-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-28-19  02:31 <=-

 > > > 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> I suppose. People get amused by small things and things 
 ML> about small things, I guess. And we have the ironic use 
 ML> of size terms, see below.

Sometimes it's just how something strikes one...  
 
 >  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> And some sites are reacting as if ignoring my inputs and
 ML> displaying to the tapping of a different drummer.

That could be right scary...

 >  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....
 ML> It was amusing in the way Little Shop of Horrors was
 ML> (I saw the original only).

I've only heard selected selections from it on the radio from time to
time... and heard of it.... 
 
 > ... A cat is the visible soul of a home.
 ML> From the cat's point of view!

Mais d'accord...
 
 >  ML> Until last year I paid property taxes in Maryland,
 >  ML> but as there's no property any more, I guess I don't 
 >  ML> qualify for the public library there - it's not like
 >  ML> they'd kick me out and the horse I rode in, but it
 >  ML> would be sort of taking advantage of the system if
 >  ML> I took out books there.
 > They might have some sort of arrangement for out-of-state regular
 > visitors... possibly based on whether one has a current library card
 > elsewhere... 
 ML> They didn't ask for evidence of any.
 
And I gather you didn't ask, either....

 >  ML> California is a diferent question - 
 >  ML> you waltz in, and if you aren't a resident, you 
 >  ML> pay $5 for a lifetime card (if you lose the card,
 >  ML> it's a buck to replace). I showed the librarian
 >  ML> my handicap placard, and the fee got waived.
 > That's a nice setup... 
 ML> It worked well enough.

Were I to be likely in CA for any length of time (or lengths of time) it
could be something to pursue.... 

ttyl       neb

... Aquamortis:  To continue watering a plant weeks after it has died.

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