BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Jul 02 - 02:11 PM

But a nice lunk'ead, for a' that.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 02 - 01:51 PM

Man!! Not only is it a syndrome, it's got a town named after it!! The things you learn on the Cat!!

Ebbie -- glad to hear you are of the superior persuasion; for my part, I am but a lunkead!! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Jul 02 - 11:10 AM

Here's a link to Shellow Bowells in Essex.

I put in the map in case anyone doubts that it exists. (Well, it hardly does.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Jul 02 - 12:12 AM

Psssssssst! If you use a BS filter to view Mudcat, you reduce significantly the urge to start your OWN BS threads.... and the less you post in people's BS threads, the less they take off... and the less they take off, the less others are moved to start their own.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 10:55 PM

So that's why I like to go nearly nekkid!!!

Sorch, the DeafLady

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 09:38 PM

(Shhhhhh: Amos, I'm female. No sex change, kat or even 'gender change'. :)

Interesting discussion. And I agree, BS turns to music, music turns to BS- and ain't that life?

Thinking of body parts and the way we communicate (by the way, I love 'shallow bowels'!), I suspect there's a whole lot that we utilize daily but don't know consciously .

A phrase I'm rather fond of is saying that something 'curdles my spine'. Whether anyone else knows what I mean, I definitely do. And 'bone memory'- one time I cracked my skull on the door jam of a pickup truck, knocking myself out (literally); for years I didn't enter a pickup without an involuntary cringe.

And skin- they say that we can hear better when we have bare skin. I believe it; not only that, I think we instinctively remove some clothing in the presence of music. (Maybe that's why women at the opera have traditionally worn gowns with deep decolletage! I don't know how to explain men's ties and tight collars- is men's hearing better than women's?)

OK, my assumptions have holes - but if I knew more, I could explain it better!

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: greg stephens
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:52 PM

Well my mate Igg who is amazing at the old shiatsu and has done things for me you wouldnt believe, he has a whole set of words for things going on in your body that run everything, but I cant remember any of them and I couldnt begin to explain it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:52 PM

My typos or my thinking, Skipjack? The former I grant you are a bit flamboyant when I don't remember to do a spell check.

That's about the only bit of the Mudcat update I really would like, a chance to preview a post - I always spot the errors just as I push the button.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:46 PM

Make that Kevin! Sorry, mate

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:40 PM

So Ebbiedarlin'...when did you get a sex change?:-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:40 PM

You been at the sauce, Frank?

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:36 PM

You can hear your heart, anf you can hear your stomach, but the rest of the stuff inside is rettysilent. I mean you wouldn't know about them if someone hadn't told you.

Wombs of course have a history of ssociation with hysteria, but that ain't really fair. Load of balls you might say. And that ain't fair either.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: John O'L
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:22 PM

See that Ebbie?
After only six postings the B.S. has already turned to music.
Be comforted in the knowledge that if you had been bemoaning the dearth of music threads and started one, it would probably turn to B.S. soon enough.
Glenn

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:21 PM

Oh dear. I rather thought this thread was going to complain about the proliferation, rather than lack of Friesian splatterbottoms, in which case I have some bad news.

Whilst having a highly visible chat with the violin player in popular ITM group Punch the Horse, this very evening, we discussed the life expectancy of 9drivel, and without giving too much away, there is a fairly high chance of an OBIT thread appearing soon. All bananas go black eventually, and all bears go back to the woods (that aren't turned into ashtrays).

Sorry, Ebbs, old love, but time, tide and the effluent from 9Hull sewage outfall move on.............

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:12 PM

Perhaps there's a whole new realm of metaphor to be developed here -- "so-and-so really brushes my spine the wrong way..."; 'I thought we had genuine understanding but he had a shallow bowel...." "She made the right gestures but they didn't come from the wrist...".

Maybe there's a hit song to be written about that home for desolate mataphysicians, the Split Spleen Hotel. Oh, where's Elvis when you need him???

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 07:07 PM

Well, by golly gum, then--let's get some BS threads started right away! This situation can't, just can't, be allowed to go on.............someone might get the idea that this is a music site and we wouldn't want that, would we?

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 06:28 PM

The bowels of compassion...I've no stomach for that kind of thing...I feel it in my guts...a touch of spleen...I can't get it out of my head...

If you go by the way we use lanmguage, there are quite a lot of aspects of our personality that we seem to associate with other parts of the body.

But we don't do it so consistently. When we fall in love we might offer our hand, and we might offer our heart, and the traditional marriage service talks about the body as a whole ("with my body I thee worship). But we rarely offer our stomach as such.

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 06:00 PM

So, Ebbie-me-boy, here's a question for ye. We always talk about the heart as a center of our states of affiniity for various people, realities, situations, work, etc.

I suspect that there is an equally important genuine center of our communications (not just our talk) which is a smuch a governing center of our being as the heart is. Like the heart it can break when a channel is cut off, or suffocate from overloading, or spring into flower when the right communications are happening, just as the heart does in love.

And probably there is an equally vital hingepoint in our makeups for our sense of what things are real and what things are not. Certainty, knowing, intuitive grasp of realities, call it what you will.

So how come is it the only thing of these three we have a word for -- and that a body organ to boot -- is the heart? And are there other such centers that lack names?

(There ya go pal -- enough BS to last you a week right there!! :<))

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 04:39 PM

Stick around and it'll come swinging back soon enough.

I think that's how the balance works here, most of the time a bit towards one extreme or another. My feeling, as IU've expressed it often enough, is that there aren't any topics which aren't potentially music related. And if you start talking about pretty well any good song for more than a relatively short time, you are going to get into the kind of issues that get seen as BS material - politics, human relations, controversy, fun and games...

Subject: The Pendulum Swingeth/ BS Balance
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 01:31 PM

Where's a 'Catter to go for some BS? Out of approximately 120 threads, about 95 are directly or indirectly about music. Why do we notice the balance only when the pendulum is at the other wall? :)