Bummer... can we help bail or should we just get out of the boat? ;~D
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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
whut are these "nuaghty breakfast pics" of which you speak...
Morning! Am swamped. Talk t'y'all tonite.
Remember how Ruthy used to post those breakfast pics all the time? Once, she linked to some pictures that turned into porno instead when she posted them.
They were removed pretty quickly...
Mornin' Lil! See ya later!
Bummer... can we help bail or should we just get out of the boat? ;~D
I showed SSQ the picture you'd posted. He said "Whoa!" We're fascinated with volcanos. One of the 'educational' channels, I think it was the History Channel, had a dramatization of the eruption of Vesuvius on a couple of weeks ago. It was fascinating because they took almost verbatim, the account of Pliny the Younger, and created a drama from it.
Along with that they used information discovered when they finally did the excavations in the early part of the century and found the impressions of the bodies of all the people from the town of Herculaneum, at the foot of Vesuvius. It was originally thought that they had escaped the danger, because there were no bodies in the town, but what they'd done was go down to the beach, and stay in the boathouses, hoping for rescue from the sea. They'd seen the boats of the Navy, led by Pliny the Elder, who had come from across the bay, but the boats were not able to put in at the shore because of the wind and smoke. These people were in the boathouses and on the beach when the pyroclastic flows from Vesuvius came down and engulfed them. Their forms, cast in the ash, were found when the excavations were done.
Later that same day that Pompeii and the other town were destroyed, Pliny the Elder was down on the beach on another part of the bay when a gas cloud from Vesuvius came over him and killed him. It was quite fascinating.
I love that hymn. Another favorite, that doesn't seem like it would be suitable for Christmas, but it is, is "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence". Seems like a dirge, but the words are perfect for Christmas. I love the Gustav Holst arrangement for SATB.
I think I might have once seen the dramatization you speak of... it sounds almost ~familiar~
Not real good reporting here about where, if anywhere, there was a significant accumulation of ash this time... they are saying 'trace' in Ellensburg and Moses Lake where I went to school. You'd think they could go stand a reporter out there and show us. They stick reporters out in wind and snow that are less newsworthy!
We're doing a Tenebrae Service at Church this year, and the last hymn in the program is "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"; very pretty.
How'd I miss that ping? ;^(
I get strange enough looks in Church because I really sing out loud when I'm sitting in the congregation, the looks get even stranger when I break into harmony!!
I LOVE Sam Cooke!!
That's one of my favorite hymns.
My top two favorites are "And Can it Be" and "It is Well with My Soul."
I love that one.
mornin!
ROTFL!! That would send my very New England Parish into apoplexy! We had a black songwriter here a few years ago for our Lenten revival, and it was hilarious just watching these folks try to keep time to the music. I needled my friends, telling them they clapped like white people! ;o)
We only got about 5 inches of snow, but it's cold as a well digger's butt out there!!
If'n you get frostbite, you can sue the Philadelphia Eagles.
sneak...
sneak...
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