Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference.

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Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, people want to be entertained.

Got it.

Nice little movie, Sticks. I have heard it called the Angel of Rust.

I kinda like it. At the very least it's not just a copy of something they have in London.

(bit of context for those who don't know - trying to enjoy the arts in the UK anywhere outside London is a bit like trying to go for a swim in the Sahara - there are oases, but they are few and far between. The UK's art community, and the funding to go with it, are far too focussed on London)

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The quarrelsome oarsmen were rowing,
The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

"Ancient human settlements in the world's most famous desert were portrayed in the award-winning novel and movie, The English Patient. Playing a starring role was the "Cave of Swimmers", a cavern in the middle of the desert that bears prehistoric paintings of people swimming. Although the real cave was not used in the film, it is located in southwest Egypt, at the border to Libya."

Read more

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

Not too far from us is 90 west - 45 north. There's a marker there and a little country saloon on the property (one of those cute little Wisconsin bars out in the middle of absolutely nowhere). I think the saloon name is 4590. Nothing really special, but they sell some neat T-shirts.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Thread crossover. This marker is about 5 miles from our farm:

http://www.pressenter.com/~nrpsinc/p...marker1_lg.gif

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

We have a road called

rode Rd

It's a major rode to the city...

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

I like the very utilitarian names you come across out in the boonies. Fire Tower Road, Old Bridge Road, Rabbit Run. They could name the county highway near our farm Deer Strike Highway.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Our national highway/freeway is called the Bruce highway

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

So you can say you rode the rode road route?

Wow. They let Updike name one of your roads! (Sorry. English major joke.)

When I was in high school, we had a major brush fire outside the town I lived in, and when the local paper published the list of homes destroyed, a pretty good indicator was any home on a street whose official designation was "trail."

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I think whats even funnier than traffic cones on statues is when the nearby colledge hooligans swipe all the "g"s from the local Black Angus restaurants. Might be just me though.

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Gimme a minute to read through Jay's latest observations...

I've seen a few "Gas, Ammo and Beer" signs. Always struck me as a Darwin award waiting to happen!

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Sue ikki
mi hatenu yume no
hotsure kana---Choko
(This final scene, I
I will not see to the end.
My dream is fraying.)

There's a "Street Road" southwest of Philadelphia.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

Buuuut...... If you drink lots of beer, you get lots of gas, which packs alot of ammo.
(sorry)

Ah yes, Buttgeyser beer! When you say Buttgeyser, you've said it all! (Though now they have Butt Light)

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Gimme a minute to read through Jay's latest observations...

Arizona is full of unusual or deliberately humorous city names. We have (to name a few):

Eager
Dateland
Eden
Carefree
Friendly Corner
Nowhere
Happy Jack
Punkin Center
(and where I live) Surprise!

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I was just sitting here contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, "I drank what?"

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." --Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"

How'd you like to live near the center of that town?

The Walter Reed Army Medical Center has an assortment of buildings on its site, including a Dutch windmill, a Swiss chalet and a Japanese pagoda. See here.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

Heh when I try to access that website i get:
*waits for the Black helicopters to show up and take him "away"*

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I was just sitting here contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, "I drank what?"

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." --Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"