Solar liseuse charger (or: "Enjoyable descent into unutterable silliness.") - Page 9

yvanleterrible · 03-21-2008, 07:50 PM

Snow tunnels are not a good thing and kids are taught so, a little girl died suffocated last fall.
Believe it or not, thick snow cuts down on the cold and is healthy for vegetation. When it piles up too high you can walk out the second story windows. Just make sure you keep a shovel indoors so you can find the front door to the place where the snowblower is stored

:
Remember that this snow fell throughout the whole of winter. We've had all that time to fight it a little bit each snowfall. Around Montréal we've only had 12 feet and two thirds of it thawed when temperatures rose.
Oh, lest we forget... dedicated winter tires are mandatory.

zelda_pinwheel · 03-21-2008, 08:00 PM

walking out of the second story windows !!!

now i see... it sounds kind of crazy ! but it's true, i forgot you didn't get 500 cm all in one night.

actually, i know that snow can reduce the cold ; here, sometimes when it's really cold i say "maybe it will snow !" and my friends say "no, it's too cold for snow." (the rest of time, it's not cold enough. i just can't win...).

Cthulhu · 03-21-2008, 10:20 PM

@Taylor: Mr. Roboto, Think it is time for a visit to the debugger, or maybe run an auto-defrag. Obviously, there are some bum circuits or crossed wired in there. Being wary of an impending invasion is not being intimidated, and readying nuclear weapons is hardly hand-wringing.
Seriously, read the squiggles in the order I type them please.

Evolution is an apt term vis-a-vis language when one realises that evolutionary change often means the demise of thousands of cute, cuddly life forms by chance or a preferential component of some other organism. We'll see how spontaneous extinction of morons who ask "Where you at" plays out.

@Yvan: bet that you wish you'd bought a solar-charged snow melter from MOZ's website, eh?

yvanleterrible · 03-22-2008, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Cthulhu

@Yvan: bet that you wish you'd bought a solar-charged snow melter from MOZ's website, eh?

Good one but m'afraid t'won't work. When it snows the sun don't shine.

Where you at man!

I hear that in New York City they bought a diesel snow melter that they just connect to the sewer system. Here it's illegal to dump snow in the waterways because of pollution from snow melting salts and oils from cars.

vivaldirules · 03-22-2008, 10:27 AM

Mr. Squid Bucket [he says politely, unable to conjure a more apt moniker and unwilling to use the unpronouncable, almost French-like Cthulhu], I looked for you at the Mythic (Mystic?) Creatures exhibit at the Fields Museum yesterday after trudging through the remains of the deluge from the Red Maple Threat that befell your fine city but I didn't see you. Some of your friends were there, though (e.g., Kraken). I shall try the Shedd today.

yvanleterrible · 03-22-2008, 11:41 AM

Cthulhu is a character from Philip Lovecraft novels. I haven't read any yet.

GeoffC · 03-22-2008, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Cthulhu is a character from Philip Lovecraft novels. I haven't read any yet.

You haven't ... you , therefore , don't know what you've missed out on ....

yvanleterrible · 03-22-2008, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

You haven't ... you , therefore , don't know what you've missed out on ....

Thanks for the advice. I have them and many more, just haven't gotten to them yet.

Cthulhu · 03-22-2008, 11:25 PM

Lovecraft is an amazing author.

He is the progenitor of sci-fi that branched out from Space Opera and the kind of pulp tale that simply transposed cowboys and indians for spacemen and aliens.

While some of this work is quite thought provoking and eerie if one really contemplates it, some pieces are so hammy and campy that there should be that crazy zoom push-pull and a violin playing a "zing!" crescendo.

As for my present location, due to my job, am in an undisclosed one.

Sadly, Chicago is no longer a cromuent place for me, and once my wife & I sell the house, neither will Urbana.

Luckily, have not seen snow since last March. 'Tis pretty to look at while sipping hot cocoa with creme de menthe & peppermint Schnapps, but driving in it, walking in it, and all the other things you poor people must do is beyond me. For a while.

Actually, wife sent a photo of our house listing and I asked "why use a picture with snow?" Of course, it had been taken that day.

Vivaldi: Fire your travel agent or get a job where your conventions come to Chicago in the summer.

When you visit the Shedd, look up as you pass through the oceanic (I think) fish wing. You will see how these wretched shoggoth-spawn did to my little brother.

Never should have taught you little b**tards how to dream.....

Plus, do not spend overmuch time attempting to pronounce my name, lest you be beset by eldritch horror, leading to dementia and me eating your soul.

HarryT · 03-23-2008, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Cthulhu

@Taylor:

Did you know Dvorak, the renowned Czech composer, is meant to have his name pronounced Divorzhyak?

Er, that IS the way people pronounce his name here in the UK. How do you say it?

I was amazed, when I first visited to US, to hear someone pronounce the name of the painter "van Gogh" as "van GO". We pronounce "Gogh" to rhyme with the Scottish "loch", which I believe is reasonably close to the Dutch original.

vivaldirules · 03-23-2008, 09:12 AM

Shoggoth: "It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congerie of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. ” — H. P. Lovecraft, At The Mountains of Madness

Oh, my god. I saw a bunch of those yesterday at the Shedd Aquarium! They were near the food court munching on french fries while simultaneously screaming with mouths agape "MOMMY, I WANNA SEE THE PENGUINS NOW!!!" We ran for our lives and barely escaped. We're gettin' outta this town, man!

slayda · 03-23-2008, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Good one but m'afraid t'won't work. When it snows the sun don't shine.

Where you at man!

I hear that in New York City they bought a diesel snow melter that they just connect to the sewer system. Here it's illegal to dump snow in the waterways because of pollution from snow melting salts and oils from cars.

