Subject: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 24 Jun 06 - 01:31 PM Let's flippin' hope not, eh! Cos if it, like, did, eh, it would be a major flippin' WASTE of a lotta peoples' time, eh? I mean, FLIP, it ain't like we aint' got better flippin' things ta do with our time, know what I mean? Fer instence, we could be drinkin'. We could be gettin' it on with someone we just met at the wet T-shirt night over at the Iron Horse Tavern. We could be borrowin' somebodys car or snowmoblie that ain't in use right now cos they are too flippin' lazy to pay attenshun to it and we could be goin' for a joyride up to Timmins, eh? There's a lotta stuff we could do that would be, like, WAY more fun than flippin' postin' to this stupid flippin' thread! In fact, I am gonna crack open a beer right now and lissen to some AC-DC. See ya later! - BDiBR |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Jun 06 - 02:01 PM Eightyfive billion yaaay, I claim my prize. Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 24 Jun 06 - 02:57 PM You can't count too flippin' good can you? - BDiBR |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Jun 06 - 03:03 PM Can when it suits me! G |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 24 Jun 06 - 03:12 PM Leadfingers will be SO disappointed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Skipy Date: 24 Jun 06 - 04:33 PM Maybe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 06 - 05:53 PM Hey, Shane. I ever tell you about that party I had with that exotic dancer who said she was a Canadian cop? Boy, oh boy, could she ever...drink. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JohnInKansas Date: 24 Jun 06 - 06:04 PM ...Not unless Max gets a really fast connection. At 10,000 posts per day (just to this thread) you're talking 23,272+ years1 worth of posts. 1 US billions 109, not UK billions 1012. The Brits will get there a bit later. John |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Jun 06 - 06:09 PM Once I led the life of a billionaire ♪♫ G |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:12 PM Come on you pessimists! All it would take to get 85 billion posts would be for each person in the world to post to this thread seventeen times. Just seventeen times! What's the problem? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:12 PM 2 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:12 PM 3 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:13 PM 4 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:13 PM 5 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:13 PM 6 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:13 PM 7 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:14 PM 8 (over half-way there) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:14 PM 9 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:14 PM 10 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:15 PM 11 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:15 PM 12 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:15 PM 13 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:15 PM 14 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:16 PM 15 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:16 PM 16 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 06 - 08:17 PM SEVENTEEN!!! Now what was so hard about that? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JohnInKansas Date: 25 Jun 06 - 03:01 AM First Post: 24 Jun 06 - 01:31 PM 27th Post: 25 Jun 06 - 12:41 AM Elapsed time: 23:50 = 1430 minutes Time per post: 52.96296 minute Expected time for 85*109 posts = 4.50185*1012 minutes =7.503*10 hours =3.126*9 days = 8.56*106 years Expected success date: In the year 8,561,544, 11 September - 09:17 PM (Mudcat time.) (approximately) John |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 25 Jun 06 - 03:42 AM The average post in this thread is some 400 characters. So Max only needs to buy about 34 Terabytes of storage. That should cost about 1c (current prices) by 8,561,544. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JohnInKansas Date: 25 Jun 06 - 04:50 AM DMcG - Yeah, but he can't wait until all the posts are done to get the first TB drive, if we're really serious about this. Current price per TB (single drives) is about $750 - $1,000 each. And we've only got about 251,000 years before the first one is full and we'll need to get the second one. John |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Jun 06 - 06:07 AM Sorry folks but by that time the earth will be almost too hot to support life and the few people that are left will be living underground at the poles, getting limited water from desalination plants, which use what is left of the sea to make drinking water, and run the hydroponicums. Mind you by then you won't have enough contributors so you won't need to buy another disc. Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 25 Jun 06 - 08:53 AM Hah! John in Kansas forgot to factor the changes in day and year length that will occur over the next 8,559,538 years into his calculations! And Giok neglected to consider the effects of plate tectonics, continental drift, and the development of Antarctica as prime beachfront property as it migrates toward the equator. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 25 Jun 06 - 10:09 AM but ALL of you failed to factor in how fast it will go if Bee-dubya-ell passes on his technique to his children...and grandchildren. Why in a few generations we could have thousands of little Dubya-ells proliferating the redundancies of non-erudite, voluminous vicissitudes with blazing speed! Why, we might finish in time for St. Swithin's day celebrations in 18,923. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 25 Jun 06 - 01:06 PM Never under-flippin'-guesstimate the stuipdity of the postin' public, eh? - BDiBR |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 25 Jun 06 - 01:53 PM huh? You talk funny, BDiBR.. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Jun 06 - 01:56 PM You should see how he dresses... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JohnInKansas Date: 25 Jun 06 - 03:47 PM Bee-Dub Hah! John in Kansas forgot to factor the changes in day and year length that will occur over the next 8,559,538 years into his calculations! It may be assumed, probably safely, that appropriate calendar corrections will be applied by the appropriate time-keepers so that no corrections for said changes in day and year length should be required. Dumbass Bee-Dub failed to check the arithmetic and point out that 27 posts accounts for only 26 intervals between posts, so the first division was incorrect, producing an error of 3.846% - an intentional trap to see if the arithmetically illiterate would fall for it. (But the Bee wasn't really the one I expected to have to point it out to.) John |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Mrs Olive Whatnoll Date: 25 Jun 06 - 05:20 PM Bee-Dubya-Ell is a stupid prat! E's capable of anyfink, that's my opinion. This 'ere bloody fread will reach 85 billion posts the day I am crowned Queen of England...which is to say: NEVER! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 26 Jun 06 - 02:07 AM ...84,999,999,989, 84,999,999,990, 84,999,999,991, 84,999,999,992, 84,999,999,993, 84,999,999,994, ... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 26 Jun 06 - 10:26 AM Yeah, but he can't wait until all the posts are done to get the first TB drive, if we're really serious about this. Current price per TB (single drives) is about $750 - $1,000 each. And we've only got about 251,000 years before the first one is full and we'll need to get the second one. Well, that's true as far as it goes, but we can only reckon on, say, 5 years lifetime for a drive. By which time the price should have fallen to something like one-eighth of its previous cost. We have to keep on doing this for the first 251000 years, so we have a total cost of something like 1000*(1 + 1/8 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ......) for the first 251000 years, and then we have two drives to worry about.... But of course, that's only the hardware cost. We also need to add in an allowance for Max's time to copy all the data about at some hourly rate to be decided. This of course is higher each time he copies it, and is something like 20% higher that then previous time. The total estimate cost is left as an exercise to the reader. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 26 Jun 06 - 06:45 PM If you think it would take a long time for 85 billion people to post to this thread, consider the alternative! It will also take a long time for 85 billion people to not post to this thread! It is said that the current world population of 6.5 billion represents one-fifth of the people who have been alive in the last five thousand years. That means that in five thousand years there have only been 32.5 billion people who have not posted to this thread. In order for 85 billion people to have not posted to this thread, we'll have to wait for another 52.5 billion people to have been born and lived their lives without having posted to this thread. How long will that take? I dunno. It probably won't take another five thousand years, but it ain't gonna happen next week. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JohnInKansas Date: 26 Jun 06 - 09:21 PM 19,646 characters for the first 41 posts = 479.17 characters per post average. 85*109 posts at 479.17 characters per post = 40,729.45*109 characters, or 40.7*1012 bytes. (<41 TB) While this implies 41 1 TB drives for storage, an article in 2002 that fairly accurately predicted the 1 TB drive should arrive "about now" also predicts that we will have 120 TB drives by around the year 2012. As it's doubtful that the first 1 TB can be filled prior to that time, advances in available hardware should allow the purchase of only one additional hard drive by the time it's needed, and we should have lots of room left over. (Of course, we'll need a backup drive for this valuable information.) From the same article, the 28 million volumes at the US Library of Congress are estimated, in plain text files, as sufficent to fill one fifth of a 120 TB drive, so the "one third of a drive" needed for this thread won't be all that large. And of course, if we have to use the 2012 version of Windows to run the drive, the OS may use the rest of it. John |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Susu's Hubby Date: 27 Jun 06 - 10:02 AM What about the extra day due to leap years? Don't forget those! Hubby |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:58 PM Ha! I see youse flipheads finally wized up and stopped poasting to this dumb thread, eh? You ain't all as stoopid as I thoght. - BDiBR |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 01 Jul 06 - 02:02 PM Don't misunderestimate me, Shane. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Willie Dewitt Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:50 PM Evidently not. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:56 PM "RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts?" Make a few assumptions: 1) Everyone who ever lived WOULD have posted had s/he had a computer and the 'cat had existed. 2) ("It is said that the current world population of 6.5 billion represents one-fifth of the people who have been alive in the last five thousand years. That means that in five thousand years there have only been 32.5 billion people who have not posted to this thread.") SEE #1. 3) They each posted to the thread once a day for three consecutive days. OK, so it's like this: The thread should already have REACHED a paltry 85 billion posts. Joe, you have lots to answer for. WHERE ARE THE POSTS? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM no one has yet computed the difference in possible success if Shambles is allowed to continue posting, or whether he is locked in a room with Kim Howells and transcripts of all the PELs threads. I make it oh...about 8742 years shorter. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:39 PM In terms of dog years, er I mean dollars that's like les than 1/4 the US's annual budget. All you have to do is tax, I mean TAX Mudcatters to post and you'll have it done in um, say about 3 months. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: skipy Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:41 PM Nope! Skipy |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 12 Aug 06 - 12:26 PM Hoped I would be among the first 50, but looks as if I'll have to settle for the first 100. Still, something to boast about one day.... "Did you know I was one of the first 100 to post a message on the 'Will this thread etc, etc. They said it never could be done.... there not so smug now". This thread could be the highlight of my life, or future lives if we are reincarnated and can remember previous lives. We could organise a first 100 club perhaps, the other billions of people would be so jealous wouldn't they. Can anyone do T shirts? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:12 PM LOL! Yes, you are among the chosen few. And so am I. Doesn't it feel wonderful? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 13 Aug 06 - 07:44 AM Just realised that while not among the first 50 to post a message, am among the first 50 people! However I am throwing my lot in with the first 100 - don't want to seem too elitist. Also realise that by posting again am denying someone the opportunity to be among the first 100, so will dedicate this post to the first person who requests it from me after 100 (and who doesn't already own a post!) Can't say fairer than that. p.s. Have noticed my there/they're error in previous thread - am so sorry to anyone who is disgusted by this - so out of character. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Paul Burke Date: 14 Aug 06 - 04:20 AM 54! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 14 Aug 06 - 02:21 PM Will there be an order form for the T-Shirt? Are we going to have a choice of colors or will they all be the same? Just some things my future selves will be wondering. I am really excited about this. We can have monthly newsletters and an annual gathering. I'll bring a pie. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 15 Aug 06 - 09:33 AM mmmmm! pie. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:59 PM I think we're going to have to up the rate of postings if we're to stay on schedule. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Aug 06 - 04:39 PM I tend to agree with you Iwtatbm. At this rate, many of us could pass on before we reach the goal. (A pox on the first person to talk about reincarnation!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:28 PM FLIP ME! This thing is still goin'? Unbee-flippin'-leavable! This place is like of them balanced puppet things that ya hit, and every time it comes back up again, no matter how hard ya hit it. I had one of them stoopid things when I was a little kid. My brother Don finally pored it all over with gasoleen and set the flipper on fire and that got rid of it for good, eh? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:31 PM It's a spatula, HOSER! Real hosers at work. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:46 PM Them guys are pretty cool, eh? But they are 70's hosers and things have, like, Changed since then. WE don't wear toques any more, eh? We wear flippin' baseball caps turned around backweards now. The jackets are basickly okay. Same goes fer the work boots. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: ella_tall Date: 15 Aug 06 - 07:01 PM Interesting concept here, the whole 85 billion thing - but why stick to the paltry sum of 85bn? Are we not limiting ourselves by bashing around these insignificant figures? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:03 PM 265310 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 16 Aug 06 - 10:50 AM Look Blind DRunk in Blind River, you may have started this thread but you don't own it. It's bigger than you - in fact it's bigger than all of us. Seems to me rather like this thread has come through you rather than from you (no put-down inferred, believe me). So get over yourself and be proud of the not-so insignificant part you have played in what I feel is developing a spiritual quality. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Aug 06 - 10:26 AM Only 84,999,999,935 to go. I think we're gonna make it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 17 Aug 06 - 12:59 PM That's the spirit most recent guest. Name yourself and come aboard. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 17 Aug 06 - 01:16 PM Actually, it was me. I was trying to pose as a new poster but I just can't keep up this charade. I guess my future selves now have two spare posts. I hope they give them to someone who is worthy of them. It would tear me apart if that low down dirty dog Wilfred Pennifere gets one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 17 Aug 06 - 04:07 PM hahahha Where my child? All over the place. (A pox on the first person to talk about reincarnation!) Reincarnation. Reincarnation. Recarnation... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? Date: 17 Aug 06 - 05:25 PM I think it might have been me that mentioned reincarnation Ebbie if that's what you're referring to? If so please can you make the pox wait until after the 26th as I'm going on holiday and need to be fit as I'm walking Hadian's Wall. Thanks in hope. Will see you all in a week (pox permitting!). May the thread be with you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 17 Aug 06 - 05:27 PM That's my thread above, no charade, plain honest error. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 17 Aug 06 - 06:48 PM I thought it was Peace who cast the pox? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Aug 06 - 01:05 AM I was tempted to go and post again to the 5000 posts thread, but it struck me that THIS THREAD is one way--small albeit--to grab onto a tiny piece of immortality. I was particularly encouraged to see that we are measurably closer to the goal. To quote from an old song, "Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Aug 06 - 01:15 AM BTW: To clarify a few things: Do you mean 85 American billions or 85 British billions? It could make a big difference to some of us. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Aug 06 - 02:12 PM One might as well ask, "Will William Shatner get to seduce 85 Billion women?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Aug 06 - 03:03 PM I have long assumed that he already has. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Aug 06 - 01:28 AM The lucky ones? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 27 Aug 06 - 02:31 PM While on holiday I spent most of my time wondering if this thread would have nearer 1000 or 2000 posts by now. Imagine my shock to find there was only 6 new posts since my last one. However, in the big scheme of things I suppose one week will make little difference in the end (whenever that will be), so I'm cheerful once again. Perhaps a little encouragement from our spiritual leader Blind DRunk in Blind River will get the show on the road again. Do you have a message for us BDIBR? Is anything coming through? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Aug 06 - 02:35 PM You are addressing BDiBR. Think about that line, "Is anything getting through?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 27 Aug 06 - 02:42 PM Peace are you announcing that YOU are in fact BDiBR (just to clear this up)? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 27 Aug 06 - 03:03 PM He ain't me, man. He is just, like, one of the dudes who thinks I am, like, the coolest, eh? He hangs on my every flippin' word. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:29 PM POST |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:29 PM POST |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:30 PM POST |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:31 PM POST |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:32 PM POST, there, You're one billionth the way there. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:36 PM I spent three weeks in Blind River one night, so, thou who was there at the beginning man, I am not he. I have no such pretensions. BDiBR is one of Canada's coolest citizens. Shane has the corner on the illegal booze market in Blind River, Ontario. Well, he did until he drank the profits with some ladies of the evening. He spends lotsa time in jail through no fault of his own, and I think he was an astronaut one time years ago, but that may have been after he smoked a few doobies and it could be a story he made up to impress the Earth-bound. He has also been caught wearing women's clothing. And he has a big-time boner for a lady cop in Blind River. He claims the gun scares him but the handcuffs excite him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:45 PM Jaysus, Slag. I thought that you were advertising cereals. I was gonna post a pic. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 27 Aug 06 - 05:50 PM KERRR-Unchie!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 27 Aug 06 - 09:18 PM POST |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Aug 06 - 09:20 PM Well, now that the boss is back, we'll have to get POSTing here. HAHAHA. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 27 Aug 06 - 11:50 PM Just like a buncha flippin' dogs comin' back to pee on a lampost! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Aug 06 - 11:54 PM Or like when ya just get outta the hoosecow from an over-night DDO and the judge gives ya time served. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 27 Aug 06 - 11:58 PM Flippin' right, man! There are those who have lived. Like yers truly. And there are those who ain't. Them kind won't never know what it means to cut loose and just BE who ya flippin' ARE and not give a dman who don't like it. That includes judges and cops! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 28 Aug 06 - 11:54 AM These oughta help! Some more posts |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 28 Aug 06 - 01:17 PM I think we've seen the end of the 50,000 posts thread - just a flash in the pan. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 28 Aug 06 - 01:26 PM Ya know, I've been in hudreds of post offices, but the only posts I've ever seen are those stanchions used for crowd control. Lots of letters and packages, but damned few posts. Maybe the post office is just where they keep track of the posts while the posts themselves are kept at the post warehouse? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 28 Aug 06 - 04:28 PM Hey, IWTATBM, how was Hadrian's Wall? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:05 PM Hadrian's Wall was good KB, though it rained a fair bit. Took 2 days of walking from Wall's End to find the first bit of wall however (excluding the museum at the start). It was quite funny to see how much of the wall could be found in the surrounding buildings. Just wish now I had focussed more on the wall and its history and less time thinking about how this thread was doing (e.g. "If only this thread could have been started in Roman times."..... " I wonder how many times around the earth 85 billion miles of wall would go?"... etc, etc). Still I doubt the wall will be around for as long as this thread and perhaps one day people will be taking a journey back to the origin of it and wondering how we lived? Exciting . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:25 PM It's been running an average of slightly over 1.50669 posts per day, so at that rate it would be sometime around the middle of February, 155,253,147 CE. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:34 PM It may not reach 85,000,000,00, but it'll definitely reach 100 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:38 PM Sorry, in my state of excitement over being the one to make the hundredth post, I omitted a zero. Should've just said 85 billion instead of trying to type 85,000,000,000 while in the throngs of ecstacy. Fewer keystrokes anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 29 Aug 06 - 02:22 PM "Should've just said 85 billion instead of trying to type 85,000,000,000 while in the throngs of ecstacy." Pass it over here will ya? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 29 Aug 06 - 03:24 PM "It may not reach 85,000,000,00, but it'll definitely reach..." Didn't have you down as a pessimist Bee-dubya-ell. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 29 Aug 06 - 05:02 PM You mean the THROWS of escstasy, you stupid FLIP! Not the throngs, the throws, eh? Everybody knows that. What a flippin' goof! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 29 Aug 06 - 05:34 PM You weren't here, Shane. They were throngs. Thousands of the little bastards. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 29 Aug 06 - 05:51 PM Shane likes the thongs of ectasy. He wears 'em all the time. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 30 Aug 06 - 11:20 AM I gotta start paying more attention. I coulda had #100 but didn't think about it. Maybe if I wear a thong to get myself into the throngs of ectasy. It's worth a try. Can't hurt, could be fun. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 30 Aug 06 - 04:44 PM So we've reached 100, congratulations to all involved - sterling work. May I suggest that any requests for spare posts are required to be seconded by another member? Let me run you through an example and see how you feel... (e.g.) "Malcolm Douglas has requested one of my spare posts in order to join the 'First 100' club. I am happy with this and would like a seconder. Is anyone willing to second that the afore mentioned Malcolm Douglas be admitted to the 'First 100' club?" Just to prevent any misunderstanding, the Mudcat Malcolm Douglas has not (as yet) requested to join the 'First 100' club and the Malcolm Douglas that I am referring to here is, in fact, a fictitious character created by myself in order to illustrate the example. Indeed the 'First 100'club as a name is only an example of what the elite 100 members may want to refer to themselves as. What do you think fellow 100 members? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 30 Aug 06 - 05:09 PM I move that Shane be included and then immediately excommunicated. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Aug 06 - 08:10 PM And then defenestrated. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 30 Aug 06 - 08:25 PM Don't flippin' waste yer big words on me, eh? I ain't impressed! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 30 Aug 06 - 09:19 PM "You mean the THROWS of escstasy, you stupid FLIP!" Shane, you twit, sober up. It is the "throes of ecstacy". |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 30 Aug 06 - 10:12 PM Nah, Shane wears the thongs of ecstacy while engaging in the throws of ecstacy. So far he's never experienced either one -- just a doughnut hole at Tim Horton's (which he entered under the mistaken notion that the first syllable of the last name meant it had something to do with ladies of less than good repute). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:26 AM You flippin' bolthead, Rapaire! I'll get you! Yer time will come, you mungo-less looser! Get ready to kiss the glove, you flippin' retreaded halfwit son of a Sudbury crack skank! I have, like, had about enuff of yer stupid insults, you dumb corkpuller! I am gonna come down to Idaho one a these days and STARAIGHTEN YOU OUT!!! FLIP YOU!!!!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:14 AM Dear Shane, Please feel free to visit Idaho. It's a lovely state, with great beer (yes, we'll even sell you Molsons if you really must drink Canada's answer to Budweiser). As for your offer to "STARAIGHTEN YOU OUT!!!", I go to an osteopath when I have back problems. If I misread your offer and you mean that you would attempt to do me physical injury, I really should advise you that not only did I teach hand-to-hand combat when I was in the Army but that I am also a very, very good shot with pistol, rifle, and shotgun. Unlike you, I also have an extensive vocabulary and I'm not afraid to use it. BOY, I can out-fight, out-drink, out-love, out-drive, out-think, out-argue, out-shoot, and out-last YOU and ten REAL men! My mother was a nuclear explosion and my daddy was a mountain lion! My grandparents were a hurricane, a tornado, a lightning storm, and a nest of rattlesnakes! The second-last man who messed with me I tore into a hundred pieces and scattered them to the wind! They never did find anything of the LAST man to mess with me, 'cause I ground him into dust! I drink nitroglycerin and Semtek for breakfast and spit explosions all day! I swin the Inside Passage every day for exercise and my wake washes away coastal cities! I use the Arctic ice cap to cool my drinks! I've IGNORED better men than you'll ever be, and I'm assuming you're a man because you sure as hell can't prove it physically, mentally or genetically! Yes, please do come visit Idaho. It's a lovely state and I'm certain that you'd like it here. Why, you may never leave! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:19 AM Please note that in the previous post I used the word BOY in the sense of an immature human male (or, in Shane's case, someone who is presumed to be human). No racial slur was intended. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:55 AM I lived with a mountain lion for three years and she never did get used to me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:05 PM Hey, Shane! This thread will help your love life. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:08 PM Hah! At the rate this thread is gathering steam, 85 billion is a mere trifle! I say we shoot for an even hundred billion! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 31 Aug 06 - 12:28 PM Shane: Do you mind putting down that gun? Then I'll leave. Joe Starrett: What difference does it make, you're leaving anyway? Shane: I'd like it to be my idea. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Aug 06 - 01:46 PM Last time Shane picked up a gun he forgot to put the cork in the hole, put the gun in his pocket, the water all leaked down the front of his pants...and he never noticed, because the front of his pants are usually wet. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:10 PM I'll take it that from the non-response everybody is OK with my spare posts idea. Expect a tidal wave of requests any moment now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:21 PM IWTATBM, your spare post idea sounds good to me. Keeps folks from being able to join on the whim of "First 100" poster (after a night at the bar (or pub) for instance) but without any sort of blackball possibilities. My question is, will our future selves abide by this? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 31 Aug 06 - 04:27 PM We can but hope KB, we can but hope. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Aug 06 - 11:02 PM Protendum abrogitanus indolomante sidium. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 01 Sep 06 - 09:41 AM Danged right, Peace. I completely agree with whatever it was you said. (You goin' into politics now?) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:24 PM It is with great regret that I have to inform fellow posters on this thread ('specially the 100ers) it is my firm belief that this thread is now dead in the water. For a few heady days back in June it seemed as though we were at the start of something big. A radical young prophet by the name of Blind DRunk in Blind River gave a coded message that showed a few people (why so few?) a glimpse of eternity. Yes we were young. Yes we were foolish. But we wanted to make a difference (with Tee shirts and everything), but it wasn't to be. I for one can't continue with the hurt as each day passes with no more posts keeping us on track with our one billion goal. I'm not sure of the intentions of the other 'followers', but I for one am signing off a near (but not totally) broken man. You will never again see a post from 'good old' I was there at the beginning man, on this or any other thread. Perhaps one day, however, in a few years time, you will read another post that will cause you to ask, "Could that person be...?. No surely not?... But is sounds a bit like him, though the name is different?..." ... It might be comrades, it might be. But before I do go I just want to say a heartfelt 'farewell' to all my friends (if I can call you that?) who kept me entertained on cold summer's evenings. Well goodbye then, you shall never hear from me again. It's over. Farewell Farewell. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:28 PM Oh, ye of little faith . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Shimbles Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:35 PM Perhaps it would be of more benefit to examine the reasons why threads like this are deliberately scorned and ignored by those members of this forum who regard themselves as more important than other people who may not have been here as long, but who nevertheless should have a right to say their piece in an equal fashion, and not be discriminated against in subtle ways or subjected to what can only be termed a torrent of abuse. Personal insults are tolerated when they are issued by the aforementioned people, but excoriated when they are issued by the latter. Perhaps we should all take a good look at what is actually happening and ask ourselves if this sort of behaviour is conducive to maintaining a healthy community of if it is not? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,ClantonHummond Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:39 PM Oh, bog off, you moron. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Anonymous guest Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:45 PM Good old Peace |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:53 PM Oh, IWTATBM, say it isn't so! We've been through so much. The dark days, the white nights. I don't know if I can, no, I don't know if I care to, go on without you. I know I should have posted more often and really, I meant to. I haven't been well you see. I also don't want to seem over-anxious. People can be so cruel with the endless whisperings and talking behind my back. They think I don't hear them but I do and they're on my list. Oh, despair! BTW, I think the post from "Shimbles" should be deleted, or at least renamed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Anonymus guest Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:57 PM Good old KB |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:19 PM At this rate we will hit 85 billion in a trice. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:36 PM How can we miss. It falls off and is brought back up. IWTATBM has given the thread new life more than once. Now that he has gone on to a new stage in life I will try to pick up the mantle. I can only hope that I prove worthy. I shall endeavor to persevere. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:15 PM Hey, KB: Watch you don't herniate yourself . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:32 PM How long is a trice? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:37 PM A trice is about as long as a piece of string. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:40 PM Oh. I thought How Long was a Chinese fellow. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:46 PM You are wide awake and bushy tailed, aren't you! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:49 PM "How long is a trice?" About 3 furlongs per fortnight. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:53 PM Here's one furlong . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:55 PM That's a piece of tail. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:02 PM LOL |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:05 PM Another: "Once upon a time . . .". |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:05 PM I think this really says it all... Don't you? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:06 PM Shore do, LH. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:13 PM Please, I don't want to hear from pickles, I've put up 23 quarts so far and I'm just about pickled out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:14 PM Dills, beets, what? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:19 PM No, that does not say it all. In fact it says nothing at all. It's a picture. Pictures may be "worth a thousand words", but they don't really say the words. They just symbolize them in some abstract fashion. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:32 PM "Dills, beets, what?" DILLS! DILLS! goddamn it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:43 PM From "A Child's Garden of Grass": 'You may not like dill pickles, but it is after all the only thing you can do with a cucumber.' |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:52 PM A Child's Garden Of Grass A precious Seventies classic, August 25, 2005 Reviewer: Jack Jackinowicz I discovered this book at the library of the Catholic elementary school I went to around 1973. Yep, apparently the nun in charge of buying books was browsing the bestseller list and assumed from the title that it was a childrens' book. Ha haaaaw!! Rick D. and I checked it out in turns and loved it. Of course its content was soon discovered and it was removed from the library (no doubt incinerated), but Rick and I did a joint order (heh heh) to Pocket Books and got each of ourselves a copy. I haven't laid eyes on this title for nearly twenty years, but I can still quote it at length. Like the part that warns you not to get *too* good at rolling joints, because you'll end up sitting in the corner rolling your stupid joints while everyone is going down to the lake for skinny dipping. Or the intro, where the authors say they don't smoke grass and never have, everything in the book is based on what their friend "Ernie Lundquist" told them. Or that nothing is bad when you're stoned, except getting arrested, and even *that's* a learning experience. Or that the results of using a "steamboat" (their term for a big glass waterless bong) would make "even the mighty Zeus shake his head in disbelief." Or referring to the things you will do stoned and not get bored or feel silly, like picking lint off your dog or watching The Flying Nun. I actually think of this book often, after all this time. Highly recommended, even if you've never had a puff in your life (which is, looking back on the effects grass had on my life, my recommendation). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 06 Sep 06 - 09:18 AM I used to have a pickle lunch box. Not a lunch box with pictures of pickles, a big plastic lunch box shaped like a pickle. It was sweet, no, it was dill. I don't care for sweet pickles, I like big old sour dills. Anyhoo, I really liked it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 12 Sep 06 - 11:13 AM Just realised in my 'Farewell Post' above (as I like to refer to it as), that I never actually wished those sticking with the thread good luck. So 'good luck' to all you supporters of this magnificent thread. If only the current bunch of threads were as good as this one the world would be a better place. It still amazes me that it's not topping a thousand by now, but I digress. Anyway as I said before... you will never hear ...etc, etc. Farewell and adieu |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 12 Sep 06 - 11:22 AM Look, you friggin' wankers--both male and female: If we do NOT post at least twice a day we will NEVER reach 85 billion posts in our lifetimes. So WAKE UP! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:00 PM I have been trying to pull myself out of my funk. Life without IWTATBM has been tougher than I imagined. I just have to buck up and be strong. Every day and in every way &c &c. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Kaleea Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:03 PM I------------ don't want a pickle . . . I just wanna ride on my mo-------tersick-ull! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:40 PM "I------------ don't want a pickle" That's too bad, I was looking to unload some. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:50 PM "I------------ don't want a pickle" So, do you prefer the (recorded) live version or the studio version? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:10 PM I hear the song for two weeks at least twice per night while it was being 'written' (developed). NO MORE, please. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:33 PM Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Sep 06 - 10:09 PM Too bad Carl Sagan's dead. His voice would have been a great addition to this thread. The way he said "billion" was so cool. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Joe Offer Date: 13 Sep 06 - 02:35 AM Somebody said I was supposed to contribute to this thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Anonymus guest Date: 13 Sep 06 - 06:43 AM Thanks Joe, that would be me. Can you recommend us to your friends? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: folk_kitty Date: 13 Sep 06 - 07:43 AM After having sat here for 20 minutes and read this whole damn thread, i feel compelled to write and add a post to contribute to the stirling effort to reach 85 billion posts, and to say that before today I didn't know that US billions and UK billions were different, so I have not only been entertained, but also informed. Keep up the good work! Now I really must go and do what I came here to do... -Kitty. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 13 Sep 06 - 09:29 AM English billions are not different to American ones any more. They used to be a thousand times bigger, when I were a lad. But as scientists never used the term offically (its not in the SI system) and only economists and governments had a common reason to use such big numbers they agreed to standardise on the American system sometime in the 70's I believe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 13 Sep 06 - 09:32 AM And I reckon I'm a member of the "First 10" club, unlike these Johnny-come-lately "First 100" crowd. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Anonymus guest Date: 13 Sep 06 - 10:45 AM Count again DMcG and welcome to the 'First 100' crowd |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 13 Sep 06 - 10:49 AM I have - I am counting posters, not posts! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Sep 06 - 11:04 AM Well, there are supposed to be billyuns and billyuns of posts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 06 - 11:05 AM This is addressed to all who post to this thread hereafter referred to as WAMAM. THINK! When this thread DOES reach 85 billion posts, the issue of whether you were in the first 10 or the first 100 will be of such unimportance it will be awe-inspiring. Witness the following brethren and brethrenettes: If you are in the first 10, you will have been in the first tiny bit of a percent. If you were in the first 100, you will be in a percent that is 10 times greater yet so infinitely small that it would make the pyramids seem pyramidial. I should take the time to explain that WAMAM is "Wankers Anonimus, Male and Female", but I can't spell Anonymis. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 06 - 11:09 AM OK. Time for an election. I vote for Shane to be the head wanker. Any nays? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Sep 06 - 12:10 PM Joey: We want you, Shane. Mother wants you. I know she does! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Sep 06 - 01:19 PM Mother MOAB threw Shane out of the house for tracking manure all over the carpet and then puking on the sofa. No, Mother most decidedly does not want Shane. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 06 - 01:23 PM "Mother MOAB threw Shane out of the house for tracking manure all over the carpet and then puking on the sofa." You say that like it's a bad thing. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 13 Sep 06 - 02:01 PM The throwing, the tracking, the puking, or all three? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 06 - 02:27 PM Yes. He's a home-grown Ontario boy. Remember, a house with floors don't need ashtrays. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, Anonymous guest Date: 13 Sep 06 - 02:45 PM DMcG, Fair doos DMcg you are one of the first 10 posters and I congratulate you for it. Personally I think the first 100 posters will be celebrities when we reach the 85 billion mark. Guest 'WAMAM' has a case of sour grapes me thinks. However I share your difficulty with the spelling of annonymouse |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, Anonymous guest Date: 13 Sep 06 - 03:11 PM Just read a post on the 5000 thread. They're starting to sweat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Anna Nammus Date: 13 Sep 06 - 03:14 PM Why can't any of you spell my name correctly? It really gets annoying sometimes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 06 - 03:31 PM Hi Ana. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:19 PM My buddy Joe Ohnemus had a sister named Ann. Really. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:26 PM It has been suggested over on the "Will this thread reach 5000 posts?" thread that there be a "mini-duel" between that thread and this one to see which is first to reach 300 posts. However, since the cast of posters to both that thread and this one consist, by and large, of the same bunch of fools, doesn't that make any such competition meaningless, pointless, and absurd since we would be competing against ourselves? Yes, it does! Splendid! Please carry on and may the best thread win. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:32 PM I'm back, eh! Totally decent. The poyson ivy is all gone and I am back on toppa my game here, ennertainin' the local girls and gettin' wasted. I just wanta say one thing. Anyone who posts here on this thread is a total flippin' goof! And Rapaire sucks on old smelly sneakers cos he is an idiot! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:39 PM I meant to post this on another thread, guess I goofed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:45 PM We can acconplish two missions with one fell swoop. COMBINE THE THREADS!
