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Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 1020
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 12:12 pm: |     |
Just back from Mount Ararat, where, as usual, things are rocky and arid (no sign of Noah or his animals). Missed the rain, gray skies, and high humidity so much that I thought I'd start a thread where you camera-crazy mortals can post your favorite "rainy day" photos.
Here's one from today's NYT, just for Nohero:
--The Oracle of MOL
BTW: It hasn't been 40 days & 40 nights yet. Wait. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 3153
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 12:42 pm: | |
Oracle:
Your Oracle thing must be out of kilter because of the rain. Noahhero isn't building his ark at Mt. Ararat. He is building it off Parker Avenue right here in Maplewood. You can find him by looking for the big wooden boat being built by a guy in a bathrobe. |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 543
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 1:01 pm: | |
Setting up the tarp in a driving rain to get the shot. While filming last fall in Vermont. Casey, the guy in the photo was a trooper in a honest to God downpour.
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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1662
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 2:54 pm: | |
I have no favorite rain shots. Today, I am being a very cranky, bad sport. I only want to see pictures of SUN!!! |
Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 1021
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 3:38 pm: | |
Bobk: My "Oracle Thing" -- as you so quaintly put it -- is in quite excellent kilter, thank you very much...
The semi-divine reason for my trip to Mount Ararat was to scout the route which yuh boy Nohero will undoubtedly take in his new craft, when/if ever completed and loaded with the requisite menagerie. My old frat brother Noah (The Elder) ended up beaching on Ararat; when The Deluge subsided, the ingrate beast couples all ran gleefully away, leaving Noah high and dry. Having no alternate ride home, he walked off the Mount, and eventually opened a small boatyard located in a shallow lagoon off the Sea of Galilea. The water teemed with all sorts of beautiful ocean life in those days, so he named the business "Noah Your Anemonae", after a particularly delicious species. He's retired now, of course, but the Ark is still up there on Mount Ararat. Robert Stack used to visit all the time...
--The Oracle of MOL
BTW: I never go anywhere near Parker Avenue these days. Those crowds of unruly Columbia kids are a menace; I almost trashed a bunch of 'em while cruising up Academy on my Norton fifteen years ago.
If you see Nohero, ask him if he's related to my old buddy who invented the steam engine. Also, what's up with the bathrobe??? |
Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 1022
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 4:31 pm: | |
What the hell kind of Oracle would I be if I didn't anticipate (or "presage", as we say in The Biz) your next question, Bobk?: "What steam engine?"
No, not Watt's steam engine. Hero's Engine. My man Hero (of Alexandria) used to get off tinkering around with goofy mechanical gizmos back around 100 B.C., and so one afternoon he swings by the cave to show me his latest joint. Naturally, I already know what it is, but to make him feel good, I ask, "What is it?" "An Aeolipile", he tells me, and asks me if I'd like to buy the rights to it, for whatever purposes I might think of. In a nutshell, I keep his name on it, since he lets me pick it up on the cheap, and later I sell it over and over again to all sorts of suckers, as the basis for all sorts of other goofy inventions. Here it is:
He was some crazy old bastard, lemme tell ya. ;0}
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Bjp
Citizen
Username: Bjp
Post Number: 135
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 4:58 pm: | |
Is there some kind of trend of giving all your kids the same name (see caption under first photo in this thread)? It's like George, George, George and George Foreman. In the Nieto's case, why do you think Michael got to have his own name while his brothers both got Carlos? |
crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 405
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 5:09 pm: | |
I'm Crazy, and my brothers are all Crazy.
Call me crazy |
woodstock
Citizen
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 201
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 5:27 pm: | |
Bjp, perhaps Carlos and Carlos are step-brothers?
How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all? |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 3154
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 5:36 pm: | |
Dearest Oracle:
Two points. The Maplewood gentleman is named Noahero, not NoHero and the bathrobe is his pathetic attempt to imitate Biblical dress.
