The 43rd TPBM "Waiting (impatiently) for Noir" Random Chat

Belmondo wrote in post #12049848
That's the sort of thing you say if you've been swimming in Lake Mead.

Apparently, my brain has slipped into neutral. I just read an article about some guy who was studying "domesticated emmer wheat" of Syria.

Domesticated emmer wheat.

Were there just huge herds of emmer wheat just roving the wilderness? Along came Larry "Wheatbuster" McGarrett and he started rounding up and branding these wild, free range wheat colonies? Then there was the great Emmer Wheat Drive of 1885 that took the massive herds of emmer wheat from the ranches down South to the great Silos of the North for processing.

My brain needs a leash.

Belmondo wrote in post #12049857
Ewwwww. Bony feet!!

neil_r wrote in post #12049874
So that a fossilised foot

I bet she is getting a lot of that.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12049850
Here is the tattoo I was talking about a few days ago on the foot of Caitlin's BFF, Janna. She is an amateur, or wannabe, paleontologist. Not something I would want, but still kinda unique. Caitlin's cell phone shot, shared with permission.

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OK, that must've hurt. Not a lot of meat on that part of the body. Ow.

NEIL: The girls look great. What a nice day for them. Our river is still a bit swollen for any swim time for our lie-abouts.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12049871
Neil, Sookie seems to have stretched and slimmed, maybe it is just her wet coat. Harley is cute as ever.

She is clipped really short and wet, she has streched and is now taller than Harley.

I don't think she is too slim, she has ridiculous amounts of energy, but she is way thinner than the show dogs.

Anyone following the recent Space news about the Messenger Probe currently orbiting Mercury?

First messages from the probe have recently been published:

• Dang, it is HOT out here. Send Ice Cream ASAP.
  
• OK, wait, this is just a big, superheated rock. I traveled six years for this?
  
• Surface of Planet: Similar to surface of Phoenix in July. No surprise there.
  
• I should've worn cotton for this mission.
  
• Does this Solar Panel make my butt look big?
  
• HEY! YOU! Sun! You better not flare while I'm right here. Do NOT do that. I will be seriously PO'd.
  
• FOUND THE MISSING NIXON TAPES!
  
• Hey, wait... THIS isn't PLUTO! I've been TRICKED!
  
• Message from Mercury's polar region: Natives want Charlie Sheen to come home.
  
• Alright, alright, alright. You win. YES, the Sun is annoying when it's this close.
  

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12049769
I've never "hit" a tsunami, but I've seen my fair share of big waves. Big waves are pretty relative. A 50 footer probably wouldn't be much to a big Navy carrier or Battleship, but having to beat through a storm of them off of Oregon in a little CG cutter was a BLAST.

Coming back from Japan in 1967 on a submarine, we ran into a gale up around the Aleutian Islands (Great Circle Route...) Because the sub was conventionally powered, we didn't have the submerged endurance to go under the storm. We had to tough it out on the surface. The sub was round-bottomed and had no decent sea-keeping qualities. It rolled like crazy. We thought there were times when it wouldn't come back up...

Another time I rode an ocean-going minesweeper from San Diego to San Francisco in some pretty foul weather. Those sweeps were "ocean-going" in name only... Because of the requirements of their mission, they were shallow draft, wooden hulled, aluminum superstructured vessels. They rode like a cork in any kind of sea. It was a devil to steer because you couldn't predict which way it was going to go next. Horrid little things...

This is a model of a different ship of the same class...

http://www.motionmodel​s.com/ships/misc/mso47​4-1.jpg

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12050008
Anyone following the recent Space news about the Messenger Probe currently orbiting Mercury?

First messages from the probe have recently been published:

• Dang, it is HOT out here. Send Ice Cream ASAP.
  
• OK, wait, this is just a big, superheated rock. I traveled six years for this?
  
• Surface of Planet: Similar to surface of Phoenix in July. No surprise there.
  
• I should've worn cotton for this mission.
  
