Anonymouswizard's Astoundingly Assonant Random Banter #240

[enderlord99]

[Shudders.] Heavens forbid, no! It's heating, mostly. And water. I'm very serious about the per bit of perennial.

You're serious about going through?

[Metastachydium]

You're serious about going through

…the whole year, alive, green and mostly in one piece? Yes, pretty much.

[Form]

I've got only a few more days left until the outdoor pool closes. Fun fact: Indoor pool water tastes different from outdoor pool water.

[enderlord99]

I've got only a few more days left until the outdoor pool closes.

Isn't your whole country an outdoor pool?

[Beeftank]

Mile swim results: 55 minutes flat. Though you may be wondering if I an Atlantean, or perhaps the missing love-child of Michael Phelps and a sea lion, I assure you all I am a regular guy. I put my swim trunks on one leg at a time, though at an admittedly blazing speed.

[Peelee]

Mile swim results: 55 minutes flat. Though you may be wondering if I an Atlantean, or perhaps the missing love-child of Michael Phelps and a sea lion, I assure you all I am a regular guy. I put my swim trunks on one leg at a time, though at an admittedly blazing speed.

On the one hand, Google claims that a beginner should be able to swim a mile in 50-60 minutes. On the other hand, I choose to summon Saw Gererra and cry out "LIES! DECEPTION!" on Google's claims and also point out that your name is Beeftank, heavily implying that you are a beefy tank.

[Metastachydium]

Isn't your whole country an outdoor pool?

You are one wicked person for sure! (Make sure you never change!)

I've got only a few more days left until the outdoor pool closes. Fun fact: Indoor pool water tastes different from outdoor pool water.

I don't think you should actually drink either.

[Beeftank]

On the one hand, Google claims that a beginner should be able to swim a mile in 50-60 minutes. On the other hand, I choose to summon Saw Gererra and cry out "LIES! DECEPTION!" on Google's claims and also point out that your name is Beeftank, heavily implying that you are a beefy tank.

I like to think I would have shaved a few minutes off without the flight suit, but you’re right; what does google know? I bet your computer hasn’t swam a lap in its life.

[Form]

Isn't your whole country an outdoor pool?

We're constantly draining the sea to have that very much not to be the case.

[Peelee]

We're constantly draining the sea to have that very much not to be the case.

At least y'all are draining the sea, we're over here draining lakes. Way worse idea.

[Keltest]

At least y'all are draining the sea, we're over here draining lakes. Way worse idea.

Meh. Lake Superior has had it too good for too long. Anybody with Superior in their name needs some humbling.

[Peelee]

Meh. Lake Superior has had it too good for too long. Anybody with Superior in their name needs some humbling.

Dont talk too much smack or Gitche Gumee may get you in its crosshairs.

[Mystic Muse]

Dont talk too much smack or Gitche Gumee may get you in its crosshairs.

The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.

[Peelee]

The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.

Oh my. Do the gales of November ever come early?

[Rater202]

The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.

I've heard it said that to this day people who disrespect the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald tend to go missing should they do so in a port town on the Great Lakes.

[Mystic Muse]

Oh my. Do the gales of November ever come early?

According to the song I've been referencing, yes.

[Peelee]

According to the song I've been referencing, yes.

That's a song? I thought it was just idle pondering as you creep around back stairs.

[Mystic Muse]

That's a song? I thought it was just idle pondering as you creep around back stairs.

https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

Personally, as far as songs about shipwrecks go, I'm more fond of "Flowers of Bermuda", covered by Heather Dale, originally by Stan Rogers.

[Peelee]

https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

Personally, as far as songs about shipwrecks go, I'm more fond of "Flowers of Bermuda", covered by Heather Dale, originally by Stan Rogers.

Not much a fan of Sundown, I take it?

[Mystic Muse]

Not much a fan of Sundown, I take it?

Not familiar with them, no.

[enderlord99]

Not much a fan of Sundown, I take it?

Not much of a fan of what?

[2D8HP]

[…]
...I think most people feel incomplete at some point in their lives. Some people try to fill the void with friendship, romance, great works, creative endeavors, money, power...

I bet you could do a wonderous social-psych study about it, trying to find people willing to admit to such feelings and what they did to try and cope could probably provide interesting insights into mankind's drive to feel productive.

Maybe not most, but I’d wager many feel that way.

Probably more prevalent where folks aren’t in an active struggle to survive and have more time to muse.

...I also sometimes feel like I can feel myself aging in real-time. I don't think that's normal. I've looked into it and all I could find was a mental disorder where some people believe themselves to already be dead(or undead) and claim that they can feel themselves decaying but... That doesn't line up with my experience.

I want to say that I might be more in tune with my body to my awareness of its shortcomings(pre-mature arthritis, weak back, bad vision, etcetera) except I didn't notice significant rapid weight loss which blows that theory right out of the water.

Sadly I do feel that way as well due to age and old work injuries.

[Peelee]

Not familiar with them, no.

"It" would be better, since it's another Gordon Lightfoot song. And an excellent one, at that.

[Mystic Muse]

"It" would be better, since it's another Gordon Lightfoot song. And an excellent one, at that.

I'll check it out tonight. Only other one I'm familiar with is "If You Could Read My Mind." And I prefer the Johnny Cash version of that one.

[Peelee]

I'll check it out tonight. Only other one I'm familiar with is "If You Could Read My Mind." And I prefer the Johnny Cash version of that one.

Sundown was his highest ranking one, and the only one to hit #1 on the charts, if that's something you care about (it's not for me, but different strokes and everything).

I thought I was being fairly obvious with the WotEF references and then the Sundown followup but it seems I was mistaken.

[Mystic Muse]

Sundown was his highest ranking one, and the only one to hit #1 on the charts, if that's something you care about (it's not for me, but different strokes and everything).

I thought I was being fairly obvious with the WotEF references and then the Sundown followup but it seems I was mistaken.

It's been a long morning (sitting next to a coworker who will not shut up) and I'm fairly tired, so I was not sure if you legitimately had not hesrd the song despite seemingly referencing it, or what.

[Rater202]

So today I learned that due to a legal battle regarding The Conjuring and its' sequels(regarding whether or not the events they were based on were historical events, and therefore fair use) that there is now a legal precedent that ghosts exist.

[Peelee]

It's been a long morning (sitting next to a coworker who will not shut up) and I'm fairly tired, so I was not sure if you legitimately had not hesrd the song despite seemingly referencing it, or what.

I got five bucks on "it's one of those songs that you've definitely heard before even if you were unaware and it'll probably sound familiar".

And, speaking of songs like that and recommendations, one of my favorite songs ever is Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. I guarantee you've heard it before. Everyone has heard it before. You'll listen to it and think "nah this doesn't sound familiar" and then the sax will kick in and you'll be all "oh hey it's that song!"

And then, ya know, the rest of the song is amazing as well. But that's gotta be one of, if not the single most famous sax riffs ever.

[enderlord99]

So today I learned that due to a legal battle regarding The Conjuring and its' sequels(regarding whether or not the events they were based on were historical events, and therefore fair use) that there is now a legal precedent that ghosts exist.

That reminds me of Ebay's ruling on trying to use them to sell your soul.

If souls aren't real, you're running a scam which is against their policy. If they are real, you're selling part of a person; organ-trafficking is also against their policy.

[Peelee]

That reminds me of Ebay's ruling on trying to use them to sell your soul.

If souls aren't real, you're running a scam which is against their policy. If they are real, you're selling part of a person; organ-trafficking is also against their policy.

Would it be an organ?

Regardless, that sounds needlessly complex. They could just refuse on the grounds of insufficient proof of delivery.