BS: Rock Rights....

Subject: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Bobert
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:16 PM

Hey, rocks have feelings, too, ya' all...

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:41 PM

Hey, I'm all for equal rights for rocks. I just don't care much for their music.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:48 PM

I think rocks should be treated with respect, but I don't want them IN MY BACK YARD.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: JennieG
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:52 PM

It's what they do around the clock, right?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Emma B
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:59 PM

Say No to Rocks.....

Just bid that rock a bye Baby!

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: artbrooks
Date: 30 May 08 - 06:59 PM

Yeah...and mid-afternoon is bad enough, but doing it at 2 in the morning is TOO MUCH. Besides, what is it good for besides making more rocks?

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: gnu
Date: 30 May 08 - 07:23 PM

Rock me gently....

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Melissa
Date: 30 May 08 - 08:30 PM

..certain unalienable rights--among these, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Life is a Rock

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Escapee
Date: 30 May 08 - 09:01 PM

No one wants to be taken for granite.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 May 08 - 11:11 PM

Play gneiss, guys!

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 08 - 11:13 PM

This too shale pass...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Peace
Date: 31 May 08 - 12:30 AM

Jaysus . . . .


Words and music by bob seger

Stood there boldly
Sweatin in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
Id never felt that strong
Like a rock

I was eighteen
Didnt have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock

My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be
Like a rock, nothin ever got to me
Like a rock, I was something to see
Like a rock

And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams

Twenty years now
Whered they go?
Twenty years
I dont know
Sit and I wonder sometimes
Where theyve gone

And sometimes late at night
When Im bathed in the firelight
The moon comes callin a ghostly white
And I recall
Recall

Like a rock. standin arrow straight
Like a rock, chargin from the gate
Like a rock, carryin the weight
Like a rock

Lihe a rock, the sun upon my skin
Like a rock, hard against the wind
Like a rock, I see myself again
Like a rock


YOUTUBE--one dynamite song by the man himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 May 08 - 02:44 AM

Like a limestone cowboy?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 31 May 08 - 04:51 AM

Rocks don't wash, they fill their bath tubs full of coal and they steal. Would you want one going out with your daughter?

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 May 08 - 11:03 AM

You know, I'm not so sure rocks even need rights. What's the worst thing we humans can do to a rock? Smash it, pulverize it, and grind it up into powder. But you know what? Eventually, after we humans have shot our wads and departed this planet, those little miniscule bits of rock will undergo the same geological processes that they were subjected to eons ago and, voila! New rocks! We can try our best to deny them their fundamental right of rockishness, but they'll win out in the end.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 May 08 - 11:34 AM

Does "rockishness" come into play because they are such small fragments? Shouldn't you overlook their tiny size and give them full agency like regular rocks and also refer to their "rockness"? I suspect the diminished "ish" is a cultural bias, like calling small kitchen table set a "kitchenette."

Philosophers want to know.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: topical tom
Date: 31 May 08 - 05:04 PM

Rock of Ages cleft in two,
   One for me and one for you.

   Rock on, rolling stones!

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Peace
Date: 31 May 08 - 05:08 PM

You are a SICK man, Tom.

Rainy Day Women #12+35 by Bob Dylan

Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin' 'long the street.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to keep your seat.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' on the floor.
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' to the door.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table.
They'll stone ya when you are young and able.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck.
They'll stone ya and then they'll say, "good luck."
Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end.
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again.
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone.
They'll stone you when you are walking home.
They'll stone you and then say you are brave.
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Bobert
Date: 31 May 08 - 07:13 PM

And lets not forget the Biblical importance given to rocks... In many of the Psalms there is reference to God being our "rock"...

Hmmmmm??? Maybe God is a rock???

Lemme get the Wes Ginny Slide Rule on this one...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 08 - 07:50 PM

"Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, They're a modern stoneage family."


(Yuck! What a gross idea...)


"From the, town of Bedrock, They're a page right out of history."


(Umm...no, they aren't. Not even close. Get real.)


Let's ride, with the family down the street, Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet.


(Must we?)


When you're, with the Flintstones, Have a yabba dabba doo time, A dabba doo time, You'll have a gay old time!


(sigh....)


This insufferably suburbanite show managed the bizarre travesty of transporting early 1960s American Los Angeles suburb culture of the dumbest sort imaginable into what purported to be the "Stone Age". Shockingly crass and cliched in every respect, this show turned everything it touched into crap. Even as a kid in 1962 I knew something was terribly, terribly wrong with the whole premise. It smelled like cheese gone way rancid. I did somewhat like Dino the frenetic dinosaur pet, but everyone else on the show was annoying in the extreme. I wanted to kick Fred every time he opened his big mouth! I wanted to see Wilma and Betty have their damned charge cards shredded before their eyes and be made to work frikkin' HARD in a little Mexican village for a year, washing clothes by hand down at the river and making refried beans three times a day under the hot sun. Barney? I just felt sorry for the poor, pathetic, downtrodden little schmuck. He should have kicked Fred in the nuts and left the show. Watch it again now for a look at just how tawdry and vapid North American culture can get as it superimposes its lowest, stupidest values on other times and places in human history. Horrifying.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 31 May 08 - 07:59 PM

Shame on you Little Hawk. The Flintstons were hugely entertaining. How could anyone in the 60s grow up and not like the Flintstones They were funny and the theme tune was excellent.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 08 - 08:14 PM

Bleagh! I retract nothing. I don't like that style of showbiz music in the theme song one bit either. Never did.

But if you liked it, fine. That's okay if we have different tastes.

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Bobert
Date: 31 May 08 - 08:19 PM

What, LH, wasn't rock 'nuff fir yer tastes???

Oh, too much rock???

Sorry... We'll get our rockman down there right away...

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Emma B
Date: 31 May 08 - 08:22 PM

Rock music

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: JennieG
Date: 31 May 08 - 09:00 PM

SRS, does make one of your small fragmented pieces a.........

Rockette?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: JennieG
Date: 31 May 08 - 09:01 PM

I geddit...Rockettes are the girl bits of rock, and rockets are the boy bits of rock?


Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: frogprince
Date: 31 May 08 - 09:40 PM

Uh huh; the Rockettes are the ones with the little splits in 'em...

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 01:41 AM

I really couldn't stand the Jetsons either. But that's outside the subject of this thread. ;-)

Come to think of it, I didn't like any of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons much. They all reeked of a certain Hollywood-based style of very exaggerated behaviour that I find downright obnoxious. It makes me think of cheap, mouthy, loud agents wearing horrible sport coats, dishonest car salesmen wearing same, and other such shysters as well as smartass jerks like Groucho Marx...along with really brassy, stupid, and materialistic females with beehive and bouffante hairdos who are slavish devotees of all the latest commercial trends and who wear stilleto heels and those glasses that go out to sharp points at either side.

"WILLLLL-MAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Michael
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 02:27 AM

"Rock my soul" - got to be hard hearted for that one.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Rock Rights....
From: Michael
Date: 01 Jun 08 - 02:32 AM

Or the drunken geologist, who gets gneissly schist and then gets his rocks off.

Mike