Wednesday, August 25, 2010
THINGS THAT SWIRL
Inside of toothepaste caps, helicopters, cinnamon buns, shells, tornadoes, tops, galaxies, umbrellas, tapioca pudding, flushing toilets, waves, black holes, cowlicks, curly hair, licorice, candy canes, Ferris wheels, carousels, curve balls, bullets in flight, lassoes, Barber's shop poles, waterspouts, coiled staircases, DNA, springs, hubcabs in motion, yo-yos, footballs thrown on "long bombs."
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Levity's Dustdevil
Kirby's logic.
smoke out a chimney
flush toilets
a proctologists finger
Trivelle
It's a noodle shaped like the augur on a drill bit, used to make pasta salad.
french kisses
(so i've heard)
gulls on a lake
turkey buzards too
events and people
in any life
kirby - logic
the placement of those two words
is enough to make a mind swirl
the frozen swirl of the rotini Emmy and I are eating tonight
Republican's brains after they complain about Obama's vacation or golfing time, even though Bush had more than twice as many vacation days by this point in his presidency...
With Brett, even swirls are political.
*SIGH*
The tails of piglets, the penises of mallard ducks, rosebuds, Desert Rose (a gypsum mineral), dervishes, and funnel cakes.
I'm pretty sure I could come up with more not yet listed :D
brett
perhaps the whole bush prez dayz
could be understood
in terms of vacation
vacancy
vacuous
freespeech and freemarket
makes for feebleminds
thus
foxbrains
foxbrains on drugs
let's not forget the dervish
Ship propellers. Just sent an e-mail to a distant cousin by marriage about the history of the ship on which his Pomeranian ancestors arrived in America. The ship was called, ironically enough, America, but it was made in Glasgow, Scotland.
It took 150 years for scientists, engineers and inventors to turn what they'd read about Archimedes screw into something that could crash the Titanic into an iceberg and tear a gash big enough to sink it. Inventing the airplane propeller was simple after all of the work that went into designing ship propellers. Same principle, just a thinner medium and less resistance.
The problem for propeller driven ships was fuel storage. The amount of coal needed to cross the Atlantic with nothing but a propeller required a ship fives times bigger than anything that had ever been built. But when a big enough screw was made to push a ship that big across the ocean, its efficiency turned out to be far greater than what had been anticipated, due to a relation of inverse proportionality between a square and a cube.
The notion of a ship stayed fairly constant from pre-biblical times until about 1850. Between 1870 and 1890, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria suddenly morphed into the Queen Mary, all thanks to a turn of the screw. The gadget that had been useful for pumping bilge water out of the hold abruptly became the driving force of the world economic system.
craig i guess it's the water
that swirls of the prop and behind the boat
the screw just screws and screws
interesting point of fact nonetheless
jh
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