You heard it here first folks.
There will be a total eclipse of the moon tomorrow (Feb 20th, 2008) at night. What this means is you must immediately start praying to your god of choice and ask him to bring back the moon. This typically works, but every now and then if you don’t pray hard enough you will be punished by 10 years of moonlessness. It’s a tough world, I know.
Anyway, you need to get outside around 10PM to watch this thing. Does anyone know if O-Hill is doing something special tomorrow night? Detailed information and an instructional picture after the break…
For you Charlottesville watchers:
Partial Eclipse Begins: 08:43 pm
Total Eclipse Begins: 10:01 pm
Mid-Eclipse: 10:26 pm
Total Eclipse Ends: 10:51 pm
Partial Eclipse Ends: 12:09 am
[link and information image from NASA] [pic credit]
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Tomorrow night: A shower or two possible early with partly cloudy skies late. Low 21F. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
10 years of moonlessness? Inconcievable! What will I bay at now? I’ve noticed the police don’t like it if I bay at them… I must appease [insert random deity here]! I will hork 10 space bags and moon the moon from the top of the Jefferson Theater if I must! (I promise not to attempt to comment here afterwards)
weather man, when it is 21 degrees, rain turns into snow. get the fuck out of my office.
Weather man didn’t say rain shower, now did he?
/wants to be a defense attorney
But he did say chance of rain.
/nevermind/destined to work at burger King
smiley, i want to like you. that’s why it was so hard to fire you.
You did the right thing. Now I can devote my life to studying to become a defense attorney. Habeas Corpus!
i have a feeling that at 21 degrees, if something’s falling from the sky (other than disabled, poisonous satellites), it’s going to be frozen and painful, and probably not white, but probably not wet either.
“turn around bright-eyes….”
that song’s been on repeat in my brain since i read this post. it’s driving me crazy…
No! That is evil beyond measure! It’s stuck in my head now too. That is SO wrong. Waiter, I’d like some mental floss to go.
@9&10 - I had no idea how many of the lyrics of that song I could instantly recall upon reading your comments. wow, to think those brain cells could have learned calculus or something.
/now I’m only falling apart
I am really surprised that that song has not been disco-fied by some enterprising young remixer. Hmm, perhaps I should go a’ hunting on the tubes….
Could be a new escafe standard… “No, I do not have Justin, I have something better!”
i fuckin’ need you mooooore than ever!
parlie: i fuckin’ need you mooooore than ever!
just what i was thinking
this thread officially pulls me back to crushing on parlie.
it’s hard to avoid, i know.
now I’m jealous
No need for jealousy, Silmo. You can crush on parlie, too.
Indeed, parlie, there was even a limirick about us, wasn’t there? wonder where that floated off to…
and silmo, it’s not your fault I’m attracted to surly bastards.
@ 18 - Thanks Stanley
I {heart} Parlie!
Once two posters named mc and parlie
were e-flirting like hops and some barley
so surly was his tune
that it caused her to swoon
and the whole thread was downgraded to gnarly
wait, hang on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZiXbnbh3bY
NOW try to get the song out of your head.
I so want to watch this. The rain needs to go away. Boo…rain!
anyone have any good viewing spots from past eclipses?
Carter’s mountain, if its clear.
Ohhhh…belmont yo, you are a genius. I have been wanting to get acquainted with Carter’s Mountain, an eclipse is the perfect excuse. If I were there I wouldn’t even mind if it was cloudy
We always sing that song at Baja Bean at karaoke. And then I try to do it all “Old School” but usually fuck it up.
anyhoo…
let’s go moon the Hook webcam during the eclipse…
stay tuned…
(and by tuned, i mean that darn song)…
be careful going up on carters after dark….. it’s private property
you’re private property.
*you’re* a towel.
let’s go moon the Hook webcam during the eclipse…
That’s a brilliant idea! I am so there. I have yet to get my 15 minutes of fame this year, and what better way to achieve immortality than to freeze my buns off for the world to see.
