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boostindoubles

boostindoubles

Nacho Libre
Mar 16, 2004
8,418
6,956
Yakistan
****s gettin wierd around here. In the last 24 hours my roommate's best friend from childhood passed away in a car accident, and while I was at crew practice this afternoon some guy cliff diving 300 yards away tried a flip and never came back up. I'm starting to serious get wierded out.

Everyone be careful
 
ALEXIS_DH

ALEXIS_DH

Tirelessly Awesome
Jan 30, 2003
6,203
833
Lima, Peru, Peru
i bet your extended social next (up to 3 degrees) includes so many people you´d be surprised of the number
and given all that people, i bet somebody "a friend/relative of the friend/relative of my friend" dies almost every day.

happy to share my life perspective with you. i hope i´ve brightened your day :biggrin:
 
stosh

stosh

Darth Bailer
Jul 20, 2001
22,248
408
NY
BIG FULL MOON: Tonight's full moon is the closest and
biggest of 2006. Why? The Moon's orbit is lopsided: one
side is closer to Earth than the other. When the Moon turns
full on Sept 7th, it will be on the close side, making it
seem a bit wider than usual. Look for the extra-wide Moon
rising in the east at sunset--very pretty.

A SPOT OF FOLKLORE: September's full Moon is usually called
the Harvest Moon, but not this year. By definition, the
Harvest Moon is the full Moon closest to the autumnal
equinox. This year's equinox falls on Sept. 23rd and the
full Moon closest to that comes on October 7th. The 2006
Harvest Moon will have to wait until October.
 
Ciaran

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
9,841
19
So Cal
stosh said:
BIG FULL MOON: Tonight's full moon is the closest and
biggest of 2006. Why? The Moon's orbit is lopsided: one
side is closer to Earth than the other. When the Moon turns
full on Sept 7th, it will be on the close side, making it
seem a bit wider than usual. Look for the extra-wide Moon
rising in the east at sunset--very pretty.

A SPOT OF FOLKLORE: September's full Moon is usually called
the Harvest Moon, but not this year. By definition, the
Harvest Moon is the full Moon closest to the autumnal
equinox. This year's equinox falls on Sept. 23rd and the
full Moon closest to that comes on October 7th. The 2006
Harvest Moon will have to wait until October.
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Great song...

Come a little bit closer
Hear what I have to say
Just like children sleepin
We could dream this night away.

But theres a full moon risin
Lets go dancin in the light
We know where the musics playin
Lets go out and feel the night.

Because Im still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because Im still in love with you
On this harvest moon.

When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart.

But now its gettin late
And the moon is climbin high
I want to celebrate
See it shinin in your eye.

Because Im still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because Im still in love with you
On this harvest moon.
 
Graphics

Graphics

Turbo Monkey
Jul 9, 2006
1,706
0
Connecticut
stosh said:
This year's equinox falls on Sept. 23rd
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You gotta try this...I SWEAR it works...

Take an egg on the 23rd and try and balance it. Seriously...someone showed this to me and I've been doing it every year since (well, at least when I can remember when the equinox is). You can NEVER balance an egg except for the 2 different equinox days. Take the egg, and just hold it there with one finger. You'll actually feel the insides settling and balancing. It's sooooooooooooo cool. :brows: :cupidarrow:
 
johnbryanpeters

johnbryanpeters

Hero
Sep 27, 2001
36,812
18,390
Making moss sad in New Haven, Vermont
Snopes on eggs and equinoxes
Claim: A special property of the equinox allows eggs to be balanced on end that day.
Status: False.

Origins:
Every year on the vernal equinox (on or about March 21), one of the two days per year in which the length of day and night are the same, we hear about a magical property of this day that allows eggs to be balanced on end. Rarely does a year go by in which a local TV news station doesn't send a reporter out to a neighborhood park to capture images of people delightedly placing eggs on the ground and watching in amazement as the eggs stand on end. Rarely do we see any new stories reporting that this same feat can be achieved every other day of the year as well.

The equinox, which marks the beginning of spring, has long held a special importance in human society. The first day of spring is the end of winter; the beginning of the season in which daylight again outlasts darkness and life springs anew. Flowers blossom, trees shoot out new leaves and branches, and animals give birth (or their eggs hatch). These tangible signs of the world's rebirth were of paramount importance to agricultural societies, and they naturally developed elaborate fertility rites to celebrate the occasion. Thus eggs — one of the most ubiquitous symbols of fertility and birth -- have long been associated with the beginning of spring, and hence with the equinox. Many, many superstitions involving the breaking, balancing, burying, decorating, reading (for purposes of divination) and hiding of eggs have come to be part of the annual spring celebration. (The linking of egg-balancing with spring celebrations is demonstrated by the fact that the practice is associated only with the vernal equinox, not the autumnal equinox.)

The Chinese are thought to have originated the practice of standing eggs on end during the equinox. Just as the equinox symbolically restores balance to the world by signalling its rebirth after a season of darkness, the equinox literally balances the day by dividing it into equal portions of darkness and light. If the symbol of fertility — eggs — could be balanced on end during a day equally divided between day and night, this was a sign that all nature was in harmony. That the balancing of eggs could be achieved on any day of the year was of no importance; what everyone wanted and needed was a familiar, reassuring ritual to demonstrate that all was right with the world
 
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