BS: A thread about nothing

Subject: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 06:23 PM

This is for all the Bland, Beige and Boring things in the world, for which there is nothing to say.

It's not here for discussion, nor opinions, nor arguments, and we'll have no swearing or cursing, because that would bring emotion into it and this thread is about no emotion, no passion, no riled up feelings...

It's about apathy.

No thoughts.

Most definitely no egocentrics.

That way, it won't be closed down like other threads have been.

It's going to be a nice 'safe' little thread, I can feel it in my bones.

The Most Boring Video

There ya go...soooooo much better that discussing fascism, racism or FAF. Can't **think** why we haven't done it before.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:20 PM

Actually...we have. ;-) You just didn't notice, because it was so boring and uncontroversial.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: pdq
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:22 PM

Nothing refreshes, like Coke.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: frogprince
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:32 PM

SNORT

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: open mike
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:32 PM

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:48 PM

I'll see your "         " and raise you a "             ".

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:51 PM

I'd post something but I can't be arsed.


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: pdq
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:54 PM

"nothing was revealed" ~ El Dylan

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 07:58 PM

"When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose" - More from his Bobness

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: jeddy
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 08:10 PM

did you hear that? did you? .....copy me..   (whistles).

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: bobad
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 08:15 PM

The Fugs "Nothing"

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 08:28 PM

Oh, no! People have stopped believing in Little Hawk's alter egos and The Nothing has begun to take over the Mudcat! We're doomed!

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 10:18 PM

What a revolting development!

"Nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free" - Kristofferson

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 10:25 PM

Yawn. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 10:26 PM

You can't have nothing

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 10:40 PM

although we have talked about it often

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 10:42 PM

"I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it left."

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 11:57 PM

Hey, Bill...?

"Nothing Compares to U" ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 12:12 AM

I don' know nothin'. It is nice to see that I'm not alone.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 12:24 AM

Hear all see all say nowt, eat all drink all pay nowt.....

Al

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: DMcG
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 02:21 AM

Nothing here

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 03:02 AM

As this thread is really about nothing...I will add nothing to it because nothing will make a difference whichever source it comes from.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 03:26 AM

Advertising slogan for a headache cure: "Nothing acts faster than Anadin"


I'll take nothing then.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 04:24 AM

Too Much of Nothing is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1967, first released by him on the album The Basement Tapes (1975). .

it is not in the D.T. (yet.....Lyric add.....)
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Now, too much of nothing
Can make a man feel ill at ease.
One man's temper might rise
While another man's temper might freeze.
In the day of confession
We cannot mock a soul.
Oh, when there's too much of nothing,
No one has control.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Vivian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

Too much of nothing
Can make a man abuse a king.
He can walk the streets and boast like most
But he wouldn't know a thing.
Now, it's all been done before,
It's all been written in the book,
But when there's too much of nothing,
Nobody should look.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Vivian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

Too much of nothing
Can turn a man into a liar,
It can cause one man to sleep on nails
And another man to eat fire.
Ev'rybody's doin' somethin',
I heard it in a dream,
But when there's too much of nothing,
It just makes a fella mean.

Say hello to Valerie
Say hello to Vivian
Send them all my salary
On the waters of oblivion

there is a you tube video of Peter Paul and Mary singing it....
now, that would be something, wouldn't it? (so i won't post it here)

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 04:34 AM

Is nothing sacred?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Will Fly
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 04:56 AM

Errr...

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 05:23 AM

""Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.....Bobby McGee""

Don T......Who?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 24 Jul 09 - 08:22 AM

Someone had to say it so I will :

FUCK ALL.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 03:55 PM

I got plenty of nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 04:04 PM

Yeah, but can you beat this?

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Subject: RE: BS: A ll In Favor Of Nothing, Nada Head....
From: Severn
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 04:34 PM

Nothing?

As in.......

Nada (damned thing)?

More Null than Lisa?

A void to be avoided?

An absence not to make the heart grow fonder, or even grow at all?

A nun who's less than some at all?

What The Nutting Girl threw all of away?

A child's Christmas gift at Spike Jones' house?

Billy Preston-style arithmatic?

The name a non-existant South Pacific Atoll?

What we were for and it was really all for in the final concensus?









......You mean THAT nothing?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 04:39 PM

"I started off on burgandy but soon I hit the harder stuff
Everyone said they stand beside if the game got tough
but the joke was on me, there wasn't anyone there to even bluff
I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough."

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 05:30 PM

Has anyone noticed the "Amazon.com" ad over to the right....

