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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 12:21:07 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 2:57:41 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 3:38:59 AM   
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You know that you really can't explain puns to kleptomaniacs. They take everything. Literally.


Well, if they're French, we can take their consonants, they won't miss them. If you want to be really evil, you can dump some of your excess vowels on them, it won't make any difference.

Yeah, even throw an "x" on the end and see if anyone notices.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 6:25:43 AM   
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You know that you really can't explain puns to kleptomaniacs. They take everything. Literally.


Well, if they're French, we can take their consonants, they won't miss them. If you want to be really evil, you can dump some of your excess vowels on them, it won't make any difference.

Yeah, even throw an "x" on the end and see if anyone notices.

We can donate the excess vowels to Slavic countries like The Czech Republic and Slovakia...They desperately need vowels.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 3:44:56 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 3:48:28 PM   
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You know that you really can't explain puns to kleptomaniacs. They take everything. Literally.


Well, if they're French, we can take their consonants, they won't miss them. If you want to be really evil, you can dump some of your excess vowels on them, it won't make any difference.

Yeah, even throw an "x" on the end and see if anyone notices.

We can donate the excess vowels to Slavic countries like The Czech Republic and Slovakia...They desperately need vowels.


An oldie, but a goodie...

Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia

(originally appeared in The Onion, Number One In News)
Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients

Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia. The deployment, the largest of its kind in American history, will provide the region with the critically needed letters A,E,I,O and U, and is hoped to render countless Bosnian names more pronounceable.
"For six years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm have been horribly butchered by millions around the world," Clinton said. "Today, the United States must finally stand up and say 'Enough.' It is time the people of Bosnia finally had some vowels in their incomprehensible words. The US is proud to lead the crusade in this noble endeavour."

The deployment, dubbed Operation Vowel Storm by the State Department, is set for early next week, with the Adriatic port cities of Sjlbvdnzv and Grzny slated to be the first recipients. Two C-130 transport planes, each carrying over 500 24-count boxes of "E's," will fly from Andrews Air Force Base across the Atlantic and airdrop the letters over the cities.

Citizens of Grzny and Sjlbvdnzv eagerly await the arrival of the vowels. "My God, I do not think we can last another day," Trszg Grzdnjkln, 44, said. "I have six children and none of them has a name that is understandable to me or to anyone else. Mr. Clinton, please send my poor, wretched family just one 'E.' Please."

Said Sjlbvdnzv resident Grg Hmphrs, 67: "With just a few key letters, I could be George Humphries. This is my dream."

The airdrop represents the largest deployment of any letter to a foreign country since 1984. During the summer of that year, the US shipped 92,000 consonants to Ethiopia, providing cities like Ouaouoaua, Eaoiiuae, and Aao with vital, life-giving supplies of L's, S's and T's.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 4:05:34 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 4:48:53 PM   
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You know that you really can't explain puns to kleptomaniacs. They take everything. Literally.



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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 4:52:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

You know that you really can't explain puns to kleptomaniacs. They take everything. Literally.


Well, if they're French, we can take their consonants, they won't miss them. If you want to be really evil, you can dump some of your excess vowels on them, it won't make any difference.

Yeah, even throw an "x" on the end and see if anyone notices.

We can donate the excess vowels to Slavic countries like The Czech Republic and Slovakia...They desperately need vowels.


An oldie, but a goodie...

Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia

(originally appeared in The Onion, Number One In News)
Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients

Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia. The deployment, the largest of its kind in American history, will provide the region with the critically needed letters A,E,I,O and U, and is hoped to render countless Bosnian names more pronounceable.
"For six years, we have stood by while names like Ygrjvslhv and Tzlynhr and Glrm have been horribly butchered by millions around the world," Clinton said. "Today, the United States must finally stand up and say 'Enough.' It is time the people of Bosnia finally had some vowels in their incomprehensible words. The US is proud to lead the crusade in this noble endeavour."

The deployment, dubbed Operation Vowel Storm by the State Department, is set for early next week, with the Adriatic port cities of Sjlbvdnzv and Grzny slated to be the first recipients. Two C-130 transport planes, each carrying over 500 24-count boxes of "E's," will fly from Andrews Air Force Base across the Atlantic and airdrop the letters over the cities.

Citizens of Grzny and Sjlbvdnzv eagerly await the arrival of the vowels. "My God, I do not think we can last another day," Trszg Grzdnjkln, 44, said. "I have six children and none of them has a name that is understandable to me or to anyone else. Mr. Clinton, please send my poor, wretched family just one 'E.' Please."

Said Sjlbvdnzv resident Grg Hmphrs, 67: "With just a few key letters, I could be George Humphries. This is my dream."

The airdrop represents the largest deployment of any letter to a foreign country since 1984. During the summer of that year, the US shipped 92,000 consonants to Ethiopia, providing cities like Ouaouoaua, Eaoiiuae, and Aao with vital, life-giving supplies of L's, S's and T's.



