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Seven thousand. Hhehe.. Should we celebrate?

Good Morning WA2K.

Thanks for the Geronimo bio, Bob. My birthday sources (2) failed to mention him.

Angelique: Those pictures are stunning.

Letty: I'll not comment on parking meters -- I have neither a cell phone nor a car.

June 16 Birtday celebs:

1890 Stan Laurel, comedian and member of Laurel & Hardy (Ulverston, England; died 1965)
1899 Nelson Doubleday US, publisher (Doubleday) died 1949
1907 Jack Albertson Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man, Chico & the Man)
1910 E.G. Marshall Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders)
1910 Ilona Massey Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show) died 1974
1917 Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher (New York, NY)
Irving Penn, photographer (Plainfield, PA)
1920 John Howard Griffin, author/photographer (Dallas, TX; died 1980)
1937 Erich Segal, author/educator (Brooklyn, NY)
1938 Joyce Carol Oates, novelist/short-story writer/critic (Lockport, NY)
1940 Billy "Crash" Craddock Greensboro NC, singer
1943 Joan Van Ark, actress (New York, NY)
1948 Brian Eno rocker (Here Comes the Warm Jets)
1951 Roberto Duran, champion boxer (Chorillo, Panama)
1951 Sonia Braga Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
1952 Gino Vanelli singer (Living Inside Myself)
1955 Laurie Metcalf, actress (Carbondale, IL)
1977 Kerry Wood, baseball pitcher (Irving, TX)

My goodness, Cyracuz. So it is--seven thousand! As for celebration, I think Raggedy just invited a fantastic duo to entertain us.(no, not batman and Robin.)

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had a famous line with which most of our audience is familiar: Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Thanks, Raggedy for your celebs and the picture.

Incidentally, this is a good opportunity to have a look at types of humor:

Types of Humour


The Wisecrack, The Epigram, The Riddle,
The Conundrum, The Gag, The Joke, The Anecdote)
Techniques of Humour
(The Chain, The Round, The Pendulum, Blunting, The Reversible, Cumulative Humour, The Nutshell)
Speech
Tangletalk, The Spoonerism, Fuddletalk, The Tongue Twister, Babytalk, Cockney, Doubletalk)
Wordplay
(The Pun, The Wellerism, The Transposer, The Antonymist, The Blendword, The Repeatism, The Macaronic)
The Fool
( The Fooltown, The Gothamite Tale, The April Fool, The Absent Minded Professor, The Fool's Query, The Little Moron)
The Slip
(The Malapropism, The Boner, The Bull, The Goldwynism, The Freudian Slip)
The Blunder
( Mistaken Identity, The Double Blunder, The Typographic Error, The Bonehead, The Recovery, The Relapse)
The Wisecrack
(The Biogram, The Height, The Caricaturism, The Caller, The Daughter, The personifier, The You-Tell-'Em)
The Gag
(Repartee, The Panhandle, The Hecklerism, The Sentry, Who was that Lady ? Knock, Knock, The Soup Fly)
The Trick
(The Practical Joke, The Catch, The Seat Getter, The Trick Sign, The Trick Bet, The Attention Getter)
The Twist
(Twist Wit, The Extended Proverb, The Laffer, The Parkerism, The Marshallism)
Caricature
(Types )
Satire
(Satire, Irony, Parody, Sarcasm, Burlesque)
The Epigram(The Adviser, The Before and After, The Old Fashioned Girl, The Rhyming Epigram, The Confucian Saying)
The Funny Story(The Shaggy Dog Story, The Tall Tale, The Marred Anecdote, The Fable, The Catch Tale)
Nonsense
(The Nonsensism, The Limerick, Feminine Logic, The Exaggerism, The Little Willie) "To all the banterers, buffoons, burlesquers, caricaturists, cartoonists, clowns, comics or comedians, cynics, funny fiends, gongorists, ironists, jesters and jokers, laughing lovers, mythmakers, parodists, punsters, quipsters, raconteurs, railers, satirists, scoffers, wits and witlings, zanies and one wise wife who over the years have made me laugh." Dedication to N.H.Holland's Laughing, a Psychology of Humour, Cornell Univ Press Ithaca, 1982

I suppose that Oliver and Hardy would fit into most of those categories, but the question of the day is, Where do YOU fit?

The Raven


Adaptation of the Raven (PG)
Joke Submitted By: Anonymous

Adaptation of the Raven
...try reading this one out loud...

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision
bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the
floor, Longing for the warmth of bedsheets, Still I sat
there, doing spreadsheets:

Having reached the bottom line, I took a floppy from the
drawer. Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE
command But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry,
Ignore."

Was this some occult illusion? Some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before.
Carefully, I weighed my options. These three seemed to be the
top ones. Clearly I must now adopt one - Chose: "Abort,
Retry, Ignore."

