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

[Justin Fellenz]

My recent favorite was a north carolina fisherman who pointed to a
locker on the deck of his boat and said "ayen thar's the flars. Fer
when yer motor breaks an' yer radiow ain't no good neithuh."


--- Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:

> 
> > 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."
> 
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
>                                                            /V\ 
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