# All Tricks, No Treats (October Mini-Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693 "2021-09-30T21:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693/282 "2021-11-01T13:12:37Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I’m beginning to think that Northern Lights are an old indigenous myth invented to confuse the White Man. 🙃 I’ve never gotten to see the Northern Lights… or rather, I’ve never seen what the National Geographic photos showed me when I was young: the cinematic special effects, the shimmering curtains of light… … but I might have seen some simpler ones. I was on a red-eye from Seattle to Chicago. Just about the only passenger on the plane with all the lights out, staring down and marveling at all the blank spaces on the map. Suddenly a city came in view, or maybe some sprawling industrial complex, greenish lights stretching out in straight lines, with bluish lights clustered where they intersected. Is this some Monsanto plant that a city grew up around? Or a remote Amazon warehouse community? But then why no white lights that people could see by, or orange parking lot lighting? I checked maps (pre-internet) when I got home, and I would’ve been over Eastern Montana at 3am. Later I checked Google Maps (and just re-checked), and [the fields of spring wheat west of Ekalaka, MT](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Beaver+Flats+Rd,+Ismay,+MT+59336/@45.891974,-104.655616,466m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x5331d2d41c7df049:0x610faab74a9c552b!2sEkalaka,+MT+59324!3b1!8m2!3d45.8888869!4d-104.5527299!3m4!1s0x533033271d632e7d:0x7206f3f458122bbf!8m2!3d45.8919651!4d-104.65342?hl=en) are indeed MT of lights. . eta: I also just checked the altitude, and we were flying much too high to have seen my “city” at that angle… so I was seeing lighted lines that were floating about two miles above the ground. Guess I can stop looking for mystery government complexes now. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693/283 "2021-11-01T13:48:15Z")
Since it’s now November, I’ve started a new thread. > [@Cold November Pain (Monthly Mini-Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-november-pain-monthly-mini-rants/953625): > > A new month, a new thread for griping about crap. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693/284 "2021-11-04T18:37:41Z")
I put it in my herbal tea and it adds just the right touch to sparkling water. One teaspoon is 11.7 calories for those of you watching your waistline! ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693/285 "2021-11-04T20:04:24Z")
Herbal Tea? Careful, you’re starting to sound like Colbert (he does a hokey ‘tea bit’ on Tuesdays). He’s gone a little psycho these days. First he’s promoting the Montclair Film Festival… and last night he’s telling people how NJ sucks. He also said that if he ever ordered water and was given flat water (instead of sparking) he’d Yelp review the restaurant out of business. (Sounds like somebody deserves to have plates of food poured into his lap) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-tricks-no-treats-october-mini-rants/951693.md?page=14)