Should there be a "Frozen Star of Texas" commemorative? 1 1

[Hoghead515]

I kinda wish this glacier out here in my driveway would hurry up and melt. 

[MAULEMALL]

The new commemorative from Va will be a Porta potty atop a grafittied obelisk with a tidal wave of trash decending from the north.. 

[Henri Charriere]

1 minute ago, MAULEMALL said:

The new commemorative from Va will be a Porta potty atop a grafittied obelisk with a tidal wave of trash decending from the north.. 

But Virginia is for lovers!

[Hoghead515]

2 minutes ago, MAULEMALL said:

The new commemorative from Va will be a Porta potty atop a grafittied obelisk with a tidal wave of trash decending from the north.. 

Probably better than Kys. Ours probably have a meth pipe or oxy cotton pill or something on it. 

[MAULEMALL]

1 minute ago, Quintus Arrius said:

But Virginia is for lovers!

of??

VA especially north Va is a cesspool...

[MAULEMALL]

1 minute ago, Hoghead515 said:

Probably better than Kys. Ours probably have a meth pipe or oxy cotton pill or something on it. 

Dude Va was neck deep into meth 30 years ago...

Had an acquaintance ( husband of a coworker) Was bringing it in from Cali...

Edited February 23, 2021 by MAULEMALL

[Hoghead515]

Just now, MAULEMALL said:

Dude Va was neck deep into met 30 years ago...

Our little towns are awful. Never know when you go out to start the vehicle in the morning if your gonna have a catalytic converter on it or not. It's a gamble anymore. 

[MAULEMALL]

Just now, Hoghead515 said:

Our little towns are awful. Never know when you go out to start the vehicle in the morning if your gonna have a catalytic converter on it or not. It's a gamble anymore. 

Thats northern Va..

[Lem E]

I think IL should have a prison basketball court scene with all of our old governors and senators. “DUNK ON HIM BLAGO!”

[Henri Charriere]

7 minutes ago, Lem E said:

I think IL should have a prison basketball court scene with all of our old governors and senators. “DUNK ON HIM BLAGO!”

Guess you heard BLAGO was pardoned and released from BOP custody in Englewood, CO.  The president when asked said he had received a "tremendously, powerful, ridiculous sentence. "

[Lem E]

15 minutes ago, Quintus Arrius said:

Guess you heard BLAGO was pardoned and released from BOP custody in Englewood, CO.  The president when asked said he had received a "tremendously, powerful, ridiculous sentence. "

Someone else will fill his cell soon.

[MAULEMALL]

1 hour ago, Lem E said:

Someone else will fill his cell soon.

Oooooo who??? 

[Lem E]

23 minutes ago, MAULEMALL said:

Oooooo who??? 

If the track record continues, probably the current gov. They will get him for something. Just google Pritzker + toilets. 

Edited February 23, 2021 by Lem E

[Henri Charriere]

As two of our much esteemed members are fond of saying, paraphrased here:  Back on track. We should be on whether there ought to be a Frozen Star of Texas commemorative...

If today's weather is any indication, that anamoly in the South will be long remembered but doesn't warrant commemoration, even on the local state level.

If I read the OP -- whose unique brand of humor brightens up many a thread, correctly, his intent was merely to good-humoredly share with fellow members a once-in-a-lifetime event rarely if ever experienced in his neck of the woods with those similarly situated.  I trust that with spring right around the corner, warmer days lie ahead.

[comicdonna]

On 2/21/2021 at 11:19 AM, RWB said:

Climate change and projections of impacts are based on real data and reliable thermodynamic calculations. The climactic "cycles" are defined by sets of data points covering a very long time span - at least in human terms. The 26,000 year "wobble" in earth's rotation has little effect because the rotational tilt remains the same. Real changes can be correlated with the earth's orbit; however, all of these are on time scales much longer than those currently being observed. Further, there are direct statistical and anecdotal correlations between use of fossil fuels and both mean temperature increases and effects of weather pattern changes.

For any closed system there is a tipping point beyond which it loses the ability to self-regulate: it becomes a "runaway" system that stabilizes only at some undetermined, and entirely new set of conditions.

Public confusion arises not from the observed changes, but from an ignorantly-politicized dispute about why the sudden changes (150 years is incredibly "sudden" in climatology). Frozen dogma is useless in attacking and moderating the observed changes. The human population of earth is the only entity with the capability of remediating mean temperature increases. It is not certain what will happen if we act. If we do not act the math is clear and the impacts on all life on earth will be significant.

For those who point to events like the cold outbreak in the central and southern US and say "So how can this be global warming?" the response is that this is exactly the kind of effect expected from an increasingly chaotic weather system. Greater variability, greater intensive, unanticipated departure from historic and prehistoric patterns, all are predicted on large scales but are not understood (yet) on the small scale of local regions.

For coin collectors, the takeaway is: don't put coins in a bank box in a 1,000 year flood plain.

 

I totally agree.  Climate change is real and a huge concern.  

[RWB]

On 2/22/2021 at 1:43 PM, Hoghead515 said:

I kinda wish this glacier out here in my driveway would hurry up and melt. 

New icon portrait ? did the wife get fed up with you hanging around the house and give you a trim?

Edited February 24, 2021 by RWB

[Hoghead515]

3 minutes ago, RWB said:

New icon portrait ? did the wife get fed up with you hanging around the house and give you a trim?

Figured it was time to purty up a bit. Lol

[Just Bob]

49 minutes ago, Hoghead515 said:

Figured it was time to purty up a bit. Lol

So when are you going to do that ?

