An Old Game (but new to TSG)

"It's very simple. Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard. Lizard poisons Spock. Spock smashes scissors. Scissors decapitates lizard. Lizard eats paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes rock. And as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Sheldon Cooper

This post inspired our recent marathon viewing of the second season of The Big Bang Theory  (RPSLS is older than that. Apparently the game pre-dates the CBS sitcom by nearly a decade.)

What's for lunch?

RIP Shoe Tree of Middlegate, NV

The sad headline from the Roadside America website (mouseover for linky):

Shoe Tree--Chopped Down!

We're really not into publishing obituaries, but when a famous shoe tree is murdered, it's front page news. Here we have a streetview image of the shoe tree in happier days:

 

We have encountered many shoe trees; they're kind of a totem for roadtripping-type folk. Unfortunately, they usually die an ignoble death; chopped down or set on fire by some drunken yahoos.  While we frown on littering of any kind, somehow the lonely shoe trees of America get a pass.  Long live the shoe trees!

Young, healthy shoe tree outside of Vidal Junction, CA

Washington State Rte 97--2 miles east of Shaniko

Western Utah

Route 66, Amboy, CA