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MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:25 PM Yes, I am still around. Yesterday I gave a class (Life-Long Learning sort of thing) entitled something like "Riverboats, Steamboats, and the Growth of America." It went okay, and I even got applause because I didn't sing anything. I went on for 90 minutes, and talked to about 60 people if you count the Zoomers. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:41 PM Good job! Did this involve actually going to the river or getting onto a boat? MOM would love that! |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 21 Sep 24 - 04:36 PM Librarians rule! |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 22 Sep 24 - 08:37 PM The river that flows here is the Mighty and Powerful Portneuf, which sometimes carries enough water to float a stick (the story that a betrayed young maiden decided to throw herself from a bridge and end it all but only sprained her ankle when she landed is a folktale). So no, we didn’t even visit Mink Creek or Pocatello Creek. I, however, grew up on the banks and water of the Upper River and have steamboated from St. Paul to Nawlins, as well as being personally involved with the Hudson, Potomac, Columbia, Tehana, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Tombigbee, Yazoo, intercostal waterway, St. Lawrence River and Seaway, and other such waters. Mostly it was putting a bunch of stuff together in a way that made it interesting. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 24 - 08:05 PM I have a secret about doing this sort of thing. I figure that if it's interesting to me it's probably interesting to others. So I can use presenting a class as a reason to research something and buy books about it. Like a few years ago when I did a class on "Pandemics Of The Past" for this sort of thing. COVID was going on and there was all sorts of talk about whether or not it was real, if it was dangerous, and if so what did people do about such things as plagues in times gone by. I became interested and did some research and put together a presentation on past epidemics. Most of the audience was by Zoom but it seemed to be well received. I got a question about the title of one, "The Recent Crime Wave in Idaho, 1840 to 1910" but I answered that it's just a nanosecond ago in geologic time. AND I got to look up the crooks, and there were a lot of them. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 24 Sep 24 - 11:15 AM > the story that a betrayed young maiden decided to > throw herself from a bridge and end it all, but only > sprained her ankle when she landed, is a folktale Was she called Agnes? |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 27 Sep 24 - 10:15 AM No, not Agnes. Her name was Clementine and her daddy was a miner and she raised ducklings to help with the family bills. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:17 AM Apologies, Rap: my thoughts had flown to the gnarly-county part of Carpe Jugulum. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:34 AM Oh, and our local river occasionally has enough water to float a stick, but we wouldn't be able to tell the stick from the sewage by colour. It's even worse than the Ankh, especially in high summer. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 28 Sep 24 - 06:09 PM Believe it or don’t, but our drinking water is pumped from the aquifer. It is minimally treated for nitrates (farming and ranching country), examined and treated for waterborne pathogens, and pumped to the city. Very little treatment overall. The mountains act as a natural filter as the stuff soaks to the aquifer. On the other hand, slurping down some from a creek up in the hills will almost certainly guarantee you a case of giardiasis or worse. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Sep 24 - 07:42 PM Mom! Tell her to get up there and stay up there! |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 05 Oct 24 - 01:41 PM Mom! Just what did I tell you?! |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 10 Oct 24 - 11:36 AM Let's get you upstairs before Rapparee sees you down here. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 10 Oct 24 - 04:19 PM A dispatch from the Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered links to a story from the Scottish Highlands that a herd of special cattle is to be located close to Loch Ness. Maybe the Loch Ness Monster will come out and devour them. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 24 - 08:41 PM Even Nessie can't digest all that hair on Highland cattle. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 14 Oct 24 - 02:58 PM So Nessie could spit out the hairball -- it would be a large hairball. Like a cat. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 16 Oct 24 - 06:32 PM Up again to the top. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Oct 24 - 06:48 PM AI has done interesting things portraying Nessie, but she will never be caught. Gluon will look to that. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 18 Oct 24 - 01:56 PM Let's get you up to the top of the queue before Rapparee catches you downstairs. |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 19 Oct 24 - 12:43 PM Mom’s always been an “Upstairs Girl.” |
Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 23 Oct 24 - 06:25 PM ANother bump to the top of the queue. |
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