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May the 4’s be with you
Froggy Bottom Lounge CLOSED
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Aaaaaah. A fresh new pond. Everybody splash around.
<crickets chirping>
First they whine for a new cafe, then they refuse to leave the old one.
Maybe this will entice them:
This is what happened last time I splashed around.
Is that YOU?
Heh
Waited until the new one was up so you didn’t have to do any work? Izzy and I are going to tell Andi about your talents. Your secret is NOT safe.
No, it isn’t me.
And no, I didn’t wait until the new one was up…I just hopped back online. Actually, not totally online yet. Still watching the end of the Pistons game…
I have no talents. Andi knows this and she will never believe you.
I already know the ej knows how to do froggybottom since I gave him the info in the first place. And after I did, he promptly went on vacation.
BTW, DJ also has the info and has done a froggybottom cafe a couple of times if you ever need to go trolling for someone to help you out.
But did you READ last night’s late nighter. Izzy and I were quite impressed with his performance. Very talented.
And Janet is never here late night so she’s no help.
I figure since I usually post about 40% of the comments in the late late cafes maybe I should start kicking in and posting new ones every once in a while…
Whatever. It was nice to have you do it. And you’re welcome to do it anytime. (And, yes, I KNEW he was an FB Andi, that’s why I whined at him).
It was your amazing workaround of the white space that was impressive to us HTML challenged folks.
So want to explain to me what it was that I missed? I’m feeling continuity-impaired.
You KNOW I’m HTML challenged. So I can’t explain it. As far as I was concerned, it could have happened by magic.
You can read this (long) thread to get some idea.
Basically, I posted it wrong, and they told me it was unfixable. I disagreed.
and read what you did. Clever way to fix the problem. (and thanks for the link anyway).
Thanks. Of course, if I read instructions I never would have had the problem in the first place.
Story of my life.
I’ve been telling you for sometime now that I’m a huge geek. Maybe now you believe me?
Well, I’m a geek lover so nothing has changed between us.
Oh. Sweet.
Well you’ll all be happy to know (I’m sure) that tonight we have a (potentially) once in a lifetime experience.
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, it will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
If that isn’t reason to have a beer, I don’t know what is.
Damn you! I was going to go to bed early tonight.
Are you SURE this is once in a lifetime?
Unless you plan on living until the year 2106.
Or, you can just put it off until next year and celebrate at 02:03:04 05/06/07.
You can celebrate with me if you want. That at least puts you in Eastern time, which is only midnight your time.
That would be cheating.
Well, I was looking out for myself too. I don’t know if I’ll make it until 2am Eastern time to have the champagne with you, so I was trying to work out a compromise.
oh, well if it’s for YOU, sure.
No, it’s for both of us. That’s why I said ‘myself too‘.
But if you want to go to bed early, I’m sure that Family Guy will probably still be up to tuck you in. I might have to run out for more booze in the meantime.
Doh! Family Man!! Freudian slip! SORRY!
I love Family Guy! I always have to catch myself too.
are you going to live until 2106? 01:02:03 4/5/06
Of course if you don’t do a 24 hour clock you get this shortly after 1:00 p.m. as well.
ah, a workaround. And I only use a 24 hour clock in europe. So maybe that will just have to do for me. We’ll see.
It will have to work for me because I figure I’m good for about 15 minutes more.
I ended up working late tonight and am feeling the need for some hot relaxational soaking.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah . . .
then we would all have boiled froggy legs.
Well not that hot, silly! Just hot enough to unwind the stress.
Although I must say that even though watching the Bugman crash and burn didn’t remove all my stress, it was a mighty fine start.
It WAS orgasmic.
but I do know I was shouting “Yes! YES! YESSSSSSSSS!” as I heard the news.
OK, so I didn’t really, because my wife was asleep a few feet away and I didn’t want her to think I was having more fun than she was. But I sure thought it.
For this cafe.
I want to have a little guy like this for outside my door.
Andi, I do want to see your jackrabbit!
about not helping you beat up FM, here he is in all his not-glory.
Thanks Andi for the photo. Wow, look at the ears! Yes, this guy would definitely kick my bunny’s ass. But, my bunny did kick the squirrel’s ass. Ah, circle of life … 🙂
but your picture was a lot better.
Well you had both better watch it, because…
here comes a rampaging jackalope!!!
would kick both their asses and the squirrel’s too! 🙂
I used to sell computers to a fur processor when I lived in Montana. He knew a couple of taxidermists, and said he could have gotten me a mounted jackalope head for about $30 (this was almost 30 years ago).
