The Hooverville Hexagon: Really Wild Things

 

Who knows what you might see if you keep your eyes open?

 

Your Daily Warning That

Halloween Is Coming

by DG

Repeat after me: YMCA, it's fun to stay at the... (Actually in the window of the Brookville YMCA.)

 

 

Foxes Playing in (No) Traffic

by FWR

I spent a lovely half hour watching two fox cubs playing in the (thankfully deserted) roadway. One of them jumps onto a no entry sign and sits there for ages as though considering whether to contravene the highway code! Sorry for the quality of the pics but they're very skittish at this time of day. Couldn't get closer.

(Editor: We don't care, we're just glad to catch a glimpse.)

 

 Quote of the Day

from Twitter/X

Somewhere a middle school band director just felt a disturbance in the force and doesn’t know why.

Jon Yapo, about this amazing plastic recorder performance of Sultans of Swing.

A Bit of Shameless Commerce

by DG

The daily writing prompt was miles. Yes, I know: like 'miles to go before I sleep.' I wasn't in the mood for distance, so I committed this bad joke. It's also a shameless promotion for my book Life in Potentia.

 

They Don't Make 'Em Like This

Any More

by Tavaron da Quirm

 She just wrote 'random old building in Hamburg'. Impressive.

 

More Creaky Humour:

The Pun, or 'Play on Words'

By DG

This 'joke' is from a whole book of puns published in 1906. There were no laws to protect the public at that time.

The other day I gave FWR an example of why I avoid puns. 'It takes me to long to realise it's a pun. For instance, I've known for years that Kurt Vonnegut based a character on his friend Theodore Sturgeon. I only got the joke last Thursday.

The character's name is Kilgore Trout.

I hate puns.

"This is our latest novelty," said the manufacturer, proudly. "Good work, isn't it?"

"Not bad," replied the visitor, "but you can't hold a candle to the goods we make."

"Oh! are you in this line, too?"

"No. We make gunpowder."

 

Urs till butter flies,

 Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor

 

The Hooverville Hexagon: Monday Imagery

 

Things seen make us think of things unseen.

 

Your Daily Warning That

Halloween Is Coming

by DG

Better a what's-it in the window than a dust bunny under the bed.

 

 

Cathedral Doorway

by Paigetheoracle

Archways within archways. In Inverness.

 

Quote of the Day

from Twitter/X

Downtown. Fort Duquesne at 9th Street. A motorcycle cop said they are monitoring a protest of about 20 people against surveillance cameras. – Pittsburgh Scanner

Couldn't they just monitor them with surveillance cameras? – Scott Olssen

 

Looming Threat?

by DG

That statue is very imposing in more ways than one. (It's 213 feet up.)

 

Atmospheric Halloween Tree

by Paigetheoracle

 

Nature has been decorating, too.

 

Anthropological Question of the Day:

Has Humour Improved in the Last

100 Years?

By DG

I say no. This piece of observational humour is from a 1920 joke book.

Little Willie came home in a sad state. He had a black eye and numerous scratches and contusions, and his clothes were a sight. His mother was horrified at the spectacle presented by her darling. There were tears in her eyes as she addressed him rebukingly:

"Oh, Willie, Willie! How often have I told you not to play with that naughty Peck boy!"

Little Willie regarded his mother with an expression of deepest disgust.

"Say, ma," he objected, "do I look as if I had been playing with anybody?"

We'll let ourselves out.

 

Cu l8ter,

 Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor

 

The Hooverville Hexagon: Visitors

 

Put on the kettle, company's coming.

 

Your Daily Warning That

Halloween Is Coming

by DG

Someday, Brookville, you will go too far.

 

 

More Aerial Sightings

by Paigetheoracle

Look, up in the air, it's a bird…it's…a lot of birds…

 Paigetheoracle wrote, 'Couple of hundred caught my attention but I missed a larger bunch of maybe five or six hundred because I was in the woods (saw them through the trees).'

The Editor downloaded the video with trepidation…a couple of hundred what? Fortunately, it was our old friends flying to their winter lodgings.

 

Quote of the Day

from Twitter/X

Amazon tells you what other items have been bought by people who bought your book. – Alexandra Wilson

I don't dare look, it will probably say 'People who bought your books also bought cheap blended whisky and antidepressants.' – Dr Francis Young, folklorist

Today's Moment of Seasonal Beauty

by Tavaron

No words needed. Let the mind be still a moment.

 

Want to See More of That Baby Goat?

by Mrs Hoggett

 

Pretty cute, huh?

Fiction Moment:

Illegal Aliens?

