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04-08-2024, 10:43 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,134
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Eclpise?
Best time to watch?
End of the world?
Caused by Climate Change?
You pick ; )
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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04-08-2024, 01:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
Posts: 2,286
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Surprised been no prior discussions (Ross out spaceologist???))
Kids and I have special glasses, tin foil hats, locked and loaded and a cold one ready for what ever comes.
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04-08-2024, 01:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,242
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I'm in arizona and it's at its peak now. Only sixty percent here. Certainly not life changing.
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04-08-2024, 02:41 PM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
Posts: 8,456
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Watched it, but then it was like watching a Patriots game and i sort of lost interest.
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04-08-2024, 03:12 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,505
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It was cool at peak after a little slow start to the show. From what I saw of coverage totality areas, it looked very cool. But I am not in a car right now driving 3+ hours to get home.
The sky was clear, enough. I was surprised how much the temperature dropped... Waiting to hear from family who were in Burlington Vt. which had totality.
I had ordered a dozen pairs of glasses a month ago for family and close people. And I still had a dozen requests for them yesterday and today (mostly from the usual suspects who don't plan and figured that I would have a supply...)
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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04-08-2024, 03:18 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,454
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Like sex, lots of hooplar and bang, it’s over
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04-08-2024, 04:19 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,505
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Hmmmm Lasted a lot longer here...... 
A little slow getting going too. |
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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04-08-2024, 05:29 PM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
Posts: 8,456
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guppy
Like sex, lots of hooplar and bang, it’s over
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Your partner would probably like it to last longer. |
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04-08-2024, 05:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,591
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guppy
Like sex, lots of hooplar and bang, it’s over
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And it only happens every 40 years
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04-08-2024, 08:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
Posts: 2,286
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Well after not having my prayers answered to have aliens come down and vaporize my outlaw, I tried to emphasize on my disinterested kids the significance that the next time this happens they will prob all have kids of their own the same age as my youngest. And fortunately my outlaw won't be around. Hopefully.
Was still pretty cool and well worth thw investment wife spent on the glasses. She better not complain in 20 yrs that I held on to em for the next.
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04-09-2024, 05:26 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,134
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Ordered the glasses and passed them around, was fun to see, and worth seeing, but not worth traveling for.
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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04-09-2024, 07:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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was not something on my "must see" bucket list, even though it most likely will be the last one in my lifetime around here, just can't get jacked over things I have no control over. sitting in traffic or driving for hours for a 2-minute show is my idea of a colossal waste of time, something I don't have enough of... I'll be more excited over the full Strawberry moon- to me it means something.
oh yea- it's Trumps fault!  |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
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04-09-2024, 08:31 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,075
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Not much of a show
I’m within 10 miles of the line of totality.
Of course the wacko claimed responsibility on Truth Social but luckily both he and the eclipse are temporary.
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04-09-2024, 03:31 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,142
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redlite
Well after not having my prayers answered to have aliens come down and vaporize my outlaw, I tried to emphasize on my disinterested kids the significance that the next time this happens they will prob all have kids of their own the same age as my youngest. And fortunately my outlaw won't be around. Hopefully.
Was still pretty cool and well worth thw investment wife spent on the glasses. She better not complain in 20 yrs that I held on to em for the next.
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They happen somewhere in the world every year, if they're willing to spend the money to travel and gamble on clear weather. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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04-09-2024, 04:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,231
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From the porch, it was life changing like the first time I saw Cats.
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04-09-2024, 06:53 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,189
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Me and the Wife made the ride up to Vermont, got 4 minutes of totality. It was actually pretty friggin awesome. Glad we did it. Ride home was a nightmare though, 4 hours up and 8 hours home.
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04-09-2024, 08:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 260
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I’m in Texas and was in the line of totality. It was much cooler than I anticipated and I’m glad I went out to watch it. They estimated 400k people traveled here to Dallas to see it. Crazy.
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04-10-2024, 06:31 AM
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GrandBob
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,527
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I stayed up in Rangeley ME and it was completely awesome. Not a cloud in the sky. I will do this again! and maybe again and again. Good excuse to get up and go somewhere new if nothing else. Planning it all out to avoid the masses does pay in spades I will say.
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04-10-2024, 03:47 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,454
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightfighter
Hmmmm Lasted a lot longer here......
A little slow getting going too. |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Got Stripers
Your partner would probably like it to last longer.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nebe
And it only happens every 40 years
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I walked right into that one….  |
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