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Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: bankley
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 12:10 AM

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Georgia's on my mind.....

Subject: RE: Explosion
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 03:48 PM

I did once, but it exploded. I really blew my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Amos
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 02:30 PM

It's good to play make-believe when you are very, very young, but when you get to adult estate, making up your mind is not recommended; use your real one.


A

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 11:37 AM

"An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure."

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 09:40 AM

Yes

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 09:08 AM

You mean almost undoubtedly close to being made up or almost definitely made up?

Subject: RE: Perhaps Maybe
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 08:41 AM

And that's my final answer, I think. Don't try to talk me out of it, because my mind's mostly made up.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: autolycus
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 01:45 AM

Oh id you must know, an asocial group is one person with multiple personalities. Thought everyone knew that. I'm off.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 10:40 PM

ROFLMAO, BW....you got the picture!! Talk about cognitive dissonance.

As for Gnu joining the Temple, he's always been a forward-looking sort of guy, with his eyes ahead of the curve, so I thought I could get him in under the wire, but not while he's in his cups.


A

Subject: RE: Parties
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 09:44 PM

And they all have a drink, only they remember that they hate what they're drinking and throw it away.

Subject: RE: BS: Curiouser and Curiouser
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 09:37 PM

I keep trying to get a handle on the asocial group thing, but it keeps eluding me. I keep imagining a group of people arriving at a party where they all silently face separate spots on the wall for an hour or so before remembering that they hate parties so they all leave and go to someone else's house where they do the same thing again, ad infinitum.

Subject: RE: Horse Apples
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 08:42 PM

You can find 'em in the road
You can find 'em in the woad
You can find 'em almost everywhere.
'Cause when a horse has got a load
It'll dump it in the road
And the horse'll feel much better, so beware!

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: autolycus
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 05:06 PM



Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 04:33 PM

You mean you need his support?

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 04:15 PM

Gnu,

When you sober up, perhaps you would like to apply for memebership in the local branch of our international organization of worship, the Temple of the Golden Curve. We use folks like CHris as our "prophets network" as one way of increasing our reach into the general public. Well, half of it, anyway.


A

Subject: RE: BS: 'Double007 D '
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 03:34 PM

I loike big bushums. Titshs, thaht ish. Like Chrish Roch shays, ev'rybody likesh.... a big titty woman. He shaid it on Oprah. On nasheanal televisean, and ahhhh thank him for it, I doo. Becaush, I doo too.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 03:26 PM

Bawnd...Jamesh Bawnd

Subject: RE: BS: 'I like '
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 03:01 PM

the way Sean Connery pronounches shertan wordsh.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: John Hardly
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 02:44 PM

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It's Code, Not Cliché

Chuck, the owner of the local Ace Hardware, has made a practice of tapping a great, knowledgeable but inexpensive workforce -- retired old guys.

One day after I had spent about forty minutes getting one of the old guys to cut me 50 feet of 1/16" cable, Chuck approached me in the aisle as I headed toward the checkout. He wanted to know if the service I got from the old guy was OK.

"You know, Ed's 88." he said, "I like the idea of these guys having something to do besides wasting away sitting on their butts 'til they die. Still, I'm still hoping the service they offer here is to the customer's satisfaction."

"It was fine", I said. For some reason the forty minute wait suddenly didn't seem to matter as much to me anymore.

The Ace guys talk in old man short hand. They never tire of an old joke or a good cliché. In one short(er) visit to the hardware I heard: "I don't get mad. I get even", and "No matter how many times he cut that board, it was still too short -- ha ha", and, "You don't like the weather here? … just wait five minutes".

I don't think that they think they're being original, clever, or even funny by these ritual repetitions. I think they believe themselves friendly. I believe they're right.

My wife and a few of her friends used to take their dogs to the local nursing homes each month for "pet therapy". The more infirmed older people really seemed to respond well to the affection of a dog. The more coherent ones would regularly launch into tales of the dogs in their past. The reminiscences seemed to bring them joy in addition to helping them pass the endless, empty hours of nursing home life.

In a very short time it was evident to me, in the few times I'd go along with her on her pet therapy rounds, that the old folks had taken a real liking to my wife. By really listening to the old folks on her visits, she showed a kind of interest that meant a whole lot to those people.

I remember a story I read of a woman looking for the right nursing home for her mother who was going to require constant care. She went from nursing home to nursing home – each seemingly loving and caring, but for some reason the woman didn't choose them. The place she chose seemed little different in any way from the many others she had rejected. When asked about her choice, she explained that it was the first place where they addressed her mother as "Mrs _______". All the others referred to her by her first name or, even worse, as "honey" or some other sweet nickname. The daughter wanted her mother in a place that respected, rather than patronized her mother. She felt as though a woman who had lived a respectable life didn't stop deserving respect just because she lost the ability to care for herself.

I was standing in line at the post office a few months ago. One older gentleman, probably in his 80's, was standing right behind me. Another, younger -- maybe 70's but farm-work rugged -- was almost up to the window. The man behind me said "Hey Jack." and the fellow up-line turned, smiled and said "Hey Ed. How's life?"

"Every day this side of the sod, y'know?" replied Ed, and then he added, "I'm just thankful to be on my own still. After seeing Alice into Miller's (local nursing home) before she passed on, well, I just….well, I'm just happy -- happy to be at home. Glad I still get around on my own."

They talked a while longer until it was Jack's turn at the window. Jack wished Ed well and then turned to the postal clerk. "I'll have a book of those left-handed stamps please."

