Watching the eclipse?

[Birdjaguar]

Glad we didn't go to the desert. Home was gonna be 90% eclipse or some crap. Stayed for a few days with said family, where totality was going to be short, so drove (at 8am, I wasn't risking traffic) north under beautiful blue skies. We got a perfect show from the roadside a couple miles south of the maximum.

It was as awesome as it was last time. Even cooler to look at, with the prominences and comparative clarity. It's hard to communicate how eerie and exciting totality and peri-totality are. Given the brevity, if I'm breathing in 21 years then I'm going south for another little bite of that cosmic mind-bang. Maybe west in 20, 'cause mountains.

10/10 totality is worth whatever travel you're able

LucyDuke is back? How nice.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'll set 'em up; you knock 'em down.

Well, yeah, you were trying to be wry and understated, but I don't think it's a joke unless every last person in the house gets it. YA SEE . . .

Actually, the photo was meant to be the premise for a limerick, but then I got too tired to complete it. But now I'm full of energy again, so here it is:

There are dolts. There are dorks. There are drips.
There are dunces and dimwits and dips.
But some seek prezeedents
Who are so effing dense
That they'd stare straight into an eclipse.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Well, yeah, you were trying to be wry and understated, but I don't think it's a joke unless every last person in the house gets it. YA SEE . . .

Actually, the photo was meant to be the premise for a limerick, but then I got too tired to complete it. But now I'm full of energy again, so here it is:

There are dolts. There are dorks. There are drips.
There are dunces and dimwits and dips.
But some seek prezeedents
Who are so effing dense
That they'd stare straight into an eclipse.

Well if we're allowing "ee"s, here's mine.

Convinced by his own clever lies
Donald Trump looked up to the skies
But his orange pateena
Didn't protect his reteena
And now he has pissholes for eyes.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Bravo to both of you!

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Bravo to both of you!

There once was an old moderator
Annoyed by a poetic disrupter
My poem was short
The middle was taut
But my end was even abrupter.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

To Gori the Grey I said, Look
It's fun what we've here undertook
But if we give grief
to BJ or Leif
We're going to end up on Facebook.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Well if we're allowing "ee"s

Now, do keep in mind that I didn't use my ee to secure an illegitimate rhyme (not that I'm above that if the circumstances are right): dents is a solid rhyme with dense. My ee was just for colloquial pronunciation (and a very subtle prosodic effect).

That said, I like your limericks.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Now, do keep in mind that I didn't use my ee to secure an illegitimate rhyme (not that I'm above that if the circumstances are right): dents is a solid rhyme with dense. My ee was just for colloquial pronunciation (and a very subtle prosodic effect).

That said, I like your limericks.

And my ee's were because I can imagine Trump pronouncing words he has never heard (let alone understands) in his own very special, nucular, way.

Of course, as soon as I posted it, I realized he would rhyme patina and retina a completely different way!

 

[Gori the Grey]

Well, this whole affair got me to thinking,
With one synapse another one linking.
From observing this guy
I have come to see why
Writers label an idiot "blinking."