"No results for 'BS- a thread about nothing'"

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: pdq
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 06:02 PM

...as that great philosopher Jethro Tull once said: "nothing is easy"

Subject: RE: BS: Much Ado About Naugting
From: Severn
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 06:18 PM

How would you numericaly rate a nothing thread, Slag? In naughts per hour, perhaps?

Is it nothing enough for everybody yet?

Can this naught ever be untied?

Or united, for that matter? Can we naught agree on anything?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 07:41 PM

Knot at this speed.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 08:13 PM

I am nonplussed! I rate this thread a perfect 0=0. Fair and balanced.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 09:36 PM

Nothing comes of nothing. -- King Lear

Nothing at the beginning, nothing at the end. How can I lose?

Subject: RE: BS: Nothing-Where Angels Fear To Thread
From: Severn
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 09:42 PM

How can you lose, Joe?


By shutout, of course......


And everybody looks to score every once in a while.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 09 - 10:48 PM

Nada, zilch, zero, no thing, huh-uh, nope, nary a one, nyet, nine (not the number) no way, black hole, love-love, absent, gone, never was, over, dead still, flat, bottomed out, highlined, stranded, beat (daddy), done.






The above post has been rated PG, no stars, the little man has left the theater and 0.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 08:55 AM

If nothing existed, we'd only recognize it due to it's proximity to something. It's part of everything but not just anything. I'll get back after taking a toke and tell y'all if I agree with that.




OK, I'm back. Like, the hole is there because it's surrounded by dough. If not for that, where would the sprinkled sugar be? I ask you. Tim Horton had the right idea. Like, when ya do something with eelan/elann/ellan great style and verve--hey, where's Bobert?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 09:41 AM

Oh, BOBert.

It's pissin' rain in Montreal. I am looking at three pigeons huddled on a window ledge. They look like vultures. Strange birds. Have to wonder why they evolved. Or IF they evolved. Heck, they might even be the same birds that hovered over my prostrate body when I was stranded in the Mohavee/Moheve/Mohjave Sahara Desert. It was just after the uh--so wtf are they doing in Montreal?

The nearest Tim Horton's is at least a three days walk from here--OK, maybe a half hour, but in this driving sandstorm it would SEEM like days--just to get nothing surrounded by dough.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 11:08 AM

"Saying nothing...sometimes says the most."

Emily Dickinson

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 01:58 PM

My God, Peace...you are THREE DAYS' WALK from the nearest Tim Hortons???????????????? GEE-ZUS. I'd be panicking and hyperventilating, man. Imagine Shane in such a position.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 02:14 PM

Yeah. I know. Shane'd be shaking, delirious, and all messed up. Actually, I can see Tim's from here. Just that in my present condition it would take me three days to walk there.

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 02:20 PM

at the risk of exacerbating the shock horror... what is Tim Horton's?

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 02:44 PM

It's Canada's most common and ubiquitous donut shop chain. They're everywhere. You can't throw a stone in this town without hitting one. I think they are putting small amounts of heroin in the coffee. Something like that. They basically sell caffiene and sugar with small amounts of other stuff added for flavour.

Subject: RE: BS: Much overdue about nothing
From: Severn
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 02:57 PM

Did Horton just hear a "Who?".....



(Cue in Tex Ritter)
"Do-nut fore-sake me, O mah darlin'..... "


A donut IS something. It's merely usually in the SHAPE of a nothing.
However, back when I could eat them, I preferred the filled ones....


I always figured that at work, when your bosses bought you donuts, they always tended yo by the ones with powdered sugar, sprinkles or coconut so they could follow your trail and ferret out your secret hiding places.....


Or as the old graffitti/school yearbook signing passage went:

"As you wander off through life,
Whatever may be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole."



If not, I guess you just:

Keep your hand upon the throttle
and your eye upon the rail

or:

Keep your hand upon the dollar
and your eye upon the scale.

or even:

Take your hand off the penny, leave it on the rail, then put your ear to the rail to hear if the train's coming, see that the (sub)urban legend that it would derail the train was false and pocket the squashed-flat penny as a keepsake.


Whatever works.......

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 04:43 PM

In certain parts of the US, "Dunkin' Doughnuts" is the approximate substitute for Tim Hortons. They are reputed to have decent coffee. I wouldn't know. There's one 5 minutes from me, but I haven't been inside it in 30 years.)

Subject: RE: BS: A thread about nothing
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jul 09 - 04:47 PM

Tim Horton's will be opening a dozen shops in New York City. (That was posted by a Mudcatter. Maybe on this thread. (Sorry, I do not recall who.)

Today, New York. Tomorrow, Biggar, Saskatchewan. The sign on the edge of their town reads, "New York is big. This is Biggar."