wow...that beats me watching the history of beer on the food network!

You are completely right! Why does no one speak of the Bermuda Triangle anymore? Is it just not as scary anymore? I think it had something to do with the Grunge movement. Once girls started dressing like boys, and boys like they were homeless...nothing was more scary! I'd gladly take back the contoured blush and the Bermuda Triangle if it would insure the Grunge movement never made a come back!

If it was rogue waves that ate the ships that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, what caused the planes to disappear? I vote for UFOs.

Damnit, damnit damnit, I don't get History channel!

And I vote for UFOs. I want to believe!

Oh, yeah! The science police tell us this is how it is...except we did some more research, and actually, it's not!
I have personally given up on the food police, finally and forever. First eggs are bad, now they're good. Coffee was the root of all evil, now it prevents cancer. Caffeine was terrible, now it's not bad, and may even become good for us. Think I'll go eat an egg now.

Why is it that Discovery Channel and History channel and all those spend all prime time on the same 2 or 3 series and save their really good nerdy specials for late night? Are they trying to get me fired? Also, I too loved the countouring blush. However, I was a peach girl. And the lightest shade was kind of sparkly. Seriously. Because everyone knows that natural glow looks like sparkles. No, really.

Where's today's cat picture? I may not read every word but I always look forward to the cat. : )

Laurie, I'm going to out-nerd you. They DO still talk about the Bermuda Triangle on the History Channel, and not only that, they are now talking about the Devil's Triangle in the Pacific Ocean that's almost exactly opposite on the globe. One of the programs I saw even compared both of them to a black hole, although I don't remember all the nerdy details. And, I did not realize that contouring blush went out of style--I just never used it, because nothing could give me cheekbones, no matter what I try to do. Last but not least, I have six, count 'em, six cats.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who refuses to go on a cruise! The ocean scares the crap out of me with its overwhelming bigness, its creatures that want to eat me (or maybe just sink my ship), and it's gigantic rogue waves. No thanks!

i think the pilots and captains got wise to the triangle and started avoiding it.

:)

My DH and I have sat and watched that show.

I just saw a show on the Discovery Channel about the Bermuda triangle and some interesting disappearances in the 20s. They were airplanes, though, and not likely due to rogue waves.

I used to work at an Oceanographic research station in Bermuda. We sailed right into the Bermuda Triangle at least once or twice a month.

The aliens are really QUITE hospitable, once you get to know them...

(just kidding)

Now tell me why I find the phrase "roguest dreams" to be intrinsically funny??? Go figure.

Hey, at least Sasquash is making a come back. There's hope for the Bermuda Triangle, yet.

Cruises are great! Well, the inside passage of Alaska was great. However, the monster under my bed that will get me if my feet aren't covered......

How do you remember these things? Contouring blush? Somewhere that got dropped out of my brain, and now I'm sitting here, at work mind you, laughing hysterically. I had the contouring blush, oh yes I did. High Class Maybelline. I was a peach girl too, with the glittery top highlighty bits. And I have always laughed at the scientists who "know it all". Really? Because, oh, I don't know, Mr. Scientist, you've never ever had one experience in your life in any relationship where you thought YOU WERE SO RIGHT and it turned out you couldn't have been more wrong? And then you go to work and can't extrapolate that experience into your job? Really? That you might be wrong never occurred to you?

I don't think I've ever giggled during a history lesson.

Seacrap is my new favorite word. Well, that and truckerlips.

You go with your dorky self, Laurie. I was at an all-weekend long meeting at a spa (!) but after the meetings were done and everyone else was getting their spa party on, my roommate and I raced back to our room to get in our jammies to watch "The French Revolution" on the History Channel. Luv it.

That was funny! I think I have subject whiplash.

ok i don't feel like such a dork anymore, bc i too settled in to watch that show and was FASCINATED by it! (great knitting tv!)

The Bermuda Triangle has not left my own personal sphere of daily living, even if it has been less popular in the Rest Of The World. For some reason, my sisters and I still quote some nature program we saw back in the early 90s whenever something suspicious/auspicious/mysterious happens.

"Coincidence?.... Or the Bermuda Triangle?"

Try it! You'll like it!