By FWR

Makes you think. (At least, we hope so.)

'Are you sure of the numbers?'

The Prime Minister looked around the COBRa attendees, seeking out his Home Sec.

'A rough estimate. But, we believe it's in that region, yes.'

'What the hell are we going to do with over one and a half million, erm, you know, of, of, erm, them?'

'Naval resources, our own, the French, Germans, and Norwegians are being deployed. Sadly the Yanks have refused point blank. We've seconded the RNLI, local fishing boats, ferries etcetera. Quite simply, this will be the greatest maritime flotilla since Dunkirk!'

'And still no intel on where they're from?'

'No, and that may be the biggest hurdle we have to manoeuvre,"  the Comms lead interjected, "Quite simply we have no idea where or what these, erm, refugees, migrants, displaced, erm, yes, no idea at all. A PR nightmare and fodder for the press on an epic scale!'

The PM glanced at the screens, sickened by the already outrageously unkind headlines on the Breaking banners.

Above the scrolling news, the grey, dark Channel, illuminated by thousands of searchlights and helicopter FLIRs.

The ships and boats circling the vast craft, as thousands upon thousands of 'aliens' disembarked the stricken starship.

 

Cu a-O,

 Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor

 

The Hooverville Hexagon: Surprises

 

Life can surprise you.

 

Your Daily Warning That

Halloween Is Coming

by Paulh

Do do that voodoo that you do so well.

 

 

Do You See a UFO?

by FWR

Is it a UFO or the ancient enemy of all English people?

Strange lights in the sky over our garden tonight. About to grab the tin foil and the welcome signs.

Turns out the farmers are, erm, farmering and the rather bright tractor lights are bouncing off bloody seagulls as the storm comes in.

Ho hum, ET farm home...

Quote of the Day

In 2003, a museum in Southend abandoned plans to exhibit a 20,000-year-old, four-foot-long woolly mammoth’' tusk found in a garden in Leigh-on-Sea after a second geologist identified it as a length of Victorian drainage pipe.

Quite Interesting

Goat Surprise (with video)

by Mrs Hoggett

We had a surprise today. Honey had babies! We didn’t know she was expecting. We thought she was just fat. She had one boy and one girl. The little girl goat died: it was born small and weak. But the boy goat is doing very well.

Meet Buzz.

Today's Moment of Seasonal Beauty

by Robbie Stamp

Another beautiful sunset. They're always surprising.

 

Let the Cat Get the Post

by Paigetheoracle

 

Postbox, Inverness.

 

Zookeeper Kicked by a

Kangaroo Describes the

Experience

Now that was a surprise.

cucu,

 Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor

 

The Hooverville Hexagon: In Our Backyards

 

I said 'email me' and they did. They showed me things. Now we'll show you.

 

Your Daily Warning That

Halloween Is Coming

by Sho

Are cross-eyed jack-o-lanterns easier to run away from?

 

 

A Conversation About

Country Music &

Wine

DG, FWR

In my continuing effort to educate FWR on the difference between real country music and poseurs, I sent him a link to a song by John Prine called Knockin' on Your Screen Door. I said: No hats. No sequins. No fake nostalgia. Just the real thing. And no, I didn't know you could make wine from sweet potatoes, either. I wouldn't know how to try.

FWR agreed to listen to more John Prine and added: I've heard Angel from Montgomery by him. Will listen to some more.

I presume sweet potato wine would be a similar method to carrot or turnip wine. (Just checked – yup, it is.) Tried them last year, both taste like Madeira or a light sweet sherry. Not my fave but an interesting experiment.

The secret to finding good country music: ask somebody with the right
background. The secret to finding good wine: ask a well-travelled connoisseur and winemaker like FWR.

How did he know about carrot wine? He's made his own. When you see that Thingwall label, you know it's FWR.

Today's Virtual Tour:

Paulh: Autumn Comes to

the Trailer Park

You will like this. You might even discover a new (to you) plant.

Today's Moment of Seasonal Beauty

by Tavaron

When the leaves are this colour, you know what time it is.

Today's Featured Sunrise

by Paigetheoracle

 

I was talking to someone I know down Crawl Park, when in amongst the clouds and blue sky, I saw a host of golden retrievers – no, skip that, I saw this over his shoulder and headed up the hill to get this shot. Frosts over the last few days and now this and it's milder.

 

Quote of the Day

Data indicates that between 59 and 75 percent of people never read past the headline, so it's particularly important that journalists try to, you know, avoid lying in the headline.

Karl Bode in his article about the non-existent flying car that, if it did exist, would 'kill oodles of people.'

cucu,

 Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor