As a side note, I was nearly knocked off a bike by one of those beasts.....the goose
And under the headline...Goose 1, Hunter 1..
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hunter-knocked-unconscious-dead-goose-142252976.html
As a side note, I was nearly knocked off a bike by one of those beasts.....the goose, not the hunter.
Some years back, one of them flew into my wife's car and managed to shear the mirror off the driver's side. Ford Expedition, all- metal mirror and mount. Big animals. That same incident no doubt would have knocked me or us down if on the bike.
Not certain but this may be 'breaking new ground', so to speak.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/18/farty-passenger-forces-flight-to-make-emergency-landing/
I do have to note though that it was not the actual flatulence that caused the emergency landing (that would be truly impressive) but the physical fight that resulted from the flatulence. So it appears that one ....... 'porthole' got another 'porthole' going and the two 'portholes' then fought sufficiently that the captain declared an emergency and landed the plane.
It should also be noted that two women were also taken into custody but they claim they did nothing wrong and just happened to be sitting in the same row as the 'portholes'.
Brian
P.S. Substitute another word that ends in '---hole' wherever you see 'porthole' and it will be more amusing. At least to me.
Not certain but this may be 'breaking new ground', so to speak.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/18/farty-passenger-forces-flight-to-make-emergency-landing/
Brilliant! I had not thought of that as a way to gain more space on a commercial flight.
Now obviously he took it too far ... He was probably trying to get the entire row to himself.
Amusing story indeed! But I bet to the other passengers it was not amusing at all to not only endure a physical altercation on the flight and a serious delay to the destination but also had to endure poison gas. Sure glad I wasn't on that flight!
Can you forward the free offer?
Finally! After years of getting tremendously poor quality 'Net bait (gentlemen from Nigeria want me to help them move 2.5 gazillion dollars, etc.) I finally got a decent spam in an e-mail! Color me happy! Apparently, I have been selected to participate in study which will provide me 100% free 'cannabidiol'. Now I really do not know what that is but the cannabi aspect makes me think of some derivative of Mary J. Juana or similar, perhaps mixed with some type of PMS symptom reliever. No matter, I do not need any canni.... whatever, free or otherwise, but I am thrilled that someone finally came up with a decent looking, not 'intelligence insulting' grade of scam.
This renews my hope in all of humanity.
Brian
He was what is known today as 'a late talker', some sources claiming he did not begin to talk until he was four years old. Of course this led his parents and others to believe he was mentally retarded. It did not help that when he did start to talk he often whispered sentences to himself before saying them out loud to 'see how they sounded'. The family housekeeper called him 'the dopey one'.
So little was, and in many ways still is, understood about how the brain works that we find it impossible to 'classify' people with simple terms such as retarded or advanced or even genius because often times each case, in the same individual, is mixed in with other traits at the other end of the scale. The classic idiot- savant. "Rainman".
No matter because he did learn to talk and turned out to be gifted..... in some areas, while clearly deficient in others. He would have trouble relating to others socially for his entire life but would also excel so far in some specific areas as to overcome all of his limitations.
Today we choose to remember Albert Einstein as a brilliant physicist, which he most certainly was. But we tend to forget some other aspects about this same man that are nothing short of perplexing. Taken as a whole, I think it makes him even more fascinating; the simple version is that he was just..... really smart.
Brian
so following on from a conversation with young Brian yesterday evening.
What does the phrase "moving house" mean to you ?
so following on from a conversation with young Brian yesterday evening.
What does the phrase "moving house" mean to you ?