Fun Stuff...Off Topic(O/T)

[billyjoe]

I went swimming this morning then had to dodge the Orion Spacecraft to get out of town. There were numerous roadblocks, detours, and cranes removing traffic lights along the route to NASA.https://www.norwalkreflector.com/gal...tream&lp=4&p=1
Kids turn out
--------http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201911260016


-------------billy

[Louetta]

Tacko Fall, a Senegalese who plays basketball for the Boston Celtics, as part of his public service work has joined a local children's swim club. He takes swimming lessons and participates in a game called Tacko Polo. Get it: Tacko Polo, Marco Polo...

[jiesen]

that was beautiful, Lou!

Now for all you Calvin and Hobbes fans, here is a must-have bookmark:

https://marcel-oehler.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/

[Louetta]

Woah, this list of 50 guitar songs is just aching to be shared:

https://www.guitarhabits.com/50-of-the-best-acoustic-guitar-songs-of-all-time/

enjoy!

Fantasmal!

If you like Lana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKYYVrrs2oY

[jiesen]

Woah, this list of 50 guitar songs is just aching to be shared:

https://www.guitarhabits.com/50-of-the-best-acoustic-guitar-songs-of-all-time/

enjoy!

[billyjoe]

Did you ever get a real bad cold in the middle of summer? About as bad as it can be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxJPKeqfn7c

-------------------billy

[billyjoe]

Barb, Happy Birthday! I didn't want to post on Facebook since Putin might find out.

----------------------billy

[riverbabe]

How cold is it? It is so cold that Republicans and Democrats are reaching across the aisle in Washington so they can huddle together for warmth. Just kidding.

[mimo_100]

Joke of the day. My friend gave birth in her car on the way to the hospital. Her husband named the new baby "Carson."

The Seven Sisters Waterfalls, Norway

https://i.imgur.com/w8Mkckh.mp4

Girls showing off!

https://i.imgur.com/dGyPGHa.mp4

This kid is going places!

https://i.imgur.com/E0LjT03.mp4

Hot Shingles

https://i.imgur.com/Xt2MUn8.png

Stoosbahn

https://i.imgur.com/T3Ahf4L.mp4

[Paco]

Went looking for the Geminids,
but N.J. was all clouded in.

This was also the case for the last lunar eclipse.
we catch the great Solar eclipse in Nebraska.

[mimo_100]

from Wikipedia
the Geminid meteor shower
The Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid with a "rock comet" orbit.This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet. The meteors from this shower are slow moving, can be seen in December and usually peak around December 13–14, with the date of highest intensity being the morning of December 14. The shower is thought to be intensifying every year and recent showers have seen 120–160 meteors per hour under optimal conditions, generally around 02:00 to 03:00 local time. Geminids were first observed in 1862, much more recently than other showers such as the Perseids (36 AD) and Leonids (902 AD).

[Phoenix7]

Keeping with the Christmas Spirit you may enjoy this Dueling Jingle Bells rendition! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQAcu2b-OI

[Louetta]

Heard on the NYC marathon broadcast today that last month New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who is presumably of Italian extraction, last month signed legislation to add a second Z to the spelling of the name of the Verrazzano bridge, named after Giovanni da Verrazzano, also presumably of Italian extraction, who indeed had two Zs in his name, thereby correcting an error that has existed since the bridge was built in the 1960s.

[riverbabe]

YES!!! MY HOME TOWN!!!

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8941461-university-of-waterloo-scientist-first-woman-to-win-nobel-prize-in-physics-in-decades/

[riverbabe]

Riverbabe just sent me the bad news on the passing of the Pillsbury Doughboy. In reflecting upon his life I say, Well Done!

(River, Could you possibly repost that obit here? Even if it's day old.)

----------------billy

Sure, billy. It's way more than a day old. Apparently 2014. There are several variations that can be found on Google. But, here is one. https://motleynews.net/2012/08/23/pi...t-71-obituary/