With my fingers pale and trembling, Slowly toward the
keyboard bending, Longing for a happy ending, hoping all
would be restored, Praying for some guarantee Finally I
pressed a key - But on the screen what did I see? Again:
"Abort, Retry, Ignore."

I tried to catch the chips off-guard - I pressed again, but
twice as hard. Luck was just not in the cards, I saw what I
had seen before. Now I typed in desperation, Trying random
combinations. Still there came the incantation - Chose:
"Abort, Retry, Ignore."

There I saw, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine
accosted; Getting up, I turned away and paced across the
office floor. And then I saw an awful sight, A bold and
blinding flash of light, A lightning bolt that cut the night
and shook me to my very core. The PC screen collapsed and
died, "Oh no - my database", I cried!

I thought I heard a voice reply, "You'll see your
data-Nevermore!" To this day I do not know The place to which
our data goes Perhaps it goes to Heaven where the angels have
it stored.

But as for productivity - well, I fear it has gone straight
to Hell. And that's the tale I have to tell - Your choice:
"Abort, Retry, Ignore."


-- Decidedly NOT Edgar Allen Poe

Very clever, Angel of the East. Here's a question for you. What type humor listed above is your adaption?

How many codes will be broken before we understand.

From the world of Art:

code'
By Carlos A. DeJuana 2 hours, 35 minutes ago

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two Brazilian doctors and amateur art lovers believe they have uncovered a secret lesson on human anatomy hidden by Renaissance artist Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.




Completed nearly 500 years ago, the brightly colored frescoes painted on the

Vatican's famous sanctuary are considered some of the world's greatest works of art. They depict Biblical scenes such as the "Creation of Adam" in which God reaches out to touch Adam's finger.

But Gilson Barreto and Marcelo de Oliveira believe Michelangelo also scattered his detailed knowledge of internal anatomy across 34 of the ceiling's 38 panels. The way they see it, a tree trunk is not just a tree trunk, but also a bronchial tube. And a green bag in one scene is really a human heart.

The key to finding the numerous organs, bones and other human insides is to first crack a "code" they believe was left behind by the Florentine artist. Essentially, it is a set of sometimes subtle, sometimes overt clues, like the way a figure is pointing.

"Why wasn't this ever seen before? First, because very few people have the sufficient anatomical knowledge to see these pieces like this. I do because that's my profession," said Barreto, who is a surgeon in the Brazilian city of Campinas.

PAST DISCOVERIES

Barreto and his friend Oliveira are not the first physicians to see depictions of human organs in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican church where popes are elected.

Fifteen years ago, U.S. doctor Frank Meshberger pointed out the figure of God and his surrounding angels in the "Creation of Adam" panel resembled a cross-section of the human brain.

He believes Michelangelo was equating God's gift of a soul for Adam with the divine gift of intelligence for mankind.

Packing up his desk as he prepared to move houses, Barreto came across Meshberger's theory.

"I said to myself, 'If there's a brain, he surely didn't just paint a brain. There have to be others,"' Barreto said.

Thumbing through books and pictures of the chapel all night, Barreto said he found five or six other anatomical depictions. He presented his findings to Oliveira the next day and the two probed further for three months.

The project culminated with their book "The Secret Art of Michelangelo," which was published in Brazil last year and has so far sold 50,000 copies, a very high number for Brazil. It is being negotiated for U.S., Spanish and Portuguese publication.

As part of their research, they discovered another U.S. doctor, Garabed Eknoyan, had found the figure of a kidney in the panel entitled "Separation of the Earth from the Waters."

CRACKING THE CODE

Eventually Barreto and Oliveira came to believe Michelangelo had left behind coded messages in each panel to help viewers find the hidden body part.

Some clues are thematic, such as "Creation of Adam" or "Creation of Eve," in which a tree trunk looks like a bronchial tube and God's purple robe is a representation of a lung when viewed from the side. One could say God is imparting the "breath of life" into Eve in the scene, Barreto said.

Another part of the code is to look at what figures surrounding the main character of each panel are doing.

In the "Cumaean Sibyl" scene, two cherubic figures embrace behind a bulky, muscular woman representing a mythological oracle. One cherub has his hands on the other's chest. Meanwhile, four other cherub-like figures underneath a painted pillar raise their arms to reveal their chest.

According to Barreto and Oliveira, a bag with a red frilly border and white rolled up scrolls inside hanging beside the Sibyl is a depiction of a heart, the diaphragm and the aorta.

Sometimes Michelangelo "points" to the hidden body part.

In the "Libyan Sibyl," a cherub pointing to his shoulder stands next to a twisting woman, her shoulder blade in the spotlight. Two other cherubs beneath the pillars point to their shoulders too.

