-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-15-19  07:56 <=-

 >  > I can see that....    We used to drive by a sign for a fish market (in
 >  > the middle of almost nowhere, well, between Wiiliamson and Sodus, on Rt
 >  > 104) that advertised Giant Shrimp along with Clams and other stuff...  
 >  ML> To be fair, usage of the term shrimp to mean shrimpy 
 >  ML> is a relative newcomer.
 > True... but Richard almost always commented on the incongruity... 
 ML> I'm sure he knows it's not really oxymoronic.

No doubt... It's just the image conjured up, and the way it struck him
as funny.... 
 
 >  ML> course not always of the best) my mother used to
 >  ML> actually believe that there were gremlins moving
 >  ML> things around. Also opening windows and stuff
 >  ML> like that. We come by our looniness over a long
 >  ML> period of time. It would be even more problematic
 >  ML> if the pills actually showed up labeled as each
 >  ML> other or, worse, something else altogether.
 > Then one might actually be tempted to believe in your mother's (alleged)
 > gremlins....  
 ML> I haven't found any example so far of such
 ML> intensely spooky tampering. With the computer,
 ML> of course, anything goes. I wanted the location 
 ML> of the nearest Bank of America ATM, and Google
 ML> just sent me to one in Geneva (New York, that is).
 ML> In this case I've tentatively traced it to the
 ML> router I'm connected to being haunted.

That could explain it...

 ML> P.S. It turns out that actual closest one was
 ML> haunted, opening and closing its various orifices
 ML> seemingly at random. I watched some perhaps
 ML> slightly stoned guy standing enthralled by it for
 ML> several minutes. I asked him if he thought it was
 ML> broken, and he said he was scared to put his card
 ML> into it. I also refrained from doing so.

Yeah... I wouldn't trust my card to that either.... Any "natural"
explanations of the phenomenon I could think of don't give any better
confidence that one wouldn't lose the card....

 > ... Bread was the staff of life before humans became gluten intolerant.
 ML> I had an acquaintance once - she was a pianist and very 
 ML> bright - who years later I heard had moved to New York 
 ML> and joined the staff of Life.

Just a slightly different take on it...    Did she enjoy working for
that magazine....?

ttyl        neb

... A cat is the visible soul of a home.

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