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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 30 Oct 19 - 09:36 AM Well if you move to Pocotello you won't need a freezer. I need to revamp the freezer. I suspect there is some ancient lobster at the bottom |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Oct 19 - 04:10 PM Mom! I bought a dozen eggs yesterday and put them in the refrigerator. When I went to make breakfast this morning, the fridge was full of the souls of dead people! The eggs were mediums. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Oct 19 - 05:56 PM They were probably very easy to capture, what with having shell shock. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 30 Oct 19 - 09:59 PM Great yolk! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 31 Oct 19 - 08:13 PM Mom said God lets small egg omlettes of far left Nam Vets taste like raw fish scottish cornish danish with a little dab of do-yah. - Ah Oh, my auto-rhymerizer app has an AI glitch.- |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 31 Oct 19 - 08:37 PM Nuc nam on winter kimchi with rice. Good luck. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 01 Nov 19 - 08:53 PM Is it true that Chicago got so much snow that they were canceling plane flights yesterday? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 01 Nov 19 - 10:05 PM Chicago got about 4 inches. They could, probably, handle that. Of course, flights IN might have been cancelled. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 03 Nov 19 - 01:13 PM Up outa the gutter! Shame on you! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 04 Nov 19 - 08:32 PM A traveler was headed down a lonely road when it began to rain. Luckily he happened upon a monastery just off the side of the road. He knocked on the door and was greeted by one of the monks. He asked if he could stay the night, to which the monk replied that their order would gladly shelter him, as long as he stayed out of the tower with no doors. As he settled down for the night he suddenly heard an ungodly noise coming from the tower the monk mentioned, a cross between screaming and the wind on aluminum foil. Then suddenly it stopped and he soon fell asleep. He awoke refreshed and asked one of the monks about the sound, but the monk replied that only monks of their monastery may know what is in the tower. He thanked the monks for their hospitality and went on his way. About a year later he returned to the monastery and asked about becoming a monk. The head monk replied that if he would aid the monastery in small ways they would consider him. So for the next five years he helped tend the gardens, clean the windows, and learn of the monks' religion. He even once helped them recover a holy relic to be housed in the monastery. Eventually the head monk told the traveler he was ready to become a monk and initiated him. The monks recited a prayer for such an occasion and provided him with a robe of their brotherhood, and the head monk said it was time to see what was in the tower. The head monk led the new initiate down into the catacombs, deeper and deeper until the head monk found and pressed a loose brick. This opened a secret passage leading to a spiral stair. Up, up they went. Their legs grew tired until the head monk opened a trap door leading to a room surrounded with ivy covered trellises. They were inside the tower now. The head monk opened a door leading to another spiral staircase leading to the room at the very top of the tower. The head monk pulled out a key and unlocked the wooden door, pulling it aside to reveal a rusty iron door. The door clattered as the head monk pulled it open, and behind it was a titanium door. The head monk pressed a six digit PIN on a panel on the door and it slid open. The room was at first too dark to see anything. The head monk flipped a switch and a dim light bulb flickered on. Finally the traveler saw with his own eyes the source of that mysterious sound which he had spent all those years laboring to discover. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Nov 19 - 11:40 PM https://www.livescience.com/universe-may-be-curved.html
That's the upshot of a new paper published today (Nov. 4) in the journal Nature Astronomy, which looks at data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the faint echo of the Big Bang. But not everyone is convinced; the new findings, based on data released in 2018, contradict both years of conventional wisdom and another recent study based on that same CMB data set. Flat like a bedsheet? Is that the best they could do? My bedsheets aren't particularly flat even when the bed is made. They curve around the mattress, so they could actually be shaped like the universe. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Nov 19 - 11:44 AM Amos would have liked that one, or posted it himself (going back to the original study, of course). |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 05 Nov 19 - 06:35 PM The Universe IS a bedsheet. Probably on a toddler's bed, and there have been...um...accidents from time to time. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 07 Nov 19 - 07:18 PM Oh, come on, Folks!!! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 07 Nov 19 - 07:28 PM Ease up, Rapparee. The forecast has scared the wits out of people over here. It's pouring down rain after dark (and with the time change it's darker at an earlier hour), and this line of cold air is supposed to turn the rain into sn*w BEFORE dawn ... and tomorrow is a working day ... no wonder if people would rather pull the covers over their heads than add another post to the Annex thread. Hope Gnu arrived home as planned today. And hope the weather is not cruel to him up there, as well ... |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 08 Nov 19 - 01:52 PM I got an email from him just now. He’s home. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Nov 19 - 07:03 PM Rap, run over and give him a hand, he has a long list of things to do around the house. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 10 Nov 19 - 09:10 PM G stands for Gnu, whose weapon of defence Are long, sharp, curling horns, and common sense. To these he adds a name so short and strong, That even hardy Boers pronounce it wrong. How often on a bright autumnal day The pious people of Pretoria say, 'Come, let us hunt the______' Then no more is heard but sounds of strong men struggling with a word; Meanwhile the distant Gnu with grateful eyes Observes his opportunity and flies. --Hilaire Belloc |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Nov 19 - 12:09 PM Lookout, Moncton! Gnu is out and about. No "flies" but walking, rolling, and modest amount of driving. Flying will have to wait a couple of weeks. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 Nov 19 - 07:55 PM Okay, dammit, what was the source of that mysterious sound which the traveler/monk had spent all those years laboring to discover? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Nov 19 - 10:37 PM It's cold now, but MOM found a silicone thing to put over the tub drain so she can run the hot water 3 or 4 inches deeper than the tub would normally allow, so she's happy. Comes out of the tub half-cooked. Dunno about a noise. Ask Gnu. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 13 Nov 19 - 03:35 PM Stilly, thanks for telling us, and I for one am sincerely relieved to hear that Gnu can walk as well as roll ... I was so anxious that he might be unable to walk at all. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 14 Nov 19 - 06:44 AM There are no impeahment parties here but bars are celebrating with supeona colladas, squid bro pros and Slim peach mints. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Nov 19 - 04:47 PM There's a stray male pitbull wandering around the front and down by the creek. The pack discussed his presence with him through the mesh security door; he didn't like the language they used and headed off. Zeke in the back was simply asking him to come an play, but the girls were offended that he was in the yard without a proper introduction. MOM was sitting on the swing in the sun in the back yard watching them all and sipping an early Friday evening cocktail. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Nov 19 - 11:11 AM I aimed at opening MOM's annex but accidentally opened the "what are we eating" thread instead. MOM has looked at that thread and noted more than a couple of the recipes, but when I look at the recycle bin (she does use it) I see a lot of take-out containers. I can tell that somewhere in the kitchen the bag of potatoes has turned bad. Now which cupboard were they stashed in? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Nov 19 - 11:46 AM There's a thread currently on the board called "BS: What colour IS that?" It's about a paint color called "Clontarf". The color is named for the Clontarf suburb of Dublin, whose name is derived from the Irish Cluain Tarbh", meaning "meadow of the bull". I only mention this because eaveryone knows that, as far as the Mudcat goes, the MOAB is the REAL meadow of the bull. Perhaps Mom should keep an eye out for possible leakage from that thread into this one. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 18 Nov 19 - 06:08 PM Mom, even though I’m in Springfield, Illinois I’m still alive, albeit barely. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Nov 19 - 02:37 PM It's too late - MOAB has leaked all over the place and people have attempted a couple of anti_MOAB threads that died a brutal death. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Nov 19 - 12:40 PM Thanksgiving (US) is approaching and MOM is settling on the menu. I think she's going to ask everyone to bring major parts of the meal. Ever since Little Hawk and his friends made a "deep-fried turkey" that was launched into low Earth orbit, she prefers someone bake the bird. Any volunteers? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 21 Nov 19 - 01:05 PM MOAB is not just leaking it is bleeding. It is either Recipes, what we are eating, an obit, or a Mudcat recovery ward... By removing it for what ever guarded reason was its death and a loss of its legacy. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 21 Nov 19 - 09:57 PM Mom will never die. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 22 Nov 19 - 11:20 AM I will give up on Mom when they pry her bloated gin-soaked carcass from my cold dead hands. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 23 Nov 19 - 02:22 PM See, even BWL will give up and Rap says she "will never die" but this is from a guy who just said he is barely alive. Has MOM ever been in such jeopardy before? She is need of medication, perhaps in the form of expert original poetry, or sublime BS or both. However yesteryear's near Earth orbiting deepfried turkey is rather sublime. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Nov 19 - 12:36 AM Signs of life! MOM, we know you're there! I was searching for a thread on Tom Lehrer and came up with lyrics and threads in the results. A post of mine from MOAB was there and I clicked on it. And can see it! So I then looked at the date of that post and went to the "view posts by date" option in the drop down menu and saw that Little Hawk had also posted that day. If you just mouse over the link without clicking it you can see the entire thing in the bottom. I saw the post number and typed that over the message number in the result I was already looking at and could see the LH post also. SO _ we can see in through the keyhole, but that's about it so far. The whole thing can't load but it is viewable one post at a time. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Nov 19 - 12:04 AM Tonight's repeat of NOVA was about "The Violence Paradox" and they're talking about "self-domestication" to reduce the amount of violence in modern societies. Where does this leave Shane and Blind Drunk, et. al? Is there violence there or simply sloth? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Donuel Date: 26 Nov 19 - 05:01 PM Will it go round in circles I've got a song, It ain't got no melody I'ma gonna sing it to my friends I've got a song, It ain't got no melody I'ma gonna sing it to my friends Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky? Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky? I've got a story, ain't got no moral Let the bad guy win every once in a while I've got a story, ain't got no moral Let the bad guy win every once in a while Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky? Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky? I've got a dance, I ain't got no steps, no I'm gonna let the music move me around I've got a dance, I ain't got no steps I'm gonna let the music move me around Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky? Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky? Well Woo... |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 30 Nov 19 - 11:42 AM Mom, I have returned. I had to ride a bus full of returning college students from Salt Lake City to Pocatello during a blizzard yesterday to get here, five times I had to get out and push the bus out of a snow drift in temperatures below 0°K, but we made it. Now I sit staring out over a frozen landscape, no movement, and a lead-gray sky. But I am HOME. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Nov 19 - 12:29 PM Sounds like an adventure! Can you go sledding on the golf course, are the slopes that are steep enough? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Severn Date: 30 Nov 19 - 12:38 PM I hope that we can fully revive Mom before the Summer sets, and we can all shout, "Waugh who?" English lit or English sober, she must be preserved, at least until there are more posts about her than there are Country and Bluegrass about her. Has anybody ever considered a thread called "The Idiot Bastard Son of All BS Threads, just in case?....... |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Nov 19 - 03:06 PM That is the Little Hawk/Shane subtext that runs through much of MOAB. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Nov 19 - 07:19 PM There's already a thread called "The Bastard Child of all BS Threads". Whether the bastard child in question is an idiot or not is an open question. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 30 Nov 19 - 11:07 PM The so-called "Shame [correct spelling and meaning] McBride" is based on an actual character that LH knew well when he was imin Blind River, Ontario (yes, it exists). At the time LH was researching the music of bums, tramps, hoboes, panhandlers, and sex workers for his PhD dissertation at Juilliard1. Yes, he received a PhD from the Fred Juilliard School of Clog Dancing. Call him "Doc Hawk" to let him know you know. 1Hawk, Little. "A Dissertation On the Music of Bums, Tramps, Hoboes, Panhandlers, and Sex Workers In Blind River, Ontario, Canada, Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Fred Juilliard School of Clog Dancing, June 13, 1932." |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 01 Dec 19 - 11:38 AM Congratulations to the engravers at the US Mint! They have succeeded in making Harriet Tubman look precisely as constipated as all the other presidents and notables whose portraits adorn US currency! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Dec 19 - 11:55 AM I think the engraver did an excellent job, considering the engraving projects I'm hearing about on AM radio as I listen to my weekly gardening program. There's apparently a presidential gold coin for the current occupant of the White House. Speculating about that OTHER project is liable to cause all sorts of indigestion or other GI upsets. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 01 Dec 19 - 08:27 PM I don't think the US Mints create coins honoring living Presidents. "(b) United States currency has the inscription “In God We Trust” in a place the Secretary decides is appropriate. Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities. The name of the individual shall be inscribed below the portrait." 31 U.S. Code §?5114(b). LBJ signed an Executive Order for Kennedy half dollar, otherwise the standard is at least 10 years dead. Another exception was granted for some of those on the Presidential Dollars series. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Date: 02 Dec 19 - 08:16 PM Me and sometimes Stilly, doing all the heavy lifting around here. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 02 Dec 19 - 08:26 PM ... well, maybe we will hear from Gnu before New Year's? One can but hope. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Dec 19 - 11:52 AM That would make it Gnu Year's, don't you think? The "mint" producing the Trump coins is the same private enterprise that has been advertising on AM radio and UHF channels late at night on weekends for decades. Not THE US Mint. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 03 Dec 19 - 01:56 PM And it's just a short step from Gnu Year's to the Year of the Gnu. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: keberoxu Date: 04 Dec 19 - 12:22 AM where did everybody go ? |
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