If looked at upside down, the fold of the Sibyl's dress and the bottom of her trunk look like a rendition of the arm bone, or humerus, and the socket into which it fits on the shoulder.

"We've said it's actually a very infantile language, because it's all about looks, light, pointing," Barreto said.

When faced with the paintings and photographs of the anatomical body part side-by-side, Barreto and Oliveira's theory is conceivable, although some matches require a little bit of creativity. Some might say too much.

"The problem, and art historians too are certainly often guilty of this, is simply that we often see what we want to see," said Dennis Geronimus, a specialist on Renaissance art at New York University who had a chance to examine some of Barreto and Oliveira's "de-coded" matches.

Their proposals, he said, "stretch the visual evidence far beyond Michelangelo's own specific vocabulary of poses, gestures and symbolic relationships."

Indeed, why would Michelangelo hide drawings of human organs in the Sistine Chapel?

Barreto and Oliveira say they aren't sure, but it is well known that Michelangelo and other Renaissance artists were obsessed with human anatomy and the human body. There are also other examples of artists "hiding" objects in their paintings, images that can only be seen from a certain perspective.

Still, the two doctors have sent their book to art historians and anatomical specialists in Portugal to get their opinion, and plan to eventually get the Vatican's opinion too.

"We're not here to play around. We believe this is a great discovery for the arts," Barreto said. "The only thing we want to do is spread this knowledge."

Spreading knowledge is rather like spreading peanut butter. Often it sticks to the knife.

and while our Angel thinks, here is a song for our colorbook. Hope she drops in again:

If

If a picture paints a thousand words,
then why I can't paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
if a face could launch a thousand ships,
then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you, You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
you come and pour yourself on me.

If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tommorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to
die,
I'd spend the end with you. And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
and you and I would simply fly away.

I do hope that Europe hasn't left and we're missing Canada as well.

I think it's a Parody.

I found it under Computer jokes.

You are right, Angel. It is indeed a parody. I love 'em.

Well, listeners, I must be off for a bit. Home health nurse coming today.

I first found the joke, then I looked for a raven, then I looked for a cartoon of a computer. I think I made the joke better, don't you think?

i like all sorts of humor, as long as it's reasonably clean, but my own tends to be dry & sarcastic. apropos of nothing, i found this amusing cartoon a few minutes ago:

kk, who knows what this is?

Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.

twinkle little *

Like is this lake from very heavy rainfall? Sorry to hear the weather is stormy there. You guys have not had the best of luck, weather-wise, recently.

"...Just say the word, and we'll beat the birds
Down to Acapulco Bay..."

Yes! It's also a Parody, and a play on words. You just won your favorite bottle of wine or liquor. If you don't drink, then a fresh basket of fruits. lol

Now I have to get back to work, lunch is over for me. Later

Angel, indeed your parody was well put together, honey. Kudos!

Yit, I love that cartoon. Hilarious! and you were really quick to get the twinkle of the star.

Hey, McTag. The lake was from storms, Brit, and now that old sand base just slurped it up. Just a couple of extra ponds in back, and in the next couple of days, barring other storms, that, too, will be gone.

Well, listeners, humor/humour is a delightful aside, right?

Oh, my. I no sooner get the words out of my mouth than another storm is brewing.

Precipitation, precipitation,
retreat today,
Little Letty wants to play.

Hugs to all my friends at WA2K!

no internet connection for almost 24 hours

a blessing and a curse

it was liberating and isolating at the same time

here's what warren zevon had to say about isolation

Splendid Isolation
Warren Zevon

I want to live alone in the desert
I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe
I want to live on the Upper East Side
And never go down in the street

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation

Michael Jackson in Disneyland
Don't have to share it with nobody else
Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand
And lead me through the World of Self

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation

Don't want to wake up with no one beside me
Don't want to take up with nobody new
Don't want nobody coming by without calling first
Don't want nothing to do with you

I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation

Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation

Salute to the linemen. The equipment here in our studios crashed and was restored sooner than I expected.

Sooooo in honor of the folks who tend to our tower:

I am a lineman for the county,
And I drive the main road.
Searchin' in the sun for another overload.
I hear you singin' in the wire,
I can hear you through the whine.
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line.

I know I need a small vacation,
But it don't look like rain.
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain.
And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time.
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line.

Instrumental break.

And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time.
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line.

Instrumental close.

And it looks as though, dj, that you and I are on the same line. <smile>

Great song, Canada.

Ah, I just saw on the web that Punch died.

http://www.punch.co.uk/

Anyone remember that magazine? My sister had a book of Punch cartoons and I can only remember one of them, but I rather identified with it.