-Joe Offer-
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:59 PM Nah. I visit there once in a while, but I wouldn't want to live there. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Sep 06 - 05:03 PM Ah, Shane. Do you know how much you now owe the public library? Yes, yes, I know you don't have a library card, or didn't until a few minutes ago. I know you can't even read. But I'll bet you didn't know that you now have over a two thousand dollars owing to the public library, did you? And you know, in Ontario they send the OPP after deadbeats who owe money to governmental agencies like public libraries. I'll bet you didn't know that I ran the computers for a public library from over ten years, either. Say "Hi!" to all your friends in Kingston. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 13 Sep 06 - 09:13 PM OK then. Forget combining the threads. BUT, all you posters out there, forget the other thread. It will never reach 5,000 posts. At least THIS one has a chance of reaching its goal. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, Phoenix Date: 14 Sep 06 - 02:56 PM We on the 'Will this thread ever bring world peace?' thread are in on this duel to 300. We may be small, but our heart is big. I know it's not technically a duel then (a truel perhaps?), but we're in anyway - for the sake of world peace. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 14 Sep 06 - 03:21 PM We on MOAB welcome all of you as we push towards 14,000. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, Anonymous guest Date: 14 Sep 06 - 03:24 PM We will reminisce about you lot on MOAB one day. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Unusual Person Date: 14 Sep 06 - 03:47 PM How long would it take to open an 85 billion post thread on computers of today's standard? It take an eternity to open MOAB. (infact I have always given up). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 14 Sep 06 - 03:53 PM How long would it take to open an 85 billion post thread on computers of today's standard? We can make a guess. Let's assume a good connection speed of 1Mbyte/s. Let's also assume each post is 0.5Kb, so two posts are 1Kb and 2000 posts are a 1Mybte, or 1 second. 85,000,000,000 posts is therefore a mere 42,500,000 seconds. A day is 86,400 seconds. So my advice is don't try and use a dial-up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Unusual Person Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:02 PM Wow, one day posters of the future will read your post DMcG and laugh at how slow computers once were. Are we nearly at 200 posts yet? I'm having that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:03 PM Yes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:03 PM heck - I can open MOAB on dial up - you just do it with the paged version - takes hardly longer then a normal thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:04 PM 200 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:04 PM now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Unusual Person Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:05 PM ME, ME, ME |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Unusual Person Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:05 PM Blast. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:22 PM Ha-Ha! you missed it! neener-neener! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Unusual Person Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:30 PM Go on, rub salt into the wound. Anyway I'm really only interested in that 300 post everyone's talking about. The 200 post was just a diversion. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:40 PM uh-huh. sure! and I wouldn't like to lose 100 lbs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Unusual Person Date: 14 Sep 06 - 04:43 PM Oh alright then I'm distraught. Are you happy now? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 14 Sep 06 - 05:01 PM Look. Nothin' personal here, but if y'all don't pull yer shit together real soon, we will fall behind. Tempo, folks, tempo. We have to keep posting meaningful snippets of stuff to the thread or we may fail to reach our goal of 85 billion. Meaninful snippet of information #1: My dog has fleas. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Unusual Person Date: 14 Sep 06 - 05:12 PM You're absolutely right guest. Sorry about your dog. Anyway I'm off to bed now as it's getting late here in the UK (OK not that late). Like to think Britain has done its bit for the cause over the last few hours. However, for many of you it's still morning, afternoon or evening so you've no excuses not to carry on posting. (Does this post class as meaningful?). Night night |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 14 Sep 06 - 05:23 PM My dog doesn't have fleas but he has been scratching a lot lately. Usually just the leg on his side kind of thing, not always in the same spot. Might have to look into a remedy soon. The jingling of his collar gets old. I take it off at night so we can all get some sleep. Don't even get me started about the cat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, Anonymous guest Date: 14 Sep 06 - 05:27 PM I'm intrigued about the cat KB. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 14 Sep 06 - 05:38 PM You asked for it... She was missing the litter box when she whizzed. I got to thinking and decided that a litter box doesn't need to have been designed as such so I got one of those big plastic storage containers. The thing is 12 inches high. Well, for a few weeks it worked like a charm. Her pee would hit the side and run down into the litter. Lately though, she has been pissing over the top of even this thing. At least the box is in the (unfinished) basement. It's still a pain to have to clean it up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, Anonymous guest Date: 14 Sep 06 - 05:41 PM I've learned a good lesson here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 14 Sep 06 - 06:10 PM KT: Your cat needs one of these. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 14 Sep 06 - 06:10 PM heck - I can open MOAB on dial up - you just do it with the paged version - takes hardly longer then a normal thread. Ah, but the paged version uses about 64 bytes for each link to each page. A page is (I think) 50 posts. That means that the 'index' of pages at the top of the pages for this thread will be far bigger than the pages themselves. How long each page will take to load is left as an exercise for the reader. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 14 Sep 06 - 06:12 PM Tell us all your problems on THIS thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 14 Sep 06 - 07:02 PM This post has been certified by government inspectors to be 100%content-free. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 14 Sep 06 - 08:34 PM Well, 99% content-free thanks to the last post. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 08:25 AM I can't believe this thread is BEHIND the "5000" thread. What is wrong with you people? MOAB would be ashamed of you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 08:41 AM I'm too embarassed to even tell her. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Sep 06 - 08:55 AM It's Shane's fault. He's a Molson-drinking wussy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 09:16 AM I wouldn't say content-free, exactly, but they are empty calories. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 09:25 AM Empty calories can be good. Especially if one is overweight - and if this thread wants to reach 85 billion it will be WAY overweight. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 10:04 AM And they can give you quite a buzz. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Amonomiss Date: 15 Sep 06 - 10:09 AM This thread is a ploy to keep all the weirdos on one thread. Thankfully, it's working. The head weirdo, that asshole Shane, has been conspicuous by his absence. Signed, Amonumis |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 10:13 AM I resemble that remark! But the BEST wierdos are still over at MOAB; where, I'll have you know, we are comfortably over the fourteen thousand mark. (Seriously - MOAB was concieved as a means of reducing BS clutter elsewhere on the forum) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 06 - 11:24 AM Is it my imagination or do buffalo wings taste like chicken? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 11:31 AM Dragon wings taste like turkey |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 11:31 AM Only if their wings have been clipped. The wings from buffalo that can fly gets pretty gamey. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 11:41 AM MMario, I have thought about joining the fun at the MOAB but it is kind of intimidating. Sort of like trying to sit in with the London Philharmonic when they are 3/4 of the way through Beethoven's 9th. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 11:55 AM KB - MOAB runs a pretty open place. Kids from the neighborhood are always dropping in cuz they know MOM bakes the bestest cookies and never counts the |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Sep 06 - 11:59 AM Sure she does! Well, actually she weighs them before she takes them off to sell to the recyclers. Last year her income from that alone exceeded US $175,000. I know, 'cause I did her taxes for her out of the goodness of my heart and because Mom likes me best. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:01 PM and aside from the occasional infestation of ralfs, things are usually pretty friendly in general around MOAB - well, except for Amos and Rapaire - but they don't mean it, and it's always open season on the Sahtman - but that's normal, and well, Gluon has been known to take a nip at people he hasn't met, but he's just doing his job, if you know what I mean. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:04 PM that was net, not gross, right Rapaire? well - the cans where the guys from the Legion spit their baccy were pretty gross, but I meant income. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:09 PM With this post we have passed the 5,000 thread (unless someone sneaks in ahead of me). Anyway, good job folks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:10 PM they should eat our dust! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,William Shatner Date: 15 Sep 06 - 02:41 PM "Always open season on..." He didn't really mean that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 02:47 PM yes, I most certainly did. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,William Shatner Date: 15 Sep 06 - 02:49 PM No... You did not. You couldn't have. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 02:57 PM honestly - I have felt no compunction whatsoever about denigrating you or anything associated with you since you absolutely RUINED zenna Henderson's "The People". it took me years to recover from seeing that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,William Shatner Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:10 PM Really??? Imagine that. You surprise me, Mario. My impression was that I had done an absolutely sterling performance on that part. Surely you jest? Leonard....you know...Leonard Nimoy?...told me I did an "unforgettable" job on that one, and he wouldn't lie, would he? Of course not. In any case, if it takes you "years to recover" from merely seeing a dramatic film, what are you going to do if something genuinely serious comes along in your life? I think you should give that some careful consideration, Mario. Therapy might be called for... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:14 PM I found a heart in San Francisco. Now I don't know what to do. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:21 PM Therapy *was* called for after seeing what was indeed an "unforgettable" performance. Believe me I have Tried to forget it. Thankfully the decades have at least blunted the edge of the wholly tramatic experience. It was the equivilant of listening to a Bach chorale performed by a combination of tone-deaf chimpanzees and tortured dogs. It was the equivilant of a gastronome being forced to eat at McDonalds; the entire collection of paintings at the louvre being coated in whitewash. It was a desecretion. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:25 PM guest - hearts are good stuffed and braised until tender. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:26 PM So, Mario, on a ten-poit scale with 0 being the lowest and 10 the highest, how would you rate 1) the movie 2) Shatner's performance |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:38 PM the movie: 0 shatner's performance: hmmmm --- that's a hard one. for *HIM* - probably a six; for any other actor about 1 x 10 to the minus 6 or so. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:52 PM That film was a dramatic triumph! Exquisite acting, a great script, outstanding camera work. It should have swept the Golden Globes, the Oscars, Cannes, Sundance, the lot. Mind you, I didn't actually see the thing. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:53 PM You have said it all, but please don't encourage LH to do with Shatner. On this thread we need to hear from Shane. SOON. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:03 PM Hi guys, just passing through the area and thought I'd see how you're getting on. Everybody well? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:06 PM Like we'll hear from Shane on a friday? well, we might if he is completly broke and hasn't been able to cadge drinks from anyone - but the last time that happenned was sometime last century, wasn't it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,William Shatner Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:08 PM A "ten-poit" scale? That would be the French rating system, I assume. ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:25 PM HA HA POITS day: Piss on it, tomorrow's Saturday. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:50 PM IWTATBM! So good to hear from you. There have been a couple of times when I thought "could it be? No, vain hope." But here you are, in the digital flesh. As you can see, we have been busy around here. Still not quite the same without you though. Don't be a stranger. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, I was there at the beginning man Date: 15 Sep 06 - 05:12 PM KB you have been a good friend to me on this thread and I hope after you read my terrible confession you still will be. I never really went away. After my 'farewell post' (as I like to refer to it as), I found I just couldn't stay away. But how could I come back so soon after my lengthy farewell? So I came back - under an alias (2 in fact). Can you guess who i am? Can you ever forgive me? Can any of you forgive me? Shall I ever post here ever again? Can this prodigal son ever return under his original name, or must he sneak in the occasional post under some assumed name? Yes I've been bad, but the heart is good and I have spare posts to give away. Oh misery. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 05:16 PM ;-) I'll never tell. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 06 - 05:22 PM I will. We love you IWTATBM. Welcome home. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 05:28 PM Of course we welcome you back. But in my 4:50 post you may note I had a sneaking suspicion that you weren't all that far away. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Prodigal Son Date: 15 Sep 06 - 05:34 PM Oh, OK it's me. I must get over these aliases. Thanks for the kind words. IWTATBM |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Sep 06 - 08:58 PM I am posting from home for once, just to see what it is like. I usually post from, uh, not home. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Sep 06 - 12:18 PM You post from a knot hole? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 16 Sep 06 - 05:30 PM 160! Yeah, no big deal is it really. Must get out more. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 16 Sep 06 - 05:31 PM 260! Well 261 now. Can't even get the number right! Phew! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 16 Sep 06 - 07:39 PM As we quiclky approach our goal of 85 billion, we should take a minute to pause and consider |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 17 Sep 06 - 09:02 AM I think we should start planning now for strategy after we reach 85 billion on this thread. It would never do to be unprepared. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 17 Sep 06 - 12:24 PM Certainly. It would never do to spoil everything by making post 85,000,000,001. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Sep 06 - 01:39 PM Too right, both of you. Who wants to be on the Planning Committee? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Sep 06 - 09:40 PM That answers that. We'll reach 85 billion posts and be all screwed up because no one was planning for that day. Serves us right. So instead of a planning committee, would anyone like to be on the Board of Directors for the Inauguration of the 85-billionth Post? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Sep 06 - 09:52 PM OK then. Bugger the lot of you. We'll just drink beer instaed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 18 Sep 06 - 08:20 AM I'd love to serve on either committee, but I'm afraid I'm already booked for the time of the meetings. so sorry, wish I could help. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Sep 06 - 08:25 AM I would, but I have married a wife and therefore I cannot attend. Or something. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Billy Date: 18 Sep 06 - 09:30 AM If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 18 Sep 06 - 09:35 AM waiters elect to serve |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beiginning man Date: 18 Sep 06 - 10:50 AM I'm busy that day. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 18 Sep 06 - 10:56 AM twenty-seven. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 18 Sep 06 - 03:21 PM twenty-six |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Sep 06 - 04:53 PM It seems to me we to do more than just plan for after 85 billion. I can just see it, we get to post 84,999,999,999 and the systems all overload because everyone and their brother try to get the brass ring. I'm thinking we will need to come up with some fair way to make sure that I get to make that post. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 18 Sep 06 - 05:03 PM No problem. Remit small unmarked currency. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Sep 06 - 05:08 PM I tried to stick some $5's in the bill slot on the front of my computer but it won't take them. I flattened them as best I can but still, no go. Sorry. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 18 Sep 06 - 05:44 PM It seems to me we to do more than just plan for after 85 billion. I can just see it, we get to post 84,999,999,999 and the systems all overload because everyone and their brother try to get the brass ring You mean we might leap from 84,999,999,999 to something approaching 168,999,999,998 in a few moments? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 18 Sep 06 - 07:03 PM That could happen, and all because people didn't take an interest. All it takes for bad stuff to happen is for good people to count ducks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 18 Sep 06 - 07:11 PM A flock of ducks to count while the future becomes uncertain. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Sep 06 - 08:07 PM "Calculate the number of legs and divide by two." Math Made Simple |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 18 Sep 06 - 09:45 PM Eighteen, I think. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 08:45 AM seventeen |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Sep 06 - 08:48 AM 15.73891 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 08:49 AM only a partial post? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Sep 06 - 08:56 AM Partial legs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 09:00 AM so less then a step at a time. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 09:51 AM NO RAPAIRES ALLOWEDsigned - the 85 billion club. PS! This means you, MOAB's pet! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Sep 06 - 10:51 AM Are you squandering your riches over here, MMario? Mom will be disappointed. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 11:00 AM ten. well - at 52 I decided I wanted to try going "out on my own" - can't stay tied to MOAB's apron strings ALL my life. It's scary out here! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 02:41 PM Will people hurry up and post on this. I'm trying to sneak the '300' here but I haven't got all day! MMario, did you know there's an opportunity to be in the 'First 100' club? You'd have to go through the proper procedures though. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 02:50 PM I'd rather wait and join the "last hundred" club. I suspect it will be much more exclusive. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 19 Sep 06 - 02:53 PM "I suspect it will be much more exclusive." And very very old. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 03:10 PM you're only as young as you feel. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 03:57 PM I know you're all waiting for other people to post until it gets to 299, and I think that's really sad. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:02 PM Playing the waiting game aren't you? I can see you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:05 PM I can smell the tension. No, it bloody cat shit on me shoe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:06 PM Look if anyone deserves the 300 slot it's me. Do the decent thing and don't post. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:07 PM Heart beating fast? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:08 PM Is it me? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:09 PM Is anybody there? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:11 PM aw, man - you went over! 302! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:13 PM Why do I feel so sad all of a sudden? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:17 PM Post-countal depression. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Why do I feel so sad all of a sudden? Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:24 PM Very good. Yes must be. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 19 Sep 06 - 04:47 PM Do we say anything to the 5000ers about getting to 300 first or is it best just left? It wouldn't be right to gloat would it? No, we should be extra nice to them, poor things. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 20 Sep 06 - 08:29 AM I think they've noticed. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Sep 06 - 10:27 AM How about the 14,000ers? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Sep 06 - 11:49 AM Roll on, MOAB! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 20 Sep 06 - 01:26 PM I think it fitting and apt that you come to this thread and laud MOAB. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Sep 06 - 01:38 PM You callin' me apt? Huh? Apt, is it? You want me to show you apt? Do ya? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 20 Sep 06 - 02:46 PM I think we're on a roll now, shall we challenge that lot at MOAB to 'first to 15,000'? Also I am thinking of posting on MOAB. Will I be made welcome or be shunned by all? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Sep 06 - 03:10 PM MOAB welcomes everyone, regardless of race, religion, national origin, handicap, intelligence level, previous postings, or political affiliation. Mother is a nice person and may even give you milk and cookies. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 20 Sep 06 - 03:12 PM If Rapaire doesn't eat them all first. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 20 Sep 06 - 03:16 PM Does MOAB serve hash brownies? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Sep 06 - 03:47 PM Does your mother serve them to you? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 20 Sep 06 - 03:51 PM There have been a couple of exceptions to that hospitality. We had to run MartinGibson off a couple of times, when he came in and started trying to dictate to us how to conduct our BSsiness. A couple of others as well, but they don't bear mentioning (or they might try it again). SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 20 Sep 06 - 04:31 PM Hey you MOABites, I've just posted on your thread. Give us a bit of support over there will you (welcome pard'ner and all that). It's a bit scary. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 20 Sep 06 - 04:35 PM "Does your mother serve them to you? " Not anymore. She's dead. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Sep 06 - 05:37 PM I did it. I took the MOAB plunge. I don't really feel any different yet. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Sep 06 - 06:49 PM Subtle changes are happening to your DNA.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bunnahabhain Date: 21 Sep 06 - 07:43 AM The ralfs prefere people that way... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 21 Sep 06 - 08:30 AM we do need to be careful though. MOAB really prefers it when we play at home and bring guests over to play - I think she doesn't trust us being where she can't watch us. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 21 Sep 06 - 09:55 AM I hate to be a grump, but MOAB was not very welcoming. IWTATBM and then I tried to join the fun and the very next post after mine complained about our names. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 21 Sep 06 - 10:16 AM just BS - what else would one expect at MOAB -- I mean, look at the thread title.... no harm meant, I', sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 21 Sep 06 - 10:33 AM Yeah, I know. Still, it's kind of like finally working up the courage to ask a girl to the dance and she laughs at you. Not that that ever happened to me of course. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 21 Sep 06 - 11:34 AM This thread welcomes ALL people. Your cold, tired, hungry, thirsty, crazy--no matter. The road to 85 billion posts is daunting, but we can do it. NO, we SHALL do it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Sep 06 - 12:47 PM The bogossity meter was running over at MOAB--just walking into the room talking without lurking to see what is being said then joining in smoothly is problematic--even in a BS joint--checking to see what the thread is doing first is all that is required over there. We haven't required new posters to read the whole thing for ages. Now just reading the last 1000 posts will do a pretty good job of bringing you up to speed. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Sep 06 - 01:20 PM Still, a casual remark or two from William Shatner can never be thought of as inappropriate, no matter what has been discussed in the last 1,000 posts. Most of us, sadly, are not as universally loved and admired as he is, and we can't get away with that sort of thing so easily. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 21 Sep 06 - 04:02 PM I agree with you KB, MOAB was most unwelcoming to the uninitiated. Still I've told them straight, pulled no punches and shot straight from the hip. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 21 Sep 06 - 04:03 PM sorry guys - don't know what got into them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 21 Sep 06 - 04:08 PM It's not your fault MMario. I just thought they'd all be a decent sort, as you are. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Sep 06 - 06:20 PM We are a decent sort--just take a little time to look around and read before you announce that you're there. Kind of like you might do if you're invited into someone's home for the first time. Entering the room talking is bound to send Gluon or the freds off on a tear across the solar system, and that is hard on some of those outer rocks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 21 Sep 06 - 06:23 PM No doubt. That aside, fear not posting here for it is welcoming to all regardless of whether they have read the above posts or not. In fact, posters here do not even have to be citizens of Earth. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Sep 06 - 09:24 PM Shatner will be glad to hear that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 21 Sep 06 - 09:32 PM Spock was thrilled! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 04:02 PM 'Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"' |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 22 Sep 06 - 04:25 PM IWTATBM, you are a true blue friend. I actually did lurk for a while on MOAB but never could make heads or tails out of what was going on over there. Seemed to be random postings by a select few... hmmm, oh well. I saw that someone had asked about where folks were from so I figured that was an opening and I jumped in. Won't make that mistake again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 05:13 PM Welcome home, KB. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 22 Sep 06 - 05:17 PM It's good to be back. Love what you've done with the place. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Sep 06 - 05:26 PM "random postings by a select few" Heh! That's exactly what the MOABS is. Over time the MOABS thread devolved into a tiny little private club of about 6 or 7 people who drop in on a regular basis simply because it has become habitual for them to do so. The only thing that relieves their narcissisistic, nattering, nabobistic nepotism is the occasional visit from William Shatner! Dare we hope that this thread may become something similar...yet much more democratic and far less elitist...a thread for ALL, not just for some! Let that be our watchword, our inspiration, our credo, and our sacred mission. After all, it takes a hell of a lot of posters to rack up 85 billion posts, so we cannot afford to be elitist snobs now, can we? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 05:33 PM Hello, LH. Good to see you on the 85 trillion thread. We scoff at yrebons. But I must say that the people at the MOAB thread--a thread that has run its course whereas this one is just in the prime of its staek--are wonderful. They were very nice to me when I dropped in for my second and third posts. And, if I may be so bold as to ask, how is old Willie Shatner? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 22 Sep 06 - 05:36 PM KB we held out the hand of friendship, but the hand was refused, nay shunned. Our crime, not understanding the thread's conventions. They could have said: "Welcome stranger, happy to have you aboard, but first can we just tell you a little of the protocol 'round here so we all get along swimmingly". But no, they smelled blood and were in for the kill. Being relatively new to Mudcat I'm not sure I'll ever have the courage to post outside this thread again. In fact I may give up posting altogether. They've near destroyed me. Farewell to you all forever. ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 05:51 PM Hey, on THIS thread even 'fu#k off' is accepted as a kind greeting. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 05:55 PM Genital warts: Good or bad idea: What do YOU think? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Anonymous guest Date: 22 Sep 06 - 06:50 PM Most recent Guest above I do believe you are a MOAB infiltrator trying to ridicule this thread, but without the courage to name yourself. If my hunch is wrong sincerest apologies and in answer to your most interesting question – bad idea. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:14 PM I have been posting on this thread for a long time. I am NOT a MOAB infiltrator. In fact, I have contributed only three or four posts to MOAB since its inception. I am a full-fledged member of the 85 trillion thread. So, the genital warts are a bad Idea? OK then, I'll pass. Thank you ofr the info. (And I take it clap would be a bad idea too, huh?) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:16 PM Holy ratshit, Batman. I just noticed I've been calling this the 85 TRILLION thread. I notice it's entitled 85 BILLION thread. Whew. That sure saves us some time and posting. Piece o' cake now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Sep 06 - 09:23 PM Genital warts? It all depends on whom you ask. Trolls, Orcs, and Goblins all value genital warts highly. Elves? Well, that's a different story! No Elf has EVER had genital warts....or any warts at all for that matter. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 24 Sep 06 - 04:55 PM I see the 5000-ers are trying to compete by posting one word at a time. We would not stoop to that, would we? Answers consisting just of "Yes", "No", "Never" and so forth can assumed. (However, if someone wants to post those in other languages, I probably wouldn't spot it.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 24 Sep 06 - 05:01 PM We could try one letter at a time - that would scare them witless. OK I'll start you off. I'm off to bed early tonight because I am very t |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Sep 06 - 05:30 PM I would like to say that I do not in any way consider this thread to be a threat to my attaining my great objective, the love of Winona Ryder, in the 5000 posts thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 24 Sep 06 - 06:46 PM A post for this thread is a post for posteriors. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 25 Sep 06 - 03:24 PM Hi, honey, I'm home. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: tarheel Date: 26 Sep 06 - 03:23 PM i, for one, do not understand what the big deal is about a thread that reads...will this thread reach 2 billion post? think about a billion... one billion seconds ago, it was 1959! one billion minutes ago,Jesus was still here on Earth! one billion hours ago, our ancestors were walking on all fours here on earth! so...what is the big deal here... at least 2 or 3 threads here are asking those questions... if that's all the information and discussions going on here,then count me out! i have more important things to do and talk about! i have a life ! Tar... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 26 Sep 06 - 03:37 PM Tarheel has got a good point. Should we have a 1 billion thread as well? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I'll be there at the end, man. Date: 26 Sep 06 - 04:20 PM And that's more than any of you can say! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 27 Sep 06 - 03:11 PM Oh, joy, Mudcat's main Christian found this thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: MMario Date: 27 Sep 06 - 03:30 PM maths are all wrong. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 27 Sep 06 - 03:50 PM Two true, Mario. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,IBO Date: 27 Sep 06 - 08:26 PM TWO SNOWMEN IN A FIELD AND ONE TURNS TO THE OTHER AND SAYS CAN YOU SMELL CARROTS |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 27 Sep 06 - 08:40 PM IBO, you are gonna fit right in here. Horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Hey, why the long face?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Sep 06 - 08:54 PM You can too, but you have to pet 'em first. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 27 Sep 06 - 09:21 PM Well, dachshunds will do anything for food. Absolutely anything. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,IBO Date: 28 Sep 06 - 07:06 AM DACHSHUNDS WILL BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO ACCOMODATE YOU. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 29 Sep 06 - 12:10 PM IWTATBM, have you left the site, never to return? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I'll be there at the end, man. Date: 29 Sep 06 - 12:22 PM He couldn't handle the pressure. He couldn't go the distance. He will never be a contender. Not like me. I'll be there at the end, man... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 29 Sep 06 - 02:03 PM Breathe |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 29 Sep 06 - 03:40 PM No KB it was another false departure. I'm back for good this time. It's getting busy on this thread nowadays isn't it? All these new (and welcome) faces eh. Remember in the olden days when we used to worry that the thread wouldn't last the week? Remember our prophet BDiBR, I wonder where he is these days? Still inspiring others around the world as he did us I expect. Oh for another coded message. In case you're wondering I'm not related to 'I'll be there at the end man'. All we need now is an 'I was there in the middle man' and we'll have the set. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:01 PM BDiBR is likely sleepin' it off in jail. Bad dose of clap and no doubt crabs from that gal he spent six dollars on. Now it's gonna cost him twice that to get rid of the crabs and if he has no insurance, about $30 to get rid of the dose. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 29 Sep 06 - 04:31 PM Joey: Shane! Come back! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there in the middle man Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:27 PM Here I am, man! I wasn't there at the beginning, and I may not be there at the end, but I'm here now, somewhere in the middle. Of course as the thread gets longer I'll have to keep posting becos the middle keeps moving around, but I'm in it for the long haul. Of course at some point I might have to stop posting so that I'm not there at the end. Who knows when the end will be? Wow man, that's really deep! So many deep and unanswered questions which may, or may not, be eventually answered in this thread..... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 29 Sep 06 - 10:51 PM This could be one of the more important threads in the history of music. We may find out who put the bomp in the bomp ssssh bomp ssssh bomp, and find out who that man was so we can shake his hand. WOW. Talk about yer profound revelations. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 29 Sep 06 - 11:45 PM Or not. They told me I was gullible and I believed them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 30 Sep 06 - 09:58 AM Okay, like, I am back, eh? And I am still the boss! Believe it, you loosers! Women all want me. Men all wish they was me and look up to me. I am majorly cool and totally on top of things, eh? Julian in Trailer Park Boys is my roll model, so I am workin' on puttin' together my own "Freedom 35" plan so's I can retier and enjoy the rest of my life without doin' no work or nothin' like that. That will be way long before this thread is over. This thread will be my, like, testiment to a life that was flippin' well spent, eh? Rock on dudes! