BMEWS
 

Photo(s) Du Jour

 
 


Posted by The Skipper    United States   on 02/16/2006 at 04:23 PM   
 
  1. And as the flames climbed high into the night
    To light the sacrifical rite
    I saw Satan laughing with delight

    “Hellfire” was a 1950’s SciFi story in which scientists saw a demon laughing when they took such photos.

    angel pig angel  I’m sorta creeped-out, especially by the 2nd photo. Why?

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/16/2006  at  05:08 PM  

  2. Oink,

    You read my mind - and “dated” me so-to-speak. I read that short story when I was a kid and thought of it immediately when I saw the photos.

    I think the “creepage” in the second photo is because it looks alive and active in it. Malevolent, yes?

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/16/2006  at  05:39 PM  

  3. Put Mecca in the foreground and these amazing photos will be even better!

    Posted by Paul "No Fear" Weir    United States   02/16/2006  at  06:04 PM  

  4. Cheesy: TWO GREAT MINDS! I came to the same conclusion about #2.  I thought I was the only human who remembered Hellfire. Every sci-fier knows the one about connecting all the computers in the Galaxy, but what about Professor Tincan -- the squatter, in a homemade shack, when they evict him to build a relay tower?

    The A-Bomb Photos are on an Inhuman scale, in both time and size, like colliding galaxies and black holes.  Also what scares me is “instant total annihilation”. I felt the same way hearing about the Mars-sized object that struck Early Earth, ejecting matter that became our Moon. How would it have felt to watch at Thing coming at you?

    The “Hubble Deep Field” also scared the bejeezus out of me.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/16/2006  at  06:05 PM  

  5. Oink,

    Ya got me on the Tincan comment. No memory of it. I am appropriately chagrined.

    The Hubble photo was indeed creepy. Remind me: why do we want to go out there?

    I read in Dark Sun that, at the instant of detonation of either an A-bomb or H-bomb (memory again), the X-ray density is that of a light metal. Now that’s inhuman.

    On the bright side (no pun intended), just realize that for a bystander, by the time the pain signals get to his brain, it doesn’t exist anymore. No brain, no pain.

    Oh-oh. A faint memory of a man in a shack is sloooowly bubbling up from the bottom of the thing I used to call my mind. Just faint images really....wait a week. I’ll come.

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/16/2006  at  07:19 PM  

  6. The third one is what bothers me.  I think some of it is that without a little better color and clarity, it is so hard to actually understand what it is that you are seeing.  I guess I think it is strange to me because I think of a blast as invisible.  You know like sound waves or something knocking everything down.  In these pictures, it actually looks like something actually knocking them down.  Of course, I don’t know much about nookyouler phuzion, so maybe I am the only one thought that.

    Posted by Beccayinn    United States   02/16/2006  at  07:39 PM  

  7. At last! A chick who can pronounce ”nuke you lur”! Becca—You’re thinking in human scale, which this is not. It’s inhuman. Non-human. Our Frankenstein monster. Don’t worry about it falling into the ‘wrong hands’; we are the wrong hands.

    CheezWhiz: “Professor TinCan” was whacko; he collected old tin cans in an enormous heap. He was also a former physics professor. Think many, many shiny tin cans. The lumber from his demolished shack used to construct a parabolic dish.  The huge steel relay tower in the desert....sun.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/16/2006  at  07:54 PM  

  8. Okay, but then what is being BORN in the third picture?!?!?!?!  big surprise

    Posted by Beccayinn    United States   02/16/2006  at  08:22 PM  

  9. You’re creeped out by the second photo because it bears a stark resemblance to ........

    THE STAY-PUFFED MARSHMALLOW MAN!

    dukevsstay.jpg

    Who ya gonna call ....?

    LOL

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/16/2006  at  08:23 PM  

  10. Becca-Badger:

    The Second Coming—W. B. Yeats

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all convictions, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
    The darkness drops again; but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/16/2006  at  08:39 PM  

  11. What is being born? It is Zuul, who prepares the way for Gozer The Destroyer ....


    Dr. Peter Venkman: So, what are we doing today, Zuul?
    Dana Barrett: We must prepare for the coming of Gozer.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Gozer?
    Dana Barrett: The Destructor.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Are we still going out?



    “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
    -- The Bhagavad-Gita, quote by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer


    Dr. Peter Venkman: Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown.

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/16/2006  at  08:43 PM  

  12. OCM: Stop pretending to be The Skipper.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/16/2006  at  08:49 PM  

  13. All those pics creep me out; it’s the malevolent genie coming out of the bottle; it’s a monstrous process that once unleashed by man is uncontainable and irreversible by man, and will stop only once it has run its course.  It’s a glimpse of the rest of the universe going about its business on a scale beyond my comprehension, and it makes me feel very puny and vulnerable.

    Oink said “..And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? “

    Militant Islam

    Posted by dick    United States   02/16/2006  at  08:56 PM  

  14. WHO THE F**K ARE YOU ACCUSING OF BEING OCM, BACON-BOY?

    2gunsfiring  pig

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/16/2006  at  09:01 PM  

  15. Sir,

    Who ya gonna call? Why.....Dead-Eye Dick and his Shotgun of Discipline, of course!

