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Ohrwurm:
We're doomed, dooomed!
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:48:23 am)
:
doomed
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:48:27 am)
Froupie:
if patrick says it, it must be true.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:48:48 am)
Ohrwurm:
http://weebl.fluent.ltd.uk/toons/20/
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:50:57 am)
bela:
I have so much to do yet for my party tomorrow night! Gah!
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:51:19 am)
Sir Patrick Moore:
Now, by my precise calculations, we're all doomed...
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:52:20 am)
kind of like Gabby Katz of Radio Sweden::
The eggs of these worms pass out of the sheep's (or deer's or groundhog's) liver through a bile duct into their intestines and out their anus, and the fecal matter containing the eggs is eaten by dung-eating snails. Inside the snail the worms hatch into roundish things that drill through the snail's stomach to its digestive glands. These roundish things grow into "mother sporocytes" that keep reproducing until they've filled the digestive glands of the snail, after which they transform into cercaria, that look like sperm cells. These wriggle to the snail's respiratory chamber. The snail then coughs them up with other snail spit. The gob dries to a point where it resembles a snail egg, then a wood ant hauls it back to the ant's nest where the phoney "snail egg" is eaten. Once inside the ant the cercaria change into metacercaria that implant themselves in the ant's stomach with some of the worms "the brain worms" planting themselves in the ant's brain, making the ant go insane. Every day at dawn the ant climbs to the top of a blade of grass and locks it's jaw around the blade, suspending itself there, motionless, until dusk. A sheep or deer comes along and eats the blade of grass. Then the sheep or deer's pancreatic juices cause the metacercaria to hatch inside their intestines and the worms sniff out the liver and set up camp, producing eggs. And so it goes.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:52:41 am)
:
Doomed like shatner's bassoon!
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:53:16 am)
Froupie:
have you prepared some tasty party food bela?
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 9:59:05 am)
:
The Word of the Day for December 19 is:
wassail • \WAH-sul\ • verb
1 : to indulge in riotous drinking : carouse
2 dialect England : to sing carols from house to house at Christmas
*3 : to drink to the health or thriving of
Example sentence:
The farmer and his revelers wassailed the apple orchard, hoping for another fruitful season, and then merrily poured cider around the trees.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:06:28 am)
Ohrwurm:
Wassailling the night was a song by Mr Echo, from the Bunnymen
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:07:53 am)
bela:
Thats funny, no I'm not really. I'm going to have a lot of snacks and lots of booze. My sister lives downstairs now so shes going to make martinis down there and my friend JR is making a Mai tai punch and I'll have all kinds of other stuff for cocktails.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:09:26 am)
Froupie:
make sure everybody gets a weiner on a stick.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:13:44 am)
Froupie:
mmm martini's
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:14:23 am)
:
Quick and easy party food.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:18:04 am)
:
Howzabout a nice bit of smoked salmon?
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:20:08 am)
:
16th Dec 2003
All day
Fine targeting of Mars Express to point at the landing site
19th Dec
06:51 GMT
Decision to release Beagle 2
19th Dec
08:11 GMT
Eject command sent to Mars Express
19th Dec
10:15 GMT
First results of release available
20th Dec
All day
Retargeting of Mars Express on an orbital insertion course
23rd Dec
T.B.D.
Update on Mars Express orbital insertion sequence
24th Dec
Night
Final decision to steer Mars Express into a Martian orbit
25th Dec
02:54 GMT
Beagle 2 lands on Mars
25th Dec
03:00 GMT
Mars Express orbital insertion
25th Dec
05:15 GMT
Mars Odyssey orbiter flies over Beagle 2 - first possible signal retrieval from the lander
25th Dec
07:00 GMT
First evaluation of Mars Express orbital insertion
25th Dec
07:15 GMT
Sunset on Mars (18:35 local solar time)
25th Dec
20:02 GMT
Sunrise on Mars (07:02 local solar time)
25th Dec
22:45 GMT
Possible direct capture of Beagle 2 signals at Jodrell Bank Observatory (UK)
26th Dec
07:55 GMT
Sunset on Mars (18:36 local solar time)
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:21:51 am)
bela:
I could make something like that for a joke. I'm sure people would eat it like Daria. Heh.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:23:26 am)
Froupie:
its a cabbage with a face. people would love it.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:24:35 am)
Froupie:
and then later, you could chop it up and make coleslaw.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:25:06 am)
bela:
Red cabbage rules.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:27:35 am)
bela:
Too bad you can't come and make a surprise visit Froupie. There will be all kinds of fun people there. I could pretty much post them all here.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:28:11 am)
:
oh drill drill drill
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:28:25 am)
Froupie:
yeah, too bad i'm stuck in this stinking city, ah well. one day.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:31:18 am)
Froupie:
ben's so rude, he just called his mum "the old tit".
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:34:06 am)
Ohrwurm:
Even an old tit is worth a quick feel
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:35:21 am)
Froupie:
he said "i've been xmas shopping i just bought the old tit a digital camera"
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:36:04 am)
Ohrwurm:
I'm away to the pub. Enjoy. Bye.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:37:59 am)
Froupie:
have a wassailing good time.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:38:28 am)
Ohrwurm:
Thanks. I'm going to sit and look over the river and get pissed.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:39:22 am)
bela:
Sounds good.
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 10:41:55 am)
Decoy:
Oh that holiday spirit...
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 11:02:06 am)
:
sniff out the liver
(Fri Dec 19, 2003 - 11:05:46 am)