MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]

Subject: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 11:49 AM

So I know MOM is not happy being stuffed up on a shelf in Max's tech closet while he struggles with the Robot Gremlins who have developed an unhealthy interest in Our Dear Mother, but we must keep the spirit of the thread afloat. If this doesn't grow too long I may be able to transfer it over to MOM once the fix is made.

The usual suspects are invited to continue the long-running conversation. Anyone who drops in to bash MOM or cast shade on this noble enterprise may find themselves getting a bum's rush out the door. This is BS of the highest quality and the main thread contains superb fiction, songs, and poetry that snuck in inadvertently. The HTML tricks are astounding. Our late great Amos left many pearls of wisdom, and BWL wrote one of the funniest short stories I have ever had to pleasure to spit my drink on my screen while reading. We still miss Chongo et al.

MOAB's amanuensis
59139, in case anyone is counting.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 01:24 PM

I'm glad to see this make-do thread, Stilly. I was worried that Mom might run out of gin before the problem could be solved. With no way to get more booze to her, things could have gotten ugly pretty quickly. A 59,000+ post thread with a serious case of delerium tremens is not something to sneeze at.

By the way, did you know there once was a town in California called "Delerium Tremens"? Someone with no sense of humor renamed it "Omega".

Makes me wonder if there might be a town called "Acid Flashback" somewhere.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 02:27 PM

Google Earth says "We couldn't understand this question." The closest result that would render on the map was Flaschencontainer, Germany. (50^o08'46.52" N 6^o30'05.58")

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 03:06 PM

"Flaschencontainer" translates as "bottle container". It's not really a town. It's a collection of derelict cargo containers full of Mom's empty gin bottles. It's probably big enough to be a town, but nobody'd want to live there.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 05:42 PM

And you know, don't you all,
that there is a town named
"Truth or Consequences"?

The television show of the same name ran a contest of some kind,
before I was born I believe.
The states in the Continental US,
their towns were eligible to enter,
and...i forget the conditions.

The winner was a town called Hot Springs New Mexico;
ever since then it has been
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
Mostly they grow poblano chiles down there,
on the banks of the Rio Grande.


And those who aren't in the know are utterly bewildered
by references to a New Mexico Town called

Tee or Cee,
written out "T or C",
which some people mistake for "Torc."

as in,
where the heck is Torc New Mexico??

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 09:36 PM

Wow, Keb, I knew there was a town called Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, but I didn't know the circumstances of its naming.

And there are some who think Mom is NOT a bountiful fount of useful information!

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 19 - 07:05 PM

I wonder if duck dogs and Chongo and others will be able to find this thread? The other one engaged so many particles of energy (too bad Amos isn't here to talk about energy and mass) they landed on it perfectly. This one is like landing on an ice cube in the ocean instead of the MOAB ice sheet. Yeah, I know, mixed metaphors. The quality of BS is sometimes strained. :)

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Aug 19 - 11:34 AM

Acme doesn't have a Steep Cow's Face in the metadata? Shame. That would take care of the steep slippery road with ruts.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Aug 19 - 12:28 PM

Heat index is so high here that MOM pulled the car out of the garage and put sheets of cookies to bake on the dashboard.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Aug 19 - 07:52 PM

Jane's Rainbow is shy of 6,500 posts and it's back. Here's hoping MOM rises like a Phoenix soon. She's feeling very confined around a thread that just broke two digits.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Aug 19 - 01:57 PM

Maybe we can make MOM feel a bit less confined by using BIG fonts to make this thread look roomier.


Or inserting lots of unnecessary line breaks.


Or... sticking... useless... ellipses... between... words....


Or
by
centering
each
word
individually
so
the
post
goes
way
down
the
page.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 19 - 12:19 PM

No cuir a-steach mòran de bhriseadh loidhne neo-riatanach.


No ... a ’steigeadh ... gun fheum ... ellipses ... eadar ... faclan ....


Air neo

le

meadhanachadh

gach fear

facal

fa leth

mar sin

an

dreuchd

falbh

dòigh

sìos

an

duilleag.

Scots Gaelic

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Aug 19 - 05:15 PM

Mom! Wake up! This is important!

I live someplace with a name!

Up here in the northern end of Santa Rosa County, Florida, we don't have a lot of incorporated towns. In fact, there's only one of them and it's very small. What we have a good number of are "communities". A community is the rural equivalent of an urban or suburban neighborhood.

While there are several named communities nearby, the clump of homesteads and small farms in which I live has never had an official name... until today! There is now a sign (on the same signpost which holds the speed limit sign) informing anyone who cares that this is the "Walling Community". That's also the name of our road, so no extra points for creativity to whoever decided on the name.

I'm waiting to see how long it will be before the first bullet hole appears in the sign.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 19 - 08:52 PM

Did the US Post Office insist on this community having a name? What name do you use for mail, or does it all go to a post office box someplace distant?

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Raggytash
Date: 24 Aug 19 - 09:10 AM

To misquote William Shakespeare, the famous bard of England

"If music be the food of love ............... why can't rabbits sing"


Discuss.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Aug 19 - 09:57 AM

Rabbits can sing, but they've learned to resist the urge. It attracts predators. If you've ever heard a rabbit being caught by a cat or snake, you've heard it singing. Some think the sound is a scream of pain or fear, but it's actually the rabbit saying, "Oh well, I'm a goner. Might as well sing."


Stilly, our community names have no legal status. Some, but not all, are census-designated places. And our mail comes from a good-sized town 20 miles away.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Aug 19 - 03:53 PM

I was working in an National Recreation Area campground many years ago when I heard a huge ruckus up the hill in the clover - the field was the area over the campground septic tanks so it was only grass and clover, and there was a baby bunny giving off a high-pitched squeal as a baby weasel was trying to grab it and they were rolling around as the mother bunny was thumping and grunting nearby, wanting to chase off the weasel. Being a tall human being looking down at this noisy tableau, I felt like a giant bending over and picking up the baby bunny as the weasel dropped off and ran into the clover. Mom still thumping a few more steps, and the baby making a gawdawful racket in my hand, and I'm thinking people are going to look up here and wonder what on earth I'm doing.

Then the baby stopped squalling, I guess figuring I was too big to defend itself against, and the mom stopped. I looked at the baby and found no serious injuries, just a little weasel slobber, so I put baby down next to mom and shooed them off away from the weasel's direction of travel.

Some days later some children came over to my ranger booth with a bloodied broken-necked baby rabbit, telling me they'd rescued it from a weasel and could I help it. I carried the baby and as we walked back to the campsite and I told them about the earlier event, and said that the difference was that this bunny couldn't survive it's injuries, and that the nature of the campground was such that there were lots of bunnies so they'd survive despite the weasels that ate them, and the weasels are as important as the rabbits. By the time we got back to the site the children (age 10 and under) understood that I had to give the baby bunny back to the weasel and it could feed it's babies. The parents were harder to convince than the children. If no one had been around I'd have dispatched the baby, but I wasn't going to be forever in those children's minds as the ranger who killed baby bunnies.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 11:49 PM

Not BS, but an old friend of mine called on Friday night asking for my research help on a particular type of scabies parasite that she first saw on her dog and then on herself, and as she described what she sees and where it has spread and the conspiracy of silence that she is meeting as she tries to report it and that she now sees on other people and in all of her food and under the varnish of the furniture and climbing the walls ("I hope it doesn't eat the art work!") and that her fridge is full of "evidence of contamination" and she hadn't eaten for three days, I realized 1) this was a call from a friend having a schizophrenic crisis and 2) that was the most scary-ass story I have ever heard and no wonder the human race is so fascinated by scary stories.

I woke up realizing I must have processed the information in my dreams because I literally sat up and thought this was a cry for help and this scary story is her reality right now, so I had to act.

I sent email early that morning to her daughter, subject "This is your mother's friend Maggie" and told her I had talked to her mother and I thought she needed help and included my contact information. She called a few minutes later, because someone else her mother had asked for help was the mother of one of her friends and knew her well enough to call late at night. She asked questions and I was able to tell her that the crisis seems to have been at its worst starting three days ago and, if the only way to get her to go into care is to be sure the dog is well taken care of (how many people forego things for themselves for the love of their pets?) that I would drive four states away and bring her dog back here. She was my go-to person to tell me what I needed to know about Labrador retrievers when Zeke came to live with me, she knows I will care for him well. She has an elderly ailing husband, but she has friends so I doubt it will come to that, but I will make the drive if that will assure her cooperation in getting treatment.

I'm posting it here because I was equally horrified and fascinated by the story she was telling me; she's a retired English professor with the full weight of a rigorous education behind this delusion and it came with citations. Literally - she cited a Thomas Pynchon novel that it felt like. (I've ordered The Crying of Lot 49 because I haven't read it but think it might give me a glimpse of what is going on in her poor troubled head right now.

MOM was listening on the extension and didn't say a word, just sat there wide-eyed with amazement.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 12:02 AM

She's doing better, is aware of what happened, but will still need to take medications the rest of her life. And her daughter and I both hope she'll write this story and turn it into a hit SciFi novel. Creepy!

I added the old count, plus one, to the bottom of the first post on this thread.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 10:10 PM

I have returned for a few days from Wallops Island, Virginia. Yes, Wallops Island, where NASA shoots rockets into space. I was offered the position of lighting the fuse on the next one (in October, a biggie) but I can't be there to do it. I asked and was told that I could have a fuse six inches long because I would be a guest AND a butane lighter with which to ignite it. It will be an orbital shot of a Minotaur rocket.

Amos is gone to wherever he went but if you like I can discuss mass and energy until the cows come home and ever after. Shall I start?

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 11:03 PM

NO, YOU SHALL NOT START!

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 12:28 PM

Didn't you arrange to have some of your ashes shot into space? Are they trying to put you ahead of schedule?

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 02:25 PM

Hi, MOM.
Another termite dared to show itself
on the wall-to-wall carpet of my living room.
It didn't last long.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 08:13 PM

Hey, K! Them's good eatin'!

Mom, I'm trying to get a property tax appeal to the State Tax Commission done before I leave on Tuesday afternoon next for Ire***d (I don't want to say where for fear of making other envious) until the end of September. I shall endeavor to bring you back a bottle of Dingle Whiskey and if need be I'll drink it for you. I'd do that and that's what makes me your favorite: self-sacrifice and caring for others.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Aug 19 - 10:08 PM

So that's why Rapparee went off to an immersion course in spoken Gaelic ...

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 19 - 09:10 PM

Maybeeee.... And maybe that's why he and his wife are seriously considering a couple of weeks immersed in Irish (the language AND the whiskey) in Ballyferriter next spring, or perhaps spend a couple of weeks with a teacher somewhere around Sligo or Limerick. Of course, the fact that her family teach Irish has nothing to do with it, nor do the 20,000 Mosin-Nagant rifles my family tried to deliver to Roger Casement back in 1916 and which are taking up a lot of room in the house (and are a real pain in the back end to move every time we've changed houses).

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 10:06 AM

I should learn some Spanish and visit Mexico. I found this on Wikipedia:

Negra Modelo

Negra Modelo is a 5.4% abv Dunkel-style lager first brewed in Mexico by Austrian immigrants, and was introduced as a draft beer in 1926. Negra Modelo comes in an unusually shaped, wide brown bottle with a trademark gold label. The full name of the beer is Cerveza Negra Modelo. The word "modelo" means "model" or "example" in Spanish. "Negra" means "black" or "dark" and modifies "cerveza."

I see the US site for the beer has a recipe for BLT Tostadas. I'd drink beer with that.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 01:45 PM

Hi, Mom!

If you were to tell 100 Donald Trump supporters that the reason Hurricane Dorian is now expected to turn away from Florida is that Trump flew down to Palm Beach and bravely stood on the lawn at Mar-a-Lago while pounding the butt of his magic staff against the ground and screaming "You shall not pass!!!!" at the oncoming Category 4 Hurricane, how many would believe you?

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 03:30 PM

If they read the newspaper or listen to the news they know he's at Camp David - he will pay to repair the resort with taxpayer dollars but he won't hang out in it during the hurricane.

Back to the better quality BS.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 04:18 PM

Aw, come on... Trump operating under the delusion that he's Gandalf is pretty good BS.

On second thought, maybe it isn't. Maybe Trump really thinks he is Gandalf. He already operates under so many other delusions that it can't be completely discounted.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 10:14 PM

Maybe he IS Gandalf. Stranger things have occurred. Why, I told the good parish priest that I had auto-canonized and henceforth should be known as "St. Michael the Annoying, Patron Saint of Heretics."

He wasn't amused, but did own that if anyone filled that bill it would be me.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 09:34 AM

Since I wasn't raised in a Catholic household, my chances of being made a saint are pretty close to zero. That is regretful.

On the other hand, being a non-Catholic does allow one to skip over the sainthood step and go straight to Supreme Being.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 09:40 AM

At most Trump might aim at being Radagast, but frankly, he's like Sauruman without a plan.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 10:42 AM

It would be well to go back and
look at your Silmarillion.

After all, the wizards started out fighting,
not Sauron of the evil eye,
but the unmentionable Morgoth.

And Morgoth/Melkor is the one who manufactured the Balrog, not Sauron.
...ahh, never mind ...

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 06:56 PM

I wasn't going that far back. We're not talking about ultimate power, we're talking about a power grab by a nasty git.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 19 - 09:30 PM

Prit near all the original saints started out as non-Catholic. Heck, the Original 12, all the Marys, and the Big Guy Hisself were all Jews.

Good, I found my scissors AND my pliers right here on my desk! My mind is...somewhere around here.

But as I was saying earlier, if indeed E=mC² (and it does), then C=vE/m. This, however, ignores Time, which has been colloquially called the "Fourth Dimension." But as mass distorts the fabric of space and time, a new geometry is needed which, unlike Euclidian, Lobachevsky-Bolyai-Gauss, and Riemannian geometries, requires another axis for Time. Thus the Universe, already distorted by mass, becomes not only more quantumized, but more fractalized (if I may be so bold as to create a new word). You can then clearly see that any ?_? would YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE. THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE. YOUR FRIEND, THE GALACTIC OVERLORD.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Sep 19 - 09:41 AM

I posted a remark on Bonzo's greyhound thread and had to stop to think - was I posting to MOAB or someplace else?

BWL, It's a testament to your big heart in not holding your injuries and recuperation against the happy pooch. Same here with Zeke - accidents happen and we learn to watch out for the dog direction of travel that sometimes illustrate too well the Newton's law of motion, where the acceleration of a smaller solid body colliding with a larger human body results in the transfer of energy and your sudden acceleration to the ground.

If we ever get our hands on MOM MOAB, there are some great dog stories, and one of the funniest I've ever read was BWL describing the neighbor trying to find his dog.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 19 - 08:43 PM

Och, Mither dear, it's off to Ireland I am tomorra afternoon if the hurrycane permits. We'll be after flyin' out of Charlotte, North Carolina and while that's a bit inland the winds and rain won't be knowin' that! And ye can see how well I've been after learnin' the Irish! Erin go braless!

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Sep 19 - 03:40 PM

Stilly, the label on the beverage you were describing.

Spanish is a language I respect more than I comprehend.
All that Latin can make the language extremely intricate,
and that's leaving out the Moorish/Arabic influence.
Your post focused on the word "modelo."
The word that always makes me have to stop and think
is not "modelo"
but "etiqueta,"
as in "etiqueta negra."
Different, but very similar in the ways they are used
in language on labels.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 10:17 AM

Hi, Mom!

I heard some wonk on NPR this morning talking about the war in Yemen. He said that efforts needed to be "redoubled... redoubled". Yes, he said "redoubled" twice.

Now, if to double something means to do it two times, then to redouble it must mean to do it two times, and then two times again. So, to redouble means to do it four times.

Therefore, "redouble... redouble" would mean to do it four times four times. That's sixteen times! Wow! That's a lot!

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 10:40 AM

Exponential growth!

From Wikipedia: Its ubiquitous occurrence in pure and applied mathematics has led mathematician W. Rudin to opine that the exponential function is "the most important function in mathematics".

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Sep 19 - 01:35 PM

I used to be a proponent, then I became an opponent, now I'm an ex-ponent. I divorced myself from the whole situation.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 09:46 AM

I've checked on MOM every couple of days; she's still closed for repairs. :-(

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 10:10 AM

Mom wants to know this:

If your last name is Ford, can you buy a Chevrolet dealership and call it "Ford Chevrolet"?

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Sep 19 - 04:54 PM

We're gonna have to throw a little party here - Pepper tested negative for heartworm today! I brought her home in June 2018 and we were using the "slow kill" method that the shelter uses on any of it's HW positive dogs. It worked and now she's free to race around to her heart's content. MOM needs to run by Cabela's and buy her a new bumper, the old ones are pretty torn up.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 19 - 04:25 PM

Greetings from Muireach on the Dingle Peninsula! Ah, the whiskey, the music and the craic!

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 19 - 06:28 PM

Sounds nice!

I'm going to be reinforcing the ceilings in a hall and at least one room, to be safe rather than sorry. The tape lines have pulled as the house shifts on this dodgy foundation. MOM says it's because of all of the holes the dogs have dug in the back yard, but it wasn't the case. They did make an unlevel mess of the PVC greenhouse out back, digging under one end of it.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Sep 19 - 11:41 PM

A PVC greenhouse? You mean you can grow PVC in a greenhouse? Do you have any idea how much money I've given Lowe's and Home Depot for PVC pipe over the years? I could have been growing it in my very own greenhouse instead!

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 19 - 12:09 PM

Indeed! Though growing a glass greenhouse would be more environmentally prudent.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Sep 19 - 08:43 PM

Actually, we have a small greenhouse whose frame is made of PVC. It's an octagonal dome we call "The Igloo". (My wife dreams up weird projects and then makes me figure out how to build them.)

We also have a much larger greenhouse made from the tubular steel frame of an old 10' X 20' portable garage.

Both are currently covered with screen cloth for shade and insect control. The clear plastic will go on around Halloween.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 19 - 10:03 PM

I was reading the Fairbanks, Alaska newspaper over the weekend (don't ask me why, it just strikes my fancy) and they did an article about local gardens, and I noticed they all had that high-quality almost clear panels, sometimes just around the sides, and others of them completely over the top. I can't find it now, and it might have been a video in a story that I'm thinking of. Pretty interesting, the growing season is shorter but the days are so much longer they get some pretty good crops.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 01:03 PM

Alaska grows whopper plants.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 01:20 PM

What? Whoppers grow on plants in Alaska?

Do they have Big Mac plants too?

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 02:22 PM

Wrong category. He meant the malted milk balls, not the hamburgers.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 11:40 PM

I had two trees cut down last weekend; one was a very large pine in the front yard that I didn't want to fall on the house in a windstorm, the other was a vitex (purple chaste) in the back yard managing to grow into all of the power lines and cables (I thought I'd put it far enough away - who knew?)

Two different artists have stopped by the house asking for pieces of the pine at the curb (waiting for trash pickup). One is a blacksmith who needs it next to his anvil, the other has a daughter who makes glass art and she needs the chunks of wood as bases to mount her rods that support her glass. MOM was so tickled to see the blacksmith; he arrived via skateboard (he lives 2 blocks up the hill from here) - he shifted a very large piece (24" tall by about 16" across) onto the skateboard and took off pushing it up the hill.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Sep 19 - 02:36 PM

from a couple weeks ago:
"Didn't you arrange to have some of your ashes shot into space?"

I actually knew someone who was given that honor. It was 'technically' illegal, but quietly worked out by some folks at JPL as a tribute to someone they knew. A few people in the folk community know about it, and smile whenever certain names and launches are mentioned.

Subject: RE: Mini-MOAB - Mother of All BS annex
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Sep 19 - 04:11 PM

I pulled some old Kodak Carousel slide trays out of the closet today. Slides. Vacations from years ago. MOM wants to get out the projector and look at all of them. She's making popcorn now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 10:42 AM

I tweaked the title of this thread because at this rate it isn't going to be so mini, but it is still an annexed space to give MOM's kids a place to congregate without getting into trouble.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Sep 19 - 01:39 PM

Sorry to disturb your slumber, Mom, but it's time for a trip back to the top!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Sep 19 - 05:42 PM

MOM was watching me fold and hang up clean laundry this afternoon, and told me she likes the message on the t-shirt that says I was normal three dogs ago.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 19 - 11:05 AM

Perhaps that t-shirt was on my mind because today I'm going to go look at the dogs at the city shelter. MOM wants to go along with a bag of dog treats and give each of them a treat as we pass by the kennels.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 19 - 05:51 PM

We are just over an hour into the integration of a new boxer/pitbull puppy into the household. The Blue Heeler is jealous, the Labrador retriever doesn't care. The puppy is rolling over for everyone and has already snagged her collar on the drawer pull in the kitchen, in the nick of time I was able to avoid tragic consequences of that. MOM says she doesn't want dogs on the furniture but I think she's going to be busy trying to keep this one off.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Sep 19 - 07:26 PM

Mazel tov and congrats
on the new pack member, Oh Alpha Dog.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 19 - 12:42 PM

I may have valuable informaton, or not, for Max to know regarding the abilities/access of an internet hacker who may be respondsible for Mudcat intrusions and mischief. Shall I access Max by way other than PM?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 19 - 04:10 PM

[e-mail] will send it to his preferred email. Thanks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 19 - 10:39 PM

The new dog is starting to fit in as far as the other two are concerned, but she still has a long way to go as far as growing up and not chewing up everything around the house. MOM had to lock up all of her shoes after a right shoe and a left shoe of two different pairs were destroyed and she decided to wear the remaining shoes out in public. A Cole Haan loafer and a Jimmy Choo high heel look strange together.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 19 - 02:33 PM

Bon voyage home, Rapparee.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Sep 19 - 06:47 AM

MOM, pray for me! I’m in INDIANA!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 04:48 PM

MOM, a week or two ago
I met an acquaintance who has a service dog.
Big strapping young male black Labrador Retriever, the dog is.
Well and expensively trained, knows what he ought to do.

I guess I am an evil influence on dogs like this one.
When I greeted man and dog,
I went down into a kneel-crouch to say hello to the dog,
who had his service-dog harness on.

And right away the dog's "inner puppy" came out,
and he wanted to PLAY PLAY PLAY!
So now I have to stay a discreet distance from my acquaintance and his service buddy,
because my very presence
makes the dog want to jump on people and
bounce up and down,
and bark, and lick faces, and all that.

Naughty, naughty me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 08:15 PM

Mom, I escaped from Indiana and I'm HOME!! Tired, and my coat has bullet holes from where the guards shot at me, but I escaped more or less unharmed. It's a good thing we had pre-purchased airplane tickets or they would have taken me at the ticket counter. But I fooled 'em and got home with little or no mishap. Oh, sure, I did have to take out that one guard but he was less than six feet eight inches and didn't really count. Now I must go upstairs and get a very small percentage of the total laundry out of the dryer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Sep 19 - 08:43 PM

Always ask first if you can pet a service animal; that said, there are a lot of bogus "service" animals out there in public with people these days. They can buy the bibs on Amazon and they don't train their dogs to even fake being well-behaved.

And that said, I have a puppy who chews lots of stuff and has to do regular cooling-down periods in her crate, though today one of the big dogs was egging her on. Pepper was squeaking Cookie's toy and not letting Cookie have it when she pulled on it (they usually do) and Cookie in return jumped all over Zeke and bit at his poor tender ears. He doesn't cry often, but he complained about that treatment of his velvety ears. Cookie is in time out right now but the toy is in with her so I'm hearing lots of squeaking. MOM took a bottle of Scotch and a glass and headed out onto the porch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 19 - 02:27 PM

Amos had me go through and copy his poems for him then hide them; I suppose they can be restored and saved but you know that is a HUGE job, correct? Opening the entire MOAB in mudelf format?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 19 - 03:59 PM

I already have done so. Here is an except:

V2hlbiBpbiBkaXNncmFjZSB3aXRoIGZvcnR1bmUgYW5kIG1lbidzIGV5ZXMgSSBhbGwgYWx
vbmUgYmV3ZWVwIG15IG91dGNhc3Qgc3RhdGUgYW5kIHRyb3VibGUgZGVhZiBoZWF2ZW4gd
2l0aCBteSBib290bGVzcyBjcmllcyBhbmQgbG9vayB1cG9uIG15c2VsZiBhbmQgY3Vyc2U
gbXkgZmF0ZSBoYXBseSBkbyBJIHRoaW5rIG9uIHRoZWUgYW5kIHRoZW4gbXkgaGVhcnQgb
GlrZSB0aGUgbGFyayBmcm9tIHRoZSBzdWxsZW4gZWFydGggYXJpc2luZyBzaW5ncyBoeW1
ucyBhdCBoZWF2ZW5zIGdhdGUu

And that's just a small sample of all of Mom.

---

Damn, you nearly broke the Internet with that side-ways scrolling. I added line breaks. ---grumpy mudelf

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Sep 19 - 05:32 PM

I'm only 19, I'm only 19 but I'm a god damn Marine
and I'm ordered to arrest the Prez but I don't know
I'm told he's hold up at Mara Lago and won't let go
Now there's crooks with Nazi looks shooting my way

Outside I neutralized heavy militia automatic fire
I've been ordered to detain my commander and chief
I'm on point and don't see relief it feels like a movie
All I was briefed is that his only weapon is that he's a liar

I've been ordered but I don't know if the Prez will ever show
OMG there he is in a huge kitchen slumped at the refridgerator door.
I looked down on him slumped on the floor my weapon locked and loaded
You're under arest I croaked and he said
"I'm not the one you're looking for"...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 10:45 AM

I'm the heartless owner of a Havahart trap, in which I catch mice (they go into a tall bucket of water) or toads (they are released). Mom wants to use salami to bait it, I've been using peanut butter. Since we're in the city and they're so small, there is no lead in use, just water.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 11:26 AM

I used too much water and sadly drowned a chipmunk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 02:33 PM

There has only ever been one critter at a time in the trap, so it isn't a matter of an accidental drowning.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 05:08 PM

3 Hardest things to say;

I'M SORRY
I NEED HELP
Worstesshire? worcestershire sauce

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 05:25 PM

Around the house it is referred to (fondly) as What's It Shit? Sauce.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 09:11 PM

Hi Mom!I was (very) briefly in touch with Khandu today!

Did I mention I have sprained right foot (Podiatrist visit this past Monday), a visit to the dentist today (cleaning, etc. with a bigger thing later this month), an ultrasound tomorrow, a dexascan (bone density) next Monday, and a CT scan next Wednesday? And this coming Saturday we'll be hosting a memorial service at our house for a friend who died whilst we were in Ireland?

Mom, we go aware to the doctors and medical types can't get us! (Can't do anything about friends dying whether we're here or afar.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Oct 19 - 09:18 PM

I've had to round up the new dog toys; Pepper had a hidden trait we didn't see till now—she doesn't share toys well. She'll play, but then it becomes hyper-real and she hunkers down, hoarding them, and she had the puppy squealing bloody murder this afternoon. One more episode and that was enough, they're all bagged and on top of the refrigerator.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 08:08 PM

Does Pepper suppose that the toys are her flock of sheep??

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 08:59 PM

She supposes something - she's a blue heeler, so her brain is busy working out how to keep all of the toys under her control.

Today Zeke and Cookie raced around so much I finally parked Cookie in her crate to give Zeke a break. They've been doing it again this evening. Without toys to play with other dogs are the next best thing!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 19 - 10:10 PM

MÓM, Í've léárnéd tó úsé ÁLT códés tó máké fádás!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 19 - 09:08 PM

öth®r th쳌ngs ˜aº wÜll!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Oct 19 - 09:26 PM

MOM, it's Friday! Even retired, I still love Fridays!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Oct 19 - 09:21 PM

Well, that's over. The wake went well -- about 50 people or so crowded into our little cottage. Everyone seemed to have a good time, AND nobody set fire to the thatch!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 19 - 09:19 PM

How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary -- but always whiskey! Such is the case. Look history over; you will see. The missionary comes after the whiskey -- I mean he arrives after the whiskey has arrived; next comes the poor immigrant, with ax and hoe and rifle; next, the trader; next, the miscellaneous rush; next, the gambler, the desperado, the highwayman, and all their kindred in sin of both sexes; and next, the smart chap who has bought up an old grant that covers all the land; this brings the lawyer tribe; the vigilance committee brings the undertaker. All these interests bring the newspaper; the newspaper starts up politics and a railroad; all hands turn to and build a church and a jail -- and behold! civilization is established forever in the land. But whiskey, you see, was the van-leader in this beneficent work. It always is. It was like a foreigner -- and excusable in a foreigner -- to be ignorant of this great truth, and wander off into astronomy to borrow a symbol. But if he had been conversant with the facts, he would have said: Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way. -- Samuel L. Clemens

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Oct 19 - 09:15 PM

Faghaimse díreach brí chun buaite
Is feidhm id chaíntse a bhrídeach bhuartha.
Feicím, is is dóigh gur dóite an radharc liom,
Síolrach Órfhlaith Mhóire is Mheidhbhe,
An seifteoir caol is an créatúr cladhartha,
An ceisteoir claon is an déirceoir daigheartha,
Sú na táire is tál na coimse
Ag súil le sárfhuil sámh na saoithe.
Achtáimid mar dlí do bhéithe
An seacht faoi thrí gan chuibhreach céile
Do tharraing ar cheann go teann gan trua
Is a cheangal don chrann seo i dteannta an tuama.
Bainigí lom de a chabhail is a chóta,
Is feannaigí a dhroim is a choim le córda.
An chuid acu tharla báite i mblianta
Is cheileas go táir an tairne tiarpa,
Chuireas amú gan subhachas d’éinne
Buile na hútha is lúth a ngéaga,
Do mhilleas a gcáil is fáil ar bhean acu
Ag feitheamh gan fáth ar bharr na craoibhe,
Fágaim fúibhse tionscal páise
A mhná na dúile dúbhadh le háilíos;
Ceapaigí fír-nimh tinte is tairní,
Caithigí smaointe is intleacht mhná leis,
Cuirigí bhur gcomhairle i gcomhar le chéile,
Is tugaimse cumhachta an fórsa dhéanamh.
Beirim gan spás díbh páis na gciantach,—
Is beag liom bás gan barrghoin pian dóibh.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 19 - 11:30 PM

MOM is pleased to see that you've learned a new skill, Rap. Those accented vowels are looking good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 19 - 09:33 AM

Our fáda, who art in Irish, annoying be thy name! (Old Irish Prayer about accented vowels.)

I also got a book called "500 Mallatacth Ort." It's a collection of curses in Irish and English and boy are there some doozies! "May you be stricken with diarrhea and a bout of sneezing at the same time!" "The devil eat you and spit you out because of the taste!" "Your waste lay crosswise inside you!" "Exorbitant rent to you!" "Crusts and scabs to your crotch!" One I heard years ago: "May the grass grow long before your door" -- and it's pretty bad when you think about it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 19 - 09:23 PM

Mom, I am so sorry that no one else save SRS seems to care. Have other and drown your cares.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Oct 19 - 11:14 PM

That "waste lay crosswise" - whew! An ancient illustration of constipation. Ugg.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 19 - 11:52 AM

A compendium of my unique and strange ideas, some of have become realities:

For the deaf, a device to bypass all the mechanical detection structures of sound and feed neural electric audio impulses directly to the brain. While the concept was good my method was external and caused synthesesia, The surgical implantation of an input directly into the cochleah was the final solution. ( in use today )

For the autistic, an enzyme to help remove the universal initial duplication of all neural functions in young autistic brains. ( not explored )

For MS patients a cloning process of myelynial shaft cells and infusion of the cells into the spinal fluid. (partialy tried )

Carbon foam material for acoustic instruments.

In cosmology a concept that all things are transmutable. Not just e=mc2 but even space time and matter into space inside energetic black holes.

air conditioned pillows so the head powers its pump

video phone door bells

how to counteract Russian troll anguish and confusion

Evidence of hypnosis pehnomena in religious pracctices.

Specialized use of Oxytocin

Further research into Amazonian Cubensis.

more as time allows

Subject: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 19 - 06:29 PM

Okay then.

100!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 07:17 AM

100 annex posts = 60,000 MOAB posts that chronicled 30 years?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 02:37 PM

Have we lost all of our imaginary creatures?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 03:20 PM

Biden and son are GUILTY of...
I do not know the current Trump conspiracy lies about Biden but it is said the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it. But how big is big?

Hunter Biden was the Grand Ambassador of the Sons of Satan devoted to preventing the second coming

Joe Biden is in league with current alien astronauts who are respondsible for forming the Democratic Party. And if so will deliver mankind into slavery of the entire human race. Ancient Fascist Astronaut theorists agree.

Father and son sodomy?

Treasury theft?

Porn star affairs?

Gathered dirt on Trump from Queens?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: GUEST,The Galactic Overlord
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 09:59 PM

FROM: The Galactic Overlord
TO: MOABITES

You thought to confuse me with this Annex! But I have your duckdog and will only set it free if you surrender your Mother Moab to me for my unspeakable pleasures. You may contact me with your answer by texting me at #galacticoverlord.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Oct 19 - 02:44 PM

...it was too good to last, right?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Oct 19 - 09:59 PM

You can talk about Lassie and old Rin-Tin-Tin
And Snoopy the beagle, young Charlie's best friend,
Or King of the Mounties, or Benji, quite small,
But Gluon the Duckdog's the best of them all.

Not really a particle, not quite a wave,
We never know how Gluon's apt to behave.
For life's complicated, it's not really simple,
When governed by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.

Some say he's made up, just a MOAB invention,
A duckdog who lives in the seventh dimension,
And flies here to there faster than Mighty Mouse,
And sleeps in a teserract-shaped duckdog house.

He navigates wormholes to new galaxies
Where live huge duckdog-eating Thingamazees.
Worse than Bandersnatches, much worse than a Snark,
But he frightens them off with an ear shattering "Quark!"

So here's to our Gluon, oh duckdog supreme,
More than an idea, much more than a meme.
The best darned duckdog in the whole multiverse.
Yes, as duckdogs go, we could have done worse.                              
                   --Beedub, way back in the ancient days of 2015

I actually feel sort of sorry for the GO.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Oct 19 - 06:15 AM

There is a theory that when gluons gang up and pair up they are respondsible for gravity.
Individually they are nice but a pack f them can be inconcievably viscious.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 19 - 08:36 PM

I have received a strange email from gnu. He said that his mum died September 27 and that he was in the hospital in bad shape. No other information.

I responded and asked him what was going on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 19 - 08:52 PM

gnu's mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 19 - 11:27 PM

I haven't heard from him, though I sent a note.

MOM will clear a space in the guest room and make him comfortable if he comes to visit.

With detective's hat on I've located enough information to send a card.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 19 - 06:52 PM

I would send our Gnu a card as well,
if I knew where to find his mailing address.

Failing that,
good thoughts and vibes,
as the gallant Rapparee says elsewhere.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Oct 19 - 08:57 AM

Someone was trying to deliver Mom's makgeolli and couldn't find the door.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 19 - 09:39 AM

During the hacking months ago The PM section was also involved so that a named member would post messages of a person in a downward emotional spiral and then erase/edit and post different messages.

'They' by the same member name also delivered message boxes that would say "Mudcat has files for you to download"
It would crudely disable computers if clicked upon.

I know much more but no one here believed me.

The best defense was to totally ignore the attack, which I did by not taking the bait.

There was a 4 chan or Russian quality to the hack and was more sophisticated than the 'member name' who actually bragged about his hacking prowess.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Oct 19 - 10:17 AM

Careful, Don, this is a BS thread. . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Oct 19 - 06:42 PM

I have hacking prowess. I once split five cords of seasoned hickory, oak and ironwood in one (1) hour using only my spit, hands, and pocketknife. AND I have witnesses to prove it, provided they aren't all dead yet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 19 - 08:50 PM

After dealing with Ironwood I learned it is harder than Oak.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Oct 19 - 08:55 PM

And it weren't none of that straight-grained stuff! Twisted and skewed every whichaway!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 19 - 03:30 PM

It wasn't just MOAB, khandu.
We had to get Jane's Rainbow back as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Oct 19 - 08:48 PM

Gnu reached out through the Interwebs and his typing is horrible, but it sounds like a couple of more weeks where he is. He fell. Must've been one heckuva tumble.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 03:59 PM

Sounds like a job for the Mudcat Recovery Ward ?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 04:17 PM

SRS
I have been told to honor confidentiality to admin and now to be careful.
Straight up art, truth and out right humor has been the bread and butter of MOAB in the past but all things must pass eventually.

One point of view does not a magority make but sometimes the magority is wrong. More often I can be wrong about motives but not objective facts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 05:00 PM

But you're drifting out of the BS arena, is all I meant.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 05:39 PM

Looks like a real blue norther blowing up!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 10:00 PM

Quarters the size of hailstones!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Oct 19 - 10:25 AM

Gnu the inscrutable seems to be feeling better. MOM feels great, now that she has been able to open a window at night and put a blanket over the sheets on the bed. You don't want to know what she's getting up to for Halloween decorations - scares the neighborhood kids shitless. Mostly we see families cross the street to go past the house so they don't trigger the motion detectors.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Oct 19 - 09:12 AM

SRS -- you and all okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 19 - 01:27 PM

Two doors down there is a halloween decoration we can smell from here.
The house on the corner has a tall fence so they suspended 13 ghosts in a tree that has a skeleton bride and groom underneath along with 22 skeleton guests suspended on folding chairs. A full reception banquet with 20 lbs. of putrified shrimp (the smell) and some huge lobsters for show. 2 skeleton security gate keepers with clipboards both have their skull up their ass. Wedding march music started up last night and has continued all day today. The one thing they are saving for a surprise seems to be the preacher?

I'm thinking of getting a pumpkin next week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 19 - 01:30 PM

Ditto Rapparee to SRS --

did they say TORNADO?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 19 - 01:37 PM

Ditto Amos to Rap.

Did they say FGS?

Fake Gnu Salad

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 19 - 02:37 PM

The tornado(s) did a lot of damage in north and east Dallas. If anyone has ever flown into Love Field, you've been in the area. That's about 45 miles east of me.

Once all of the sturm und drang passed, the weather cleared up and it's a fabulous day out for all of those people clearing up tree branches, downed power lines, and exploded buildings.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Oct 19 - 08:40 PM

You can get an above-ground tornado shelter for about USD 5K.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 19 - 11:26 AM

Yes. It's called the central hallway.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 19 - 10:20 PM

Or the southwest corner of the basement, away from windows and with a saw and crowbar (at least).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 19 - 11:13 PM

Basement? What basement? This house, like 99% of all other houses in Texas, is on a slab (or they're pier and beam, also no basement).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 19 - 09:14 PM

May I lend you a shovel? An underground storm cellar is best -- can you dig it??? 8-)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 19 - 09:10 AM

The real dangers of a tornado to homes is lack of a quick dispersion of high pressure inside a home compared to the low pressure inside a tornado.
Without a pressure release valve, homes explode. Secondly the wind can shift homes on their foundation that causes loss of structural integrity.

A safe room only addresses protection from debris, not keeping one's home intact if hit.

Although there is little to be done in a sudden class 5 tornado, I imagine 2 solutions where no cellar is availlable.

1. Build homes with a cental 10 foot square reinforced wind chimney that connects every floor with 5 foot square wind egress channels that connects to the central chimney.

2. Steel anchor cables attached to bedrock or other underground anchors drape the home to wall and roof netting to hold the home stay put and avoid foundation shift.

This a low cost radical idea that comes from my imagination so feel free to ignore it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Oct 19 - 04:39 PM

Hi, Mom!

Here's the factoid for the day:

Have you ever noticed that the numbers on calculator keypads and telephone keypads are arranged differently? Have you ever wondered why?

Well, back in the days when touch-tone dialing was being introduced, AT&T's engineers realized that proficient users of office calculators could enter a phone number so fast that the generated tones would "step on each other" resulting in incomplete calls. So, they decided to move the 1,2,3 row from the bottom of the keypad to the top and the 7,8,9 row from the top to the bottom to slow office machine hot-dogs down to manageable speeds.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 19 - 04:48 PM

my Research cure/treatment for MS
Clone ones own mycelial shaft cells and reinject into spinal fluid.

Safe Disposal of nuclear waste - I have no fucking clue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 19 - 06:25 PM

Nuclear waste? Simple: get fusion power plants running and use the fission waste to power them. Rocketing the stuff into the sun would also work, until a rocket blew up on the launch pad or on the way up and out. Or encase it in concrete and stack it in the middle of a desert such as Washington, DC and let those who visit it deal with the consequences of their stupidity (who knows, we may need the stuff later).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Oct 19 - 07:34 PM

I think nuclear waste will prove to be a valuable resource in the near future.

When accidental exposure to nuclear waste creates a horde of giant houseflies, we'll need to intentionally expose some spiders to create giant spiders to eat the giant flies. Then, if the giant spiders become a problem, we'll just expose some birds to control them. Then, we'll probably need to expose some cats to eat all the giant birds. And then some dogs to eat the giant cats....

Eventually, all the animals on earth will have eaten each other and, by the time intelligent life evolves again, the remaining nuclear waste will have decayed into harmless sludge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 19 - 06:49 AM

MOAB is a great suppository for supposition.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 19 - 02:50 PM

I suppose.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Oct 19 - 04:23 PM

And for posers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Oct 19 - 09:43 AM

My friend, a fire fighter, would pose with a hose, I suppose.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 19 - 11:57 AM

Your friend may be on call to go visit California this week. It seems to be burning down.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Oct 19 - 06:46 PM

His wife, our massage therapist, would worry -- as would his three kids. Pocatello is short firefighters and EMTs -- the other day there were three calls in 15 minu4tes and there would have been no one to respond to a fourth. Same thing in the police. Perhaps because the city pays 14% under the state's average? Because the firefighters' union has endorsed a pro-Union fella for City Council?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Oct 19 - 07:48 PM

Hi, Mom!

We finally got some rain and our shiitake logs expressed their pleasure by putting forth an abundance of delicious mushrooms.

In their honor, I have composed this ditty, to the tune of "We're In the Money".

🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

We got shiitake, we got shiitake,
We got delicious fungi growin' outta logs,
We got shiitake, that ain't bull hockey,
We just might turn ourselves into shiitake hogs.

You can hear those 'shrooms a sizzlin' in the fryin' pan
Mix 'em in an omelet or a stir fry, man oh man!

We got shiitake, we got shiitake,
We'll even give a few leftovers to the dogs!

🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 19 - 08:42 PM

Morels.

This is a pretty damned good recipe for mushroom soup. Try it. Even Gluon likes it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 19 - 08:49 PM

I remembered this post....

Subject: From Max: State of the Union Address
From: Max - PM
Date: 11 May 06 - 10:43 PM

I've got to tell you, I'm sick and tired of some of the crap that I've seen lately.

Martin Gibson: you have to pack up and go. Your knowledge and contributions are valuable, and it's a shame that your sociopathy prevents us from hosting you or taking you seriously anymore.

Shambles: I just don't care anymore. You press your point, time after time, until you press too far and then complain about the check. You do this purposefully to prove a point, but in the end, you are a distraction from the real point of this site. You too, should bid farewell.

Joe: Do I need to separate you two?

Americans: We're losing to the Limey's. I attempt to lure American Folk artists, historians, archivists and enthusiasts to the Mudcat, and am repeatedly rejected because the Mudcat is now viewed as an UK Folk Forum. I don't blame the UK'ers, nor wish them to change anything they are doing, however, I'd like a nice balance so not to alienate either.

Members/Users: We've never had a worse year as far as contributions. I am footing the bill for over 50% of the expenses year-to-date. We have maybe a dozen folks that contribute on any sort of consistent basis. I'd like to refuse any further contribution from these folks, because I feel they carry a burden that they need not if I did my job right. I would like to see a whole new set of folks step up to the plate and get us through a month or more. Remember, it does not need to come out of your pocket. We have an international community of like-people here. Items that one may have and not need or want no longer can find a happy home in our auction. You can host a sing and put a tip bucket out. There are a million things you can think of to support this site and it's purpose.   Nude calendars, recipes, blackmail…

Max: You need to keep this site running smoothly. These downtimes and outages are unacceptable for a real Website. We want reliability and we want you to fix the duplication and miss-ordered threads. Most importantly, you need a better backup system to ensure we won't lose any of this valuable resource.

Jeff: I want the related threads to be in a drop down box. For that matter, I'd like the thread posting summary in a drop down as well.

Everyone: She ain't what she used to be. We'll never get it back. This site should be about our eclectic interest in old-time traditional music from all over the world. Our local communities don't have a lot to offer us as far as merchandise and community, so we go to the Mudcat. We should welcome the newbies. We should covet the information we have now and strive to collect more. We should use this place to meet each other, organize and/or promote events. Please, don't forget the good of such a place.

To those of you who aren't around so much anymore: Give us another shot, please.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Oct 19 - 10:48 PM

Thanks, Rap.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 19 - 09:57 AM

Speaking of morals


Subject: RE: BS: Boring threads are comforting
From: Donuel - PM
Date: 29 Oct 19 - 08:40 AM

Snug as a bug in Hotel Doral
Trump snubs the world while he loses morale
Sooner or later he is going to hell
When all of the bug bites begin to swell

They swell and itch from his head to his toes
The bites grew together from his throat to his nose
All his insults now sound like they're snot
He thought he was great but now he's not

One of the bug bites became highly infected
His yes men were there but no longer protected
All the King's men and all the King's horses
Would not protect him, not even armed forces

The moral of the story is not that its gory
Its the tiniest germ that can bring down a boring
Meglomaniac self interested whore King.
We may be but germs but WE write our story

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 19 - 12:52 PM

It is currently 14F with a windchill of -9F. Snow covers the ground, an alabaster blanket. There are tracks in snow -- of crosscountry skiers, a lone snowshoer, coyotes, and the pack of wolves that lives on the golf course. I have called and called, hoping Gluon would answer and change this weather, but in vain.    As Johnny "Lunger" Keats wrote, "The owl for all his feather [is] a-cold." I am reminded, looking out the bay window, of Ralph W. Emerson's "The Snowstorm"

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven,
And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of Storm.

Or, tho' 'tis but October (tho' near November) John "Leafy" Whittier's poem "Snowbound" (which I shan't bore you with beyond the first stanza as it seems to go on forever):

The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
Slow tracing down the thickening sky
Its mute and ominous prophecy,
A portent seeming less than threat,
It sank from sight before it set.
A chill no coat, however stout,
Of homespun stuff could quite shut out,
A hard, dull bitterness of cold,
That checked, mid-vein, the circling race
Of life-blood in the sharpened face,
The coming of the snow-storm told.
The wind blew east; we heard the roar
Of Ocean on his wintry shore,
And felt the strong pulse throbbing there
Beat with low rhythm our inland air.

Come, brave Gluon! Hurry and take these four-letter words from hence!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 19 - 01:47 PM

Thanks rap, your misery makes me feel much better now.

Oh how the mighty have fallen
from Khan to Hitler and Stalin
when all of the goyem
return to praise poyum
Maybe we'll stop all the brawlin.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 19 - 02:32 PM

Mom has rules like Geneva?
I did not know Mom was even arena
bull shitting fools
don't follow the rules like
When its too hot in the kitchen
to stop all of the bitchin
go to the bathroom and sit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Oct 19 - 11:02 PM

That was odd. But the system, one germ at a time, will take down the Orange one. :-)

Over the last couple of weeks I've chatted online and via email with Gnu. He has quite a story to tell, but it's his, not mine, so maybe he'll drop in one day and share some of it. It has been like pulling teeth to understand the timeline, but it makes sense now. He's sounding better all of the time.

New freezer arriving tomorrow morning. I wish there wasn't so much thawed carnage to go with it (though the carne is all rescued and stuffed into the side-by-side of the regular fridge.)

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

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.

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.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Oct 19 - 09:59 PM

Great yolk!

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.-

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.

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?

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.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Nov 19 - 01:13 PM

Up outa the gutter! Shame on you!

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.

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

Everything we think we know about the shape of the universe could be wrong. Instead of being flat like a bedsheet, our universe may be curved, like a massive, inflated balloon, according to a new study.

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.

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).

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.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Nov 19 - 07:18 PM

Oh, come on, Folks!!!

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Nov 19 - 09:57 PM

Mom will never die.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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...

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.

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?

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?.......

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.

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.

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."

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 12:22 AM

where did everybody go ?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 06:27 AM

What do you expect with the actual thread gone and a policy of allowing only a scant few/membership to post in BS.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 07:35 AM

Hah! It's the Annual Holi/ydays and everyone is out shopping for presents to give me!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 11:53 AM

There are ways to slip in posts from the outside, but you have to know who to ask. . . just ask that Overlord fellow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 19 - 12:00 PM

What would you like Rap? Do you like whale tusks or teeth?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 07:23 PM

I'd like some scrimshaw from the whaling ship "Essex" -- 19th century stuff, you know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 08:00 PM

I have a whale tooth scrimshaw but I don't remember the ship. When I run accross it in the futility room, it's yours.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 09:39 PM

Nice! And I have a futility room also; lately the puppy keeps dragging the rug from in front of my washer out into the yard and dragging it through the lawn and leaves. It seems futile to try to keep the whole house out of this dog's reach.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 08:00 AM

Goodness, just keep it in a cage/crate. The house, not the dog. Keeping the dog in such is impossible.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 08:18 AM

I was told the tooth is too heavy so it may be a forgery/fugazy to trick interior decorators.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 09:12 AM

At 'Norwall tusks R us' you can get a Norwall tusk to defend yourself against mad stabers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 09:26 AM

Stilly the way we tried to measure the curve or flatness of the universe was to trace humongous triangles and see if they added up to more degrees than a flat triangle. Why they got it wrong is that the
universe is bigger than we thought.

This question was asked of me in 1970 and I chose an open universe ie curved. Good catch, You found that link before I did.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Dec 19 - 10:04 PM

I use a protractor, a piece of string, a fishing weight, and a level to measure the curvature of the Universe. It's quite simple when you know how. Oh, yes! I do my calculations on a 10" K&E log log decitrig slide rule (I used to use an abacus but I wanted more accuracy).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 10:52 AM

Ah...I always wondered what instruments were used by the Mayans to measure the precession of the Earth in increments of 42,000 years.

I heard there is an impossibly large black hole nearby that is capturing smaller ones even closer to us.

Biden says, "if we can snag one, we will easily be able to broadcast ourselves into the future, no bones about it.
This is no Malarchy by cracky. We will first send whippersnappers for the long voyage with all the modern do hickies of home like a phonograph, ice box and ringer washers. 23 Skidoo!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 10:30 PM

I taught the Mayans. Also the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Indians, Chinese, Atlantans, Greeks, Muans, and all the rest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Dec 19 - 02:04 PM

I started a pithy short remark about food porn on TV on the weekends, but seem to have accidentally closed that browser before sending. Darn.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 19 - 03:03 PM

I would believe you out read them all but I'm too savvy to believe you taught them. Ancient Alien Astronaut genetic engineers say "we did".

I am on my slide down from my cerebral maximum having had my migraine and visual trickery yesterday. See you guys on the other side of consciousness.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Dec 19 - 09:18 PM

Of course, in the beginning there was Nothing. Just a big, black Nothing. I had to invent the concept of "points" or there would have continued to be nothing to measure. If there was nothing to measure I couldn't teach all them folks how to measure. You may or may not thank me for this later.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 19 - 08:19 AM

You have gone from emporer to God? Julius found this a difficult transition. Of course it is an honor to have God post here. Its better than being friended on Facebook.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Dec 19 - 07:55 AM

You may address me as "Dominus et Deus meus." And I declare double tithing for all!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 10:39 AM

Please, make that a lowercase god - the panoply of gods created here at Mudcat all deserve to be lowercase. The uppercase one (created in the shape of man) is busy with war and pestilence right now. Best not call that malignant being over here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 08:17 PM

Capitalization by demigods moves in strange and mysterious ways unlike mudelf rules.

Like, pope Fransisco the San Andreas treat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Genisis
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 08:39 PM

Once upon a midnight dreary
As I searched, both weak and weary,
For lyrics to song that was labeled "forgotten lore"
Then did I hear a pecking, pecking, pecking, pecking,



Some peckerheads, I thought, were pecking at my chamber door.

But no, I had searched for lyrics,
Using all the computer searching tricks
I had mastered many, many years before,
And I had stumbled into a den of old and eldritch scat
And there I posted, as a GUEST, my first post at Cafe Mudcat

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 08:55 PM

How high's the BS, mama?
Two feet high and risin'
How high's the BS, papa?
Two feet high and risin'

They're a carryin' on about Schroedinger's cat
And why that is this and this is that
Everyone's a talkin' right outta his hat,
Two feet high and risin'

How high's the BS, mama?
Three feet high and risin'
How high's the BS, papa?
Three feet high and risin'

It's comin' up from the ground an' down from the trees
It's comin' in ships across the seven seas
I'm pretty darn tall but it's up to my knees,
Three feet high and risin'

How high's the BS, mama?
Four feet high and risin'
How high's the BS, papa?
Four feet high and risin'

It's a comin' from the sky just like it was rain,
It's outta control like a runaway train,
This whole bunch is loony, ain't none of 'em sane
Four feet high and risin'

How high's the BS, mama?
Five feet high and risin'
How high's the BS, papa?
Five feet high and risin'

Better get some hip-waders or a tall pair of boots
Its a risin' quicker than you can say "shoot"
An' these people is crazy as a whole buncha coots,
Five feet high and risin'

Well, it's five feet high and risin'



guess who wrote these last two.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Dec 19 - 10:17 PM

Those were BWL and Rapaire

now back to our regularly scheduled incomplete reality of quantum physics.

The world is composed of quantum realities, so are our brains with 'micro tubuels'.   Einstein did elucidate the realities of the quantum universe, his only attack he made upon quantum theory was that it is incomplete. So let us complete it, shall we?

Lets look at a thought experiment in which an adjoining medium or 'space dimension' would allow for all the odd inexplicable behaviors of quantum wavicles. It would have to be a medium or space dimension that would allow for wavicles to disappear between states and account for entanglement.

It would have to allow for the very small to enter and exit this special space but block the macroverse. The properties of this special space or medium would have to allow a simulataneous touching of every spot in the universe to touch or be adjacent to one another.

It would have to be a very special and bizarre space indeed. I have always called it anti space and of course it would have to be, get this, invisible.

Such a space would allow for all the impossibilities of quantum mechanics. Sherlock said when you've tried everything and only one possibility remains, that has to be your answer. Well that defies logic but if the special space allows for all quantum shenanygans...it should be considered. The problem is we can not yet measure let alone see special quantum space.

There we completed the quantum mystery. thank you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Dec 19 - 01:00 AM

You can't top the New York Post for Bullshit. But in this instance they actually published something more bizarre than bullshit.

In case the link expires, the article says:

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s a penis fish?

Thousands of “pulsing penis fish” have washed ashore on a California beach, as seen in jarring photos that are raising eyebrows due to the creature’s phallic shape.

The quirky marine life is officially called fat innkeeper worms (Urechis caupo), and an expert writes for Bay Nature that he believes a recent storm in the Drakes Beach area is the reason so many of them mysteriously appeared on the beach.

Ivan Parr, a biologist from the Western Section of the Wildlife Society, spotted them Dec. 6 and explains that the 10-inch fat innkeeper worm typically lives underwater, burrowing in mud or sand, but the storm likely carried them ashore.

“I’ve heard my share of imaginative theories from beachcombers, such as flotsam of a wrecked bratwurst freighter,” he writes.

However, Parr explains that a sausage ship accident is not the cause of this scene.

“We’re seeing the risk of building your home out of sand,” he says. “Strong storms — especially during El Niño years — are perfectly capable of laying siege to the intertidal zone, breaking apart the sediments, and leaving their contents stranded on shore.”

The spoonworm, which can live up to 25 years, feeds and swims using its “spatula-shaped proboscis.” It typically eats bacteria, plankton and other small particles, which it collects using “sticky mucus nets.”

Parr says he’s heard of sightings over the years in California at Pajaro Dunes, Moss Landing, Bodega Bay and Princeton Harbor.

The creature dates back 300 million years and also can be eaten. An anonymous colleague at The Post who has dined on a stir-fried fat innkeeper worm in Shanghai, China, describes the taste as “like a Livestrong band mated with a clam.”

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Dec 19 - 08:30 AM

We don't have penis worms in Florida, but we do have Slippery Dicks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Dec 19 - 08:50 AM

Fortunately we have neither in Idaho! They wouldn't dare! Our State Legislature would quickly put a stop to it, if it didn't find a way to tax it.

By the way, our appeal of our property tax has gone to the State tax board. According to the letter we received yesterday this county has filed 279 such appeals, versus 325 for the rest of the STATE. The Board is also out of money for the appeals and will be asking the Legislature to an additional appropriation.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Dec 19 - 10:29 AM

Edited my last post to capture the text. This way if/when the post goes away one can still read the text and search for photos of those lingam worms.

It's difficult for this thread to continue to generate high quality BS when the news of BS coming out of the UK suggests that much of that kingdom has gone berserk and re-elected their own clown head-of-state. Here's hoping cooler heads prevail here after Drumpf makes history (achieved while this post was being typed). But this is supposed to be an amusing, uplifting thread, not a really really scary story, so I will desist from further observation of this sort.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 19 - 12:19 PM

The MOAB Constitution sub section 272 Eyes Only addendum file FOIA 12268003FY states clearly :

(redacted) for all purposes to shield and protect (redacted) in order to promote unlimited comic (redacted) or SHOW OFF (redacted)...



So much for your version of what MOABS is supposed to be.
I'm sure the Bitches of the 7 stars and Lion's club agree ;^/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 10:14 AM

Mom!

I have horrible news! The Dollar Tree store no longer carries Mrs. Freshley's "Delicious Deals" mini-donuts! I suppose the wholesale price has gone up to where Dollar Tree can no longer sell them for a dollar. (They're $1.50 elsewhere.)

I suppose that's what happens when one's business model is "Everything's a Dollar". Even at very moderate inflation rates, there will eventually come a time when almost everything is more than a dollar. What will happen to Dollar Tree when that day arrives? Will they rebrand themselves "Dollar-and-a-Half Tree" where "Everything's a Buck-Fifty"?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 10:54 AM

Lots of Dollar stores have closed and are replaced by '5 Below'
Everything under 5 dollars

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 04:05 PM

I tried to buy something at a dollar store. The sign said "Everything $1.00!!" They wouldn't sell me the store, the cashier, the computer system or ANYTHING! Big ripoff! I went next door and told a guy that I wanted to buy a brand new car for a dollar and told him the store next door said EVERYTHING was $1.00 and so why didn't he honor that?

Finally the cops and EMTs came and took me to the hospital in an ambulance with nicely padded walls.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 05:48 PM

Dollar General and Family Dollar have retained their names but they gave up on charging $1 for everything ages ago. There was another sort of dollar store, usually a real hodge-podge of stuff, a lot of it imported, and the owners were usually immigrants. Those places had some real treasures at times. I think the ones I used to shop at have all closed (probably because I'm not the only one who abandoned them for Big Lots years ago.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 08:49 PM

I have it! Dollar Tree just needs to change their slogan from "Where Everything's a Dollar" to ""Where Everything Would Be a Dollar If Trump Hadn't Slapped Tariffs on All the Chinese Crap We Sell".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 19 - 07:47 PM

Just like family Storage lockers, large warhouses loose a lease or goes bankrupt. If you have capitol you can operate a dollar bush chain on the internet and sell on the business model of building 19 without real estate costs..

A clever buyer of distresed or abandoned merchandise can sustain a warehouse, shipping dept and internet workers almost like Amazon. Acquire crap at a maximum of 5 cents on the dollar and sell at 25. Expand to China for other abandoned crap when the time is right.

Call it 'INSANE JANE' AND SELL AT UNBELIEVABLE PRICES.

Finding the unlikely cheap large warehouse is key
know any?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 19 - 12:35 AM

You can pay a fee to Amazon to keep that stuff in their warehouse, then the "Fullfilled by Amazon" line appears in your sales through Amazon as a vendor. Done and dusted.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 19 - 11:07 AM

Large warehouses lik the RNC, Redskin stadium,Trump hotels, Trump Mega church...


This just in...

A transplant drug with anti-ageing properties has been shown to rejuvenate the oral health of old mice.
The drug, called RAPAMYCIN,
regenerated the bone in which teeth are embedded, restored the mouth microbiome to a youthful state and reduced inflammation.

It is the first time any treatment has been shown to rejuvenate oral health, says team leader Matt Kaeberlein at the University of Washington in Seattle. “We could actually see spots where new bone was growing around the teeth.”



Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227421-anti-ageing-drug-rejuvenates-the-mouths-and-oral-microbiome-of-mice/#ixzz68MTA7Rec

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 19 - 12:54 PM

correction; RAPARMYCIN

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 19 - 02:22 PM

While the yard next door is plowed with footprints in the snow, I haven't seen the four neighbors so far this week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 19 - 09:24 PM

MOM! I just remembered that my automobile license plate begins 1BS in honor of you!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Dec 19 - 10:51 PM

My current license plate ends in RIC, in honor of Ricky Ricardo. As long as I have that particular plate, I am obligated to shout "Honey, I'm home!" every time I walk through the front door.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 19 - 08:30 PM

Well, the 1B indicates the county (Bannock, the only county named for a bread product), but there's enough S here to share.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 19 - 08:05 AM

Oh, this place is certainly a thrill every minute! Horrible Hank and Stormy Sam had their annual Christmas shoot-out at the Legion Hovel last night, complete with the Annual Pitch 'Em Out contest by the devotees of the place. HH flew the farthest (87.4 meters, metres in Canada, with SS in second place at only 67.0 meters). Naturally, their SuperSoakers were confiscated, and SS was found to also be carrying a hidden Nerf derringer! And as usual they had to buy a round for everyone in the Hovel at the time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Dec 19 - 08:03 AM

Mom!

There are currently 19 threads in the "music" section upstairs and 26 threads in the BS section! There's more BS than music for the first time in recent memory! And some people had the nerve to say BS was dead!

Okay, half of those BS threads are the Brits going on incessantly about their political horseshit, but I suppose they count anyway. Sometimes you just have to take what you can get.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 19 - 08:17 AM

Limeys calling each other names. Tsk, tsk. We would never ever do that in the US!

Granted, I do think it would be interesting if dueling (swords only) were re-instituted and folks had to put up or shut up. Knowing you might be called upon to put your life on the line to back up your cockamamie insults/opinions might make you think again before calling someone (excuse the language!) a "dumb poopyhead".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 19 - 09:26 AM

It's 7:25 a.m. and there is NO SIGN OF SUNRISE!!!

The Galactic Overlord has stopped the sun from coming up! We're all gonna freeze and stuff!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 19 - 10:09 AM

The fog is so dense here you can't see a full block ahead of you, so what do you expect? The Galactic Overlord slept in this morning, apparently. (And I thinned out the Limeys yesterday, there was way too much bickering going on in that cross-thread running battle.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 03:31 PM

Mom!

Forrest Gump lied!

Life is NOT like a box of chocolates!

Life is like a claw machine in the vending area at the entrance to a Walmart. Most of the time, you just feed quarters to it and get nothing back. Every once in a while, you get a tiny stuffed penguin.

NOBODY ever gets the drone.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 08:23 PM

I made a slight error. The sun did come up, and also yesterday and today. I shall predict that it shall come up tomorrow. I may write a song about it called "Tomorrow."

How's this sound?

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

I probably need some more verses. Amos would write it in jig time, but since I can't dance a jig (or much of anything else these days) I'll write it in plain ol' 9/16 or something.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 08:25 PM

Happy Gnu Year's is on the way.


And I noticed something curious.
The big Mother of All BS Threads is still closed for repairs;
that page still comes up.
What's curious is that I can use the Filter Search thread title feature,
enter Mother of all BS Threads,
and the Great Old Thread still appears in the search results.
That's how I got the 'closed for repairs' page.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 09:21 PM

Mom is eternal.

Now that Betelgeuse looks like it's going to go nova or even supernova it makes me wonder if it's the work of the Galactic You-Know-Who. (Is there a Galactic Overlady? Or do women just naturally rule the Overlords?)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 11:27 PM

The real reason Betelgeuse is going to blow up is because the Galactic Overlord has never liked the star's name. A zillion times bigger than our Sun and the best name we humans can come up with is Betelgeuse? It's hard to spell and sounds like a joke. And what does it even mean?

