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Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:04 pm
by Beyond
Crazy, hairy, biting ants are sweeping the south. The good news is that they eliminate fire ants. The bad news is that they are worse than fire ants.
Click on url for article and interview of discoverer of them.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/ ... 5225.shtml
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:53 pm
by Ann
Oh ga-ga-gaaaahhh!!! Yeeeecchh!!
Where is the "scared silly" smilie?
Ann
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:21 pm
by Beyond
Ha-ha, very expressive Ann. Actually it's pretty neat, in a way. The Crazy ants are getting rid of lots of pests, like fire ants and killer bees, BUT, they are so bad, that they are also getting rid of most other things also. I suppose that one could say that they are 'laying waste' to portions of the south. If they get to spread around enough, a lot of people who moved south may just start moving north again. One of my past posts spoke about how a lot of things in nature were moving north, AND up, if they were in a mountainous area. I wonder if they knew the sunami of Crazy ants was coming
Perhaps cold stops them. If that's the case----Grab the CO2 fire extinguishers!!, and give those little suckers a Banaca Blast
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:50 am
by Beyond
Rainbow fire
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For this, and some Quadruple Rainbows, click here-->
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/i ... le+rainbow
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:11 am
by owlice
Beyond wrote:Rainbow fire
Circumhorizon arc, and a very pretty one, indeed!
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:33 am
by bystander
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:46 am
by Ann
Oh wow, Beyond! I didn't know the rainbow was a girl!
Ann
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 6:50 am
by Beyond
Ann, reminds of a song that i can't think of the name of, that speaks about a girl brushing her hair, and there's colors everywhere, she's like a rainbow.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:27 pm
by orin stepanek
Ann wrote:
Oh wow, Beyond! I didn't know the rainbow was a girl!
Ann
Ann; Iris is the goddess of the rainbow!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(mythology)
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:26 pm
by Beyond
Orin, i clicked on your Iris link and there's nothing there except the name Iris. NO mention of a rainbow at all. You sure you got the right link
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:47 pm
by bystander
wiki wrote:In Greek mythology, Iris (Ἶρις) is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. As the sun unites Earth and heaven, Iris links the gods to humanity. She travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other, and into the depths of the sea and the underworld.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:48 pm
by BMAONE23
Another
Rainbeaux Smith
1955 - 2002
star of many "B" movies
made 30 movies
Just saw her last night in "The Incredible Melting Man"
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:20 pm
by orin stepanek
Beyond wrote:Orin, i clicked on your Iris link and there's nothing there except the name Iris. NO mention of a rainbow at all. You sure you got the right link
Oh boy; I lost my post! That's what happens when you forget to trip the submit button.
Anyway Iris is the goddess of the rainbow; I figured that is where the femininity comes from
http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Iris.html Iris (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(mythology)Cached - Similar
IRIS : Greek Goddess of the Rainbow, Messenger of the Gods ...
http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Iris.htm
IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow, the messenger of the Olympian gods. She was often represented as the handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera. ...
Morpheus and Iris, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1811
Iris, by Luca Giordano
Iris stands behind throning Juno at right in the Roman fresco from the eastern wall of the triclinium in the Casa dei vettii (VI 15,1) in Pompeii.
In Greek mythology, Iris (Ἶρις) is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. As the sun unites Earth and heaven, Iris links the gods to humanity. She travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other,[1] and into the depths of the sea and the underworld.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:57 pm
by Beyond
Orin wrote: She travels with the speed of the wind...
Isn't that about the speed that gossip travels
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:51 pm
by orin stepanek
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:38 pm
by Beyond
World's oldest Car
It just sold for 4.6 million dollars.
Good thing it doesn't run on gas.
The buyer probably couldn't afford to pay for gas, Now.
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http://news.yahoo.com/worlds-oldest-car ... 07363.html
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:33 pm
by orin stepanek
Out of my price range.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:54 pm
by Ann
Yeah, well... if they would give me a 10% rebate...
