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smell the roses.

So I went to the club last night to meet the la-dies. I left the walker at home and opted for the cane. The leisure suit still fit nicely and I donned a jaunty cap to complete the package.  After adding a splash of Old Spice I was good to go.

I wasn't aware the cover charge had increased so much. The bouncer charged me $100 to enter (and he kept calling me a pimp)! But the three-hour wait was well worth it...sitting at the bar were a couple lovelies and next to them an open seat with my name on it.

After ordering my Tanqueray and tonic, I mentally rehearsed my opening line. The old standby "What's your sign?" used to work in the 70's so I thought I'd give it a shot. After all, it had been a long time since I'd gone clubbing.

When a lull in their conversation presented itself, I blurted, "What's your sign?" to the hottie sitting next to me. Both broke into a fit of laughter so I offered to buy them a drink, thinking I had broken some serious ice.

"O-foo-kus", she finally replied.

My mind raced as I tried to decipher what 'o-foo-kus' meant. "Pardon me?" I asked.

"O-foo-kus", she repeated.

Blushing, I asked, "What's 'o-foo-kus' ?" At this point my heart was pounding with fantasies of a threesome in the king's lair with these apparently foreign beauties.

"It's a new sun sign!", her companion explained. "Now there are 13 constellations of the zodiac." She then spelled it out, "o-p-h-i-u-c-h-u-s."

I was disappointed that my translation was wrong but even more troubled that I had just purchased an expensive astrology software package. Everything would have to be re-formatted to accomodate this interloper of the cosmos. They had to be pulling my leg, making fun of the 'old guy'.

"When is your birthday?", she continued.

"December fourth", I answered.  "I'm a sagittarius."

"Omiggod!" they exclaimed in unison. "You're an ophiuchus!"

Suddenly feeling like a unicorn, I finished my drink, bid my adieu and headed home unaccompanied to the king's lair.  I vowed to never do drugs before going clubbing again!

As I fell into slumber my thoughts drifted to unicorns, threesomes and a shadowy entity named Ophiuchus who wanted to spoil it all.

For all players in all states on Sun. 1/16

 

Ether / Present circumstances         613 - 837

Earth / Potential future                  808 - 927

Water / Alternative paths               524 - 050

Air / Pros and cons                        459 - 249

Fire / Destiny or karma                  161 - 637

 

Have a great SUN-day!

 

Ether    300 - 317

Earth    696 - 751

Water   843 - 825

Air       982 - 497

Fire      240 - 651

365, 100, 734, 812, 876

956, 945, 224, 098, 173

 

...literally.  Check out the Prime Ministers of Canada and Australia addressing their Parliaments days before the Iraq war began.

This is one Oprah show that would have been fun to attend...

Check out this guy (Buddy Green?) wailing out the classics on a harmonica at Carnegie Hall...( 4 min. video)

http://www.wimp.com/harmonicacarnegie/

Check out this mall food court 'flash mob'...

This doesn't look like a security check.  The agent appears to be more intent on checking something else.

Song and video by Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com

 

Experts believe the mystery missile fired off the Californian coast may have been an optical illusion.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20101110/twl-mystery-missile-may-be-optical-illus-3fd0ae9.html

 

 

Here's the "optical illusion"...

Uh-oh...we have a "drill" going on in Georgia. 

 

Nuclear drill puts national focus on Kings Bay

The exercise will last until Wednesday and will likely impact traffic near the base.

Posted: November 6, 2010 - 12:00am  By Gordon Jackson

ST. MARYS - As many as 1,800 military and civilian personnel from across the nation will participate in a simulated nuclear weapon incident at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base beginning today.

While the majority of activity will be on base, residents living near Kings Bay will be affected by the drill. They can expect to see emergency vehicles, especially today, driving to a local hospital. Residents may also see smoke and hear loud noises coming from the base.

Capt. John O'Neill, commanding officer at Kings Bay, described the drill as a national-level exercise involving all branches of the military, the FBI, local public safety officials and medical personnel....(more)

Aren't the FEMA caskets stockpiled in that neck of the woods? 

 

and in Kingsbury, IN

 

 

and Phoenix

Der Spiegel reports on the growling-ever-louder Indonesian Merapi volcano in an article titled: Geologists Warning of Mega-Eruption of Merapi.

The Merapi eruptions are becoming more violent – and the big bang could be just ahead. The Indonesian volcano has been spewing 800°C ash clouds for days.

A rough estimate indicates that there is three times more magma than what was ejected by the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815 – the biggest eruption in the last 10,000 years, which led to a cooling of the climate globally...(more)

And it looks like Iceland may have another eruption soon...(here)

More info...

Tambora

"the bright sun was extinguish'd... morn came and went--and came, and brought no day"
-Darkness by George Gordon, Lord Byron


The Eruption
On April 10, 1815, a series of eruptions began, culminating to the largest eruption in recorded history. The eruption lasted several days. It blew a chunk off of the mountain almost a mile wide. The volcanic column, after flying 40 km (25 miles) into the sky, returned to the ground, creating a huge pyroclastic flow of ash, pumice, and debris. The pyroclastic flow alone killed more than 10,000 people in its path. The ash that fell from Tambora travelled as far as 1300 km (800 miles) away.

When the pyroclastic flow reached the ocean, the debris created such a large displacement of water that tsunamis as high as 5 meters (16 feet) emanated out from the island. These tsunamis caused flooding, devastation, and death on many of the other Indonesian islands.

After the eruption was over, an estimated 100-150 cubic kilometers of ash and debris were said to have been ejected from the mountain.

The Year without a Summer

In 1816, the overal temperature on Earth, specifically in the Northern Hemisphere, lowered so drastically that it became known as the year without a summer. Weather was disturbed all over, with problems in Western Europe and the United States, as well as Asia. Monsoon season was affected, which is thought to also be tied to a cholera epidemic that year. In places like New England and Canada, frost was recorded in every month of the year, and snow fell in June. This phenomenon is known as global cooling.

The summer temperatures in 1816 averaged just a few degrees below normal, but as mentioned, it frosted throughout the summer. The highs were still close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit on some days. However, the cold spells, especially at night, caused massive crop failure and as a result, even more famine.