BS:

Subject:
From: UB Ed
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:00 PM

Subject: RE: BS:
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:03 PM

B.S. to you too Ed! And thanks for the insightful posting!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:03 PM

OK, I'll bite!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:07 PM

Much Ado?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:08 PM

It's easy not to get off-topic on this one.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS:
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:09 PM

No Jeffy, I think BS qualifies as "Much DooDoo" instead.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Benjermin Shakespeare
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:10 PM

BS was Willy the Shake's bro, right?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:19 PM

I can't argue with the major premise.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS:
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:42 PM

De nihilo nihilum.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: UB Ed
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:46 PM

Spaw, I can tell you're feeling great!!! today. Keep it up.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Kim C
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:04 PM

Yep.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:12 PM

Hmm. Thought provoking.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:18 PM

"I see", said the blind man.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:23 PM

Reduces it to the essence, yes? To expound further would like gilding a lily, sending ice to Alaska, or Coal to Newcastle.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:26 PM

.. to the deaf mute, who replied, "Yes, I agree."

I like it, as a concept.

The first disposable good-for-one-day-only BS thread.

Discuss any BS you wish, no need for a topic.

Today I am thinking about the BS way the discernment process works in our diocese.

(Idiots!)

~Susan

~S~

Subject: RE: BS:
From: UB Ed
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:36 PM

This was actually a suggested topic...

Subject: RE: BS:
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:42 PM

Well I fulfilled it then right?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS:
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:45 PM

Just comfort yourself with the thought it's mucked up in other dioceses as well WYSIWYG!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:52 PM

. . . .ye. . . s . . ssss..... but.... sigh.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Pseudolus
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:54 PM

I guess if it wasn't for thread creep, this thread woulda died a long time ago!! *G*

Frank

Subject: RE: BS:limericks anonymous
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:36 PM

There once was a thread with no heading
And not such a bad one, I'm betting
But its morbid ennui
Caused the posters to flee
Now it's nothing but used hamster bedding

Subject: RE: BS:
From: UB Ed
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:41 PM

Morbid ennui? I'm going for the dictionary! (LOL)

Subject: RE: BS:
From: MMario
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:45 PM

morbid ennui would be correct wouldn't it? I mean - moribund ennui might be questionable, but I should think that morbid ennui would be a correct construction.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:55 PM

I get it now!! It's an all-inclusive editorial comment!! Well said, Ed!!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: UB Ed
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:55 PM

I'm sure she's correct. I'm just not sure what she's saying!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: UB Ed
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 04:00 PM

Actually, it was MMario's idea...

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 04:02 PM

Bored to death. Grotesquely (sp?) boring.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 04:30 PM

0

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 04:33 PM

"Talkin' Nothin' Blues" ..from memory:

"Well, I looked from the porch to the top of the wall,
Nothin' was there, nothin' at all.
Nothin' at all in any degree,
A predominance of vacancy"

There's a man in this town, goin' around,
Spreadin' nothin' all over the ground.
Heard some passin' people say,
"All that nothin' gets in the way..
There oughta be a law.

I went downtown, some nothin' to buy..
Pile in the window, 40 feet high.
The man in the store, he smile an' say..
'We got plenty o' nothin' today.
All vacuum packed....

Well, this song was written with nothin' in mind
Nothin' at all of any kind.
Nothin' at all in any respect..
We was aided by a poverty of intellect......

(your mileage may differ..)

Subject: RE: BS:
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 06:42 PM

Gnu is close. An unhealthy degree of boredom. Boredom to the point of sickness.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 07:40 PM

I have to say UB40, I love what you haven't done with this thread. Irish Sergeant

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 07:43 PM

Yes, it's really a splendid concept, isn't it?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 08:10 PM

Yes, and that's why Mudcat has such a splendid reputation as a folk music discussion forum....
I know it's nice to have fun, but could it be that the fun is getting a bit airheaded lately? Thank you, Bill D, for bringing up the subject of music.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS:
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:30 PM

CarolC - if I ever start a rock band, can I call it Morbid Ennui? It's a great name.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:38 PM

You bet, RangerSteve! Those are free words!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:46 PM

I'd like to start one called "Crawford Tillinghast".

- LH

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Amos
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 11:10 PM

Morbid Ennui would be a sort of lethal obsession with boring ideas, wouldn't it? Such as "how many posts can fit into a nameless thread?" I never thought I'd see the day when someone decided to test it out!!!

