Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Day 234 - The Spleen Of Mr. Green, The Artery Clog Of Champions, Pinheads For The Ethical Treatment Of Arachnids, "The Bronco", Green Spleen!, The Right Piece of Jewely Can Make Any Mesozoic Plumage Pop, The Pretty Good Library Of Alexandria, and "A Self-Help Guide To Kidnapping For Fun & Matrimony"

Mr. Amethyst
Does Mr. Green hate everyone?
11:29 AM Mr. Gray
Not Mr. Silver and me.  Heh.
11:29 AM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
11:29 AM Mr. Gray
So no...not everyone.
11:30 AM Mr. Amethyst
Just the vast majority.
11:30 AM Mr. Gray
If you game with Mr. Green, he usually doesn’t hate you unless you are stupid.
11:30 AM Mr. Amethyst
But he’s so uninviting.
11:30 AM Mr. Gray
Well, the vast majority is stupid...so....
11:30 AM Mr. Amethyst
For lack of a better term, he seems snarky.
11:31 AM Mr. Gray
Honestly, his biggest problems are (and then a bunch of details I can leave out – Mr. Silver)
Hopefully he can get some things on track soon.  It’s been tough on him.
It'll be that, or he'll be hanging out up a water tower with a rifle.
11:34 AM Mr. Silver
Or his wife will be hanging from one from a rope...
Nah...he’d never be able to get her up there.
11:35 AM Mr. Gray
She is getting pretty huge.
11:37 AM Mr. Amethyst
Jesus
11:38 AM Mr. Silver
That's it!  We'll get Jesus to lift her up there!
11:38 AM Mr. Gray
I think there are limits to even divine intervention there.
Between the meds and her just not moving from the couch, yeah....not good.
11:40 AM Mr. Amethyst
Yea that’s rough.
11:41 AM Mr. Gray
It doesn’t help that she is Bi-Polar and snaps back and forth between pleasant and raging b*tch either.
It’s like poking a bear with a stick
11:41 AM Mr. Silver
Bi-Polar Bear
11:42 AM Mr. Gray
900lbs of angry coming right for ya! LOL
Ok Ok....I kid.....300lb.
I'm a fat boy.....I'm allowed to call 'em as I see 'em.
Fat Boy = So cool they named a motorcycle after us.
Fat Girl = Not cool enough to name something after them
11:44 AM Mr. Silver
"Cool!  They named a department store scooter after us!"
11:44 AM Mr. Gray
LOL



10:25 AM Mr. Yellow
I think I need to find other projects around the yard and maybe get in shape this summer.
10:37 AM Mr. Silver
Enough yardwork, you'll be in shape.  You’ll also need to get a chiropractor.
10:38 AM Mr. Yellow
Haha
I have been doing portion control for the last week.
No snacking.
No doughnuts at work. (They are calling me though)
10:39 AM Mr. Silver
I changed to a vaguely northern European type of breakfast.
10:39 AM Mr. Silver
I want donuts though.
10:39 AM Mr. Yellow
Oh yes, they are calling me.
It takes about 3 weeks before they quiet down.
10:40 AM Mr. Silver
"Mr. Yellow...Mr. Yellow...let us put little permanent donuts in your arteries so we can always be together..."
10:50 AM Mr. Gray
"That’s why I start my day off with the breakfast of champions...little chocolate donuts!"
10:50 AM Mr. Yellow
LOL


Mr. Silver
"Light-hearted human interest tale starkly reveals how irritating Peta is"
9:36 AM Mr. Blue
Jesus
PETA is like the GOP
They do more to harm to their own image than anything, even if they sometimes mean well.
9:37 AM Mr. Silver
"In a related report: Shocking deficiencies in basic arthropod biology education in New Jersey school system."
9:39 AM Mr. Silver
"Spider-Gate!  US Governor flaunts power to destroy innocent life, calls it "fun"."
Mr. Mustard
"Students taken in for counseling and treatment for PSTD after visit to Governor"
10:01 AM Mr. Blue
Gov. Christie prepared to lose coveted arachnophiliac vote!”



