Sunday, May 26, 2019

525 - Toos, Walls, Pipes, Bandits and Dimensions

[9:40 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Why does there have to be two to's
lol
My Engrish is Already hard
[9:40 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Where?
[9:41 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
just in general when I type stuff out. Which to to use?
[9:42 AM] 
hehe... I loved submitting - as an alternate to the proposed default password - "Let's make the default 2twototootutu22."
"No... No dude...  No.  I spell it out. It's the number 2...and then the number 2 spelled out...then to like go to...then too like also – like me too...then tu-tu like a dancer's tutu...then 22 - two 2s. "



[8:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Cittadella, Italy
good name
[8:29 AM] 
Interesting, aren't they
That used to be "the city"
and now it's just a marvelous feature of "the old city"
[8:30 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
if you look at old drawings/paintings/woodcuts of cities, most cities had not only moats but they were extremely elaborate
[8:30 AM] 
Gonna wall a place, wall it right
I'd hate be set up on the inner South end of one of those
[8:32 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Why's that? cuz that's where most invasions came from?
[8:35 AM] 
Sun
Always get less...in winter barely any at all.  The cold dim part of town.
Look how dark it is on the left
[8:39 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Ahh yeah
A weird feature of city walls in Germany i've noticed is that instead of tearing down the walls they just repurposed them into houses
Since the wall itself was basically the same shape/material as the bottom half of a half-timbered house, they just timbered the top
[8:40 AM] 
:)
[8:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Did i tell you the story about Nurnberg when we were walking along the old city wall and we came to a dead end... the Pegnitz river... the wall crossed the river but the street/sidewalk didn't.
Some guy was standing there watching us and he was unlocking a door into the wall itself, like one of the guard tower turret things, and he was like "would you like to come inside?"
And he lived in there
It was about 4 stories high and basically just like the stairwell here... just every few stairs there was a landing and for each landing it was a "room" - kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom. Then at the top was the area you could walk on and cross the river.
He said the city just let him live there because it's better than letting it sit or letting vagrants in, and on the other side of the river in the wall was a bar
[8:49 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Here. the building with the red/white shutters was his "house" https://goo.gl/maps/LYYbMWnQpNP2
[8:49 AM] 
(reading realty sheet) "What's this 'Trebuchet Et Al Damage' caveat on page 2?"
(realtor) "Ahh...just legalspeak.  Come see the master bathroom."
[8:50 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
lol
[9:33 AM] 
Trump said. “Parts (of the Wall) will be, of necessity, see through"
"Oh!  So that's what an Invisible Barrier looks like." 
[9:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Maybe in 600 years the US/Mexico border will be a tourist destination
"Trump's Folly"



[9:16 AM] 
Was talking with Goober. After some mutual talk on the dysfunctional government never making a deal...
(me) "...because there's no rule against attaching stupid unrelated BS to bills"
(G - out of nowhere) "We shouldn't be paying the Palestinians!"
"..."
[9:16 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
He has brain worms
[9:16 AM] 
"We send 'em like 23 million a year!  23 million for like 70 years!"
(Calculates)
In the current US economy, that that's roughly $2 at our pay scale.
[9:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
1. that is not that much in the grand scheme of things.
2. foreign aid has been shown to pay for itself and then some.
3. i'm not sure what that money is for but i'm sure it has something to do with some sort of mea culpa for foreign policy failures on our part
[9:20 AM] 
We could support 160,860 "freeloader" countries a year.
What comedian was it, saying that his taxes amounted to enough to pay for a fin on a missile.
Feels Lewis Black-ish
[9:27 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
They should sell naming rights to missiles
Joe's Plumbing's Tomahawk BGM-109”
I'm still LOLing at the ISIS truck with the "Mark-1 Plumbing" ad on the side
[9:29 AM] 
Heh
Product placement to fund the jihad
[9:34 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
they couldn't just peel that off
Damn... the Mark-1 Plumbing google reviews are good
Show up fully loaded and ready to blast past any task. Interesting uniforms. A+”
[9:34 AM]
(foreign reporter) "The only thing that survived the detonation was part of the south wall, and a titanium plate advertising the Mark-1 Plumbing service."
[9:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
lol
You guys are great plumbers, but maybe not loan ISIS your vehicles.”
Still gave them 5/5 stars
[9:36 AM] 
hehe
[9:43 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
The plumber came in and blasted that clog right out of my toilet
The tiny black sticker they placed on the toilet was a little strange
He also broke a few of my yeshua statues
I think it was an accident
[9:45 AM] 
(reporter) "ISIS has claimed responsibility for the repairs.  This has not yet been confirmed by government investigators."
[9:45 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
"daughters missing but new pipes don't rattle"
[9:48 AM] 
"Clean, efficient. Wore booties inside and broke down all the repairs and costs.  Didn't understand the masks, shouting, and raising of rifles.  New sink great!"
[9:49 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
"They kept stopping and taking selfies while working holding up and shaking their plungers"
"Great work but had a disturbing way of opening packages – they grip them from behind and slowly move a knife across the front."
[9:55 AM] 
"Fast!  Made the call and they were there in 15 mins. Fixed the pipe, beheaded my trash neighbor and stoned his wife, and out in 20 minutes. Not sure why they needed 10 guys but it only cost $100!"
[9:58 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
"Installed footbaths but I never asked for them."



