MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 09:07 PM

Morels: magnificent morsels.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 09:09 PM

After forest fires you get plenty of them. We don't have any except in stores.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 09:34 PM

I'm slowly putting in the last of my vegetable garden this summer, but nearly passed out from the heat after 45 minutes of work (after 6pm). No mushrooms down here, but the okra will be good when it gets going.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 09:27 AM

Try looking amidst clumps of Mayapples (Podophyllum peltatum), also called American Mandrake.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 09:36 AM

Its too dry for any fruiting right now but August promises to be a gonzo season for shrooms and berries.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 07:09 PM

I had a surprise crop of chanterelles pop up courtesy of a recent rainy spell. Made a nice soup and had enough for omelets the next couple of mornings.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 08:00 AM

BWL for some reason you remind me that we all should have our own theme songs. For that matter the Pandemic should have its own Theme Music

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 12:03 PM

Nice one, Donuel. I've always like Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, but there seems to be a shortage of lyric sopranos when orchestras get ready to record it and they usually use cellos or other string instruments. Here's a woman singing. It's not like you need to learn the words, just the melody.

Re: mushrooms, I should clarify that there are lots of mushrooms and fungi down here, but none that I would consider eating. Unless they come from the grocery store.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 01:31 PM

The voice as in vocalise is what every enlightened cellist strives to produce in a lifetime. It almost happens once or twice but more often most produce a sound like a box of bees at a quarter the volume of a voice.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 04:42 PM

SONGFACTS ®


Was the end of July so hot you could cry
A semi full of frozen human meat
Driver Pete didn't know his reefer's beat
Haulin bodies outta LA is why
Its 110 and we gotta long way to go
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to getta ice cold drink."

'Cause we got a little ol' convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little ol' convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

By the time we got past Tulsa Town,
Pete's truck smelled worse than liberal hell.
we bypassed a roadblock that checked for masks
It had bears wall-to-wall .
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go missin before we drop our load ."

'Cause we got a great big convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a great big convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.

Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
Prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."

'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
we're gonna hide Trump's death toll
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy! Convoy! Convoy! Convoy!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 08:37 PM

Well, it's finally happened.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 11:32 PM

"It's finally happened" seems to happen to me more frequently with each passing day.

And my theme song is "Bony Fingers" by Hoyt Axton, not something by some Russian guy whose name I can't spell.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 09:12 AM

Weren't the Chantrelles one of the girl groups back in early 60s? Why are you calling them mushrooms?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 03:51 PM

Yes. They opened for the Puff Balls when they were on tour with the Chicken of the Woods.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 06:12 PM

The punk band Moshrooms looked like a bunch of dicks in the 70's but now in their 70's they are quite distinguished.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 07:11 PM

There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to
In my room, I've got Zoom
In this world I lock out all my worries and my fears
In my room, streaming Zoom
Do my dreaming and my scheming
Lie awake and pray
Do my crying and my sighing
Laugh at yesterday
Now it's dark and I'm alone
But I won't be afraid
In my room, I've got Zoom
In my room, with my Zoom
In my room, like a tomb
threats are wafting in the still air
But not in my room,
not in my room

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 01:23 PM

The only known particle that has NO spin is the Higgs Boson.
The Higgs field is everywhere and not just near a Higgs Boson.
However there are weak spots in the field in which the Higgs boson falls apart. To our surprise the slight absence of something creates a presence of something else. For our purposes the something from the absence of something else will be called the BS wave. We are in the midst of an intense BS wave which distorts reality in horrifying and opposite ways. Expertise is being replaced by hoaxs and lies, intelligence is replaced by ignorance, fairness is replaced by cruelty and cons, massless light speed particles are replaced by slow supermassive particles. Particles that once carried forces now carry frauds. The fundamental changes caused by the BS wave are unpredictable. It is uncertain if the BS wave will pass us by or linger. May the BS be with you, until it isn't.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 10:23 PM

The absence of something is the presence of absence. You cannot have pure absence because absence is then present. Geez, I explained this to my third grade teacher so she'd know that I really wasn't absent that week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Jul 20 - 03:59 PM

The absence of presence and the presence of absence aren't the same. They have different topographies.

The absence of presence is a featureless flat surface.

