BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....

Subject: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:37 AM

...Willie Makeit... Illustrated by Betty Wont...

I may have started a thread like this years ago but, no matter, it's always fun to revisit those dumb (but innocent) little jokes we used to tell as kids so...

...have at it...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:46 AM

'Ten Years in the Saddle' by Major Bumsore

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:46 AM

You mean like "Under The Bleachers" by Seymour Butts? Or "Long Yellow River" by Won Hung Lo?

We didn't do that sort of thing! The very idea! Hmmph!

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:50 AM

Or "My Life On The Plains" by George Armstrong Custer?

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: bobad
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:52 AM

"Rusty Bed Springs" by I.P.Nightly

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Will Fly
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:53 AM

"The Mystery of the Broken Window" by Eva Brick

"The Yellow Flowing River" by I.P. Standing

Takes me back to the school playground!

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:54 AM

'Into the Haunted House' by Hugo First.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:57 AM

Manure on My Window by Hoo Flung Dung

Rapparee, I admit I'm terribly thick, but I don't understand your George Armstrong Custer. At the risk of being tiresome, could you explain it to me? Sorry about this!

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 10:29 AM

In the event Rap doesn't get back here, Custer was an American cavalry officer. He and his troops met their doom at the Battle of the Greasy Grass, known to most non-native people as the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Custer's last words to his men: Don't take any prisoners!

It likely wouldn't be 'funny' had the US government not pursued a policy of genocide and broken every treaty it signed with various native peoples.

"The white man made us many promises--more than I can remember, but he never kept but one: he promised to take our land, and he took it."

That observation was made by one of the Oglala Sioux's chiefs, Red Cloud.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 11:33 AM

Thank you, 999. I have heard of Custer (as in 'Custer's last stand') It must be maddening for someone to have to explain a joke, it was kind of you.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 11:48 AM

Not at all, Eliza. Glad to be of assistance.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 01:29 PM

Well, Eliza -- Custer actually wrote a book by that title. It's still in print should you want to buy a copy. It is, shall we say? self-aggrandizing in the extreme. There's an on-line copy here.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 02:09 PM

Oh I see! It's a real book that he actually wrote!! I do feel so ignorant sometimes! Thank you, Rapparee.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: gnu
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 03:08 PM

WAY thread drift... Custer... Irony. I know I shouldn't have any type of feelings in regard to Custer with respect to "glad they got ya" because a lot of men died that day (and many before) but Custer was a bloodthirsty SOB mercenary and he was one of many bent on genocide for money and power and "glory". Sickening.

A couple of quotes... The only good Indian is a dead Indian. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

At the risk of poor taste and general offense, the one I heard was "Where Did All The Fuckin Indians Come From?" by General George Armstrong Custer.

I know that is dark, but that SOB deserved what he got. Fookin Irish, eh?

Oh... his regimental song?... Garryowen.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: JennieG
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 04:20 PM

"A Schoolgirl's Troubles" by Lucy Lastic.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 06:13 PM

That's why I felt it so ironic, Eliza. GAC apparently wanted to run for President, annoyed US Grant (who was President), and very nearly managed to miss getting killed at the Little Big Horn because he was suspended from command.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 06:42 PM

Syphilis: A Cautionary Tale by Rodger Cockov

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 07:04 PM

What were the varied accidents of matter, what the seeds which brought on an unaccustomed disease through long centuries seen by no one, which in our time raged through all Europe, parts of Asia and through the cities of Africa? It burst into Italy with the unhappy French wars and took its name from that people. Further what was the cure and what the resource experience and man's great skill in straitened circumstances discovered, and the help shown by the gods, and the gifts bestowed by heaven? These I shall now begin to sing and through the liquid air and through the stars in vast Olympus I shall search for causes far hidden: since Nature's quiet gardens with their fragrant flowers and the Muses who love wonders invite me, gripped by a sweet love of this strange event.....

       --from Syphilis by Girolamo Fracastoro, 1530.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 Steps to the Outhouse by....
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 09:35 PM

'I Fell Off a Cliff' by Eileen Dover

'Hole in the Mattress' by Mr Completely (say it out loud)

'Basic Ophthalmology' by I Doctor

'Just the Two of Us' by Ewan Mee