BS: Sign Of The End Times?

Subject: Sign Of The End Times?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 07:20 PM

recently it was contaminated body parts being sold by hospitals & medical services organizations

and reports or hundreds of thousands of pounds of meat being recalled with E-Coli contamination

and reports of the Red Cross collecting thousands of pints of blood from donors who who should have been screened out

and the West Nile Virus sweeping across the United States

what next???

Subject: RE: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 07:26 PM

postings from guests....

or spaw saying something funny....

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: michaelr
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 08:07 PM

Yeah -- Spaw has been suspiciously quiet lately. Hope he's OK.

Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 08:53 PM

What next? Effigies of William Shatner...everywhere. On your dashboard, at the cenotaph, in front of city hall, in place of the existing Statue of Liberty (cantcha just picture it...old Bill smiling and waving the torch?).

Yes. And little Captain Kirk action figures in every box of cereal.

It can get worse.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 08:54 PM

Spaw is out selling his contaminated body parts.

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Aug 02 - 09:00 PM

Osama pitchin' the latest breakfast cereal?....

His cousin, Junior Bush Laden, marchin' against corporate globalization...

Bobert making any sense...

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Troll
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 06:44 AM

When people cease to take themselves so damn seriously, THAT will be a sign that the end of times is upon us.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 10:14 AM

I have just checked the toilet paper roll in the washroom, and GUEST is absolutely right...

THE END IS NEAR!!!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 10:25 AM

Bobert (quote) "Osama pitchin' the latest breakfast cereal?....

His cousin, Junior Bush Laden, marchin' against corporate globalization...

Bobert making any sense... "

In a brilliant flash of inspiration your humorous off-handed *nonsense* makes *perfect sense*. I believe you've just kicked up a diamond-in-the-rough subject for a new song fer you to commense to hatchin' out.

I mean a classic Dylanesque type of wordplay dirge listing all manner of surreal "signs of the end times". And it's title writes itself: "The End Times Blues": ( I got me those end times blues when I saw this, that and t ' other thang this morning,....etc.)

Have at it ,Bobert as I know you'd have a field day with it.

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 12:44 PM

Yeah! "I'd hate to be you on that dreadful day"

No end to the possibilities...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 12:54 PM

The greatest of all "One-Hit" wonders, hosting One-Hit Wonders on VH-1. Our friend B.S. (Bill Shatner) :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 05:26 PM

Well, at least we finally all know what "BS" really stands for around here...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 06:04 PM

"Sign Of The End Times"??

Who cares? As long as the END comes...

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 07:10 PM

When the Cat doesn't come back...........

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Gareth
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 07:25 PM

The world turned Upside Down ?

- Actually Cornwallis was cheated, and lomg live Benedict Arnold !!!!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: InOBU
Date: 24 Aug 02 - 07:40 PM

No one flamed my new song ... (posted on New Song Old Tune Old Story...) plug plug plug.... NOW THAT is a sign of the end times. On a serrious note, I haven't heard from Spaw... maybe some one may call him. Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:32 AM

If we have Shatner effigies, can we burn them?

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:33 AM

I should have said, MAY we burn them. I have no doubt of my ability to do so...

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 09:07 AM

Hey, Hroth: You're showing your age. That old distinction between "can" and "may" is out the window, Bro. When my sons were in high school ten years ago, I corrected them on the difference... a question of capability versus permission and they went and asked their English teacher about the phrase (the teacher was probably 26.) The teacher said that there's no difference. The same teacher said that "exact same" as in "It's the exact same thing," was a perfectly legitimate expression. I think that it's redundant, and I mostly don't give a fig about the "proper" use of English. But then, I guess I'm the opposite different from his teacher. :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 01:42 PM

What? J'ou wanna burn 'em? Well, go ahead, gringo, burn 'em! We got lots more where dey came from. We got truckloads of Shatner effigies for j'ou, all made up cheap een Chihauhau.