The presence of absence is a deep hole with steep sides.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jul 20 - 08:56 PM

Absence and presence are the same thing. I can write this out in Boolean Logic, or, if you'd rather, another system. However, I'm certain that you are aware that Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems demonstrate the inherent limitations of every formal axiomatic system, perhaps even Hilbert's program.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 20 - 09:02 PM

A savage bar fight breaks out over the absence of presence.*>#~&*
I am most impressed that -only- the Higgs boson has no spin or charge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 12:33 AM

If this slap and dodge bar fight should grow into a "beautiful world war", like a butterfly flap into the roar of a hurricane, Trump would be happier than a pig in shit
He used to love playing battleship.

Now: How to stretch applause> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elYSQkTWfTw

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 12:38 AM

Concerto for funny walks while sitting down. Scjak Micjalin

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 10:05 AM

Well, I suppose that, from a purely mathematical standpoint, the presence of absence is not a deep hole with steep sides. A true hole goes all the way through, like the hole in a doughnut. Therefore, the presence of absence is a deep indentation with steep sides. Glad we got that cleared up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 01:33 PM

Predicted by super symmetry theory there could be another 7 bosons with no spin that we have not detected. There is no telling what kind of fields they produce, causing all other particles in those fields to express different properties/super powers. Some cosmologists refer to the other bosons by the names of the 7 dwarves but complicating matters others are going with; Higgs, Gigs, Figs, Eggs, Digs, Cigs, Bigs and Aids.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 04:50 PM

We are told that the Higgs allows some particles to express mass but not massless light speed particles. What if the Higgs or other spinless boson field allows particles to express other properties like dark matter having gravity? It all seems like a game changer that I will never grasp. The confirmed existence of the Higgs was measured by the LHC in terms of the absence of something after it was blown up. No one has ever seen, pointed to or found a Higgs in the pocket of their jeans.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 06:12 PM

Yes, I did. I reached in and there it was, just where I left it, only it had been run through the washer and dryer a couple of days ago. The boson was only slightly the worse for wear, unlike the Kleenex that I had also forgotten.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 06:58 PM

I just found out that one of my dearest friends is a ...
... cover your eyes, Rapparee ...
quilter.
Truly, I had no idea.
I have never been to my friend's house, as close as we are,
and if I had not been told,
I would never have guessed that the basement is filled
with cotton fabric for quilting.

I don't know:
what are the telltale signs,
in someone you believe you know well,
that they make ... quilts ... in the privacy of their homes?

(My friend, currently, is making
more facemasks than quilts, but still.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 06:58 PM

I sometimes look for the thread that people choose to not post to such as Black Lives Matter. The absence of posting something doesn't make them racist but it is suspicious.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 07:28 PM

Keb, one telltale sign of a quilter is that family members wear shoes with two-inch thick soles to prevent damage to feet from stray straight pins. Also, if a quilter has a vacuum cleaner with a rotating brush, it will have at least 100 yards of variously colored sewing threads wrapped around it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 11:09 PM

There will be threads of various colors on their clothing (except in Canada, the UK, and so forth, when the threads will be of various coloUrs). Books, many books, many, many books. There will be much fabric and little money. But the biggest and most evident sign is the magnetic pull of fabric stores -- and when fabric, quilts, sewing machines and such-like are mentioned they will have a seizure-like episode if with a non-quilter and if with another quilter begin arguing and fighting over the benefits of various brands of fabric, sewing machines, long-arm machines, quilting patterns, historicity of quilts, and even more esoteric subjects.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 04:53 AM

Long arm machines cost thousands of dollars. Our weary machine is in the shop.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 09:39 AM

Priced a Bernina or Viking or Pfaff lately? And they're short-arm machines.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 09:40 AM

And they have to be inspected all the time. It's called a "short-arm inspection."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 10:15 AM

heh heh
I collect music manuscript print cloth

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 11:12 AM

My 1948 rotary White (it's cast iron and weighs a ton) is my best machine in the house. It only sews straight lines, but it sews them faster and more reliably than the other machines. I have a Domestic that is a White off-brand bought in about 1990 that is slow to start (you have to push the hand wheel to get it started) and it slows down on several layers. Not the case with the 1948 machine. I put away the Domestic machine when I got a White "Jeans Machine" (from about 1980s) from Goodwill for $25 and after adding a bobbin case and presser foot, it's a better machine than my original one.

