OT: Serious bleep for a minute

On 9/5/2009 3:57 PM Robatoy spake thus:

Or the Alex Trebek card, the Richard Dreyfuss card, the Martin Short card, the SCTV card, etc., etc.

(Anyone except Gordon Lightfoot. That one you can keep.)

It don't _need_ no steenkeeng _runway_.

What does Richard Dreyfuss have to do with Canada?

I'll unleash the Jim Carrey card if you aren't careful.

To hell with this... I'm raising to 'Shatner' level.....

Alternatively, if people _have_ to live there, tornado-proof structures should be developed for the purpose.

Of course people are sometimes incredibly stupid about such things--I never will forget a bunch of engineers at Enormous Aerospace lining the windows watching a tornado coming right at the building. Personally I found a 20 foot thick reinforced concrete slab to hide under. Fortunately the tornado missed the building.

It's a flying boat, at least per the media.

Lew

It's a flying boat. Period. And not to 'Stein' the discussion, the 'real' meaning of amphibious is:

Etymology: Greek amphibios, literally, living a double life, from amphi- + bios mode of life

That means, IMHO, that all airplanes are amphibious. N'est pas?

"Robatoy" wrote

Yea, yea, yea, I know David... if it isn't American it ain't worth a f*ck, eh? ====================

We just don't want to deal with the snow, mooses and penguins.

On 9/5/2009 4:11 PM FrozenNorth spake thus:

What, indeed; I was confusing his role as a Jewish kid from Montreal in "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" with his life.

Ten lashes with a wet noodle for me, and I'll go watch a hockey game, eh.

Penguins?

Aren't penguins limited to the Southern hemisphere?

I thought it was polar bears.

Lew

Jewish kid from Montreal? You mean Leonard Cohen? *S* (I saw him in concert a few months back...and he makes amateurs like Lightfoot look like a high-school act.)

Talk to Lyle Lovett about penguins...

"Lew Hodgett" wrote

Just funnin' ya. I knew that would get a rise out of Robatoy.

Just for the record, what is the difference between a polar bear and a penguin?

Try SIZE.

Back about 1980-1985, the Holiday Inn in Moline, Il, had a stuffed polar bear up on it's hind legs in the lobby.

The ceilings in the lobby were at 2nd story level, and needed to be to accomodate the bear.

He was one BIG dude.

Maybe 6-8 penguins stacked on top of each other might have gotten to the shoulder of that bear.

Lew

Try plucking a polar bear...

Did you notice how little lake was left when if finally got airborne?

There's some pucker for ya!

Well actually most any where can flood. Regardless of where you live something can get you. Hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, earth quakes, sink holes, etc. IMHO your are always in some kind of danger. Having lived through several disasters I believe the best you can do is live in a less populated area. The advantage to this is that when a disaster does hit, you are not in line behind 2,000,000 other people with the same problem. IMHO the biggest problem with living in a heavily populated disaster area is that it takes "for ever" to get things back to normal.

And look at it this way (tilting head steeply to the right): I am in NO direct danger from tsunamis!

whoop-te-de, jo4hn