Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth.
Weather is driven by density (temperature and moisture) differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the sun angle at any particular spot, which varies by latitude from the tropics. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the jet stream. Weather systems in the mid-latitudes, such as extratropical cyclones, are caused by instabilities of the jet stream flow. Because the Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth's surface, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (100 °F to −40 °F) annually. Over thousands of years, changes in Earth's orbit affect the amount and distribution of solar energy received by the Earth and influence long-term climate and global climate change.
Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer (born October 17, 1969) is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and blogger.
Mercer first came to national attention in 1990, when he premiered his one man show Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa. A pointed, satirical political commentary on Canadian life after Meech Lake, Show Me the Button made Mercer a national star as he toured the show across Canada.[citation needed] Mercer came to greater attention for his role in the satirical news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and his spinoff special Talking To Americans was the highest-rated comedy special in the history of CBC Television, with 2.7 million viewers.
In 1992, he created and performed his second show, I've Killed Before, I'll Kill Again, which was also a popular touring show. Also in that year, he began to work with former CODCO members Cathy Jones, Mary Walsh, and with fellow Newfoundlander Greg Thomey, to create a new television series for CBC Television which became This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
It has a beginning (It has a beginning)
It has an end (It has an end)
It's a beautiful story (It's a beautiful story)
But it's pretend (But it's pretend)
It keeps us laughing (It keeps us laughing)
It makes us cry (It makes us cry)
It's alive, it's Joe Robot
Have tin can, have Joe Robot
Where is it going? (It has a beginning)
Where has it been? (It has an end)
It's a trojan horse (It's a beautiful story)
Or is it friend? (But it's pretend)
It's alive, it's Joe Robot
Have tin can, have Joe Robot
Joe Robot
Joe Robot
Joe Robot
Joe Robot
Joe Robot
Joe Robot
Joe Robot
Candy cane
Null set
Credit card
Prescription
Nitrogen
Now we're living in a...
Definition
Visual aid
Air condition
Automatic
Autostatic
Now we're living in a
Spastic Society
Synthesize
Paralyze
Glass eye
Cellophane
Aeroplane
Now we're living in a...
Catalyst
Saccharine
Incomplete
Cavity
Decompress
Now we're living in a
Spastic Society
Aluminum
Paper cut
Centerfold
Pernicious
And vicious
Acetate
Perfection
Hideous
Perfection
Now we're living in a
Disinfect
Satellite
Disconnect
Goodnight
Now we're living in a
Spastic Society
Hey this Brandon but my friends call me Spike now.
I just moved out my parents' house in Danville
to this wicked warehouse in Oakland.
Anyway I spent most of the day spare-changing on the avenue.
I started out infront of the Med
but everyone kept saying I looked too young and healthy
so I went up the street to the Gap where all the
yuppie college kids shop
I was there until about 5:30 or 6
I scored about 10 bucks
so me and my girlfriend, you met her, she's from La Jolla
anyway, we got some money from her parents
so we're gonna stop by because
I need a fix
What's that?
Now's not a good time?
What do you mean there's none left?
Well what the fuck dude?
If I would have known that I would have gone to Concord.
What do you mean go back to Concord then?
Dude you don't even know who you're talking to.
Don't make me get all blackhawk on your ass.
wait man I didn't mean that.
C'mon dude, please?
Alright man.
wait wait wait wait
Do you know anyone that's got any?
Do you got a number?
What do you mean you won't give it to me?
I didn't call for a shitty conversation,
I called because
I need a fix
Man I got it rough
when drinking cough syrup
just ain't enough
On and on
I'm a teenage rebel
I'm fucking bored
Mom, this is Spi, I mean Brandon.
I got kicked out of my place in Oakland.
I don't really have any place to go so
I was just wondering if I could stay with you or Grandma or something?
I don't know.
My girlfriend dumped me she moved back to La Jolla, it's kind of a drag.
I guess she's gonna go back to school or something.
Anyway call me back.
Oh, one more thing Mom,
I was wondering if I could borrow $200 because
I need a fix
I'm a teenage rebel
(German talking throughout)
As they stare into our flesh
At the end of what comes next
Peering deep into the light
X-ray hamburgers tonight
?
In outer space
Running tests upon our scars
Bits and pieces of our hearts
Burnt so hot beneath the light
X-ray hamburgers tonight
Evolution of a race (rape?)
