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I am wretched, Father, I am poor in spirit!
But YOU are not!

I am as the ass' ass.
As the ass' ass I keep myself out of the ass' face.
(I have learned to keep my mouth shut)

Occasionally though, I do flatulate!
I am known for silent bombs that leave me dizzy with doubt.
Rarely a loud noisy one, the kind you have to openly repent of!

None of this affects the ass though.
He continues too preoccupied with his braying braggery
to notice the smell.

Always did have a bad nose.
I suppose that could be olfactory exhaustion... where the smell is so familiar it gets ignored.

This comment could be considered a silent bomb, though a small one, seeing that it implicates me! lol

*For the curious: the ass has read this and he laughed! He guffawed out loud!

Consider this:
Around the throne of God night and day
Angels do not weary in praising our God!
Why is this?
Because He needs to be reminded? Oh no.
Because He needs His ego stroked? No no
Because … He …. Is……. WORTHY!

I am wretched, Father,
I am poor in spirit!
But YOU are not!

Railroad tracks: a short history.

Railroad tracks. This is fascinating.

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8..5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they use d for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification, procedure, or process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horse's asses.) Now, the twist to the story:

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else.
 

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