    Pull!

    Oink - Waaa...I give up. Could I have the name and author of the Dr. Tincan story, please? Coming from folks who quote Yeats and the Bgagavad-Gita(I’m waiting for the movie), and who remembers Hellfire, I guess I’d be wise to find it and read it. If its old and out of print, so much the better. It’ll give me a mission.

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/16/2006  at  09:05 PM  

  16. Wasn’t Gozer quite the nimble little minx?

    Posted by Beccayinn    United States   02/16/2006  at  09:10 PM  

  17. To The Rational Skipper: I love that quote; another translation said “I am Time, the destroyer of all things.”

    The Other Skipper: Not ARE, just remind me of. (i.e. OCM)

    dick: A technical proofreader correction—Yeats said it; I quoted. And Militant Islam may be applicable, buy Yeats mourned our loss of ceremonies of innocence. The rot from within.

    becca: I’m sure you are too.  Though not from personal experience.
    (Agile, that is, not a minx), in the obsolete sense: A girl or young woman who is considered pert, flirtatious, or impudent. Obsolete A promiscuous woman.

    fromage: It never was in print. A short story in the mag “Amazing Skiffy” (sci-fi) 100 years ago. Not a clue. The Prof. built a 15 foot parabolic reflector, reflecting & focusing the desert sun using hundreds of shiny tin cans.  Cut that steel tower down like butter, disasembled the instrument & split.
    WAIT! THE STORY WAS CALLED “A TOUCH OF SUN’!! The axxhole project manager said the old Prof had it.  The Prof showed him what it could do to his tower.
    ****************************************************
    pearls before pig (sigh)
    I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Scuttling across the floors of silent seas...

    (sigh)

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/16/2006  at  10:07 PM  

  18. Guys. News.
    One of these years, I want to walk in these areas...40+ years after the last aboveground test was detonated. I want to write about whatever I feel there, knowing that the ground was turned into glass, vaporizing any and every living thing unprotected by trenches.

    It’s important that we pass down this from one generation to the next, what it was all about.

    Posted by Macker    United States   02/16/2006  at  10:25 PM  

  19. Just for the record:  If I am ‘agile’ then why the definitions for a minx.  And I am most certainly not obsolete in any sense (minxy or otherwise), pig

    Nimbality aside, my favorite Ghostbusters quote (though it isn’t nearly as funny in print) is:

    There is no Dana.  Only Zuul. 

    You will have to imagine the Zuuly voice.

    Posted by Beccayinn    United States   02/16/2006  at  10:43 PM  

  20. Mack: Watch out from “Them” giant ants.

    Did anyone note how quickly this topic deteriorated from sober to ....BMEWS..?

    Skipper & OCM: I fear I’ve offended BOTH of you.  long face
    “GODDAMIT! Things just ain’t workin’ our for me today!” (Harry Dean Stanton character in “Dillinger")

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/16/2006  at  10:45 PM  

  21. Macker where are you located?  Twice a year they open the Trinity site to the public..

    info here.. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/trinity/tr_visit.html

    I’ve always wanted to make the trek out there myself.. don’t think I’ll be making it this april tho. I have other pressing matters.. hope to travel out there this october.

    Posted by stinkfoot    United States   02/16/2006  at  11:45 PM  

  22. Oink,

    That would be A Touch of Sun, by Irwin Porges - published in FAN magazine in April of 1959.

    Now watch, as this seemingly insurmountably problem crumbles in the face of Cheesey ingenuity. Between naps, that is…

    Porges? Porky?

    Hmmmm.....my CheeseSense detects a possible setup.....

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/17/2006  at  12:16 AM  

  23. Becca Page, since you mentioned it, I think the best Ghostbusters quote is Bill Murray’s “Um.. come in..... Ray.” (Right before he said “He slimed me.")

    party

    Posted by Jester    United States   02/17/2006  at  02:51 AM  

  24. um....

    wow.

    Posted by Draven    United States   02/17/2006  at  03:13 AM  

  25. oink:  Now I wish I wouldn’t have begged the Skipper to give you your pig avatar.  Comparing the Skipper to OCM makes me nominate you for the finger  award of the week.  I am the only member that has ever got it so you will be in good company if the Skipper agrees. 

    If I can get you your stoopid pig avatar, I can take it away.

    tune Be in my video,
    Darling, every night
    I will rent a cage for you
    And mi-j-i-nits dressed in white
    (teeny-little-tiny-little...)

