YSaC, Vol. 1271: All Whale and Good.
DOES ANYONE HAVE STAINED GLASS THAT NEED TO GIVE 2 NICE HOME ?????
WORK RUNNING LOW, LUV SOME NICE PIECES 4 SOME OF MY WINDOWS.
WILL LIFT MY SPIRITS 4 THE NEW YEAR.
ANYONE AT ALL ????????
MAYBE TREAT YOU TO BL OF WINE.
THANKS.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2 ALL !!!!!!!!!!!
Well, Mr. Whale, I’m sorry to inform you that while “l” meaning Liter is, in fact, the SI unit for volume, and is therefore an appropriate unit for measuring a quantity of wine, “B” is not a recognized SI prefix, so I’m afraid your ad doesn’t actually make sense. I presume you actually meant a billion liters of wine, but that would be more properly abbreviated “Gl” for Gigaliter.
Also, a gigaliter is a LOT of wine. We’re talking like 2,500 olympic size pools full of wine. And while you, as a whale, might want to swim around in that much wine, I’m not sure it’s a fair trade for just a few pieces of stained glass.
Oh whale, better luck next time.
Thanks for the post, Camille!
Doooooooooooooo yooooooooooooooooo have aneeeeeeeeeeeeeeee freeeeeeee windows?
Stuh-ayyyned glasssssssssss makes meeeeeeeeeeee HA-peeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Willllllllllll trayyyyyyyyyd forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr a billion literrrrrrrrrrrrrs of winnnnnne.
There, fixed it.
Damn good thing I speak whale fluently.
Shhh. He’ll come over here and eat us.
Don’t be silly, whales only eat krill.
…Oh look, krill.
Ahem [cetacean corey] While the majority of Cetacea is baleen-toothed, and filter feeders, there are non-filter-feeding species with quite effective teeth for biting and tearing and the like.[/corey]
There is some documentary evidence that being named Jonah can result in being regurgitated after three days’ as a cetacean Lunchable. The peer review on this do not uniformly “jury” however.
Cetacean Lunchable is the name of IF’s Tuvan throat-singing group.
Where does a whale get a billion litres of wine?
I know this! Martha’s Vineyard!
Ah yes! The brinery there is supreme…
Jesus Whale. He was harpooned for your sins.
I thought the oceans were going to be turned into blood.. not wine?
Not enough Ws and Gs for Welsh.
Why am I now attempting to not imagine Narwhal on a cycling tour of North Cornwall . . . ?
All of my stained glass prefers to give to actual charities and not to whales who claim to be good homes.
Ok, this is weird even for CL.
[creative life corey]
I’ve been around those who assemble “art” glass, both clear and hued. I happen to fall into that half of the world which is hopeless at glass cutting–which does not prevent me from appreciating that other half. I’m also a decent hand with cane and solder, so I’ve had contact with this community of glaziers.
While a convivial lot, they tend to be picky about the glass they use. The color, the thickness, the quality of the glass all matter. This is doubly true for glass with applied color (vice colored glass).
True art glaziers will have all sorts of stray bits of glass waiting upon need. Generally, taking random bits of colored glass to such a glazier–barring a specific commission–is taking coal the Newcastle (poverty to Detroit, celebrephillics to Hollywood; politicos to DC, etc.)
So, this scans bit more like a “personals” plaint.
Which might explain why a cetacean photograph was included.
Or not–anyone who will spell out “spirits” but cannot bother to render but two letters to “bottle” (what, “btl” was too great a burden?) probably is equally disinclined to be giving enough to be very good company, no matter the measure of the plonk to be shared.
[/corey]
This person also replaced all of the words with numbers that could have been, except one to.
I don’t have any stained glass; how about a blue screen of death for Sparky’s Windows? In any case, I thought whales use iPods.
I’d love to trade my blue screen of death for a barrel of wine, most appropriately a cask of amontillado.
So many ‘doors for that last reference!
You have enough brick for a whale? I’m impressed.
How do whales do all of the cutting, grinding, and soldering underwater and with no hands?
They hire dolphins to do it.
When they get behind they get an ocotpus assembly line going.
They’d better authorize all this non-whale work with the union boss!
A what now?
Bombdude, FM was on her way to typing out Shakespeare! Don’t point out the errors, or you’ll mess it all up.
Octopus Assembly is my Front 242 cover band.
