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Sgt. Howard wrote:... unrequited love? Really never knew that... back when it came out, we though it was a cool love song and I have crooned it to many girls about Atali's age with excellent results... of course, I was the same age myself back then. It was in fact one of many songs of that era that I dedicated time to on guitar, and the way girls responded inspired me to master guitar.

Heh. Try this one for one that sounds different when you actually think about the meaning, compared to how people took it Way Back Then:

tell me,
just one more time the reasons why you must leave,
tell me once more why you're sure you don't need me,
tell me again but, don't think that you'll convince me.

now you've said,
before falling in love again you'd rather be dead,
'cause when someone breaks your heart, you cry your eyes red,
but there's nothing so hard about the life that you've led.

as far as i can see,
there's no reason for goodbyes,
you're just running scared,
and that's something i won't buy.

so you lose,
i won't let you go with nothing to show but more blues,
and all this talk about leaving is strictly bad news,
so you settle down and stay with the man that loves you.

as far as i can see,
there's no reason for goodbyes,
you're just running scared,
and that's something i won't buy.

so you lose,
i won't let you go with nothing to show but more blues,
and all this talk about leaving is strictly bad news,
so you settle down and stay with the man that loves you,
you settle down and stay with the man that loves you.

Get the restraining order, girl, quick!

Goodbye, Earl...

Who recorded it? The Monkees. Who wrote it? Mike Nesmith. "Some of Shelly's Blues".

And for a classic case of Getting Crap Past the Radar, check out this Monkees number. (Particularly Mickey and the cane from about 1:50...)

Written by Harry Nillsson. The dancer is Anita Mann.

- "...you're not the only cherry delight ... that gave up without a fight..."?

jwhouk wrote:Unrequited love. Millions of stories have had successful runs with that trope.

Right, Charlie Brown?

. I have ABSOLUTLY NO IDEA what you are talking about... the little red haired girl never meant ANYTHING to me... (sniff.. sniff...) not a thing, do you understand?... (Sniff... snurff ...) besides... she wasn't that pretty (sob... sniff...) BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! ! ! SHE NEVER EVEN NOTICED ME!!!!...

... and the name is Howard, BTW... and the little red haired girl, who isn't quite forty, is sleeping in my bed, waiting for her sixty year old man... (snerk)


.... Happy Valentines day, y'all...

Goodbye, Earl...

... while I generally do not condone those who take the law into their own hands... I have been doing surgery since 1977 as a tech. I cannot even begin to guess how many faces I have helped put back together in that time... much of it repeat business. One fellow in particular kept us rather busy with a succession of women that could only tolerate him for so long.

I paid him a visit. He never figured out who I was or why I knew about his penchants... and the next time I saw him was that afternoon when I helped put HIS face back together.

Of course, I was wearing a mask. That is good surgical technique, after all.

(NEVER hit ANYBODY in the jaw! It is the hardest bone in the body to break. Your knuckles will pay dearly, and if you snag a tooth infection is a given. Smack the nose- breaks easy, involves a cranial nerve and will re-set the system... after shutdown...)

*allegedly*, er, um *theoretically speaking*...

Yeah, thats it...

TazManiac wrote:*allegedly*, er, um *theoretically speaking*...

Yeah, thats it...

... you would have to name the date, the hospital I worked and the idiot's name before I would even begin to worry... and I am willing to bet nobody can name the state... jurisdictional issues, you see. Besides, the statute of limitations has already kicked in for "aggravated assault"... no big deal.

DilyV wrote:we were only able to achieve critical mass by purifying U235 uranium ore into U238 (fissile)

I think you might have that backwards U238 is the stable isotope, U235 is the easily fissionable one.

BTW if you find an old copy of the Jules Verne book Mysterious Island hang onto it and scan it to digital form and find someplace safe to keep it. It has detailed instructions on making biodiesel and nitroglycerine from dead animals and barnyard remains.

Opus the Poet wrote:

DilyV wrote:we were only able to achieve critical mass by purifying U235 uranium ore into U238 (fissile)

I think you might have that backwards U238 is the stable isotope, U235 is the easily fissionable one.

BTW if you find an old copy of the Jules Verne book Mysterious Island hang onto it and scan it to digital form and find someplace safe to keep it. It has detailed instructions on making biodiesel and nitroglycerine from dead animals and barnyard remains.

The glycerin you distill from the animal fat, but you still need nitric and sulfuric acid to make nitro. Just remember- if the temperature starts to rise, RUN!!! Biodiesel is rendered from the same source, but I have never done it.

Opus the Poet wrote:

DilyV wrote:we were only able to achieve critical mass by purifying U235 uranium ore into U238 (fissile)

I think you might have that backwards U238 is the stable isotope, U235 is the easily fissionable one.

BTW if you find an old copy of the Jules Verne book Mysterious Island hang onto it and scan it to digital form and find someplace safe to keep it. It has detailed instructions on making biodiesel and nitroglycerine from dead animals and barnyard remains.

You can download it (PDF or HTML or text) from Project Gutenberg. It's one of the many public-domain books they have scanned, OCR'ed, and put online for free.

I did have a bit of Mad Scientist fun yesterday... visited a beach south of San Francisco, looked around for a spot I had read about, and collected a cup of so of dark grey fine sand. Sure enough, measurements show it's very slightly radioactive... a few times the local background radiation level. Probably a small amount of thorium, in monazite crystals weathered out of granite formations and washed up onto the beach and "sorted out" by the wave actions over the past few hundred thousand years. It should make a good test material for the gamma-ray spectroscopic analyzer I'm building.

Of course old Jules didn't know diddly about biodiesel since Mr. Diesel hadn't invented his engine when the book was written, but the two substances come from the same process.