    Twirl around in a lap dissolve
    Pretend to sing the words
    I’ll rent a gleaming limousine;
    Release a flock of ber-herna-herna-herna
    Herna-her-nerds

    Wear a leather collar
    And a dagger in your ear
    I will make you smell the glove
    And try to look sincere, then we’ll

    Dance the blues
    Let’s dance the blues
    Let’s dance the blues
    Under the megawatt moonlight

    Pretend to be chinese,
    (one-hung-low)
    I’ll make you wear red shoes
    There’s a cheesy atom bomb explosion
    All the big groups use

    Atomic light will shine
    Through an old venetian blind
    Making patterns on your face,
    Then it cuts to outer space

    With it’s billions & billions &
    Billions & billions and

    Be in my video
    Darling, every night
    Everyone in cable-land
    Will say you’re ’outa-site’

    You can show your legs
    While you’re getting in the car, then
    I will look repulsive
    While I mangle my guitar

    Reen-toon-teen-toon-teen-toon
    Tee-nu-nee-nu-nee,
    Moo-ahhhh

    Reen-toon-teen-toon-teen-toon
    Tee-nu-nee-nu-nee,
    Moo-ahhhh

    Reen-toon-teen-toon-teen-toon
    Tee-nu-nee-nu-nee,
    Moo-ahhhh

    Tee-nu-nee----moo-ahhhh
    Tee-nu-nee----moo-wah-wah-wah-ooo tune

    I’m sure somebody else thought of this song when you look at these pictures.

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/17/2006  at  04:38 AM  

  26. angel dickhead angel WHAT COMPARISON? I was merely ... um .. confused, thinking he’d inadvertently committed plagiarism. Cool lyrics ... Was that a late ‘Johnny and the Hurricanes’ number?? (OINK tries to recall a ‘Foghat’ Concert, but can only remember how refreshing that cold bottle of Boone’s Farm was on his burny throat)

    BeccaB: Loved the line & recall the voice. When you debutted you new avatar I should have said “That’s a new look, isn’t it” Other nearby great lines from my memory: “I have a rule never to sleep with possessed people” (she drags him onto the bed) “ .. more of a guideline, actually...” Later, “Sounds like there’s at least two people in there already .. might be a little crowded.”
    **********************

    Camembert: AS I ONCE TOLD A DISTINGUISHED SENIOR NAVAL PERSON

    Paranoia strikes deep
    Into your life it will creep

    IS THERE SOME FRIGGIN’ MUTINY IN THE WORKS THAT I DON’T KNOW ABOUT????
    ***********************

    I’m astounded you found that article and gratified that I recalled the title correctly ... if I did??? FAN magazine don’t sound right, nor sufficiently sci-fi—I tried a search, but got gazillions of generic ‘fan magazines’.  And am a lazy swine. I use ‘sci-fi’ a bit ironically; I’m told the The Illuminatti of Science Fiction pernounce it “skiffy” and use it to mean an inferior, cheesy (sorry) product intended for the masses.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  06:51 AM  

  27. oink:  That’s

    Did you suggest sex with possessed women oink? question

    tune She had that
    Camarillo brillo
    Flamin’ out along her head,
    I mean her Mendocino bean-o
    By where some bugs had made it red

    She ruled the Toads of the Short Forest
    And every newt in Idaho
    And every cricket who had chorused
    By the bush in Buffalo

    She said she was
    A Magic Mama
    And she could throw a mean Tarot
    And carried on without a comma
    That she was someone I should know

    She had a snake for a pet
    And an amulet
    And she was breeding a dwarf
    But she wasn’t done yet
    She had gray-green skin
    A doll with a pin
    I told her she was awright
    But I couldn’t come in
    (I couldn’t come in right then . . . )

    And so she wandered
    Through the door-way
    Just like a shadow from the tomb
    She said her stereo was four-way
    An’ I’d just love it in her room

    Well, I was born
    To have adventure
    So I just followed up the steps
    Right past her fuming incense stencher
    To where she hung her castanets

    She stripped away
    Her rancid poncho
    An’ laid out naked by the door
    We did it till we were un-concho
    An’ it was useless any more

    She had a snake for a pet
    And an amulet
    And she was breeding a dwarf
    But she wasn’t done yet
    She had gray-green skin
    A doll with a pin
    I told her she was awright
    But I couldn’t come in
    (actually, I was very busy then)

    And so she wandered
    Through the door-way
    Just like a shadow from the tomb
    She said her stereo was four-way
    An’ I’d just love it in her room

    Well, I was born
    To have adventure
    So I just followed up the steps
    Right past her fuming incense stencher
    To where she hung her castanets

    She said she was
    A Magic Mama
    And she could throw a mean Tarot
    And carried on without a comma
    That she was someone I should know

    (Is that a real poncho . . . I mean
    Is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
    Hmmm . . . no foolin’ . . . ) tune

    angel  angel  island  cool cheese  island  angel  angel

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/17/2006  at  07:52 AM  

  28. Thanx for the clarification, Z. The music might be a suitable background if they make a music video of the photos.  Would add to the surreal quality of something hatching from a malignant egg.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  07:59 AM  

  29. exactly

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/17/2006  at  08:15 AM  

  30. Oink,

    Sorry - FAN is the appreviation for FANTASY Magazine, later to become F&SF or whatever. Do your (Yahoo - I don’t Google) search on “Touch of Sun Porges” and it’ll come up. If you follow the links you’ll find out more than you ever wanted to know about the Porges brothers.

