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Yesterday, a customer was cashing her social security disability check and said to the teller, "I hear there's going to be a blue moon tomorrow. I hope the sky's clear so I can see it!"
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"I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
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Sky won't be clear to it here
Though I've seen full moons before, even twice in one month!
Hope she doesn't think it will actually be blue!"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory." _Ed Viesturs
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Yes, that's exactly what she thought. The teller didn't have the heart to correct her. But when relaying the story to us, she said it explains why the customer is on disability!"I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
-Mira FurlanComment
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I've had so many people at work ask me if I plan on staying up to look for it that I've started responding with "Nah, I figure anytime I wanna see a Wheel of Blue Cheese I can just go buy some."
Usually takes 'em a few mintues. :PComment
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There is also a partial Lunar Eclipse. However, it is going on right now, and I am on the wrong side of the planet.
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Maybe, please, it was a joke?
Anyway, people will be staying up tonight anyway because of New Year's, so it's convenient.Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.Comment
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I looked out of the window & thought "Blimey, there's a heavy bit of cloud partly over the moon there!Quoth csquared View PostThere is also a partial Lunar Eclipse. However, it is going on right now, and I am on the wrong side of the planet.
A bit later on a friend mentioned the partial eclipse
*facepalm & D'oh!*
Arp happens!
Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.Comment
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Hubby looked up at the moon last night and said "It's not blue! I'm calling up NASA and filing a complaint!" Yeah, he's a goofball.Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.Comment
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I predict a blue moon tomorrow--when I go to the grocery store.
Mmmmmmm....ice cream.Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
"I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost dailyComment
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A blue moon is when there's 2 full moons in one month.Comment
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A blue moon actually happens when the light hitting the moon has gone through the right part of the Earth's atmosphere, therefore making it blue.
So in fact the lady was approximately right - the only time a blue moon can possibly occur is during a lunar eclipse.Comment
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From the Wikipedia article about the Blue Moon:
The most literal meaning of blue moon is when the moon (not necessarily a full moon) appears to a casual observer to be unusually bluish, which is a rare event. The effect can be caused by smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere, as has happened after forest fires in Sweden and Canada in 1950 and, notably, after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, which caused the moon to appear blue for nearly two years. The particles in the atmosphere have to be about one micrometer in diameter; under these circumstances, long-wavelength light, which appears red to a viewer, is scattered out of the line of sight and short-wavelength light, which appears blue to a viewer, is selectively transmitted into a viewer's eyes."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."Comment
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I usually see a blue moon every time I go to a bar..."I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone, that someone is probably the last person you should ask." - HouseComment
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Is that where you pull down your pants and show your ass (literally) on a freezing cold day and your buns are blue?Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
Now that's what I'd call a Double blue moon . . .
Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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