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zBrown
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Mine take attendance, give them their assignment, keep butts in seats, prevent classroom kaos and repeat this six times.
@the local Catholic High School, you also have to police the kids having sex in the restroom and videoing it and some small amount of drug trafficking for one of the students' mothers.
Since Michele is gone, I do not know who they are hot for now. Obligatory headband shot @ 1:03.
Otay - public schools attendees and ex-attendees.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 10:10am PT
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feralfae--
December first arrived right on time and so did the pkg. I am Very Appreciative of the cafe --wunderbahr-- (sans schlag) & bakery items are delightfully varied.
THANK YOU SO-O-O-O-O-O-O MUCH!
MFM
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Robert El Kabong - ST Hero
BTW you can turn off annotations by clicking on the settings gear and giving it a little slide
-Ry Cooder
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 03:01pm PT
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I have found a Facebook page called "You know you grew up in Merced when????"
Great fun for old coots like me. Your town may have one like it????
I am off to see "The Man Who Invented Christmas."
And to find some Christmas "cheer," possibly, following that.
Shameless plug aimed at Yosemite-bound travelers and citizens of Eastern Madera County.
Their shop is open Saturdays and is located at 40571 Hwy. 41 in Southgate Station.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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This guy did not grow up in Berkeley (he has no dog in this fight), but by the looks of his hat, he could very well be a Merceder.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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The good, the bad, and peeyou! Who colluded...?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 07:22pm PT
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A Dickens of a movie. Christopher Plummer as Scrotum gave a 4-star performance, IMO.
One thumb up, the best possible MFM rating for creative endeavors of this sort.
Supporting cast member, played Spirit of Christmas Present.
It was intense. But "good" intense.
(Sometimes it's better under the stars, though.)
Punk got lucky today.
The "Peeyu" just may be due to "bad" incense.
"Nightmares, heh? I’ve got one where I’m being chased by a giant badger."
Dickens: "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another."
Scrooge: "I beg you—let me do some good before I die."
So it's all good. Though there is some bad even in the best of us. Two sides to every obol, yen, pound, rupee, ruble, and ha'penny.
God bless you, Ebensneezer.
God bless us, everyone.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 07:27pm PT
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Saw a trailer for Isle of Dogs. Talk about "Turds in bags..."
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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couple patches of artificial snow over there, late start. grey band left of my roof rack ...
= latest 20-30' rim images, i'm scratchin' for it man!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 09:57pm PT
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I noticed the "snow" up there earlier, hooblie.
Was wondering, since you've not posted any pics lately with "the white stuff."
When snow DOES come, I'm requesting some shots of the Jerome Junkyard in the snow, please.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 10:39pm PT
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hey there, neebee,
Wanted to say how much I enjoyed your post on FB about Mr. Ed and Alan Young and all. Thanks for some fascinating insight to the talking equine film genre! Donald O'Connor and Francis the Talking Mule were part of my early childhood, especially because my dad Boomer's real name is Francis.
I blundered into this story a few minutes ago because I was trying to find a post-worthy shot of Mr. Ed, Alan Young, and an unidentified chimp.
The tale goes like this, and you can choose to believe it or not:
A disturbing incident occurred toward the end of filming "Every Which Way But Loose" when Clint Eastwood caught his then-girlfriend Sondra Locke having an affair with Clyde, Eastwood’s orangutan sidekick in the film.
Eastwood flew into a rage, destroying several sets before he challenged Clyde to a fistfight.
The ape won quite easily, beating Eastwood nearly to death. As is orangutan tradition, Clyde was preparing to rip the arms off of his fallen foe, but displayed a touch of humanity at the last second and embraced Eastwood in a manly hug, breaking what remained of Eastwood’s ribs but officially burying the hatchet between them as per ape law.
Eastwood and Clyde became blood brothers via transfusions he received from the ape while in the hospital, as they astonishingly shared the same blood type.
Clyde helped nurse Eastwood back to health during Eastwood’s three-year stay in intensive care, and even helped Eastwood edit the finished film during this convalescence.
