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Quote from: Karen W. on 16/12/2008 23:06:33Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 16/12/2008 18:33:27I remember when I was in New Zealand for Christmas some years ago. We were staying north of Aukland and the temperature was in the 90sF. On Christmas eve we went to a pub with an outdoor bar and there was a singer performing Christmas songs. I thought it somewhat ironic that we were sitting around in our shorts in the late evening with the crooner singing "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas"CHristmas dinner on the beach was nice, though. Lol..Lol.. that is cool..I bet it was nice... what did you all eat at the beach?Pig, sheep & cow. It was a traditional Maori hangi
Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 16/12/2008 18:33:27I remember when I was in New Zealand for Christmas some years ago. We were staying north of Aukland and the temperature was in the 90sF. On Christmas eve we went to a pub with an outdoor bar and there was a singer performing Christmas songs. I thought it somewhat ironic that we were sitting around in our shorts in the late evening with the crooner singing "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas"CHristmas dinner on the beach was nice, though. Lol..Lol.. that is cool..I bet it was nice... what did you all eat at the beach?
I remember when I was in New Zealand for Christmas some years ago. We were staying north of Aukland and the temperature was in the 90sF. On Christmas eve we went to a pub with an outdoor bar and there was a singer performing Christmas songs. I thought it somewhat ironic that we were sitting around in our shorts in the late evening with the crooner singing "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas"CHristmas dinner on the beach was nice, though.
Nine years ago, we had a semi-white Christmas here in Florida. My husbands cousins came down from Michigan for a visit. They pulled their camper and filled it full of ice chests filled with snow.It was sunny and warm and we had all of our family, friends and neighbors were here having snowball fights in the front yard.
JB - What's an "ant lion"?
When I was a kid, in the early '50
Oh well,When I was a kid, in the early '50 and the climate was very warm for several years, I had broken my foot late November a couple of days before Thanksgiving. I had a plaster cast up to my knees. Christmas Day was 85 and after presents and all, my brother and I were outside playing with one of them, I forget what, but we started feeding large red ants to an ant lion in the sand by the side of the street we lived on. No pavement then, either. But to get on with it - as we were playing I didn't know it but I had my feet in another ant mound - a meat eating ant that was smaller. The big red ants were big vegetarians. SO I was killing ants with my front end and being eaten by ants on the other end. I was accustomed to being bitten so I didn't pay much attention to it.Well, about an hour later, just before the Christmas Dinner was ready, I noticed that my tows were turning blue. The ant bites were causing my leg to swell. My mom called the doctor on call and no one would come into the office to take the cast off. So I ate Christmas dinner while sitting on the front porch with my leg in a tub of water soaking the plaster cast off my leg. It was a week to soon but I was glad to get it off. The cotton underneath the plaster and the heat had cause a lot of discomfort.Most STRANGE Christmas I can remember.
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But you are a FOG, go on FOG away, here's your starter for ten; On my feet, I've got TOES, what have you got?(FOG)
Ditto.. Whats an Ant lion???
Quote from: JimBob on 19/12/2008 02:13:29When I was a kid, in the early '50So you were around before the Civil War []
Quote from: JimBob on 19/12/2008 02:13:29Oh well,When I was a kid, in the early '50 and the climate was very warm for several years, I had broken my foot late November a couple of days before Thanksgiving. I had a plaster cast up to my knees. Christmas Day was 85 and after presents and all, my brother and I were outside playing with one of them, I forget what, but we started feeding large red ants to an ant lion in the sand by the side of the street we lived on. No pavement then, either. But to get on with it - as we were playing I didn't know it but I had my feet in another ant mound - a meat eating ant that was smaller. The big red ants were big vegetarians. SO I was killing ants with my front end and being eaten by ants on the other end. I was accustomed to being bitten so I didn't pay much attention to it.Well, about an hour later, just before the Christmas Dinner was ready, I noticed that my tows were turning blue. The ant bites were causing my leg to swell. My mom called the doctor on call and no one would come into the office to take the cast off. So I ate Christmas dinner while sitting on the front porch with my leg in a tub of water soaking the plaster cast off my leg. It was a week to soon but I was glad to get it off. The cotton underneath the plaster and the heat had cause a lot of discomfort.Most STRANGE Christmas I can remember.You're lucky I'm not a FOG or I would be having a field day! []
Quote from: Don_1 on 19/12/2008 10:53:53But you are a FOG, go on FOG away, here's your starter for ten; On my feet, I've got TOES, what have you got?(FOG)OK, if you insist:"When I was a kid, in the early '50 " - should be "50s""I had broken my foot late November" - IN late November"Christmas Day was 85 " - 85 what?"No pavement then, either." - should have begun with "There was""a meat eating ant" - meat-eating"It was a week to soon..." - too soon"...the heat had cause a lot of discomfort." - caused(MULTI-BLOODY-FOG)
Strewth, I can't see a damn thing for all this FOG!!!
Quote from: dentstudent on 19/12/2008 07:29:36JB - What's an "ant lion"?Quote from: Karen W. on 19/12/2008 08:30:41Ditto.. Whats an Ant lion???They are larvae of lace wings.From Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_lionFrom http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/08/the_mighty_antlion.phpt digs a pit in the send and hides underneath the sand right under the bottom of the pit. When an ant, or some other insect comes by, it falls into the pit and has trouble climbing out of its steep walls again. The ant-lion lunges out of the sand (like a scence from "Tremors") and eats the poor bug.Now the really cool part: the volume of the pit is bigger when the antlion is hungrier (or so they say at this marvelous website that I highly recommend you browse around). But, hungry or not, the ant-lion digs a bigger pit when the moon is full. Nobody has any idea why that would be so. Here is a photograph of a colony of ant-lions, each with its own little pit: (Below, with ant lion)But here is the coolest part of all. If you take ant-lions out of the field and put them in little sandboxes in the laboratory and isolate them from any cues about the outside world they will still dig bigger pits roughly every four weeks - they have an internal lunar rhythm.They have, somewhere in their brains, a lunar clock that tells them to dig larger pits whenever the moon is full even if they cannot see the moon itself (e.g., on a dark cloudy night). If and when somebody figures out how this little brain works, I'll be sure to tell you all on my blog, but you may have to wait years for it - nobody is even thinking about studying it right now.