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Subject: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:00 PM

except for those too dumb to read it

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From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:01 PM

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From: John O'L
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:09 PM

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From: number 6
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:10 PM

Reminds me of old IBM manuals.

sIx

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From: harpmaker
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:17 PM

Reminds me of Flamenco Teds brain

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:18 PM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:18 PM

You trying to hyjack this thread sIx?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:19 PM

Nice one Sorcha!

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:24 PM

My apologies .... Jon O'L .... this post was intended to be left blank.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:26 PM

NONSENSE! This thread is FULL of stuff, if you just know where to look.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM

Of course Bill, I know where to look. *GRIN*

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM

The one above is not blank.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:40 PM

Yeah, I never did figure that out about the IBM manuals. Why were those pages blank? And why did it cost so damn much for such primitive information. Go back and look at the software you could buy for $600 in 1988 - I'm glad it was Uncle Sam who was paying the bill for the sotware I used.
The manuals were certainly impressive, though.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:41 PM

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:11 PM

The Left Blank is my favorite part of Plaris.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:14 PM

So...we are NOT deleted yet????
No comment.

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From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:16 PM

this thread intentionally led to blankets

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: harpmaker
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:35 PM

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From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:51 PM

Sometimes blank is blank

Sometimes blank isn't realy blank

Sometimes blank is just blankety-blank

I'd say more but I think my brain is going blank

... or shooting blanks

... ... ... ... ... where's my blanky?


John

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:00 AM

Something going on in your life, Bert?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:08 AM

I'd like to start a thread called "This thread intentionally blurry" but I don't know the HTML tag for blurry.

Maybe if everyone just took off their glasses...

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:10 AM

Ah, John...you (as with ALL us Kansas boys) know how to say nothing with true verve!

and some from 'inferior' states will never figger it all out

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:16 AM

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From: Janie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:19 AM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:39 AM

How about "This thread intentionally difficult to read due to small font size and low contrast"?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:36 AM

So when did you discover the Schemm Team message?

John

Subject: Lyr Add: SCHOOL'S OUT (Alice Cooper)
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:53 AM

Well we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Makin all that noise
'Cause they found new toys
Well we can't salute ya
Can't find a flag
If that don't suit ya
That's a drag

School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks

Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes

School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks

Out for summer
Out till fall
We might not go back at all

School's out forever
School's out for summer
School's out with fever
School's out completely

Signature intentionally not inserted.

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From: John O'L
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:42 AM

I should think not.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:49 AM

So...we are NOT deleted yet????

This will soon fix that.........

Detleted posts and closed threads

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Gedpipes
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:50 AM

tabula rasa

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:55 AM

Rasa Sayang.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Mooh
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 06:50 AM

Moooooh, moooh...

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: *Laura*
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 06:54 AM

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From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:15 AM

Hey Shambles...Bite A Big One

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:27 AM

You're a blanker!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: bobad
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:37 PM

♪ Nuthin' from nuthin' leaves nuthin' ♪

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:46 PM

"we", Shambles? I don't see your name as originator of the thread.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:16 PM

Is nothing sacred?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:20 PM

"we", Shambles? I don't see your name as originator of the thread.

We can (try) to start one - if you wish.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:24 PM

no, shambles, I was just wondering at your usage, since you have objected stenously in the past to Joe's use of "we"

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:47 PM

no, shambles, I was just wondering at your usage, since you have objected stenously in the past to Joe's use of "we".

As you are aware - my objection to the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team's use of 'we' is mainly that when he now uses the word - whoever it may include - it no longer includes all posters. Only an unknown few who feel qualified to impose their judgement upon the rest of us.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:56 PM

I don't think anyone has ever expected the use of the word "we" on this forum to include all posters.

Regarding the "unknown few" (many of whom are known) it is *MAX* who granted them the right to impose editing changes. I do believe it has been further stated in several places that virtually all if not all the moderators were approached by Max, rather then the other way 'round. So the use of the phrase "feel qualified to impose their judgement upon the rest of us" certainly is extremly misleading.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:09 PM

So the use of the phrase "feel qualified to impose their judgement upon the rest of us" certainly is extremly misleading.

