Posted on 08/21/2006 5:23:22 AM PDT by cll
Put your helmet on.
[hey, it can't hurt]....;]
I thought being from Indiana would make that confusing.
We've had cowbell references galore....;D
You know, I was in Amman for meetings over the weekend. Got back to Baghdad yesterday.
It occurs to me I should have stayed in Amman.
Much better view of the festivities from there, I think.
Unless, like you said, Mahmoud Nutjob misses. Then we'd get the good view.
Gosh, planning an apocolyptic viewing event can be a pain in the @ss. I'm glad it doesn't come around every year, like Christmas.
Or Travers' "Crash And Burn"?.....LOL!
So, what are we waiting for, 12:00 Noon in Mecca or something?
You're five hours behind GMT/Zulu time in the central time zone. GMT is 12 hours "behind" tomorrow, so tomorrow is 17 hours ahead of you at the int'l date line.
Not bad for a Monday morning -- every yard's a rice paddy, every dip a river. The fire looked worse than it was -- they were metal tanks with vents so as the oil heated up, the vents flared. If they were fiberglass, I image they'd all be gone. The oil from the collasped tank was contained in the berm. Nothing nearby but desert scrub. The fire department stayed away for the first hour and let it burn. At about 7:30 they brought in their big water trucks, hooked up the foam and went at it. I went back by their about about two hours ago and it was out. The vacuum trucks were already cleaning up the mess and taking out oil from the other tanks.
I've heard anywhere from midnight tonight, Teheran time, to sunset tomorrow.
Am I showing my age? LOL! :0)
Will that be the sound of my keyboard melting?
I've had about 6 inches of rain in the last few weeks. The Sandias are covered with mushrooms, and you couldn't start a forest fire now with 30 pounds of white phosphorus. Tijeras arroyo at the intersection was 30 feet wide and moving fast.
So they're seven and a half hours ahead of us in Teheran. So anytime after 4:30 PM EST this afternoon...
Sorry, I'm busy this afternoon. Could we pencil The End Of The World for Tuesday, next week?
How much more time do we have until 12:01 AM on 8/22 in Tehran? (....as Carly Simon's song, "Anticipation", plays in the background...lol).
Hey, I'm running out to the bank. Please don't end the world without me!
Well, since the World is ending, and all, can you take out a couple hundred bucks for me? I'll pay you back on the 23rd...
Or the Eagles, "There's a Hole in the World Tonight" :)
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Maciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...
Nuts. I was looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. Oh well, it is my last day on shift anyway.
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