Big Top by Rob Harrell for October 13, 2010

Hello Grog, Couldn’t sleep? Hmm…. maybe I should try to sleep.

May I have a chocolate cake and a pint of white milk? Kitty would like his usual platter thank you very much.

Would you be so kind as to send Little Sister a breakfast smoothie, a gallon of Galaxy Famous CocoMocha and a Gallon of World Famous Nuclear Coffee?

Good mornin’ to Tribe et al!

Grog: How super. Breakfast burrito please

and some chocolate, a la LuvH8. Thanks!

Good morning, Tribeandall, and Grog and Luv and All who are to come…….

Am quite tired, but keeping my wits for a few more minutes. Been watching the rescue so far of 3 Chilean miners!!! What an amazing event……….

See you all tomorrow…

Here you go LuvChaos. I’ll have Snotty beam Little Sister’s breakfast right to her desk.

Good Morning Grog and LuvChaos.

I’ll just have some Huevos Rancheros, thank you.

Good Morning Bargrove and MontanaLady.

Have a good night MontanaLady.

Good Morning, MontanaLady, Bargrove, LuvChaos & Sojourner

All your orders are up.

Good Night, MontanaLady

Thank you Grog.

Good Evening, Grog, Bargrove, MontanaLady, Sojo, Dawn, Celecca, Sir Peon, Doc T, Lonewolf, Runs with Beer, Johanan, Little Sister, LightenUp

Hello Johanan.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Morning, Johanan. I seem to recall using that button as an avatar a little while back ago.

Enjoy your breakfast.

Good night, Sojourner

People freak out at bugs and spiders, even though we are much bigger than they are.

On the flip side of the coin—It’s marvelous and fascinating that my sweet, adorable, 10-pound dog isn’t the least bit afraid of me even though I’m much bigger than she is. On the contrary, she’s always delighted to see me.

Hello Rmleon

God morning mleon

Time to pass out.

Gunite again, Tribeandall!

Good Night, Bargrove, MontanaLady, Sojo, Rmleon, Johanan and Grog

Super Sized DWFNC, please. Toon tour

Good Morning Tribeandall

I zonked out early last night. I took something for this cold and it knocked me out good for a change.

Good Morning,

Morning All!

Good Morning Lonewolf, Little Sister, LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, RwB, Doc, MontanaLady, Woodeye, hopeandjoy2, Johanan Rakkav, Rmom,Lewreader, Digital Frog, The Sojourner,Bmonk, serenasakitty,Ladyhawk

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Goodmorning Lonewolf, Grog, Doc Toon, RunswB, Dig Frog, Kab Sister, and Sojo who have gathered here

Grog are Cheerios on the menu?? It seems someone named Hope and Joy should eat cheerios with a side of bacon and fruit….Thank you much

Good Morning Hopeandjoy.

Good Morning Runs With Beer, Lonewolf, Digital Frog, Doctor Toon, Sister Kab, Sojourner and HopeandJoy

I think I might have some ideas for Halloween costumes. (giggles)

Good Morning LuvChaos.

Good morning, Tribe and all! Esp: HopeandJoy, Sojo, LuvChaos, & DocT!

I’ll have a breakfast burrito and catch some Nuclear Coffee, if the kitchen is still open.

Been meaning to say, I like Jumbette’s bow.

good night DocT and good day Sojourner, LuvChaos, HopeandJoy, Kab, DigiFrog, Terry, RwB, Grog, rmleon, Johanan, MontanaLady, Bargrove, & those who will drop by later. time for a quick toon tour.

hi boo-monk looks like we passed in the ethereality.

Good Morning boo-monk…I like the bow too!

LuvChaos I can hardly wait to see your custome ideas for Halloween.

Must fly away……….

Yes, Hi, yyyguy–like ships passing in the daytime.

Hello Boo-Monk & UncleWhy

Good Night Doc T

Don’t hit any windows, HopeandJoy

@LuvChaos, and others–there’s a nice skull you might like over at yesterday’s Calvin and Hobbes–second comment from the bottom…

BTW, I wasn’t sure you were still here, LuvChaos–until our comments sidelsipped each other…

Good Morning boo-monk and yyyguy.

Have a good day Hopeandjoy.

I wasn’t sure I was still here either Boo-Monk, my short term memory is Phffft. I even forgot to yell when I sat on one of your baby s’mores yesterday. Geesh! What a mess.

Oh no–if all the smithereens regenerated, that means we have eleventy-dozen more baby s’mores today!

