Strange fish on Spanish beach- "On January 16, 1966, a B-52 bomber, carrying four hydrogen bombs, crashed while attempting to refuel in mid-air above the Spanish coast. Three of the H-bombs landed near the coastal farming village of Palomares. One of the bombs landed in a dry creek bed and was recovered, battered but relatively intact. But the TNT in two of the bombs exploded, gouging 10-foot holes in the ground and showering uranium and plutonium over a vast area. The fourth bomb landed eight miles offshore and was missing for several months. It was eventually located by a mini-submarine in 2,850 feet of water, where it rests to this day." ..so, the sea monster is probably a plutonium soaked highly mutated sardine?
I'll check your link out tomorrow. If I'm on the mobile it has to be a mobile site but for the time being would you at least agree Nessie could be a pleiseosaur?
Your link BB, now here's an issue I can get behind. Since the action's taking place in Bergen County and that's all NJ, let's see who's the governor over there again? Let's worry about this than some gay teen guy trying to get straight.
What's with all the texting??? Sure when my boss is on vacation I usually feel it important enough to text him at most twice, when my friend and I are trying to get together there will be a brief flurry of texting but that's it. I'm not a serial texter.
Mystery fish solved: "But now, Dean Grubbs, an ichthyologist at Florida State, has confirmed that the fish is not a sea monster, not a mutant, and not the hybrid of the two, the oarfish. Instead, it is – or was – a shark, he said, presumably anti-climatically. In fact, in an unfortunate downgrade, the errant bones that looked like horns severed from a dethroned monster king have turned out to be pectoral bones from a shark’s behind." Christian Science Monitor
My friend and I were having a discussion on the Sasquatch one day. I said if they really do exist the gov't would've caught one by now and he said even if they did they'd cover it up and I said why and he said they're weird that way. They probably have some Sasquatch working at an army base in NC doing menial work.
Best they don't discover any Sasquatches. Some freaky woman will want to get it on only with a Sasquatch, it'll develop into some porno subgenre, the other ones will get paid minimum wage and so let's leave well enough alone.
I ran across a blog that reported a survey about Sasquatch in the Pacific NW. 30-40% residents think they exist. An enterprising commenter posted about a Bigfoot Prevention System he was selling: a large rock with a Mr. Yuk painted on it. Now, there is something I believe: with that rock/Yuk, you well never see a Sasquatch! :)
A couple of interesting items have been introduced out this way- A semi-legal LSD substitute widely termed N-Bomb, and locally called Wizard Piss, which has sent several HS kids to the hospital and killed one. The other is the re-establishment of the Fisher in the Oregon mountains. Apparently, Fishers exist in central NY and some folks don't like them picking on chickens and pets, but the fierce little guys are the only animal known to successfully prey on the porcupine.
Stay away from Spirit Mound, S Dakota: "In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stayed for a time with a band of Wičhíyena Sioux on the Vermillion River in modern-day South Dakota. On August 25, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and 10 other men traveled about 9 miles north of the river's junction with the Missouri River to see the "mountain of the Little People". Lewis wrote in his journal that the Little People were "deavals" (devils) with very large heads, about 18 inches high, and very alert to any intrusions into their territory. The Sioux said that the devils carried sharp arrows which could strike at a very long distance, and that they killed anyone who approached their mound. The Little People so terrified the local population, Lewis reported, that the Maha (Omaha), Ottoes (Otoe), and Sioux would not go near the place. Naturally, L & C climbed up the hill, but could find no miniature folk. BTW, I've read their entire journals three times now....gotta get a life.
Soap once said he read Atlas Shrugged three times and I've been wondering if he's on his fourth yet. BTW how would something like Atlas be on a tablet, throw that in and a couple Stephen King tomes would it eat up the memory?
I don't know. My Kindle will run for fifteen hours on one charge. Less if you use the text to speech option. I beat the hell out of mine.... I love it so much.
I know people with iPads and I ask them how long they can go on their batteries and they'll say like six hours straight and then they recharge. A kid'll be playing on his iPad and then say "mommy my iPad's dying" like it's some kind of dire emergency.
Couple years back I researched the whole subject of serval and savannah cats the serval being a medium-sized African wild cat and the savannah a cross between that and a domestic cat. People are pussies and we get the same news coverage here, everytime folks in some town or village see a fox or a bobcat there's mass hysteria even though the creature was here first. They say servals and savannahs make good pets so what I wanna know is why did somebody kill it?
