“Evening Miss Cardinale, time to get your travelling shoes on.”
“I’m going somewhere?”
“It’s that time of year again for another Vegas jaunt.”
“I’ve barely recovered from the last one.”
“This one will be even more fun!”
“That’s what I’m afraid of. Well in any event, here is last week’s winner and the new entries.”
“I hope everyone remembers voting will be open for two weeks.”
Winner
This fortnight’s.
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Based on “Chains”
(originally by The Cookies)
(which are now on your computer)
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Change: crybabies got me locked up for “change”
And it ain’t the kind that you can see
Whoa–oh, this gang above got a hold on me, yeah
Change, well I can’t break away from this change
Can’t drive around, ’cause I’m not free
Whoa–oh, this change-lovin’ gov won’t let me be, yeah
I wanna tell you, petty babies
I’ll pay the fine
I like to barbecue
But, darn it, I’m imprisoned by this…
Change, crybabies got me locked up in change
And it ain’t the kind that you can see
Oh, oh, this iron glove got a hold on me
Please believe me when I tell you
It beats an ice sheet
I’d just dismiss them
But I can’t break away from all of this…
Change, crybabies taking all of my change
And it ain’t the kind of tax that you can see
Whoa–oh, this change-lovin’ gov got a hold on me, yeah
Change; change of gov…
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“What is it that gold cannot command, or hath not conquered? Justice herself, that sitteth wimpled about the eyes, doth it not because she will take no gold, but that she would not be seen blushing when she takes it: the balances she holdeth are not to weigh the right of the cause, but the weight of the bribe: she will put up [sheathe] her naked sword if thou offer her a golden scabbard.”
— John Lyly, Midas, 1592
Believe me: Kirk and I have first-hand knowledge of things she wouldn’t do.
Spacewalk Snafu: Astronauts Lose Tool Bag in Orbital Oopsy
Scitech Daily | Nov. 2, 2023 | NASANASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara concluded their spacewalk today at 2:47 p.m. EST after 6 hours and 42 minutes.
During the activity, one tool bag was inadvertently lost. Flight controllers spotted the tool bag using external station cameras.
From a commenter:
“Former NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost the bag during a November spacewalk to repair a bulky solar array joint on the International Space Station” – 2008
“Peggy Whitson, who became the world’s most experienced female spacewalker during the outing, told ground control teams that a bag containing the debris shield floated away at about 10am EDT/1400 GMT on Thursday.” – 2017
We covered their boozing under-down-under a month ago — and now this. Carry a hammer, penguins!
Investigators head to remote McMurdo Station in Antarctica to probe sexual assault and harassment claims made by women who said they’re being put in danger – with one saying she is forced to carry around a HAMMER for her own safety
Daily Mail | 10.03.2023 | Martha WilliamsMcMurdo Station – the U.S. Antarctic research station – is under investigation for harboring a shockingly high number of sexual assault and harassment claims.
I can see a new series: “McMurdo, She Wrote.”
