First visit to KFC; what to see???

In message , Peter Stickney
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Pat Flannery wrote:

Keep an eye peeled for Loggerhead Sea Turtles- although there have
never been reports of these aquatic horrors coming up on shore and
eating beachcombers, that could just mean that no one has ever
survived the attack, and all of their victims have been dragged to a
watery grave in a matter of seconds.

Well, yeah. That, and I'm surprised you missed the Giant Squid,
or the dangers of being mistaken for a potential date by myopic
Manatees.

This gives me the chance to note that I saw Canned Manatee in a local
shop. Before I'm lynched by conservationists I should say it contains an
adorable furry toy.


Also, remember that most Florida species of butterflies posses
venomous stingers and biting mouthparts, so you will want to pack a
can of butterfly repellent.

I thought they were all wiped out in that "Invaders" episode. Speaking
of which, I just caught up with the Scott Bakula remake, which I had
been fortunate to avoid for ten years. Very, very bad.

And finally, I overheard two kids chatting about what they would do
next.
"KFP? That would be Kentucky Fried Penguin".
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:



And finally, I overheard two kids chatting about what they would do next.
"KFP? That would be Kentucky Fried Penguin".

I never did it, but I once was tempted to go down to the grocery store
and purchase some cans of food which I would then design new labels for,
and then surreptitiously reintroduce to the store shelves.
I thought that people looking down the store shelves might be interested
to come across a can of "Joey Peckerhead's Pickled Buzzard Eggs", or
"Canned Whale Spleen- The New Brunswick Treat!". :-)

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:02:22 -0400, in a place far, far away, Peter
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Pat Flannery wrote:


A snakebite kit might be a good idea also- not that that well be of
much use after the Coral Snake gets you, but it will give you
something to play with while you're dying.

It's not so much the Coral Snakes as its non-venomous lookalike twin,
the King Snake. I learned a handy little mnemonic in Survival School
that sorts it all out, though - "If Red touches Yellow, run away. If
Red doesn't touch Yellow, run away."

Assuming you're being tongue in cheek, my recollection was "Red on
yellow, kill a fellow, red on black, you're all right Jack." The non
sexist version of the latter one was "red on black, venom lack," which
isn't as rednecky.

h (Rand Simberg) wrote:

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:02:22 -0400, in a place far, far away, Peter
Stickney made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Pat Flannery wrote:


A snakebite kit might be a good idea also- not that that well be of
much use after the Coral Snake gets you, but it will give you
something to play with while you're dying.

It's not so much the Coral Snakes as its non-venomous lookalike twin,
the King Snake. I learned a handy little mnemonic in Survival School
that sorts it all out, though - "If Red touches Yellow, run away. If
Red doesn't touch Yellow, run away."

Assuming you're being tongue in cheek, my recollection was "Red on
yellow, kill a fellow, red on black, you're all right Jack." The non
sexist version of the latter one was "red on black, venom lack," which
isn't as rednecky.

No, he's being accurate... Rather than trying to remember a
complicated mnemonic, just avoid anything that looks like a Coral
snake. (That's what I, and everyone I knew in Florida was taught
while growing up.)

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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

Peter Stickney wrote:


It's not so much the Coral Snakes as its non-venomous lookalike twin,
the King Snake. I learned a handy little mnemonic in Survival School
that sorts it all out, though - "If Red touches Yellow, run away. If
Red doesn't touch Yellow, run away."



Probably the best policy! The actual mnemonic goes " Red on yeller- kill
a feller; red on black- safe for Jack."
But when in doubt, just leave it alone.
We had a live Coral Snake show up in a shipment of plants at our local
WalMart a few years back.

It was the mosquitoes that get me. One of 'em landed on the ramp at
Patrick, and they put 1500 lbs. of JP-4 in it before they realized
that it wasn't a helicopter.


We've got that same joke up here regarding attaching cruise missiles to
one at Grand Forks AFB under the misapprehension it was a B-52. The
mosquito has also been suggested as the state bird.





To get you in the proper mood for your visit to the beach, here is
webpage devoted to Florida's venomous snakes:
http://www.floridaconservation.org/v...s/snakesv.html
Keep an eye peeled for Loggerhead Sea Turtles- although there have
never been reports of these aquatic horrors coming up on shore and
eating beachcombers, that could just mean that no one has ever
survived the attack, and all of their victims have been dragged to a
watery grave in a matter of seconds.



Well, yeah. That, and I'm surprised you missed the Giant Squid,
or the dangers of being mistaken for a potential date by myopic
Manatees.


I didn't want to scare anyone by telling them of dangers that would have
only a small chance of killing them; say under 30% on a day-long visit;
otherwise I would have mentioned Octopus Giganteus Verrill, otherwise
known as "Lusca- Him Of De Hands"
A two-hundred-foot wide cephalopod terror that once washed up at St.
Augustine beach in Florida:
http://theshadowlands.net/octopus.jpg
http://theshadowlands.net/octo1.jpg
http://theshadowlands.net/octo2.jpg
Recently, test have been done that purport to show that the creature was
nothing more that a decayed Sperm Whale head, and some of its intestines.
I, of course, know that this was a Sperm Whale the adolescent Gigantopus
Terriblus (my own name for it) was feeding on when a hurricane drove
them ashore; and that this creature is far larger than suspected in its
full-grown state. Here at The American Museum of Unnatural History we
would put its size at closer to two thousand feet wide - and that is a
conservative estimate, so as not to be accused of possible exaggeration.

