Free Association Thread 5

[latecomer91364]

I guess that you'd need to be experienced in what an Earthquake feels like.
I've only experienced it once, and I can definitely say that the song "Shake, Rattle & Roll" is not likely to be in your ear when the ground shakes.
Maybe something falling off a shelf, but not music.

I live in L.A. - been through a few. In the 1971, my family's home was very close to being declared a tear down. There are no songs playing when you're trying to get yourself and your sister downstairs and outside when the floor is covered with everything your family owns.

Still, it's better than living on the Gulf Coast, where you can count on disaster every year, and just hoping the roll of the dice doesn't lead it your way.

 

[SamScribble]

I live in L.A. - been through a few. In the 1971, my family's home was very close to being declared a tear down. There are no songs playing when you're trying to get yourself and your sister downstairs and outside when the floor is covered with everything your family owns.

Still, it's better than living on the Gulf Coast, where you can count on disaster every year, and just hoping the roll of the dice doesn't lead it your way.

I experienced a couple of earthquakes in Italy. One felt like a large truck had hit the building. The other definitely involved lots of rolling and shaking (shuddering?), with a fair bit of rattling - although not necessarily in that order.

 

[Handley_Page]

I live in L.A. - been through a few. In the 1971, my family's home was very close to being declared a tear down. There are no songs playing when you're trying to get yourself and your sister downstairs and outside when the floor is covered with everything your family owns.

Still, it's better than living on the Gulf Coast, where you can count on disaster every year, and just hoping the roll of the dice doesn't lead it your way.

If it had been a 'tear-down', would the replacement have been made to a better standard of 'anti-earthquake' construction ?

I experienced a couple of earthquakes in Italy. One felt like a large truck had hit the building. The other definitely involved lots of rolling and shaking (shuddering?), with a fair bit of rattling - although not necessarily in that order.

Mine was a notable shaking. I wondered what it was all about until I realised what it was. I'd just started to get worried when it stopped. It's not something I fancy being repeated.

 

[latecomer91364]

If it had been a 'tear-down', would the replacement have been made to a better standard of 'anti-earthquake' construction

It was one of the three oldest houses in our city, a remnant of the days when it was surrounded by farmlands. The exterior was actual rocks and mortar. We lost two huge chimneys (one fell through the roof), and had to strap one of the corners and pull it back almost 2 inches and reinforce it.

We all loved that home. After we had all been gone for a while, my mom sold it, and later it didn't survive the 1994 Whittier quake. Nobody was injured, but it was condemned and torn down at that time.

 

[Handley_Page]

It was one of the three oldest houses in our city, a remnant of the days when it was surrounded by farmlands. The exterior was actual rocks and mortar. We lost two huge chimneys (one fell through the roof), and had to strap one of the corners and pull it back almost 2 inches and reinforce it.

We all loved that home. After we had all been gone for a while, my mom sold it, and later it didn't survive the 1994 Whittier quake. Nobody was injured, but it was condemned and torn down at that time.

But does the replacement get built to modern, less damage-prone, techniques. ?

 

[latecomer91364]

But does the replacement get built to modern, less damage-prone, techniques. ?

There was a new owner overseeing the new construction, but considering the building codes in effect in Los Angeles County, I presume it was. I've driven by a few times when I'm in the area, and it looks like all the other cookie-cutter houses they put up now.

 

[JKendallDane]

There was a new owner overseeing the new construction, but considering the building codes in effect in Los Angeles County, I presume it was. I've driven by a few times when I'm in the area, and it looks like all the other cookie-cutter houses they put up now.

Warm chocolate chip cookies

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[latecomer91364]

Warm chocolate chip cookies

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Can I get milk with those cookies?
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[JKendallDane]

Can I get milk with those cookies?
https://up8.xhcdn.com/000/034/728/642_1000.jpg

Sorry but we sold our cow for some magic beans.

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[MistressMoira]

Sorry but we sold our cow for some magic beans.

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I have been trying to include more vegetable based meals in my diet. I made some white bean and garlic dip the other day. It was good. Magic beans.

 

[SamScribble]

I have been trying to include more vegetable based meals in my diet. I made some white bean and garlic dip the other day. It was good. Magic beans.

Every now and then I get a craving for a vegetable frittata with a freshly-made tomato and chilli salsa. It's a great way of clearing out the veg bin in the fridge.

 

[Handley_Page]

Every now and then I get a craving for a vegetable frittata with a freshly-made tomato and chilli salsa. It's a great way of clearing out the veg bin in the fridge.

I thought salsa was a kind of south american dance.

 

[SamScribble]

I thought salsa was a kind of south american dance.

You put your hot chilli in
You take your hot chilli out
You put your hot chilli in
And you shake it all about

 

[latecomer91364]

You put your hot chilli in
You take your hot chilli out
You put your hot chilli in
And you shake it all about

Sounds like you need a cool drink to go with that hot chili:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo

 

[JKendallDane]

Sounds like you need a cool drink to go with that hot chili:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo

When you start seeing gorillas at the piano bar, the bartender should probably cut you off.

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[Handley_Page]

When you start seeing gorillas at the piano bar, the bartender should probably cut you off.

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Or you might question the dose level of that new medication.

 

[latecomer91364]

Or you might question the dose level of that new medication.

Problem solved! The gorilla stole my medication and doled it out to all the Teddy Bears at the picnic. Now I have nothing.

Maybe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA

 

[SamScribble]

Problem solved! The gorilla stole my medication and doled it out to all the Teddy Bears at the picnic. Now I have nothing.

Maybe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uEMOeDZsA

For most of my life, I thought that 'heavy drug use' was a couple of aspirin a year. And then ... well, I'm sure that my grandfather didn't have to take all of this stuff.

 

[latecomer91364]

For most of my life, I thought that 'heavy drug use' was a couple of aspirin a year. And then ... well, I'm sure that my grandfather didn't have to take all of this stuff.

Personally, I don't care to take drugs... unless they're recreational (meaning the kinds of drugs that make you climb trees and jump on trampolines).

 

[Handley_Page]

Personally, I don't care to take drugs... unless they're recreational (meaning the kinds of drugs that make you climb trees and jump on trampolines).

or have a meaningful conversation with a Gorilla. . . . .

 

[latecomer91364]

or have a meaningful conversation with a Gorilla. . . . .

We still talk fairly frequently...
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[LiamHDunn]

We still talk fairly frequently...

Though, it's all pretty superficial.

 

[Handley_Page]

Though, it's all pretty superficial.

In a deeply meaningful way, of course.

 

[LiamHDunn]

In a deeply meaningful way, of course.

Maybe that would work.

 

[JKendallDane]

Maybe that would work.

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off to Work We Go

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