We even got Shatner pinatas for j'our next fiesta, man! Life size Beeg Beel pinatas for j'ou to hang from el cielo. Would j'ou believe we got Shatner beanie babies?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 04:47 PM

I'm with you Jerry; bad grammar irritates me, whether it stems from laziness or ignorance. From a teacher? that's really discouraging! I used to argue with my ex wife on the difference between "in" and "into". I insisted that saying "I jumped IN the pool" was incorrect, and that it was INTO the pool. she saw no difference.

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:34 PM

What she was trying to tell you, Kendall was that after she jumped into the pool, she had such a good time that she decided to jump while she was already IN the pool, having jumped into the pool, first. :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:45 PM

I'm curious, Kendall. Did you tell your wife to go jump INTO the lake, or did she tell you to go jump IN the lake? :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Amos
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 09:15 PM

The two expressions are exactly the same in intent, but they are not exactly the same expression. There is no such expression as "the exact same" except in the vernacular or vulgar lexicon. But that's a whole nother subject! :>) As for no difference existing between "can" and "may" (permission)) and "may" (probability) anyone who denies the distinctions involved is obviously determined not to move past grade-school levels in literacy.

He who is ignorant of his language will be destined to re-invent it!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: The Pooka
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 09:39 PM

Youse guys are inferring that Usage ain't what it Used to be. Well I support that issue. Equally as important, these here teachers got to get back to basics. Whatever. I'm just saying.

Incidentally, not to get off-topic or nothing, but the End Times will ride in on the BigAsteroid. 2060, possibly. (Or, tomorrow maybe. They miss some of 'em y'know. Woops!)(Sometimes I get sick of Them btw. Why are They so omnipresent-but-anonymous? Even now, They're forecasting rain, repaving my street, & planning the next War.) We pipsqueaks flatter ourselves that the Endtimes Signs will come from, or via, us. / On the other hand, the song (sic) "I Saw the Sign" may well have been such a Sign. / With apologies to Tom Lehrer, if we're gonna have songs about the BigAsteroid Extinctor, we'd better start writing them now. ;]

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Aug 02 - 11:40 PM

G'day Jerry R,

Ah yes, but Hrothgar lives in an English-speaking country ... (well - almost). (We shared a committee 20 years back.)

Regard(les)s,

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Aug 02 - 12:26 AM

Spaw is alive and well, last I knew...busy with 3D now that he's so dang healthy and also not finding much of interest on the Mudcat, or so he said in some thread a few days ago. He did post to Rick's thread about Heather's dad and a few others. Now that he's got TWO Weimies to play with, he's pretty busy on another website comparing pix with other Weimie-besotteds...:-) And, not that's not Weiner that's WEIMIE!!**BG**

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Venthony
Date: 26 Aug 02 - 01:17 AM

Two biblical phrases come to mind: "No one knows the day or the hour." And "How long, Oh Lord, how long (will this thread go on)?

LOL Tony

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 26 Aug 02 - 01:32 PM

(quote) ""No one knows the day or the hour." And "How long, Oh Lord, how long (will this thread go on)? " LOL Tony

That's easy. The only *real* question is whom gets to get in that last word.....hehehe

Aren't y'all glad you asked?

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Kim C
Date: 26 Aug 02 - 05:44 PM

What about improper grammar as it pertains to colorful regional colloquial speech? I know what the rules are but I consciously choose to break them on a regular basis! There ain't no law agin that, now, isther?

Granted, I wouldn't go into a formal presentation without correct subject/verb agreement. After all, there is a time and a place for everything. Informal speech, however, is fair game. :-)

I know the end is near because 1) Mister finally agreed to buy a DVD player, and 2) he's enjoying it more than I am! Now, when he agrees to buy a computer for the house, we'll really be in trouble...

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 26 Aug 02 - 07:29 PM

Disappointed to find out this wasn't a thread about the very last Petula Clark tune...