 

[Hoghead515]

2 minutes ago, Just Bob said:

So when are you going to do that ?

 

Lol. Been working on it. Getting prettier everyday. I can't wait to get up and look at myself in the mirror in the mornings. 

[RWB]

2 minutes ago, Hoghead515 said:

Lol. Been working on it. Getting prettier everyday. I can't wait to get up and look at myself in the mirror in the mornings. 

Heck, when I do that the glass cracks.....Have to shave by the reflection in the toilet bowl....

[Hoghead515]

8 minutes ago, RWB said:

Heck, when I do that the glass cracks.....Have to shave by the reflection in the toilet bowl....

In reality that sounds a whole lot like my life story also 😆 that's why I quit shaving 

Edited February 24, 2021 by Hoghead515

[RonnieR131]

The cats water bowl froze solid on the kitchen floor. The family booked 4 nights at the casino, I stayed at home in the dark and no water. Got to know myself real good, again. Slept in coveralls and quilts, was ok. Water was dripping, froze up anyway, but one shower and toilet always worked, tg..  I've got 10 cases of water in the garage now, am cutting wood all next week, and picking up a huge generator. Somehow I had an awareness lapse and got caught unprepared, won't happen again. Took a selfie, me bundled up, cat in my lap, jug of whiskey on my right and an AR on my left, privacy, life is good....

[RWB]

47 minutes ago, ronnie stein said:

The cats water bowl froze solid on the kitchen floor. The family booked 4 nights at the casino, I stayed at home in the dark and no water. Got to know myself real good, again. Slept in coveralls and quilts, was ok. Water was dripping, froze up anyway, but one shower and toilet always worked, tg..  I've got 10 cases of water in the garage now, am cutting wood all next week, and picking up a huge generator. Somehow I had an awareness lapse and got caught unprepared, won't happen again. Took a selfie, me bundled up, cat in my lap, jug of whiskey on my right and an AR on my left, privacy, life is good....

Yikes! That's awful....and from news reports you were fortunate to have a little water. It really sounds like the Texas Governor, Legislature and a host of public utility officials had a major "awareness lapse and got caught unprepared." Did they all skip the Boy and Girl Scout camps? Around here (VA), public utilities (necessities) have public oversight, get tested regularly, and have to justify their expenses and charges to the public. Systems are designed and managed for the exceptional, not merely the routine. Accountability is constant.

Sure hope you get things back together quickly. Can't imagine the suffering of Texans in this mess.

Edited February 24, 2021 by RWB

[Hoghead515]

7 hours ago, ronnie stein said:

The cats water bowl froze solid on the kitchen floor. The family booked 4 nights at the casino, I stayed at home in the dark and no water. Got to know myself real good, again. Slept in coveralls and quilts, was ok. Water was dripping, froze up anyway, but one shower and toilet always worked, tg..  I've got 10 cases of water in the garage now, am cutting wood all next week, and picking up a huge generator. Somehow I had an awareness lapse and got caught unprepared, won't happen again. Took a selfie, me bundled up, cat in my lap, jug of whiskey on my right and an AR on my left, privacy, life is good....

Glad to hear your still ok in this mess. Hate that everything froze up on ya. Hopefully everything will get back to normal soon. I seen videos and it looks pretty bad. 

[Revenant]

On 2/16/2021 at 9:47 AM, RWB said:

...It could have a burst water pipe on the reverse -- or possibly a family shivering the the dark. Just thinking about "pop-up" commemoratives as a new category for the Mint to try.

I both love and hate you for this thread...

[Henri Charriere]

On 2/23/2021 at 8:32 PM, Hoghead515 said:

Figured it was time to purty up a bit. Lol

I had no choice. I knew my fiancee's wife did not approve of it -- then 18" long -- and neither did five of her eight sisters. Thing is, my wife is psychologically disabled and standing there in "City Hall" eying me warily, clean-shaven, I had this fleeting thought, when asked by the marriage clerk, she would echo the old Popeye cartoon and say, " I DO...NOT!!!  (I guess it would be the same as marrying a dark-haired woman who suddenly dyed her hair blonde.) That was July 4, 2016. (Actually the 5th, because all city offices are closed, but the 4th sounds better and is easier to remember. In 2020, the traditional heat wave of August came a month earlier. I cut it off in 3 stages so as not to cause her trauma.  Her family was ecstatic. You look good Hog!  It gets tiring having to hold your beard in to eat soup and spaghetti.  One thing I learned, if someone asks you why you've grown one, they don't like it.

[Hoghead515]

27 minutes ago, Quintus Arrius said:

I had no choice. I knew my fiancee's wife did not approve of it -- then 18" long -- and neither did five of her eight sisters. Thing is, my wife is psychologically disabled and standing there in "City Hall" eying me warily, clean-shaven, I had this fleeting thought, when asked by the marriage clerk, she would echo the old Popeye cartoon and say, " I DO...NOT!!!  (I guess it would be the same as marrying a dark-haired woman who suddenly dyed her hair blonde.) That was July 4, 2016. (Actually the 5th, because all city offices are closed, but the 4th sounds better and is easier to remember. In 2020, the traditional heat wave of August came a month earlier. I cut it off in 3 stages so as not to cause her trauma.  Her family was ecstatic. You look good Hog!  It gets tiring having to hold your beard in to eat soup and spaghetti.  One thing I learned, if someone asks you why you've grown one, they don't like it.

It is rough trying to eat. Usually get popcorn and stuff in it. Lol. When go to eat breakfast you can eat biscuits and gravy all day. 

Edited March 2, 2021 by Hoghead515