Daswulf is in the hospital

[ThomasPowers]

John; I've had a couple of concussions since then....

[SLAG]

Amen,

Mr. J.H.C.C.

T .P.

Most of the rain and rivers, down your way,  flow south into the gulf of Mexico.

Regards,

SLAG.

[JHCC]

Where ThomasPowers lived, yes. Where I am, everything drains into Lake Erie and thence to the St. Lawrence River and the Atlantic. 

[ThomasPowers]

Nope most down here flow into irrigation ditches and the river beds are dune buggy playgrounds!

[SLAG]

T.P,

You are correct.

SLAG.

[George N. M.]

Thomas:  I LOVE Tom Swifties.  That was unexpected and made me grin.

The discussion of rivers flowing "up" or "down" reminds me of the Sherwin Williams ("Cover the Earth") Theory of continental drift.  That is, the continents drip downwards (south) on the globe.  The evidence is that most continents are pointed on the south end and there is often a drop (island) dripping off the end (Tierra del Fuego. Siri Lanka, Tasmania, etc,) of the continents.

"By hammer and hand all arts do stand."

[SLAG]

Mr. George, N. M.,

Brilliant,  Simply  brilliant!

I never thought of it that way.

The Sherman Williams theory of   "Continental Drip".

Thanks.

SLAG.

[George N. M.]

Slag: See Holden, John C., 2001, "Fake Tectonics and Continental Drip," in Science Askew, pg. 40-42, orig. pub. in Journal of Irreproduceable Results, 22(2), 1976,  on the web at https://books.google.com/books?id=Bs6fBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA39&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q&f=false

"By hammer and hand all arts do stand."

[SLAG]

Mr. George N. M.,

GADZOOKS!   man.

Mr. J. Holden  done beated me to the punch!

And I thought I was being uber creative and  mega clever.

Sigh.

Regards,

Good Guy,

SLAG.

[Farmall]

I love the Journal of Irreproducible Results.  One of my favorites was the paper on "Cooking Turkey with Potential Energy"  Basic premise was that they measured the temperature of the turkey, had a student run it up to the fourth floor, throw it out a window, and measure the temperature rise immediately following impact.  This group might appreciate their 'Theory of Intelligence" - it was that the amount of intelligence in the universe was fixed.  Two corollaries immediately arose - first was that for areas of high intelligence, there had to be areas of low intelligence.  Second, as the intelligence diminishes as the population grows, you're always smarter than your kids.

 

 

[ThomasPowers]

My father was a big Tom Swifties fan.  He had also read the original Tom Swift books as a lad.  I even found a copy of "Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone"  that my dad kept on top of his Picturephone at work! (He was an exec at AT&T).   Back before, when everything was still analog. Then came digital and the realization that *everything* was merely packet switching and boom everyone can send Voice, pictures, text---on a phone.