Tommy D., I’d watch it from my back deck, but I don’t think you’re gonna see much through the snow tonight. So, I’ll probably bottle some beer instead.
fair enough. i’m down either way.
Im going to watch it through escafe’s ceiling, snow be damned.
set to bonnie tyler:
hum total eclpise of the heart.(when you hear “turn around,”= “look up at,”)
look up at, the moon
look up at ,the sky
look up at, the moon-tonight it’s full and shines so very bright.
look up at, the sky-would you like to go for a walk downtown and get everyone here another round?
look up at, at the moon-it’s c-villains on the mall without pants infront of the Hook’s camera!
look up at the sky-it is a little before 10:30 and the sky appears to be clear!
(repeat as it speaks to you)…
look up to the moon! everynow and then light turns to dark.
look up to the sky! every now and then dark turns to light.
and the moon is full tonight!
and the moon, it is in Virgo!
and we can dance in pale moonlight!
take a chance it’s now or never!
wait-what happened to the light?!
is this some freaky anomalous weather?
could it be I’ve had too much wine?
above the moon is like a shadow in me all of the time…
i don’t know what to do, i’m suddenely in the dark…
did this happen to Noah when he was on the ark?
a lunar eclipse tonight!
the world will be in dark tonight.
we will be in dark tonight.
once upon a time the moon was glowing above.
now the sky is suddenly dark.
nothing we can do,
a total eclipse of the moon.
once upon a time there was light up above-
“but now there’s only love in the dark”
nothing but to swoon-
totaly eclipse of the moon.
…look up at the sky/total eclpise of the moon/look up at the sky/total eclpise of the moon/look up at THE sky/the sun moved away from the moon…..
okay, your turn, bright eyes;)
somebody’s got too much time on their hands…
I think pretty much all of us qualify for that nanigans
Sometimes I look down and think, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ALL OVER MY HANDS? then I realize it’s time. I need more of a life.
Lives are handy.
I find them to be terribly expensive.
But then again, you refer to lingerie as a necessity…
Just sayin.
somebody’s got too much time on their hands…
Great. Now I’ve got this song in my head…
sucks we aren’t going to see the moon tonight
i really had my heart set on watching the satellite get shot down. i was going to celebrate with bottle rockets and corn whiskey, like a good american. now i’ll just have to sit inside and cook up the rest of my sudafed.
Oy: Whatevs. I don’t have enough time. Can somebody score me some adderall so I can do everything?
yeah, just go into sexshuns and ask for, oh, wait…
I wish I had hands
hey you guys, i think there’s an eclipse. not in here though. it’s outside.
Nobody pay any attention to parlie. He’s trying to get you to look away so he can turn off the internet.
(Eclipse looks great up here by the airport.)
stop it parlie
wow…there’s an eclipse out there, cvillains…and visible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@44 is that a challenge?
I’m thinking i might just have: too much wine on my pants….
*ahem*
(nice giant peachlike moon tonight…)
Damn you’ve got a full and eclipsed moon at home and it is full noon here in Hong Kong…watching reports with interest!
Lawny: Hello from the States! If you think about it, the sunlight you see there now is showing up here reflected off the moon, with the blue portions of the light filtered out by the Earth’s atmosphere. Science: neat!
whoa heady. that’s awesome.
http://tomdalyphotography.smugmug.com/photos/257022239_boeuJ-M.jpg
Nice, tommy d. Are those power lines in the foreground?
nah, i was actually shooting through a few tree branches with a low flash setting
@58: digital?(really nice!)
@54 I hope it wasn’t red and that you removed them promptly. If I had been there, I would have gladly helped you out. (of them)
Parlie, just for you, linkypoo
that video gave me a full-on chubby
I set my video camera up last night to document the eclipse. I got some of it. I just don’t know how to get the videos off of my camera. Tom D., did you get any more pics?