Posted on 06/22/2008 5:51:38 PM PDT by 2191dr
I’ve never even shaken hands with President Bush!
Yah. So YOU say! LOL!
I gotta go. I’m having a touch imet trying to make sence of what i’m writing, and i suspect it’a because Darks is somethqwere. Lurkimk.
Naybe I need a driml?
Night! ;o]
Night!
As alluded to above, when we were setting up an ecology two years ago, the principle thinking was to simply include everything.
That proved a little difficult, but obviously, the “little fellows” don’t really require much room or upkeep.
The difficult part of launching a few thousand people into orbit, aside from the minor matter of arranging maneuvers in space without entering periods of free fall, was that we had to modify some of our dietary requirements.
Accordingly, we tend to use fewer meats as much as possible, stretching them out by having a wealth of vegetable and fruit varieties. For those reasons, we expanded our grain fields, orchards, and berry crops along with the intensive aquaculture for hydroponics, fish, and other seafood adaptable to commercial farming.
More volume and energy goes into food production on our joined habitats than any other process. Naturally, a component of this is oxygen production through plant growth, and this feeds back to the notion of pasture land and grazing animals. A healthy pasture needs to be cropped frequently. The combination gives us oxygen and meat animals.
Our only real extravagance is in the plesiosaur family occupying the castle moat and their private grotto. A considerable amount of our Tilapia production goes toward keeping them healthy, and the entertainment value is a rather poor return on that investment. — But that’s another story.
I almost stepped on Jerry Brown once.
You mean we came "that" close to being rid of him altogether?
Your forbearance is remarkable, if not entirely laudable.
There are lots and lots of them. I think I've read them all over the years, but I can't remember the order. As I recall, the sex is offstage. You know they Did It, but there's no "throbbing" or "heaving" body parts. Dirk drives classic cars, which Cussler collects IRL.
The books are widely available at Goodwill and other thrift stores. They stand alone more than the Harry Potters do, but not as much as, say, the Hardy Boys.
I like them enough that I regretted sending mine off to Goodwill to make space (what WAS I thinking?), and have been re-collecting them back as I find them.
The author's a pretty interesting guy - he uses the money from the Pitt books to finance undersea explorations. He's the one who found the Hunley, the Confederate submarine. The Sea Hunters tells the stories of some of the expeditions.
Thanks, that’s very helpful. I will keep an eye out at the library today. We’re very cautious about sexual content in books the children read, but the fact that characters Did It is not a red flag in itself, since that would wipe out most of the world’s classic literature, from Homer on.
Welcome to the Undead Thread, nina!
Thanks for ‘splaining things to TC. I was havinng a difficult time last night, getting my mind to wrap around words, so I’m glad you could enlighten us.
I never had his books, and I never thought about them, though I HAD heard his name in literary circles. Once I saw “Sahara,” I was hooked. I’ve decided that I, too, will begin to collect his work. It’s ALWAYS a good read!
Morning. I gotta go check the oil in truck, now that it’s light enough. I may have to add a quart.
The engine does strange things in this heat...
BRB
He might like the John D. MacDonald Travis McGee books too - another series I disposed of to make room for others, and regretted (I need a bigger house). I don’t remember any explicit sex scenes, but perhaps our Travis can tell you better if they are suitable for a 14-year-old boy (never having been one myself).
V i s t a a n d f a s t ? A m a z i n g .
Those are too explicit - I read them in my teens. I checked out a “Dirk Pitt,” and I’ll have a look at it when I finish the Aeneid.
Jiohn D McDonald is a rather dark read, I thought. He and Len Deighton seem to have been through the same school of thought.
Anoreth’s hermit crabs died. She thinks it was old age. Now she wants a walking-stick insect.
Morning!
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