Jesh! 
ps: I much prefer Triumphs over Nortons as far as British bikes are concerned although I will take a Harley any day. Potato..potato...potato.. |
Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 1024
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 11:24 pm: | |
Bobk: The Oracle is confused. Please pardon me if I attributed an erroneous pen name to Nohero, but aren't/isn't Noah and Nohero the same person? They/he (both?) seem(s) to post using the little hanging sneakers logo dealie under the user name "Nohero". If we're really discussing two distict entities, can you tell me if either (or both?) is (are) related to either of my two buds (Noah The Elder or Hero of Alexandria)? Both were always lousy correspondents, and haven't called in ages (literally). I've tried looking 'em up (Classmates.com, WhoWhere, etc), but to no avail. And one of them owes me money. Help me out here.
--The Oracle of MOL
BTW: Are we talking silk, terry cloth, chenile, or what? It takes a very secure boatwright to wear chenile, y'know... |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 1758
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 8:18 am: | |
Neither Nohero, Noahero, or Noah of Maplewood are related to your old friend, Hero the Steam Engine builder.
Others may tell you that Nohero also generates much hot air, but do not listen to them.
Work is proceeding slowly. Food acquisition is still a problem, and our crews have been forced to steal topiaries in order to ensure an adequate supply of plant material for the voyage.
Hey man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure messed up
I wonder what they were gettin' into, or were they just lost in the flood?
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Andrew Zorn
Citizen
Username: Andrewzorn
Post Number: 127
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 12:09 pm: | |
Right...
What's a "cubit?" |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 4771
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 12:21 pm: | |
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Brian O'Leary
Citizen
Username: Brianoleary
Post Number: 1469
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 4:38 pm: | |
That forearm looks familiar. |
Andrew Zorn
Citizen
Username: Andrewzorn
Post Number: 128
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 5:09 pm: | |
Bing
Noah!
"Did somebody call?" |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 635
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 9:26 pm: | |
Zorn ... |
patty
Citizen
Username: Patty
Post Number: 353
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 10:21 pm: | |
How long can you tread water? |
Phil
Citizen
Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 660
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 11:57 pm: | |
I'd prefer to be trading grapes |
Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 1025
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 12:31 am: | |
I was rummaging around in the attic late this rainy morning (I know, you can't tell from the curb, but my cave is a triplex), looking for my old Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring, and came across a big box of rusty tools from before the Bronze Age. Picking through it, what do I see, but the big ol' crosscut saw I loaned to Noah before it started to rain (THAT time). Just for fun, I took it down to the workshop, shpritzed it with some Liquid Wrench, rubbed a little Murphy's Wood Soap into the handles, and voila! Missing and crooked teeth aside, it looked almost as good as the day he borrowed it.
Now, you need to know that the 7" diameter branch that fell off the big maple in front of my cave yesterday is from a TOWN tree. Not one of mine. Understand? The tree's on the grass between the sidewalk and the street, and is, therefor, not my responsibility. OK? Are we clear on this point?
OK. So, even though I could just as easily have waited the two or three months for the DPW guys to show up, chop it up, and haul it away, I was suddenly overcome by a wave of nostalgia and civic volunteerism, and immediately lugged that old saw outside to see if I could use it to cut that downed limb into several more manageable pieces.
You can guess the rest: I'm really getting into it, and the saw's actually doing the job (VOO-bah, VOO-bah, VOO-bah...), when... IT STOPPED RAINING!
Now, I'm not an oracle you'd call very religous, but hey. Why ask for trouble? I yanked the blade outa that branch so fast that the sawdust almost caught fire. Then I gently placed the saw back in the box in the attic, and hunkered back down in my rumpus room with a burrito, a root beer, and the Times Magazine Section.
The very last thing I need on this first Sunday afternoon of summer is a call from The Boss, know what I mean?
Maybe I'll see what I can get for that saw on Ebay...
-The Oracle of MOL |
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