    Yeah - I’ve heard “skiffy” (as opposed to Sky-Fi or Psi-Fi) before in the same sense you describe. I always thought it referred to those old, 50’s pulp mags and their ilk. And many of them were Cheesy (different branch of the family - no relation), if I do say so myself. But the cover-art is often really cool.

    Now all I have to do is find the 4/59 issue and I’m home-free. I may search the FAN “Best-of” anthologies, too.

    Meanwhile - I think the US should reproduce the bomb blasts Edgerton photo’ed - in an equivalent desert environment, and in state-of-the-art hi-res color. Gee, I wonder where we can detonate it? Let me think…

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/17/2006  at  08:26 AM  

  31. (From a Physics point of view) In the interest of accuracy - was this a test of an Atomic (A-Bomb) or a Hydrogen (H-Bomb) device?  I do not recall any above GROUND H-Bomb (or fusion) tests - I thought they were all conducted in the pacific (primarily due to uncertainties in the energy yield).  If this is an A-Bomb, it is fission, not fusion.  And for those who care - the energy yield is different by about 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.  A small A-Bomb (fission device) yields about 15 Kt; even a “small” H-bomb (fusion device) (the smallest I have ever read of, at least) was 300 Kt. 

    One way of the other - the photos are magnificent.

    Posted by T    United States   02/17/2006  at  08:57 AM  

  32. Brie: Duh Gee, Tennessee!  I got it, Fantastic. I recall they tried changing their name to ‘Analog Sci-Fi’ once.  Later I’ll search for ‘Hellfire’ and the nuke photos.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  09:32 AM  

  33. T,

    The first H-bomb tests were above-ground...but were out in the Pacific on an island-who’s-name-escapes-me-but-I-can-look-it-up. (Quajilean? Christmas? spelling wrong, of course) The first one was a totally unwieldly thing, waaay bigger’n a bomber could possibly carry, and was assembled on-site.

    But I think you’re point is that the photos shown are apparently a desert environment, so you are right in that sense. Gotta be an A-bomb. Besides, the article says so, I believe.

    Oink - I knew you knew it. You were just testing me!

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/17/2006  at  09:55 AM  

  34. H-bombs were NEVER tested in Nevada. Of course, land testing NEVER mattered to the Soviets, with such a huge land mass....

    Unix: I’m in AZ.

    Posted by Macker    United States   02/17/2006  at  10:12 AM  

  35. AZ - land of another homo - Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

    Talk about 6 years of brainwashin’.  McCain said, “No freedom of speech.”

    McCain is ahead in most 2008 Presidential Polls in the Republican Part by the Liberal Media.  However, my main man, Rush Limbaugh calls McCain a Democrat.

    McCain has cancer too, so he is no good.

    I met McCain in Ann Arbor on 12/07/05.  90% of the crowd was slimey Democrats.  McCain said, “There is a rumor that I’m running for President in ‘08.  The question is in which party.” These Democrats went wild.  McCain is a HozeMonster.

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/17/2006  at  10:24 AM  

  36. Colby: I did NOT get it. And, the last testing I did was of my urine. Wasn’t Bikini one of the islands?  Swear: I didn’t google.  I recall that we displaced some native folk for the test, and left them to shift for themselves.  Recall, that in the Cold War, especially regarding fissionable material, foolish and careless things were done.

    The 50’s was a time of A-Bomb Fear: home bomb shelters, “duck & cover” drills at grade school, end-of-world movies featuring radioactive-mutant critters.  Kline does a comedy bit wherein the kiddies are given metal dogtags by their fascist teacher, “In case your bodies are burned beyond recognition in a nuclear holocaust.  There will be NO TALKING during the holocaust!”

    One more reason the photos are creepy to us older folk.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  10:26 AM  

  37. This photo is of a fission device, and of an “implosion” device from the looks of the second photo (don’t ask me how I know, sorry, I can’t tell you...). The “Trinity” shot and “Fat Boy” were of this design.

    The other form of fission device of the era being the much simpler “gun assembly” device as was “little boy”. It’s first test was over Japan, not in the New Mexico desert.

    Thermonukes (H-bombs) were tested on various Pacific Islands (Bikini, Kwajelein, Johnson Island, etc). They were simply too powerful and dangerous to test on our mainland.

    Now, the Russkies, they tended to throw caution to the wind. I remember seeing old archival footage on the History Channel of one of their first above ground thermonuke tests, one film was taken in a city about 20-30 miles away from the blast, and people were standing around outside just casually watching. The bright flash, the glowing mushroom cloud, then the shockwaves hit, knocking snow off roofs, blowing out windows and generally scaring the crap out of just about everyone there.

    Then there was the “Tsar Bomba” 50 megaton air-drop test over Novaya Semlya (sp?), this was originally designed to be 100 MT, then they realized that the TU-4 bomber couldn’t get out of harm’s way in time. So they reduced it to 50 megatons, and let ‘er go. Movie footatge taken of the aircrew, showed that they were definitely VERY nervous and were literally shaken when the device exploded - they just barely got away somewhat unscathed....

    Todays technology uses smaller yields, but with much more accurate targetting, and multiple independent warhead capabilities.

