Potpourri

Couldn’t decide exactly what I wanted to talk about today, so here are a few things I’ve dug out for your consideration.

First a popular item from a souvenir shop:

Followed by Ophiuchus, or the Snake Handler.  That’s the constellation that is screwing with your astrological life:

It's a new year, and there's a new sign in the Zodiac, which means new Zodiac signs for many people in 2011.

Why?  Well, Professor Parke Kunkle of the Minnesota Planetarium Society says the Zodiac has a date problem.

If you imagine the Earth as a spinning top, the axis changes as it wobbles.  After wobbling for 5,000 years or so, the stars are not aligned, so those with a Libra horoscope are really a Virgo, etc.

“Right now its pointing this way, the North Star, but 3000 BC it was pointing differently,” Kunkle said. “Now things have moved and the sun is in a different constellation. We're about a whole constellation off.“
And don’t forget Ophiuchus, astrology’s orphan. According to the professor,”Ophiuchus is a constellation that for years just got left out,”

NEW ZODIAC SIGN CHART
Capricorn
January 20- to February 16

Aquarius
February 16 to March 11

Pisces
March 11 to April 18.

Aries
April 18 to May 13

Taurus
May 13 to June 21.

Gemini
June 21 to July 20

Cancer
July 20 to August 10

Leo
August 10 to September 16

Virgo
September 16 to October 30

Libra
October 30 to November 23

Scorpio
November 23 to November 29

Ophiuchus
November 29 to December 17

Sagittarius
December 17 to January 20

 

This next picture is not really significant of anything, I just like it:

It’s a bunch of buoy anchors  sitting on a Lake Michigan dock.

Finally, do you remember drive-in movies?  If you do, you’ll remember these guys:

There is currently a commercial on TV based on the old drive-in  jingle.  I have been concentrating on trying to understand what the dancing snacks on television are saying between “DMV” and “hundred and three” so it was only last night that I noticed the Corn Dog.  Unlike the Popcorn or the Soft Drink, the Corn Dog doesn’t have legs but he's a real Trooper.  He dances along with the rest of them on a crutch and that stick poked up his weenie.  Now, that’s amazing.