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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Sci-Fi Hot Take...3 hours ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
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- Speaking Of Idiots
- "NASA Rocket Explodes!" ...Wrong
- Butthurt Nation
- Yellow Sky At Evening...
- A Box Full Of Worlds
- Dammit, I'm Still Not Well
- I Aten't Ded
- Still Getting Better
- Sleeping It Off
- A Day Losted
- Now You Wait Just One Ding-Danged Minute...
- Uh-Oh: H. L. Mencken is dead, Samuel Clemens Is De...
- Breakfast: The Full Bobbi
- Monday
- So, I Went To The Gun Show
- Czar?
- It's "Grassy Knoll" Time!
- Feral...Kitty?
- I Think Skynet Ate One Of My Friends
- It's Always Happy News To The Newsies When A GOP C...
- Happy Belated Blogiversary To Me!
- Well, That Was...Something
- Transitions: Moving Mom's Home
- A Phased Plasma Cannon In The 40 (Mega)Watt Range?
- Whine, Whine
- Civilization Is A Disease Vector
- Autumn Chili
- Transportation Svelteness Agency? Not Exactly
- Noid Noid
- "They Ain't Puttin' Me On A Bumper Sticker!"
- Well, You Missed Blasphemy Day
- Food!
- --Yesterday
- I'm Off--
- Ebola: Just One Short Of A Major Fail
- No Smoking, No Eating, No Drinking
- Mike Pence, Presidential Hopeful?
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On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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15 comments:
No kicking the beanbag chair?
No kicking the fuel bladder?
Sorry. I didn't read the whole thing.
OTOH, it doesn't say "No Roller Blading" or "No Skateboarding."
And it appears Skeet Shooting is perfectly okay too.
That's interesting. When training to into underground mines (back in my student days of long ago) they made certain to tell us to ALWAYS step on both the air lines and the power lines that were on the ground.
The reason was that you never knew when a large piece of equipment further down the way would suddenly move, yanking the lines in unpredictable ways. If you happened to be straddling it with one foot on each side, the line (whether air or power) would do its best to split you in half the long way. They had some gruesome photos of the "after" of such an event.
If you were stepping on it when it whipped, you'd generally be thrown upward into the top of the drift, and that's part of what your hardhat was intended to help. I never saw anyone injured, but I did see a power cable for a long-wall machine flail around for a couple of seconds. Scary.
At least keeping crumbs and drops out of high-voltage equipment actually makes sense, as opposed to a lot "don't" signs that are just arbitrary.
No Handball Playing in This Area
So what kind of bad stuff happens if you do step on the hose?
Merle
No extinguishing fires either
I read it at Don't Toe the Line, so I would have had food, drink and cigarettes.
Kerry
LOL, so 'somebody' or somebodies were bad... :-)
Correct there Old NFO; as I commented one of my Book-of-Face hotel room photos which said "Do NOT clean fish in room."
"The mere fact the sign was there indicates that at one time, SOMEBODY did exactly that."
And furthermore:
I mean, all you have to do is look at the anti-litigation stickers on a new lawnmower and realize that every one of them was placed there AFTER a lawsuit.
There's a radio station in Denver that plays fake PA announcements on the air. Today's was, "Attention station employees! Want to make some extra money? Engineering needs somebody small to crawl in the transmitter and remove the ferret droppings. And maybe fight the ferret."
Very nice!
The signs are for floor staff -- floor director, teleprompter operator, camerapersons. On-air employees routinely have coffee and water cups on-set and, of course, there are frequent cooking segments in the noon news. Unfair, you say? Classist? Well, let's see: J. Random newsanchor knocks over a coffee, he or she may kill the computer monitor recessed into the desk. The iPad with their personal, replaces-paper copy of the script is on one of those Lifeproof covers; it will be fine. She or he may get damp knees, poooor baby. Now, what if the teleprompter operator knocks over a coffee? It kills the specialized text-crawl control. It may wipe out the 'prompter computer, on the floor because the desk has to be tiny, jammed in a corner of the studio. It may harm the little routing switcher and mirror-reverser that drives the camera-front monitors: disaster!
(Also, you haven't lived until you have walked in to see the prompter operator eating chips and onion dip, smearing grease and blobs of sour cream on the desk and controls, *so* nice for the next person. Yuck.)
Captain Safety is a spoilsport!
Is the real message of the last icon, "Don't trip over the wires"?
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