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[SadLuckDame]

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[stilltrucking]

I was wondering if "ripple rouser" was an original thought with me. Thinking about how you like to make ripples. I found two hits on google for ripple rouser that painting was one of them.

Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow

http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/ripple.html

[SadLuckDame]

I thought it was original, too.
Until you'd posted the link and picture.
I think you're the first to call someone a ripple rouser.
Good stuff.

[silent woman]

I think you're the first to call someone a ripple rouser

"Well, isn't that special?”

[SadLuckDame]

Cheeky!

[stilltrucking]

careless farts or

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!"

[SadLuckDame]

or raspberries on the side of your face.

[stilltrucking]

Listening to Doreen reading
http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=13403

[stilltrucking]

"No mistake is serious
unless it's permanent"

[stilltrucking]

[stilltrucking]

[SadLuckDame]

You better stop making me laugh so easily,
I'm supposed to be difficult, you know.

My laugh a rarity, but then you show me puddles and mud.
Pah! I look easy.
me, stone cold?
me, light lifting bubbles?
I don't know anymore.

What's the last picture of?
I worry at my smiles that they'll look inappropriate.

[stilltrucking]

I have never read the Divine Comedy. Just bits of the Inferno.
Makes my day to hear you laugh thank you.
laugh with me or at me
makes no difference
sincerely jt


It is a picture of the Aral Sea or was the Aral sea I should say. Fourth largest body of fresh water in the world I think, or it used to be.

The victim of a planned political ecconomy I guess.

It is no exaggeration to say that the case of the Aral Sea is
one of the greatest environmental catastrophes ever recorded.
Humans have made use of the waters of the Aral basin for thousands
of years, borrowing from its two major rivers: the Amu Darya, which
flows into the Aral Sea from the south; and the Syr Darya, which
reaches the sea at its north end. As the twentieth century began,
irrigated agriculture in the basin was still being conducted at a
sustainable level.
After the Russian Empire was replaced by the Soviet Union,
this began to change. Traditional agricultural practices were
destroyed by collectivization, and Soviet planners sought products
that could be exported for hard currency. They placed cotton high
on their list, calling it `white gold,' and the Soviet Union became
a net exporter of cotton in 1937. Change accelerated in the
1950s, as Central Asian irrigated agriculture was expanded and
mechanized. The Kara Kum Canal opened in 1956, diverting large
amounts of water from the Amu Darya into the desert of
Turkmenistan, and millions of hectares of land came under
irrigation after 1960.
http://www1.american.edu/ted/aral.htm

also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

[SadLuckDame]

With you, if you were laughing too, over the puddles.
I wasn't laughing about the drained, dried sea, though worried my fun seeing the puddles prior and good mood it set would be out of place when looking at the poor gone sea. If that makes sense.

[the mingo]

That was a remarkable series of photos Jack. Exquisite.