Saturday, February 28, 2015

328 - There's SOIL In Them Thar Hills!, and Martin Sheen Stars In "Apocalypse Potentially"

Mr. Silver
Hehehe! You’ll appreciate this one. A friend of mine emailed me this. He does support for Fussenmuck. He told a caller to reset their bridge.
"I asked him if he wanted me to wait and he said: "Welllll, he's gonna have to find the ladder and then drive to where it's located, so I don't expect to hear anything for at least an hour."
2:09 PM Lenny
LOL
2:09 PM Mr. Silver
Read that and thought "Holy crap!  What does Simon & Quintus process that it's better for them to use microwave wireless from a location that far away up a pole?!?"
2:16 PM Mr. Silver
LOL
2:15 PM Lenny
Haha!
2:16 PM Mr. Silver
Everyone tiptoes at work...all smart phones are put in a Faraday cage at the front gate for the day...
2:16 PM Lenny
What on earth?
2:17 PM Mr. Silver
(I'm making that last bit up...)
2:17 PM Lenny
Oh, haha
It was quite convincing.
2:21 PM Mr. Silver
;-)
2:18 PM Mr. Silver
Jebus...know what they are?  Dirt farmers.
Mulch, soil, compost, athletic field dirt
2:20 PM Lenny
Sounds lucrative.
2:21 PM Mr. Blue
I’ve never heard of microwave wireless.
2:22 PM Mr. Silver
Well...you have...
I usually associate it with a news van though.
2:22 PM Mr. Blue
Yeah.
It is a pretty massive facility. Looks like 15-20 acres... 99% outdoors.
(Note: Mr. Blue has a tendency to immediately look up aerial views of anything like this that catches his fancy - Mr. Silver) 
2:23 PM Mr. Silver
I guess this is why they told him they can “all take off til we’re done with a 3-day deer huntin' weekend”.  It'll still be dirt when they get back on Tuesday.
2:24 PM Mr. Blue
Yep.
That shit ain't goin' nowhere.
2:28 PM Mr. Silver
Not exactly high on the commercial robbery list. 
"Yo...I got 80 tons of potting soil...prime...around back.  Here...feel the quality." 
"Fell off a truck, right?" 
"Some of it did.  We started with 85." 
2:30 PM Mr. Blue
*dips finger in dirt and rubs it on gums*  “It's pure.”
2:31 PM Mr. Silver
Hehe
"How much?" 
"$1000?  And 20/hour to rent the truck." 
"Sold."
"POLICE!!!  NOBODY MOVE!"
2:32 PM Mr. Silver
"You’re finished this time! Take these dirtbags in." 
"Which dirtbags?"
"The dirt bags...the bags of dirt." 
"Oh."
2:52 PM Mr. Blue
"Our top story tonight: A massive dirt-smuggling operation in Wampum has been shut down by the DEA."
Agent: "We're glad to get this stuff off the streets... where it could fall into the hands of kids, making them absolutely filthy."
2:53 PM Mr. Silver
(footage of proud law enforcement team shaking hands for cameras in front of pile) "In a related story from West Virginia, a sting operation intercepted another dirt ring. The captured dirt has a street value of about 30 cents per pound, and the total captured is estimated to be in excess of $480."
"The 3rd largest haul in that state's history."
3:07 PM Mr. Blue
Heh
3:08 PM Mr. Silver
That all being said...I must now look up soil robberies.
3:09 PM Mr. Brown
It has happened; I’m sure of it.
Also manure.
3:10 PM Mr. Silver
Yo. You got the shit, man?”
Looks to be all stuff like bags from work sites and such.
3:12 PM Mr. Silver
Not many cases of dirt theft in the world when most of the search results are repeats of the same municipal scandal and then you are into international news by page 2.
3:15 PM Mr. Blue
I still like that bridge that was stolen down in Beaver County, I think.
3:16 PM Mr. Silver
Beautiful.
3:16 PM Mr. Blue
3:17 PM Mr. Silver
I like to picture an eccentric billionaire who took a fancy to it and has it and a lot of other banal mundane items in his secret collection.
3:18 PM Mr. Blue
He has it in his garden, going over a small pond.
3:19 PM Mr. Silver
"Ah!  I see my Elby's Big Boy has caught your eye; a fascinating acquisition.  More tea?  There you are.  Let's see, it was the summer of ‘83, I believe, when I spotted it and knew I had to have it…"
3:24 PM Mr. Blue
Heh.



