Friday, July 12, 2013

Congratulations to Lem on his new blog!


21 comments:

chickelit said...

Trooper Spills The Beans

The Dude said...

Sounded like Fat Bastard to me. But what the fuck do I know?

MamaM said...

LOL...who knows the hidden power of magic beans? Years after vibrations are picked up by one auricle and orifice, gas emerges from another!

The Dude said...

Hey, MamaM, how are you doing?

chickelit said...

Sounded like Fat Bastard to me. But what the fuck do I know?

Keep guessin' 60. Betcha Ruth Anne knows that voice.

MamaM said...

1 of a pair?

Which takes us back to C plus C, which if you tip your head can actually appear as a pair of auricles, if not orifices.

MamaM said...

Thank you for asking, Sixty G, I'm feeling overwhelmed right now, with all that is taking place, from Althouse to Zimmerman and Life in the middle betweet and between. On the up side is the fact that I am most definitely not lacking for reading material.

Drama wears me out however, and I took the afternoon off yesterday to get away.

Last night, after reading El Pollo's post on Mercury, I looked up the attributes of the Quicksilver god and pondered on Mercury as a symbol for TOP. Turns out he is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he is also the guide of souls to the underworld.

The blob-blog droplets that have resulted from the recent drop of the Frozen Mercury Hammer on the liquid commentariat have created more than I can currently collect into a dense pool of cohesive thought.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

I guess I'm not welcome over at Lem's place. All of my comments (all three of them) have been deleted.

Oh well.

chickelit said...

Are you effin' kidding me DBQ?

Lem is dead meat to me if that's true.

chickelit said...

Not that I don't like dead meat--it's quite tasty cooked right.

MamaM said...

If anyone would be deleted, it would more likely be the old coot who's roughing up the surface as part of varnish removal.

Ruth Anne Adams said...

Sounded like Cheech to me.

The Dude said...

Keep trying, DBQ - I think there might have been a glitch.

Heck, I am the one who should be banned, just sayin'...

MamaM said...

Heck, by the time the grit's been purportedly reduced to 8, it's time to forget sanding altogether and haul out the trebuchet!

Which is all about counterweight, and introduces the concept of "Zugzwang"!

The Dude said...

I once helped design a trebuchet. There is a video of it throwing a pumpkin 100 yards or so on YouTube. Good times...

TTBurnett said...

Wow, MamaM, you do veer the comments in new directions.

In the course of the 15th century, cannons mostly put trebuchets out of business. One of the impressive things about Joan of Arc, for example, was that she could manage artillery better than "a captain of 20 or 30 years' experience." That's because young people are into new tech, and fusty old officers probably had trebuchets in mind, when they should have been thinking trendy bombards.

But launching a pumpkin by bombard would tatter the pumpkin and alarm the neighbors, so, here's a medieval-style pumpkin-slinger, similar to—or maybe the same as—the one Sixty mentions. The dog has fun, too.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Ha ha ...that trebucket throwing pumpkins was great. The dog is funny as well running after the pumpkin. "I'll get it boss!!!"

chickelit said...

Next up: a meadevil trebucket throwing things onto thin ice for dogs to fetch.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Re: Comments at Lem's

It is a blogger problem, I guess we are all just a bit sensitive about commenting now.

Lem is a gentleman of the highest caliber, and I will quit being so sensitive.

Carry on.

The Dude said...

I'll be darned if I can find the video of the punkin chunkin I was involved with - who knew there were so many people involved in long distance squash squishing?

My contribution to the design was in material selection and energy storage - carrying around great weights is not efficient. I argued for the use of springs and what do you know - they worked and were light weight.

I'll keep looking and post a link if I ever find the video.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

I'm not deleting comments.

I do however need Pollo to help me change the comment format to look more like what people are used to.