Fwd: Threads that never had a chance on Utah-astronomy
On a recent visit to SPOC, noted right-wing author Ann Coulter was invited to look through a binocular viewer, but she declined, stating that it sounded immoral. She preferred a married monocular.
At a recent SLAS meeting, Kurt Fisher gave a talk on Naked Singularites. Attendance was record-breaking, until everyone found out it was really about astro-physics. Then most of the guys left.
Siegfried's secret for always getting served first at "Advanced Training" is finally out. He phones his order in ahead of time.
Chuck Hards teaches you how to make telescopes and eyepieces out of electrical conduit, coke bottles, bailing wire, and old automobile transmissions.
New Astronomical League Herschel certificate: compose 20 sonatas and 20 fuges using binoculars
New book titles on the astronomy shelf: Apologetic Astronomy Astronomical Formulae for the Abacus History of Astronomy: The Second-Oldest Profession Derogatory Astronomy Astronomy and the Spleen First-Aid: Using that large refractor & the sun to remove ticks
Scriptural astronomy references: "cast thy Ramsdens upon the waters..." Nagler 2:19 "And Lo! For it came to pass, the children of the stars gathered by the waters next to the ball diamond, and the roof did roll back." 1 Grape Nehi, 4:12 "You shall wander the Pit 'n Pole for 40 days and 40 nights, and not know the stars, with only a plastic bottle of warm apple juice to slake your thirst" Maverik 7:11 "After travelling the desert for a fortnight, ye shall realize that thy eyepiece box is still sitting on the kitchen table" Huygens 3:19
I just realized that Michael Carnes can actually do this! On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
New Astronomical League Herschel certificate: compose 20 sonatas and 20 fuges using binoculars
Rich Tenney will give a talk on "Teaching the grandkids to use binoculars" * ;o) * On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
Chuck Hards teaches you how to make telescopes and eyepieces out of electrical conduit, coke bottles, bailing wire, and old automobile transmissions.
More new astronomy book titles: Gastric Astronomy Solar Astronomy for Vampires A Study of Black Dwarfs by Gary Coleman (with a foreword by Emmanuel Lewis) Lunar Studies for Werewolves Another ATM title: Adding A Fireplace To Your Observatory
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