Woohoo, increasing daylight!
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Dec 21, 2020 8:39:21 am PST #1374 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Shir - Dec 21, 2020 8:42:42 am PST #1375 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I'm sorry, Fred. Good luck with the port.
Jessica - Dec 21, 2020 8:46:52 am PST #1376 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
dcp - Dec 21, 2020 8:48:44 am PST #1377 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
"Merry Christmas, Denis Norden." [link]
Tom Scola - Dec 21, 2020 8:51:59 am PST #1378 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Imagine being a Neolithic Brit, and traveling hundreds of kilometers over many days to be at Stonehenge on the Solstice, only for it to be cloudy like that. That must have sucked.
dcp - Dec 21, 2020 8:56:27 am PST #1379 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
A Song of the Weather: [link]
-t - Dec 21, 2020 9:59:17 am PST #1380 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't know, I traveled I don't even know how many miles to get to the Faroe Islands for a solar eclipse and it was cloudy and rainy and you mostly couldn't see anything and it was still magical. I bet neolithic solstices were, too.
Although they wouldn't have had hot chocolate. But they wouldn't have known it existed to miss it.
Jessica - Dec 21, 2020 10:01:30 am PST #1381 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have to imagine cloudy grey winter solstices are kind of the Stonehenge default, since it's in England?
-t - Dec 21, 2020 10:33:31 am PST #1382 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Does seem likely. Now, when you've got ash from a volcano, say, more or less blocking the sun entirely on the solstice, that's gotta suck.
sj - Dec 21, 2020 11:12:01 am PST #1383 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I just finished with the orthopedic. The source of my pain is a bulging disc in my neck, and if the weakness in my right arm doesn’t improve in a month, I’ll probably have to have surgery.