336 Comments Posted by Dark-Star

Thanks for sharing your memories. If Motts visits my old school :I'll share mine.

@N - People of all ages are abandoning literature. Actual bookstores are going out of business all over - my homecity lost 3 of them in the past few years and the city library has a sale every week trying to get rid of overflow. Fairly likely they couldn't find any individual or store that wanted that many old books! But I agree its sad!

@ Madison - I believe I see verse numbers, possibly the book of James.

...that's terrible.
-.-

...wow...my nurse aunts would term that patient an "Ivy League" one - as in put back in his room with an IV (get it?) of something that sent him/her "away with the fairies" until sturdier restraints/doors/etc were ordered.

I don't know which is more disturbing - the photo or the comments! Seems around here we all share the same brand of dreadful humor!

Nice to see 'local' superhero art that actually looks good, usually it looks ugly or freaky. Bet that gave some people smiles.

@eldokid - possibly a child's view of how big grown-up people appear to him or her.

Heartwarming that though literally everything around it is falling apart the poem and illustration still remain. By the way, this poem is from the first few lines of renowed children's humor/poetry writer Shel Silverstien called "Me and My Giant":

I have a friend who is a giant,
And he lives where the tall weeds grow.
He's high as a mountain and wide as a barn,
And I only come up to his toe, you know,
I only come up to his toe.

When the daylight grows dim I talk with him
Way down in the marshy sands,
And his ear is too far away to hear,
But still he understands, he 'stands,
I know he understands.

For we have a code called the "scratch-tap code,"
And here is what we do --
I scratch his toe . . . once means, "Hello"
And twice means, "How are you?"
Three means, "Does it look like rain?"
Four times means, "Don't cry."
Five times means, "I'll scratch you a joke."
And six times emans, "Goodbye," "Goodbye,"
Six times means, "Goodbye."

And he answers me by tapping his toe --
Once means, "Hello, friend."
Two taps means, "It's very nice to feel your scratch again."
Three taps means, "It's lonely here
With my head in the top of the sky."
Four tas means, "Today an eagle smiled as she flew by."
Five taps meanns, "Oops, I just bumped
my head against the moon."
Six means, "Sigh" and seven means, "Bye"
And eight means, "Come back soon, soon, soon,"
Eight means, "Come back soon."

And then I scratch a thousand times,
And he taps with a bappity-bimm,
And he laughs so hard he shakes the sky --
That means I'm tickling him!

Hooray, hooray, a new gallery today! Thank you Motts!@

Agreed; 'noisemaker' traps are generally only to alert you that the cops/security is nosing about. If you even think you're being followed with malicious intent the best course of action is generally to de-ass the area with quickness, to quote the Mythbusters.

Another urbexer remarked to me that he always carries a small plastic jar full of cheap olive oil and clear marbles - in case of suspected pursuit by non-cops, dump in a likely spot to buy time and don't wait around to see if it works.

Ah, thank you, I'm as Protestant as they come.

@ Mica - took the words out of my mouth.

Looks like the thug who was bashing heads off had second thoughts.

@ Bobo Miller - yeah, that was the first thing that went through my head as well.

I'm about the least superstitious person imaginable but beating on statues of saints and angels in a convent does not strike me as a very wise course of action.

There's the Alpha and Omega again.