BS: Mistakes got any?

Subject: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:02 AM

You will never find me upset by anything that goes on here with the exception of malware, mayhem or murder.
There are people who think their 'contributions' are as sacrosanct as a copyrighted best seller. There are gems among the germs but not many. Many threads are really about mistakes.

Human mistakes are ubiquitous and our future is made of trying to choose the least horrible mistake with the occaisional most horrible mistake creeping in anyway.
Sometimes a mistake is the best thing that could possibly happen.
Be they funny or tragic...

May all our mistakes be least horrible.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:06 AM

Gems among the germs is right.
(says the germy one)

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:15 AM

Too judgemental. Another thread born out of wedlock.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:17 AM

I don't think you are infected or affected. You are probably addicted to comfort. Who isn't?

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: peteglasgow
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:25 AM

i quite like mistakes - there is a crack in everything - it's how the light gets in

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:33 AM

The big mistake:

We thought this was The Planet of the Humans

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Iains
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 10:25 AM

Seems covid-19 would like to offer Humans some stiff competition.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 10:34 AM

planet of the humans

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 10:47 AM

I never make mistakes... I thought I did once, but I was wrong. ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 10:48 AM

A few - but too few to mention
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 03:20 PM

Not listening to AlanC back in the 80's, maybe 90's, about there being this cool online folk song forum... I didn't join Mudcat till, if I recall, 1999.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 04:37 PM

Opening this thread

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:14 PM

Back in the day, I married Mr Wrong. Geez, what a mistake that was.

Decades later, I can honestly say that, once I extracted myself from that débacle, I went in the opposite direction and, as they say, Found Happiness.

But I would never have figured out the right thing to do if I had not made such a spectacular mess the first time.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 05:22 AM

This is what got my goat about this thread, Dave:

"There are people who think their 'contributions' are as sacrosanct as a copyrighted best seller. There are gems among the germs but not many."

There's something wacky about Donuel, of all people, making quasi-moderatorial judgemental comments about other people's contributions. Ironic really. Apart from that, this could turn into a fairly light-hearted and whimsical topic. That gratuitous opening salvo put me off. Let's see how it goes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 06:59 AM

First thing this morning I read Bill was wrong about making a mistake and laughed out loud. Then I read that Steve's goat had been gotten and I pictured a goat suddenly chewing on all my inedible stuff in the house - DAMN. Its cute but I don't want your goat. Steve incorrectly thinks everything is about him but its my fault since he is such an enticing target of an overactive ego that I have mentioned it too many times. Now the goat is chewing and staring at me. Though it was safe to single Steve out I feel guilty That I haven't mentioned all of Steve's good qualities that only seem posh, elitist, high falutin but classy.

This goat is proof I have made a mistake.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: peteglasgow
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 09:03 AM

bye.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 09:24 AM

Your current big mistake, Donuel, is that you're trolling.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 10:05 AM

I weap at the trolling in the ocean due to all the damage it does to the ocean floor. Likewise hurt feelings should be avoided at all cost like protecting delicate irridescent coral.

Here, have your virtual goat back. I did not take it. It just showed up like your posts right after my, as you say, gratuitious wacky quasi-moderatorial judgemental comments. (sounds truthy)

In tommorrow's segment of the Steve&Donuel Show see how a question can be answered/ignored with a question.

Coming up next is the Tide Pod challenge. :^?

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 12:43 PM

My heart is all a-flutter at the idea of an ongoing Steve&Donuel Show as each misses the subtlety the other's whimsey... or simply chooses to explore the possibilities... or not, as the case may be..if the wind ain't blowing from the West.

My mistake.. I was NOT wrong about being wrong about never making a mistake....

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 12:56 PM

He has too much form, Bill, I'm afraid. He's done this too many times before. I don't deserve his over-attention, I've asked him many times to desist and, most of all, it lacks wit and is extremely unfunny.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 01:27 PM

Bill your non mistake is a gift that keeps on giving.


The subtlety of "blow it out your ass" or baiting is not lost on me."
We do have rules however; as stated in the joke thread,
'No going after wives, No SWATing or false police reports etc.'
(at least we're better than Trump)

Claiming racism, trollism or a felony is a grey area and ergo is not against the rules. Texting like this does not allow for all the games played on "Whose line is it anyway"
The idea of an English Baron in a flame war with the beverly hillbilly grandma comes to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 05:50 PM

From a post in 2000:

I WAS RIGHT, I WAS WRONG

G                            D G
When first I saw Portland I questioned my eyes
                               C G D             D7
I was awed by the lights and a-mazed at the size,
          G          G7            C
Then a feeling of dread dropped out of the blue,
    G             C   G D             D7
As it often does when I see something new;
         G                      D   G
I was quite overcome with sus-picion and fear,
                            C G D          D7
So I stopped at a pub and I asked for a beer,
    G                G7       C
I must have been mad to go in there alone,
         G               C G C       G   C    D7
I was up to no good and I should have gone home.

Chorus:
D7    G                        D G
I was right, I was wrong all a-long,
                                  C G D
I was right, I was wrong all a-long;
          G            G7         C
I was wrong all a-long, and I knew I was wrong,
          G            D7          G
I was right, I was wrong all a-long.