• Does this Solar Panel make my butt look big?
  
• HEY! YOU! Sun! You better not flare while I'm right here. Do NOT do that. I will be seriously PO'd.
  
• FOUND THE MISSING NIXON TAPES!
  
• Hey, wait... THIS isn't PLUTO! I've been TRICKED!
  
• Message from Mercury's polar region: Natives want Charlie Sheen to come home.
  
• Alright, alright, alright. You win. YES, the Sun is annoying when it's this close.
  

Apparently Charlie Sheen took enough cocaine to kill two and a half men ....

Probably the ship I had the most fun on before getting into Expeditionary Warfare and diving was THIS one.

An interesting coincidence about this ship. When I was on the sub in 1967, we operated with her in the Western Pacific. Little did I know at the time that I would later be assigned to her as part of my service in the Reserves...

JWright wrote in post #12050018
Coming back from Japan in 1967 on a submarine, we ran into a gale up around the Aleutian Islands (Great Circle Route...) Because the sub was conventionally powered, we didn't have the submerged endurance to go under the storm. We had to tough it out on the surface. The sub was round-bottomed and had no decent sea-keeping qualities. It rolled like crazy. We thought there were times when it wouldn't come back up...

Another time I rode an ocean-going minesweeper from San Diego to San Francisco in some pretty foul weather. Those sweeps were "ocean-going" in name only... Because of the requirements of their mission, they were shallow draft, wooden hulled, aluminum superstructured vessels. They rode like a cork in any kind of sea. It was a devil to steer because you couldn't predict which way it was going to go next. Horrid little things...

This is a model of a different ship of the same class...

http://www.motionmodel​s.com/ships/misc/mso47​4-1.jpg

The cutter I was on was about the same size as that minesweeper. Round bottom, rolled (or, more aptly put, "wallowed") in the calmest of seas. Single screw with a max speed of MAYBE 13 knots.

HEY! My cutter has a Wiki page! Or did I already know that. I need some coffee.

neil_r wrote in post #12049921
She is clipped really short and wet, she has streched and is now taller than Harley.

I don't think she is too slim, she has ridiculous amounts of energy, but she is way thinner than the show dogs.

Show dog specs don't mean all that much in the real world. They do have their place as a guideline, but that's it.

neil_r wrote in post #12050051
Apparently Charlie Sheen took enough cocaine to kill two and a half men ....

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12050100
HEY! My cutter has a Wiki page! Or did I already know that. I need some coffee.

Your cutter is kinda fruity, if you know what I mean.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12050254
Your cutter is kinda fruity, if you know what I mean.

Yeah... but we didn't get scurvy.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12050100
HEY! My cutter has a Wiki page! Or did I already know that. I need some coffee.

Well I guess it's better to be a Buoy Tender than a Tender Buoy.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12050283
Yeah... but we didn't get scurvy.

True.

neil_r wrote in post #12050296
Well I guess it's better to be a Buoy Tender than a Tender Buoy.

You're really a funny boy today, aren't you?

Glad to hear Ali is back home and on the mend, Pete!

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12045415
LONNIE, do you want to buy a good used '05 Cavalier for parts? Only damage is a slight bend in one corner of the hood, and a totaled a fender, bumper cover, grille, wheel well stuff, lighting on one side. Total damage to a car worth no $5k tops is $4k, hardly worth fixing. Oh yeah, near new tires on it too.

I could use a couple tires right now, but I don't know what I'd do with the rest of the car. Sorry to hear about it's early demise, though.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12049850
Here is the tattoo I was talking about a few days ago on the foot of Caitlin's BFF, Janna. She is an amateur, or wannabe, paleontologist. Not something I would want, but still kinda unique. Caitlin's cell phone shot, shared with permission.

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! That had to hurt! The most painful tattoo I ever got was that macaw on my right leg. Part of it goes across my shin bone and the needles digging into bone was one of the most painful things I've ever experienced.