Since this is MOAB and MOM loves to sew, I thought I'd show you the machine she uses.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 12:11 PM

No one reccommends Viking, no one repairs Pffaff.
They called and said ours did not survive the transplant operation

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 12:36 PM

I worked on my own machines, cleaning and oiling this spring as I was getting underway with sewing masks. There are three so far I've serviced. White hasn't been made for years - and if you look up the companies at Wikipedia you'll see that most of them have gobbled up each other over the years. One offshoot of this is that if you go to the Singer.com site and in the Manuals/Support link, you can enter any machine and it comes up with results. Not just Singers. It has to do with all of the companies merging their manuals, etc. My 1948 White Series 77 machine manual was in there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 04:03 PM

We are finding that a decent one can't be bought. We are progressing to beg borrow and stealing. Is is almost 4PM and it is as dark as 10PM.
hmm looks like rain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 04:12 PM

Look on eBay. There are lots of reliable older machines there for sale. I have one I'll sell but it's in a table and I have to figure out if it needs rewiring first.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 05:33 PM

We own: 2.5 Pfaffs, 1 Singer Featherweight, 2 Kenmore Massives, 1 Singer treadle. The 0.5 Pfaff is kept in Indiana.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 07:24 PM

Mom! I need some political advice!

I want to put up a "Biden for President" lawn sign. But since I live in a VERY red area, it would probably be stolen almost immediately. What I need to know is the best non-lethal way to booby trap the sign. Ideally, I'd sit in a tree with a loaded shotgun, wait for someone to try to steal the sign, and blast off four quick "warning shots". But I don't have enough patience to spend that much time waiting to shoot something I can't even eat. Maybe I could just surround the sign with a six-foot wide six-inch deep perimeter of really gooey cow shit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 09:13 PM

My booby trap comes in 2 forms easy and hard. Wear gloves: The easy way is coat sign in lard or vasoline and liberally sprinkle ground ghost pepper on it. Place sign sheltered from rain.

The hard way is to attach the sign to 2 foot buried rebar and add step cement. Replace sod. Repeat easy booby trap.
The fun begins when they slightly touch their eye.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 09:45 PM

Quasi legal booby trap;
Take 1/4 lb of Iodine crystals and dissolve in a quart or less of Ammonia. IT IS Safe while wet with Ammonia, Optional - add a couple grams of powdered potassium or magnesium.
Apply wet brown sludge distillate to back of sign and allow to dry. Do not touch! If touched there is a big cloud of purple smoke and resounding blam. Even a blade of grass could set it off.
Or be creative;
For small blams pack keyholes with wet sludge. Splattering wet sludge with paint brush on basement stairs and walls will create spontaneous bangs when dry for days or more.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 10:03 PM

There are many invisible and forensicly untraceable booby traps that only require being touched but they are potentially lethal and not fun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 10:04 PM

Rat traps are handy things. So are punji sticks. Or see here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 10:51 PM

Maybe bringing the sign inside at night would do the trick. Sign thieves usually wait until after dark....

Nah, it just doesn't have the panache of a booby-trap, and I'm to the point of needing all the panache I can get.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 11:36 PM

I bet McGuyver read that book (and I never watched McGuyver).

I didn't put up Hillary signs last time because there were Trump vandals out not just stealing signs, but doing damage. This year a sign will go out. And if I can find an anti-Trump sign, maybe one of those also. "He belongs in jail" has a familiar ring . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 20 - 07:02 PM

I think the recipe thread has a post on how to make panache.

GONZO IS COMING STRAIGHT FOR STILLY. but its going to turn right not left like FOX says, Afterall Its Texas

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 20 - 09:03 PM

So you think that no one is protecting you and/or Earth from the assaults of the Galactic Overlord! Well, here's photographic proof how the Idaho Legion protects Earth (and you, personally).

This is the Legion's Stronghold in the mountains above Pocatello. You can see the path of the mighty Portneuf River, the lights of the town reflected in it. In the upper left is the track of one of the GO's Stardreadnoughts as it runs away, hoping to reach Stellar Escape Velocity before the Legion can unleash another Stardreadnought-shattering bolt of quantum might (the other streak in the sky), kinda right of center).

Yes, once again the Legion put its lives on the line to defend you and the planet from perfidious perdition at the hands of the horrendous henchthing of the Galactic Overlord!