This is most effective when said in a tone that suggests you are attempting to tame the giant beast of Mystery with your awesome powers of logic and scientific inquiry. SCIENCE WILL CONQUER ALL!!! (Just kidding. I'd secretly be more happy if mystery won. And if the Bermuda Triangle came back in style again, along with contour blush and perhaps even Skip Its. But please no more Grunge or flannel ever again. Blech.)

oh, and CAP? here in pdx, after enduring four days of 100-degree heat, the weather turned and we have been enjoying sweet delicious rain. there was a thunderstorm one morning, and let me tell you, that was the best going-back-to-sleep sound ever. last night it was all blowy and rainy, just like it is in the late fall, and i imagine this is what you were talking about at the beginning of your post.

I'm never going on a cruise either. I get seasick in a whirlpool bath. Seriously.

I watched two hours of Hitler programming yesterday afternoon on The History Channel. I enjoyed it (one was about his possible Parkinson's disease and the other about his family members) but I don't think the baby did. I am totally into watching anything Nazi-related. Could it be because I'm part German?

Rock on with your nerdy self, Laurie. I'm right here next to you on the couch. ;)

I wouldn't mind being in LA right about now. I'm actually in east central Florida, right in the middle of Tropical Storm Fay. Seriously, currently in the center of the storm. As long as we have power, I will take your advice and curl up with a warm drink, watching TV. Oh, the only reason it's cold is because we cranked the AC way down in case the power goes off.

Hysterical post today, Laurie. Thank you.

Back to work....

Oh my goodness! Your post made me totally wish for cable access! I love the History Channel and all its nerdy, dorky, geeky goodness!!!

Wow! Just last week i was saying "what ever happened to the Bermuda Triangle" there must be some secret government conspiracy that is getting us all to think about it again.

And here in Boulder, CO last weekend we had a freakish and wonderful two days of rain and those two days it was COLD... 60 degrees in the daytime. And after months of the temperatures being in the eleventybillion degree range, it was such a lovely relief and I drank hot beverages and knit and buckled down for the long winter...except that it stopped raining and it is crazy freakin' hot again! :)

I used to LOVE contour blush - it really worked for m e. So sad - another oneof the few cosmetics I ever liked hitting the dust and all...

I had wondered about the Bermuda Triangle myself lately. Thanks for bringing its disappearance out into the open. "The Bermuda Triangle disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle this decade."

I saw giant Bonne Bell Lip Smacker things somewhere not so long ago & offered to buy one for ThePrincess (I thought maybe I was a little old to carry one in my purse) and she turned her nose up at it. I was shocked! Why wouldn't someone want a giant lip smacker on a piece of string hanging around their neck?!? Particularly if that someone is already wearing leg warmers..

Must Go! Rouge Wave headed this way

It never rains here in summer either (bay area,northern California) except that this morning it was drizzling!!!!!!!!!

I don't have the history channel (antenna all the way), But on PBS I watched something a while back that debunked (doncha just love that word?) the Bermuda triangle concept because of rogue waves and operator error. Folks thought they were where they were not, and stuff. They are still finding odd things there, but no more often than in any other part of the world.

I think that scientists practice science just like doctors practice medicine.

Oh, he probably didn't find it funny because he might actually be a native NJer, not a NYC borough transplant. I am totally convinced that it's ALL their fault!!!

1. Scientist wet dreams??!!
2. Amelia Earhardt's plane got hit by a rogue wave? Thaz a big wave.
3. In Search of T.V. show every spooky phenomenon of the 70's(but still on teevee in the 80's)with Leonard Nimoy as the narrator. Is there anything Mr. Spock can't do? I think not.

Word to your Mothas!

I love History Channel! It has some of the best shows!

I especially love Ice Road Truckers - - just can't seem to get enough of that show!

You gotta love it when a bunch of highly educated scholars are reduced to the rubbish heap by one very large fell swoop.

OMG! I totally forgot about the contouring blush! Snort. It was such a big deal. I also had blue eyeshadow and used black eyeliner that went out just past the eye. We used that red eyeliner that you would warm up with a match so it would make fabulous lines. WTF were we thinking? And yes I was terrified of the Bermuda Triangle too even though I live in Wyoming.

That's cool! If you'd been my science teacher I might have actually learned something, or at least had fun. Instead, I made my own fun, like making my frog (pre-disection) sit on it's styrofoam platform and play air banjo while singing "Rainbow Connection". Three girls had to leave the classroom because they felt sick. The teacher was not pleased. And yeh, whatever did happen to the Bermuda Triangle?