7:15 AM Mr. Brown
Bugger.
7:16 AM Mr. Silver
Bugger?
7:18 AM Mr. Brown
I’ve been on anti-biotics for ten days.
The sinus infection is still there, and now there’s something in my chest.
It sucks.
7:18 AM Mr. Silver
Xenomorph.
7:19 AM Mr. Brown
Yeah.
LOL
7:35 AM Mr. Brown
I wish I could have seen that meteor, but I was sitting in a hospital room last night.
8:12 AM Mr. Silver
(Examines Mr. Blue as he walks past, looking for odd quirks, glowing, loose skin, tentacles) Morning "Mr. Blue".
I'd choose watching a fireball over the hospital too, Mr. Brown.
8:12 AM Mr. Blue
Oh yeah, it was pretty impressive.
I saw it from my living room with all interior lights on and through a bunch of trees.
8:14 AM Mr. Silver
(Mr. Blue standing in front of bare cardboard "living room wall")  "I think it went down near the cemetery!  I wonder what it was!  Welp...back to the TV."
...Vague memories of “Plan 9”...
8:15 AM Mr. Blue
"Saaaay... what's that scratching sound at the front door?"
*opens door to reveal aliens*
"Now go on n' git, ya punk teens!"
8:15 AM Mr. Silver
"Smoochers!"
8:16 AM Mr. Brown
There were lots of reports of it.
124 on one site I looked at.
8:16 AM Mr. Blue
Yeah, it was seen from Ontario down to Virginia.
8:16 AM Mr. Brown
So it did the exploding and burning thing?
8:17 AM Mr. Blue
It was just a straight line that kind of glowed and dimmed a few times as it descended, with little flares coming off it.
8:17 AM Mr. Silver
(tap...scratch) 
"Hello?" 
"Invasion, ma'am..." 
"What?" 
(scratch) 
"Hello?" 
"Candygram." 
"Who is that?"  
"...Newspaper delivery, ma'am..."
The biggest one I ever saw probably ruined me for lesser meteors.
It was a big white streak across the whole sky.
8:23 AM Mr. Blue
I’m holding out for one of those ones that turns the night sky blue momentarily.
8:24 AM Mr. Silver
I keep Googling stuff like "earth doomed" this morning, but I'm not finding a good story about it.
8:39 AM Mr. Silver
There’s been a lot of mystery fireballs in Russia, I believe I read. 
8:44 AM Mr. Blue
Well it’s a big country, and I think you're more likely to see meteorites away from the equator too.
8:51 AM Mr. Blue
I’ve actually seen a lot, though not like this one.
8:54 AM Mr. Silver
We could all be doomed I suppose.
Based on all these wonderful calculations people make, we're over due on a bunch of stuff by 10s of thousands of years. 
Why not a full fireball storm, eh?
8:55 AM Mr. Blue
Yellowstone’s caldera is overdue for an eruption.
8:56 AM Mr. Silver
"All of Japan could be destroyed in volcanic eruption!!!" has been a big story for the last couple days. 
"Big deal...Yellowstone could go and trash the northern hemisphere."
Beat me to it.
8:56 AM Mr. Blue
Then there’s Cumbre Vieja.  I don't buy that it's going to do anything significant.
8:57 AM Mr. Silver
(Raymond Burr as Steve Martin) "Help me out here...I'm afraid my Japanese is a little rusty."
(Spanish officer) “Japanese?”
What does he mean, ‘Cumbre Vieja’?”
"… … It means Godzilla in Spanish."
"Oh! That a Mount Fuji thing?"
"Canary islands..."
"Like...Honshu?"
"Go away."
8:59 AM Mr. Blue
Some guy claimed it'd create a wave a mile high to hit the east coast.
8:59 AM Mr. Silver
Yup.
Mrs. Silver "Would that reach us?"
"No, but the beach would be closer for a while."
9:00 AM Mr. Blue
Those evacuating would reach us.
9:00 AM Mr. Blue
Computer models now say it'd be successive waves around 100 ft high.
Dutch scientists say Cumbre Vieja is stable for another 10,000 years and more likely to be a gradual landslide.
I trust the Dutch.
9:00 AM Mr. Brown
We are overdue for an ice age.
9:03 AM Mr. Silver
"Turns out the only thing that saved humanity from the ice age was planetary heat death."
9:08 AM Mr. Brown
Just live every day like there is a apocalypse of some kind tomorrow.
9:09 AM Mr. Silver
Hell...there always IS an apocalypse pending. We could be partially to completely wiped out in a ton of ways.

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