Waterboy Wednesday

Curious koalas exploring space are Mars Snoopyals.

Top Things Overheard on the Wise Men's Journey to Bethlehem

- "OK, we got gold. We got the frankincense. We got the myrrh. Think we should get something more practical, like diapers, maybe?"

 - "I thought this was SUPPOSED to be a WEEKEND road trip.

Boy, is my wife ever gonna be ticked when I get home."

- "All this gazing at a star while riding a camel is making me woozy."

- "I still say it wouldn't hurt to drop by Balthazar's place for another visit on the way back. That was SOME buffet!"

- "16 hours a day on a camel. Are you sure this beats walking?"

- "Why should I always have to be in the rear? It's somebody else's turn to get sand in his face."

- "You guys have any idea how to treat saddle sores?"

- "Man, I'm starting to get a rush from this frankincense!"

- "You guys ever eat camel meat? I hear it tastes like chicken."

- "You know, I used to go to school with a girl name Beth Lehem."

- "What kind of name is Balthazar anyhow? Phoenician?"

- "Hey, do you either of you know why 'MYRRH' is spelled with a 'Y' instead of a 'U'?"

- "Okay, who forgot to give his camel a bath before we left?"

- "Whaddya mean we'll be part of history? A year from now, nobody will have a clue why we did this."

And the top thing overheard on the Wise Men's Journey to Bethlehem:

- "I can't wait to see and bow down before the Messiah who has long been foretold!"

Merry Christams my friends.

This Is (not) the End

I got home from work a little late tonight and its now 12:45 MST.  That means that the world should have ended, but it hasn't, so I need to get to bed and get some sleep for tomorrow.  There is a Christmas party at work that I'll have to go in early for.  I wish I would have bought some gifts now, but the world was suppose to end.  Better luck in 5,125 years when the next long form calender will have run it's course.

I don't think anyone has the date of the end of the world nailed down.  I've had a little fun with this whole thing and I learned something that I hadn't realized before.  The Mayans claim that creation happened in 3114 BC.  Bishop Ussher calculated 4004 BC as the date of creation.  Several other ancient authorities and cultures also have similar dates for the beginning of the world. By similar I mean an age of the earth as less than 10,000 years.  Depending on who you ask and the method used there are a number of sources that date creation at around 5,000 to 7,000 years ago.  I find this interesting because I always assumed that the age of the earth debate was basically boiled down to a literal view of the bible verses an evolutionary timeline issue.  That isn't the case at all.  Human observation, as recorded in varous calenders like the Mayans or in nonbiblical mythologies supports a young earth theory.

Now that it looks like the world hasn't ended, we'll have some more time to ponder the topic.

12/21/12

"The Mayan calendar predicts that December 21, 2012 will be the most annoying day on the internet ever."

My Cousin Tracy?

Police say the female driver believed the cat was seriously injured or dead and placed it in her van just after midnight on Wednesday morning.

But while driving the cat became alert and she realized it was a bobcat.
 

The article doesn't say it but I think the women's first clue was the 40lb cat was trying to claw her eyes out.  I can only wonder if the women who did this is my cousin.  Seriously, she lives in Bangor and she always had a soft spot for animals.

UPDATE:

Sorry I forgot the link to the story.  The cops declined to give the woman's name to the news.  BTW: Tracy's husband is a cop, in Bangor.   I've got a call into an uncle to see if I can find out who the women is.

Rob Furlong

Do any of you know who Rob Furlong is?  I didn't think so.  I know who he is but I've never met him.  I've discussed his shots with other guys who do this sort of thing but that's about as close as I've come.  For the record my best LD hits were at 2,000 on a borrowed system, so this guy is way ahead of me as a shooter.  None of that is important, but I thought I'd trow it in for free.

Mr. Furlong returned home after winning fame and glory on the fields of Afghanistan to get a job in his local cop shop.  I guess he was an OK cop.  I have no way of knowing, so we'll give him the benefit of the doubt.  He wasn't a cop for long.  He had a bit of an odd behavior that got him fired.  It seems Rob's long distance fetish also applies to pissing on his fellow cops.  There is nothing in the article that states exactly how far away the other cop was when Robbie took his wiz, so there is no way of knowing if it was another record or not.  In any event the City of Edmonton has been ordered to give him his job back.

The article says that being fired for what he did was too harsh.  I wonder if they thought that it really is ok to piss on cops, or if the fact he can stick a 750 grain bullet in their chest at a distance of over 24 football fields had anything to do with it.