Wrong? Me? I don't think so. It's a stack of cholesterol popular in Aberdeen
Aberdeen stands on a magnificent site between the rivers Dee and Don, which are both renowned for their salmon fishing. Aberdeen is one of the most distinctive cities I'd ever seen.
"See Naples and die", so the saying goes. But have you ever thought, if tourists took that too literally, there would be no insurance possibilities available, a simply dreadful state of affairs. Far better for a prosperous insurance industry to change the old saying to "See Naples and continue living for a bit longer."
Longer than one could expect is the life span of some plants and fungi, which are capable of lasting for more than 10,000 years. For example :
Giant sequoia - 4000 years
Creosote bush - 11,700 years
What about some cell transplant into humans?
Humans are such complex creatures--not one's alike.
Alike New York in June, how about you? Let's turn Manhattan into an isle of joy.
[btw I seem to owe Clazza one pair of galluses, because she was right about the Aberdeen breakfast roll. Well done!]
Joy to the world, a pair of galluses!±! Almost as good as getting a Valentine.
Valentine met an unforunate end--either imprisoned, or clubbed and beheaded, depending on which version you believe. Those ends might also befall a present day man who neglects to buy his beloved a gift on this day.
"Day-oh, Day-oh
Daylight come, and me wan' go home.
Come mister tally-man, tally me banana..."
So runs part of the lyrics from a song by Harry Belafonte. But why did they pick bananas in the dark?
Dark matter discovered - For years, astrophysicists have been boggled by the fact that the grand sum of all the known "normal" matter in the universe -- that which makes up the stars, the Earth and even our own bodies -- only amounts to half of what should exist based on computer simulations.
A new study conducted with the help of the Earth-orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the existence of baryons in at least two giant, intergalactic clouds of super-hot gas 150 million and 380 million light-years from our planet; when the study's authors extended the number of baryons in the two clouds to account for the volume of all the intergalactic clouds in the universe, the resulting figure equaled that of the missing matter from their computer simulations.
Simulations of brief posts not working- Clary's advices ignored- emergency! Emergency!
Emergency meetings are attended just as much as normal ones-- by some people who have got nothing else to do.
"Do everything in moderation", is sound advice, but often hard to follow. I find chocolate and hanging out at A2K very hard to resist.
Resist? Dream on. Resistance is futile! Chocolate always wins.
Wins is what they call Kate Winslet on set. I suppose it's quite apposite.
apposite solutions for escaping boring weather : a fire place and a good book. What's yours?
Yours is a good suggestion: But can weather ever be boring? Our weathermen on radio and TV have invented a plethora of new words to describe weather- "quiet" is one.
One can always make some popcorn and watch a good movie from a nice warm bed. Beats watching those reporters who stand outside in hurricanes and blizzards, just to demonstate the miserable effects of the weather.
Weather is a popular topic of conversation for the English- some say, the only one.
"Turned out nice again!" "Bit chilly for the time of year!" "Looks like rain!"
Rain is coming tomorrow, but first we are getting snow tonight. I am so tired of winter, and I'm longing for Spring.