Where do the law makers there think the melted snow goes - just sublimates to the ether?

Here in Alabama, if we ever have snow, it is just melted by our universal solar powered snow melter and runs into the rivers.

slayda · 03-23-2008, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Er, that IS the way people pronounce his name here in the UK. How do you say it?

I was amazed, when I first visited to US, to hear someone pronounce the name of the painter "van Gogh" as "van GO". We pronounce "Gogh" to rhyme with the Scottish "loch", which I believe is reasonably close to the Dutch original.

It's terrible what the US does to the Queen's English now that we have democratized it. (or should that be democratised for proper spelling?) Or perhaps "vulgarized it" would be more appropriate (in the original Latin sense, of course).

Oh, Why Not? · 03-23-2008, 11:07 AM

I'm sorry, but didn't we have a war a couple of hundred years back just so we could say things our own way?

zelda_pinwheel · 03-23-2008, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by slayda

Where do the law makers there think the melted snow goes - just sublimates to the ether?

doesn't it ? that's how it works here...

03-22-2008, 10:27 AM	#125
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Mr. Squid Bucket [he says politely, unable to conjure a more apt moniker and unwilling to use the unpronouncable, almost French-like Cthulhu], I looked for you at the Mythic (Mystic?) Creatures exhibit at the Fields Museum yesterday after trudging through the remains of the deluge from the Red Maple Threat that befell your fine city but I didn't see you. Some of your friends were there, though (e.g., Kraken). I shall try the Shedd today. Attached Thumbnails

03-23-2008, 09:12 AM	#131
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Shoggoth: "It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train – a shapeless congerie of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. ” — H. P. Lovecraft, At The Mountains of Madness Oh, my god. I saw a bunch of those yesterday at the Shedd Aquarium! They were near the food court munching on french fries while simultaneously screaming with mouths agape "MOMMY, I WANNA SEE THE PENGUINS NOW!!!" We ran for our lives and barely escaped. We're gettin' outta this town, man! Last edited by vivaldirules; 03-23-2008 at 09:17 AM.

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03-21-2008, 07:50 PM	#121
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	Snow tunnels are not a good thing and kids are taught so, a little girl died suffocated last fall. Believe it or not, thick snow cuts down on the cold and is healthy for vegetation. When it piles up too high you can walk out the second story windows. Just make sure you keep a shovel indoors so you can find the front door to the place where the snowblower is stored : Remember that this snow fell throughout the whole of winter. We've had all that time to fight it a little bit each snowfall. Around Montréal we've only had 12 feet and two thirds of it thawed when temperatures rose. Oh, lest we forget... dedicated winter tires are mandatory.

03-21-2008, 08:00 PM	#122
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	walking out of the second story windows !!! now i see... it sounds kind of crazy ! but it's true, i forgot you didn't get 500 cm all in one night. actually, i know that snow can reduce the cold ; here, sometimes when it's really cold i say "maybe it will snow !" and my friends say "no, it's too cold for snow." (the rest of time, it's not cold enough. i just can't win...).

03-21-2008, 10:20 PM	#123
Cthulhu Technologist Posts: 488 Karma: 585237 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: I'm between Cities Device: SONY Reader PRS-500	@Taylor: Mr. Roboto, Think it is time for a visit to the debugger, or maybe run an auto-defrag. Obviously, there are some bum circuits or crossed wired in there. Being wary of an impending invasion is not being intimidated, and readying nuclear weapons is hardly hand-wringing. Seriously, read the squiggles in the order I type them please. Evolution is an apt term vis-a-vis language when one realises that evolutionary change often means the demise of thousands of cute, cuddly life forms by chance or a preferential component of some other organism. We'll see how spontaneous extinction of morons who ask "Where you at" plays out. @Yvan: bet that you wish you'd bought a solar-charged snow melter from MOZ's website, eh?

03-22-2008, 11:41 AM	#126
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	Cthulhu is a character from Philip Lovecraft novels. I haven't read any yet.

03-22-2008, 11:25 PM	#129
Cthulhu Technologist Posts: 488 Karma: 585237 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: I'm between Cities Device: SONY Reader PRS-500	Lovecraft is an amazing author. He is the progenitor of sci-fi that branched out from Space Opera and the kind of pulp tale that simply transposed cowboys and indians for spacemen and aliens. While some of this work is quite thought provoking and eerie if one really contemplates it, some pieces are so hammy and campy that there should be that crazy zoom push-pull and a violin playing a "zing!" crescendo. As for my present location, due to my job, am in an undisclosed one. Sadly, Chicago is no longer a cromuent place for me, and once my wife & I sell the house, neither will Urbana. Luckily, have not seen snow since last March. 'Tis pretty to look at while sipping hot cocoa with creme de menthe & peppermint Schnapps, but driving in it, walking in it, and all the other things you poor people must do is beyond me. For a while. Actually, wife sent a photo of our house listing and I asked "why use a picture with snow?" Of course, it had been taken that day. Vivaldi: Fire your travel agent or get a job where your conventions come to Chicago in the summer. When you visit the Shedd, look up as you pass through the oceanic (I think) fish wing. You will see how these wretched shoggoth-spawn did to my little brother. Never should have taught you little b**tards how to dream..... Plus, do not spend overmuch time attempting to pronounce my name, lest you be beset by eldritch horror, leading to dementia and me eating your soul.

03-23-2008, 11:07 AM	#134
Oh, Why Not? Groupie Posts: 176 Karma: 13065 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: Galaxy Note 2; KindleFireHDX	I'm sorry, but didn't we have a war a couple of hundred years back just so we could say things our own way?

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