YSaC, Vol. 1507: Some thoughts on leopards
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On August 27, 2006, Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport in Lexington was the site of a crash that killed 47 passengers and 2 crew members aboard a Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet designated Comair Flight 191, or Delta Air Lines Flight 5191, sometimes mistakenly identified by the press as Comair Flight 5191.[87] The lone survivor was the flight’s first officer, James Polehinke, who doctors determined to be brain damaged and unable to recall the crash at all.[88] A barge hauling coal in the Louisville and Portland Canal, the only manmade section of the Ohio River. [edit]Water As the state is bounded by two of the largest rivers in North America, water transportation has historically played a major role in Kentucky’s economy. Louisville was a major port for steamships in the nineteenth century. Today, most barge traffic on Kentucky waterways consists of coal that is shipped from both the Eastern and Western Coalfields, about half of which is used locally to power many power plants located directly off the Ohio River, with the rest being exported to other countries, most notably Japan. Many of the largest ports in the United States are located in or adjacent to Kentucky, including: Huntington/Tri-State (includes Ashland, KY), largest inland port and 7th largest overall Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky, 5th largest inland port and 43rd overall Louisville-Southern Indiana, 7th largest inland port and 55th overall As a state, Kentucky ranks 10th overall in port tonnage.[89][90] The only natural obstacle along the entire length of the Ohio River is the Falls of the Ohio, located just west of Downtown Louisville. [edit]Subdivisions and settlements Map of Kentucky counties Population growth[dead link] is centered along and between interstates I-65 and I-75. Louisville is the state’s largest city with a metro population of 1.3 million Lexington is the state’s second largest city with a metro population of around 500,000 Covington is the largest city in Northern Kentucky [edit]Counties
Wow – this is awful. I better write some snark. Carl Maria Von Weber was one of the foremost composers of German opera in the early Romantic Period. His best known work is Die Frieschutz. [citation needed] Plant your brassicas in May, and cover them with mulch. No, John, I don’t think I would like a personalized license plate, thank you very much. [3.14159] The Wigner D-matrix is a matrix in an irreducible representation of the groups SU(2) and SO(3). Let’s all go to the lobby and have ourselves a snack. But not YOU!
You cannot have a snack.
Thanks for the post, Elizabeth!
But … snacks!
:gives pleading, sad-eyed look:
Someone just brought me a doughnut!
The sad eyes work!
Now I crave a tasty pastry <sad>
D’awww…
:attempts to stuff remainder of doughnut into computer cup holder:
“Tasty Pastry” is the name of IF’s “Cake” cover band.
Funny thing is every, single bandmember has fingernails that shine like justice.
*click*
*click*
*click**click**click*
Must be free.
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I’m feeling intelligibility coming on!
*hands Archie two aspirin and a shot of Cuervo*
Doctor’s orders!
The perfect remedy! Please tell me that this prescription needs to be repeated every four hours?!? Maybe not the aspirin, but I’m sure the tequila will wear off. I should make sure to keep my levels up.
Absolutely! And, for you daily dose of Vitamin C, be sure to add some lime. 🙂
But, of course!
Spambot Airways Flight 000 to Louisville is now boarding for departure at Gate 9 3/4.[dubious – discuss]
Do not try this at home. Your mileage may vary. Stunt driver, closed course. May cause weight gain, eyeball displacement, intestinal fortitude, delusions of adequacy, I am a professional. Stop taking and see your doctor.
Do I get to pick which Doctor?
Who?
Yes, please.
Me too please!
Damn, I never knew that the state of Kentucky had such baggage (disclaimer on: Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul).
Yeahhhh! A crash that killed 47 passengers and 2 crew members! SPRING BREAK WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Lyle was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the first-year draft on November 30, 1964.[1] He progressed up the Red Sox farm system as a relief pitcher, with stops in Winston-Salem in 1965, Pittsfield in 1966 and Toronto in the first half of 1967.[3] It was during his time at Pittsfield that he picked up the slider, a pitch that was introduced to him by Ted Williams at spring training prior to that season.
He became a shy, timid teenager, perhaps as a result of being the youngest in his class at Central High School. One episode in his high school life was the rejection of his drawings by his high school yearbook.[7] A five-foot-tall statue of Snoopy was placed in the school’s main office 60 years later.
Due to Easy Company’s role as primary assault company, Dog Company did not see as much action as Easy. However, it still participated in many engagements during the war, and both Speirs and Dog Company were at Bastogne. When Easy Company’s initial attack on the German-occupied town of Foy bogged down due to the poor leadership of its commander, 1st Lt. Norman Dike, battalion executive officer Captain Richard Winters ordered Speirs to relieve Dike of command.[9] The selection of Speirs was random; Winters later stated that Speirs was simply the first officer he saw when he turned around.[10][11][12] Speirs successfully took over the assault and led Easy Company to victory.