The GO has decided to get rid of Betelgeuse and replace it with something else, in hopes we'll give the new thing a more dignified name.

Like Bryce or Heather.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 08:40 AM

Call it Biff or Scooter, Beatle Juice is real in its current male personna and soon will enter its female state of a black hole.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 09:36 AM

I find it curious that Tomorrow is unreachable in the now. It is untouchable and forever out of realization except in the cosmologist's POV thought experiment, "the slice of Time model".
Only there is there a place and time where tommorrow has already happened.

If the Son will 'come out' tommorrow, is a personal matter.

Thats the truth

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 09:45 AM

I suppose that the inhabitants around Betelgeuse (there are FOUR E's in that name!) could simply be reducing their energy usage and the GO isn't involved at all. Of course, he does own the power utilities out that way and lack of income could annoy him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 10:29 AM

If a planet's orbit is tidally locked with its star so that the same planetary surface always faces the star, there are no days. There's just the same shit all the time. Boring!

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

The sun won't come out tomorrow
'Cause the damned thing's always in the sky
We can't think about tomorrow
It's not part of our ree-al-i-tie

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Dec 19 - 10:30 AM

In "Preview", they were musical notes, not question marks. Honest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 19 - 07:39 AM

BWL, it is said there are 3 TRUTHS we deal with in our universe; personal truth, political truth and objective truth.

Personally if Betelguse blew up today we will never see it in our lifetime as its light and gravity waves make their journey of 430 light years to Earth.

Politically the 'make Betelgeuse great again' movement has been good for their antisemetism attacks, mass shootings, nazis, zenophobic internment camps for immigrant children and waves of enourmous hate that is on the verge of exploding.

Objectively Betelgeuse could go on like this for another million years before its mega nova.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 19 - 08:18 AM

It may be as far as 650+ light years away depending upon galactic variations, orbits, time and dark energy, but who is counting.
If you were lucky when it exploded in the distant past, you would be able to see it in the daytime sky. Gamma ray damage would be 'light'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 07:22 AM

music notes versus question marks,
that sounds familiar.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 08:42 PM

I am off to Missoula and then to Spokane around first light tomorrow. The forecast changed from pleine du neige to plus de plui. If your French or mine is rusty and squeaky, lots of snow was changed to lots of rain (maybe). Anyway, the temperatures changed from low 30s F to 40s F. Since we are going by car I'm taking my laptop and will let y'all know if I'm still alive. Back home Sunday sometime.

Why visit the Spokane Museum of Arts and Culture? Because

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a rare embroidered Bengali quilt which, according to recent research, is most likely one of the oldest surviving quilts in the United States. Its design, materials, and construction indicate that it was made in Bengal during the 17th century. Genealogical research suggests that it was brought to Massachusetts during the 1600s and to Spokane around 1900 by the family of David L. Huntington, for whom Huntington Park is named. This provenance is supported by consultation with outside experts.

My wife has an "in" with the curator of the textiles there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 20 - 04:35 PM

Happy New Year everybody.
And everybody else, as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 20 - 06:19 PM

Happy New Year That Betelgeuse Is Gonna Explode! (Mom, I've got a nice deep mine shaft, well stocked with whisky, whiskey, and even foodstuffs where you can stay safe.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 02:39 PM

Mom!

I've discovered a foolproof way for you and your friends to get away with doing unscrupulous things without getting caught! Just make sure you NEVER refer to the deliberative process leading up to the actual nefarious deed(s) as "hatching a plot". When plots are hatched, the events which ensue are automatically doomed to failure. Just call the planning process "doing the laundry" or something, and everything will go perfectly.

Also, make sure you don't claim afterwards that everything "went off without a hitch". That's a sure-fire way to guarantee that some moron left their wallet at the scene of the crime.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 06:58 PM

The good news today is that I found a file I saved back in 2015, with links to all of the poems posted in MOM¹ that Amos wanted hidden so he could publish them in a book. Or I may have taken them out of the posts, I can't remember. It's possible to open individual posts if the results show up in a search, but I can't paste the link directly into the search bar and get anything but code "500 Internal Server Error." I have to figure out if I can search on the message number.

The bummer today is that I was at the grocery store self-checkout with stuff from my shopping list and I accidentally left my milk carton behind (I didn't scan it so I didn't pay for it, it's down on that little shelf beside the register). Now what else did I set on that shelf? And I seem to have lost that shopping list.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 07:35 PM

Most of the poems that were hidden (several dozen) in the Mudcat Poetry Corner thread have been restored. I think Amos' plans to publish that poetry were cut short by life and the move, and then his death. There are a few more to track down at some point in the future, but this is the lion's share, as far as I can tell.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 10:48 PM

Amos' poems are in a secret Mudcat place called "Access Denied."

We leave Spokane and go to Butte on Saturday. On Sunday we go home. (What does it mean in Montana if you get something that only says "3-7-77" like the note I got does?)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 11:49 PM

Oops. Link fixed. No idea about your note. Maybe you haven't washed that jacket in a really really really long time and that note was in the pocket?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 06:07 AM

The "3-7-77" thing is just a little joke Montanans play to confuse out-of-staters. The entire state of Montana is seeded with similar notes placed in random locations. They're intended to make unsuspecting non-Montanans wonder why the date is important when, in actuality, it's a day on which nothing out of the ordinary happened.

Montanans are easily amused.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 06:31 AM

Thats a pretty high falutin quilt. We just volunteer for the Linus project.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 09:13 AM

poof

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 09:42 AM

3-7-77 bible verse
        ...So each leader brought the following gifts: a silver bowl that weighed over three pounds and a silver sprinkling bowl weighing almost two pounds, both of them filled with flour and olive oil as grain sacrifices and weighed according to the official standards; a small gold dish filled with incense; a young bull, a full-grown ram, and a year-old ram as sacrifices to please the Lord; a goat as a sacrifice for sin; and two bulls, five full-grown rams, five goats, and five rams a year old as sacrifices to ask the Lord’s blessing...

King James Reader's Digest version:

        ...and two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ochran.


3-7-77 Tom Brady's locker combination

3-7-77 masonic montanans

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 10:13 AM

This is a BS thread still - and that "rare Bengali quilt" in this photo has as much character as a blank bedsheet. Can you actually see any colors, contours, or stitching up close to it? (The rest of the collection is here.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 01:48 PM

That link not only has a photo of the rare quilt,
but some descriptive info from
the institution with the exhibition I guess.

This descriptive info includes the words
"floral motifs."

I can't see a single darned flower.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 02:12 PM

Madam, my wife shall post a reply.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 08:06 PM

embroidary lasts forever but old vegetable color fast dyes - do not.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 09:41 PM

My wife replies: Look here and learn.

Donuel: She refers you here (scroll down), 6,200 year old use of indigo plant dye here, and
pharaonic Egypt here. She states that while the colors may fade over time, so will everyone.

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

Century old quilts by Susan McCord before their time

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 20 - 10:30 PM

In our house is a quilt from 1780 or so. The blue in the center panel is finely powdered lapis lazuli.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 20 - 05:00 PM

Okay, Mom. I’m home now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 20 - 05:20 PM

I'm home too, Mom, but I haven't really been away, so don't act surprised.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 20 - 07:54 PM

Big meeting in HI for astronomers. Nice schmear for space crashers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 20 - 07:48 AM

Yes, that's the first meeting of the US Space Force's Special Secret Space Section (USSFSSSS). They're meeting under the cover of a scientific group to research surfing on non-water oceans. Their shoulder patch reads "USSFSSSS-SSS" (the part after the "-" is for "Secret Surfing Studies." I'm certain that the Galactic Overlord has his (her?) agents there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 20 - 07:34 AM

ISTIPORTOHEL
There are fears that SMERSH will try to infiltrate.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 12:30 PM

I can prove the planet is warming; I have to mow my lawn today. It's January in Texas and only in the last couple of years have I had to mow the lawn during the winter months. Gluon and her duck-dog friends haven't been by for a while or they could have grazed it down. At the same time they need to eat the large snails and slugs that are appearing out there. I haven't seen this size in all of the years I've lived here (38 of them so far - OMG who knew I'd ever move to Texas, let alone live here for such a long time).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 12:41 PM

do you get feral pigs 'way up in North Texas?
There was news broadcast footage of
a parking garage in
Austin, for heaven's sake,
of a feral hog pursued by
a deputy with a LASSO.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 03:22 PM

Yes, there are feral hogs in the Fort Worth area, but only in some neighborhoods. Like Arcadia Pork Estates, Pork Glen, Pork Palisades, and The Porks of Deer Creek.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 05:06 PM

Stilly River sage seasons feral porkers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 06:09 PM

Hogging all of the pig puns, Rap?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:24 PM

I'll just trotter on out, and if it's a pun sow be it. If it makes someone bristle, well, that's better than being boaring.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 08:39 PM

I use Tapatio salsa picante hot sauce. I put that shit on everything except dessert and beverages.

Pigs are biologically similar to humans and are frequently used for human medical research and transplants.
Be kind to the 'fair ol' pig

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 02:21 AM

I love Tapatio sauce - it's great on all sorts of things. (Ta-pa-tio, emphasis on "tio," not Ta-Patio, for anyone wondering.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 08:20 AM

We use TryMe's Tiger Sauce. Adds flavor in moderate amounts and heat in larger amounts. I've thought for many years that food should be interesting but not toxic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 08:38 AM

Since we are organically similar:
Does anyone know if we taste like the other white meat?
What about bacon?

I bet ET's know.

signed, Steve Miller - "put the lotion in the basket".
and don't forget the Tapatio

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 01:15 PM

ET's also believe food should be interesting but not toxic.
Thats why they prefer a protien rich Alaskan homesteader who ate lots of moose liver.
They do take people in National Parks but tourists do not taste as good due to the junk food heavy diet of vacationers

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 02:58 PM

What do you call a feral pig with three eyes?




A feral piiig, of course!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 03:24 PM

And the grand prize winner of the 6 ft. ham submarine sandwich is bwl.
don't hog it all.

No one took a stab at the veiled cannabalism posts!?!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:17 PM

ETs eating Alaskan homesteaders is not cannibalism.

We resolved that issue way back in the early days of the MOAB when freds (an ET species) attempted to eat khandu. Freds eating humans (and khandu is purported to be human) is not cannibalism. Freds eating freds is cannibalism. Humans eating freds is not cannibalism, though why anyone would want to eat freds, who reportedly taste like aluminum foil, is a mystery.

But I suppose anything is edible with enough Tapatio sauce on it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 05:40 PM

Great minds think alike. Everything old is new again.

We share only 99% of ET DNA.
Does that mean Chimps
are on the menu for us?

Hey Little Hawk...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 09:14 PM

Thanks SRS Iffin ah dunt nowed buter they seem dyslexic or rural

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 11:24 PM

Chimps are eaten. It's called "bush meat" and it is found (usually) in small African villages. You can find more on the WWW, if you want to.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 06:15 AM

bush meat poses an ebola threat in our biggest cities but Idaho is bushmeat free.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 09:23 AM

Because of the link between bush meat and Ebola, I always buy my chimpanzee meat from Walmart, where it's guaranteed to have been produced in inhumane factory farms, but under Ebola-free conditions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 05:22 PM

Idaho has: superior voting rights
but not an ERA ratification.
No bushmeat but screwy property taxes.
It has a Walmart but no fresh
crispy creme donuts
Black and white is seperate as in
black ice and white snow
When snow covers the ice, there are
awkward white rappers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 11:14 PM

Things in Idaho ARE black and white. (Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 07:57 AM

Krispy Kreme doughnuts are available fresh at the nearby Maverick gas station and convenience store.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 09:16 AM

Of course. But at Walmart they only sell discounted 2 week old KKdonuts where the crisp coating has liquified.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 10:18 AM

Krispy Kreme donuts are mediocrity personified. They aren't exactly horrible, but the donuts offered by almost any neighborhood bakery put them to shame.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 10:34 AM

With all due respect to Homer there are some angelic healthy donuts as bwl says.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 20 - 10:22 PM

We are fortunate to have two or three outstanding doughnut shops (those are higher-class than donut shops), but nobody makes Parker House rolls.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jan 20 - 10:45 AM

Donuts were the discussion last week when my son was visiting from Seattle. It seems the donuts available up there are more like cake donuts, and he doesn't like Krispy Kreme; the ones he prefers are found all over this region, a light yeast donut that is mostly air but without the enhanced sugar formula of the KK variety. I see an investment opportunity in Seattle - donuts for relocated Texans.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 20 - 11:49 AM

Hermaphrodite Doe nuts are an entirely different matter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 20 - 05:54 PM

One shop here claims to use the original Spudnut recipe. I don't know if they do or not, but they make really good doughnuts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Jan 20 - 06:49 PM

Idaho should be famous for glazed donuts. After all, REAL glazed donuts are made with potato flour, not wheat flour.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jan 20 - 02:02 AM

Kolaches (a Czech pastry popular in Central Texas) have a similar dough to the doughnuts made down here - this may be more than just a coincidence.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 20 - 04:27 PM

After all this talk of chimp brains and donuts I'm getting hungry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 20 - 06:35 PM

There's a little shop in South Kinshasa that makes the best chimp-brain stuffed donuts! I understand that they take WWW orders and will ship, if you can find the URL. (It's said to be run by a Nigerian prince!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 20 - 07:44 PM

For bushmeat the password is sausage

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 20 - 08:46 PM

QUARK!

QUARK!

Gluon! Dammit, stop humping my leg! Git down! Down!!!

QUARK!

Yes, I'm glad to see you too! Put that down!!! Don't eat that!!

QUARK!

STILLY!!! SOMEBODY!!!! Come git this duckdog!!!!

QUARK!

QUARK!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Jan 20 - 11:10 PM

Oh no, Mom! Gluon appears to be ill! According to the theory of quantum chromodynamics, he/she should always QUARK in vibrant living colors (Gluon seems to like red and green). If she/he is QUARKing in black and white there's something wrong!

I suspect it may have something to do with the kick in the rear he/she received after relieving herself/himself on the front wheel of the Galactic Overlord's Harley Davidson.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 20 - 06:25 AM

After sniffing the tire, I suspect diabetes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 20 - 08:39 AM

New era quotes:

MEDIOCRATISTS UNITE you have nothing to lose but your brains!

Damn the Pompeo full greed ahead

I don't regret I have but one dime to give for my country

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 20 - 09:37 PM

Gluon's still hanging around, humping various things.

QUARK!! QUARK!!
QUARK!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Jan 20 - 06:53 AM

It certainly looks like Gluon is feeling better! He/she must have successfully removed the Galactic Overlord's boot from his/her cloaca.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 20 - 03:25 PM

In addition to being the anniversary of my parents’ wedding (an event of cosmic importance) January 15 is also the anniversary of this event.

Subject: RE: Goodbye Moon
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 20 - 04:33 PM

Goodbye Moon
behind the smoke
goodbye dog
I heard choke

Goodbye little kittens
goodbye florists
Warnings were written
about rain forests

Goodbye green trees
stiff and black
burn in the breeze
Goodbye science attack

Goodbye fair Oz
and a billion creatures
The stock market
is now Earth's best feature


DH 2020

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 08:49 AM

As I sit here looking out the window, long before the sunrise, it's really dark out there. It's obvious proof yet again of the truth of the Bradley-Curran Darkon Theory. How long will Science be blind to The Truth?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 10:48 AM

Lets hope science does not investigate the quantum notion that somtimes human beings pass between different quantum worlds to extend their life. There would be so much traffic between universes in the multiverse everyone's commute would be ******

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 12:29 PM

I'm reminded of the scene in the James Stewart film Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation in which the teenage son turns on a light in the dilapidated beach house the family has rented. The light is so dim that he says, "That's not a light! That's a dark! When you turn it on, the room gets darker!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 06:44 PM

I just killed a computer. Ripped out the hard drive, tore the RAM from its guts. Before I did that I formatted and deleted all over the HDD. Call me a killer, call me a electron-thirsty murderer. Now, before disposing of the corpse and the HDD (I'll keep the RAM and transplant it!) I'll do a physical wipe of the HDD propane torch!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 07:57 PM

Heck, all I do to dispose of old computers is bury them at an undisclosed location on my property. Okay, I may take out a few frustrations on them with axes, sledgehammers, or firearms first, but burying is the main thing. A four foot deep hole at a random spot somewhere on 7.5 acres of woodland and ain't nobody ever finding that sucker. At least, not while I'm alive. And if someone finds it after I'm dead, I don't care.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 08:17 PM

BWL I have been known to quote that line from that movie myself, when encountering a really dim bulb. Come to think of it, the whole nation should be quoting that line, considering the dim bulbs in power the last three years.

I myself have culled a lot of old computer stuff this week. And though it would be nice to take it to Goodwill, I suspect most of it doesn't work, so instead I'll drop it off next week in an eWaste bin, saving Goodwill shoppers from buying then returning these funky computer speakers, etc.

There's a little snippet of Gluon here at my house, a few sloughed off molecules that add up to a small dog portion of a duckdog. She's a high-energy marauder and we're trying to reduce the energy level by having her spend less time (like overnight) in the kennel. It seems she reaches near critical mass by morning so when the door is opened she flies all over the house and yard like a ricochetting beebee.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 09:43 PM

Hillary just used a hammer.

Correction: One does not actually extend their life by slipping into a different potentiality quantum wise. They simply are propeled into a future because they stepped into a vorticies surrounding a microscopic black hole of stopped time. Some unfortunate souls are lost forever (to us) but most just enter at a perfect tangent which allows for an expulsion into a new time line. While no time passes to the happless wanderer, confusion or psychosis can sometimes occur. In 6 billion years many have taken this strange journey without harmful consequences so don't worry, it is a rare event and probably won't happen to you. However real dangers arise when the vorticies grow up to a quarter mile sphere under ideal circumstances.

For the vast majority only seconds to hours are 'lost'. A few of the miniature black holes are tidally locked and are deliberately accessable. Most travel at various speeds or in subterrainean orbits one would never encounter.

So lifespans remain the same no matter how many jumps are innertaken/undertaken and overtaken. Sorry for the confusion.

If you encounter a nebulous ball of dark soft light, it is best left alone.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 20 - 10:02 PM

Imagine if BWL has a nosey neighbor whose curiosity is piqued when he sees bwl carrying a sack with a rectagle out line and a shovel.
? hmm "whats in the bag, a dead cat or box of money!"
"its money" he thinks as he tracks you on his phone.

7 acres doesn't seem that big

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 20 - 09:36 AM

Or, in Bee-Dub's case, the neighbor thinks, "Hmmm...taking another body to the crocs in the pond. Aw, hell, who cares? They ain't from around here."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 20 - 11:05 AM

Overall 'not caring' is a more constant factor in decision making than greed, so Rap's scenario is more likely.
I don't care.

I bought a bunch of external hard drives at the 'Unique Gifts' jumk store. For a lark I took them to 'Things remembered' at the Mall and had them engraved 'Hillary Rodam Clinton 2012-2018' and tossed them about ROCK CREEK PARK.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 20 - 02:33 PM

When I saw the polar ice cap melt I did't care
because I'm not a polar bear
When I saw the Amazon Forest burn I didn't care
because I'm not a tropical tree
When I saw Australia burn I didn't care
because I'm not a Kangaroo
When I saw gas regulations recinded I rejoiced
because I am a Republican heavily invested in oil
When food and water became scarce I didn't care
because I had invested in oil.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 20 - 02:47 PM

When my grand children did not survive I did not care
because that left more food for those of us who lied
For I am the staunch I am the hardy I was wise

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Jan 20 - 03:20 PM

My neighbors don't seem very concerned with my activities. They're usually busy chewing their cuds and depositing big smelly turds all over their pasture.

And that's the human ones. The cattle are another matter all together.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 07:42 AM

maybe this one deserves a rewrite:

When I saw the polar ice caps melt I did't care
because I am not a polar bear
When I saw the Amazon Forest burn I didn't care
because a stupid tree isn't rare
When I saw Australia burn I didn't care
because I'm not a god damn Kangaroo
I rejoice that clean air laws are removed
because I'm a Republican invested in black gold
When food and water became scarce I didn't care
because I had invested in the best thing sold.
When my grand children did not survive I cried
because that left more food for we who lied
I am hardy, presient, funny and wise
When all there is to eat is money
I will not regret I will not run
I still have my golden gun

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 07:52 AM

but I am out of
ammunition

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 08:52 AM

I dedicate this poem to my neighbor Rod Serling and his Irish Setters Randy and Rex. RIP

I suppose you don't know I have assembled hundreds of poems/lyrics on this site over 20 years. Now that they are all gone I remind you that Amos said I have the heart of a poet. He never said I had the mind or pen of a poet. :^/

now back to poopy pastures.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 11:11 AM

Donuel, if you want to find those poems you can. It takes time, but they're all there, you just can't go to the entire thread at once. And there is the Mudcat Poetry Corner - didn't you post there as well? At least none of the MOAB poets are offering the maudlin pap that Walksabout Verse keeps sharing and re-sharing, living in the past and insisting on offering those backward-looking links. Amos put him in his place and and that pretty much took care of it, and you can tell Amos is gone now by the proliferation of bad poetry.

Back to the regular BS. Clever move on the hard drives, Donuel. Just so they don't cite Hillary for littering. . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: khandu
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 02:43 PM

I am not a guest, but I am aghast! I see fred has been mentioned recently on this thread. It has been a long standing unspoken understanding that the freds were no longer to be mentioned. Yet, there they are. Now, feral piiigs are certainly worthy of discussion. I myself ordered a flock of piiigs from Amazon. Unfortunately, I did not know the group name of piiigs. I thought they were called a "murder".

As a sad result, the Amazonians slaughtered a disturbing amount of innocent feral piiigs, thinking they were doing the King's will. In effect, I have been splattered with innocent blood.
Life has it's upsetting moments. The mention of freds and the murder of feral piiigs we're two of those upsetting moments and, amazingly, they occurred on the same day. Further investigation indicated they occurred the same hour (CST)!
This leaves me with a hanging head. I hate hanging heads. Therefore, I do only what I know to do...come to Mom and throw myself into her hopefully merciful and loving arms. That she may softly pat me and say, "There, there", or, perhaps, "Here, here".
I am aghast, with a hanging head to boot.

khandu

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 03:11 PM

I used to think Walkabout verse had the gall bladder of a poet.
After a time consuming ressurection I might find 3 out of a hundred worth posterity. Most were like fast food. Instant gratification followed by regret. I recall 'cracks in my life' was better than I deserved. They're all in the wind and difficult to catch long enough to write down.

"I love you in a place where there's no space and time" came to me 20 years before the song. Rap has some originals that should be published before the MOAB credo* passes into obscurity.

* In obscurum uteri omnius flatulem qui consummtio eternum.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 03:56 PM

Many of you don't know that BWL writes sit com for the Mom series.
Including him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 05:36 PM

There are several collective nouns that can be used to describe a group of piiigs. You can call them a "flooock" or a "heeerd" or just about anything as long as the word has three sequential instances of the same vowel. I prefer "shiiitload" myself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 06:07 PM

Down here in Texas they're called "barbeeeque."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 06:09 PM

By the way, I don't recall any edict about not mentioning freds. Perhaps I was out well on that day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: GUEST, freds
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 07:31 PM

FROM: freds
TO: Khandu and similar putrid sorts

We have been elsewhen but were jerked back by a mention of us by someone called Khandu.

Like a genie, we must now do his, her, or its bidding.

What is your wish, Oh King?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 11:27 PM

Don't ya think there's something a bit fishy about a bunch of ETs who once attempted to have khandu for lunch now promising to do his bidding?

Personally, I would trust freds about as much as I'd trust a Nigerian prince hawking reverse mortgages door-to-door.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 20 - 11:50 PM

Heck, you don't need to go to Nigeria to find fishy Nigerian prince hawking reverse mortgages door-to-door—Steven Mnnnnunchin is best friends with an American "investment" scoundrel who steals homes from thousands of Americans via reverse-mortgages (Obama gave them too much leeway and Trump has no interest in fixing that problem).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: khandu
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 12:17 AM

I am befuddled and bedazzled. More on that later.
Bee-dud, I am in awe of your knowledge of feral piiigs! You astound me, as you have always astounded me. Perhaps astonish is more fitting. Amaze, hmm, naw, astonish.
Nonetheless, I do think that had I ordered a muuurder of piiigs, the results would have been the same. It would have, according to the 3-vowel-rule, been proper to do so, yet equally as deadly. This is why I have the hanging head. Some things just have no good solution.
As to the freds, no, there was no edict as such. There was, if you recall, as I stated last Eve, a "long-standing, unspoken, understanding". Surely, you remember us not speaking of it. We didn't speak of it constantly in your presence. I clearly remember several times it was unspoken. I also remember your not objecting...am I not correct?

Now that we have settled that (permanently, I trust), on to my bedazzlement and my befuddlement...
It is my understanding that guest cannot post "below the line" as they say, in the .BS section. One must be a member to post down here.
Yet, clear as transparent dookie, there us a post by a " guest: freds"!
With that, I believe this is an imposter trying to get me to thinks freds will do my bidding when the reality of it is that freds never want to do my bidding! Nay! They only want to suck out my natural vitality and strength, leaving me a helpless and hopeless mass of gelatinous goo, as I have seen them do to people like Harry Lee Wigley and Sheeny Knause. You recall them? How long has it been since you heard of them? Huh?
Nay, this poster is an imposter. But how did he post as a guest where no guest may post?
I am not a god but I am agog.
khandu

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 09:10 AM

freds, I suspect, can override our puny technology. I seem to remember that they have said, somewhere, that they use Gluon as a saddle horse.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 09:33 AM

Steve, freds, Trump, piiigs, this place is suddenly surrounded by villains. Is self defense warranted? If so the smallest but most powerful weapon there is the space balm (nano sized black holes) that would suck villains off to another space and time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: khandu
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 11:20 AM

I have been considering space balm. It is an extreme measure but freds are an extreme threat unless their extremities are removed. Sadly, this removal is done by having the freds to eat discounted two week old KK donuts where the crisp costing has liquified
The difficulty is not getting them to eat the previously mentioned donuts, freds love them. The problem is knowing where to purchase fresh discounted two week old KK donuts. As described above.
khandu

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: khandu
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 12:14 PM

They use glue on their saddle horse? How odd. But they are an odd species.
Yea, I am sure you are correct about their ability to override our technology. In many ways, they are a brilliant bunch. Indeed, except for their stupidity, their childishness, and their obsession with Joan Crawford porn, they are to be envied.
khandu

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 12:52 PM

A random dip back into the Khandu MOAB archive (a haphazard process that must be done by searching on the post history of each individual) shows lots of references to Shatner and the Bush (Dubya) administration. Who knew back then that that wasn't the height of crazy? That people would crave the days of Baby Bush in contrast to the toxic excrement (not BS) extruded right now?

This works as a silly antidote/anecdote.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 01:55 PM

The connection between Krispy Kreme donuts and extraterrestrial life forms is well documented. If you visit a KK restaurant at two or three AM, half the "people" sitting there drinking coffee are space aliens. That's because humans who visit Kripy Kreme at that time of day/night are frequently in some altered state of consciousness which makes them highly susceptible to "alien abduction".

See, here's the thing about "alien abductions": Nobody actually gets abducted, but the aliens use their telepathic skills to make humans believe they've been abducted. It's just a way for ETs to relieve boredom while serving out their hitches observing the goings on of our puny species.

Oh, there used to be genuine alien abductions, but the ETs learned all they needed to know about our biology long ago. And they got tired of having to clean up beer barf after abducting humans who turned out to be drunker than expected. Telepathically induced "abductions" are just as much fun and far more sanitary.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 02:51 PM

Having colluded with many UFO experts and researchers the question remains where UFO driving freds come from. Space.com is currently suggesting they come from our future. To my way of thinking they can only come from our past (As Eienstien shows) which may have had sufficiently advanced technology and plenty of time to learn how to drive like maniacs but more safely. Look at all the crashes they had in the 40's and 50's. They hardly ever crash anymore. Either that or DWI UFO laws are more strict. If I were to admit to an instinct about these ufo driving maniacs I would guess they came from a prehistoric civilization that we now call India. Curiously the current drivers in India have a similar penchant for driving like idiots just like freds.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 02:56 PM

I hope I am not being stereotypically racist about these 'expert' drivers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 03:05 PM

If they do not come from Earth's present, past or future, all bets are off. They would be Pennyless, Maryless and certainly Ruthless.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 03:13 PM

Many have reported that they do seem Tomless Dickless and Harryless.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 03:31 PM

Some of the documentation BWL references is recently in dispute.

Dr. Forester Horsemen has devoted his life to studying UFO hot spots like donut shops. He has concluded that freds organically produce LSD that cause them to view KK shops in particular to be Plastic Palaces of Pleasure. (sorry I spit) It will be their undoing however since fred metabolism is highly susceptible to diabetes.

It makes me think of War of the Worlds.

Dr. Horsemen is currently in the Deleware institute of LSD overdoses.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 04:00 PM

Hahahahahoooey did I say Deleware Institute of LSD Overdose? hahahahah
Well of course i meant (DIALOGUE) hahaha Delaware Institute about LSD Great Unusual Encounters HEEHeeheehahhahahahahhahahs
aaoaaaaaahhhhhhhhaaaaaaamckkghgurg hoohaw

[Come along Dr. Forester]

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 04:25 PM

Sorry about that. He got my phone.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 04:32 PM

He seems to have forgotten about the overdoses but at least he could spell Delaware. You should consider freds armed and dangerous.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: khandu
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 04:47 PM

Horsemen was whispered to be one of the Apocalypse Horsemen. Perhaps he is. H.L.Wigley was doing an expose of the sordid Horseman/Hillary affair. Days before publication, Wigley vanished, leaving none of his writings. No trace of him had been found.
I applaud Donuel, BeeDub, and Silly River! Your knowledge of freds, UFOs, and KK is unsurpassed. No, no, don't protest. You deserve it!


In fact, the three of you are the unspoken pride of Mudcat! Just last evening, I over heard Max and the Mudmen not saying a word about you three! Yes, yes, it is true!
Carry on, fine humans, carry on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 05:32 PM

I picked this paraphrased bit of wisdom from Tim Dorsey's latest book, Naked Came the Florida Man:

The gist of modern politics is this: All you have to do to get beef cattle to vote for the guy who owns the slaughterhouse is convince them that it's dairy cattle who are the problem.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 05:49 PM

The mystery imposter host poster is a suspicious character who has moved near Club Aria 54 in Arizona for undisclosed reasons called keboroxu.
I know, it has a fred dialect doesn't it?

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

Florida
New Jersey
Texas
Georgia
Maryland
Number 1 to #5 most stressed out States


Dairy cows have it soft don't they

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 07:47 PM

FYI: Stilly has to do with Stillaguamish, though I suppose there could have been moonshiners upstream way back when, with their stills. I know many family members made their own beer during Prohibition, but that doesn't require as much equipment. We leave the hard stuff to the NASCAR still operators in the hills and mountains of the SE.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 08:26 PM

Did steamboats run on it? If steamboats didn't run on it it's not a real river.

Ezekiel 1:4-21 refers to the freds, or at least all the biblical scholars so say.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 20 - 08:45 PM

Yes, and one of them was the flat-bottomed sternwheeler Preston that pulled deadheads out of the river to keep it navigable. It worked all up and down the west coast of the US (as part of the Army Corps of Engineers). Deadheads are the logs that broke out of log booms being floated down river from operations upstream, heading down to Puget Sound area mills. One end would sink and get stuck in the mud and the other end, under the surface, would impale unwitting boat operators. My cousin was the last captain of it before they retired it to a museum in Anacortes. Where Burl Ives lived until his death. (Unrelated, but there isn't a lot of Anacortes history to share, so I put both parts of it here to bulk up the post).

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

Moonshining is almost a dead vocation in much of the Southeast. In most states it's fairly easy to get a license and open a boutique distillery (the distilled spirits equivalent to a microbrewery). Old moonshiners grandchildren are making way more money selling peppermint vodka and the like to lawyers than grandpa ever did selling rotgut 'shine to farmers.

But Mom still prefers the 'shine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 07:16 AM

Prohibition was good for some like the Capones and Kennedys.
Old fashioned bootlegging and running the slots south of Chicago was Grandpa's solution to Prohibition. Thanks to Grandma who as a young prescient girl married a guy who up and ran away subsequently finding oil in Oklahoma, fortunatly shared some of it with Grandma. Between him and Frank the bootlegger she had time to prospect as a rock hound finding many rare fossils like the Eohippus and other gems.
Booze, silver dollars from the slots and oil were the sins of the family fortune.
That is why I relatively reject all three in my liftime.
But fossils are cool.

My wife's side of the family may have some fred hybrids which is a dillemma. -bad driving and all-

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 07:58 AM

I see: deadheads are planters. Both'll take out the bottom of your boat. Or they could become sawyers. Rafts and steamboats make it a real river, unlike, say, the Portneuf (but it does have some good trout fishing in the colder headwaters).

My grandfather's still is still now, residing in the Quincy Museum (a far fairer venue than it ever had in its younger days). It works fine, but I am bound by an oath of silence as to how I know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 12:27 PM

I do hope that Fred the Scottish Gritter Lorry is exempt
from all this carrying on about [them].

After all, there's only one of Fred the Scottish Gritter Lorry.
You can see him at the snowplough/snowplow tracker website.
Fred is hard at work on the West Coast of Scotland
and he has got most of Ayrshire to himself,
because most of the other gritters
are busy with Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, and the like.
Where would the West of Scotland be, I ask you,
without Fred the Gritter?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 03:02 PM

Also excluded is King Ethelfred the Unready.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 04:43 PM

Donuel scores a Perfect 10 for Ethelfred.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 07:04 PM

Okay, gang, let us review freds protocol from way back in Mom's early days:

1) The only time "freds" is capitalized is when it is the first word in a sentence. Otherwise, the "f" is always lower case.

2) Freds is both plural and singular. There is no such thing as "a fred". That is because of freds' hive mind. You talkin' to one freds, you talking to all of 'em. However, that does not mean freds don't have individual characteristics. Some freds like to eat Mississippians, some like donuts. Some say Mississippians and donuts both taste like chicken so, fuck it, just eat chicken.

3) Freds have no distinct genders. The correct pronouns with which to refer to freds are hesheit (nominative case), himherit (oblique/objective case), and hishersits (possessive). However some freds look decidedly male or female to human perception. Like this freds.

4) Individual freds often have human-sounding names, though the characteristics normally associated with those names when they are born by humans may not apply. For example, the freds in the photo above is named Bubba. And this freds' name is Winona Ryder.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 07:23 PM

If you would know what freds sound like, play the recording here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 08:04 PM

Yep my hive mind inlaws are part freds.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 08:39 PM

Mind you, freds are only part, a very small part, of that recording.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 09:34 PM

Having never read Earthly literature or grammer rules I will study these rules closely;
"3) Freds have no distinct genders. The correct pronouns with which to refer to freds are hesheit (nominative case), himherit (oblique/objective case), and hishersits (possessive). However some freds look decidedly male or female to human perception."

It may even help communication with my cross dressing son.

( I've noticed it takes about 4,000 years for a popular language to lose all need for pronouns like the Chinese.)

hmmm? Can one be a hybrid freds and not know it? Also do freds have unusually long lifespans.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jan 20 - 09:34 PM

I dunno if freds is/are actually on that recording Rap posted the link to, but my old band, June Apple, comes in at about minute 25 for a two-tune medley.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jan 20 - 09:39 AM

Florida Man Breaks Into Home to Suck Toes

BRADENTON, Fla. (WPMI) - According to the Bradenton Herald , a 20-year-old victim was awakened by a man sucking on his toes around 3:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve.

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office say a toe-sucking burglar broke into a Bradenton home on Christmas Eve.

Deputies who responded to the residence were told that the victim was sleeping in his bedroom when he was awakened by the suspect sucking on his toes, according to an incident report.

The victim asked the suspect what he was doing and the suspect stated he was "there to suck toes,” according to the report.

Deputies say a fight erupted and the suspect attempted to grab the victim's genitals and then threatened the victim, saying he had a gun.

According to the report, the victim never saw a gun, and managed to force the suspect out of the home. The suspect then smashed out a window to the home and then smashed the victim’s car windshield.

Deputies attempted to track the suspect with a police dog but were unsuccessful. DNA swabs were taken from the victim’s toes, according to the report.



Boy, that Florida Man sure does get around, doesn't he?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jan 20 - 03:13 PM

Look at them toe suckers
ain't they neat
sittin there sucking them
big toe feet

Suckin them stinkers
suckin them good
suckin all ten
like you knew they would

How to be a toe sucker
ain't nuthin to it
jus open wide
rare back an do it

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 20 - 09:57 PM

In Idaho a toesucker is a fish. Not a nice fish like a cutthroat, but a rather trashy fish that is an invasive species from Florida.

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

This is readable on Instagram, but the friend who shared it has a private account, so I copied and pushed it to Flickr where you can barely make it out. If you're on Instagram and want to look for me to follow I can send it and you will read the most bizarre story you've seen for a while. (My name run together but three "r"s on the end instead of one.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jan 20 - 11:51 PM

Another episode in the adventures of Florida Man!


Florida Man Crashes Truck Into Bar to Steal Dr. Pepper

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — A Florida man was arrested after he crashed his vehicle into a bar to steal a Dr. Pepper, deputies told WMBB.

Gavin Lee, 28, is charged with armed burglary.

Bay County deputies were called to the Re-Rack Bar in Panama City on Friday morning after a reported burglary.

Lee attempted to get into the business even though it was closed, deputies said. When he couldn’t get in, he allegedly drove his truck through the front glass and went in.

Once inside the bar, Lee got a Dr. Pepper from the cooler, sat at a table in the bar and proceeded to enjoy the beverage, deputies said.

Deputies said Lee had a gun in his pocket during the burglary.


In contrast to the zany antics of Florida Man, Idaho Man seems to only commit serious crimes. Perhaps it's because we have more, better, and stronger drugs in Florida.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 20 - 07:08 AM

New York City man makes trillions of $'s from patent infringement lawsuits and fines. He claims that American inventions such as the light bulb and wheel are being misused globally so he is out there protecting America.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jan 20 - 12:52 PM

This may all be moot. The current adminstration has dropped a full twenty seconds off of the last two minutes for the Doomsday Clock.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 20 - 02:33 PM

And now there are iguanas fainting in the cold
and dropping out of the trees in Florida.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jan 20 - 04:00 PM

I wonder if MOM would like to visit the first-ever museum of philosophy in Italy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 06:30 AM

"In the winter of our discontent when a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of some talents, having the example of military nazi habits - despotic in his ordinary demeanor - known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty - when such a man is seen to mount the porn queen of popularity - to join in the cry of danger to liberty - to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion - when right doesn't matter to elected people - to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day - when no one in his party casts a profile of courage - it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion and division that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind'"


When right does not matter and few care, we are lost as a nation of laws or families for freedom. Our last best hope is for mothers and women to rebel until the nation comes to its senses.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 09:04 AM

We in Idaho only deal with prosaic, and therefore ordinary, crimes. No axe murders for us! Sure, we have stagecoach holdups, claim jumpings, cache robberies, stacked and/or marked deck recriminations, back shootings, things involving 'very attractive ewes', opium smoking, horse theft, dry gulching, mine salting, passing bad money, stealing coal from the railroads, cattle rustling, mail theft, some bad Indian agents, and now and then a lynching, but who doesn't? None of these "love killings" for us! No sirree ma'am! We have the good old-fashioned crimes! OUR political bribes are done in the broad, open light of day! None of this skittering about like roaches when the lights come on for OUR politicians! They're as honest as old Caleb Lyons himself!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 09:15 AM

What of the retired Idaho librarian who is only capable of speaking in partial or complete book titles? This rare neurological condition does not effect his writing and of course is not a crime but reveals Idaho as a mystical land that harbors the bizzare well hidden from the world.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 10:41 AM

The recent cold snap which sent the Miami area's temperatures down into the 40's was not in any way unprecedented. It happens every decade or so. But it was the first such cold snap since the Great Iguana Population Explosion.

No, iguanas are not native to Florida. Like Burmese pythons and lion fish, they're an invasive species, descendants of pets who either escaped or were released into the wild by their owners. When they began falling from trees last week, they should have been barbecued instead of rescued. What South Florida needs is a few good iguana recipes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 02:00 PM

but, then, Bee dubya ell,
I read that Miami is big on Cubans cooking up the iguanas,
they have a Spanish word for the cooked meat
as opposed to the live critter ...
forget what it is though ...
and they can be sold in markets that way !

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 02:27 PM

That is good to know, Keb. Eating one's way out of an environmental disaster is always a good solution.

I'm just not sure the folks in South Florida understand the "Them's good eatin'!" thing quite as well as we Floribamians.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 08:26 PM

BURMESE PYTHON NUGGETS

INGREDIENTS

Python meat, ground or chopped finely

1 egg

1 cup milk

1/2 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon minced garlic

1 tablespoon Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper


DIRECTIONS:

1. Beat the egg and milk together in a bowl.

2. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt, garlic, Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning and cayenne pepper.

3. Dip the nuggets in the egg mixture, and then dredge in the flour mixture.

4. Deep fry at 375 degrees until crispy and golden brown.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 11:25 PM

Burmese Pythons! Now, them's some good eatin'! Tastes sorta like a cross between iguana, feral pig, and chicken.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 12:40 AM

Prit near everthing tastes like chicken. Fella out here ate a cedar stump and said it tasted like chicken.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 02:08 AM

Revenge of the Bushmeat by Claude Balls has soared to the top of the Best Yeller list. It is a wonderful treatise on the pros and cons of eating wild animals as well as pets. Claude treats the dangers and new flavors equally.
Many of the recipes use Panko instead of flour and it really makes a difference. Some of the desserts are quite exotic, like Prion Pudding.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 02:25 AM

FOR MOAB POSTERS ONLY

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 05:28 AM

They have Prion Pudding at our City Hospital. Spicy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 02:40 PM

Florida Man Sets House on Fire to Keep Warm

By: Joe Kelley
Published: January 24, 2020 6:11 AM

There's a lot of flawed logic happening here.

A man in St. Petersburg, Florida was arrested Tuesday morning (January 21st) for setting a fire inside his apartment to stay warm.

Sixty-six-year-old Mark Okrent allegedly set fire to a stack of paperwork in his apartment around 3 a.m., and police report the flames were large enough to set off smoke detectors.

No one was injured, but Okrent has been charged with arson in the first degree.

Police also say he had several other options available to him that could've helped him get warm.

Please note that this particular specimen of Florida Man is of the Central Florida subspecies. Members of the Northern/Panhandle subspecies know what heaters are.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 02:48 PM

Are there no hats or sweaters in Florida? Surely a few are there because of all of the relocated New Yorkers?

Programming Note: I've had as much as I can stand of politics for a while. I'm switching the radio to classical for the rest of the day. The way Pompeo treated Mary Louise Kelly yesterday pretty much did me in (and they're talking about it today and replaying the interview). I hope she landed a knee to the groin before she left the room. Now I'm off to play with the dogs and do some chores that have been calling out so long that it's now a loud chorus that needs to be muffled.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 04:39 PM

Florida man vs. Darwin Award winners
FL CLOSES IN ON THE DARWIN FOLKS

One man in Vero Beach, Florida, can claim to have such fiery devotion for the Dallas Cowboys, but for now he'll have to root on his favorite team while recovering from severe burns to his body. According to the Sebastian Daily, a 27-year-old man was rushed to the hospital after lighting himself ablaze after watching Sunday's Cowboys-Packers game. The incident reportedly came as a result of a lost bet after Aaron Rodgers led Green Bay down the field in a last-minute drive that gave the Packers a 35-31 win.At the hospital, deputies spoke with a couple who admitted they were watching the NFL game and agreed to burn the losing team's jersey. However, the man decided to wear the jersey as it was burning. A witness told Sebastian Daily, "He was set on fire after losing a bet on the Cowboys game … Skin was hanging off his arm and back." The man suffered third-degree burns on his right arm and right hand and second-degree burns to his back.

Such are the dangers of polyester in Florida. FL. hospitals are gearing up for the Super Bowl...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 10:25 PM

Oh no! I'm from Illinois AND I was there last November! I'm gonna die of too much Corona! I know it! I can feel death's ice fingers now! Dammit, I just knocked over my beer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 11:14 PM

I suppose this Corona virus will have a negative impact on sales of Corona beer. Normal people don't drink beer named after a plague.

Then again, normal people don't drink beer with a lime slice stuck down the bottle's neck either.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 09:17 AM

I'm aware of the lime slice. A beer was once served to me that way and the slice blocked getting the beer out. A guy next to me reached in to the get slice for his rum drink and got his fingers stuck in my beer bottle. Eventually an ambulance had to be called for him as others in the bar pitched in to help get his fingers out, but he did get the lime slice. Unfortunately, I never got to drink my beer and I never went back to that place. Citrus in beer! Humph!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 01:26 PM

That event, I should mention, happened at the bar at the Legion Hovel.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:35 PM

Nonethless Corona cases are ending up in deportation camps.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 07:57 AM

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, commonly known as AB InBev, is a Belgian-Brazilian multinational drink and brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium. AB InBev has a global functional management office in New York City, and regional headquarters in São Paulo, London, St. Louis, Mexico City, Bremen, Johannesburg and others. (Wikipedia)

Guess who owns/makes Corona AND Modelo beers! You get one guess.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 08:12 AM

InBev?

And to think of all the schmucks who tried to corner the Silver market.
They should have tried to corner the beer market.

Belgium is not known for chocolate anymore. Now its International weapons sales and beer. What a mix

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 09:07 AM

Does the Belgian ownership of Budweiser mean that they'll eventually be trading in their Clydesdales for Belgian draft horses?


By the way, Tecate and Dos Equis are owned by Heineken, which is next door to Belgium in The Netherlands. Next time you drink a "Mexican" beer, try not to think of chocolate or tulips.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 09:47 AM

I've seen small batch chocolate beer. Trouble is
like most animals taste like chicken, most beer tastes like beer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 12:04 PM

I've had chocolate-infused red wine -- it was pretty good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 12:33 PM

Chocolate originated in Mexico so you SHOULD be thinking about Mexico when you drink Mexican beer. Just sayin'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 02:11 PM

Remember that in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Belgium" is the ultimate off-color word on all planets save one. Earth is the only planet where the inhabitants are so clueless as to have named a country after a word the rest of the galaxy finds horribly offensive.

And as far as the lime thing goes, I suspect some genius decided that since lime is good in guacamole, it must be good in anything Mexican. Beer, salsa, Frida Khalo's underwear....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 20 - 02:25 PM

Lime was given to British sailors with rum to prevent scurvy.

Hey! I'm working on a presentation on knowledge transfer/information diffusion. Maybe I should check the rates of scurvy prevention in the British Navy as a model of the speed of information diffusion and its results. (Yes, really. April 21.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 08:41 AM

MOM!

Guess what!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 09:44 AM

Mom asks if Rap could narrow that "Guess what?" thing down a little. Given the infinite nature of the universe, there could probably be at least, oh, a few dozen possible answers.

Let's start with straight up or on the rocks? That should trim it down a bit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 10:24 AM

Peach Lime Chocolate?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 12:31 PM

Mom!

You know what makes no sense? The saying "That's neither here nor there."

Look, if it's not here, it has to be there. "Here" means this place. "There" means some other place. If something is not in this place, then it must be in some other place. Otherwise, it doesn't exist at all. And if it doesn't exist, why are we wasting precious time and bandwidth talking about it?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 02:34 PM

Its a Wonderful Life huh BWL.
The movie introduced western civilization to non existence, what a concept. Non existence is a state that is not life, not death but it is a state of pure potentiality without any vestige of reality. It is absurd it is serious it is everything and nothing. Non existence 'are' the children you did not have before you died. It does not think therefore it 'am'. It is the Holy Ghost.

Non existence is neither here nor there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 03:15 PM

making sense is a human bias.
The quantum does not make sense to us
WE are missing one small/huge piece
If we find it, it might make sense
and if it doesn't we're still
subject to its magic

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 07:48 PM

If the saying refers to geographical referents the subject under discussion could be anywhere else in the plenum of referents. The locus might also be in a sheaf of referents conjunctive, congruent, or tangential to said plenum. The meaning of the phrase is dependent upon the definition of the locus within its plenum of fictons.

It's quite like trying to define a point with only two reference points for the definition. "X8 Y5" defines a point on a graph, but the third point is actually the matter of the graph itself, or to put it more succinctly, the medium provides a third point for the message*.

Two points alone would define a line.


*Marshall McCluhan, Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man, 1964.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Jan 20 - 11:21 PM

I have received the following missive from Gluon:

QUARK!!!!

Translation: I once tried being neither here nor there, but wound up being here and there at the same time. Do not try this at home.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 06:47 AM

being here and there at the same time is conjunctive to the quantum potential of non existence. In total - we are working with 6 modes of possible realities similar to the ancient's depiction of the 6 pointed star.
The hexagram is found in cosmologic descriptions in India China kabbalah and Gurdjieff;

here
there
here/there
there/here
existence
non existence

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 07:16 AM

There's a seventh node, as in "I node she was up to no good!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 08:32 AM

For starting this quandry of an enigma wrapped in the empitome of a mystery, BWL gets a Grabby award for the ultimaplicitudeness of Bull Shit. Rap gets runner up for a single quark and Donuel (as usual) gets a dishonorable unmentionable.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 09:13 AM

btw There is a current HBO series called 'the outsider' that deals with this phenomenon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 04:51 PM

Impossible. If you are an outsider you are also and simultaneously an insider, as you are inside the outside, for just as the outside contains the inside, so the inside contains the outside (see the discussion here for more information).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 05:39 PM

Now, for the latest adventures of Florida Man!

Florida Man Hunting Iguanas With Pellet Guns Puts Two Schools on Lockdown

A man hunting iguanas with pellet guns led to two schools going into lockdown in Charlotte County on Tuesday afternoon, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office says.

According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, an armed man was seen near Vineland Elementary School, 467 Boundary Blvd., at about 3:30 p.m. The school and nearby L.A. Ainger Middle School were put on lockdown.

Within minutes a 35-year-old man was found and detained. The lockdowns were lifted.

The man told deputies he had been hired to remove invasive iguanas from the area and was carrying two pellet guns. Deputies told the man about the proper procedures to take before hunting and released him.

******************************************************************

Moral of the story? Don't be brandishin' yer Red Ryder near a schoolyard without permission.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 06:49 PM

Everyone likes camping, but good camping sites are hard to find. Crowds, vandalism, charges, and other problems sometimes make them all but impossible! But there ARE places around here -- little known to all but those who live here. Every summer (and even during the other seasons) you can usually find good camping sites here. So don't let the crowds at Yellowstone or Grand Tetons scare you off! Come camping!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 20 - 10:58 PM

You could head to Hanford Reach, that I see now is a National Monument that should be free to the downwinders born near the Hanford Plant (I, alas, am one).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 07:44 AM

I used to live downwind from Rocky Flats

I moved after the big fire

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 09:08 AM

Mom!

When I buy cottage cheese, it comes in pint or quart containers. If it came in 55-gallon drums, would it still be cottage cheese? Or would it be over-sized McMansion with three-car garage and more rooms than you're ever going to use cheese?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 12:54 PM

If I owned a dairy that made cottage cheese, I'd call it "bungalow cheese" instead. Cottages and bungalows are both small houses, but "bungalow" is more fun to say.

"Cottage" sounds like a noise a frog or insect would make. "Bungalow" sounds more like an incantation that would open a magic door or lure a genie from a bottle.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 01:16 PM

"Bungalow" sounds like a disease of the foot: "Poor Harry! He's limping from his bungalow on his left foot."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 04:06 PM

"Mr. Smith, the tests show that you have a scrotal bungalow and we need to do surgery as soon as possible."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Jan 20 - 05:44 PM

Then there are "bungaloids", discussion of which may be an affront to Mom's delicate sensibilities.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 20 - 06:15 AM

Bungletoe and bunglesack have nothing on bungleoids which tend to tightly grow together with cartiledge as thick and dense as a Wombat's rear end. This is why bungloidosis is also called Wombatism.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 20 - 06:33 AM

In Africa it is called Babboon Butt. Severe cases require a colestomy

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 20 - 06:17 PM

My neighbor, Mr. Thomas Kolenos, is offended by that term and asks that you apologize.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jan 20 - 10:46 PM

It sounds like one of those words that the colonial British picked up in India and then it travelled through the English-speaking world. Like pyjamas. Now pajamas.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 20 - 09:44 AM

The lascar, a bunyip if ever I saw one, was the moofty. He was a peon, not a pundit, but he was also a guyenda. The dacoits poured ghee on him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Feb 20 - 10:49 AM

Because of what I call Forest Gump like coincidence I have known Mob bosses all my life starting with the big boss meeting in my hometown of Appalacain NY , between Owego and Vestal. I have seen bosses get away with crimes via witness tampering or murder, but only at first. Eventually the boss gets caught red handed or eliminated.

As a therapist in pre Soprano times I had a Mob boss from Irondiquoit as a client during the A team B team wars in NY. He brought his body guard with him for his session. When my secretary came in the back door with McDonalds there was a dramatic moment.

I even heard the long drawn out roar of an explosion of the car that killed a different boss, I accidently learned that the police knew of the hit ahead of time. Later a nurse who treated the boss who was car bombed told me he was in one piece but died slowly of pressure induced massive capillary bleed.

A previous tenent left a list of victims that had already been eliminated and the list was found under the sink. Against all odds I even met Mr. Gambino and others via car dealership associations in Buffalo NY.

There were more shocking coincidences that I hesitate to mention that the police wanted me to cover up. It involved the mob stealing back evidence and heroin from a State Police station. I had the recording of the details off a special radio receiver that preceded microwave telephones. What seemed to stop these string of coincidences
was simply getting married and retiring from hypnosis.

Anyway Trump is a bit like a mob boss and I expect he will face a similar fate once loyalty becomes too costly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Feb 20 - 03:27 PM

Mom!

It's February First! Does that mean idiots will finally stop wishing me Happy New Year?

Has it ever occurred to you that years don't get to have birthdays? When they get to be a year old, POOF! They're gone!

Just when we've gotten* used to having a year around, someone kills it off and foists a new one on us.

Don't plan on making a cake that says, "Happy Birthday 2020!" You'd be wasting your time.

What if they did that with puppies? "Here's a cute little puppy, kid, but don't get too attached to it. A year from now, we're gonna kill it and give you a new one!"

I wonder if 2020 knows that it's doomed? Eleven months from now and it's gonna be defenestrated.


* Have you noticed that our British cousins have abandoned "gotten" as the past participle of "get" and use "got" for both past and past participle? Still sounds wrong to me.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 20 - 10:23 PM

Defenestration? Are you in Prague by any chance?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 12:14 AM

Yes, on December 31st, they'll coax 2020 way up high in some skyscraper overlooking Times Square. "Come one, 2020, you've gotta see this cool disco ball! And this is the best viewpoint in the world!"

And as soon as that glittery ball starts dropping, they'll push poor old 2020 out a window. And nobody will notice or care. They'll be so busy being all goo-goo over cute little 2021 that they won't even see 2020's poor carcass lying on the sidewalk smashed so flat it'll make a pancake look like a major mountain range.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Senoufou
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 03:48 AM

We live in a bungalow. (Everyone in UK calls our type of house by this Hindi/Urdu word, derived from 'bangla') Bungalows used to be regarded/disparaged as houses for the elderly, being on one floor only. But I've seen recently that young families prize them, having no stairs and quite large gardens. Ours has gone up considerably in value during the last ten years. (up by £50,000!!!)
There are dozens of words from the Raj days in our language. Gymkhana, juggernaut, chutney etc.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 08:33 AM

Yes, there are a couple in my post of February 1. Except for one noun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 09:32 AM

SRS, do you know that there's a WinCo in the DFW area?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 09:35 AM

02/02/2020! Palindrome!!!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 10:30 AM

02 02 2020 at 2PM
Kitten Bowl!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 11:30 AM

02 02 2020 Groundhog day

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 11:48 AM

What's unique about 02/02/2020 is that it's a palindrome in all four date notation formats. It doesn't matter if you use dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, yyyy/dd/mm, or yyyy/mm/dd.

Next year, there'll be a palindrome date (12/02/2021) but it will indicate December 2nd in mm/dd/yyyy and February 12th in dd/mm/yyyy, and doesn't work in either year-first format.

The next "universal" palindrome date will be 03/03/3030. I don't plan on being around to see it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 12:32 PM

"Bungalow" is a very good word. But I don't see it replacing "cabin" as a trope in American country and bluegrass music. "There's a bungalow in the pines..." doesn't quite have that bluegrass thang goin' on.

I suppose we could make a concerted effort to have The Beatles' "Bungalow Bill" elevated to bluegrass standard status, but we'd probably meet some resistance from the Bill Monroe worshiping hardcore purist crowd.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 01:18 PM

How would you title your discovery?
A Grand Panpalindrome, a millenial palindrome, a prizirp

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 05:36 PM

I think it could be rightfully considered A Sign From On High, as of two minutes after two a.m. it was 02/02/02/02/2020. There is Great Significance in this!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 06:57 PM

Missed the Puppy Bowl.
One year they had a little Border Terrier in there.
He was so fast the camera couldn't track him --
nothing like the roly-poly yellow Lab pups.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 08:49 PM

Where I worked in Ohio had the Chamber of Commerce in one town play touch football with the Chamber in a town a couple miles away. It was called "The Toilet Bowl" and the trophy was a gilded Toilet Bowl. The Chambers also sponsored the annual "Road Apple Run."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 20 - 08:33 PM

MOM! Get back up there where you belong! Laying the gutter with booze on your breath is HARDLY apropos for a woman of such high position as you!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 20 - 06:25 AM

Mom regrets the passing of Diogenes found dead on Constitution Ave. this morning from malnutrition and exposure.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 20 - 11:29 AM

Betting on Trump winning in 2020 is getting hot and heavy, so I shorted 200 billion in synthetic CDO's that favor Trump more than 2 to 1 in the futures market.

When he loses I do not expect to be paid my earnings of 15 trilion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 20 - 11:55 AM

In case you have forgotten, a CDO is a "bespoke tranche oportunity"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 10:44 AM

The crime boss Donald 'the cheeto' Trump had a sit down with his capos last night.
It was anything but, with capos standing up and applauding every 7 seconds.
In the middle Rush 'the mouth' Limbaugh was given the made man ceremony.
Its business, not personal.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 01:33 PM

Mom!

There are going to be thirteen full moons this year! I know this because some Internet news site's headline made a big deal out of it.

According to my calculations, based on an average lunar month length of roughly 29.53 days, there will be thirteen full moons in about one year out of three.

By that website's criteria, I suppose the fact that the last day of this year falls on a Thursday is an even bigger deal since it only happens one year out of seven.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 02:11 PM

The BIGGESTdeal is that my birthday falls on a Tuesday in February this year. I mean, it's always in February, but this year it's on Tuesday. This has great occult and cult significance and marks a major shift in the world's destiny (just as my birth did). Things will immediately get better.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 02:30 PM

Keb, we had the Puppy Bowl here at my house this year. It involves a game of skill, catching roasted unsalted peanuts tossed to each dog. They all excel at this sport.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 03:34 PM

Mercedes of 'As The World Turns' has been feeling out of sorts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 03:48 PM

By the way, the real reason the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl is that I brought them good luck by attending one of their games (the only football game of any kind I've attended since graduating from high school). It happened thirty-five years ago. It just took a few years for the good luck to completely consolidate.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 04:09 PM

Mercedes may be pregnant by Aspen who is much older and is married to Porshe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 05:23 PM

I too went to a single NFL game but it was the Browns.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 05:30 PM

It wasn't Aspen. It was Volaré.

But it's an understandable error. You can only tell the difference in the closeups.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 07:39 PM

MOM,
how come we can see three days of music threads
but only a day or two of BS threads?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 08:23 PM

Keb, it's just that no threads received their last posts on Feb. 3rd. They've all been refreshed today because they're just so damned interesting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 08:52 PM

Eww
Volare' has skin like rich corinthean leather.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 11:34 PM

Was it the Volaré that had rich Corinthian leather? I only ask because I had an Aspen, which was essentially the same car but with a Dodge badge instead of Plymouth. It only had rich Corinthian vinyl.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 12:23 AM

Corinthian leather
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Corinthian leather is a term coined by the advertising agency Bozell to describe the upholstery used in certain Chrysler luxury vehicles. The term first appeared in advertising in 1974. Although this is merely a marketing concept, it suggests that the term—not the product—was inspired from the more elaborate and impressive ancient Greek column of the Corinthian order.

While the term was first used during the marketing campaign for the 1974 Imperial LeBaron, it is usually associated with the marketing campaign beginning with the 1975 Cordoba and that campaign's celebrity spokesperson, Ricardo Montalbán, who described the thickly-cushioned luxury of seats "available even in fine (alternately, "soft" or "rich") Corinthian leather".

Much of the leather used in Chrysler vehicles during the era originated from a supplier located outside Newark, New Jersey.

Some sources say the term refers to the combination of leather seating surfaces and vinyl seat sides. However, most cars worldwide with "leather upholstery" have matching color vinyl seat bases and often the rear faces of the front seats, the head rests, and the door facings. The standard term in period car catalogs was "leather with vinyl", and sometimes "leather seat facings". When Montalbán was asked by David Letterman on Late Night with David Letterman what the term meant, the actor cheerfully admitted that the term meant nothing.

You mean rich Corinthian leather was a lie? A fabrication? A big bucket of marketing bullshit?

No wonder the subject seems so at home here on the MOAB.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 07:09 AM

Ricardo Montobahn sold the hell out of that vinyl.

Those flat six engines could go a million miles with 4 new transmissions.

Ricardo played a great villain on the original Star Trek

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 07:10 AM

--KHAN--!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 08:58 AM

You mean that Paul's Letters to the Corinthians were a marketing ploy?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 09:53 AM

I suppose it had to be Corinthian leather. Doric or Ionic leather would be too plain and boring to use in a genuine luxury sedan.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 12:10 PM

Funny; I was talking to a guy at Petsmart the other day about pickup trucks. He had an old one that turned out to be only 1993. I had a 1980 three-in-the-tree F100 I finally sold in about 1997. As he remarked - it had a great straight six - around which I had always thought there was enough room under the hood to store luggage (if it had been enclosed in a way to keep it in).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 07:09 PM

I had two F-100 pickups, a '64 and a '77. Both had straight sixes, three-speed column shifters, and enough room under the hood to pitch a tent. But neither had rich Corinthian leather upholstery! In fact, I'm not sure the '64 had any upholstery at all. It had seats, but what was on top of those seats might well have been a dog's blanket that the dog threw out.

That truck had rather high ladder racks on it that once caused it to get stuck in a parking garage. I had to let about half the air out of the tires to get it unstuck.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Feb 20 - 07:30 PM

My current 6 cyl car goes 30 mph faster than a 2005 10 cyl viper engine 8.3 liter Dodge SRT 10 pick up, with or without a 200 lb load of manure wrapped in rich corinthean leather.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 04:07 PM

With the large fleet of luxury cruise ships currently banned from docking at any port due to corona virus infected passengers, It has been suggested they should all tie up together and form an artificial floating island. Logisticaly it would simplify delivering supplies.
Burial at sea is in the testing phase to determine effects on sea life and mammals.
Euphemisticly we might call it Gilligans Island and plans to start filming a zany reality show about their trials, tribulations and novel inventions, are underway.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 05:06 PM

Titles for the reality show are not yet greenlighted;

The mask and Glove boat, is waiting to take you away...

Take my hand Im a victim in paradise
the dining's nice, as they take me away...

Lost fantasy survivor Island

We should start writting folk songs now; May the Ship's cook,
be uninfected, in our galley, by and by ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 05:08 PM

Apocolypse Calypso?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 05:40 PM

One of the writers was fired for telling the story from the virus' pov

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 06:39 PM

What shall we do with coronavirus
What shall we do with coronavirus
What shall we do with coronavirus early in the morning?