[monkey corey]
Come on, Dan. “BL” clearly means “boat load”, which would explain the picture of himself that Sparky included on the ad.
*rolls eyes*
Dang, buy ’em books and send ’em to school, and what do they do?
D’oh..and I thought they wanted stained glass images of “whale-tailed” women.
You know that old saying, “You can lead a boy to knowledge, but you can’t make him think.”
My favorite version of that is the Dorothy Parker one, where she was challenged to use the word “horticulture” in a sentence: “You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her think.”
Methinks a party with Ms. Parker would have been both awesome and epic.
I know. Sadly her snark spark was snuffed before my time.
I’ve probably said this before, but Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a great movie of her life and her wit. 8)
Hmm, a whip around Unc’ Goggle yields that BL can stand for [the] British Library, which ought have at least one missive on decorative glass, but is unlikely to be in Sparky’s (lonely) possession.
BL here equaling Bell Labs seems equally unlikely; or British Leyland, either.
Hmm, Jetstar Pacific was for sale not long ago . . . nah.
Saint Barthélemy, perhaps? Nah, Spark’ would not be lonely.
Bachelor of Laws–bwahahahahahaha
Ah, here’s the ticket: “Borderline lepromatous leprosy” now that is just the sort of thing a Sparky might trade in; and some plonk would likely be involved.
… But seriously, who abbreviates ‘bottle’ as BL?
(in b4 don’texplainthejoke.jpg :P)
Drink wine.
Line up empty wine bottles on windowsill.
Looks just like stained glass (or it does after drinking all that wine).
Ah, all the days I’ve come home from work dejected and exhausted and said to myself “You know, I need some stained glass windows”
*goes to garage*
*looks at old windows*
*looks around at various cans on shelf*
Well, what should I stain this glass with today?
“MAYBE TREAT YOU TO BL OF WINE.”
Will you have cheese to? We could have a whale of a time.
Oh sorry, you probably hear that all of the time.
Is anyone else sad that Gl is “gigalitre” and not, as I had hoped, “glitter”? No, I know that doesn’t make sense, but it’s more fabulous that way.
“Glee” would have worked for me also. The whole damn metric system is unfair.
It really is, especially in units of liquid or volume measure.
CC and ML are handy in their way; but, once you hit that ‘quart’ there at one litre, well, that’s it.
Ok so there is a decaliter, a pint more than 10 quarts or so, around 2.5 US gallons–but really only handy for sizing “jerry cans” as being 1 or 2 Dl rather than 10 or 20l. I’ve seen Kl used, but 1000l is like, oh, 250 gallons–not a handy number at all (when dealing in those sized liquid volumes, weight becomes the defining/sale measure anyways).
Oh, don’t even mention CC. JCAHO will be all over you with citations.
I’m sad and green… someone send me a whale. Maybe I’ll give you a box of cats in return.
I don’t have any spare whales sitting around. How about a sack of slugs?
I haven’t run the dishwasher yet. You can have my stained glasses. Then we can trade up the slugs and glasses combo to get LL her box-o-cats.
Sorry, neither whales nor wales (nor fair Cymru) to offer you–perhaps a jeroboam of mosquitoes?
I used to have wide wale corduroy pants. My mom made my wear them to elementary school. Are you less sad, LL? Because pictures of me in wide wales are comparitvely sad, and quite funny.
Oh, Wanda… you poor fish.
I read it as self-editing Sparky.
“Maybe treat you to a bl……. on second thought, better make that some wine.”
Thank you, DDD! I wasn’t going there if I could help it, but glad someone did. 8)
Thank you for the giggle D3. Corner please! (Windy, you saw this one coming?)
What? A black eye? Blue-nosed dolphin? Black adder? Blowfish?
Uh, yeah, blowfish. 8) I’m in the corner now, ruining my six week streak of near saintly restraint.
Sparkles is out of work, but still maintains 2 nice homes? This bears further investigation.
The Smiths got a new washer and dryer. Sparky got two new homes.
Maybe he is making them tax exempt by turning them into churches, thus the stained glass. It would explain the extra wine on hand.
Digi and One, you work well together! Punchity Punch Punch!
Good morning, All the Ships at Sea!
I could be wrong, but I’m getting the feeling that the bl isn’t supposed to be a specific amount, but a terrible abbreviation for a bottle of wine.