He has been voted among the top ten DJs in the world by readers of DJMag every year since 1997, placing first in 2000.[61] At the annual Winter Music Conference, Sasha has won the “Best Techno/Trance 12” award (1999) for the Xpander EP, and “Best CD Compilation” awards for Global Underground: Ibiza (1999, 2000) and Involver (2004).[62] He was also nominated in the categories “Best European DJ” (2004) and “Best Remixer”.[63] At the 1999 Ericsson Muzik Awards, he received an award for “Outstanding Contributions to Dance Music”.[61] Sasha was nominated as the top DJ in his genre every year since 2000 in the DJ Awards, but did not win. However, in 2008, he was selected as the best DJ in the progressive house category.
Comment by installment. Interesting concept, IF. Carry on.
🙂
His reign as Wales manager was his first managerial post; he was appointed in 1999 and remained in the rôle until 2004. He failed to qualify for a World Cup or European Championship during his five years in charge, although his reign coincided with a marked improvement in results; he came particularly close to securing European Championship qualification in 2004. He was most recently the manager of Queens Park Rangers but was dismissed on 23 November 2012 after a run of poor results.[2]
(P.S.: Archie, it’s kind of a piece of performance art as well, if you discern the theme.)
Annie Wilkes: When I was growing up in Bakersfield, my favourite thing in the whole world was to go to the movies on Saturday afternoons for the Chapter Plays.
Paul Sheldon: [nodding] Cliffhangers.
Annie Wilkes: [shouting] I know that, Mr. Man! They also called them serials. I’m not stupid ya know…
Ah ha…got it! It helped that the subject of your 2nd installment was a neighbor of mine. You are quite the clever one, IF.
How awesome that you were his neighbor… that must have been pretty neat. Did the Red-Haired Girl ever stop by?
Both during his tenure with the Tigers, and for a time thereafter, Anderson did some television work as a baseball commentator. From 1979 to 1986 (with the exception of 1984 of course), Anderson was often paired with Vin Scully and later Jack Buck on CBS Radio’s coverage of the World Series. From 1996 to 1998, he was a color analyst for the Anaheim Angels’ cable television broadcasts.
More than one! There is an annual free admission day (usually on or around Valentine’s Day) at his museum in town for all red-haired girls, with an excellent showing for all ages. It and the ice arena are wonderful places and certainly carry forward his legacy.
Term paper spam, not just for flying anymore.
No thanks, I’ve already got one.
As a travel advertisement for Kentucky, this isn’t going to work very well. Spring Breakers want what Kentucky is famous for…bourbon.
Lots of bourbon.
“Lots of bourbon” and bluegrass. Oh, and Derbies. So “Bluegrass bourbon derbies.” New slogan—– “Kentucky, it’s not just for mining disasters anymore”. p.s. do you put the period inside or outside of the quotation marks? Have a nice day, Meg
Typically, punctuation goes inside superscripted quotation marks.
If one is using em-dash for quotation notation, then there is no closing notation, and the punctuation is the terminus (one of the better reasons to eschew em-dash quotations, unless one wants a ‘feel’ of a volume printed in the middle 19th century).
Where that becomes complicated (rather like using one’s iPhone to plagiarize an end-of-term paper on the bus to the last day of class) is when the quotation includes punctuation. Which makes for wobbly construction at best, e.g. The episode “Wither Canada!”?
The Brazos river was once navigable as far north as Waco.
…now turn the paper over keeping your eye on the camel, and paste down the edge of the sailor’s uniform, until the word ‘Maudling’ is almost totally obscured.
Plaintiff asserts that Respondent, with malice aforethought did
Engage in custom in Notlob, a semi-detached non North Malden
Edda are song cycles of epic prose, sometimes in rhyming form
Thyme is a herb.
Basil is also a herb; Basel is a city in Switzerland.
Cornwall is in Wales which the Welsh spell as Cymru
Much as the Finns call their land Suomi.
And Hungarians are really Magyar.
Hovercraft have varying densities of eels.
:Writes down “Hovercraft with Variable Eel Density” in DM manual:
I’ll just save this for later.
Whoa. My head feels full of useless knowledge, more than ever before! I think I’ll adopt 20 cats and beg for cat food on the street. I’ll become a vegetarian and work to end world hunger. I’ll shave my head and hand out daises at the airport. I will love everyone and all living things. Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
Hail Dunkin, full of Donuts!
Thought about it, did it in a dream, did it in high school, I’ll do it later, also did it in high school, I’m allergic to daises, I’m working on it, yes they are, I could use a nap, yes it is, good thing I can touch-type, I hope so since I typed them, no I can’t.
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing of a pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.
Did you copy that from Wilhelm Reich? It was somehow painfully pleasurable to read. Thank you, I think?
It’s a translation of Cicero.
Dear mudsy and CindyB: Happy Lump Day! Punchity Punch Punch! (What? Hump Day? *innocent look* Really?)
Good Morning, Panthera pardus!