The platter is made out of granite and weighs fourteen pounds BTW.
;-)



Can't be. The only Granite in Florida arrives by freight.
Recall the case last July of the Super DC-3 that force-landed in Miami
after losing one on takeoff. It was carrying a load of Granite.
(Duly exported from New Hampshire, of course. Our farmers can't grow
Watermelons or Oranges, but we do a damned fine job on Granite.



As the Gigantopus Terribli migrate southwards down the East Coast each
year to breed, crawling slowly along the sea bottom, boulders become
lodged in their suction cups and are deposited off the Florida coast.
The "Bimini Road" is one such crawlway. I suspect that the Dixie
Crossroads' rock shrimp platter is carved from a piece of granite that
was drawn south in this manner. These crawlways also probably formed the
Florida Keys. ;-)

Pat

Peter Stickney wrote:

It was the mosquitoes that get me. One of 'em landed on the ramp at
Patrick, and they put 1500 lbs. of JP-4 in it before they realized
that it wasn't a helicopter.

When I was stationed at King's Bay, the Simon Lake still had AA guns
on either side of her stack - we used to tell the nubs they were for
combating the mosquitoes.

D.
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Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

On or about Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:25:44 -0700, LittleGreyPoodle made the sensational claim that:
Any suggestions on what should be the first priority for such a trip?

I always get a breast meal with a leg when I go to the KFC here. The closest
one to me is in Cocoa Beach. I love all the fast food places in Cocoa Beach,
they're all slackers.
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LooseChanj wrote:

I always get a breast meal with a leg when I go to the KFC here. The closest
one to me is in Cocoa Beach. I love all the fast food places in Cocoa Beach,
they're all slackers.


I knew a tall blonde girl named Barbi who worked in a fried chicken
place in our town.
I went in and asked for the Barbi Box meal...her co-worker asked what
was in a Barbi Box.
I replied it was two breasts, two thighs, two legs, a couple of buns and
all the honey you could want.
I didn't realize that her mother was standing behind me when I said
this... :-[

Pat

Aside from the KSC Visitors Center, the Astronaut Hall of Fame is very
interesting. There used to be a MOST excellent "historical" tour of the
older facilities (for Explorer, Mercury etc.) but am not sure if it still
originates from KSC. You might check with: http://www.afspacemuseum.org/ ;
I enjoyed touring the old pads and blockhouses most of all. Have fun. God
help you if you misspell anything, huh?


"LittleGreyPoodle" wrote in message
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A business trip takes me tomorrow to south Florida for two weeks. I have a
weekend available in-between. I'm a space buff, so I thought a day trip
from Fort Lauderdale would be a drive north to Cape Canaveral.

Any suggestions on what should be the first priority for such a trip?

Thanks in advance.

LittleGreyPoodle

LittleGreyPoodle wrote:
A business trip takes me tomorrow to south Florida for two weeks. I have
a weekend available in-between. I'm a space buff, so I thought a day
trip from Fort Lauderdale would be a drive north to Cape Canaveral.

Any suggestions on what should be the first priority for such a trip?

Thanks in advance.

LittleGreyPoodle

Go to the KSC Visitors Center. Take lots of money.
If you are interested in early space history, take
the Then and Now tour, which often only runs once a
day. It goes to the Air Force Space Museum at LC 26,
where Explorer 1 lifted off. See the blockhouse.
Walk the rocket garden. You'll see stuff there that
you won't see anywhere else. Study a map of the Cape
beforehand so that you'll know what you are seeing as
the bus weaves its way around IRBM Row and ICBM Row,
etc. The bus will pass right past the big Navaho
launch pad, for example, but the guide may forget to
mention it, etc. You'll stop at LC 34, where the
"Apollo 1" fire happened. From there, you'll get a
good look at the new Delta IV pad. This tour ends up
at the Saturn V Center, but it skips the shuttle pad
observation deck stop (although you will see the pads
(all of the pads actually) from the bus window).
You'll have to take a different tour for that stop,
so get a day pass.

While you are waiting for your tour, go to the 2nd
floor of the gift shop, where the bookstore is. That
is where you will find nifty space-related books that
you won't find at Barnes and Noble.

You might also take in an IMAX movie, which is included
in the day pass fee. The 3D ISS movie was better than
I expected. And, of course, the Visitors Center has its
own famous, though recently hurricane-damaged, rocket
garden, framed by a Saturn IB. And there are interesting
displays in a couple of buildings there (a Soyuz mockup,
a Gemini, a Mercury, etc).

If you want to see the recently-restored Navaho missile
display (the grandfather of U.S. space propulsion) go
to the south gate of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
It is set up outside the gate in a viewing area (free!).

- Ed Kyle