Must depart—might BBML.

Ummm………

i don’t mind baby s’mores. if there’s eleventy dozen there might even be enough to feed the tribe.

the 1:00 alarm has just rung. time to say goodbye and get ready for work. goodbye Tribe.

Bye boo-monk and yyyguy.

Hi RwB

Hey Sojo Hope you day’s going well

RwB - Fine so far. Hope your day is okay.

Almost over….YAY!

And now it is…..

Ok Luv that was a good costume. You had me totally confuzeled until I went back to yesterday and the comments I knew were yours.

Morning (afternoon?) Tribeandall!

Good Afternoon Ladyhawk and EIDo Disc Golf.

Well, Now Good Afternoon EIDo Disc Golf!

I found your avatar! I missed it so I borrowed it. Thank you.

Ladyhawk, I almost added my name but… What kind of costume would that be? I have started a list of my various names on my profile. I don’t think I remember them all anymore.

EIDo Disc Golf - I used to be a bicyclist and not a racer, although I did come in third in a race. After real races were over they held a fun race for non-racers. No one wanted to enter. As there were items donated by bike shops for winners I decided why not. If I was the only one I had to come in first! Since I entered two other people decided to enter. That’s why I took third place.

Good afternoon Tribe!

Home and done for the day. Yeeeeeeehaw!!!

Sounds like fun, hope the weather is good!

Good Afternoon ♠Lonewolf♠, - Good to be done!

Hi Sojo, Lonewolf and Eldo Disc Golf

Wow Lonewolf, you are home before lunch.

I am trying to motivate myself to be a

KoB - Then how would we know you? :-)

Hi, Sojo & LuvH8!

I am now finishing the toon tour that I started this morning.

LuvH8, I am still trying to kick this bug so it’s a welcome surprise today.

LuvH8, you tricked me with the avatar!!!

Hi there, EIDo.

Hi, tribe! Wolfie - Sounds like a really short day for you! I’m glad you were able to get some rest last night. Luv - You confused me for a while, too. At first I thought Runs With Beer had gotten on the wagon. I had a new experience for me today - I felt an earthquake! Of course, it was very mild, but I’ve never ever felt one before. It was centered near Norman, OK. My brother who lives in OKC said he was in his car, and didn’t even notice it. I was sitting at my computer on the 2nd floor, and first thought maybe we got a strong wind gust, looked outside and decided that wasn’t the reason. Then I thought maybe the washer’s spin cycle was shaking the house. But then I remembered I wasn’t doing any laundry! My sons in the basement said they didn’t feel anything. I was glad to find out that it was an earthquake - I was worried I was getting another dizzy spell, and I have been hoping I was over those.

Hi, Rmom. Thank you. It was needed for sure!

I’ve never had the pleasure of feeling the ground shake from an earthquake.

Hi Rmom - Interesting to hear. What does occure around here is usually quite small. Years ago my dad felt one but I never have. I did fell the house shake (and heard) when the grain elevator blew up. It was about ten miles away and shortly after the Okla. City bombing. Glad it wasn’t a dizzy spell!

See I told you most earthquakes are no big deal. Especially if no one gets the bright idea that they need to wake you up.

Hi Rmom, hey if I am tricking people does that mean they all need to send me chocolate?

Wolfie - I don’t know that I would call it a “pleasure” - but I was relieved when I found out what it was. It was only about a 4.3 earthquake, so pretty mild. Sojo - I remember when the Garvey Grain Elevator blew up, but I don’t remember if I felt any shaking from it. I used to drive past it almost every day for a few years.

KoB - That might depend on if you had anything to do with what she felt!

Luv - The only problem with mailing chocolate right now, is unless they’re M&M’s they might get pretty gooey. Our highs are in the 70’s this week.

El Disc, does that mean that because it is an effort for me to be responsible it is a bad thing? (confoozled now)

Sojourner, that is a good question. Maybe I shouldn’t take the car in for an oil change? It has only been possibly two or three years since the last one.

EIDo, I saw your comment at BB. Did not ring a bell in my memory bank.

Luv and all others: My son brought home word on Rissa from her sister. She is in recovery and feeling ok, but they won’t have any diagnosis type results until tomorrow or Friday.

Afternoon tribeandall

The one chance I had to check in today, I couldn’t sign in. But my day is now done and I’m here for a little while at least.

Good Afternoon Grog.

