What They Have 2015-08-05

[DinkyInky]

Nah...dark chocolate is not a mystery if you are adventurous.

It's not just dark chocolate, but fine Belgian dark chocolate...not just any will do(and I no longer consider Godiva Belgian). So far, I've sampled many, many types and hope to sample more.
I've sampled many from all over, and prefer Fannie May to See's, and South Bend Chocolate Company over that, but will throw those over for Belgian Pralines...soooo tasty.
Pair French dark chocolate with a nice rich Burgandy. German Chocolates are nice with amazingly enough, an iced schnapps. Swiss Chocolates are like cuckoo clocks...it must be the right time and place, and I like them with coffee. Italian chocolate...well, I only had their version of chocolate in pastry form, so that's still on the list. The Japanese take on chocolate is interesting. From whimsical to downright macabre. They go the full bore approach. My current favourite of theirs is a royal milk tea chocolate covered biscuit, or the green tea one. Korean chocolate is an acquired taste, and with the exception of Pepero or Chocopie, I haven't acquired it.

American chocolates are only fit for treating the female condition(unless it's Fannie May or South Bend, those are for savouring)...

(Growing up allergic to it, I am still playing catch up. I'm trying to sample the best of the best. I want a demi kilo of the fine Belgian chocolates Poirot acquires just for that beatific expression he has after sampling.)

[Opus the Poet]

the reason they won't/can't talk about it is probably the same reason as how most "common folks" don't know the tiny dot-the-eyes and cross-the-teas details about how to build a nuclear bomb in their basements...

You would be shocked at how easy it is to build a fission bomb, the only difficult part is finding enough U235 or P239 to reach supercritical density. The technical details are not that advanced over a common pipe bomb.

[Sgt. Howard]

the reason they won't/can't talk about it is probably the same reason as how most "common folks" don't know the tiny dot-the-eyes and cross-the-teas details about how to build a nuclear bomb in their basements...

You would be shocked at how easy it is to build a fission bomb, the only difficult part is finding enough U235 or P239 to reach supercritical density. The technical details are not that advanced over a common pipe bomb.

What we dropped on Hiroshima was a 4' tube of U-238, about 10" diameter with an inside diameter of 4". place a cup of U-235 at one end and a bullet of the same at the other- milled to offer maximum surface contact on impact. You then put a pound of cordite on either end, make sure they both go off at once.
The rest of the bomb was lead shielding so as to allow it to be handled.

[AnotherFairportfan]

When i get back to the computer, i'll try to remember to tell the story of John Campbell, "Astounding Science Fiction", Cleve Cartmill, the FBI and the Oak Ridge library.

[Julie]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Catawampus]

My eyes!! The goggles do nothing!

You should have seen their photo before all of the chest hair was photoshopped away.

[Dave]

You should have seen their photo before all of the chest hair was photoshopped away.

You're an evil, evil person, Catawampus.

I rather admire that!

[Typeminer]

Dark Chocolate is a mysterious type of chocolate that cannot be studied under normal conditions, because it seems to disappear as soon as we obtain it. All we can do is measure the way it increases gravity's pull on us.

Dark beer has that effect on some folks, too.

[Julie]

Dark Chocolate is a mysterious type of chocolate that cannot be studied under normal conditions, because it seems to disappear as soon as we obtain it. All we can do is measure the way it increases gravity's pull on us.

Dark beer has that effect on some folks, too.

*raises hand* Me! I'll volunteer to show how quickly dark beer disappears!

[TazManiac]

I'm having all kinds of Fail with photo bucket and seeing either embedded links or pix actuly on that site.

[Sgt. Howard]

... so... who removed the tattoos? I especially liked the Hearts with MOM on Devyn...

[illiad]

I think you need a better browser with adblock....

[TazManiac]

I think you need a better browser with adblock....

Crappy Android phone, on the PC its OK...

[Gyrrakavian]

But there's that comment about her and Alexis being able to kill everyone in a 10 block area. That would seem to be beyond the abilities of a normal nymph. We don't know who her parents are; Devyn may be something as unique in her way as Atsali is in hers.

well. how about this for a theory:
in the hope's of speeding up the process of NON-paranormal scientists learning more about how to understand "Dark Matter", ie. the Akashik Records, they decide to do a "science experiment" involving that book that Deyvn was reading from and what they both know of the Record... BUT, as high-school projects sometime do when the subject matter isn't properly understood by the students very well, it... fails... and fails rather badly to say the least... maybe they accidentally figured a way to ERASE the Akashik Record!! and if the Record of well, YOU and everything ABOUT you get's erased, then SO DO YOU!! ie, you DIE... the reason they won't/can't talk about it is probably the same reason as how most "common folks" don't know the tiny dot-the-eyes and cross-the-teas details about how to build a nuclear bomb in their basements... yes certain scientists, and technically oriented people DO, but they realize that if they DID build one that it would be "a bad thing" so they don't... the two DID find out those details and after what happened, they agreed to never talk about it again.
OR, maybe the MIB found out about it, when they got called in to investigate/cover-up the incident and stopped them from going further along that path and the reason they are still out and about in the world afterwards is because they had no idea WHAT they accidentally did and had no possibility of ever REPEATING it (and being a relative of one of the BIG Kahuna's doesn't hurt either) so they are either under a gag-order and released under their own cognizance...OR it seems that in the Para-world that an individual human's life is valued EXTREMELY cheaply, and the whole incident just became an "oh girls will be girls, tee hee!, just ignore them they're ONLY humans" kind of thing and it was forgotten by everyone BUT the two girls, kinda similar attitude that Psillah had over Monica's DE-facing incident at the Library...

And now I've got that short story 'Bathed in Neutrino Light' stuck in my head again.

[Hansontoons]

Dark Chocolate is a mysterious type of chocolate that cannot be studied under normal conditions, because it seems to disappear as soon as we obtain it. All we can do is measure the way it increases gravity's pull on us.

Dark beer has that effect on some folks, too.

*raises hand* Me! I'll volunteer to show how quickly dark beer disappears!

I'll hold the stopwatch when it's not my turn to quaff!

And hope you are able to avoid the heat this weekend. Dark beer does sound like a reasonable cure...

[illiad]

I think you need a better browser with adblock....

Crappy Android phone, on the PC its OK...

Tried on Opera on my Galaxy S3, still missing the large pic... BUT!!
try palemoon !! all pics loaded!!
or you may need to change provider... :/ I am on UK tmobile...

[McDaveX]

Curious though. Seems like the young paras are being taught that it's the Akashic record, while Tina (who says she can see Dark Matter) says they are baryons in the 5th though 8th dimensions... I wonder if its just a different way of looking at things, or if they are simplifying things for the kids....

[Dave]

Curious though. Seems like the young paras are being taught that it's the Akashic record, while Tina (who says she can see Dark Matter) says they are baryons in the 5th though 8th dimensions... I wonder if its just a different way of looking at things, or if they are simplifying things for the kids....

Possibly, extra-dimensional baryons are what Dark Matter is made of... and the Akashic Record is what it's being used for?

By analogy: the Internet is made mostly of electrical charges, stored in structures made of silicon compounds.... and it's used for cute-cat videos and pornography.

[GlytchMeister]

I totally forgot Tina could see Dark Matter!!!
*scribbles notes in Purpose idea journal*

And Dave: I think you may have solved my canon problem.