Pretty good and not an inch of PC.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 5:52:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have this daydream I do when I have nothing to read or do. I’m a self-financing industrial magnate back in the 1920’s but I know what’s coming and when. I get the contract (however I have to do, I do it) to scrap the four Lexingtons under construction. I pretend to scrap them by gutting what I don’t want out of them, and ultimately fully scrap the Ranger. On a foggy night I tow the others out and take them to a secret facility with enclosed dry docks. Now slowly (I have lots of time) I begin building an aircraft carrier. Just one. It would utilize all three hulls. The flight deck and the hangar deck would span all three. The flight deck would consist of a reinforced concrete deck plated top and bottom with steel. The whole structure would be reinforced by I-beams transversing across a deck halfway to the waterline. These beams would have nothing bigger than man hole doors (like on a sub) cut into them and kept closed most of the time. Probably just crews quarters on this deck. There might be a further deck just below the hangar deck transversing all three hulls which would allow most of the air delivered munitions to be stored in magazines in the center hull and distributed to the other two hulls. Both this deck and the hangar deck would have walls separating each hull with blast doors of sufficient size for moving aircraft and etc. as needed across the ship. The blast doors would be open only as needed and certainly closed if an incoming attack were spotted. The avgas would also be stored in the center hull. There might be additional armor over the center hull, perhaps on the floor of the arming deck. There would be vents for the hangar deck and arming deck in the seams between the hulls in case of a penetration over the center hull. I just thought of this, those vents could vent downward. The island would rise over one side or the other of the center hull.
Each hull would have its own engines, screws, rudders and fuel supply. Obviously the center hull would be nearly impervious to torpedoes. Appropriate mine defenses would be called for there (vented bulges perhaps). Once the Japanese renounce the Washington treaty, serious construction could begin in earnest. Because I would not want the existence of this monster public before it was unavoidable, I would be constructing a secret base somewhere in Alaska’s Inner Passage for her. I would accelerate the production of the Hudson if I could, and purchase enough for one squadron with spares, then modify them so they were essentially Harpoons with folding wings. Their roles would be search, ASW and medium bombing. They would be capable of torpedo attacks. Probably a squadron of 24. I’d fund the construction and purchase the first Wildcats, Avengers and Dauntlesses I could lay hands on. I’d fund the USN with whatever it took to train the requisite number of crews (of all types including mechanics and ship’s crews) on other carriers as needed.

That’s mostly it, you can run day-dream scenarios of various sorts starting there.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 6:51:10 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 7:08:15 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 7:09:24 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 7:13:17 PM   
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Me? I dream of electric sheep.


As long as you don't sod***ze them, I have no problem with that.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/20/2016 8:22:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was wondering if a hummingbird's bill was one piece, as in the top and bottom being fused together. Never really saw one with an open bill.
Well, they can open and I bet most of the time it's in a microsecond. They do vocalize with chirps, but it has to be really quiet to hear them, like in the morning before the traffic gets heavy or the dog and human unnecessary vocalizations begin.
Not my pic here:





I've seen it said that hbirds begin to recognize the humans (and gorns) that fill their feeders. I don't know if that is the case for me 'cause if I try and change them in daylight I will receive bee stings.
One time I was even stung at night. They do start to feed in the early dawn when you wouldn't think they could see where they are flying. The honey bees will not have arrived yet and so their only competition is other hbirds.


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/21/2016 12:09:33 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/21/2016 2:34:08 AM   
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Never trust a Gorn in a coop match . . .
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 7:44:49 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 7:46:48 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 7:50:47 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 7:54:49 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 9:16:22 PM   
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warspite1 you need to stop trying to get pics of your monarch in her knickers!

His monarch is kind of aged and her beauty has faded quite a lot. He is shooting potential future monarchs ...

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 9:36:54 PM   
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warspite1 you need to stop trying to get pics of your monarch in her knickers!

His monarch is kind of aged and her beauty has faded quite a lot. He is shooting potential future monarchs ...

He is not shooting anyone. He doesn't have the skills. He even said so himself.

He can't even take a picture of the broad side of a barn.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 9:41:56 PM   
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warspite1 you need to stop trying to get pics of your monarch in her knickers!

His monarch is kind of aged and her beauty has faded quite a lot. He is shooting potential future monarchs ...

He is not shooting anyone. He doesn't have the skills. He even said so himself.

He can't even take a picture of the broad side of a barn.


Well, what about the dude side of a barn then?


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 9:47:23 PM   
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warspite1 you need to stop trying to get pics of your monarch in her knickers!

His monarch is kind of aged and her beauty has faded quite a lot. He is shooting potential future monarchs ...

He is not shooting anyone. He doesn't have the skills. He even said so himself.

He can't even take a picture of the broad side of a barn.


Well, what about the dude side of a barn then?


Not even a white elephant. Not even if it stared him in the eye.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/22/2016 11:26:09 PM   
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warspite1 you need to stop trying to get pics of your monarch in her knickers!

His monarch is kind of aged and her beauty has faded quite a lot. He is shooting potential future monarchs ...

He is not shooting anyone. He doesn't have the skills. He even said so himself.

He can't even take a picture of the broad side of a barn.


Why not? Which side is the broad usually on? Oops.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/23/2016 1:04:36 AM   
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warspite1 you need to stop trying to get pics of your monarch in her knickers!

His monarch is kind of aged and her beauty has faded quite a lot. He is shooting potential future monarchs ...

He is not shooting anyone. He doesn't have the skills. He even said so himself.

He can't even take a picture of the broad side of a barn.


Why not? Which side is the broad usually on? Oops.


Is that why they call it a BROADcast?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/23/2016 2:28:39 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/23/2016 2:37:42 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 9/23/2016 2:56:01 AM   
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warspite1 you need to stop trying to get pics of your monarch in her knickers!

His monarch is kind of aged and her beauty has faded quite a lot. He is shooting potential future monarchs ...


Are you referring to this one? I've stated before that dimples just kill me. This woman totally flattens me into a green puddle of goo.






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