First Snow

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:49 pm

I hate snow.

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:15 pm

Hey everyone, ya think HB hates snow??!!!

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:34 pm

zepboy wrote:Hey everyone, ya think HB hates snow??!!!

Ya think?!?!?!

Just a lot.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:11 pm

Walkinghairball wrote:Just click the pic, and the vid should play.

Cyg, I will send you a transcript.

Just showed it to the kids. They loved it and laughed.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:27 pm

In addition to all the crazy cold and snow, Richard Strimple has discovered something we really need to worry about...

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but I have detected a new crisis that I have named "the daylight change crisis". I first noticed it sometime around the end of June this year. I started paying attention and created computer models and sure enough I was right! We are losing daylight at an astonishing rate. Each day we are losing approximately 2 minutes of day light and my computer models predict total darkness by next July.

I have been able to detect this phenomenon around the entire Northern Hemisphere. And here is the scary part: the day light appears to be leaking to the Southern Hemisphere.

I thought I should bring it to the attention of great scientists like Al Gore so he can help solve this new crisis.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:44 pm

Ah, I see he has done some additional research.

I have some frightening new information from my daylight change research. The data indicates drastic changes to the environment that have already started.

Many species of birds and millions of individual birds have left the northern hemisphere. The impact of the loss of these birds is unimaginable.

Insect life has been severely affected and most can no longer be observed.

Large mammals have been observed lying in a state of near death torpor in their dens.

Crop production has fallen to dangerously low levels. My models predict famine in the near future.

These and other effects of the loss of day light demand our immediate attention if we are to prevent a climate catastrophe.

Sir Myghin · Post by **Sir Myghin** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:36 pm

this is gold elf.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:34 pm

Oh how funny!

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:59 pm

I heard about that on the radio the other day. I thought that would be a great endeavor to keep those interest in bad science busy for a while!

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:43 am

Sir Myghin wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote:
awip2062 wrote:What may have an effect on it is that he's at a lower longitutde than we are, if I recall correctly.

good point t!

Longitude fools many of us.

For instance, the southern tip of Illinois is at about the same
degree as Richmond, VA.
FAIL

you mean latitude, longitude is east to west

Yeah, sorry 'bout that professor.

I didn't know it was a pop quiz and we were being GRADED.

Good thing I'm not a navigator, eh?

TAKE OFF....you hoser.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:06 am

well, we have been without power since Friday, we have been told we should be back on Christmas Eve around 6 PM... Bah humbug!!! We had 25 MPH winds and it was below 0 without the wind chill yesterday... It looks like an artic wasteland around here.. Hows things over there BBO?

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:25 am

Soup4Rush wrote:well, we have been without power since Friday, we have been told we should be back on Christmas Eve around 6 PM... Bah humbug!!! We had 25 MPH winds and it was below 0 without the wind chill yesterday... It looks like an artic wasteland around here.. Hows things over there BBO?

GAH! That's a long outage!
You holding up okay?

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:37 am

yeah, we are doing OK, kind of living out of my truck, stayed at friends house over the weekend. kids are at my mom and dads.. things like this happen and you have no control, so you just got to do what you got to do. In years past, you read about these things and you think man that would suck, its like you dont think it would ever happen to you... it does suck but it could always be worse..

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:44 am

Oh no, Soup! You gotta be kidding. Freezing and snow and no power? Dude, just come on over here. It's not much but there is no snow on the ground and we have heat.

That sucks so incredibly badly. I truly wish there was something I could do to help you.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:48 am

thanks, BBO... If had the week off, that would be pretty cool.. we could sit around and drink and smoke and listen to Rush.. That would rule.. I am glad to hear this crap missed you guys though. You had to deal with this last summer and twice in a year would really suck.