Quarantine everyone 'til it's over
Quarantine everyone 'til it's over
Quarantine everyone 'til it's over early in the morning!

Or maybe

It's advertised in Boston, New York, and Buffalo
Three thousand hearty virus re-search-ers researching for to go
Singin' test vaccines in the mornin'
Test vaccines hi-ho!
Put away your lab glassware and stow, boys, stow!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 07:17 PM

I don't have coronavirus and you'll never catch me on a cruise ship, but I'm willing to quarantine myself on a nice sportfisherman for a couple of weeks.

Of course, it is February so the fishing in the northern Gulf of Mexico is dead, meaning the quarantining would have to be done further south. Like Key West, Jamaica, Belize....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 08:39 PM

Mom!

I've figured out what's going on with Betelgeuse! It's Gluon!

Gluon is* on vacation in the Betelgeuse neighborhood and has met and is attempting to mate with a dogduck! A dogduck, of course, is the antiparticle to a duckdog. Their attempts at mating are releasing huge numbers of photons and anti-photons which are producing the variances in Betelgeuse's observed brightness. If their mating is successful, the resulting pressure wave from the matter/antimatter annihilation will result in the destruction of the entire constellation of Orion!

After a few million years, the remnants of Orion will coalesce into a new constellation known as Anas Canis (Duck Dog) in our universe and Canis Anas (Dog Duck) in whatever universe the dogduck came from.

* When we say "is", please bear in mind that Betelgeuse is some 700 light years from earth. Since Gluon transcends time and space he/she is there both right now and 700 years ago at the same time. Otherwise, we'd have to wait 700 years to see the resulting super-duper-nova. Gluon can get around the confines of relativity, but light cannot.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 20 - 08:44 PM

Gilligans Island II will have thousands of Thurgoods, lots of Gingers and Marie Anns but relativly few Professsors.
Skipper: Brian Dennehy but then posthumously is replaced by the Rock
Gilligan: Chris Rock

Short term plots will involve extravagent 'Thurgood' requests, hijinx and escape attempts

The long term plot is uplifting in that after a year, people with natural immunity will be easily identified and used for vaccines.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 09:08 AM

The ships have docked and the show is canceled {^I

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 10:07 AM

Florida!!! BEWARE, BEE-DUB!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 11:04 AM

Those monkeys are in northeast Florida, in the Jacksonville area, 350 miles east of here.

But, if they ever attempt to invade northwest Florida, there's already a plan in place for controlling them. Our congressional district's congressman, rabid Trumpist Matt Gaetz, will simply inform his supporters that the monkeys are Democrats, and they'll all be bush meat before they hit the Walton County line.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 12:12 PM

By the way, did you notice the totally non-proprietary I-don't-claim-the-son-of-a-bitch way in which I referred to Matt Gaetz as "our congressional district's congressman" instead of "our congressman" or, God forbid, "my congressman"?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 02:27 PM

The owner's name is important in case you have to call the dogcatcher or someone. Otherwise, off to the pound he goes!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 05:59 PM

I noticed you guys started talking about infectious bush meat prior to the announcment of the pandemic threat.
Is there some significance to this?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 10:22 PM

Um, ah, nope. Nothing. Nada. Didn't mean a thing, not at all. Forget you ever saw it, okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 09:40 AM

JEEZ LOUISE ! Mudcat.org is already on the FBI's radar thanks to bb and friends informing them of a Cavanaugh threat mudcat post, now this?

What were you thinking, don't you know that the NSA already has a copy and the Smithsonian mirrors mudcat on their site??

ONE MUST NOT EAT
INFECTED MEAT

LETS HOPE THEY SEE THIS AND NOT THE OTHER STUFF


We should put Gulliani on this to cover the trail.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 09:47 AM

I need a favor though...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 11:35 AM

A public service jingle to the tune of "The Colonel Bogey March"


Bush meat is really bad to eat.
Monkey or chimp or parakeet.
Jesus! It spreads diseases!
So take your bush meat,
And throw it away!


Maybe this show of public concern will get the Feebs off Mudcat's back re the Kavanaugh thing.

Or maybe not.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Feb 20 - 03:24 PM

I think were covered, they are too busy with Nazis and Putin and Trump.

hmm. Nazis and Putin and Trump sounds like 'Lions and Tigers and Bears

Oh My
'

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 20 - 01:58 PM

Hi, Mom, from your favorite kid. What's up?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Feb 20 - 05:00 PM

I drove by a cow pasture today and there were at least two dozen black vultures hopping around on the ground near the fence. I slowed to see what was happening, figuring some critter had been hit by a car and made it under the fence and into the pasture before expiring. But no! The vultures were snacking on cow pies!

I suppose that those particular cow flops smelled like something buzzards like to eat. In other words, something dead and rotten.

I just thought Mom might like to know that bovine shit is so enticing that even buzzards partake of it upon occasion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 20 - 07:10 PM

Rap you already have the lifetime achievment award for being mom's favorite so with all due respect you never need to feel insecure that a competition could ever possibly exist. It was good to see you both made it to the Oscars this year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 08:20 AM

BWL maybe you should have gotten out and picked some mushrooms too.
The ones that grow on cow flops are decent but not Amazonian grade.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 08:26 AM

The vultures were probably feasting on undigested bits that that cows ate and passed. Other birds do that as well.

Yes, we made it to the "Academy Awards." Mom embarrassed herself (and me) first by the dress she wore (left over from her 1919 prom but "repurposed" with various slits added and "modesty panels" removed), drinking what was on other people's tables when the waiters refused to serve her more drinks, and kicking and screaming when security was forced to remove her. There were damages from the last and I do hope that the kicks and blows she gave to the security people don't cause lasting damage but I am afraid that she's in for a bit of a jail spell. Calling "GLUON! GLUON! HELP!" didn't help her, but the screams of "What's humping my leg?" only added to the confusion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 11:34 AM

I thought the quilted gown was gorgeous.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 03:51 PM

I have a poop-eating puppy who positively bounds across the yard when she spots the old Lab taking a dump. And she's the cutest most charismatic DESTRUCTIVE dog I've ever owned. Who I rarely accept kisses from (only if she has been in the house for hours and had time for her breath to clear an a few drinks of water for dilution). To put the poop-eating vultures into perspective. It seems to be a critter Thing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 04:01 PM

Pro biotic poop. What a novel idea. At CVS I can buy pro biotic candy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 05:59 PM

Ever hear of a fecal transplant? Perhaps the pup is actually trying to right something that's wrong.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 07:39 PM

Dog food companies go to great lengths to make their products sound appetizing to dog owners, as if a dog really cares whether its food tastes like filet mignon or plain old hamburger. Why not make dog food in flavors humans wouldn't care for but dogs really like? Like cat poop or deer guts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 20 - 10:35 PM

I don't buy dog food (except for Gluon). Perhaps I'm cheap, or perhaps I think that scraps are good enough. Or perhpars it's because I don't have pets.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 20 - 09:17 PM

Gluon just ate my ENTIRE stock of Uranium 235! And half the Plutonium 239!

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

Did GLUON do this in order to
glow in the dark?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Feb 20 - 06:52 AM

A least those are legal isotopes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Feb 20 - 09:10 AM

Gluon doesn't actually use radioactive elements to glow in the dark. Oh, he/she glows all right, but it's just a side effect. He/she uses the Uranium to wake up in the morning, just like humans use coffee. And the Plutonium is to brush his/her teeth afterwards so he/she won't walk around with Uranium breath all day long.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Feb 20 - 12:52 PM

The syncopated
cosmic drumpht beat
in the universe
stretches and squeezes
our soul and being.
It takes silence
for overlords to rule.
They are full of stool
they've lost thier edge,
they've have lost their poison.
True to tell
But they still have that smell
Light years from hell

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [aex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 20 - 09:50 PM

Gluon burps tiny bits of critical mass from the uranium 235 (s/he prefers it to U238, as it's a "lighter" isotope) and I won't tell you plutonium 239 does, except the result doesn't require a match to create "fire." I'll never forget the time Gluon ate 22 kgs. of plutonium and six kilograms of lithium VI deutride (⁶LiD) and torched a good sized part of the Texas panhandle.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Feb 20 - 10:14 PM

She also gobbled the "nn" in the subject name of your last post. Hungry little critter!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 20 - 11:45 AM

Have you ever spun Ununpentium mercury alloys in a magnetic torus?
SHEEit ya git gettyup fur next ta nuthin.
Whatever you use for gettyup only needs to move a massless field.
like lectricty

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 20 - 03:13 PM

The new Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Sacred Mushroom will be released next year Unless the Goverment wins a lawsuit labeling it XXX.
Barr: "We are worried about the children".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 20 - 06:03 PM

So you've passed the Barr?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Feb 20 - 07:16 PM

Talking of Roseanne ...

I didn't watch the live "Conners" broadcast
that coincided with the state primary election.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 20 - 07:48 PM

Speaking of fire ants,... here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Feb 20 - 10:39 PM

Hi, Mom!

I just finished watching a movie. It was advertised as a costume drama, but they lied. It had people in it too, not just costumes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 09:46 AM

That's the problem, Bee-Dub: false advertising or what we called growing up back on the corn-swept prairies of Illinois, "lyin' through his false teeth." Why, I once looked at a house that was for sale and the ad said that it had "running water." When I went there the water came out of a faucet and didn't run anywhere! It didn't even have shoes! Or the bank that advertised "low interest loans" -- why tell customers that the bank has little interest in lending money when they probably know that already? "Truth in advertising" -- plain old phooey!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 11:58 AM

Were you closer to the Ozarks or Indiana or stuck in the middle with Springfield?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 12:40 PM

This story on Marketplace was an eye-opener. In addition to "running water" the US seems to be lousy with loos.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 01:36 PM

In the middle, on the banks of the Mississippi, the belly button on Illinois' pregnancy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 07:15 PM

Ah the romance of river boats comes into focus.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 20 - 10:32 PM

Twenty miles or so upriver from Hannibal, Mo. Yup, Sam Clemens' home town. Sam would bring a steamboat in and me and him would go drinkin'. After a while ol' Sam would excuse himself and go visit the "young ladies" upstairs. Then the Civil War started and Sam up and went West with his brother Orion -- plumb lit out fer Nevada Territory. Dunno what ever happened to him...probably fell down a mine shaft cuz he was always pretty clumsy. (I heard tell what some of the "young ladies" said about him but I ain't gonna repeat them salacious rumors.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Feb 20 - 09:55 PM

Yessiree! My home town is Quincy, Illinois! Founded in about 1832, it's got, well, not everything, but a lot of stuff. It's got a pubic library, a public library, a veterans' home (started in 1886), a riverfront, huntin', fishin', eddykashun institoots (even a kolidj, where I went), a lotsa nice houses that rich folks lived in back in the 19th Century or so. It's got TWO bridges for cars across the river (THE river, the Mississippi,the ONLY river worth talking about), one going to Missouri and one coming back. Heck, it's even got a damn dam! I was borned, raised, edykated, and even went ta war from there.

It's a good place to be from...FAR from.

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

Danville, known for the now extinct Chuckles factory and losing all the birth records when the hospital burned down. AKA birthplace of Gene Hackman the actor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 08:27 AM

btw 42 minor league baseball teams are scheduled to close their doors forever. So much for cultural fabric, now that we have WWWrestling and X fighting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 09:09 AM

There are Quincys in several states. They're all presumably named after John Quincy Adams. I guess whoever named them thought "Quincy" had more panache than "John" or "Adams".

We even have a Quincy in Florida. I've been through there a few times, but have never been struck by a compelling desire to stop.

It is not home to any bridges across the Mississippi River.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 11:07 AM

John Quincy Adams must have been pretty highly regarded during his lifetime in order to have all those towns named after him. I don't think he's on many historian's Top Ten Presidents list.

Or maybe the idea of having a president to name towns after was so new that folks jumped at the opportunity, even if he was a lousy president.

At least they didn't name anyplace really important after him, like Quincy, District of Columbia.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 11:14 AM

Florida! Phooey! Quincy, Illinois has amongst its literary and thespian lights folks like Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke (who acted under a fake name for some reason, that being Mary Astor) and my friend Roy Brocksmith. And other famous folks, like Paul Tibbets and Ike Samuels. Martin Jones Hawkins was one of those who was chosen for the Andrews Raid, a/k/a The Great Locomotive Chase; he overslept and missed it but was promoted the Sergeant and got the Medal of Honor anyway and he's buried in Quincy. Lincoln and Douglas had one of their debates there. As noted earlier, Sam Clemens visited there many times and sometimes stayed sober! St. Francis Solanus College, later St. Francis College and then Quincy Academy and then Quincy College and now Quincy University (I lived four blocks away) was the alma mater of not only ME but also the Venerable Augustus Tolton -- yes, me and Gus were good friends and often played billiards together after various classes. The town even had a lynching -- about a month after the Civil War ended a self-confessed Missouri bushwhacker named Tom Rose was hoisted by a bunch of recovering Union veterans from the hospitals.

Quincy, Indiana...Quincy, California...Quincy, Massachusetts...Quincy, Washington...Quincy, Florida...Quincy, Michigan -- all trying to horn in on the glory. (Quincy, Illinois, FWIW, is the county seat of Adams County.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 01:27 PM

Quincy, WA is on land above the Columbia River and the town grid is Letter streets one way and Number streets the other. The alphabet streets only go up to T. I looked it up, I have been past but not to it, but since Microsoft seems to have set up the largest data center in Quinch, someone travels there on occasion.

And there's this, from Wikipedia:

Although George is the closest town to the Gorge Amphitheatre, Quincy is the closest town that offers services such as motels and a full grocery store. Quincy sees an uptick in population during concerts. Quincy was previously home to Tacos mi Pueblo, one of the most sought-after Mexican restaurants in the area.

The semi-arid climate allows Quincy to go for weeks or months without rain during the summer. This makes nearby water recreation such as Crescent Bar a major draw. Quincy is the closest town with services to Crescent Bar.

Yup. You know we had to have a town of George, Washington. My parents spent some time in that part of the state, but escaped to the West side of the Cascades before I was even aware of what the East side was like. As Dad used to say, "miles and miles of miles and miles."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 01:32 PM

Trump is 6 ft 3         shoes on
Bloomberg is 5 ft 8
John Quincy Adams was 5 ft 7
But Thomas Jefferson was 5 ft 4 (same as Vladamir)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 04:35 PM

There's a Bruce, Florida, though it's only designated as an unincorporated community, not a town.

There's a Margaret, Alabama with a population of 5,000. That's considered a genuine city by Alabama standards.

The less said about the possibility of there being a Mike, Idaho, the better.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Feb 20 - 08:40 PM

We shall refrain from commenting, Imperial Ignoramnus.

Emperor Rapparee, Imperious Rex          ®       His Mark

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 20 - 09:00 PM

In the entire WORLD there are exactly THREE places named Michael: one is in Illinois, one in Austria, and one in Mozambique. There is no place named "Mike" save for an airport in Hungary. However, the present President seems enamored of "La Wall."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Feb 20 - 09:19 PM

The "Wall" part of my surname (LaWall) is a Germanic spelling of the French "Valle", meaning valley. It has nothing to do with any wall.

My wife's name is Susan, which comes from the Persian word for lily. Therefore, her married name literally translates as Lily Of The Valley.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 20 - 10:23 PM

I'm very, very glad to hear that. Please extend to your Lily Of The Valley my deepest sympathy and tell her that she has been nominated for the Medal of Honor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 08:21 AM

My last name means, in Modern Dutch, "Goalie." Given that my first name translates from Hebrew as "Who Is Like God" my name means "Goalie Who Is Like God" or "God-like Goalie." (This is true, by the way. I found out the goalie part from a Dutch fella in Carcassone awhile back. We were told as children my surname meant "Keeper of the Sacred Places" which, if you're into soccer, fits.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 03:07 PM

I still don't know how one venerable Massachusetts coastal town
acquired the name of Braintree
(it was there maybe a century before the settlement called Quincy)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 03:27 PM

I suppose having one's name translate as "Goalie" is preferable to having it mean "Wide Receiver".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 05:41 PM

Most of the people who lived in Candor NY felt insulted and moved away. There is a book about it that Rap might know.
Chaste NY has not existed for 80 years now.
Its last resident was a Shaker.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 08:31 PM

It has been illustrated many times that Trump's self-declared height is a special brand of BS. He's 6'1" at most, when you see him standing beside Obama and others all in the same type of shoes. Perhaps his waist is what is 75 inches.

MOM, I'm home with a new knee. It smarts a bit, what with the bone saws and gluing chunks of titanium to the exposed ends. I'm only checking in briefly before I put the leg squeezer things on to keep the blood circulating.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Feb 20 - 09:49 PM

I know about THAT, Stilly! Both knees have titanium in them. Just don't drive with those pills in ya!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 12:49 PM

Don't drive! - I'm having to be careful when I talk or type. Anesthesia seems to hit short-term memory. No driving for a while yet. I filled the tank and parked it for what will probably be a few weeks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 12:56 PM

I have to be careful when I talk or type all the time without drugs.
Look forward to April.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 03:36 PM

Hi, Mom!

I got some new bedroom slippers. They have memory foam insoles.

I'm hoping the memory foam will help me remember to take the slippers off and put outdoor shoes on before going outside.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 04:35 PM

elo mom, I started the partisan prescription of 'Mr. Rodgers little helpers'. They cause folks to exude extreme kindness and have a blissful resignation to bad news without worry.
Side effects are ulcers and stomach cancer but
what do you expect from swallowing the bile of the world without some reaction? They are opiate FREE but contains 90% heroin.

The sister drug to Mr Rodgers helpers is for Republicans and is just plain anerobic steroids and amphtamines.

YAWN

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 20 - 03:47 PM

Oxycontin, Oxycontin, I know you of old, you've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold. Well, not exactly YOU, but the reasons I know you and your friend hydrocodone. And your other family members, like amoxycillin and Zofran and T-3.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 20 - 03:19 PM

Right now it is my friend - I tried anti-inflammatory last night instead of oxy at bedtime (because of the swollen knee) and it was the worst most painful night's sleep in a long time. And it didn't help the swelling. I had to wait six hours before the next dose of painkiller. And I've slept much of the day. MOM hasn't had any problems with me, just nudges me occasionally and tells me to do my stretches.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 20 - 09:43 PM

It ain't addictive if it helps and you WANT to stop taking it as soon as possible. Me, I don't like to take pills but I will if I need it. Later you might try T-3 or T-4 -- basically Tylenol with codeine, T-3 has less codeine that T-4.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Feb 20 - 08:21 PM

That's probably what we'll step down to next week. The bruises are spectacular and painful now. It's always something.

I really don't need the walker, what I use it for is a general sweeping motion in front of me to chase the dogs out from underfoot. "Plow the road" is the fighter jet term that I've seen in movies; this is the terrestrial version.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 20 - 09:14 PM

A walker can help you get up from a chair or a couch (or a toilet).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 01:13 AM

Have you given your walker a name? Mine is called Hoppy. I had to get him when I broke my ankle because I also broke my wrist and couldn't grip crutches. I had to Velcro my lower arm to Hoppy so I could hop around on one foot.

I understand that if I ever need his services again, it may involve shuffling instead of hopping, but that makes no difference. He'll always be Hoppy to me. I wouldn't want a walker called Shuffley anyway.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 07:23 AM

Cassidy is a good name for a walker. (Hop Along)
This week's Curb your Enthusiasm featured the walker.
Similar to old locomotives a good cow catcher mini plow is a great walker idea.

My wife named her cane but I haven't even named my four seater Corvette. If I do, maybe 4-Vett could work. 40 years ago I had a Z 2+2

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 07:34 AM

Forty years ago I was living in Ohio, eight minutes from Kent State University and 36 miles from work. Ever drive 36 miles in an honest-to-God blizzard? I have, several times, and you don't sing "Jingle Bells" when the weather outside IS frightful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 09:31 AM

We sing Slip sliden away. When we would see several Volvos in a blizzard leave the road and disappear down an embankment, we slow down.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 01:11 PM

Cars tend to follow the one in front of them in whiteouts and heavy fog; I had a friend who had a long driveway off of a state highway, and one evening he pulled in and had to tell all of the cars that followed him home to turn around and head back.

My driveway is too short for people to confuse it with a regular road but occasionally it could act as a boat launch when the creek rises.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 01:21 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 04:33 PM

Ditto Donuel!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 20 - 10:25 PM

Funny. Many times I've seen boat ramps used as driveways.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 20 - 05:20 PM

Mardi Gras is goin strong.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Feb 20 - 08:50 PM

It ends tomorrow, when all Catholics go to church and have an "X" put on their foreheads with the ashes of last Palm Sunday's blessed palms. Then Lent starts and all good Catholics follow the fasting rules and the diet is as follows:

    No more than one meal per day is permitted.
    Flesh meat, eggs, butter, cheese, and milk are forbidden.
    The meal was not allowed until after sunset.
    Alcohol is forbidden.
    During Holy Week, the meal consists exclusively of bread, salt,    herbs, and water.

Of course, Laetare Sunday allows you to have cheese and a small glass of bad beer or wine to break the monotony of Lent. Vatican II lightened this up and you're now allowed one small glass of skim milk per day if you're over 87.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 20 - 05:32 AM

florida is back in the news for arresting, handcuffng, jailing, mug shots and fingerprinting a 6 year old for acting out.
Don't worry, she was not spanked.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 01:00 PM

brave New rules;
Citizens may not be told of a stock market crash.
NOW you may only say that the market has gone into correction.
OR
you may say how much the market is off its lows.

Mom has not crashed, she has gone into a correctional facility.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 01:51 PM

Not a correctional facility, just an institution.

On the other hand, Mom is an institution.

Putting an institution in an institution is difficult, but not impossible. It's a bit like putting ten pounds of sugar in a five-pound bag. It's most easily achieved by curving space back on itself or similar judicious alteration of the space-time continuum.

Don't try this at home! Call a trained expert like Gluon.

***** DUCKDOG ENTERPRISES LLC *****

Space-time Continuum Alterations Made While You Wait

"We fold space like origami artists fold paper!"

(All Major Cards Accepted)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 04:43 PM

I saw a good Florida Woman story the other day but lost track of it before getting back here. Chances are she'll do something stupid again and maybe I'll manage to post it that time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 05:08 PM

How's the knee?

I like the folded space idea but the results are not intuitive.
There is not a more crowded space but rather a much bigger space.
This is very handy in apartment living or inside a tardis.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 06:31 PM

... regarding the Lenten fast:
what about herring?
Can one eat herring?

Because there is a wonderful Gaelic poem
by an Irish monk,
welcoming the herring at Lenten time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 06:37 PM

No, one may not eat herring during Lent. Herring are not fish, they are foul.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 08:03 PM

creamed herring is kosher.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 10:54 PM

Actually, I like canned herring snacks. I prefer them over sardines.

It's those over-salted dried kippered herring things that are inedible. I don't even think they're fish. When fishermen's work boots get so nasty and stinky that they can't stand to wear them anymore, they slice them into strips and sell them as kippered herring.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 20 - 11:23 PM

kippered is slang for skipper who is the one who decides when the boots are, on average, ripe enough.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Feb 20 - 12:53 PM

Pickled herring in wine sauce - a wonderful snack when eaten in moderation.

The knee is improving, according to the physical therapist, and the 2 months of workouts ahead of time give me a great edge on recovery as far as muscle tone. But as the one wearing the knee, I have to admit I'm tired of the compression sock things and the awkward moves that cause a flareup of bursitis in the hip.

The last couple of PT visits have concluded with me handing the spray bottle (water) to Katie and then lifting the cover from the dog door and letting the guys come in for a visit. The squirt bottle causes them to not be quite so pushy; for as little water as that thing puts out they still don't like it. And I've demonstrated my walker-dog-sweep move to keep them from jumping on me at the same time.

MOM's had more than her share of beer and wine since I'm forbidden from adding alcohol to the cocktail of stuff I'm on for the knee. She's going to have to walk off a little extra weight come spring. (Walking over to the Legion Hovel will give her some exercise, I guess.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 20 - 10:16 PM

MOM, I've been finding stuff out about the local Catholic churches! For instance, if you count all the exterior doors, including the double and triple ones, there are 52. There are also 5 garage doors and 1 garden gate. There are three outside entrances to the two churches and the school, these enter the basements. Gee, it's grand to have once been a genuine Physical Security Specialist! You get to do such exciting things.

I used to like pickled herring but apparently it does things to your breath. I tried not breathing after I enjoyed some but it caused comment.

On another note, I seem to have bone spurs in the bottom joint of my left thumb. They hurt, but I can't get drafted!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 20 - 11:10 PM

A brainstorm (kopfstrum) by Steven Miller has inspired Trump to put a tariff on Chinese virus. He believes it will pay for the stock market
dip that was caused by Bernie worry.

I found out stuff about the Catholic bischops who tend the Vatican Bank. They filled buses with quarantined northern Italians to attend an ash wednesday gathering by the Pope. Due to a bad cold the Pope has suspended his duties.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 01:15 PM

Mom? Can you recommend a good, secure padlock that won't freeze up in temperatures well below 0F, is cut proof for a 36 inch bolt cutter, doesn't rust or corrode, which can be keyed alike or better yet have different keys for each lock and a master key, and which costs less than USD 10.00 each? And they have to fit a variety of hasps and chains!

Thank you, Mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 01:25 PM

How many people you are shackling?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 02:02 PM

Maybe not people.
Maybe it's feral hogs ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 03:26 PM

Mom's recommendation is that Rap abandons his search for the ideal padlock and simply booby-traps whatever he was planning on putting locks on. The old string-tied-to-a-12 gauge's-trigger thing works dependably well and provides endless opportunities for imaginative variation involving creative use of pulleys, springs, weights, clamps, etc.

Or he could just spring for a pair of attack-trained Rottweilers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 05:39 PM

BWL you can put yourself in Rap's position of living out in the country when wandering bands of corona zombies are looking for shelter.
You can't kill them and you can't risk exposure so locking them up humanely, letting them eat a lovely last spread in an abandoned shed and allowing the cold to do the rest is the obvious solution.

If you have a better idea don't be selfish. I believe Rap is a genius.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 20 - 09:33 AM

Left to my own ideas, I'd just use punji stakes -- heat treated for toughness and dipped in human poop. Maybe a barb on the insertion end. Or maybe one of those toe-popper land mines that just blow a leg off from the foot to the knee. But the people involved are wimps.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 20 - 10:22 AM

Landmines did come to mind.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 20 - 10:41 AM

But locks are more humane and cheaper.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Mar 20 - 02:02 PM

Or Rap could just move to Florida and let the natural fauna take care of whatever miscreants he needs to lock his stuff away from. We have the best variety of deadly mammals, reptiles, fish, and invertebrates of anyplace in North America.

Better yet, move to Australia. They have so many deadly critters it makes Florida look like a petting zoo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 20 - 10:00 PM

Well, a pile of rattlesnakes makes folks out here think twice, assuming they're among the minority who CAN and/or DO think. I think a snake pit would be better than padlocks. I'd use Gluon but have no idea where/when/what that duckdog is.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 12:11 AM

I'm tired of the medications I have to sort through so have taken myself off of the narcotic stuff and have better results with the OTC variety. I don't care what MOM said about getting "the good stuff," it's not good if it doesn't work. I'm still weeks away from being allowed in the Legion Hovel with the other meds they have me taking, but I'll toss the Tylenol by the time my liver is allowed to become reacquainted with alcohol.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 08:06 AM

The narcotic stuff is for using when and while you need it. If there's some left lock it away, you may need some later. When it's over you can keep it locked away for the next time (and there will, unfortunately, be a next time) or drop it off at the local Walgreen's or cop shop for safe disposal. As my dear old seanmathair used to say, "Chomh luath agus in féidir."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 08:16 AM

Most people do not know how toxic Tylenol is. Mixed with as littlr as a bottle of wine can kill a liver.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 09:29 AM

Which one?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 09:33 AM

Scientists Who Should Know are saying that wiping your hands with a solution of about 70% alcohol is a good way to kill off that corona virus that's going around. I have a liter of 151 proof rum, and killing the virus that's gotten inside is a lot better than one the outside. So...I have to go disinfect and sanitize myself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 12:28 PM

I overstated the relief from the OTC stuff; after a few hours the muscle pain set in, and trying the muscle relaxants didn't offer any help for it so I'm back on Oxy. Yes, I'm not happy about taking acetaminophen, but it's the only one allowed right now.

You know that gimmick that always shows up in cop shows - they go to someone's house and ask to use the bathroom? I don't have a mirrored cabinet in my bathroom. Wouldn't do 'em a bit of good to go snooping in there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 01:06 PM

The most dangerous thing about prescription opioids isn't the risk of becoming addicted to the drugs themselves. It's that the constipation they cause can leave you addicted to laxatives, stool softeners, glycerin suppositories, and Fleet enemas.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 02:27 PM

Its good you checked your tolerence now. You will know what you will be able to do on OTC aspercreme lidocaine and the equivalence of 3 aspirin when the time comes. The advantage you gain may only be a few days of light withdrawl as opposed to a week. A heavy withdrawl is 18 days and the strongest withdrawl is 30 days or more.

Rap, achieving a 75.1 blood alcohol count is not recommended by the CDC but would be a world record beating Shane by 40 points on St. Patricks Day 1997.

Goodbye Rosie, Queen of Corona, seein me and Julio down by the school yard.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 08:08 PM

The most significant thing ever said here was that it is a persistantly stubborn illusion that the past present and future are different from one another.
For this to be untrue the past would have to become unreal in the passing moment of now and the future would become no place to go since it does not exist yet.
So time must exist as a fundamental whole with the only difference being the amount we are allowed to know about past present and future.
Rap knows the past, I know more than usual about the future and BWL knows how crazy the present can be and SRS knows all 3.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 20 - 10:41 PM

I believe six impossible things before breakfast, past, present, future, and other.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 20 - 06:04 AM

Freudian slip or phase shift?- I said "untrue" instead of true.

When I can not tell the difference between the two it may be an early sign I am moving from limited future sight to the Trump rip in the fabric of time truth which is a phase shift black hole of the quantum "other".
In which case I should probably pull a Chris Matthews soon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Mar 20 - 08:54 AM

Your typo is forgiven, Don. Anyway, there are many millions of Americans for whom the distinction between "true" and "untrue" is irrelevant or nonexistent.

And it can be like that for you too! Go ahead! Take the plunge! Drink the Kool-Aid!

The last few lines of 1984 updated:

...everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother The Donald.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 20 - 11:33 AM

My point precisely. There is no comprehensive cohesive or coherent plan for the markets or outbreak response except duck (dog) and cover.
Why believe in anything anymore?
So why believe nothing is the best policy?
When the policy is nothing something seems too radical.
The radical FED rate cut of 1/2 point to help corporations did nothing. The FED was never before used in a health emergency.

something - nothing , true - untrue. Its like we all decided there is no such thing as choice. Just grin and bear it. "The opposite President can't possibly cause too much harm". Waiting for an election also turned out to be a big no choice nothing.

The ghost of Claudius has awakened and let all the evil in the mud to hatch out.
No government, no law, no fundamentals, no alternatives, no Noah's ark.

On the other hand, Don't worry - be happy. Life is just a bowl of cherries. ya gotta spit the pits.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Mar 20 - 12:15 PM

Thank goodness those awful circulation cuffs are out of my life. The damn things literally wore the hair off of my lower calves (why bother to shave before the bandage comes off, though perhaps the bandage will rip off the hair growing under it?) MOM is trying to figure out a way to do some adaptive reuse, maybe set up a system of tubes and manual pumps that the cuffs could be attached to and squeeze and pump a steady supply of booze or maybe some annoyingly viscous substance like ketchup from one location to another.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 20 - 10:13 PM

But...but...those were your best friends! All of the junk medical equipment are your best friends! Compression socks! Crutches! Walkers! Toilet seat risers! How can you be so crass as to denigrate your best friends? Shocking, simply shocking!

All that stuff we have stored in The Box Room along with the Christmas decorations and tree. We expect to use the Christmas stuff again and hope never to use the other.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 20 - 06:33 PM

Knowing why and how they help can make them more reasonable.
Their purpose is to stop clot formation and travel in the body.
"i'm avoiding a stroke" is a better thought than "these god damn things are chaffing".

The only thing I notice from my surgury today is the pressure bandage. That sucker is tight! No thick tissue except bone were cut.

To have a more open mind, I had a reversable timpantion done by installing a plastic zipper over the vibe vent on my right occipital lobe. A lid over the timpanation/zipper is sewn in the back of several ball caps. If I ever want to close off my mind completely I just wear the thickest lid in the Red cap. The blue cap lets in 1/2 the vibes and the white cap is just a hat.

To pick up vibes from the overlords I take off my hat unzip the vibe vent and aim my timpanation at Betelgeuse.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 20 - 07:11 PM

When my wife had her head injury I offered to bring my brace and bits, but the surgeon talked me out of it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 20 - 07:22 PM

Contacting Betelgeuse makes me look like some kind of a god damn religious nut as if I'm bowing down to the gods. Jeesh, what's a good athiest to do?

Vibe prisms do work but are still too bulky/expensive to wear comfortably.


btw
The surgical intake male nurse was a real Mench in our free ranging conversation that went from; the best jokes to family survival experiences in Hitler Death camps, from XRAY Ted jokes to holocaust PTSD. At least it lowered my blood pressure by 40 points

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: GUEST, The Galactic Overlord
Date: 04 Mar 20 - 09:20 PM

You acephalic invertebrate! Your thoughts are less than those of Nicdomian slime worms! Those witless fungi of Betelgeuse are rulers of only the bottom most mud of naphtha oceans, incapable of supporting life or thought! And YOU listen to them! Tune your thoughts instead to ME and you will be rewarded with treasure far, far beyond your feeble imagination. And note well: As you are inexorably bound by the chains of the speed of light in your time frame I am destroying Betelgeuse in the future, in actually it has already been done. Accept me as your destiny, for in truth I am such.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 02:38 AM

Freckles’ Advice                     

Though Freckles is an angel now, he ain't forgot his friends.
He drops to earth and hangs around behind the buckin' pens.
He pulls a rope or just makes sure a rider gets bucked free.
So I took it as an honor, the day he spoke to me...

"I saw you ride your bull today. You sure did yourself proud.
You had him by the short hairs, I could feel it in the crowd!"
"I really should be thankful that I even stayed aboard.
You could'a done it better, Freckles...I'm lucky that I scored!"

"Hey don't be puttin' yourself down! You know you did okay.
The time will come when you look back and hunger for today
When everything was workin' right and judges liked your style,
Your joints were smooth, your belly flat and girls liked your smile.

"Cause in between the best you rode and the last one that you'll try
You'll face your own mortality and look it in the eye.
There ain't no shame admittin' you ain't what you used to be,
The shame is blamin' Lady Luck when Father Time's the key!

So if they know you came to ride and always did your best
Then hang your ol' spurs up with pride, 'cause that's the acid test
And, say some gunsel offers you a 'Geritol on Ice,'
Just grin 'im down, 'cause you don't have to ride Tornado twice!"


©Baxter Black

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 05:30 AM

Dear Galactic Overlord, Your representative on Earth has caused me to look elsewhere for guiandance. Even Sirius B.

We are beyond the acceptance of mere amino acids prevalent in the universe, we now have proof of ubiquitous proteins
So we now can prove you are not the only game in town anymore fella.

I welcome all Heavy hydrogen beings to the pantheon of BS ( Beings in Space )

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 09:51 AM

I knew a teen who was a pro. Ah, the memories!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 12:04 PM

Epstein knew a teen
who was a real pro
they used to make love
rocking to and fro
Now it's not humorous
since he was in jail
its become posthumous
for his breathing has failed

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 12:06 PM

I can hear Baxter's voice when reading that poem (but I can't find him reciting it on YouTube. This however, gives you a feel for his spoken word). But my hoe was all covered with gore . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 12:14 PM

The acid test is putting nitric acid on a golden object.
If it turns green, its not gold.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 12:41 PM

And here I thought the acid test was testing your ability to do normal shit like wash your hair while tripping on LSD.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 03:02 PM

HEXIQUARK! HEXIQUARK! HEXIQUARK! HEXIQUARK! HEXIQUARK! HEXIQUARK!

The d-star Hexiquark in configurations of six make up the atoms of Dark Matter.

They are free to configure differently than regular quarks.
As a Bose Einstien Condensate at the lowest possible temperature they clump together and concentrate their gravity.

They will not interact with light or matter.

I always refferred to these quarks as th left over by product of the annihilation of the most vast amount of matter and anti matter.

what is a d-star hexiquark?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 03:37 PM

BWL the problem with LSD is that it quantizes time into tiny segments so that a sweeping motion is broken up into many stop and go moments.
If you are the grand master of a symphony orchestra on acid, you just can't see the exact downbeat. What some people call 'trails' are anything but. One can even see the individual flickerings of a flouresent bulb. Time gets too tiny to use for our macro world.
No such problems with organic mushrooms.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 03:46 PM

Nothing so robust as LSD, I'm feeling light-headed from the step-down Rx for my knee. But I am safely seated and listening to YouTube's series of Theodore Bikel songs that came up after a Richard Dyer-Bennett song. #DownTheRabbittHole

MOM loves singing along to Dyer-Bennett's Vicar of Bray.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 03:49 PM

There are some who use it as an advantage to micro measure the throwing of a baseball in order to pitch a perfect game.

SRS You had someone go to town with a hammer chistle and saw on your knee. It takes a while.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 03:58 PM

Back to the hexiquark. You won't find much dark matter around here simply because of the heat from our sun. Dark matter lives in the distant suburbs of our galaxy where it is cool.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 04:09 PM

Dark matter has a more "frictionless" momentum than visible matter because of its lack of interaction.
I should sell dark matter oil.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Mar 20 - 11:25 PM

I am, like, cool! I am Dark Matter!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 09:28 AM

Like minus 260 Kelvin cool daddyooh

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 09:53 AM

I'm like -infinity K° cool, man!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 10:06 AM

I am not Dark Matter. I am Waste Matter. Or maybe Doesn't Matter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 11:36 AM

Learning to walk upright, not swaying, extending the leg completely each time. I was able to walk in any ol' dopey way before, now I need to watch my posture, change weight from one side to the other, and unlearn bad habits from when the knee was full of bone spurs.

It seems the best way to see if I'm ready to drive is to take a short run. We discussed a drive to city hall, six blocks from here. The challenge is to see if anyone wants to be in the passenger seat with me. MOM will do it, but she doesn't drive, so if we had to stop and change places we'd end up walking back to the house instead. The road follows the creek, and its a good thing there aren't any gators in it.

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

You rock, o Rapturous Imperious Rex Rapparee.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 12:32 PM

He's not emperor over here! There's a time/space split between MOAB and Emperor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 01:10 PM

Well, Imperious Rex is MY emperor,
and you can kick me off MOAB for saying so. So there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 01:30 PM

Standing, sitting, walking, driving, laying down all great.
But transitionng from any of these states to another feels like a special slo mo nazi torture. Its time to take my first shower since incision time 2020.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 05:04 PM

Rocking Rapturous RaP SEX? I'll pass

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 07:58 AM

I shall never rob keberoxu on the King's Highway!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 08:28 AM

Oh chivilarous cavalier, thou are more honourable than King Donald.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 02:17 PM

I had the chance to take his purse, but he kept hitting me with it. Then the Secret Service got involved and stole away my rapier and filled my charges up with water and a prisoner I was taken, but I escaped and found my brother (the one that was in the Army) and we went robbing on the far-famed Illinois mountains.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 03:20 PM

Ha ha the 1,000 ft mountains in Illinois are named after famous mounds. The red dirt of Illinois is not even great for corn. Iron rich but calcium poor makes it bad for crops, dogs and baby teeth.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 09:23 PM

I wore myself out walking around the grocery store today for a half-hour on level ground, though I wore out my original knee climbing many hours and many days and years with many pounds in a backpack on real mountains in the Pacific NW.

There's a sweet little puppy asleep in the dog bed beside my desk in my office. One of the three is always asleep in it when I'm in here. None of us are climbing anything for a while, though she'd like to climb up in my lap and have her tummy rubbed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 09:29 PM

So now we have have a handle on the great mystery of dark matter, and clues as to why the universe is accelerating with more black holes in turn generating space from matter and time in greater amounts by distributing space by way of Eienstien-Rosen bridges. (dubious)

So what is the next great mystery to solve by ancient mudcat theorists? Please don't say strings, they are soo fussy & finicky and lways need retuning..

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 08:10 AM

I thought so. SRS is one of those forces of nature beings.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 09:54 AM

This guy is a force of science (Neil deGrasse Tyson) and he talks about that dark matter in this engaging and informative interview with Stephen Colbert (who is no slouch himself).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 11:42 AM

Picks. No one knows where they go, except that they disappear when you need them. One theory is that they are self-contained and self-creating mini-micro black holes which are sometimes tangible. Then, when most needed, they "eat themselves" (to use the Blackholers' technical term) and vanish. They may or may not reappear later when their loss is most lamented and likely to cause to most anguish and cursing. The total, world-wide, extinction and disappearance of lute picks is a mystery to luters and which scientists have been unable to solve.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 12:22 PM

Neil is a good frontman, moneyman, historical constructionist and cruise activity captain that gets things done. Meanwhile the far thinking real captain is in the bridge with navigators. As far as Astrophysicists go, it is good to have a Carl Sagan type on hand.
Charisma can't be bought. In that realm, Neil beats Carl.

My favorite is gone already, Richard Feynman who taught at Cornel with Carl.

Picks can be bought

I use picks so rarely since I have a natural little finger nail I use as a pick. My bain are socks that are supposed to match.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 01:26 PM

Come to think of it I bet charisma can be bought, acquired, learned, practiced and groomed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 11:07 PM

I'm talking about PICKS, not some wimpy little plastic thing! Not tooth, not dental, not top-40, but PICKS!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 07:12 AM

Thats different. Picks have been used for more tunnels, brain surgury and grave digging than any other device.

The smart money however is going to use cheap oil for quick mass cremations instead of diggng graves. Picks and shovels are buggy whip technology afterall.

I'm glad they decided to not torpedo cruise ships off our shores.
Instead keeping them circling until they go silent is more humane and may greeenlight the Gilligan's cruise ship reality show series.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 09:33 AM

Is it true that Bee-dubya-ell has been trying to get to his private Hawiian Island only to discover someone stole his private Cessna Citation X? Did he really take a cruise ship instead?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 09:48 AM

Not a cruise ship, a cruiser. Bee-Dub ain't one to let a li'l ol' virus git him! Nosir! Not him!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 01:46 PM

Very stealthy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 11:12 PM

That's our Bee-Dub: stealthy as they come. Under, over, around, and through the radar.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 07:07 AM

Under the BS impression that an out patient procedure with a local injection or two would be a breeze so I opted for no opiods.
SON OF A BITCH

I was knocked out carved up and left for the buzzards. I deserve to not complain but if I had any druthers-I would definATy have taken the Oids. The 'lucky' few had morphine in the Civil War, and I mean few.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 10:45 AM

I'll be the first to tell you that when you need them, take them. Three weeks out and I'm slowly weaning - still. I went back to a full day of tramodol as a baseline for generally feeling okay, and now I'm spacing out the doses.

Hey, MOM decided it was time to put some money in her IRA since it had lost 10% of it's value in the last few days. The shares cost less now and will show up as more once this wretched virus passes.

MOM also wonders about all of those people who can't "call it in" from home for their work. She has a sanitation station down at the curb with soap, running water, paper towels, and Vodka for anyone passing by who needs to clean up. She's not sure why the Vodka is such a big deal, and decided not to mix it into the soap, just let people decant it into little dinky mouthwash-sized cups. There has been a line forming out there all morning.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 02:36 PM

I'm done with optimism.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 03:31 PM

Hi, Mom!

I finally broke down and joined Facebook. As a result, I have become Facebook friends with several of my old hippie friends. I had not had any contact with them for almost forty years and I'm totally gobsmacked by how conservative most of them have become.

It's like, "Last time I saw you, we were doin' drugs and bitchin' about Ronald Reagan gettin' elected president. And now you're posting photos of the "Re-Elect Donald Trump" signs in your yard? Did you take too many drugs or not enough?"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 03:35 PM

Its not the quantity of drugs that destroys neurons, its alcohol.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 03:50 PM

You'd better learn quickly how to set it so only friends see your stuff, so your friends aren't in view to outsiders, share photos only with friends, etc. (You have kids, right? They can show you.) There's a page called "Facebook Purity" that Facebook won't let anyone mention by name because it's full of tips to turn off Facebook ads and awful features. Look up "Fluffbusting Purity" instead and add it to your browser, then open it up and select the things you don't want to see. There's a lot to work with, it'll take several tries. I, for example, want to see posts in the order the arrive, not in the order Facebook wants to promote them. I detest all of their games and you'll give away your privacy if you take any of those awful quizzes.

Now aren't you glad you joined? I joined so long ago that only people on universities could join. And I was a member so long ago that when they started letting people use their own names I got mine for my account. Now people have to add funny spellings or numbers to come close to their own names. #EarlyAdopter. You'll find me at www dot facebook dot com /maggie.dwyer

Last week I talked my younger sister through how to use some of the video calls. Facebook's Messenger is a handy tool; I have the app installed on my phone (but I'm not letting it take over my SMS service!) and use it for video chats with my kids. No phone bills when my daughter spent a year in Japan, just Messenger chats. Now MOM, she gets a little adventurous about who she chats with, especially the ones she heard about through friends at the Legion Hovel. I've had to turn off the WiFi in the house a few times to get them to knock off the loud conversations in the middle of the night.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 11:48 PM

Yeah, and some of the Hovelites are getting tired of people like Sex Mind Johnny and Creative Charley and Mom have those conversations by phone or in person. All that talk about velvet-lined handcuffs, "bouncy seats," some sort of balls, water sports, and other things make even the most hardened reprobate and reprobabe at the Hovel uncomfortable. The discussion of the uses of itching powder may have been the worst.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Mar 20 - 08:30 AM

Since the universe is expanding it helps make more room on Facebook and traffic on the roads.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Mar 20 - 10:37 PM

It's also nice for those with flatulence.

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

CHEAP FARES TO UK
wOO WHO - The only destination left for overseas flights is London.
While you guYs are in a TIME OUT my tour of a traffic free UK in spring sounds better than another Disney vacay .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 05:21 PM

In reality the fares were doubled, crap. Trying to board was further complicated by some chedder I had wrapped in tin foil when it was detected as a C-4 bomb, so I missed the flight. Worst of all they kept my cheese.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 10:41 PM

Cheese caused flatulence. Flatulence is ill regarded on airplanes. Other passengers may act to stop it. You do not want them to do so.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 07:12 AM

As whimsey turns to pathos worldwide and we each begin to live our 'On the Beach' scenarios in our dreams inside our hibernation pods, the dangers of of a build up of hydrogen sulffide gases is nothing to kid about.

From the balconies in the cities, live music and singing can be heard like birds broadcasting our indominable spirit. From the peacful country ranch to unseen forests where the silent tree falls, the world is taking a breather. From the sacred places to the profane, life is slowing down to challenge the RNA dangers.

If it takes a pandemic to overcome the age of idiocy, so be it; we will emerge a better species.

With respect to Rapaire, the earliest contributor standing, the last words shouuld belong to him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 08:45 AM

Where is the hydrogen sulfide coming from? Volcanic vents? The White House? The odor of rotten eggs comes from DC and every legislature in the country -- and from some overseas. Carbon monoxide, on the other hand and something to which I am very sensitive, is odorless, tasteless, colorless, and pervasive. And, of course, we exhale carbon dioxide. But I forgo any more chemistry lessons for today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 20 - 09:48 AM

They took your CHEESE?! Bastards!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Mar 20 - 10:51 AM

Nearly 2'5 pounds of cheese! Cheese misidentification by TSA

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Mar 20 - 10:59 AM

I've heard millions would rather die than being locked in at home with their family

Subject: RE: MOAB - Moth his floor fromer of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Mar 20 - 11:47 AM

Deep in the foul fetid bowels of Langely an anlyst decided to self isolate at work. Water on the floor was from a restroom accident from an upper floor. Escaped Crickets had colonized the hallway from an abanddoned lab. Craig Kravitski dozed despite his eyes slowly opening and gazing at his computer screen showing virtually no reported cases of virus in Russia while the rest of the globe glowed red.

As it all became clear to Craig his eyes widened and he snapped wide awake. Perhaps Russia is not typically lying but they have an acquired immunity to Covid 19. What product would nearly all Russians consume with a vaccine added over time? VODKA was his first thought. While it might kill the virus, a vaccine would be preserved.

Craig uttered the obvious out loud "They finally weaponized the common cold". How could he prove it? He first looked into any Government interference in the production and export of Vodka.
There it was; all domestic vodka was ordered sent to tax facilities in Klimsk and Adropovd while exports went straight to port since March of 2019. Could there be level 4 vaccine production labs in the same vacinity, before he had the answer he was off like a shot toconfront his boss with this new analysis when he slipped on the wet floor and broke his neck.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Mar 20 - 12:37 PM

Hi, Mom!

Has it ever occurred to you that "dry runs" is an oxymoron?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Mar 20 - 01:14 PM

All of those Italians on their balconies singing together are inspiring; too bad our neighborhood is too spread out for that to work, and who knows what songs these neighbors know? Probably country or churchy stuff. When we were kids we would play in the back yard and sing songs at the top of our lungs - usually the songs our parents told us weren't polite and we shouldn't sing in public.

𝅘𝅥 My sweetheart's a mule in the mine,
I drive her without any lines,
On the bumper I sit,
And tobacco I spit,
All over my sweetheart's behind. 𝅘𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅘𝅥

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Mar 20 - 05:22 PM

I know that one. I also know the less-polite version of "Erie Canal" and "The Old Chisholm Trail" and several others. I ain't a-gonna post 'em, you'll have to larn 'em yerself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 20 - 12:17 AM

They're probably already in the DT.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 09:16 AM

MOM's got the Corona! And the Budweiser! And the Molsons. And the Coors. And the Moose Drool. And the Polygamy Porter. And the Guinness. And the Smithwicks. And the Alaskan Amber. And the Labatts. And the Moosehead. And the Murphys. And the Pabst. And the Millers. But she does NOT have, nor will she touch even an empty container of, "light" or "lite" beers. She once said to me, "If I wanted to drink from the toilet I'd be a dog."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 09:53 AM

I done writ a song!

If you go down to the store today you're in for a big surprise!
If you go down to the store today you'll never believe your eyes!
There'll be nothing there for you to buy,
No toilet paper or other supplies,
For today's the day the hoarders have a picnic!

See them grab the cleaning supplies
As they carry off soup and soap like it was free today!
(TBC)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 11:10 AM

You are well prepared. Of course no self respecting corona virus is going to go to Idaho, check the maps. Perhaps we should all go to Pocotello.

Were all goin to Pocotello
Where the flowers bloom in June
Were all goin to Pocotello
Sick or not we'll all see you soon

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 12:10 PM

Too bad Coronavirus can't read. There are signs as you cross the border into the state that say "Don't Mess With Texas."

MOM has thrown stuff at the television for the last two days in a row. That turd Trump pontificates on the crowded stage trying to take credit for the work that states have forced him to take. She wants to remind all of us that that kind of BS is toxic and in no way related the benevolent fertilizer that the Mudcat thread(s) have produced. There is a Superfund in place for the current administration's discharge and offal.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 01:52 PM

For me in the last 2 days trump has never been more grounded.(for him)
I even accept that the WHO story about test kit refusal was bogus.
He did fire the 3 administrator group for pandemic control in 2018.
I may even v... NAH! I'm still sane.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 02:43 PM

Tonight at 8 PM AST on FB.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1962791890520173/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 03:03 PM

It's offal to say, but for offal you first need guts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 04:47 PM

Living without intestines has and is being done but the IV of fluids and ATP is an awful inconvenience.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 06:18 PM

Mom wipes the weary brow of grandpa as the TV drones on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 07:48 PM

Lots of broadcasts are looking different as cameras are set up in open places and web cams and skype and such are being used more. I'll follow the dot later (I've just set up MSNBC on my newly acquired Sling TV (Blue) account so I can see the graphs they use on Rachel, et al.

Who knew that Yang's plan to give $1000 to everyone was going to happen - and now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 09:02 PM

Its not enough but it is a start.
If you look carefully Mudcat did 'predict' the pandemic with the contagion discussion of bush meat as China was just undergoing an outbreak.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 11:18 PM

Just back from a foursome, gathered to celebrate Padraig of Eire. Lovely potato soup, delicious corned beef cooked just right. Redbreast Irish whisky, Murphy's stout, and some of that creme/whisky mix. We were talking over Skype, of course, and we all used different exits.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 11:19 PM

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 07:37 AM

Fair morrow, good Mother! I'm off to Smith's by 0700 MDT as they allow old people in first for their opening hour. I shall buy chicken soup, toilet paper, disinfecting wipes, disinfectant and other things in short supply by the case! I shall be a hoarder, a Care-Not-For-Others, yea, the Epitome of Randism! And I shall pick up for you a case of Thunderbird (your favorite wine) and shan't give it to you!

I have learned, Mom.

And if I can't do any of the above, I'll try to get some cough drops.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 11:47 AM

Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck) has an hour from 7 to 8am for seniors. Now if Kroger would get on the ball . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 05:55 PM

Smith's is owned by Kroger; their senior times are M, W, and F, 7-8 a.m. Albertson's who is also Safeway are 7-9, Tu and Th. Nel's Bi-Lo here is everyday, 8-9. Smith's had it that one must leave for another to go in after the first few customers. That's okay, I got my toilet paper.

I did, too. With everyone else seeming to buy two packs of 24 rolls each I thought it was a requirement so I bought a six-pack because it was the smallest size available. ONE. I did get three bags of cough drops, which were non-existent elsewhere, and left several more on the rack.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 06:23 PM

When I was in the supermarket the other day, stock clerks were "stocking" the canned vegetable section by just opening cases and putting them on the shelf with no regard of the items' usual shelf locations.

"Just throw 'em anywhere on this big old empty shelf and they'll be gone in under a minute anyway. Even if it's something we don't usually sell a case of a week. Why waste time walking down the aisle to put them where they belong?"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 08:16 PM

Saw a feller walkin' outa the grocery store yestiddy who musta had about a hunnert cans of beans in his cart. An' three er four headsa cabbage. Might be why the hazmat was called out taday.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 07:16 AM

The first loll - little out loud laugh of the day

MOM is surprised how suddenly Americans have all become Russians in life style, economy and shopping. She took a stroll outside MOAB and found that Brits congregate in the New rules thread where they discuss tea, crumpets and toilet paper but they too are becoming Russian with eyes closed.

Entrepaneurs are looking to Italy for the new demand for new businesses like exporting bodies to massive cremtorium facilities since towns are overwhelmed. So far only Jared Kushner has begun our first Bodies R' Us business.

Trump to America: YOU'RE ALL FIRED!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 08:40 AM

OMG MOM they shut down all the casinos except the biggest one, Wall Street. Sure they hit the pause button 4 times but billionaires are still (Micheal) Milkin the short sell to make $

You know it is the one casino industry we don't need to breathe, eat or sleep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 07:02 PM

I went out again today, over to the Legion Hovel for morning coffee with some of "the boys." Nothing much new there, just a lot of coughing and some of the guys looking feverish and tired. But the corpse-laden tumbrils are rolling through the streets, and another plague pit is being dug over where the third green of the golf course out back used to be -- fortunately we won't be in the direct line of the wind! The first pit was downhill, where the second green used to be, but it's all filled in now. Over on the fifth fairway they're piling up wood for a pyre on Saturday evening.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 10:30 PM

I too was wondering how to repurpose Trump golf courses.
All I had was fairway field hospital tents, greens for admin and sand traps for you know what.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 11:53 AM

The best way to keep a resolution all your life is to make them right before you die, so I resolve;
To not answer any more rhetorical questions like a wise ass.
To not covid my neighbor's goods
To not add Bourbon to my True Blood IV cocktail
To not smoke LSD
To not not question the sanity of the C and Chief
To not enforce the law of gravity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 01:07 PM

Dearest Mom:

Mrs. Google keeps talking about plumping dried fruit with boiling water. I have almost 1/3-withered cherries. Can I just soak them in water?... how long?

Soaking and sulking in Moncton

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 04:56 PM

You have one-third of a withered cherry? Do you need food? We can help.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 05:47 PM

What will you do with them once they're plump?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 09:03 PM

There may be some information in the chronicles and diaries of Baron von Frankenstein regarding the reanimation of fruits.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Mar 20 - 07:52 AM

Soaking cherries in water might plump them up, but it's not going to rejuvenate them in any other way. You'd probably wind up with a bunch of very plump rotten cherries.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 20 - 08:15 AM

I have had a bag of dried tart cheeries by my chair for a month. A little goes a long way. The pecans are gone but lots of other nuts remain. Other long term foods are canned goods and apple juice.
The only thing likely to get plump is me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Mar 20 - 02:47 PM

Soak the cherries in brandy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 20 - 07:25 PM

Shocking! Simply shocking that Mom would be left to her own devices! She was plotting a getaway to Getaway!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Mar 20 - 07:27 PM

Huh? I've been soaking in Brandy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 20 - 10:44 PM

You're a cherry?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 07:04 AM

I'm a yellow cheery cherry.
While I am straight, I've always said its better to be a fruit than a vegetable as in even Mayor Pete is more competant than Trump.

Yhe reason why Mom can't get a straight answer is because the Trump administration ordered federal health authorities to treat high-level discussions on the coronavirus as classified material.
In Taiwan there are only 100 cases for 25 million since they took the opposite approach of freedom of information.

Keep this under your hat because the fact that Covid 19 and the response is classified is also classified.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 04:08 PM

Straight WHAT?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 04:12 PM

sex

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 05:58 PM

Here we are, The Charge of the Last MOAB.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 09:49 PM

I have both Tintin and Asterix books! In English, Irish, and Gaelic!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 20 - 10:02 PM

I used all the white metal Asterix vikings to crew a model of a viking longship in stormy realistic seas.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 12:31 PM

A different way to wash your hands. Get out the dye and go to work.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 01:40 PM

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died.
Everybody's nose is all infected
Somebody's nose is getting tested
Everybody knows they want to cry

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 20 - 09:37 PM

Uderzo is dead!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 20 - 04:31 PM

Trust Dr. Trump's 'Coronex'
The doctor is a stable genius and has a knack for infectious pandemic infections.
To qualify for this treatment you must open a business or return to work the day after Easter. Dr. Trump is a deeply religious physician and requires that patients go to Easter services.
A paypal or credit card payment of 99.99 along with a picture of your church receipt (optional) may be texted to 1400 Penn Ave/coronex

Dr. Trump is a graduate of Trump University and guaratees you will have a result.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 20 - 10:28 PM

Well, Mom, I'm have fusion surgery on the base of my left thumb on April Fool's Day.

I can see it. I'm coming out of the anesthesia, still groggy, and the doctor says, "April Fool! Here's your bill!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 05:58 AM

Memo to self re cherries: I soaked them in water for a day and they plumped up nicely. Then, I added vinegar and soaked them for another day to sanitize them. Then, I ate a bunch of them... at about 3AM, I ahhh, errr, never mind.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 03:30 PM

I'm five weeks out from surgery and have had to start tapering the Tramadol. Damned stuff is difficult to just stop taking after a few weeks. I'm cutting the tablet (I went and asked the pharmacist if I could) and will hopefully be off of this in a few days.

All of that time I haven't been able to go near the Legion Hovel. No alcohol with narcotics. I notice the door wasn't posted so I guess the local officials feel that place is an essential business (where else will alcoholics get their fix?)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 04:20 PM

Tramadol is not as addictive as a plain opoioid but it is far nastier.
Some people get
Seizures. Tramadol is known to cause seizures in some users. ...
Adrenal Insufficiency. ...
Androgen Insufficiency. ...
Respiratory Problems. ...
Hallucinations. ...
Serotonin Syndrome. ...
Liver and Kidney Damage. ...
Behavioral and Psychological Effects.

4 to 7 days of nastyitus will be a normal transition to your real self.

An inner voice will say
'if you need it dear, take it".
Listen to the safer voice, "you're better without it".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 04:33 PM

I still have twinges and aches that take the cake but pain will not defeat me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 06:07 PM

I tapered Prednisone for 18 months. I can master this with my trusty little pill cutter, but I can't stand another day of feeling that gnarly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 07:23 PM

Ah, "tapering."
Here at the mental health residential clinic,
I hear a great deal from other patients about "tapering."
Tapering off Tramadol, tapering off Klonopin...
I really can't complain,
me with my little low daily dose of generic Prozac.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 20 - 08:34 PM

Having had too many surgeries in the past few years, and my wife as well, we have left-over pain pills: Oxy and Hydro. We will use whatever is needed for this coming surgery and the remainder we'll sell give to the police. They have been locked up with the guns.

T-3 will be taken for the non-immediate time post-surgery, and NSAIDs and acetaminophen after that. I mean, why take them pills when the REAL stuff is the anesthesia, man?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Mar 20 - 10:11 AM

Perhaps these are miraculus times. Helena Montana is virus free with 0 cases and reports of similar miracals are just coming in. I shoukd have never doubted Trump. Coincidentally I have lost 43 lbs on the Crispy Creme diet. I seem to getting 1,200 miles per gallon. My mudcat posts are appearing in the editorial section of the NYT. Steve Shaw has become the sweetist man on Earth and Rap says he and his wife inexplicably woke up this morning in their 30's. The weather here is the same as Hawaii and mudcat hasn't crashed in a year.
Its like a miracle.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Mar 20 - 11:20 AM

Share some of that weed, don. It appears to be a very good batch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Mar 20 - 03:15 PM

I did watch Fox news last night but things are back to abnormal now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 03:57 PM

William Shakspeare and Issac Newton did some of their best work while England was having a Plague. So are the analysts at the NSA and CIA today. While I can not discuss the details there is some noise about Operation Anal Portal wink wink nudge nudge. It is rumored to save a million lives.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 06:51 PM

sh-sh-sh There may be a plan to virally weaponize his bronzer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 20 - 09:16 PM

Why would anyone go to Helena, Montana in the first place? Of course it's COVID-19 free!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 12:53 PM

Stilly I am thinking maybe a 100,000 cases of Covid was transferred from passing a joint whether it was in NYC, Colorado, California. N.O., Florida spring break and Washington State. Spit was transferred with abandon. Real Reefer Madness.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 12:59 PM

That remarks needs to go on the coronavirus topic - I've worried about what it will look like in another week or so once two full weeks have passed after the insanity of spring break. Did those college students, now evicted from dorm rooms, go home to their parents to infect their families? I think that activity will be as bad or worse than the Mardi Gras stuff from early March. Yet Trump sits on the golden throne tweeting nonsense and fighting with governors who aren't nice to him.

Now back to the real BS - I finally got my Bluetooth headphones to transmit a signal so the computer could detect it. I can travel down that YouTube rabbit hole with the good quality sound of headphones versus the inadequate sound from my HD monitor (I got tired of having the extra set of speakers on my work desk, so just resolved to be unhappy with the sound. But now we're cooking with gas. Even if there is none plumbed to the house. . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Mar 20 - 10:41 PM

We have a gas furnace and a gas stove. We've considered a gas fireplace but it's too much hassle to run the gas line. We're looking into one of those fake-fire electric heaters as there's an outlet about 3 feet from the fireplace opening (I wouldn't want to guess as to why).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 07:56 AM

The secret to peer into the future is to scrutinize the past.

In 1919-1920 people grew weary and stopped the very same social distancing measures we use today. As a result when the second wave arrived it was more catastrophic than it needed to be. And again with the 3rd wave.

Their past is our future.

Our own collective behavior will exaccerbate the outcome but does not cause the 2nd and 3rd wave.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 11:04 AM

Bruce - no BS. Stay well. Our hearts are all broken.

Maggie

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 11:07 AM

You betcha! Blessings and good thoughts from Idaho.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Mar 20 - 07:27 PM

MOM!

I was using my corded sickle-bar type hedge trimmers to, well, trim some hedges, and I got the extension cord caught in the mechanism. So, I cut the damaged part of the cord away and replaced the plug with another one. It took about fifteen minutes or so. Then, I went to resume my trimming and discovered that I had replaced the FEMALE plug I had cut off with a MALE plug. So, I have an extension cord with two male plugs and not a single female plug with ground wire in my entire collection of electrical repair crap.