You are entitled to express that view but would you take a job you did not feel qualified to do?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:11 PM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:17 PM

I certainly feel there is a vast difference between people feeling qualified to apply a set of rules they have been given to circumstances occuring; to that which you imply with the phrase.

Most editing actions are not judgements of content other then "does this fit the circumstance the owner of the site says justifies deletion"

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Kaleea
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:19 PM

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                                              . . .!

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:06 PM

I certainly feel there is a vast difference between people feeling qualified to apply a set of rules they have been given to circumstances occuring; to that which you imply with the phrase.

Possibly so but would you take a job you did not feel qualified to do?

If folk are now in roles on our forum that they do not feel themselves qualified to do - and are doing it just because it may have been offered to them - that may explain a few things.

Here you - there is a vancancy for a brain surgeon. Not qualified? Don't worry I am sure you will soon pick it up...........

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:32 PM

"Too much of nothing, can turn a man into a liar;
It can cause one man to sleep on nails, and another man to eat fire"

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bizibod
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 06:23 PM

Blank                                                                            Blank                                          
            l
            a
            n
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                     Blank








What a strange word..........

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bizibod
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 06:26 PM

Especially when it turns itself into something else........wow.....

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 06:33 PM

Brain surgeon??
I think it's more "this is what IS allowed and this is what ISN'T allowed. Get rid of the things that aren't allowed". Doesn't seem like brain surgery to me. And I feel qualified to make that judgement.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 06:39 PM

"... there is a vancancy for a brain surgeon. Not qualified? Don't worry I am sure you will soon pick it up..........."

fallacious argument: Straw man.

"I'm Bill D., and I approved this message" I felt qualified.

Subject: RE: BS: This threat intentionally left blanketed
From: Severn
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 08:52 PM

Just making a blank check on you guys, is all...I'd heard there'd been some blank robbers in the area and I was worried....


"Blank, Blank, Blank is the color of my true love's posts...."-John Jacob Seniles (as vocally imitated by Mel Blanc)


Silence speaks volumes, and lack of volumes speaks silence, so I'll leave you all with my latest volume of my ten all-time best silent (but deadly) puns to make you laugh out mute:














!

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,Marcel Marceau
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 08:57 PM

Hey, that was FUNNY, Severn!

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 10:19 PM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 12:05 PM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 12:38 PM

fallacious argument: Straw man.

It WAS a 'joke': Tin man.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 12:39 PM

So this is the blank degeneration.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:04 PM

Those of us who regularly post to the Mother Of All BS Threads have been using the write-in-white thingie for some time. But just as there is a difference between the MOAB and a typical Mudcat thread, there's a difference in how white writing is used as well.

You see, in a typical thread, anyone who is smart enough to do a left click and "view source" can figure out the HTML tag for white writing. But, on the MOAB that's not enough. On the MOAB one must earn the right to write white by going on a quest for the Secret Writing Decoder Ring.

Now, the Secret Writing Decoder Ring is hidden somewhere in the Black Hills of North Decoder. That means one must embark upon a senselessly perilous trek to get there but, as in all quests, that's only the beginning. After one gets to the Black Hills one must get down upon hands and knees and search for the Decoder Ring. The Ring itself is not really all that well hidden - it usually only takes about an hour to find it - but crawling around in the Black Hills for even an hour is a very dirty proposition. The Black doesn't stay on the Hills. It rubs off. It's impossible to stay clean and, here's the really tough part, there are no showers in North Decoder. One must drive all the way home feeling all yucky and dirty, knowing that dirt's getting into the car's upholstery which will lower its resale value to roughly that of a half-bucket of squat. And, as we all know, the only thing worth less than a half-bucket of squat is a whole bucket of squat.

All things considered, the process is so arduous that nobody with any sense would undertake such a quest. But, hey, whoever said that anyone who posts to the MOAB had any sense?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:04 PM

SOUTH Decoder is now vey upset at you, Bee-Dub, for giving those heathens up 'north' all their glory...such as it is. If you get WAY down on your knees in South Decoder (2000 ft. down), you will find the very gold that ring is made of. The only thing NORTH Decoder has is ice cubes, which they export to the south to make drinks for tourists to the Black Hills.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:28 PM

So, did you guys figure out that when we bleeped those Martin Gibson posts, we simply turned them white?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:39 PM

"If folk are now in roles on our forum that they do not feel themselves qualified to do"

I have stayed away from this thread. However, I take issue with Roger on the above statement where he says, 'on our forum'.