Oh, Laurie! Thank you for being so accepting of the tentative nature of science (unlike a few other commentators here)! Science is a way of knowing and as you describe so well, what we know is always changing. Keep on with your nerdy self. I think Al Gore likes the nerdy type...

We quit wearing parachute pants? When? You mean the ones I have on right now getting ready to meet a new friend? Ohmygawd. And oh yeah on Ice Road Truckers. A friend of mine actually met one of the guys. I really must get out more.

"...and seafarers were full of seacrap."

I just did a spit-take all over my keyboard, but I don't care, because THAT was HILARIOUS. :)

And when are they rerunning this Rogue Waves program? I am such a nerd for Natural Disaster Programming! I watched a whole show about tornadoes on Discovery Channel the other night.

Sorry, that was me with the spit-take and the tornadoes. Hee!

The Bermuda Triangle is still popular amongst seafarers like myself. It just comes and goes with each generation like pirates! There was a long stint there that pirates weren't cool and all of a sudden Johnny Depp comes along as Capt. Jack Sparrow and everyone wants to be pirate.

Science ruins all the fun of things! Sea monsters, rogue waves, white squalls, mermaids etc. It'll come back eventually!

Okay - so the part where you were all: "scientists apparently ever dreamed in their wildest, wettest, roguest dreams."

Had me coughing up the giant hunk of brownie I had just taken a bite of. Seriously - I just love when you come out of left field with something like that. :)

Also: I think that El Nino was invented to cover up the Bermuda Triangle. One big, tropical conspiracy!

I watch Burbank planning board and city council meetings on TV. How's that for a high dork quotient?! I've even been known to listen to the Santa Monica city council meeting that is broadcast on KRCW. Phew...I really think that takes the cake! Do I win a prize? :)

PS: I've been on two cruises...not by choice. My biggest fear was being taken over by terrorists while at sea. Now I have to worry about rogue waves too! Yikes.

I saw a Discovery Channel show about the Bermuda Triangle and plane crashes off the east coast. One theory is that boats sink and planes crash due to methane bubbling up from the ocean floor. If you look at it, it's fizzing like there's Alka-Selzer in the sand. It makes the water less dense so boats ride lower and if a big bubble erupts, boats can sink low enough to submerge. It may also make air above less dense or mess up oxygen levels so planes crash.

Another theory is that the triangle sort of looks the same from all directions and pilots get discombobulated and wander off in the wrong direction because they don't believe their map/compass/GPS and are sure they're right based on what they're looking at.

Prior to that show, all I knew about Bermuda was what I read in Peter Benchley's "The Deep" (author of Jaws - should tell you something).

Your nerdiness is great! Have you ever watched Ice Road Truckers? And by the way, I am amused by your cussing. Don't stop! Damn and hell are biblical terms!

I LOVE the Bermuda Triangle! My favorite episode of any TV show ever is about it! (X Files episode "Triangle", it is a good one, check it out.)

I think the Bermuda Triangle jumped the shark right around the same time David Copperfield (*rrwaar!*) performed a magic trick and raised a sunken ship right up out of it! I think the Discovery Channel did a show on it not all that long ago, and my kids were fascinated because they had never heard of it before. That rogue waves show rocks, too!

"They" think they know everything. And they're like, just about always wrong...but they call it things like "new studies" and "new data."

When did parachute pants go out of style?

And here I thought Rogue Wave was just the name of an (awesome) band.

As a NY-er, I find New Joisey high-larious.

Oh, CAP, I was just wondering this about the Bermuda Triangle myself the other day! And above commentor: WHAT??!! Pirates weren't cool?! WHEN? WHERE? :) :)

I never did the countoured blush (too sweaty to wear makeup), but oh, the bonnie bell lip smackers. Those I did use, er, overuse. :)

And even now, when I go get a pedicure and am asked to pick what polish I want, it's sooooo difficult to resist the sparkly ones. But trust me, sparkly polish on my toes just looks WRONG. But it calls to me! Sigh. (I can get away with shimmery, though, so a bit of me is satisfied!)

A few years back my son was in college in Florida and also earning his private pilot's license. Where do you think they fly for their solo flight? Somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle! Over the ocean and the compass isn't reading correctly. Do you suppose they just don't want any more pilots or what?

Do you get History International too? I just love The Naked Archaeologist! We love Mega Movers too.