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 02:38 PM

Oh, normality, fer cry-i. It is highly overrated. A figment, like "the gummint" and "God" and a whole mess of other little kewpie-concepts people invent in order to fwend off the ravages of real perception and live thought.


A

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: autolycus
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 02:10 PM

i They'm a' daft 'cept me an' thee lad, an' ah'm none so sure abaht thee soomtimes.


Words to the effect of that line 'Giok' gave, is the line everyone is thinking, the thought=experiment.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Schantieman
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 02:05 PM

yer wot?

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: autolycus
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:59 PM

Actually, 'Goik', I invented , I think, a thought-experiment based on your quotation (which was xlose to the correct answer, btw.)

And spelling it out satisfies the remit of this - for want of a better word - thread.

However, imagine a dozen people in a room, and we can see into the room, and are also able to read everyone's mind. And imagine that each of the twelve is thinking that line.   

   Nowi if one person thinks the words 'Giok' gave, it seems superficially reasonable. But we're imagining all twelve thinking it. Of each other.

   So we've taken the centre of 'normality' from one. Cos they're all thinking they are the only normal one. So, now where is normality? Where is the centre of gravity?

   As far as I can see, the idea of 'normality' is simply -er - complicated. Or , at least, not self-evident. Especially if we also assume that each of the twelve is 'normal' in a common-sense kind of way.

Then we have to start making distinctions between, e.g., 'normality' and 'familiar'; or 'normality' and 'average'.

naturally, i don't know where I'm going with this. (Have to feed the other wits,innit?)


Ivor

Subject: MOMMY
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:36 PM

He's doing it again . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:18 PM

Aye, theer's nowt so queer as fowk. They'm a' daft 'cept me an' thee lad, an' ah'm none so sure abaht thee soomtimes.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:07 PM

How can we define normal? It is in the eye of the beholder. During the course of my Child Care Management, I cared for a fourteen year old boy who was a little different...to say the least. He walked around all day with one arm up his sleeve as if hiding it from all and sundry despite it being perfectly OK. I once observed a group of lads around him, jeering and trying to get him to show his hand..trying to pull up his sleeve for him. He was saying over and over.."They are mad, they are all mad"!.............and I guess they sort of were to him....and the way they were behaving...perhaps to any onlookers.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 12:53 PM

Ya gotta watch out for those asocial groups -- you never know which way the cat is going to jump, so to speak, as they are all so damn conflicted.


A

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: autolycus
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 12:17 PM

Someone once sadi in asocial group that a certain other wasn't normal. I asked him who was normal. He said,"ME!". I said,'Ah right. And who else?'

What do you suppose his answer was? And why?

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 11:53 AM

Sign pal? Ah'll gie ye a sign richt enoo, an' it'll aye leave me wi anither 9 fingers tae dae things wi.

G

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 11:14 AM

Dylan is dead - in Giok we have a new Prophet.

Hallelujah (exclamation mark).

Hallelujee (exclamation mark).

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 11:01 AM

Ask the guy who started it -- I can't speak for him. But I am not crazy, yet. The Republicans are working on me, hard, but I am fending them off manfully. :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 11:00 AM

Giok is talkin' in tongues.



IS IT A SIGN?

Subject: WHY
From: Peace
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 10:47 AM

do all the crazies end up on this thread?

Subject: Fernitickles '
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 10:41 AM

Ah used tae get they, when ah wis a wean, but noo ah dinnae hae them. Mebbes it's because ah'm growin' auld an ma skin disnae hae the streetch, alang wi a few ither bit's o' me an' aw.

Giok

Subject: recapitulative vacillations
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 10:26 AM

Who was that masked man? And won't anyone save that poor fellow who just jumped off the end of the month?

Oh.. never mind, he'll still be there tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: bankley
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 09:53 AM

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Subject: RE: The MCPO
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 09:47 AM

No, the waist I couldn't stand to watch was on an on Master Chief Petty Officer. When he sat down or stopped moving his waist continued jiggling for another ten minutes or so. He hadn't seen any of his body below his hands for over twenty years, and his hands only when he held them up. No fingers, just these fat flipper things....

Subject: Problems '
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 09:36 AM

Was that the seaman who went to sleep in his bunk with a problem on his mind, and woke up with the solution on his stomach?

G

Subject: RE: Bodily Fluids
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 09:20 AM

As was pointed out in the Hallowed Movie, we must do our best to preserve our precious bodily fluids. That was why I never joined the Navy. I couldn't bear to watch the waists of seamen.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: John Hardly
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 08:35 AM

Whatever floats your, you know, switch.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 08:34 AM

With or without a float switch?

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: John Hardly
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 08:23 AM

For instance, bilge pumps.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:51 AM

Some things suck. Some things are fun. Some things that suck are fun.

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:28 AM

There are two definitive things that happen to us as we increase in age:- The first is we forget things and the second is......er.....em....well........

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:03 AM

forgot - no hope today!

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:02 AM

Damn ....... forget my thread title!

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:01 AM

just look at the people who have posted to this thread. The list is not yer average group of folkies. In fact, it could be the supporting cast for Dr Strangelove.

Thank you - I just hate being average anything.

BTW, this thread is unusual to say the least - I can't wait to see the next one; they seem to be getting better and better and even better. I just hope we don't have to wait for the 500 mark!

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:00 AM

Oh, now you've f*cked it up by going OUTSIDE THE LINES

(I was going to put loads of exclamation marks after 'LINES@, supra, but who wants to be mistaken for MadLizzieCornish ?)

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 05:57 AM

Just like this

Subject: RE: BS: ' '
From: The PA
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 05:55 AM

Oh I remember, with invisible ink.