    Posted by Rat Patrol    United States   02/17/2006  at  10:53 AM  

  38. Good stuff!  A couple of points concerning Dr. Strangelove & Mutually Assured Destruction --

    1. The Ban the Bomb, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, movement was popular with the USSR, and their CPUSA agents, who would have just been tickled pink if we’d disarmed.

    2. That doesn’t change the truth that this whole situation was Fuggin’ Nuts.  Unless, of course, our goal was to destroy ourselves and most of the Earth with us.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  11:18 AM  

  39. Oink,

    I don’t remember which Island was which. There were several. Swimsuit...er, I mean Bikini...was one; Quadjulean(sp is wrong) was another (maybe); the British island group of Christmas was another. Quadu-whatever might have been a staging area.

    Guess I’ll have to break out my “The Atomic Bomb Movie” DVD and my collection of “America’s A-Bomb Tests” flicks and review my history. BTW: these DVDs are often on deep discount at BestBuy and are worth every penny if one is interested in the subject matter. I liked the underwater detonations best.

    RP is probably correct as to the “implosion-type” assertion regarding the photos.

    OCM: Is that where the term “all boogered up” came from? It fits…

    The Wild West Is Where I Wanna Be.
    -Tom Lehrer-

    Along the trail you’ll find me lopin’
    Where the spaces are wide open,
    In the land of the old A.E.C.* Yee-hoo!
    Where the scenery’s attractive,
    And the air is radioactive,
    Oh, the Wild West is where I wanna be.

    ‘Mid the sagebrush and the cactus
    I’ll watch the fellows practice
    Droppin’ bombs through the clean desert breeze.  A-ha!
    I’ll have on my sombrero,
    And of course I’ll wear a pair o’
    Levis over my lead B.V.D.’s.**

    I will leave the city’s rush,
    Leave the fancy and the plush,
    Leave the snow and leave the slush
    And the crowds.
    I will seek the desert’s hush,
    Where the scenery is lush,
    How I long to see the mush-room clouds.

    ‘Mid the yuccas and the thistles
    I’ll watch the guided missiles,
    While the old F.B.I. watches me.  Yee-hoo!
    Yes, I’ll soon make my appearance
    (Soon as I can get my clearance),
    ‘Cause the Wild West is where I wanna be.

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/17/2006  at  11:29 AM  

  40. CheeseNip: My son was interested in ABombs in the 8th grade. I understand the two types were implosion (Fat Boy) and bullet-like firing (Little Man) to achieve critical mass.  The ABomb was used as a match to light the HBomb.  There was concern that Hydrogen to Helium Fusion might start a chain reaction with the H2 in water—AMF Earth & most of the Inner Solar System.

    The movie “Fat Man & Little Boy”, which I took my son to see, was OK. I support the decision to nuke Japan. But the movie did capture how projects take on a life of their own, especially armament projects. (cf. “WW1")

    Lehrer was a member of the project, as incidentally, was my Uncle-- who died of leukemia. Lehrer says his job was “Soviet Spy”. It turns out the project was manned exclusively by them.  He also wrote (from my memory):

    tune Oh, we’ll all go together when we go,
    Every Hottentot and every Eskimo,
    When the air becomes uranious,
    We will all go simultaneous ..

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  11:58 AM  

  41. Oink,

    We are definitely of the same generation.

    FM&LB was outstanding and fairly accurate, as you say. Plus - the acting was IMHO supurb.

    Lehrer was priceless. My favorites were “The Old Dope Peddler”, “Be Prepared”, and “My Home Town”.

    My Dad was not a part of Manhatten, but did some work on the H-effort later. Much later Dr. Cheese helped tuter me in....(wait for it)....Tensors! He’s gone now, but - like all Cheeses that have met their Maker - his intellectual scent lingers, so to speak.

    He rarely spoke of the H-efforts, but did mention that it was “Munsterous”.

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/17/2006  at  12:32 PM  

  42. Limburger: “The Vatican Rag” (”2,4,6,8—time to transubstantiate”)
    “National Brotherhood Week” (”and everybody hates the Jews!”)

    I’ve told this before, maybe not to you. My father was in a Georgia military hospital around July 1945, when his brother visited him from his assignment at Oak Ridge Tennessee. My Dad was pissin’ and moanin’ about how this war with Japan could drag on & on.  My Uncle said only, “It’ll be over a whole lot quicker than you think”.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  12:48 PM  

  43. Oink,

    “Be Prepared” (”....Don’t solicite for your sister - that’s not nice...")

    RE: “It’ll be over...”

    Now that’s a piece of family history you should write down and preserve for your descendents!

    Sorry to hear about your mutation in the more recent article. Try lighter fluid and a Loofa…

    Posted by Cheese_tensor    United States   02/17/2006  at  01:54 PM  

  44. every body say his own
    Kyrie eleison,
    Doin’ the Vatican Rag!

    Also good about your leaning experience, except the pun—hence limburger.  I struggled with math until I could do it—a testament to my teachers.  Some early physicist said about studying the atom, Now here’s a subject that’ll never have military applications!

