The Isolated Blurt Thread XLI : The Day The Cat Came Back

[trysail]

"A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that's only 500 seconds off."

-Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court​

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[Richard_P_Feynman]

"A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that's only 500 seconds off."

-Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court​

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"There’s a reason narcissists don’t learn from mistakes and that’s because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one.”​

—Jeffrey Kluger​

 

[trysail]

Say what you will, Cristobal Colon was a helluva sailor.


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In many respects, the sheer daring (insanity) of his expedition eclipses anything human explorers have ever done. The idea of sailing wooden ships across an ocean to explore uncharted waters is absolutely terrifying.

You'll never comprehend it until you have some experience of the sea and a (necessarily inadequate) sense of the danger.


Samuel Eliot Morison's two-volume 1942, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Admiral of The Ocean Sea remains an excellent account of Colon's extraordinary seamanship.



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[JasonBourneAgain]

"Don't eat the yellow snow.”​

—I.P. Freely​

 

[Aglaopheme]

"Don't eat the yellow snow.”​

—Frank Zappa​

FYP, YVW

 

[SelfTawt]

She sighed. The velvety caress of her skin and breath nuzzled into my back.
Deep ragged breaths caused her still erect nipples to raise ripples of goosebumps
Across my cooling sweat covered body.
Her breath in my ear and on my neck,joined by the delicately languid purse of her lips caused a warm rush of contented passion to swell.
The Egyptian cotton sheets may never recover from her stay...

 

[Saint Peter]

FYP, YVW

 

[Aglaopheme]

You playing hooky?

 

[Saint Peter]

You playing hooky?

I have the day off.

Thanks Obama!

 

[Not Normal]

FYP, YVW

You beat me to it!

 

[phantom4533]

She sighed. The velvety caress of her skin and breath nuzzled into my back.
Deep ragged breaths caused her still erect nipples to raise ripples of goosebumps
Across my cooling sweat covered body.
Her breath in my ear and on my neck,joined by the delicately languid purse of her lips caused a warm rush of contented passion to swell.
The Egyptian cotton sheets may never recover from her stay...

What's the thread count of the sheets?

 

[jomar]

FYP, YVW

As it should be!

 

[HarryHill]

Making a big pot of gumbo today

 

[thør]

Say what you will, Cristobal Colon was a helluva sailor.


http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/10/09/gettyimages-841277358_custom-3c4e777b824f8ace0fc3495e7cb0def41fc6da59-s400-c85.jpg

In many respects, the shear daring (insanity) of his expedition eclipses anything human explorers have ever done. The idea of sailing wooden ships across an ocean to explore uncharted waters is absolutely terrifying.

You'll never comprehend it until you have some experience of the sea and a (necessarily inadequate) sense of the danger.


Samuel Eliot Morison's two-volume 1942, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Admiral of The Ocean Sea remains an excellent account of Colon's extraordinary seamanship.



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And the Basque fishermen were already in the New World.

 

[removed9556]

 

[lickitandstickit]

The Vikings, of course, made it over about 500 years before.

I've yet to see any proof of this on Netflix.

 

[removed9556]

 

[spacekowboy]

Say what i will about Christopher Columbus? Okay. He was a slaver and a harbinger of death and rape and destruction all in the name of God and Spain.

Also, he was 500 or so years late.

 

[pointless]

Say what i will about Christopher Columbus? Okay. He was a slaver and a harbinger of death and rape and destruction all in the name of God and Spain.

Also, he was 500 or so years late.

he was also a moron who was lucky there was a continent in his way or he would've fucking starved to death in the middle of the ocean.

 

[Saint Peter]

He cannot be all that bad.

I did not have to go to work because of him. Yay!

 

[removed9556]

 

[Saint Peter]

Do you get a day off for Leif Eriksen?

I do. Same with Johnny Dep.

 

[removed9556]

 

[spacekowboy]

he was also a moron who was lucky there was a continent in his way or he would've fucking starved to death in the middle of the ocean.

Well there is that as well, but who of us hasn't run out of food and water in the middle of the ocean?

 

[thør]

The Vikings, of course, made it over about 500 years before.

That's how the <1% Native American ended up in my DNA.