ICanSleepWhenI'mDead

Riddle me this - - if there are no recent alien visits by submerged UFOs, why did the government decide that every vice president since Walter Mondale should live at the US Naval Observatory? Here's the official cover story - - from https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-grounds/the-vice-presidents-residence-office/: "Walter Mondale was the first Vice President to move into the home. It has since been home to the families of Vice Presidents Bush, Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden, and Pence. Vice Presidents have welcomed countless guests to the residence, including foreign leaders and dignitaries. Still, the Naval Observatory has continued to operate. Scientists observe the sun, moon, planets, and selected stars, determine and precisely measure the time, and publish astronomical data needed for accurate navigation." Do you really think that every VP since Mondale has lived at the Naval Observatory because they want to "observe" the sun and the moon? All you gotta do to observe the sun is look up during the day, or look up at night to observe the moon, planets and stars. And what do any of those things have to do with oceans or the Navy? I'm sure if the president decided to live there it would draw too much attention, so just exactly what sort of naval phenomenomenon is the VP really keeping an eye on and reporting back to the president about? Gotta run - - I need more tin foil, and the dock workers may go on strike again in November. What sort of ship cargo are they afraid of unloading, anyway?

It's an indicator of character, or lack thereof. Speaking of "back in the day" - - when my Dad was a young man, cars did not have automatic, fob-controlled door locks. When he was on a first date, he says he always paid attention to what his date did after he unlocked the passenger side door first to let her get in the car. If she reached over to pull up the button to unlock the driver's side door (cars generally had bench seats back then, not buckets) before he got there, that was sort of an initial litmus test for whether she was likely to be a keeper, or too self-absorbed. Never asked him whether Mom passed that initial test (both have been gone for years now). Not sure what the modern day equivalent could be with electronic key fobs that control all car functions.

My other brother Darryl might be available for the right price, but you'd have to use a silent snap count.

I once wore white after Labor Day, but that was a long time ago.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sax : "Though never regarded as one of the top fielding second basemen in the league, Steve Sax inexplicably became incapable of making routine throws to first base in 1983, committing 30 errors that season.[6] This is referred to in baseball terminology as "Steve Sax syndrome", the fielder's variant of "Steve Blass disease", named after the Pirates pitcher who suffered a similar breakdown of basic mechanics (also known as "the yips"). As his accuracy suffered, fans sitting behind the first base dugout began wearing batting helmets as mock protection.[7] (Teammate Pedro Guerrero, an outfielder pressed into service at third base in 1983, once reportedly stated that his first thought whenever he was in the field was "I hope they don't hit it to me", while his second thought was "I hope they don't hit it to Sax.")"

Whatever you may think about whether either of today's threads about past Bills OL names were funny, in my personal opinion, two bills drive is less enjoyable than it used to be because most attempts at humor (there a few notable exceptions that seem to be grandfathered into acceptability) are routinely deleted by the moderators.

There's usually a legitimate reason for that. When there is some obstruction in the road ahead, like something that fell off a truck, they do that to create a gap in the traffic that allows someone to safely walk out into what would otherwise be dangerous, busy traffic and remove the debris from the road. Once the obstruction is gone, they speed up to allow normal traffic flow to resume. You never see the reason for creating the gap, because by the time you get to the spot that had the debris, it's gone.

Turns out there are underground tunnels on the moon. Scientists speculate they were made by lava flows, but they found one with a caved-in roof. I've seen lots of movies showing various scenarios that cause tunnel roof collapses, but I don't recall ever reading about a cave-in caused by lava flows. The truth is out there: https://www.inverse.com/science/moon-cave-hidden-passageways-tunnel-surface

We released a LB so dedicated that he changed his first name to Shayne (in honor of Shane Conlan) just because he spelled it wrong? That's cold.

I'm taller than most, and I always get up and into the aisle the instant the seat belt sign goes off. Despite grabbing an aisle seat whenever possible to give me a chance to move one knee out of the seat back in front of me, I am always uncomfortable by the time the plane lands, even if I am not sitting behind some jerk who tries to rapidly recline his seat and succeeds only in further jamming my knees. Very few people who immediately stand up in the aisle try to actually rush off the plane (although it does occasionally happen). You might want to cut the people who immediately stand up but wait their turn to deplane a little slack before calling them rude, especially if they are tall.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2024/07/18/lou-dobbs-media-legacy/74461452007/

My brother Darryl, my other brother Darryl and I miss him already.