Your link about the wolf bothered me, gave it some thought and came up with this. Let's say I choose to sleep in the woods, a wild animal attacks me or at least bites me then the next day everybody has to go out and find the offending critter and shoot it. Seinfeld did a whole riff on camping once, I have an apartment, a sink, a shower, a kitchen why would I go out and sleep in the woods?
People who go swimming in the ocean and find themselves half eaten by sharks have no one to blame but themselves. The shark doesn't care who you are. You're in his front yard and you look tasty. That's reason enough.
If you decide to go sleep in the woods and you're not homeless there are certain risks attendant. So they leg-trapped the wolf and shot it and everyone's a hero.
Ironic; the human's worst natural predator is other humans. I suppose in a just natural system, human murderers would be leg- trapped and shot instead of 2 years probation with time off for good behavior.
Despite my tablet's porno popup problem which seems under control when I bought the device Jack London's "White Fang" was already downloaded. You know something I think I'll go read it.
I try to avoid recommending stuff, but you might like the book- movie Never Cry Wolf . An old Idahoan gave me the book to read, and I watch the movie whenever it shows up on TV. Perhaps you are already familiar with it.
I've heard of it but never actually seen it or read the book. Wolf lit eh? BTW Saty might be interested that Jack London became an enthusiastic fan of socialism but sadly he died of uremia at the young age of 40 and maybe even a drug overdose despite being the world's most famous and lucrative writer at the time.
Actually if I'm not mistaken he was shooting it. I didn't even know this until I actually read the book. He didn't like opium, which WAS a big deal then... his big loves were tobacco and cocaine. And the more I read it the more I got the sense that he had some distinctly bipolar behaviors. Just sayin.
Both Holmes and Watson smoked pipes. Local kid of Chinese descent went to London to get a PhD in Roman history. He came back and stopped by..Calabash pipe, double brimmed swede hat and a long caped coat. Sat in the living room and discussed world events with the dangest Chinese/British accent. Even his parents laughed at him...
Haven't read the Sherlock novels, so cannot judge their relationship, but since Sherlock was the smart one and Holms never knew what was going on, my guess would be an Abbot & Costello type relationship. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote 'Lost World' an interesting treatise on the discovery of prehistoric life on an isolated plateau in the N Amazon, which I read as a kid (since Atlas Shrugged had been stolen by a selfish kid). Very good read and some awful movies made on the subject.
I used to get Ayn Rand mixed up with Ursula le Guin, as they both wrote science fiction. I switched from S fiction to real S by Jr. High and never read either old broad.
What's the deal with baseball hats? When I was a kid, you only wore the bill in the back when you played catcher. You always rolled and formed the bill for that rakish 50s look. Then, someone noticed a backwards bill reduced wind friction when riding a bicycle. The denizens of fashion next decided that although the purpose of the bill was to keep the sun out of your eyes, it was cool to wear it in the back...cool to have the plastic adjustment belt across your forehead. Now, the trend is to the "flatbill" look, which was considered dorky in the fifties. Lordy, what's next, the comeback of the beanie with propeller?
Guitar manufacturers sell guitars with 'distressed' finishes like they've been dragged down back alleys for 10 years and you'll pay an extra $1K for that.
Along the same lines I once worked in a fence company and some folks actually don't want a spanking new stockade fence but opt for the more weather-beaten look.
omg, did I not respond to the 400 books comment? I thought I did.
I have not read every single one. I would say better than half. I have pages of 'collections'... some of them are fiction, paleo geo, bhakti, politics, knitting, cookery (I have 70 cookbooks), Verne, Etc, Witches (old old classics of witchcraft like Witch Cult In Western Europe)..nonfiction, religion, Lewis Carroll, Poe, it goes on and on. I have a lot of reference stuff like PDFs of knitting patterns. Some of the books I have read so many times I literally have them memorized. So yeah a conservative estimate is that of that 400 I've read cover to cover probably 275. I read considerably faster than most people do and I also spend a lot of time knitting and having it read to me, so that makes a difference.
You must have a longer battery life than mine but I always find myself when I'm reading on the tablet every so often I'll glance down to the battery status symbol in the corner. White Fang by Jack London which I just finished, great great book. It's no easy feat imo to make an animal the main protagonist in a book.
I have a 12 x 18 monitor with my home computer, but even that gives me eye strain. Trifocals, pixels, bytes= double vision. I'm a heavy reader, but still an old fashioned book guy.
Whenever I go to the doctor they say I gained five lbs., I weigh myself at home and I'm five lbs. lighter. I think they do it on purpose. Gotta go for that jog now.
