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24 Jul 06 - 10:00 PM (#1792204)
Subject: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert

except for those too dumb to read it

24 Jul 06 - 10:01 PM (#1792205)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John on the Sunset Coast

24 Jul 06 - 10:09 PM (#1792217)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L

24 Jul 06 - 10:10 PM (#1792221)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: number 6

Reminds me of old IBM manuals.

sIx

24 Jul 06 - 10:17 PM (#1792230)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: harpmaker

Reminds me of Flamenco Teds brain

24 Jul 06 - 10:18 PM (#1792231)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha

24 Jul 06 - 10:18 PM (#1792232)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L

You trying to hyjack this thread sIx?

24 Jul 06 - 10:19 PM (#1792237)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert

Nice one Sorcha!

24 Jul 06 - 10:24 PM (#1792245)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: number 6

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

sIx

24 Jul 06 - 10:26 PM (#1792248)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D

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

24 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM (#1792252)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert

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

24 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM (#1792253)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D

The one above is not blank.

24 Jul 06 - 10:40 PM (#1792279)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Joe Offer

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-

24 Jul 06 - 10:41 PM (#1792281)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Azizi

24 Jul 06 - 11:11 PM (#1792296)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bee-dubya-ell

The Left Blank is my favorite part of Plaris.

24 Jul 06 - 11:14 PM (#1792297)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha

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

24 Jul 06 - 11:16 PM (#1792303)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: open mike

this thread intentionally led to blankets

24 Jul 06 - 11:35 PM (#1792313)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: harpmaker

24 Jul 06 - 11:51 PM (#1792320)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: JohnInKansas

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

25 Jul 06 - 12:00 AM (#1792327)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Big Mick

Something going on in your life, Bert?

25 Jul 06 - 12:08 AM (#1792334)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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...

25 Jul 06 - 12:10 AM (#1792335)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D

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

25 Jul 06 - 12:16 AM (#1792338)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Little Hawk

25 Jul 06 - 12:19 AM (#1792340)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Janie

25 Jul 06 - 12:39 AM (#1792346)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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

25 Jul 06 - 01:36 AM (#1792370)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: JohnInKansas

So when did you discover the Schemm Team message?

John

25 Jul 06 - 04:53 AM (#1792468)
Subject: Lyr Add: SCHOOL'S OUT (Alice Cooper)
From: John MacKenzie

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.

25 Jul 06 - 05:42 AM (#1792484)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L

I should think not.

25 Jul 06 - 05:49 AM (#1792489)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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

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

Detleted posts and closed threads

25 Jul 06 - 05:50 AM (#1792490)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Gedpipes

tabula rasa

25 Jul 06 - 05:55 AM (#1792493)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie

Rasa Sayang.

25 Jul 06 - 06:50 AM (#1792519)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Mooh

Moooooh, moooh...

25 Jul 06 - 06:54 AM (#1792520)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: *Laura*

25 Jul 06 - 07:15 AM (#1792535)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: catspaw49

Hey Shambles...Bite A Big One

Spaw

25 Jul 06 - 07:27 AM (#1792543)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie

You're a blanker!
G.

25 Jul 06 - 12:37 PM (#1792812)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: bobad

♪ Nuthin' from nuthin' leaves nuthin' ♪

25 Jul 06 - 12:46 PM (#1792819)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario

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

25 Jul 06 - 03:16 PM (#1792950)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: gnu

Is nothing sacred?

25 Jul 06 - 03:20 PM (#1792953)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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

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

25 Jul 06 - 03:24 PM (#1792956)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario

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

25 Jul 06 - 03:47 PM (#1792973)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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.

25 Jul 06 - 03:56 PM (#1792976)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario

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.

25 Jul 06 - 04:09 PM (#1792990)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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?

25 Jul 06 - 04:11 PM (#1792991)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha

25 Jul 06 - 04:17 PM (#1792996)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: MMario

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"

25 Jul 06 - 04:19 PM (#1792997)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Kaleea

. . .,




            . . .,






                     . . .;
   






                                              . . .!

25 Jul 06 - 05:06 PM (#1793039)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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...........

