Saving Rain Forest Thread number 57!!

Matrix! ewwwwwwwwww

Well now I can die knowing how the cats toss hair-balls!

and now i'll skip breakfast thank ya very much LOL

funny article though

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This morning we have overcast skies, laden with rain ready for a drencher come afternoon or nightfall. Is there such a word as "rainiferous"? Rain for the next several days will put a damper, to say the least, on the annual Irish Day celebration here in Murphys tomorrow. Huge shamrocks are freshly painted on several intersections, ready for street dancing. The art & craft vendors do not care for rain, either.

I see that the Leaderboard now has our team properly restored to its number one position (as you noted, ebeth). The bright side is that for a short while, the #2 team, the 12-visits one, got a chance to be shown as #1, even though it was based on a glitch. Hmmm ... that's a debatable point. Is it better to be happy for a short while based on a glitch than to remain at a less happy status?

Whilst still on the subject of the Irish, here's an explanation of "Why Dirish Drink: Only Their Bartender Knows for Sure" [San Francisco Examiner, 3/16/79]:

Customer John O'Brien, at the "Dovre Club":

"The Irish drink because they are just more intelligent than anyone else," he said as he stared into a tall glass of red wine. "Did you never look into the future? Did you never look at the stars at night? Did you never consider where we're all going in this world? And having done, wouldn't you then have perhaps two or three?"

Aa, hi. I think pluvial would be a good word (and perhaps, for all I know, is a good word) as a synonim for rainiferous. Didn't look it up. It just came to me all of a suddink. (Or 'pluvious' mayhap?)

Lordy lordy lordy, that west coast gal in her leather pants roared back to the edge of the rainforest on the back of that dude's motorcycle. Always good to see you, Aa.

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1044 41.237 acres

Aa's wearing leather pants in the rain??? Oh my...LOL!!!


Aa...
The Seattle area has a large Irish population and they haven't allowed the rain to dampen their spirits. (It does wet their whistles, though, and the pubs in the area do a tremendous business over the St. Patrick's Day holiday.) The parade always goes on rain or shine, too.


Aw, come on, Stradee...you really don't want donuts for breakfast? They've had those kinds of exhibits before, but most of the ones that I've heard of have had to do with the human body and its functions. The one in the article seems to have something in it for everyone.


danon...
If you were a kid that exhibit would be soooo much fun - especially when you got to see the reactions of the adults who had taken you to it.


Hi, Merry Andrew, pwayfarer, ehBeth & doggies, and everyone else...

Hope all of you have a great weekend - rain or shine!

Just for fun again...

I'm printing this whole article here because you need to have an account with the Tacoma News Tribune to get into it otherwise:

Rigorous research puts sweet Peeps in peril

PATRICK ENRIGHT/Pop Shots
Last updated: March 18th, 2005 08:38 AM

What it is: Well, duh. It's a Marshmallow Peep, that perennial Easter favorite.

A Marshmallow what?: Peep. For you newbies, the Peep is a fluffy, sickly sweet, usually bird-shaped confection that is sold in rows. Want to know more? Head to www.peepresearch.org for a thorough scientific analysis of the creature and its habits, as well as photographic documentation of the research.

What you'll learn: Peeps are not found in polar regions because of their reactions to extreme cold (shattering). They're not soluble in water, acetone, sulfuric acid or sodium hydroxide, and while the exceedingly toxic solvent phenol causes near-total disintegration of the Peep, the creature's eyes appear to be impervious. Peeps have a high tolerance for both drinking and smoking, but combining the two (190-proof ethyl alcohol and Camel cigarettes) caused "a rapidly exothermic oxidation reaction, leading to a chemical and morphological divergence from the wild-type Peep phenotypes." Translation: They catch on fire.

How Peeps react to stressful stimuli: They roughly quadruple in size. The stressful stimuli in question are confined spaces and bright light, which were combined in the form of a microwave oven. This experiment is commonly performed by amateur scientists all over the nation.

PETA can breathe easily because: "Before any testing begins, all Peep subjects are thoroughly examined and sign a disclosure form explaining the potential risks of their volunteer service."
http://www.thenewstribune.com/soundlife/story/4699684p-4342866c.html

The things you learn on the internet.

Ya know, I'd never heard of Peeps before a thread on Abuzz.

Peeps...The candy that will out live cockroaches!

...with a shelf life of a thousand years... LOL

Exactly!

Peeping in - !

Yer right ehBeth, ya never know what's gona show up on line...... grin

Hey, Aa !!!! How's the pants??

Hi ya Matrix and Stradee and wayfarer.....

MA,
Good word - I think.... Hmmm. If it's pluvial, do we really need a pluviometer to tell us so??

peep
peep

pip pip

cheerio

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You and your 283 friends have supported 1,796,647.3 square feet!

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1044 41.241 acres

Morning ehBeth,
Can you believe we have clicked for 41 plus acres?? That is fantastic.

I finished the work on the library window. The building is over a hundred years old - and needs a lot of TLC. The pic "before" doesn't show the damage well - the dark places at the base of the window are all rotted and the pane putty is gone. But, it's all ok now.




A note for you all=
The direct up load site I'm using is free for everyone to use. It's mostly written in German, but that's no great problem. It's at:
http://www.directupload.net/index.php?mode=upload
To use enter click 'Browse' and copy/paste your pic file there. Then click on 'Bild hochladen' at the bottom (that means picture upload.) On the next page highlight and copy the URL listed under "Hotlinken Sie - - - Forum" That URL may be inserted directly in your post here at A2K and your picture will appear!!!

Oh yeah...... Make sure you size down your pic - like about 3 to 5 inches wide - before posting it here - or else it makes the page here really big.

Great work, danon!
You're quite the citizen.

I'd offer to shake your hand but I've been eating rotisserie chicken without cutlery

I bet it's good.

I just had lunch - a left over Wiener Schnitzel from last night that I made into a SANDWICH!!!!! Meine GOTT in Himmel!!!!! My Mother in Law from my last wife (the Wiennerin) is turning over in her grave............ I made the mistake of calling a Wiener Schnitzel a Breaded Porkchop one time and NEVER did that again!!!! NOT the National Meal of that little country in the middle of Austria........!

Here is probably the reason that the library window received no maintenance for all those years. It's about 13 - 15 feet down to the bottom of the steps. I had to build a scaffold to stand on.

meep
meep

thatabe grown peep


Dan, very impressive work! Good job!


have a good day ya all ~

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Well, now that we know you 'do' windows, Dannon...

Merry Andrew,
Thanks a lot guy!! You must have been the one who actually read my profile.......................

How does this sound to you?

"Ordinum Sinecura Internasci"

Loosely translated into - "A position by which one profits by little or no effort."

Marked by these tenets=
1. Procrastination is the road to success.
2. When the going gets tough - relax.
3. Exigency - the factor to avoid.
4. An inexorable faith in universal fatalism is good.
5. The road to success lies on the couch.

All the above is sort of a stretch. But I have to think about it.

When the going gets tough, the tough delegate.