Laurie, you have GOT to, GOT to, check this out! www.yearbookyourself.com. You upload a headshot of yourself and stick it in various yearbook pictures from 1950 to 2000. It is a blast and seemed like something right up your alley.

I went to Bermuda on my honeymoon 1,000 years ago and I was really nervous that we had to fly through the Bermuda Triangle to get there!

Seacrap is a great word!! I had to chuckle at the nincompoop who was flustered by your use of dammit and other such heinous words. It's got to be a generational thing, doesn't it? I've long been curious as to how certain words were relegated to "bad word" status.

Keep em coming Laurie, you're a bad mutha.
;)

I just said the other day to the dude, "How come you never hear about the Bermuda Triangle anymore?" True story. I think people should keep this in mind when "science" tells us that women are no good at science and other gender and racially biased things. "Science" is "neutral" and apolitical. Right.

Also, don't tell New Jersey about the two weeks of rain in February. He'll know soon enough.

Why is everybody picking on grunge?
Love the music (since I've been what you would call "melancholy" since birth)
Love the flannel, sweatshirts and combat boots (well, only in the winter since I live in the central valley)
But never could get on board with the not taking a bath. ( I need to be immersed in soapy water at least once a day)
My favorite new word is "seacrap"
Personally I think a lot of people are full of seacrap, and not just the ship-type people.
OMG !! I thought we were the last people on the planet that had a rabbitt ears antenna on our TV
we can't figure out how to hook up the converter, so we may be forced to break down and get satellite or something next year.
My only fear is that I won't be able to get my 16yr.old daughter off the couch.
BTW, I think they showed that program on plain old PBS before. Scientists should check out their sciencecrap with real life experience more often.

I was totally into the tri-color purple eye shadow as well as the blush. I don't know why I felt I had to use all three colors of the worst purple you've ever seen, but I did...all the way up to my eyebrows. Plus the Wet n' Wild frosty pink lipstick shade 529 (I seriously don't know why I can remember that and not my own cell phone number). My Mom wanted to spray me down with the garden hose everytime I walked out the door.

"scientists apparently ever dreamed in their wildest, wettest, roguest dreams."
I needed to fan myself--ooooooh la la!

I was the Bermuda Triangle QUEEN! That and Close Encounters. I could have written my own cable show!

I believe the Bermuda Triangle dropped off the radar when much scarier things became news: more states with nuclear (nucular, pick your president) weapons, recession, rogue presidents (again, pick your president), Enron, global warming, etc., etc.,

I am a firm believer that all the socks that the dryer eats (and the dryer DOES eat socks. In fact, sometimes it eats entire pairs and they're never seen again. The dryer does not discriminate.) end up in the Bermuda Triangle.

My company has a Bermuda Elevator - does that count? Today we saw it go 4...3...and then totally disappear. I wonder what happened to those poor souls on the 2nd floor?

My mother read your post today and hurled coffee through her nose, which of course was the clear indication to email her daughter to make sure I didnt miss you today. Your nerdyness is to be recognized as one of your (our!) most enduring qualities. My mom is one such nerd as well and passed it on to me. She is an archeologist and anthropologist and now retired. I grew up as a kid spending summers in the dig pits of active sites my Mom was researching. We called my Moms car "the bone mobile" for all of the things-of-the-past that were transported by that lovely little Honda Civic Wagon. I spent my summers doing stuff and learning things that most didnt become interested in until Indiana Jones hit the scene. And I loved it. Just loved it. I was a nerd who wanted to be cool but was way to nerdy to pull it off. I owned no parachute pants and couldnt even skate backwards. The things I did with my Mom is all the stuff COOL is made of. Just like HOW RIGHTEOUSLY COOL knitting is.

Laurie, Laurie... you bring so much joy to our days!!

Having grown up in CA, I was amazed that it rains in the summer elsewhere. I remember being astounded that the "lawns" didn't have sprinkler systems right after I moved to MO.
I braved quite a few winters in LA (the valley actually). Commuting in the rain brings a whole new meaning to the term "crazy driver". Oh and thank you for the giggle over seaman. An ancestor of mine sponsored The Seaman's Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamen%27s_Act). I giggle every time I tell people that and they just look at me oddly.

Okay, I have one better than that.....The Crimping Iron...Acid wash jeans and Jelly Shoes....aaaaah and to top it off, yes the blush trio and eye shadow to match......LOL......

Too funny!! Love it.

