(TFT) syncronicity (unicode)

["Jay Carlisle" <Jay_Carlisle@charter.net>]

I awoke this morn to the gentle explosions of black powder cannon and musket 
fire.
bWhat in the wide wide world of sports goes hereb says I, albeit with fewer 
syllables and cruder phrasing.
Oh yeah, Labor Day weekendb&
Therebs an american Civil War enactment this weekend at Fort Stevensb& I have 
no idea why but there is.
Last month the SCA, this month black powder weapons.
My practical information is coming to me without my having to do much but 
wakeup and walk through the backyard to Fort Stevens.
(Google Earth 64 Tyee Hammond, OR to see the areab& yes Ibve still got the 
Sunset Beach place but this became available and has a couple of advantages 
like being tied to an actual sewer meaning Jay doesnbt have to dig leach 
lines every year or so and the like.)
So I get back a little while ago and check my news while listening to bWait, 
Wait donbt tell meb and while browsing through all the bitching about 
Hawkingbs book-selling jibe I come across the following.

bThe argument over whether the universe has a creator, and who that might 
be, is among the oldest in human history. But amid the raging arguments 
between believers and sceptics, one possibility has been almost ignored b 
the idea that the universe around us was created by people very much like 
ourselves, using devices not too dissimilar to those available to scientists 
today.b
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7972538/Are-we-living-in-a-designer-universe.html

Well duhb& Ibve been saying that I created the multiverses in my bbasementb 
for quite some time.
Ibve also decided that I must have created myselfb&

bWilliam James (father of American psychology) supposedly had a conversation 
with an old lady who told him the Earth rested on the back of a huge turtle.
bBut, my dear ladyb, James asked, bwhat holds up the turtle?b
bAhb, she said, bthatbs easy. He is standing on the back of another turtle.b
bBut would you be so good as to tell me what holds up the second turtle?b
bItbs no use, Professorb, said the lady, avoiding a logical trap. bItbs 
turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down!b

Then bWait, waitb&b spits out something interesting.

bRust on a nail from a Roman sandal found in newly discovered ruins in North 
Yorkshire appears to contain fibres which could suggest that a sock-type 
garment was being worn.b
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7964516/Romans-wore-socks-with-sandals-new-British-dig-suggests.html

This ties, or rather straps, together the Pacific Northwest, Romans, and 
North Yorkshire in quite the odd fashion.

Is that last a double paronomasia?

Maybe unicode will work better...
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