A

Subject: RE: BS:
From: CarolC
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 11:55 PM

All right! Dictionary time!

morbid adj [L morbidus diseased, fr. morbus disease] (1656) 1 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of disease (~ anatomy) b: affected with or induced by disease (a ~ condition) c : productive of disease (~ substances)

--my Webster's

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jul 01 - 05:16 AM

Okay, I looked it up, too. My Webster's Ninth New Collegiate...

morbid adj [L morbidus diseased, fr. morbus disease; akin to Gk marainine to waste away - more at SMART] (1656) 1 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of disease (~ anatomy) b: affected with or induced by disease (a ~ condition) c : productive of disease (~ substances) 2 : abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings 3: GRISLY, GRUESOME (~ details) (curiosity)

From whence I support death and grotesque. HOWEVER, you coined it, so you define it. Mine was merely a suggestion of a possible interpretation. In any case, I thought it was kewl.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Jul 01 - 05:46 AM

Thanks gnu.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Ralphie
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:19 AM

A Blind Man in a Darkened Room, Looking For a Black Cat that isn't there......R x

Subject: RE: BS:
From: mooman
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:27 AM

...just add water and leave to rise for 10 minutes,,,

mooman

Subject: RE: BS:
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 06:30 AM

Ralphie.....The difference between a theologian and a philosopher is that the theologian finds the cat.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Banjer
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 07:18 AM

To expound on an earlier thought: I see said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 08:21 AM

Where do you hide from a blind man with a gun ?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: GUEST,Ub Ed
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:03 PM

Just an experiment. No intent to be airheaded...

Subject: RE: POVERTY From: MMario Date: 06-Jul-01 - 10:45 AM

rich - not even close....I suspect a thread with no title and no post would garner a few answers...

Subject: RE: BS:
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:34 PM

I know Ed......It's a particular and pleasurable sickness we seem to have. The concept isn't new, but it is tried and true. This one has garnered a few creative posts and a few duds which is about the average for any thread!!!(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS:
From: GUEST,If a thread fell in the forest .....
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 03:09 PM

Rob Dale

Subject: RE: BS:
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:40 PM

Why is a duck?

The answer is simple.

Because one of it's legs are both the same.

So there.

Jock

Subject: RE: BS:McGill Portable Toilets
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 04:55 PM

Interesting experiment, UB Ed. A similar one was conducted over a period of several months during the last year. The experiment generated four threads plus one thread about people who didn't participate in the experimental threads.

The experimental threads accumulated a total of 548 posts. The spin-off thread accumulated 61 posts. Dozens of limericks, poems, puns and other kinds of humor were posted to all of the threads, including the spin-off thread.

As a result of these threads, a minor subculture grew up within the Mudcat community that culminated in my taking a month and a half long trip to Canada and being crowned Ms. McGill 2001.

Don't post to this thread!

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

People who didn't post to Don't post

Subject: RE: BS:
From: CarolC
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 05:02 PM

The clickeys I've posted above are not necessarily in chronological order.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 05:11 PM

Huuummm...maybe morbid emu instead. Then you can eat it later...depending on what it died from...BS thread printouts used as cage liner?...never mind.... If an emu's legs are the same length, is it a duck?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 05:17 PM

This thread is in danger of becoming useful!
How long are MY legs?????
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 05:17 PM

No, art...only if ONE leg is both the same. It's a Zen thing...

A

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 05:22 PM

that used to be the answer, Amos, but that was Zen, this is NOW!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 05:26 PM

Zen and the art of Duck Maintenance!
Sounds like a Best Seller!!!
When do you publish, Amos?
Will you hold a Book Signing at the Mudcat Tavern?
Quack!!!!!!!
Geoff the Duck!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 05:41 PM

Better duck quick (quack?)...its flying fast and furious out there!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jul 01 - 06:42 PM

well, maybe...but there are times when it is better to chicken

Subject: RE: BS:
From: UB Ed
Date: 09 Jul 01 - 11:13 AM

Carol:

Her name was McGill
And she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy

Congratulations on the Ms. McGill 2001 and the Canada trip! Subculture?

I was trying to start a thread with no topic or category; couldn't seem to fool it though.

Nonetheless, I think I'm gonna hide in here til the flames subside...

Subject: RE: BS:
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jul 01 - 12:25 PM

But you have to admit, Dave O., that the middle is undistributed.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 01:17 PM

Why is a duck in plane view. Could I be a duck left and right ?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: UB Ed
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 01:29 PM

Duck - its a bomb!

Turbot - its a fish!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 01:40 PM

It's back! Why?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS:
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 01:43 PM

I dunno' LH..........

Evidently gnu had a brain fart. Too much Turkey Turd Beer or something.................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS:
From: hesperis
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 07:12 PM

Artbrooks - "BS thread printouts used as cage liner?"

You know, I never thought of that... bet the hamster would like reading it, too!

Subject: RE: BS:
From:
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 07:19 PM

But remember, the ones with GUEST/no-name participating count as already having been used for that purpose.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 01 - 09:28 PM

I wanted to know if I understood why as I percieved it to be intended. I think I know why, but how could I ? Only by confirmation of my perception by the intender. Ergo, I asked if I would be a duck when viewed from "within" the plane, i.e., left and right. Perhaps, the duck in the plane would be invisible, given that the duck's plane is soooo small, so to speak. Or, could one postulate that the duck has two legs, each discernable within the plane, if only mathematically so ? Of course, if the duck's legs are discernable in such fashion, so it must be for the duck. Given that, I could not be a duck from left and right, but must be an "upside-down" why. However, this still does not accomodate duck hips, without which the duck could not exist, even mathematically so. Essentially, I propose that the duck has two legs, albeit the same, but why ? Well, that's a different question.

And I'm still waiting for an answer.