Strange fish on Spanish beach-
ReplyDelete"On January 16, 1966, a B-52 bomber, carrying four hydrogen bombs, crashed while attempting to refuel in mid-air above the Spanish coast. Three of the H-bombs landed near the coastal farming village of Palomares. One of the bombs landed in a dry creek bed and was recovered, battered but relatively intact. But the TNT in two of the bombs exploded, gouging 10-foot holes in the ground and showering uranium and plutonium over a vast area. The fourth bomb landed eight miles offshore and was missing for several months. It was eventually located by a mini-submarine in 2,850 feet of water, where it rests to this day." ..so, the sea monster is
probably a plutonium soaked highly mutated sardine?
Back in the day the big news was the coelecanth found off the coast of Japan.
ReplyDeleteI see you have company moving in across from Yonkers . There goes the little habitat
ReplyDeleteleft from the Henry Hudson days...
I'll check your link out tomorrow. If I'm on the mobile it has to be a mobile site but for the time being would you at least agree Nessie could be a pleiseosaur?
ReplyDeleteWhat does a sleeptexter text...'I had a dream'?
ReplyDeleteYour link BB, now here's an issue I can get behind. Since the action's taking place in Bergen County and that's all NJ, let's see who's the governor over there again? Let's worry about this than some gay teen guy trying to get straight.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with all the texting??? Sure when my boss is on vacation I usually feel it important enough to text him at most twice, when my friend and I are trying to get together there will be a brief flurry of texting but that's it. I'm not a serial texter.
ReplyDeleteMystery fish solved:
ReplyDelete"But now, Dean Grubbs, an ichthyologist at Florida State, has confirmed that the fish is not a sea monster, not a mutant, and not the hybrid of the two, the oarfish.
Instead, it is – or was – a shark, he said, presumably anti-climatically. In fact, in an unfortunate downgrade, the errant bones that looked like horns severed from a dethroned monster king have turned out to be pectoral bones from a shark’s behind."
Christian Science Monitor
which leads us back to Sasquatch.
ReplyDeleteOK. Are these Bigfoots omnivores, carnivores, herbivores...and
ReplyDeletewhat shoe size are those big feet anyway?
BTW, is it true the NRA is insisting that Sasquatches have the right to purchase assault weapons?
ReplyDeleteMy friend and I were having a discussion on the Sasquatch one day. I said if they really do exist the gov't would've caught one by now and he said even if they did they'd cover it up and I said why and he said they're weird that way. They probably have some Sasquatch working at an army base in NC doing menial work.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Area 51 is pretty much run by Sasquatches.
ReplyDeleteBest they don't discover any Sasquatches. Some freaky woman will want to get it on only with a Sasquatch, it'll develop into some porno subgenre, the other ones will get paid minimum wage and so let's leave well enough alone.
ReplyDeleteI ran across a blog that reported a survey about Sasquatch in the
ReplyDeletePacific NW. 30-40% residents think they exist. An enterprising
commenter posted about a Bigfoot Prevention System he was selling:
a large rock with a Mr. Yuk painted on it. Now, there is something I believe: with that rock/Yuk, you well never see a Sasquatch! :)
One minority theory goes Bigfoot is an inter-dimensional creature and that's why he can never be captured. Rather convenient.
DeleteThere is a considerable body of interdimensional evidence .
ReplyDeleteA couple of interesting items have been introduced out this way-
ReplyDeleteA semi-legal LSD substitute widely termed N-Bomb, and locally called
Wizard Piss, which has sent several HS kids to the hospital and
killed one. The other is the re-establishment of the Fisher
in the Oregon mountains. Apparently, Fishers exist in central NY and some folks don't like them picking on chickens and pets, but
the fierce little guys are the only animal known to successfully
prey on the porcupine.
I read about those fisher/porcupine encounters in my field guide, quite brutal reading. RE LSD how many Bigfoot sightings are related?
ReplyDeleteToo many .
ReplyDeleteThe beast's as big as all this and yet continues to elude capture. What does he do curl up into a ball and sleep under a rotten log?
ReplyDeleteIMO, slips in and out of our dimension and attends costume parties.
ReplyDeleteI honestly think the odds of Nessie being real are far greater than Bigfoot. Loch Ness deserves some respect imo.
ReplyDeleteDunno, that 'River Monsters' anglo angler thinks Nessie was a Greenland shark. Now Charles River Charlie is your basic ichthyosaur.
