US town: Solar panels 'suck up all the energy from the sun'

[seattle smitty]

Nah, that's bullshit - it's a conspiracy by the US media to avoid the low educational standards of the poor South becoming known to the world - and particularly Islamic State....Who could be scared of people as reported ?

To be a semi-serious, and for my fellow irony buffs, consider that for all of their dumb@ss ideas and lack of book-larnin', if it actually came to you having to go over the top and take an ISIS position, you couldn't do much better than have a squad of good old Southern boys along side you.

[Daffyd]

Well cars were once limited to walking pace fue the the unknown affects of higher speeds

Shh! Don't tell the PTB... they might reintroduce it.

[awa355]

Shh! Don't tell the PTB... they might reintroduce it.

In the 1880's doctors protested against cycling suggesting that attempting to cycle up hills would cause the body to begin to collapse. This has come to be a proven fact. 140 years on, I'm totally shagged riding up hills.

[Grumph]

To be a semi-serious, and for my fellow irony buffs, consider that for all of their dumb@ss ideas and lack of book-larnin', if it actually came to you having to go over the top and take an ISIS position, you couldn't do much better than have a squad of good old Southern boys along side you.

No argument there Smitty - just point them in the right direction and stand at a safe distance.

[seattle smitty]

In 1979, in the middle of the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah, a group of students kidnapped 52 American embassy personnel, the start of a year and a half ordeal which I'll assume you already have read of or remember directly. Of course this was the lead story in the news for most of that time, but especially so in the couple of weeks after the initial capture. Following a few days of reporting announcements from the usual official sources, who didn't have a lot of information themselves, reporters began going out on the street and sticking their mikes in front of people for their reactions and opinions. The Carter administration, rather than sending in the Marines, was fumbling desperately to find some way to get our people out of the grasp of the ayatollah's fanatic followers without getting them killed, with the unfortunate result that we looked cowed and helpless.

I will always treasure the memory of one young lady, a network television reporter who happened to be doing this in a city in Texas, though from her speech she was plainly a Yankee. With a good reporter's eye for anyone who looked like he/she would come off well on camera and might offer something quotable, she walked up to an older man in cowboy boots and hat who could only have been a west Texas rancher. Appearing to be somewhere in his sixties, this old man had spent much of his life in the saddle. He was lean and fit with a ramrod-straight back, all exposed skin turned to leather by a life in the sun and wind, and as hard and serious and tough as humans get. Like a lot of old ranchers, he wouldn't have lost much of his working efficiency despite his age, and before he said a word you could see he was all business.

"Sir?," said the the reporter, "Jane Doe, ABC News. What is your opinion of what America shoud be doing in Iran to get our people back?"

The old Texan instantly radiated a degree of indignation that could have melted her microphone (I like to tell this story in person so that I can do the heavy accent, so just imagine it). With no lead-up, he barked, "WE TAKE FIF-TY COW-BOYS AND WHUP THEY ASS!!!!!!!"

They probably could have done it, too!!

[vifferman]

When trains were invented in England early 18th century, people were suspect of going in the carriages in case all the air was sucked out once they got moving.
Guess their families moved to North Carolina...

I can't remember the details, but it was either a scientist or engineer who had carefully calculated that 40mph was the speed at which this would occur.