"Smelly Trees " -Joyce Kilmer.
Hey, ya puke, over the weekend The Venerable Bede was mentioned in an Easter discussion [ Oester… pagan ritual stuff….may be wrong ] anyway I had a flashback [ WHOA!! ] to first learning of TVB back in the old days of history courses and was reminded of a prof who became a pal there for a while . Unfortunately his specialty was Maritime History, which did not thrill me, but I did help him strip the paint off of kitchen cabinets and re-finish them for the summer before I left beautiful Ohio for Az. So I googled………….He's now just down I -95 a little ways from you . https://www.seahistory.org/about/our-crew/trustee…
The Stench My Destination by Bester, Alfred
"Bede the Venerable", the Father of English History just happened to pop up in casual discussion this weekend? Only here. Only you guys.
Hey, thanks for the Runyan heads-up! Running into him might be worth putting up with N.C. For a while.
Moby Dreck by Melville, Herman
ETA: I had a small adventure the past hour. I drove out to do an errand, was waiting at the stoplight on the highway, and this enormous, loopy, white German shepherd came galumping out of the bushes and through the convenience store parking lot across the street, then along the highway. He didn't seem to have a care in the world, and someone would have hit him. I was stopped there, across the intersection, by the time I was moving, a woman had pulled over and was trying to catch him, I pulled over, threw her a dog biscuit and she managed to catch him. We put him in my car and took him to the humane society. He had tags and a phone number, thank goodness, but the phone number was two towns away and no one answered. Hopefully his owners will come for him. If not, the Humane Society will find him a home. He was really scared but also clearly having fun.
….I pulled over, threw her a dog biscuit…
Did you say, " Good lady. That's a good lady." ?
LOL! I just happened to have this ginormous doggie biscuit on my passenger seat, I'd bought a bag at Trader Joes and thought I'd break them up for my dog, but she refuses to eat them. So it was just sitting there, and I kept forgetting to take it out of the car. So in this case it was handy that I hadn't taken it out yet. The dog wasn't letting her catch him, but then she tossed him that treat and while he was eating it she grabbed his collar.
Well, yer good people.
Not actually. Once she caught him I was going to leave. I was all: "Hoookay, well you'll take him to the Humane Society then?" And she said, "Yes, can you drive?" So I really had no choice.
Dog biscuits are a good thing to have in your emergency car kit. That's what all the mail and package delivery guys say, anyhow.
I'm beginning to see the sense in that.
Thus Stank Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Friedrich
Good for you, that's fast work! I bet Shep Boy was out shopping with his person and bolted the car for a Grand Romp. I've met lots of them that really liked to burn the miles down and never mind the consequences.
With a collar, addy and phone#, chances are he's home by now. Microchips and travel crates though – don't leave home without them.
Stench 22 by Heller, Joseph
I hope so. I didn't know shepherds like to run. He didn't have a chip, either. They scanned him at the Humane Society. Fortunately he had a collar, but what sort of idjut doesn't chip their pets these days?
They said he was about a year and a half old, so maybe it was just youthful exuberance and he'll grow out of it. He could have gotten hit by a car.
Chippin's pretty cheap these days and it's a "set it and forget it" kind of thing. What people forget is to update the contact info when they move which kind of defeats the purpose.
A year and a half is prime running age! You got to him just in time, though. A good thing.
Stench and Superstench by Shaw, George Bernard also too
I wouldn't make a special trip………..I considered sending him a 'hey what up ' email, but haven't b.c. I'd probably end up having to tell what I've been doing ………….
Yeah, NC is somewhere I usually drive through to get somewhere else, anyway. And i never do the cold drop in. That just frightens most people.
You should write him. I'd avoid talking about that cult you joined a few years ago that
meets in virtual space to perform bizarre linguistic rituals, though.
I figured all you ship types knew each other.
I've heard of him, but only from books 'n stuff. He's probably thrilled that he's never met me.
So that's why you had TVB on the brain in |this thread| yesterday. I'll admit I was baffled.
