The Reptile Man moved recently to Monroe from Goldbar. He will take portions of his collection to schools and put on shows. He is very entertaining. He has an enormous tortoise that he will let wander about and an iguana that he sets atop a box. The iguana would start to wander and he would just put it back on its box again and again. He brought several of the poisonous snakes and handled them in front of the kids, which surprised me. Among them was the Black Mamba. He even harassed the thing to get it to show it's fangs. I've seen the show twice. The kids absolutely loved it. The Reptile Man .
Good God, he must have been pissed but good. We used to call those "sugar cookies". They are made of para-dichlorobenzene. Not soluble in water (or beer), but Christ almighty. Eeeeeuuuuwwww!
Here's a variation of that one:
In the days of old
When knights were bold
And paper wasn't invented,
They'd wipe their ass
With a blade of grass
And walk away, contented.
It seems intuitive that ice should be thicker and therefore safer close to shore, but in mountain lakes this is not always the case. The moving water from inlet streams and to a lesser extent outlet streams cause disturbances that thin the ice in their vicinity. Sometimes it is safer in the center of the lake.
I'm not sure the exact reason for the shorts over polypro, but I think it is because it is a really cheap combo. After a newbie has shelled out for harness, helmet, crampons, axe, boots, etc., there isn't always cash left for $150 Schoeller pants.
Wait, I got another limerick,
I once knew a young girl named Alice,
Who used dynamite as a phallus.
They found her vagina
In North Carolina,
And part of her girdle in Dallas.
Happy birthday to Molly McGee.
She died on this day at a hundred an' three.
For fourteen long years
She maintained her virginity.
That's not a bad record
For in this vicinity.