Comments on: The Alternate Universe Lost and Found http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/ (It's not defined!) Fri, 18 May 2012 04:11:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Blair http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2732 Blair Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:50:22 +0000 http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2732 Now that you mention it, the DC area does have a tendency toward unusual activity on the roads. In the time I've lived here (since 1996) I've encountered reports of a bull (and any number of deer) sprinting up and down I-270, an overturned truckload of live chickens down in the Springfield interchange (requiring traffic to be stopped while the police gathered them) and I've personally pulled a (miraculously, uninjured) dog from the middle of the road on the Outer Loop. Non-livestock related, there's been a rather infamous semi-trailer full of black powder, a truck spilling beer kegs, and an overturned truck full of cookies that had the traffic reporters talking about helping with the cleanup by heading over with a tanker full of milk. Of course, jokes about Washington DC and alternate realities are just a little <strong>too</strong> easy. Now that you mention it, the DC area does have a tendency toward unusual activity on the roads. In the time I’ve lived here (since 1996) I’ve encountered reports of a bull (and any number of deer) sprinting up and down I-270, an overturned truckload of live chickens down in the Springfield interchange (requiring traffic to be stopped while the police gathered them) and I’ve personally pulled a (miraculously, uninjured) dog from the middle of the road on the Outer Loop.

Non-livestock related, there’s been a rather infamous semi-trailer full of black powder, a truck spilling beer kegs, and an overturned truck full of cookies that had the traffic reporters talking about helping with the cleanup by heading over with a tanker full of milk.

Of course, jokes about Washington DC and alternate realities are just a little too easy.

]]> By: Z. http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2727 Z. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:01:42 +0000 http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2727 When I first moved to Germantown in 1991, I unexpectedly ran across a calf walking down the street at the corner of 355 and 118 (which is now 355 and Boland Farm Road). Next time you're in the greeting card aisle at Target, remember that there used to be cows grazing right there. When I first moved to Germantown in 1991, I unexpectedly ran across a calf walking down the street at the corner of 355 and 118 (which is now 355 and Boland Farm Road). Next time you’re in the greeting card aisle at Target, remember that there used to be cows grazing right there.

]]> By: Blair http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2726 Blair Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:10:20 +0000 http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2726 Sounds a bit like Wylie's take on fences. As far as he's concerned, fences don't exist and he just walks right through them. Definitely an alternate universe perspective involved. But the pony... Perhaps it's because I haven't lived far enough out in the country (though I'm most definitely <strong>not</strong> a city-boy). The idea of walking through a park and unexpectedly coming across a pony just seems a bit surreal to me. About the only thing I can think of that compares was a spring day during my Junior year of college. I was walking across campus and when I got the lawn of the student union building, I encountered a most strangely garbed group of people, whaling away at each other with swords and shields. (It wasn't until some years later I first heard of the Society for Creative Anachronisms. I can only assume this was a college chapter of that group.) Sounds a bit like Wylie’s take on fences. As far as he’s concerned, fences don’t exist and he just walks right through them. Definitely an alternate universe perspective involved.

But the pony… Perhaps it’s because I haven’t lived far enough out in the country (though I’m most definitely not a city-boy). The idea of walking through a park and unexpectedly coming across a pony just seems a bit surreal to me.

About the only thing I can think of that compares was a spring day during my Junior year of college. I was walking across campus and when I got the lawn of the student union building, I encountered a most strangely garbed group of people, whaling away at each other with swords and shields. (It wasn’t until some years later I first heard of the Society for Creative Anachronisms. I can only assume this was a college chapter of that group.)

]]> By: SueP http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2724 SueP Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:00:46 +0000 http://dactylmanor.org/blair/zero/2007/09/09/the-alternate-universe-lost-and-found/#comment-2724 Heh. Some ponies are absolute escape artists. Tinker doesn't seem to care about my gate but I suspect she's the one who manages to get thru the barn door about once a year. They can make an absolute mess out of a neatly stacked pile of hay. Almost as bad as a teenage male's bedroom! Heh. Some ponies are absolute escape artists. Tinker doesn’t seem to care about my gate but I suspect she’s the one who manages to get thru the barn door about once a year. They can make an absolute mess out of a neatly stacked pile of hay. Almost as bad as a teenage male’s bedroom!

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