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/17/2006  at  03:05 PM  

  45. I know several people who were on Johnson Island when we detonated a bomb in low earth orbit.  The guy said “we were issued goggles so dark that when you put them on, you couldn’t see the sun at high noon.” They began the countdown around midnight and were instructed to put on their goggles.  He said that when the bomb went off there was a blinding flash of light (even with their goggles on).  The blinding flash of light and a wash of heat made his first response be “oh shit.  They detonated the bomb too low and now we’re all toast.” After the detonation he said that the sky where the bomb went off glowed in many, many colors with a deep blue being predominant.  That was when we found out about EMP and were deathly afraid that the Soviets would discover this weak link in our armor.  Seems also that when the Soviets discovered EMP they were afraid that we would discover this weak link in their defenses.

    When we had nuclear drills during school time (pull your coat over your head while ducking under a desk) I asked a teacher why we even bothered since the USAF base I lived at was targeted for several megatons of Soviet weapons and that survival at ground zero was nearly impossible anyhow.  We stopped having the drills after that.

    Posted by Kirk    United States   02/17/2006  at  06:15 PM  

  46. I went to 1st grade in 1960 at ground zero, SAC AFB.

    I know how to duck and cover when the big bright-white-light happens.  So follow me. bomb

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/17/2006  at  07:16 PM  

  47. The photos have a power all there own ... scary damn scary.

    And adding Tom Lehrer to this mix works (the good professor Lehrer can do the math for just how it works, it’s beyond me *grin*) But ya’ll forgot one of the songs he wrote which would fit right in here.  So here it is from his “That Was The Year That Was” album.

    SO LONG MOM

    So long, mom,
    I’m off to drop the bomb,
    So don’t wait up for me.
    But while you swelter
    Down there in your shelter
    You can see me
    On your TV.

    While we’re attacking frontally
    Watch Brinkally and Huntally**
    Describing contrapuntally
    The cities we have lost.
    No need for you to miss a minute of the agonizing holocaust.  Yeah!

    Little Johnny Jones, he was a US pilot,
    And no shrinking violet was he.
    He was mighty proud when World War III was declared.
    He wasn’t scared, no siree!

    And this is what he said on
    His way to Armageddon:

    So long, mom,
    I’m off to drop the bomb,
    So don’t wait up for me.
    But though I may roam,
    I’ll come back to my home
    Although it may be
    A pile of debris.

    Remember, mommy,
    I’m off to get a commie,
    So send me a salami
    And try to smile somehow.
    I’ll look for you when the war is over,
    An hour and a half from now!

    Guess you could put “Who’s Next” in the mix too.

    And being past 50, well do I remember the duck and cover drills ... but living just 20 miles from O’Hare International would have made that rather a moot point. Though we didn’t think of that back then.

    Posted by Guy S    United States   02/17/2006  at  08:18 PM  

  48. I was at Ellsworth AFB, a SAC base when we had those drills.  When SAC had a practice alert the ground shook for miles around from all of the KC 135s and B52s taking off.  Pretty impressive.  We all knew that we were toast if it came down to us vs them.  Would rather go out with a flash and a bang rather than by slowly dying from radiation sickness.

    Posted by Kirk    United States   02/17/2006  at  09:15 PM  

  49. Kirk: Did you see “A Boy and His Dog” with Don Johnson when he was about 20 years old?  This movie proves that after the big-bright-white-light and after the ShockWave and radiation it’s a wise move to have a good dog who can smell and find food and women. cutebutt  boobies  snake  beerstoyou

    It’s basically a love story. heart

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/18/2006  at  07:05 AM  

  50. A Boy and His Dog?  Bwahahahaha^30 That movie was a scream.  Going to tell the wife to get that on DVD.  She’d probably think that I’d gone soft until she watched it.

    Posted by Kirk    United States   02/18/2006  at  08:13 AM  

  51. It’s gratifying to know you all have good .. heh heh… taste snake

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/18/2006  at  08:40 AM  

  52. Had a buddy who raised horses.  Once asked him what he did with them once they got too old to ride. He said “oh I just let them go out to pasture.” Asked if he ever thought of turning them into Silver Steaks, Bullet Burgers, or Flicka Fillets.  The guy didn’t talk to me for several months after that.  Said “what’s the good of having a pet if you can’t eat it when times get tough?”

    Posted by Kirk    United States   02/18/2006  at  08:49 AM  

  53. oink:  :rulez: If you MUST eat your woman, make sure she does the dishes, laundry and tire rotation on the truck first.  Plus, doggiestyle

    It’s a TIME management issue.

    There is a reason why they say a dog is a man’s best friend. heart  heart  heart

    I would NEVER eat my little 7lb puppy Polly.

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/19/2006  at  04:33 AM  

  54. Hit it, Carlos! tune

    And it’s just like the ocean in a monsoon
    Well that’s the same as the emotion that I get from you barf
    Cause you’re so crude..

    ****************************************
    Otherwise, you’re entirely correct....

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/19/2006  at  06:24 AM  

  55. One of my friends from 7th grade is married to a doctor and they spend way tooo much taking care of their old senile horses (lots of Rx).  It’s like they would put them on life support and their vet bills are a mountain-of-money.

