Hello sportsfans. Trooper York has asked me to cover the baseball playoffs as I am one of the most important factors in the ongoing quest for that World Series trophy. Who am I?
Why I am A-Rod's urine sample. Just call me Mr. Clean.
Well it looks like our Yankees bashed the twinkies with no problem. That Jeter is unbelievable. Two for two with a home run and two walks. Mariano got a little shaky at the end but with Joba in the pen along with Hughes we should be good.
Saint Joe Torre squeezed out a win on the coast. But he will screw it up in the end. Like all those old time managers who won a bunch with the Yankees. You know Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel and Ralph Houk. They can never do it with another team. I don't expect the Bums to make the series. Unless Manny is juicing it up. Nah ain't happening.
The Phillies won and I think we will see them in the series. I mean how could you not beat a team called the "Rockies." I mean you would expect to be facing a stupid moose and squirrel. Jeez.
I am keeping an eye on the Red Sox and the Angels. One of them will be facing the Yankees in the ALCS which is the real World Series. I mean who cares about the National League for crying out loud. They might as well be the Washington Generals.
So lets enjoy the games. Excuse me I gotta go pee pee again.
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So I asked myself: "Why is urine yellow" and I found the answer:
Some European alchemists in the middle ages apparently thought one possible reason was that there was gold in urine. This led to fruitless, and possibly quite disgusting, efforts to extract that gold.
The yellow color in urine is due to chemicals called urobilins. These are the breakdown products of the bile pigment bilirubin. Bilirubin is itself a breakdown product of the heme part of hemoglobin from worn-out red blood cells. Most bilirubin is partly broken down in the liver, stored in the gall bladder, broken down some more in the intestines, and excreted in the feces (its metabolites are what make feces brown), but some remains in the bloodstream to be extracted by the kidneys where, converted to urobilins, it gives urine that familiar yellow tint. Link.
I love the internet.
Googling around a little more, I came across this:
Alchemists often heated vinegar (an acid) or urine (sometimes a base) as ingredients with earths and metals to cause chemical transmutations. In 1669, the German merchant and amateur-alchemist Henning Brand (ca. 1630-1710) in Hamburg was the first to obtain elementary Phosphorus. He was heating concentrated urine and preventing the admittance of air. There was a snow-white substance at the bottom of a retort. It burned out immediately with a dark and choking smoke. The most interesting thing about that substance was that it was illuminating in the dark and Brand was able to read old alchemy works under its light. So, in 1669 a chemical element was discovered while trying to manufacture gold. His discovery was immortalised in the painting by Joseph Wright of Derby. (see the painting at the link here.
Am I at the wrong blog?
No you are in the right place.
We just piddle around saying stupid shit here.
If you want pissed off people you have to go to other peoples blogs. They revel in it.
Just sayn'
DEAR TROOPER ( a good idea for a series)
Dear Trooper,
When Davey Lopes is a base coach with The Fightin's and Larry Bowa is a base coach with The Dodge Boyz, how's a fan spozed to decide how to bet?
signed- Wondering in Wellington
Yeah, but there's yellow and yellow. This sample indicates that either A-Rod isn't taking in enough liquid (water) or is taking in too much liquid (beer) or is taking massive doses of Vitamin B (based on my own Vitamin B based very yellow urine).
Or maybe he is banging a Hollywood starlet who uses too much peroxide on her cootch hair.
chickenlittle, I remember reading about this, it was part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
So I asked myself: "Why is urine yellow" and I found the answer:
So stupid men can determine if they're coming or going.
So stupid men can determine if they're coming or going.
Believe me CG there's whole different sensation there. But I do now understand better what the French call le piss blanc.
So I asked myself: "Why is urine yellow" and I found the answer:
How else do you know how to put your underwear on? Yellow in front, brown in the back!
Hey finally the great garage mahal comments here at Trooper York.
Welcome buddy.
Just note that you get a tag here immeadiately.
And follow the tag because you have had your own series of tags for years now!
See what happens when venture out of your comfort zone!!!
Welcome Garage!
Just remember to leave any political weapons at the door and to vote early and often in all polls.
I can't believe you finally showed up-Darcy will be so tickled!
Ya see garage, there is a God. Only a supreme being could create the yellow front/brown back concept.
Now if only someone could explain why baby shit is yellow too we may all come to a universal understanding of the cosmos.
garage!!!
Yay!!
We've been hinting this for a long time. Glad to see you finally here.
I remember reading about this, it was part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
Which part Jason? The Au or the P?
Thanks guys. Great to be here. And the hints? *sheewwwww!* Right over my head.
chickenlittle, That is a GREAT site! Combines chemistry and history. What's not to like?
Chickenlittle, the P
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chickenlittle, That is a GREAT site! Combines chemistry and history. What's not to like?
Of course the guy is Dutch!
"And the hints? *sheewwwww!* Right over my head."
Well if you took your hand away... you might feel the gentle breeze that blows... ;)
Nice to see you here, Garage.
c-lit (oof, sorry how that looks)
Piss blanc? Is that what the French say to those tiny Thais?
garage - But that method is a problem for those of us who go commando. COMMANDO, BITCHES!!
Yeah. This site is awesome. Here I can chill out and read Chickenlittle commenting about urobilinogen and the stuff that Paracelsus made famous.
Not arguing with the citation on Brandt. I'm just saying that Paracelsus was awesome. History Channel used to air features on the development of chemistry showing (re-enacted) clips of Paracelsus throwing flashing embers of phosphorus around a dark lab. What a guy.
Trooper sure knows how to host.
Phosphorus has four allotropes. But white phosphorus is the most flammable. Just so's any budding young pyromaniacs will know.
Allotropes. What a cool word.
Hey I spent all of September writing an opera about my urine...and other fluids...and what do I get when I come here?
Shesh!
Ron, you get some love and some of these too. *hugs*
SOooooo good to have you back and fussing.
Chicklet may be up on all things urine, but here's what I was always told.
If it doesn't look like lemonade you would serve over ice with a sprig of mint? Drink more water!
Say, Penny, what was Ginger's characters name in Swing Time? That's right...Penny. And here you are, just as sweet!
hugs right back to you! xxxooo
@CG:
La pisse blanche (pardon my French earlier-I forgot the urine is feminine) is so-named because that's what your pee looks like after consuming massive quantities of beer-i.e., white. It's kind of the other extreme of what Penny recited-too little yellow.
I learned the term while crossing swords with bunch of Germans.
@MUL: I didn't realize that Paracelsus had made phosphorus earlier-did that show say how he made it?
Welcome, garage!
('bout damn time!)
As I recall, they say he went ("went", get it?) by the same method: Distillation of piss.
My, how rudimentary things were for the ancients.
Here in the south we call it Bili-bob-rubin.
c-lit, if my piss turns white after 14 ying-lings I'm gonna quit.
Maybe clear, I can live with colorless piss.
In the hospital I was given the boon of plaid piss. Scotchmen are shocked when I piss on them in their Tartan colors...
You're a bit of a peedant Chocolate, but I'll forever love you because you were the very first commenter on my blog.
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