne of simians, drawing crowds to a Brazilian zoo to watch him paint. The 26-year-old chimp called Jimmy has been producing surprisingly lovely paintings each day for three weeks at the Niteroi Zoo.

Now the humor. Davy Jones of The Monkees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUINBCmRC4

Never heard Davy Jones do that one.

Elephants and chimps paint - why not dogs?

http://www.khou.com/home/Duplicate-license-plate-leads-to-innocent-mans-arrest-103444899.html
A man has duplicate plates - but his are car plates, the others are motorcycle plates. Cops - Well, see for yourself. (video)

Can you get your house painted for a crate of bananas?

I don't think chimps have a concept of labor/management relations like ours.

The United States is among the countries that execute the most people each year, along with China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

GENEVA — Scientists say the Large Hadron Collider may be on the verge of its first scientific breakthroughs.

They say the $10 billion atom smasher under the Swiss-French border appears to have recreated at a small level the matter that existed in the first moments of the universe.

A scientific paper published this week by the European Organization for Nuclear Research describes how high-energy proton collisions produced unusual readings that could replicate the "hot dense matter" that would have existed microseconds after the Big Bang

Raju Venugopalan, a senior scientist at the U.S. Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, said Wednesday that physicists "are very excited" by the European lab's results.

How did the matter referred to so casually expand itself to what we see now around us or were we all in there at the beginning but in another more easily comprehensible form?

Are the equivocations oddities or humour.

We have "may be on the verge", "they say", "appears to", "unusual", "could".

Let's hope not many of us become "very excited" at this dramatic news. It takes the ministrations of angels to get me to raise one eyebrow and twitch slightly.

To itch his own, dude.

I don't write 'em I just post 'em category:

Human error, not an iceberg, was to blame for the sinking of The RMS TITANIC, new book charges.

The granddaughter of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller, makes the surprising claim in a new book Good as Gold.

"It just makes it seem all the more tragic," Louise Patten revealed

"They could easily have avoided the iceberg if it wasn't for the blunder."

The "blunder" which led to the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic in 1912 killing 1,517 passengers and crew , according to Patten, occurred when a steersman "panicked" when sighting the great ice floe.

"The real reason why Titanic hit the iceberg, which has never come to light before, is because he turned the wheel the wrong way," Patten said.

Her grandfather, Patten said, who was the highest ranking officer to survive the ocean disaster covered- up the human error for fear such a revelation would destroy the White Star Line, the company that built and owned The Titanic and her sister ships.

She also charged that the Titanic sank much faster than if it had come to a full stop but J. Bruce Ismay, Chairman of the White Star Line, pressured the captain to keep sailing.

"If Titanic had stood still, she would have survived at least until the rescue ship came and no one need have died."

On that note:

I've been in some rough waters, but never that bad of a scene.

edgar, mal de mer is what I fear.

Been doing more searching concerning the titanic disaster and found a couple of things.

Remember A Night to Remember?

Here's the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ7MAigAhas

Some more interesting discoveries, Texas.

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Titanic/blame.htm

I watched A Night To Remember about a year ago, letty.
The story I posted makes sense, whether true or false. When I served on board a ship, I saw snub nosed ships, because they hit other ships. We had one officer who was supposed to make steering decisions, but was not allowed to, due to incompetence. Turning a ship is more complex than turning a car.

It's not as difficult ed as turning a determined atheist into a good God fearing Christian gentleman who always stands up when a lady comes into the room and opens all the doors for her. That's what ladies like you know. These feminists can't get it done so they try to stop the other ladies from getting it.

Look how they sell munchi-munchi choc-choc at the festive season, which you probably know is the anniversary of the birth of our savior. And your post shows a need for a saviour when the bloke who has been peer-reviewed by experts to steer the ship, and presumably paid accordingly, better cap and all that ****, so we all know who we are, has had to be wrenched from the wheelhouse kicking and screaming to avoid a catastrophe. Neat metaphor. The ads show ladies being pampered exaggeratedly don't they? Come to think of it there's a lot of ads showing ladies being exaggeratedly pampered. I wonder if there's something going on.

The presentation (a joke) boxes and videos don't show the winner of the Olympic women's 3,000 metres steeplechase breasting the tape gaunt and haggard in the floodlit arena. And what can't speak can't lie my father taught me from before I can remember. It was one of his wise sayings.

They show ladies in luxury. We men in the ads are either "waiting on" a lady or looking stupid and ignorant. Though Johnny Rotten did one for our side with the buttered toast ad. The style of the "waiting on" varies up and down the market profile.

It isn't patronising to stand up for a lady who enters the room or lower her down first from the sixth floor of a burning building with the paint melting on the inside of the door. Not at all. It is a mark of respect to ensure that we are always aware of their value. There's not enough burning buildings.

Could Stan Laurel have become a officer of the helm of a great ship of the republic had his parents mixed in higher circles?

And Letty is a lady you know and though a Christian gentleman may stand up when she comes into the room and open doors for her he can be forgiven a tender smile when he observes how complex it obviously is for a lady to turn a car round.