View From The Porch: Unexpected side effect.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Unexpected side effect.

With all the news of the flooding in Rhode Island, it's the place names that are having an odd effect on me. I keep expecting to hear about eyeless tentacled horrors washed out of the storm sewers...

17 comments:

OA said...: I had a mild human-type interest in the last round of flooding, right up until I saw a news report that featured residents of Warwick demanding the government send guys out to clean their flood damaged homes for them. The common utterance was "who's gonna help us?!", of course delivered with all the righteous indignation they could muster. Gee folks, why don't you help each other instead of standing around in a parking lot bitching at some government toady? You know...help your neighbor, like they do in the civilized world.; 10:36 AM, March 31, 2010
Turk Turon said...: "Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell."

For myself, I actually enjoy me some pestilential tempests.; 10:38 AM, March 31, 2010
Midwest Chick said...: I was just there last week and it doesn't take a lot of rain to flood out those streets but like OA said, where's that famous New England stoicism/self-reliance?

I have to admit that I wasn't watching for Cthulhu, but wouldn't have been surprised if he'd come calling.; 10:50 AM, March 31, 2010
Anonymous said...: Beware the Zombie Quohog!!!

OA: Don;t be fooled by a couple of sniveling nitwits. Us Swamp Yankees take care of each other. House down the street was in danger of washing away and the whole neighborhood jumped in to help sandbag the foundation. House is still there with only a little bit of damage. Don't sell us short!

Spence in RI; 10:55 AM, March 31, 2010
Anonymous said...: Hell, when pressed, most everyone, regardless of country and size of town/city, will pitch in and do what they can to help. Most of the people in that parking lot were just sorry damn pigs, though.; 10:59 AM, March 31, 2010
OA said...: Oops, that was me.; 11:00 AM, March 31, 2010
Themadlemming said...: I thought all of the children of our Dread Lord Cthulhu were amphibious anyway?; 11:02 AM, March 31, 2010
Weer'd Beard said...: The way the water is spurting up from my floors, I just assumed that Hell was an aquatic environment, and I'm just making sure Teddy Kennedy doesn't come up through one of those holes to take back his seat.

Seems fitting that Teddy with reside in the hereafter submerged, don't ya think?; 11:57 AM, March 31, 2010
TJIC said...: > I keep expecting to hear about eyeless tentacled horrors

Yeah, the RI politicians are almost as bad as the MA ones.; 12:02 PM, March 31, 2010
Jay G said...: Hey, RI has the only Kennedy left...

Interesting to see tony Newburyport, MA on that list, Tam.

Lovely place - as long as you can stand the urban hipsters.; 12:29 PM, March 31, 2010
Atom Smasher said...: I miss living in RI. Weird Indian place names, crooked Italian politicians by the trunkload (I'm Italian), and fun beaches full of lovely ladies.; 12:48 PM, March 31, 2010
BobG said...: "The way the water is spurting up from my floors, I just assumed that Hell was an aquatic environment, and I'm just making sure Teddy Kennedy doesn't come up through one of those holes to take back his seat."

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ted Kennedy R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.; 2:50 PM, March 31, 2010
Tam said...: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ted Kennedy R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

Okay, I LOL'ed. Hard.; 3:03 PM, March 31, 2010
Justthisguy said...: Midwest, Rogue Island is not exactly New England. It was founded by Baptists, not Puritans. Read yer "Albion's Seed."; 6:55 PM, March 31, 2010
Justthisguy said...: Hey, there are some eyeless tentacled horrors on the side of the good guys, with four mouths and four noses, and wearing a Lens. Witness my email addy, in honor of one of them.; 8:08 PM, March 31, 2010
Anonymous said...: "...eyeless tenticled horrors..." So libs come from RI sewers?; 9:23 PM, March 31, 2010
Mikee said...: Some would argue that the place needed a good hosing out, sort of like the back end of a garbage truck after a long August work day.; 3:04 PM, April 01, 2010