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Very cool pics Rick--but since the world is flat I'm wondering what studio they were produced in?

Using the "round Earth" theory, setting an object on the earth would be like setting grains of sand on a beach ball. Certainly a few grains would stay - right around the top, the surface is nearly horizontal - but when you stray too far from the absolute top of the ball, the grains of sand start sliding off and falling onto the ground. The Earth, if round, should behave in exactly the same fashion. Because the top is a very localized region on a sphere, if the Earth were in fact round, there would be only a very small area of land that would be at all inhabitable. Stray to the outside fringes of the "safe zone", and you start walking at a tilt. The further out you go, the more you slant, until your very survival is determined by the tread on your boots. Reach a certain point, and you slide off the face of the planet entirely. Obviously, something is wrong.

BamaMama asks:
So where did you go BC? I thought you had mentioned Florida and that bridge looks like one I traveled in Tampa area; but there are no hills in Florida??? I'm confused.

Rick asks:
This house of which you speak, do you mean the one you grew up in, or the one where you currently reside?

Rick sez (with pics):
Hey BC, I have some amazing way up yonder... piccys for you. (If you'd like the full-sized piccys - I can email 'em to you).



...and Ken Hill asks:
Very cool pics Rick--but since the world is flat I'm wondering what studio they were produced in?

In order to honor Olyve and The University of Georgia (UGA), I have to try to attempt to write a joke that is best told orally. I don't know if it will transfer to the printed word.

To note that Lewis Grizzard was a graduate of the University of Georgia may seem a bit like noting that the sky is blue. For the benefit of the uninitiated however, it must be said here. Bulldog to the bone, he later pulled off one of the great feats in syndicated newspaper history - that of publishing an almost entirely empty column. It was the day after his beloved alma mater had lost a match-up with rival Georgia Tech. Lewis wrote one sentence above several columns of stark white. The sentence read, "Frankly, I don't want to talk about it." His ashes (half of them, anyway) were, in accordance with his fondest wishes, scattered over the fifty-yard line at UGA's Sanford Stadium. Lewis' UGA jokes, both at his own school's expense and at their rivals', were among his fans' favorites. They recited them by heart on his concert tours, waiting for the punch lines, ready to laugh yet again. "Earl," they would mouth silently as Lewis hit the pause perfectly..."that dog would BITE you-u-u-!!" Lewis was like that- like family; like a funny uncle or brother. You always laughed and you always asked for the old stories one more time. Lewis obliged. "I'm Bulldog born" he'd say, "Bulldog bred, and when I die I'll be- by-God Bulldog dead!" He once said that while in between marriages, he had considered placing a classified personal ad seeking a UGA coed with whom he could attend the games because, "She would not think that getting down on one's knees and barking at a Clemson fan was odd behavior."

it's been too long! how are you? truckin', i'm sure. :-)
i'm hanging in there. watched the game saturday w/ friends & went "out" (as in "i walked a block") to the saturday night madness. good lawd.
it was fun, though. tell ya, some of these guys see game day as an excuse to wear the silliest s*** they can find.

Yes, it does, Olyve, it means I have to time trips to see family around the GD game schedule, as I drive through the Nebraska state capital on the way. The stadium alone becomes the third-largest city in the state, and the traffic can add hours to a trip that already TAKES hours.

So, I'm curious - any statues of Ugga in that, well, natural doggie position?