There were several shows on the other night about the Bermuda Triangle. I think they were on just before the show about the rogue waves. (I watch a lot of History Channel, and Discovery Channel (love the Mythbusters!) and the International History Channel.

One of the first books that I can remember checking out of the library once I started first grade was about the Bermuda Triangle and Flight 19. (Flight 19 was a squadron of U.S. Navy planes that went out for a training flight in 1945, and subsequently disappeared. It was blamed on the Bermuda Triangle. One of the rescue planes also disappeared never to be seen again)

Yes, I've always been a history nerd. (not so much a science nerd because I cant do the advanced math) I'm also a big fan of history that has to do with maritime disasters (Titanic, or the Andrea Doria) or engineering disasters (Titanic, or plane crashes, or things like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge).

If someone builds something, and it falls down, or blows up, or sinks or some combination of that...I'm going to be reading about it.

i did not read all the comments, but there is another show on the history channel (maybe the discovery channel) about the bermuda triangle, and a bunch of planes that dissapeared, and then they go on to talk about a boat named the "marine sulphur queen" which dissapeared without a trace in like, the 60s or something. and they do experiments that show that giant methane bubbles (ocean farts! GROSS) could randomly pop up from the ocean floor and not only instantaneously sink a ship with no warning, but if a plane flew into the methane cloud, it would cut the plane's engine and that would crash too! and aparrently the bermuda triangle ocean floor is full of holes where methane bubbles have come out of.

I was scheduled on a flight back to the US once...on a DC 10 (during the time they were so unreliable)...over the Bermuda Triangle....on Friday the 13th. The only reason we didn't make the flight was that the plane was grounded for mechanical problems and it was the 14th by the time we actually left the ground.

I MISS contouring blush! I had forgotten all about it. We could not have looked bad wearing it, all the models in the ads were wearing it too.
Love your blog and your book. Also, swearing is so your prerogative. It is your blog after all.

Laurie,
I have actually watched the Rogue Wave show twice. It is nice to come to your blog and discover that I'm not the only one!

Funny you should mention the Bermuda Triangle; know what my 10 year old told me last night? It's not even a triangle! I still have to go look this up, but he says it's actually a trapazoid! For those geometry-deficient, that's a rectangle with wonky lines, where the top is smaller than the bottom. Cool huh? And for the record, I agree with you about the whole science thing. Just because no one's been able to find them doesn't mean there's no more unicorns. So there.

My mom still contends that we had a sasquatch on our property near Mount Rainier in the state of Washington. She further contends that Mr., or Mrs. Squatch picked up my kitty Arabella and was making away with their new friend. And that we couldn't get the smell off of the cat for weeks. I don't remember any of that, but who's to say.........

I believe in elves.

The reason Jersey guy didn't react (well) to Joisey is because no one in NJ calls it that (except Joe Piscopo). That's a NY thing. "What exit?" is not considered funny either. See Jersey Represent on Ravelry.

I am a Jersey girl who transplanted for a while to California. I could not believe the hair-raising driving that occurred when it sprinkled! I feared even walking on the sidewalk when it drizzled. I guess it's either all the oil that builds up on the road or the panic factor. I love that people store their windshield wipers in the glove compartment and only put them on when it rains, because otherwise they rot because of the heat, smog, and lack of use. So they'd be scrambling the try to pop them on in the rain. If it ever snowed in LA they'd declare a state of emergency.

*Climbing up on soapbox*
Sorry to be so nitpicky, but I have yet to meet anyone who lives in NJ (born or transplant) to call it "Joisey". I think most people from out of state, mostly NY (sorry) use "Joisey". Some times we do call it "Jersey" tho. I think the commenter above (from NY) who thinks calling the new guy in your office "New Joisey" proves my point. When someone says to me "Oh, you're from Joisey?" I politely reply "No, I'm from New Jersey." It's such a huge pet peeve of mine.
*climbing off soap box*

And... Did you know that part of the Bermuda Triangle is on land? THEY don't want anyone to know that because property values will plummet in the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami area. Heh

Also... Parts of NJ are below the Mason Dixon line. ;-)

Thanks for testifying JerseyGirl. Great minds and all

As a professional mathematician, I wanted to let you know that your description of gigantor equations and quadrilaterals and biceps is 100% correct.

Also, your story of contouring with three shades of blush reminds me that I never wore blush until I was in my mid-thirties because I always thought blush was too complicated and I wasn't sure how to apply it. That must be why.