    I might spend a $1,000 a pound to save Polly but no dog is worth over $7,000 in my book.  I mean I wouldn’t spend $40,000 for an itty-bitty-little hip replacement on a rat terrior.  That would be loving your dog a little too much.

    Well, maybe $10,000.  But that’s tops for sure.  heart

    On the other hand, nobody would spend over $25 to save a hog. chasehatchet

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/19/2006  at  09:14 AM  

  56. ZW: Too true. Altho I dislike people who infantalize their pets, and don’t believe in a ‘animal rights’ per se, I hate people who treat their animals like furniture—we’re getting rid of “last year’s fashion” and replacing it with something tres chic.

    The pet does have implied rights, because you two made an implicit deal.  It won’t bite, shit on surfaces, chew furniture; you provide the food, shelter, medical & affection.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/19/2006  at  09:28 AM  

  57. AMEN!!!When “Old Tony”, a 25+ y/o plow horse was in his final illness, my normally hard-nosed Grandpa carried him water up in the orchard where he lay. They told him that the dogfood truck would haul him away free, if alive.  fingerfingerfingerfingerfingerfingerfingerfinger

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/19/2006  at  10:52 AM  

  58. Sixty-two comments and this thread has gone from pictures of nuclear explosions to ghostbusters to poetry to science fiction and back to nuclear asplosions then to Pacific islands to rock and roll to science fiction to eating women, then pets and finally we wind up at old plow horses being given the finger.

    This crew never ceases to amaze me.  LOL  LOL  LOL  LOL

    Never fear though. When I finally translate all this into my book (“The BIG BMEWS Coffee Table Coloring Book”) I’ll change all the names to protect the innocent insane.

    angel

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/19/2006  at  11:07 AM  

  59. Who could have thought that this path should have led us out of the way? —The Pilgrim’s Progress

    Can’t be sure, but maybe things started going wrong about .. at the Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man?

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/19/2006  at  11:25 AM  

  60. Oink, are you accusing me of being the guilty party this time?

    “He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him. I’ll chase him ‘round the moons of Nibia and ‘round the Antares Maelstrom and ‘round perdition’s flame before I give him up!”(Khan, Star Trek II)

    chasehatchet

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/19/2006  at  11:31 AM  

  61. OCM: “It’s a miracle these people ever got out of the 20th century.”(McCoy, Star Trek IV)

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/19/2006  at  11:36 AM  

  62. NOT A BIT! I blame it on OCM. Some people just like to join in the spirit of the thing.

    Assuming I’m in some difficulty, and following the book that “Wrath of Khan” borrowed from, could I be a White Whale this time? PLEASE?  But you still get to be The Superior Intellect AND a Captain, albeit with a peg leg.  We can skip the part where I take you down with me.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/19/2006  at  11:50 AM  

  63. SKIPPER = Kirk
    OCM = Harry Mudd
    OINK = Ensign Expendable
    STINKERR = Scotty
    TANNENBERG = Sulu
    Z WOOF = Worf
    BECCAYINN = Counselor Troy
    CHEESE_TENSOR = Spock
    MACKER = McCoy

    Give me warp speed! Now!

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/19/2006  at  01:54 PM  

  64. "Heavy sits the butt that bears the boss”—Heinlein, I’m pretty sure.

    I think my assignment is gonna be the anonymous Security Guy, the one you’ve never seen before, and will never again, who beams down with the Away Team. Insert throat-slitting sound here. Which reminds me, anybody who hasn’t seen ‘Galaxy Quest’ is missing a treat.

    Could I be Spock when he goes thru pon farr?

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/19/2006  at  02:24 PM  

  65. No! Absolutely not. Why? Because I’d have to kill your ugly Vulcan butt. Friend or no friend. Nobody slices open Kirk’s blouse and gets away with it. Nobody!

    (well ... except for an occasional green woman or two) doggiestyle

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/19/2006  at  02:34 PM  

  66. Macker can’t be McCoy hez telepathic, plus he’s a magician.

    Everybody knows Bones said, “I’m not a magician Spock, just an old country doctor.”

    http://members.tripod.com/~Nimoy_Kelley/kelley.html

    I think Macker is T’Pring.

    At age seven, Spock was telepathically bonded with a young Vulcan girl named T’Pring. The telepathic touch would draw the two together when the time was right after both came of age: once every 7 years all Vulcan males experiences pon farr, a powerful Vulcan mating drive which demands that they mate or die. In 2267, however, T’Pring chose Stonn, a Vulcan, over Spock, and the Vulcan returned to the U.S.S. Enterprise unwed. He did eventually marry in a ceremony attended by Lt. Jean-Luc Picard.

    I don’t trust anybody from Arizona, like Senator John McCainfuckyou

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/19/2006  at  02:43 PM  

  67. Skipper’s #71: In martial arts we had a move where you pound your opponent in the chest with both feet—you being airborne & sideways. You guessed it, “The Captain Kirk”. HAA-SAH!

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/19/2006  at  02:52 PM  

  68. ’Am I the only one that actually WATCHED the show’ - Guy, Galaxy Quest

    One of my all-time favorite movies! 

