Random Thoughts

[1995hoo]

Moses parted the Red Sea.

Robert Moses parted neighborhoods.

I feel like that's the setup for a bunch of really inappropriate things to say. ....

And then you have Bruce Springsteen's song "Leap of Faith." Partial lyrics (recall his wife is a redhead):

Now your legs were heaven, your breasts were the altar,
Your body was the holy land.
You shouted "jump" but my heart faltered.
You laughed and said, "Baby, don't you understand?"

It takes a leap of faith to get things going.
It takes a leap of faith, you gotta show some guts.
It takes a leap of faith to get things going.
There in your heart, there you must trust.

Now you were the Red Sea, I was Moses.
I kissed you and slipped into a bed of roses.
The waters parted and love rushed inside.
I was Jesus' son sanctified.

[PColumbus73]

Facebook keeps recommending reels of AI-snow-car accidents. I don't seek them out, but they make me laugh at how they're obviously nonsensical they are and how people believe they're real.

[kphoger]

Halfway around the globe is 180°.  Go either direction from 0° longitude (the Prime Meridian), and one ostensibly switches from one side of the globe to the other after 180° of travel.  The halfway point heading west, then, would be the 90th Meridian West.  That line of longitude runs right through the US state of Illinois, which is arguably the most Midwestern of all states.

Coincidence?  I think not.

[Dirt Roads]

Halfway around the globe is 180°.  Go either direction from 0° longitude (the Prime Meridian), and one ostensibly switches from one side of the globe to the other after 180° of travel.  The halfway point heading west, then, would be the 90th Meridian West.  That line of longitude runs right through the US state of Illinois, which is arguably the most Midwestern of all states.

Coincidence?  I think not.

Sounds like what a flerfer would say. 

[1995hoo]

[kphoger]

Halfway around the globe is 180°.  Go either direction from 0° longitude (the Prime Meridian), and one ostensibly switches from one side of the globe to the other after 180° of travel.  The halfway point heading west, then, would be the 90th Meridian West.  That line of longitude runs right through the US state of Illinois, which is arguably the most Midwestern of all states.

Coincidence?  I think not.

Sounds like what a flerfer would say. 

You know, I've never read a flerfer using that as an anti-globe argument.  As much as they "do their own research", that is surprising, isn't it?

[TheCatalyst31]

Halfway around the globe is 180°.  Go either direction from 0° longitude (the Prime Meridian), and one ostensibly switches from one side of the globe to the other after 180° of travel.  The halfway point heading west, then, would be the 90th Meridian West.  That line of longitude runs right through the US state of Illinois, which is arguably the most Midwestern of all states.

Coincidence?  I think not.

Sounds like what a flerfer would say. 

I wonder how many flat earthers believe the earth is flat because they've only experienced Illinois and assume the rest of the planet is the same way.

[Max Rockatansky]

Halfway around the globe is 180°.  Go either direction from 0° longitude (the Prime Meridian), and one ostensibly switches from one side of the globe to the other after 180° of travel.  The halfway point heading west, then, would be the 90th Meridian West.  That line of longitude runs right through the US state of Illinois, which is arguably the most Midwestern of all states.

Coincidence?  I think not.

Sounds like what a flerfer would say. 

I wonder how many flat earthers believe the earth is flat because they've only experienced Illinois and assume the rest of the planet is the same way.

Didn't Crash_It mention something about only having ventured as far as Florida?  Imagine being so consumed by that Illinois flat life that it seems towering compared to the terrain you once saw on a trip to Disney World?

[Beltway]

Sounds like what a flerfer would say. 

I wonder how many flat earthers believe the earth is flat because they've only experienced Illinois and assume the rest of the planet is the same way.

Flerfers also tend to believe in things like chemtrails, flying saucers and black helicopters.

[Max Rockatansky]

Sounds like what a flerfer would say. 

I wonder how many flat earthers believe the earth is flat because they've only experienced Illinois and assume the rest of the planet is the same way.

Flerfers also tend to believe in things like chemtrails, flying saucers and black helicopters.

They sound impleasable.

[Beltway]

Sounds like what a flerfer would say. 

I wonder how many flat earthers believe the earth is flat because they've only experienced Illinois and assume the rest of the planet is the same way.

Flerfers also tend to believe in things like chemtrails, flying saucers and black helicopters.

They sound impleasable.

With a psychiatric imbalance.

[kphoger]

They sound impleasable.

Implacatable, one might say.  Unsatiatable, even.

[mgk920]

And they are CERTAIN that dihydrogen monoxide is a perfectly safe material! 

Mike

[ZLoth]

Please tell me this is humor. Right? RIGHT?

[kphoger]

- Brown is just a shade of orange.

- Cherry flavoring tastes mostly of almonds.

- Blue raspberry flavoring doesn't taste like raspberries at all.

- Caesar salad is Mexican.

- Who can live like this?

[GaryV]

Cherry flavoring tastes mostly of almonds

Cough syrup.

[I-55]

Cherry flavoring tastes mostly of almonds

Cough syrup.

Should've gotten the kids hooked on maraschino cherry liquid instead.

[D-Dey65]

I wanted this for an existing thread on old stop signs, but I couldn't find it on the expected board;

Regarding these red "reflectors" in the black lettering on the old yellow stop signs;
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1935_US_stop_sign.svg
Are those button copy or cats eyes?

[Scott5114]

I wanted this for an existing thread on old stop signs, but I couldn't find it on the expected board;

Regarding these red "reflectors" in the black lettering on the old yellow stop signs;
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1935_US_stop_sign.svg
Are those button copy or cats eyes?

They're SVG circle elements. That's a drawing.

[kphoger]

MT-200, between mile marker 105 and 106.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/H55fkRrCrfSC9qBz8

[formulanone]

MT-200, between mile marker 105 and 106.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/H55fkRrCrfSC9qBz8

I always wondered where that was (though I suspected the yield sign was out of place).

Now find the location inside the album cover...?

[kphoger]

Now find the location inside the album cover...?

This one?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vHmzrsvFdaMuWFeU6

[Max Rockatansky]

Now find the location inside the album cover...?

This one?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vHmzrsvFdaMuWFeU6

Coincidentally an old alignment of CA 1.

[formulanone]

Now find the location inside the album cover...?

This one?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vHmzrsvFdaMuWFeU6

Forgot about that one, was thinking about the canal.

[kkt]

Now find the location inside the album cover...?

This one?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vHmzrsvFdaMuWFeU6

Coincidentally an old alignment of CA 1.

Thank you! I was trying to figure out why that picture was familiar... trip my dad took me on in my teens to see Hearst Castle.