Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 20 - 08:12 AM In my long days when I was small the world held secrets in its craw. Couriosity abounded. Serendipity astounded and innate ideas were my dreams. Secrets like all's not as it seems were at odds with hold to the past. What I was taught did try to last but thankfully faded to know more. The secrets I sought made me sore. They were not mine, they were not kind There are better ideas when small Most secrets aren't secrets at all. Love works best Forget the rest Get on with your amazing life. As Ebbie tells me "Don't quit your day job". My day job is life. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 20 - 08:31 AM There are dire rhymes that ring like a bell after every shout of "SHAME", or a like a klaxon bell at the end of a phrase. It can still be used to amuse and sometimes claim praise, but me it makes things sound PLAIN. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 20 - 08:39 AM I write a skeleton of a poem like below, then go back and edit. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 28 Oct 20 - 10:33 AM The limerick I composed was full of cross-outs and lines added above and below. Writing poetry on paper, not the computer screen, means I'm looking at all of my attempts at once and can revert back in places easily. MOM suggests it's a waste of paper, but whatever. :) |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 20 - 01:51 PM There are dire rhymes that ring like a bell after every shout of "SHAME" like a klaxon bell at end of phrase. used to amuse or praise But to me it makes important things sound patheticly PLAIN. It makes things so cutesy wootsy sometimes it hurts my brain. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 20 - 02:27 PM All my poems are quick and easy Bound by a chat room box It may be, about a tree or a notion of a potion or a pox There are some so cheesy they really are easy as Rhyme zone on pot ditties and verse are not from the forests but a big fat Thesaurus such as: Trump gave such a tongue lashing tirade in denunciating condemnation and blame of all the disloyal crazies He put them all to shame... |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 20 - 03:10 PM ...only in the eyes of Trump's gunmen. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 28 Oct 20 - 09:09 PM A complacent old Don of Divinity Made boast of his daughter's virginity. They must have been dawdlin' Down at old Magdalen -- It could never have happened at Trinity. There was a young man from Dunbar Who playfully pickled his ma. When he finished his work He remarked with a smirk, "This will make quite a family jar." Concerning the bees and the flowers In the fields and gardens and bowers, You will note at a glance That their ways of romance Haven't any resemblance to ours. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 28 Oct 20 - 09:39 PM Those are good But there is a resemblance even in Corals, Morels or Sorrels The only exception is oral. Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's do it, let's fall in love In Spain, the best upper sets do it Lithuanians and Latts do it Let's do it, let's fall in love The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it Not to mention the Fins Folks in Siam do it - think of Siamese twins Some Argentines, without means, do it People say in Boston even beans do it Let's do it, let's fall in love Romantic sponges, they say, do it Oysters down in oyster bay do it Let's do it, let's fall in love Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it Even lazy jellyfish, do it Let's do it, let's fall in love Electric eels I might add do it Though it shocks em I know Why ask if shad do it - Waiter bring me "Shad roe" In shallow shoals English soles do it Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it Let's do it, let's fall in love Transcribed (from the stated recording) by Todd Peach Other verses I've seen in print follow: In old Japan, all the Japs do it Up in Lapland little Laps do it Let's do it, let's fall in love The chimpanzees in the zoos do it Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's Fall in love I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it Even eagles as they fly do it Let's do it, let's fall In love Electric eels I might add do it Though it shocks em I know Why ask if shad do it - garcon de "Shad roe" The world admits bears in pits do it Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it Let's do it, let's Fall in love |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 29 Oct 20 - 09:33 AM You have to take everyone with the initials DJT. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 29 Oct 20 - 12:07 PM DJT had a severe sibalance seizure. Its uncertain if he sustained permanent suckhood, staff said he sounded like a Macys super sized Thanksgiving Spiderman snagged on a spike. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 29 Oct 20 - 12:12 PM Scheriff Sedgewig is suspecting suicide. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 29 Oct 20 - 04:48 PM To me english sounds like a bunch of sss' followed by k's and t's. English is the Slitherin of languages. German sounds gruff and unct. Hebrew sounds like ancient egyptian as much as Yiddih sounds German. French and Italien seem melodic and Chinese the most melodic of all complete with agreed upon pitch and rhythm. My own language, a youthful vestige of dyslexia, was never spoken but only written. Its Greek to me now. I think it was still a Rebus language. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 Oct 20 - 11:42 PM COVID-19 is racing to the polls along with all of the voters. MOM voted absentee by mail and got notification that it was accepted. All of the back yard chickens have absentee ballots that were dropped off at various mailboxes around town. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 30 Oct 20 - 08:28 AM I'm gonna take my horse to the polling place Gonna make sure my country's in the global race Gonna wait in line till I can't no more Gonna make my vote like I did for Gore I'm gonna ride my horse past A R 15's Past guys making sure that they look cold and mean Gonna wait a month for the last result While lil donnie trump makes his last insult OO-OOOO-O OOO They call the wind 'the liar' They say it says 'you're fired' Gonna face next year with a cup of Joe Gonna hope the nazis will decide to go. They got lots of friends in the pen today Along with all the ass holes in the KKK |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 30 Oct 20 - 12:54 PM Actually my voting only took 5 minutes and was friendly and civil as always. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Oct 20 - 09:15 PM I researched the candidates online (https://www.lwv.org/elections/vote411) then sat at the kitchen table and filled out my ballot. I mailed it at the post office in late September and it arrived on Oct. 2. It has been accepted so will be counted. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 31 Oct 20 - 09:57 AM Pat dropped our ballots off in early October and yes, they've been accepted. As I drive past the Elections Office I see at least four, and usually more, people going in to vote early. I'm a little annoyed by the political signs outside the office, urging us to vote for someone with the surname "Here." Whoever this "Here" is, he or she certainly wasn't on my ballot! |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 31 Oct 20 - 10:01 AM By the way, for the first time in 138 years the Legion Hovel was designated as a polling place. It was almost instantly revoked when the Elections Commission inspection team visited. Well, there's next year, and the year after that, and the year after that.... |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 01 Nov 20 - 04:17 PM "let's do it" ... but have you heard Dinah Washington sing it? Heaven can wait. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Nov 20 - 05:05 PM Trouble is, they have to stop serving alcohol if the election folks are going to use the building and the bartender refused to go home or stop pouring drinks. He said it was a public service to keep the stress levels down. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 01 Nov 20 - 09:32 PM And since Prohibition ended, Legionnaires sell their votes for cash, not drinks. This year, one vote is $20.00, two for $35, three for $60, and so on. In 2016 Boldface Smitty made enough to spend a month on the "Mexican Riviera." |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 02 Nov 20 - 09:00 AM By the way, the Hovel never stops "serving liquor." You just go get your own; nobody brings it to you. It is, in fact, that way year 'round. Even mixed drinks, like the "Purple Pickle Zombie" you make yourself. Barkeep Barbara just tells you what to do (and you'd better do it!). |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 02 Nov 20 - 09:34 AM Beyond alcohol is a drink of Telepathine aka Harmine. It is an ingredient in ayahuesca without all the crap. Its also legal and prolific. I first discovered it as an ingredient in Romilar 60 years ago. As its name suggests it does enhance telepathic abilities. In general it is a dreamy clear minded stimulant. It is a secret ingredient in some micro breweries. https://www.medchemexpress.com/Harmine.html?src=google-product&gclid=CjwKCAiA-f78BRBbEiwATKRRBD1AY5VcGlX-Mvl_A6Kyl_yGyNb2qrPOF1p If you are curious about how healthy this stuff is, check out Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmine A sweet drink can counteract its alcoloid bitterness. I'm starting to think it slows down telemerase loss. I would only share this info with friends. It is not a daily supplement kind of thing so drink respondsibly. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 02 Nov 20 - 04:29 PM Our VFW bought a barrell of election whiskey - To celebrate or commiserate. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 02 Nov 20 - 04:53 PM When I look out my front door What do you think's in store When I look in the bushs So many mosquitos at dusk Those bloodsuckers Very strange You've got to stare at every itch You've got to slap every bitch females bite to feed their young Oh no, must be the season Oh no, must be the season Oh no, must be the season of the itch When I look over my shoulder What do you think I see Mosquitos lookin' at me Its so strange Now its turnin colder Its the silent biters plight But come next year When I'm older It will be another fight Oh no... |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Nov 20 - 06:22 PM Scotch is the therapeutic of choice this week, has been for a couple of weeks now. Take the edge off and then turn off the news and it gets even better. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 02 Nov 20 - 07:04 PM I prefer our family vintage, La Bonne Merde (Chateau Athens, 2009). Estate selection and bottled, of course. A small run of an excellent red wine, assuming the air hasn't gotten to it. The only bottle that remains is on my mantle, gently aging in glass. It will almost certainly be the last. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 02 Nov 20 - 09:14 PM However, there might be a bottle or two of bourbon, rye, Irish, Scotch, Wyoming, and other whiskeys and whiskies around, as well as some Moab (YES!!) distillery gin. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 03 Nov 20 - 11:10 AM Let's get back to the head of the queue, Mom. Better vantage point up there for all the Election Day commotion. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Nov 20 - 08:32 PM Right now the vantage point is from the cheap seats, with the prognosticators. I like the numbers guy on MSNBC, but it's too early. I took the Biden sign out of my yard, on the off chance that Trump supporters decide to take a loss out on the supporters when they lose. If Biden wins I'm not worried that anyone will take it out on my neighbor's house (with the Trump sign). |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 03 Nov 20 - 08:41 PM I put the TV on Ice Road Truckers and slept. Maybe tommorrow I'll take a look at cable news. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 03 Nov 20 - 09:31 PM The Grand Ballroom and Basketball Court at the Legion Hovel has the traditional net filled with the traditional water balloons ready to drop in the revelers when the outcome of the election is more-or-less known. It's the only bath some of the attendees get in four years. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 04 Nov 20 - 11:01 PM Up we go, Mom. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 05 Nov 20 - 07:46 AM Earth has been an outlieing amusment park for the Galactic Overlords and have announced through their mouthpiece 'Q-Anon' that Donald Trump is the winner by lawsuits waged by Saul&Son. The only thing changed is that Trump is now the alternative fact President from the White House in Mara Lago. The tweets continue hourly. Biden has contracted movers to help settle into the basement of the White House. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 05 Nov 20 - 02:53 PM Have yourself a solitary christmas make the yule grind low eat chocolate covered cherries till its time to throw Up above, it looks like its about time to snow and have yourself a very little christmas OW now you've done it you choked on an ornament and there's no one there to Himlick you. no one near to you oh dear The warm north pole is practicly deserted the jobs went way down south Look in the mirror and feel flirted with discouraged with yourself So have youself an angry little Xmas now. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 05 Nov 20 - 08:18 PM Do you mean 90° North, or the magnetic North Pole? The magnetic North Pole has been moving towards Siberia. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 05 Nov 20 - 09:23 PM Santa's workshop is going left to the Commies? I thought they went to Mexico. We need right wing Workshop watchers to slow down or stop the toys. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 05 Nov 20 - 09:49 PM We can not allow illegal alien Hecho a Mexico TOYS to cross our border. Caravans of toys are breeching our walls and are carrying covid and leprosy. Better Putin Red toys than rapist hispanic illegal tickle me Elmos. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 06 Nov 20 - 10:43 AM Its clear to see throughout history that mankind loves the lie. Warlords, religion and politicians all use the childs cry to get what they want although they're not hurt for food love or thirst. We lie to ourself with truth on the shelf for war, love and gain. The lie is the path for the psychopath or a King to reign. Belief is a knife that can stab your heart. So take care if you wish to remain. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 06 Nov 20 - 02:02 PM As a poet of parody, prose and rhyme I find it perverse that Walkabout Verse will last in time like a curse Pin light from stars that shine like past scars are words that can be seen. If words are organized it may make a footprint in the ground After we die and can't advertise its all up to posterity IF dead words fossilize Others will realize form outlives substance. But then you'll be dead You can't be flattered and it won't matter as words slowly turn to dust |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 06 Nov 20 - 09:40 PM Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys, So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this , Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not proud, nor servile, be one poet's praise, That, if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways; That flatt'ry, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse or prose the same: That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song: That not for fame, but virtue's better end, He stood the furious foe, the timid friend, The damning critic, half-approving wit, The coxcomb hit, or fearing to be hit; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had, The dull, the proud, the wicked, and the mad; The distant threats of vengeance on his head, The blow unfelt, the tear he never shed; The tale reviv'd, the lie so oft o'erthrown; Th' imputed trash, and dulness not his own; The morals blacken'd when the writings 'scape; The libell'd person, and the pictur'd shape; Abuse, on all he lov'd, or lov'd him, spread, A friend in exile, or a father, dead; The whisper, that to greatness still too near, Perhaps, yet vibrates on his sovereign's ear:— Welcome for thee, fair Virtue! all the past: For thee, fair Virtue! welcome ev'n the last! |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 07 Nov 20 - 01:13 AM To strive for virtue's better end feels like it would be enough. but there is room for much more. So much in fact, we oft ignore. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 07 Nov 20 - 08:06 AM Rap did you feel guilty or inadequate when you wrote that ? :^) No, I can't forget that evening Or Fox News as votes were leaving But I guess that's just the way the story goes I always yell but in my eyes my anger grows Yes, it grows No, I can't forget tomorrow When I think of all my sorrows I had the white house then they turned off the power And now it is not fair they turned off the power The fucking power I can't lie, if lieing is without power I can't grift, I can't gripe any more Can't live, if living is without TV ! I can't tweet, I can't tweet any more! Well, I can't forget that evening Or the anger of them stealing But I guess that's just the… |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 07 Nov 20 - 09:49 PM Neque sermonibus vulgi dederis te, nec in præmiis spem posueris rerum tuarum; suis te oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus. Quid de te alii loquantur, ipsi videant, sed loquentur tamen. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 08 Nov 20 - 02:39 PM Res ipsos loquitor. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Nov 20 - 03:35 PM I'm going to go through the house a room at a time dusting everything. By the time I finish it will be time to start over again. I'm going to be virtuous and not ignore the dust. Did someone trigger the balloons at the Legion Hovel? |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 08 Nov 20 - 09:55 PM Always. The first batch of balloons to fall contains plain old water to wet down the merry-makers and the second half contains a 50-50 solution of soap and disinfectant. After everyone is clean and dry (warm air spray) they are liberally sprayed with DDT (the last legal use of that in the world) to kill off any and all insects infesting hair, beards, and other body hair and orifices. The fire department's hazmat team then does their job with the DDT-laced residue and everyone has some more "Portneuf Lemonade", toasts the newly-elected, and heads to their home or a house of some sort or other. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Nov 20 - 01:00 AM Keeps the malaria down also. |
Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 09 Nov 20 - 12:56 PM I ordered a heating pad and lidocaine from Amazon yesterday (Sunday) at 3PM and it arrived 4 hours later. I ordered a silk carpet from China and it took nearly 72 hours. |
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