Would somebody please find the reset button in my brain and push it?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 04:39 AM

MOM!

A friend gave me a box of "Harris Famous Roach Tablets" a while back. They don't work. I dropped one in a shallow pan of water a week ago and it's still just sitting there. Not a single roach has grown from it! Did I do it wrong? Maybe they need to be planted in dirt instead....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 05:57 AM

BWL, I told the family to cease any activity of risk because there is no plan b. Plan b is going to the emergncy room which has more risk than plan A.

Dealing with poisons and whirring cutting blades qualify as plan A.
I have warned since January that there are new rules.
Mom says behave yourself.

PS vote by mail.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 08:17 AM

Cock or eating roach? Or a hair roach? Or the fish?   Or the guy we called Roach in high school?

Gee, at 10:20 a.m. MDT today I get an EMG. The cup of my life overflows.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 11:27 AM

My next door neighbor scored a #20 parcel of organic baking flour for me at Costco when making a run for her son (he's an essential worker who needed TP and couldn't get to the store for it.) With as hard as it is to find flour, and as many people baking up a storm (I see those photos on Instagram!), by the end of these stay-at-home orders we're going to have to force our way out of our doors, having blown up in size from all of the baked goods.

I agree with Don, sharp objects and electrical shock are probably less dangerous than going to the store right now. I would still advise against ax-throwing as a sport, in case you were considering it. It's not so much that your thrown ax will miss it's mark and break something, it's that you'll split open your calf in the back-swing. Years ago some Forest Service friends calculated the risks, thinking they might want to join the competition with local loggers. They concluded that it wasn't worth it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 03:58 PM

Same sex (non binary) Extension Cords are a rarity. LGBTQ-EC will defend their right to be, so don't throw it away. Better to make it a gift. Or save for an electrifying practical joke.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 06:19 PM

Someone opened an axe-throwing bar in Pensacola a few months ago. Get sloshed and throw axes at targets! Or bring your own things you hate and throw axes at them until they're in pieces in the Rage Room!

Errrr... Hmmmm... Sorry guys, but I don't need to drive 45 miles into Pensacola if I want to throw axes at shit. I have lots of axes and hatchets and plenty of trees. And if I want to destroy some shit I don't like anymore, I prefer the option of using sledgehammers and firearms as well as axes

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 06:24 PM

If you ever want to plug one house into another, you can use the cord with two male plugs to run between them. Will it transmit power? Who knows.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 09:30 PM

Danger? We've had an axe-throwing place for a year! But for REAL DANGER, just live here and endure this!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Mar 20 - 10:02 PM

Ours was only 3.5 and I thought it was strong.
That was just last week wasn't it.
Don't worry bout the asteroid.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 09:45 AM

What do you think is going to hit Idaho? A banana?

But today, at 11 a.m. MDT, I get a HAND JOB!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 11:13 AM

A friend had hand surgery last week - have the ice handy and be prepared to have difficulty sleeping for a few nights. My condolences, but I hope it does the trick as far as fixing the problem!

Love that potato. Tough to peel, though.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 20 - 12:38 PM

Damn I missed the setup for the hand job. touche'

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 07:19 PM

I had Aldi deliver some items that I didn't get on my last run and it isn't worth it to go out for "luxuries." Chocolate, beer, snacks. It was an expensive delivery, but I did my part supporting the gig economy. MOM would be proud, one of those items was some Shiner Bock beer; I haven't had any alcohol for a couple of months because of the surgery and medications involved.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 07:34 PM

No alcohol? WHAT DID THEY USE FOR ANESTHESIA??? I was given a couple of (full) glasses of whiskey and a .62 caliber musket ball to bite on! What sort of cheap-o surgeons do they have in Texas?

The surgeon said to Pat that there wasn't any cartilage left so "no wonder he hurt!" Now I'll wear a splint until the 15th and then a cast for six weeks. The bone has to fuse around the screw in my thumb bones.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Apr 20 - 11:59 PM

Mom!

I'm having a serious case of All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Withdrawal! My favorite is a Thai buffet in Pensacola, but right now I'd settle for Chinese or Golden Corral or even KFC Buffet. I may even be willing to drive to Idaho to eat at the Chuck-a-Rama in Boise. (The only AYCE place I've ever been to that has more buffet space devoted to potato dishes than salads, meats, and vegetables combined.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 01:21 PM

Idaho produces more lentils than potatoes, and nearly as much barley.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 08:06 PM

So why doesn't Chuck-a-Rama have a lentil bar?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 08:17 PM

I have lentil soup in my fridge right now. If you drive to Idaho, travel via Texas and you can sit in the driveway and I'll put a bowl of hot soup on the porch (using gloves and a mask) and then you're on your way. You'll be in a better frame of mind for Idaho (and Rap has a huge honker house - you could stay in his basement or somewhere and they'd hardly know you were around. Just watch it in case the shower head is still hot-wired.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 09:54 PM

Hi, Mom!

I've lost about twenty pounds in the last few weeks! I've been on the Loss and Misery Diet. I don't recommend it. Try Weight-Watchers instead.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Apr 20 - 11:25 PM

Then again, the weight loss may be partly due to the aforementioned temporary closure of all the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet restaurants.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Apr 20 - 12:05 AM

Either way, self-care is the Rx. Get takeout from another place that serves so you have something to eat in the house - that you can pop in the microwave. That loss and misery diet is brutal; I was on it one time and ended up 50 pounds less than I am now (which is about 30 pounds over normal).

These days I have at least one really easy meal ready to go each day. I just set up a small crockpot with steel cut oats, raisins, a dash of salt, and a quart of boiling water, and I'll have about 3 days of breakfasts (it reheats well.) Even if it means keeping a tub of cottage cheese in the fridge and a case of honeybuns in the freezer, give yourself something really easy for a meal.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Apr 20 - 11:02 AM

We're not going out much (of course) but we are eating well. It is, however, beginning to look like the neighborhood is running out of pets.

If you were wondering, the Legion Hovel has been declared "Extra Special Essential" by all levels of government. It has a Super Duper Essential Priority 1-AAAA for everything it wants or needs. The last time it ran short of beer the riots destroyed most of the cities of Boise, Meridian, Twin Falls, Heck, Idaho Falls, Hamer, Couer d'Alene, Bliss, and Dingle. Inkom was slightly damaged as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Apr 20 - 09:52 AM

Classic

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 20 - 06:35 PM

No, Classic wasn't damaged. Stanley was, a little bit, but not Classic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 20 - 09:01 PM

It's hard to damage an abandoned ghost town like Classic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 07:37 AM

Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.
The dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt,
All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out:
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.

       What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide?
They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide;
By land, by water, they renew the charge;
They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 09:26 AM

Most towns around here eventually become something else as evidenced by road names that do tend to remain the same.

Maryland Route 5 (Leonardtown Road), which joins US 301 in Brandywine to the north and splits at the county line to bypass Waldorf on Mattawoman-Beantown Road...The sewage treatment plant is of course in former Beantown.

'Ghost' towns around here are either gentrified or left to highly populated decrepitude based mostly on race.

As for Mattawoman, it has a story lost in the fog of history along with Parnasus NJ.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 01:04 PM

Early maps identify the area where Mattawomen later became incorporated, as the vast Pat Hopschtingle farm. The limited information from Ancestory.com says that Pat was of Irish German descent but lists no gender which calls into speculation that Mattawoman became short for Man or Woman?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 03:00 PM

Make my grave in the Trump Hotel,
Not a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Put it at the end of the escaltor,
On the doorstep of the great imitator .

Engrave Trump lies around my grave.
Like Arlington make sure that I stay
His shadow above my silent tomb
Would make it a place of fear & gloom.

I could rest in the noise of Fifth Avenue
On my birthday you can have free barbecue.
Try to manage a shriek of wild despair
Like a million curses in NYC air.

I could not sleep if Trump went free
His dieing in prison is reason for glee
Such a cruel narcissist unfeeling beast
should be punished for his hateful beliefs.

Let my grave in the Trump Hotel help remind
how the US was fired, attacked by virus and died
One day Trump hotels will be demolished.
Maybe men like Trump will be abolished

I ask no monument, proud and high,
To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;
All that my yearning spirit craves,
Is if he outlives me he'll not stay

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 05:48 PM

Enraged, outraged, up raged and down raged.
I feel we were completely and deliberately betrayed.
Messengers and facts were deflected as HOAX!
With loss of life these are no longer jokes.
Our lack of preparation is mostly homemade.
Our medicine is to hide and not be afraid.
Janitors and ministers alike cough and choke.
Sad that the innocent and guilty must both croak.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 07:21 PM

Who is this nobody?
"Nobody has ever seen such a great economy, Nobody has ever seen such great numbers. Nobody can believe such miracles I have made".
Does nobody mean No one or is there a real Mr. Nobody?

And what about fantastic?
"I have fantastic numbers. I have made fantastic progress".
Doesn't fantastic mean; imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality?

Doesn't incredible mean without credibility? the word Unbelievable is equal to incredible.

In the next 5 o'clock speech,
Count how many times you hear the words; nobody, fantastic, unbelievable and incredible.

Divide by the number of times of the word tremendous is mentioned and...

You will get a coefficient either above five or below 5.
Below 5 is a gigantic lieing ass hole
Above 5 is a huge lieing ass hole

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 07:31 PM

As Wavy Gravy once stated for the record,
"In fact, Nobody's perfect."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 09:39 PM

Mr. Nobody ran against Betty Boop for President.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 10:01 PM

I stand corrected rejected and infected.
I see politics can make anyone two faced, or even three.

That implied free beer campaign promise is a winner.
or was that the advent of subliminal advertising.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 08:57 AM

Covid Cartoon

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 05:18 PM

Mom!

I am so angry! When I built the cabinets in my kitchen over twenty years ago, I made the drawers just a bit over ten inches wide because that was the width of a wicker cutlery tray we had. Who knows where it came from. It was just there. I assumed the tray was of a standard size and that we'd be able to get a replacement when needed. Over the years, being wicker and in regular use, the tray started to get raggedy and my wife began to hound me about replacing it. That's when I found that it was definitely NOT a standard size. I must have tried to find a replacement for ten years or more. Today, I accomplished the goal! I found a cutlery tray exactly 10.04 inches wide. It fits in the drawer like they were custom made for each other!

So, to recap, after many years of trying to please my wife by replacing our ratty cutlery tray, I finally find one that's perfect. And my wife's no longer around to be pleased. Fuck!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 09:13 PM

Oh, she's around. She'll always be around.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 10:34 PM

Thanks, Mike.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 20 - 09:13 PM

Where virus go to dream

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 20 - 09:28 PM

I am told a Virus is only half alive
Its half a strand of DNA
Yet its always here to stay
They even all have the same first name.
Something like ReN A

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Apr 20 - 10:45 AM

Three days away from a full 14 days of not going into any other buildings like the grocery store or the Legion Hovel. I did deliver my water bill to a drop-off slot (didn't touch it with my hand) and to the gas station for 2 gallons of mower gas (used a glove on the pump and washed my credit card when I got home.)

The worst part of being about 95% over the total knee replacement surgery is that I'm all fixed up but there's no place to go.

For you guys who might not sew (I know several who do, so I won't assume anything here): yet another approach to making facemasks, this time out of short tube socks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Apr 20 - 10:24 PM

An old plastic bag (the older the better -- RECYCLE! REUSE!) is excellent protection. So is a good old-fashioned gas mask or any of several variants of PPE such as these ambulance workers demonstrate.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Apr 20 - 08:31 PM

As a hunter, for bargains, I went for for this.


I'm waiting for this one.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Apr 20 - 09:43 PM

No ordering masks, I've pulled out a bunch of my stash and am deciding what layers need to go together, and trying a couple of different designs. For all of those people who sew or quilt or do various fabric arts, suddenly our stashes are pure gold. Until now we laughed about the excess. No more.

MOM wants a flannel mask but since it's a plaid print she's being fussy and insisting that the pattern be aligned down the center seam. She'll relax a little once I make the curbside pickup of adult beverages from the local Total Wine and More store. I'm planning to redistribute a bottle to a friend who hasn't been able to visit his favorite bar for weeks now, but there's a bottle for the house also.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 20 - 10:49 PM

A double layer of cotton quilting fabric handles a lot of The Bad Stuff. Put some high-grade furnace filter stuff between them, if you have it (use new stuff, not used filter stuff).

I went out today for the first time in 9 days. I wore my mask and stuff like a good citizen and I left my shootin' iron at home 'cause I didn't see no need fer it just then.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 20 - 08:42 AM

I really do have a 20 year old silver hazmat fireproof suit with helmut and gold reflective face shield. I haven' t had to put out any oil well fires so it is in good shape. I was going to donate it to the fire dept. but never got a roundtuit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 02:09 AM

There is a puppy snoring gently as she sleeps behind me in my office this evening.

That is all. (That is enough!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 09:29 AM

Diversion is good

with the young

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 12:49 PM

Mom!

Somebody's gonna have to 'splain this one to me....

I called the Social Security Administration the other day to report my wife's passing as required by law. Now, when a spouse dies, the widow or widower is entitled to a one-time death benefit of something like $250.

It seems to me that everyone reporting the death of a spouse who is a Social Security beneficiary is also going to want to apply for the death benefit. So, one would think that since the two are so closely associated, one should be able to do both things with one phone call, right? Wrong! I had to make an appointment for someone to call me back a week later to take my application for the death benefit over the phone. If it wasn't such an overused phrase, I'd say, "Go figger!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 02:20 PM

I'm not a somebody but I am a splainer.
Income or keeping $ has a priority over payouts; section 1 of the large print giveth and the small print taketh away statute under the primary governing principal page 1.

btw they say nobody's perfect so not being perfect I'm not a nobody either which makes me more of an everybody.

Pertaining to your rights

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 02:45 PM

Best to make that call quickly because they reach into the bank account and snatch back out anything they overpaid. That was the case when my father died and I was figuring out that stuff.

Making masks today; MOM wants one that has a hole for a straw so she can drink a Long Island iced tea today without taking off the mask.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 07:33 PM

US Army gas masks used to be equipped so that the person wearing it could safely drink from a canteen. I didn't have that option, but we were tough then and would rather breathe nerve gas than die of thirst (30 seconds versus several days). It was a special canteen cap that had a straw-system so you could suck up water from inside your mask and, I assume, drink it rather than drown.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 09:15 AM

But nerve gas is illegal.

Now we have nerve creams, gels, sprays time release capsules, family sized 55 gallon drums and suppositories.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 05:33 PM

Phalangeal psorisis (itchy trigger finger) is a disorder that has appeared in Horseshoe Bend Idaho. Cortisone cream looks like a promising treatment.

HOLY SH.. I hear a commercial airliner outside. hmm

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 09:48 AM

(when praying to god doesn't work)

I am not skilled to understand
What Trump has willed, what Trump has planned
I only know at his right hand
Is Pense who's really grand

I take him at his word and deed
He tried to save me: this I read
And in my heart I find a need.
of his powerful greed

That he won't leave his place on high
To let older men to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Donald

My Donald needs, my Donald's greed
My Donalds's always on TV
My Trump; He was, my Trump; He is
My Trump; is always gonna be

Yes, living, dying: let me bring
My Strength, my solace in this spring
That He who lives to be THE King
Once ran to be my Savior

My Donald needs, my Donald's greed
My Donald's always there for me
My TRUMP; He was, my TRUMP; He is
My TRUMP; is always gonna be
There for me.


Amen

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 07:48 PM

It feels like Betelgeuse is gonna blow this week.
Ya can'tmissit, it'll be as bright as the full moon.

The ol reumatiz acts up right before a super Nova

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 08:44 PM

The supernova early warning system is now online. Maybe we'll hear something soon (if the bloviating hothead in Washington D.C. doesn't drown it out.) We get 2 hours notice before it blows.

I hear it here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 08:56 PM

I wonder if the Galactic Overlord isn't simply turning down Betelgeuse with some sort of stellar dimmer switch, perhaps to save money on the starlight bill.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 20 - 09:57 PM

Mom? Mom? Did you hear the news, Mom? I've got a genuine fiberglass CAST on now! It's RED with black edges! And the stitches are out!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 01:17 AM

The only cast I've ever had was black. That's all. Just black. All the cool colors were gone. Musta been lotsa people breakin' shit that week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 01:42 AM

My last cast was so long ago it was white plaster, put on in layers by the doctor. I was seven and had done a fairly good job of breaking my leg.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 12:23 PM

Shoulda paid da man his money, see? Me, I let the doc break it so he could screw it up. But you, Stilly, don't borry no money offa Da Man. You tell me and I'll fix ya up wid Da Lady and she'll treat ya right, see?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 10:51 AM

Someone needs to be in charge of the notions department at Amazon. They are focusing on "essential items" in their delivery, I bet they figure that's food and medicine, right? Don't they know that elastic and rotary cutter blades are essential? How else will this army of home-sewers make all of these necessary face masks? I'm taking more time to make the bias tape than I am to make the masks themselves.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 11:36 AM

There was a cessation of the sale of non essential items for nearly 2 weeks at Amazon. Non essentail sales has since resumed.


The definition of success is similair to the definition of Democracy in that once everything else fails due to stupidity and waste, what you are left with will serve as success no matter how dismal. Nothing goes exactly as planned.

In operation Walkyrie, the Bergdorf in Mara Lago will be...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 12:37 PM

Pat has started making both pleated and fitted masks for the Veterans' Home here. Here's one of the fabrics she's using. This is another.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 02:26 PM

Cute! And I bet she has a stash that is more than ample to work with for these masks. I have the pattern for the fitted masks, but I haven't made any yet.

I put two 3/4 size masks in the mail to my hairdresser (I also mailed her the payment she would have gotten this week for my bi-monthly haircut and highlights.) She has a three-almost-four-year-old daughter, so I pulled out polka dots for those. I hear this morning that they are a hit! She didn't like the masks that were too large for her.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 04:34 PM

The wife has made them for 3 weeks and has a distributor at NIH
Running low on elastic though.
The us verses them strategy is alive and well in Texas regarding the death epidemic. They are resuming pre pandemic behavior at the peak of infection as per Govenor Trump Pal orders. %^|...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 04:55 PM

TX has done 160,000 tests, virtually all by private lab$.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 05:44 PM

3 STEPS TO REOPEN AMERICA

Expose yourself to general population and get tested if you can

Fight off whatever symptoms if any.

If you don't die go on with life.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Apr 20 - 01:40 PM

Hi, Mom!

Here's a helpful hint! When you open a can of fruit cocktail, always dump it into a bowl or refrigerator container before serving. When most cans of fruit cocktail are filled, they're filled one ingredient at a time. So you wind up with stratified layers of peaches, pears, grapes, pineapple, and cherry halves, in that order. If you serve directly from the can, the first servings get all the "good" stuff and the last couple get nothing but peaches and pears. Dump it into a bowl and stir it up before serving so it's all the same mix.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 20 - 07:38 PM

I had something to say, and forgot what it was.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Apr 20 - 09:47 PM

The Immortal Unknown BS! The Dark BS that the Universe is full of!

Stilly, this was all of these fabrics. Let us say that she won't run out of fabric in general in the next few days.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Apr 20 - 07:14 AM

When you forget what you wanted to say, it's just Mom's way if telling you that your BS needs to compost a while longer before it's ready to spread on the garden.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 20 - 08:44 AM

Man's Ultra Ripe Excrement or 'Man'ure is fertile ground for bringing new things to life. In recent times however heavy metals and remnants of medication act as mutating pollutants. We have been selling these organic solids, spreading them on farm fields and wonder where all the ecoli outbreaks come from.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Apr 20 - 01:02 PM

Now for something completely different.

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

The International Time Travel Agency's failure to assist us in our current predicament was forecast long ago (in the future). While our future chrononauts were not vaccinated for Covid 19 they could not assist us if they wanted to. The message would not reach them anyway if they were on the way to Saggistarius A star or in near orbit around that black hole to vault them even further into the furure.

We can go physically into the future with face to face results but going back in time, while technically real, we can not be physically present.

It is 5 o'clock somewhere but it is not minus 1:14pm today anywhere or anywhen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 08:47 PM

Mom, I tried to tell you of my parboiling discovery yesterday but somehow it didn't take. So anyway, I want to parboil a couple peppers (emptied, of course) to make stuffed peppers. But instead of parboiling them (I didn't have time) I put them in a (microwave safe) pan with about an inch of water in it. Nuked 'em for about 2 minutes, turned 'em over and nuked 'em for about 90 more seconds. Took 'em out, dumped the water, put the shells back in, filled 'em with the filling, and baked 'em for 20 minutes.

Tasted good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 02:55 PM

The whole deal is the filling, which you avoided mentioning.
filling;
Browned Ground beef, thickened tomato sauce, a'zar seasoning, magic muhroom bits, Tampico, THC edibles, diced onion, celery salt and riccota cheese n chives to glue it all together.

Hey check out my face mask/ feedbag invention for sit down restaurant use. :^}

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 06:34 PM

I don't even know anyone who has been tested. If I ever get tested and it turns out negative I will be disheartened knowing I never had asymptomatic or mild infection which would leave me open to all the variations. Trump was tested twice to determine if he is human but with a 30% error rate I am still skeptical.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 10:15 PM

I'd like to know how someone like Donald John Trump, born brunette, is now a blonde. As a life-long blonde I object.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 10:34 PM

If you ever see a photo of Donald's mom, all will be answered.



River's are starting to look cleaner

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 11:01 AM

Trump Task Force Medical Advisor (Fauci replacement)
Dr, Ronald Armslong

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 20 - 09:07 PM

Mom? Mom? Donde vamos ahora?

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

Gone with flowers everyone
oh when will they ever learn...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 08:03 AM

Mom!

Dollar Tree lies! They say "Everything's a Dollar!" So I rented the biggest truck I could find, hired a couple of winos to help out, went to the Dollar Tree store, paid 'em a dollar, and started pulling stuff off the shelves and loading it into the truck. The bastards called the cops!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 01:22 PM

I had to take the middle-sized dog to the vet today to get a heartworm test so they would sell me their very expensive monthly heartworm treatment. Next week I have to take the Lab in for his annual exam and get his heartworm treatment. I've been buying heartworm brand-name products from the UK for about 1/3 the cost than from US vets, but my UK supplier can't guarantee shipment with so few planes flying back and forth across that pond.

I don't think the mosquitoes are taking a break during the coronavirus shutdown. So I'm stuck with this situation for now. MOM says it would cost more to spray the dogs with mosquito repellent every day, and I guess she has a point.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 03:13 PM

I forgot about the starving mosquitos.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 06:24 PM

"Heartguard" the most popular heartworm medication sold by vets is nothing but ivermectin and pyrantel, two very common worm and parasite killers. You can get them from Tractor Supply in paste forms meant to be used with livestock, like cattle and horses. The cost is only pennies per dose. Yet the same stuff packaged for your dog costs $10.00 per dose? If I was sure I'd get the dosage right, I'd tell the vet to go screw and mix my own heartworm medicine up in the kitchen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 08:36 PM

BWL it has come to my attention that you are qualified to lead the huge sprawling agency called Health and Human Services. The current head of HHS only has a background of being a breeder of Labradoodles in the last decade. You are far more qualified especially in these pandemic times.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 09:57 PM

Labradoodles? You mean Trump couldn't even find a dog breeder who breeds purebred AKC registered dogs? Only some asshole who breeds mixed-breed mutts and then sells them for money? (Not that I have anything against mixed breed mutts. I have one. It's just that they should be for adopting, not selling.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 01:36 AM

The small-animal vet version of Heartguard is a topical skin application, the chemicals are dissolved in alcohol, or so it smells. And it's more like $25 a dose at this point. That's why I buy it from the UK, they cost a lot less (I use the UK version of Revolution, it's called Stronghold over there, and to order you need to know how much your dog weighs in kilos, not pounds. But the clue is the color of the box; my two largest dogs get the Teal box, US or UK.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 07:29 PM

Have you checked Canada?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 08:27 PM

I assume there is no hockey in Canada right now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:01 AM

MOAB is dangerously close to the end of the queue,
and only we can alter that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:14 AM

A quarom is not present.
Without at least twelve individuals as disciples, it is incapable of maintaining quality BS or near magical accomplishments.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 11:10 AM

It was a lot easier when we had Amos' help. He could crank out the BS.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 11:19 AM

Amos was far more fact based than you suggest. He used to rail against me for not posting links. He had an unusual visual poetic skill.
Rap is the BS king by ascention to the thrown.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:37 PM

I would be happy to rail against anyone or anything worthy of my talents. After all, I come from the Country Of THE Rail-Splitter himself (cf. Here, among other places.). More, I shall endeavor -- nay, assure you -- that you will get quality railing and splitting as I also come from a land where Truth is valued. For I, among others, am an inheritor of their skills. Should you not believe me, I to demonstrate my ability to any triple-twisted, double-distilled, jackass who wishes to open his (well, it IS a jackass) throat to bray against me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 01:25 AM

I'll agree with you there, but Amos managed to keep the volume flowing (and wrote a lot of poems in the process.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 07:43 AM

Ah it is becoming clear to me Rap's alter ego is Mark Twain while mine is Dave Berry

Moab is treading water until Moab advertises for more 'members' or the last Yukon prospector falls frozen in the sbow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 10:41 AM

Mom does not "tread water." Mom drinks water -- with various added substances to kill the germs of all sorts.

The grayness of Spring colors my soul,
And the tired river,
Full of flood,
Carries its sticks from eddy to eddy
Until, at last,
They find rest on the soft, silent bottom
Of the sea.
                   --Me, ca. 1966

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 11:09 AM

From a mile away my river could be seen
writhing above its banks with ice flows
big enough to ride all thumping and bumping
each other in the great grinding gorge.
Up close the noise was a gutteral thunder
and the scary speed made me catch my balance
as the small to 3 foot thick ice raced by.
Its my river no more.
Not even the ice remains in Spring.
The climate has changed and the river
now fast and silent
keeps all its secrets.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 06:46 PM

On the links the golfers come and go
Not speaking of Michaelangelo.
                -- Thomas S. Eliot, "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
                      (version one)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 06:49 PM

Note to self: vacuum under the fridge and freezer a couple of times a year and you won't have to pay the repair person to discover that that was the only thing wrong with the fridge. I can't think of the last time I thought to vacuum under there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 20 - 08:42 PM

Never, ever, look under your bed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 10:06 PM

After yesterday's appeal hearing to the Idaho State Tax Commission's Board of Equalization, Pat and I have spent the day relaxing. Tomorrow I shall make Icelandic rye bread and Icelandic wild mushroom soup after a session with the massage therapist.

Six weeks preparation for the hearing and I think our county Assessor, who was "the other side", learned not to interact with Pat (BA, Math; MA, Library Science; Post-grad fellowship in computers in medical libraries; statistician for NIH; JD, etc.). We think it went well.

Just two more weeks and the cast comes off!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 11:20 PM

I delivered more masks today, this time a custom-sized set for a big guy with a beard. Tonight is a break from sewing, but I'm sure it will pick up again tomorrow. #SewAndSew

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 07:16 PM

Mom!

It's April 29. I live in Florida. Why am I running an electric space heater? Because it's going to get down into the 40s for the next two nights. That's probably normal for this time of year for people who live in, say, Idaho. But, allow me to repeat, "I live in Florida." We don't HAVE temperatures below 50 after April Fools' Day. It's gotta be because of what's going on with Betelgeuse.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 10:13 PM

The Betelgeusians annoyed the GO and the GO is switching Betelgeuse off -- slowly, to give them time to appreciate their folly. Or at least that's what the Vegans (not the dietary type) tell me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 08:49 AM

I may only have a million year window for Betelgeuse to go kaphlooey so I'm going out on a limb here and predict it will be seen to go kaphlooey at 3:07 AM EDST this Sunday morning. BWL got a severe storm today that will do more damage than Betelgeuse and Rap will stick out like a sore thumb.
US covid deaths will pass 100,000 by the 4th of July Trump Parade or die tryin.
Were #1 were #1

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 01:23 PM

Well, the Icelandic rye bread is in the slow cooker (a/k/a crock pot) and in a bread pan on the stove, just a-steaming away. I'll know is three or four hours how I did. Now I make the mushroom soup.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 02:42 PM

Last summer I think I set up a pulley system to help me drag to old fence posts with their concrete footers out of the holes; I have to reproduce it this year but I don't remember where I found it. I guess it's back to YouTube. I don't have one of those jacks that pops them out so quickly. Maybe I'll finish digging them out this year (five to go). MOM is sitting under the shade on the patio offering advice. Good thing she's a bit hard of hearing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 04:40 PM

Decades before zip lines I set up a pulley system at the mountain farm for my own amusement ride like Zorba the geek.

To replace all 300 ft + of solid fence cost 10K.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Apr 20 - 08:40 PM

Go to a farm supply store and get a heavy-duty come-along.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 20 - 01:56 PM

post #870 new moab
sqrt 870 = 29.49576240750525
or 2.90200763 × 10 to the -6 s / m   when divided by the speed of light...
my lucky number sqrt for powerball
also

25,000 total donuel posts.... times light speed 7.19501899 × 10 to the 12th m / s minus 1,000 posts

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 20 - 01:59 PM

Rap has 4000+ to go for 50,000 posts

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 May 20 - 06:15 PM

I look not for quantity, but the quality which is my hallmark.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 May 20 - 09:34 PM

Made Icelandic mushroom soup. Quite good, but it's not like having it at the Hotal Ranga in Iceland or in downtown Reykjavik. Besides, I used dried morels and dried "medley" as well as a bunch of the mushrooms you can get in the grocery. And not having any madeira on hand I used a dry white cabarnet sauvignon. A rich soup, and good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 20 - 10:52 AM

1. Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.
2. Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.
3. Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.
4. Oh the First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.
5. When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.
6. I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.
7. But now we got weapons
Of biological dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.
8. Through isolation days
I've heard old war cries
between the blues and greys
Reds say $ is above lives
Some blame it on the yellow
You'll have to decide
Who rings most hollow
Had God on his side.
9. So now as I'm coughin'
I'm weary as hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 20 - 01:18 PM

I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
Tears ran down my spine
And I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
Get it?

I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R (D.A.R., that's the Dykes of the American Revolution)
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution
That's going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I'm glad that the Commies were thrown out
Of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
And I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
As long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Ah, the people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
Now, I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch Les Crane?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Yes, I read New Republic and Nation
I've learned to take every view
You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea
There's no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

I vote for the democratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I attend all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
And I'll send all the money you ask for
But don't ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old Union hymns
But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 20 - 03:40 PM

Ochs for godsake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3qgiNPVpSM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 20 - 04:19 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGu__oqMcKM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 20 - 04:20 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGu__oqMcKM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 May 20 - 05:55 PM

I remembered what I did last time - I dodn't have the jack for pulling out posts so I put on safety goggles and got out a 2-pound hammer and a concrete chisel and knocked off enough of the concrete until I could lift the entire thing out of the hole. Two left.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 20 - 10:08 PM

If she had a hammer, she'd hammer in the mornin' she'd hammer in the evenin' all over her fence....

Stilly said to the shaker,"Shaker, you better pray, 'cause if I miss with this two-pound hammer tomorrow be your buryin' day, Lord Lord....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 May 20 - 03:35 PM

Hammers and concrete, thats pretty hard core. It looks like things harder than tapioca could get one suspended or banned subject to commitee/secret police review.
There have been posts complaining of Gestapo tactics here for more than 20 years by all sorts of lively characters. The issues of separating issues of humour, misinformation, misunderstanding or deliberate hate are still a question for Big Facebook or tiny mudcat.

BS'MOAB' has been pared down to a mudpuddle so small there is a diverity shortage that is noticable. Perhaps because of the pandemic I miss strangers more, be they intelligent, inane, insane, or inable.

When it comes to comedy is nothing sacred? YES

Regarding the subject of trollism I selected exactly one testy elitist to demonstrate how funny silly trollism is. A few people get it but it doesn't make me a troll anymore than making fun of gambling makes me a gambler.

As for selling secrets to the Russians I never have, because I am not a Republican.



I guess Betelgeuse is running late. :^?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 20 - 08:13 PM

Cetheora aipgitre báse: báithe, condailbe, imresan, doingthe.
                                    --Kuno Meyer, Triads, 252.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 May 20 - 09:39 PM

Three things that are the best in the world: the hand of a good carpenter, the hand of a skilled woman, the hand of a good smith.
                   --Meyer, Triads, 76.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 May 20 - 10:23 PM

No one has posted ANY BS in the last two days??? There hasn't been ANY??

I doubt that! Get on the stick, sibs!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 May 20 - 11:03 PM

I tore down my wood-fire kiln today. I built the arch about twenty-five years ago from salvaged fire brick I got at no charge for hauling it away. But I never finished the other parts (firebox, front and rear walls, chimney) for various reasons, including that I was going to have to buy new brick to finish the project and it was going to cost a shitload. So today, twenty-five years later, I decided the bricks could be put to better use as pavers or something and tore it all down. One man, one hydraulic bottle jack, one length of two-by-four, one crowbar, one big pile of bricks, no injuries.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 May 20 - 12:48 AM

I seem to change my mind about piles of limestone around here every few years. I've built small walls around the yard then moved them or used them as pavers. We're just speeding up geological time a little around our yards.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 20 - 10:09 AM

Bee-Dub, is that fire near you? Or were you just firing pots?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 May 20 - 04:32 PM

I did laundry today and it's a nice dry windy day on which I would normally hang some of these clothes on the line. But I don't know if the puppy will leave them alone and I don't want to spray that Petco "Yuck!" on my clothes to get her to leave them alone. I'll have to test her ability to leave stuff alone with an old pair of jeans that I don't wear any more (so if they get shredded she'll get shouted at but I won't be out a favorite pair of pants).

Dogs. You can't live with them and you can't live without them. Well, not very well, anyway. Life is better with dogs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 May 20 - 08:10 PM

Rap, that fire is in this county, but about 25 miles south if where I live. I just hope the yahoos in this part of the county can resist the urge to burn trash piles and such until after we get some rain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 May 20 - 09:44 AM

All the songs about pandemic seem morbid or profane. So here is a zippy calypso beat with steel drums and a tune we all already know.
You know, the one sung by a red crab. ENJOY A Happy tune
Under the sea:

The sickest are always greener
In somebody else's State
You dream about going 'up' there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here at blue heaven's gate
Such wonderful things surround you
What is your ultimate fate?

In Quarantine
In Quarantine
Each little griever
Down with a fever
Take it from me

Up in Montana they work all day
In the meat plants they slave away
The Navy's devotin'
No Hospital boatin'
Docked in the bay

Out there all the folks is happy
Like hot dogs snug in their roll
The old in a home ain't happy
They sad 'cause they got a cold
But folks on the phone are lucky
on a cruise you have a worser fate
One day everyones sickly
eatin off the same ol' plates

In quarantine
In quarantine
Nobody beat us
We jus breathed dust
Stuff we can't see

Its the old folks who are on the hook
Lots of food for the young to cook
They got no troubles
Life is all bubbles
In quarantine (out on the beach)
In quarantine
Since life is sweet here
We got the beat here
Naturally (Naturally)

Even the doctor and the nurse
They get the surge an ride the hearse
We got the spirit
You got to hear it
Above the streets

Yeah, In quarantine
In Quarantine
playin the B ball
life is in free fall.
In Quarantine

The mail man can play
The grocers on strings
The krauts rockin' out
The agent she sings
The spanic and the black
They know where it's at
An' oh that trumpet blow

Yeah, In quarantine
In quarantine
When the projects
Begin the concert
It's music to me (It's music to me)
What do they got? A Stienway grand?
We got a hot apartment house band
Each little fam here
Know how to jam here
In quarantine
Each little bug here
Cuttin' a rug here
In quarantine
Each giant whale here
Know how to wail here
That's why it's better
Under the weather
Ya not much luck here
Stuck in New York here
in quarantine

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 20 - 11:28 AM

In quarantine, in quarantine
No one can hear you if you scream
In quarantine.

So don't fall down,
Don't bang your head,
Above all else don't fall down dead,
In quarantine.
                  --"Songs For Quarantine", 1768 or thereabouts

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 20 - 09:41 AM

I was quarantined once before, in my youth. Even my mother wouldn't come in the room, but simply threw some broth or a hard crust of bread in my direction. The doctor used a 25 foot long stethoscope to examine me. But to the amazement of everyone I survived. I owe it all to a life of dissipation and overindulgence before I was five which hardened my constitution against the diseases of childhood.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 20 - 12:36 PM

Oh yeah? I betcha I was sicker than you. I had measles and chickenpox at the same time. A 107 fever is recoverable. You wouldn't recover all your brain cells but you could still be a congressman.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 20 - 02:12 PM

Anyone can but Nobody knows and Somebody should do some thing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 May 20 - 02:20 PM

My MOM complained that the four of us never got sick all at once, so there was one year when a lot of stuff was going around and she'd have a month's worth of sick kids (averaging a week of school lost per kid) at a time. That's tough even when she was a stay-at-home mom at the time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 20 - 02:30 PM

btw There is now room for the next generation Lithium battery that can not overheat, burn or explode and can use poly chain molecules that bypass the use of all precious metals on the cheap for every current use and beyond.

Adding these two innovations will make someone a billionaire.
I just hope it won't be a robber baron.

One would need those 2 innovations and an army of lawyers of course.

Subject: RE: MOST - Mother of some truth [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 20 - 02:57 PM

The 1st innovation is from an American woman and the second is from 2 guys in Europe. Needless to say they have never met each other but thats how fortunes are made by knowledgable 3rd parties.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 20 - 09:51 PM

8.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 20 - 09:51 PM

9.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 20 - 09:52 PM

900!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 May 20 - 08:21 AM

Happy Birthday

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 20 - 06:14 PM

Feeling the need for stimulus, I just tried to find where the IRS is ending my stimulus check (ends Wednesday). I put in my 2019 income tax info, I put in everything they wanted. Twice it came back as "does not match the records in our files". On the third try it said that I'd exceeded my allowance of tries for the day and to come back in 24 hours.

I'm stimulated, all right.

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

It's a jungle out there
People sowin confusion everywhere
No one one seems to care, well I do HEY
who's in charge here?

It's a jungle out there
Poison in the very air we breathe
You know whats in the water that you drink
Well I do, its ..so.. crazy
People think I'm crazy that I worry all the time
If you paid attention you'd be worried too
You better pay attention or this world we love so much

Might.. Just.. Kill You

I could be wrong now......But I don't think so

Cuz there's a jungle out there
It's a jungle out there


Randy Newman

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 May 20 - 10:18 AM

No judgements here but if You reealy need stimulus $ you have to do it the American way.
Go to the dark web and buy 100 SS numbers for $5. File all 100 numbers for stimulus $ with your change of address info. You will average about 3-5% of stimulus checks.

You will get other people's stimulus $ , which is probably what happened to you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 May 20 - 07:35 AM

In just 3 hours and 25 minutes the cast comes off. I hope the troupe doesn't mind being between engagements again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 May 20 - 07:49 AM

This may the chance of a lifetime for Donuel DeNiro.
The show must go on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 May 20 - 08:01 AM

Power outages all morning. I better order chargers while I can.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 May 20 - 09:43 PM

The cast is off. The thumb looks like I have ichthyosis with a 2.5 inch scar down the middle of it.

There is no charger shortage. It is a plot by George Gates and Bill Soros and the Cock Brothers to bring about a newish world order with the Illuminati in control. You will soon be kowtowing to anyone who can correctly pronounce "Chwyrligwgan" because the NishWO will be based in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch so you can't get a ticket to go there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 May 20 - 12:41 AM

Scars are us this year at the MOAB. The six-inch scar down the middle of my knee is coming along.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 20 - 01:11 AM

Well as you know there is a war on. The Corporal just brought in some pancake bisquits and fresh unknown leaf tea. The self isolation in our unit is pretty severe since we don't even allow eye contact.
Sgt. Felix Shadwell still has a cast on his left hand but manages guitar quite well with 2 fingers still exposed and can play most chords by applying his one front tooth on the E string. Playing revelie on a halting guitar is not good for morale but its better than nothing.

After breakfast I ordered Steve Shaw to be washed and brought to my tent for interrogation. We are planning a scouting expedition to a store alledged to have supplies. With any luck the intelligence will end with a raiding party that might even find electricity to charge our devices. We've been using induction charging by rubbing a balloon on our hair and touching the phone. We're running out of balloons and need more but Shadwell discovered inflated condoms work even better.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 May 20 - 10:07 AM

From a physical standpoint, 2020 has been a relatively injury and trauma free year for me. But I'm going to buy a couple of new outdoor tools today and 2020 still has 231 pays to catch up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 20 - 11:51 AM

Wood chippers and chain saws are the way to go.
Weed whackers and hedge trimmers are for wimps.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 20 - 12:25 PM

'231 pays'
I recognize p as an upside down backwards d. My mancave has 2 large mirrors at right angles to allow views from 4 different couch/body positions, 2 of which are backward and demands a D'Vinci like ability to read backwards. Reading backwards is no problem but words over 7 letters are still time consuming.

Using double prismatic goggles will allow an upside down backward visual field which makes using power tools far more exciting.

Have fun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 May 20 - 12:26 PM

I think the trauma this year is psychic and is huge; for real serendipity you can't go wrong with a double-headed axe, though power tools can be epic. Consider Robert Frost's Out, out–. I read that one to my kids a number of times as we worked our way through Frost poetry collections at bedtime (we read at bedtime until they were in high school; that would have been the thing of nightmares for small children.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 20 - 03:36 PM

Mr. Wagner was more round than tall and had a backyard as steep as 45 degrees. He labored at digging a double terrace. When he got older he decided to use extra long railroad ties to trim the vertical earth that wanted to give way. He should have used stone but railroad ties seemed better. The work was harder the older he got and he liked his beer.
By the time he finished he had handcut and fit nearly 50 rail road ties.
He averaged one lost finger every five rail road ties since the saw would bind and surprise him. Today the job is done and Mr. Wagner has his thumbs and one finger.
The moral of this story is that perspiration and perseverence
is foolish when it becomes severence, go finger.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 May 20 - 04:54 PM

Is there severance pay?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 May 20 - 05:55 PM

When I took a wood shop class in high school, I learned that the tool responsible for the most injuries is not the table saw or the band saw or the lathe, but the wood chisel. Everyone thinks it's simple and safe so they get careless.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 May 20 - 01:27 PM

So Stilly used to entertain her kids with poems about children who died after chopping their hands off. And nobody ever called Child Protective Services?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 20 - 04:21 PM

My mother read us

The little toy dog is covered with dust,
    But sturdy and staunch he stands;
The little toy soldier is red with rust,
    And his musket molds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new
    And the soldier was passing fair;
And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
    Kissed them and put them there.

“Now, don’t you go till I come,” he said,
    “And don’t you make any noise!”
So, toddling off to his trundle-bed,
    He dreamed of the pretty toys;
And as he was dreaming, an angel song
    Awakened our Little Boy Blue —
Oh! the years are many, the years are long,
    But the little toy friends are true!

Aye, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand,
    Each in the same old place —
Awaiting the touch of a little hand,
    And the smile of a little face;
And they wonder, as waiting these long years through
    In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue
    Since he kissed them and put them there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 20 - 04:23 PM

And also

Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,
An' wash the cups and saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,
An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,
An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an* earn her board-an'-keep;
An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about,
An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you
?Ef you
?Don't
?Watch
?Out!


Onc't they was a little boy wouldn't say his pray'rs—
An' when he went to bed at night, away up-stairs,
His mammy heerd him holler, an' his daddy heerd him bawl,
An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all!
An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an* cubby-hole, an' press,
An' seeked him up the chimbly flue, an' ever'wheres, I guess;
But all they ever found was thist his pants an' roundabout!
An' the Gobble-uns'll git you
?Ef you
?Don't
?Watch
?Out!


An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin,
An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood-an'-kin;
An' onc't when they was "company," an' ole folks was there,
She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care!
An' thist as she kicked her heels, an' turn't to run an' hide,
They was two great big Black Things a-standin' by her side,
An' they snatched her through the ceilin' 'fore she knowed what she's about!
An' the Gobble-uns'll git you
?Ef you
?Don't
?Watch
?Out!


An' little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue,
An' the lamp wick sputters, an' the wind goes woo-oo!
An' you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray,
An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew is all squenched away,
You better mind yer parents, an' yer teachers fond an' dear,
An' churish them 'at loves you, an' dry the orphant's tear,
An' he'p the pore an' needy ones 'at clusters all about,
Er the Gobble-uns'll git you
?Ef you
?Don't
?Watch
?Out!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 May 20 - 04:28 PM

Mom!

Some of the sibs have excessively morbid taste in children's reading matter!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 20 - 05:30 PM

Ah! With the first three words the song popped into my head. I can't read it without singing. Eugene Field, Little Boy Blue - that was one of my favorite songs that my father sang. He also put another Field poem to music, "The Little Peach." That one was a little more sinister.

Folk songs are full of love, violence, gore, murder, drama . . . I'm sure it's why I have a great love of murder mysteries now. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 20 - 08:50 PM

A LITTLE peach in the orchard grew,—        
A little peach of emerald hue;        
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew,        
                   It grew.        

One day, passing that orchard through,              
That little peach dawned on the view        
Of Johnny Jones and his sister Sue—        
                   Them two.        

Up at that peach a club they threw—        
Down from the stem on which it grew        
Fell that peach of emerald hue.        
                   Mon Dieu!        

John took a bite and Sue a chew,        
And then the trouble began to brew,—        
Trouble the doctor could n't subdue.        
                   Too true!        

Under the turf where the daisies grew        
They planted John and his sister Sue,        
And their little souls to the angels flew,—        
                   Boo hoo!        

What of that peach of the emerald hue,        
Warmed by the sun, and wet by the dew?        
Ah, well, its mission on earth is through.        
                   Adieu!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 20 - 09:02 PM

We Are Seven
By William Wordsworth
———A simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?

I met a little cottage Girl:
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.

She had a rustic, woodland air,
And she was wildly clad:
Her eyes were fair, and very fair;
—Her beauty made me glad.

“Sisters and brothers, little Maid,
How many may you be?”
“How many? Seven in all,” she said,
And wondering looked at me.

“And where are they? I pray you tell.”
She answered, “Seven are we;
And two of us at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea.

“Two of us in the church-yard lie,
My sister and my brother;
And, in the church-yard cottage, I
Dwell near them with my mother.”

“You say that two at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea,
Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell,
Sweet Maid, how this may be.”

Then did the little Maid reply,
“Seven boys and girls are we;
Two of us in the church-yard lie,
Beneath the church-yard tree.”

“You run about, my little Maid,
Your limbs they are alive;
If two are in the church-yard laid,
Then ye are only five.”

“Their graves are green, they may be seen,”
The little Maid replied,
“Twelve steps or more from my mother’s door,
And they are side by side.

“My stockings there I often knit,
My kerchief there I hem;
And there upon the ground I sit,
And sing a song to them.

“And often after sun-set, Sir,
When it is light and fair,
I take my little porringer,
And eat my supper there.

“The first that died was sister Jane;
In bed she moaning lay,
Till God released her of her pain;
And then she went away.

“So in the church-yard she was laid;
And, when the grass was dry,
Together round her grave we played,
My brother John and I.

“And when the ground was white with snow,
And I could run and slide,
My brother John was forced to go,
And he lies by her side.”

“How many are you, then,” said I,
“If they two are in heaven?”
Quick was the little Maid’s reply,
“O Master! we are seven.”

“But they are dead; those two are dead!
Their spirits are in heaven!”
’Twas throwing words away; for still
The little Maid would have her will,
And said, “Nay, we are seven!”

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 May 20 - 02:28 AM

Babes in the Wood - that one always got me. The Wicked Mother - is that the one who stabbed her babies and sees their ghosts? Oops - this is becoming a nostalgic music thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 May 20 - 07:03 AM

"Dead Babies" - Alice Cooper

Little Betty ate a pound of aspirin
She got them from the shelf upon the wall
Betty's mommy wasn't there to save her
She didn't hear, hear her little baby call

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well, we didn't want you anyway
Lalala-lalalalalala-la

Daddy is an agrophile in Texas
Mommy's on the bar most every night
Little Betty's sleeping in the graveyard
Living there in burgundy and white

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well, we didn't love you anyway
Lalala-lalalalalala-la

Goodbye little Betty
Goodbye little Betty
So long little Betty
So long little Betty
Betty, so long

Dead babies can't take care of themselves
Dead babies can't take things off the shelf
Well, we didn't need you anyway
Lalala-lalalalalala-la

Goodbye little Betty

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 May 20 - 12:59 PM

Don, I moved your interesting remark about your vaccine experience to the vaccine watch thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 20 - 02:17 PM

I remember how my girl friend Linda found me and was more upset than me. I was more surprised than upset.
2% of medications are vaccines compared with all other drugs.
That may temporarily change soon.
Internet nuts like Jenny McCarthy are so anti vaccine I just didn't want to besmerch vaccines in any way, but rushing to a vaccine is a lesson well learned now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 20 - 09:46 PM

Father, dear Father, come home with me now;
The clock in the steeple strikes one.
You said you were coming right home from the shop,
As soon as your day's work was done.
The fire is all out, the house is all dark,
And Mother's been watching since tea,
With poor little Benny so sick in her arms,
And no one to help her but me.

Chorus: Come home, come home, come home;
Please, Father, dear Father, come home.

Father, dear Father, come home with me now;
The clock in the steeple strikes two.
The night has grown colder and Benny is worse,
But he has been calling for you.
Indeed, he is worse; Ma says he will die,
Perhaps before morning shall dawn,
And this is the message she sent me to bring:
Please, Father, dear Father, come home.

Father, dear Father, come home with me now;
The clock in the steep strikes three.
The house is so lonely, the hours are so long,
For poor weeping Mother and me.
Yes, we are alone; poor Benny is dead
And gone with the angels of light.
And these are the very last words that he said:
"I want to kiss Papa goodnight."

(Chorus)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 20 - 09:48 PM

My father is a drunkard,
My mother, she is dead;
And I am just an orphan child,
No place to lay my head;
All through this world I wander,
They drive me from their door,
Some day I'll find a welcome
On Heaven's golden shore.

Now if to me you'll listen,
I'll tell my story sad;
How drinking rum and gambling
Hell Has stole away my dad;
My mother is in heaven,
Where God and the angels smile;
And now I know she's watching
Her lonely orphan child.

We all were once so happy,
And had a happy home;
Till dad, he went to drinking rum,
And then he gambled some;
He left my darling mother,
She died of a broken heart;
And as I tell my story,
I see your tear-drops start.

Don't weep for me and mother,
although' I know 'tis said;
But try to get someone to cheer
And save my poor lonely dad;
"I'm awful cold and hungry,"
She closed her eyes and sighed;
Then those who heard her story,
Knew the orphan child has died.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 20 - 09:50 PM

I'm alone, all alone, my friends all have fled
My father's a drunkard, my mother is dead.
I'm a poor little girl, I wonder and weep
For the voice of my mother to sing me to sleep.
She sleeps on the hill, in a bed made of clay
How cold it did seem to lay mother away.
She's gone with the angels, and none do I see
So dear as the face of my mother to me.

cho: I'm a little lone girl in this cold world so wild,
God look down and pity the drunkard's lone child.
Look down and pity, Oh soon come to me
Take me to dwell with mother and Thee.

We were so happy till father drank rum;
Then aII our sorrows and troubles begun.
Mother grew paler and wept every day;
Baby and I were too hungry to pIay.
SIowIy they faded and one summer night
Found their sweet faces aIl silent and white
And with big tears sIowIy dropping I said,
"Father's a drunkard and mother is dead."

Oh, if some temperance workers could find
Poor wretched father and speak very kind,
If they could stop him from drinking, why then,
I would feel very happy again.
Is it too Iate? Men of temperance, please try,
For poor littIe Bessie will soon starve and die.
All day Iong I've been begging for bread.
Father's a drunkard and mother is dead.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 May 20 - 11:26 PM

Well, since the theme seems to have shifted from dead children to orphaned children....

And I actually sing this one.

EVERY BUSH AND TREE

I was born in old Missouri.
My family they were poor.
My mother's name was Laura
And daddy his name was Joe.

Mama called me to her bedside
Saying, "Son, I've got to go.
But we'll meet again up yonder
Where the parting will be no more."

I hear the soft wind creepin'
Through every bush and tree.
I know my mother's waiting
In her heavenly home for me.

Now, Daddy moved back home to North Fork
And he left us here all alone.
And the sheriff came by one evening
And he took us to an orphan's home.

So come all you orphan children,
Who's left down here below,
We'll go and meet our mothers
Where the parting will be no more.

I hear the soft wind creepin'
Through every bush and tree.
I know my mother's waiting
In her heavenly home for me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 May 20 - 02:16 AM

Geez. Keep this up and someone will push this thread up above the line. :-)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 May 20 - 01:59 PM

No! We can't let Mom be pushed upstairs! It's too dangerous! She might have one of her "fainting spells" and fall down the stairs. You know the "spells" I'm talking about, right? The ones that sometimes afflict Mom somewhere between the second and third empty gin bottle.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 20 - 09:54 PM

She would have a hard time with the altitude, start breathing heavily, and we all know what happens next. Right! Someone calls the ambulance and she tests positive and...and...we're never told what she's positive for. Then we go see the lawyer (Taker, Monee, and Runne, Attorneys at Law) and go through that who rigamarole about getting her out of the "Hospital" again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 20 - 08:36 AM

We are arriving at 100,000 deaths a month early on June 1st.
Thats a third of all the corona deaths in the world.
WHY?
By Presidential order 29 states are reopening and no mask is a symbol of bravery and Freedom. The CDC has been cut and fired into oblivion.
The WHO had been defunded by the USA.
The pandemic has been declared a hoax and now its all Obama's fault.
Fox news says take the RED pill like in the Matrix and that the only problem we have is a lockdown by Democrats.

When a virus has an R value of 3 and a third of the country exposes themselves, the rates can only climb. People believe they are bigger than a virus and they would be foolishly RIGHT.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 20 - 09:01 AM

[Verse 1]
I've got it man, it holds my breath down
What goes around really goes around
I walk alone, my days are still good
But I still can't breathe the way I should

[Chorus]
This is the loneliest disease
I've got the loneliest disease
Ah, ah, ah
I don't like who I've become
It is hard to take or keep my breath
Ah, ah, ah
Lonely disease, loneliest death

[Verse 2]
When I try, I try my best
I know I would not expect anything less
I do myself up, make sure I look good
I wait to get better but not as good as it should

[Chorus]
This is the loneliest disease
I've got the loneliest disease
Ah, ah, ah
I don't like who I've become
It is hard to take or keep my breath
Ah, ah, ah
Lonely disease, loneliest death

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 20 - 08:18 PM

Best song to empty a room!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 May 20 - 08:29 PM

Verse 1
Uh huh it's the plague
Gonna kill you in a few days
A pandemic so severe
The Black Death Caused such horror and fear
And there ain't no cure for that girl
You'll be dead in no time flat girl
You'll get acral necrosis
From the Yersinia Pestis
And it makes your tongue all black girl
Gonna bury out in back girl

Hook
Ooh, Fleas on rats (X5)

Verse 2
Started in China, don't know how
But the Mongols used Biological Warfare
At Kaffa hurled the Italians at Geonesse
The Italians fled back to Sicily
And in 1347
The Black Death said hello to Europe
In infected fleas
From port cities along trade roads
Buboes swelling in the nodes
And it spread real fast like that girl
Better flee when you see a rat girl
People livin for the now, bro
Like that Book by Boccaccio
Oh you could be a [?] girl

[Hook]
Ooh, Fleas on rats (X5)

Verse 3
5 kilometers a day
And in 5 years
Killed two-thirds of the population
Some blamed the lepers or Jews
Did they poison the wells?
It led to peasant revolts
Loss of faith
And some serious persecution
People carried out patches of herbs
to protect them from the smell
Doctor's didn't know what caused it
Bolt your door if your family's afflicted
Bodies in the cart girl
Skeletons in the art girl
But the decreased population
led to amelioration
Of the peasant folk, hey
they could ask for more pay

[Hook]
Ooh, Fleas on rats (X5)

Verse 4
Let me hear you say
This plague is bubonic
B-U-B-O-N-I-C
This plague is bubonic
B-U-B-O-N-I-C
This plague is bubonic
B-U-B-O-N-I-C
This plague is bubonic
B-U-B-O-N-I-C
A pandemic so severe
The Black Death Caused such horror and fear
And there ain't no cure for that girl
You'll be dead in no time flat girl
You'll get acral necrosis
From the Yersinia Pestis
And it makes your tongue all black girl
Gonna bury out in back girl

[Hook]
Ooh, Fleas on rats (X5)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 May 20 - 11:38 PM

Well, damn. MOM took a bottle of single malt Scotch and a glass and stomped out onto the screened in porch to rock on the glider and think about Micca. RIP, little big man.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 20 - 07:28 AM

Covid 19 in quarantine is a silent disease
Bubonic victims screamed loudly right before death


In quarantine, in quarantine
Everyone hears you when you scream.
With BUBONIC your screams are moronic
In Quarantine

You will fall down now.
and bang your head now.
When the buboes swell,
The pain is worse than hell

In quarantine people did scream.
Its an extreme dream
it burned worse than streamed steam
In quarantine

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 May 20 - 11:26 AM

Anyone name "Michael" is taken immediately to the heaven of his or her own choice. This is in the Bible, the Quran, the Baghavid Gita, the saying of the Buddha, and every other relevant source of spiritual and secular literature. It's even found (go on, look for it!) in Teschi's Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Schrödinger Operators.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 20 - 01:02 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/11/18/bubonic-plague-inner-mongolia/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 May 20 - 09:00 PM

So? Do you think that no contagious disease threatens first-world countries?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 20 - 10:14 AM

We currently have a hemmorragic epidemic in the US that only wild rabbits die from.
In the US we are more likely to get a touch of the plague by contact and not fleas. Penacilain allows a quick cure, most of the time.

Like Trump I'm not a doctor but I stayed in a Holiday Inn.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 20 - 10:24 AM

TB or not TB

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 20 May 20 - 12:55 PM

I wish there was a "Like" button, but, alas, my mouse would die from exhaustion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 May 20 - 01:02 PM

I heard on one of the MSNBC programs last night that because of the social distancing there are fewer cases of colds and such going around. There are a few rays of sunshine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 20 - 01:34 PM

More Solar X rays reach your body and damage your DNA than gamma rays from super novas. They effect our evolution and life span. If we had a red dwarf Sol, our life span could seem immortal in comparison. Aliens from dim planets should also have large eyes but I have never seen one.
Rays of sunshine are a mixed bag.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 May 20 - 02:11 PM

We have been under attack for quite some time, with Them bombarding us with their ray-weapons. YOU think it's sunshine, but the Idaho Legion knows better. That's why the Secret Space Defense Headquarters is buried in an old copper mine near Inkom. It's camouflaged as the Bannock County Land Fill.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 20 - 03:17 PM

Copper mines are not as mobile as tin foil hats.

Its a sad season for TV's '24'
Jack Baur has virtually died from Coronovirus.
The show may go without him.
This has Donald rethinking masks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 May 20 - 03:47 PM

MOM wants to make a tinfoil helmet and mail it to The Donald. I told her it would clash with the orange he sprays on his face (except for his eyelids, where he puts a couple of little lid covers every morning - and seems to think the world can't tell that's what he's doing?)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 20 - 07:57 PM

I've tried readjusting the color on my TV to no avail as the skin around Trump's eyes, where there is no bronzer, keeps turning more blue than the usual pasty white.

Due to his makeup he has always had the opposite look of a raccoon around his eyes but he really looks sick now.

To be fair some others like Nancy Pelosi looks like they are wearing a
mask.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 May 20 - 08:21 PM

Here's a start. And with this he'd never be without that which he so much craves.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 May 20 - 11:53 PM

Nancy Pelosi on MSNBC tonight was not very well lit or she'd look like her usual self. All of this home reporting means people have various types of light fixtures in the rooms and the color of the light can make a huge difference in the appearance on a broadcast or in photographs.

Good old Archie McPhee. Located in the neighborhood where several family members have resided over the years. Nice area.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 May 20 - 07:58 AM

My father married a pure Navaho
My people were ashamed where ever we go
The Indians said I was white by law
The White Man always called me "Indian Squaw"
Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she's no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born
We never settled, went from town to town
When you're not welcome you don't hang around
The other children always laughed at me
"Give her a feather, she's Navaho"
Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she's no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born
We weren't accepted and I felt ashamed
Nineteen I left them, tell me who's to blame
My life since then is reservations
But I can't run away from what I am
Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she's no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born
si lence, that's all that I hear
Si lence, cuz the virus killed them all
Si lence, with no intensive care
Now one side's against me till the day that I fall

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 May 20 - 11:19 AM

Did Cher write that (too lazy to look it up . . . )

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 May 20 - 03:46 PM

You know who wrote the lazy beggining and end.
But who wrote the Last Mohawk Tasmainian Navaho CroMagnon Neanderthal?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 May 20 - 01:13 PM

Poor Mom! All her kids are off having Memorial Day weekend fun and she's sitting here neglected.

No, wait! The kids aren't having fun! There's still a pandemic! They're staying home and being bored!

So, what's their excuse now?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 20 - 05:46 PM

My young son's excuse is that he is the chief moderator of a role playing website.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 May 20 - 09:35 PM

Just got back from dinner at the gas station.----------------------------------------

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [anux]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 20 - 09:57 PM

There are gems among truck stop oasis.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 20 - 12:55 AM

It's easier to get a business loan for a gas station than a restaurant (at least in this part of Texas) so there are a lot of gas stations with quite decent small restaurants inside. It has surprised a few guests when we run by the corner Citgo gas station for gyros.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 20 - 12:46 PM

In my thinking on one end of the grand pendulum of human events and responses, is the compounding of negative magical thinking mistakes like the Children's Crusade or the 3rd Reich, and on the other end are the compounded enlightenment extremes of Realitivity and super inventions and discoveries.

We may be at the extreme right swing of the pendulum or near to it.
Like when we are on a swing this is the time to gain a little boost to the swing down and to the left. I don't know if sticking our legs out or leaning back is what gives us added momentum. Its probably both but we are going to be OK.

Everyone is overdosed with rule by lies and TV hypnosis to the point of rejection. The old tricks are suspect and the new meme begins.
In reality there are many pendulums at different degrees all swinging simultaneously but I think people visualize in 2 dimensions most easily.

I hope we identify the coming time as a new age instead of a post appocolyptic anything. My highly ignored, arrogant sounding, journal of thought droppings work is done. All thats left is repitition or forever unfinished attempts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 May 20 - 02:40 PM

The restaurant in question is called Cafe Tuscano and it's one of the best in Idaho (really!). Their food is outstanding and the   tiramisu (made there)is literally national-award-winning. Still, taking guests to the Chevron station for a dinner of grilled tri-tip and veggies with an excellent wine/beer selection (and harder stuff) and very tasty desserts isn't in the usual pervue of folks from, say, DC or Chicago.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 May 20 - 06:39 PM

There's a Thai restaurant in Pensacola that shares a building with a car wash. You can enjoy a nice dish of red curry while watching cars go through the wash tunnel.

The cars being washed provide an endless source of distraction, which makes the restaurant a good place to take a dinner companion you plan on ignoring.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 May 20 - 10:14 PM

Their corn dogs are, at best, okay.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 20 - 08:42 AM

Today shall be fair and 68° F. Later this week it shall continue to be fair and up to 89°F.

Yesterday I put the flower boxes out on the porch. Then I heard it, way up in the air: a duckdog barking away, and never was barking so sad, and never was barking so gay.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 20 - 04:39 PM

Dining on dime
at lunchtime
The last time I was at Horn and Hardart I was much shorter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 May 20 - 07:05 PM

I never ate food from an automat. They never really caught on in the South. Probably because cooked grits have a shelf-life of about ten minutes before they turn into a congealed gelatinous mass even a dog won't eat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 20 - 09:04 PM

Nonsense! I have a lovely recipe for grits souffle (as made at the King's Arms Tavern in Williamsburg, VA). We first had them there:

Waiter: Would you like to try our grits souffle?
THWAP, g.s. on the plate.

It really is very good. And grits with shrimp as made in Charleston, SC -- delicious.

Gator Tail a la Pensacola is pretty terrible, since the gator ain't dead.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 20 - 09:28 PM

The place had such loud austere acoustics like a bathroom. I could peep at a portion of the kitchen through the little glass door resolutely guarding a slice of pie for I was without a dime. Hey buddy can you...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 20 - 10:32 PM

Eating live animals is unique. In the case of a live prawn you can feel it resign its life in your mouth, if you dont hurry it will seemingly come back alive with its last ounce of hope.
Then there is the adrenalized blood of freshly hunted...

excerpt from 'How to Become a Vegan' by Tom Ato

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 May 20 - 10:43 AM

The Art of the Deal (ammended by Michael Cohen

1       Once you have their money... you never give it back.
2       The best deal is the one that brings the most profit.      
2       Money is everything.      
3       Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.      
5       Always exaggerate your estimates.      
6       Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity.      
7       Keep your ears open.      
8       Small print leads to large risk.
9       Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
10       Greed is eternal.      
14       The quickest way to find profits is to let them find you.      
15       Dead men close no deals
16       A deal is a deal... until a better one comes along.
17       A contract is a contract is a contract.
18       A Deal without profit is no deal at all.      
19       Satisfaction is not guaranteed.      
20       He who dives under the table today lives to profit tomorrow.      
21       Never place friendship above profit.      
22       A wise man can hear profit in the wind.      
23       Nothing is more important than your health.
27       There's nothing more dangerous than an honest businessman.      
29       What's in it for me?      
31       Never make fun of a loser's mother. Insult something he cares about instead.
33       It never hurts to suck up to the boss.      
34       War is good for business..
35       Peace is good for business.      
37       The early investor reaps the most interest.
39       Don't tell customers more than they need to know.      
40       She can touch your dick but never your $.      
41       Profit is its own reward.      
43       Feed your greed, but not enough to choke it.      
44       Never confuse wisdom with luck.      
45       Expand or die
47       Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own.      
48       The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.      
52       Never ask when you can take
53       Never trust anybody taller than you.      
54       Rate divided by time equals profit.
55       Take joy from profit, and profit from joy.      
57       Good customers are as rare as bearer bond—treasure
58       There is no substitute for success.      
59       Free advice is seldom cheap.      
60       Keep your lies consistent or for 2 weeks or not..      
62       The riskier the road, the greater the profit.      
63       Work is the best therapy-at least for your employees.      
65       Win or lose, there's always Huyperian beetle snuff.      
66       Someone's always got bigger debts.
68       Risk doesn't always equal reward.      
69       Trumps are not responsible for the stupidity of other races.      
74       Knowledge equals profit.
75       Home is where the resort is.      
76       Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.      
77       If you break it, I'll charge you for it!
82       The flimsier the product, the higher the price.      
85       Never let the competition know what you're thinking.      
87       Learn the customer's weaknesses, so that you can better take advantage of him
88       It ain't over 'til its over'
88       Vengeance will cost you everything.
89       Ask not what your profits can do for you, but what you can do for your profits.      
89       [It is] better to lose some profit and live than lose all profit and die.      
92       There are many paths to profit.      
94       Females and finances don't mix.
95       Expand or die.      
97       Enough... is never enough.
98       Every man has his price
98       If you can't take it with you, don't go.      
99       Trust is the biggest liability of all.      
100       When it's good for business, tell the truth.
101       Profit trumps emotion.       The Long Mirage
102       Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever.
103       Sleep can interfere with opportunity
104       Faith moves mountains... of inventory.      
106       There is no honor in peverts
108       Hope doesn't keep the lights on.      
108       A woman wearing clothes is like a man without any profits.      
109       Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.
110       Exploitation begins at home.      
111       Treat people in your debt like family... exploit them.      
112       Never have sex with the wife's sister.      
113       Always have sex with the boss.      
117       You can't free a fish from water
121       Everything is for sale, even friendship.      
123       Even a blind man can recognize the glow of gold
125       You can't make a deal if you're dead.      
135       Listen to secrets, but never repeat them.
139       Wives serve, brothers inherit.      
141       Only fools pay retail.      
144       There's nothing wrong with charity... as long as it winds up in your pocket.      
147       People love the bartender.
151       Even when you're a customer, sell yourself.      
153       Sell the sizzle, not the steak
162       Even in the worst of times someone turns a profit
168       Whisper your way to success.      
177       Know your enemies... but do business with them always.      
181       Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit.      
182       When life hands you grease, make detergent
184       A Trump waits to bid until his opponents have exhausted themselves.      
188       Not even dishonesty can tarnish the shine of profit.
189       Let others keep their reputation. You keep their money.      
190       Hear all, trust nothing.      
192       Never cheat an Arab unless you're sure you can get away with it.      
193       Trouble comes in threes.      
193       It's never too late to fire the staff.      
194       It's always good business to know about new customers
199       Location, location, location.
200       A Trump chooses no side but his own      
202       Suckers are succulent, but sometimes they bite back
208       Sometimes, the only thing more dangerous than a ? is an answer.      
211       Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.      
212       A good lie is easier to believe than the truth.      
214       Never begin a (business) negotiation on an empty stomach.      
216       Never gamble with a telepath.      
217       Always know what you're buying.
218       Sometimes what you get free costs entirely too much.      
219       Possession is eleven-tenths of the law!      
223       Beware the man who doesn't take time for blackmail
227       If that's what's written, then that's what's written.      
229       Gold lasts longer than lust.      
235       Duck; death is head high
236       You can buy fate with enough hate
239       Never be afraid to label a product Trump.      
240       Time, like platinum, is a highly limited commodity.      
242       More is good... all is better
243       Always leave yourself an out.      
248       The definition of insanity is trying the same failed scheme & expecting different results
255       A wife is luxury... a smart accountant a neccessity.      
257       When the messenger comes to appropriate your profits, kill the messenger
261       A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience
263       Never allow doubt to tarnish your lust for gold
266       When in doubt, lie.      
267       If you believe it, they believe it.      
272       Always inspect the merchandise before making a deal.
280       If it ain't broke, don't fix it.      
284       Deep down, everyone's bought.
285       No good deed ever goes unpunished
287       Always get somebody else to do the lifting
288       Never get into anything that you can't get out of
289       A man is only worth the sum of his possessions.      
290       An angry man is an enemy, and a satisfied man is an ally.      
291       The less employees know about the cash flow, the smaller the share they can demand.
292       Betrayal can be fired - the same as loyalty
293       The more time they take deciding, the more money they will spend.      
294       A bargain usually isn't
431       When the shooting starts, let the mercenaries handle it!
432       To retalliate and defeat - humilliate by a tweet


ALWAYS SUE THE BASTARDS

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 May 20 - 11:12 PM

Day-old grits and that Eye-talian polenta stuff are pretty much one and the same. Except that polenta's expensive and day-old grits are damned near free.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 20 - 12:29 AM

I'm not a fan of grits, though I make cornbread from cornmeal a couple of times a year. I use most cornmeal in the garden. Corn gluten meal can impede weed growth if you put it out in the winter before they sprout, or sprinkle it on the bare soil you've just weeded before putting in bedding plants. That bright yellow looks pretty alarming, though, so put mulch over the top of it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 04:57 AM

"impedes weed growth" ? Who needs poisons like Round UP?

Grits (corn meal gluten) and weed control sounds like an organic dream

To me grits as a food is right up there with corn silk spaggetti..

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 07:55 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdB-ZE0daY

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 20 - 09:35 PM

Grits, well prepared (most aren't), are pretty good. Polenta is just a fancy name for corn meal mush solid enough to fry. Now, for good eating try panhaus (a/k/a scrapple, but with a twist).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 20 - 09:50 PM

My orthopedic guy says my knee is looking good, three months out from the surgery. I'm glad I did it, but it is one rough surgery to get over. In lieu of physical therapy, I'm mowing the lawn and walking dogs. His parting shot was "if you want to mow some more, I'll give you my address." I happen to know he has two Labrador retrievers, so if his lawn is like mine, there are some hazards out there. I think I'll pass. My routine is to scoop every day or two and dump it into the compost, then I've started bagging at least some of the grass when I mow so I can toss it on top of the droppings. That's the best poop deodorizer around.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 20 - 06:37 AM

In a year you will have absolute maximum bone growth gripping the new implant so skydiving should be OK. What stimulates bone growth mechanicly is simple 'impact' like jumping/stomping from one stair down to the floor many times. Its the shock, not the load.

Lateral/horizontal shock - not good. Do not high dive above 10 meters

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 20 - 09:39 AM

Hard to get over: arthredesis of the left thumb. You never know how much you use your left thumb until it doesn't work as it always did before.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 20 - 01:36 PM

Fusion? - Range of motion, different angle, pain?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 20 - 08:30 PM

All of the above. Hand therapy and exercises to regain as much range of motion, etc. as possible (and they say I'm doing very well!). Pain? Well, yes -- the bone is growing over the screws.

Yes, I endured the thumbscrews. But I never broke! I never told them!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 20 - 09:19 PM

Your brain devotes more brain area (sensory and motor) to a thumb than all the rest of your fingers. Thats why thumbscrews are such an effective torture. You can even render a person unconscious with a clever blow to the thumb.
I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV.
Neurologicly speaking, after your thumbs comes your tongue and your
___
o   
The eyes are king of all brain resources

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 20 - 10:21 AM

I fell into a tiny crack below the line.
All I have is the conscience of the folk singer
I can not play and sing at the same time.
I only have the talent to make a string sing or
combine songs in a strange and clever way
The envy I feel for performers is what remains

I wonder if it was a 107 fever or skull fracture.
I'd love to be able to sing out, I wish I could
I tried for 50 years but never found that feature.
In this sea of outrage I say whats misunderstood
as fake prestigue or ethics of an age gone by
What defines this age is instead the great lie.

All I have is science with a conscience of folksingers
It may be of some value or a total waste of time
Its a weird combination that probably won't injure
At any rate in my thinking its no great crime.
I've done all the talking about ability and disability
We all have unique mixtures. What about you until lately?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]o
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 20 - 09:33 PM

I just added five more books on American and other pandemics, past and future, to the collection. Now I must read them and others to prepare for a delivering a lecture on the subject in October. Two things in common, from 1793 to the present: business folks think epidemics/pandemics are bad for business and prefer doctors didn't mention them, and all of these diseases are products of The Lower Classes (who live dissolute lives of intemperance). They are also punishments by God for said lives (see above) and it'll only get worse if we don't REPENT!.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 May 20 - 07:01 AM

I'm sorry, but I cannot repent. I have never pented in the first place.

At least, that is, to the best of my knowledge. Since I don't actually know what penting is, I suppose it's possible I have pented at some time in the past without being aware of doing so. But if that's the case, if penting is so unremarkable that one can do it without knowledge of doing so, then why should I go through the trouble of doing it again?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 20 - 07:20 AM

REPENSE The End is Near

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 20 - 05:18 PM

Yep sure nuf comrads - This really is the end !

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 May 20 - 05:47 PM

Naw, just taking a breather after mowing the front lawn. The back yard can wait till tomorrow. MOM has some good iced tea (no "Long Island" about it this time) and the porch swing looks inviting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 20 - 08:24 PM

Out here in Idaho we're just cleanin' our guns and checkin' our ammo. Or some of us are. I'm not that stupid and have better things to do, like water flowers and watch golfers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 May 20 - 11:23 PM

Speaking of cleaning guns and checking ammo, the battery to the combination keypad on my gun safe died. There's an emergency access key around here somewhere, but I'm not sure where. I hope the Zombie Apocalypse can wait until after I find it.

I do have a bunch of 12 Gauge shells that aren't in the gun safe. I suppose that, if push comes to shove, I can make Zombie-killing bombs out of them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 May 20 - 11:46 PM

How are you guys doing for face masks? I suspect Mike is set up with a lifetime supply, what with a house full of quilt stash. How about Bruce? Don? Who else? Keb? Anyone with a particularly large face and/or a beard, let me know. I've made a few for that demographic. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 03:15 PM

Well, Stilly, thanks for your generosity, industry, and big heart.
I don't have a beard.
And at the mental health clinic where I admitted myself this year,
we have fellow patients
waiting out the shelter-in-place pandemic order
by making masks as though somebody's life depended on it.
At this point
I suspect we have more masks than patients ...

but thanks again for asking.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 09:14 PM

Hi, Mom!

This is very strange....

Since I first bought an optical mouse for my laptop some years back, I've been using a piece of white card stock paper as a "mouse pad" instead of mousing on the bare tabletop. Card stock has enough "tooth" that the mouse moves around smoothly and comfortably. A sheet lasts a month or so before it gets dirty and the constant movement of the mouse burnishes the tooth down to where the paper's slick.

I finally got down to my last piece of the card stock I was using so I bought some more today. And guess what? It doesn't work! The shade of white seems to be too "bright" for the mouse's optical sensor. Move the mouse around on it and the cursor stays in one place. Put the old sheet back down, the mouse works fine. Hold the new sheet and the old sheet up for comparison and I can only see the least bit of difference. But that slight difference is enough to make the mouse inoperable. Go figure....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 09:35 PM

If you'd like a real mouse pad let me know. The mouse is still attached to it, so you know it's genuine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 10:29 PM

Thanks for the offer, but I'll just get some pastel card stock. The optical mouse actually works fine on the bare tabletop, but it's quieter with the card stock.

I remember trying to use a piece of red card stock once and it didn't work either. But, in that case, the reason's obviously that red lasers can't "see" red.

The bright white card stock must be too reflective. Sorta like trying to mouse on a mirror.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 10:30 PM

Which brings us to....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 10:31 PM

1000!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 03:59 AM

You CAD

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 05:28 AM

For more bang for the buck I have submitted to DARPA my prototype of semi lethal "super ball rubber bullets". Once fired they don't stop bouncing around for 30 seconds. They can go around corners and injure multiple targets in one shot. I got an endorsement from Steven Miller who said I am in the spirit of the Trump Presidency.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 06:13 PM

Load little ones in a 12 gauge shell and bounce all over the place forever.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 09:57 PM

I'm told the Pentagon is going another direction as in the 82nd Airborn with fixed bayonettes to quell demonstrations of democracy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jun 20 - 09:53 PM

Bayonets are tools that can split a large crowd into smaller crowds if used correctly. Unfortunately, the US Army no longer teaches the use of the bayonet.

I have today ended three straight days of hand therapy (an hour or so each day, not all at once). Monday is my last day, sayeth the hand therapy place. I am told that they have done all they can for me, and now it's up to me to exercise my left thumb and hand. Wednesday next the surgeon (who retires at the end of the month) will "graduate" me. Now I gotta do all the work. Phooey!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 06:32 AM

May you stick out like a healed thumb.
Like your lips, the discomfort you feel is disproportionate to the area needing healing and stretching.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 11:34 AM

I clearly see a battlespace that has to be dominated. Brutal force will be required after all this pandemic stress. Perhaps killing millions of
germs will be the key but I gotta clean the downstairs bathroom at long last.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 04:07 PM

I think if I round up the copious amount of dog hair around here I'll evict germs at the same time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 06:05 PM

dog hair helps coalese meteor dust that collects under the bed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 07:36 PM

... mind you get the dog hair under the refrigerator ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 09:13 PM

Be warned keb, MOAB isn't all moms love, there are fist fights and rough trade in here that could hurt delicate little feelings like yours. Few have the real MOAB password to enter the dark MOAB where folks like you are merely a snack before the great ones become a million different things with a mere incantation and transmogrification. For example 5 years before the election Rap began ressurecting pure evil in the one we know as the Emporer until the decayed flesh of he who is named turnip became President of the USA 5 years later. Who do you think deliberatly made all the evil in the mud hatch out to become Covid 19? If you think you can handle the power of the dark side think again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 09:22 PM

What would Spaw do?
FUCK YOU

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 09:27 PM

Certainly, Donuel, you cannot. That is why the Idaho Legion has sent a special detachment to guard you and your house. You may see them now and then, hovering around you as they lavish protection all over you. Here's a picture of Fat Frank on his last duty assignment -- if you see him, tell him I said hello.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 12:00 AM

Our Legion of foreign wars bartender is named Frankie

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 03:05 PM

hmmm, the dark MOAB on the dark web?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 04:42 PM

Yes but inside a black hole.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 09:44 PM

To the rescue comes

QUARK!! QUARK!!
QUARK!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 12:42 AM

The rank and file inside the CDC,FBI,State,CIA and Pentagon would welcome the help of 'quarks' but what have they done for for those loyal to the Constitution lately. Alex Jones types are strangling the engine of society of oxygen. Its choking and were running out of time.
Stupidity and fantasy is clogging the air filters.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 08:14 AM

BWL you could get a couple feet of surge and rainfall till Tue
Comon back good buddy, over...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [anusx]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 09:32 AM

For years I have repurposed an old church message sign and put it on the corner. It is held up by a real estate post and cross beam.

The first theme was about the diversity of tree leaves in a humorous vein. Now I am making a Star War Themed "Return of the DIVERSE"
This way I avoid any trump image and words like hate or hope.
BLM does appear on the uniforms of the characters.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 02:31 PM

Don, I'm too far inland for storm surge to be a problem. Weather Underground is only predicting about four inches of rain over the next few days where I live (but they've been wrong before). The first real band of storms should be here in about three hours. We'll see how much it dumps and extrapolate from there. At least wind shouldn't be an issue. Top winds are only 50 MPH and they'll be over 100 miles away.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 03:10 PM

whew, It's a large world afterall.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 03:28 PM

I pay a couple of bucks a year to get Wunderground on my phone without ads. Entirely worth it.

There's just the one right now, no daisy chain of storms across the Atlantic. One wonders if the slowdown in human activity will result in a calmer hurricane year.

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

Do you see the giant cyclone off Terra del Feugo?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 09:47 PM

We just had about an inch of rain in a couple of hours. Winds too, of course. For this area that's a monsoon. Sn*w is predicated for Monday, tomorrow is thunderstorms and a high of about 50. Oddly, there were few golfers late this afternoon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 20 - 11:36 AM

Nice weather we're having

Yes

Shall we silence black journalists

By all means

Shall we say it is for bias

Just do it by any means neccessary

Your turn to tee off.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jun 20 - 08:11 PM

Well, we're recovering from a hangover of sorts. Yesterday we got the decision from the State Board of Tax Appeals on the 40% assessment increase we were awarded last year. The BTA agreed with us and accepted the figure we proposed. In the process they ripped the Assessor a brand new orifice as they did, we have since found out, in several other decisions. AAAAND this year's assessment is 55% over last year's uncorrected assessment! We're hitting the ol' Appeal Trail agin!

But in the meantime, raise a glass or three!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jun 20 - 08:39 PM

Doesn't any of that freeze when you turn 65?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 20 - 09:00 AM

Did Stilly just win your appeal?

Hurricane Gonzalo does not yet exist even as butterfly flutter.
But with a name like GONZO it sounds like a force to be reckoned with.
People couldn't take Katrina seriously but GONZO-holy shit

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 20 - 09:50 AM

Pseudomartyrs reproduce slumberous superpolymers umbragedociously but plumbiferous suboperculums perjuriously injure the subopular subemployed biopolymers bumptiously in hyperbolic lumberyards. But never the preambulatory currycombed. Dogberryismal doubleplays molybdenous murals with mouldywarps murderously perturbed by polymeridesmerised pyromerides subdermally. Unemployed imperious protestors impetuously disgraced bodysurfers just as Dumbledor's euphorbious and pendulously ponderously heavy testicles are purportedly subproblems. Surprised swordplayers undersupply murmurously musclebound ectomorphs.


translation: Posers superglue 2 by 4's to...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jun 20 - 11:44 AM

I successfully found (after searching the garage several times) and installed a loosely-woven nylon/polyester outdoor tarp (Harbor Freight) on the patio cover so the sun won't beat on the back door so brutally. And with that success, I feel like I must go outside and move some more things around. There is a rain barrel that is full but hasn't been used in ages (it needs a mosquito dunk again) and a bit of the garden that must be dug up or tilled. I could stay put for a while and this urge would pass, but I think I'll act on it today. MOM's just hanging out on the glider on the front porch, waving at cars that pass by.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 20 - 03:31 PM

Jire in the wabe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jun 20 - 09:44 PM

I went to the hand therapist, probably for the last time in this go-round. Wednesday I see the hand surgeon and he will probably tell me, "Get out and don't come back before I retire at the end of June!"

Tomorrow the massage therapist has another crack at my thumb and its scars...after coffee at the Elks Lodge with all of the Old Farts.

No, I did nothing outside. A high of 49F and a low tonight of 39F. There was sn*w, but not here. Only a cold rain and some thunderstorms.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 20 - 10:26 PM

I hope you can do octaves on the piano or still play the glass harp

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 20 - 08:34 PM

This morning I went to cardiac rehab at the hospital. NO PARKING anywhere except outside the Emergency Room and I can't, in good conscience, part there unless I need to use it. So I didn't get to cardiac rehab.

Why all the parking slots filled? Because the hospital was ribbon-cutting a new link in the "greenway" walking trail around the city. I couldn't go to exercise because of a link for exercise!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jun 20 - 11:15 AM

Irony comes in all shapes and sizes, doesn't it?

I had to cut PT short by several weeks because of the rise of COVID-19, so am hoping scar tissue doesn't become a problem to have to treat later. PT keeps in from forming.

I've fiddled with the computer this week in an attempt to set up a way to capture a film being played on my computer. Darned thing won't let me make a full length mp4 for playing on other devices, it's double layer so it stops encoding about 2/3 of the way through, and you know how it is, once you can't do something you waste time and money trying to prove you can do it. I spent $19 updating the media player in my computer and downloaded a new capture program, when it turns out I could have bought the darned film for $9 on Amazon and they've digitized it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jun 20 - 09:08 PM

I was today thrown out of hand therapy and the surgeon's office. He probably will never see me again (he's retiring the end of the month). On my "get outa here sheet" he wrote "healed." I wasn't heeled as I see no point to packing heat, but if he said I was I guess I am. Part of the way home I got a call from the hand therapy people that they were cancelling the rest of my appointments. I don't know what I did to offend them.

Oh well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jun 20 - 09:48 PM

If the doc pads his win loss column he might get a bonus or avoid fines and penalties. Insurance data shows old docs often go past thier prime, besides ya gotta master the parking before you can get a good surgical outcome buddy. Here, the Parking for town sized mega complexs of medical offices, is owned and perniciously abused by the Mafia.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jun 20 - 11:02 PM

Here the hospital owns all that parking. Of course, you often can't find even an inconvenient place.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jun 20 - 05:53 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n_RTXJ_LNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCMCcY710oE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnqC6T4evU4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6GAMbqRBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIU7FsY6Nkc

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jun 20 - 04:24 AM

Thats fun

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jun 20 - 10:07 PM

Three groups of targets this morning, varying ranges, NO MISSES!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 20 - 11:08 AM

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd...the golfers are back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-W762YwG0

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jun 20 - 05:12 PM

You've got a good idea there having target practice at 3 different distances on the golf course, just like drives, chips and putts.
Scheduling could be hazardous.
I like new olympic events like cross country bowling or highway overpass Sumo wrestling.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 20 - 06:43 PM

Winter Weather Advisory issued June 15 at 1:13PM MDT until June 17 at 12:00PM MDT by NWS Pocatello ID

* WHAT…Snow expected, mainly above 7000 feet. Total snow
accumulations of 1 to 3 inches with local accumulations of 6
inches or more, including for mountain passes like Willow Creek
Summit and mid and upper slopes.

* WHERE…Mountain elevations mainly above 7,000 feet. Light snow
accumulations below 7,000 feet are possible mainly Wednesday
morning.

* WHEN…From 6 PM Tuesday to noon MDT Wednesday.

* IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions, especially on Willow
Creek Summit. If planning to recreate in these areas, plan on
cold, wintry conditions. Slow down and use caution while traveling.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jun 20 - 12:32 PM

It's in the 90s here again today, hard to believe this heat hasn't seeped up there and finally warmed things a bit.

I seem to be in a pasta phase right now. I'd better get over it soon or I'll be so round I'll roll out of the house looking like one of these armoniche pastas I've been eating.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 20 - 12:44 PM

Be careful with the black ice. Idaho black ice claimed my best friend in his Pinto with the help of a truck years ago - but in the WINTER.

Subject: RE: MISSION - Accomplished [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 07:05 AM

According to Pence there is no second wave and we should celebrate our victory against the invisible killer. Mask free Eskimo kisses everyone.
Let's all boogaloo and Q up the 4 Chan Muzak.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 08:55 AM

Those calling for violent reaction to change have no idea what they are asking for. From what I have seen they are soldierboy-wannabees with no experience of actual warfare and few are even qualified as trained Chaplain's Assistants. There is no experience there comparable to Marcus Reno's being splattered with the brains of the man next to him in the Greasy Grass fight, or actually killing someone, or smelling the odor of Death sitting in the grass, or even being shot at with intent to kill. Their desires are like those young men of the Confederacy who were fed a line of "defending our rights" and "fighting for the property we gained by honest toil" by wealthy cotton merchants and plantation owners and were "allowed" to die in droves for The Lost Cause. Don't get me started.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 02:19 PM

One thing I don't go for.
Crooks claiming they know more.
They hire kids with patrioti$m
to lay down their lives.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 02:46 PM

Now for something completely different:

Cassowary. Someone needs to gift one to the resident of the oval office.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 06:44 PM

Outside the temperature is -37° K.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 09:25 PM

It's been raining frozen methane all day, but since gravity is frozen it's a problem.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 08:55 AM

BRILLIANT
Freezing or slowing down gravity like light is fundamental to FTL and time dialation ! Maybe now we can catch up to the Russians in their rudimentary ventures into limited time travel. (How do you think they they stole the election for Trump) What they are able to do without a trace of forensic evidence is astonishing.

Nowforsomthingdifferent:

Many white guys perform a ritual of going into the woods armed to the teeth to kill an animal, not for survival but for sport. If you ask me its not a fair fight, its not like the animal even has a taser. The hunters patiently track an animal after being alerted to its presence at long last. If the animal surprises the hunter and starts to run they may get off a shot or two and may only hit their prey in the back and exclaim "GOT HIM" . When the hunters come across the carcass they may give it a kick to be sure it is dead and it is not uncommon to even stand upon their prey. For a white guy who grew up hearing black people are animals and have that notion reinforced by others around him as well as incidents that further dehumanize black people in his eyes, the white guy actually comes to believe black people ARE animals. Is he murderously psychopathic? No, he was culturally trained to kill as in the hunt. You have to be carefully taught. Unlearning is a hard road.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 10:18 AM

Photon/light bends due to gravity. You could think that a light, since it's on a speed of light, must be frozen in time relative to us. Therefore, the gravity will also freeze and will not affect the light.
We can and have frozen the speed of light. Freezing gravity in a similar way may not be possible if it is an emergent force from a combination of other forces. But if it is not...you would not see the alterations in Space time or time gravity.
The time machine meets the invisible man!
Move over sci fi, here comes an advanced physics Tom clancy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 10:24 AM

edit
Therefore 'if' gravity could freeze it will no longer bend light or influence matter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 04:11 PM

John laCarre' and Tom Clancy might have fun depicting invisible spies wrapped in a cloak of locally altered and frozen time gravity.
Such as " On rare occaisions the time shrouded individuals leave a trace of minimal interaction with ordinary matter and time revealing a spherical nebulous glow that can pass through walls. Out of the corner of our eyes the spies are leaving the opposite of passing shadows."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 04:38 PM

As spy novels go, the fact that Russia is known for its monumental fuck ups, the plot goes far beyond Russian highjinks and plunges headlong into irreparable time disasters.

Perhaps most people don't know of at least 6 cities/regions that have disappeared or are uninhabitable inside Russia. This alone would make the novel worthwhile.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 10:20 PM

I'm well entertained with the Russian screw up sub plot of everytime Putin tried to avoid a tremendous Trump flub by sending him into altered time, including Donald admiting to colluding with the Russians, a quantum effect of leaving a bit of presidential neurons neither here nor there results in Trump becoming progressively more stupid as evidenced by his tweets and behavior.
'it happens every election' is a working title.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 10:27 PM

There is no such thing as light or photons. See Elekgtroteknisk Tidsskrift (Electrotechnical Journal), Norway, Vol. 83, No. 3, 5.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 20 - 07:46 AM

Seeing all the anomallys and paradox play out as Russian time interference rages out of control, makes life interesting if not mystifying. This morning Nina Totenberg, who died 8 months ago, appeared live on 'Morning Joe' and discussed the DACA decision.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 20 - 09:40 AM

Do not turn the rhyme factor up to 100 on your autotext creator or this can happen:

Gigantic geriatric aromatic autocratic Nazis
Hate democratic diplomatic hispanics and Faucis.
Hatreds aren't few like blacks Jews and flus
But include the huge human race

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 20 - 12:26 PM

Thankfully Nina is alive and well and regularly reporting. As BS goes, that was Not Funny. :-/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 20 - 12:27 PM

You might be thinking of Cokie Roberts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 20 - 06:58 PM

Nina is my favorite Supreme Court mistress. As aristocrats go she is one of the good guys. I never grow tired of the stories about her father's cello. She really was on Morning Joe today. You are right , it is best to have the RUSSIANS resurrect Cokie Roberts in their misguided attempt to save Donald Trump in their faulty time machine..

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jun 20 - 08:47 PM

And so ends a week with medical appointments every damned day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jun 20 - 11:42 AM

Today begins with MOM pouring bleach and water into the ceramic cups to clean out the tea stains. It's that kind of frumpy morning, I guess. Waiting for Oklahoma to spontaneously combust and the COVID-19 shrapnel from the explosion to hit the surrounding states. We've had thunderstorms in the region, last night was noisy and wet. Maybe a few of them will be washed away in flash floods (unless they heed the signs that say "turn around don't drown.") The storm before the storm.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 20 - 12:52 PM

Rap you never mentioned if your thumb was a contracture or break or joint problem...
Meanwhile fun can be had in the body shop.

Its probably my POV but Stilly is on track to be one of the all time great mods.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jun 20 - 05:35 PM

A lack of cartilage required an arthedesis.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 20 - 05:46 PM

I hope they come up with stem cell cartiledge replacement someday.
It sounds like a longer process however.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 20 - 05:57 PM

Betelgeuse is just losing weight

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That link doesn't work. Will this do? Betelgeuse: A Spinning, Dimming Red Giant That Swallowed Its Sister

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 10:08 AM

See how early I'm up, Mom?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 11:35 AM

I guess it depends on where in the world you are, Rap. If you're in the UK you're late to rise.

The world seems particularly churlish for this year's greeting card holiday for fathers. Everyone would do well to give it a pass, step back, and try not to have a stroke.

Here it's raining again. I was going to walk the dogs, but then the weather interrupted, so we played fetch in the back yard for a few minutes instead. It's amazing how little dogs care about politics and can bring their humans back to a rational point of view simply by running around with toys in their mouths.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 09:05 PM

We could all try running around with toys in our mouths.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 10:01 PM

I cleaned the carpet in the front room - half of it so far, anyway. I'll let it dry completely then move some of the furniture onto that area and wash the rest. In there, the dogs seem to have run around with dirt (yes, clods of dirt they eat on the carpet) and sticks (from the yard) they chew up into tiny pieces. Toys in their mouths would be preferable.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 07:53 AM

I heard the rumor that the only classified material in the Bolton book that was redacted was that Melania has been putting an Oxy opiate in Donald Trump's diet Coke, which is only another cover story if his addiction is discovered. His other cover story is that he only took Oxy chloroquin. In my book 'The Art of the Lie' Eucadin (OXY in 1945) played a powerful role in WWII.


Thats a better Betelgeuse link. Mine only mentioned lots of dust in the way. Your link seems to explain why. The only fireworks we will see this summer will be the 4th of July and not a supernova.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 12:13 PM

I'm trying to think of other situations in which looking through a cloud of interstellar dust might prove to be a useful explanation.

"Is my butt fat?"

"I can't really tell. I'm looking at it through a cloud of interstellar dust."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 12:41 PM

LOL Star cartoons are rare these days.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 01:25 PM

What if the below the line BS section had a month long OPEN HOUSE allowing all to post as themselves or guests???

Its just a month. Before people started eating each other's young the experiment would be over. As a curious gus I am betting that the feared anathma of an released Krakan would not occur. In fact I predict no change.

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

It's been done. Long ago this part was as open as the posts above the salt. You can revisit it and see what happened and why only members are allowed to visit below the salt.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 20 - 06:23 AM

I know full well. The Revolution is here. And that makes it very different. Perhaps you are right and the folksong and singer has no place in this unique time and place on a personal level.
How does Mudcat reflect these times? It is worth more thought.
Besides I am talking on a temporary basis.
At worst the contrast between the 'sick' and the healthy will be self evident. The choice is betwenn SUNLIGHT and lock and key.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 20 - 03:31 PM

MOM says today is a gonner and we might as well all pull the covers over our heads and read in bed all day. Try again tomorrow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 20 - 09:47 PM

And Bat Goddess had to put down her orange cat. Liver disease. Like MOM said, today is a gonner.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 20 - 10:00 PM

Our central air blower decided it was done after 60 years.
They don't make bearings like that anymore.

due to a glitch I 'pulled a keb' and brought an old thread back.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 09:26 PM

Anyone have a suggestion for a garage door manufacturer

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 09:35 PM

There's a thread on the board about pet peeves. I have never had a pet peeve. All the peeves I encounter are quite feral. I wouldn't want to try to make a pet of a feral peeve. They bite and are difficult to house train.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 20 - 09:37 PM

Anyone have suggestions for a new HVAC system?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 20 - 09:20 AM

Lennox.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 20 - 07:50 PM

one bidder wanted 18K or 7K for air conditioner alone
Tommorrow I should get some reasonable estimates

My b in law died a couple hours ago from a heart attack in his sleep.
He was a Marine and in his eyes I was the enemy hippie for life.
My wife should understand funerals in a time of pandemic are lonely affairs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jun 20 - 08:20 AM

We were complimented last night on our roses. They are many and the bushes are of different hues.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 20 - 08:45 AM

I trained an old rose vine to climb a devil's walking stick tree so the tree blooms roses in June 30 feet high. Hybrids will bloom all summer though.

The Devil tree makes interesting canes.
I'm looking for a cork tree. They grow 'impossible' branches.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 20 - 07:46 AM

By doing nothing, more people will get sick and die yet this is becoming the official policy in the US which is now passing its earlier all time high infection rate. This is because of the judgment that " we must not make the cure worse than the disease". So we open too early, force certain workers into infection chambers at work, roll back testing and contact tracing, have unmasked political gatherings inside and not supporting people who are unemployed. Go to crowded events and party. People are saying that those who die are already old or black... wink wink nudge nudge know what I mean?

We must even decide if we should try to save those who succumb to the virus at all if there are not enough beds, PPE or medical treatments.
We must not make treatment worse than the effect on the economy!
So go ahead and take no personal responsibility. DO NOT WEAR A MASK.
Be a fancy free Steve. You don't have to chant 'Lets do nothing' but just be sure to take no social respondsibility.
Not caring for the sick and dieing is easier than it sounds. It is the last viral intrusion on our lives. All that wasted money is saved. WE DON'T NEED TO BURY THE DEAD. Body removal has been shown to work best with ovens. Gas is cheap now, so take a flight and smirk. That reciculated air in a hypo baric pressure tube is less dangerous than an infected TSA agent. You can even take a cruise at half price.
Make life cheap again! {^/

HIEL TRUMP 2020

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jun 20 - 07:25 AM

I went with all Lennox heat and air for 6K including discount, duct clean and UV sterilizer installed om Thur.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jun 20 - 01:04 PM

Almost every cartoon with one click
https://www.cartooncollections.com/collections

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jun 20 - 06:25 PM

It is raining and 50F. And it's coming after yooooouuuuu!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 06:43 AM

Re: Moderation change
No one is to say Jehovah, ow who threw that?... or attack others including themselves, politicians or Jehova - WUMP

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No discussion, it's a warning without an argument, because given the opportunity, the parties most likely to be kicked out are the ones who want to argue about it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 09:29 AM

Now it's 46F and rain is starting in 20 minutes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 11:11 AM

It's dusty and windy and humid - a really odd combination. It's a stirred up atmosphere that seems to suit the mood lately. I have never been one to lounge in my pajamas all day, like so many who seem to have adopted that routine while they've been working from home. Perhaps as a retiree I established a daily routine that involved getting completely dressed, and choosing my shoes based upon the day's activity (Garden work? Socks and tie-on sneakers or boots. Walking around the house? Loafers or sandals will do.) But I stayed home and preserved my health and that of my neighbors all spring, and now a few fools have decided science and prudent COVID-19-prevention practices aren't for them, so we basically have to start all over again. They've squandered the work we all did this spring. And we know why. There's no fixing stupid, but MOM says it's a good thing none of those fools from Washington, D.C. are coming to town this summer. Something about throwing bags of dog poop. . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 11:41 AM

MOAB has taken a turn from from a tradition of colorful fiction to realism. so Today I cut back the jungle from encroaching into the swimming hole. Tommorrow I'll take the cover off and start the filter.
By July 4th we can take the plunge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 02:55 PM

What am I wearing?
A faux satin no wrinkle long sleeve grey shirt, grey underwear no undershirt, light cream Dockers, black socks and slip on shoes. The belt is black and has a rachet mechanism and not an old fashioned tongue in hole type.
To go directly from these work clothes to being dressed up I put on a solid colorful sport jacket; yellow, rose or actual faux deerskin shirt at night. If its too hot, I stay at home in my boxer briefs and T shirt. :^/

The theme is to limit exposure to the Earth's damaging yellow star.
It only takes a week of sunshine to bleach my hair from strawberry to light blonde.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 05:31 PM

Well, not reality - MOM wouldn't really throw bags of dog poop.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 05:34 PM

That said, it's difficult to make up BS more bizarre than what is appearing nightly on the news.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 06:03 PM

"Only wimps go to the hospital
Brave and patriotic Americans don't wear masks and shun those democrat hospitals. We won't play into the hands of the China virus. Our idea of social distancing is an AR 15. Brave Americans say they would rather die than submit to the hoax against the right by the looney left." Realmen#Kungflu

Is it wrong to waste my breath on them if it takes my breath away?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 06:47 PM

Gee, I'm in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. It's chilly outside, but tomorrow will be better and I believe EVERYTHING the National Whether Service says because it's part of our government and our government would NEVER EVER fib. Well, there was a teensy little fib made when I enlisted, and then there was the one about Watergate, but those are excusable. And maybe the ones about it never snowing here and everything being perfect in all ways. Here's what they said:

It's true! It's true! The Mayor has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.

A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Pocatello.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Pocatello.

Pocatello! Pocatello!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Pocatello, Pocatello
That's how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Pocatello.

Pocatello! Pocatello!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Pocatello, Pocatello
Those are the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Pocatello.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 09:53 PM

I think I shall take up a new musical instrument. A guy has offered to sell me an F# Umlaut, made by Con Instruments. It sounds like a great deal!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 07:21 AM

You can't legislate everything but umlauts should be chromatic by law.
? Besides they only modify another instrumnt

The one I have on a 1930 violin changes the sound from eeeeeeeeeeee
to 000000000000. Back then it was trade marked as the Resonator.

Breaking news from WPAT:
This Kent Brockman of WPAT with drier .. rather dire news about the pandemic. Experts say "What didya think was gonna happen !!??"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 08:34 AM

After today I am free of appointments until next Monday. It will be cool at the beach, surfing and hangin' with the chicks, listening to the Beach Boys, sippin' brewskis and talkin' boards and cars with the guys. Unfortunately, none of that stuff exists around here, although I can find lots of rock-climbing freaks and people who like to see how close they can get to bear and bison. I guess I'll actually go drink some coffee with the old farts at the Elks, go see the doctor, get the mail (if any), and pick up some stuff at the store. Then I'll bunker up again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 06:02 PM

I need to set up the outdoor shower for nighttime use on the back patio. It's a luxury in the city to have a secluded yard like this, when most people have neighbors who can see into their yards. Going outside naked is one of the luxuries of childhood (my kids played naked in the little wading pool and in the shower sprinkler thing my mother sent them). But it should also be enjoyed by adults. This shower head attaches to the hose and the water running through the lines now is plenty warm enough.

Growing up in Seattle I remember summer expeditions when we were allowed to sleep in the back yard in a pup tent, but down here the idea of sleeping outside in the heat and with fire ants means Texas children have missed one of the joys of childhood.

Now, Texas children could enact some of the dramatic episodes of cowboy western programs, like the rattle snake crawling into the sleeping bag while you're asleep. Like quick sand and piranhas, this was a staple of television drama when I was a child.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 06:43 PM

The temperate rainforests in the NW are vast and magical. The NE has two small rainforests in NYS. Don't let Texas mess with you. There is talk of closing travel out of TX.

My older cousin in law Jeff Hakman was a surfing champion. Now he does commercials for hurrycane and reverse mortgages.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 09:04 PM

I and my friends well champion surfers when we were growing up. Unfortunately, the surf on the Mississippi River wasn't and isn't exactly "all-time" and boards (and full sized logs) tended to dissolve upon contact with the water. The river's cleaned up a lot since then and now you can drop a glass bottle in and pull it out only slightly etched.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 09:18 PM

Stilly, I remember reading about one of the towns in
the "Hill Country" of Texas, to the south of you,
and I am thinking of those German-American farmers.
Was it New Braunfels?   Fredericksburg?
They had their homesteads out in the country;
they had to come to market often enough, and
of course they were church-goers,
so they would come to town on Sunday,
and didn't they have 'Sunday-cottages' or something in town,
with outdoor showers -- that's why you reminded me of them --
and just the basics for sleeping overnight or something.
Then it was back to the farm for another week of hard work.

And when times changed and the town changed and developed,
eventually there were only a few of these little sunday-houses
still standing, and now
they are the real-estate version of collector's items,
historical artifacts.
I probably scrambled this up in recalling.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 09:42 PM

I've sail boarded, power belly boarded and did ice flow hopping but never surfed. The biggest adrenaline bang for the buck was ice flow hopping, especially when they tip by 45 degrees in a place called Chokonut Creek that feeds into the mighty Susquehanna. There is nothing like the feeling when your push branch no longer reaches the bottom and you can see the river ahead.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 20 - 09:41 AM

Underground
below the slime
the air grows stale
but folks feel fine.
In the sun the wind
is death if in the end
you lose your breath.
C'mon down,
the catacombs
are fine made in times
when memories end.
In all plagues
some were worse,
some were not
It took only one
to come in
and change the plot.
Stacking bones
with great thought
few remember
who it was
who brought death
underground
Or what they thought
of what they caught
until their den
was without a sound
of cries sighs or cough

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 20 - 10:31 AM

Who puts the shish
on your kabob
or relish on
your hot dog
Who puts a pinch of salt
on your egg
or some sauce
on your gonzofazoul

The Randy man can
the randy man can
and has a secret rhthym
that you can't understand
but the randy man knows

Who shaves so close his cheeks glow
it feels like peachy fuzz
What the randy man does
with a can of whipped cream
few have ever known

Who finishs the ice cream
but leaves a little bit for you
spills chocolate syrup
on the waxed kichen floor
but cleans it all up
The randy man knows
all the perfect ways
to cure your weary woes...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jul 20 - 09:25 PM

My fitness tracker, phone and office clock all give the same time. I guess my watch is off.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 20 - 10:11 PM

For the record while we chew the fat and shoot the breeze there is an historic lack of federal response to the national quadrupal threat of disease, unemployment, police murders and financial security. Its not just the pandemic, its the tradjedy of calling it a hoax and waging war on science itself.
Every President since WW2 has had to respond to a crises of war or natural diaster and have done so with varying degrees of success until now. We're not just talking about Covid 19, or racial inequality that gone on for 400 years, or a financial crises without tax funds available to save lives and jobs, we have a leadership crises.
I have never seen a President and administration fail to take any respondsibility at all until now. I know I have avoided respondsibility but at least I have given warnings. We are trying to step up and do the right thing but a third of us don't or won't, and can drag the rest of us under. Once again so few can cause the death of so many. Now back to our regularly scheduled banter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 20 - 09:42 PM

THE MOSCOW RULES

1. Assume nothing.
2. Never go against your gut.
3. Everyone is potentially under opposition control.
4. Don't look back -- you are never completely alone.
5. Go with the flow.
6. Vary your pattern and stay within your cover.
7. Lull them into a state of complacency.
8. Don't harass the opposition.
9. Pick the time and place for action.
10. Keep your options open.

Mom taught these to me at her knee.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 20 - 09:45 PM

Russian election law #1
Elections are determined by those who count the vote, not the electorate.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 20 - 10:02 PM

Tomorrow I shall bunker up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 20 - 11:55 PM

You know that cartoon "Someone is wrong on the Internet" ? I ran into a bunch of those folks on a favorite site today and was disappointed that management wasn't corralling the kids. If there was EVER a source of BS, it is The Internet.

Just sayin'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jul 20 - 04:49 PM

Bunker safely, Rapparee, whether up, down, or sideways,
and have a good Independence Day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jul 20 - 12:23 AM

Eventually they have to run out of ammunition.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jul 20 - 08:46 AM

The Earth 9, mankind 0 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arctic-temperature-record-100-4-degrees-earth-warmest-12000-years/#:~:text=Bird%20Carrying%20Fish-,

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jul 20 - 11:17 AM

Zoonoses.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jul 20 - 11:28 AM

Eventually, but that time hasn't come yet. There seems to have been an unspoken consensus in the region that no fireworks laws would be enforced. Lucky we had a good rain a week or so ago, it helped with grass fires. From dusk until many hours later it sounded like a reenactment of a battle scene from the Civil War. Canons, pistols, and the occasional Gatling gun discharge of strings of firecrackers.

I fear they have simply stopped to sleep and eat, and will resume the assault at dusk today. MOM liked the sparklers at the house, but said the boys had better watch those explosives down by The Legion Hovel or the thing will go up like an exploded ammo bunker.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jul 20 - 10:12 PM

The Legion Hovel IS an ammunition bunker. Just the alcohol there would make it such!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jul 20 - 10:23 PM

So that's why there's a sign on the front door

No Lit Matches Allowed

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 20 - 02:53 PM

"Look at the crowd at this Great Trump Rally despite the Kung Flu hoax.
*large cheer* There must be 10,000 in this tiny old theatre. The virus is 99% harmless so lets have applause for the 10 people who are going to die for this rally *feeble applause* and for all the old folks we can do without *applause from a couple dozen* and my daughter Ivanka for modeling her new line of bikinis * large cheer *". :^/

"The communists and fascists are attacking and disfiguring our great Confederate heros and generals. *sparse applause* , The blacks and brown people will to go to prison for murdering our confederate statues * large cheer *
And Lock Hilary up with Biden *THUNDEROUS CHEER*"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 20 - 09:01 PM

We are all Puerto Ricans now. We all saw Trump throw paper towels at Islanders devastated by a natural disaster. Now we have a viral disaster and are experiencing the results of the same cavalier leadership. Donald did not throw toilet paper at us but he has done worse, he made the pandemic the worst on Earth right here in the USA .
Lives will be lost, "get used to it", but statues must be saved.
We are one named hurricane away from seeing the Trump FEMA response.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 01:21 AM

That works for me—"We are all Puerto Ricans now." Too bad that in the next month or two the world will commiserate and instead of Je suis Charlie Hebdo it will be Je suis Américain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 04:07 PM

It's your middle dog Pepper who is unhappy, Stilly,
about the fireworks?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jul 20 - 05:34 PM

Every one of my canine friends is unhappy about fireworks. So am I, for that matter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jul 20 - 06:32 PM

The only laugh today came from a Freudean slip by Pense when he said
"Today's Covid 19 task force briefing is about opening our schools unsafely".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jul 20 - 04:29 PM

The only one around here who isn't concerned by the fireworks is the Labrador retriever who is just about completely deaf. There was a string of m-80s that went off last night, but otherwise I think most of those jokers shot their firework wads on July 4, through the early hours of July 5.

I have concluded that the puppy gets into the most trouble during those times that the middle dog beats up on her the most. Dog correction can be brutal, but it does work. So I'll let Pepper handle the discipline for a while and see what happens. MOM says it's mostly just noise, though she has threatened them with the garden hose a couple of times.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jul 20 - 09:57 PM

Our four neighbors have been gone nearly a week now. The toys lay in yard unused, waiting for the touch of slobbery mouth. It's so sad. However, the treats await.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jul 20 - 07:22 AM

HURRICANE GONZO IS HERE.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jul 20 - 07:46 AM

Hurricane Gonzo set to music

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jul 20 - 10:42 AM

hypothetical hurricane gonzalo

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jul 20 - 12:15 PM

Bullshit and a mighty wind, they are part of the foundation of this and the original thread (that still won't open—I tried it again the other day.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 20 - 07:21 PM

We don't get them storms!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jul 20 - 10:58 AM

They say these are uncertain days. BullShit! I am certain these are days. They say these are challenging days. Aren't they all.
They say these are dark days. Well I concur, sort of. Especially at night when you look up at the heavens. Some of us know that the universe is getting dimmer. As the everlasting know it all, for the last 2 billion years the universe is dimmer because of expansion, less star formation and more black holes. Because of the Sun during the day you won't notice any dimming. But at night it is significanly darker than it used to be. In our neihborhood out here in the suburbs of the Milkey Way where there are not street lights on every corner, the darkness is even more obvious.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 20 - 12:42 PM

It only seems darker because the Galactic Overlord bought Galactic Gas and Electric a few light-years ago and has been dimming the lights ever since but still charging the same rates.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jul 20 - 03:48 PM

Guns sales are higher now than in the Obama days. Our Sheriff is feeling like a spider on a Coleman stove. There is talk of the 'night of the coughing dead' this October in an effort to get rid of the infected.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 20 - 10:01 PM

Not out here. Everybody already own guns. Some ammo is in short supply, but .50-100 is still plentiful, if you own an old buffalo gun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 20 - 10:19 AM

We haven't heard from the Galactic Overlord for a while. I wonder what he's up to (other than shorting gas company customers).

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

I'll be going to the LILP (Legion Intergalactic Listening Post) this evening and should be able to browse the files then. Usually the LILP Runner (LILPR) brings everyone copies of all documents marked "Burn Before Reading" and "Really, Really Secret Stuff" by the GO's Security Orifice.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 20 - 09:37 AM

Galactic Overlord should be plural like Senators or Congressmen. But as a Congress it is singularly a disaster.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 20 - 06:36 PM

Below the line is chuggin along with 8 folks

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jul 20 - 09:06 PM

I suspect that the GO is composed of several Overlord wannabees, much like a jellyfish is composed of multiple organisms. I wonder -- if you poke his/her/its fat little belly, would he/she/it giggle? My zoology courses didn't cover jellyfish giggles.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 20 - 09:19 PM

Jellyfish are immortal. When adult populations are under threat they revert to tiny juveniles and they regrow. Without dieing they grow young again and start anew. It is a strange immortality to be sure.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 05:13 AM

I don't know what a jellyfish giggle looks like but many of them produce colorful light shows in their bodies that could very well be communication. I have yet to find a Babbel course on how to speak jellyfish.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 09:01 AM

Obviously you need a Babelfish.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 09:46 AM

. . . which reminds me:
what is the deal with the
"Translate" feature built into Mudcat posts,
which just takes you to
a page at Yahoo dot com and
a message that says
uh - oh, this doesn't work ...

the URL has babelfish in it ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 08:57 PM

Got me. I didn't know it did that. Being fluent in English, Profane, Obscene, and Blasphemous I rarely need to translate anything.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 10:10 PM

At one time Babelfish was a robust translation feature that was purchased by the old Yahoo.com. It was killed off a long time ago and Max never got around to taking it out of the line or redirecting it to Google Translate. Yahoo has been purchased by Verizon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 06:40 AM

Sounds reasonable, as long as I don't get redirected to Hell

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 08:24 AM

Neither Michigan nor Minnesota are bad places this time of year. Except for the mosquitoes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 12:36 PM

Same with Washington (State).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 06:28 PM

Or Oregon, home to the Armillaria solidipes.

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!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 20 - 09:30 PM

Wow
Castle, Comet and space vomit in one photo.
That castle was once stuffed to the rafters with stolen Art by the Reich.

I got around to verifying the vertical rainbow I saw in April.
None were as bright and colorful as the one I saw but they all do only appear at sunset. It was definately Overlord phenomena and amazing.

A Texas Gonzo hurricane COMBINED WITH an extreme pandemic / government take over / historic unemployment and food shortage didn't seem likely last year but its time to admit the shit has hit the fan.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jul 20 - 06:20 AM

Just kidding GONZO is gone and is just hot air.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jul 20 - 03:49 PM

Gonzo's not gone, but appears to be going.

Hanna is happening.

And that mass of stuff over Cape Verde way stands a good chance of becoming Isaias, which is about the dumbest storm name ever. Regardless of how it's supposed to be pronounced, you know it's going to get called "Is-a-ass". It would be downright embarrassing to have one's house blown away by Is-a-ass.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jul 20 - 09:30 PM

I have friends in Houston who are probably not enjoying the high humidity and whatever weather that storm is generating. Sometimes the humidity reaches us from coastal storms.

Windy

Earth

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 20 - 09:47 PM

Yes, yes it is.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jul 20 - 03:26 PM

Actual dialog from High Plains Drifter:

That stranger,

he has taken over my hotel...

and thrown good, honest,

decent folk out into the night.

-Why didn't you stop him, Lewis?

You've got a gun.

-Shut your fat mouth, Sam.

We're tired of giving you money
for doing an incompetent job.

- Don't you talk to me that way!

- Gentlemen!

Please! Look at us Sweet God,

look what's happening to us!

-Right, it's just like

the preacher says.

That stranger's got everybody

at each other's throats.

He's set himself up like a king.

He's got you all snake-fascinated,

every damn one of you.

This crazy wall.

Two hundred gallons of blood-red paint.

It couldn't be worse if the devil

himself had ridden into Lago.

Our town looks like Hell.

-Welcome to Lago,

you son of a bitch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 10:57 AM

Looking for a source of modest entertainment? Put one of those little floating solar fountains into the bird bath and watch the birds approach it only to do a quick turn and escape when the water spouts. They'll figure it out eventually, I'd put money on it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 11:18 AM

Those squirrel proof bird feeders are a good laugh when a squirrel outwits them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 01:29 PM

Speaking of squirrels, I think the ones living around my house have become too inbred and are suffering from a genetic mental impairment. They're falling out of trees with astonishing regularity. It took about 55 years for me to witness just ONE squirrel falling from a tree. Now it seems to happen every couple of weeks. Gotta be a hereditary brain malfunction.

I suppose the squirrels are lucky that my house is back in the woods instead of near the road like most people's. If they aren't smart enough to do everyday squirrel stuff like climbing trees, there's no way they'd survive crossing the road.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 05:18 PM

I've noticed I see alot more pidgeons when I am poisoning Pidgeons in the park. You don't supose BWL is... nah.

Are they flying squirrels?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 09:55 PM

Yes, they're flying squirrels, but they only know how to fly straight down.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jul 20 - 10:01 PM

pahdum bum-cymbal. I can be a good 2nd banana as long as the punch line nails it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jul 20 - 07:37 AM

I recieved the Galactic Overlord by laws by messenger and believe me it is like watching sausage being made, I thought they would be better than us. The following are the GEB By-Laws which do not include Music Management Rules:

The Seven Supreme Executive Galactic Overlords>
7:1.1 (198.1) The executive headquarters of the Master Spirits occupy the seven Paradise satellites of the Infinite Spirit Supply, which swing around the central Isle between the shining spheres of the Galactic Overlords and the innermost Taverns. These executive spheres are under the direction of the Supreme Executives, a group of seven who were Sanitized by the Father in law, Son in law, and the unknown Uncle in accordance with the specifications of the Seven Master Spirits for beings of a type that could function as their universal representative bag men .

7:1.2 (198.2) The Master Spirits maintain supplies with the various divisions of the superuniverse governments through these Supreme Executives. It is they who very largely determine the basic constitutive trends of the seven superuniverses. They are uniformly and divinely perfect, but they also possess diversity of personality much like the 7 dwarfs. They have no presiding head; each time they meet together, they choose one of their number to preside over that joint council with snacks. Periodically they binge journey to Paradise Resorts to sit in council with the Seven Master Intoxicating Spirits.

7:1.3 (198.3) The Seven Supreme Executives function as the administrative co-ordinators of the grand universe; they might be termed the board of managing directors of the Steve Bannon creation. They are not concerned with the internal affairs of Paradise Resorts, and they direct their limited spheres of Steve Miller activity through the Steve Shaw of the Circuits. Otherwise there are few limits to the scope of their supervision; they engage in the direction of things physical, intellectual, and spiritual; they see all, hear all, feel all, even grok all, that transpires in the seven superuniverses and associated Shell Corporations.

7:1.4 (2001) These Supreme Executives do not originate policies, nor do they modify universe procedures; they are concerned with the execution of the plans of divinity drugs promulgated by the Seven Master Spirit Distillaries. Neither do they interfere with the rule of the Ancients of Days in the superuniverses nor with the sovereignty of the Assisted Living Institutions in the local universes. They are the co-ordinating executives whose function it is to carry out the combined policies of all duly constituted rulers in the grand universe who sleep till noon and screws them all.

7:1.5 (2008) Each of the executives and the facilities of his sphere are devoted to the efficient administration of a single superuniverse. Supreme Executive Number One, functioning on executive sphere number one, is wholly occupied with the affairs of Ovarion prostitutes, and so on to Supreme Executive Number Seven, working from the seventh Paradise satellite of the Spirit and devoting his energies to the management of Sex, Gambling and Drugs. The name of this seventh sphere is Maxwell, for the Paradise Resort satellites of the Spirits have the same name, Bubba, as their incest related supersoldiers; in fact, the superintendants were all named after them, Bubba, Bubba Jr, Bubba double Jr. etc.

7:1.6 (2016) On the executive sphere of the seventh superuniverse the staff engaged in keeping straight the affairs of Ovarion sex workers who run into numbers beyond human comprehension and embraces practically every organ of celestial intercourse.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 20 - 10:47 AM

Rap should print that out.

One bird feather was left behind in the bird bath with the fountain, so someone was brave enough to try it. The other bird bath has a number of feathers, so as a control group I see that most of them are still shy of the spurt of water.

I dismantled a crumbling squirrel drey (a word I've never used, but someone else applied it to a recent photo of this thing so I'm trying to remember to use it). Lots of polyfill from a destroyed patio seat (they need to thank the puppy for that) and tons of plastic grocery bags woven through it. The deteriorating plastic is probably the reason for the abandonment, and the location directly over a very large agave plant suggests that if my squirrels are falling out of the tree they're being impaled on the agave. They either all died falling out or got smart and moved on.

A final wildlife observation: No one I know would be this stupid but obviously there are a few.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Jul 20 - 11:39 AM

Some critters just ain't too smart when it comes to nesting sites. We once had a wicker cat bed on the screened porch. I had removed the porch door in order to paint it and, while it was off, a wren built a nest in the cat bed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jul 20 - 09:08 AM

How bout flood plain houses
Ain't they neat
gettin dirty water
all over their feet.


Hurricane Jackass is headed toward 'Fluoride'?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 20 - 10:11 PM

Back in '65 I was walkin' the levees for the flood, and it was a pretty good one. Bein' in the National Guard, I didn't have much say in the matter, but I was walkin' south of town and my very own brother (in the other NG company) was walkin' north of town.

Well, the levee broke north of town and flooded a bunch of prime bottomland. Farmer there had a $1 million line of credit (in 1965 this was a lot!) and a couple of brand-new championship bulls he'd just bought. The bulls and some other cattle drowned and his newly-planted 1,000 acres were covered with six feet of floodwater.

Eventually all the water ran off and his land dried out.

Next Spring he had a @2.5 million dollar line of credit and his insurance paid for the loss of his house, farm equipment, and suchlike. Why the increase? Because he now had better than three FEET of brand-new, super-fertile topsoil all over his land.

Now, to deliberately build a house -- just a house for a family -- in a floodplain or on a shore or somewhere like that, well, you pays yer money and you takes your chances.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jul 20 - 09:01 AM

Ancient Egyptians finally used the Nile floods well. Will we?
Army Corps of Engineers General Xavier Pedite said
"Send X off to do this, send X to take care of that… take care of some little unimportant levee here, and there; pick somebody up at the airport. I’m the ACE and I was stepped over! … It ain’t the way I wanted it! I can handle things. I’m smart. Not like everybody says, like dumb. I’m smart and I want respect!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jul 20 - 09:59 AM

Yup, yessir, that river's under control now!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jul 20 - 02:55 PM

I have a virtual appointment with my rheumatologist next week. A big "whew" that I don't have to step on the scale in her office, but I have a "smart scale" here so who knows, it might rat me out.

I live just above a creek and pay flood insurance. We always keep our fingers crossed, though it's a flood zone on paper only, so far it has pretty much stayed in it's banks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jul 20 - 03:04 PM

I am so goaldarn lucky to not have a rhumatologist although mornings are stiffer than they used to be, not in a good way.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 06:49 AM

Grandma ended up with 4 artificial joints.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 05:53 PM

Artificial joints are what plastic people smoke to get high.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 05:56 PM

I am sure that has never been written before in all of space time/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 07:20 PM

Watch a baseball game and you may see statisics being made or an unlikely tremendous play so while we see the same game we each bring something different to the experience. Parts of the 'unlikely' IS enjoyment of the game. SO this is why baseball entertains us. It is a demonstration of the wierdness of quantum mechanics. It is true anyone who says they understand quantum mechanics - doesn't.

Sometimes it may even be a boring game, which is wierd in itself.
I've wondered about the split screen experiment since I was 13
Probabilities have shown us that we can get entangled with a destructive moron becoming President. We can complain when reality isn't rational BUT ITS NOT. Perhaps we should make a new kind of computer that uses spooky action at a distance and employ only entangled atoms - instead of electrons and calculate an accidental utopia just for grins and giggles.
But a game of all home runs would not appeal to us for long.
Wierdness is a strength And Not A Weakness.
It is our raison d'etre.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 07:46 PM

Titanium joints are the things that end up in the pile of ashes after the house burns down and a corpse is discovered. Those serial numbers will turn up every time. And I had to go through a security scan at the courthouse just three weeks after surgery and it set the thing off, so I know they didn't substitute plastic instead of titanium.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 08:42 PM

It's launched. The Idaho Legion launched Mission Against the Overlord's Bullying (MAOB, quite by accident) this morning at 0530 Zulu. Actually, it was right around 10:30 last night MDT, but it sounds cooler to give it in Zulu time. I can't tell you what the military-type hardware it contains, but among the least of the weaponry is an Silicon-Alcohol-Germanium-Gadolinium-Yttrium laser (SAGGY laser), thought up, designed, and produced by the Idaho Legion's team of cracked military scientists.

ONWARD! SAVE THE EARTH! DEFEND OUR MOTHER!