ReplyDeleteBut we do have the famous sonar underwater image of a flipper-like tail which is more than can be said for the guy in the ape suit with a loping gait.
DeleteStay away from Spirit Mound, S Dakota:
ReplyDelete"In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stayed for a time with a band of Wičhíyena Sioux on the Vermillion River in modern-day South Dakota. On August 25, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and 10 other men traveled about 9 miles north of the river's junction with the Missouri River to see the "mountain of the Little People". Lewis wrote in his journal that the Little People were "deavals" (devils) with very large heads, about 18 inches high, and very alert to any intrusions into their territory. The Sioux said that the devils carried sharp arrows which could strike at a very long distance, and that they killed anyone who approached their mound. The Little People so terrified the local population, Lewis reported, that the Maha (Omaha), Ottoes (Otoe), and Sioux would not go near the place. Naturally, L & C climbed up the hill, but could find no miniature folk. BTW, I've read their entire journals three times now....gotta get a life.
Soap once said he read Atlas Shrugged three times and I've been wondering if he's on his fourth yet. BTW how would something like Atlas be on a tablet, throw that in and a couple Stephen King tomes would it eat up the memory?
ReplyDeleteI have over 400 books on my Kindle so far and no problems as of yet. Even big books in PDF format aren't gruesomely hard on memory.
ReplyDeleteBattery power and life on the other hand...
ReplyDeleteI don't know. My Kindle will run for fifteen hours on one charge. Less if you use the text to speech option. I beat the hell out of mine.... I love it so much.
ReplyDeleteI know with cells when you browse the Web it uses more power as it has to find a signal first.
ReplyDeleteI know people with iPads and I ask them how long they can go on their batteries and they'll say like six hours straight and then they recharge. A kid'll be playing on his iPad and then say "mommy my iPad's dying" like it's some kind of dire emergency.
ReplyDeleteDo folks simultaneously text, read kindle and talk on their smartphone while driving? Heck, I have trouble finding 5th gear.
ReplyDeleteI have trouble texting while stationary, how in hell do they do it while driving?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, another cryptozoological mystery has been
ReplyDeletesolved
Couple years back I researched the whole subject of serval and savannah cats the serval being a medium-sized African wild cat and the savannah a cross between that and a domestic cat. People are pussies and we get the same news coverage here, everytime folks in some town or village see a fox or a bobcat there's mass hysteria even though the creature was here first. They say servals and savannahs make good pets so what I wanna know is why did somebody kill it?
ReplyDeleteEver notice that when predators get too old and feeble, they have to go after easy prey ?
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is what do retired Sasquatch eat?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking Kitty Nibbles.
ReplyDeleteThe Pet of the Future
ReplyDeleteBetter than a household snapping turtle...
ReplyDeleteYour link about the wolf bothered me, gave it some thought and came up with this. Let's say I choose to sleep in the woods, a wild animal attacks me or at least bites me then the next day everybody has to go out and find the offending critter and shoot it. Seinfeld did a whole riff on camping once, I have an apartment, a sink, a shower, a kitchen why would I go out and sleep in the woods?
ReplyDeletePeople who go swimming in the ocean and find themselves half eaten by sharks have no one to blame but themselves. The shark doesn't care who you are. You're in his front yard and you look tasty. That's reason enough.
ReplyDeleteIf you decide to go sleep in the woods and you're not homeless there are certain risks attendant. So they leg-trapped the wolf and shot it and everyone's a hero.
ReplyDeleteIronic; the human's worst natural predator is other humans. I suppose in a just natural system, human murderers would be leg-
ReplyDeletetrapped and shot instead of 2 years probation with time off for
good behavior.
Makes no sense, we're crueler to the damn animals.
DeleteDespite my tablet's porno popup problem which seems under control when I bought the device Jack London's "White Fang" was already downloaded. You know something I think I'll go read it.
ReplyDeleteI try to avoid recommending stuff, but you might like the book-
ReplyDeletemovie Never Cry Wolf . An old Idahoan gave me the book to read, and I watch the movie whenever it shows up on TV. Perhaps you are already familiar with it.
I've heard of it but never actually seen it or read the book. Wolf lit eh? BTW Saty might be interested that Jack London became an enthusiastic fan of socialism but sadly he died of uremia at the young age of 40 and maybe even a drug overdose despite being the world's most famous and lucrative writer at the time.
DeleteDid you know Sherlock Holmes was a coke addict?
ReplyDeleteI thought opium dens were the thing back then.
DeleteBy Crikey, in that era, Queen Victoria survived seven assassination
ReplyDeleteattempts...dang Holms was snorting instead of investigating!
