FOLIO OLIO: THURSDAY #2324

One Of My Very Own...

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A nice little read for Earth Day:

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/

This is a repost that still made me smile...

Question: Do you think this is merely a scene out of a movie?

THE SOUTH

In the South it is not uncommon to find signs like this in motel rooms...seriously...

We do a lot of fishing down here...

And those things have got to get cleaned somewhere and nobody down here fishes sober.

But when you combine huge bodies of water and alcohol there will always be the occasional mishap...

I will guarantee you that both of those good old boys know every single one of these words...

Most everyone down here knows the rules though...

That's why nobody...I mean NO BODY loans tools to anybody near the water....

Shit like the above happens so often that it becomes news when it DOESN'T happen.

"How did the work go down on the pier?"

"I didn't lose one tool."

"You've got to be shittin' me."

These women have hiked 87 miles into the deep forest and toted in enough alcohol and accouterments for her AND her man...

There is a reason insurance is sky high in the South. Life expectancy for any water borne vehicle is approximately 36 hours, or two trips to the lake...

The reason it takes two trips is that none of us can remember how to get it off the trailer the first trip out.

But lakes are not the only water we should be concerned with...

I'm not sure what's going on with sink holes. I never even heard of one until a few years ago, now I fear for my vehicle every fucking day.

Of course, humans and vehicles have had a love/hate relationship since the Olds brothers invented the first in-car blow job.

Watch this guy carefully...

IS THAT A SINK HOLE?!?! Holy fucking shit! What are the chances?!

I know I've posted this about a dozen times, but every time I notice something different...

Watch the guy on the right put his hand to his mouth. I can only assume that he is the supervisor and will get to watch the crew redo all that...this time without benefit of loading ramp.

There are so many things that can go wrong when it comes to vehicles...

My doctor told me to eat more fried food. Well, actually he said “less barbecue” but I’m pretty sure I know what he meant.

Crank up the Enola Gay? Damn.

The woman at the top used to teach with me. That's her family now all grown up...

I haven't seen her in years, but she told me a most powerful story. She has a most common Jewish name and one summer she toured Europe and in every major city she looked in the phone book and called every person with her name in hopes of finding a relative still alive after the Nazis. There weren't very many of them.

Imagine eradicating "Smith" from all American phone books.

She also taught me to play opera arias when my students were expected to work quietly. It worked like a charm.

Gary Cooper (1930)

Oh, my.

The suicide of Lucretia

Not only does she know exactly where to stab to hit the heart, but also the exact right angle.

These Are Easily The Most Gorgeous Maps Of The Moon Ever

Speaking of celestial orbs...

The hexagon at Saturn's north pole that I'm obsessed with…

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby have created similar geometric shapes (holes in the form of stars, squares, pentagons and hexagons) in whirlpools of water in a cylindrical bucket. The shapes appear easily enough once the bucket is spinning at a rate of one to seven revolutions per second, they say.

- I've always thought it was caused by vibrations of some sort, like the iron fillings on a speaker.

Nice...