This message brought to you by the Idaho Legion. Contributions accepted.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 10:42 PM

MilliPutty-Alum-Germguiltium-Nickelodium-Ununpentium Magnesium lasers are banned in Maryland and are not sold on Amazon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 10:00 AM

The European model has our Hurricane tracking the ENTIRE EAST COAST but the Trump Magic Marker model keeps it entirely off shore.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 12:45 PM

The SAGGY laser is powered by hurricanes, tornadoes, and hot air masses colliding with cold air masses. Much like Twitter posts, which is another energy source.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 03:29 PM

The MAGNUM laser is powered by a quarter mile long extension cord.
It takes 10 men to drag the cord.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 09:11 PM

SAGGY is now in Earth-Moon Pair duocentric orbit, cutting a figure-eight in space. The launch, etc. was successful, and the brave people staffing the new Defense Station. They have no way to return to Earth, but trust me, they shan't be missed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 11:20 PM

At first that was unexpected but its the new normal these days.
3 Astronauts only have 48 hours for a reentry but like you say, you pay your money and take your chances. We are all in the same boat with limited air.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Aug 20 - 04:56 PM

Being in the same boat with limited air is a mixed metaphor. We can either be in a boat with a serious problem like no paddle, or we can be in a confined place with limited air. Lack of air is not a problem one associates with boats. Unless the boat is a submarine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 20 - 09:05 PM

After 18 previous attempts, the Idaho Legion is pleased and proud to announce the orbiting of the defense satellite Crown Of Victory In Defense! COVIID-19 is currently encircling the globe, adding its powerful defenses (defences outside of the United States) to SAGGY station's already massive defenses (see above).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 07:18 AM

We the people are on the same page more than in days past.
For me it has been a learning experience that has gone full circle. It only took global warming, global pandemics, global disasters and global leadership that starves and sickens anyone with funds less than millions of dollars. Pinched to oblivion this is a turning point. The Pendulum can swing no further up and is on the way back down. In other words history will repeat. We must push the boulder back up the hill. We have given the smart people a chance to lead, we have given the dumb people a chance to lead and can now compare.
I hope that in hundreds of years our smart people today will seem dumb compared to the future folks as the social pendulum continues to trace its wave. Curiously humans will not do it alone. It will involve a wide spectrum of life itself from galactic overlords to virus.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 08:00 AM

The pendulum through time https://youtu.be/VXwYLKFJoUk
It is similar to the solar system's orbit around the galaxy, the same as the spiral shape of DNA, the same as the path of sperm.
Its the way my minds eye sees the path of time but its hard to explain in words.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 09:26 AM

Hell even the path of a massless chargeless photon is helical.
If you think of a tip of a pendulum as a particle, the path it takes is a wave. Particle waves with various charges, spins and mass is all everything is within the bounds of space and time.

That is, except for the power of the Schwartz, which like dark matter
and dark energy is invisible to us traveling probably in reverse helical spin.. Oh, by the way, that stuff halfwa between dark and light energy are those trillions of neutrinos passing through your brain every second. Neutrinos have three favorite flavors chocolate straw....
and guess what... they travel in helical spirals

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 10:26 AM

So everything moves like a coiled spring looks? I figured that out from a mental exercise of following the Moon's orbit through space when I was 12. It was a cool thing to do even if it didn't help my arithmetic grades.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 11:07 AM

There is a test one does on old spools of thread to see if they are still viable for sewing. Unwrap a few inches and give it a sharp yank; if it snaps off, it's too brittle. I had a lovely box full of thread from my mother's house and it added up to 96 spools, many of them wooden (none so old as stone, she wasn't born in the dark ages).

Did you know that you can sell this now-worthless thread to people on eBay? Maybe they buy it for the spools (but quite a few of mine are also plastic). I looked around and have a price in mind and some lovely photos of these defunct tubes of cotton. If I learn later that is there some fabulous craft idea that brings in megabuck$ for items made with these old spools, I'll take my troubles down to the Legion Hovel and we can discuss where to find more old useless spools of thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 12:26 PM

Or you can go to the Legion Hovel and recruit a few armed and drunken degenerates to help you recover your spools under the pretense that the transaction was fraudulent because the purchaser didn't tell you she was going to resell them for something approaching the Gross National Product of Albania.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 08:56 PM

There are no degenerates at the Hovel. No one is de-ing. Everyone there was born that way and can't generate any further down the ladder..

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 09:23 PM

So, would that make the ungenerates?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Aug 20 - 09:02 AM

They are the peak of the valley of nongenerates. Were they to slide further they would be puddles of amoebic dysentery slime or some such. They actually have too much intellect to be viruses.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Aug 20 - 09:43 AM

Mom!

Why does the word "skies" even exist? There's only one sky!

Is there an exoplanet somewhere that has multiple skies? How would that work? Are they stored in a closet somewhere and some guy decides which one to use on a particular day? "I think we'll have the puce sky on Monday and the lavender sky on Tuesday." Personally, I wouldn't want to live someplace that has a puce sky, even if it was only on Monday.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Aug 20 - 11:53 PM

Never been in is a dust storm, have ya?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Aug 20 - 12:57 AM

Are you saying dust storms turn the sky puce? How horrible! Then we must ban dust storms! Puceness should be avoided at all costs!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Aug 20 - 07:01 AM

Along with banning storms we should also move earthquake faults, put sprinkler systems in dry forests and raise the water table.

People are saying the stratosphere and ionosphere are a waste of skies.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 20 - 10:31 AM

People also say that the troposphere is not spherical and probably unnecessary.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Aug 20 - 07:31 PM

Flatulosphere: The layer of the atmosphere where really potent farts are permanently exiled.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 20 - 07:35 PM

Flautophone: A guitarist who thinks s/he can play brass.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 20 - 04:12 PM

If you see this man please notify the Federal Bureau.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Aug 20 - 12:26 PM

A new diverse political movement is reminding me of the Tea Party. The DIE party is dedicated to DENY IGNORE and EVADE the law.
Their credo and legal defense is the first ammendment. To them the right to lie, liberty and pusuit of happiness is guaranteed by the constitooshun. They have risen from the ashes of the NRA, arson at BLM protests and armed no mask protests. The DIE party is attracting racists, narcicists and the stupidly proud. Their emblem is a human skull which makes membership cool quick and easy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Aug 20 - 12:28 PM

All of those Bureaus and Departments and Agencies are lying low right now, hoping to avoid the gaze of the Orange one. You know that back room at the Hovel that usually is used for storing old WWII Army/Navy store gear and cots for the Next Big One? They've been coming and going there to meet out of sight of the D.C. crowd. I think there are cots made up if you look at the back of the room. I hear the Joint Chiefs of Staff had extra keys made to the back door.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Aug 20 - 03:00 PM

Thats the spirit but also true.
Give away projects are running out of time and are opting for briefcases/dufflebags of cash to avoid a paper trail.

Those dedicated to snack food and obiesity belong to the EAT SHIT party and are destined to join the DIE party.
There are plans to wage a patriotic war with only AMERICAN made products. After looking into it we would have to go to war with only My Pillow, Car floor mats, Weber Grills, Airstream Trailers, Gibson Guitars, Wilson Footballs, Chesapeake Bay Candles and Colt pistols. Everything else uses at least some foriegn components.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 20 - 09:51 PM

Colt firearms contain steel made Elsewhere. Many of the machines that make them are made Elsewhere. There ARE gunsmiths who make their arms from scratch, including making their own steel and using machines that were made either by them or truly historic pieces.

A flintlock will set you back up to USD 20,000, cheapest about 1,500. French and English gunflints are well thought of, but getting your own from nearby hills will work. Chickenshit makes good saltpeter, but it takes awhile and the neighbors might complain when you start pouring "chamber lye" over your nitrate beds in the backyard. Domestic sulphur and charcoal are easily had, but the best charcoal is stuff you make yourself from willow.

REAL Americans make their OWN firearms.

I am not a REAL American.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 04:37 AM

What I have learned of new or old firearms I either learned from you or 'Pawn Stars'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 11:23 AM

Good Sci Fi reflects social issues and cutting edge and future science.
I'm exploring the concept of a possible choice being made by a conscious entity who can slip between many worlds of Quantum possibilities as an evolutionary advancement. In the process in the discovery of the many worlds multiverse it was found the number of multiverses are actually far from infinite.
It turns out that most universes burn out from a wave collapse.
Quantum events too small to diverge significantly, fail to develop.
'Rick' is the being that can traverse universes as easily as slipping sideways in an impossibly narrow gap. He finds he is faced with a choice between a nuclear holocaust on Earth, or the worst possible President ever to take power. It turns out to be a more difficult choice than at first thought.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 01:33 PM

You should know enough about firearms to handle them safely and, preferably, to unload them. "There are just too damned many guns out there," said my mother. "I want my kids to know enough to be safe."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 04:53 PM

I don't know enough.
In my out of bound limits vingnette, The unwitting villains in one universe is Admiral Palsy and General Betrayus and in this universe is Steve
Bannon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 07:26 PM

I do not know how to unload a bazooka. But, since the chances of my ever needing to unload a bazooka are vanishingly small, I don't worry about it very much. It's not like I'm going to walk out the door in the morning and someone is going to thrust a loaded bazooka into my arms and say, "Here, you unload this while I go get another one!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 09:24 PM

Re-attach the safety clip to the exhaust of the rocket OR use a grounded (to a grounded rod!) paperclip. Put the weapon in the "safe" or "please don't shoot!" status or cut the wires from from the magneto to the trigger. The CAREFULLY grasp the rear of the rocket and CAREFULLY remove it. GENTLY lay it on the ground and get the hell away from it! That thing contains a shaped charge of about a half kilogram of C4 or TNT. The easiest and safest way to unload it (for you) is to pull the trigger and don't have any body parts behind the backblast of the rocket. Your neighbors might not speak to you ever again, especially if you hit their chickenhouse. Just remember to keep yourself clear of the backblast from rockets, recoilless rifles, claymore mines, fougasse, and so on. There is also no truth to the rumor that C-4 suppositories "will clean ya out real good."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Aug 20 - 06:23 AM

There is a recall on some C-4
suppositories. This country has regulations coming out of its ass.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Aug 20 - 07:15 AM

Calmol-4, for when you need to calm your ass right down!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 20 - 11:54 AM

When my ass needs calming I hit him right between the ears with a two-by-four. Never a bray outa him after that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Aug 20 - 02:20 PM

In these days of challenging procrastination and xxxxxxxation isolation, I need some grand examples of WILL POWER.
You know something for get up and go.
I gave up after only coming up with things that haven't happened yet-
like Ruth Ginzburg passing away one day after Trump is defeated.
However Fred Trump's 'WILL' POWER gave Donald enough $ to be President.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Aug 20 - 08:16 AM

RBG needs to hang on until after Biden's inauguration, not just until after Trump loses the election. If you don't think Trump and McConnell are big enough assholes to ignore the "Thurmond Rule" and try to push a SCOTUS nomination through during a lame duck period, there's something wrong with your thinker.

That it has never been done before is not due to a law or Constitutional provision. The Thurmond Rule is more of a "gentlemen's agreement". Trump and McConnell are not gentlemen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Aug 20 - 11:51 AM

I'm drinking my later-than-usual morning cuppa tea out of my RBG cup (they sell them at Fishs Eddy in NYC) and aiming a force field of good thoughts to surround her. And every so often I think through what I would say if I was ever face-to-face with the orange one and had his attention - what insult could I offer that is so concise and to the point and so clear that even he would understand it was an insult.

Have at it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Aug 20 - 06:19 PM

Classless, ignorant, unloved bully -- assuming that you know what thatmeans! May you defecate in your trousers during your upcoming nomination acceptance speech, and may the stink be such that it carries over television and Twitter!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Aug 20 - 08:50 PM

There will be no damning with faint praise for our Donald - Kamala will mop the floor with him. We can trust her to say what needs to be said.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Aug 20 - 09:39 AM

Hi, Mom!

Do I strike you as the type of person who really gives a shit whether or not his iPhone is backed up?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Aug 20 - 02:54 PM

You don't strike me as the type of person who would have an iPhone.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Aug 20 - 04:43 PM

Oh, I do have an iPhone, but there's not a damned thing on it I'd miss if the thing should die.

Seriously, here's the thing: I live too far out of town for regular broadband Internet service. I have a personal hotspot through my cellular provider. It works well, but I only get 15 GB per month at "full speed". After that, the speed throttles way down. So, I try to avoid unnecessary expenditures of bandwidth.

Backing up an iPhone requires that the phone be connected to a WIFI network. This is a bit silly in my case since the phone and the personal hotspot both use the same cellular provider and are on the same billing plan. The phone has unlimited high speed access, but Apple won't let me use the phone's own unlimited GBs of data transfer for backup. It requires that I connect through WIFI and use up some of my precious 15 GB.

So, the phone never gets backed up and I don't care.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Aug 20 - 08:42 PM

Apart from my contact list there's not a lot to lose.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Aug 20 - 09:03 PM

I have this backup device called "a piece of paper" with all my contacts' information.

And any photos I take that I actually care about are copied to my laptop.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 09:16 AM

I've probably lost track of all of the places my photos backup to. Microsoft, Dropbox, and I think Google has a hand in some photo storage. An embarrassment of riches. And my details like that are in a three-ring notebook.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 09:30 PM

Lots of places to go after this plague is over. Back to the Arctic! Viva la Aurora!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Aug 20 - 01:32 AM

Places that may have changed with the absence of people (for the better, we hope!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Aug 20 - 08:04 AM

After surviving the plague, I would like to round out my education by taking a grand tour of places which afford visitors opportunities to survive famine, pestilence, and war.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Aug 20 - 12:54 PM

Here's a question I just asked myself.

A wildfire is QUICKLY approaching you home and you have 30 minutes to evacuate. You have "grab and go" boxes containing insurance, family pictures, and other important papers; you can easily grab your laptop and the backup drives; your toiletries and medicines are simple to grab -- but you have room and weight for no more than six books.

What six books would you take? The rest of what you own will be ashes very quickly and you gotta load and scoot!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Aug 20 - 10:53 AM

New coinage inspired by the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave:

"Overflowing lack of compassion."

Example: "His overflowing lack of compassion is exceeded only by his overflowing abdomen."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Aug 20 - 10:21 PM

I wish mothers would stop using the possibility of an emergency room visit as a reason to wear clean underwear. If you should wind up in the ER due to a serious accident, they're going to cut all your clothes off anyway, So why waste a good pair of clean underwear? If they're going to be sacrificed, just wear dirty ones. In fact, you should make it a point to wear dirty underwear any time you get an a car, just in case you're in an accident.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 20 - 10:22 PM

Theme song.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 20 - 10:09 AM

Campaign song.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 20 - 10:13 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCP76JTY4kE

The definitive rendition of a Certain Candidate's campaign song.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Aug 20 - 01:58 PM

It's Monday. All week feels like Monday. I have a couple of birthdays coming up in a little over a week but I think both of us are simply going to stay the same age and try again next year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 06:43 AM

My Mondays are now 165 hours long. The only part of the week that isn't Monday is the three hours on Saturday evening that I spend playing socially-distanced music on a friend's porch. Monday begins immediately thereafter and runs until 8 PM the following Saturday.

My phone still says there are other days. For example, it says it's currently Tuesday. But I don't believe it. If I were to do that OS update that I've been putting off, it would probably say "Monday" every time I looked at it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 10:23 AM

Something keeps telling me that it's January 15, 1969 and I'm stuck to go on a night patrol in the Republic of Korea. -37F, winds at >40mph, and lots of snow, and what I want to do is go to the NCO Club and drink hot toddies. I could get hurt out there!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 03:12 PM

Still having dreams when I suddenly realize the people around me are too damned close. You'd think at least in your dreams people could approach safely!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 07:58 PM

I've got the cough. On the bright side we hope its cancer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 20 - 10:06 PM

1,300!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Aug 20 - 10:07 AM

Stay safe, Don.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 20 - 08:17 PM

367 California wildfires are adding to my coughing here in Idaho. Doesn't include the homegrown ones, which have burn a couple thousand acres around town so far this summer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 09:37 AM

A big plastic factory on the far east side of the county has been on fire for several days. The general direction of wind is NW so over downtown Fort Worth. I suspect everyone within a four county area has inhaled incompletely combusted hydrocarbons this week. Soon the air will be filled with ragweed pollen. The face masks are something we should probably be wearing anyway, even without COVID-19.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 09:54 AM

We carefully watch the AQI. I change the furnace filters (HEPA) more often than I need to. We even "sanitize" the blades of the ceiling fan. AC isn't high on my list of faves, but it's better than 100F heat and pollen. Recently I discovered that I'm allergic to the news.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 11:01 AM

Did you know kiwi fruit have stiff, sharp, microscopic fibers in them that temporarily attach to your throat like tiny cactus thorns? It's not really noticeable if you only eat one fruit, but if you buy a marked down bag of ten and eat five at one setting, it'll feel like your throat is going to close up. Trust me on this. Do not attempt to verify by personal experimentation.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 03:14 PM

Florida is going forward with the release of millions of genetically modified mosquitos at the peak of the pandemic. What could possibly go wrong? There have been genetic experiments that have gone wrong

Pioneers who did it first so you don't have to

Add Steve Bannon to the list of pioneers who was arrested aboard a Chinese exile's yacht while in a giant hot tub filled with caviar.
What struck officials odd was that he was wearing 2 shirts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 04:00 PM

The Mudcat E book will soon be unveiled with its collection of essays, stories, musings, PM exchanges, candid conversations, compromising photographs, and audio and video (semi-musical) clips, as well as interactive quizzes, is unlike anything else available when it comes to the e-book experience. Folk Fans and musicologists will delight in its direct access to the brilliant, wacky minds of these popular and talented authors/musicians. There’s plenty of teasing, riffing and ragging on each other, but at the heart of the book are these writers’ innermost sentiments about the friendships formed, the love found, and the tragedy of losing to cancer the person who brought them together.
Unfortunately many posts by Amos will not be included due to an abundance of hope of future publication profits.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 06:47 PM

That's okay, I have an autographed copy of his book.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Aug 20 - 07:08 PM

I think I un-hid Amos' poems after he died.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 09:43 AM

Have yourself a microscopic Christmas
Let your heart beat on
From now on our virus will go out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Respect blacks and gays
From now on Christmas is just a click away
Here we are as in olden days
Like pandemic golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Are all far from us, once more
Through the years we all will be together
If vac-cines allow
Hang the Donald Trump upon the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas
Have yourself a little tiny Christmas
So have yourself a merry little tiny itty bitty Christmas now

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 10:05 AM

You losed Amos' poetry upon the world again??????

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 12:43 PM

You can still read everything in the original MOAB - you just have to get there via a search and read it one post at a time. So do a search on Amos (and Amos as a guest, because we could post in there that way also until recently) and figure out which posts are poetry. It took a while to hide them (he told me which, so I should see if I still have that list).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 20 - 05:15 PM

E book Mudcat addendums (only a nickel) will include the best of Maggie, Little Hawk/Chongo, Richard Fielding, Bill D, Spaw, BWL, Cat Laughing, Rapaire and chief musicologist and crypto fascist Joe Offer. :^/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 07:23 AM

My old posts do not even appear in the 'worst of' section but instead are in a separate not ready for prime time catagory called 'sarcasm satire and sacriledge'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 01:55 PM

I want to go outside but the AQI hovers near the "Hazardous" level. I wish to thank California.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 06:57 PM

It just gets weirder and weirder....

We have two tropical storms, both predicted to become hurricanes, in The Gulf of Mexico for the first time in history. If that's not enough, current forecasts have them both making landfall on the Louisiana coast in the same spot 24 hours apart.

In any other year, that asteroid that's headed for Earth the day before Election Day wouldn't concern me at all....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 09:42 PM

I went outside and took a short walk around the yard. I don't think I've ever seen so many grasshoppers in such a small area in my life!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 20 - 10:17 PM

Uh oh. Is this the August catastrophe or has the September catastrophe arrived early?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 08:41 AM

astroid? its hardly bigger than me.
Prepare for Harvey like rain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 09:37 AM

The CA fires are said to equal the size of RI.
I've been to Rhode Island and its huge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 09:51 AM

Two hurricanes possibly slamming into the Gulf Coast soon, but it won't deter the windbags on the east coast (the Hatch Act isn't sparing the federal White House staff from party politics this week). Knocking the GOP off of the front page would be nice, but they're like the worst grass burs, once they're stuck on clothing or skin nothing is very effective against them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 11:59 AM

Mom!

The word "holdup" makes perfect sense when describing the robbery of a stagecoach. If a stagecoach is moving from one place to another, its progress needs to be held up for a robbery to occur.

But why are bank robberies also called "holdups"? Banks don't move. They aren't going anywhere.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 01:34 PM

Back to 14 days of quarantine - in the house away from everyone.

I've had to bypass the Hatch Act with nuance regarding yard signs
like a Halloween picture of Trump attacked by torches and pitchforks.

Mike Lindell of 'my pillow' isn't selling pillows like he used to so he now sells Oleandrin drops to put on your pillow for a magic 'Trump Approved' Covid cure. I bet he would do better selling My Dildo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Aug 20 - 07:15 PM

Hi, Mom! I'm cooking dinner! We're having sausage made from Italians and unexploded shells in a tomato sauce with things in it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 20 - 07:57 PM

I made Chicken a la King with Trump sauce and China Flu id rice.

Trump sauce is made with fictious ingredients and stolen money.
China Flu id rice is just cooked rice in a blender with soy.
The Pandemic version is made the same but you don't cook the chicken.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 08:06 AM

We also enjoyed a sausage made from that nasty kid who lived next door: bratworst, we called it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 10:01 AM

Stay safe, Don. Are you having symptoms or were just in the proximity of someone with COVID?

Thinking about a foray out for fresh vegetables, but it's late enough now the stores will have regular shoppers, not just sleepy seniors who had to arrive at the crack of dawn for Senior Shopping.

Maybe tomorrow. There is still stuff in the freezer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 10:49 AM

I tried bratwurst for the 1st time ever Sunday. I don't like it.
There is only a typical morning cough but there is distancing going on because my wife with no discussion went to support her recently widowed oldest sister in rural Oregon, which is in her character regarding family. My only good memory of the deceased was during a family photo when he laughed at my joke that 'extraneous DNA' always stand in the back row. After 20 years the joke still works.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 01:50 PM

There are many varieties of bratwurst using different mixes of meats and seasonings. I'm partial to smoky beef brats.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 05:57 PM

Yes, Donuel, I noticed that post
reporting that you had 'the cough.'
You are doing well to be prudent about it.

As to Rhode Island:
I've been to Rhode Island,
and a lot of it is ocean water.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 06:45 PM

Its a good place to go submarine spotting, highway race, raise chickens and probably smuggle. *The pandemic is the main thing, the fire is the second and coming in third is the hurricane. Fourth is the open season for police shooting black people. The long standing crisis is the coup against democracy.

*in order of lethality

deadly bratwurst is #1354 on the lethal list.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 09:07 PM

Funny you should mention submarines around Rhode Island,
because that reminds me of something else actually.
My brief acquaintance with Rhode Island,
especially the closer you get to the shore and the Long Island Sound,
is that there is more to it than
Newport and those impossible mansions rising seemingly out of the water's edge.

In places like Greater Providence, with its many suburbs,
or Pawtucket to the north and east,
there are whole enclaves of people who are
Italian-Americans by way of New York and New Jersey,
and submarines to them are sandwiches,
often very peppery spicy ones.
Don't even get them started on pizzas ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 09:08 PM

... and I just remembered ChanteyLass,
the Mudcatter who lives in Rhode Island.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 20 - 09:40 PM

I thought ChanteyLass lived in New Mexico. I'm probably thinking of someone else.

My niece married into a well-to-do Boston family (a house in Cambridge/Harvard Square, etc.) and they have a beach place in Rhode Island. I poked around on Google maps. It's in the realm of "just a house" a block or two from the beach, but I'm sure even those don't go for a song. Every one of them seems to be built large with plenty of bedrooms for family visiting in the summer.

Don mentioned a cough before, I was hoping it was a passing thing and there are no symptoms now? Anyway, you don't need to discuss it in the open thread, but stay well, my friend!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 09:58 AM

Thanks to California we've been coughing AND staying inside the shelter of the HVAC filters wherever we can. This is the first day in a week that the AQI is "healthy."

In the last week I've given away three human skulls, two matching mandibles, and two human femurs, and a boatload of trophies for head-bowling, bone-baseball, and the other sports the Legion has engaged in over the years.

I knew only the owner of one of the skulls in his pre-skull days, a noxious old f*rt named Samworthy. He's the one who started the rout at the Battle of Tinymatters, where General Sothoth burned all the crops so they wouldn't fall into the hands of the German Army. That was in Idaho in 1967.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 02:06 PM

Our air quality is about to shift to wet and blowy, a one-two hurricane punch. We're usually on the fringes of where the weather hits, so I'm hoping that trend continues.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 03:23 PM

No irritation or infection. I started smoking last week so my cillia are pissed off. Quitting again is in order when in home quaranine is over. Maybe I'll write a Film Noire story about the hunting down of the Post Master General.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 05:25 PM

I mentioned the pilot wave phenomenon regarding quantum strangenss that traces a future course and motion - the total opposite of the wake behind a boat.
pilot waves you can see pushing a particle.

Another view over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE
If you will, we are a surfing in an ocean of time.

ABSTRACT

The investigation of dynamical systems has revealed a deep-rooted difference between waves and objects regarding temporal reversibility and particlelike objects. In nondissipative chaos, the dynamic of waves always remains time reversible, unlike that of particles. Here, we explore the dynamics of a wave-particle entity. It consists in a drop bouncing on a vibrated liquid bath, self-propelled and piloted by the surface waves it generates. This walker, in which there is an information exchange between the particle and the wave, can be analyzed in terms of a Turing machine with waves as the information repository. The experiments reveal that in this system, the drop can read information backwards while erasing it. The drop can thus backtrack on its previous trajectory. A transient temporal reversibility, restricted to the drop motion, is obtained in spite of the system being both dissipative and chaotic.


https://www.quantamagazine.org/fluid-experiments-support-deterministic-pilot-wave-quantum-theory-20140624/

With a little imagination you may see why I believe in a 3D model of time on a quantum scale.

Since I was 14 I always wanted know why the 2 slit experiment suggested a particle wave at 2 places at once. I'm glad to 'SEE' a clear cut answer. This news is 10 years old in the visual experiment and the de Broglio theory is 100 years old, so its not like gravity waves being discovered.

I have even done this in my kitchen. Just like this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 20 - 05:59 PM

I kinda already knew that life/reality is both random and partially deterministic. I've even noticed the tiny time loops by whatever name want to call it. It's not all deja vu. Its not all deja vu.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 09:22 AM

kids say the darndest things
adults flaunt their collected bias'
seniors have no audience for wisdom
and the living speak for the dead
but there are a special few who listen

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 08:05 PM

Rapparee, are the grasshoppers still around?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 20 - 09:58 PM

Yes. One attacked me today. He won't hop again in grass or anywhere else.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 09:04 AM

I was in the 1956 Colorado grasshopper plague. The biggest danger was driving on slick grasshopper guts right off the road

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 09:13 AM

The smell of dead grasshoppers and crickets is distinctive. We had a couple of really bad years in Central Texas back in the early 1980s and the municipality would spray at night. You'd go to a store and walk past piles of dead bugs.

We almost had a dead squirrel yesterday. The girls are beginning to coordinate their routine and they were within a whisker of catching one reckless squirrel that didn't decide it would be smartest to stay up the tree. Dead squirrels stink also, though when I find those things I toss them into the creek for the turtles and fish or bury them in the compost pile.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 20 - 09:47 PM

I counted 12 grasshoppers on a 10 x 10 slab of concrete this afternoon.
Tomorrow around 10 a.m. MDT I shall engage in chemical warfare, doing my best to avoid bees, etc. I do not care how many box elder bugs also bite the dust. DEATH TO GRASSHOPPERS (since I can't use live bait.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 20 - 07:58 AM

If you allow the natural world in you begin to see how the natural world treats you differently as if latent ancient DNA expresses knowledge that allows an interplay within and outside you. You see differently as though even the organization of a grasshopper cycle is more than the sum of its parts. The parts consist of a squad and multiple squads form a brigade that transforms plant life into flying protein packaged in chitin that need not go to waste. You can almost see their ancient contribution to a biome which is now extinct but was very much in harmony in their day. They were the food to new giant avian species in variations beyond belief millions of years ago
"Now you know the rest of the story"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 20 - 06:40 PM

They're also edible by humans. I've even eaten roasted grasshoppers. At the moment they are doing me more damage than I will do them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 01:11 AM

I think taking out a lot of box elder bugs is also a worthwhile enterprise. I set up a mosquito trap this afternoon; it's passive, a bucket of water with some floating vegetation (weeds pulled today) that will rot and make the stagnant water all the more inviting to mosquitoes. Whose eggs will not survive the Bacillus thuringiensis israelii (mosquito dunk) in the water.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 06:20 AM

Do you hear the grasshopper ?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 07:19 AM

The western and mid western right wing militias are now in competition with each other. Some ride in pick up truck beds shooting mace and paintball guns into demonstrators. Some show up with live ammo. They are defending themselves and Trump, their excuser and chief.
Escalation will culminate in intensifying a fear of going to the polls. Militas are correct in assuming they have most police on their side. The use of the term civil war is discouraged and it is said that we are a country at war with itself. More blood may be shed as the election draws closer and Trump throws more troops into Portland and Chicago. It maybe won't be as bad as I think but it could make Trump President for four more years as more nazi like folk heros are created and memorialized while ignoring the dead mad crazy democrats and blacks. At least strategists like Steve Miller, McConnel, Bannon and Trump probably hope so.

Yesterday I watched from my parked car as a policeman in a cruiser detained an apparant exhausted vagrant and homeless black man and called for back up of two more police vehicles. There was no search or abuse that I witnessed but I did not not approach or obstruct the police and left early. There was simply the appearance and fear by the police. Even a firetruck showed up but soon left the scene. I feel like things are on a hair trigger. Perhaps it was just a humanitarian call to help the black man? If you didn't know, the police can now call paramedics to administer 500 mg of Ketamine to suspects. It has been fatal to small people but only renders larger people unconscious.
Things are moving just slow enough that Americans are getting used to it. It remains that Trump is the only one calling balls and strikes be it about violence or the pandemic. I guess I don't trust Trump to be Umpire and Chief.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 03:07 PM

1351

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 03:14 PM

Edward III of England institutes the Treason Act of { 1351 },
defining treason in English law. It is currently one of the earliest statues still in force under English law. ...
April 8 – Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of Taillebourg the French are defeated by the English.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 20 - 06:10 PM

1352: The Black Death is slowly dying out in England and Europe. Flagellants discover that it really hurts!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Sep 20 - 12:48 PM

I read this morning in The New York Times that some basic and inexpensive steroids are helping people who had severe cases of COVID-19 recover. Not recommended for mild cases. Now lets see what kind of BS Trump calls on behalf of Prednisone and it's family of magic bullets (but you have to be careful with them and taper off - that's the part that requires patience of patients.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 20 - 10:31 PM

Prednisone and similar drugs can send blood sugars through the roof -- and beyond. If you're diabetic, be very, very careful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 20 - 05:01 PM

Go BIG 10 or go home

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 20 - 02:42 PM

Big 10 what?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 20 - 04:47 PM

I see. One third of the college football players who contracted Covid 19 suffered inflamation of the heart muscle as well as other organs.
Sometimes the inflamation goes away on its own. The head coach of Penn State U. was willing to err on the side of caution and stop the school's seasonal games.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 20 - 09:23 PM

Oh. Football. I see.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 20 - 08:13 AM

Mid 2021 I expect a Covid vaccine wil be available for nearly a quarter of all Americans. My adverse reaction to Ford's swine flu vaccine was a one in 10 million reaction so don't worry about phase 3 trials and safety. Rare events may occur but unless Trump is involved you will be safe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Sep 20 - 08:35 AM

MOM!! Gitcherass back up where you belong! Second from the bottom indeed!!! Never in all my born days....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Sep 20 - 10:32 AM

This is MOAB Annex post # 1362.

1362 was the year in which The English Act made English, rather than French, the official language in law courts. If it weren't for 1362, we'd have to try to argue our way out of traffic fines in French!

"Je n'allais pas trop vite!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Sep 20 - 05:58 PM

Mon avocat dit, "Cherchez la femme! Y los dinero!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 20 - 11:33 AM

Voulez vous couchez avec moi votre honour?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 20 - 04:15 PM

Here comes the mature pandemic. Even with the downsized administration numbers we are at 1,000 deaths a day and 6.2 million contagious infections in the USA. The total number of deaths could double by Jan. 1st. As Rap said the real number of deaths may never be known. Just as people are exhausted of keeping their guard up we will be going indoors, kids to schools, bars to open and gathering at the yule log, all while the number of infections sky rocket. Some call it the second wave. I call it the lingering Trump disaster. LTD

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 20 - 04:19 PM

Despite my doom and gloom post I'm surprisingly in a good mood.
Watching things go down the tubes is the ultimate entertainment:^)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 20 - 06:41 PM

Good News
The FDA said Phoenix Biotechnology provided evidence of a history of medicinal use of Nerium oleander (a sweet smelling but deadly flower leaves and stems) extracts and some evidence of preclinical and clinical studies, but the safety evidence was not "qualitatively and quantitatively" related to oleandrin as a supplement.
"Studies performed in advanced cancer patients generally cannot establish the safety of your ingredient in its intended population of normal healthy adults, and you did not provide any information to indicate that such extrapolation between different populations would be scientifically valid," the FDA's letter said.
The FDA's letter did not mention using the extract as a treatment for Covid-19.
My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell, who has no scientific background or medical training, has said previously he was so enthusiastic about the product as a Covid-19 treatment that he had started taking the extract as a prophylactic and has encouraged his friends to do the same.
He had brought his research to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Lindell said in July that Carson was "just amazed," and thought "it was very exciting seeing all the data."
After Lindell met with Trump in July, he described the President's response to the extract as "enthusiastic." Lindell told CNN in July that Trump wanted the FDA to "do its course."
When asked about the extract in August, Trump said he had "heard about" oleandrin and said, "We'll look at it, we'll look at it, we're looking at a lot of different things." It's unclear if Trump raised the issue with the FDA. If Mike Lindel follows the rules he could get rat shit approved as a food supplement if proven safe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 20 - 10:38 PM

Oleandrin as medication. Well, diarsenic trioxide is used in certain blood cancers, but I wouldn't just chow down on it because the President said it was a good idea.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 20 - 11:48 PM

I'm invited to join a noon Zoom meeting tomorrow with other museum volunteers, and they're sending lunch, to be delivered sometime between 9 and 11:30am. The odd thing about this - they didn't tell us what they're planning to send or ask what we want to eat. I'm wondering if we'll get a last minute query tomorrow, or if I missed something on the invitation. They took us out for lunch back in January, and if someone kept track of what we ordered at that nice Italian restaurant and are planning to send that, okay. But I doubt anyone had a clue that September was going to be like this back in January.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Sep 20 - 08:39 AM

Its the thought that counts except when it comes to lunch :^)
Sounds like a nice thing.
Government virtual meetings and Zoom meetings are not very nice
and would NEVER offer lunch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 20 - 11:49 AM

In ten minutes I'll be on a "Go To Meeting" meeting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Sep 20 - 07:04 PM

I, being of sound mind and body do hereby post that I bequeath upon my death, 15 instruments to mudcat.org under the direction of Bill D and Maggie as executors. Stand up Bass, Triton piano, 5 string electic cello, 12 string guitar, Gibson Flat Iron Cadet mandolin, Martin Guitar, Mitchell steel ukelele, 3 more baritone ukes, Autoharp, banjo, tropical guitar, dark brown one piece back fiddle and glockenspiel.

To Rap a Roman Senator dagger. One of 9 that killed Ceasar.
BWL George Carlin books

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 20 - 10:03 PM

There are an awful lot of strings attached to that Mudcat bequest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Sep 20 - 06:35 AM

As a child if my school had a sax there would have been no strings in my life and my life would have been entirely different.
All they had was a cello. Thats the power of a tiny quantum shift in life.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 20 - 09:21 PM

My school had two rocks and a stick to beat on a log. All percussion, no melody.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Sep 20 - 10:20 AM

My elementary school's approach to instrumental music was very simple: If you want to learn to play an instrument, talk your parents into buying it and paying for lessons. It's not our job. We only do classroom sing-alongs.

I don't recall having an instrument in my hand until I got my first guitar. Classrooms had pianos, but they were strictly for teachers. We weren't allowed to touch them.

That many classrooms nowadays have a ukulele and/or recorder for each student is a paradigm shift in the philosophy of music instruction.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 20 - 12:24 PM

When I first took the cello home bullies of course took it apart for me. I'm still putting cellos together.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 20 - 12:45 PM

There are lots of player pianos but very few player cellos

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 20 - 03:33 PM

Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
'Cause Trump rules the world evermore
Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don't they know it's the end of the world?
It ended when the Dems lost the race
I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why nothing is the same as it was
I can't understand, no, I can't understand
How cults go on the way that they do
Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?…

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Sep 20 - 09:01 PM

Air tankers flying all afternoon and the smoke seems to be thickening. Tomorrow I see the doctor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 20 - 09:18 PM

I was fortunate my NYS school had 3 highly talented teachers, The choir sang in Notre Dame, The orchestra went to State competition and
and drama used both to do a different Rogers and Hammerstien every year. We did have to cut the fantasy ballet from Carousel since it was in 9 different keys. I played cello despite nerve reatachment and french horn despite the 9 iron accident. High School was still a battleground 8^o When a graduate came back from Nam and showed us his machine gun wounds, I doubled down to become college bound.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 20 - 07:49 AM

When I was a kid people were tall
there were 5 billion people on Earth
Parents knew everything I didn't

When I was a kid it was fun to fall
To splash about or roll on the turf
Now they would call it an incident.

Now most folks are short
There's 7 billion souls
and parents are rarely right

Now it floods at the ports
some days I feel old
and friends just want to fight

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 20 - 11:15 AM

When I was a kid we measured rain in inches
Now rain is measured in feet
it flows down our toxic street
as a kid we rafted the creek

As a kid we trained to duck&cover
Now we can not even hide in bunker
Its to late for some who to try to breath air
Without Walter Cronkite the news isn't fair

Some things have changed
and some are the same
if ya can't love your neighbor
its really a shame.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Sep 20 - 06:32 PM

Medical appts today, flu shot tomorrow, dermatologist Thursday.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Sep 20 - 06:33 PM

And a VA doctor appt. Friday.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Sep 20 - 09:58 PM

. . . and what's new, Rapparee,
about the grasshoppers?

13 Sept post. "a stick to beat on a log" ...
this is a music subject, but:

anybody remember that Filipino "Tinikling" thing
that was in three-quarter time, and
two lines of people pair up and sit on the floor,
and each pair takes a pair of bamboo sticks and
moves the sticks around on the floor, in the space between them:

tap, tap, slide-together
tap, tap, slide-together

and there is this little tune that goes with it that
somebody sings,
and everybody else
has to dance this little dance on either side of the
tapping bamboo sticks ...
without getting your foot caught when the sticks get to the
slide-together part ...

I suppose I had better use Joe Offer's well-promoted
search/filter features
and see if there is a "tinikling" thread.

In grade school when PhysEd would make us do this thing,
we had really competitive athletic kids in our class
who would flip into total high-anxiety freak-outs
over these bamboo-stick dances.
It helped if one was slightly musical, though.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Sep 20 - 10:25 PM

Busy week, Rap. I make a note in my calendar of anyplace I go on the day as my own early approach to "contact tracing" just in case it's needed. Next week I have a dentist appointment - and am probably going. I postponed it from three months ago. Hopefully it isn't into the COVID-abyss.

BWL, how's the weather forecast for your area?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 10:09 AM

Bee-Dub, are you flooded?   Can I mail you a life jacket?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 10:57 AM

Until fairly recently, myxosporeans were considered to be protists, offshoots of the eukaryotic line that are neither plants, animals nor fungi. In 1995, however, Mark Siddall, then at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and his colleagues argued that myxosporeans are weird members of the cnidarians, the group that includes jellyfish and corals. Since then, genetic studies have bolstered that position.

Their location on the tree of life doesn’t explain how myxosporeans ended up with such strange traits. Myxosporeans boast some of the smallest known animal genomes. The genome of Kudoa iwatai, for example, is estimated to be a mere 22.5 megabases, considerably smaller than that of any other cnidarian genome. It’s less than one-twentieth the size of the genome of Polypodium hydriforme, a closely related cnidarian parasite.

Moreover, their genomes have not just been catastrophically reduced. They specifically lack certain genes thought to be essential for multicellular life. It’s not clear how or why a complex multicellular creature discarded these seemingly necessary genes along with huge chunks of its DNA.

Yet Alexander Panchin, a senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues have an intriguing if controversial hypothesis to explain it. Early this year, they proposed that myxosporeans initially branched off from their cnidarian kin not as independent animals but as tumors.

Evolutionary Scandals
Panchin knows the idea of cancer-derived animals sounds far-fetched — so much so that, in the paper, he and his co-authors refer to them as Scandals (an acronym for “speciated by cancer development animals”).

At first, Scandals were just a thought experiment. While Panchin was writing about transmissible cancers, he heard his colleagues express surprise at the genes for complex tissues that were turning up in certain unusual but simple parasitic animals. Further conversations led to what Panchin calls the “fantastic” idea that such simple parasites could have cancerous origins. “So we took all the data and we proposed this hypothesis,” he said.

According to Panchin’s three-step scenario, a Scandal would start off as a cancer, but not just any cancer. It would have to be transmissible, so that it wouldn’t die when its host did. Then the cancer would have to spread to other species, and then codependently evolve multicellularity. Panchin placed the Scandal tumors in sea water along with Hydro Sporodean jellfish and indeed a new species arose in the new jeuvenile immortal planulae.

In 2016 Panchin was declared missing and his lab was found in shambles. Mark Siddall said the biology world will mourn the loss of Dr. Panchin.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 09:26 PM

Oh, I love it when people talk dirty to Mom!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 09:16 AM

Here, Mom. More excitement for you!

For the classic LT, once the contagion spreads from the initial active nodes through the network, the system eventually reaches a stationary configuration if the threshold, the network structure, the diffusion parameters, and the focal nodes are fixed. In other words, the classic LT is path-independent if nodes can be repeatedly chosen, e.g., a node that is not activated at this time may be activated at one time in the future. In this model, a path-dependent process entails that the diffusion result may vary for different paths of diffusion, while a path-independent process is one for which the diffusion result is always consistent no matter the path of diffusion. Fig 2 gives an illustration of path independence in the classic LT: if the threshold T is assigned to be 0.5, then it does not matter whether we first activate node 4 or node 5; the final result is the same with active nodes 4 and 5, and inactive nodes 6, 7, 8. However, it should be noted that LT may be path-dependent if inactive nodes can be only chosen once or a limited number of times.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 10:14 AM

In other words that was a statement of approximations without a plot or story line. The languages of Physics and Econonomics are even harder.
The record for speaking entirely in acronyms is 7 minutes 42 seconds.
People complain about legalese but William Barr AG has a way of simplifying it with comments such as "ALL PROTESTORS, DEMOCRATS AND candidates who challenge DONALD TRUMP SHALL BE CHARGED WITH SEDITION."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 05:06 PM

I'm guilty of sedition fer sure, I'm fairly sedentary.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 07:52 PM

Hi, Mom!

I survived Hurricane Sally with no major issues. No damage to person, pets, structures or autos. Lots of limbs down (though I suspect some of them may be branches in disguise). Power was only out for ten hours or so and cell/Internet was down for a day. The bridge near the south end of the road I live on is underwater, so trips to the south entail a detour north and then back south via roads with no (or higher) bridges. That's okay. I'll just stay home. Got food, water, toilet paper, two unread books, and 18 guitars. What do I need to go to town for?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 08:12 PM

You lucky basterd. Good for you. Here is a gift of time you can use as you wish. https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-time-a-history-of-physics-biology-clocks-and-culture-20200504/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 08:52 PM

Now that you have Internet you can download tons of books (and it won't amount to an ounce).

I recommend It Can't Happen Here. From 1935, this dystopian novel fits today's political situation remarkably well. Depressingly well. But it's Sinclair Lewis so it is also entertainingly well.

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

An easter egg grants access to Mudcat 2 (the search for more BS).
Special features include an idiot free digital world, access to posting in the afterlife, free IP, tuition free PHD programs and limited omniscience .
The Easter egg can be found somewhere in the original (not Annex) MOAB

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Sep 20 - 08:52 PM

Why search for limited omniscience when I AM totally omniscient already?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Sep 20 - 11:56 PM

There's no such thing as limited omniscience. It's an oxymoron.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 10:54 AM

No, I am still great friends with the Oxymoron family and there's nobody named An. There's Bill, Theresa, Sheri, Helen, the twins Billy and Willy, and the dog Fido.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 11:39 AM

I've had more exposure to prescient lately, rather than omniscient. Mr. P would be Sinclair Lewis, whose 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here is a playbook for the GOP this year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 20 - 01:04 AM

Here comes Beta, a storm in a year where they used up the whole list of alphabetical names so now they're restarting with the Greek alphabet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 20 - 04:47 PM

One day Nazis, Trump and McConnel will just disappear like a miracle but virus won't die of old age.

The good ol days of the new normal aren't what they used to be.

Denying the dieing wish of an old bat is what makes it more delicious.
Trump tweet.

The AGE OF MISINFORMATION is over.
Q Anon.

Republicans agree to a 10 trillon dollar stimulus package to Wall St.

Trump's omnicience is limited only by the greatness in his own mind.
(he's a bleached hydro oxymoron)

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of Covid. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of Covid as a little child, shall in no wise survive unscathed."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Sep 20 - 08:11 PM

“How many valiant men, how many fair ladies, breakfast with their kinfolk and the same night supped with their ancestors in the next world! The condition of the people was pitiable to behold. They sickened by the thousands daily, and died unattended and without help. Many died in the open street, others dying in their houses, made it known by the stench of their rotting bodies. Consecrated churchyards did not suffice for the burial of the vast multitude of bodies, which were heaped by the hundreds in vast trenches, like goods in a ships hold and covered with a little earth.”
                                          -Giovanni Boccaccio

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Sep 20 - 06:55 AM

Answer: About a 1,000 a day in the US. The stench of rotting flesh is hidden today by the use of civilized refridgerated semi trucks.

What is differnt today are the crowds of cheerleaders for the virus.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Sep 20 - 01:27 PM

Mr. Open: Hey Donuel you must be ecstatic about Trump's stroke and that he hasn't recovered his speech.

Donuel: Ecstatic? That means out of one's mind. No I'm not ecstatic.
I'm sad, it's a lonely end for a lonely man. In that way he truly was a common man.

Mr. Open: You hypocrite, you hated him. You never had anything good to

Donuel: I understood the mistakes he made to please his father. He was inspired by the wrong God.

Mr Open: I thought you said you were an athiest - and how could Trump be lonely, he had crowds breathing poison just to see him.

Donuel: Yes, that was some sick inspiration but thats how vulnerable and desperate people are when it comes to the power of sharing hate.
He had a hole in him he could never fill and didn't respect the knowledge that could have saved him. No I didn't respect him but I can feel sorry for him and his innocent followers.

Mr. Open: Greedy suck up innocents my ass. They were in it for the money!

Donuel: Not all of them. Look, the man is in hell now. I suggest he have a long stay.

My Open: Well amen to that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Sep 20 - 12:18 PM

Rapparee, are you free of the grasshoppers at last?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 20 - 12:50 PM

A worm's eye view of the universe is grounding.
But only tasting and feeling sound is its world.
The mighty grasshopper can see his horizon and fly.
Each of the many worlds have their special pleasures.
The pleasure of arriving at Sirius B is reserved for X
but not man

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 20 - 09:52 PM

MOM!!! MOM!!!
You get up there!!!!! Right NOW!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 20 - 01:27 PM

She was out in the back yard working, taking a day off from news. A moratorium on news helps keep her attitude better when she visits down at the Legion Hovel. Then the stuff the others are complaining about is new to her and has been thoroughly digested and presented with the answers as well as the questions the news brings up. Saves time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Sep 20 - 03:41 PM

She's getting quite a reputation at the Hovel. Nobody thought someone as frail-looking as Mom, could do the splits like that, and on top of a piano as well!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Sep 20 - 09:46 PM

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgment-day

And sat upright. While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds:
The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,
The worms drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No;
It’s gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be:

“All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christés sake
Than you who are helpless in such matters.

“That this is not the judgment-hour
For some of them’s a blessed thing,
For if it were they’d have to scour
Hell’s floor for so much threatening....

“Ha, ha. It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need).”

So down we lay again. “I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,”
Said one, “than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!”

And many a skeleton shook his head.
“Instead of preaching forty year,”
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
“I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.”

Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 12:10 PM

Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 12:48 PM

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 01:30 PM

Clean War
by Patricia Wellingham-Jones

They are calling this the cleanest war in all of military history.
--Tom Brokaw, April 2, 2003

Tell that to the ravens
plucking out eyes
on the blood-packed sand

To fathers cradling
the last of their hopes
in torn bodies

To young girls swelling
with the unwanted gifts
of swift strong soldiers

To mothers and wives
pulling on veils of grief
as they wash their dead

Inform the children
who wander dazed with thirst, alone
among ruins

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Sep 20 - 10:47 PM

The Young British Soldier
by Rudyard Kipling

WHEN the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,
An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what's fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . . .

First mind you steer clear o' the grog-sellers' huts,
For they sell you Fixed Bay'nets that rots out your guts -
Ay, drink that 'ud eat the live steel from your butts -
An' it's bad for the young British soldier.
Bad, bad, bad for the soldier . . .

When the cholera comes - as it will past a doubt -
Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout,
For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,
An' it crumples the young British soldier.
Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier . . .

But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .

If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don't grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it's beer for the young British soldier.
Beer, beer, beer for the soldier . . .

Now, if you must marry, take care she is old -
A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told,
For beauty won't help if your rations is cold,
Nor love ain't enough for a soldier.
'Nough, 'nough, 'nough for a soldier . . .

If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch 'em - you'll swing, on my oath! -
Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both,
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .

When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .

When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She's human as you are - you treat her as sich,
An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .

When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o' the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 20 - 06:42 PM

The Thomas Hardy poem, "Channel Firing," was nicely set to music
by Gerard Finzi (English composer despite the name).
Right, Mom,
now upstairs before
Rapparee hollers at you again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 05:51 PM

We've had some fall-like weather this week, but it's warm again today. MOM can't decide if she needs to keep making iced tea or get out the hot pumpkin spice drinks for any visitor who spends time on the screened in porch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 20 - 09:54 PM

We ate dinner on the back porch/deck this evening. It was 71F and quite pleasant. Supposed to be that was the rest of the week and into next.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 03:55 PM

Mom!

I have a poly leaf rake. It says so right on the sticker. I need to know if it will work for raking natural leaves, or only poly ones?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 20 - 09:59 PM

Did Poly leaf you to clean up the leaves?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 06:33 PM

Well, MOM, if you don't want Rapparee hollering at you,
better hustle up to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 11:50 PM

I most certainly do not shout, yell at, holler, or otherwise orally abuse Mom! Why, someone might get the wrong idea and believe that she doesn't like me, her Favorite (Favourite in Canada) best.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 04 Oct 20 - 02:40 PM

Still on sub-lurk, here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 20 - 06:38 PM

Nephew Ted is back from Georgia (the Tblisi one) and will probably start training as a Game Warden in Wisconsin the end of this month. Whether he stays in the Marine Reserves is an open question. Soon I'll be able to hunt all over WI with impunity!

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

Been working on my presentation on past pandemics in US. I'm not going to create the links (do some work yourself!) but the virus causing measles looks to me like Cookie Monster from Sesame Street and the one for polio like the planet in Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Oct 20 - 11:38 PM

MOM saw a rock painted for Halloween out in someone's front yard. Now she's back in the paint shelves looking to see what she can use. I guess if a rock will work in one yard, white washing the big trees and painting scary faces on them will be even more impressive.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Oct 20 - 11:44 AM

I shall make no suggestions that Mom or anyone begin doing things like
this.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Oct 20 - 07:07 PM

At the risk of playing Pete and re-Pete, there's another hurricane headed for the Gulf. What do you want to bet that it has BWL's address in it's contact list for once it comes ashore?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 20 - 07:37 PM

bathyscaphe sub lurk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Oct 20 - 09:26 PM

Of course it does. And it's sent collect on and after delivery.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 20 - 07:30 PM

Went to the doctor today. He reduced one medication, a statin, by half and increased another from two to three pills a day. I guess it even out. No surgery or anything in the foreseeable future, but it's pretty dark out there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 20 - 08:28 PM

Is it the future thats dark or early nights?

It looks like bringing light to the dark of the moon will be unlikely since Trump will probably be the biggest loser this election cycle. - To explain we have to go all the way back to Reagan's Star Wars defense program where a small underground nuke would be exploded and its energy converted to a high power X ray laser weapon. This idea was recently reworked by Dr. Godfrey McMillain to use an enormous visible light laser instead, and was presented to Trump as a way to project the word Trump on the dark phase of the moon for the entire world to see. Branding the moon with light has Donald more excited than a thousand mile wall.
If Trump wins, survivors will be able to see 'Trump' in the sky on clear nights for at least 4 years.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 20 - 10:21 PM

See Robert A. Heinlein, "The Man Who Sold The Moon," (1950).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 20 - 04:54 PM

have a heart, Hancock.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Oct 20 - 04:31 PM

MOAB is reduced to the Fantastic 4.

I fear a promotion of free beer to post here
might not work. Especially if it is Bud light.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 20 - 09:00 AM

Lite beer? I'd rather be fat than sober.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 20 - 06:25 PM

I'd drink horse piss before I'd drink Budwe...wait, that's the same thing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Oct 20 - 08:58 AM

The Idaho Legion Hovel has all-you-can-drink free beer tomorrow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 20 - 05:41 PM

My lap top today fell into 3 pieces rendering it dead.
With some ol reliable duct tape, epoxy and super glue I brought it back to life. Score one against the engineers of planned obsolesence.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Oct 20 - 07:20 PM

And no one will steal a laptop that looks like that so you've assured a higher level of security.

Free beer tomorrow? How about every day through election day. The news is so fraught that an evening glass of whisky is the self-Rx to treat the otherwise palpable anxiety generated by news out of the nation's capital.

Two of the dogs and I are drying out now after I took the hose with the nozzle out to give the two big dogs a rinse-off. I fear there was shampoo left in their coats a couple of weeks ago during their baths, that's the only way I can explain all of the itching and chewing in dogs who don't have fleas. I've switched them to one of their old foods also, for a break from the one they've gotten this summer. Itching dogs is bad enough for them and it's driving me nuts!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 07:41 AM

Did I mention that a toilet stopped working yesterday? Fortunately, the plumber could visit. Unfortunately it's one of those types with an air-assisted flush, so I couldn't fix it. Fortunately the part was on the truck.

Now comes the part about paying.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 08:10 AM

For me booze=snooze. Black gorilla tape covers all glue areas on my lap top so it looks good enough to steal but it never leaves home since I don't have an active academic life like yours. Maybe you could be a curator one day as museums are in a fluid state nowadays.

Rap, my glass coated toilets are virtually self cleaning. Thanks for the Lennox tip, the difference is great.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 11:55 AM

I have remembered that the Labrador retriever used to get a daily dose of Zyrtec for his itching (3 pills for a 75 pound dog, the vet calculated, though I only take 1 and I weigh more. Go figure). So last night I finally got smart and started the two itchy dogs on Zyrtec (the 45 pound dog will get 2 pills, because.) Let's hope this works. It can be purchased in bulk at Costco (Sam's Club is less expensive, but I've stopped going there. Because.)

Gorilla glue, eh? I don't think I've tried that, though I've seen enough ads for it. And there's some kind of miraculous tape for fastening things to walls. The ads flow past like the water in a stream, turning up again every so often, possibly to be acted upon at a later date.

So it's Prime Day now and I ordered another Echo speaker because it comes with a "free" smart light bulb. And because of the cost it's like I'm getting one of these things free. They suck you in that way. And I have a discount to spend but it didn't kick in yet so I must see what that's all about. If one type of advertising doesn't get you, another will.

Good luck with the toilet. I may begrudge the high fees charged by the plumber, but considering the places and times they do their job, it's mostly worth it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 02:43 PM

Gorrilla TAPE is long lasting indoors. Its triple thick duct tape.
Gorilla Glue (original) EXPANDS and will fill in a cracked fencepost or loose stone masonry or hand rail. Not good for any instrument repair - it pushes the wood apart but is good to mount a table top on a pedestal. After 7 years it turns a dark brown red outdoors. Indoors it stays a light tan color. Get it on yours hands and its there for a week despite soap and water.

I'm cutting the TV cable and going to streaming. Youtube looks like the best deal. Verizon is just too big for its britches and getting slow, stupid and crammed to the gills. I will still use their IT.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 06:09 PM

I signed up for Sling TV (Blue package) a few months ago and am quite happy with it. $30 a month for several channels that I regularly watch, and if you want more they have on-demand streaming (I haven't done that so I don't know how much those items cost.) I have high speed internet and it streams into things like Roku, Fire Stick, Chrome stick, and some of the newer smart TVs with downloadable or installed apps.

The holiday shopping started here several weeks ago but got a big boost from Amazon Prime day. And it's just as well I did it early because the guys at the Legion hovel were doing all of their shopping on their phones and tablets and laptops and tying up the WiFi this afternoon.

No matter how many cushy beds I put out for the dogs, this darned puppy always wants to sleep on the rug on top of my rubber mat at my standing desk (that is rarely cranked to the standing position these days). Why is that? Is that mat really that comfortable, is it because she's into leaning on my lumpy feet, or just because I say no so she wants to do it? Inquiring minds and all that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 10:03 PM

My presentation on Pandemics Past In The US is coming apace. I hope to have it done by midnight on the 19th, as I'm giving it on the 20th at 11 a.m. MDT.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 20 - 10:55 AM

A virtual presentation, Rap? Will you be Zooming around the planet?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 20 - 11:00 AM

Some folks may be physically present (safeguards in place!). Others will be there via some sort of magical connection called "Zoom" (refers to hypersonic brooms, I think). Assuming that they get the magic to work -- it's been iffy lately due to the overweaning conceit of some PhDs who can't admit they don't know something. I have confidence that this will be taken care of by Tuesday next...abandoned mineshafts abound.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 20 - 01:05 PM

An excellent use of your talents Rap.
I'm surprised how pandemics have little or no logic as a parasite or in our response to it. Our life and its life seem random.

Now for some top notch PHD BS...

I don't give logic much credit. Logic arises out of the situation where there is often zero freedom to question the original assumption. Not only is it the case that logic arises out of this lack of freedom (as some kind of necessary pre-condition), logic is the lack of freedom which it arose from. What has the most freedom in all reality is space and not what we call a thing. For example; Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pot’s not, is where it’s useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room, where the room isn’t, there’s room for you. What is, is in the use of what isn’t. This sounds illogical but true doesn't it? In cosmology space breaks all our rules. Space can move faster than light. It is enormously small. Different spaces can exist within a space. If I continue, your mind may explode so allow me to simply say things are not as the seem to our POV, yet space allows room for things to change.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 20 - 09:34 PM

My mind exploded at 7:10 a.m., February 11, 1945, when I was thrust from a nice, warm, quiet womb into the cold, harsh, delivery room. It's never been reconstructed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 20 - 09:54 PM

I've been busy, Mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 20 - 09:13 AM

Man:
I knew about misinformation and the difference with disinformation.
But when I started seeing fake websites that looked real I didn't know what was happening so I kept it in.
Wife: He started believing things that weren't true. I knew something was wrong but I didn't say a word.
Moderator: During the course of Trumpism around 50% of people with Trumpism may experience hallucinations or delusions but now Doctors are prescribing new Bidenox, the only FDA approved medicine that significantly reduces hallucinations delusions and conspiracies related to Trumpism. Do not take Bidenox if you are allergic to its ingredients. It can reduce death in older patients who are addicted to Trump rallies. Bidenox can reduce exposure to the side effcts of Covid 19. Tell you doctor about any changes in Facebook and Twitter exposure. Side effects may include rational thought and identifying bald faced lies and conspiracies. Ask your Senator about new Bidenox.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Oct 20 - 12:34 PM

Re: your remarks about space, a friend one time told me that one of his favorite things to photograph is doorways, and doorways with windows. I started making a point of trying his theory about the pleasure of photographing these portals and find he was correct. I have some very nice photos of doorways on historic houses that have experience a lot of "space travel" through them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Oct 20 - 02:02 PM

Mom, when you're preparing a program on pandemics pretty soon EVERYTHING begins to look like a virus: nebulae, bushes, even hair on heads. Perhaps everything IS a virus, even the Earth and the Solar System, and the entire Universe. Just looking for something to stick our bacteriophage into and inject our DNA/RNA.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 20 - 06:50 AM

Mass keeps colliding from gravity

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 20 - 09:04 AM

oops
My old idea has been..,
As Mass and dark matter keep colliding and collapsing from gravity ultimately into black holes,

Space keeps expanding and accelerating (dark energy) from singularities where time and mass change places with space and time.
-
Penrose diagrams show how this can happen. So
as mass makes more black holes, black holes makes more space from those singularities.
-
7 billion years ago there were fewer black holes and the expansion of space was much slower. Now there more BH's and faster space creation formation. The young universe looked like a dense sponge or internal bone structure. An old universe will look like osteoporosis.

-
How long can this perpetual motion, like a snake eating its tail, continue? Until an entropic state change happens when space stretches no further and mass has collapsed all it can.
A big rip happens ending with a universe with a lower energy state.
So for now galaxies keep merging and space keeps accelerating.


Therefore we are living inside the bones of the cosmic dog.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 20 - 10:48 PM

Black holes look like viruses. Perhaps they are the bacteriophage of extra-dimensional virus galaxies, but instead of injecting GNA (Galactic ribonucleic acid) it's sucking ours out.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Oct 20 - 11:40 PM

SARS-Cov-2 looks like a diagram for something galactic. An invading alien, to be sure.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 09:04 AM

Viewer alert! Planet Porn

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 10:46 AM

The best kind, and such nice organ work.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 10:49 AM

Not healthy. Nope, not at all.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 05:11 PM

I once wrote that if we lived 700 years, wars would be 800 years apart. If all veterans are dead and there are no living witnesses to the carnage, a society could be more easily conned into war.
This might be key to some right wing think tanks that happily advise Trump to advance infection among the oldest generation.
This hypothesis is as crazy as what is already going on but the more likely causitive factor in our deliberate runaway infection rates is simply the self interest of our sociopath President.

The President has earnestly tried to make Dr. Fauci (the most published epidemiologist in the world) a target of assasination and has suceeded with Dr. Fauci receiving numerous threats.
You won't see Trump stand close to Fauci ever again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 20 - 10:03 PM

Mom, I'm done and I'm going to bed. Walter Reed died in 1902 or a burst appendix after finishing his work in Cuba on Yellow Fever (proving the hypothesis of Dr. Carlos Finley of Cuba that YF is spread by mosquitoes) in 1901. This also proved the worth of the cleanup of New Orleans by Benjamin Butler during the Civil War, but nobody paid any attention at the time.

I've learned that if a disease isn't carried by an insect it spreads by inhaling and exhaling or because people foul the water with their shit and other people ingest it.

So, to avoid disease, don't eat, drink, or breathe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 20 - 07:50 AM

On the other hand eat drink and be joyous.
I live near 2 different Walter Reed facilitie. West Nile infected mosquitos escaped from one 20 years ago. I guess west nile didn't like the climate here and didn't persist. As far as I know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 20 - 10:52 AM

I just had a 'Go Fund Me' idea regarding an unofficial Trump memorial statue of a heavenly golden golf bag containing broken golf clubs with a bronze plaque saying:
"In loving memory to Donald J Trump from immigrant parents, gay lesbian, bi transgender, advocates of diversity, Covid victims and patriots of democracy - for his timely passing."
The golf bag and each club is labeled TRUMP.

I would like to see it on Obama Plaza at the Trump tower or as a replacement for the defiant young lady that will sadly soon be removed from the Wall street statue site of the Raging Bull.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Oct 20 - 03:58 PM

Northern Tool took so long to send my electric string trimmer that I called a couple of times to ask where it was. I guess they must have ordered it again; I had a FedEx message that they wanted a street address for a delivery (after I'd already picked up the one that arrived at the store) so I gave the store the tracking number and told them they might want to check it out. Either this was the same one I'd picked up (after FedEx took it to the store) or it was a duplicate.

Today they sent an email acknowledging the return. I think they credited me back the purchase price. Duh. If they're going to be that slow and disorganized I guess they're going to give away the merchandise occasionally.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 20 - 08:51 PM

You could have asked. We have an electric Stihl trimmer we don't use.

Mom, the months of preparation ended around 12:20 pm MDT.   I was complemented several times on the preperartion, presentation, and overall content on the Pandemics Past lecture this this morning. I was even complimented on my memory! The Zoom part worked pretty well too, once they got it ready to go.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 07:14 AM

Historic pandemics is an interesting subject to be sure. I am also intrigued by prehistoric pandemics. Cretaceous pandemics may have been huge, not to be confused eith mass extinction events.

