AdamSmith

Soylent green, anyone? Water too warm for cod in US Gulf of Maine as stocks near collapse http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/30/water-too-warm-for-cod-in-us-gulf-of-maine-as-stocks-near-collapse

Better-than-average article on autonomous cars. Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car? Inside GM's fight to get to the future first. http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gm-super-cruise-driverless-car/?_lrsc=1f0ed444-5c2d-48b3-bb43-8395b6b5a30e&utm_source=linkedin%20elevate&cmsrc=linkedin%20elevate

Serious article despite the oddball headline. Our philosophical attitude towards poo needs to change Dung is vital to life on Earth. The mass extinction of large mammals -- and our squeamishness at our own bodily functions -- is an environmental tragedy http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/28/attitudes-poo-life-on-earth-mass-extinction-bodily-functions

Oh Lordy. Can't bear to watch. I'm reading the Guardian's live reporting stream instead: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/oct/28/republican-debate-live-cnbc-trump-bush-carson You get spared the dull bits, plus you get all the reporters' snarky cuts against the candidates.

lol Me neither. Until I saw it today quite by accident while looking up something else.

hy·pal·la·ge hīˈpaləjē,hi- Rhetoric noun: hypallage; plural noun: hypallages a transposition of the natural relations of two elements in a proposition, for example in the sentence “Melissa shook her doubtful curls.” Hypallage (/haɪˈpælədʒiː/; from the Greek: ὑπαλλαγή, hypallagḗ, "interchange, exchange") or transferred epithet is a literary device that can be described as an abnormal, unexpected change of two segments in a sentence. Contents 1 Examples 2 In other languages 3 References 4 Further reading Examples "On the idle hill of summer/Sleepy with the flow of streams/Far I hear..." (A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad) — idle hill... sleepy is a hypallage: it is the narrator, not the hill, who exhibits these features. "Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time" — Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum est" "restless night" — The night was not restless, but the person who was awake through it was. "happy morning" — Mornings have no feelings, but the people who are awake through them do. In other languages Hypallage is often used strikingly in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. We find such examples of transferred epithets as "the winged sound of whirling" (δίνης πτερωτὸς φθόγγος), meaning "the sound of whirling wings" (Aristophanes, Birds 1198), and Horace's "angry crowns of kings" (iratos...regum apices, Odes 3.21.19f.). Virgil was given to hypallage beyond the transferred epithet, as "give the winds to the fleets" (dare classibus Austros, Aeneid 3.61), meaning "give the fleets to the winds." Literary critic Gérard Genette argued that the frequent use of hypallage is characteristic of Marcel Proust's style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypallage

Thanks! In 2004 visiting Berlin for just 24 hours I went to a couple of bars and did not see anything like this. If I ever get back there, all this is great to know.

Worse than she knows...

Word seems to be that "Romanians" have also swarmed Berlin and made a lot of its gay venues somewhat unsafe. I think somebody reported (here or on the other forum, can't recall) being robbed by two guys right out in public, on the street directly in front of some bar or club. No help forthcoming from the establishment bouncer or others who looked on indifferently.

Today's Inspirational Message...

My TS mags spilling all over didn't bother me! And for my Big Straight Movers who already knew I was queer, it was the highlight of their day.

...ain't it the truth!

Not direct advice, but possibly applicable -- when I first went on Lipitor, it was difficult to get to orgasm. But with time, that effect went away. Maybe your doc could advise if you will get acclimated to your ongoing meds in similar fashion?

One time when I was moving houses, the movers (big straight guys) had a belly laugh when a box burst open and out spilled a fairly sizable collection of TVTS skin mags. Glad you're back home to have such problems!

She could tell from a long way off.

Psst! Grandma needs to know the Walmart store brand is half the price. This stuff is the shits.

Is there a difference?

I'm with her!

Dept. of I Did Not Know That... Murgatroyd Murgatroyd is an English surname. Its etymology, according to one source, is as follows: In 1371, a constable was appointed for the district of Warley in Yorkshire. He adopted the name of Johanus de Morgateroyde, or literally: John of Moor Gate Royde or the district leading to the moor.[1] Another source says the place name means Margaret's road.[2] In Norse, the Royd meant "Clearing" (as in a forest) [3] Although Moorgate in London was a gate with the road to the moor passing through, in Yorkshire, Gate (again from Norse) means street, so Moor Gate Royd would be "A clearing in the forest on the road to the moor". The name is also used in the favorite catchphrase of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss - "Heavens to Murgatroyd!", a line first spoken by Bert Lahr in the film Meet the People, whom Snagglepuss' voice is largely based on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murgatroyd

Never!