Personally I think he was pulling my leg. Everybody knows jackalopes are almost impossible to capture.
Andi I’d say your’s is better b/c it’s doesn’t have several panes of glass in between the lens and the subject. 😛
Should I post the squirrel pic? I don’t want to upset maryb.
gives your photo a painterly feel so that it looks like an illustration by maxwell parrish.
I think it has a more Beatrix Potterish look.
Are you a pigeon toad?
Am I?
Me and my MP3 player are going to go see if I can use my collection of silly music to convince the rest of the riders on the bus that I’m an escaped mental patient. Hey, if laughing at nothing gets me my own seat on the bus, I’m OK with that.
See y’all later tonight.
Hey you can put a lot of music (9GB) on your MP3 player from the South by Southwest Festival here.
Cool beans. It only holds about 500 megs but that’s more than enough for a few days of commuting, and then I load it up again.
Speaking of geeks and dates, I was listening to an interview with Hank Williams III on NPR today and learned that this year there will be 6/6/06 which is, obviously, important to devil worshipers. Just a happy thought.
Kind of ruined by that zero but the 6/6 in 6 AD must have been a hoot.
They’re not going to let a little zero stand in the way of sacrificing black cats to the Lord of Darkness.
Apparently it is important to certain Christian Fundamentalists as well. I first read this in this diary on dKos, but it was taken from Fundies Say The Darndest Things.
This is one of my very favorites.
How did I miss the laser gun part of the bible? Must have fallen asleep during that reading.
I think it’s somewhere in the book of Revelation, after the Jesus looking guy upchucking the sword.
These types of things actually make me appreciate growing up Catholic where we not only weren’t encouraged to read the bible on our own — we were actively discouraged so that we wouldn’t come up with our own crazy interpretation.
Yeah, it would suck if somebody turned this into something crazy with their overactive imagination.
I’m sad you didn’t see fit to include the melting eyeballs of the unbelievers and the rivers of blood, and how the saved get to sit in white robes on God’s balcony and drink wine while they watch all the unsaved die horrible deaths. Ah, who wouldn’t want that?
The site I got the text off of had some of the most menacing music I’ve ever heard, so I just took what I could find quickly and got the f*** out of there.
Bleach your eyeballs and you should be okay.
where oh where is the whore of babylon?
I somewhat nastily make fun of Mr. Nature and the 15 quadrillion bible study classes he’s had in his life. You’re right, growing up Catholic the bible wasn’t really that significant! That’s funny to think about now that I’m down here in Raptureville and it’s not unusual for people to take 2 or 3 bible studies a week. And they have Sunday School for grown-ups! Do they get graham crackers and juice?
Yep. I still remember a sermon where the priest said that if you think of the bible as a newspaper, the Book of Jonah would be the comics. You can enjoy it, you can learn a lot from it, but nobody is swallowed by a whale and survives.
I always want to shout that at people who read the bible literally. What DO they talk about in all these bible study classes?
I’m reading a really interesting book by Bart Ehrman called Misquoting Jesus. It’s about how no one has the original manuscripts of the thousands of books that make up the bible and how the scribes who transcribed them routinely made changes to the texts, either by mistake or deliberately, according to their beliefs and experiences. He equates it with that old game of telephone where the message gets distorted from one person to the next until it’s unrecognizable to the person who started it.
He says the Bible is a very very human book and he no longer believes it is the inspired words of God.
He chairs the department of religious studies at UNC Chapel Hill.
I believe that is one of the major differences between Christianity and Islam as well, isn’t it? In Islam they do actually have texts from the time of Mohammed.
Somebody was telling me something about that a couple days ago. I’m not sure if it is true or not, but it is a guy I would usually trust.
I think I heard part of an interview with him on NPR and he was very interesting. I’d like to read that. (But not until I make a dent in my book stack.)
I read a book by Elaine Pagels last year that talked about how in the 5th century he Romans picked the texts they wanted to be the “official” books and ordered the rest destroyed. Among the ones to be destroyed was a Gospel according to Thomas and she said the Gospel of John was written as a response to this other one. That’s why in John, and only in John, Thomas is a complete idiot. He doesn’t believe, he says stupid things.
That interview on NPR was a driveway moment for me – I stayed in the car listening for like 20 minutes because I didn’t want to miss anything.