For those who have been to the Tidal Basin in DC with the Jefferson Memorial and cherry trees may be interested to know of its slow demise due to to the mysterious rising waters. Sixteen more cherry trees have drowned this year. There are plans to solve this water problem and solutions actually include moving the MLK monument which Trumo shows the most enthusiasm.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 12:45 PM

Mysterious rising waters in the Tidal Basin:
pardon my ignorance,
is this strictly the harbor/shore,
or does this include the Potomac?
And why mysterious?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 02:25 PM

Its world wide.
In America some government agencies are silenced from using certain WORDS. NOOA is forbidden from saying global warming. Florida has state bans on words.
Now the word FETUS has fallen out of favor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 08:28 PM

edit NOAA

This is not your typical tweedle dee or tweedledumb choice this election. It is more like his excellency Dungmold J Trounce vs. citizen Joey. Ignorant bullies will unite behind their like minded Fuerer. Yes this includes police who were drawn to the bully force in the first place. I have heard a Police Captain in an unguarded moment and he sounded like a mini Turdp and confused insult with power. We have seen a rethinking of our civil war and its monuments. Trump will not be forgotten but will become a martyr for terrorists as long as the 1865 civil war rememberance and will remind the haters how close they got to a 4th Reich. Its not over for a long time and the past has not passed.

Stream of consciousness; I do more than parrot facts. I can do parody, editorializing, opinion, historical resemblance (but not as good as Rap) , epic cartoons and fail at jokes where BWL excels. This confuses folks keb. It burns Joe O's toast but thats the way the kook e-crumbles. If it is a straight up humorous take I sometimes label it with :^/ In these grim times I often give a smirk version of facts but that is not in any way misinformaion. Other things are too subtle to label.
Unless new rules will require all posts must be footnoted, communication will be truncated. Then there are people like Maggie who naturally get it. Like discussing science it has to be predicated on a whole list of pre existing knowledge and shared truths.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 11:22 PM

Rap, if you need to unload that trimmer you can send it to me, I'll pay your postage. I go through them pretty quickly with this large yard.

MOM sat sipping her single malt this evening and watching MSNBC - and snorted out loud several times. The Worm is turning.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 20 - 04:48 PM

Well ya gotta learn how to load new string. :^/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 20 - 06:17 PM

I kept my allergies under tight control last spring, just as COVID was taking hold, but the ragweed is kicking my butt this fall, when it isn't a good time to have a headache, watery eyes, sneezes and the urge to cough. MOM suggested taking a flamethrower to the creek banks out behind the house. We have rain in the forecast for tomorrow, so maybe timing it so any escaped embers will be put out by rain . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 20 - 08:32 PM

I can no longer live in Boston due to a seasonal red oak allergy that seals my eyes shut. Fall is good for a visit.
Kurt Russel's 'the Thing' has my favorite flamethrower action. Rap do they use laundry detergent and gasoline for fuel?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 20 - 08:53 PM

Pressurized napalm. Napalm is jellied gasoline and when used in a flamethrower does NOT flame on exposure to the air -- there is an igniter for the steam. Napalm can be made at home from gasoline (unleaded is more environmentally friendly) by combining it with a plasticizer such as styrofoam or polystyrene beads, Joy soap (in the past, they changed for formula).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 09:44 AM

I intentionally didn't mention napalm, but make a suggestion about fire around here and everyone jumps to that conclusion. I should have said drip torch, not flame thrower. None of you ever used a drip torch with a gasoline and diesel fuel mix? The diesel keeps the gasoline from being explosive.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 12:48 PM

Um, yes, I have. Please don't ask why or where.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 01:50 PM

I too intentionally did not mention napalm. I was just being a second bannana.

Have you ever seen vintage candy for sale from the lost candy warehouse, whereabouts unknown? https://www.candywarehouse.com/themes/old-fashioned-candy-retro-sweets
I was thinking about how ice cores can determine the atmosphere in the past as well as tree rings and climate.
Back in the day there was honey or cane sugar in sweets.
These can be tested with a mass spectrometer at NIH and show how much fission by products and radioactive decay has taken place in the organic sugars and honey. It turns out that even years after the atmospheric test ban there were still traces of atomic misdeeds.
There were a few candies that were not dated. There were other pre atomic age candies and drinks that you would not believe what was revealed. Moxie was amazing.

Vintage candies Inc. is just about sold out so let me know if you need some really old candy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 02:01 PM

70 year old Royal Crown Sour Cherry is still good. (Malic acid did not decay). I do wonder what some parents might think if they find an ancient and extinct candy in their child's pillowcase. A ghost?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 02:33 PM

A movie company has pretty much bought out the candy warehouse but you can still relive those tooth rotting moments when you were a kid if you buy hard candy. The chocolate has oxidized into a white stone substance. The Willy Wonka Candy Company was discontinued in September 2015 and their candy products were put under the Nestle name in Switzerland. The warehouse location is still undiscovered. Its harder to find than the warehouses for billionaires in China.
Those warehouses and trusts are called 'family offices'. 64 TRILLION DOLLARS WORTH !!!
Maybe they will be the next target for Ocean's 11.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 07:44 PM

Imaging the billionaire warehouses aka 'family offices' from the air or space, they look fairly typical although enormous and are marketed as impenetreble.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 08:01 PM

https://www.vermontcountrystore.com/candy/category/classic-candy

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 08:10 PM

Chuckles has been extinct for decades. Their factory was in Danville Ill.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 20 - 08:15 AM

Where were we, oh yeah, flamethrowers. One can build a modest flamethrower that goes 15 feet with parts from Home Depot. For the kids this holiday, lighting the spray from Lysol cans is great fun and is in keeping with the pandemic theme.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 01:57 PM

Lighting one or more firecrackers taped to a butane lighter has its exponents.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 04:12 PM

Poking my head in and using MOAB to help push down the thread full of treacle that WAV has pushed to the top again with more of the Pablum he refers to as "Poetry." Gotta do this for Amos - I won't dignify his thread by going in and remarking there, since he did start it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 06:30 PM

Now I know
And I wish
I had not looked.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 07:56 PM

That crap, once seen, is hard to unsee.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 10:13 PM

Just in case anyone is overly concerned this week, remember that Trump talks an aggressive game but there are not people willing to obey illegal orders be it impounding ballots, sending troops to polling places or any other of his violent sedition orders. Those bases are covered behind the scenes. I am not willing to guarantee the behavior of the supream court. I hope they learned from their W choice in 2000.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 10:16 PM

I didn't have a chance to finish my polemic thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 08:11 AM

I had the delusion that wav would get better or try to improve.
He gets an A for organization and an f for form, kinda like the nazi penchant for record keeping of very bad things. I wish I had his record keeping ability even if it was a short list.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 08:23 AM

Vogon poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe" behind that of the Azgoths of Kria; four members of an audience died of internal haemorrhaging during a recitation by their poet master Fartabout the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Pus I Found in My Armpit One Autumn Morning"
Didja ever notice the greatest surge in amateur poetry occured after 9-11 like a scab over a wound?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 09:06 AM

The Southern Scourge

The yellow fever was raging,
Down in the sunny south;
And in many of the cities,
There was a death at every house.
This plague a war was raging,
With the lives of people there;
The young and old were stricken down,
And lay in sad despair.

No comfort, all was misery
In many a southern home.
Where once was peace and quietness,
Now in distress are thrown;
For death the house has visited,
And caused the inmates to mourn
The loss of some dear loving friend,
That on earth no more shall roam.

Some people in delirium,
Have wandered from their home;
Have wandered to a vacant house,
And there have died alone,
With no kind friend to care for them,
Or close their dying eyes.
Oh God! in horrid misery
Hundreds of people died.

There were many whole families
Taken down sick in a day;
With no one to care for them,
In death they passed away.
Their spirits arose to God above,
Where sickness is no more;
Where peace and comfort ever reign,
On Heaven's blissful shore.

There is many a southern city
To-day is filled with woe,
And many of the inhabitants
Have wandered to and fro
To nurse the sick and dying --
The dead for the grave prepare.
They tried to do their duty,
With hearts filled with despair.

The Howard Association
Have been doing all they can,
To keep the "plague" from raging
Throughout the southern land;
They nursed the sick, they fed the poor,
They work both night and day,
This brave band in the southern scourge
Heroic courage display.

This noble band of charity
Have went from house to house,
To ease the sad misery of
The sufferers at the south;
Sad scenes of death and suffering
Each day they must endure,
As in the daily rounds they went
Among the afflicted poor.

The noble northern people
Have helped them all they can,
In money, food and clothing
Which they had at their command;
There is many a southern person
That will bless this Howard band,
For their noble deeds of charity
To the sufferers of their land.
             -- Julia Ann Moore

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 01:24 PM

I scribbled a limerick this morning to post to the "DON'T POST" thread in order to bring it back to the top. A limerick is still a higher class of lit than the codswallop it was pushing to the bottom of the page. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 03:26 PM

We're turning the coroner
with Covid 19
Our evil sorcerer
pretends a vaccine

The dieing is rising
with each passing day
on goes campaigning
for which they will pay

They say in time
It will all go away
Just like the dead
in the ground - they will stay

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 03:33 PM

Rapparee's Julia Ann Moore --
is she not the Sweet Singer of Michigan,
celebrated in "Pegasus Descending"?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 03:56 PM

Writing words like those takes me 3 minutes
but to write real codswallop
knows no limits

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 04:23 PM

My poems are between
shel silverstien
and Gahon Wilson
for children

A little scary
a bit witty
not very hairy
and sometimes ******

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 05:18 PM

Example of an improvised spontaneous ditty
or as the kids say; bustin a rhyme

The 300 year scope
of slow motion slaughter
used chains, iron and rope
Today bullets go farther
and has to stop or the holocaust
will shatter your life

You always knew that
black lives matter.


Anything can be a poem and doesn't need to rhyme,
but there should be some sort of rhythm implied.

Amos often stuck to a strict format but toward the end blew me away with organic brevity. To each their own.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 08:23 PM

regarding the treacle:
I have not looked.
I do not know,
nor do I wish to know.

Cannot they who must not be named
reach a consensus concerning
the membership of the author of the treacle?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 09:31 PM

Sorry I think I ate too much vintage candy today.
I even posted to Walkabout Verse to make it more interesting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 09:36 PM

Ms. Moore indeed! She should have collaborated with, or at least married, McGonnigle of faméd memory.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 11:19 PM

What you posted could earn you a libel suit. It has disappeared.

Poetry doesn't need to rhyme, but it certainly needs to make you think and enjoy it.

I posted a limerick in the "Do not post" thread because limericks are traditionally naughty and fun to write and lots of others have already been posted there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 20 - 06:37 AM

It was a review of Proust's most boring excretions of his pen sketching his intermitably bad anti verse in the vacuum of the innocuous. His writing was like a weapon in the Great Deadly Boring War. It is rare to find a baseline of the "most" in life but WAV is truely the most boring.
WARNING: Excessive reading of walkabout verse may cause catatonia and an inability to chew gum and walk.
Sue me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 20 - 07:16 AM

While I am at it, it was delightful, refreshing and novel to see Stilly's limerick as a rare example of somthing she did not do well.
HAR Arrgh
Thar she is. She's human afterall. C'mon maties, to the small boats.
Bring all the lampoons.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Oct 20 - 06:29 PM

Bagpipe Music
by Louis Macneice

It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Their knickers are made of crepe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,
Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with head of bison.

John MacDonald found a corpse, put it under the sofa,
Waited till it came to life and hit it with a poker,
Sold its eyes for souvenirs, sold its blood for whiskey,
Kept its bones for dumbbells to use when he was fifty.

It's no go the Yogi-man, it's no go Blavatsky,
All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

Annie MacDougall went to milk, caught her foot in the heather,
Woke to hear a dance record playing of Old Vienna.

It's no go your maidenheads, it's no go your culture,
All we want is a Dunlop tire and the devil mend the puncture.

The Laird o' Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober,
Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.
Mrs. Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion,
Said to the midwife "Take it away; I'm through with overproduction."

It's no go the gossip column, it's no go the Ceilidh,
All we want is a mother's help and a sugar-stick for the baby.

Willie Murray cut his thumb, couldn't count the damage,
Took the hide of an Ayrshire cow and used it for a bandage.
His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish,
Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.

It's no go the Herring Board, it's no go the Bible,
All we want is a packet of fags when our hands are idle.

It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums,
It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 20 - 11:21 PM

The thing is, if better words occur, I can go back and edit. It was a word salad meant to push WAV down the page, and for that, it worked. (I did enjoy the exercise. And I think my point was clear, correct?)

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.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 04:57 PM

Quid de te alii loquantur, ipsi videant, sed loquentur tamen. ["... you will not any longer attend to the vulgar mob's gossip nor put your trust in human rewards for your deeds; virtue, through her own charms, should lead you to true glory.

-only in a tolerent democracy-

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Nov 20 - 05:36 PM

Is there a preacher, much bemus'd in beer,
A maudlin poetess or rhyming peer anywhere?
A jerk, forelorned his father's soul to cross,
Who pens a stanza, when he should egress?
Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls
With desp'rate sharpie round his bathroom walls?
All fly to Tweet, and in angry strain
HE tries to keep them mad or vain.
Donald, whose giddy son neglects the laws,
Imputes and damn'd my works for cause:
Poor Donald sees his frantic life go down,
And curseing wit, and poetry, he drowns,
In his arrogance, rhetorical sputum and shit
His next election will end with a hit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 20 - 01:48 PM

I was with you up to the last line. There will be no more elections for that cretin. Only prison. His loyal zealots are blocking access to GSA facilities and dollars to the new administration. I suspect court hearings will soon follow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 20 - 03:58 PM

hehe "I fully expect a smooth transition from republican prez to inmate." quote Mike Pompous

Let the punishment fit the crime;
Tell him that there is a toilet paper shortage in prison
force him to walk the ramp
give him a flesh eating infection and deny its serious
while in solitary tell him only bizaar lies
Play 'He's a Loser' in his cell 24/7
Let guards eat chocolate cake in front of him
Do not allow any other white person on the prison block
When Golf digest comes on the TV change channel to MSNBC
Promise him Putin will visit - but never comes
Ask him if he would prefer an Epstein resolution.
Tell him James Baker and Dershowitz are his lawyers but Rudy shows up instead

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 20 - 04:47 PM

Sugar in the gas tank, sand in the gears
gum up all the works, for years and years
The brat wants sweet revenge for losing face.
Its not his fault should he lose a race.
All his 2 faced friends agree he won.
Pretending that he's right is kinda fun.
He's the kinda kid who steals the trophy.
He eats chocolate cake and drinks kofefe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Nov 20 - 08:15 PM

What we had for dinner this evening. Not as good as eating it in Alsace in Joseph and Arlette's garage and fresh from the cooker, but I do recommend it. Hint: it's NOT a pizza.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 05:43 PM

Mom, I woke up with a numb left arm this morning. I got to ride in an ambulance to the horsespittle and they did scans and all and found I'd had a stroke (not of good luck). I'm going to get my right carotid artery reamed out on the 16th because the surgeon said that it's full of "junk" -- a medical term, so you'll have to look it up. Tomorrow is an echocardiogram and pre-op is Friday the 13th and surgery (that is, the throatcutting) is Monday the 16th.

We'd planned to stay home for Thanksgiving anyway this year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 06:23 PM

Plumbing problems are best done sooner than later. I so hope the numbness is only sensory. People need an embollism like a hole in the head. A carotoid stint? Repair under by pass? Let us know how it goes when convenient. Clogged pipes are better than anurisms but good health is best. Get well as healing allows. Good thoughts are turned up to 11.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 08:16 PM

What Donuel said.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 08:35 PM

Carotid stents are not his treatment of choice. He opens the artery, uses a plunger first and then a Roto-rooter machine and hopes he doesn't bust the pipe.

Seriously, he said stents can cause plaque to build up on the surface. I have to believe the surgeon because I'm not up to doing this myself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 20 - 10:40 PM

Have Pat take along some of her quilting materials and other crafts - does she have any knitting needles or really fine crochet hooks? They might come in handy. Just ask the head surgical assistant to throw those in the autoclave before the surgery so he has them available.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 20 - 09:38 AM

She can't come into the hospital. They tightened the rules a couple weeks ago -- no visitors! Surgery is being done at the Idaho Legion Hovel Surgical Center and Horseface Ike Memorial Delirium Tremens Ward

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 01:15 AM

Geez, Rap......I pop in this morning to check up on how folks are doing and what do I find!

Here's wishing you a non-eventful stay in the horsepittal, and I hope Nurse Natched is kind.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 12:16 PM

Have Pat slip those items in your pocket when you head into the building then. And both of you stay safe. This pandemic is no B.S.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 20 - 09:44 PM

10 a.m. Monday, Mountain Standard Time (about 1700 GMT). My surgeon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Nov 20 - 12:40 AM

The mama pajama rolled out of bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation
It's against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
It was against the law
The mama looked down and spit on the ground
Every time his name gets mentioned
The papa said, "oy, if I get that boy
I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"
Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way
I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Goodbye to Maggie, the queen of Corona
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard
Whoa, in a couple days they come and take him away
But the press let the story leak
And then the radical priest
Came to visit the clink
they found he had escaped
Where Julio is I don't know
They say he's in Idaho
to do his unique procedure
If they catch that boy practice medicine again
They're gonna stick him in the house of detention
I'm on my way...

Subject: PRE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Nov 20 - 08:29 AM

MOM!! Stop mourning and tearing your hair out and GIT BACK UP TO THE TOP WHERE YOU BELONG!!!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Nov 20 - 05:09 AM

Off for the throat-cutting in an hour and fifteen minutes, Mom. Well, I have to be there in an hour and fifty minutes.

Don't doctors and medical people SLEEP? You'd think they'd been up all night!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Nov 20 - 02:48 PM

Hoping all went well. I've always wondered about those early starts. And it seems when you finally get yourself psyched for heading over at 6:30am they call and tell you to be there at 5:45am instead.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Nov 20 - 01:05 PM

Sweet exquisite pain. There is such a thing. Like when I laughed surprisingly when they set my broken ankle. But last night wasn't funny. I thought of Tom Hanks in Castaway who was in so much tooth pain that he had to improvise. This morning I had a root canal and I am glad it took only 15 minutes. Was it worth the risk, I'll know in 14 days. Oh sweet relief.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Nov 20 - 08:56 PM

I'm home. Instead of three nights in the resort I spent one. However! The hypoglossal nerve was stretched, and so I have difficulty with some speech patterns, eating, and swallowing. I'm told it will get back to normal in a couple of weeks, but I'll be doing "tongue strengthening" exercises in the meantime.

Home health care comes tomorrow afternoon for "admitting." If you want to see a picture of my wound, I'll send you one via email. I can't imagine why you'd want to.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Nov 20 - 11:40 PM

Too bad its vertical. Horizontal would look like Frankenstien.
scar

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 09:00 AM

You mean, I'm sure, Frankenstein's monster. This
gentleman, Viktor von Frankenstein, is certainly no monster!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 09:33 AM

Monsters like children of white supremacists or the SS sound dangerous but it all depends on how they were raised and carefully taught.
My step dad Nate was 100% Jewish.
He was a clerk in the US Army in London but saw action in Germany at the end of the war. By clever paper schuffling and clerk magic fairy dust he managed to adopt me from a Liebensborne orphanage in Dusseldorf at the urging from a rabbi that said it would be a mitzvah and atonement for killing nazis. While most GI's were bringing home booty, my step dad brought me to America to meet my step mom in the midwest. My biological parents were probably strangers to each other but its unknown with no German documents. As a pig in a poke I was probably a disappointment since I was not a scholar or avid reader early on due to dyslexia I discovered decades later. I did very poorly with languages.

Starting with Hebrew study to be bar mitvahed I was given the choice of religious studies or not. I chose not, but more or less I identified with the culture.
Later on I heard that Ghandi advised a Hindu to adopt a Muslim man's son after the tragic killing of the father and bring up the boy as a Muslim to attone. There were a couple of moral parallels with my adoption but sort of opposite to my history. One thing is for sure - I'm walking proof that there was no German master race unless it was Eienstien .
One possible irony was that my first girl friend, Priscilla Stephanie von Dieseldorf, from Guatamala was the child of a German couple who escaped Germany in the 40's and joined the grandfather who was an archeologist unearthing the Mayan civilization.
What does all this mean? Mostly that Ancestry.com would be a waste of my time, nurture trumps nature and that kids of the KKK turn out krazy if raised by dad. :^/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 10:27 AM

A coffee plantation supplied the funding for the archeological expeditions. The German founded coffee

https://www.dieseldorff.coffee/ still exists


https://lal.tulane.edu/sites/default/files/lal/docs/Collection%20212%20Guide.pdf

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 11:13 AM

Heck, I could've saved Rap a lot of money—I had to rent a sewer machine to cut tree roots out of the line. Dip it in a little alcohol and Zip your problem's gone (okay, okay, so is your head . . . )










It's the thought that counts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 02:46 PM

The Legion Hovel bartender would provide the anesthesia.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 06:17 PM

Sitting in this very chair and spot at 0630 today a half-dozen elk ran up the golf course. First elk I've seen, but mule deer, moose, wolf, and other critters are sometimes seen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 06:50 PM

Whew Stilly, that was really in the spirit of MOAB.

Todays cartoons;
A lonely Trump at a kids lemonade stand with a sign 'Pardons 4 SALE'
500 Mil.

Another version has a long line of customers including McConnell, the Trump kids, Lindsey etc. Rudy with his pockets turned out walks away with a shrug.

Giant ghostly figure of Mao Tse Tung saying in chinese (with english subtitles} GO Trump GO!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 20 - 10:56 PM

Thanks! I thought so! Amos seemed to generate this stuff effortlessly, some of us have to put on our "not being a grownup today" hats and come up with silliness. He sent such effortless BS, and from such a vein of rich imagination.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [Facebook News]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 20 - 07:03 AM

Oregon counties (22 of 32 counties) hope to vote to secede and join 'Greater Idaho'. So far they have 2 counties commited to join Greater Idaho. However no one thought to ask Idahoans what they think.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 20 - 07:31 AM

Yeah, and there are some in Washington as well. Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado don't seem to think it's a good idea.

Constitutionally, part of a state can secede from another and join something else IF AND ONLY IF both state legislatures agree and Congresss agrees. Aint' gonna happen!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 20 - 12:29 PM

breaking wind news: 7 Million Trump mail in votes were found in a brothel in St. Petersburg Russia !
Rudy has an explanation. He will 'splain tommorow for a cheeseburger today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 20 - 12:49 PM

I think if anything Washington state will join British Columbia. A much better move, in my opinion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 20 - 08:15 PM

Idaho could become South Alberta.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All S [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Nov 20 - 08:42 AM

Heavens to Betsey, Mom!! I know pre-meridial exercise is blasphemy unto your deeply held beliefs, but please crawl back up where you belong. I left a new bottle of gin up there just for you!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Nov 20 - 03:32 PM

For the first time in a long time the dining table is in good shape as far as easily clearing and setting for Thanksgiving. Especially since it only needs room for one place-setting. MOM can bring some of her gin over and we'll sit out on the back patio and watch the dogs chase squirrels after dinner.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Nov 20 - 06:04 PM

Come to think of it there are several states that would be much better off as Canadian Provinces.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 20 - 08:12 AM

One seat at the Thanksgiving table

The poignant epitomy of pathos

sounds like a folk song

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 20 - 09:00 AM

It looks like Pinterest is going all in for the one person Thanksgiving. Be the first on your block to get the Siri and Siri like apps to create a dialog of the crazy Thanks giving uncle, the critical mother in law, crying kids, Debbie Downer and Karen like creatures.
Toys are also influenced by current events like "Don't breathe on me" Elmo, "i'm so worried" Telly and "EV'RYTHING IS GREAT" Trumpybear.

Some recipes are easy to prepare like the 6 five hour energy shots on a plate and goblet of Gin.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 20 - 11:50 AM

We're staying home this year, and no, I'm not even going to the Legion Hovel. For one thing, roof of the nave caved in a couple nights ago, leading to the creation of the "Navecave" drink: grain alcohol, schnapps, Jim Beam (get it?), and prune juice concentrate. If you don't cave in Butch the Bartender will use his blackjack to see that you do.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 20 - 03:43 PM

I give up

Its put up or shut up
Living is too exclusive
to be smartly cell phoneless,
I now have the great artificial brain

To be without a smart phone
is to miss the great waster of time
To not ignore your fellow man
to be free of sinister algorhythms

Now I Get to pay for my soylent green BURger
with an expensive device
WITH DIGITAL COUPON
But I won't be caught dead
on Facebook

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 20 - 05:51 PM

Heil to the good ol boys
heart of the master race.
With Trump on our side    - Oy!
our blood can't be defaced

by blacks or spics or Jews.
We'll even kill the Irish
You're next, to name a few
We'll help you all to perish

by our militia's best.
It seems that some of our own
can't pass the purity test   - Oops
there goes the last good ol boy

where facists go to rest

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Nov 20 - 06:21 PM

We're going to trade food for Thanksgiving; I'll hand over half of a roast chicken and some homemade dinner rolls and he'll bring by half of a pumpkin pie. Then we'll all eat dinner at our own houses. MOM said something about killing germs with some glasses of gin and tonics out on the screened in porch. (That would be fancying it up for the holiday).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 20 - 07:44 PM

At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without nazis on my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how Dems did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along
And so they're back
From outer space
I walked in on crazy Dems with that smile upon their face
I should have changed the secret service, I should have hidden white house keys

If I'd known for just one second they'd be back to bother me
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not welcome anywhere
Weren't you the one who tried to impeach me with your ugly lies?
You think I'd crumble?
You think I'd runaway and hide?
Oh no, not I, I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to fire, I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
And I've got all the basest base and know that Fox news will survive
I will survive, hey, hey

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart
Kept trying hard to sue in court to mend my broken heart
And I spent oh-so many nights just feeling sorry for myself
I used to tweet
But now I tweet in complete sentences and golf some place new
I'm not that chained-up giant person born just to hate you
And so you felt like dropping in and just expect me to be free
Well, now I'm planning a long term coup for 2024
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not welcome at my door
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with your lies?
You think I'd crumble?
You think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I, I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to golf, I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
And I've got Putin on my side so I know I will survive
I will survive
Oh
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
'Cause you're not for tyrants anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to hoax the news
and tell all those ugly lies?
You think I'd grow stale?
You think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I, I will prevail
Oh, as long as I know how to fix elections, I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
And I've got all my hate to give and I'll survive
I will survive
I will survive

Dear Mr. Trump your biggest lie is that you will survive
No one leaves this planet alive

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 20 - 08:49 PM

Oldie but still appropriate and a goody.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Nov 20 - 07:02 PM

I knew about the John Birch Society since my Dad was a poli sci professor in the 50's. They the acorn that is now a tree.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Nov 20 - 05:44 PM

Has it ever occurred to anyone else that radical fringe groups have patience and goad the more precipitous among them to act so that the patient ones can use the actions against the actors?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Nov 20 - 09:05 PM

The long game is insideous. Lotsa frog boilin goin on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Nov 20 - 01:39 PM

I think it's occurring to a lot of people about now. "Frog boiling" is right!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Nov 20 - 09:47 PM

I believe that I shall begin reading the works of Howard of Warwick.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Nov 20 - 12:39 PM

How are you feeling, Rap? Are you back to firing blunderbusses or waving various swords around?

I'm sorting out the greenhouse this afternoon, and MOM reminded me to leave the porch swing out there so she can go take a nap on sunny afternoons.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Nov 20 - 09:21 PM

If you are offering me a blunderbuss this is a nice one in 10 gauge; they also have one in 4 gauge. This kit is on USD 999.99, too, and I get to put it together. I have found that a blunderbuss is quite a good argument not to "stand and deliver" a coach!

No, I haven't been doing either in the past few months. First the SARS-Covid-19 and now surgery recovery. I probably won't make the Christmas party either. Now, as the song says, the ground is white...and going to the range in winter can be iffy. Sliding off an icy road that clings to the side of hill can test your seat belts! It's also cold and windy up there. But a set of longjohns and a good coat and hat and gloves...well, maybe.

On February 10 I present a program called something like "The Recent Crime Spree in Idaho: 1840-1910 or so" for the local continuing education group (New Knowledge Adventures, or NKA). I've done these before; this one will concentrate on names like David Updycke, Boon Helm, Henry Amos Plummer, Marion More, Jack Slade, and a few others. Bear in mind that the towns of Bannack and Virginia City, Montana were in the Idaho Territory in 1864.

In the meantime, I recuperate and play my horn. Speech therapist, a wonderful person and fellow trumpeter, said it would be excellent exercise for tongue and cheek muscles -- much better than the tongue push-ups I thought he'd order.

Swallowing is still a problem and will be for a while.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 20 - 06:26 AM

In lieu of Thanksgiving travel this year I went to the nearest parallel universe where I am am glad to say there is no pandemic. However Trump is still President there so I returned the same day. It was an empty trade off coming home.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Nov 20 - 01:27 PM

Apropos of nothing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 20 - 05:07 PM

That reminds me. With my new cell phone I should post a youtube of my 'unique' ukelello playing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Nov 20 - 09:09 PM

Someday...I'll sing again. Assuming the restraining order had been lifted.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Nov 20 - 06:33 AM

Do it out of State. Witnesses rarely travel long distance to testify.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 20 - 06:39 PM

Out of which state? Confusion? Perplexity?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 20 - 02:02 PM

State of Conciousness?

You and Stilly both obey Zipf's law but I have found that Trump does not graph at a 45 angle. This suggests Donald may have a mutation on the fox p2 gene. Trump is breaking Zipf's Law!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 20 - 09:12 PM

Among others, yes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 20 - 07:09 AM

Even Dolphin's obey Zipf's law. I like the irony of the involvment of the Fox p2 gene aiding his law breaking. That gene is respondsible for more complex vocalizations accross many species of birds to mice and men.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 20 - 06:37 PM

I think that the Presidental actions are more and more representative of Titius-Bode's Law.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Dec 20 - 12:21 PM

Except for the fact that his BS is toxic, Trump has been creating so much BS lately that he is *almost* an honorary member of the group. But he would be wise to subscribe to the adage that he doesn't want to join any club that would have him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 20 - 07:11 PM

Today his 46 minute speech was about why Biden is not the President and named who are enemies of the people for certifying a fraud.

Death threats are the new Hallmark greeting cards.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 20 - 09:00 PM

Fringe speakers in Georgia are saying Trump won by 80 million votes and 410 'electrical votes'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Dec 20 - 09:27 PM

Saw my doctor yesterday and the surgeon today. Apparently a carotid endarterectomy is a major surgical procedure. I've been told that for the last couple of weeks, but I now have a copy of the operative notes and am forced to agree that having your throat cut is major surgery. However, the surgeon estimated that only 20 cc's of blood were lost. And from what they said I'm doing pretty well for someone who had major surgery.

The CAT scan and MRI notes say that my skull is intact and that no gross abnormalities were found...just little ones, apparently.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 12:32 AM

I've had surgery before, soft-tissue stuff, and a bunionectomy. The knee tops all of that for the "Major" part of major surgery. It is sometimes better that we don't realize how big these things are until after the fact.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 05:47 AM

A happy routine outcome with no need for bypass or gross transfusion is what you want. Every procedure has a whoops or two. When they don't matter, YOU WIN.

Other than expense, the reason there should not be routine MRI's is because they invariably show small abnormalities. In Boston I met a woman who was on the team that developed real time MRI's. Back then there was propriatary caution involved in discussions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 09:29 AM

This surgery started, according to the surgical notes, with a "time-out" until everyone agreed. I'm glad I was well under anesthesia as I probably couldn't have taken all the arguing a yelling -- I had enough of that as a kid.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 09:33 AM

My last post was 1630, the number of the house where I grew to immaturity. Obviously this is A Sign, an Omen, of some sort. It must be propitious, as well. Shall I play the lottery? Perhaps even take a shower? Shall I bet that Biden wins the election? Oh, whatever can it mean?!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 12:16 PM

There are some doorways you can go through with little effort but great reward. If it can't hurt go for it. Regret is burdunsome over time.

I was given the next days winning lottery # by Linda Love*.
It won without me playing

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 01:58 PM

Around the World in Covid days
Its a little cough and then a sneeze
and then you're on your knees
About the time your fever swells
Its hard to breathe, into your sleeve
and you feel unwell.
Of all the things you've had before
its hard to say if you'll stay or go.
In the last two days you start to fade
with no O2 its got U too
and its time, to say, goodbye.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 09:55 AM

Looking around the house at all of the stuff here. MOM keeps picking up interesting rocks and leaving them on the front edges of the bookshelves. With this much extra weight no wonder the foundation is shifting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 04:21 PM

Texas foundations often are without basements. We noticed a marble tends to roll west on our floors.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Thats ENTERTINMENT
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 06:50 PM

Anything that happens in life
Can happen in DC
You can make 'em mad
You can make 'em cry
Anything and everything goes
-
(Chorus)
[SCHUMER]
The clown
With his tweets falling down
Or the case
Right before arraignment
Or the man
That the country can't stand
That's entertainment!

[PELOSI]
The lights
On first ladies in tights

[BIDEN]
Or the bride
With a guy on the side

[SCHUMER]
Or the ball
Where she, infects them all

[BIDEN, SCHUMER, AND PELOSI]
That's entertainment!

[PELOSI]
The plot
Could be hot
Simply teeming with porn

[SCHUMER]
A gay
Senator
Who is after his ex

[BIDEN]
It could be Oedipus Rex

[SCHUMER]
Where a teen kills off the Congress
And gun nuts have wronged us.

[NANCY]
The jerk
Who is thrown out of work

[JOE]
By the boss
Who is thrown for a loss

[CHUCK]
By the flirt
Who is doing him dirt

[ALL]
The world is a stage
The stage is DC
Its entertainment!

(instrumental break)

[ALL]
The doubt
While the jury is out
Or the drill
When the judge has his fill
Or the case
For the man in disgrace
That's entertainment!

[NANCY]
The dame
Who is known as the flame

[CHUCK]
Of the king
Of an underworld ring

[CHUCK AND JOE]
He's an ape
Who won't let her escape

[ALL]
That's entertainment!
It might
Be a fight
Like you see on the screen
A gang
Getting banged
For the love of some cash
For some huge party bash
At a spot that really is sweet
And everyone ends in mincemeat.
The gag
Where he's waving the flag
That began
With a crooked con man
Hip hip hooray
The American way!
The world is a stage
The stage in DC
Is entertainment!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 08:10 PM

Ah crap scrap that

edited
Anything that happens in life
Can happen in DC
You can make 'em mad
You can make 'em cry
Anything and everything goes

(Chorus)
[SCHUMER]
The clown
With his tweets falling down
Or the case
of the man in disgrace
Or the scam
That the country can't stand
That's entertainment!

[PELOSI]
The lights
On first ladies in tights

[BIDEN]
Or the bride
With a gal on the side

[SCHUMER]
Or the ball
Where she, infects them all

[BIDEN, SCHUMER, AND PELOSI]
That's entertainment!

[PELOSI]
The plot
Could be hot
Simply teeming with porn

[SCHUMER]
A gay
Senator
Who is after his ex

[BIDEN]
It was John but there never was sex

[SCHUMER]
Where a teen kills off the Congress
And gun nuts have wronged us.

[NANCY]
The jerk
Who is thrown out of work

[JOE]
By the boss
Who is thrown for a loss

[CHUCK]
By the flirt
Who is doing him dirt

[ALL]
The world is a stage
The stage is DC
Its entertainment!

(instrumental break)

[ALL]
The doubt
While the jury is out
Or the drill
When the judge has his fill
Or the case
For the man in disgrace
That's entertainment!

[NANCY]
The whore
Who Donald adored

[CHUCK]
He's the king
Of an underworld ring

[CHUCK AND JOE]
He's an ape
Who tries to escape

[ALL]
That's entertainment!
It might
Be a fight
Like you see on the screen
A gang
Getting banged
For the love of some cash
For a huge party bash
At a spot that is sweet

And everyone ends in mincemeat.

The gag
Where he's waving the flag
That began
With a crooked con man
Hip hip hooray
The American way!
The world is a stage
The stage in DC
Is entertainment!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 11:34 PM

Just dropped in to say, "I still ain't here."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 06:41 AM

Behind the kitchens of Trump hotel restaurants
the dumpsters are fermenting and distilling
a dumpster juice that is rotten but addictive.
Sure it is toxic but artificially sweetened
so the rotten after taste makes people drink more
sweetened dumpster juice to hide the rotten flavor.
Compared to salty Liberal tears dumpster juice
has more appeal among people who don't drink wine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 09:48 AM

gnu, shouldn't that read "I still ain't ALL here"?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 01:19 PM

That is an important distinction, though from what I read on Facebook recently there is more "all" than there was a year ago, so it may average out.

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

I am shocked, shocked that I have nothing to say in this establishment

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 05:57 PM

Neither does anyone else here, so say it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 09:36 PM

Now warm with ministerial ire,
Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire,
And on his striding steps attends
His desperate clan of Tory friends.
When sudden met his wrathful eye
A pole ascending through the sky,
Which numerous throngs of whiggish race
Were raising in the market-place.
Not higher school-boy's kites aspire,
Or royal mast, or country spire;
Like spears at Brobdignagian tilting,
Or Satan's walking-staff in Milton.
And on its top, the flag unfurl'd
Waved triumph o'er the gazing world,
Inscribed with inconsistent types
Of Liberty and thirteen stripes.
Beneath, the crowd without delay
The dedication-rites essay,
And gladly pay, in antient fashion,
The ceremonies of libation;
While briskly to each patriot lip
Walks eager round the inspiring flip:
Delicious draught! whose powers inherit
The quintessence of public spirit;
Which whoso tastes, perceives his mind
To nobler politics refined;
Or roused to martial controversy,
As from transforming cups of Circe;
Or warm'd with Homer's nectar'd liquor,
That fill'd the veins of gods with ichor.
At hand for new supplies in store,
The tavern opes its friendly door,
Whence to and fro the waiters run,
Like bucket-men at fires in town.
Then with three shouts that tore the sky,
'Tis consecrate to Liberty.
To guard it from th' attacks of Tories,
A grand Committee cull'd of four is;
Who foremost on the patriot spot,
Had brought the flip, and paid the shot.


By this, M'Fingal with his train
Advanced upon th' adjacent plain,
And full with loyalty possest,
Pour'd forth the zeal, that fired his breast.


"What mad-brain'd rebel gave commission,
To raise this May-pole of sedition?
Like Babel, rear'd by bawling throngs,
With like confusion too of tongues,
To point at heaven and summon down
The thunders of the British crown?
Say, will this paltry Pole secure
Your forfeit heads from Gage's power?
Attack'd by heroes brave and crafty,
Is this to stand your ark of safety;
Or driven by Scottish laird and laddie,
Think ye to rest beneath its shadow?
When bombs, like fiery serpents, fly,
And balls rush hissing through the sky,
Will this vile Pole, devote to freedom,
Save like the Jewish pole in Edom;
Or like the brazen snake of Moses,
Cure your crackt skulls and batter'd noses?


"Ye dupes to every factious rogue
And tavern-prating demagogue,
Whose tongue but rings, with sound more full,
On th' empty drumhead of his scull;
Behold you not what noisy fools
Use you, worse simpletons, for tools?
For Liberty, in your own by-sense,
Is but for crimes a patent license,
To break of law th' Egyptian yoke,
And throw the world in common stock;
Reduce all grievances and ills
To Magna Charta of your wills;
Establish cheats and frauds and nonsense,
Framed to the model of your conscience;
Cry justice down, as out of fashion,
And fix its scale of depreciation;
Defy all creditors to trouble ye,
And keep new years of Jewish jubilee;
Drive judges out, like Aaron's calves,
By jurisdiction of white staves,
And make the bar and bench and steeple
Submit t' our Sovereign Lord, The People;
By plunder rise to power and glory,
And brand all property, as Tory;
Expose all wares to lawful seizures
By mobbers or monopolizers;
Break heads and windows and the peace,
For your own interest and increase;
Dispute and pray and fight and groan
For public good, and mean your own;
Prevent the law by fierce attacks
From quitting scores upon your backs;
Lay your old dread, the gallows, low,
And seize the stocks, your ancient foe,
And turn them to convenient engines
To wreak your patriotic vengeance;
While all, your rights who understand,
Confess them in their owner's hand;
And when by clamours and confusions,
Your freedom's grown a public nuisance,
Cry "Liberty," with powerful yearning,
As he does "Fire!" whose house is burning;
Though he already has much more
Than he can find occasion for.
While every clown, that tills the plains,
Though bankrupt in estate and brains,
By this new light transform'd to traitor,
Forsakes his plough to turn dictator,
Starts an haranguing chief of Whigs,
And drags you by the ears, like pigs.
All bluster, arm'd with factious licence,
New-born at once to politicians.
Each leather-apron'd dunce, grown wise,
Presents his forward face t' advise,
And tatter'd legislators meet,
From every workshop through the street.
His goose the tailor finds new use in,
To patch and turn the Constitution;
The blacksmith comes with sledge and grate
To iron-bind the wheels of state;
The quack forbears his patients' souse,
To purge the Council and the House;
The tinker quits his moulds and doxies,
To cast assembly-men and proxies.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 09:46 AM

Hi, Mom!

I'm painting the exterior of my house and have run into a bit of a problem. I have finished the east, west, and south sides, but since it's December, the sun is in the southern sky all day long. The remaining northern side of the house gets no sun at all. The paint is drying very slowly and working there is just a bit on the chilly side.

What I need is a few volunteers to help me turn my house 180° so the north side becomes the south side. Not permanently, but just for a couple of days, and then we'll spin it back. Who's up for lending a hand?

If that sound like too much trouble, we could try reversing the earth's axial tilt for a few days. That would probably work just as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 10:39 AM

Try placing a few mirrors - 100 might do it - to reflect back onto that side. The work will warm you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 06:37 PM

Build a really big fire and wrap lots and lots of aluminum foil behind it, stretched from tree to tree. This will reflect heat from the fire on the cold side, AND you can cook biscuits and cornbread at the same time.

Lasers could also work. Just get a few pointer-lasers and jack up the input to a few thousand watts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 08:00 PM

Everyone is gravitating to a scientific approach involving E.
The Lord will watch the paint dry. If you used oil it may take more than your lifetime.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Dec 20 - 08:41 PM

MOM! I thought I told you to get up there! Now do it, okay? For me, your favorite kid? Please?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Dec 20 - 10:03 PM

MOM, did you get moved to the head of the line for the COVID-19 vaccination? They're going to set up a booth at the Legion Hovel and your name should be on the list.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 08:06 AM

Idaho did not join the amicus brief to overturn the election of Biden.

NO VACCINE FOR YOU

Texas however has friends in the white house/mara lago so Stilly gets the vaccine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 08:12 AM

BWL's Florida also supports overturning the election - Vaccine for you

However without a Covid relief bill
NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 03:28 PM

While shopping for chess sets there were all kinds; Game of Thrones, The Hobbitt, Haarry Potter, Trump vs Biden(however Biden and Harris are not available but can be purchased seperately).
There were no Dicks vs Assholes chess sets. There should be:
dick 1 |d?k|
noun vulgar slang
1 a man’s penis.
• Brit.a stupid or contemptible person.
2 [ mass noun ] [ with negative ] N. Amer.anything at all.
verbchiefly N. Amer.
1 [ no obj. ] informal waste time; mess around.
2 [ with obj. ] (of a man) have sexual intercourse with.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the general sense ‘fellow’): pet form of the given name Richard. Sense 1 of the noun dates from the late 18th cent.
Next, from the same dictionary:
asshole
noun vulgar slang
US spelling of arsehole.
arsehole |'??sh??l|
nounBrit. vulgar slang
1 the anus.
2 a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person.
Suppose for a moment that we don’t give a rat’s ass(hole) about the lexical definitions. Suppose… for a moment that you would only want to hear my analysis of these two words.
A ‘dick’ is predominantly used to describe someone who’s actively irritating others with various malicious acts. An ‘asshole’, on the other hand, is passive. Let me elaborate.
For example, you’re shopping for groceries at the supermarket. A ‘dick’ would push his cart into your butt, say sorry, laugh about it, and then cut in line. Hell, he would steal the items from your cart and throw in items that are embarrassing or super expensive.
An asshole, however, would just stand in your way. When asked to move, he would stare at you incessantly, as if he was the owner of the space, and frown.
Thus, being called an ‘asshole’ is still better than being referred to as ‘dick’.
MY CHESS SET
The pawns for ass holes are pretty straight forward. The Castle Assholes are HUGE. The knights are drive a Ferrari, Bishops are 2 of the 4 major religious symbols. The King Asshole and Queen can be custom ordered.
The Dick pawns were small. The Dick rooks were large, the Bishops looked pretty normal but were dicks. The knights wore condoms. The Dick king or queen came in only one version. Rich Dicks and Bitch Dicks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 08:44 PM

Last night one of the Idaho Legion Fortresses was attacked by the forces of the Galactic Overlord (who is now styling itself as the "Multidimensional Intergalactic Overlord"). As you can see, they used a cloaking device to attack from a direction other than that which the Multifocal Incinerator Beamcaster was pointing. Fortunately it was possible to rapidly swing the 'caster and destroy the attacking fleet. This has led to a lawsuit in the Extreme Court of Mercy charging the Legion with "Unwarranted Ugly Behavior Against the MIO" and asking that time be rolled back and the whole incident redone.

The Legion isn't having any of it and asked that the case be dismissed "With Extreme Prejudice And Then Some."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 06:34 AM

This weekend 4 people were criticly stabbed at a pro Trump rally in DC.
This did not happen until after the Donald made a show of support by making a Marine one helicopter fly by over the samll gathering .
All the opponents were refered to as anti fascists by the media but the victims were not assigned any viewpoint as to pro or anti trump.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 08:30 PM

Why do those stabbed, or the stabbers, need to be assigned a label? The stabbed are hurt, the stabbers are liable for arrest if they can be found. What does it matter what "side" they were on?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 09:14 PM

I don't know. From an omnicient POV, sides don't matter. To law and order it matters. Reasons are variable. Due to infinities some reasons that probably are held by entities that consider themselves Galactic Overlords would be alien to us. Einstien's equations can end in infinities which clues me into thinking infinities exist. If they exist anything is possible like there is no outer edge to the universe. Time may have an edge and could make black holes inside our universe the only edges where time stops and space time and mass change places with each other. In our observable universe we can see Mass transform into Energy as sunlight everyday. I suppose Energy turns into mass someplace really cold. The transformations inside black holes are probably beyond our comprehension like spacetime and energetic mass transforming into its opposite. It might be a gateway or a new universe...like I said I don't know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mom's Xmas carols
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 08:58 AM

It started with a glass of beer
sung to the tune it came upon a midnight clear

It started wi-th a glass of beer
the way it so often does
Soon Don had knocked off a pint of rye
and Mom had one helluva buzz
the yelling started round half past nine
and push came to shove around ten
the screams grew loud and the neighbors knew
the mudcats were at it again
Don's eyes were black from the countless blows
Mom's body was bloody and raw
his nose was broken - he'd lost 4 teeth
from stopping a vase with his jaw
they fought each other since god knows when
and neither show any remorse
they stick together because they know
The Church won't allow for divorce.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 09:16 AM

The fight and the stabbings recently mentioned - those aren't reenactments of a chess game with full-size humans as players, are they? The game is a little more rough than I remember.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 11:32 AM

local news said aout 40 arrests were made

Rudy the red nose lawyer


Rudy the deadbeat lawyer
loved Donald like his fam-ily
dooming his wife and children
to insolubil-ity

Rudy enjoys the good life
takes a royal princess cruise
makes it with teen age bimbos
Buys the most expensive booze

Then one foggy xmas eve< Rudy got a call
If he'd shoot joe b tonight
Trump would win it all all right -

soon the law was on his trail
Rudy changed his name
had some hair dye and botox
Now he is a star on Fox

the only thing about poor Rudy
he looks exactly like an older Pense
when he reports on Donald
he doesn't make a bit of sense

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 09:33 PM

As my dear old friend Manny Kant said, "Die Logiker sagen mit Recht, daß man beim Gebrauch der Urteile
in Vernunftschlüssen die einzelnen Urteile gleich den allgemeinen
behandeln könne. Denn eben darum, weil sie gar keinen Umfang haben,
kann das Prädikat derselben nicht bloß auf einiges dessen, was unter
dem Begriff des Subjekts enthalten ist, gezogen, von einigem aber
ausgenommen werden. Es gilt also von jenem Begriffe ohne Ausnahme,
gleich als wenn derselbe ein gemeingültiger Begriff wäre, der einen
Umfang hätte, von dessen ganzer Bedeutung das Prädikat gelte.
Vergleichen wir dagegen ein einzelnes Urteil mit einem gemeingültigen,
bloß als Erkenntnis, der Größe nach, so verhält sie sich zu diesem
wie Einheit zur Unendlichkeit, und ist also an sich selbst davon
wesentlich unterschieden. Also, wenn ich ein einzelnes Urteil
(judicium singulare) nicht bloß nach seiner inneren Gültigkeit,
sondern auch, als Erkenntnis überhaupt, nach der Größe, die es
in Vergleichung mit anderen Erkenntnissen hat, schätze, so ist
es allerdings von gemeingültigen Urteilen (judicia communia)
unterschieden, und verdient in einer vollständigen Tafel der Momente
des Denkens überhaupt (obzwar freilich nicht in der bloß auf den
Gebrauch der Urteile untereinander eingeschränkten Logik) eine
besondere Stelle."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 10:12 PM

Rap... 15 Dec 20... So, summed up, my reply would be, to quote Cousin Rodney of Kent, "Money talks, and bullshit walks."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 10:15 PM

Good to hear from you, gnu,

and I sincerely hope
that the holiday season for you this year,
in some way or other,
is a more life-affirming experience
than the one you must have endured in 2019,
a year ago at this time.
Keep hanging in there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 11:22 PM

It seems I should put this in a music thread, or even start one, but a Google Blob opera machine learning just does sound like a great source of BS, doesn't it?

Let the dulcet tones of Google’s Blob Opera ring in the holiday season with machine learning

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 09:54 AM

Hark the hearald googles sing!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 01:11 PM

Sounds like some squeezy toys that dogs play with.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 04:21 PM

Rap you were 1,666
The blobs were cute when singing christmas carols.
I couldn't get them to sing my suggestions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 05:08 PM

This is 1668. These people die in 1668:

    January 6
       Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena (b. 1608)
       Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Crown Princess of Denmark (b. 1617)
    January 14 – Arnauld de Oihenart, Basque historian and poet (b. 1592)
    January 31 – Hermann Busenbaum, German Jesuit theologian (b. 1600)
    February 2 – Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, Spanish artist (b. 1616)
    February 8 – Alessandro Tiarini, Italian painter (b. 1577)
    February 21 – John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
    March 16 – Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. 1623)
    April 12 – Alexander Daniell, sole proprietor of the Manor of Alverton, Cornwall (b. 1599)
    April 21 – Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish painter (b. c. 1604)
    May 1 – Frans Luycx, Flemish painter (b. 1604)
    May 8 – Catherine of St. Augustine, French nun and nurse of New France (b. 1632)
    May 9 – Otto Christoph von Sparr, German general (b. 1599)
    May 21 – Christoph Delphicus zu Dohna, Prussian-born Swedish soldier, diplomat (b. 1628)
    June 20 – Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
    July 26 – Hans Svane, Danish statesman (b. 1606)
    August 9 – Jakob Balde, German Latinist (b. 1604)
    August 23 – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (b. 1609)
    August 24 – Tyman Oosdorp, Dutch brewer and magistrate of Haarlem (b. 1613)
    September 16
       Paolo Emilio Rondinini, Italian Bishop of Assisi (b. 1617)
       Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch painter (b. 1610)
    September 19 – Sir William Waller, English Civil War general (b. c. 1635)
    October 12 – Zacharias Wagenaer, secretary, painter, then merchant and administrator (Dutch East-India Company) (b. 1614)
    October 13
       Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton, English politician (b. 1594)
       Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (b. 1602)
    November 17 – Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (b. 1634)
    November 21 – Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (b. 1632)
    December 3 – William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (b. 1591)
    December 14 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (b. 1599)
    December 23 – Martin Bauzer, Gorizian Jesuit priest and writer (b. 1595)
    December 24 – Wadham Wyndham, English judge (b. 1609)

I didn't know any of them. Did you?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 09:06 PM

What a concept. I would love to know many of them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 20 - 01:10 PM

Here are flags for every Texan known to have died of COVID-19 in 2020 so far. I'd like to have known a few of them. Perhaps I do/did and am not aware yet that they died. :-(

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 20 - 05:02 PM

Didja ever get a sonogram of yur brain? It is suppose to get you high depending on frequency and short duration. It has something to do with the singing neurons and pyramidal cells which contain your micro
tubuels which can measure wave function collapse on a quantum scale.
Quantum consciousness goes back to Schrodiger's 1932 book What is Life. In the last 10 years the awareness of quantum consciousness has exploded. The ventricals can help islate the quantum and the pyramidal cells in the tmporal lobes can decipher the signals.
The universe operates on a non computational level including time insights that spreads events out. The insights you have goes beyond the rules. Understanding goes beyond computation. Do I understand quantum mechanics role in consciousness, HELL NO, but I love the extra help. How do you think I guessed Trump's twitter password to be maga2020?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 20 - 07:14 PM

I watch Bach in a graphic manner as the music is highlighted in color as it moves along.
I realized that Toccata and Fugue was like a fractal with an added dimension of pitch and frequency. An audio fractal may only be doubled in rhythm and added in its simplest form an octave higher.
Add counterpoint lines and the fractal creates yet another dimension.
This would be a different approach to machine learned chorale 4 voice leading Bach. The usual method is by programing examples in the hundreds and have the computer create a new version based on those examples.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 05:49 AM

I have an updated theory of evolution.
Survival of the most joyous and good feelings a species have.

On a quantum level of cillia on a paramecium to a human being's comprable micro tubuels in our pryamidial cells the good feelings of being alive and reproducing are factors in the continuation and groth of life.
The power of orgasm derives all life in the universe.
If it feels good, its alive. This an eastern concept that life is derived from the innate joyous universe and not just organization and computation by accident or pan spermia.

I like thinking of (new to me) ideas because it feels good.
If making quilts feel good and benefits a species it will grow.
If Elon Musk feels good about putting a car in orbit it is an expression of the universe. 8^}

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 08:31 PM

My old buddy Fred Schiller wrote this!

Freude schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken himmlische dein Heiligtum
Deine Zauber binden wieder was die Mode streng geteilt
Alle Manschen werden Brüder wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt
Deine Zauber binden wieder was die Mode streng geteilt
Alle Manschen werden Brüder wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt

Wem der große Wurf gelungen eines Freundes Freund zu sein
Wer ein holdes Weib errungen mische seinen Jubel ein
Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund
Und wers nie gekonnt der stehle weinent sich aus diesem bund
Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund
Und wers nie gekonnt der stehle weinent sich aus diesem bund

Freude Freude heißt die Feder in der ewigen Naturfreude Freude treibt die Räder in der großen Weltenuhr
Blumen treibt sie aus dem Keime, Sonnen an das Virmament
Ein dringtsie in Tiefen, die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt
Blumen treibt sie aus dem Keime, Sonnen an das Virmament
Ein dringtsie in Tiefen, die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 10:38 AM

DON'T SWAT YOUR MOTHER
(Brian Hooker & Porter Steele (c) 1919)

Homeward to their mother, two working men did come,
Weary from their honest toil and lighted up with rum.
Supper was not ready. One aimed a brutal blow,
When the blue-eyed baby stopped them, saying, "Brothers, don't do so.

Don't swat your mother, boys, just 'cause she's old!
Don't mop the floor with her face.
Think of her love as a treasure of gold,
Shining through shame and disgrace.

Don't put the rocking chair next to her eye.
Don't bounce the lamp off her bean!
Angels are watching you up in the sky.
Don't swat your mother, boys, it's mean!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 09:26 PM

In her eyes there's the blue of Killarney
On her cheeks the rose of Kildare
On her lips just a bit of blarney
and the rose of Kildare in her hair
She was cradled and born
on St. Patrick's morn
with a smile on her face so sublime
She's as sweet as the day
She stole Dad's heart away
That old Irish Whisky of mine

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 12:14 PM

I like Ode to Joy best.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 02:09 PM

When Schiller's text is dropped into Google translate (I couldn't work up any sturm und drang during the process, but it still worked), the resulting English column is a lot shorter. The Germans sure use a lot of extra syllables and letters.


Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, Daughter of Elysium
We enter your sanctuary drunk with fire
Your spells bind again what the fashion strictly divided
All people become brothers wherever your gentle wing dwells
Your spells bind again what the fashion strictly divided
All people become brothers wherever your gentle wing dwells

Who succeeded in being a friend's friend
Whoever wins a lovely woman mix in his jubilation
Yes, who even calls to be a soul on the earth
And whoever has never been able to steal their way out of this bond
Yes, who even calls to be a soul on the earth
And whoever has never been able to steal their way out of this bond

Joy Joy is the name of the spring in the eternal joy of nature.
Joy drives the wheels in the great world clock
She drives flowers from the bud, suns to the virmament
It penetrates into depths that the seer's pipe does not know
She drives flowers from the bud, suns to the virmament
It penetrates into depths that the seer's pipe does not know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 03:49 PM

rapparee, that "Don't Swat Your Mother" lyric recalls
Brendan Behan's doggerel from his "The Hostage."

There's no place on earth like the world,
There's no place wherever you be,
There's no place on earth like the world,
That's straight up and take it from me.

Never throw stones at your mother,
You'll be sorry for it when she's dead.
Never throw stones at your mother,
Throw bricks at your father instead.

The South and the North Poles are parted,
Perhaps it is all for the best;
Till the H-Bomb will bring them together,
And there we will let matters rest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 06:23 PM

Hey Rap you may have guessed I think Freud was full of Crap. I'm more of a Carl Jung fan. So I ask if you ever ran into the book 'Corpus Hermeticus'?

It was found after a millenium of being lost by a book scout hired by Lorenzo D'Medichi.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 07:43 PM

Sure. Here's a translation for you. I have the original -- autographed! -- in my own library.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 06:08 AM

Holy Cow. That Hermes signature could be worth a fortune.
Second century science books are all the rage now.
This was a special request from Q-Anon himeself!
The astrology and alchemy chapters have a finders fee I can retire on..

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 09:30 AM

OhNo this is a Monastic forgery with no mention of astrology and alchemy. It is a early Christian attempt at misinformation and fake news. There goes my nest egg.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 04:19 PM

Thanks anyway Rap, praise be upon you - long may you reign

Deep in the bowel of the US Capitol the sub basement had a foul draft of sewerage. McConnel was leading incantations from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Mitch did not know he was reading the Dedication. Except for Romney in a suit all the High Reichical Senators were dressed in hooded cloaks and reverentially repeating everything Mitch said 5 syllables at a time. You could hear a flag pin drop when Mitch stopped.
Mitch slowly squeezed a resounding whoopee cushion and began slowly "Fellow loyal Trumpists... the time has come...the body of Donald Trump has died...but even death doth die...We are here to restore and Transform der Leader into...Dark Trump the Vanquisher! ...long may he reign. Repeat after me "Hushmon Knee con varee"...**** ** ***"tush emon zer schwinfelt"...

A mile away the Lincoln Memorial began to darken and Abe appeared to try and stand...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 05:42 PM

Here you are, complete with footnotes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Dec 20 - 04:06 PM

That makes one helluva coffee table book.
I'd be afraid what it would say about me if people saw it on my table.

The book speaks of an actual journey a pharoh would take down an underground canal to the great pyramid from ~50 metres underneath the ass of the Sphinx.
We don't make rituals like they used to.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 20 - 08:15 PM

Well then, here ya go!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 10:30 AM

Good thing I took High School French.

After reading I seem to have swelled with an unholy inspiration;


The tragedy of the commons happens all the time
No food for children is not a despicable crime
But a tragedy of corporations is the worst on Earth
Thank my god Wall Street peaks and isn't cursed

Desolate death, evictions, addictions and pests
are glorious for the unequivical master of lies
Mercy is the power of pardons as sweet revenge crests
The most beautiful music comes from anguish and cries

Killing blacks is even better when its done by slow knee
Calling us racists and Nazis is fake news and simply phony
They say God called upon Donald Trump to cure these times of evil
That is hysterically funny to those who know it's the DEVIL

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 02:05 PM

Prove it conclusively by calling Lucifer up and putting him on Fox, etc.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 04:42 PM

Cut to the chase and pick up a copy of Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.”

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 05:09 PM

There is a Lucifer in the DC phone book. I called him up and put him on hold.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 08:37 PM

You mean this one?

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much in the same way as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; His wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire; He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in His sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended Him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet, it is nothing but His hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you were suffered to awake again in this would, after
you closed your eyes to sleep; and there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arouse in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given, but His mercy; yea, no other reason can be given why you do not this very moment drop down into hell.

O sinner, consider the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire if the wrath that you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing
to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment. And consider here more particularly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 08:58 PM

If I had to guess that sounds like the invocation ceremony for admission to Bob Jones University.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 09:26 PM

Funny thing is, Edwards really liked spiders. He did some naturalist work following them around.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 02:18 PM

He also wrote, changing a much earlier quote from the days of early Christianity, "The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of unbaptized children" even though he supported infant baptism. FYI, the original quote is "the floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 03:50 PM

The skulls of bishops, eh?
How Covenanter of him ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 09:42 PM

"...and the path with the bones of priests."

Merry Christmas, Mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 11:11 PM

Poking around the streaming offerings, can't go wrong with A Christmas Story. Have a good xmas, everyone!

a tapestry of obscenity

getting ready for school was like getting ready for deep sea diving

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 07:37 PM

Mom MOAB! You get back up where you can wish everyone a Merry Christmas (or whatever their choice is) and OUT of that gutter RIGHT NOW! Is that a bottle of hair tonic you're drinking? Heavens to Betsy, you'll make yourself sick yet! Here, drink this Courvoisier VSOP!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Dec 20 - 10:17 PM

Obscenities are still floating above Lake Erie .
The ephemeral virtual violent quality of social media includes wishing everyone a merry Christmas and having some joker issueing a death threat against those Christian Kwanza haters or 'extreme' bhuddists declaring a fatwa against the 2,000 page snooze pill called the bible.
Of course the King James beta version 2.4 of the 'bile bull' is the real one and not that 1st Jewish version. But re-legends aside there are greater arguments we can pretend to have. Anything to make the life of a moderator ulceriffic. (Facebook aside) FB somehow makes money on nazi forums discussing the real reasons for safely blowing up Nashville with a broken down motor home for the facist cause not be confused with fact-cious causes.
As long as America can safely dream of sugar plum masked singers and dancers and pimple poppers.
Old Mister Potter sleeps tonight with happy revenge of NO Covid, unemployment insurance, or food bank relief. The lying sleeps tonight, in the jungle the mighty jungle....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 11:12 AM

That odd blast in Nashville, a white recreational vehicle driving down the street broadcasting to vacate the area - then BOOM! - that should be the singular story of the weekend, you'd think. But the toxic BS being served up (now from Florida) puts it all into the shadows. It really is difficult to top some of that. I am waiting for the justice system to try to stuff that evil genie back into a courtroom-shaped bottle (followed by a prison cell shaped bottle, better than an ankle bracelet on the golf course bottle).

I'm gonna go make cinnamon rolls. You'll know by the smell when they're ready and can come get a couple each. Who wants icing on top?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 12:50 PM

Cinnamon rolls washed down with prison wine sounds fine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 02:29 PM

Prison wine?
Is that the kind that they cultivate using toothpaste and stuff?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 03:41 PM

Hair tonic and iodine, in Mr. Roberts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 09:42 PM

A largish black plastic trash bag. In that put as much fruit cocktail and other canned fruit stuff as you can swipe from the mess hall. Throw in a few slices of bread for yeast and as much sugar as you can swipe. Put it all under your bunk for a few days to ferment. Take it out and drink at your leisure, but watch the odor and the guards!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 03:12 PM

Thats the one. You forgot its ususally brewed in the toilet for concealment.

