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April 15th, 2026
An oldie from 2006 today. Next week’s will also be a resurrection.
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December 15, 2021-
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You can get an app to find the precisely right direction.
At the least it is something tangible that actually came from above in contrast to their fairy tales.
Well, it might be a meteorite, but might also be a terrestrial rock. Understandably, no appropriate analysis has been performed. Just the appearance of the kiss-polished fragment on display. Hope some day it could be subject to research before it is thoroughly pulverized and flushed from a thousand of WC.
You can get an app to find the precisely right direction.
Recall years ago helping a family when I was on a camping trip who had no idea which way it was by using my GPS.
I guess a Muslim on Tematangi got it easy then….
An end run around the prior J & M is found in the 4-15-26
https://www.smbc-comics.com/
Would be funny if someone snuck up to it one night and stuck googly eyes on it.
It’s a coprolite evacuated from the anus of the giant mollusc widgy, king of the whelks, several million years ago…
Abbas: Give them some slack. A great big rock falling from the sky would make an impression on the folks there. So let them call it a space rock. That’s pretty cool. And no WCs please, maybe some tiny samples for science someday. If a great big space rock crashed down in your neighborhood, then you’d charge admission too. But I agree that falling ‘from outer space’ is not the same as falling ‘from Heaven’.
M27, Hendrik Lorentz, who dispatched the luminiferous aether to the scrap heap of physics, had a cousin, Lorentz Whelk, whose music was known to produce the same effects as a popular anesthetic at the time, ether, which works by depressing the central nervous system. Another such deadening agent, Copro Lite, is the latest low calory beer produced by Budweiser. And you thought they just made piss water.
Lotentz Whelk you say? Music Anaesthesia? Surely he was the musical paradigm that was copied by Leonard Cohen or The Smirhs?
Few typos there I’m afraid, my massive hands find a phone keypad hard to use, especially when I’m on the throne with no readers on…🤣
M27, well, no. The genre you refer too is more recent than Lawrence Welk (1951 – 1982). He could be making a comeback here in the USA. It is so honky it could be the national anthem for the oncoming White Nationalist Christian Moral Majority, the likes of which we have seen before, bigotedly.
Here is a link to his greatest hits. I checked out the Smiths, and they are about in the same league, but much later, and sadder. The Smiths hip swinging is an order of magnitude greater. More bling, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNrbERuOE6c&list=PLm015WZNNRFCfSjqnP6E6bQ1eqvICYp16&index=3
Turn off the bubble machine! https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=stan+freberg%3a+turn+off+the+bubble+machine&&mid=5E26D1124CACD59193E95E26D1124CACD59193E9&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUCFSuqnWhD4-9IKT_QRB5F_A&FORM=VAMGZC
I hate the fookin Smiths despite them coming from my neck of the woods..when I first started frequenting pubs in the mid eighties you couldn’t walk into a pub in Manchester without the bloody smiths dirge being played every five minutes…
Sorry to hear that, M27. Some 70 years ago we played a trick on my brother. He was in his photographic dark room developing some film. That room had a speaker connected to our hi-fi system. Once he started the developing process, and could not stop, we piped in Lawrence Welk to keep him company. We heard him cursing in there.
By the way, when they flush the loo on the international space station the chunks hit the atmosphere and burn brightly as meteors. Our poop will never be shooting stars.
This reminds me of a delightful Azimov Black Widowers story: ‘The iron gem’.
https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/The_Iron_Gem
in the general direction – perhaps on a flat earth – but on a spherical earth muslims should really be praying on an inclined platform -otherwise they will be praying towards some star or other due to the curvature of the earth putting Mecca below the horizon