freecounterpoint: A heartbreaking story

Sunday, May 06, 2007

A heartbreaking story

Maybe JJ can help soothe the pain.

14 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...: Caged Heat IV?; 5/06/2007 9:55 PM
Tecumseh said...: He, he! Hey, MFT, welcome back! The tundra thawed, or what?; 5/06/2007 11:32 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: It's been a week and a half doin' archaeology (pedestrian surveys) and cultural resource inventory on the high Plains.

I've got some good photos of an abandoned USAF Missile Defense Bunker, I think built and quickly abandoned during the Nixon administration. It's a good sized pyramid of concrete about 30 miles from the Canukistan border. At the time, it was constructed to withstand a near Soviet nuclear hit (I call it The Nixon Bunker). Now abandoned, it just sits in the middle of flat Upper Plains prairie, right north of Nakoma, North Dakota (note: the only bar in Nakoma is titled, "The Pain Reliever").

I'm probably gonna put "Dr. Strangelove" in the bibliography of the end report.; 5/07/2007 10:10 AM
Mr roT said...: Sounds like an interesting junket. We thought you were looking for high-plains goats, though.
I think I like our story better.; 5/07/2007 1:40 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: High plains goats? You mean sheep, don't you?; 5/07/2007 2:21 PM
Mr roT said...: Ovines, I opine, are all the same.; 5/07/2007 3:36 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: JJ, if you, AI, AA, or Pepe ever make it out here, I'll take you up to Langdon, North Dakota, and we can sit and sip beers and stare at the three-story tall ICBM that sits in the park that's situated between the elementary and high school. All while steady 35+ mph winds whip across the flat Dakota Steppe. It's all very surreal at first, feeling sort of like you're in a proto-Mad Max environ, concrete pyramids, sheep, ICBMs and all.; 5/07/2007 3:45 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: I'll take the beer but jj has first dibs on the sheep.; 5/07/2007 5:57 PM
Tecumseh said...: Sound great, MFT. Reminds me of:

General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.; 5/07/2007 6:19 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Classic, AI. Absolutely classic.

And Pepe, JJ might have to settle for bovines. I didn't see any sheep or goats, although about a year ago Canukistan wild boars were reported around Stanley, North Dakota (another bleak village on the high northern plains). Crewmembers from the Burlington Northern/Sante Fe line shot it, and the town had ribs for a week (the latter statement is mere MFT theory).

Reminds me of another story, for some reason: I met a British physician (used to practice in Stanley) and a French archaeologist not far from Stanley, North Dakota last summer, all within a span of an hour and a half. The Brit accused a friend of mine of being "civilized" after producing a lime to dress our tequila sunrises. The French archaeologist was some kind of workaholic with a family back in the homeland (totally turned Yankee). Nice guy. Real serious about paleo-Indians, too.; 5/08/2007 12:24 AM
Mr roT said...: I thought the indians weren't paley.; 5/08/2007 12:44 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Explain...; 5/08/2007 9:04 AM
Mr roT said...: pale-faced... sorry sickening pun, I agree; 5/08/2007 8:16 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Yeah, that one was a bit out there.; 5/08/2007 11:57 PM