It is Max's forum, and by proxy due to the trust put in them by Max, it is also Joe and Pene's. There is no we, us, our.

Someone who has no place to live stays with you for a year. The guy/gal decides that your taste in coluors for the bedroom walls really sucks, and wants to paint it bright pink to hide your choice of petunia taupe. You say no. The guest then decides you are an idiot and a fascist because you don't want to discuss it. Roger: There is nothing to discuss. (OK, so it's a made-up analogy. BUT, if I friggin' like petunia taupe and really don't like bright pink, then that's the way it is. And I wouldn't give a rat's rear end if the Guest thought otherwise.) I don't agree with every decision regarding some threads. But guess what? It doesn't matter. And basically, it never will. Capiche?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:43 PM

Bee-dubya-ell:

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 07:13 PM

Yes, Joe....that was clever. Thing is, I don't think MG ever got it.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Wolfgang
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 05:57 AM

The forum search too makes the bleeped parts visible. And if you enter "bleep" you get them all one below the other (without the context).

Wolfgang (looking forward to the updating of the FS)

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 06:23 AM

It is Max's forum, and by proxy due to the trust put in them by Max, it is also Joe and Pene's. There is no we, us, our.

Having provided this part of his site for the public's contributions - I can't see that Max would have any problem with this being thought to be our forum.

However, I can see that the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team would now have a problem in thinking that it belongs to anyone other than him.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 06:36 AM

Not related to this thread please delete.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:54 AM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:55 PM

Not related to this thread please delete.

Then why did you post it? Our guardians are hard-worked enough without you making more work for them by posting it and then asking them to delete it for you........

Some people eh.............?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 05:16 PM

Blank cheques to me please

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 06:02 PM

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From: John Routledge
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 06:46 PM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Kaleea
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 08:30 PM

. . .!

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 08:39 PM

LOL Sorcha - You're cracking me up.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 05:33 AM

...........................

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: David C. Carter
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 06:18 AM

Exit stage left

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 05:02 PM

NICE one Giok

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 05:06 PM

you must be joking ???? have you nothing better to do with the time ??


All thebest Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 05:51 PM

Yes Skarpi - we're joking.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 05:53 PM

This is the biggest bunch of Blankety-Blank BS to appear here to date...

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: suzi
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 06:56 PM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 01:39 PM

http://miseajour.apicius.com/leftbank/uk/tarifs.asp

You did say left bank....?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,(intentionally left blank)
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 02:55 AM

http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:33 AM

this thread is rubbish.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:03 AM

.

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Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:30 AM

Was the last post intentionally left blank or were its contents subject to 'silently deletion'?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:09 PM

this is the way John Cage would do it, but for only four minutes 40 secs

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:50 PM

http://www.classicalnotes.net/columns/silence.html

The following from the above site.

Most music is trivialized by attempts to describe it. ("The melody is announced by the flutes...") That's not a problem with 4'33". Here's how one performance went: A tuxedoed performer came on stage, sat at a grand piano, opened the lid, occasionally turned some music pages but otherwise sat as quietly as possible for 4 minutes and 33 seconds, then rose, bowed and left. And that was it.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:10 PM

Now I did hear that someone was actually sued for plagiarizing that particular silence. At least I think it was that one. I suppose it could have been another one.

Seriously.

Subject: RE: BS: This stare intentionally left blank
From: Severn
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:52 PM

Below will be a closeup of Little Orphan Annie's eyeballs. (They look this way more Orphan than Not). The girl had lots of class, but no pupils. Submitted by her faithful Indian Companion, Punjoke. So Annie Up, Boys! Here's the real deal:


































Not By Arf,
Sandy*




*Paton Pending

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 08:30 PM

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:01 PM

I stand corrected by shambles so John Cage does it in 4 minutes 33 seconds.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:18 PM

And that is why Mrs Cage left him...........

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Richard in Manchester
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:29 PM

This is the worst thread creep I've ever seen.

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:44 PM

Who?

Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,OLD TIMER
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:00 AM

NEXT MEETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THIS APATHY CLUB HAS BEEN POSTPONED INDEFINITELY