[TheForge] [OT] Re: For the Rube Goldberg fans...

[Mike Spencer]

> Obviously the product of long cold winter nights, as down here near
> the Mason-Dixon line (where it was 70*F yesterday), we look out our
> winders ;)

Well, here it was 34F, 2" of slush and black t'ick o' fog. [1]  Who wants
to look outen the winder?  

But then, somewhere down there, seems to me I recall, you wire yer hat
on yer hayid and connect yer lahtbubs to wahr.  'Course it's not
usually *too* confusing but it did take me a while to figure it out
when a USAF colonel retired to NS told me with a straight face that he
owned stock in Guffoal.


- Mike

[1] What you don't want it to be when you're a mile out into the bay
    in a dory.  Pronounced locally more or less as one word:
    blacktickafog or just blacktick.  Not to be confused with "Offog",
    q.v.:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/russell/russell1.html

    which is also the source of my favorite phrase to explain the
    disappearance of something, the disappearance of which someone
    can't or doesn't want to explain: "It came apart under gravitational
    stress."

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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