I would have done the same but I came in late and only heard the last part of it. I should download it — if I could remember which show it was on. Do you?
I think the earliest manuscripts of the various books of the NT are from the 2nd to 3rd centuries.
That passage does not appear in the King James version – only in the NWSV (New William Shatner Version.)
LOL
I’m pretty sure it appears in the torah and that I heard it chanted at a cousin’s bar mitzvah.
I think I heard about that. Was it the famous bar mitzvahpalooza?
but, thank the Cosmic Muffin, the huge, overblown bar mitzvah party syndrome started way, way after I was going to any.
But think of all the gifts you missed out on.
at 9 years old after three years (I had to cry some significant tears to pull that one off) — I was never going to get bat mitzvahed so no loss there.
They were disappointed that the apocalypse didn’t occur in 1998 like it was supposed to do according to someone’s tortured interpretation of Revelation. Imagine their horror when a giant comet doesn’t destroy the earth in 2012 and they have to go back to work the next day like all the unsaved schmucks.
Fundies Say the Darndest Things is a fantastic site. I love it. “a Laser Gun which there already starting to make as we speak.”
I totally agree. Sometimes I think that Jerry Bruckheimer is scanning that site in search for the plot of his next emo-action movie.
Or how about the binarily significant time/date 01:02:04 08/16/32. That one is far enough that the 10 people who understand binary can plan.
Excellent. There’s only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don’t.
ha ha let’s see you come up with one for that!
repeat, preview is my friend
Hi NDD, any river action tonight?
Water is closer to the storage shed today, and the bench with the sand bag on it just barely has the top rail showing.
Some rain predicted for Wed night, so much will depend on the amount and where it lands.
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It’s come up a few feet? What are they predicting it will crest at?
The record crest was 39.6 feet in 1997.
That’s a very decent flood stage level. But at least it should only go up about another 1/2 foot.
Wonder when it will arrive here.
The Missouri is so low this year that the water from the Red probably won’t affect us much this far south.
flows into the Missouri at all, I think it’s a completely separate water basin, so it only flows North past Winnipeg, to Hudson Bay.
of course you’re right.
I don’t know why I was thinking it flowed into the Mississippi. (I must have been thinking of the OTHER Red River, in AK).
I was talking about the Missouri because if it’s low, we don’t get much flooding even if there is a lot of water coming down the Mississippi.
and it has photos of yesteryear.
here
And all this time I thought the Red River was the southern boundary of Oklahoma…scroll down.
Live and learn
Peace
and then it flows through Arkansas into the Mississippi.
NDD was talking about this Red River scroll D some…I never heard of it B4.
Peace
Is anyone else drinking tonight?
(img stolen from here)
which must mean that end time is near. But out of the goodness of my soul, I’m going to go to bed and save us all.
Good night Andi!
Hmmm…it appears that everyone else followed you to bed…
There was like 25 minutes of silence there. It was creeping me out.
We were blog swarming another site. You must not have gotten the text message.
No, I didn’t. I assume I already missed out?
completely
ask Andi about it tomorrow …
I will if I remember…I don’t think I’m going to be around much tomorrow or Thursday though. Or Friday for that matter. Shit, or Saturday. I may not see you guys back here til Sunday night.
(pout) 🙁
Looking east of my friend’s back yard.
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The blue speck in the distance to the right of the human is someone’s swimming pool. My friend almost snared it a couple of days ago, but it got away.
I really hate to ask, but why is there a car in the water and a PU about to be flooded…aren’t these folks paying attention?
Flooding, at least in this circumstance, doesn’t just happen…up here we get flash floods and there’s little you can do except try and safe yourself…what up?
Peace
we were wondering about the auto too, and speculating it was a dead duck, but still, the flood water won’t help the salvage value, if any.
Expected crest will probably just get to the tires of the PU, but still, what if we get more rain than predicted, then what. I suppose it could be the PU is a dead duck too.
So it seems we have a few “energy challenged” folk here, as well as other areas I’ve been in recent years.
discussion about dada going on in the next FBC… where are you?
I’ve decided (since it’s national poetry month) to find a new poem to post in RubDMC’s Daily Grief Witness Diary every day. Found a good one for tomorrow.
that’s a great idea. I look forward to reading it.
I agree. I’m not huge into poetry, but if songs are just poems set to music, then there are several songs I can think of that are appropriate.
For example, this one still pops into my head on a near daily basis.
OK froggies, hop on over to the New Lounge.
Bring your poems with you …