Oh yeah. Excuse me. Beer and geometry do give me brain farts.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Hawker
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 02:50 PM

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Jul 01 - 02:56 PM

Yeah.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 04:46 AM

Does "why" = "y"... are we talking about the letter "y" ? Is vee a sitting duck ? ... with one leg the same .... ?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Shields Folk
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 01:30 PM

This is great, a thread that doesn't feature anonymous Guest slagging us off!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 06:24 PM

WHYYYYYYYY DARNIT ??????!!!!!! I'm going to enter the fifth dimensia here. Someone tell me why. You're all enjoying this, aren't you ? You all know the answer and you're toying with me... refusing to post, knowing that I NEED to know why. C'mon Bud, Lou.... anyone ? Who's on first ?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: CarolC
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 06:25 PM

Why not?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 07:00 PM

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!!! Not you too ???

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 07:33 PM

Because.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 07:50 PM

Annnd... as the gnu lays on the mesa grass, gasping for it's last breath, as the vultures circle high above... sadly, there can be but one outcome... the gnu turns into a wildebeest and takes the vultures down with his over and under 12 - steel shot, of course, as the wildebeest is enviromentally friendly. Why not ? Because... why is a duck. You yin, I yang... and yang and yang and yang.

gnightgnu

Subject: RE: BS:
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 10:12 PM

Well,,this just has to be said:

Whyaduck? Whyanochicken?.......Chico Marx

Gnu, I think you've finally gone completely mental, over the edge as it were.........I don't think you've entered the fifth dimension, but rather the fifth phase of dementia................you need some better drugs man......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 11:36 PM

I wish I had a printer, I would print this thread and enter it in a modern art contest!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 05:58 AM

I don't do drugs... I do Bud Light. If you do enough, you can get lit. But someone is going to have to enlighten me on the duck thing. Do they have ducks at the NYCFTTS ? and, if so, why ? and, if not, why ?

Gotta go sniff paint fumes all day at my new pad. And think about ducks.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: hesperis
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 02:39 PM

Well, sometimes they don't have ducks... but there's always a duck pond. Why? Because it's there.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 02:54 PM

Of course they have ducks at the NYCFTTS!!! Whaddya think? Everything has been provided for. It's a thoroughly modern facility. Howard the Duck was a patient there for awhile. Ask Spaw.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS:
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 03:40 PM

Actually Howard has a permanent room now where he can sit and watch Neil's private exercise area and laugh his tail off as Neil has sex with his Les Paul to the quacking of several mallards who've taken up residence in Neil's hot tub. I expect they might be moving on soon though as Neil has started using the tub and the water is getting to be filthy..........not from the ducks, from Neil.

I'll be sending the Insanevac Chopper for you gnu.......You're in a bad way and a few tiple lessons and maybe a few tunes with a crazed tiple band will have you right in a few.......uh, months.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS:
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 04:44 PM

Nils illegitimi carborundum. Can I have a pint of Lunatic Soup [Guinness].

Jock

Subject: RE: BS:
From: artbrooks
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 05:08 PM

Who's on first? Yes. But why's on second. When you pluck a zen duck, zen what happens? Down in the hot tub? Or is that DOWN in the hot tub? Does the Dehli Lama? Or is that llama deli? Oooooohm.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Noreen
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 05:24 PM

Gotta go sniff paint fumes all day at my new pad

Gnu's on a lily pad? Big lily...

(How d'you know they're lilies?)

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 05:38 PM

So this is how the terminally screwed (or bored) spend their days...QUACK!!! I could go for toasting marshmallards about now.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 06:00 PM

Belay that chopper Spaw... can't go on vacation til I get the new place painted. The dining and living rooms at my new pad are now lily white. Didn't have the heart to tackle any more today. The kitchen and hall are yellllooow... three coats, I'd say. And the master bedroom, soon to be office, is pink. The basement stairwell is bright lime green. Thank god the sixties are long over.

Shoulda seen the look on the clerk's face at the hardware store when I asked him to shake up ten tins of Kitchen & Bath semi-gloss enamel ultra white. Told him I had a big bathroom. If any of you ever visit me, bring your sunglasses.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Jul 01 - 07:22 PM

White's cool. But semi-gloss? I guess you'd need sunglasses for that.

Hi UB Ed. Thanks. Yeah, me and three other people.

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 02:49 AM

Noreen, How d'you know they're lilies?
'Cos Lily is wearin' 'em!

But on the subject of ducks, can anyone tell me who goosed the moose?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Banjer
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 04:01 AM

Ah, I've heard of him....Whogoose Demoose....isn't he the fellow that wrote the bestseller entitled 'Antlers In The Treetops'?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 04:51 AM

What sort of noise annoys an oyster?

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 04:54 AM

Why Giok,
Any noise annoys an oyster.
But a particularly noisy noise,
Annoys a nice oyster most!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 05:45 AM

I think most annoying would be, "A dozen oyeters on the half shell, please."

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Noreen
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 04:01 PM

Cheers, Eddie!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 04:36 PM

I had a dozen oysters last night and only 11 of them worked!!

Subject: RE: BS:
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jul 01 - 07:45 PM

In Ontario, 11 working oysters out of a dozen would be damn good, considering the unemployment rate here.

- LH