Baby, It's You...

b1-66er: Burt Bacharach died.

THAT'S a good run.

Suttonhoo: Seriously good run, Pussycat

Once, on a roadtrip with my sister, she looped "say a little prayer for you" until I thought I would lose my mind. But that was the first song that popped into my head when I got the news

b1: That's a perfect Bacharach Moment.

Dino+!

b1-66er: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/01/27/local-paleontologist-discovers-new-dinosaur-species/ 

b1-67er: Very surprising that was the first nevada dinosaur. 

66: How common are 'new' dinosaurs?

67: Common.  One a week. I've considered that as a retirement project. Discover a dinosaur.  Not easy but feasible.

You could do it without ever going in the field if you wanted too.

In the late 1800s they were hunting dinosaur bones so frantically that some of those bones have never been evaluated since

66: How would THAT work?

67: They are sitting around in crates at Harvard and in museums and stuffed in drawers.

I'd say maybe 1/4 of all dinosaurs are found by people digging through museum collections.

66: Crazy crazy.

Was there a dinosaur-discovery-and-bring-the-bones-in period of time?

67: That was about 1870s I think.  Como Bluffs by Medicine Bow was the height of it.  Some of the professors were sticking it to the native Americans on their completion. 

66: What do you mean by THAT?

67: They told the tribes that the other professors were digging up the burial grounds, hoping the natives would run off or kill the competing professors.

66: That's a harsh and rugged way to play the game.

67: No doubt

... Rise to the occasion ...

b1-66er: <Wombo>

b1-67er: Apparently penis head wants to live forever?

Merry Storage Time!

The Accomplice: Santa's got a brand new bag

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All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Hard hard hard to pay back

b1-66er: <Wombo>

b1-67er: It looks like us debt got thrown off the roof Putin Style.

66: Prescient•

Zincy, you clown!

b1-66er: I bought a shirt for mom's services next week...

SUPER HELPFUL Amazon suggested "you might like this too."

https://a.co/d/f8tXPvz

What the hell do they know about me that I don't?

 

b1-67er: Maybe you can accessorize with it.  It is funeral colors

66er: Ooh NOW I WANNA BUY IT.

It you buy a pound of zinc, I wonder if it automatically puts you on some kind of Snowden Watch List.

Like it's essentially a government bobber to see if they can get a strike.

D4rw1n: I have a pound of zinc in my bedroom right now. Hard to accessorize with though, because it is broken up into penny-sized chunks and is stored in a janky old box

66: Okay, I'll bite.

Why?

D4: Because every time I received a penny, in change over the last 40 years, I threw it in a box in my bedroom. And it's been about a decade since I took the box to a CoinStar. Hence, I have well over a pound of zinc all in very small pieces.

And all stylishly clad in copper

If that puts me on a government list, I've got a lot of company

66: "Match, D4rw1n•"

G Island

Special K: Tonight's movie: Tommy. 

b1-66er: Never a disappointment.

K: "Russell says Pete Townshend wanted Tiny Tim to play Pinball Wizard but Stigwood overruled him."

b1: There's got to be a twist.

K: Yeah!

"Amanda Seyfried & Evan Rachel Wood Working on Thelma & Louise Musical"

b1: I'm holding out for the Tina Louise musical.