In fact, it was Clyde’s idea that in order to enact revenge on Locke, Eastwood leave in the scene where Locke sings in order to irreparably damage her reputation. Through sign language, Clyde joked that she sounded like two orangutans having sex while they were on fire.
The two friends remain inseparably close to this day, and Eastwood has cast Clyde in prominent roles in all of his pictures, such as the villain in In the Line of Fire and the female lead in Million Dollar Baby.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2017 - 05:40am PT
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Copy and print on hard paper for a free postcard.
Send one to a friend.
Tell them to support Werner for POTUS.Ho ho ho.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2017 - 05:54am PT
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Tryin' to Pocohauntus? You'll have to do better, Mr. Letter.
The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.
The name derives from the substitution of the letters X, Y and Z for the names of French diplomats Hottinguer (X), Bellamy (Y), and Hauteval (Z) in documents released by the Adams administration.
Must have been a ghost post...
Postergeists! Yikes!
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Misty Aye and the Battle for Ganymede
(Previously in chapter I)
...The galaxy was at her fingertip
But Misty pulled back from the lip
And settled the behemoth to the ground
Her orders were just to find this ship
They departed on their shuttle craft
Her commander must've thought her daft
Passing up a journey no one conceived
But in her throat she caught a laugh
For what they'd seen they would not tell
Of what lie out beyond that cosmic hell
Was a place that never would be believed
And her curiosity was dormant for a spell...
Chapter II
...Misty Aye was home on leave
Her fathers state she would not grieve
His isolation on Planet X
Difficult oddly to perceive
His last communication read
Before the phone and coms went dead
A foreign force would soon annex
A moon near Saturn where they’d spread
An encrypted massage sent to the squad
That no one there mistook as odd
But Misty knew her fathers groove
When Ay Aye departed via Solarpod
To Ganymede where the command was toast
Betrayed by their Frogonian hosts
Those amphibians were on the move
As alerts went out to every post
The Frogonians in a Trumpian haste
Declared Ganymede had been defaced
By it’s designate status as only a moon
Had a planetary title been misplaced?
Never classified as much is so
But who knows what Frogonians know?
Yet Ganymede was going nowhere else soon
As fixed in its orbit it would go
Ay Aye set down in a canyon where
To the other Galilean moons he stared
He met with the agents from our race
To plot a counter attack up there
Now Misty stewed and searched her soul
Raised by a cyborg her feelings were cold
Her father once exiled in disgrace
To reenter the fray for him was bold
From Planet X Misty would depart
Back to her squad like a speeding dart
To commandeer from the sands of Mars
The alien starship like stolen art
To join the resistance with firepower
Her ship full throttle and her heart a ’glower
To drive the Frogonians back to the stars
In the Battle for Ganymede at zero hour...
(to be continued)
-bushman
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Bushman, I am totally hooked on this story. I await the next installment, and thank you for a very nice gift this 2 December, in the 2017th Year of our Lord.
Merry, Merry Christmas or any other holidays you would like to celebrate—I include the Solstice, around which the bureaucratically-designatd birthday of Jesus hovers as one of many satellites of celebration to the main event: the return of the Sun. :)
Merry Christmas and thank you for this compelling and paradigm-shifting story.
Do you ever publish any of this excellent stuff?
ff
edited for glaring typos
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Mouse, that's about how it is at North Pole, AK at Solstice. It is not entirely dark that far south, but it is a very short day. Days were getting shorter here as well.
Up in North Pole (just down the road from Fairbanks) there is very little sun, but what shines paints the land in golds and the sky is often orange. Mostly, it is twilight or dusk, then darkness.
Except for the magnificent Aurora, of course.
I hope this note finds you doing well and enjoying the festivities of the season.
Merry Christmas!
ff
also edited for glaring typos. I probably missed some anyway. :)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Neebee, I heard your message.
If there is a good time to call you, send an email.
ff
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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hooblie, nice rock. Lovely. I looks like a great place to be. Merry Christmas!
zB, that is an incredibly impressive stage set up for sound Amazing, and I imagine quite an experience just from the sound waves. Merry Christmas!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, feralfea... will do... :)
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