Fwd: EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD - 'do the locomotion'

[Clark Santos]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Clark  Santos <clarksantos@argolink.net>
> Date: Tue Jul 13, 2004  11:56:18  PM US/Central
> To: Remembrances of Austin Ghetto <GHETTO2@LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM>
> Subject: Re: EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD - 'do the locomotion'
>
> 	If the poles change all you have to do is reverse the cables on 
> your car battery, reverse the plugs in your house by filing off the fat 
> side insert and breaking off the ground poles. The lights are on AC, so 
> the only problem will be for shipping when the south pole ice floats to 
> the north pole and vice-versa and we can let people like Foxey handle 
> that kind of shit. I learned a thing or two before flunking out of 
> electrical engineering and switching to accounting.
> 	But we should still have a big party!
>
> El Patron, CPA
>
> p.s. That Glen Parker is damn good Scotch
>
> On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at 10:15  PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
>> By that, El Bobster, I trust you mean your "GPS" and not your "moral"
>> compass.
>>
>> Unless, of course, you are a Fungi Kind of Guy, in which case you 
>> might want
>> to re-tune your morel compass.
>>
>> Yours truly
>>
>> Amanita Muscaria Johnson
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "telebob" <telebob@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
>> To: <GHETTO2@LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD - 'do the locomotion'
>>
>>
>>> OK I yield to the Scientific American subscribers and others like 
>>> them....
>>>
>>> I have not been keeping up.
>>>
>>> I will reset my compass.
>>>
>>> teleNostromo
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Remembrances of Austin Ghetto
>>> [mailto:GHETTO2@LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM]On Behalf Of Jim Strong
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:24 AM
>>> To: GHETTO2@LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM
>>> Subject: Re: EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD - 'do the locomotion'
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Dave McQueen <dmcqklaatu@NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe not balderdash.  The Earth's magnetic polarity
>>>> has shifted many times in the remote past, and is
>>>> likely to do so again, if not soon, later.
>>> ================
>>>
>>>   <reply>
>>>     hey, you're missing a *great* opportunity - why
>>> not call it 'bauldaufdash' instead of 'balderdash'
>>> dave?
>>>     as it turns out, herr baldauf is perzactly right
>>> about the NYT story:
>>>>> 'Will Compasses Point South?'
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/science/13magn.html
>>>     [excerpt]
>>> ****************
>>>    'A reversal could knock out power grids, hurt
>>> astronauts and satellites, widen atmospheric ozone
>>> holes, send polar auroras flashing to the equator and
>>> confuse birds, fish and migratory animals that rely on
>>> the steadiness of the magnetic field as a navigation
>>> aid. But experts said the repercussions would fall
>>> short of catastrophic, despite a few proclamations of
>>> doom and sketchy evidence of past links between field
>>> reversals and species extinctions.
>>>    'Although a total flip may be hundreds or thousands
>>> of years away, the rapid decline in magnetic strength
>>> is already damaging satellites.'
>>> ****************
>>>
>>>     maybe we could revive the old colonical tune the
>>> british troops supposedly played as general cornwallis
>>> abandoned yorktown -
>>> 'the world turned upside down.'
>>>>>
>>> http://www.contemplator.com/england/worldtur.html
>>>
>>> ****************
>>> "If buttercups buzz'd after the bee,
>>> If boats were on land, churches on sea,
>>> If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
>>> And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
>>> If the mamas sold their babies
>>> To the gypsies for half a crown;
>>> If summer were spring and the other way round,
>>> Then all the world would be upside down."
>>> ****************
>>>
>>> billy jim
>>>
>>>
>>
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