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Thread #59418   Message #2763519
Posted By: Amos
10-Nov-09 - 12:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
I spit on the shallow and uncultivated and insensitive pedantry being directed toward me.

BS in the non-scatological sense comes in streams, clouds, cascades, spurts, injections, innuendos, gales, guffaws, grunts, reams, screeds and diatribes. Common sense supports this.

ALso, really being fluent in BS requires a mastery of vernacular and colloquialism. For example there is a vernacular mode of description peculiar to the United States Armed Forces logistics departments, such as QUartermasdters, in which trails of adjectives are appended with commas to define an article. For example, "Shirts, men's, uniform B, blue, small". In a humorous vein, if one were addressing a knowledgeable, sensitive, and humor-endowed audience, one could extend this ridiculous architecture to parsing a common expression such as "How d'you like them apples?" (a colloquialism which requires extended cultuiral literacy to recognize) by, for example, presenting a parsed version as "Apples, liking of, how..." THis is definitely pure BS (and it is presented in screed form, not a pile) but absent the necessary prerequisite frameworks and education, the delicacy of it as such might easily escape the attention of an inappropriate audience. As here.