Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-28-19 02:31 <=-

104) that advertised Giant Shrimp along with Clams and other
stuff...

To be fair, usage of the term shrimp to mean shrimpy
is a relative newcomer.

True... but Richard almost always commented on the incongruity... :)

I'm sure he knows it's not really oxymoronic.

No doubt... It's just the image conjured up, and the way it struck him
as funny....

I suppose. People get amused by small things and things
about small things, I guess. And we have the ironic use
of size terms, see below.

Sometimes it's just how something strikes one... ;)

I haven't found any example so far of such
intensely spooky tampering. With the computer,
of course, anything goes. I wanted the location
of the nearest Bank of America ATM, and Google
just sent me to one in Geneva (New York, that is).
In this case I've tentatively traced it to the
router I'm connected to being haunted.

That could explain it...

And some sites are reacting as if ignoring my inputs and
displaying to the tapping of a different drummer.

That could be right scary...

P.S. It turns out that actual closest one was
haunted, opening and closing its various orifices
seemingly at random. I watched some perhaps
slightly stoned guy standing enthralled by it for
several minutes. I asked him if he thought it was
broken, and he said he was scared to put his card
into it. I also refrained from doing so.

Yeah... I wouldn't trust my card to that either.... Any "natural" explanations of the phenomenon I could think of don't give any better confidence that one wouldn't lose the card....

It was amusing in the way Little Shop of Horrors was
(I saw the original only).

I've only heard selected selections from it on the radio from time to
time... and heard of it....

... A cat is the visible soul of a home.

From the cat's point of view!

Mais d'accord...

Until last year I paid property taxes in Maryland,
but as there's no property any more, I guess I don't
qualify for the public library there - it's not like
they'd kick me out and the horse I rode in, but it
would be sort of taking advantage of the system if
I took out books there.

They might have some sort of arrangement for out-of-state regular visitors... possibly based on whether one has a current library card elsewhere...

They didn't ask for evidence of any.

And I gather you didn't ask, either....

California is a diferent question -
you waltz in, and if you aren't a resident, you
pay $5 for a lifetime card (if you lose the card,
it's a buck to replace). I showed the librarian
my handicap placard, and the fee got waived.

That's a nice setup... :)

It worked well enough.

Were I to be likely in CA for any length of time (or lengths of time) it
could be something to pursue.... :)

ttyl neb

... Aquamortis: To continue watering a plant weeks after it has died.

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