Actually if I'm not mistaken he was shooting it. I didn't even know this until I actually read the book. He didn't like opium, which WAS a big deal then... his big loves were tobacco and cocaine. And the more I read it the more I got the sense that he had some distinctly bipolar behaviors. Just sayin.
ReplyDeleteBoth Holmes
ReplyDeleteand Watson smoked pipes. Local kid of Chinese descent went to London to get a PhD in Roman history. He came back and stopped by..Calabash pipe, double brimmed swede hat and a long caped coat.
Sat in the living room and discussed world events with the dangest
Chinese/British accent. Even his parents laughed at him...
Holmes and Watson, a little Brokeback action?
ReplyDeleteHaven't read the Sherlock novels, so cannot judge their relationship, but since Sherlock was the smart one and Holms never knew what was going on, my guess would be an Abbot & Costello type
ReplyDeleterelationship. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote 'Lost World' an
interesting treatise on the discovery of prehistoric life on an
isolated plateau in the N Amazon, which I read as a kid (since
Atlas Shrugged had been stolen by a selfish kid). Very good read and some awful movies made on the subject.
Jules Verne for me.
ReplyDeleteI love Jules Verne. Journey to the Center of the Earth. His scientific knowledge was immense.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid the thing was "Classics Illustrated" although I don't recall one for Ayn Rand.
ReplyDeleteI used to get Ayn Rand mixed up with Ursula le Guin, as they both wrote science fiction. I switched from S fiction to real S by Jr.
ReplyDeleteHigh and never read either old broad.
What I wanted to ask Saty is has she actually read all 400+ books on her Kindle? For me one book takes time I can't imagine 400!
ReplyDeleteWhat's the deal with baseball hats? When I was a kid, you only wore the bill in the back when you played catcher. You always rolled and formed the bill for that rakish 50s look. Then, someone noticed a backwards bill reduced wind friction when riding a bicycle. The denizens of fashion next decided that although the
ReplyDeletepurpose of the bill was to keep the sun out of your eyes, it was cool to wear it in the back...cool to have the plastic adjustment
belt across your forehead. Now, the trend is to the "flatbill" look, which was considered dorky in the fifties. Lordy, what's next, the comeback of the beanie with propeller?
Someone once told me The Gap actually sells jeans already pre-torn with rips in them and they're pricey.
ReplyDeleteGuitar manufacturers sell guitars with 'distressed' finishes like they've been dragged down back alleys for 10 years and you'll pay an extra $1K for that.
ReplyDeleteAlong the same lines I once worked in a fence company and some folks actually don't want a spanking new stockade fence but opt for the more weather-beaten look.
Deleteomg, did I not respond to the 400 books comment? I thought I did.
ReplyDeleteI have not read every single one. I would say better than half. I have pages of 'collections'... some of them are fiction, paleo geo, bhakti, politics, knitting, cookery (I have 70 cookbooks), Verne, Etc, Witches (old old classics of witchcraft like Witch Cult In Western Europe)..nonfiction, religion, Lewis Carroll, Poe, it goes on and on. I have a lot of reference stuff like PDFs of knitting patterns. Some of the books I have read so many times I literally have them memorized. So yeah a conservative estimate is that of that 400 I've read cover to cover probably 275. I read considerably faster than most people do and I also spend a lot of time knitting and having it read to me, so that makes a difference.
You must have a longer battery life than mine but I always find myself when I'm reading on the tablet every so often I'll glance down to the battery status symbol in the corner. White Fang by Jack London which I just finished, great great book. It's no easy feat imo to make an animal the main protagonist in a book.
ReplyDeleteI have a 12 x 18 monitor with my home computer, but even that gives me eye strain. Trifocals, pixels, bytes= double vision.
ReplyDeleteI'm a heavy reader, but still an old fashioned book guy.
So am I but it was already there so what the hey. On the plus side with a tablet you don't need a lamp, you can practically read in the dark.
Delete..and meanwhile on the conspiracy front ...
ReplyDeleteSo this is what the eggheads at our universities are up to.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the population of lab mice outnumbers the number of both students and profs in some of the university sciences...
ReplyDeleteRush Limbaugh and Code Pink are united in staying out of Syria.
ReplyDeleteOh, the irony....
Rush needs to play a round of golf with Obama.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I go to the doctor they say I gained five lbs., I weigh myself at home and I'm five lbs. lighter. I think they do it on purpose. Gotta go for that jog now.
ReplyDelete