Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

http://grist.org/business-technolog...-it-will-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun/

A North Carolina town has voted against a solar farm with one reason cited being that it will suck energy from the Sun. Americans are often referred to as our cousins, but they are the sort of cousins you avoid in the street because they lick frozen flagpoles.

 

Good grief .......................

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...funniest-christmas-cracker-joke-a6773606.html

To get in the mood....some cracker jokes. Can't believe people said they were fed up with old cracker jokes....that is what Xmas about. Truly dreadful jokes and the sheer joy of getting it before someone gives you the answer. Best when rendered immobile by turkey and mince pies.

 

I don't wait for Christmas for cheesy, corny jokes.... you may have noticed this before )

 

A good cracker joke should be almost painful....I can see the link.

 

Star Trek beyond is another film I am looking forward to watching next summer

 

How did Scrooge win the football game?

The ghost of Christmas passed!

 

black square also

 

It played for me FLT?

 

Looking forward to that...July 22nd long way off though

 

FLT is in his own private black hole.

 

Fran, please... it's lunchtime and I could do without coming on here to read about FLT's black hole.

 

He could make it festive and put some glitter on it

 

I'm not such a Trek purist that I don't like these alternative time-line Star Trek films, so yep, I'm looking forward to this one too.

What I'd like to see one day is a film about Species 8472 v The Borg v The Federation. There's nothing quite so satisfying in Star Trek as seeing the Borg running for home crying mummy mummy, some nasty people are after us.

Or something with the Romulans. Love those green Romulan ships almost as much as Enterprise A or Voyager.

 

Tim Peake's take-off this morning was quite eventful The Escape Tower must have wobbled about 10 feet just prior to lift-off, as the rocket motors were throttling up. The Soyuz is a bloody reliable lifter though:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35102646

 

This should sort you out. If it doesn't perhaps a trip to the Doctor will:

 

Cheers, TSS - looks good ...........

 

I like the Amazon one.

 

Luther!

 

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates.

St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place."

So, the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in.

Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After awhile, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day, God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"

Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."

God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have been sent down there; send him up here."

Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."

God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"