Smoking Your Pipe While Watching The Eclipse
ghostsofpompeii
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A lot of hoopla about the upcoming solar eclipse coming this Monday on the 21st. Unfortunately I live in a region of the country where we won't get the best view of a total eclipse ... but I imagine a partial darkening of the sun in the afternoon will be pretty cool as well. So I intend to be sitting out there puffing away as the sky darkens ... knowing full well from a bevy of cheesy 50s' 'B' sci-fi movies that nothing good can come of it.
"The Hideous Sun Demon" taught us that sitting in direct sunlight ... coupled with a unique set of circumstances can set the wheels in motion for turning you into a scaly half man/ half lizard creature. I saw it on TV ... so it must be true. Keep that in mind during the eclipse. The eclipse itself might just be one of the triggering mechanism causing you to undergo a transformation that you'll later regret. You've been warned.
And in the movie "Day Of The Triffids" a good portion of the human population went blind watching a meteor shower. Same could happen during the solar eclipse, even if you don't look directly into the sun. Maybe just being outside will be all it takes. I'll have to wait for the remake to see if that's possible. But the most disturbing aspect isn't the world's population going blind, it was the giant poison man-eating walking plants that made being blind so much more of a nuisance. Once again, I know it's true, I saw it on TV. So I recommend you cut down as many foreign looking plants growing around your house between now and Tuesday before the eclipse, on the outside chance they may be Triffids. And should you find yourself visually impaired the following morning remember the plants make a rattling noise like a Spanish musician play the castanets. If you hear that sound run blindly in the opposite direction.
I'm going to watch some more 50s' 'B' sci-fi films to find out what else I can expect to happen following the eclipse based on these factual and informative movies, and as a public service I'll announce any new information I discover to the members of The Pipeline.
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@jFreedy I see you were proudly representing the pipe smoking community, but did you see any other pipe smokers in the crowd?
I didn't have the eclipse glasses but I did have an old pair of blue and red 3D glasses and it made it look like the sun was right there in front of me. (Just kidding). I live in the mid-west and beside having a cloud covering nothing out of the ordinary occurred even though I sat out there expecting it to at least get a little darker than normal.
I repeat; you create.
Your way is more fun.
Didn't see most of the eclipse because I was too busy working.
I have seen some wonderful things though...
Watched both of my daughters entering the world.
Saw the aurora borealis once while off the coast of Alaska.
Saw the sunrise and set in Antarctica and then circle the horizon and do it again. Never did get dark.
got to ride in a limousine with Kirk Douglas in 1986 in New York.
During the celebration, both CBS and CNN set up studio areas on top of the apartment building. Part of my duties was to act as liaison with both networks. We took control of one of the loading elevators for use to get media and celebrities from the ground up to the top of the building - people like Kenny Rodgers, Henry Winkler, Penn & Teller, Maria Shriver and all the big names at CBS News at the time.
Anyway, a day or two before July 4th it started raining hard while I was on top of the building and I received a message I needed to get to the other end of the island. I was with one of the site producers at the time and he said he would get me a ride so I didn't have to walk in the rain. We went downstairs and he put me in a limousine. Another door opened in Kirk Douglas climbed in. The producer introduced me and said I needed a ride to the ferry terminal. Mr. Douglas said that would be fine and we talked for about 7 or 8 minutes.
He marveled at the patience those of us living on the island had in dealing with the "idiots" in the media for a whole week.
Met Neil Young in a railroad sleeper car; long talk into the night.....
Bruce Springsteen stood on my audience chair while performing "Growin' Up."
I was in the Peanut Gallery one day on Howdy Doody.
Other than that, my life has been reasonably mundane.
I cannot dance, and the suit won't fit.