Actually, I heard that an Amelia Earhart movie is being made. So, there's a bit of Bermuda Triangle fun for you!

Ah, rain. The biggest thing I miss since moving to CA is thunderstorms. There's just nothing like curling up on the couch under a blanket with some knitting and tea and listening to a good thunderstorm. Sigh.

Many hours of my youth were spent reading books about the Bermuda Triangle and poltergeists. This was in the days before the innernets so the few books and magazine articles I could find were read several times.

Maybe the aliens abducted enough of us to decide it was hopeless and went home!

Great post! and great comments too!
I lived in NJ for 22 years. I met two people (not related) with what I think of as the Perth Amboy - northern NJ - NYC accent, in which, yes, "er" comes out "oi". Incidentally, both people took voice training to get rid of that accent. Oh, and the town I lived in had a local newsletter titled "Everything's Great At Exit Eight".

The wet-weather driving madness is not limited to dry areas either. Here in the land of rain I try to wait for a half hour after it starts to let the other drivers remember that oil+water=slippery.

"I have taken on a rogue wave." Tehe.

This whole post was full of awesomeness!

p.s. I'm from Joisey, and I laughed at that part.

aurgh! how did I miss that one? I get sucked into the History channel, discovery channel, etc on a regular basis. The other night I got to watch shows on tornadoes and volcanoes!
I bet kids today don't even know what the Bermuda Triangle is. sad.

I am about to go out an take on a rogue wave right now.
With a little cocktail unbrella, hopfully.

Science is awesome! Anything is possible! I'm waiting for Pluto to be a planet again. Actually, in my heart, it will ALWAYS be a planet!
Also, the contouring blush: I tried and tried but there was no way three separate color strips of blush were going to reduce my chipmunk cheeks to something resembling Cindy Crawford's majestic cheekbones and resulting cheek-hollow. And she was a regular girl, not a "waif!"
Thanks for the memories.... I still miss big hair....

LOVED the rogue waves show - wish I'd known it was going to be on again.

Another great recent nerdy science show was "Life After People" or something like that. Did you see it? So cool to see what would probably happen to structures and other life on the planet if people suddenly disappeared. (You know, cats would fare better than dogs - Soba would like that!)

I've always been drawn to the apocalyptic natural disaster type shows, like comets slamming into the Earth, solar flares and black holes. And also cosmology, big-bang, string-theory, multiverse & other far-out astronomy themes.

Molly, you're dead-on about the Naked Archaeologist. Just to prove how geeky I am, I think Simcha is a hottie! Always thought that about Carl Sagan, too. And Richard Feynman for that matter.

As for the Bermuda Triangle, I think it entered into this country illegally and took up residence on my desk at work. Things disappear....

Seacrap, ocean farts and contour blush - thank you Laurie & readers for an entertaining afternoon!!!

Jenn - I agree with you about Pluto - don't get me started on that one!

Can't answer you about what happened to the Bermuda Triangle, but have you noticed that since everyone started carrying digital cameras and video cameras with them in their cars and purses, the number of ufo sightings and alien abductions have gone down?

Ack! Contour blush! Used it everyday along with the 3-color eyeshadow. Oh, how I wish I could remember the name of that lip glossy stuff that came in a little tin with the sliding top. I had at least a dozen of those.

Hee! Laurie, these are the posts that I LOVE! ;-)

Laurie, I have been having the week from hell and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that adorable burst of nerdy fun-ness. I love you, and wish you many cabana boys! (Raoul, Jose, Rafael, Luigi, Alessandro, Fred... take your pick!)

That was a great show! I love how they can spot Rogue Waves from satellite!

I watch a lot of the History Channel. I can't wait to see what you have to say about a Comet hitting the Earth.

Bwahahahahahaha.
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"(Also, for the record, from now on if I have had too much to drink I am going to tell people I have taken on a rogue wave.)"

Ha ha ha!!! I am so going to do the exact same thing. I think we would be good friends in real life. I mean, I can see us now...hanging out in a bar, getting tipsy and telling everyone we've taken on massive rogue waves. That is totally something I could see myself doing.

I thought someone typed "rouge wave" and wondered if it was a typo or about the contouring blush.

So is seacrap the source of flotsam and jetsam?

btw, didn't Snow Falling on Cedars have a rogue wave in it? Or at least a maverick wave?

