Whatever: The Open Lines Thread

[Walks_At_Night]

That's a name from yesteryear. Bengals, right?

Yep. 

[Walks_At_Night]

Fodor's telling people to stay away from the U.P.   They list all these world famous places to avoid - Venice, Athens, Mount Fujii and then they slide the U.P. into the list.  Odd but it is a good addition I suppose. Probably tied with North Dakota as the most obscure place in the lower 48. It is also my favorite place on the planet.

https://www.fodors.com/news/news/fodors-no-list-2024

Guess a new marketing campaign is needed.

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[sean92008]

Brian Wilson has been diagnosed with dementia.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/beach-boys-co-founder-brian-wilsons-family-files-conservatorship-following-dementia-diagnosis

[PB]

... the U.P... my favorite place on the planet...

I had a colleague who would say that before departing for vacation.

[Walks_At_Night]

I had a colleague who would say that before departing for vacation.

A good man. did he make it to Gwinn?

[PB]

A good man. did he make it to Gwinn?

Not that he mentioned. 

I remember one time some travel agent dropped off a bunch of brochures in our kitchen, and him flipping through them.  When he was done he said something like ''nothing about the Upper Peninsula - good!'', lol.

[Up All Night]

https://fxtwitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1758868912400146874

[sean92008]

https://fxtwitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1758868912400146874

Out of all of the Babylon Bee parody headlines, this seems the least plausible.
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[Walks_At_Night]

Only tree for 250 miles and it gets whacked out by a drunk.

[Bart Ell]

Only tree for 250 miles and it gets whacked out by a drunk.

It would still be there if it was 251 miles.

[KSM]

It would still be there if it was 251 miles.

LOL

Or 250.01 miles

[Walks_At_Night]

Well that sucks. That scientific study on rats with gigantic whammers has been retracted. 

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[PB]

The book I'm reading is a travel/adventure about two young women who right after finishing college foolishly decided to travel to China in 1986, right after it opened to tourists.  But before China was really ready for tourists.  It's the same year I went and traveled around for a while, they came right around the time I was leaving.

So many of their observations and experiences were so similar to mine, although at least I had a home base there to come and go from for R&R between excursions, and not just be endlessly on the road there.  In the book, she's very entertaining in relating their experiences with humor and sarcasm. 

Anyway, I'm reading it in a cafe at lunch time, laughing a little, and a couple of people now and then peek at the cover - the back of a woman's head with chopsticks tied up in her hair, with the title ''Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven'' - they then wrinkle their noses and walk away.  Wait!  It's not what you think!  Lol.

[PolkaDot]

- the back of a woman's head with chopsticks tied up in her hair, with the title ''Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven'' - they then wrinkle their noses and walk away.  Wait!  It's not what you think!  Lol.

@PB you're into the bodice ripper genre? Huh, I am a little surprised. What's your coffee order? Tell the truth- we're trying to flush out your character here.

[Walks_At_Night]

The book I'm reading is a travel/adventure about two young women who right after finishing college foolishly decided to travel to China in 1986, right after it opened to tourists.  But before China was really ready for tourists.  It's the same year I went and traveled around for a while, they came right around the time I was leaving.

So many of their observations and experiences were so similar to mine, although at least I had a home base there to come and go from for R&R between excursions, and not just be endlessly on the road there.  In the book, she's very entertaining in relating their experiences with humor and sarcasm. 

Anyway, I'm reading it in a cafe at lunch time, laughing a little, and a couple of people now and then peek at the cover - the back of a woman's head with chopsticks tied up in her hair, with the title ''Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven'' - they then wrinkle their noses and walk away.  Wait!  It's not what you think!  Lol.

That's pretty funny.  Was eating lunch with Hillbilly Jim at Bojangles Chicken and Biscuits [fast food and pretty darn great] over near Duke University once. The Hillybilly was wearing a T-Shirt with a bunch of Japanese characters on it [have no clue what it was saying]. A young Asian lady [presumably a student] came over and started ripping on him about cultural appropriation and how he ought not to be wearing such as thing as white dude.  She chapped him because instead of taking the fury for a short time, he would have normally started working it with an eye on turning the tables and getting in her pants. Instead he want on the attack. In his broadest and proudest Appalachian accent he told her that she should mind her own beeswax and stop appropriating his culture by eating the fried chicken and that she should GTFO and leave the premises immediately.  She got all red in the face and GTFO immediately.