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: DougR
Date: 26 Aug 02 - 09:56 PM

Well, I heard Clinton is going to get his very own television talk show.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 27 Aug 02 - 12:19 PM

A REAL SIGN----------

The Jehovah's Witnesses have quit knocking on doors !!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: DougR
Date: 27 Aug 02 - 04:30 PM

Evidently word hasn't reached the JW folks in Arizona yet, Art.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: GUEST,C.Jim
Date: 27 Aug 02 - 05:27 PM

I think the end of the world has come (UK time by the way), a very strange light appeared in the sky at about 7 o'clock this evening, it was round and very bright. Of course it may also be a sign that the weather here has been unusually crap, even for the UK!

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 02 - 05:43 PM

The world actually ended last week, at 3:03 AM, Greenwich time...but it was not reported by any of the major news sources, so everyone is simply carrying on as usual.

Typical.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Aug 02 - 05:46 PM

So long as we can discuss points of grammar and usage here, in despite of all the voices of doom, the end isn't quite here yet.

"Exact same" seems a reasonable variant on "exactly similar". The can/may distinction is useful one, but it's got broken down by current usage. I've nothing against changes in language myself, except when they end up with us losing useful distinctions like that, without any equivalent being coined.

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Aug 02 - 11:08 AM

'Exactly similar'? Now, that I haven't heard.

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Aug 02 - 12:17 PM

the end is near?? .....nawwwww.

In the spirit of the woman who said to her bank "I can't be overdrawn, I still have checks left!", I assure you that **I** still have wood that is un-worked and songs that need to be sung.....(and I assure you the Witnesses AND the Latter-Day Saints are still knockin' the doors in these parts!)

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:45 AM

I can see where 2 things might be described as similarly exact...but exactly similar? I don't think so. "Similar" means "bearing a resemblance to", but it does not mean "exactly the same as". Something which is exactly the same as is not similar, it is identical.

"Exactly similar" sounds like something Blind Drunk in Blind River would say to his brother Don when attempting to describe the reactions of two local girls who both refused to go out with him categorically, and called him a "loser". In fact, the two incidents would be quite similar, very similar...but not exactly similar.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Aug 02 - 05:11 PM

I've probably said exact same more than once. Likewise whole 'nother, and usetacould. And let us not forget fixin to. :-)

Some folks here in the South say carry instead of drive, as in, I carried him down to the Wal-Mart. People who ain't from around here get a good laugh about this, but it was very commonly used in past centuries. I've seen it in a lot of diaries and letters, along with reckon and yonder.

Also axe, as in can I axe you a question, is actually from Middle English. Chaucer used it all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: DougR
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 03:05 AM

So, are we trying to come up with some kind of suggestion to keep Bobert from totally self-destructing in this thread, or are we talking about English lessons? I fear for the welfare of my liberal friend in the Great Smoky mountians! The language in his posts is always impecable, so we need have no fear in that regard. In this thread we need to concentrate on suggestions as to how Ole' Bobert can keep his bones, his mind, his total being, in place! :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:07 PM

Remember, Doug, when Ronald Reagan was in office and liberals were a vanishing species? It was a terrible time! Not a liberal in sight as far as the eye could see. A desolate wasteland. Thank God we once again have a land where liberals can breathe free, dress in chartreuse jumpers if they want to, and make fun of Rush Limbaugh while sipping their mineral water.

The fact is, life can become a real bore without a dedicated opposition to spar with over the eternal issues.

I even heard that there was a liberal seen in Schenectady yesterday! This could be a first. They're definitely comin' back! Rather than the End Times, this could be the beginning of a grand renewal.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: DougR
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:59 PM

And L. H., I certainly hope our friend, Bobert, finds solace in your message. :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 12:52 AM

the letter "W" in hebrew looks like a "6" and it was misintrpreted in translation so it is really www for the world wide web and the ability to track everyone and all money

Subject: RE: BS: Sign Of The End Times?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 10:08 PM

Hmmmm...

Well, fortunately the World Wide Web has made little or no inroads into the life of the average Cuban, I'm happy to say. The ones who are living in Cuba, I mean...

Plus, there's very little money there. Cuba may be one of the few places to survive the End Times! :-)

- LH