Runyan had a way of saying TVB sorta like Johnny Carson might have said it. He used to lead summer trips to England as an excuse to do pub crawls. Alas , that was when I had to work to be able to do pub crawls in Cleveland.
How clever – get paid as a tour guide to England just to do pub crawls.
Most nurseries still carry other cultivars of the Callery pear, including Aristocrat, Autumn Blaze and Cleveland.
Can't speak for the Autumn Blaze, but Aristocrats definitely exude an odor. And having grown up within whiffing distance of the steel mills in Cleveland, well, certain flatulence was referred to in those terms.
"New Jersey, it doesn't all smell this way" was one of the write-in's when the Garden State asked the internet for a new state motto several years ago.
Oh and BTW – the Rt 97 – 50/301 merge is practically festooned with bloomin' Bradford Pears and I drove right through their disgusting stench plume on the way home. Windows wide open of course because it was a nice day.
" Why Can’t Rodents Vomit? A Comparative Behavioral, Anatomical, and Physiological Study" [link ]
-petesh
1. The Correction to that article is a thing of wondrous beauty.
2. So is the last sentence of the abstract:
The implications of these findings for the utility of rodents as models in the area of emesis research are discussed.
-M. Krebs
Overall the results suggest that the inability to vomit is a general property of Rodentia and that an absent brainstem neurological component is the most likely cause.
Or maybe they've just never encountered a good enough reason.
‘It’s a bad tree, period….’
Hate the smell, not the tree!!!!
That Hideous Stench by Lewis, C.S.
One Hundred Years of Smellitude By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Smell This Book by Hoffman, Abbie
"Smelly Trees " -Joyce Kilmer.
Hey, ya puke, over the weekend The Venerable Bede was mentioned in an Easter discussion [ Oester… pagan ritual stuff….may be wrong ] anyway I had a flashback [ WHOA!! ] to first learning of TVB back in the old days of history courses and was reminded of a prof who became a pal there for a while . Unfortunately his specialty was Maritime History, which did not thrill me, but I did help him strip the paint off of kitchen cabinets and re-finish them for the summer before I left beautiful Ohio for Az. So I googled………….He's now just down I -95 a little ways from you . https://www.seahistory.org/about/our-crew/trustee…
The Stench My Destination by Bester, Alfred
"Bede the Venerable", the Father of English History just happened to pop up in casual discussion this weekend? Only here. Only you guys.
Hey, thanks for the Runyan heads-up! Running into him might be worth putting up with N.C. For a while.
Moby Dreck by Melville, Herman
ETA: I had a small adventure the past hour. I drove out to do an errand, was waiting at the stoplight on the highway, and this enormous, loopy, white German shepherd came galumping out of the bushes and through the convenience store parking lot across the street, then along the highway. He didn't seem to have a care in the world, and someone would have hit him. I was stopped there, across the intersection, by the time I was moving, a woman had pulled over and was trying to catch him, I pulled over, threw her a dog biscuit and she managed to catch him. We put him in my car and took him to the humane society. He had tags and a phone number, thank goodness, but the phone number was two towns away and no one answered. Hopefully his owners will come for him. If not, the Humane Society will find him a home. He was really scared but also clearly having fun.
….I pulled over, threw her a dog biscuit…
Did you say, " Good lady. That's a good lady." ?
LOL! I just happened to have this ginormous doggie biscuit on my passenger seat, I'd bought a bag at Trader Joes and thought I'd break them up for my dog, but she refuses to eat them. So it was just sitting there, and I kept forgetting to take it out of the car. So in this case it was handy that I hadn't taken it out yet. The dog wasn't letting her catch him, but then she tossed him that treat and while he was eating it she grabbed his collar.
Well, yer good people.
Not actually. Once she caught him I was going to leave. I was all: "Hoookay, well you'll take him to the Humane Society then?" And she said, "Yes, can you drive?" So I really had no choice.
That poor doggie, he seemed scared.
Runrunrunrun Wheee! Runrunrunrun Wheeeee!
