Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

[ER]

When I was a kid I used to like a variation of hide and seek called hide and bite. It was hard to get people to play it with me twice though.

[claws]

I didn't even know there was a hide and clap variation until I saw The Conjuring.

[Alex]

Any sufficiently advanced science will indeed seem to be magic to anyone who doesn't understand it.

[ER]

The heart speaks its own language and the soul hears it, oft to its own grief.

[Leah]

There's nothing quite lke waking up and cleaning up dog mess after having a frantic day yesterday.

[RCMerchant]

^ Except for rolling in it and drinking it's blood! 

[Alex]

They really should have stuck with Boaty McBoatface.

[Alex]

After watching Marvel's 'What if?" show, I think I'd have much rather seen a Captain Carter series of movies than Captain America.

[Trevor]

They really should have stuck with Boaty McBoatface.

If you're talking about the navy renaming a ship after David Attenborough,  I have a toilet in my house I named after his brother Dick. 

[claws]

After many many years IMDb added the genre tag "horror" to The Silence of the Lambs (1991) this week. I wonder what made them change their mind?

Jaws (1975) still remains without "horror" tag though.

[ER]

Something I remember about 1985.

I remember I got a splinter in my chin and it hurt.

I was staying all night with my cousin, who took me through some woods near her home and out the other side to this house they were building at this new subdivision, and by propping a ladder against the side of a half-built house, we'd gone up on the roof, which seemed really high at the time, even though the house was just a one-story ranch.

I was keenly aware my cousin was leading me astray, her standard MO, and if I got busted I'd be in complete and total trouble for going up on a roof with her, but I did it anyway, which was a recurring pattern: she'd propose mischief, I'd follow. She was ten, I was six, she was my leader.

We climbed back down after being up on the roof a few minutes, and I saw that this house had a wooden deck, not sanded or painted or anything, so I climbed it and leaned over the deck to see my cousin who was on the ground, and put my chin against the railing to call out to her, and a little splinter from the rough wood stuck me like a dart, just zooming straight into me diagonally about half an inch in.

I pulled half of the splinter out but it broke and partly stayed under my skin and ached and got red over the next few days, like a tiny chigger bite, and my cousin said don't tell them how it happened, so I didn't, but everybody kept saying I should get the splinter taken out and I said no. I picked at it and it burned but I wouldn't let anyone else touch it.

Finally my dad, who'd been away for a while with his new work in another state came home and saw my chin and did a double-take and raised his eyebrows and said the splinter would stay in there the rest of my life and I'd notice people always looking down at my chin when they talked to me, and asked did I want that?

Well, no, so I let him take a needle and work the splinter out, which hurt like insanely much and bled a lot more than it'd seem like a little thing like that would, and it left an even bigger red spot on my chin for the next week, but at least it did heal so I wasn't destined to be called Splinter Chin, like my cousin said I would be as she laughed her head off when it happened in the first place.

1985.....

[RCMerchant]

( Say in a Carey Grant voice)
"Rudy, Rudy, Rudy!"
That's an Abe Lincoln hat??? Looks like the Mad Hatter's hat!
Real life makes it hard to make fun of stuff. Because you cant't make this sh!t up.

[Allhallowsday]

...That's an Abe Lincoln hat??? Looks like the Mad Hatter's hat!
Real life makes it hard to make fun of stuff. Because you cant't make this sh!t up.
...

It is not an ABE LINCOLN "stovepipe" it is an earlier "bell crown" and therefore WAY wrong.   

[RCMerchant]

^ Whatever is going on here- it's so stupid it's funny. 

[Allhallowsday]

^ Whatever is going on here- it's so stupid it's funny.  

Indeed.