Mr. Silver
"You have reached the phone of Jerry 'The Bronco' Smoot.  I am known as 'The Bronco' for my equestrian skills.  I will return your call based on the caller ID on this phone.  The best way to reach me is with TEXT.  I am a great texter.  Please do not leave a voicemail unless it is extremely important.  If-" (I hung up and moved on)
11:17 AM Mr. Silver
That was all delivered in a dull, slow, monotone.
11:20 AM Mr. Blue
lol
That was his voicemail message?
11:20 AM Mr. Silver
Yup
11:21 AM Mr. Blue
Wow
11:25 AM Mr. Blue
I like how he gives his nickname and then explains why he got it.
I wonder if he does that in person.
"Hi. Nice to meet you. I’m John "The Big Cheese" Wilson. They call me “The Big Cheese” because I am quite heavyset."



12:09 PM Mr. Blue
Last two paragraphs.
Yeah, if only there were a way that the film industry could take 1 specific color...say green... and change it to something else in post production.  Hmmm...
12:10 PM Mr. Silver
Some sort of electronic screening process...a screen for green...We can call it Screen Green, yeah! That's the key to the chroma issue, I’m sure.
Or perhaps they could use dark gray paint, followed by reapplying green when done filming.
Nah...that would be madness!



Mr. Blue
What if a dinosaur fossil is found, and it's got, like, primitive jewelry on.
1:12 PM Mr. Silver
That would be marvelous, and as a lover of anthropology, I'd be overjoyed.
1:23 PM Mr. Blue
Why did dinosaurs have feathers?
Did they descend from smaller flying creatures?
1:25 PM Mr. Silver
Because they developed them from reptilian scales in the bi-pedal raptor branch at least, and still have them as birds.
1:25 PM Mr. Blue
Ah I see... and their presence in Velociraptor (presumed to have been flightless due to its relatively large size and short forelimbs) is evidence that the ancestors of dromaeosaurids could fly, making Velociraptor and other large members of this family secondarily flightless.
1:25 PM Mr. Silver
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say the quadrupeds had feathers...I'd guess they were where fur evolved, really.  No quadrupeds have feathers now. A lot of them have fur though.
1:26 PM Mr. Blue
So triceratops and brontosaurus didn't have feathers.
It seems weird that we paint them all with the same lizard-y brush.
1:26 PM Mr. Silver
Apatosaurus. I'm not sure if they had feathers or not.  But I lean towards not.
Well, dinosaurs' bones looked like reptile bones to the people digging them up, but they aren't reptiles.
1:27 PM Mr. Blue
Yes.  There was probably as much variation in coats in dinosaurs as there are in different species in the wild today.
If not more so, since we're dealing with tens of millions of years of fossil record, not 1 specific generation.
Just like there are bears with thick black fur, deer with short beige fur, porcupines, flightless birds, armadillos.
1:33 PM Mr. Silver
Yes.
In the grand scheme of things, we haven't discovered many dinosaurs, you know.
That's why I'd be overjoyed about the jewelry thing. There has been life on Earth so long that entire sentient cultures of appreciable tech levels could have risen up, and fallen to completely disappear many times.



1:50 PM Mr. Silver
I keep being bitter about the Library of Alexandria
1:51 PM Mr. Blue
Is that the one that was burned?
2:08 PM Mr. Silver
Bastages...
2:11 PM Mr. Silver
Though I am, at this moment, tickled by the idea of going back in time only to find out that all the collected knowledge of the ancient world was just a few good pieces that other people mentioned being there in other ancient works, and the rest of it was all stuff like comic books, smut and boring accounting records.
(time traveler) "Do me a favor...move all the stuff on this shelf out of the building, and then hand me that lamp over there."



Mr. Brown
What is up with Ohio people kidnapping women?
9:00 AM Mr. Silver
What's with anyone kidnapping anyone?
9:01 AM Mr. Brown
Well yeah. But so far the ones I’ve heard of on the news in last 2 years have been Ohioans.
9:08 AM Mr. Silver
I'm not sure when the ancient tradition of kidnapping your wife became passe.
But way back then was when the social acceptability of kidnapping ended.
9:09 AM Mr. Blue
You can still kidnap your bride in parts of Asia.
9:10 AM Mr. Blue
Some guy in California was let off the hook for abducting a woman because he told the judge that was just part of his culture.
9:10 AM Mr. Silver
Hard sell, but possible.
9:12 AM Mr. Blue
I saw a VICE on bride kidnapping in Kazakhstan.
9:13 AM Mr. Blue
The women weren't thrilled with the act, but it's hard to say if they were just reacting the way they were expected to, or if they were really upset. But within a day she was walking down the aisle with the guy and seemed happy.
9:23 AM Mr. Silver
"Stockholm Syndrome is still a traditional courting strategy in some 3rd world countries."