Ann
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 12:10 pm
by orin stepanek
Ann wrote:Yeah, well... if they would give me a 10% rebate...
Ann
0% interest and the rebate goes to the dealer.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:51 am
by Beyond
The
Roadkill Cafe
This guys been eating roadkill -and the like- for 30yrs.
I wonder if he's related to Larry, Daryl & Daryl
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http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/ ... ill_for_30
Scroll down a little to get to it.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:50 am
by Ann
Well, that
was kind of disgusting, Beyond, but very interesting, too. I followed a link that was "linked to your link", so to speak, and I found these facts about roadkill-eating Jonathan McGowan, 44:
The taxidermist from Bournemouth, Dorset, never kills the animals himself but eats only what he finds at the roadside or in woodland.
The man is a taxidermist! Well, I guess that means he can really live off the roadkill he finds. First he carefully removes their innards and cooks them, then he stuffs the remainder! And then he sells the stuffed animals, perhaps? Talk about living off what nature gives you!
Mr McGowan first got a taste for roadkill at the age of 14 when he cooked a dead adder that he had found.
He said: 'The adder didn't actually taste very nice - a bit like bacon rind. But it had piqued my curiosity and I wondered what else I could eat and what it would taste like.'
A slithering bacon rind?
'I used to cut up dead animals to see their insides and when I did all I could see was fresh, organic meat, better than the kind I had seen in the supermarkets. So I never saw a problem with cooking and eating it.'
'I am careful, obviously, not to eat anything that I don't think is fresh and if I don't know how an animal has died I will perform an autopsy on it first.
'I found a raven recently that had been poisoned, probably with strychnine, and that is something that other people would probably not think to look out for.
'I do have to be careful, but I have never been sick from anything I have ever eaten.'
(That reminds me of a ghastly short story by Roald Dahl called "The Landlady". Hint: The landlady doesn't use roadkill to get what she needs to do her taxidermy.)
Well, what an appetising tidbit that was, Beyond! Now it's time for me to have breakfast. Let's see, is that a dead pigeon on the lawn over there...?
Ann
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:09 am
by Beyond
Sweeny Todd is a play that would fit right in with your Landlady. But Angela Landsbury, in Sweeny Todd, doesn't stuff the leftover skins, as that would give away where the ingredients for her meat pies come from.
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:02 am
by Beyond
Did History Almost End In 1883?
The picture below, taken in 1883, was first thought to be the first picture of a UFO.
To find out what it really was, click the link below.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... -1883.html
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:15 pm
by Ann
That's certainly fascinating, Beyond. What was thought of as the first picture of a UFO may have been an asteroid that we were lucky not to have been hit by!
As for myself, I can't help thinking that the whole UFO craze started because of World War II. That was when airplanes first became a common sight in the sky. Also, because it happened during the war, people realized that flying objects might carry a deadly load, and be extremely dangerous.
Remember, too, Orson Welles' radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" in 1939, which made very many people believe that they were listening to a real live newscast of the invasion of the Earth by Martian spaceships. Then right on the heels of that shock we got World War II and the first long-distance rockets, created by the Nazis.
So I think these events "conditioned" people to think that the enemy may be coming here from the sky, in rockets or spaceships. In earlier times that must have been considered a crazy idea. I think people started studying the sky like they had never studied it before, and being suspicious of what they saw there. In earlier days almost everyone might have thought that a strange flying object was probably a bird after all. Now it suddenly became acceptable to think that the strange thing may have been a flying saucer.
Personally I consider the UFO craze a very interesting example of how currents events on the Earth created a belief in flying saucer UFOs and visitors from space.
Ann
Re: I Didn't Know That
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:01 pm
by Beyond
Ann, in your spare(?) time, try looking up -cave drawings-. I've seen quite a few pictures of cave drawings on TV, from all over that have a very good similarity to each other, which seem to be UFO's and some that look like space-suited aliens. Of course the drawings are a bit crude, but they sure stand out from the 'critters' that are usually drawn on cave walls.