I feel the Rouge Wave theory cannot be applied too broadly. I myself have had quite a few Rouge Waves of the dating variety. If these waves happen naturally in life then by golly it's gotta be going on just as often other places!

Or it could be that there's a freakish dating population attracted to me.

I'm way up in Minnesota,and we haven't had rain in such a long time either! Also, I just want you to know I really enjoy your writing style....so don't change a thing! you're one of the highlights of my day as you always bring a "remember when" smile to my face. Thanks!!

I had parachute pants loved all the zippered pockets;)I always thought the bermuda triangle was a door to atlantis when i was growing up.lolHugs Darcy

I have seen that show. I loved it. Your version is much more interesting, though. :)

I'm young, and don't really remember contour blush! I don't remember if I had parachute pants but I was a child of the 80's so I could just be blocking some memories! LOL

How sad is it that Pluto is not considered a planet anymore?

But I'm confused as to how the Bermuda Triangle is not longer a Triangle. Someone please explain that to me because it's points are supposed to be Miami, Bermuda and San Juan... is there another point? I'm so confused... LOL

I said it the last time I commented, I'll say it again. You. So. Crazy. "The Bermuda triangle was the It Girl of its day." What an excellent way to put it! You are such a gifted writer. WOW! And I absolutely agree with you. I used to watch In Search Of as a kid and as I recall, many o' episode was about all of the people and things that disappeared in the Triangle.

Wow. That was the best ADD post ever!

I wasn't so in for the parachute pants. But my socks HAD to match my shirt. Or there was hell to pay.

If those waves were really big and musclebound and had lovingly sculpted white foamy bits at the top, would that make them findable by GAYdar???

I'm a lifelong Jersey girl. And yes, we do get all resentful when someone says Joisey. Especially us south jersey folks. We are picky about it. And I think we got all the rain this summer. I've never seen such a wet summer. But at least it's not the 30 inches of rain that poor Florida is getting this week.

I just watched 'Life after people: Population 0' on the History Channel. It looks at what would happen to our cities and such if the human population were to disappear/die off quickly.

Oh thanks a lot, now I have another forgotten 80's item stuck in my head: Barry Manilow's song about the Bermuda Triangle.

Kathy said "what about planes?" Well... maybe they were REALLY BIG rogue waves? Um, and the planes were flying low maybe, cos I don't think there could be 33,000 foot waves.

New Jersey probably doesn't find you amusing because out here on the east coast they are in fact the butt of all the jokes... they're stuck between philly and new york and they don't really belong either place... plus its new jersey and its just... eww... my husband grew up in new jersey and i tease him about it constantly... he doesn't even like to go there anymore...

"Oh, how I wish I could remember the name of that lip glossy stuff that came in a little tin with the sliding top. I had at least a dozen of those."

QuiltyBird, I had a bunch of those too and I cannot remember the name of them either! If you think of it, put it in the comments because it is going to make me crazy till I think of it!!!

I'm going to have to "check my local listings". I wanna watch rogue waves while knitting the dr who scarf. Sounds so RIGHT. As far as "Joisey"...my DH is from New York, ("born in da Bronx") and loves talking about how he used to think anything west of the border was "Flyover Land" containing nothing of any value until you get to LA. He's converted! Also - I can top your contouring blush. I remember trying to wedge my seven crinolines into my desk and breathe in my Merry Widow. Fashion, thou bane of womankind. Plus also, I think "Nerd" and "Geek" are high compliments. Just sayin'.

Maybe the Bermuda Triangle disappeared into itself.

My husband has sailed through the Bermuda Triangle several times. While he always made it back, perhaps it could account for some of his weirdness ;-)

loved the entire post!...even forwarded it to my bf because we watched the rogue waves show together. your take on it was much more fun! *snicker*

Just goes to show you that your boyfriend Al Gore is probably all wet from the Rouge Wave about his theory of Global Warming. Ha

Three stripes of Contour Blush are "Rouge Waves."
Hundred-Foot Walls of Surprise! Ocean! are "Rogue Waves."

The Bermuda Triangle went into hiding for a while after having been caught wearing Bermuda shorts in public (it was only to the grocery store, but you know what Stacy and Clinton are like). It's getting over that, though, so we may hear more than we have lately.

