The Sibling Below Me...

[Sibling Chatty]

Nah, I always have an upset tummy. It's part of the package deal...(And i'm just glad you're here so I can watch your antics from afar.)


The sibling below me has a nefarious plot in mind for the first person that brings cold germs in...

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Yesss. Because, so far, the only cold-weather ailment I'm suffering from is allergy to dust (got a snootful the other day of a particular flavor of drywall dust that sent home to bed for 3 days ... clogged my chest something fierce ... and the inhaler only lasts an hour *sigh*)

If someone actually gives me the flu or a cold ... well, I just got a shiny new barrel for my bird-hunting shotgun ...   

(but I AM going to test my new "get well" theory.  Lots of soup - as much as I can eat, soup.  For the liquid and the calories.  I've a theory that you need to feed a cold AND feed a fever; basically, fuel your body's "engine", the better to fight back.)

The sibling below me LIKES soup on a cold day even more than I do

[Bluenose]

Quite true, especially home made (by me) lamb shank and vegetable soup with plenty of pearl barley in it - YUM!!!

On the other hand the sibling below me likes to go fishing, but usually only catches a cold.

[DaveL]

Tis true Bluenose. I haven't caught a fish since I was a wee laddie. All I do now is get baited - the fish see a free meal whenever I'm around. 'Oooh it's Dave again - awesome, free prawns!'

The Sibling below me dives into the water chasing the bait.

[Black Bart]

Yes I might as well...I too am a rubbish fisherman, couldn't catch a cold etc etc...

The sibling below me is the reincarnation of the egyptian god Osiris.

[Opsa]

I am feeling kinda wooden.

(Egyptian mythology joke! Yok yok!)

Somehow or other the Sibling below me got through Halloween without being drowned or burned at stake.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Yup.  The neighbors came after me with torches and pitchforks, but I turned 'em all into newts.   

The sibling below me considers him/herself a gourmet engine block chef.





(I have only ever caught one fish and it was dead before I caught it.  I cast out and somehow managed to snag it by chance)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Exahust-Pipe Ribs!  Yummm! Radiator Baked Potato!  Good Stuff.*


The sib below me is thinking, "this is going too far, really"



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* no, really. Someone even wrote a book about cooking next to the engine block ...

[Sibling Kephra (Tansy)]

".. so let's take it further!  Anybody got BBQ sauce...?" 

The person below me wants to be first in line as a taste tester.  And they *will* make 'yummy noises' or watch me pout.

lol

[DaveL]

Oooh yes, especially at a Belgian Brewery.

The Sibling below me wants to be a professional underwater hockey player.

[Swatopluk]

Since I was a bit unsuccessful with underwater flintlock shooting contests (and got disqualified by spiking my powder with LiAlH₄ a few times)...

The sibling below me will find out who actually invented a working underwater cannon (using completely normal gun powder).
Hint: Also an inventor of a working method to float sunken wrecks and pioneer of modern submarines.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

As far as I'm concerned, the inventor of the submarine is David Bushnell, who wrote drawings of The American Turtle, which is not a marine reptile.

The sibling below me disagrees, and thinks its really Jules Verne, author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

[Sibling Chatty]

Actually, I think it was Leonard of Quirm. The Patrician thinks so, too.

The sibling below me is already finished with their End of the Calendar Year Festive Holiday Season shopping.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Seeing as how I don't actually buy stuff, but give things I've made, recorded or constructed myself, then, yes-yes I have.

The sibling below me likes to watch the SciFi channel show StarGate

[Swatopluk]

lacking a TV set this would be difficult, even if I had any inclination to do so.

The sibling below me has problems to shout Iä Shub Niggurath in public.

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Btw, the underwater gunner, ship-lifter and pioneer of modern submarines was Wilhelm Bauer (also the first to escape from a sunken submarine alive several hours after the sinking, builder of the first iron ship in Germany etc.)

Another interesting guy is Corneli(u)s van Drebbel, who built a working submersible, invented an air conditioner and probably found first the chemicals used in modern fuses (17th century)