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Comment by booklover on October 2, 2012 at 4:49pm That's true Lillie!
@sk8eycat, that is a scary situation to be in. We are in tornado country here, but there is also a fault-line, but I don't think it would do too much damage in my city.
Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 4:29pm @booklover and Lille: I live in Southern California...I think most of my (English-speaking) neighbors would get the joke. We know from experience that you can't "stop" it, but wish we could. We're ALL sort of quietly biting our nails knowing "The Big One" is 25 - 50 years overdue. 1994 was bad enough.
Comment by Lillie on October 2, 2012 at 3:49pm Or they wouldn't know you couldn't stop it. (plate tectonics, that is)
Comment by booklover on October 2, 2012 at 1:31pm Love your thought for the day sk8eycat. I'll bet if you put that on a shirt, 3/4 of the people you ran into wouldn't even know what it meant.
Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 1:21pm Thought for the day.... (I recently bought a book about Anne McCaffrey, one of my favorite wriers, and there was one photograph of her wearing a sweatshirt with the following)
STOP
PLATE
TECTONICS
Comment by Chris Dodds on October 2, 2012 at 9:35am
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Comment by Loren Miller on October 2, 2012 at 6:25am And in congruence with your quote, Tony:
It is impossible to debate a person who will not handicap himself with a knowledge of the facts.
-- Anon.
Comment by Tony Carroll on October 2, 2012 at 6:07am
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