*Stop, looks around*
"What the… Oh, shit."
Dog biscuits are a good thing to have in your emergency car kit. That's what all the mail and package delivery guys say, anyhow.
I'm beginning to see the sense in that.
Thus Stank Zarathustra by Nietzsche, Friedrich
Good for you, that's fast work! I bet Shep Boy was out shopping with his person and bolted the car for a Grand Romp. I've met lots of them that really liked to burn the miles down and never mind the consequences.
With a collar, addy and phone#, chances are he's home by now. Microchips and travel crates though – don't leave home without them.
Stench 22 by Heller, Joseph
I hope so. I didn't know shepherds like to run. He didn't have a chip, either. They scanned him at the Humane Society. Fortunately he had a collar, but what sort of idjut doesn't chip their pets these days?
They said he was about a year and a half old, so maybe it was just youthful exuberance and he'll grow out of it. He could have gotten hit by a car.
Chippin's pretty cheap these days and it's a "set it and forget it" kind of thing. What people forget is to update the contact info when they move which kind of defeats the purpose.
A year and a half is prime running age! You got to him just in time, though. A good thing.
Stench and Superstench by Shaw, George Bernard also too
I wouldn't make a special trip………..I considered sending him a 'hey what up ' email, but haven't b.c. I'd probably end up having to tell what I've been doing ………….
Yeah, NC is somewhere I usually drive through to get somewhere else, anyway. And i never do the cold drop in. That just frightens most people.
You should write him. I'd avoid talking about that cult you joined a few years ago that
meets in virtual space to perform bizarre linguistic rituals, though.
I figured all you ship types knew each other.
I've heard of him, but only from books 'n stuff. He's probably thrilled that he's never met me.
So that's why you had TVB on the brain in |this thread| yesterday. I'll admit I was baffled.
Runyan had a way of saying TVB sorta like Johnny Carson might have said it. He used to lead summer trips to England as an excuse to do pub crawls. Alas , that was when I had to work to be able to do pub crawls in Cleveland.
How clever – get paid as a tour guide to England just to do pub crawls.
It was SCHOLARSHIP!!!
Another round of "Scholarship!" *hic*
"We're doin' research!"
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| *Oukes* |
<img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z305/kipperripper/5315.jpg" width="304" height="379" />
<img src="http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2871627/vomiting-cup-e-a-e-o.gif"/>
<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/4qCEytljLybzq/giphy.gif" />
Most nurseries still carry other cultivars of the Callery pear, including Aristocrat, Autumn Blaze and Cleveland.
Can't speak for the Autumn Blaze, but Aristocrats definitely exude an odor. And having grown up within whiffing distance of the steel mills in Cleveland, well, certain flatulence was referred to in those terms.
"New Jersey, it doesn't all smell this way" was one of the write-in's when the Garden State asked the internet for a new state motto several years ago.
Oh and BTW – the Rt 97 – 50/301 merge is practically festooned with bloomin' Bradford Pears and I drove right through their disgusting stench plume on the way home. Windows wide open of course because it was a nice day.
was just checking http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2016/03/new-village…
[if you don't , ya should , funny smart gang , obviously of a similar frame of mind ]
–smut clyde • 5 hours ago
Rats cannot vomit. Trufax!
-Buddy McCue
Science!
-smut clyde
" Why Can’t Rodents Vomit? A Comparative Behavioral, Anatomical, and Physiological Study" [link ]
-petesh
1. The Correction to that article is a thing of wondrous beauty.
2. So is the last sentence of the abstract:
The implications of these findings for the utility of rodents as models in the area of emesis research are discussed.
-M. Krebs
Overall the results suggest that the inability to vomit is a general property of Rodentia and that an absent brainstem neurological component is the most likely cause.
Or maybe they've just never encountered a good enough reason.
The true test is to ask the ones that fucked Ted Cruz.
it's dead, Jim
Update on white German shepherd, I called the Humane Society, his owner was there first thing in the morning to pick him up. Happy ending.