1000 Random posts in a week

[analog.universe]

In the time it takes you read this sentence, the CEO of Facebook will have earned over $700.

 

[snowbear]

GOA (gone on arrival).

 

[snowbear]

There was snow to the north of DC, yesterday. All we got was rain.

 

[snowbear]

More rain expected in a couple of days.

 

[snowbear]

Wow - my post number has sure gone up.

 

[sm4him]

After our predicted dusting tomorrow night, we're supposed to get up to 50 degrees. So even if we get some, it won't last long!

 

[analog.universe]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, can afford to purchase 22 Leica M9's with 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux's mounted, on the amount of money he makes in 1 hour.

 

[sm4him]

yeah, this will definitely bulk up the postings #...but it's made it hard for me to go back and find my posts about things that actually *mattered.*

 

[analog.universe]

After our predicted dusting tomorrow night, we're supposed to get up to 50 degrees. So even if we get some, it won't last long!

We're actually going to have winter tomorrow night, 4F!

 

[sm4him]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, can afford to purchase 22 Leica M9's with 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux's mounted, on the amount of money he makes in 1 hour.

Wonder if he'd buy me one? I'm FB friends with him, after all. :lmao:

 

[sm4him]

After our predicted dusting tomorrow night, we're supposed to get up to 50 degrees. So even if we get some, it won't last long!

We're actually going to have winter tomorrow night, 4F!

Prediction is for about 19 F here, but then right back up to 50 the next day.

 

[analog.universe]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, can afford to purchase 22 Leica M9's with 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux's mounted, on the amount of money he makes in 1 hour.

Wonder if he'd buy me one? I'm FB friends with him, after all. :lmao:

Ask for a copy for me while you're at it!

 

[Bend The Light]

I've been pondering the origins of the saying, "The cats out of the bag". Does it mean that at one time it was acceptable to put cats in bags? I would think that is most difficult to do.

I think it is in the same vein as "Don't buy a pig in a poke"...

In the olden days you could buy meat on the black market, a young lamb, or some such. But if you didn't check the contents of the bag/sack you may eventually find that you have instead a dead cat picked up from the side of the road and sold as prime lamb.

The "pig in a poke" is the same - the poke being a bag. Don't buy a pig in a bag - it may not be a pig!

 

[analog.universe]

I've been pondering the origins of the saying, "The cats out of the bag". Does it mean that at one time it was acceptable to put cats in bags? I would think that is most difficult to do.

I think it is in the same vein as "Don't buy a pig in a poke"...

In the olden days you could buy meat on the black market, a young lamb, or some such. But if you didn't check the contents of the bag/sack you may eventually find that you have instead a dead cat picked up from the side of the road and sold as prime lamb.

The "pig in a poke" is the same - the poke being a bag. Don't buy a pig in a bag - it may not be a pig!

Fascinating...

 

[analog.universe]

Courtesy of xkcd.com: