The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Deux

Les Baxter's stuff was actually kinda cool. Most of what I've heard puts me in the lobby of a specific south Huntsville department store on the end of a mall, one of those where the whole first floor was ladies' stuff, everything smelled good and all the shelves were glass.

The rest (with the exception of John Denver) pale in comparison to the greatness that is Rick Wakeman. Maybe Kenny Rogers gets a pass.

 

Two non-Bill Evans versions of the same Bill Evans tune.

 

Wow.
Nancy ’Joan’ Gifford (104) is going to sell the house she lived in for 102 years.

https://metro.co.uk › 2023 › 03 › 21 › somerset-woman-104-selling-home-bought-for-200-for-170000-18477136
Woman, 104, selling home bought for £200 for £170,000
VandaagNancy 'Joan' Gifford has decided to sell her home of more than 100 years (Picture: PA) A woman is selling her home in Somerset that she has lived in for more than a century. Nancy 'Joan'...

 

This actually implies that some squirrel bites originate at the back, or "non-bitey end," of the squirrel.

Which makes you think ...

 

What's so special about that? I saw such a bird in Venice swallow a big pigeon. I was like how on earth doesnot it choke

 

Birds don’t share the same tube to breathe and eat.

They are also not real.

 

This one ill-considered demand forced this abject horror into this thread.

I'm not going to eat for a few days.

 

It's squirrel baby season 'round here. I usually give the youngins 2-3 dartbacks across the road before I jam on the gas pedal.

 

This wildlife photographer must've pissed mgmt off. "Jim - go to the Kalahari and film lions & hyenas. Erica - we're sending you to India to film tigers. Jeff...JEFF! Look he's not even paying attention. Go down to that pond in Central Park and see what the seagulls are up to. And bring us back some ice cream"

 

That deer in the headlights look your students get when they see you somewhere they don't think you're supposed to be*... I was getting gasoline this morning and went inside to pay and get some chewing gum. Student was buying coffee. I smiled and said, "Good morning!" She looked like she'd seen a ghost. When she pulled out of the parking lot, she had her face pressed up against her window trying to make sure it was me. The last time that happened (probably 2001), I had made the mistake of going to their mall. I was coming out of Electronics Boutique and heard three of my AP World History students behind me..

"OMG! That's Mr. P!"
"What's he doing here?"
"I dunno, but he just came out of EB"
"He bought a GAME for somebody?????"
"Might have been for him"
"Mang, quit playin' "

I was thinking, "Let me get this damn shirt and get out of here..."



*truth is, we're not supposed to be anywhere but at school. Like, ever. I guess they think we slither down into the basement, do our lesson plans, eat a kitten sandwich and go to sleep for the next day

 

Tried this multiple times. Last week I randomly met one of my students in the street while she was along with her BF: she said "Hi!", but at the same time she gave me that startled look like: "What the heck is he doing AROUND? he's not supposed to be anywhere but at school!".

 

Guess it's better than meeting at the strip club. HIII-YOOOO!

 

I kinda worry about that. So far, so good...

 

lol

 

My track coach was my neighbor and my French professor in college was also my neighbor growing up.

Now that I think about it, seeing a teacher outside of school wasn't weird. But as I tell people, I had a at times conventional yet at other times unconventional upbringing.

 

Yeah, it's one thing if they live nearby. But it still cracks me up a bit. I mean, they know we live somewhere, I assume...

 

That's the safest place to meet. Both or you will have incentive not to repeat the meeting to anyone.

 

I'm sure accidents have happened where a yoot totally changes his/her look then is giving a lapdance years later and says "Like OMG, are you Mr. ___? I had you for history sophomore year"