[10:10 AM] 
Went for a hike in the snow yesterday with Silver Junior.  When we left I hit the radio...was a country station.
"Leave it there."
"You're into country?"
"For traveling.  Feels like traveling music to me."
"Like because they always play country for driving scenes in movies and shows?"
"Yeah."
"I get that."
So we have the hike...
Get back in and start leaving the park.
"Smokey and the Bandit" main song comes on.
And I start singing it...correct lyrics
"You know this whole song?"
"Kid, back when this movie came out, the entire US probably knew this whole song."
"Big hit?"
"Oh yes...had everything people wanted at the time."
Went over the basic plot, CB culture.  No spoilers. 
"Wonder if it's On Demand."
Isn't.
However it's being shown Sunday, so I'm recording it. 
"So it was really good?"
"It's a lot of fun.  They only made two big mistakes."
"What were they?"
"Smokey and the Bandit 2, and Smokey and the Bandit 3"
"That bad, huh?"
"Yup."
I'm very curious what I'll think of it all these years later...probably been since the 80s that I saw it.
[10:19 AM]  Mr. Yellow: 
East bound and down 18 wheels a rolling. we're going to do what they say can't be done...
[10:21 AM] 
We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there...
"Do truckers still use CBs?"
"Honestly, I'm not sure anymore.  They kinda suck compared to a lot of things that came later."
[10:24 AM]  Mr. Yellow: 
Some do. Usually the veteran drivers
Anyone driving 15 years or more
Well, maybe 10. *shrug*
They have communication apps and cell phones now mostly.
[10:27 AM] 
Figgered... You can talk to random people within a few miles about what they saw going on... or you can get real-time data the whole route you specify.
Smokey and the Bandit” couldn't happen now
Cops woulda nailed them both within minutes
(Monday morning)
[8:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I watched it recently for the first time and it was okay
[8:45 AM] 
Yup.  A solid OK movie.  But it was a phenom in the 70s.
Everyone wanted a Trans Am and a CB radio
Weird fad then...truckers, CBs, good ol' boy heroes
[8:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
The director was a stunt driver for films like Bullit and i think the French Connection
Hal Needham
Nevermind on that
I'm confusing Hal Needham with Bill Hickman
[9:05 AM] 
Totally understandable.  (looks up Hal and Bill to see who they are)
;)
[9:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh



[10:24 AM] 
[10:31 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
I saw trailers for that show
[10:37 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 
multiverse
Could be very plausible
Could be what dark matter is – separate universes co-existing and acting upon each other
[10:45 AM] 
Well...I mean the Mass/Energy issues could be that sort of interaction instead of a Dark Matter or Dark Energy that's out there, yes.
(physicist) "We called it The Dark Neighbors theory."
(reporter) "It was originally the 'There Goes the Local-Reality' theory wasn't it?"
"Well...yes. But there were complaints when we published under that title."

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