Re: Not so crabbit now!

by azriel Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:31 pm

Eldo..You like lots of testa...oh, sorry, TENtacles ! phew ! was I nearly wrong ! :facepalm:

by azriel Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:34 pm

Hiya Petty !! missed your open opinions & out loud views ! My advice ? Kick Arse, dude !! Laughing

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:37 pm

Thanks Azriel- Im on a friends laptop right now but got to go shortly and get very crabbit at some people.
I hope I can sort things out without it resulting in a criminal offence! After all someone has to be here to give open opinions and loud views (apart form Mrs Figg) Very Happy

by Mrs Figg Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:37 pm

sorry to hear that Petty, I wondered where you had got to. What with Orwell doing a bunk things were getting far too non irritating. Laughing

srsly though, I hope things get back to normal soon Petty. Kissing

criminal offence?, whatchoo been up to? Shocked

its not those sheep worrying videos again is it? Rolling Eyes

by azriel Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:46 pm

God I dont know, life can be so shitty, I was in a dark place not long ago & when you get crap thrown in your direction it kinda hurts more than usual, it stings. Its like youve got a "spite fairy" sitting on yer shoulder, waiting,waiting, till your at your lowest ebb & vunerable then..STAB!.. it harpoons you. (little bastard !)
Hoping things pick up for you Petty & anyone else who's life has taken a curve ! I just think,its gone down so far,things can only go up. Wink

by Norc Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:01 pm

Eldorion wrote:Octopuses are okay since they're not bug-like. I guess I'm better with lots of tentacles than lots of legs.

{{{I look forward to this being quoted out of context. }}}

looking forward to doing so Twisted Evil

by halfwise Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:32 pm

All my best Petty - we know you can out-crabbit anything thrown at you!

by Norc Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:34 pm

by Mrs Figg Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:40 pm

just read your sting in the Tale Halfy. I really dont like scorpions, they are only a few inches large here but they like to hide in clean laundry baskets, they like to go to sleep in ones clean knickers, thats a shocker let me tell you. when we first moved to this house it had been adandoned for about 30 years and all sorts of creatures had set up shop, including scorpions, I used to see them leaving through the window like the spiders in Harry Potter, with little suitcases and ner a backward glance.

affraid

by halfwise Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:00 pm

Yeppers they're nasty critters. I'd actually rather deal with the big ones because they are easier to spot and don't crawl inside socks to sleep.

by Eldorion Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:03 pm

I hope that you're able to get your Internet situation figured out soon, Petty! We miss you on here. Best of luck with whatever life's throwing your way. Smile

by Eldorion Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:04 pm

azriel wrote:Eldo..You like lots of testa...oh, sorry, TENtacles ! phew ! was I nearly wrong !

by azriel Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:32 pm

by David H Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:29 pm

Capt. Kirk's Vulcan entry wins Pluto moons contest
By MARCIA DUNN | Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — "Star Trek" fans, rejoice.

An online vote to name Pluto's two newest, itty-bitty moons is over. And No. 1 is Vulcan, a name suggested by actor William Shatner, who played Capt. Kirk in the original "Star Trek" TV series.

Vulcan snared nearly 200,000 votes among the more than 450,000 cast during the two-week contest, which ended Monday. In second place with nearly 100,000 votes was Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the underworld.

Vulcan was the Roman god of lava and smoke, and the nephew of Pluto. Vulcan was also the home planet of the pointy-eared humanoids in the "Star Trek" shows. Think Mr. Spock.

"174,062 votes and Vulcan came out on top of the voting for the naming of Pluto's moons. Thank you to all who voted!" Shatner said in a tweet once the tally was complete.

Don't assume Vulcan and Cerberus are shoo-ins, though, for the two tiny moons discovered over the past two years with the Hubble Space Telescope.

The contest was conducted by SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., the research base for the primary moon hunter. The 10 astronomers who made the discoveries will take the voting results into account, as they come up with what they consider to be the two best names.

The International Astronomical Union has the final say, and it could be another month or two before an edict is forthcoming. Now known as P4 and P5, the moons are 15 to 20 miles across.

The leader of the teams that discovered the mini-moons, Mark Showalter said Monday he is leaning toward the popular vote.

But Showalter pointed out that asteroids thought to orbit close to the sun are called vulcanoids, and there could be some confusion if a moon of Pluto were to be named Vulcan. Vulcan, in fact, was the name given in the 19th century to a possible planet believed to orbit even closer to the sun than Mercury; no such planet ever was found.

What's more, Showalter said in a phone interview, Vulcan is associated with lava and volcanoes, while distant Pluto is anything but hot.

As for Cerberus, an asteroid already bears that name, so maybe the Greek version, Kerberos, would suffice, said Showalter, a senior research scientist at SETI's Carl Sagan Center.

Styx landed in No. 3 position with nearly 88,000 votes. That's the river to the underworld.

Pluto's three bigger moons are Charon, Nix and Hydra.

To be considered, the potential names for the two mini-moons also had to come from Greek or Roman mythology, and deal with the underworld. Twenty-one choices were available at the website http://www.plutorocks.com when voting ended Monday. Of those, nine were write-in candidates suggested by the public, including Shatner's entry for Vulcan.

Shatner's second choice for a name, Romulus, did not make the cut. That's because an asteroid already has a moon by that name — along with a moon named Remus.

And forget the Disney connection.

"We love Mickey, Minnie and Goofy, too," Showalter informed voters a few days into the voting. "However, these are not valid names for astronomical objects. Sorry."

Altogether, 30,000 write-in candidate names poured in.

Showalter said he will keep the list handy as more moons undoubtedly pop up around Pluto once NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrives in 2015. It will be the first robotic flyby ever of the planetoid, or dwarf planet near the outer fringes of the solar system.

"I have learned not to underestimate Pluto," Showalter wrote on the website. With so many good names available, "Pluto needs more moons!"

by Mrs Figg Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:45 pm

yeah Vulcan! alien

by Eldorion Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:05 pm

Maybe it's just because I'm tired, but I came this close to losing it in the middle of class when I saw this:

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Not so crabbit now! - Page 29 Tumblr_mgy4koXRMm1rym6omo1_1280

by Pettytyrant101 Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:22 pm

I'm back! So deal with it! And possibly even more crabbit than before, so deal with that too! Twisted Evil

by azriel Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:55 pm

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:35 pm

by Mrs Figg Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:42 pm

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:34 pm

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then
throws the milk away

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to
produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why
the cow has dropped dead.

A GREEK CORPORATION
You have two cows. You borrow lots of euros to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, feed sheds,
dairies, cold stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds.
You still only have two cows.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three
cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce
twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and
market it worldwide.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows,
but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the ** out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive...

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.