In outer space
You're the change that had to come
As we stare into the sun
Pane of glass we can see through
X-ray hamburger is you
It's you
X-ray hamburger to go
It's you
X-ray hamburger to go
It's you
X-ray hamburger to go
It's you
X-ray hamburger to go
Spin a wheel
Behind the mark
Another deal
In the dark
In the red
And in the grey
Dangerous
With a kiss
On a take
At the zoo
On a make
Sniffing glue
In a bind
In your mind
Runaway
You're ok
Then you crack
Take a pill
Wide awake
Sanding still
On the street
Cut the cord
You're in debt
You're so bored
Covered in sweat
Kickin' in
With a grin
Going out
With a bang
Huffing fumes
Walk the line
Luftballoons
In my spine
Then you crack
Love and money
Well spent
Love and money
Well spent
And then you crack
This is age of make-believe
Or a reality series
Television, murder city
Dreaming of tomorrow
Am I alive or fantasy?
Give me murder give me loss
Turn the cities into dust man
My brain is melting
And it smells like a volcano
Japanimation surgery
Drinking nuclear energy
Reservoir spewing toxic
shout!
There's no tomorrow
Drinking nuclear energy
Give me murder give me loss
Turn the cities into dust man
My brain is melting
And it smells like a volcano
Give me murder give me loss
Transistors
Transistors gone wild
Reto,
you're a technical whiz,
masturbating with computers
for a legion of kids.
Reto,
you're a solid state,
a microchip and designer tape.
Oh Reto,
where did you come from?
With transistors and a keyboard
you're a virtual gun.
Reto,
is there something wrong?
The bigger wired robot
is still using its probe
When life's behind the screen
of an agorophobe.
Oh Reto,
artificial life,
a new computer and a brand new wife.
Oh Reto,
can you process this?
A girlfriend in a coma having cyber sex.
Gamble it away with computer chips.
Oh no
Knowing where we're going
(Where do we go?)
Oh Reto,
Are you future smart?
Fiber optics cybercloptic digital heart.
Reto,
can you cypher me?
Eight zero two eleven B.
Oh Reto,
it's a stripped down world
like muriatic acid in a toilet bowl.
Reto
it's an SOS
we're microwaving signals like a scientist.
Our bit-rate is shrinking to a non-existant.
Oh no
Knowing where we're going
(Where do we go?)
Where do we go, Reto?
Bloody gang of
Three deep divisions
The bad blood's
Because of war
International
Interracial
Confrontational
Bitter rival
Bloody gang of
Three deep divisions
Money Money 2020
Money Money 2020
I don't believe in the apocalypse
I don't believe in the end of time
I don't believe in the solar eclipse
I don't believe in valentines
I don't believe I asked opinion
I don't believe I stretched the truth
I am not looking for a bargain
All I really believe in is you
I don't believe in everything I've read
I don't believe in promises
I don't believe in compromising
My own beliefs inside my head
I don't believe I asked opinion
I don't believe I stretched the truth
I am not looking for a bargain
All I really believe in is you
I don't believe I asked opinion
I don't believe I stretched the truth
I am not looking for a bargain
All I really believe in is you
I'm taking a ride to the liquor store
I'm looking for a beer and a little bit more
I'm gonna spend all the money she had
on a nude girl in a dirty old magazine
50 cents cheaper than the real thing
even though it may be a little bit disgusting
can't call a bitch and it ain't got no drama
it's called a new sensation called the right hand-a-rama
I don't know why
I don't know why
It sure feels good
most every time
alright
Pamela and her five sisters
are giving me a bad case of nasty blisters
a third degree burn going straight to my head
I guess my pipes are a little bit rusted
close encounters of the strangest kind
I got the heebee-jeebes for the hundredth time
It didn't work out the way it was planned
all I got now is a beer in my hand
I don't know why
I don't know why
It sure feels good
most every time
I'll tell you why
alright
(*)Shiny working models
Tall gorgeous models
Hungry hungry models
On the runway
Baby, I need jacket
I see through that skirt
Purple plastic earrings
Finger down her throat
Walking like a tiger
Spinning at the end
Hungry hungry models
On the runway
(*)
Hungry Hungry Models
On the runway
Lucy's kind of nervous
Jeannie's on the pill
Peggy's in pajamas
Stevie's kissing Jill
(*)
Pretty little models
Sitting by the pole
Talking about fashion
Hungry like the wolf
Not quite a fembot
but almost an alien
she's in the smell of the month club
I feel it in my lungs
Lesbian junkie funky
slam dunk a cosmonaut
laser guns and having fun
biological parking lot
All systems down
So titty-twist a mad scientist
oh is this the toxic ride
Wrap me up in a plastic bag
and hang me out to dry
Artificial respiration
I need my medication
Load me up and light a match
all systems down and out
It's down and out