The back room was full of cigar smoking gents,
And against my best judgment it's back there I went;
They offered me whiskey which I never touch,
And I frequently told them "Don't pour me too much."
It was not what I wanted and not what I planned,
But the next thing you know, there were cards in my hand;
And like many a time, though I 've often resolved
To never play cards when there's money involved...


Well, first I lost silver and then I lost gold,
And then I lost consciousness so I was told;
And when I awoke things had gone quite amiss,
I always had known it would end up like this;
There was blood and a body and bottles galore,
Lying right next to me there on the floor;
I said, "Constable, please, I'm an innocent man!"
As he pulled the revolver from out of me hand...

The judge banged his gavel and asked, "What's your plea?"?
I said, "Someone killed him but surely not me."
There was no way in hell, I was out like a light,
Though I walk in my sleep, I suppose that I might."
The jurors left the court room at the drop of a hat,
They returned with their verdict in ten minutes flat;
I was sentenced to hang by this jury of peers,
And so I've been dead for a good hundred years...

Will virtue bear fruit? You can never be sure,
Even if watered and plied with manure;
You've no hope to harvest the things that you plant,
But keep right on trying, and prove that you can't;
It's a minimal effort you need to exert,
Knowing that soon you'll be covered in dirt;
Be certain of failure and lose every fight,
And some day like me you'll be proud you was right...

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Charmion
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 06:05 PM

Gee, Bill, that's a great song! What tune(s) go with it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 06:38 PM

Just when I got comfortable with space time and the funny way it expresses past present and future simultaneously, it is now called a big mistake. NOW space is said to be composed of entangled Q bits that interact with something else (we don't what) and space results as an emergent force. On top of that since the cosmos isn't infinite it has a cap on how much information it may contain so on very small scales it is as though we are short on bandwidth so tiny things get fuzzy in location and direction. Look at it more closely (with a sensor) and you measure only half its info. To understand that space is emergent Q bits I have to buy into the whole holographic universe thing and more.
shrug.
I was fine allowing one extra unique dimension to explain entanglement.
Maybe the universe inflation just wants to raise the price of 'bandwidth' and price me out of the cosmos.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 03:06 AM

Your current big mistake, Donuel, is that you're trolling.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Pot, kettle, kettle pot.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 06:31 AM

Nice throwaway remark. Care to elucidate?

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 11:47 AM

Charmion, I think you can make "Bonnie Dundee" work with Bill's song.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 06:26 PM

Charmion... it has no tune I can identify. The chorus is the identifiable part. The verses are kind of half-sung, half-spoken.

Ya' know... I could sing a bit into my Getaway camera and post it somewhere... maybe FB. I'll see how that goes. (Got it from Dick Swain and it was immediately taken up by Judy Cook and others)

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 03:13 PM

Mistakes. Got a bucketful. Any particular colour or shape you'd like? Got them all in here somewhere, I'm sure. Might take me a while to find one of the more unusual ones. Just let me know what yo... Oh, wait. Nope. They're my mistakes. You can't have them. You have to make your own mistakes, I believe; ain't no-one can make 'em for you... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 03:21 PM

We have a great big orange one here in the U.S. that we hope to rectify come November.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 03:38 PM

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
? George Bernard Shaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 04:43 PM

You're allowed to make it twice, Sandman. The first one might have been a misjudgement, an error, a fluke. Make it three times... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 04:45 PM

have i only made 3 mistakes?

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 07:52 PM

Making mistakes more than once --
what could be a more timely reflection on
the pandemic crisis.

In my nation, in the US, there are so many people who
must learn the hard way not to minimize this pandemic.
If the consequences in the near future are what I suspect they will be --
two high spikes in disease and death, instead of just one --
it will be because some people simply have got to
make the same mistake twice before they get it.

And the tragedy is that there is only so much, and no more,
that can be done to save that many people from themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 04:46 AM

A fridge magnet that attracted me (pun intended - live with it)

"I have learned so much from my mistakes, I am thinking of making another"

But having said that - I read somewhere that divorce rates were running at about 30% (of marriages). But 50% for second marriages. As one insightful (nearly wrote inciteful!) GF in the hedonistic days post my divorce said:       "People gravitate towards the familiar"
which is a close cousin of "better the devil you know"

And you know she wasn't mistaken. She was Miss Taken! Happy memories.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 10:12 AM

i just flushed a toilet #1 and tipped a cup full of combs and scissors and pens that got sucked down before I could react. It looks a mistake waiting to get worse. Its good we have three instead of one but who knows what evil lurks inside intersecting pipes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 12:32 PM

Stuff like that doesn't go far. It's 'probably' possible to take up that toilet and retrieve everything from a bend underneath. I did one of mine a few years ago when a young guest cut off a bunch of hair and tried to flush it. Len the Plumber advertises daily.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 12:56 PM

Remind me to never to ask you to lend me a pen, Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 02:50 PM

Or a comb.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 04:02 PM

Hitting Sumbit before finishing proifreading.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 04:06 PM

You can lend him a comb, Stilly. Just don't ever ask to BORROW one! :o :o :o

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 04:26 PM

Bill's right, I recovered a comb and a flashlight. We Aren't shaking hands anymore anyway. I can see how a person can trap themselves. In the local news a girl got trapped in a washer for hide and seek.

Subject: RE: BS: Mistakes got any?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 06:17 PM

"Boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot." Now where did I read that...