Re: Eclipse in the US
Originally Posted by
Uncle Joe
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Just better things to do with my time than watch the shadow of a satellite pass in front of our star. In 1999, whilst everyone else sat on a mound on our local golf course gazing up into the sky, I was busy with my bucket picking blackberries ready to make blackberry gin with.
Joe, me old pal, me old beauty...
Baw ha ha ha... You do realise a solar eclipse only lasts a couple of minutes?
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
You better rush off and do all those important things you do like whinging about the UK's Tory party and making disparaging remarks about Americans.