BS: The Pointless Thread....

Subject: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:27 PM

Well, I've not had as much time as I'd like to keep up with some of the threads so I was thinking, "Hey, how about a thread that has no central theme, no point but where one can just hang without havin' to take no pop quizes...

... so I figured it was way past time for a "pointless" thread...

Yeah, I'm sure it will drop right to the bottom like a Bush's poll numbers but as long as it does it in a pointless flame of glory then if I die tonight, I will die a happy man...

That is my point, or not...

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: GUEST,marks
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:32 PM

If that is your point, then the thread is not pointless!

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:41 PM

Heck, Boberdz, the whole place is totally awash in pointless threads. We don't need another one and you will be severely punished for starting this one.

Please send an extremely ugly picture of yourself to Mudcat Central so that it may be enlarged and posted prominently on a billboard near your house with a caption that says "I drank. I posted. I wasted bandwidth!"

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:57 PM

Yas...the bandwidth police are presently occupied, so it this falls swiftly off the board then maybe, just maybe, you'll escape their wrath! But, WOE!! unto you if you are caught!!

But, already I see that this thread is as pointless as my missing finger (which I don't not really have a missing finger...but then again, I suppose no one really has a missing finger. I mean, if it it missing...)

My head...it is still spinning like that pair of frilly purple panties!

Kk

(PS...I still cannot do "♫♫♫" on my computer!)

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:15 PM

Heck, khandu, I also cannot do "♫♫♫" on my computer. And I can't do "♪♪♪" either.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:28 PM

Danged!!! All I've seemed to collect is the usaul cast ot hotmail suspects who revel in their latest and pointless hotmail Thingies...

Hey, I like thingies... Don't get me wrong here...

Ho you do them notes??? Tell me 'er I'll shoot my neighbors dog...

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:33 PM

Subject: I was gonna say something but what's the point?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:34 PM

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:40 PM

I would tell you how to do those notes if I knew how, Boberdz, but I don't.

I know how to do "¢" but I won't tell you how to do that since it involves putting certain parts of your body in very uncomfortable positions.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:47 PM

I hope it was flacid when ya stuck the pin through.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:07 PM

Come on, B-zer.... Tell...

I could have a lot of fun with a "cents" thingie... Just think of the possibilities....

HEY?!?!?!?....

Weren't this thread on the way to the bottom???

Come on, you all... HAVE YOU NO RESPECT???

Nevermind....

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:12 PM

Okay, Bobert, here's how ya do it... Are ya ready???







































Copy and paste!

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:20 PM

Don't get more pointless than that, no offense.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Amos
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:50 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:51 PM

Naw, naw naw! That copy & paste thingy is old hat. Nobody who is anybody does that anymore! Tsk tsk, Beedud...get modernized!

All ya got to do to do the "♫♫♫" thingy is to take a fine tipped permanent marker and draw it in the proper place on your screen before you hit "submit" and mumble the incantation,
"King khandu, King of Mississip,
Work yo magic and let'er rip"
thrice on a moonless night at 1:17 am.

Or, for a slick twenty, I'll send you the recipe and toss in a few "♰'s and some ♧'s for free!

Kk

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:56 PM

'"King khandu, King of Mississip,
Work yo magic and let'er rip"'

.deneppah s'tahw kool won dna semit eerht taht did I

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:57 PM

I'll see yer 쳌, and raise ya ¾ of a ©.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:01 PM

See your "I'll see yer 쳌, and raise ya ¾ of a ©." and raise you a

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 11:06 PM

Sheeeeiiitttt....

This is some fine stuff fir a thread on its merry way to the bottom...

Like, Khanny, how you do 'um notes thingies????

Subject: RE: BS: oh look I've changed the thread name
From: Mo the caller
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:16 AM

didn't know you coul do that

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Mo the caller
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:17 AM

d

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:17 AM

knee

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:18 AM

thur

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:18 AM

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:18 AM

di

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:18 AM

d i

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:23 AM

Mo - you can change the subject on posts - but not on the thread itself.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:33 AM

That make a good point, so, uh, well, uh, OK, later.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Paul Burke
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:53 AM

Typical man, bobert. It's not the thread that's pointed, it's the NEEDLE.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 11:04 AM

Until now, this was a needle-less thread.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Mo the caller
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 12:05 PM

who are you trying to needle

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: khandu
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:20 PM

I would refresh this thread but there is no point to it.



"♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫
♒♒♒♒♒♒♒♒♒
♈♈♈♈♈♈♈♈♈
♜♜♜♜♜♜♜♜♜
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
♢♢♢♢♢♢♢♢♢
♣♣♣♣♣♣♣♣♣
♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤


Nor is there any point to the symbols above.

So there!

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:25 PM

SHOW OFF!

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:41 PM

Well, khanny tolt me how to make them fancy notes so here goes...

#7&F31^^...
♪
Now when I hit the submit post box this will turn into a musical note...

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:42 PM

Hmmmmmmmm?

#7&7341 ♪

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:46 PM

♫

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:46 PM

It's like a disease . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:48 PM

Well, gol danged...

Look, mom, I done a hotmail trick.... Hey, ♪; today, cut 'n friggin' paste tomorrow...

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 08:05 PM

Deer Yore Majesty Khing khandu,

Of the eight symbols you posted above at 7:20, only the notes and the spades display correctly on any of the four browsers I have on my computer (IE, AOL, Firefox, Opera). The rest of 'em just display as rectangles. Do they look like whatever they're supposed to be on your browser? If so, what are you using?

Yore Loyal Idiot Savant,

Beezerdz

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: khandu
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 08:33 PM

Beezerdz Sir KOT and Poet Lariat,

The symbols look exactly as they should on my browser...Firefox

There are Hearts, clubs, spades & diamonds
There is one symbol that looks like the diagrams of fallopian (sp?) tubes & ovaries
There is one of squiggly lines & one of what lo0oks like a distorted Chess castle.

Perhaps my permanent marker does not translate well in Florabama!

Yerz,

Kk, KotESoM

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: khandu
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 08:34 PM

How 'bout the rest of ye? Do the symbols show up as I described or as Beezerdz said?

Kk

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 08:37 PM

"♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫
♒♒♒♒♒♒♒♒♒
♈♈♈♈♈♈♈♈♈
♜♜♜♜♜♜♜♜♜
¢½¢½¢½¢½¢½¢½¢½¢½¢½
♢♢♢♢♢♢♢♢♢
¢À¢À¢À¢À¢À¢À¢À¢À¢À
¢»¢»¢»¢»¢»¢»¢»¢»¢»


They shoed up like that for me. I'm on IE.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 08:38 PM

OOPS

No they didn't. Sorry. They showed up the way they do in

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: khandu - PM
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 07:20 PM

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 08:43 PM

I got four rows of symbols, four of rectangles.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 08:58 PM

Who's read "Confederates in the Attic", which starts off with the author's encounter with civil war enactors? The crack up for me was a guy who prided himself in "bloating" well when laying dead on the battlefield, and only regretted that he couldn't get the effect in his extremities.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: khandu
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 09:16 PM

LOL, frogprince...what's the point?

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:01 PM

I kinda read "Confederates in the Attic"... The guy who wrote it lives in Loudoun County, Va. and, well, he's a nut... Yeah, he tried to infiltrate some enactors from Kentucy and found them to be a tad TOO authentic!!!! Like redneck racist assh*les...

Nevermind... I came way to close to making, ahhh, a point and for this I am eternally correctercated.... Meanin', ahhhhh, no reason to jump my case...

BTW, how 'bout them Yankees...

(Ahhhhh, BObert. Here you go trying to change the course and you end up right back in the attick with the rebs...)

Awwwww. forgit it... LIke I said, this thread should have gone to the bottom a long time ago...

I should have listened to my instincts rather than the Wes Ginny Slide Rule... A couple 60 lbs. bag od Sacrete ain't goina do it... Maybe the 80's next time....

B~

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: khandu
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:18 PM

I spent ten years in the eighties, so I know a bit about them. They lasted from the end of the seventies until the beginning of the nineties. The eighties are also know as "The Mondale Decade", being as how President Mondale dominated the headlines for ten years with his "Women Who Spit" social programs. Of course, reality eventually shook the Mondalian era to its core when it was discovered that Tip O'neil was really an old trollop in disguise.

But the eighties weren't nearly as interseting as the seventies!

Kk

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:19 PM

Yeah. What he said.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pointless Thread....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:56 PM

Well, khandu is almost correct in saying that the eighties lasted from the end of the seventies until the beginning of the nineties. Most of the eighties did occur at some time during that period, but 1986 did, in fact, occur between 1974 and 1975. I distinctly remember because I took dropped some really good windowpane on New Years Eve of 1974 and before New Years Day of 1975 was over, the entire year of 1986 had flown by. 1986 may have tried to happen again in its more predictable location, between 1985 and 1987, but I was too drunk to notice.