25 Jul 06 - 05:32 PM (#1793067)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: frogprince

"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"

25 Jul 06 - 06:23 PM (#1793106)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bizibod

Blank                                                                            Blank                                          
            l
            a
            n
            k         
                     Blank








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

25 Jul 06 - 06:26 PM (#1793108)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bizibod

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

25 Jul 06 - 06:33 PM (#1793118)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Becca72

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.

25 Jul 06 - 06:39 PM (#1793124)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D

"... 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.

25 Jul 06 - 08:52 PM (#1793230)
Subject: RE: BS: This threat intentionally left blanketed
From: Severn

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:














!

25 Jul 06 - 08:57 PM (#1793237)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,Marcel Marceau

Hey, that was FUNNY, Severn!

25 Jul 06 - 10:19 PM (#1793270)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha

26 Jul 06 - 12:05 PM (#1793729)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Paco Rabanne

26 Jul 06 - 12:38 PM (#1793745)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

fallacious argument: Straw man.

It WAS a 'joke': Tin man.

26 Jul 06 - 12:39 PM (#1793746)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: fat B****rd

So this is the blank degeneration.

26 Jul 06 - 01:04 PM (#1793763)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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?
26 Jul 06 - 06:04 PM (#1794006)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D

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.

26 Jul 06 - 06:28 PM (#1794016)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Joe Offer

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

26 Jul 06 - 06:39 PM (#1794028)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Peace

"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?

26 Jul 06 - 06:43 PM (#1794032)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Peace

Bee-dubya-ell:

26 Jul 06 - 07:13 PM (#1794055)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bill D

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

27 Jul 06 - 05:57 AM (#1794364)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Wolfgang

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)

27 Jul 06 - 06:23 AM (#1794379)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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.

27 Jul 06 - 06:36 AM (#1794386)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie

Not related to this thread please delete.

27 Jul 06 - 09:54 AM (#1794525)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha

27 Jul 06 - 12:55 PM (#1794676)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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.............?

27 Jul 06 - 05:16 PM (#1794878)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Michael in Swansea

Blank cheques to me please

27 Jul 06 - 06:02 PM (#1794901)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Sorcha

27 Jul 06 - 06:46 PM (#1794924)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John Routledge

27 Jul 06 - 08:30 PM (#1794972)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Kaleea

. . .!

27 Jul 06 - 08:39 PM (#1794980)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert

LOL Sorcha - You're cracking me up.

28 Jul 06 - 05:33 AM (#1795262)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John MacKenzie

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

28 Jul 06 - 06:18 AM (#1795291)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: David C. Carter

Exit stage left

28 Jul 06 - 05:02 PM (#1795704)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert

NICE one Giok

28 Jul 06 - 05:06 PM (#1795706)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: skarpi

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


All thebest Skarpi Iceland

28 Jul 06 - 05:51 PM (#1795745)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Bert

Yes Skarpi - we're joking.

28 Jul 06 - 05:53 PM (#1795750)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: frogprince

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

28 Jul 06 - 06:56 PM (#1795801)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: suzi

29 Jul 06 - 01:39 PM (#1796273)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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

You did say left bank....?

30 Jul 06 - 02:55 AM (#1796658)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,(intentionally left blank)

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

31 Jul 06 - 06:33 AM (#1797500)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,jOhn

this thread is rubbish.

31 Jul 06 - 10:03 AM (#1797661)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST

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31 Jul 06 - 10:30 AM (#1797696)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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

31 Jul 06 - 04:09 PM (#1798081)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Sandman

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

31 Jul 06 - 07:50 PM (#1798286)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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.

31 Jul 06 - 08:10 PM (#1798300)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L

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.

31 Jul 06 - 08:52 PM (#1798317)
Subject: RE: BS: This stare intentionally left blank
From: Severn

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

01 Aug 06 - 08:30 PM (#1799377)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST

02 Aug 06 - 07:01 PM (#1800120)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Sandman

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

02 Aug 06 - 07:18 PM (#1800130)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: The Shambles

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

02 Aug 06 - 07:29 PM (#1800136)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: Richard in Manchester

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

02 Aug 06 - 08:44 PM (#1800181)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: John O'L

Who?

03 Aug 06 - 11:00 AM (#1800565)
Subject: RE: BS: This thread intentionally left blank
From: GUEST,OLD TIMER

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