BS: Now I've Seen Everything

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 03:26 AM

As for the thread title:

"Well, I been done seen most ev'rythin'
When I see an elephant fly"

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 02:50 AM

And the ceremony in which the above happened was staged in front of a portrait of Andrew Jackson.

good optics all round

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 03:23 PM

Even a simple veteran honor ceremony is smeared with Trump's racial slurs.

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 02:56 PM

90 year old Hopi code talkers from WWII were in the White House today to be honored but instead Trump told the that Congress has an Injun that has been around longer than code talkers, we call her Pocahontas*

awkward silence


* trump shame name for Elizabeth Warren.

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 02:50 PM

What online outrages have the rest of you witnessed lately?

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 05:17 PM

Bravo, Mrrzy!

But what about
a dead dog learning sign language ?

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 03:40 PM

They had come from the fugue to the stretto
When a bearded young man from the ghetto
Reached forward and grabbed
Her tresses and stabbed
Her to death with a rusty stiletto.

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: JHW
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 03:02 PM

No, no, DEcomposing

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: Jack Campin
Date: 25 Nov 17 - 06:43 AM

A friend of mine found a message (I think from a Classic FM page) about how Beethoven carried on composing after becoming dead. Which suggests a musical analogue of those books like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies".

It survived Wellington's Victory...
It came from the Ruins of Athens...
That fugue from the late Beethoven's quartets was grosser than you can imagine...

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Nov 17 - 09:37 PM

Exactly - and there is never anything there to look at worth the trouble. EVER.

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: robomatic
Date: 24 Nov 17 - 08:29 PM

It's called click bait and each one is cuter or more nauseating or more blatantly mismanaged historical re-imagining than the next.

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Nov 17 - 04:45 PM

I detest those sites that make you click through for each photo - they're doing that to get more income. I bail on them and look for the story elsewhere or simply move on.

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Nov 17 - 02:06 PM

Don't believe me?
If you have nothing better to do,

click through here

...or maybe scroll, if it all appears on one webpage.
The installments are numbered backwards, in descending order,
you start at no. 16 and work your way down.
The "dead dog" quote is at no. 2.

Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Nov 17 - 01:23 PM

Of course this was probably intended to read:

"a deaf dog that is learning sign language."

Tracking this story further,
I found the shelter in question;
they have two hearing-challenged shelter dogs
who are being trained in sign language.
They both look like grown-up pit bull terriers.

So props to the shelter,
which probably spelled "deaf" correctly from the beginning.

Subject: dead dog learning sign language
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Nov 17 - 01:11 PM

For shame, fellow Mudcatters!
I searched high and low for a thread with this title,
and until this instant,
there was none.

I have just come from someplace called mutually dot com,
one of those shameless sites
where a tug-at-the-heart
(or embarrassingly salacious)
story gets told in a series of ten or fifteen pages, click click.

I went there to follow the story
of an animal shelter with a pit bull terrier
whose former owner had to move and couldn't bring the dog,
so the dog was left at the shelter
with his plush toy stuffed elephant.
Darling photographs.

Padding the story out, the later pages
went from the pit bull terrier in question
to other dogs at the same shelter.
This story is now at several removes,
as it was taken from social media online
and from other websites.
So it goes on to say:

"One of the cuties [shelter dogs] available is
. . . a dead dog that is learning sign language."

I have nothing further to say.
Comments welcome, indeed, encouraged.