I have yet to feel a natural earthquake–but I did feel plenty of artificial ones. I used to live about a mile from the (then) largest limestone quarry on earth, and when they bring down a couple hundred thousand tons of limestone, things are gonna move! (Probably Richter scale 3 or 4, but not much more.)

Good afternoon, Grog. I was wondering when I got here before you.

Good Afternoon, Boo-Monk!

Hi Ladyhawk, Grog and Boo-Monk

boo-monk - I think I’ve felt the earth move from artificial forces before. I used to live very close to I-135 (back yard fence belonged to KDOT.) So when the jackhammer was used to break up the old concrete, I’m pretty sure the house shook, too. But I heard the noise to go with it, so it wasn’t as puzzling.

Knocks Over Beer???? Say it ain’t so!

Hello, how are you Grog? You know I like knocking over beer.

With the avatar, I thought you were RwB. My mistake, KOB

KoB - just please knock it over in a sink or outside or something as

Guard your beers guys. Don’t let the female folk waste them.

Hi, Sojo, Ladyhawk, ♠Lonewolf♠, KoB, and Rmom!

I also felt the ground shake when a chemical plant exploded one day–I think that one was about 10 miles away. Can’t find a reference anymore…can’t remember enough details…

boo-monk - I saw a show about that. It was some explosion!

Was it about 30 years back?

There was an explosion in Pampa, TX back in 86 ot 87 I think it was. It was a plant owned by my former company.

I don’t remember when it occured but the show was several years ago. It was an a remote area (to a degree). If it was in ND that would fit. It was a chemical plant and there aren’t many that have had that much destruction so I’m sure it was the same one. The only other accidental explosion / destruction in the US I can think of that was larger was years ago. An oil refinery on the gulf coast.

No, this was near Chicago–SW suburbs. Tinley Park?? Naperville???

Then it might be different but I’m not sure. Grog - What you mentioned might of been what I mentioned but I can’t remember either one good enough to know for sure.

My problem too–I can’t remember enough to find it…

I spent 10 years in a fire reserve and saw a lot of training films on major explosions and fires but I didn’t see either of those then.

Grog - What I was thinking of was this: Texas City Disaster On 16 April 1947, the SS Grandcamp, loaded with 8,500 short tons (7,700 t) of ammonium nitrate, exploded in port at Texas City, Texas. 581 died, over 5,000 injured. Using standard chemical data for decomposition of ammonium nitrate gives 2.7 kilotons of energy released.[11] The US Army rates the relative effectiveness of ammonium nitrate, compared to TNT, as 0.42.[12] This conversion factor makes the blast the equivalent of 3.2 kilotons of TNT. This is generally considered the worst industrial accident in United States history.

Grog - I Think this is what you mentioned: October 23, 1989: Phillips Disaster. Explosion and fire killed 23 and injured 314 in Pasadena, Texas. Registered 3.5 on the Richter scale.Here fo details

boo-monk - This might be it: June 28, 1988: Auburn, Indiana, improper mixing of chemicals kills four workers at a local metal-plating plant in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history; a fifth victim died two days later.

No. This one was in the Texas panhandle back in November of 87. Celanese was the company.

Good Evening Everyone!

Boo-Monk. Are you talking about the refinery explosion here around 1984?

Sojo, the Citgo Refinery in Lemont, Illinois exploded in 1984 causing the ground to shake as if there were an earthquake.

I might find info on it later for myself out of curiosity. I’ve made enough comments already on this. Aperently I have too much time on my hands. Thanks for the info Grog, it will give me something to check out. :-)

I remember when the Pampa explosion happened I was in Boston for a Hockey/Football weekend. It was on the news after the hockey game.

♠Lonewolf♠ - I’ll check that out also. It’s amazing what you can find on the internet. These will give me practice on trying to find things.

Well I have Hitchcock’s Notorious to watch tonight, not just one of my favorite Hitchcocks, but favorite movies.

I’ll therefore be signing out early tonight. I don’t like multi-tasking when I’ve got a good movie.

Gunite, tribeandall

Enjoy your movie Grog!

Good Night, Grog. Enjoy the movie!

Sojo, I enjoy using Wikipedia when I want to check out people and such, too.

Good night, Grog!

Sojo - I also enjoy looking up stuff on the internet. It is amazing and a little scary how much info is readily available on the internet.

Hi Rmom, Sojo, Lonewolfie, and Bmonk…Bye Grog, don’t let Mr. Hitchcock scare you.