I, too, back in my Television-was-working days, watched all the disaster shows I could. Nature's disasters, self-induced a/k/a manmade disasters, space disasters, history disasters - you name it, I watched it. "A History of Plague," "Plagues of History"; if it was disastrous, I watched it. (Wait. That sounds like reality television, and I don't watch that.)

I'm so happy to find out that I'm not the only one who doesn't want to go on ocean cruises. It used to be fear of random sea disasters(!): sharks, modern pirates who use machine guns on your vessel, but rogue waves now top my list. Just think, if you were really lucky, a rogue wave could drop a shark ON TOP OF your ship! No thanks.

"The Bermuda Triangle ocean floor is full of holes where methane bubbles have come out of it..."

Wait. The Atlantic is a "body of water"; what part of the body usually has methane bubbles coming out of it? I'm just asking, is all.

Scientists: practicing science until they get it right.

Yes, the rogue wave show was AWESOME!!!!

(And I still love the Bermuda Triangle)

i totally believe in the Rogue Waves.
Science can be full of smart facts, but that doesn't make it Perfect and All-knowing. Nobody knows it all. It's much better that way.

But i wouldn't know anything about putting on nail polish in class.
Glitter or otherwise. No, not me.
It must have been someone behind me.

My god you just made me snort coffee through my nose. The rogue waves!! OMG!

And no-lie... a week ago I was totally talking to a friend about the absence of Bermuda Triangle lore! Why are there no more mysteries to be a-sceered of? ;)

Thank you for making me laugh!!

Don't you know the Bermuda triangle was a gov. conspiracy? That's why they don't talk about it anymore. They can't. Lol.
Thanks for the interesting info. It's raining outside as we speak. And the crazies around here will try and get you wet with nasty road water if they see you walking by a nice puddle.
Ok, now I have to see if that program will be on again soon. I want to watch it. Nerds unite!

And quicksand. Whatever happend to quicksand? Back in the day, if the Bermuda Triangle didn't get ya, the quicksand would.

I have wondered why people don't talk about the Bermuda Triangle, too. Back when I was in school, I thought we got taught that people think Amelia Earhardt somehow disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle or something like that. (I don't think a rogue wave could have hit her plane, so we can still believe that it is some mysterious, crazy thing, right?)

Hell girl, you're so funny - if you ever get totally fed up of the heat and want some rain, maybe a little flooding - you're welcome to visit over here in the UK. We don't mind a little bad language and we get great wine from France!

oh my I think I've taken on a bit of a rogue wave myself this evening!

What you need to do to endear yourself to your New Joisey teammate is to drop the New. No one in the tri-state area (or whatever it is you call the megapolis of New York City) ever says that part of the name. It's just... Joisey. Go ahead, he'll love you for it ;-)

Thanks for the lesson on rogue waves. I'm gonna go swim in my teeny tiny lake now, way to small for even whitecaps, let alone those monster waves.

Oh, Laurie. See, the reason why we Jerseyites tend to hate (with a BURNING passion) the sound of the stereotypical NJ Accent is because it's not actually a Jersey accent. No one in this state sounds like a "Joisey" accent - that's actually Staten Island. Sure, we say "Jaw" and "Water" a bit differently than the rest of the country. South Jersey even has its own set of pronunciations. But dear Lord, don't get us mixed up with those Staten Islanders. We'll have to cut ya. ;)

I think I might still have some of that three-shades-of-pink blusher in the back of my cosmetics drawer ...

This made me laugh out loud. I'm going to see if I can work "When I was a kid the Bermuda Triangle was the it-girl of its day" into EVERY SINGLE conversation I have from now on.

Since it's both cold and dark here in Illinois, I think I'm going to hunker down right now and read the rest of your blog. Yippee!

This was great! I love it! And when did the Bermuda Triangle go out of style? Can't say I contoured my blush - but maybe I was busy teasing my bangs in just that right swoop to the side manor.

I do believe I did a Social Science Project on the Bermuda Triangle in 1985 (5th) grade...scared the poop outta me...oh, and don't get me started on the crop circles.

you know, i'm an archaeologist and believe in God, which has inspired lots of questions of how i reconcile the two. i've always loved how science changes and then forgets that it changed - and so does everyone else. that was cool to hear about the rogue waves though. and what did happen to the bermuda triangle? there's so many mysteries in the world, and we're so far from understanding them. like how my books multiply and i swear i didn't buy any ;)

oh yeah, the contour/highlight blush duo - i was a purchaser and user of said product. miss that.