    And wasn’t Counselor Troy the beautiful and intelligent voice of reason and normality?  I think that describes me perfectly!  HAHAHA!  Good choice, Skipper.  It takes a good captain to know his crew.  (Sorry, Oink, but you are the one getting shot every other day.  Not that I don’t laugh each time..... party )

    Posted by Beccayinn    United States   02/20/2006  at  01:22 PM  

  69. Thankee, Ma’am for the kind words.

    Don’t worry about me, Chickie, I give as good as I get. skull pig skull

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/20/2006  at  01:36 PM  

  70. BeckaBadger: Sorry, I was entirely focusing on myself again. Yes you have many good qualities that remind me of her: sensitivity, insight, reason. Before you qualify for her job, though, there is one more issue.  boobiesboobiesboobies question wink

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/20/2006  at  01:45 PM  

  71. Remember on the HoloDeck where Kirk tried his flying “Captain-Kirk” kick and Worf side stepped and latched onto Kirk’s nuts with a Vulcan Mind Melt?  Worf just kept tellin’ the dazed Kirk, “You’re going to sleep, you’re going to sleep....”

    That’s when I lost a lot of repect for all Star Ship Captains.  Bunch of weenies.  Fuck the Federation.

    Look it’s a hologram.  Well, not a real hologram but almost a hologram.

    Also Beckabadger:  Before you qualify for her job we will need a sample of your urine. wtf

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/20/2006  at  02:08 PM  

  72. big surprise I think I might have to just leave you guys guessing if I ‘fill’ all the qualifications necessary for the job.....or the uniform!  But, rest assured, I will pass any drug tests better than SOME of us here!  wink

    pig , I have no doubt you could hold your own with anyone.  Being Expendable was one of Guys favorite qualities...or was it being ‘Plucky Comedy Relief?’ Either way:  heart  pig  heart

    Posted by Beccayinn    United States   02/20/2006  at  02:38 PM  

  73. Beccayinn:  We already know more about you than you know yourself.  We know you are basically a good person but we have to be careful.  Sure you have some mortal sins but who doesn’t around here.  Yes, even the Skipper can’t walk on water, sorry.

    But we are looking for a girl.  But, she has to have some big boobies

    I’m talking about boobies that are MONSTERS excaim  excaim

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/20/2006  at  03:18 PM  

  74. Correction To The Above:

    1. I can walk on water. The trick is to take small steps.

    2. Forgive them, Becca. None of them were breast fed as babies. Years later it shows.

    LOL

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/20/2006  at  03:42 PM  

  75. Eighty-three comments now and this thread has gone from pictures of nuclear explosions to ghostbusters to poetry to science fiction and back to nuclear asplosions then to Pacific islands to rock and roll to science fiction to eating women, then pets and finally we wind up at old plow horses being given the finger .... (continued) .... to tribbles to John McCain to boobies ....

    (sigh)

    Posted by The Skipper    United States   02/20/2006  at  03:46 PM  

  76. Maybe they ( boobies ) grew so big because of radiation exposure due to nuclear testing?

    GuyS-- Abraham VanHelsing is a personal hero of mine, and someone I wish to emulate: a realist, a Christian, a warrior. The movies haven’t got him right for decades.

    heart beccaB

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/20/2006  at  05:15 PM  

  77. Or how long it takes to READ others’ shit before adding your our pearls pearls ???

    I’m getting better.

    Ya’ll are working on it too, right.

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/21/2006  at  09:12 AM  

  78. You’re shit  is so fresh the Skipper should be charging the EuroPeons to read it oink.

    But no.  The Skipper says we have to just give oink’s BS away until they are hooked.

    Belly hooked. Then we charge the big money.  100 Pounds a year.  To have postin’ ability at BMEWS, that’s 250 pounds per year. In Mexico it’s 5,000,000 pesos.  S. Korea, 1,500,000,000,000 yen.

    Skipper says it’s just like fishing.  He says we need more infrastructure, whatever that means.  I think the Skipper is just getting out of paying us all what we are really really worth.  Because I’m not getting rich now, that’s for sure.

    Posted by Z Woof    United States   02/21/2006  at  09:52 AM  

  79. 1. Skipper: Do NOT pay me what I’m worth. “Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?” (Shakespeare)

    2.  ZWoof: Tom Lehrer again:

    When the shades of night are falling,
    Comes a fellow ev’ryone knows,
    It’s the old dope peddler,
    Spreading joy wherever he goes.
    Ev’ry evening you will find him,
    Around our neighborhood.
    It’s the old dope peddler
    Doing well by doing good.

    He gives the kids free samples,
    Because he knows full well
    That today’s young innocent faces
    Will be tomorrow’s clientele
    .

    Posted by Oink    United States   02/21/2006  at  10:01 AM  

  80. You’re not getting rich, Z?  The rest of us are....wonder what is up with that?  grin

    Posted by Beccayinn    United States   02/21/2006  at  03:16 PM  

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.

Next entry: Housekeeping

Previous entry: A Good Man

<< BMEWS Main Page >>