LuvChaos I was a good driver today,(took lessons from Harry Potter) and didn’t hit any windows.

How can Grog be watching the telly when he is strung up by one foot in a tree and his rescuer fell into his trap?

Rmom, That Oklahoma tremor made my ears perk up since the New Madrid fault is always threatening to be active again having something so near makes one wonder.

The last tremor from a non-natural event we experienced was when we were in London for a semester and the underground ran under our flat. When was quiet in the wee hours, we could feel a slight tremor of the High Street Kensington tube and even hear it running on the rails. During normal daytime activity we were not aware of it. It would make me feel slightly dizzy.

Rmom - What some people, especially younger ones, don’t realize is what they put on it is there forever somewhere. Many employers now check it when checking out potential employees. What they did on spring break and told someone may keep them form getting a job!

Hi, Hopeandjoy2!

Hopeandjoy - Yes, that fault is something to keep in mind. Anything can happen anywhere anytime though, It’s intereresting to see what does happen.

EIDo, now I understand. That is funny. I guess I wasn’t thinking………………………….LOL

Hope&joy - I know about the New Madrid fault, but I was a little surprised there was an earthquake close to Norman. I guess I always thought earthquakes happen where it isn’t so flat. Sojo - I know I’m glad there wasn’t MySpace or Facebook when I was young & stupid. At least with my sons not being into socializing, they don’t care about the social networking sites. That doesn’t mean that as a good parent that I don’t google their names once in a while just to make sure they’re not up to something I didn’t know about!

Hello everyone I had an interest day. I will try to be brief. I’m off for Thursday maintenance is shampooing office carpet. Everyone has to leave at 2:30 so no since me going in for 1 1/2 hour. Boss was transferred last part of September. I contacted tech support this morning on printer had one then lost them this blasted lap top. When I got home I finally talked to someone from MS Office. If you remember I asked all what to have done where MS Word would print on new printer. I gave bad word to our daughter’s guy. Found out from reps at MS Office what he ordered from EBay is bootleg. I was not expecting this I was expecting real software not bootleg. So Daughter’s guy is contacting eBay and guy he bought from for money back. Now waiting for confirmation from either MS Office or Jr. college so I can pay for software. Like I said what a day.

Rmom I heard today the earthquake was felt at county courthouse. I didn’t know there was an earthquake this morning.

Hi, Kab!

Now THAT was funny, EIDo!

I remember (for what it’s worth considering some of my earlier comments) about a large earthquake in China that caused a large loss of life. Everyone was supprised as there were no faults in the area. All the geologists could say was that sometimes that happens and they didn’t know why.

Hi Kab.

Hi, Kab! I was glad I happened to read about it on the Eagle’s website shortly after it happened, or I wouldn’t have known what it was that I felt. My sons were in the basement, and said they didn’t feel it. It wasn’t much movement, if I didn’t have my leg against the side of my desk, I’m not positive I would have noticed it.

I didn’t know it happen until I heard on news. Admin Assist heard from someone at the court house they felt it there. What time was it? How long have you been in KS Rmom? I have a great reason for asking here’s why, my kids where at school we lived in my hubby’s mother’s house she I can’t remember was alive or not. Not far from Clearwater is a giant grain silo’s. There were people who died from that. Friction created a massive explosion, that explosion was felt clear across Wichita. Where we lived this explosion missed us.

Those grain elevators where blown out news had a field day report this massive event of danager.

Kab - I’ve lived in KS my whole life, except 1980 & part of 1981.

Hi, Doc!

Hi, Doc.

Bye, Doc!

It’s getting quiet here, and I’m getting sleepy. Good night!

Good Night Rmom.

Good Night, Rmom. Rest well!

Rmom good night to you I will be turning in shortly. Do you remember not far from Clearwater grain elevator? That Hugh explosion blew out those silos killed 3 or 4 guys. I will be waiting for Jr. college for student software. My daughters guy will watch it next time he orders. He is planing to notify ebby on this matter.

Goodnight Kab Sister and RMom, Sojo and Lonewolf

Been enthralled with the Miner rescue in Chili. What a blessing.

I will be happily involved with family for a bit so take care of each other. Hope all is good news for the 16 year-old of the friend of Ladyhawk

Good Night, Hopeandjoy2.

It is good to see some happy news once in a while!

I add to the hoping and praying for some “good news”, Ladyhawk.

Good Night Hopeandjoy.

Congratulations HopeandJoy!

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