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 30 Sep 06 - 11:13 AM BUT did you get over the dose? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 30 Sep 06 - 03:04 PM Hi dudes (and respect to my fellow I'll be/I was there men). I'm thinking about joining Mudcat as a member and need a name. 'I was there at the beginning man' is cool I know (!) but no one will take me seriously if I post as that on other threads (you know, above the line). They'll just think I'm a description or something as some of the MOABites did. I'm not sure if this is a first for Mudcat (?), but I'd like your suggestions for a name please. I'll choose the one I like best and if the name's not taken will become it. Thanks for your suggestions. Good to see you post again O wise one, please don't be a stranger to your flock. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 30 Sep 06 - 03:09 PM How about "Flipface"? That name ain't took yet, and people will remember it real easy too, eh? Hey, GUEST? Go flip yourself about the flippin' dose!!! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 30 Sep 06 - 03:50 PM Thanks for your suggestion guru, I'll put it on the list. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 30 Sep 06 - 09:09 PM Dear GUEST,I was there at the beginning man: Something simple like Chuck or Percival or Mehitabel. Shane: The whole world knows that not only do you have a case of "the screamin' pees", but also that you have crabs. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 02 Oct 06 - 05:24 PM Posts do seem to lag a bit over the weekend, don't they? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 02 Oct 06 - 05:29 PM You go flip yourself, you retread! I am "the Dude" in this town and if you was here you would know that, eh? Women lust after me. Men wish they WAS me. And that's the flippin' size of it. THIS flippin' BIG, man! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:07 PM The water is cold AND deep. I know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 02 Oct 06 - 08:18 PM Look, BDiBR. It's a well-known fact that you caught the dose from a sheep. A female sheep to be sure, but a sheep nevertheless. We all know why you wear velcro gloves, pal. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 05 Oct 06 - 01:54 PM This threads wearing a bit thin lately don't you think? No posts since Monday. We need a plan of action. .... Anybody got a plan of action? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Oct 06 - 03:54 PM Bunch of fookin' slackers. SLACKERS, I say. If x number of people post at the rate of y/z per n, then in no time at all we shall be at 85 billion posts. For the want of a horse we threw away the nail and the kingdom was kissed by a frog and turned into a suitcase. Do NOT try this at home, folks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 06 Oct 06 - 12:31 PM I begin to question whether or not we will make it. No, must not get discouraged. I used to have a frog suitcase. We kept his extra flies in it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 06 Oct 06 - 02:49 PM If you kept some dog manure in the suitcase...fresh dog manure, that is...then you would be guaranteed a continuing supply of flies, providing the suitcase was kept partly open so they could get in. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Cordwangler Date: 06 Oct 06 - 03:40 PM This looks like a very interesting thread. Reading through has made me chuckle so I thought I'd leave you a post as a thank you and to help you along a bit. Best of luck with your endeavours. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Oct 06 - 02:06 PM It's nothing if not ambitious! "To boldly post where no man has posted before..." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 07 Oct 06 - 05:06 PM This thread is very sluggish of late isn't it? I've requested an action plan from you, but with no response (more sluggishness). So I've had a think and it's occurred to me that controversial threads seem to get a lot of posts in a short space of time. So, if we get a bit of controversy going here, it should help us along. How about this for controversy (let The Shambles know, he'll have something to say about this no doubt): ….. I believe people who eat green tomatoes are fools, yes FOOLS. Not only do they taste horrible there is a statistical risk of poisoning. Far better to let green tomatoes ripen on the windowsill or make green tomato chutney. What do you say to that then eh? Feeling a bit defensive eh? Want to put the case for green tomato eating eh (if you possibly can). Recipes for green tomato chutney also welcome. If this doesn't work I'm definitely leaving for good this time - I really mean it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Codwrangler Date: 07 Oct 06 - 05:14 PM You are sooo RIGHT!!! Only idiots eat green tomatoes! I get sick thinking about it. It makes me want to get my hands on a large fish and choke the life out of it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 07 Oct 06 - 06:45 PM After you do that, stuff it with green tomatoes and eat it. Cooked is better, IMO. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 07 Oct 06 - 10:40 PM You could also close the suitcase so they couldn't get out, and then you'd have a lifetime supply of dead flies. Speaking of dead flies, I notice Shane hasn't been around lately. Did you hear the story about the farmer who wouldn't put up window screens? The local agricultural agent told him that it would be healthier, that it would keep out the flies that also infested the outhouse. The farmer said, no, he'd just toss some lime down the outhouse and that was lots cheaper than screens. So a few weeks later the ag agent comes around again the lo and behold, the house is fully screened! He asked the farmer what convinced him to put up screens, and the farmer replied, "Well, I noticed that the flies were leaving little white footprints in my food." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 08 Oct 06 - 07:46 AM (update of the proposed argument for newcomers to the thread) ….. I believe people who eat green tomatoes are fools, yes FOOLS. Not only do they taste horrible there is a statistical risk of poisoning. Far better to let green tomatoes ripen on the windowsill or make green tomato chutney. What do you say to that then eh? Feeling a bit defensive eh? Want to put the case for green tomato eating eh (if you possibly can). (Don't hold back on this one) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Oct 06 - 10:12 AM Don't eat tomatoes at all. They're related to datura, and that's "Deadly Nightshade" and it can kill you deader'n that horse my brother shot. Horrible way to go, too, with hallucinations and it's really bad shit, man. It's Jimson Weed. Don't eat tomatoes or you'll die. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: *daylia* Date: 08 Oct 06 - 10:34 AM I'm taking all that with a good dose of high quality extravirgin olive oil, Rapaire. It's not wise to bruschetta 'em off so easily - they're bound to ketchup with you someday! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Oct 06 - 11:26 AM Really. Tomatoes'll kill you. My parents, my grandparents (both sides), my neighbors, and several of my friends all ate tomatoes and they're all dead. A 100% mortality rate. Don't do it, I tell ya! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 08 Oct 06 - 12:07 PM "Don't eat tomatoes at all. They're related to datura, and that's "Deadly Nightshade"" (Rapaire) Rapaire, tomatoes are also related to potatoes; do you eat them? You should get your facts right before posting inflammatory stuff like this. And anyway the controversy is about green tomatoes specifically. Why is it that people like you have to highjack a thread and take it in a different direction. If you want to talk tomatoes in general I suggest you start a new thread about them. Right I've said my piece. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 08 Oct 06 - 12:08 PM And there's 400 to add to my 300! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 08 Oct 06 - 12:12 PM I wouldn't eat green potatoes either and that is because both are related to deadly nighthade. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 08 Oct 06 - 12:17 PM You're right about green potatoes GUEST, I'll give you that. However as with Rapaire, can I remind you this is a green tomato controversy. We can deal with other fruit/vegetables in a later controversy, when this one has been thrashed out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 08 Oct 06 - 12:26 PM OK, sorry. I can't have controvery over green tomatoes with you though. I think it is stupid to eat them other that in chutney, etc. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 08 Oct 06 - 12:36 PM I know. Yellow tomatoes taste better than red ones. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Oct 06 - 01:16 PM Even though I live in Idaho, I don't eat potatoes, either. For the same reason. And green tomatoes, even fried or chutneyized, still contain the poisons. Don't eat 'em 'cause you'll die. Parenthetically, potatoes aren't really vegetables at all. They are actually blind subterranean parasit es similar to slugs or nematodes, which are attracted to the roots of the potato plant and which they find by using sensory organs in the so-called "eyes". They attach themselves to these roots and suck nutrition from the plant and if this goes on long enough the plant will wither and die. Potatoes are considered a crop because people planted the plants in fields to attract the potatoes, which migrated to the plants and which continue to do so today. Idaho, for example, used to be a large, high, plateau but so many potatoes migrated that whole areas collapsed and formed valleys and mountain. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Wembley Stills Date: 08 Oct 06 - 01:50 PM You are so right! Not only that, bell peppers also cause death, specially the green ones. Don't eat them! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 08 Oct 06 - 02:36 PM Does nobody want to defend the green tomato? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 08 Oct 06 - 03:16 PM I will step into that breach. Green tomatoes do not deserve the bad press they have received from ne'er-do-wells on this thread. First, any comparison of potatoes and tomatoes is ridiculous. Tomato milk shakes are going to catch on sooner or later. Such cannot be said of potato milk shakes. Those of you who think you know everything are a real pain in the ass to those of us who really do. Yes green tomatoes are not good for you. For that the answer is simple. Feed them to your cat. Put the rest in a brown paper bag and let them methanate. When they turn red, stuff the cat, which will by this time have died, and cook at 350 degrees for three hours, basting every ten minutes with a mild lager. Garlic goes good with this. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Oct 06 - 03:20 PM Too bad I don't have a cat anymore or I'd get right on that. After all, we need something for Thanksgiving dinner here. Does it work with dachshunds? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 08 Oct 06 - 03:22 PM When is Thanksgiving this year? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Oct 06 - 03:35 PM Tomorrow. (in Canada) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 08 Oct 06 - 04:05 PM Thank you. I have great difficulties keeping track of various dates like that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Oct 06 - 04:15 PM Me too. I had to check it on the calendar to be sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Oct 06 - 04:32 PM Before I was married I had a terrible time keeping track of dates. One night I thought I was with Natalie and it was Sue, another time I though I was going to be with Kathy and I didn't have anyone lined up at all. But the worst one was the time I was supposed to go out with Bobbi and it turned out that I was supposed to be joining my old buddy Bobby and the boys for beer and poker. And I won't even get into the time a guy asked me if I wanted to meet his swimsuit-model cousin for a date and she handed me some sticky sort of fruit thing. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 09 Oct 06 - 01:23 AM Cat--- the OTHER white meat! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 09 Oct 06 - 02:05 PM My in-laws live in the South (U.S.) where they eat fried green tomatoes as though it were an actual food. I knew about the book and movie (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whislte Stop Cafe) but thought they were fiction. I was persuaded, against my better judgment, to try some (they were pretty good, actually) and have never felt quite the same since. They're poison I tell ya, poison. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 09 Oct 06 - 02:06 PM Whistle, not Whislte |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 09 Oct 06 - 05:19 PM I can't do either very well, so it don't matter how it's spelled or spelt. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 09 Oct 06 - 06:00 PM Hey. There is a dumb-ass ape on another thread who should come here and teach "Banana Peeling, 101". Someone invite him over, would ya? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 09 Oct 06 - 06:11 PM You lookin' fer me, buster? Well? Well, here I am. Whassamatter? You need a lesson in makin' a monkey of yourself? I don't think so. Ya got that mastered already far as I can see, and this ape ain't moonlightin' fer the likes of you, bozo. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 09 Oct 06 - 06:14 PM Nobody here but me an' my monkey . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 09 Oct 06 - 06:49 PM Monkey? You insultin' my buddy Chongo CHIMP? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Oct 06 - 10:31 PM It happens constantly. Every chimpanzee I know has been mistakenly called "a monkey" by some idiot on some occasion. No wonder most apes have a low opinion of most human beings. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 10 Oct 06 - 12:30 PM Talking about chimps, I thought the 'controversy' idea went very well really, don't you? Could have done with a few more (any) pro-green tomato eaters to hot up the debate a little (good try Peace but it was easy to tell your heart wasn't in it), however I think the wider forum now realises that if it's controversy they want, look no further than the 85 billion thread. You'll all be pleased to know that I have therefore decided NOT to quit the thread forever, for the time-being. Has anyone else got ideas for upping the rate of posting? Anyway back to chimpgate…. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 06 - 12:45 PM A good controversy would be whether or not old "I was there...." should quit this thread once and for all. What do you think? Yes or no? And give your reasons. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 10 Oct 06 - 12:59 PM Rapaire how could you? EVERYONE knows on this thread (including our spiritual leader) that the thread would have died years ago if it hadn't have been for my blood, sweat, and YES, tears. I think it's very unlikely that this controversy will get off the ground. It'll be green tomatoes all over again! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Oct 06 - 03:35 PM Respect for Chimpanzees NOW!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 10 Oct 06 - 03:53 PM IWTATBM leave? Perish the thought. How could we muddle through the veritable minefield of vegetables? Just last night I was attacked by a three bean salad and it was only the vision of vanquished tomatoes that saw me through. I was this close to visiting Valhala. Oh, vey. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: DMcG Date: 11 Oct 06 - 08:13 AM Do they say "Oh, vey" in Valhalla? Maybe my mental image for Thor is all wrong. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Oct 06 - 08:48 AM We must question everything. I have even questioned myself. Just a few minutes ago I questioned myself, asking myself why I should exist and where the heck I put my glasses. Everything is contraversial. Question everything. You should even ask yourself why you are questioning everything. Of course, this concept may be too contraversial and questioning for you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 11 Oct 06 - 03:54 PM No they don't say "Oh, vey" they say Oy, vey. It's those fried green tomatoes, they're eatin' up my innards I tell ya. Why won't anybody listen to my plea? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 11 Oct 06 - 05:20 PM You have a talking flea? That I will listen to. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Oct 06 - 05:38 PM I had fleas once. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 11 Oct 06 - 05:49 PM Yeah? Try crabs! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Oct 06 - 06:49 PM I had some great crab in Maryland last time I was there. Try the crab cakes at the Timbukto restraunt, or the cream of crab soup at Bay n' Surf. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 11 Oct 06 - 07:12 PM You are a seriously warped indi--did you say crab cakes? Shit. THAT'S what I coulda done with them. Tell me now why dontcha! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 12 Oct 06 - 04:58 PM KB mentioned the movie 'Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe'. It's on offer at HMV for £2.99 at the moment. Is it any good? Don't want to waste £2.99 on a film that isn't any good. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Oct 06 - 05:59 PM It is, without doubt, the most wonderful movie ever filmed. Touching, funny, sensitive without being all touchy-feely, it's a man's film that even women love, a film for the whole family to enjoy together. It will undoubtedly change your life, making it richer and fuller than you could have ever imagined. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Oct 06 - 01:09 PM I have not seen the movie. I almost bought the book at a second hand store once if that helps any. Come to think of it, I guess I almost bought the book at a second hand store once whether it helps any or not. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Oct 06 - 01:40 PM Hey, I haven't seen the movie either! That makes two of us! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Oct 06 - 04:09 PM Not watching this movie was one of the most incredible things I have never experienced. Truly life altering in a very affirming sort of way. I can't recommend it highly enough. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 13 Oct 06 - 04:46 PM Thanks for your recommendations Rapaire and KB. Based on them I will indeed buy the film (as long as it's still just £2.99) and will report back and tell you all about it. It was the 'almost buying the book' that clinched it for me. In some strange way it seems we are meant to watch this film, don't you think? And when I say we I mean all the 85 billioners. So can everyone watch the film and then feedback, say by November 17th? Even if the film's rubbish the feedback will up the posts, especially if there is a bit of controversy (my speciality). Spooky |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Oct 06 - 05:00 PM So should I take it that you are leaning toward 'Spooky' as your nom de plum should you decide to become a member of this noble institution? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 13 Oct 06 - 05:23 PM KB the decision has been made already!!! I'm just hanging on to 'I was there at the beginning man' for sentimental reasons. I shall reveal my (new) self in a few days/weeks. Perhaps when we get to 500 posts. Two things to celebrate, 500 posts and the unveiling of my new name! Can we have a virtual party? That is of course if I haven't already left the thread forever, something I am giving a lot of consideration to at the moment. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,surf's up Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:01 PM Why do mice have small balls? Not many know how to dance. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeace................where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:04 PM PATIENT: "Doctor, I've got a strawberry stuck up my bum." DOCTOR: "I've got some cream for that." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:06 PM A man visits the doctor. The doctor says "I have bad news for you.You have cancer and Alzhiemer's disease". The man replies "Well,thank God I don't have cancer!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:09 PM Great line to use when someone doesn't 'get' a joke: "If Darwin was right, you'll figure it out in a few million years." HI HONEY, I'M HOME. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:11 PM You took your bloody time and I bet the chips are cold. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:13 PM LOL This kinda banter has to beat the serious stuff--OH: After a particularly poor game of golf, a popular club member skipped the clubhouse and started to go home. As he was walking to the parking lot to get his car, a policeman stopped him and asked, "Did you tee off on the sixteenth hole about twenty minutes ago?" "Yes," the golfer responded. "Did you happen to hook your ball so that it went over the trees and off the course?" "Yes, I did. How did you know?" he asked. "Well," said the policeman very seriously, "Your ball flew out onto the highway and crashed through a driver's windshield. The car went out of control, crashing into five other cars and a fire truck. The fire truck couldn't make it to the fire, and the building burned down. So, what are you going to do about it?" The golfer thought it over carefully and responded... "I think I'll close my stance a little bit, tighten my grip and lower my right thumb." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:15 PM A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:20 PM One day the big animals and the little animals decided to have a football game. As the first half went along, the big animals were scoring at will. Every time they got the ball they would run it in for a touchdown. Then came the second half... First play: The elephant runs the ball up the middle. WAP!! Tackled for a five-yard loss. The little animals go back to the huddle cheering and congratulating each other. "Who made that tackle?" asked the ant. "I did," said the centipede. Second play: The rhinoceros runs the ball up the middle. WHOMP!! Tackled for another five-yard loss. Back in the huddle the flea asked, "Who made that great stop?" "I did," said the centipede. Third play: The gorilla tries an end sweep, led by the hippo throwing the lead blocks. SMACK!! Centipede tackles him for a 10-yard loss. Back in the huddle, the gnat asked the centipede, "Where were you in the first half?" The centipede replied, "Puttin' on my shoes!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,surf's up Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:28 PM I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:32 PM dyslexia rules KO |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,surf's up Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:36 PM A piece of rope walks into a bar and the bartender says, "we don't serve your kind." The rope goes outside, ties himself in a knot and frays one end of himself. He walks back into the bar and the bartender says, "Weren't you just in here?" The rope replies, "No, I'm a frayed knot." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:41 PM A white horse walks into a bar. The barman says to the horse, we have a drink named after you. The horse says, "What, Eric?". |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:48 PM An amnesiac comes into a bar. He asks, "Do I come here often?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,surf's up Date: 15 Oct 06 - 07:49 PM A penguin walks into a bar. He says to the barman, " Have you seen my brother?" " I don't know" says the barman, " what does he look like?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Oct 06 - 08:39 PM This 395 pound gorilla wearing blue tights and red high heels walks into a bar and says, "Has anyone seen my friend Beatrix?" (Does snyone know the rest of it?) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 15 Oct 06 - 09:30 PM Sneffer heard this joke Peace ... sorry. sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Oct 06 - 10:02 PM The bride, cuddled in the arms of her new golfer husband, said, "Honey, I have to admit something. I...I'm a hooker." "Oh, that's okay," replied the groom. "Just keep you left arm straight...." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Oct 06 - 11:30 PM Guy walked into a bar, fell to his knees, clapped his hands to bleeding forehead and said, "God DAMN son of bitch! Who's the sorry bastard who put that there?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Azizi Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:20 AM Here's some "Yo Mama" lines that children, teens, and adults sent into my website on handclap rhymes, taunting rhymes, cheerleader cheers etc: Yo Mama's so fat when she wore a yellow rain coat, people called out "TAXI!!" to her. Yo mama is so fat when she entered a fat contest they said no professionals allowed! Yo mama so fat she was baptized at sea world. Your momma so poor that when i went in your house and stepped on a cigarrette she said ohhhhhhhhhh its cold in here who shut off the heat Yo moma's so stupid i put a paper on the tv and asked her what she was watching and she said paperview. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Autolycos Date: 16 Oct 06 - 06:32 PM Is is possible to go to a party dressed as a toga? Just wondered. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Oct 06 - 06:34 PM It's the prepositions what do it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John O'L Date: 16 Oct 06 - 06:46 PM Giraffe walks into a bar and says "The highballs are on me" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:04 PM Like...what's up with that, eh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,surf's up Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:04 PM A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York. Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog . He runs over and starts fighting with the dog. He succeeds in killing the dog and saving the girl's life. A policeman who was watching the scene walks over and says:"You are a hero, tomorrow you can read it in all the newspapers: "Brave New Yorker saves the life of little girl" The man says: - "But I am not a New Yorker!"Oh ,then it will say in newspapers in the morning: 'Brave American saves life of little girl'" - the policeman answers. "But I am not an American!" says the man. "Oh, what are you then? " The man says: - "I am a Saudi!" The next day the newspapers says: "Islamic extremist kills innocent American dog. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:22 PM "...you don't think I asked for a 12" pianist, do you?" "...I dunno", says the bartender, "he just sits back there, licking his eyebrows." "...and the Texan hollers, "for God's sake don't flush it!" "...and bartender puts his thumb on the ant and says "sorry about that." "..."well", says Paddy, "The first one always tastes terrible, and the last one always gets me into trouble at home." "...hi, there, Little Fuck!" "...oh, we've settled that...we're just haggling over the price." "...and the rhinocerous says, "At these prices, I'm not surprised." "...why no, I'm a frayed knot!" "...it must've been that bar bitch you ate." "...snnnffff...no, no! Too near ze ass!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:23 PM oh, I'm sorry...should those have been all different posts? ....85 billion is a long way to go.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: RangerSteve Date: 16 Oct 06 - 07:44 PM Now that I'm retired, I thought I'd finally read this thread. I didn't read it all, just the first 20 and last 20 posts. I have nothing to contribute to this thread, except get it one more post closer to the goal. I probably won't be back, as I live too far out in the country to get DSL, and dial-up is too slow and it takes about 5 minutes for the whole thread to appear on my screen. So don't bother commenting on what I wrote here, unless you want to talk about me behind my back, because I'll never see it. Unless I get really bored. Steve |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:47 PM "85 billion is a long way to go...." A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:52 PM Oh, shiiiiiiiiit. That means this journey of 85 billion miles has to start with 85 million steps? Where's the wankers? They could help with this. I think folks just ain't takin' this seriously enough. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: ragdall Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:00 PM Can this server server upload 85 billion posts in a single thread? If it can, will we live long enough to see it finish doing it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:10 PM I think the topic of this thread is slightly exagerrated. That's my unbiased opinion. sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:15 PM Jaysus H. !! I meant 'exaggerated' I wish the hell this forum had a "spell checker" sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John O'L Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:28 PM So what do we all really think of RangerSteve? It's OK, he won't read it. (Heh heh) His stupid connection's too slow. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 17 Oct 06 - 01:04 AM This is Shane, eh? I figgered it was time to, like, drop in and say how im-flippin-PRESSED I am by the amazin' flippin' response to my 85 Billions thread here, eh? Totally decent! I never thoght it would go this far but it did. Out-flippin'-RAGious! Way to go, eh? WE are closin' in on 500 which is about how many girls I would like to have by the end of this year, eh? Majorly cool. This trhead ROCks! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: ragdall Date: 17 Oct 06 - 01:27 AM Happy Birthday on a touch-tone phone -- please stop me if you've heard this before? > > > > > > > *note: Commas are pauses, and hyphens are held notes. 112, 163, 112, 196, 110, 8521, 008, 121 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: ragdall Date: 17 Oct 06 - 01:46 AM Theorem: 1$ = 1c. Proof: |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Oct 06 - 08:34 AM Ragdall, please send me you physical address and correct name. I played "Happy Birthday" on my phone as per your instructions. You own me US $45,693.12 for the call to Ulan Bator, relayed via the Mars rover "Opportunity." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Oct 06 - 08:37 AM Oh, yes. Did you know that a urinalysis done very recently in the laboratory at Blind River Hospial demonstrates conclusively that Shane dilutes his beer, half beer and half grape soda pop? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 17 Oct 06 - 02:12 PM Did you hear about the doctor who wouldn't accept payment for circumcisions? He only took tips. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 17 Oct 06 - 02:31 PM Have to post here or I will be a liar. Don't ask. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Georgiansilver Date: 17 Oct 06 - 02:48 PM NO....NO....NO...NO...NO...NO..... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: RangerSteve Date: 17 Oct 06 - 03:56 PM Well, Peace explained to me how to get to the last message in a very long thread, so I'm back to add another post. I have nothing worthwhile to say here, so you can ignore this. Steve |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there at the beginning man Date: 17 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM Welcome to the thread RangerSteve. I remember my first visit here many years ago now (summers lasted for ever then). I never intended to return a second time, much like you (and many hoped I wouldn't). Steve, you say you have nothing to say, but I have found your posts some of the most refreshing we've had for ages. And should you want to become a member of the 'First 100' club, you'll be pleased to know that we have one or two positions left, even though we are approaching 500 posts. (You'll have to follow the formal procedures though - see earlier posts for details) Anyway, welcome again to the 85 Billion thread. You'll never leave! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Oct 06 - 05:33 PM I'm here because peace is going to make us all millionaires. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 17 Oct 06 - 05:36 PM I hear he's got a good deal on a bridge, hardly used. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Oct 06 - 05:38 PM I'm here because Peace threatened to hurt me if I didn't show up. Well, technically, HE didn't threaten to hurt me. He threatened to have a couple of Really Big Guys threaten to hurt me. Since I'm very allergic to pain, here I am. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 17 Oct 06 - 05:48 PM It doesn't matter how you get here. All are welcome at the 85 Billion thread. Can't you just feel the love in the air? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Oct 06 - 05:55 PM I feel it now what? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:04 PM now what? You wait and see if it feels you back!.. (I am here because I am a glutton for nonsense) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:29 PM I am still here because peace hasn't made me a millionaire yet. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:30 PM OK. Because I can see that there will be 25 more posts here before midnight, here is the idea. You have to mull this one over for a few minutes before you can actually envision the money-making potential of stock options and franchise opportunities, but when it finally sinks in, WOW. So, here goes. Anchovy Milkshakes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:33 PM I hear a strange echo too |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:36 PM May I have a pizza the action ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:39 PM Garlic would make them quite palatable. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:40 PM GUEST www. Truthfully, we are trying to discourage those who have an impulsive urge to buy in with two posts. I mean, get real. This is going to be bigger than Microsoft. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:40 PM Hmmmmmmmmm I'm stirred now but not quite shaken |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:41 PM See? There's a guy who has vision. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:43 PM With bobad's suggestion, the menu is increasing. The stocks will split within a week. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:44 PM And for those on a restricted salt diet, we could offer a Sardine Milkshake w/ or w/o Garlic. Bill Gates, move over. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:50 PM With endorsements like this; "Oscar, the resident Grouch on Sesame Street, despises all things nice and sweet. He loves collecting junk, standing in line, arguing, rainy days, and anchovy milk shakes." you can't go wrong. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:53 PM you think big round here ? ummmmm scallions ? will THESE do ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:54 PM And from Bill Gats himself: "I owe it all to anchovies and milk." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:56 PM Only the freshest ingredients. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:57 PM And for those who can't tolerate milk we could just liquidise the anchovies? MMMmmmmm yummy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 17 Oct 06 - 06:59 PM OH now you're just stringing us along |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Oct 06 - 07:57 PM sorry - it seems the Aussies have already cornered the anchovy milkshake market and it's antidote! http://www.latestbuy.com.au/novelty_death_mints.html will this do instead? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 08:14 PM Well, yea. But anyone can make a milkshake with beer. Ours will have milk in it. Just think of it as a novelty item with tremendous market potential. But people will come back for more and more because of the taste. True, they may not be all that impressed at first, but after twenty or thirty Sardine Shakes with just the Merest Hint of Garlic, they will be hooked. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 17 Oct 06 - 08:22 PM Hooked? You've already got your advertising head on haven't you? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Oct 06 - 09:06 PM Oh yea. I mean, this thing is gonna go. We are talking ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Think of it this way. Anyone can make a milk shake. But how many people will actually make an Anchovy Milkshake at home? How many folks have? Answer: fewer than 1/10 of 1/10 of 1%. In real figures, 127 people if you include Dave the Doorman at the Chelsea Hotel who had a penchant for a fish flavour with his strawberries and fresh dairy cream. He was a strange guy who was waaaay ahead of his time in the year 1967. But how could anyone walk/skate/bike/jog or drive past an establishment that specializes in the product? Answer: almost NO one. It is the secret desire of every professional athlete to have--but, that's in the future, just like tomorrow and next week. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 17 Oct 06 - 09:08 PM Anchovy MILKSHAKES!...that's IT? Let me tell you a true story. Many years ago, I rented two rooms in a big house I owned to friends of mine. A block away was a "Tastee Freeze"..similar to Dairy Queen, but trying to compete by offering weird selections of stuff, including 20-30 hamburger toppings and 50 flavors of milkshake. One day my friend D.W. said he was going to the Tastee....my other friend T.R said, "hey...bring me a milkshake!" D.W. said "What kind?"...T.R. said, "Oh, I don't care...surprise me!" WRONG THING TO SAY! D.W. tried to get a 'real' answer, but to no avail, so off he went, with malice aforethought. At the counter he ordered for himself, then said "Oh, by the way...give me an Almond-Sauerkraut milkshake." The owner asked him twice if he was serious, then made it...but refused to put it in a labled cup, and used a plain, unmarked one! ....So, D.W. handed T.R. his milkshake, waiting for the gasp and choking. Nothing... then T.R. said, "Interesting...what is it?" When told, he said..."well, it's different, but not bad." Moral..."IT HAS ALREADY BEEN TRIED---SOMEWHERE!" ...and enough folks like T.R. would just shrug and never notice or care! But if you put it on the menu, they'd never order it either. Now, how about some REAL ideas for making a fortune...like guitar capos which will double as blood pressure gauges! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Oct 06 - 10:38 PM Ah, but has anyone added...flavors (or, in the World of the Great Unwashed, flavours)? Chocolate. Chocolate Raspberry. Strawberry. Blueberry. Think of the market for a Double Dark Chocolate Caramel Nougat Anchovy Milkshake with whipped creams and a maraschino cherry on top! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Dave Hanson Date: 18 Oct 06 - 09:43 AM A twist of lemming. eric |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 18 Oct 06 - 12:18 PM hmmmppfff!! If it was a worthy combination, Tastee Freeze would have offered it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:02 PM Hello everyone, I'm new to this thread and just thought I'd pop by and say hello. I'm not sure I'll stay long though, and you'll probably never see me again. Farewell for ever. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 18 Oct 06 - 04:10 PM well, we'd never learn to pronounce your name, anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:08 PM Who was that unmasked man? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Oct 06 - 05:43 PM I don't think this idea is being treated with the seriousness it so roundly deserves. Jaysus, try to show people how to become billionaires and what do they do? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 18 Oct 06 - 06:13 PM The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again. The local paper read: PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the pastor not to enter the donkey in another race. The next day, the local paper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS. This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to get rid of the donkey. The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent. The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next day: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN. The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10. The next day the paper read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10 This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild. The next day the headlines read: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE The bishop was buried the next day. The moral of the story is....being concerned about public opinion can bring you much grief and misery...and even shorten your life. So be yourself and enjoy life... Stop worrying about everyone else's ass and you'll be a lot happier and live longer! Have a nice day! I'm taking it so seriously peace I have quit my job and took out a two hundred grand loan for that little cottage in the Dordogne I have had my eye on. You're good for guarantor aren't you? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Oct 06 - 06:19 PM I am trying to help! My suggestion for flavorings (a/k/a/ flavourings) was obviously thought to be less than serious. Well, when the world is beating a path to Peace and my doors because everyone is craving a chocolate strawberry pickle carp milkshake you'll all be laughing out of the other side of your mouths (i.e., the inside). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,not guest Autolycos,just Autolycos Date: 18 Oct 06 - 06:45 PM Houston, we have a problem. The solution is maybe to devise a way of getting the thread to self-replicare till it hits the target. Oh, and why 85 billiob? Wassa matter with 86? And do I take it that intrusions from the second Joke thread, sitting at the table, and other threads into this one doesn.....(sorry), don't....Matter? And why are we here? Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:00 PM By the good lord, he's GOT it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,oh, alright,Autolycos Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:01 PM And where it says '85 billion', is that as in UK '85 billion',i.e. 85 billion, or Stateside '85 billion')?)i.e. 85 thousand million. i.e. 85,000,000,000,000 (UK) or 85,000,000,000 (US) ?? Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bunnahabhain Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:03 PM Why are we here? Now that's just a cheap and easy way to get lots of posts. You might as well ask what is folk music, or if there is anything Shambles can't complain about...... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:04 PM WHAT in the UK do they call 85,000,000,000?? What comes after a million? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:08 PM A million and one? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:10 PM OK, OK. It must be 1,000,000 plus or minus X. Is there a prize? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:15 PM All the anchovy milkshakes a guy can drink in one hour? Carp smoothies? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:25 PM Peace says ne'er-do-wells are desperately needed on this thread. Well, I'm not sure if I'm a ne'er-do-well, but I'm definitely a cantankerous old fart. Will that do? If not, just tell me to go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Oct 06 - 07:28 PM Let BWL know he'll fit right in. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Autolycos Date: 19 Oct 06 - 03:40 AM Bill, Happy to help here. Altho' lots of the Brit media seems sold on the US definition of a billion, properly in the UK,85,000,000,000 is eighty-five thousand million. So that way, we don't get to a billion until a million million. A bit before that, we have e.g. 345,000,000,000 (three hundred and forty-five thousand million), etc.etc. Thus there's no race to get the kudos, sexiness, show-offness of "A BIIIIIIILLIONNNNNN" unnecesssarily soon. That way, a billion THEN has REAL bigness. Ans 85 billion posts would be a real achievement. Calling a thousand million (1,000,000,000) a billion smacks of insecurity and excessive hurry. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 09:57 AM But here in the U.S. excessive hurry is our specialty. I'd post more about this but I have things to do. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 11:45 AM If we could get the people who keep expressing their anger with Shambles on THAT thread to do so here, we'd be there (85 billion) in NO time. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 19 Oct 06 - 11:49 AM in 'most' of the world, every 3 zeros gets a new name. Besides being more consistent, it saves a LOT of ink. ;>) million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion..etc.. about big numbers Note, it lists 'traditional' British usage and 'modern' British usage. Numbers larger than quadrillion usually are done in scientific notation, anyway. 1023 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:14 PM Show off. I can't even get it to copy. It comes out like 1023. Sheesh . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:17 PM Where does that leave us characters in the US who still use "milliard" as a number? Are we an endangered species? Can I be protected? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:20 PM How much is a bazillion? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:38 PM Re: Shambles and his detractors (and the defenders he has picked up), I would rather keep that on the other side of the fence. The same thought has occurred to me and it is a fascinating thread (except when it gets boring) but I don't think I want to get to 85 Billion that badly, and getting to 85 Billion has become my all consuming passion. It's worse (or better) than on-line gambling. Did I use too many parenthetical comments (they can be annoying)? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Oct 06 - 12:45 PM (Not) at (all). I (myself) simply do(n't) visit that thread (Shamble's) since I (personally) think that there's far (far) too much dissension (or mud-slinging) around here (the 'Cat) anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Oct 06 - 04:45 PM So do I take it that we don't want mud-slingers on the 85 billion thread? If this is the case I think Peace ought to make this clear on his 'Ne'er-do-wells' thread, so we don't mislead the mud-slingers who are considering posting here. I mean once we've got them it wouldn't then be fair to tell them to get lost would it? I might feel obliged to defend their right to sling, even when I detest what they are slinging. No, this matter definitely needs clearing up, and fast. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 04:55 PM For me it depends on what brand of mud they are slinging. Mud can be fun. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Oct 06 - 04:58 PM It is the weapon of choice on this forum. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:03 PM Can you be more specific KB? What's fun mud to you, may be funless to someone else. We need clear guidelines about good and bad mud so we don't invite the bad mud types. Peace needs to be in on this one so he can clarify things on his (our) sister thread. I won't sleep tonight I'm sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:08 PM these guys think so anyways |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:13 PM Darn! try clicking on Video then "mudder" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:17 PM That's just it. We open up the thread for mud, and because people are so damned contrary, none appears. Even saying something like, "Go stick yer head in the toilet and flush it twenty-three times, turd head!" will bring a response like, "Would it be OK to flush it three times instead? We have metered water here." This is the teflon thread. It may hit the fan, but it sure don't stick. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM I was thinking and a thought came to me. Mud, even when wielded in good fun, can produce tears and wailing and much gnashing of teeth among those struck by same. Perhaps this should be a mud free zone. Or maybe a free mud zone. Yes, that's it, Free The Mud! That is my new battle cry. FREE THE MUD! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:19 PM It's still no clearer to me. Emma are you saying real mud is good and metaphorical mud is bad? Is that it? Or is some metaphorical mud good as well? It's all so confusing. I think I might quit this thread for a less complicated one.... Does anyone know a less complicated thread? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:25 PM The mental gymnastics do get a bit confusing, but invigorating at the same time. My only solace is that I never understand what is going on so this thread is really just par for the course. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:25 PM ok - if this doesn't work! MUD! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:26 PM I am with you, KB. FEED THE MUD! In a philosophical sense, mud is just dirt and water, but allegorically, it represents the tensions between wet and dry, transparent and opaque, up and down, over and out. It rhymes with cud and stud, blood and flood. It would rhyme with sud, but sud only comes in bunches or groups, gangs even. A gang of sud is suds. I mean, like when is the last time someone asked you if you wanted a glass of sud. Right. Never. You always get asked if you want suds. Put a layer of soap in the bath, and does it produce sud? NO, I say. NO! It produces suds. Does suds rhyme with mud? Again, NO. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:27 PM Your right. I'll stay then. What do you think of my new name? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:28 PM But what if you have more than one mud? Do you then have muds? Oh, the pain. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:29 PM ok - more mud! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:30 PM New name? Do I know you? I must admit you seem somehow familiar, like a lost snippet of a movie seen as a child. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:35 PM I love your new name, IWTATBM. It is you! A name that implies intelligence and foresight but also speaks for the silent and subdued in a quiet yet clear manner. True, no one can pronounce your name, but it matters not. You are you to us who are we and you to you who are I or me to you. To everyone else, you are IWTATBM. EMMA: Did you notice in that first pic that someone fed the mud a quad with a creature on it? FEED THE MUD! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:37 PM Oh, yeah, I forgot. FEED THE MUD! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:40 PM FEED THE MUD |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:41 PM Thanks Peace. Yes it's ME 'I was there at the beginning man'!!! Now known as IWTATBM. Feels kind of strange but I was getting fed-up of writing such a long name - now I don't have to. I know IWTATBM is unpronounceable, but it's quite catchy and not many people on Mudcat have unpronounceable names. EAT MUD |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:44 PM EAT MUD |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:46 PM By golly, he's done it. THERE is a slogan to get drunk for and maybe even hungover. EAT THE MUD! I just said it ten times fast. It has a real ring to it. That would have been a battle cry to beat all. However, it could have had disastrous results in the Mexican Revolution, because then folks would have been homeless. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:49 PM In the words of Lenny Bruce, "Men would shtoop mud." So be careful where you dine. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:54 PM I'd just like to say goodnight to you all. Hope you all have very pleasant evenings and sleep well. I still don't quite understand mud though. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 19 Oct 06 - 05:59 PM circle them all and put them in a MUD RING |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:00 PM and now - the song! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:49 PM I am quite familiar with the mud of the Mississippi and that picture looks (and, I am certain, smells) nothing at all like it. Of course it really IS a treat to beat your feet in the Mississippi mud, and I heartily endorse it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:53 PM Beat you feet??? I don't think that's how it goes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:57 PM MISSISSIPPI MUD (James Cavanaugh / Harry Barris) Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Irene Taylor & Bing Crosby) - 1928 Frankie Trumbauer & His Orch. (vocal: Bing Crosby) - 1928 Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - 1954 The McGuire Sisters - 1956 Joy Bryan - 1957 Ray Charles - 1960 Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer - 1961 Jim Kweskin - 1968 The Muppets - 1977 D.C. Anderson - 1997 BSQ - 1998 Also recorded by: Dinah Shore; Bix Beiderbecke; Bob Crosby; Lawrence Welk; Lester Lanin; The Platters; Johnny Wiggs; Pasadena Roof Orchestra. When the sun goes down, the tide goes out, The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout, "Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud, It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud. It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud". What a dance do they do! Lordy, how I'm tellin' you... They don't need no band... They keep time by clappin' their hand... Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud, When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud. Lordy, how they play it! Goodness, how they sway it! Uncle Joe, Uncle Jim, How they pound the mire with vigor and vim! Joy! that music thrills me! Boy! it nearly kills me! What a show when they go! Say! they beat it up either fast or slow. When the sun goes down, the tide goes out, The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout, "Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud, It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud. It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud". What a dance do they do! Lordy, how I'm tellin' you... They don't need no band... They keep time by clappin' their hand. Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud. When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Oct 06 - 06:58 PM Alternate Lyrics by Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer (1961) DARIN: Hey, John, you ever been to Mississippi? MERCER: No, man, but I sure would like to visit down there. DARIN: You would? MERCER: Yeah DARIN: Well, I'll tell you what then, let us hop on a plane and went. MERCER: OK, I hear it's very nice. DARIN: It is, it is. MERCER: When the sun goes down, the tide goes out The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout DARIN: What? MERCER: "Hey, hey, Uncle Dud, It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud." DARIN: And what a dance do they do! Lordy how I'm telling you Why they don't need no band They keep time by clapping their hands BOTH: Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi mud. (Instrumental Break) DARIN: Lordy how they play it, goodness how they sway it There's Uncle George and Cousin Jack, Look at those fools peckin' on their back. MERCER: What joy that music thrills me, DARIN: It do? MERCER: Boy, it nearly kills me. Sister Kate hollers, "Son, You sure get muddy, but it's mighty good fun" BOTH:When the sun goes down, the tide goes out The people gather round and they all begin to shout "Hey, hey, Uncle Dud, It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud." DARIN: What a dance do they do! BOTH: Lordy, how I'm telling you MERCER: They don't need no band. DARIN: They don't? MERCER: They keep time by clapping their hands DARIN: I see MERCER: Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud When the people beat their feet DARIN: Yeah, yeah MERCER: And the people clap their hands On the M I double S I double S I double P I mud! DARIN: An 'A' for spelling! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:03 PM Well I stand corrected but that's not how I always heard it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:05 PM Why do so many not use the simple option re mudslinging namely; If you get mud slung your way, ignore it, pretend it didn't happen. Why bother responding (I think, for once 'reacting' is the right word), why bother reacting to every bit of mud slung? That may or may not mean that mud-slinging would eventually cease. Why allow yourself to get caught up in it? i don't like being ignored and I may be in the majority about that. I just think mud-slingers feed off reactions. And interestingly, from a psychological point of view, the recipient of 'mud' is probably not the REAL target anyway, (See Laura Huxley's book You are Not the Target. Ivor BTW. If we counter each letter we type as a separate post, might we hit the target? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:12 PM Gracious sakes! The cultural illiteracy that abounds where you least expect it! When the sun goes down, the tide goes out, The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout, "Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud, It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud. It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud". What a dance do they do! Lordy, how I'm tellin' you... They don't need no band... They keep time by clappin' their hand... Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud, When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud. Lordy, how they play it! Goodness, how they sway it! Uncle Joe, Uncle Jim, How they pound the mire with vigor and vim! Joy! that music thrills me! Boy! it nearly kills me! What a show when they go! Say! they beat it up either fast or slow.When the sun goes down, the tide goes out, The people gather 'round and they all begin to shout, "Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud, It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud. It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud". What a dance do they do! Lordy, how I'm tellin' you... They don't need no band... They keep time by clappin' their hand. Just as happy as a cow chewin' on a cud. When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi Mud. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Oct 06 - 07:16 PM Pardon my cultural illiteracy, I guess I've been hanging out with the wrong people. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 19 Oct 06 - 11:45 PM You want mud songs? Here's one: The Hippopotamus Song Words by Michael Flanders Music by Donald Swann and Michael Flanders A bold Hippopotamus was standing one day On the banks of the cool Shalimar. He gazed at the bottom as it peacefully lay By the light of the evening star. Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair Hippopotamine maid. The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus And sang her this sweet serenade. Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud. The fair Hippopotamus he aimed to entice, From here seen on the hilltop above, As she hadn't got a ma to give her advice, Came tip-toeing down to her love. Like thunder the forest re-echoed the sound Of the song that they sang as they met. His enamorata adjusted her garter And lifted her voice in duet. Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud. Now more Hippopotami began to convene On the banks of that river so wide. I wonder now what am I to say of the scene That ensued by the Shalimar side? They dived all at once with an ear-splitting splash, Then rose to the surface again, A regular army of Hippopotami All singing this haunting refrain. Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:26 AM Tsk, tsk, tsk. Well, that can be cured. Just take a raft down the Mississippi from St. Louie to Nawlins or even further south. I'd suggest the whole river, but there's a bunch of dams above St. Louie. I will, in the interest of full disclosure and bad taste, note that when we sang that little ditty while in college we ofttimes substituted the word "meat" for "feet" and thereby added a whole new dimension to the song. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:35 AM I'm glad to see you come clean. That's a trip I have always wanted to and will, one day, make - except not by water, rather by driving Highway 61 in my VW Westfalia. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 09:39 AM I live about 20 miles from the Mississippi well north of St. Louis. There are a lot of dams up this way but my brother canoed from somewhere in Minnesota to St. Louis so it can be done. He said he had a really good time. He didn't specifically mention the mud. BEAT THE MUD! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 20 Oct 06 - 12:15 PM Bobad ... done the Highway 61 drive from Memphis down to New Orleans ... in a Jeep Wrangler .... and a great memorable trip it was. sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:08 PM Hello todos, A palavra para a mud no português é lama. Eu não falo o português eu mesmo. Adeus para sempre. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:23 PM Eu estava lá no homem de começo estou dizendo um farewell multi lingüístico extravagant outra vez. Tenha uma fatia do mudpie preferivelmente e um copo de chá eh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:29 PM Torta e chá da lama de Ahh. Idéia boa que, que, que. Você soa muito inteligente que, que, que. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:01 PM Eu fui dito uma vez (por alguém que falou ambos) que o português é rather como o espanhol mau. Eu não tinha sabido antes aquele que eu falei o português. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:11 PM Fuckin' right, mano. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM Eu não compreendo o que você diz a Peace? Fale o português por favor. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM Dave's not here, man! sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM Eu teria que causar toda a sorte do quibble mas parece-me que a lama no português é realmente lama. Hmmm… Eu quero saber como o lama traduzirá do inglês no português? ALIMENTAR A LAMA! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:21 PM And remember, ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:25 PM Oh ... ok ... then how about Olha que coisa mais linda, Mais cheia de graça, É ela menina, Que vem que passa Num doce balanço, caminho do mar Moça do corpo dourado, Do sol de Ipanema, O seu balançado é mais que um poema É a coisa mais linda que eu já vi passar Ah, porque estou tão sozinho, Ah, porque tudo é tão triste, Ah, a beleza que existe A beleza que não é só minha, Que também passa sozinha Ah, se ela soubesse, Que quando ela passa, O mundo sorrindo se enche de graça E fica mais lindo, Por causa do amor sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:26 PM Nelly Furtado. Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:26 PM Ò²ÐíÎÒÃÇÓ¦¸ÃÈ¥ÄÇЩ±»Ó¢Óï²»ÊǵÚÒ»ÓïÑÔ.ÏëÏëÔõôÑùÄܸü¿ì85000000000Èç¹û¿ÉÒÔ½èÖúÓÚÊ®ÒÚÖйúÈË.<Í·ÄÔ. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:27 PM That looked better with Chinese characters. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:28 PM No peace ...... Astrud Giberto sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:29 PM Nelly Furtado faz minha dor de cabeça ir embora. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:33 PM Portugese - at it's finest |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:35 PM Você é um número romântico seis. Isto é liso. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:38 PM Portuguese lyrics - what fun! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:39 PM 600 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:41 PM Katia Guerreiro tem uma voz bonita. Compre 'Fado Maior' Felicitações em 600 KB |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:47 PM ÄÍÐĵķ½Ê½»¹ÊÇ·½Ê½Ë®¡£ |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:49 PM I seem to have switched to Martian. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:50 PM Agradecimentos, IWTATBM. É meu primeiro borne do marco miliário. Eu dormirei bem hoje à noite. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Oct 06 - 04:51 PM (Peace dito)"Eu pareço ter comutado a Martian" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 05:00 PM Era um acidente. Arranhava meu cajones e eu bato no botão errado. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 20 Oct 06 - 05:02 PM could be worse - could be Vogon click here for a poetry reading - if you dare! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Oct 06 - 05:08 PM Eu dormirei bem hoje à noite também. Eu estou todo no feriado para um do da semana assim todos farewell.... por uma semana. Adeus para agora. (não para sempre!) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 05:11 PM Nós o perderemos e olhar adiante a seu retorno. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 05:21 PM Onde a este tempo IWTATBM? Apressar-se para trás, nós tentará ao soldado sobre quando você estiver ausente. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 20 Oct 06 - 06:56 PM Uh .... Dave's not here. sIx |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 06:58 PM He keeps his stash in his shower curtain rod. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 20 Oct 06 - 07:02 PM What ..... Dave's not here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 20 Oct 06 - 07:13 PM he's here...or here....or over there.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:45 PM Dave, it's me. I got the stuff, man, open up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:46 PM Should have said: No, I'm Dave. I got the stuff man, open up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:52 PM That was a very funny record: "A Child's Garden of Grass." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 20 Oct 06 - 10:47 PM Dave Who ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 21 Oct 06 - 07:58 PM refish don't let this worthy thread fall of the bottom folks - I want all that dosh Peace! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 21 Oct 06 - 08:18 PM Dosh????? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 10:57 AM You want a peace of Dosh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:11 AM Dosh = money it is possible that it comes from the old symbols for British pre decimal currency i.e. D or Sh (pence or shillings) Dough, moolah, rhino, spondulicks... there are more slang words for money than for anything else apart from sex and drink more than you probably will ever need to know about words for money |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:27 AM That explains it, then. I haven't heard dosh on this side of the pond before. Now I can astound my friends with my new word. Well, I could if I had any friends. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:35 AM I used to have a very funny book called A Child's Garden of Grass. Mind you, I didn't understand it -- I mean, why would you want to clean out the seeds? -- but I was told by very knowledgable people that it was hilarious. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 12:58 PM Somebody mentioned that book before, don't know if it was this thread or not. I would like to see it but can't imagine it's available. I would have really liked it about 20 years ago. I still have some things from that era that bring a smile to my face to this day. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 23 Oct 06 - 02:04 PM Here's a review from Amazon for you KB: A precious Seventies classic, August 25, 2005 Reviewer: Jack Jackinowicz - See all my reviews I discovered this book at the library of the Catholic elementary school I went to around 1973. Yep, apparently the nun in charge of buying books was browsing the bestseller list and assumed from the title that it was a childrens' book. Ha haaaaw!! Rick D. and I checked it out in turns and loved it. Of course its content was soon discovered and it was removed from the library (no doubt incinerated), but Rick and I did a joint order (heh heh) to Pocket Books and got each of ourselves a copy. I haven't laid eyes on this title for nearly twenty years, but I can still quote it at length. Like the part that warns you not to get *too* good at rolling joints, because you'll end up sitting in the corner rolling your stupid joints while everyone is going down to the lake for skinny dipping. Or the intro, where the authors say they don't smoke grass and never have, everything in the book is based on what their friend "Ernie Lundquist" told them. Or that nothing is bad when you're stoned, except getting arrested, and even *that's* a learning experience. Or that the results of using a "steamboat" (their term for a big glass waterless bong) would make "even the mighty Zeus shake his head in disbelief." Or referring to the things you will do stoned and not get bored or feel silly, like picking lint off your dog or watching The Flying Nun. I actually think of this book often, after all this time. Highly recommended, even if you've never had a puff in your life (which is, looking back on the effects grass had on my life, my recommendation). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 23 Oct 06 - 03:21 PM "Now I can astound my friends with my new word. Well, I could if I had any friends." We all love you, KT. Also, I mentioned the vinyl record, "A Child's Garden of Grass." It is a hoot. Based on the book of the same name--I read that, too--and here is a review. The record after a hoot WAS a hoot. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 23 Oct 06 - 03:23 PM Uh, not that I personally had any first-hand experience with the substance about which the book was written. But a friend of mine did and he told me all about it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 23 Oct 06 - 03:43 PM I knew all about grass. Still do. It grows in my front and back yards, all around the Library, up in the hills, all over. There's big bluestem, gramma, blue, buffalo, fescue, rye, just all sorts of grass. I even have a special machine to cut it when it gets too tall. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:02 PM Thanks for the thought Peace. It would be even nicer if you got my name right, it's KB, not KT. That's OK. I don't mind really. It's better than being ignored. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:11 PM LOL Gotcha. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:11 PM Hey go easy on Peace KB - you know he lived "the 60's" after all. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM So what do you folks think, should I join? What would I really gain by doing so? I've looked at some of the information about it but still don't know what the practical benefits are. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:20 PM "If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there." -Anon |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:27 PM You're all a bunch of effin a-holes around here, I'm smarter and wittier than the lot of you. Still don't know what the practical benefits are? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:38 PM ""If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there." -Anon" I can remember the 60s....I spent them in....Kansas. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:38 PM Yeah, but I really haven't seen that sort of thing (though I may now). I was thinking more in terms of the PM'ing and things like that. How much do people use the features that being a member unlocks? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:40 PM Bill D, I remember the 60's but the 70's are a little hazy (and I spent them in Iowa). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:51 PM I remember the 60's so well that I wish I could go straight back there right now and make much better use of them than I did at the time! I remember like it was frikkin' YESTERDAY. Pity it's gone forever. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:59 PM I think I remember spending some of the 60s here |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Oct 06 - 03:24 PM I remember the '60s -- I spent the first part in high school, the middle part in college, and the last part in the Army. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 24 Oct 06 - 04:55 PM I remember the 50s - all jelly, football, Hancock's Half Hour, Take It From Here, and the lights coming back on after the 40s. And Matthews' Cup Final. And my first kiss, aged c. 9 - well the other boys forced me to kiss both twins they thought I was interested in. Then I could back to the important matter of playing football. So if either of the Elder twins is reading this............ One nearer to 85 billion - this is a doddle. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Oct 06 - 10:05 PM Good to see this thread is still lacking in meaning, clarity, function, and most of the social graces. But it is one post closer to its stated goal of 85 billion posts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 24 Oct 06 - 10:08 PM I remember the 60's ... it seemed like a long,long time ago. We were younger then. weren't we? biLL |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KateSkate Date: 25 Oct 06 - 03:30 AM I remember but I forget what |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:37 AM What '60s? I went to sleep on December 31, 1959 and woke up January 1, 1970. I didn't know where I was. It was pink on the map, so it musta been Canada. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 25 Oct 06 - 09:29 AM Yah know, when you ARE in the 60s it's easier than when you WERE in the '60s. Back then everyone wanted you to remember where the stash was and now they just say, "Dumb bastard forgot agin." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 25 Oct 06 - 09:54 AM "The only f$%#@%%% time in your life you vacuum is the time I have dropped a piece of hash on the rug!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:59 AM You did take the bag off the vacuum to look through it, didn't you? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 25 Oct 06 - 12:17 PM Just to point out that the 50s ended in December 1960,and the 70s began January 1971. Because there never was any such thing as 0 A.D. All follows from that fact. No chance of reaching 85 billion going down this route though. The arguments in my ;locker are strong as anything. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 25 Oct 06 - 12:58 PM "You did take the bag off the vacuum to look through it, didn't you?" There's a bag on a vacuum? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 25 Oct 06 - 03:10 PM No bag on the one we have now but some do and I always thought most used to. Maybe I only thought that because ours always did. Hmm... makes you think. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 25 Oct 06 - 03:12 PM We've never had bags or anything like them on our vacuums. It's called "recycling." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 25 Oct 06 - 03:17 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------- Just to point out that the 50s ended in December 1960,and the 70s began January 1971. Because there never was any such thing as 0 A.D. All follows from that fact. -------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, I will always argue that the 21st century didn't begin until Jan 1, 2001 due the no year 0 thing. I don't think that "the 60's" and such needs to follow the same logic. If you mean the seventh decade of the 20th century then yes. But I don't see how October 1970 can be part of "the 60's", it just doesn't make sense to me. I see it two separate numbering systems. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 25 Oct 06 - 03:17 PM The above was one of mine |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:47 PM MY GAWD. So, I DO remember the '60s. YEAH. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 25 Oct 06 - 09:34 PM I can't remember much about the early 1950's. biLL |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 26 Oct 06 - 01:24 AM What '50s? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 26 Oct 06 - 01:36 AM OK. I'm gettin' real screwed up here. How many decades have there been? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 26 Oct 06 - 04:17 PM I don't have anything to say. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 26 Oct 06 - 05:24 PM I remember absolutely NOTHING about January 1945. It's like a total blank in my memory. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 26 Oct 06 - 05:59 PM Yeah .... January '45 was a long time ago. biLL |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 26 Oct 06 - 06:10 PM Re alternative numberings for centuries and decades, I'm ecstatically happy to agree to differ. peace. How many decades have there been? IIIIIIIIIII don't know. That'd be one way to get to 85 billion, trying to answer that. ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 27 Oct 06 - 10:27 AM Neil Young had an album called "Decade" so that is one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:35 PM Any advance on one? Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 27 Oct 06 - 01:19 PM hmmm...I remember Jan, 1945!...and April. I was in a rail yard in Dalhart, Texas....my mother was crying because someone told her FDR had died.....and I ate Hamburger Steak & French Fries in a restaurant where they played "Sioux City Sue" on the jukebox. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 27 Oct 06 - 01:51 PM My long term memory is OK but my short term must be slipping. Try as I might I can remember nothing that happened on Feb 29, 2006. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 27 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM Shucks, G. Bush just quoted stuff that happened Feb. 30! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Oct 06 - 05:43 PM OK. A decade is 10 years, right? So, like, let me ask the question THIS way: "How many ten-years have there been?" Ten being the whole number located between nine and eleven. Or located in the exact middle of eight and twelve, or Montreal and Toronto. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 27 Oct 06 - 10:37 PM OK then. Piss on you. Don't answer me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 28 Oct 06 - 04:45 AM Age of Earth being 4.5 billion years precisely, there have been exactly .45 billion decades,ok? No prize for me,I suppose. tsz. k (from and as in kettle)see? k. k. I don't look forward to someone asking how many words in total have ever been spoken , not to mention how many were worth saying. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 30 Oct 06 - 03:43 PM Hello todos, See we're back to English then. And what do I find on my return? A whole day passed by with no posts. If this continues the 5000ers (remember them?) will be on our tails and we'll be back to challenging them to 'first to' again. It all seems mathematical around here at the moment. That's it really. Adeus |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 30 Oct 06 - 03:57 PM 什麼是英語和數學? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 30 Oct 06 - 04:04 PM That's easy for YOU to say. Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 31 Oct 06 - 02:50 PM Refresh |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 31 Oct 06 - 02:52 PM Anyone got a good controversy? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:34 PM I have just come to the realizatiuon that the Earth is flat. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:54 PM Sign up NOW! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:04 PM I tried to join, but they won't accept some of my answers. They seem not to recognize 'petunia' as a colour, and they don't like 'jujubes' as my favourite mineral. So piss on it. My new theory is this: The world IS round, like a saucer. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:25 PM I've always found some of the earth is flat, while other bits are lumpy. But I'm not a scientist so I don't know that for sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:27 PM Now that is pretty contentious. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:34 PM Earth's a funny one for controversy Peace. Do you have anything a little smaller? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:47 PM Billiard balls. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:34 PM Here you go |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Oct 06 - 09:20 PM Thank you. Back in a few weeks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Oct 06 - 09:29 PM Billiard balls are flat. In fact, everything is flat except good beer. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:19 PM Oh yeah? What about a flat of beer? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 02 Nov 06 - 12:21 PM I have a fear of Blatz |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:38 PM Has this thread run its course? Discuss. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:41 PM "Has this thread run its course? Discuss." No. It hasn't. Javelin. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:46 PM Is this thread shot? Put what you want. Hmmmm |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:52 PM Has this thread gone as far as it can and is it pointless? Better |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 04 Nov 06 - 12:56 PM Oh ye of little feet The marathon man will returneth The podium awaits ok ok ok I'll stop medalling now Hey - eu havia no homem de começo - mantem-se sorrir. Eh ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:07 PM I can't compete with you What, what, what? You've got the gold. But again I ask, will this thread fold? (Sim mas mim não compreenda o que você disse) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 04 Nov 06 - 01:13 PM It has points in all directions It has pleats so cannot fold It will replenish iself anew when the reserves turn up as long as we don't drop the baton OK ? (and just for you: It said "Hey - I was there at the beginning man - Keep smiling. Eh?") *big grin* |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 04 Nov 06 - 03:50 PM This thread is all washed up It has no place to go So I'm off to to join the 5000ers Farewell and cherio |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 05 Nov 06 - 06:30 AM Eu recuso apavorar-se. É treasonous abandonar seus amigos. Você retornará enlightened. A paz reinará outra vez. Eh ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 06 Nov 06 - 04:45 AM Chickenshit stuff. Speaking of which, what do y'all think of chickenshit? Not that fake kind--the REAL thing. Well? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 06 Nov 06 - 12:27 PM I don't know about chicken shit but there is a turkey farm about 5 miles outside the town where I live. That shit stinks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 06 Nov 06 - 12:27 PM 700 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 06 Nov 06 - 12:32 PM You know, since IWTATBM has forsaken us, I just can't get motivated. Please come back. I'm begging, I'm pleading, I'm down on my knees imploring you, please come back. Or not, whatever. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 06 Nov 06 - 01:15 PM IWHATBM will be back. Looks at the topics we discuss: chicken shit, turkey shit, flat Earth--this thread is a gold mine. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 06 Nov 06 - 01:21 PM P'raps that's where it started to go wrong for IWTATBM and his altered ego IWHATBM Where did 'E go anyway ? hmmmmmm Did he misunderstand gold mine and thought you meant the pits ? Waddyathink ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 06 Nov 06 - 01:22 PM Friggin' right. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 06 Nov 06 - 01:33 PM I was thinking the earth was a little flat myself, so I called the tuner. Should be sounding better by tonight. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 06 Nov 06 - 01:53 PM Just needs some bubbles in it is all. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 06 Nov 06 - 01:58 PM hi Honey - I'm home |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 06 Nov 06 - 02:03 PM Did someone say Bubbles ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 06 Nov 06 - 02:15 PM Yer tis |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 07 Nov 06 - 11:01 AM What would chairs look like if your knees bent the other way? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 07 Nov 06 - 11:19 AM Sort of a U-shape, I guess. But you could bite your toenails a lot more easily. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 07 Nov 06 - 11:21 AM What then would it be like to bathe in lemon sauce? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 07 Nov 06 - 11:42 AM Dunno, but it would save a fortune on towels |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 07 Nov 06 - 12:37 PM And what would be the use of towels if theuy were made from non-absorbent material? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 07 Nov 06 - 01:16 PM Towels Towels are the most useful thing it is possible to have handy in a crisis. One of the first things that Ford Prefect did for Arthur Dent after the demolition of the Earth was to equip him with a towel. They can be used for snaring birds whilst falling from a three-mile high marble statue. They can be used to signal temporally unstable spaceships by fossilizing them in planetary strata. They can be soaked in nutrients to provide sustenance in awkward situations (Although, as Zaphod Beeblebrox found, this is not a terribly tasty solution to hunger). They can also do a really good job of drying between your toes. The Hitchhiker's Guide is full of suggestions for successful towel deployment. It is worth noting that a cup of white vinegar in a wash will help keep your towels fluffy and soft. more about towels than you will ever need to know |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 07 Nov 06 - 01:47 PM Oh. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,oldguitarman Date: 08 Nov 06 - 11:10 AM just glad to do my part... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 08 Nov 06 - 02:23 PM So on Monday I saw a thread about posting (as a guest) under multiple psuedonyms. The person who started the thread did this regularly and wondered what others thought about it. It was an interesting thread, most of the responses were negative but a couple of folks didn't mind or even did it themselves sometimes. After reading a few posts I saw that the thread was started in 2000. I got to the end (149 posts, I didn't read each of them all the way through) and realized that the last post on page three was from 2004. I thought maybe I had done something odd and that there must be a more recent post. I went back to the main forum page and the thread was still there with 149 posts. I got into it again and the last post was from 2004. I looked again later and the thread was gone. I don't remember the title or I would have searched for it (I might be able to find it anyway but haven't tried). I just thought the whole thing was kind of weird. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Nov 06 - 03:02 PM To bathe in lemon SAUCE is one thing, and very likely quick a sticky experience. To bathe in lemon JUICE would be quite another, and probably a bit acidic. In either case you will leave the bath with a lovely fresh scent and attract comment from others. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 08 Nov 06 - 03:16 PM Lemon Tree very pretty |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 08 Nov 06 - 03:24 PM OK, I found it. The thread title is "Multiple Personality Disorder" and the most recent post is from 27 Oct, 2004. Now there are 148 posts, on Monday there were 149. I know you were all getting terribly anxious about this. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 08 Nov 06 - 08:13 PM one way to reach 85 billion is to introduce an extremely controversial concept like abortion or politics :) and get a bunch o' peeps with very strong opposing views, and let them battle it out for a few years. either that or hack the website and just pretend it reached 85 billion. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 08 Nov 06 - 11:53 PM OK. The greatest conspiracy of all time is this: 2 + 2 = 4 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 09 Nov 06 - 09:05 AM Possibly an easy answer to the disappearing thread is that it was refreshed by a spammer and when the spam was removed the thread dropped off again. That has happened with quite a few threads, only they usually refresh old music threads rather than BS ones. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 09 Nov 06 - 09:14 AM Only in base 10, Peace. Only in base 10. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 09 Nov 06 - 09:21 AM So if spam was added and the thread came back onto the front page would it stay there even if the spam post was deleted? If so then that would explain it. There was no spam post at the end of the thread when I read it (listed as having 149 posts) but maybe it had already been removed. That was me on 8 Nov @ 3:24 btw. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 09 Nov 06 - 09:44 AM GUEST, KB, probably when you first went to the main forum page, the thread had had spam added which refreshed it, but by the time you clicked on it, the spam had been removed. Then if you went back to the main forum page using the back button, that would mean that main page still wasn't refreshed, but when you clicked on the thread again, of course it still showed up the way you saw it the first time. I'll bet if you had refreshed the main page at any stage instead of using the back button, the thread would have been gone. Just a matter of timing. The clones don't leave the spam there very long. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 06 - 09:47 AM Will Winona Ryder ever post on this thread? I'm bettin' not. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Winona Date: 09 Nov 06 - 03:00 PM Why Little Hawk, I was only waiting for you to ask. My li'l heart's all a-pitter-patter. W. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:20 PM Glad to see you are paying attention Winona. We are doing what we can to get the two of you together. It has proved an arduous task but we are strong and shall prevail. Have you posted to the 5000 thread? It has become quite the lively place these days. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 10 Nov 06 - 01:26 PM Hello fellow 85 billioners. I've been away. On holiday. To the jungle. No internet there. Couldn't post. You understand. See you kept the ol' place ticking over, while I was away. That's good to see. It's good to be back. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:02 PM I'm just refreshing this thread as I pass through the forum. I have nothing much to say at the moment (really) and am not in the mood for a controversy of any description. So in saying this I will pass on. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:10 PM Oh. Me too. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:44 PM Ecclesiastical erudition eloquently exacerbates evidentiary expediency. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:45 PM Explicit, eloquent, exact. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:51 PM Is this a controversy? i can't work it out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:52 PM Evidently. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Nov 06 - 03:53 PM In that case I don't want to get involved. I'm not doing controversies this evening. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:49 PM Not if it drops off the page . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 03:58 PM It almost always drops off over the weekend. We (well, not me) did a better job than usual this time around. Let's give ourselves (again, excluding me) a hand. This isn't too controversial is it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:16 PM Give yourself a hand? Give YOURSELF a hand???? Seldom have I read or heard anything more salacious, more disgusting, more explicit than that! What's next -- "Let's give each other a hand"? Before you know it we'll have passed the point of no return on the Primrose Path to Politics and Perdition! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:18 PM Give that lad a big hand |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:21 PM This could turn out to be the biggest controversy yet seen on Mudcat. KB how could you? I'll have to consider which side I'm taking. Can't rush this one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:23 PM Oh, dear. I seem to have stirred the pot a bit. Poked a stick in the proverbial hornets nest as it were. Time to take the gloves off and have at it I say. BTW, I didn't say "give yourself a hand" I said "give ourselves a hand." I suppose since it was ourselves it should have been hands, otherwise there wouldn't be enough to round. Of course, I don't get one anyway so that leaves it to the rest of you to fight it out. Go ahead, I'll just watch. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:24 PM Fence sitter eh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:25 PM I might be a fence sitter on this one, then again, I might not. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:28 PM I think I'll be on Shambles side if he posts. Then after his lenghthy argument I can post 'I agree'. Why has he never posted here do you think? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:29 PM ok have one each now shake on it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:30 PM Those are not with us are against us! If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem, and vice versa. The only thing in the middle of the road is a possum pancake! Mugwump. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:41 PM Rapaire, you were the first to spot the controversy hidden stealthily in KBs post. Can you establish the two main arguments clearly for me please? I know I'm planning to side with Shambles on this one, but just in case he can't handle the heat and decides not to post I suppose I ought to form my own opinion. If I really must. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:44 PM Mmmmm.... Possum pancakes. Now I'm hungry. I think I'll go make dinner. Emma, could you give me a hand? Thanks ever so. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bill D Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:52 PM Flagrantly flatulent flamingos flamboyantly flagellate floral flotillas. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:52 PM I think The Shambles might really be the hornets nest we shouldn't poke. I sometimes wonder if he reads threads like this. When he isn't tilting at windmills he can be quite funny. My concern is that this would turn into a second front, he is only allowed one at a time. It could potentially shut this thread down. We probably wouldn't make it to 85 billion if that happened. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:53 PM your wish is my command KB |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 04:57 PM I have been driving past a possum twice a day for the last week so catching one shouldn't be a problem. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:17 PM You impossumable, that's what you are.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:21 PM Then again, maybe I have driving past an Opossum. Do I detect another controversy? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:22 PM And they're pre-tenderized! I do think that if you cannot define the controversial threads your education is lacking in scope, depth, and width, and I will not presume to correct it by demonstrating what is obvious to any semi-educated person. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:23 PM Huh? I don't get it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:37 PM Me neither, but i think he's got a point. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:41 PM Yeah, but when he wears a hat nobody can tell. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 13 Nov 06 - 05:48 PM I see what you mean |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 13 Nov 06 - 06:12 PM This is more like it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 14 Nov 06 - 03:54 PM Well, it was! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 14 Nov 06 - 04:22 PM Ain't no pen mightier than my sword! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Nov 06 - 02:26 PM What happened yesterday? No Mudcat at all, not even a note saying it was offline for a bit. First I thought that Mudcat and the 85 billion thread had perhaps been just a dream. Then I thought there might be a conspiracy involved: the powers that be realising we were a force to be reckoned with picnicked and pulled the plug. So I said my fond farewells to you all and wondered if you were all thinking the same. Then I started a book, something I haven't done for ages. I blame Mudcat for this mix up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 17 Nov 06 - 01:31 PM It was eerie. I would hit my bookmark, the little blue line would slowly grow, and then, nothing. No 404 error, no 'forbidden' message, nothing. Oh, well. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Nov 06 - 04:44 PM Believe it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 18 Nov 06 - 04:04 PM Loved the video Emma B. Yes it does seem that the cat will always come back - though this one is more welcome! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Nov 06 - 03:18 PM Wake up 85 billioners!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Nov 06 - 03:19 PM "Wake up 85 billioners!!" It's everything I can do to wake myself up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Nov 06 - 03:23 PM Maybe I was a little over optimistic. OK wake up 5 people. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 20 Nov 06 - 03:26 PM OK I've just woken up five people. NOW what the hell do I do ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Nov 06 - 03:30 PM 3 more people and I've achieved my 5 (by wake I meant post myself). I have doubts whether you really have woken up 5 people what, what what? Have you really really woken up 5 people genuinely? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Nov 06 - 03:53 PM I've had a think and realised that i shouldn't have doubted the fact that you've woken up 5 people what, what, what? Of course you have or you wouldn't have said it. I don't know what you do next though, I didn't think that far. I guess some of them are pretty annoyed. Could you blame me? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 20 Nov 06 - 04:19 PM did someone call? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Nov 06 - 04:58 PM I just had the strangest dream... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Nov 06 - 05:00 PM Yes, yes, yes, and? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Nov 06 - 05:03 PM I'm awake now. Don't really remember much about the dream. I've always been that way. I'll wake up with these vivid images bouncing around in my head and within a couple of minutes I'm hard pressed to recall any of it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Nov 06 - 05:06 PM You've built all our hopes up about the dream and now you say you've forgotten it? Is there nothing you remember at all? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Nov 06 - 05:15 PM About what? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Nov 06 - 05:18 PM Dreamgate of course. Goodnight and sweet ..... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 20 Nov 06 - 05:34 PM "To sleep? Perchance to dream! Ay there's the kitten! For in that sleep of house cats what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal feline, must give us paws..." OK, it needs a little editing, but I might be onto something here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 20 Nov 06 - 08:44 PM to (K) b or not to (K) b...... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 21 Nov 06 - 09:27 AM Last night I had a crazy dream About a chick in a black bikini Oh she looked so good she couldn't be real So she must be a magic genie But then she disappeared around a corner All I saw were three doors and the top of her bikini I made it through the first door there was a party going on I asked about the chick but what they said was this REFRAIN Chick-a-boom chick-a-boom don't ya jes' love it Chick-a-boom chick-a-boom don't ya jes' love it Chick-a-boom chick-a-boom don't ya jes' love it Chick-a-boom chick-a-boom-boom-boom I found the bottom half By the second door Which took me to Africa I presume This really far out cat was screaming half crazy "Bomp bom a loo bom a lomp bam boo" I said hey man cut that jive And tell me where the chick went But he looked at me as crazed as could be And said these words but I wonder what he meant REFRAIN Ah don't ya jes' love it Ooh don't ya jes' love it Don't ya love it don't ya love it Oh yeah don't ya love jes' it Don't ya jes' love it now I opened the third door and there she was And She just looked so sexy and oh ooh I tried to do the same and impress her with my style But why I said this I'll never know REFRAIN |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 21 Nov 06 - 11:30 AM That was a very weird dream indeed KB. And here's you saying earlier you couldn't remember them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:28 PM This one was a bit more memorable than most. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:25 PM I've decided not to post here tonight. Anybody else not posting either? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:34 PM possibly......... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:52 PM Not posting to a thread... I think it's been done. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:57 PM BTW, our cat died (see posts from 14 Sept if you wonder). She had a growth in her cheek. It got to the point where she couldn't eat and could hardly take a drink. A couple of times she started bleeding from the mouth. I had to take her to the vet, the wife and kids wouldn't have dealt with that too well. It wasn't much fun for me either, but not nearly as bad as taking my dog some years back. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 21 Nov 06 - 05:03 PM sorry KB Housemate, I can think you still Bounding to the window-sill, Over which I vaguely see Your small mound beneath the tree, Showing in the autumn shade That you moulder where you played. Thomas Hardy my housemate lies under snowdrops where she sunned herself in happier days |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 21 Nov 06 - 05:10 PM Thanks, Emma B. It took a few days before I stopped checking for her when I got into bed so I wouldn't squish her. At least the birds can eat in peace now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 21 Nov 06 - 06:12 PM Am I right for Southampton? Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 21 Nov 06 - 06:25 PM Not hereabouts KB we had a sparrowhawk on the birdbath today - looking for lunch no doubt |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Scoville Date: 22 Nov 06 - 01:50 PM Whoa--that was close! It almost fell off the end of the page! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Linda Goodman Zebooker Date: 22 Nov 06 - 03:58 PM As a formerly flatuous, fatuous yet fribble flamingo (See Getaway 2006), I resemble Bill D's most recent remark! So there. My contribution. Get on with it, folks. --Linda |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:42 AM Surely someone wants to claim the 800th post? 800, that's not far off a 1000 is it? 1000 posts eh, we should have a virtual party on that day. Anyone good at maths know when this might be, based on the posting levels so far? That might be a good time for me to quit this thread forever, finally, and once and for all. Hmmm.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:47 AM I have #850 reserved as I nailed #85. I'll keep you posted, posted, posted... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:47 AM huh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:48 AM Looks like I got #800 too! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 25 Nov 06 - 06:02 PM Guess what Peace? Guess what KB? Guess what what, what, what?? Guess what Mudcatters all? You'll never guess who I've met this very evening in person, eye to eye and face to face. Go on guess (Emma B, you're not allowed to guess). I met this person at a Mudcat gathering, at a festival in a place the local's call 'Bedearth' in middle England. It was my first Mudcat meet. I TRIED to be normal, I really did, but I'm not sure how convincing I was. They asked me what my name was, I said "I was there at the beginning man, but you can call me IWTATBM if you like". They looked at me suspicious. They asked me where I was from, I said "Ambridge". They looked at me suspicious and in a way that suggested I didn't swim in reality's pond. I did try though and I pushed the 85 billion thread for all its worth. I pushed it so hard that we can expect at least 1000 extra posts by the end of the week. You'll see. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 25 Nov 06 - 07:45 PM oh |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 25 Nov 06 - 07:47 PM Ha! I see that the flippin' stoopid Winona Rider thread has flippin' vamished off the page. I coulda preedicted that, eh? That flippin' retread little Hawk will NEVER get anywheres near her, eh? Meanwhile MY fliipin' amazing 85 Billions thread is drivin' on...It's over the center line! It's over the blue line! It's headin' in to SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Majerly cool, eh? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 27 Nov 06 - 06:28 PM welcome home little 85 billion |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 28 Nov 06 - 09:35 AM "Your still my only desire" I'm confused, Emma B. Am I to assume that she is looking to brew up a batch of illicit spirits? Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on the subject. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 29 Nov 06 - 02:20 PM Ñåãîäíÿ ÿ ãëàâíûì îáðàçîì ãîâîðþ ðóññêîãî. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what ? Date: 29 Nov 06 - 02:28 PM Здравствулте!. Я все еще имею людей сердитые на мне для просыпать они вверх. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 29 Nov 06 - 02:45 PM Fogot ii1 äëÿ òîãî ÷òîáû ñêàçàòü ÷òî illicit êîììåíòàðèé äóõîâ áûë ìîèì. Íàñòîëüêî îãîð÷åííî. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: My guru always said Date: 30 Nov 06 - 05:12 AM Just popping in as requested! Cheers! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 30 Nov 06 - 09:40 AM So, what, what, what are you doing differently? IWTATBM and my Russian looks goofy, yours looks wonderful. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 30 Nov 06 - 03:05 PM Thanks for posting My guru - please call again. Well 85 billioners there's the 1st of the 100 extra posters I promised you as a result of my recruitment campaign at a Mudgather. And yes, what's going on what, what, what? How come YOUR Russian looks so good? Wish I'd chosen Italian now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 30 Nov 06 - 03:23 PM Welcome, guru. Always nice to see a new face (even though I can not, of course, see your face). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 30 Nov 06 - 04:43 PM Nobody's guessed which Mudcatter of the 85 billion thread I met at the Bedworth festival yet by the way. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 30 Nov 06 - 04:45 PM Um, Emma B? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 30 Nov 06 - 04:46 PM Yes, good guess KB. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 30 Nov 06 - 05:05 PM OK, IWTATBM, let me get this straight. You say you live in Ambridge (and not in Pennsylvania), correct? Looks like quite the place. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 30 Nov 06 - 05:17 PM Yes KB, Ambridge in Borcetshire, England - just around the corner from The Bull, the village pub. Did you know there is a Pennsylvania in England? It's in Gloucestershire and I've driven through it a number of times over the years. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 30 Nov 06 - 05:24 PM 'scuse the typo - Borsetshire of course! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 30 Nov 06 - 05:34 PM When I put "Borcetshire" in Google it found it. The self-same one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 30 Nov 06 - 05:42 PM the best laugh I've had all day |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Nov 06 - 06:04 PM That is bizarre. I wonder if it's a popular show in Twillingsgate? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 01 Dec 06 - 09:17 AM I remember hearing something about the Archers years ago. Don't recall the context and perhaps I am mis-rembering, but I don't think so. How many radio soaps can there be that were started as aids to farmers? I would think not many. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 01 Dec 06 - 01:56 PM What's with the 'soap' thing? In Ambridge we call it a 'fly on the wall' documentary. I wouldn't sign up to it myself as I didn't want my private life be known by the public. They tried all ways to persuade me, me being one of the village characters, and they only stopped pestering me when I threatened to quit the village for ever, never to return. Some folks in the village however have no shame and will do anything to escape the 'tedium of village life' as they see it. We call them 'the luvvies'. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 01 Dec 06 - 02:00 PM So sorry, I must have been thinking of something else. So then, IWTATBM, are you not in the group photo of the village that is posted on the BBC site? I was trying to pick you out but now think I may have been wasting my time. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 01 Dec 06 - 02:15 PM No, you won't find me on there KB - I have my pride. You know this is one of the longest running documentaries ever and it's second nature to the luvvies. As soon as their young uns are old enough to say 'mama' they clips a microphone on them and only takes it off when they pops their clogs. Disgusting if you ask me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:06 PM "pops their clogs"? Not one I have heard on this side of the pond. Given the context I conjured an image but don't know if it is anywhere near. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 01 Dec 06 - 04:03 PM Oooh, I just looked it up. That was not among the meanings I had envisioned. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 01 Dec 06 - 04:20 PM Can't imagine what you thought I was alluding to KB I'm sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 04 Dec 06 - 03:39 PM Back from the ash heap. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Dec 06 - 06:37 PM Here's another vital question. Will Shane get turned down by 85 billon women? I figure he's nearly a third of the way there already... ;-D |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Dec 06 - 06:41 PM I have it on good authority (one "Dana") that Shane, well, not even once.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 05 Dec 06 - 05:31 PM And now for a bit of fun. Well, not really, I just didn't want it to fall off. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Dec 06 - 07:51 PM "I just didn't want it to fall off." Believe me, I understand. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 05 Dec 06 - 08:05 PM No kiddin', man! Noooobody wants it to fall off and I herd that can happen if you, like, go with some of them professhional girls, eh? You gotta be careful. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 05 Dec 06 - 08:05 PM it's the cold weather out there isn't it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 05 Dec 06 - 08:08 PM Everybody's an art critic. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 07 Dec 06 - 02:17 PM I think maybe he spent a little too much time handling his baggage. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 08 Dec 06 - 11:26 AM Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Dec 06 - 11:30 AM Well Shane, it can fall of from disuse. I suggest you use epoxy or some good strong bolts.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 08 Dec 06 - 11:32 AM Duct tape |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:29 PM To be quite frank with you, the answer is no. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:33 PM I am pretty sure, |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:36 PM however, |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:40 PM that it will |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:43 PM reach |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:46 PM eight |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:50 PM hundred |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:53 PM and |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 05:57 PM fifty |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 08 Dec 06 - 06:01 PM That's 850! 8-)>, Thank you, thank you! See you all at around 8500. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Dec 06 - 06:38 PM Congratulations on having reached 1/100,000,000 of your goal. (Why is the Google ad on this page promoting a "Plastic Knob Manufacturer"? Does someone around here have a plastic knob?) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Slag Date: 09 Dec 06 - 12:10 AM Opps! Musta grabbed the wrong knob! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 09 Dec 06 - 12:21 AM "Congratulations on having reached 1/100,000,000 of your goal." We're gettin' close. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Cluin Date: 09 Dec 06 - 11:09 PM Good thing I'm not a clone or I'd shut these bastards down. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 09 Dec 06 - 11:10 PM Tell 'em, Cluin. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Dec 06 - 01:50 AM People have been wanting to shut Shane down for awhile too...he owes a lot of people for free beer, smokes, borrowed money, free dope...and then there is that little matter of the missing snowmobiles. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Cluin Date: 10 Dec 06 - 02:22 AM And the knocked up sheep around Blind River. And by Blind River, I mean Orillia. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Dec 06 - 01:22 PM Remember without Shane there would never have been an 85 billion thread. Who else would have had the genius to come up with an 85 billion thread? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Dec 06 - 01:36 PM Alfred E. Newman? Clem Cadillhopper? George W. Bush? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 12 Dec 06 - 01:54 PM Yes, but would any of them have picked 85 Billion exactly? It took a rare intellect to find the one pure number, the only number that could possibly have made the 85 Billion thread what it is today. I believe that when future generations look back on our civilization, this thread will be heald up as one of our supreme achievements. Our future selves will be revered for our (and by extention, their) intimate connection to this seminal event. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Dec 06 - 02:15 PM Why must it be a seminal event? Why can't it be an ovular event? Why must you bring sexism into everything? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 12 Dec 06 - 02:24 PM Come again? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 13 Dec 06 - 12:21 PM äÁè»ÃÐʾ¤ÇÒÁÊÓàÃç¨-Êӹǹ |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 13 Dec 06 - 12:23 PM ?????? - it didn't look like that when I posted it :) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Dec 06 - 01:51 PM IWTATBM had that same issue when we tried to post some Russian. Somebody else had a beautiful Russian post but never said how (don't recall who and don't want to check right now, maybe later). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Dec 06 - 01:54 PM It was what, what, what? what had good Russian |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Dec 06 - 02:11 PM Indeed it was, thanks ever so. I asked him how he did it but got no response. I really do wonder. I tried Google languages and Babblefish and got gobbledy-gook both ways. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Dec 06 - 02:30 PM Hey IWTATBM, I was at a second hand store here in Iowa the other day and guess what I found. Nope, that's not it. I found a guide book for Hadrian's Wall. It has some nice pictures and a fair amount of explanatory text. It originally cost £1.90 but I got it for 50 cents. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Dec 06 - 02:52 PM 50 cents eh, that must be about 30p? - sounds like a good deal. It's become a popular trail in the UK at the moment and everyman and his dog is doing it. Apart from the history, the most memorable things for me were getting through a number of fields with bulls in them and a regular supply of mushrooms which tasted so good, much more intense flavour than shop bought ones. Oh for the summer... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Dec 06 - 02:57 PM I hiked Hadrian's Wall. It was great, except for all the Picts. But that was okay, because I got lots of Pict yours. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Dec 06 - 03:00 PM Groan! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 13 Dec 06 - 03:52 PM Hey KB !! èíîãäà, ýòè âåùè êàê ðàç ñëó÷àþòñÿ åñòåñòâåííî :-)) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 13 Dec 06 - 03:54 PM íî ÍÈÊÎÃÄÀ, of course, äâàæäû â ðÿäêå |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Dec 06 - 03:56 PM Thank you, thank you very much. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 13 Dec 06 - 03:59 PM I couldn't have said it better myself. I think you have really captured the essence of the situation. Âïðî÷åì, ÿ ìîã îøèáàòüñÿ. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Dec 06 - 01:35 PM Welcome to all you "Stupid Thread" folks. Come in and look around, pull up a seat. Stay as long as you like. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Dec 06 - 02:09 PM The original - and still the best. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Dec 06 - 02:21 PM Many threads TRY to be as stupid as this one, but they pale in comparison. And the thing is, we KNOW it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 15 Dec 06 - 03:14 PM you're just just the sort of guys I like to hang about with |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Dec 06 - 04:18 PM Like they say, "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a noose." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: number 6 Date: 15 Dec 06 - 04:38 PM just lookin' I dunno .... seems a bit to 'relevant' here also. goodbye biLL |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Dec 06 - 04:45 PM Who you callin' elephant? I never been elephant a day in my life and I ain't about to start now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 15 Dec 06 - 04:59 PM ok then - lets get back to tradtional song |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:09 PM But I do want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (and not just the hole in his bottom). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB's Secret (and Sadistic) Santa Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:15 PM be very careful what you wish for |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:17 PM Oooh! I'm so happy. How did you know? There's lot's of room for him in our two-car garage. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Humiliated hippoess Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:22 PM KB - don't you know a lady when you see one? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:23 PM Would one of you kind people invite Shambles to this thread? He gets so fuckin' much abuse from people on HIS thread--they can't seem to leave him alone--and really, this thread needs the posts. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 16 Dec 06 - 09:15 AM That (inviting Shambles) has been proposed before. If I could feel confident he would stay away from his pet topic I would be glad to have him here. When he is just being a regular person he can be quite engaging. I'm serious about this, he can be very funny. My concern is he would veer away from the topic of this thread and start tilting at windmills over here. That could get us shut down. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't get to 85 Billion if that happened. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 16 Dec 06 - 10:55 AM Dear Humiliated Hippoess, My sincerest apologies, I guess I was just having a bad day. BTW, you have the cutest smile. Can I wallow in your mudhole? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:27 PM A post is a post is a post. These posts have a purpose. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:30 PM I don't wish to sound pessimistic, but we may have bit off more than we can chew. Any chance we could get the thread title changed to "Will this thread reach 84 billion posts?" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Black Beauty Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:41 PM I am a vegetarian is anyone else allowing birds to live over Christmas ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:44 PM Do penguins count? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,H H Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:29 PM Dear KB so follow me follow, down to the hollow, and there let us wallow.......... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:31 PM Me BB. This'll be my 24th Christmas nut roast! This threads a bit nutty too. Q. Do penguins count? Ans. Only when they need to. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 16 Dec 06 - 04:35 PM of course they count! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Dec 06 - 08:50 PM Well, it won't reach 85 billion today, but it will by da good Lord reach |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Dec 06 - 08:50 PM CM |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Dec 06 - 08:51 PM Or if you prefer, in Roaming Numerals 9 0 0 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:38 AM Congratulations on your 900 Peace - it will go down in history. The question now is will we get to 1000 before New Year? If we do we can all raise a glass to the 85 Billion thread's achievement as well as the New Year (it will be optional if you want to announce the fact publicly among friends and family or just keep it to yourself). Our leader BDiBR will then surely give his his first, historic, New Year speach with tips and advice about how to approach 2007. I can hardly wait, he won't let us down, it'll be something real special. So just 98 posts to go |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:53 AM 98 ways from here to there? I think my brain hurts |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:16 PM Thanks Emma B. It seems if we use this formula we can do it: Aa+Ba2+Ca3+85 billion = 1000 posts. It all seems so easy now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:20 PM WE ARE THERE. 1000. Nothin' left to do but fill in the blanks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:48 PM OK, no one is impressed. Piss on it then. CMV |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 02:48 PM OOPS. CMVII |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:08 PM novecentos e oito |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:09 PM Now THAT was fuckin' impressive. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:20 PM My apologies. I should not have said that. Instead. allow me to say, "Now THAT was fuckin' exemplary." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:21 PM Εννιακόσια ένδεκα |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:30 PM Sorry, Rapaire. It's Greek to me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:40 PM It's my personal motto: 9-1-1. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:43 PM What's a motto? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:45 PM Oh dear, what can the motto be ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 03:52 PM Nothin'. What's the motto with you? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:30 PM my motto? Lata videtur puga in hac? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:36 PM "I can see a pug in the milk." Okay.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:54 PM OK then - how about MY EPITATH - Ergo agite, ocomites Lacrimas mihi sestite inannes Namque ego agam posthac Tempus in omne nihil |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 04:58 PM My educated guess is that you have posted a recipe for some sort of bug killer that destroys a relative of the termite family. Am I close? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:01 PM The thread will NOT hit on eth ous and by sitting idle. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:08 PM ૐ |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:10 PM not even getting warm Peace |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:07 PM Oh, fer goodness sakes! Let this old Latin Scholar at it! Ergo agite, ocomites = Therefore agitate, O Committees Lacrimas mihi sestite inannes = Cry to me [you] inane sestite* Namque ego agam posthac = I want namque and agam** posthaste Tempus in omne nihil = Doesn't time mean anything to you? * Sestite: a type of light cavalryman popular in areas of Scotland never conquered by the Romans. ** Namque and agam: Roman precursor of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, made with battered eels and cheese on toasted bread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:10 PM Showoff! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:13 PM Simply demonstrates the value of a good Classical Education, old chap. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 17 Dec 06 - 08:15 PM Latin is a language Dead as dead can be; First it killed the Romans, Now it's killing me All are dead who spoke it, All are dead who wrote it; all are dead who learned it - Lucky dead, they've earned it! Dies improbi capilli Cara? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 09:04 PM So then, let this be my epitath: Adicies in caccabum liquamen, vinum, oleum, cocturam, porrum et coriandrum concisum, esicia minuta, spatulam porcinam coctam tessellatim concisam, et in eundem caccabum iecinera et pulmones inmittes. Dum coquitur, teres piper, ligusticum, origanum, ius de suo sibi, vino et passo temperabis. Facies ut ferveat. Cum ferbuerit, tractam confringes et ex ea obligas, piper aspargis et inferes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Dec 06 - 09:06 PM Piece of cake. It's a very long roundabout way of saying that the piper eats asparagus. Piper and asparagus are the important bits; the rest is just detail. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Dec 06 - 10:09 PM Trained at...Oxford, was it?, Peace? I've been known to hang around Scottish bands and yell, "Aw, yer piper eats aspargus!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Dec 06 - 08:52 AM I spent quite some time last evening, and I finally worked out the equation: Energy = Motto x the speed of something in centimeters squared. Or, as I like to write, E-mc^2. Now if I can only work out what that something is that speeds along. I've tried gossip, ignornance, Shane (came out way, way too long a figure), pop music, and all sorts of times, like 4/4 and 6/8 and 12/8 and 16/32 and andante vivace and allegretto con multigraino. Well, I hope to have it all finished in time for next year's Nobel Prize money. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Dec 06 - 11:31 AM Looks like someone else is already working on it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 11:33 AM OK, guys, up and at 'em. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 18 Dec 06 - 12:00 PM you'll need a damn big headstone for that epitath Rapaire! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Dec 06 - 12:02 PM Do you suppose he was trying to compensate for something? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 18 Dec 06 - 02:52 PM still trying to work out whether that's pigeon Latin Rapaire or a rather tasty recipe for Latin pigeon! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Dec 06 - 03:00 PM I'm getting hungry |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Dec 06 - 03:04 PM My favorite recipe for fowl is to stew 'em until the feathers float to the top. That's when you know they're done. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 18 Dec 06 - 03:49 PM I've come back now all this highbrow Latin's subsided. As My great uncle Ebenezer of Lower Loxley once said: "All this fancy talk won't get the pigs in will it?" And he was right. Ever had mock duck? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:19 PM Yup. And I've ducked mock, too. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:22 PM Ducks don't like to be mocked. They are very sensitive. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:23 PM well I for one would never mock a duck! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:35 PM You wouldn't dare mock a duck Emma, you have so much in common! G. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:36 PM Hell! I wouldn't dare! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 18 Dec 06 - 04:41 PM No ducks at the moment |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:22 PM That's more like it. Only 56 posts to go and we make it 1000 before the New Decade. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:27 PM This should make it 55. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:29 PM Uh, I think we have a math problem here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:57 PM Huygens, we have a problem! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 09:59 PM OK. Math is my thing. Here ya go. This is post 950. We have to make it to post 1000 by the New Year. By my calculations, we have 13 days to go or 14 if this is the 17th. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:00 PM Uh, is this December? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:03 PM Would you say Huygens was a vacillator? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:16 PM That was good. However, I found something that will help. Look at this pic and then follow my calculation, ok? You have to work with me on this, Bobad, and all other 85 billion poster supporters. 1000-952=(and what goes here is our problem) Using the diagram, we subtract the number on the right from the other number on the right from the number above but which in this case is on the left because of I can't make the things line up the way they do in the pic. Any way, we take two away from zero and what do we get? Right. We get bupkis, because anything from nothing is nothing. We repeat that with the next number to the left meaning the number on the right of the lleft number but really to our left unless we are behing the computer or standing on our heads which would present the same view if your computer is upside down. Anyway, five from zero is--yes, you're right again--another bupkis. Notice that the same thing will occur with the zero and the nine. Bupkis. BUT, when we take zero away from the one, EUREKA. WE HAVE ONE POST TO GO AND WE HIT 1 bupkis bupkis bupkis. No applause necessary. It's a breeze when you know how. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:24 PM Is there going to be a test on this? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:25 PM Yes. One in which it would be good to know bupkis. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:27 PM I don't know from bupkis. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:37 PM The next post will be bupkis. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:37 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:39 PM Oy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:45 PM Oy agree. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Dec 06 - 10:47 PM 39 to go. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Dec 06 - 11:04 PM Jack Benny. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 19 Dec 06 - 02:23 AM Does this help? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Dec 06 - 05:11 AM only 37 to go |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 19 Dec 06 - 09:08 AM Ol' Pap Bupkis. Haven't thought of him in years. Lived down the street in a tarpaper shack, grew his own vegetables, and shot squirrels with a slingshot for meat. Had the last cistern and outhouse in the neighborhood. Played the banjcordion, an awful thing he invented himself, half banjo and half accordion. He used to sit out on his front stoop each autumn and play the thing, just so he'd get arrested and have a nice warm place during the winter. The judges used to sentence criminals to 90 days in the lockup, where they were forced to listen to Ol' Pap play that thing. ACLU finally got 'em to stop, except for people like serial murderers, father rapers, and other ne'er do wells like those. Yeah, Ol' Pap Bupkis. Offered to whittle us a banjcordion just so we could annoy our parents. Anyway, yeah, I knew Bupkis. He must either be dead or going on 170 years old by now. He was old when I knew him, but he could still crack walnuts with his teeth. 'Course, the walnuts cracked the teeth right back, but Ol' Pap didn't mind, 'cause he had a deal with the funeral home. He musta been over a hundred when I knew him, but he could still grab himself by the hair and hold himself out at arm's length. Yeah, I knew Bupkis. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Dec 06 - 12:01 PM enough bupkis already! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Dec 06 - 12:08 PM There are two ducks on the duck cam! Hurry before they fly away! Am I too excited?!?!?!? YES!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 19 Dec 06 - 12:17 PM YES YES YES KB just a smidgeon TOO excited or should that be a widgeon or did I 'teal that from somebody ? I knew I should have pulled the eider leg OK OK I'll duck down now and pay the bill |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Dec 06 - 12:42 PM I see no ducks, I feel cheated. It'll be a duck free Christmas for me I'm sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Dec 06 - 12:44 PM They're gone, damn. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 19 Dec 06 - 12:54 PM Trudgin' man(woman?)fully along |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:03 PM I have to duck out for a bit, be back later. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:08 PM there'll be some along in a minute |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:11 PM Herding ducks? I've heard ducks but never heard of a herd of ducks. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:11 PM This thread will not even reach the other side of the road.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:22 PM but this one WILL |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:25 PM Oh yes it will............ |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:31 PM This one won't |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:36 PM These took a wrong turn |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 19 Dec 06 - 01:40 PM Shane still locked up? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Dec 06 - 02:09 PM how could you.....wahhhh...... what about the kiddies? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 19 Dec 06 - 02:13 PM Open for adoption |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 19 Dec 06 - 02:57 PM I'll drink to that what's yours? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 19 Dec 06 - 03:02 PM Those will be some seriously confused duk-ogs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 19 Dec 06 - 04:39 PM How about some Holiday cheer? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Dec 06 - 06:57 PM LOL!!! Great pictures! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Dec 06 - 09:36 AM Just as I suspected. Shane starts something, but his attention span is shorter than his...well, his his so he sort of wanders off talking to himself. No wonder "Dynamite" Dana wouldn't have anything to do with him! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 20 Dec 06 - 02:53 PM But Shane is with us in spirit always. The flesh may be weak and all... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 02:54 PM Sorry, the above was mine. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:43 PM Is |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:43 PM there |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:43 PM anyone |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:43 PM besides |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:44 PM me |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:44 PM who |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:44 PM wants |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:45 PM to |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:45 PM get |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:45 PM post |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:45 PM 1,000 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:50 PM No |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 04:52 PM Well, OK then. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:22 PM Guests are not counted for the multiples of 100 posts sorry mate. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:25 PM I know there is a debate about whether or not this forum should be members only but as of now it is not. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:29 PM You can't claim your prize if you don't tell us who you are can we? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:31 PM Who cares. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:38 PM I'm not an anonymous poster. I just haven't filled out the form on the membership page. I even asked what difference it would really make if I did join and got no responses worthy of the name. I really do wonder, what are the benefits of membership? I mean besides what is on the FAQ page. What do you get out of it that actually matters? What options are available that you really use? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: John MacKenzie Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:42 PM It's all right, I am only teasing anyway, take no notice. Giok ¦¬] |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KB Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:45 PM But I really do wonder. How often do you, for instance, PM other members? What other things can you do here that I can't that you actually do here? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 20 Dec 06 - 05:50 PM PM'ing is a really big advantage to membership KB as is joining in the fun of the Secret Santa and members/events photos etc. Come on in - the waters lovely! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Dec 06 - 06:08 PM Actually, PMing is sort of frequent. And Chat is nice as well. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 21 Dec 06 - 07:59 AM Not to mention thread tracing. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 21 Dec 06 - 08:00 AM Ooops, I mentioned it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 21 Dec 06 - 10:40 AM Well, that's done. When will I start to feel different? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 21 Dec 06 - 12:22 PM This thread's gone mad - I feel like a bit-poster these days. You should by now be feeling different KB, like everthing before was not reality but a strange dream. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 21 Dec 06 - 12:26 PM "When will I start to feel different?" That depends on the transitivity of the verb. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 21 Dec 06 - 12:35 PM I considered writing it correct but didn't feel like it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 21 Dec 06 - 01:08 PM I was wondering where you have been IWTATBM. Got to thinking maybe you had made good (not that it would actually be good) on your threat to leave and never return. I saw dark days ahead but now the clouds have lifted. I am feeling a bit strange, I had thought it was the oatmeal but now I'm not so sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 21 Dec 06 - 02:54 PM Congratulations on your new title KB. Can we still call you KB or will you be offended if we don't call you KB in Iowa? I think this needs to be cleared up before things get out of hand and potentially nasty. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 21 Dec 06 - 03:11 PM Please do, I am only "KB in Iowa" because "KB" was already taken. Imagine my chagrin! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 21 Dec 06 - 03:53 PM I remember worrying whether IWTATBM was already taken when I decided to become a member. Seems I was one of the lucky ones. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:17 AM I go away for 36 hours and this thread falls off the edge! Seasons greetings to all our readers |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 23 Dec 06 - 08:05 AM And peas on you too. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 25 Dec 06 - 07:23 AM Happy Christmas to all posters of the 85 billion thread, on this, the first of many thousands of Christmases we will enjoy together. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 25 Dec 06 - 11:25 AM I guess I'll use KB. KBII sounds like a radio station and KBI sounds like the Keokuk Bureau of Investigation. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Skivee Date: 25 Dec 06 - 11:29 AM Hey, Shane...Have you started counting to see if you've reached 85 billion yet? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 25 Dec 06 - 11:58 AM Mil e vinte sete. Posteres do companheiro do christmas alegre. Paz na terra. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 27 Dec 06 - 06:35 AM refresque |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:38 PM I hope all our Canadian friends (and anyone else who may celebrate it) had a wonderful Boxing Day! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Cluin Date: 27 Dec 06 - 12:41 PM Yep. Stayed home with the family. I don't shop Boxing Days on principle. Store employees shouldn't be forced to work it; they should be able to be home with their families. Damn consumerism! Do we REALLY need another shopping day? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 27 Dec 06 - 01:00 PM What is the idea behind Boxing Day? I know nothing about it. I guess I could look it up, maybe I will. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 27 Dec 06 - 05:37 PM Hey, do you think BDiBR has finished working on his New Year's Day address to his followers? It'll be an historic moment for sure. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 27 Dec 06 - 07:46 PM I doubt that he'll be coherent. He usually isn't. As for Boxing Day, I think it was called that because that was the day you boxed up all the gifts you'd received and took them back for exchange. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 27 Dec 06 - 07:52 PM Damn, and I've been going ten rounds with the wife on the 26th. for the last thirty years. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 28 Dec 06 - 09:45 AM I did look up Boxing Day and there are about 7,491 different explanations. I guess it can be whatever you want it to be. What a great idea for a Holiday. Don't feel bad bobad (banana fana fo fad), I think your method is as good as any (as long as the wife is game). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: NightWing Date: 28 Dec 06 - 09:28 PM It is, without doubt, the most wonderful Boxing Day ever boxed. Touching, funny, sensitive without being all touchy-feely, it's a man's box that even women love, a box for the whole family to enjoy together. It will undoubtedly change your life, making it richer and fuller than you could have ever imagined.
With all due apologies to Rapaire ... that is to say, none.
BB, |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 28 Dec 06 - 11:22 PM When IS boxing day, and why is it in capital letters? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 29 Dec 06 - 12:39 AM http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/boxing.asp |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 29 Dec 06 - 12:40 AM And many uninformed people think this is just another thread! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 31 Dec 06 - 07:20 AM Hey! this thread may need a bit of a "lift" but........ |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 31 Dec 06 - 08:46 AM OK! which elf took out the viagra spam? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 01 Jan 07 - 06:59 AM We demand our New Year Address. Where are you BDiBR? Happy New Year to all 85 billioners. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 02 Jan 07 - 01:48 AM The arsehole is probably locked up in jail, again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:07 AM Yeah, and the rest of him too. As he has often said, "Where my arsehole goes, I go!" and I have never known him to do otherwise. Of course, it is one BIG arsehole.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:39 AM Well I have faith in him. He will deliver us a new year speech, you'll see. Perhaps the new year starts late in Blind River? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:43 AM Think he'll be sober enough to do so for next year? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 02 Jan 07 - 03:27 PM Shane gives his most memorable speeches when he's drunk. SHANE SHANE SHANE |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Jan 07 - 05:04 PM The tension is really starting to build. I can see it now... The crowd is hushed, the spotlight comes on - stage left - and then Shane steps out of the shadows. The place ERUPTS in a frenzy of foot stomping hand clapping over-the-top exuberence! I am really stoked. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 02 Jan 07 - 08:27 PM Then he takes one step and falls flat on his face (fortunately he can't do any more damage to it), and rolls into the orchestra pit. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 03 Jan 07 - 09:09 AM But he will do it with a panache that few can muster. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 03 Jan 07 - 09:13 AM "But he will do it with a panache that few can muster." Pan ache ? Is that the same as kill it with a skillet ? and I don't want mustard on mine - Thankyou |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 03 Jan 07 - 09:19 AM What I meant to say is that the woman he picked up at closing time will hit him in the head with a frying pan in the morning. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 03 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM mmmmm - that's what I call Panache bon appetit mes amis |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:11 PM I'm intrigued by the dish with "BBQ" and the one with pommes "Granny Smith." I'm reminded of the time I was watching Univision (Spanish language TV) some years back. They were reporting on pro wrestling and flying along in a melodic spanish punctuated by references to a "Rocky Johnson." It was wonderful. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 03 Jan 07 - 02:49 PM Shane we are all awaiting your New Year's Address. Where are you and where is it? It is our entitlement and your duty. (thanks) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 03 Jan 07 - 02:55 PM Shane in his New Year's dress. Now, that is a thought to boggle one's mind. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 03 Jan 07 - 02:59 PM As long as we get the Address I don't care what he wears (no stubble though with the dress). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 03 Jan 07 - 03:00 PM No worries there. He shaves his legs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Jan 07 - 09:30 AM And his head. Shane is going for the Eunuch Look before it is forced upon him by...well, circumstances. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Jan 07 - 09:49 AM I was just thinking about Shane's panache. That's not what we called it back home on the farm, but I guess it's as good a description of it as any. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 04 Jan 07 - 09:53 AM I have never met him so perhaps panache is the wrong term. Based on the descriptions of those who do know him it cetainly seems as though he has something. Maybe several things. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Jan 07 - 09:54 AM No, just one thing. Nonfuctional, but just one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,wecked wabbit Date: 04 Jan 07 - 10:39 AM sorta like this? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Donuel Date: 04 Jan 07 - 01:14 PM CLONES: Its whats for dinner. Assume your beef is cloned. The FDA has announced that cloned beef is safe to eat and does not require any disclosure or labeling to inform the consumer. cartoon: "No Senator, there are no hazards regarding cloned beef." (picture of 5 identical meat industry CEO's testifying before Congress) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 04 Jan 07 - 02:00 PM McDonalds is to blame. It's easier to make every hamburger taste the same if they all came from the same cow. Too bad they seem to have picked the wrong cow. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Big Brother Don Date: 05 Jan 07 - 12:18 AM Hey...guys? I hafta give you the sad news, eh? Shane...my little baby brother the majre loser is... You ready fer this? You sure? You TOTally srue? The flippin' goofball is back in jail! For New Years, eh? I seen it comin'. He made a bunch of the ushewall revolutins this year like he always does, eh? Like, he said he was gonna get drunk a hole lot more and have a hole lot more sex too and then marruy Shania Twain. Ha! Ha! NOT!!!!! Well, maybe the getting drunk part, yeah. He did do that, I gess. But this time was reaaaaally STUPID. He was a total retread this time. You would not believe what the idiot did. I am embarrased to have him as my brother. Of coarse you knew that all ready, didn't you? But still. this is excruishiatin'ly embarfasing. Un-flippin' be-LEE-vable! I laffed till I fell down cryin' when I heard about it. I wondre how long the poor flipper is in for this time? His officer Dana (the cold bithch) has gived up on him. She sees that he is beyond help, eh? Too flippin' bad, but she is cold as a fish in my apinion cos she turned me donw at least 3 times now...so maybe not. WEll, that's the news, eh? Happy Flippin' NEW YEAR, eh? - Don McBride (Shane's big brother) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 05 Jan 07 - 12:21 AM Woe is me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 05 Jan 07 - 11:50 AM Is euthanasia legal in Blind River? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 05 Jan 07 - 12:15 PM Once they get to Blind River the youth are no longer in Asia. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 05 Jan 07 - 02:11 PM Just to clear this up - does this mean no new year address from our thread host? When's he due to be released big brother? flip! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Emma B Date: 05 Jan 07 - 02:15 PM hey I'm on the case already |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 05 Jan 07 - 02:19 PM Anyone know what his bail record's like? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: gnu Date: 05 Jan 07 - 03:05 PM Bail? No sweat. He never wanders far from the tavern. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 05 Jan 07 - 05:25 PM I figgered that this was the case. He's probably enjoying himself and others are enjoying him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 05 Jan 07 - 05:28 PM I'm starting to think maybe the Sudbury gorilla got him. I sure hope not, Lord only knows what would become of him then. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 06 Jan 07 - 09:18 AM Well, his brother said Shane was in durance vile, i.e., jail (or gaol). Since that's his second home he'll probably be okay for the winter, and may even come out in the Spring wealthier than when he went in. But I doubt it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there in the middle man Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:23 AM How can this thread possibly reach 85 billion posts if we let it drop off the bottom and forget all about it? Slag's over there slumming around in the deleted posts thread talking about this thread, and all the while, he's not posting here. Shame on you man, shame on you! Never fear, I will do my duty. Up you go! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Jan 07 - 02:03 PM Oh, dear. I was away over the weekend and now I find that Emma B says she is leaving. If you see this, Emma B., feel free to return any time without explanation. Just log on and post a goofy link. I really like your goofy links. Like IWTATBM said on the other thread, you will still be welcome at the 85 Billion get-togethers. Even if you never post again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Jan 07 - 03:14 PM IWTITMM don't worry, this thread was never forgotten. Sometimes we let it slide away a little just to see who will dig it out. This time it was you! Good to see you brother I Was There Man. We will certainly miss Emma B over here and will rejoice when, hopefully, she returns. There's always hope of a return; take my case for example! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:43 PM Was a time I would begin to despair when the thread would slide off the page. I had my moments of doubt about the future. Now I don't worry. There are enough of us now to keep it from staying down for too long. I might even be willing to be a little Shamble-istic if I thought it was needed. Up to now I haven't liked to bring a thread (any thread) back up if I was the last one to post but right now am thinking I will no longer allow that to prevent me. The thread is more important than my pride. So what if poeple think I am sad little person with no friends and nothing better to do than reply to himself. I know I could have friends if I wanted to, I just don't want to, that's all. I'm pretty busy anyway, I'm only up to 1999 in my quest to read every word of every thread that has ever been on the Mudcat. It's fascinating really, so many folks with so many thoughts. None of them are about me but I don't mind. I matter, I'm a valuable person and some day the world will see that. There will come a time when the world will not just pass me by like so much refuse to be put on the curb for the trashman to take away. Then you will all be sorry you treated me this way. Can't stay any longer just now, I have to go lance my boil. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:49 PM sniff |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Jan 07 - 04:55 PM Good old IWTATBM |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Jan 07 - 05:02 PM Yes, good old me... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 08 Jan 07 - 05:48 PM Fear not, Astoria. The thread will survive--to thrive on jive and stay alive. We got the drive and |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Jan 07 - 06:47 PM ...we quit at five. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there in the middle man Date: 09 Jan 07 - 08:33 AM Then we revive and come alive And make a dive for 85. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 09 Jan 07 - 05:24 PM Or at least 1,087 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 09 Jan 07 - 06:00 PM Ten-eighty-eight is the new four-twenty! Burn 'em if ya got 'em! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 09 Jan 07 - 08:09 PM How's it goin'? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 10 Jan 07 - 09:30 AM Anyone check the duck cam lately? Maybe I will, there were ducks the last time I looked. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 10 Jan 07 - 09:31 AM Two ducks, get 'em while they're hot! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 10 Jan 07 - 01:28 PM There was a duck in my pond a few mornings ago. Not a wild duck, a domestic duck. I could tell it was a domestic because, in addition to being solid white, it was wearing an apron and had a broom tucked under one wing and a bottle of Pine-sol under the other. Instead of saying, "Quack, quack, quack!" it said, "Sorry, I don't do windows." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 10 Jan 07 - 03:48 PM We had a cold snap last week, following a stretch of nice warm weather. Seems like the warmth brought out the frogs, and when the Blue Norther hit the frogs all dove into the water at once. Only the water froze before their legs got in the water, and there was this mass of frog legs sticking up above the ice -- frogs were all dead, of course. Well sir, The Ropin' Rompin' Ranger got out a lawn mower and collected them frog legs. Got himself a bushel and a half, took 'em up to the Legion Hovel, and they had a big frog leg feed up there. It was made more joyous by the tank car of beer they'd managed to switch off the main line and stashed in the barn. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 10 Jan 07 - 09:24 PM And everyone was singing "Ain't no woman like the One-Eyed Dot." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there in the middle man Date: 10 Jan 07 - 09:51 PM I'm still here, somewhere in the middle, and if you never see me again, you will know I am still there in spirit (hic). Us poor little guests don't seem to be as welcome around here any more (sniff) and I was only trying to help (sob)! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:04 AM Well, things are supposed to be cheaper if you cut out the middle man... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:17 AM Hey IWTITMM, I think for right now as long as you are who you are you are fine. It is when you are not anyone at all that you are not. Why not just join? I did and found the procedure to be relatively painless. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,I was there in the middle man Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:19 AM Oh cruel heartless Rapaire. You have cut me to the quick with your rapier-like wit! But never fear, as long as I have breath in my body, ink in my pen, and - er - letters on my keyboard, I shall keep fighting for the upliftment of this noble thread! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:32 AM Jeez, I was just trying to point out that cutting out the middle man would make this thread even cheaper than it already is. Stick around and add some class to this joint. It needs it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:04 AM I've been kicked out of classier joints than this. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:06 AM Hey, that was #1100 and I didn't even notice. Does it still count if you don't mention it at the time? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:39 AM Everyone can breathe a deep sigh of relief. KB in Iowa just did post 1101. From ASCII to binary, that translates to 00110001001100010011000000110001. Subsequently we are well past the measley 85 billion goal. From now on we can stop taking it so seriously and just fart around on the thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 11 Jan 07 - 11:48 AM I'll try to loosen up a bit. Might take some time, I am by nature a very sober and serious person. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:00 PM Yeah, but from binary to decimal it's 13. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:07 PM Batida De Shhhhhh! Treze são um número mágico |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:11 PM So then my 11 year old is really only three. He might like that, he hasn't been too keen on this growing up thing. I wrote down for him: There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who do not. After I explained it he thought it was really funny. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 11 Jan 07 - 02:56 PM Challenge. Who are the top ten posters on this thread? Someone with a mathematical flare and time on their hands might like to work this one out and let us busy people know. Actually I have time on my hands but am just too darn lazy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 11 Jan 07 - 03:54 PM In terms of quality or quantity? I have a logarithm worked up but it is only accurate out to six decimal places. I don't think that is good enough for a thread like this. I don't want to provide an answer unless I can be positive it is correct. I'll get back to you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 11 Jan 07 - 03:59 PM Now that we can all lighten up (I hope non-smokers are not offened), |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Jan 07 - 05:51 PM Well, it ain't stinky ol' Shane. He's in the slammer, and probably enjoying every minute of it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Jan 07 - 06:04 PM 1111 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Jan 07 - 06:16 PM Sorry my previous post wasn't a bit more erudite, but he who spends a lot of time composing a witty message attempting to make post number 1111 often winds up embarassing himself by claiming post number 1111 while actually making post number 1117 instead. If time had permitted, I would have written an ode to post number 1111 or, perhaps, baked it a cake. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 12 Jan 07 - 02:47 PM I think the fact that it was post 1111 is enough. Not that I wouldn't love to hear you expound on your experiences regarding haven gotten number 1111. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Jan 07 - 03:24 PM I meant number of posters based on quantity of course. Quality is too subjective and I'd win every time! I have a feeling the results may not be as predicted. Is there an easy way of counting individual posts on threads; at the click of a button so to speak? Until I find out there isn't I'm holding back from manual labour. We could have 'poster of the month/year' awards. Yes, what I want to know is who was poster of the year 2006? Then 2nd, then 3rd. I bet MOAB haven't done this. Another 1st for the 85 billion thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 12 Jan 07 - 03:26 PM We could be at 84,906,714,305 and no one would know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 12 Jan 07 - 03:34 PM Well, you can always click on the member name and all the posts made are displayed. I think you would still have to count them maually though. Plus, folks like you (IWTATBM) and I would appear to have fewer posts than we did seeing as how we posted for quite some time as GUEST, xxxx. I think I will keep working on my logarithm, it seems less labor (or labour, if you will) intensive. BTW IWTATBM, I was shocked to see that your first post as a member was not to this thread. If it were anyone else this would almost make me question your loyalty to the cause. You have shown your colo(u)rs enough times that I can rest easy, but still... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Jan 07 - 03:39 PM I needed to practise first KB, before I plucked up the courage for the home thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 12 Jan 07 - 03:41 PM Point taken. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:08 PM We surely have to be included as both our guest names and member names together. Does anyone have a problem with this? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:28 PM Interesting that. When I checked the posts I discovered that there was a parallel "GUEST, KB". This person posts seldom and never in the 85 Billion thread (I would definitely have noticed that) so it is not germaine to this discussion so why did I bring it up? Hmm... mutters and walks off. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:51 PM How do we know which KB you were KB? If two KBs were posting here this will have affected your number count. You may have to be disqualified unless you can provide firm evidence that you were ALL KB posts. I'm sorry to be ruthless but Poster of the Year 2006 is at stake here. Now that I think about it you did seem somehow different at times. Hmmm |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:56 PM None of you exist anyway. I created all of you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:56 PM Did I say there was another? No, no, not at all. I am the one and only GUEST, KB and have posted as such off and on since 1999 or so. I have been terribly busy posting this and that and the other, I have a hard time keeping track sometimes. My mind wanders, that must be where any difference in posting style appears. All just me, no need to concern yourself. Thanks all the same. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 12 Jan 07 - 04:58 PM I have a little shrine in the vestibule dedicated to you Rapaire, oh grand and wonderful Creator. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 12 Jan 07 - 05:06 PM Just because you created us Rapaire, doesn't give you the right to claim our posts in the Poster of the Year 2006 award if that's what you're planning to do. I'm on to your little game; you creators are all the same. And KB, you seem a little worried to me. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Jan 07 - 06:18 PM No,no. Having created you I need no further affirmation. Certainly nothing as silly as "top poster" or something. All I want of you, my creations, is your worship, your money, and your immoral souls. All of which, of course, I already have. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 12 Jan 07 - 07:19 PM Hey! I'm out, eh? They let me out on approbashion and I hafta do some community work. Geez! I hate work. Man, do I ever flippin' hate it! But I gotta go pick up trash and stuff. What a flippin' drag! The worst flippin' part is that all my buddies are gonna laff at me forever over this. So I thought I had this great idea, eh? There was a thread on Muccat awhile back not too flippin' long ago and it was about a scam where you, like, go aroudn door to door and pretend you are doin' a govenmemnet survey, eh? And if a woman opens the door you say that she has to show you her bazongas for the survey! I read that and I thought..."This could work!" So I went out and tried it. First I tried in Blind River, but too many people know me there already so it wasn't goin' good. I got a lotta rejeckshions and once nearly got punched out. So then I wised up and went to the big city. Sudbury. People are real easy to fool in Sudbury, eh? Cos they, like, get drunk a lot there. So I'm workin' my way down the street from, like, house to flippin' house and tryin' out my act but no one is showin' me her bazongas. Not one! I couldn't hardly believe my bad luck, eh? And then I got arrested. Someone called the flippin' cops on me. There are a lotta people out there who are mean and flippin' spitful and they don't mind at all to mess up the day for someone like me, eh? They are jealous cos I look so good and I'm still young. They chareged me with sexual harassment!!! And bein' a public nuisance. I don't mind bein' charged with bein' a pubic nuisance because I am one and I KNOW that, but sexual harassment???? Holy flip. There was 16 women what came forward and indentified me as a fippin' sexual harrasser! I was flippin' dead dog humiliated! What the flip is a guy like me who is young, strong, and hung like a flippin' moose supposed to do in his spare time, eh? I don't call it hareassment I call it appresiation! I don't believe the flippin' justice system we got nowadays. It is totally flipped up and gone to hell. So I gotta pick up trash for the next 6 weeks. Holy flip. What did I ever do to deserve this? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Jan 07 - 09:25 PM ...hung like a flippin' moose... Yeah. Hung like a flippin' cow moose!! Well, that's okay, Shane. I guess you made lots of cigarettes in jail, huh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Jan 07 - 03:09 PM Ol' "Cow Moose" Shane must be sleeping it off. Or back in jail. Probably back in jail. He must be about out of cigarettes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 13 Jan 07 - 03:58 PM Welcome back Shane. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 13 Jan 07 - 09:03 PM Thanks, eh? It is good to be back on the outside. But Holy Flip. I picked up a lotta flippin' trash today, eh? And the worst flippin' part is this....some of it was MY OWN TRASH!!! From, like, a half a year ago, eh? I dumped a lotta stuff out on the side of the flippin' road from Don's pickup cos it was stuff I did not need, and guess flippin' what? I had to pick it back up today! Jeezus flippin' H Christ! It really flippin' burns me that I had to pick up my own flippin' old stuff that I throwed out so someone else could flippin' deal with it instead of me! There ain't no justice. Rapaire, you are a flippin' son of a bolthole's last flippin' death wish by bad skunky old beer and I hope a flippin' tree falls on yer flippin' head! That is all I got to say to you, flipface! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 13 Jan 07 - 09:11 PM Let ya outta jail, huh? Fock. Goddamn beg to hear from you and you have the nerve to show up only half pissed. Yer lettin' down the team, Shane. Way down. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Jan 07 - 09:47 PM Yeah, all the guys down at the "Pink Cowboy" missed ol' Shane. Well, I guess pickin' up all his old trash was okay. I mean, all it would be would be empty beer cans. Nothing rubber, if you take my drift. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:56 PM Has ANYONE lifted a finger to research who was Poster of the Year 2006? Sometimes I think you're all a very lazy bunch. Being Poster of the Year will be an important thing in centuries to come and it will look bad on the founding posters if we didn't even acknowledge it. KB are you still counting or did you give up? Would Jo Offer or Max be able to click a button and find out instantly or what? Does anyone know anything about how to do this? Do historic moments mean nothing to any of you? I'd count the numbers myself but I've been ill you see. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:59 PM My feeling is that it would be Shambles. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Jan 07 - 05:06 PM I meant 85 Billion Poster of the Year of course LH - are you having a laugh? By the way I'm thinking of spending a few days on the 5000 thread you'll be pleased to know, just as soon as I am crowned 'Poster of the Year 2006' on this one. A sort of holiday I suppose. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Jan 07 - 06:39 PM I assure you that you are not Poster of the Year. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Jan 07 - 04:15 AM Show me your proof Rapaire, quote me the numbers. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Jan 07 - 09:17 AM I have perfected my logarithm and ran the numbers. You will all be pleased to hear that I, little old me, is poster of the year for 2006 on the grand and glorious 85 Billion thread! No applause, please. p.s. Welcome back Shane. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 07 - 09:35 AM This guy was awarded Poster Of The Year. Note that in a gesture of love and respect he has just kissed his trophy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Jan 07 - 09:56 AM He do seem to be having a bit too much fun with that prop don't he? (I must confess that I could only get my logarithm to count posts that had "KB" in the "From" field but I think the result is still fair and accurate.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Jan 07 - 10:15 AM A little steam engine had a long train of cars to pull. INSPIRING STORY GOES HERE And she went merrily on her way, singing: "I-thought-I-could! I-thought-I-could! I-thought-I-could! I-thought-I-could! I thought i could - I thought I could - I thought I could - I thought I could - I thought I could - I thought I could I thought I could --" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:28 AM Before I congratulate you on being Poster of the Year KB I demand a recount. It's all too easy for the counter of posts to claim to be Poster of the Year. In fact I have just had a bit of a count myself and it would seem that I am, in fact, Poster of the Year 2006. Who are the mathematicians on this thread? Remember this is Poster of the Year 2006 and therefore only posts up to 30 December can be included. This is becoming a saga and it's not over yet. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:30 AM The recount will be done by a corporate entity, same as Florida. The system is fool proof (but not damned fool proof). Expext results in a few months. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:53 AM I will be filing suit and expect this to go all the way to the supreme court... Hold on there, who has jurisdiction in this dispute? Where do we file our briefs? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:58 AM Have worked a system for counting. 1. Open the whole thread and copy all the posters at the top of thread. 2. Paste this into Word 3. Search for a name, selecting 'highlight all'. 4. Copy this and paste it into a new document and do a word count. Have just done a few names and discovered I am not poster of the Year 2006. Seems as though KB may have been genuine after all - always thought so. More results to follow |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:05 PM Wow. And I was just making up that whole logarithm and counting thing. ITWATBM, don't forget thet for a time (while you were still a guest) there were a number posts by somebody with a style much like your own but without your name. Would those count? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:13 PM William Shatner (currently in hospital following an unexpected and emergency sex change operation) was, by actual numbers, Poster Of The Year 2006. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Jan 07 - 12:26 PM "Where do we file our briefs? " In a drawer. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 16 Jan 07 - 01:02 PM Briefly put, that's the long and the shorts of it. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Jan 07 - 01:39 PM You are very generous KB, I have not included them but it would not make a difference anyway by my reckoning. More results to follow. Back briefly |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:12 PM My dachshund, who has peed on every post around here many, many times, claims that HE is poster of the year. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:24 PM I can officially announce that Poster of the Year for 2006 is ......KB. Well done KB, you thoroughly deserve your title. You have your place in the history of the 85 Billion thread. You are officially allowed to make yourself a badge with 'Poster of the Year 2006 (85 Billion Thread)' on it and can wear it with pride, or sell it on EBay, in which case I will bid for it. For you interest posters, here is a selection of the top posters. If your name is not here, please ask and I will tell you how many times you posted on this thread in 2006. 1. KB 170 2. Peace 148 3. IWTATBM 125 4. Rapaire 94 5. Emma B 57 6. MMario 38 7. Bobad 38 8. Bee-Dubya-ell 35 9. Little Hawk 24 10. Slag 23 11. What, what, what 23 12. Bill D 20 13. BDiBR 19 14. DMcG 11 15. John 'Giok' MacKenzie 8 16. Ebbie 6 17. Chongo Chimp 1 We now await our first 'Poster of the Year' award acceptance speech…… Over to you KB. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:28 PM You know, I really pity the hundreds of people on this forum who have never posted even ONCE to the 85 billion thread. People like Teribus, for instance. My, how I pity them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:52 PM Well, I just ran the posts through my brand-new Diebold machine, and the winner is SLAG! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:53 PM But don't let that discourage any of you. There is always the recount. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:05 PM If that's a list of the top 17 posters, then I got a question: Chongo posted just one time. I want the names of everyone who posted less than once!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:09 PM I think we have to use Peace' Diebold machine for that one Rapaire. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:23 PM Well, many of these clogged the machine, so here in campaign (click here)s, we have decided to give the honoUr to those who promise great (click here then click ->) (this is here where there pointed to, FYI) opportunities for those of us involved in counting the votes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:42 PM Yeah but the CLICK ain't CLICK. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:59 PM I shall take my request all the way to the Imperial Court of Persecutions, Elections, And Bad Stuff if you force me to! My wife's a lawyer and I know how to use it...er, her.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,what, what, what Date: 16 Jan 07 - 04:00 PM Herewith I is A Self Declared Procurer and Provider (and Opportunist Leaper In) so for all those involved in counting the posts just for you Yer Tis |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 16 Jan 07 - 10:49 PM You missed me out :-( I posted 7 times in 2006, which still doesn't put me in the top 10 - still it's something....... well not much actually........ oh all right, I'll try to do better in 2007. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:29 PM Well, since Peace didn't make "The 85 Billion Thread Poster of the Year" I suggest we declare him "The 85 Billion Thread Poster Child"! Just think of it! A photo of Peace dressed in rags panhandling on a street corner, with a caption that reads, "I posted to the 85 Billion Thread, and look where it got me! Don't make the same mistake!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:16 AM How about "I posted to the 85 billion thread and all I got was a lousy set of rags"???? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:08 AM I'd like to thank the academy, the producer, my parents, and all the little people who helped make this award possible. I think we all deserve something. Maybe a t-shirt with something like "85 Billion Thread - 2006 Virtual Getaway" I looked for a link with a picture of somebody wearing ragged clothes but couldn't find one I liked. Where is Emma B. when you need her? She would have posted one already. I want to dedicate the award to her. Now the race is on for Poster of the Year, 2007! Good luck to all but be assured, I will not relinquish my crown without a tussle. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:16 AM Tie oo taunt to wank pall the pittle leeple tor fiss hrate goner. "I posted to the 85 billion thread and all I got was this fuckin' t-shirt." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 17 Jan 07 - 02:14 PM Top posters update. Sorry JennyO, after the top 10 I just took a random selection. 1. KB 170 2. Peace 148 3. IWTATBM 125 4. Rapaire 94 5. Emma B 57 6. MMario 38 7. Bobad 38 8. Bee-Dubya-ell 35 9. Little Hawk 24 10. Slag 23 11. What, what, what 23 12. Bill D 20 13. BDiBR 19 14. DMcG 11 15. John 'Giok' MacKenzie 8 16. JennyO 7 17. Ebbie 6 18. Chongo Chimp 1 Can we all just move on now please, this is becoming SO 2006. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:36 AM Could it become more, say, 1967? Or maybe 1588? Or maybe 2009? Perhaps with a little effort it could become, I dunno, more September or something. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:36 AM Well, we simply MUST avoid gauche at all costs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:37 AM How about Gouache? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 18 Jan 07 - 11:38 AM It sounds very painful, so that too! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:39 PM Hi all, Just thought I'd let you know I'm going on hiliday for a few days. See you all next week. I go knowing the thread's in safe hands. Hi-de-hi |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: bobad Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:41 PM Would a hiliday be a vacation on a mountain? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:52 PM It means he's climbing one mountain a day. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 Jan 07 - 06:19 PM Errrr... Ahemmmm... Ahhhhh... You guys let your thread fall off the page.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:10 PM It happens, I don't worry. This thread is like a microwave burrito, it just keeps coming back. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:16 PM I'm in Seattle, where the sun don't shine. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:20 PM So when I'm told to stick it where the sun don't shine I should take it to Seattle. It's quite a drive from here but what the hey! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 23 Jan 07 - 09:33 AM "There are a lot of reasons, many of which get repeated over and over again, many of which don't. Some of the reasons you hear a lot are:" Just thought y'all should know about that! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 07 - 09:17 AM What do you suppose are the reasons for that? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 24 Jan 07 - 10:47 AM The reasons for what? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jan 07 - 10:59 AM You don't need to go to Seattle to see the sun not shine. You can come to Floribama. We've had Seattle weather for a week, but without any of the things that make Seattle bearable in spite of the weather. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 24 Jan 07 - 11:26 AM Washington, DC knows where the sun don't shine. They see it almost every single day--or don't, rather. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 07 - 01:53 PM But the sun's gonna shine in my back door someday |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 26 Jan 07 - 01:20 PM I'm beginning to have doubts about us making it to 85 billion. My consolation is this: Life is about the journey not the destination. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 26 Jan 07 - 01:37 PM Would you say "Gee, it's all about making a billion dollars (US), not about having the billion"? Would you say, "It's all about repairing the roof, not about the roof not leaking"? Nope. It's the destination. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 26 Jan 07 - 05:41 PM "I'm beginning to have doubts about us making it to 85 billion" (KB 26 Jan 07 - 01:20 PM) NEWS HEADLINES Daily Rag February 2007 'SHOCK HORROR!!!, 85 Billion thread Poster of Year 2006 has doubts about achieving thread aims. Is the thread all washed up?..... More on page 2' KB this could be a newspaper's headline. Do you not realise how what you might say in jest could be used by the media? Does the position and responsibility of Poster of the Year mean nothing to you? Frankly I am shocked. While the journey is naturally a massive part of this thread (which is fortunate) to suggest we might never make 85 billion could put off potential posters. It seems I have not returned from my holiday a day too soon. I had a very nice holiday by the way, except that Slag thinks I'm a girl. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,ib48 Date: 27 Jan 07 - 09:53 AM i dont know |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 27 Jan 07 - 10:59 AM You were with Slag then? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 27 Jan 07 - 11:24 AM Yes Rapaire, I also holidayed with Little Hawk, JennyO and KB. Where were you? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 28 Jan 07 - 11:10 AM I was attempting to light a fire and get the post count rolling again. We seem to have slowed lately. It didn't occur to me that others could use my comments for ill. I regret not thinking it through properly. I noticed that slag thinks you are a girl. Maybe you should try tying in a lower register. Sad to say but it may just be due to the fact that you were so respectful while on the 5,000 thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 28 Jan 07 - 12:23 PM I tied into a lower register once. I don't wanna talk about it, now or ever. Maybe Slag is a girl? And I was in Seattle with damned little Internet access! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 29 Jan 07 - 10:29 PM That was interesting, but I've seen similar websites. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 29 Jan 07 - 11:25 PM No flippin' WAY I will do it with a bald woman!!!! Geez. Gimme a break, eh? Well I might if she wore a flippin' wig and I didn't know and Idinn't know she was bald. Yeah, then maybe, most likely, eh? Or if she paid me. Or if there weren't no other possibilities nowhere in sighte. But not flippin' otherwise! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 30 Jan 07 - 03:06 AM Shane would screw an ugly goat in the rain. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:42 AM Hell, Shane would screw an ugly old goat in the sunshine. That's why he lives so close to a farm. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:43 AM I forgot the mention that the goat makes Shane wear a bag over his head. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Leadfingers Date: 30 Jan 07 - 09:41 AM It WILL Make 1200 ! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Leadfingers Date: 30 Jan 07 - 09:41 AM Told you !! 1200 !!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Jan 07 - 01:12 PM Drinks all around! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 30 Jan 07 - 01:13 PM That's the spirit, LH. Don't fuck around, buy a round! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 30 Jan 07 - 01:18 PM Make mine a double! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 30 Jan 07 - 01:18 PM Make mine a double! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 30 Jan 07 - 01:24 PM You can say that again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 30 Jan 07 - 01:27 PM Flippin' A, man! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 30 Jan 07 - 07:22 PM I'm so impressed. Through sheer perseverance and obstinacy you have surmounted 1200. um- Why? But carry on. (There's a lot of that) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Jan 07 - 12:17 AM "surmounted" Shane did that to the goat . . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 31 Jan 07 - 12:27 AM Just before the goat kicked him really hard, and that's why he walks kind of funny now. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Ebbie Date: 31 Jan 07 - 02:05 AM hahahhah |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Jan 07 - 08:11 AM I understand that the kick also removed the bag from Shane's head and the goats were so badly frightened that they still haven't been rounded up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 31 Jan 07 - 05:32 PM Da-a-a-a-ad |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Jan 07 - 05:48 PM No, Shane isn't daid...just still clutching his crotch. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Jan 07 - 06:07 PM Shane does that even when he hasn't been kicked. He was denied a Teddy bear when he was young. Folks do get used to him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 31 Jan 07 - 06:33 PM it's never too late Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 31 Jan 07 - 08:45 PM I just wanted to tell all of you that I've seen the error of my ways and have left to join the Trappist monastery. Too much sex, liquor, dope, and tobacco; I've damaged my body and soul too much. Farewell, my friends. Please pray for me, as I will be for you. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Jan 07 - 08:48 PM Poor guy. He'll be changing spark plugs on Pluto within a week. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Rapaire on his wife's computer Date: 31 Jan 07 - 08:58 PM Won't Pluto object? Won't Mickey? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 31 Jan 07 - 08:59 PM Now, THAT was clever. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:39 AM The dog goned car needs fixing again? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: JennyO Date: 01 Feb 07 - 09:21 AM Palindromic number 1221! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 01 Feb 07 - 01:36 PM Hey Shane, can I order one of these? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 01 Feb 07 - 02:02 PM Some flippin' retread stole my name! If I find out who then he is, like, dead, eh? I ain't no flippin' Bible Thumper and I am not goin' to no flippin' monsterary neither! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 01 Feb 07 - 02:09 PM Now that's our Shane. I don't need a casket anyway, I'm not dead. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 01 Feb 07 - 02:12 PM http://www.strawbsweb.co.uk/related/monks/monks.jpg |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 01 Feb 07 - 02:13 PM so no more bad habits? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 01 Feb 07 - 02:26 PM "Palindromic number 1221!" There will be none of that kinky stuff here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 01 Feb 07 - 02:58 PM I do not know who it was that last posted under my name, but I assure you that it wasn't me. I am soon to enter the Monastery of St. Dismas and will be known by the name of Brother Crispin Fiacre. I have already disposed of most of my worldly possessions, and have thrown my stash into the North Channel. Please do not be misled by that other. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 01 Feb 07 - 04:17 PM Anyone here scuba dive? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Cluin Date: 01 Feb 07 - 04:34 PM BDiBR's stash ain't worth going after. All seeds 'n' stems, as I hear. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 01 Feb 07 - 04:39 PM Oh. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:03 PM who cares.....? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:22 PM You can change Pluto's spark plugs now.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:22 PM Post 1234 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Cluin Date: 01 Feb 07 - 06:10 PM Can't get a decent grow op going in Blind River. The bears keep getting into the crop. So do the O.P.P. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 01 Feb 07 - 06:14 PM You flippin' impostor! I will find you, man. And when I do you will kiss the flippin' glove! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Cluin Date: 01 Feb 07 - 06:23 PM You may be a redneck if... You wear this shirt for your engagement announcement photo Looks like his bride-to-be is about 10 years old too. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 01 Feb 07 - 09:10 PM Sorta thing ol' Shane would wear to his wedding. Only I guess he'll never get married now. Trappists take vows of poverty (no problem there!), chastity, and obedience -- and silence. I kinda think Shane might have a problem with those last three, but if he IS reformed and HAS found God, well, who knows? Crispin Fiacre, huh? I don't know about Crispin, but St. Fiacre is the patron saint of hemorrhoid sufferers. I guess it kind of fits. Well, I wish him luck in his new life. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River (Br. Crispin Fiac Date: 01 Feb 07 - 09:31 PM No, brother, I shall only kiss my Abbot's ring and that of my Bishop. I know your type, for I was once like you. I can only pray for your repentance and salvation, and offer you a welcome in St. Dismas Abbey. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Feb 07 - 02:59 PM RE: You may be a redneck... My dad got re-married a number of years ago. When his wife (a lovely woman) died her two male grandchildren came to the funeral in their Harley T-shirts. On this side of the family we figured those were probably the nicest black shirts the guys had. They were pall bearers. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 04 Feb 07 - 08:20 AM Hi all, Sorry I haven't been around lately - I took missing out on the 'Poster of the Year 2006' award real bad. First I couldn't sleep and took to drink (BDiBR would have been proud).This affected my job and I got told to 'sort myself out or don't come back'. I then took to living rough on the streets around Darrington, pondering over what more I could have done to become poster of the year and seeking advice and words of wisdom from all quarters, drunks, hobos, men of the cloth and sages on the 5000 thread. Basically it turns out that I should have posted more. Now enlightened, I'm back to start my new campaign for the 2007 award, proper this time. And what a shock to return and find our spiritual leader BDiBR is now truly spiritual. What next on this thread? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Br. Crispin Fiacre, OCSO Date: 04 Feb 07 - 10:25 AM My dear brothers and sisters, I have been ordered by my Superiors to study at Monastera Masina Maria, our monastery in Madagascar. I am going with a joyful heart, filled with the knowledge of the goodness of God and knowing that He would never ask us to do that which is beyond our strength. It will be difficult for me to leave the land of my birth, to leave my family, but is it not written that "when I became a man I put on the things of a man?" I have grown up spiritually, as I had grown up physically, and I am, I feel, much better for it. I know now that my involvement with liquor, drugs, sex and the other traps of the flesh was God's way of testing me. I have found my true home here in the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (the Trappists) and hope to spend the rest of my life atoning for both my sins and those of others. It is very possible that I will return to Canada, even to Blind River, in the future. In the meantime, I shall pray for each of you and ask only that you do not listen to that imposter who posts as me as I used to be. Yours in Christ, Brother Crispin Fiacre, OCSO |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Feb 07 - 01:37 PM "What next on this thread?" Well, I guess we know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 04 Feb 07 - 05:16 PM Jeezus flippin' H! If you think God has tested you, flipface, you got no idea about it you dipheaded bolthole! It is when I find you that you will be tested, motherflipper. Trust me. I heard abuot flippin' identaty theft before but I never flippin' thought it would happen to me. This must be my punishment for the things I have, like done over the years...like all them snowmobiles I borrowed that are at the bottom of the lake now, eh? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Feb 07 - 05:41 PM Who IS Shane? Who is he? Only one can be real Which shall it be? Yeah, well, it ain't great poetry, and I never thought anyone would want to steal you-know-who's identity. I mean, why??? fer God's sakes? And then he converted and became a man of God, dedicating himself to the religious life. And not just any religious life, the hardest one around. No talking, not even being able to leave the confines of the Abbey much less look at a pretty girl! And now, when the New Shane is on his way to Madagascar some punk comes along and tries to steal his old, unrepentant, identity! How low can some people go, anyway? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 04 Feb 07 - 06:03 PM Rapaire! You are byond the flippin' pail, man. I hate you. I hope yer mungoberries shrivlle up and fall right off. Right there in front of yer eyes, eh? You stink! You are as useless as bazongas on a bull. Flip off and die. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Feb 07 - 07:11 PM Listen, punk-o. Before he entered the monastery Shane would've ripped you to pieces! Wasn't anybody who could out-drink, out-cuss, out-fight, out-love, out-dope, or out-anything else the Old Shane. Now you come along and say you're him! "Oh, I hope your mungoberries..." -- the Old Shane wouldn't have said something like that; no, he would've try to rip 'em off. At least he seems to have made peace with himself. Which is more than I can say for you, you white-livered, posy-sniffing, fake! And if you want to come out here and make something of it, come on ahead. I sure as heck can't be bothered to go to Blind River and look YOU up, you beer puke, you! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 04 Feb 07 - 07:48 PM Hey, punk-o! Maybe I'll drive over and see you after all. Ha ha ha ha! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Big Brother Don Date: 04 Feb 07 - 08:08 PM Ha! Ha! Ha! Oooweee! The little brother is really ticked now, eh? Ha! Ha! I nearly flippin' wet myself laffin'. He has gone downtown to drown his sorrows at the Iron Horse and try his tricks on the waitresses. He ain't got a dog's chance in hell though cos they all know him awlready, eh? That's his problem in this flippin' town. He can't hardly get away with nothin' here no more, so he usually goes to Sudbury now and then when he gets a great new idea to score dope or fast talk women or borrow somethin' from someone. We are gettin' to know the Sudbury cops better all the time. It was hate at first sight! Ha! Ha! Ha! The Blind River cops are almost family by now, eh? Same for the cops in Spanish. I buy 'em a donut now and then for laffs. Ain't seen Officer flippin' Dana for a bit now. She went back to cop school or somethin'. No big loss if you ask me. - Don "the Man" McBride |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 05 Feb 07 - 02:34 PM I found a picture of Shane (before he went in the Monastery) expressing his heritage his own way, Don. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,KAYLA Date: 05 Feb 07 - 04:20 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 05 Feb 07 - 04:29 PM Welcome, KAYLA, please tell us more. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 05 Feb 07 - 05:15 PM A person of a few words, that's Kayla. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 05 Feb 07 - 05:18 PM Maybe she's related to Actress Wendy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 05 Feb 07 - 05:33 PM Could be -- she sure ain't related to Shane! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 05 Feb 07 - 05:34 PM few words but a few needs |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 06 Feb 07 - 04:08 AM Reminds me of myself does KAYLA, brief, to the point and not inclined to waffle. I could have posted that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 06 Feb 07 - 02:40 PM Wow, no one else has posted since me this morning (UK time). Looks like Poster of the Year 2007 going to be a cinch. I'm off to work on my acceptance speech. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 06 Feb 07 - 02:56 PM Not so fast there buck-o. You want that award, you gotta go through me! (Maybe you should keep a running tally this time. It would make the final tabulation a lot easier. Not only that, if I'm trailing toward the end of the year I could stuff the ballot box and wouldn't have to guess how many posts I needed. I thank you for your consideration on this.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 06 Feb 07 - 07:14 PM My, my. Children worry over such petty things. Are they concerned that someone is trying to steal Shane McBride's identity now that he's become Brother Crispin Fiacre, OCSO? Are they concerned that Don McBride hasn't mentioned his probably now-Sainted brother? No, they just squabble over who will post the most in '07, when the answer should be obvious to all. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:15 PM Were what appear to be wooden swords that were found on the site of the Teutonbergerwald battle (and carbon dated from that period) actually sufficient, even fire-hardened, to let Teutonic warriors fight on even a somewhat equal footing with the Romans? If not, how come the Teutons won? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 07 Feb 07 - 02:30 PM Is this metaphor relating to Poster of the Year Rapaire? And if so I ask the question, did the Teutons really win? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 07 Feb 07 - 03:24 PM Well, the Teutons won the first time around. Some years later the Romans came and took their standards back. There was some minor violence associated with it, I believe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 07 Feb 07 - 03:33 PM Mine will be a bloodless victory. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Feb 07 - 06:19 PM The German tribes won by adroitly springing a surprise attack on the marching legions deep in the forest. The Romans were ill-prepared, being strung out in a long marching formation instead of a fighting formation, and they were overwhelmed and massacred. The Germanic people had many useful weapons at the time, including metal swords, axes, spears, arrows, and war dogs (large numbers of fierce hounds which could be released upon an enemy) (the Romans also employed war dogs in many battles). The Roman commander appears to have not handled the situation very well, and he paid for it by getting killed. The Romans seldom lost large battles against "barbarians", but they well and truly lost that one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 07 Feb 07 - 06:35 PM Speaking of barbarians, whatever happened to the Shane imposter? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Ed Date: 07 Feb 07 - 06:39 PM This thread makes me smile. I used to post here years ago, but stopped for various reasons. I still see the old arguements which will never end, but as I said: This thread makes me smile |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:10 AM Seems to me LH you're suggesting it is better to post in concentrated and focussed blocks rather than a steady, evenly spaced flow. Hmm worth a thought. Thanks LH I will. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:11 AM I think if the real BDiBR is the original one he hasn't posted because he is in shock. This imposter (if so) has changed our view of him and there's nothing he can do to prove it. Either he'll always be my flipping spiritual leader. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:16 AM Do 3 posts in a row count as a concentrated and focussed block? If not what counts as one? I need to win this war. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:21 AM I'm not sure there is a computer link in the Monastery in Madagascar. As for the imposter, he's probably skulking around, hiding in the shadows in shame, thinking that in spite of his stinking of stale beer, vomit, and pot fumes nobody can find him. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 10:16 AM I was kind of enjoying the yin-yang thing of the two Shane's. Hopefully at least one of them will return (my preference would be the original in his original form. Flippin' eh). Welcome GUEST,Ed. Don't be a stranger. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 12:42 PM There's no record of Guest,Ed ever posting on the 85 billion thread before, I've checked the archives. Could this be one of the 85 billion thread's first big mysteries? Do we have any detectives amongst our posters? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 12:46 PM Come on, explain yourself GUEST,Ed. What's going on here? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 12:51 PM Bet you thought we'd not get on to you so quickly did you GUEST,Ed? I think you now realise you picked the wrong thread to pretend to have posted on before. There's no flies on us 85 billioners - well a few perhaps, but we don't say anything about that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 12:56 PM Will you always |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 12:57 PM post in triplicate |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 12:57 PM from now on? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 01:15 PM Well if you're going to do the same KB I suppose there is little point. It was just my latest plan of attack, but there's no fooling you so it's back to the drawing board for me. Have just realised that GUEST,Ed may have been talking about posting on the forum generally rather than the 85 billion thread specifically (Sorry Guest,Ed). I have therefore, single handedly (!), solved the mystery and claim the prize for being the first person to have solved a mystery on the 85 billion thread. I shall now work on my acceptance speech and make a badge. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 01:25 PM I'm not sure whether I want to be the Romans or the Teutons. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 01:45 PM That's a tough one. The Romans did OK for quite a while there but wasn't it descendents of the Teutons who finally brought them down? I guess it depends on how long you want to play the game. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:12 PM I was thinking for about a 12 month period? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:19 PM How about the Macedonians/Greeks under Alexander? He did all right for himself (well, until that death thing). |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:29 PM There's too much choice. I feel the fight is already proving more than I can cope with. I might beat a retreat and withdraw from the battlefield forever, never to return. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:35 PM No way, man! I can't flippin' belEEVE you would, like, bale out now, eh? Don't give up, man. There are, like, thousands of people out there dependin' on you to keep on keepin' on and flippin' take this thing all the way home! I am dependin' on you, man. Know'm sayin'? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:37 PM I fight on. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:39 PM We shouldn't be fighting anyway. Can't we all just get along? How do you feel about this GUEST,Ed? GUEST,KAYLA, what is your perspective? GUEST,Canadienne, care to weigh in? (I don't mean to slight the members who are part of the 85 Billion thread, just want to make sure the GUESTS feel at home.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:41 PM Talk about a cross post (two snuck in on me)! Shane, you're back! Now I can die happy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:46 PM Shane always comes back. Kind of like when you've eaten something that was a bit "off"... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Brother Crispin Fiacre, OCSO Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:48 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:51 PM KB's right; all this talk of fighting might put off new posters who perceive this to be an aggressive thread. Rapair's to blame for this with all his talk of Teutons and Romans. Personally I like all three new guests and hope they become permanent fixtures of the 85 billion thread. They may be interested to know there's even a way for them to become members of the 'First 100 Posters Club'. I won't bore them with the details just now - unless they're interested of course? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Brother Crispin Fiacre, OCSO Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:55 PM I'm very sorry about that last. I'm not familiar with this keyboard. Peace be with you, or as we say here, Pax vobiscum. The Abbot has given me a few moments on the Monastery's Internet link, as he does all of those here. We are cloistered and of Strict Observance, but we need to know what happens in the World so that we can pray for the good. I, who was once Shane McBride, bring you greetings from Madagascar! The flight over was long, but I found it a good time to examine my conscience, pray, and think about God and His goodness and how my past life caused Him pain. And yet He gave His Son so that I could be saved. That is Love, unselfish Love. And where Love prevails, there is God. I know that Love prevails among those here, even that one who would pretend to be the "old me." And I forgive him and will pray for his repentance. My time is up and I must go. Yours in God's Love, Bro. Crispin Fiacre, OCSO |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:57 PM Now we're confused again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:11 PM OK, I see that Crispin is the patron Saint of leather workers and Fiacre is the patron Saint of taxi drivers. What's up with that? ITWATBM, it seems to me that 'blaming' Rapaire is a bit aggressive. Perhaps it would have better if you had said "He started it!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:12 PM Please excuse the typo above. I don't want to start an ugly scene. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:42 PM Fiacre is also, as I noted earlier, the patron saint of hemorrhoid suffers. Perhaps, after all those years in jail, leather hemorrhoids.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:48 PM Seems I've a lot to learn on the aggression front and I've only myself to blame. I'm easily led you see. Next time I won't fall into Rapaire's snare quite so easily. On my next retreat to the 5000 thread I might seek advice about this one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:52 PM Forgot about that Rapaire, he is actually quite the versatile Saint. Here is the largest list I could find: barrenness; box makers; cab drivers; fistula; florists; gardeners; haemorrhoids; hosiers; pewterers; piles; taxi drivers; sterility; syphilis; tile makers; venereal disease. I'm guessing the venereal disease angle is what really appealed to Shane. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:28 PM ok folks - just weighing in as usual |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:29 PM 1300 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:41 PM ...O! do not wish one more: Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say, 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 08 Feb 07 - 08:38 PM You are a sad flippin' case, man. Sad. If you was my dog I know what I would do, eh? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:25 PM Yeah. And I'd bite it off before you could. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 10 Feb 07 - 06:28 PM I hate you, man. You will get yers some day. Mark my flippin' words! So where the flip IS everybody today? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 10 Feb 07 - 10:59 PM I have found the most wonderful picture of Shane McBride. Of course, it can't possibly bring out all of his finer points or do him justice. No mere photograph can do that! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:08 PM But, he has such a winning smile. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: autolycus Date: 11 Feb 07 - 06:00 AM At the current rate,when will the target be reached. (Oddly,I haven't read thru the thread to see if this has been answered even lately. Got enough on my plate.) Ivor |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:45 AM Posters permitting, a week on Tuesday is the general feeling, though the exact time is still debatable - I've always been in the 4.37am (US tme) camp. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Feb 07 - 11:40 AM Jeezus! That is a picture worth framing. I notice, though, that he's not wearing the baseball cap. That's unusual. As such, the picture becomes even more rare and valuable. It must have been taken when they were doing a strip search of Shane at the OPP headquarters. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Feb 07 - 01:38 PM You mean the baseball cap he snatched off the head of poor Widow Wilson after he tripped her, broke her cane, trod on the loaf of stale bread that was to be her week's food, and then claimed that it was his "Daily Good Deed" because he left some pennies in her purse? THAT baseball cap? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Feb 07 - 01:42 PM No. I mean the one that says "I'm with the IDIOT" (with an arrow pointing to the right underneath the word IDIOT). He likes to wear that one a lot. He also has one that says "Go Leafs Go!" |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Feb 07 - 01:45 PM Shouldn't the arrow point down? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 11 Feb 07 - 02:52 PM Heh! He has a grotty old sweatshirt with an arrow pointing down. It bears the legend: "FREE SEX! (males need not apply)" He has worn it a lot, but so far without much of the anticipated result. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Feb 07 - 03:25 PM Dear Shane, Today is my birthday. So far my birthday thread has had a number of people posting, wishing me "Happy Birthday." But you haven't posted. Don't you want to wish me a "Happy Birthday"? I'd wish YOU one if I knew when your birthday was. Your friend, Rapaire |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 11 Feb 07 - 07:35 PM Aw, Shane (or whoever you are). Thanks for the kind thoughts. I must have misphrased my note -- I meant the REAL Shane, the one who is in the monastery. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Brother Crispin Fiacre, OCSO Date: 12 Feb 07 - 12:13 PM Dear Friends, My abbot has graciously permitted me time on the Abbey's computer today, the Feast of St. Ludan, because of the Saint's special relationship to our order. So, Rapaire, I hope that your birthday was blessed, happy, and full of joy. Madagascar is far different from Blind River, Ontario. Of course, I spend all of my time in the Abbey where I am copying old manuscripts. This might seem boring but it is done for the greater glory of God. Being the Least of the brethren here I am also responsible for cleaning the pig sties, and I sing hymns to myself while I do it. I pray every moment for each of you and especially for the person posing as Shane McBride. May God bless and keep you all, Br. Crispin Fiacre, OCSO |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 12 Feb 07 - 05:08 PM Just in case anyone wants to visit Brother Crispin. DIRECTORY OF OCSO MONASTERIES- MALE BRANCH GENERALATE ANNEX HOUSES & PRE-FOUNDATIONS OTHER CISTERCIAN OBSERVANCES 75 - MAROMBY Monastera Masina Maria Maromby B.P. 1092 301 Fianarantsoa MADAGASCAR Tel: [261] (2075) 51706 Fax: [261] (2075) 519 35 Superior: Dom Jean Chrysostome Randriamahazosoa |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 12 Feb 07 - 05:34 PM Holy flip. This is startin' to turn my stommick. I think I am gonna throw up right on the keyboard. I'm not jokin', eh? It's a flippin' nightmare. Forget about me comin' after you for impersonating me, man. I wouldn't flippin' go within 100 flippin' miles of someone like you! I might catch what you got. Is Madagascar far FAR away? I flippin' HOPE so! Please just GO AWAY forever. I am beggin' you. I'm down on my knees here and I am pleadin' with you. I can't take no more. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Feb 07 - 08:37 PM Hey, you impostor! Shape up! Stop sniveling. You brought this on yourself by impersonating Shane McBride. Madagascar is 8,940 miles or 14,388 km. from Toronto, okay? That's very far away. It's on the other side of Africa. Which you probably knew before you started this impersonation, this identity theft. You probably thought, "Hey, that dude is gonna be way far away and I'll never get caught!" Well, as Brother Crispin Fiacre, who used to be the REAL Shane McBride, would probably say, "Your sins have found you out." Now assume your REAL identity. What was it? Percival Bolthole? Abner Tetemerde? C'mon, buck up and be whatever sort of man you can be, even if it's not much of one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:06 PM I am not talkin' to YOU you flippin' corkpuller!!!!!!!!!!! I'm talkin' to the omposter, Crispin Faicre or whatever the flip he clals himself. If you do't n flfipping' get outta my face NOW I am gonna take serrious folippin' action! I know how to find Idaho on the map. I am not stupid, eh? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:43 PM "Shane" -- when WILL you learn that being able to find something on a map and actually going there are different things? But if you wish to visit, be assured that we will provide you with a warm welcome in Idaho. Oh, yes. "Shane," I'll be in Edmonton in August, if you'd like to come out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 13 Feb 07 - 01:32 AM You flippin' talk like I never been outa this town, Rapaire. That majerly ticks me off, man! I been to Toronto, eh? I been to Sudbury too. And Wawa. Wawa totally sucks. Don't go there. I have seen a lot of places and I been to some places that not everyone has been to, know'm sayin'? You ever hear of "Seldom Seen Road"? I've SEEN it. I know my flippin' way around. If I decide to find you, man, you are in deep shit. Real deep. If I was you I would not come to Edmonton. You are not welcome anywheres in Canada. I am gonna write to Don Cherry and tell him what you been doin' to me and he will tell the Oilers to be lookin' fer YOU. I got yer flippin' picture right here that you posted once, so they will know you when they see you. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 13 Feb 07 - 09:35 AM This picture? Or do you mean this one? Or maybe this one? Now you have THREE pictures you can have them use! Or you can! As for the Oilers, they're a pretty decent team. Lots better than the 'Leafs. I mean, the Oilers actually win games. Oh yeah...I've been to Toronto too. And Halifax, Vancouver, Beaver Creek, Whitehorse, Quebec, Springhill, Ottawa, and lots of other places. And I've seen both the Sunken Road and the Natchez Trace. Nice places. Your friend, Rapaire |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Feb 07 - 02:36 PM The way things are going Rapaire is going to be the next Poster of the Year. He's unstoppable. I've already moved my attention to the 2008 award. This post is just for practise. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 15 Feb 07 - 02:43 PM Rapaire certainly seems to have Shane back on his heels. Of course Shane was kind of reeling from defending his honor against faux-Shane so maybe it wasn't a fair fight, or was it? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Feb 07 - 02:54 PM Do you know which is the faux-Shane KB? I can't work it out, they're both so convincing. Surely there must be a question we could ask that only the real Shane would be able to answer? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:09 PM Question only to be answered by the Shanes. What does fencing mean to you? Brother Crispin to first please. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:10 PM (answer) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:22 PM "Do you know which is the faux-Shane KB?" Sometimes I do then again, I think I don't. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 15 Feb 07 - 03:28 PM Question only to be answered by the Shanes. What does fencing mean to you? Brother Crispin to answer first please. This will sort out the imposter from the genuine article KB, never fear. We'll soon be able to sleep at night again. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST, GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Feb 07 - 08:57 AM CAn you belive it? The flippin' monks thrdW me out! They didn't Lik it wehn I hlped myself to some fo the flippin' alter wne and smoked some of the weed thy gro for what teh say isrope! Flippin' abbott gave me some jeans and a tshirt and put me on a airplne and right now I'm in Amsterflippindam! I got two flippin' DAYS to wait for the flite to flippin' Monreal and I dont know how i'm going to get back to flippin' Blind River from there unless Don piciks me upin in his flippin' truck! All the people here talk flippin' dutch or somethin, too. This SUCKS. I got better treatment when I get out of gail. Only good thing in this flippin' place is the beer. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 16 Feb 07 - 09:11 AM Shane spotted in the House of Orange? - looks like he found one of those little cafés too! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Feb 07 - 11:41 AM I want one of those hats. So Shane (if Shane you be), when you get back to Blind River do you have to go back to picking up the garbage? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:02 PM Unbee-flippin'-LEEV-able! Well, here are some of Shane's buddies, waiting back in Blind River for his return, eh? Pals of Shane McBride |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:08 PM better get home quick Shane! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Feb 07 - 01:17 PM Yeah, I guess his friends are gathering to welcome him back. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Feb 07 - 01:40 PM Shanes friends seem to be sparing no expense awaiting his return. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Feb 07 - 02:02 PM Now there are two Shanes that both sound like Shane. Just when I suspected Brother Crispin to be the imposter he comes out with this. Now I'm more confused than ever. Will someone please explain what's going on here? In fact, if the imposter's not exposed by midnight on Sunday I'm flippin well quiting this thread forever, never to return, once and for all. The clock's ticking. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Feb 07 - 02:06 PM Whatever happens Shane will always be 'Two Shanes' McBride from now on in my eyes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Feb 07 - 02:08 PM I actually thought ex-Brother Crispin sounded more like Shane than the Shane who has been Shane. Oh, for the light to shine once again and remove this fog of uncertainty. Will day never come? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Feb 07 - 02:09 PM Sort of like Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Feb 07 - 02:19 PM Exactly, one of my favourite Python sketches. Now we've got one of our own! Though, the way things are looking, it's unlikely that I'll be around to address him as Two Shanes. Never mind, it was good while it lasted. Sniff www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjS3gzHetA |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Feb 07 - 05:55 PM What the FLIP!!! The flippin' idiot who, like, stole my flippin' idenity is finally talkin' sesne. But he still thinks he is me. That is so flipped. I am gettin' confused myself, eh? Look, if that fliphead thinks Don is gonna drive to flippin' Motnreal for him he is NUTS!!! I mean totally 110% flippin' GONE! REady for the flippin' loony bin, know'm sayin? A few short of a flippin' 6 pack. I hope he realizes this and don't waste no more of my valyuble time, eh? - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Feb 07 - 09:21 PM What the flip are you saiyng, you flippin' impsotor! Like, I'm SHANE MCBRIDE and my flippin' bother Don is gonnin' to have to pick me up at the ariport in Monrteal or I'll have to hitch bak to Blind River! When I get there I'm gonna find yuo and like rip yor off yur shortcake, ya know? And yuo know whtelse I foudn out? They got these, like, cafes where you can get, like, WASTED and its LEGAL! And its good stuff, to! And theres a whole part of Ammrstdam that's got, like, chicks that are alwys ready for a roll, you know, in the hey, only you got to pay them. This town is something else, you know? --Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Feb 07 - 09:33 PM You flippin' LESS-on! I AM SHANE! Yer the, like, flippin' imposter, eh? I dare you to flippin' come to Blind River! I will be waitin' and I will kick yer flippin' ass across town, motherflipper!!! Hey. Did you say they got legal dope in Amsterdam? Holy flip. And lotsa hookers too? Are they legal too? Geez. And the beer is good, eh? So whaddya want to come here for anyways, bolthole? Sounds to me like yer in the right flippin' place alreddy! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Feb 07 - 09:42 PM You couldnt kick an ELEHPANT'S ass, you flippin' BOLTHOLE! Yeah, they got legal dope and legal hookers and good beer here. If I had some mony I might NOT come back, you know? But all my money's in Blind River and if you, you flippin' FAKE, try to take it I'll KILL you! That Don had better not have spent any of it, either! I just ask him to take care of it for me, you know? I just now remebered having Don take care of my money. I'm coming back to Blind River and fix YOU, you flippin' fake impotser bolthoel! Then I'm going to get my money from Don and come back here. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Feb 07 - 10:28 PM That did it, man! You just blew yer flippin' cover, eh? Whaddya mean "all my money"? Everybody flippin' KNOWS I got no flippin' money saved up you idiott! I had a good flippin' job fer awhile writin' my colem but they layed me flippin' off beror Christmans. I gess you ddin't know that, eh, flipface? Somebuddy in the head flippin' office deecided I was in "bad taste", eh? Whatta buch of loosers! I don't kneed the job anyways cos I got a plan to score a lot of dope real soon. Enuff so's I can retyre, eh? Freedom 35, man. Taht is the plan. Don makes the flippin' legal money here over to the auto shop. Everybody flippin' knows THAT! He is the brawn here, eh? And I am the brains. I am the man that has the flipin' brillyant ideas that will make me a legende in my own time...unl;ike some flippin' loosers I coudl name. Go ahed and flippin' ROT over in Dutchland or whatever the flip they call it. I know you are not for reel so I know they will NOT let you into Canada. You are flipped, man! Turminally Flippped! You are histery. Face it. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Feb 07 - 11:20 PM Well, "Shane" I guess you have seen through me. Yes, I have been Brother Crispin Fiacre and all the rest. But you see, I am NOT the person who has been posting from Amsterdam. From what I can tell, that's Don McBride's real brother, Shane McBride. You, "Shane," are a phony who is trying to grab the five thousand dollars Don has been holding for his brother -- money his brother gave him to hold for him two years ago. Gotcha, you sniveling little puke-faced wretch! I wish I knew who was posting now. I was gonna leave you to rot in Madagascar. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 17 Feb 07 - 12:35 AM You are one sick flipper Rapaire. I hope you come to a bad flippin' end and get ate by a buncha strey dogs. I figgered you was behind this. You have just about flippin' ruint my 85 billions post thread with yer stoopidity. I cannot beleeve that there cuold be a person as bent as you are that would still be walkin' around loose, eh? If you was in my town I think that people here would have took matters in there own flippin' hands years ago and tied you behind a snowmobile and drug you through the streets till you was dead. Don't never come to Blind River, man, cos you ain't welcome here. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 17 Feb 07 - 07:34 AM Seems everybody is Shane McBride these days. Rapaire, I nearly quit this thread (forever) because of your 'shane'anigans. Just to clear this up, YOU were Brother Crispin Shane, but not this new 'Amsterdam Shane'? So as one mystery is solved another begins and we still have two virtually identical Shanes. I'll extend my departure date until next Sunday, but if we haven't got a clear spiritual leader by then, I'm off - and don't try and stop me. This will be forever known as Shanegate. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 17 Feb 07 - 09:40 AM Holy Flip! Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water. So how many Shane's are there now? Can't tell the players without a program. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Feb 07 - 11:00 AM "Shane" (if you really are Shane McBride), if I ever visited Blind River the people would build me a palace, fill it with everything good someone could want, and elect me king. And you know what, "Shane"? I give it all to you! Yes, I would. Because I'm a nice guy, a kind-hearted guy, who likes to find good homes for stray dogs. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 17 Feb 07 - 12:33 PM Everyone, I have a confession.... I am, in fact, Shane - wasn't it obvious all along? I ask you, who was 'there at the beginning'? 'I was', of course. Fooled you all, flippers. Best wishes Shane MacBride |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 17 Feb 07 - 01:36 PM Flip ME!!!! Ive had about flippin' enuff of this. I am gonna go downtown and see the wet T-shirt contest. As fer the rest of you...go FLIP youerselfs! I may not bother to flippin' come back at all. See how you can flippin' do without ME! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Feb 07 - 02:43 PM Did he say "see" or "enter" the wet tee-shirt contest? I'd rather NOT see "Shane" in a wet tee-shirt. In fact, I don't even what to think about that. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 17 Feb 07 - 02:58 PM and the winner is.............. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 19 Feb 07 - 11:37 AM Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCain Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Shane? Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do. You see, when she wants one, and calls out "Yoo-Hoo! Come into the house, Shane!" she doesn't get one. All twenty-three Shanes of hers come on the run! This makes things quite difficult at the McCains' As you can imagine, with so many Shanes. And often she wishes that, when they were born, She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn. And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm. And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim. And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey. And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey. Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face. Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face. And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff. One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff. And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed. And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed. And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt. And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt. And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate . . . . But she didn't do it. And now it's too late. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 19 Feb 07 - 11:46 AM BTW, I know it's not McCain but McBride doesn't rhyme. Maybe what with this being about the (no longer) late Shane McBride I shouldn't have worried about that. Decisions, decisions. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Feb 07 - 12:29 PM "As fer the rest of you...go FLIP youerselfs! I may not bother to flippin' come back at all. See how you can flippin' do without ME!" (Shane McBride, a recent quote) In case you're all wondering I'm not really Shane McBride or ever have been. I was just adding to the absurdity of recent weeks. Poor old Shane's had it rough lately and I for one don't want to see him leave (for fear the ship might sink so to speak). A thread without its leader is no thread at all. Stay Shane and lead us into an uncertain future. Fellow posters, join me in the newly formed 'Stay Two Shanes' campaign. Step forward and put your case for saving our leader. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 19 Feb 07 - 12:47 PM That makes me feel better IWTATBM. I was starting to think I was the only one around here that wasn't Shane. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 19 Feb 07 - 12:51 PM you've read the thread - now buy the CD |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 19 Feb 07 - 01:02 PM Shane & Shane So there really are two! Curiouser and Curiouser. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 19 Feb 07 - 01:09 PM but none of these guys apparently |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 19 Feb 07 - 01:21 PM I investigated this Shane & Shane thing a bit. They are a Christian music duo! This thing is getting very complicated and rather intense. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 19 Feb 07 - 02:30 PM Save the Two Shanes One: let this be our battle cry. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Feb 07 - 03:51 PM Wow. Quite a lineup of rednecks there, but they're clearly Americans. None of them look much like Shane. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 19 Feb 07 - 04:03 PM That Cooter guy is sorta creepy. Obviously American and not the sort that I picture Shane hanging around with. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Feb 07 - 04:23 PM You want to see three guys who are a lot like Shane? The main difference is, these three guys have actually more or less mastered playing their respective musical instruments and being in a rock band. In their hairstyles, lifestyles, and general attitudes, however, they are really a lot like Shane. Their relations with women, for example, are very reminiscent of Shane. Their day to day personal challenges and problems are similar to his too... What Shane would do if he could get past playing "air guitar".... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:11 PM things |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:31 PM I tried to post here twice in the last half hour but when I hit Submit Message ..... nothing Will the third time be the charm? IF you are reading this then the answer is an emphatic YES! If not I will be the only one to know. Unless I bring it up again later, which I just might. Enough dilly dallying, time to give the old college try. I just have to limber up my wrist ... OK here goes. (It better work after all this, if this just vanishes into the mist after I spent so much time and effort there will be h*ll to pay.) Drum roll please, OK now |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:53 PM Good on you for sticking at it KB, you're one of our thread's troopers. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Feb 07 - 04:29 PM KB's message of 20 Feb 07 - 03:31 PM never posted and so I know nothing of his/her attempts to post a message prior to 20 Feb 07 - 03:31 PM. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:00 PM I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:20 PM I am the egg man..... |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:26 PM I'm Quinn -- Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats, Some are building monuments, Others, jotting down notes, Ev'rybody's in despair, Ev'ry girl and boy But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, Ev'rybody's gonna jump for joy. Come all without, come all within, You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet, But guarding fumes and making haste, It ain't my cup of meat. Ev'rybody's 'neath the trees, Feeding pigeons on a limb But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, All the pigeons gonna run to him. Come all without, come all within, You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. A cat's meow and a cow's moo, I can recite 'em all, Just tell me where it hurts yuh, honey, And I'll tell you who to call. Nobody can get no sleep, There's someone on ev'ryone's toes But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, Ev'rybody's gonna wanna doze. Come all without, come all within, You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:18 AM Quinn the Eskimo |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 21 Feb 07 - 12:05 PM I didn't want anyone to know about my "other" career, dang it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:29 PM I got to thinking that I should get in touch with my roots, remember the good times and all that. Anyway, I started reading this thread from the beginning. I got up to post #417 and then my eyeballs exploded. I should be OK by tomorrow. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:30 AM You look pretty buff in that picture Rapaire. If I was Shane I would think twice about coming out your way. Shane probably fights dirty though, so maybe it wouldn't be quite the mis-match it would at first appear. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 22 Feb 07 - 04:00 PM Seems things have finally quietened down on the Shane front. I think that the Amsterdam Shane is a mystery that will never be solved. Perhaps he was genuine, a Shane in a parallel universe that connected with ours for a brief period of time. They might be near the 85 billon mark already - if only Amsterdam Shane had looked at the number of posts he would have realised that in our dimension we still have a way to go. I wonder if KB was the first Poster of the Year on that thread? I wonder if I did in fact finally quit the 85 billion thread forever? Perhaps we'll never know. We must ask him should there ever be another temporal shift, if that's the right term. Sigh. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 22 Feb 07 - 04:50 PM Of course Shane fights dirty. Shane also eats, sleeps, drinks, cooks, and in general lives dirty because the only time Shane has anything remotely like a bath or shower is if he falls into a running gutter or standing mud puddle or gets caught out in the rain (or both). I'm not worried. Anyone in this picture could best Shane McBride with both arms tied behind them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 22 Feb 07 - 04:52 PM Shane's primary tactic is to kick you in the shins when you're bent over, retching from the odor. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:35 PM I have met flippin' DOGS that had more class then you, man. You suck. You are rat barf. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:51 PM Rat barf? Wow, cool. Like, only a true-to-life hoser would try to use that as an expletive. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:22 PM "Sticks and stones may break my bones.... But whips and chains excite me." |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Peace Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:24 PM Shane had the hots for a cop once. He said the gun scared him but the handcuffs got him all excited. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:39 PM I'll bet he really got off on the leg irons! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 26 Feb 07 - 02:26 PM Everyone OK? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 26 Feb 07 - 03:30 PM È oggi molto calmo |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 26 Feb 07 - 03:33 PM Fine here, how about you? We had a terrific ice storm in this area over the weekend. Lots of people are still without power. I drove past several downed lines on my way to work this morning (I drive about 20 miles or 33 kilometers). Many tree limbs on the ground as well. One entire tree toppled onto a house I drive by, can't tell how much damage was done. My town got off easy, power out for about three hours Saturday night. The ice was almost half an inch (1.25 centimeters) thick Saturday evening. It was really pretty on the tree branches. It warmed up a bit over night and the ice had melted off the branches by Sunday morning. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 26 Feb 07 - 03:51 PM Glad to hear you escaped the worse effects of the weather. Over here it's quite calm really. We had a bit of snow the week before last and the whole country ground to a halt. The daffodils are pushing through and spring is showing signs of its arrival. This probaly means there'll be snow and gales next week. Still, makes a change from the rain. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 26 Feb 07 - 05:09 PM I wankered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er hill and dale When suddenly I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils. And if they were around here they were all friz up solid. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 27 Feb 07 - 09:16 AM Any flowers that came up here are regretting it about now. We don't normally see any until middle March. Daffodils and tulips come up first and they can handle a bit of cold. We may get another round of frezzing stuff starting tomorrow. Oh, well, I'll stop at the store tonight and stock up on provisions. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 27 Feb 07 - 05:25 PM We generally don't see any flowers at all until the middle of July, usually July 17, between 3:35 and 3:37 p.m. Then they're Johnny-Jump-Ups. Pop! and they're up; SLURP! and they're gone and it's winter agains. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 28 Feb 07 - 09:31 AM Flipp9in' Amsterflippindam. You can smoke a little here and see girls and drink good beer but you know what? They got flippin' COPS! I had a little beer and stuff and was goin' to see this blond only I acidenly like fell against this guy and sort of acidntly hit him in the flippin' eye with my fist! I swear it was a flippin' accident! Anyway, he was a flippin' COP! And he put me in flippin' JAIL! I missed my flippin' flight back to Canada! I'm here in Amsterflippindam. I just got out of gail. My ticket home ain't any good. I only got about ten dollars. And everybody here speaks dutch or french or some other foriegn flippin' language! HOLY FLIP, MAN! I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FLIP TO DO! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 28 Feb 07 - 09:36 AM Sounds like a problem Shane would have, all right. Maybe we should all chip in and buy the lad a ticket home. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:44 PM The Two Shanes issue rears its head again i see. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Canadienne Date: 28 Feb 07 - 04:01 PM Couldn't we just "go Dutch"? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 28 Feb 07 - 04:21 PM touché |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Leadfingers Date: 28 Feb 07 - 04:39 PM Threeche?? Or do I mean 14oo ??? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 28 Feb 07 - 05:01 PM Is this 1400 now? What happened? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 28 Feb 07 - 05:07 PM It seems one of the first 100 posts has been deleted. All the x00 posts are now (x-1)99. Is there some international intrigue at work here? And I just ran out of tinfoil, blast! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 28 Feb 07 - 05:11 PM If the current count holds IWTATBM is now one of the first 50 (or at least seems to be). Can a first 50 be retro-active if it wasn't a first 50 when posted? Our future-selves' lawyers may make the Anna Nicole Smith wrangles look like childs play with this one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 28 Feb 07 - 09:10 PM It's all a plot by the AntiIdaho Legion, or AIL, to poison young minds, corrupt young bodies, undermine our principles, overthrow the ruling class, suborn our juries, bribe our witnesses, destroy our military capabilities, rot our charitable enterprises, sing off-key, and play out of tune. The only thing standing firm against this Chaos is the Idaho Legion. The Legionaires and Legionettes hold fast, but need your help. Send money. They'll only spend it on booze and other necessities. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 28 Feb 07 - 11:23 PM No kiddin' eh, Rapaire? Booze and otehr necisitties. Right flippin' ON! That is exactly what I would flippin' do if someone sent me money, eh? Maybe youse guys arent' as stoopid as I thought you was. The guy in Dutchland lies like a rug! Don't send money to him. He is not me. Send money to Blind River, care of "Shane McBride". I need booze and smokes bad and Don has been hidin' his wallet from me again. - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 01 Mar 07 - 09:00 AM Shane, even YOU could become a member of the Idaho Legion and share in the free booze and smokes (of all sorts). You'd have to pass The Test, but it's not very hard. Being Canadian and hence not a "true-blue All-American citizen of the United States of America" you wouldn't have voting privileges, but the last vote was taken in 1953 and nobody was sober enough to vote so the issue was tabled and never brought up again (the issue was "Should we forgive the Canadians for Molsons or not?"). You would be personally responsible for protecting Canada, or at least Blind River, from attack. Usually the attacks come either from the Martians or the Canadians. You also have to be ready at all time to rescue beautiful women from Fates Worse Than Death and/or ride to the rescue of other Legionaires (there aren't any in Canada at the moment) or Bee-Dubya-Ell, whichever comes first. The dues are subsidised, so it wouldn't cost you anything. Let me know if you want to apply for membership and take The Membership Test. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 01 Mar 07 - 09:35 AM Sounds like quite the organization you have there. Since Iowa is often confused with Idaho (Ohio, too) I'm thinking this might be good fit for me as well. Any chance I would be considered? Is there a free brochure? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 01 Mar 07 - 12:25 PM Here's a PDF brochure. It's not fancy, but then neither is the Legion. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 01 Mar 07 - 01:17 PM Whew! That reads just like some of the important things I see at my place of employ. I recently ran across this sentence in a press release (it was on the web so I assume it is not propietary information). "There is momentum behind our digital revenues driven by a widening range of innovative online information products, increasingly embedded in customer workflows." Isn't that inspiring? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Mar 07 - 01:57 PM Yeah. Just makes me want to sit right down, put a pistolo to my head, and end it all right now... ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 01 Mar 07 - 02:15 PM I always keep my powder dry. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 01 Mar 07 - 02:28 PM You would be personally responsible for protecting Canada, or at least Blind River, from attack. Usually the attacks come either from the Martians or the Canadians. You also have to be ready at all time to rescue beautiful women from Fates Worse Than Death and/or ride to the rescue of other Legionaires (there aren't any in Canada at the moment) or Bee-Dubya-Ell, whichever comes first. Holy Flip! I can do this, eh? Speshally the part about rescuin' the women. The dues are subsidised, so it wouldn't cost you anything. Flippin' A!!! Let me know if you want to apply for membership and take The Membership Test. I am ready, man! I can do this. Idaho Legion here I come! - Shane |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 01 Mar 07 - 03:01 PM Am I now one of the first 50 posters? Did I understand this right? This IS news. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 01 Mar 07 - 03:24 PM Check it out. There you are, at the bottom of the first page (ostensibly post #50), bemoaning the fact that you were not in the first 50. But now you are! |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 01 Mar 07 - 04:05 PM Hey, what the FLIP is this? You're going to let ahtt flippin' IMPOSTER in this Legion deal? While I'm stuck here in flippin' Amsterdam, bumming smokes from people who don't speak any flippin' language I ever heard of? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 01 Mar 07 - 09:01 PM As I posted before my post was toasted, I've notified the Commandant Colonel-General In Command of the Idaho Legion of the desire of some to take The Test. Since this has never before been given over the World Wide Web, she has to give it some thought. She will be posting here in the very near future with her answer. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Mar 07 - 10:08 AM I haven't had Post Toasties in a long time. Now I'm hungry. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:10 PM Anyone know which one of the first 50 posters has been deleted? What's going on? Something's afoot. BDiBR this is your thread; I demand (as one of the first 50 posters on this thread) that you make it your life's work to flippin well find out. Can you contact Jo Offer, he should know? Best wishes IWTATBM FFP |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:20 PM Getting high and mighty on us now? Don't forget, IWTATBM (recently) FFP, I knew you you when. Next thing you know old IWTATBM is gonna be eatin' green tomatoes, and likin' 'em. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:53 PM Haven't tried green tomatoes yet but did watch the film, on your recommendation I think KB. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Mar 07 - 02:58 PM Not really my recommendation though I did mention it during the "great tomato imbroglio." Haven't seen it myself. Did you enjoy the film. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:11 PM I sort of enjoyed the film, if you know what I mean. I think at the time of the great Green Tomato Controversy I requested everyone to watch the film so that we could have a heated discussion about it after. Unfortunately everyone ignored me, costing us a potential 1000 posts by my estimate. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:18 PM We just got three of them back so guess we are now only down 997. It's a start. I will check if our local library has it, back in a sec. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:21 PM Drat! They have two copies but both are checked out. On a positive note, that makes four so now we are only 996 posts shy of a load. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:29 PM Well this post makes 5 but I won't be happy until we've reached 1000 posts relating to the film. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:33 PM I could a copy on hold. 6 |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:40 PM That's good - but don't expect too much from it, it was a touch sweet for my taste generally. However you may want to vehemently disagree with me after seeing it? (7) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 02 Mar 07 - 03:47 PM Sweet? Fried Green Tomatoes (which I have eaten, as you may recall) are not sweet in the least. (8) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 02 Mar 07 - 05:30 PM The film was a bit too sugary, I'll have to take your word about the green fried tomatoes. Hey we now have a new thread within a thread thread. "Will this thread-within-a-thread reach 1000 posts relating to the film Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" I wonder if this is the first thread within a thread Mudcat has had? If so it's another first for the 85 billion thread. (9) |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 02 Mar 07 - 06:18 PM I am informed that Colonel-General Smythe-Withers, Number One Head Honcho of the Idaho Legion is currently recovering from a massive headache and stomach upset brought about by the inordinate consumption of ethanol-based beverages. She regrets her inability to post The Test at this time, but will do so as soon as she can stand the sound of a pin dropping onto the carpet fifty feet away. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 05 Mar 07 - 09:29 AM I'm getting a little nervous about this test. Is it knowledge based or more of a first reaction type, trying to get in our heads? I'm not sure I want anyone else to know too much about what goes on in my head. I don't really like knowing too much about what goes on in my head (not that there is very much going on anyway, but still). I do hope the Colonel-General feels better soon. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 05 Mar 07 - 12:44 PM First, she has to sober up. Second, she has to conquer the hangover. Third, you gotta get her out off bed...and how hard that it depends upon who she's with. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 07 Mar 07 - 03:28 PM So is the Colonel-General out of bed yet, or is it still too hard? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:34 PM Actually, I just spoke with her on the phone. It's mid-week, so she'll be sober and, ah, "awake" until Friday afternoon. She'll be posting The Test, she said, tonight or tomorrow "whichever comes first." You'll all be pleased to know that a physical examination is NO LONGER required and the Legion will now take your word about your sex. If it is found later that you lied about this, you will not be punished. |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:48 PM Is the question about sex a yes/no or are details requested? |
Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Colonel-General Smyte-Withers, Helena B. Date: 07 Mar 07 - 09:39 PM You buncha clowns thing you can be in MY Legion, huh? Well, maggots, here's the deal, so lissen up! You gotta pass this test. Send your results to your representative in your national assembly; it will be forwarded to me. So, you wanna join the legion? The Test Complete this test completely. Do not lie, fudge, fib, or try to wriggle out of the correct answer. You will be penalized for each incorrect answer and possibly for each correct one as well. Do not use diagrams. Do not complete the test by using crayons, pencil, a brush, or anything besides a ballpoint pen that produces dark blue or dark black ink. Answers which cannot be read because of smeared ink, alcohol stains, or anything else will NAME: REAL NAME: YOUR NAME IN THE STATES: Not that it matters, but do you live in Idaho? Yes No Maybe Sex: Male Female Other None Unsure Yes, please No, not now Circle Last Educational Level Attempted: Grade School High School College Grad School More Less None 1. You are in charge of a platoon which has been ordered to attack a hill defended by ten thousand people who are armed with everything you can imagine and then some. You have 40 people. What do you do? A. Carry out the mission no matter the costs! B. Take a vote on what to do. C. Flip a coin: heads we go for beer, tails we take a nap. D. Tell the guy who told you to do this dumb thing to go &%$! him or her 2. Reference: US Rifle, Caliber .30, M-1: What is the name of that little pin that holds the forked rod that goes into the spring? The pin that you’re always dropping and without which your M-1 won’t work? Do you know? If you do, will you please tell me? 3. What is the maximum rate of fire for the Musket, caliber .69, “Brown 4. Explain yourself. Try to be coherent. 5. How would YOU go about putting the Budweiser back in 6. Can you sing? Should we let you do so? Why? 7. You’ve drunk 3 glasses of Devil’s Piss, 6 Pink Panty Droppers, and a Purple Jesus or two or three or more. What will you drink next? 8. Physical Examination: Can you pat your head, rub your tummy, and 9. If a locomotive leaves point A at precisely 1317 hours and travels 10. Do you speak a language other than English? If so, what? Now Mert lofrát tinglû, Mers Fluggan. Dejit nørcamt en enciente y camino This is the end of the test. Turn in your paper. Do not discuss this test with |