Parody ZOT of Free Republic

[TheMadLurker]

If you have a sense of humor, and can poke fun at yourself:

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/fear4republic/

[Kindly Old Doc Tsu]

ave et vale. nite nite. jay fahteegay.

[sionnsar]

what kind of heathen place has frozen fog? how does it settle? or rise? sort of clunking?

It's not "frozen", it's freezing -- and we have it here in the Seattle area.

It's basically just regular old fog as we all know and love it, except that it's been supercooled to a bit below freezing. If it's left alone (still air seems to help) it remains as fog -- but as soon as it's disrupted, say by impact with your car's windshield, it freezes. On said windshield, for example.

Many years ago I had to drive once in an emergency, quite some distance on the freeway late at night, running into this stuff over and over. It was nasty.

(The temperatures have to hang within a somewhat small range; any colder and it settles out. Which is what it will do around here a bit later.)

[NicknamedBob]

For those who would rather imagine themselves to be jsut a few degrees north of the Equator, an update:

Less than two weeks to lift-off.

Ten O'Clock local time at Eniwetok on the morning of the 27^th will be Six P.M. Eastern Standard. I hope the animals won't go off their feed.

We'll certainly want them to be up to full capacity for those first breakfasts in space.

Fresh milk and eggs should be available, but quite a lot of stored wheat and other grains to work through before we have to rely on our own production. The fruit crops, vineyards, and orchards should be in full production as well, and the grasses for oxygen replenishment.

The first fruits of our kenaf production are already in our paper warehouses, ready for distribution, and other items have also been prearranged.

Aside from the disruption caused by our launch into outer space, and the early maneuvering to get us into rotation, all of our ordinary activities should be able to continue or resume without any problems.

What we have tried to do is to set up working streets, villages, and towns within an artificial construct. I'm not entirely sure that everyone believes we are actually taking off for Mars, but they will be able to see it for themselves soon enough.

Even that may not be enough to convince everyone, and if they wish to delude themselves, they may be better off to do so. We have gone out of our way to make the environments resemble those of Earth, after all.

[sionnsar]

it is my personal opinion that if you can stand out on the back porch of a morning, breathe out and see your breath in front of your face - you didn't move far enough south.

Oh, no. It's really measured by how long the vapor remains visible. More than 10 seconds, the house is too cold and you need to close some windows.

[Darksheare]

It is thankfully rare here in NY.

[Alice au Wonderland]

I'm glad to hear that launching to Mars will not interrupt our regularly scheduled schedule in the parlor....Although, we will no longer have to use the line "oh, honey, you took me to the moon and back". Hmmmmm......

[Darksheare]

G'night?

Pleasant dreams.
Don't do anything I'd do?

[Kindly Old Doc Tsu]

a. my back porch is outdoors

b. if the vapor is visible for 10 seconds, i am in antarctica and have moved too far south

c. if it's cold and the windows are open, i am at somebody else's house and am about to go home where we don't DO things like that

[Darksheare]

I'll go and have the floor cleany thingy make a few extra passes..

[Alice au Wonderland]

Nite nite, Mama.

J'ai fatiguée, aussi.

[Alice au Wonderland]

*chuckling madly*

[sionnsar]

Especially with busted car heaters...!

It's not that frequent here either, fortunately. But I suspect it's more frequent here because our local climate tends to put winter conditions down into that narrow range.

[sionnsar]

For those who would rather imagine themselves to be jsut a few degrees north of the Equator

Are you saying, "no freezing fog"?

[Baraonda]

"666?"

No, 6666, Congrats.

Darn it! If only I had been here a half-hour earlier.

Off I go to more serious, incongruous - anachronostically speaking - thengs. I don't know if it makes sense,but it does to me.

Anyway, am glad to know tookie is burning in the eternal fires of hell. I'm sure Acheron is keeping an eye on the thug.

[StarCMC]

Wooohoooo!! I'll start packing tonight.

[sionnsar]

Well, I confess to exaggerating. If we see water vapor, it's time to close the windows.

(You wouldn't like our house, I fear. 58F night setback, 64F occupied, and if we have to set it above 65F somebody's clearly not well. But the advantages are lower heating bills --did I mention our hot Scottish blood?-- and fresh air much of the year.)

[NicknamedBob]

Absolutely no freezing fog. No freezing anything, although I have received an intriguing proposal to cool off an area designated as "North" near the forest limit in the castle enclosure.

They want me to turn down the artificial illumination and shade the area from "sunlight" so that frozen precipitation will occur in a small area.

I think they said something about a "bunny slope." Good idea, maybe?

[Alice au Wonderland]

CMC's post reminded me to ask you: Is there a luggage limit for this trip? I generally pack light, especially if clothes washing facilities are readily available, but the hubby overpacks at every opportunity.

[sionnsar]

Absolutely no freezing fog. No freezing anything

No ice???

[sionnsar]

Absolutely no freezing fog. No freezing anything

No ice cream???