If it makes you feel any better: I sometimes stay at a campground that has a few horse corrals, with large tubs inside the corrals that the horse owners can fill with water. They have to put what amounts to small ladders in the water tubs so that when the chipmunks go in the tub to drink they don't drown. Used to see small piles of dead, drowned chipmunks next to some of the tubs. Sometiimes horse owners from other areas don't realize what the little ladders are for and take them out of the tubs - - more dead chipmunks.

Best fireworks show I ever saw was in San Diego in 2012. There was supposed to be about a half hour long professional show with stuff shot off at typical intervals from several barges in the harbor. They apparently had a computer glitch that affected the timing, and everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, went off all at once. It was awesome. If I recall correctly, nobody got hurt. They should do it that way on purpose every year.

I'll be able to sleep when I'm "dead," so . . . . If anybody wants to try faking your own death (I don't recommend it), here's some potentially useful info: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/30/faking-your-own-death-takes-work--and-lots-of-cash.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/playing-a-risky-game-people-who-fake-death-for-big-money/

Impressive, but Don Beebe says hello.

Did you know that South Dakota Martians fought in Viet Nam? If they arrived here in an underwater UFO, I don't know if I should post this here or in the underwater UFO topic. "Said goodbye to his mama as he left South Dakota To fight for the red, white, and blue He was 19 and GREEN with a new M-16 Just doin' what he had to do" And If yellow is a primary color, why isn't the flag red, yellow and blue? Doesn't that make white a primary color rather than yellow?

That's good advice for most situations, but it's a bit impractical at Costco. If I park so that I can pull forward out of the parking space, it's awkward to to transfer a boatload of Costco stuff from my shopping cart into the hatchback of my vehicle. There's often not enough room to pull the shopping cart between parked cars.

1. When I am the only car driving in my direction, with miles of empty space both behind and in front of me on both sides of the road, with an empty center lane that cars going in either direction can use to safely make left turns, and some moron makes a left turn out of a driveway to pull into that center lane and either stop or drive slowly as I approach. WTF - - you couldn't wait 3 seconds for me to pass in front of you before you pull out of the driveway into the miles of empty space behind me? Are you going to merge into my occupied lane and hit me? You've already shown me that you are a complete moron, so there's no telling what idiot move you are going to make next. I usually deal with this situation by coming to a complete stop and waiting for the idiot to merge into my lane in front of me. I don't care how long that takes. I won't honk or flip you the bird, but I aint going anywhere until you drive off and can't possibly hit me unless you throw it in reverse. If we both starve to death while I'm waiting for your next moron move, so be it. If I make the situation uncomfortable enough for you (there's a certain amount of poetic justice in making YOU uncertain about whether I will take off and hit you when you eventually decide to merge into my lane), maybe you'll be less of a moron the next time you pull out of that driveway, but I'm not optimistic. 2. When I'm slowly backing out of a parking space in a crowded parking lot, because it's difficult to see what's coming, and some fool comes around the corner after I'm already backing up, sees me already part way out of the parking spot moving backwards, and speeds up to pass behind me (if he didn't speed up he'd hit me). This is a regular occurrence at my local Costco. I'm open to suggestions about non-lethal ways to deal with this situation. I got nothin'.

Only on a written confession about how he cheated.

There was some discussion upthread about Avi Loeb's plans to search for underwater fragments of a very unusual "interstellar object" that passed by earth a few years ago. So I did a google search to see if there was any new information about how that turned out. The following article is about 5 months old, but was published after the most recent posts about him in this thread. I found the details about him interesting - - he's still at it, and had plans at the time the article was written for another expedition "next spring." Netflix is apparently filming something about him: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/29/the-alien-hunter-has-harvard-avi-loeb-found-proof-of-extraterrestrial-life ________________________ "He’s busy rehearsing for a one-man show about his life and work, which he’ll perform in his attic tomorrow. Apparently, I’m the “only journalist to be invited”, apart from the camera crew filming a documentary. * * * Is he nervous about his show? “No, no,” he says. “Because I’m playing myself – there’s no difference.” Netflix will be filming it; in June documentary-makers accompanied him on his trip to Papua New Guinea where he recovered debris from a fireball that landed in the sea to the north of Manus Island. “There were over 50 film-makers and producers that wanted to document what I’m doing. They wanted to be on the ship, but I said I had a contract just with one.”

Missile Command

The Pats implanted a tiny but powerful speaker in Jim Kelly's teeth during his last doctor visit, so when he gets the honor to go to the podium to announce pick # 28, he tries to select Xavier Worthy, and the instant "Xavier" comes out of his mouth an AI generated copy of Beane's voice inside his head tells him "No, I said Brian Thomas" - - end result: the Bills select Xavier Thomas, DE from Clemson.

Blame Kevin Costner: