Yes, Friends, do YOU live next door to one of the world's ocean? Well, if so, you might want to check out this frightening story in this morning's Onion News!
Just saying !!!!!
And if you think the story seems a little far-fetched, and you're scratching your head while reading this, don't worry! The story comes from the paper's popular "Leave Time For A Smile" column, see page 94 of the print edition! So it's merely the figment of the imagination of some local, hard-working, so-called "comedy journalist", which is a relief!
It's certainly amusing, however, as a story, even if it isn't strictly true (!), and it doesn't fail to bring a wry, if slightly jagged, smile to the faces of me and my wife Lois, here in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, to put it mildly.
We're actually busy taking our near-daily walk, which this morning takes us over the mud-affected turf of nearby Old Man Lowsley's Farm, which is nice!
flashback to this morning: my wife Lois and me, taking our near-daily
4000-step walk through nearby, mud-affected, Old Man Lowsley's Farm
Water, and oceans in general, are certainly very much on our minds today.
In contrast, a very real story about the ocean has, by coincidence, grabbed Lois's attention today, from our copy of "The Week" magazine - the magazine which gives a digest of the week's news from home and abroad, and which "plopped" through our letterbox just last Friday, would you believe!
And yes, you've guessed it - Lois's "hackles" have been very justifiably raised, by yet another story of a woman scientist who made a ground-breaking discovery, but who - guess what! - has been left out of the history books, in favour of her less insightful male colleague!
What madness!
(left) Yours Truly, showcasing our copy of "The Week" magazine, and (right)
the shocking article which has, justifiably, raised Lois's hackles a bit today
At the time, the "orthodoxy" in the world of oceanography, was that oceans was that all the earth's land, being rock, the fundament on which we live, were structurally static.
Tharpe was one of the oceanographic heretics of the period, a so-called "drifter", as opposed to the more orthodox "fixers", who dominated the science. She had realised that, whether dry land or land under the sea, all land was essentially mobile, and volatile. Initially, however, she had to keep her views secret - in those crazy, far-off days, you could actually be fired for being a "drifter". What madness wasn't it!
the map of the North Atlantic Ocean, showing the now-famous
Atlantic Ridge, published by Columbia University in 1957
Tharpe's view, that there was such a thing as the now famous "Atlantic Ridge" (see picture above), was initially dismissed in academic circles as "girl talk". And although eventually she managed to convince her male colleague Heezen, it wasn't enough to get her into the history books, however, and Heezen has generally got all the credit - what madness!!!!
20:00 So, in brief, despite the fact that we've been officially "retired" for exactly 20 years, today has been yet another busy day for Lois and me - no surprise there! How did we ever find the time to go to work, back in the day - it's totally crazy!!!!
(left) in the course of another busy Monday, I somehow find the time to get my
first bite of Lois's home-made custard-affected apple-and-mincemeat tart,
which I first got wind of a few days ago - see picture (right). Yum yum !!!!!
No peace for the wicked!!!! Not only do we have the 52 pages of "The Week" magazine to somehow "plough through" (!) today, we also have to somehow find the time to plan our Easter: visiting our daughter Alison and family on Easter Sunday, and then hosting them all for dinner here on Easter Monday evening, when Alison and husband Edward, plus their 3 teenage kids Josie Rosalind and Isaac will be dropping by, after the labours of their 4-day weekend are over and done with.
Ali and Edward will be exhausted from their gardening work, and the three kids will be exhausted from their school and college revision work.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
We even found time today to drop by at Sainsbury's to buy 5 big chocolate Easter eggs, one each for Ali, Edward, and our 3 grandchildren. Plus.... 9 chocolate bunnies for all the little kids in our street, would you believe! Lois is so warm-hearted: what a woman I married !!!!!
we even find time somehow to drop by Sainsbury's
to buy 5 big chocolate Easter eggs for the family,
but also 9 chocolate bunnies for all the little kids
on our street - awwww, Lois, is so warm-hearted !!!!!
At least Lois and I can relax tonight, with the remainder of BBC4's "Elaine Paige Evening", which we started watching yesterday.
At the Blue Angel, everything on the menu is good, apparently, the waiter says, apart from the girls, who, needless to say, are bad (!).
And then, there are "those girls"..... (!)
Yes, you've guessed it - it's all by way of an intro into the floor show, and Cole Porter's marvellous "Anything Goes!" (1934).
But how nice tonight to hear some of the verses you don't hear so often, like these :
when every night, the set that's smart,
is indulging in nudist parties
in studios, anything goes!
When mothers pack and leave poor father,
Because they'd rather see tennis pro's,
Anything goes!
If driving fast cars you like,
If low bars you like,
If old hymns you like,
Or bare limbs you like,
If Mae West you like,
Or me undressed you like,
Well nobody will oppose!
Anything goes!!!
They don't write songs like that any more, do they!
[Something to be grateful for there, perhaps! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzz!!!!!
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