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[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

take-charge heroines deciding that having had no little life and career success they would now spend some concentrated effort to bag a mate, always in a heterosexual spirit;

I will Fear no Evil was heterosexual in that sex was between a male body and a female body, but the female body had a male brain. And, somehow, the woman's mind, which survived the removal of her brain, so it was housed somewhere else.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Eh, I had misremembered the title as Double Star, oy gevalt.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Luce

Well, yes. "There are no problems that can't be solved by a white man with a gun."

And just what call was there to inject a complexion?? Shame on ya. How do you escape leaving the impression you've only known Heinlein's works second- or third-hand, from invidious persons lacking RAH's personal virtues, and apparently resentful of them into the bargain? He knew they existed, and had some choice words for them, too. (A couple of examples stole... a donkey's gravestone.)

Really, "competent adult with etc." would have been much more accurate. Certainly less sloppy of conception.

[fargon]

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Farg, I bet there is a biiiig bowl of buttered popcorn in your future after your big bowl of smoke.

n.b. to whom it might concern: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress had the Lunar population as millions of convicts and descendants of convicts -- maybe into the third or fourth generation. Polyglot. Whites only? Puh-lease.

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

And just what call was there to inject a complexion?? Shame on ya.

I am going by what he wrote, not some idealized version of what he wrote.

[Carruthers]

Bacon saved as pig triggers blaze after eating pedometer

A pig has sparked a fire after excreting a pedometer it had eaten.

Firefighters were deployed to the blaze covering some 75 square metres at four pens in Bramham near Leeds on Saturday afternoon.

It is thought to have been caused when the pedometer, used to prove the pigs were free range, was eaten by one of the animals.

Once "nature had taken its course", the copper from the device's batteries reacted with the contents of the pigpens causing the dry hay bedding to burst into flames, according to North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service.

The brigade quipped: "A hosereel was used to extinguish the fire and save the bacon."

The unusual incident led to a number of humorous hog-related responses on Twitter, with one user saying: "The cause must have come as a sowprise. Your job certainly isn't boaring."

Another wrote: "@NorthYorksFire knows how to bring the bacon home, well done lads!"

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A fire marshal, who had to find the source of that fire, clearly had a dirty job.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It must have been for him to come up with that fairy tale of copper reacting with pigshit.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It must have been for him to come up with that fairy tale of copper reacting with pigshit.

Right!

Especially when you can clearly see the fire brigade responding and no coppers in sight!

[Carruthers]

Not sure that this adds much in the way of explanation but, FWIW, this is from the BBC report...

A peckish pig who swallowed a pedometer ended up sparking a fire in its pen.

Fire crews were called to a farm near Bramham, Leeds, at about 14:00 GMT on Saturday after copper from the pedometer's batteries apparently reacted with the pig's excrement and dry bedding.

The pedometers were being used on pigs to prove they were free-range. No pigs or people were hurt in the fire.

"Cause of fire attributed to a battery-powered pedometer carried by one of the pigs (to prove it was free-range), which was eaten by the other."

The fire service said crews were sent at about 14:00 GMT after "nature had taken its course".

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

Not sure that this adds much in the way of explanation but,

How did it spread to multiple sheds when each was separated by metal?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Through the straw all around them.

More likely the pedometer had a lithium battery the pig bit through sparked the blaze, but not copper.

[Carruthers]

Thief steals loo roll from cemetery portaloo in Berkhamsted

A team working to update Berkhamsted's cemetery have had their toilet roll stolen.

Someone broke into a portaloo at the Rectory Lane Cemetery and took the supplies.

A landscaping team working on the site arrived this morning to find the loo roll gone.

Kate Campbell wrote on Everything Berko:

"PLEASE RETURN OUR TOILET ROLLS.

"Our wonderful landscaping team in Rectory Lane Cemetery have been working hard over recent months through rain and sleet and mould to create something beautiful for the whole community to enjoy and this morning turned up to work to find that the portaloo had been broken into and all the toilet rolls taken."

We have of course seen toilet paper in short supply in recent weeks as people stock up, worried about the coronavirus.

A map is thoughtfully provided at the website so shocked readers can see for themselves the location of this most terrible and heinous crime against humanity.

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May not be suitable for Dwellars of a nervous disposition.

[sexobon]

Might've been zombies … they've got brains for shit.