Scarlet Pimpernel

Damn, that's too bad! I always envision you as a cloaked skeleton Reaper! ETA: Wait a minute...that probably makes me weird to think that!! LOL!!

What about Pacino??

Totally agree, and I'm more or less on the same page as you...I find him tedious. It is kind of sad in a way, because I have seen some really good and insightful posts he has made. But yeah, that's overtaken by the vast majority of the time when he's insufferable; maybe that's his "thing", but nobody needs the model or storm threads taken up with it.

Why thank you! I have always appreciated bad puns (the only sort that are good!). And yeah, my screen name comes from chess, and is a German word (I enjoy chess though haven't played as much of late, sadly). I took German for 2 years in high school and a couple of years in college, really liked it! I actually got halfway decent at being able to read it reasonably well and even carry on an OK conversation. But that was MANY years ago, I've forgotten a lot of that by now!

Probably much better for the blood pressure, I'm sure!

But perhaps you are Falstaff (false staff)!! OK, exiting the elevator quickly while the odor of that particularly lousy pun percolates!

Thanks. Yeah, something looks a little odd. And sorry @Deck Pic, didn't see you had already posted the total QPF just before I asked my question, but thanks!

What's the total QPF look like...is it just as pock-marked looking as this?

Sorry to hear she's getting up there in years and has had cardiac issues. Hope you'll be OK when "that time" comes...it's never easy really to prepare ones self for that, I know.

Overcome by overexposure to pure CUTENESS!! Thanks for sharing...

Or the Panic Room...

I think applying a gag would be more effective...

Looks like a burger that's been sitting out for a few weeks. Science experiment! ETA: Or a St. Patrick's Day meal that went wrong!

Yeesh! Where in GA? When I lived in Atlanta (going to GA Tech), I don't really recall anything with fire ants up in that part of the state. But I can imagine the southern part and near the coastal area around Savannah might be infiltrated with those damned things.

Oh, that's awful!! Really bad allergic reaction. I'm glad you told her emphatically to head right to the ER, and that she was driving by a hospital. Glad she ended up OK!

She is! Scientist at heart! As was my dad. Geekiness runs in the family, as does bad humor! LOL!!

Ugh...fire ants! Nasty little f**ers!! Experienced those in Florida when I was in grad school for my Master's (FSU). I have a vivid memory one time of being in the outfield during some softball game practice, running in to catch a fly ball and inadvertently kicking one of those fire ant hill nests. In one motion right after I caught the ball and kicked that damned hill...I reached down and flung my shoe off. Thank goodness I didn't get bitten all over the place!

Looking at the range of weenie-d out emotion reminds me of a tale my step-mom told me years ago about the "ephemerons". Very scientific beings that lived on the top of the mercury column of a thermometer. Their lives were on the order of a microsecond. After thousands or more generations, they figured out the extent of their world: where the top and bottom of the thermometer glass was. After a couple million more, they realized they were accelerating upward, and panic ensued as they thought their world would be crushed on the top of the glass in some number of generations down the line! Then, after awhile, they realized things were stabilized and the panic stopped. After a million more generations their measurements indicated they were going down, fairly rapidly. Upon more and more measurements, they were growing very worried that they would crater at the bottom of their universe! And so it goes...

It's the mid-level temperatures, 700-mb in particular, that the NAM has consistently shown as warmer.

@stormtracker, @mappy...maybe use this whenever we go into "storm mode" for this event if anyone gets way out of line!!

Sorry, feeling in a "meme" mood this evening and this just seemed perfect...

You must touch the third rail first!

@ravensrule says, "Hold my beer!"

When it comes to snow, we're all a little like Veruca Salt!