I got a hand made quilt for xmas. It has a border of a full philharmonic orchestra with all the different instrument players but since it repeats it is a 3,000 member orchestra. The middle panel has a full size cello scroll, cellos,a strad,concert piano, music manuscript and more. The other side has concert harps, violins, violas and string bass.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 20 - 08:43 AM

There is an editorial called the 19th in the New Yorker that sums up my opinion of Covid 19 management in the US.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 20 - 11:13 AM

"To the living we owe respect, to the dead we owe the truth".
Voltaire

He got it wrong, the truth is wasted on the dead.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Dec 20 - 08:36 PM

Unless you're the one being lied about, and then, well, George Washington couldn't tell a lie and became the Father of His Country. Of course, that was a lie about him, and we owe it to him to tell the Truth about him. He wasn't the "Father of His Country", he had no biological children of his own (although he did adopt two from Martha's previous marriage). Unlike some Presidents (e.g., Warren Harding, FDR) he didn't keep a mistress in DC during his Presidency.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 06:40 AM

We tend to print all of the legends and lies and ignore the ugly truth.
The truth of our beauty is brief and the lifetime of lies is long.
The truth need not demand incontravertible proof.
Nor are all lies necessarily wrong.
It is because we are all mortal
That time is a locked portal.


see what i did there?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 11:29 AM

Countdown to the most important date in our near future: the 46th president.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 12:06 PM

2 million seconds...whimper

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 08:48 PM

Important Date? Nonsense! My birthday isn't for 44 days yet!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 20 - 06:38 AM

All the world is a mothered BS thread and all the players upon the stage have fault within themselves. The fault is from the stars in violent gamma ray Nova storms. From chaos the threads of life in the most violent regions, must reproduce ferociously and often. Where calm, near imortality may reign. To burn twice as bright and hot or cool and still is the ancient response of life. We can not choose our region of birth. Feel fortunate if it is Earth.

cosmic pond

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 20 - 12:48 PM

Nonsense! I decide upon Life, the Universe, and Everything! And for your information, the last two digits of pi are (in decimal notation as used on Terra) 42.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 20 - 01:01 PM

I always suspected it was an even number. Peace is restored. This is not one of those odd cosmos afterall, you know, one with an odd god.

There is news, just now, that they are going to close the restaurant at the end of the universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 20 - 06:37 PM

No, but masks are required and so is social distancing. In this case, six parsecs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 21 - 07:25 PM

Now it's only 1,615,068 seconds. And it's 2021. And Trump is pissed about so many things here's hoping he blows an aneurism soon and puts us out of our misery earlier. Different idiot in the Oval Office for a couple of weeks, but soon . . . very soon . . . Trump will face the courts for all of his dirty dealing for years. The floor show of 2021 will begin (though it will waste time and distract from important business, so we need to ration the amount of time we spend watching that dog and pony show.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 10:50 AM

To have a vaccinated population we have to inoculate about a million people per day to be ready for NEXT Fall.

We are not even close because there is no national response to pandemic issues. It is left to the states and hospitals which are already overstretched with too many victims to respond to.

Operation 'Warp Speed' is delayed by the Trump adminisration who still have the parking brake on and can't move.

Human error, waste and theft are a given but this problem was ignored from the beggining.

How many are we vaccinating per day? I decline to be the bearer of this bad news.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 09:26 PM

It is estimated that we'll get ours in (roughly) mid-February. Of course, there are fewer people in Idaho that in Howard or Montgomery Counties, Maryland. There are NOT fewer nut jobs, they're just better camouflaged back East.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 10:47 AM

In the vaccination race Isreal is in the lead with 13% done and the US is just over 1%

Arkansas Has 20,000 doses but they lost the directions and no on was listening when it was explained.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 01:03 PM

Rapparee has a valid point.
Idaho has become notorious for the, er, "eccentric" people.
But he's right --
in other places camouflage and concealment is the way to go,
but Idaho's reputation is that
the Armageddon freaks can let their freak flag fly free out there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of nAll BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 02:51 PM

Old man Potter wanted to eat the tiny Baily Savings and Loan
Old man Walgreen devoured Rexall and Rite Aid it's told
Old man Sam ate Mom's and Pop's by the truckload
Now Wall mart-green will dispense vaccine
that got too warm and is way too old.
There's another hunger of the poor and cold
They've been down so long they wish death upon everyone
Armageddonist vs anti armeggeddonist is the civil war to come
Race wanrs and Face wars have police on the run
Amid disease we forgot about having fun
I didn't notice the poet write his very last one.
Or the homeless eat the last palm oil nutrition free crumb.
The wealthy have their island and can still luxuriate in the sun

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 04:41 PM

edit

Old man Potter wanted to eat the tiny Baily Savings and Loan
Old man Walgreen devoured Rexall and Rite Aid it's told
Old man Sam ate Mom's and Pop's by the truckload
Now Wall mart-green will dispense vaccine
that got too warm and is way too old.
There's another hunger of the poor and cold
They've been down so long they wish death on everyone
Armageddonist vs anti armeggeddonist is the civil war to come
Race wars and Face wars have police on the run
Amid disease some forgot to have fun
I didn't notice the poet write his very last one.
Or the homeless eat the last palm oil nutrition free crumb.
The wealthy have their secret supply and can luxuriate in the sun
Only the newly dead are perfectly mum all except for a hiss
Earth has its revenge as thriving life is kissed
DNA has a trick to again and again
take the ultimate risk
that a mutation is
an adaptation

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 08:21 PM

My Mother’s Rosary

It takes an old-time love song
To keep this old world young
Each heart must have a love song
Tho’ some are never sung
Some people worship money
The song of clinking gold
But mother’s song at twilight
Brings you right back to the fold

Chorus:
There’s an old-time melody, I heard long ago
Mother called it the Rosary
She sang it soft and low
Without any rhyme, without any prose
I even forget how the melody goes
But then baby fingers and ten baby toes
She’d watch them by the setting sun
And when her daily work was done
She’d count them each and every one
That was “My Mother’s Rosary”

One day we may be happy
Next day we may regret
Some things that we remember
We wish we could forget
Sometimes you may be lonely
In darkness you may roam
But mother’s song at twilight
Keeps telling you to go home.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 12:42 PM

I had a dear old mother,
And dearly she loved me
And when I was in trouble,
She took me on her knee.

One night as I lay sleeping,
Alone upon my bed
An angel came and whispered
And told me she was dead.

Next morning when I woke up
I found the words were true
My mother was in heaven
Above the sky so blue.

So obey your mother children
No matter big or small
For when you lose your mother
You lose the best of all...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 12:43 PM

"That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine"

In a vine covered shack in the mountains
Bravely fighting the battle of time
There's a dear one who's weathered life's sorrow
It's that silver haired daddy of mine

If I could recall all the heartaches
Dear old Daddy, I've caused you to bear
If I could erase those lines from your face
And bring back the gold to your hair

If God would but grant me the power
Just to turn back the pages of time
I'd give all I own if I could but atone
To that silver haired daddy of mine.

I know it's too late, dear old daddy
To repay for the heartaches and care
But dear mother is waiting in heaven
Just to comfort and solace you there

If I could recall all the heartaches
Dear old daddy, I've caused you to bear
If I could erase those lines from your face
And bring back the gold to your hair

If God would but grant me the power
Just to turn back the pages of time
I'd give all I own if I could but atone
To that silver haired daddy of mine...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 01:53 PM

Pages can turn backwards in time but 'you' can't.

Antimatter is in every precise meaningful sense matter moving backward in time. The notion of "moving backward in time" is nonsensical in a Hamiltonian formulation, because the whole description can only go forward in time. That's the definition of what the Hamiltonian does--- it takes you forward in time a little bit. So if you formulate quantum mechanics the Hamiltonian way, this idea is difficult to understand (still it can be done--- Stueckelberg discovered this connection before the path integral, when field Hamiltonians were the only tool).

But in Feynman's particle path-integral picture, when you parametrize particles by their worldline proper time, and you renounce a global causal picture in favor of particles splitting and joining, the particle trajectories are consistent with relativity, but only if the trajectories include back-in-time trajectories, where coordinate time ticks in the opposite sense to proper time.

Looked at in the Hamiltonian formalism, the coordinate time is the only notion of time. So those paths where the proper time ticks in the reverse direction look like a different type of particle, and these are the antiparticles.

Sometimes there is an identification, so that a particle is its own antiparticle.

Precise consequence: CPT theorem
The "C" operator changes all particles to antiparticles, the P operator reflects all spatial directions, and the T operator reflects all motions (and does so by doing complex conjugation). It is important to understand that T is an operator on physical states, it does not abstractly flip time, it concretely flips all momenta and angular momenta (a spinning disk is spinning the other way), so that things are going backwards. The parity operator flips all directions, but not angular momenta.

The CPT theorem says that any process involving matter happens exactly the same when done in reverse motion, in a mirror, to antimatter.

The CPT operator is never the identity, aside from the case of a real scalar field. CPT acting on an electron produces a positron state, for example. CPT acting on a photon produces a photon going in the same direction with opposite polarization (if P is chosen to reflect all spatial coordinate axes, this is a bad convention outside of 3+1 dimensions).

This theorem is proved by noting that a CPT operator corresponds to a rotation by 180 degrees in the Euclidean theory, as described on Wikipedia.

Precise consequence: crossing
Any amplitude involving particles A(k_1,k_2,...,k_n) is analytic in the incoming and outgoing momenta, aside from pole and cut singularities caused by producing intermediate states. In tree-level perturbation theory, these amplitudes are analytic except when creating physical particles, where you find poles. So the scattering amplitudes make sense for any complex value of the momenta, since going around poles is not a problem.

In terms of mandelstam variables for 2-2 scattering, s,t,u (s is the CM energy, t is the momentum transfer and u the other momentum transfer, to the other created particle), the amplitude is an analytic function of s and t. The regions where the particles are on the mass shell are given by mandelstam plot, and there are three different regions, corresponding to A+B goes to C+D , Cbar + B goes to Abar+ D, and A + Dbar goes to C+Bbar. These three regimes are described by the exact same function of s,t,u, in three disconnected regions.

In starker terms, if you start with pure particle scattering, and analyticaly continue the amplitudes with particles with incoming momentum k's (with positive energy) to negative k's, you find the amplitude for the antiparticle process. The antiparticle amplitude is uniquely determined by the analytic contination of the particle amplitude for the energy-momentum reversed.

This corresponds to taking the outgoing particle with positive energy and momentum, and flipping the energy and momentum to negative values, so that it goes out the other way with negative energy. If you identify the lines in Feynman diagrams with particle trajectories, this region of the amplitude gives the contribution of paths that go back in time.

So crossing is the other precise statement of "Antimatter is matter going back in time".

Causal pictures
The notion of going back in time is acausal, meaning it is excluded automatically in a Hamiltonian formulation. For this reason, it took a long time for this approach to be appreciated and accepted. Stueckelberg proposed this interpretation of antiparticles in the late 1930s, but Feynman's presentation made it stick.

In Feynman diagrams, the future is not determined from the past by stepping forward timestep by timestep, it is determined by tracing particle paths proper-time by proper-time. The diagram formalism therefore is philosophically very different from the Hamiltonian field theory formalism, so much so Feynman was somewhat disappointed that they were equivalent.

They are not as easily equivalent when you go to string theory, because string theory is an S-matrix theory formulated entirely in Feynman language, not in Hamiltonian language. The Hamiltonian formulation of strings requires a special slicing of space time, and even then, it is less clear and elegant than the Feynman formulation, which is just as acausal and strange. The strings backtrack in time just like particles do, since they reproduce point particles at infinite tension.

If you philosophically dislike acausal formalisms, you can say (in field theory) that the Hamiltonian formalism is fundamental, and that you believe in crossing and CPT, and then you don't have to talk about going back in time. Since crossing and CPT are the precise manifestations of the statement that antimatter is matter going back in time, you really aren't saying anything different, except philosophically. But the philosophy motivates crossing and CPT.

There is a maximum speed limit for causality and that sis the speed of light which is what the speed o ligh actually is. Jus sayin...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 04:44 PM

I just want to know why the transformation of maximally entangled states under the action of Lorentz transformations in a fully relativistic setting can not be used as FTL messeging when entanglement is optimal? By explicit calculation of the Wigner rotation, we can describe the relativistic analog of the Bell states as viewed from two inertial frames moving with constant velocity with respect to each other. Though the finite dimensional matrices describing the Lorentz transformations are non-unitary, each single particle state of the entangled pair undergoes an effective, momentum dependent, local unitary rotation, thereby preserving the entanglement fidelity of the bipartite state. The details of how these unitary transformations are manifested are explicitly worked out for the Bell states comprised of massive spin 1/2 particles and massless photon polarizations.

SETI might be barking up the wrong cosmic tree with the eletrodynamic spectrum of radio waves when entangled receivers are at work and can never be hacked or deciphered.

Well I kinda know why FTL entanglement communication doesn't work but the answer still pisses me off. Whadu I hafta do, use neutrinos instead of electrons.....EUREKA

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 07:41 PM

One more impossible thing.

In my thirties I found myself beneath a Bodhi tree meditating.
I was inside a complicated life thinking simple thoughts.
Now in my den I am in a simple life thinking complicated thoughts.
Between conscious innerspace and cosmic space I forsee a changed Earthly society despite the reptillian ignorance of the liars. By their camoflage you will see them. By their lies you will know them.

This winter beside a stair step stream, an icicle from an over hanging branch traced a wide spiral dripping as it grew like a spring. It is a mystery to me like myself. Why is it here, how did it form? The small mystery humbled my complicated questions. There has to be an explanation. There is only one explanation. Its just one more impossible thing I've seen in my life. One of them is you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 09:34 PM

There was a young fellow named Fisk
Whose fencing was exceedingly brisk.
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Turned his epee to a disk

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 08:34 PM

Mother MOAB! You get yourself up where you belong, and don't give me any of your sass!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 11:20 PM

uk version

There was a young fellow named Buck
Whose thing was exceedingly Fucked.
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald contraction
made his pepee almost get stuck

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 11:25 PM

trump theme
"killing me softly, with his saw"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 21 - 08:46 AM

Here is an action photo of the Idaho Legion's nifty keen Backatcha Mechanism in action! When the GO's forces attacked yesterday and tried to Destructoray Washingon, DC the Legion's Space Corps sprung into action, launched the new Mark XXXIV Scout ship, and reflected the Destructoray back at the Galactic Overlord's Super Cruiser. The day was saved!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 21 - 09:34 AM

Horatio the fault is in ourselves not the galactic overlords.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 21 - 12:52 PM

The backatcha reflecto metal made of nickel tungston selenium and propriatory elements delivers inertia back at 90%
Its unique double punch some say defies conservation of energy.

When Ford made a pick up truck with a backatcha unibody it totaled Toyota, Dodge and Chevy Trucks while it sustained only broken headlights.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 21 - 07:04 AM

One of two Space X's Dragon cargo ships were docked with theISSalong with with three Sovus space craft early this year. To make room for another cargo ship they brought one home.One isway back the astronauts heard an impact behind them. Finding no apparent damage they continued to proceed through the atmospere. A difficulty trimming the ship in the lower entry orbit caused only a momentary concern.

Back on Earth a diagnostic was done and it was discovered part of the main engine exhaust cone was dented and feeder pipes had a residue and damage apparent. After 2 days it was determined that at least 22 kilos of frozen poop from the ISS had impacted the rear of the ship.

Missions in the future will take these discharges into account to safely have emmission orbits decay and burn up in the atmoshere.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 21 - 11:57 AM

dark matter black holes?
well its my guess anyway

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 21 - 12:33 PM

5 in a row is a record.

Betelgeuse farted! toward bottom of page

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 21 - 07:44 PM

I think the political miasma has sucked all of the normal BS energy out of the atmosphere. We'll just bid our time till the Trump methane cloud gets hit by a spark. Be prepared to duck when that happens.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 21 - 08:30 PM

He can always check in to the NYCFTTS.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 21 - 12:55 PM

I couldn't remember what NYCFTTS stood for and when I Googled it the top result were a bunch of Mudcat threads. :-/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 21 - 02:03 PM

I found a number of diamonds beneath the ping pong table where people had hit their rings on the edge while playing and dislodged their setting. The true gem is far beneath.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 05:38 PM

The important thing is that
Rapparee is still checking in,
so that ultrasound ordeal must be hopefully past.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 06:56 PM

The average fundamental vibration of the universe is a very deep B flat and the averaged visible light spectrum of the universe is beige.

With different alien senses it would probably be a different color.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 09:06 PM

The doppler ultrasound showed good blood flow in the carotid arteries (both right and left). They said I can do whatever I feel up doing, within reason. My speech, especially with S-sounds, remains a trifle problematic but I have a speech therapist and we're working on it. Saying something like, "Sue sold Susie a slew of slaw" would be come out as, "Shoe shold Shushie a shlew of shlaw" -- or at least that's what I hear and others say my speech is fine. That is why I'm not speaking at the Inauguration next week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 09:08 PM

C₂H₆O.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 10:58 AM

It was time for Shane's audition. Sirely he was nervous, but this was his shot at becoming famous. He was a talented musician and singer. The audition was his chance to play at a well known nightclub Shooting Star in Los Angeles.

His wish was to produce his own album, but he needed this job to help him make the money to do it. Shane's type of music was unique. His music was a combination of pop and hip-hop music with an Irish twist. He had been born in Ireland and his family moved to the United States when he was very young.

Shane had practiced for many hours for his audition. He had polished and perfected the shitty songs he would play for the nightclub owners.

He stood in front of the owners with his guitar in hand. He began to play. His songs were shaping up nicely and the owners seemed to like it. Everything was going smoothly, when all of a sudden...Crash! A shower of glass flew past him.

A large stage light had fallen and shattered on the stage he was auditioning on. For most people this would have been a huge shining distraction, but this was Shane's moment to shine. He kept playing and didn't miss a beat.

After finishing his songs, the owners gave him a standing ovation.
Even drunk patrons gave him a shtanding ovation. They loved Shane's songs so much, they thought he planned for the light to crash during his song. Shane assured them that he had not planned it.

The owners offered him the job. "Yes!" Shane said. He started that Saturday and couldn't wait to shine at the Shooting Shtar club.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 06:04 PM

Was this Shane McBride of Blind River, Ontario??

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 06:45 PM

Yep the pandemic and bar closures cleaned him up real good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 21 - 06:01 PM

I see your C₂H₆O and raise my single malt Scotch in salute (though lately I've switched to a nice 12-year-old blended Scotch that's pretty good).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 21 - 08:38 PM

Is Sparkling Pineapple wine any good?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 21 - 09:12 PM

Only if it's brewed in the toilet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 09:46 AM

C11H15NO2 + (1 hour later) C12H16N2 - any monoamine inhibitors = cure for trump syndrome

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 09:31 PM

Welcome, Noodles. I'm in Pocatello,ID. You have found the Annex to MOAB -- not Utah's MOAB, but the Mother Of All BS threads. Perhaps Stilly (our very own moderator) can make you a link to the original MOAB -- something better than 50,000 posts. Stilly has deep roots in the Seattle scene, even though now she lives in Texas.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 01:04 PM

Noodles put his introduction in the wrong thread - I'm going to find a better place to move it so more people will see it. Rap was correct. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 05:04 PM

Of COURSE he was correct! Are you implying I could possibly make an error?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: noodles_incident
Date: 17 Jan 21 - 06:59 PM

Whoops! Thanks for sorting that out, Stilly :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS year in review
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 21 - 08:02 PM

If, however, you wish, for some sick reason, to re-experience 2020, now is the time to put on your face mask, douse your entire body with hand sanitizer and then — to be safe — don a hazmat suit, as we look back at the unrelenting insanity of this hideous year, starting with…

January
…which begins with all of Washington, as well as parts of Virginia and Maryland, gripped by the gripping historic drama of the impeachment of Donald Trump. Remember that? How gripped we were?

To set the stage: Back in mid-December, the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment, after which Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, handed out souvenir signing pens. Everyone expected that Pelosi would then send the articles to the Senate.

But as of early January the Senate has not received them. People are wondering if Pelosi, what with her various official duties and hairdresser appointments, simply forgot to send the articles. Or maybe she tried to send them, but because of a bureaucratic snafu they wound up at a different federal entity, such as the Coast Guard.

Eventually, however, the articles arrive at the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch “The Undertaker” McConnell promises that the impeachment issue will receive full and fair consideration.

He is of course joking, but this is not obvious, because even when Mitch is in a jovial mood he looks like a man passing a kidney stone the size of the Hope Diamond.

Meanwhile in other political news, all eyes are on Iowa as it prepares for the caucuses, which are closely scrutinized because they are the first opportunity for a tiny group of unrepresentative voters to engage in an incomprehensible and deeply flawed process by which they anoint presidential candidates who traditionally go on to fail.

This year, in an effort to modernize the caucuses, the Iowa Democratic Party has upgraded from its old-fashioned manual reporting procedures to a modern, state-of-the-art “app” based on the same software used in the Boeing 737 MAX airliner.

In international news, the big story is a U.S. targeted drone strike, ordered by Trump, which kills Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, thereby triggering World War III and forcing the U.S. to reinstate the military draft, at least on Twitter. Iran responds — this is a good indicator of what kind of year it will be — by shooting down a Ukrainian airliner.

Elsewhere abroad, Chinese news media report that a man in a city named “Wuhan” died of a mysterious new virus. This is not considered a big deal in the U.S., since it has nothing to do with either impeachment or the Iowa caucuses.

A much bigger international story concerns Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, who announce via Instagram that they are sick and tired of being part of the British royal family and want to just be regular normal everyday hardworking folks making millions of dollars solely because one of them was born into, and the other one married into, the British royal family.

This plunges Great Britain into a crisis the likes of which it has not been plunged into since “Brexit.” The crisis finally ends when, after a royal summit meeting with Queen Elizabeth II described by participants as “frank and heartfelt,” Harry and Meghan are beheaded.

In sports, Major League Baseball is rocked by scandal with the release of a report concluding that the Houston Astros engaged in an elaborate multi-year cheating scheme, which critics charge enabled the team to win the 2017 World Series as well as six congressional seats in the 2018 midterm elections.

By way of punishment, the league — sending a clear message to future would-be cheaters — rules that all players involved in the scheme will continue to play baseball in exchange for enormous amounts of money.

Speaking of scandal, in…

February
Washington and its immediate suburbs remain gripped by the U.S. Senate’s historic impeachment trial of President Trump, with Democratic prosecutors arguing that Trump illegally pressured Ukrainian leaders to benefit himself politically, while the Republican defense team, employing an alibi strategy, claims that Trump was playing golf at the time.

Under the watchful eye of Chief Justice John Roberts, who is kept from nodding off by a law clerk armed with a pellet gun, everyone, in accordance with Senate rules, repeats everything 127 times, after which the Republican majority, to the surprise of anyone who has the IQ of sponge cake, acquits the Republican president. Washington and its suburbs immediately start looking around for a new historic thing to be gripped by.

In the midst of the impeachment drama, Trump delivers the State of the Union address, an awkward affair that begins with Speaker Pelosi refusing to use the traditional “high privilege and distinct honor” introduction; then Trump refusing to shake Pelosi’s hand; then Pelosi tearing up her copy of Trump’s speech; then Trump hocking a loogie onto Pelosi’s suede pumps.

OK, the loogie part did not happen. As far as we know.

In other political news, Iowa Democratic Party officials sense that there may be a problem with their new “app” when it declares that the winner of the state’s caucuses, with 43 million delegates, is Walter Mondale, followed by the Houston Astros (who also win the Super Bowl). This fiasco does not sit well with the other Democratic candidates, who realize they have wasted an entire year trudging around Iowa eating fried objects on sticks and pretending to care about Iowans.

Things go more smoothly for the Democrats in the New Hampshire primary and Nevada caucuses, with Bernie Sanders emerging as the clear front-runner, which only seems to make him angrier.

A new challenger emerges in the form of charisma-impaired billionaire Mike “Mike” Bloomberg, who uses his personal fortune to hire a vast army of consultants to supply him with a powerful arsenal of focus-group-tested policies, retorts, memes, jokes and humanoid personality traits. Nevertheless he struggles in the debates, the low point coming when Elizabeth Warren, during a heated exchange about non-disclosure agreements, pulls the waistband of Bloomberg’s underpants over the top of his head, a debate tactic known as the “atomic wedgie,” first performed by Lincoln on Douglas in 1858.

Despite all these exciting political developments, the number one concern of the American public, based on the amount of passionate debate it generates on the internet, is the burning issue of whether it is, or is not, OK to recline your airplane seat.

Remember? Those were good times.

As February draws to a close, 2020 seems to be shaping up as a typical election year, in which the political-media complex is repeatedly engulfed by raging apocalyptic dramas that the regular human public pretty much ignores.

And then, unfortunately, comes…

Marpril
…which starts off calmly enough, as the Democratic Party, desperate to find an alternative to 132-year-old white guy Bernie Sanders, settles on 132-year-old white guy Joe Biden, who cruises to a series of primary victories after replacing “No Malarkey” with a bold new campaign slogan: “Somewhat Alert At Times.”

Biden is endorsed by most of his Democratic opponents, including “Mike” Bloomberg, who spent more than $500 million on his campaign, which seems like a lot of money until you consider that he won the American Samoa Caucus, narrowly edging out Tulsi Gabbard, who spent $13.50.

And then, sprinkled in amid all the political coverage, we begin to see reports that this coronavirus thing might be worse than we have been led to believe, although at first the authorities still seem to be saying that it’s basically the flu and there is no reason to panic.

But all of a sudden there seems to be no hand sanitizer for sale anywhere, which makes some sense although there is also no toilet paper, as if people are planning to be pooping for weeks on end (ha) and then we learn that Tom Hanks — Tom Hanks! — has the virus and now they’re saying it’s a lot worse than the flu and we need to wash our hands and not touch our faces and maintain a social distance of six feet and use an abundance of caution to flatten the curve (whatever “the curve” is) but they’re also saying we don’t need face masks no scratch that now they’re saying we DO need face masks but nobody HAS any face masks but hey here’s a funny meme about toilet paper but ohmigod look at these statistical disease models WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE but Trump says maybe this hydroxysomething medicine will work no it won’t work yes it will work no it won’t and now they’re saying there won’t be enough ventilators or hospital beds or PPE and Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx are saying everybody has to shelter at home or else WE ARE ALL DEFINITELY GOING TO DIE hey here’s another funny toilet-paper meme but seriously what is PPE and is that different from PPP and where will we get the ventilators and there won’t be enough hospital beds and there is still no hand sanitizer and I keep touching my face and they just canceled the NBA can they even DO that wait now they canceled ALL the sports and closed all the schools the colleges the stores the restaurants the bars the theaters the hair salons the parks the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and now they’re saying we need to stay at home for HOW LONG what about the toilet paper I can’t stop touching my damn face are you seriously telling me all this is because somebody ate a freaking bat maybe Amazon has toilet paper ohmigod they’re sold out too WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE TOILET PAPER not another Zoom meeting I am so tired of shouting at people in little boxes maybe I should take a shower but what’s the point hey here’s a bunch more funny memes ohmigod look at the Stock Market the price of oil maybe I’ll just take a peek at my 401k oh NOOOOOOOO and WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING WITH ALL THIS TOILET PAPER and how long do we have to keep being abundantly cautious what did Trump say about the ventilators and what did Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci say about what Trump said about the ventilators and what did Trump say about what they said about what he said about the ventilators ventilators ventilators LOOK AT THESE MODELS WE ARE STILL GOING TO DIE but do we really want to go on living in a world where there’s no toilet paper and every single TV commercial sounds like “as we navigate these difficult times together, the National Association of Folding Chair Manufacturers wants you to know that we are committed to running these TV commercials with a somber narrator voice telling you how committed we are” and WHY WOULD SOMEBODY EAT A DAMN BAT these memes are getting old hey do you think that Carole Baskin woman actually fed her husband to a tiger maybe we should order pizza tonight wait I think we had pizza last night are you sure it’s Tuesday because it feels more like Thursday no please God not another freaking Zoom meeting stop already with the memes if the tiger ate her husband shouldn’t there be a skeleton somewhere are we flattening the curve yet Dr. Fauci Dr. Birx because we’re in a recession no wait maybe it’s a depression look at the unemployment numbers we are never going to recover from this if the virus doesn’t kill us we will starve to death we need more money from the government we need billions no we need trillions no we need MORE trillions where is this money coming from we have to open the economy up but if we do WE WILL ALL DIE hey I found some toilet paper oh no it’s one-ply which is basically the same as using your bare hand thank God I also found some hand sanitizer and speaking of good news Bernie Sanders is endorsing Joe Biden so apparently they’re both still alive if I see one more meme I am going to puke in my facemask I’m afraid to get on a scale my thighs are basically two armadillo-sized wads of pizza dough hey Dr. Birx Dr. Fauci when will we have a vaccine when will we have herd immunity when can we go outside when can we go back to work what is the “new normal” good lord what did Trump say about disinfectants DON’T INJECT CLOROX YOU IDIOTS what about the food chain what about reinfection what about the second wave hey they’re showing the NFL draft and Georgia is opening the tattoo parlors and holy crap now it’s…

May
…and we are, as a nation, exhausted. We are literally sick and tired of the pandemic. But amid all the gloom, there is a ray of sunshine: As we go through this harrowing experience — affecting all Americans, in both red states and blue states — we are starting to realize that our common humanity is more important than our political differences.

Ha ha! Seriously, we hate each other more than ever. We disagree about everything — when to reopen the economy, whether to wear masks, whether to go to the beach, whether it’s OK to say “China” — everything. Each side believes that it is motivated purely by reason, facts and compassion, and that the other side is evil and stupid and sincerely wants people to die. Every issue is binary: My side good, other side bad. There is no nuance, no open-mindedness, no discussion.

On the other hand, there is starting to be more toilet paper.

President Trump continues to provide leadership during the crisis by repeatedly pointing out that he knows an incredible amount about viruses — more than most medical doctors! — and is frankly doing a terrific job.

For its part, the White House press corps, seeking as always to be fair and objective, asks the president many probing questions, all of them variations of “why are you so despicable?”

Somewhere in here the president goes on Twitter to suggest, without evidence, that MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough committed murder, but we have reached the point where this falls into the category of “ho-hum.”

Meanwhile, in a basement somewhere in Delaware, Joe Biden and his campaign team have managed to procure a “webcam,” which they intend to use to “log on” to the “internet” so that Joe’s campaign message can go “viral,” just as soon as Joe decides what it is.

In scandal news, the justice department moves to drop all charges against former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Outraged Democrats claim this is a travesty of justice; outraged Republicans claim it is proof that the Deep State tried to stage a coup. And thus we are back to arguing about the 2016 election, which we are going to keep arguing about until everybody involved has been dead for 50 years.

On a more uplifting note, America cheers the first manned space launch from U.S. soil in nine years as the commercially built SpaceX rocket, carrying two NASA astronauts, blasts off for the International Space Station, only to discover, upon arrival, that it has been closed since 2014.

Here we should at least mention the arrival of the Asian murder hornets. In any other year they would have been a huge story, comparable to famous celebrity pests of the past, such as the killer bees, or the cast of “Jersey Shore.” But in 2020 there is simply too much competition, and the murder hornets end up living in a cheap motel near the Canadian border, their dreams of fame shattered.

In sports, Major League Baseball tries to come up with a plan to salvage the 2020 season, a task that becomes more urgent each day as the Houston Astros already have won 137 games, all of them no-hitters.

The National Football League also is trying to adapt to the pandemic, exploring the possibility of a season with no fans, no coaches and no players.

“We’re thinking of just showing 60 minutes of referees throwing penalty flags and peering at replay monitors,” says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. “So it won’t really be much different.”

Meanwhile the National Hockey League admits that it stopped playing games in 2003, but nobody noticed.

Toward the end of the month the economy is starting to open up, the virus numbers in many places seem to be improving and people are starting to venture out of their homes. For a few minutes, the nation seems to be groping its way, an inch at a time, toward relative calm. And then…

WHAM, 2020 strikes again, this time in Minneapolis, where the horrendous killing of George Floyd at the hands of police ignites a protest movement that quickly spreads across the nation, sometimes mutating into violence. In the past, such movements tended to lose energy, smothered under a thick cloud of politicians’ platitudes, but this one has legs, and as we enter…

June
…the protest movement grows in size and passion with frankly not a whole lot of social distancing. In Washington, D.C., large crowds gather in front of the White House.

President Trump, angered by reports that at one point he retreated to an underground bunker, states that in fact he was merely inspecting the bunker, this being a responsibility explicitly assigned to the president by the Constitution, right after where it says he’s in charge of foreign policy.

To demonstrate that he is not the kind of leader who hides in bunkers, the president courageously goes outside (after the protesters have been cleared away) and personally walks several hundred feet to historic St. John’s Church, where he holds up a Bible. Or possibly it is a thesaurus. The important thing is that it is a serious-looking book and a strong visual, at a time when what this wounded and divided nation needs, more than ever, is strong visuals.

For their part, the Democrats, fed up with the longstanding pattern of systemic racism and police misconduct in major U.S. cities, vow to bring about real reform, just as soon as they can figure out who, exactly, is in charge of these cities.

One much-discussed reform proposal is defunding the police, which is clearly defined by its proponents as “taking the funding away from the police” as well as “not taking the funding away from the police.”

Meanwhile COVID-19 cases are rising alarmingly, especially in the South. President Trump, having apparently decided that the best way to deal with the pandemic, as chief executive, is to occasionally tweet about it, focuses his efforts on getting re-elected. He holds a rally in Tulsa, where, addressing an issue of concern to all Americans, he explains in detail that the ramp he had to walk down at the West Point graduation ceremony was slippery AND steep. The president gets a big hand from the crowd when, displaying leadership, he drinks from a water glass with one hand.

During this period the Biden campaign focuses its energies primarily on being in Delaware.

Also during this time important news events are occurring in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and possibly even Canada. But we frankly do not have time to think about these places.

In sports, Major League Baseball owners and players, faced with the very real threat that the Houston Astros will win the World Series unopposed, reach an agreement to hold a shortened season, with a few COVID-related rule modifications:

The “batter’s box” will be an actual plexiglass box completely enclosing the batter.
To minimize airborne saliva droplets, umpires will call balls and strikes by shouting into their elbows. Also players must limit infield chatter to fewer than 10 syllables.
Unacceptable: “HeybatterbatterbatterbatterSWING!”

Acceptable: “ HeybatterbatterbatterSWING!”

In the event that a batter gets on base, all players on both teams will immediately be tested for coronavirus.
At the end of nine innings or one week, whichever comes first, the team with the fewest positive tests will be declared the winner.
Speaking of positive tests, in…

July
…COVID-19 cases continue to rise sharply in some southern states, accompanied by what the World Health Organization describes as an “alarming” spike in smugness in some northern states, notably New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveils a poster, for sale at $11.50, commemorating, in a cartoony manner, New York’s pandemic experience. Really. It is as if the White Star Line sold whimsical souvenirs of the Titanic.

On July 4, despite all the bad news and the gloomy outlook, Americans pause to celebrate the independence of their nation by reducing entire neighborhoods to smoking rubble with illegal fireworks.

In a decision that outrages Democrats, President Trump commutes the federal prison sentence of his longtime friend and political operative Roger Stone. The White House states that imprisoning the 67-year-old Stone would be inhumane because he has a medical condition that requires him “to roam free at night seeking fresh human blood.”

Meanwhile in Delaware, Joe Biden’s team continues to ponder the question of who should be Joe’s running mate, the goal being to find somebody who (a) is a woman and (b) has a name that Joe can remember.

Kanye West announces that he is running for president, representing the Birthday Party. In any other year this would seem ridiculous, but in 2020 a lot of people are like “why not?”

In other political news, the coronavirus continues to disrupt both major parties’ convention plans. The Republicans, having already moved Trump’s acceptance speech from the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C., to the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., announce that they are now considering the Roll ‘n’ Shoot Bowling Alley & Gun Range in Elwood, Okla., contingent on the availability of “a long enough extension cord.”

The Democrats also have downsized their convention, which originally was to be a four-day event at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee but is now going to take place mainly on Instagram.

On the diplomatic front, the Trump administration announces that, after tense high-level negotiations, it has reached a peace agreement under which U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Portland, Ore., where for many weeks protestors have been seeking social justice via a combination of peaceful demonstrations and arson.

By far the month’s most disturbing event occurs on July 15 when Twitter, responding to a cyberattack, temporarily suspends many verified blue-check accounts. Within minutes emergency rooms in Washington and New York are overwhelmed by media thought leaders whose brains are literally exploding from the pressure of unreleased insights.

Meanwhile in the rest of the nation, non-elite Americans wander the streets aimlessly, with no way to know what they should think. Fortunately this situation lasts only a few hours, but it highlights the urgent need for a federally maintained Blue Check Media Emergency Tweet Reserve, similar to the National Helium Reserve, but more gaseous.

In sports, the Washington Redskins, bowing to mounting public pressure, announce that they are changing their name, which critics say is insensitive. They will henceforth be known as the Pittsburgh Redskins.

In Major League Baseball, the teams begin a shortened season with stadium seats occupied by cardboard cutouts representing fans, except in the case of the Houston Astros, who use live human snipers.

Speaking of threats, in…

August
…President Trump escalates his attacks on TikTok, a Chinese-owned social-media app that threatens our national security by causing millions of Americans to learn stupid dances while Chinese people are making useful products to sell to Americans. The president wants to force TikTok to be sold to Microsoft, apparently in the hope that Microsoft will render it unusable by means of “updates.”

In other foreign-policy action, Trump brokers a historic Middle East peace agreement, which, along with the estimated 45 previous historic Middle East peace agreements, brings the Middle East one step closer to potentially being on the verge of reaching the brink of what could some day become a stepping stone to lasting peace, although you should not hold your breath.

Meanwhile at home, the nation’s mood increasingly is tense and angry as Americans are bombarded all day, every day, with a constant stream of news about protests, boycotts, disruption, despair and rage. And that’s just on SportsCenter.

California, as it traditionally does at this time of year, bursts into flames. Adding to the citizens’ misery are rolling electrical blackouts, possibly related to the fact that the state legislature has banned all sources of electricity except windmills and 9-volt batteries.

In politics, controversy swirls around the U.S. Postal Service, which until now most Americans have viewed as a non-sinister agency whose function, as authorized by the Constitution, is to faithfully, rain or shine, deliver vast quantities of bulk mail to us so we can discard it unread.

But now there are reports of USPS mailboxes mysteriously disappearing from the streets, which Democrats charge is part of a sinister Trump administration plot to sabotage mail-in voting, the theory being that voters, having no place to deposit their mail-in ballots, will give up in despair and, we don’t know, flush them down the toilet or something.

While this alleged conspiracy is being debated, Steve Bannon, a former influential Trump aide with the uncanny ability to always look like he just woke up in a dumpster, is arrested by increasingly — this cannot be a coincidence — agents of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Bannon is charged with fraud in connection with a GoFundMe project called “We Build the Wall,” which is supposedly raising money for President Trump’s largely imaginary wall between the U.S. and Mexico, although according to prosecutors a better name for the project would be “We Basically Keep the Money.”

In other legal developments, Trump pardons Susan B. Anthony, calling her, in impromptu remarks delivered as aides hustle reporters away, “a terrific person who I look forward to inviting to the White House.”

In election news, Joe Biden makes history by choosing Kamala Harris as his running mate; if elected, she would become the first U.S. vice president whose name can be rearranged to spell “I Alarm A Shark.” During the Democratic debates Harris leveled some harsh criticisms at Biden, but a Biden campaign source says that “Joe has forgotten all about that. Literally.”

For his part, Trump dismisses rumors that he might change running mates, telling reporters “I’m very happy with whatshisname.”

Because of the pandemic, both parties hold their conventions virtually, which means that instead of endless hours of repetitious blather, the TV broadcasts consist of endless hours of repetitious blather but without the entertaining visuals of delegates in stupid hats.

The Democrats adopt a sweeping platform filled with bold policy initiatives that nobody will ever look at again. The Republican platform consists of, quote, “whatever was in the president’s most recent tweet.”

Speaking of principles, in…

September
…the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg triggers a classic display of Washington-style ethical consistency as both political parties, addressing the issue of when the vacancy should be filled, passionately embrace positions diametrically opposite the ones they passionately embraced in 2016.

Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat, arguing that she is “perfectly qualified” for the high court because she is “a woman, but not like super hot.” Critics allege that Barrett belongs to a dangerous religious cult that subjugates women by forcing them to become Supreme Court justices. Everyone prepares for a cordial and informative confirmation process.

In other political news, the New York Times, in a politically devastating career-ending bombshell report, reveals that an analysis of Trump’s tax records shows that pretty much his only major success, as a businessman, has been playing the part of a successful businessman on a TV show.

Coming on the heels of two politically devastating bombshell reports earlier in the month — one alleging that Trump mocked the military, and one that he lied about the seriousness of the coronavirus — this brings to an even 500 the total number of times Trump has been devastated by bombshell media reports.

Joe Biden leaves Delaware briefly to give a campaign speech in Philadelphia, where he makes the following statement: “If Donald Trump has his way, the complications from COVID-19, which are well beyond what they should be — it’s estimated that 200 million people have died — probably by the time I finish this talk.” Then it’s back to Delaware for Joe.

The biggest political event of the month is the much-anticipated Trump-Biden debate, a lively affair featuring a frank and open exchange of sentence fragments highlighted by a heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt on the part of moderator Chris Wallace to silence the president with a taser.

Biden inspires his supporters by appearing, most of the time, to be fully aware that he is participating in a debate. For his part, Trump displays presidential leadership by firmly yet calmly reassuring an anxious nation that the election will be a complete fraud.

When it’s over both sides declare victory as Chris Wallace retreats to his dressing room to ingest Xanax pills through a funnel.

In other domestic news, there are these alarming developments:

The federal deficit reaches $3.3 trillion, as the government continues its unchecked descent into horrendous, unsustainable levels of debt, with neither political party even seriously acknowledging the danger, let alone taking meaningful action to prevent future generations of Americans from being permanently screwed.
The Kardashians decide to stop making “Keeping Up With The Kardashians.”
Meanwhile as fires continue to devastate the West, the California legislature, meeting in emergency session, votes to ban lightning.

Abroad, the Middle East moves a step closer to eventually being on the verge of approaching the threshold of what could some day become a pathway to lasting peace as the Trump administration announces yet another historic agreement, this one involving Bahrain, which the president says “is apparently a country over there.”

In other foreign-policy action, the president orders an air strike on TikTok.

In college sports, both the Big Ten and Pac-12 vote to resume playing football, citing the improving COVID-19 situation and the fact that the Houston Astros are leading both conferences with a combined 179-0 record. Conference officials say they will implement strict medical protocols to insure that the athletes can safely resume violently injuring each other.

The pandemic continues to dominate the news in…

October
…when the White House announces that President Trump is infected with the coronavirus, as are the first lady, White House staffers and others who have been near the president at events where many people did not wear masks or observe social distancing. This seems to suggest, crazy as it sounds, that the virus — Who could possibly have known this? — is an infectious disease that you can catch from other people.

In an effort to keep the nation informed on the president’s health without creating confusion, the administration employs a two-pronged communications strategy:

Prong one: The president’s doctors hold a press briefing in which they say that the president is doing fine.

Prong two: Immediately thereafter, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tells reporters that the president’s vital signs are “worrying.”

While hundreds of certified Twitter users without medical degrees offer their insights on this situation, the president begins a course of treatment at Walter Reed that includes an antibody cocktail, an antiviral drug, a steroid and — this really happened — a motorcade ride around the hospital. Trump’s doctors describe the motorcade as “a totally standard medical treatment that is not insanely irresponsible at all.”

Meanwhile the virus continues to spread through the White House, eventually infecting everyone in the executive branch above the rank of custodian. But never mind those people: The important thing is that the president recovers quickly and announces that COVID-19 is frankly no big deal for anybody who has a large team of doctors, 24/7 access to a world-class medical facility and a helicopter. Then, having learned an important lesson from his experience, the president resumes holding massive rallies where many people do not wear masks.

The Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett after she successfully completes the traditional Judiciary Committee hazing ritual, in which she must answer questions for three consecutive days without saying anything.

Joe Biden enters the final stretch of the campaign with a schedule that sometimes has him doing as many as one appearance per day. Also taking a brutal toll on the former vice president is the fact that he must repeatedly, day after day, deal with the grueling physical strain of not telling reporters what he thinks about packing the Supreme Court. At one appearance, when asked about this, Biden says (this is an actual quote): “the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be on the answer to that question.” While reporters wrestle with the Confucian profundity of this statement, Joe is whisked back to Delaware.

In other political action, vice presidential candidates Mike Pence and Kamala Harris square off in a debate, and the only thing anybody remembers about it 10 minutes later is that a fly landed on Pence’s head.

Two weeks later Trump and Biden have their second debate, during which Trump accuses Biden of wanting to force Americans to have “little, tiny, small windows” and Biden says “Come on!” roughly 200 times. They say many other things as well, but at this point none of it makes any difference.

In social-media news, Twitter blocks a New York Post story about incriminating emails allegedly found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, on the grounds that the story is of questionable origin. This is of course a violation of Twitter’s extremely strict accuracy policy, under which every single tweet that Twitter does allow to be published is 100 percent vetted and legit.

In sports, the coronavirus causes major disruptions in the fall football schedule, the result being that on a single afternoon the New York Jets wind up losing to both the Kansas City Chiefs and Vassar.

On a happier note, the World Series, for the 11th consecutive year, does not in any way involve the New York Yankees.

The month comes to a close with Halloween, a spooky, scary time when the nation is haunted by a relentless onslaught of political TV attack ads in which basically every candidate for public office is depicted as a hideous bloodsucking ghoul. Voters universally detest these ads and the toxic political climate they create, but highly paid campaign consultants continue to produce them, for a sound, data-derived, poll-tested reason: These consultants are scum.

With October finally over, a divided, weary nation trudges into the crucial month of…

November
…when finally, after all the politics and the platitudes, the debates and the demagoguery, the rallies and the riots, the allegations and the alliteration, it’s time for the American people to do what they have done since the founding of the republic: Eat all their leftover Halloween candy. There’s a lot of it this year because there were few trick-or-treaters, leaving many Americans with no choice but to snork down the weight of an adult male cocker spaniel in mini-Snickers. But we do it, because we are Americans, dammit.

Then, at last, it’s Election Day. Millions of voters lurch to the polls, unless they already voted, in which case they remain on the sofa, burping up chocolate fumes and anxiously watching the cable-TV network of their choice.

Political experts are confidently predicting an easy Biden win, possibly a landslide, based on input from professional pollsters armed with conclusions derived from sophisticated statistical analysis of data obtained via surveys of the seven Americans still willing to answer the telephone.

But the actual race turns out to be much closer, and several days pass without a clear winner as the various states count ballots via their individual methods under our quirky, zany Electoral College system.

Florida, which has totally screwed up in previous elections, surprises everybody by reporting the vote count almost immediately, thanks to an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis to “just go ahead and re-use the results from 2016, since we counted those already.”

But the process is much slower in states such as Pennsylvania, which uses the base 17 numbering system, and Arizona, where by law votes must be tabulated on cowhides.

It is not until Saturday that the news media call the election for Biden. President Trump accepts the defeat with the calm, mature grace and dignity that have become his trademark as leader of some imaginary nation that we are fantasizing about in this sentence.

In reality Trump claims that he won the election BY A LOT, but it is being stolen from him via a vast, sophisticated, malignant and purely hypothetical vote-fraud scheme. To combat this fraud, the president forms a crack legal team headed by former sane person Rudy “Rudy Three i’s” Giuliani, who presides over what future scholars will view as the single greatest event in the history of America, if not the world.

This occurs when the president announces via tweet that his lawyers will hold a news conference at “Four Seasons, Philadelphia.” Everyone assumes he means the Four Seasons Hotel, but in fact — and here we have definitive proof that there is a God, and He or She has an excellent sense of humor — the event takes place in the parking lot of a company called Four Seasons Total Landscaping, which is located across the street from a cremation center and down the block from Fantasy Island Adult Books and Novelties.

We are not making this up. Nobody could make this up.

The Four Seasons event turns out to be a good indicator of the competence of the Trump legal team, and it eventually becomes clear to everybody not living in the White House that Trump will not successfully challenge Biden’s win.

But it is also clear that, just as in 2016, the media elite greatly underestimated support for Trump, who somehow got more than 74 million votes despite the fact that the media elite doesn’t personally know any Trump supporters, and in fact has devoted four solid years to declaring that anybody who doesn’t hate Trump as much as the media elite does has to be a racist idiot.

So who on Earth could these 74 million Americans be? It’s a mystery that probably will never be solved, at least not by the media elite.

Meanwhile on the coronavirus front, there is good news and bad news:

The good news is that several drug companies announce that they have developed promising vaccine candidates, while Budweiser reports “significant progress” on a hard seltzer that also can be used as hand sanitizer.
The bad news is that the number of cases, in what feels like the 37th wave, is spiking once again, and American consumers are once again creating shortages of toilet paper by buying enough rolls per household to wipe every butt in Denmark for a year. Many states impose tough new COVID restrictions, most notably California, which bans “all human activity not personally involving the governor.”
Speaking of states taking action: On Nov. 12 the nation pauses to observe the 50th anniversary of the date that the Oregon state highway department attempted to dispose of an 8-ton dead whale on a beach by detonating a thousand pounds of dynamite under the carcass, the result being that vast quantities of putrid whale flesh were blasted into the sky, and then, because of gravity — which apparently nobody had told the Oregon state highway department about — it came back down all over the crowd of spectators gathered to watch. Historians agree that this was the greatest thing that ever happened in the world prior to the Trump legal team press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

In arts and culture news, Guinness World Records announces that the most watched video in YouTube history, with over 7 billion views, is “Baby Shark Dance,” which was created by a South Korean company called “Pinkfong” that for some inexplicable reason we never took out with a nuclear missile even though the entire world would have thanked us.

President Trump, carrying on a cherished White House tradition, pardons turkeys named “Corn” and “Cob” and a former national security adviser named “Michael Flynn.” “Corn” and “Michael Flynn” were convicted of making false statements to the FBI; “Cob” was serving a four-year sentence for tax evasion.

Joe Biden, preparing for a historically difficult transition to a presidency that will be confronted with a daunting array of critical challenges both at home and abroad, fractures his foot playing with a dog.

As the month draws to a close, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving as the Pilgrims did, by gathering with their loved ones for a communal meal in the basement with the lights off so as to avoid detection by the authorities.

And then, at last, the finish line of this wretched year looms ahead as we stagger into…

December
…which begins with good news and bad news on the economy:

The good news is, holiday retail sales are strong.
The bad news is, most of these sales are online purchases of Four Seasons Total Landscaping T-shirts.
The other hot holiday wish-list item is the coveted Sony PlayStation 5 gaming console, which is nearly impossible to find in stores due to the fact that it does not, physically, exist.

“We made a bunch of cool commercials for it,” states a Sony marketing executive, “but as for an actual device that you can plug in, nah.”

Long-term, the economic outlook remains troubling, with the U.S. economy being kept afloat mainly by consumers making monthly payments to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, CBS All Access, HBO Now, Peacock, HBO Max, Discovery Plus, Starz, Chickadee, Eyeballz, Amazon Super Deluxe, HBO Medium Rare, Chickadee Plus, Disney Extra Special, Amazon Supreme Unleaded, HBO Gluten Free and a bewildering array of other streaming services that consumers rarely watch but keep paying for because they can’t figure out how to cancel their subscriptions.

“These people are pumping millions of dollars a month into the economy,” states Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. “God help us if they ever remember their passwords.”

In other national news, President Trump, faced with soaring coronavirus cases and a congressional stalemate over a desperately needed relief package, devotes his energies, as chief executive, to tweeting approximately once per hour that the election was RIGGED. The Trump legal team, alleging that there was a massive organized conspiracy to commit vote fraud, files multiple lawsuits, but achieves basically the same legal outcome as Hamilton Burger, the stupendously ineffective district attorney on the “Perry Mason” TV show, who went to court week after week for many seasons and almost never won a case, WHICH ONLY PROVES HOW MASSIVE AND ORGANIZED THIS CONSPIRACY IS.

While the president continues to insist that he was re-elected, members of his staff quietly prepare for the transition by updating their resumes and conducting a search for the briefcase containing the nuclear launch codes, believed last seen in the back of a golf cart in Bedminster, N.J.

As the curtain gradually descends on the Trump administration, it becomes Joe Biden’s turn to take center stage and face the harsh scrutiny of the Washington press corps. Leading the way is CNN, which broadcasts a hard-hitting two-hour special report on the incoming Biden administration, featuring a panel of eight journalists who unanimously agree that if George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were alive today, they would definitely fracture their feet playing with dogs.

In business news, Amazon pays $237 billion in cash to acquire Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

In the arts, Rolling Stone magazine declares that the number one song of 2020 is “WAP,” which is an abbreviation for something that we cannot publish in a family newspaper, but suffice it to say that if any year deserved to have this declared as its best song, that year would be 2020.

Finally, after 12 nightmarish months, 2020 draws to a close, and…

…and here we must interrupt our narrative to let you, the reader, in on a little secret: Because of newspaper deadlines, we have to turn in our year-in-review in mid-December, before the year is actually over. Normally this doesn’t matter, because the holiday season tends to be a slow news time.

But this is no normal year, and I'm nervous. We worry that something major, by which we mean bad, will happen after our deadline — something involving the election, or the virus, or some awful thing we cannot even imagine. Like for example, maybe astronomers will announce that because of the human race snacking at historically high levels during the pandemic lockdown, the Earth has gained a huge amount of mass, which has slowed the planet down in its orbit around Sun, and as a result, to make the calendar work out, we have to add an ENTIRE MONTH to 2020. This month would of course be called…

Pandember
…which you probably think can’t possibly happen, right? What a crazy idea!

As crazy as masked Americans fighting over toilet paper.

The point is, what could have happened this year, includes the murder of Nancy Pelosi and the lynching of Mike Pense like a scene out of Hannibal.. I'm just hoping that next year is nothing like this one. In that spirit, we’ll close with the wish we survive to see the agonizing holocaust.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 21 - 06:15 PM

Pandember? I thought this was Panduary.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 21 - 09:41 PM

Only 23 days to my birthday. Have you gotten my presents yet?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 21 - 11:25 AM

What do you prefer, a dagger that pierced Ceasar's duodenum or one of the coins that Judas was paid?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 21 - 03:30 PM

Either will be fine as long as they are unequivocally documented.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 21 - 08:48 PM

QAnon: Q from the character in the James Bond movies, Anon for Anonymous.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jan 21 - 07:42 AM

Q is an omnicient but unwise well intentioned character on Star Trek.
read backwards in code ' a non Q 'is a myopic wise being of ill intent

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Jan 21 - 07:17 PM

Ach, Donuel,
I know that MOAB (annex) is made of sturdy stuff,
but ...
oh, well ...
we all need someplace to get it ALL off of our chests.

Only, darn it,
I will NOT read the entire bleeping post.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 21 - 09:03 PM

Okay, you can read this. It's in the secret MOAB code. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their nation.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jan 21 - 09:13 PM

Rap the briney brains stay plainly on the mains
Luz slips slinks shifts
So Y biscuit?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 10:48 AM

Has lodge member Eric the Red returned from his Jan 6 pilmigridge yet?
Its been two weeks!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 10:49 AM

Sorry I forgot to turn encryption back on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 01:38 PM

Way up North....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 09:40 PM

Holy Hiawatha's Mittens!

I mean,
Bernie Sanders's mittens ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 21 - 08:34 PM

No, his mittens aren't holey. Neither are mine. Mine are reindeer leather. Prancer or Vixen, I think.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Jan 21 - 09:34 PM

Is it still as exciting as ever here?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jan 21 - 11:22 PM

There's a lot of heavy lifting to do now that the Galactic Overloard, the DuckDog, and Chongo don't drop by any more. And of course, Amos is gone.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 11:33 AM

I may return as well... IF can still get in.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 01:13 PM

I have TWO Duck dogs in this house! I feel quite blessed. One is a Fox Terrier. The other is a cross between what looks like a Corgi, a Chihuahua, and maybe some other small breed of terrier...but she looks most like a Corgi...with the buggy chihuahua eyes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 04:51 PM

two pocket dogs carried in a huge rain coat is nice
but a knee high is best since it can walk along side.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 21 - 02:35 PM

Gnu AND Little Hawk ... old home week ??

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 21 - 09:04 PM

Yes, indeed. Before you know it people like Big Mick and Eisley will drop in. Maybe even...KHANDU himself!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 06:12 AM

The Skunk Galaxy
You can smell it thousands of light years away

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 10:04 AM

I got a Dick pic today, a portrait of Nixon from the Nixon Realitivist Association (NRA) claiming by today's standards he is a great president.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 08:59 PM

Good to see you back, gnu.

Now, if we can just locate olddude . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 09:34 PM

I know where he is, but I'm enjoined by various Security Acts from telling.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 21 - 07:00 AM

Little Hawk, tag you're it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 21 - 05:47 PM

Graciously my request to GFOIA galacic freedom of information act was granted and while thre are some redacted future issues, as it turns out everything I knew is wrong from my constitutional law scholar pursuits to my endeavors in hypnosis......Its simply a dog eat/infect dog universe.
The current pandemic is not so much respiratory but a brain eating and restructuring disease that is parasitic in nature. Thus the radical right violence is merely a symptom of the disease.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991276/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 21 - 08:44 PM

Yes, we dealt with that when I was in Grad School at Case Western Reserve University back in the '70s. It's pretty much a recapitulation of the research done then, but with a different slant to it. Check with Tefko Serasovich or Paul Kantor at Rutgers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 21 - 10:23 PM

That skunk galaxy is beneficial, it keeps the Daleks out of our part of the universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 21 - 09:51 AM

NEW CASINO RULES MAY be on the way for Wall St. for complaining "How dare small time investors use our own rules against the house and giant hedge funds". This is due to the amazing Game Stop story.
Hedge funds manipulate the stockmarket by useing 'shorting a stock' and futures. This time the little guy did it to them. Elon Musk HATES the shorting scam and has railed against it for decades.
Social and financial change often begins with conversations about inequities and unfairness. Investigations are already tripping over one another.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 11:23 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 11:42 AM

Cat got your tongue?

Dog got your breakfast bagel?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 11:51 AM

Avi Loeb astrphysicist and a former big wheel at Harvard has a thought process I admire. He noticed that Umauma accelerated away from the sun in excess of a light sail. Its speed from outside the solar system suggests that it is much like a stationary buoy in the galaxy and the solar system moved past it in its corkscrew orbit around our galaxy. He also noticed it was flat and not cigar shaped as first assumed.
It is our own Navy that has has incontravertibl evidence of intelligently controled craft beyond human capability.
Maybe what Avi explored was a craft, but its occcupants are either dead or gone.

In you mind you have capacities, you know
To telepath messages through the vast unknown
Please close your eyes and concentrate
With every thought you think
Upon the recitation we're about to sing

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft

You've been observing our Earth
And we'd like to make
A contact with you

We are your friends

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, ultra emissaries

We've been observing your Earth
And one night we'll make
A contact with you

We are your friends

Calling occupants of interplanetary, quite extraordinary craft

And please come in peace, we beseech you
Only our love we will teach them
Our Earth may never survive
So do come, we beg you

Please, interstellar policeman
Oh won't you give us a sign
Give us a sign
That we've reached you

Oh do

With your mind you have ability to form
And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm
You close your eyes, you concentrate
Together, that's the way
To send the message we declare World Contact Day

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Calling occupants of interplanetary, most extraordinary craft

Calling occupants
Calling occupants
Calling occupants of interplanetary, anti-adversary craft

We'd like to make a contact with you
now that we've reached each other
By the way please wear a mask and gloves

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 06:43 PM

Anyone know of a good, brute force, password cracker for Windows 10?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 06:57 AM

If you have a stolen Capitol laptop thats not the way to go

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 11:13 AM

"CallMicrosoftCustomerSupport"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 08:49 PM

Well, on February 4 at 11:00 am MST and 11:15 am MST my wife and I will be injected with the Moderna vaccine for COVD-19 immunity. This took a LOT of doing, as Idaho is getting about half of the quantity of vaccine that is needed.

So much for being a "red state."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 08:28 PM

Yesterday I did a computer needs analysis for a local nonprofit. Haven't done one of those is 20 years!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 08:37 PM

Maryland is a blue state. hmmm

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 08:24 AM

In science fiction, the diet of extraterrestrials is an interesting mix of energy absorbtion. Usually it is simply just us but there are the proposed symbiotic relationships with bacteria that has radiation as the primary energy source. However from an engineering point of veiw the actual needs and transfer of energy should be'question one' to be answered.
So do they eat and if so what? radiation, Strawberry ice cream, animal mutillations, twinkys, chemical reactions or atomic? I wonder what a real alien schmeer would look like.

Would a shared banquet be unifying or a surprising disgusting event?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:12 PM

In an octpus' garden in the shade


I'd rather be
a deputy
of Biden than a prisoner
of the trump
Joe lets us in
Knows where we've been
In his empathy and truth
From DC
I'd ask my friends
To come and see
A Senate passing good laws
With me
I'd like to be
happy and free
With a Biden's White House
In the shade
We would be warm
Below the storm
In our little happy home
where we live
Singing out loud
and feeling so proud
In a democratic land
Near the sea
We would sing
And could bring
Equality
to share the joy of life
I'd like to be
a deputy of Biden than a prisoner
of trump's autocracy
We would shout
And swim about
the the lakes and clean shores
Of our seas

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:46 PM

What was the outcome, Rap? Do they need computers?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 09:21 PM

They need one new all-in-one (because of space problems and the person hates laptops). That person is a nun, so if she hates something I assume she means it. They also need a new copy/scan/fax/etc. printer as the current one is trashed from use. The computer, by the way, is running Windows 8.1 from 2013 and I couldn't upgrade it to Win10. The other computer is fine, running Win10 1952.

I've recommended this one for the nun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 08:52 AM

A practical use for MOAB is perhaps the most successful mutation of this ancient thread yet. I believe I tried all the failed varients.
Thanks for all the fish.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 11:14 AM

Out of curiosity I took a look. MOM is still out for repairs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 06:58 PM

FRECKLES' ADVICE
©Baxter Black

Though Freckles is an angel now, he ain't forgot his friends.
He drops to earth and hangs around behind the buckin' pens.
He pulls a rope or just makes sure a rider gets bucked free.
So I took it as an honor, the day he spoke to me...

"I saw you ride your bull today. You sure did yourself proud.
You had him by the short hairs, I could feel it in the crowd!"
"I really should be thankful that I even stayed aboard.
You could'a done it better, Freckles...I'm lucky that I scored!"

"Hey don't be puttin' yourself down! You know you did okay.
The time will come when you look back and hunger for today
When everything was workin' right and judges liked your style,
Your joints were smooth, your belly flat and girls liked your smile.

"Cause in between the best you rode and the last one that you'll try
You'll face your own mortality and look it in the eye.
There ain't no shame admittin' you ain't what you used to be,
The shame is blamin' Lady Luck when Father Time's the key!

So if they know you came to ride and always did your best
Then hang your ol' spurs up with pride, 'cause that's the acid test
And, say some gunsel offers you a 'Geritol on Ice,'
Just grin 'im down, 'cause you don't have to ride Tornado twice!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 21 - 06:07 PM

Must I do it all? I just rescued Mom from oblivion! This is why I'm her favorite.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Feb 21 - 11:53 PM

If Max had let Chongo register there would be more activity here, that is certain.

Rap, I think the sheet of ice from the northern tier has slipped free from it's moorings and is headed this way. MOM brought her stack of books from the table on the screened in porch into the den. And said something about finding the right proof hot cocoa. I wonder what she spikes it with?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 10:30 AM

I think the duckdog has been playing with the jet stream. It wobbled way south this week - I had to get out the down comforter.


QUARK, anyone?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: GUEST, Galactic Overlord
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 08:27 AM

HOW DARE YOU, YOU PUNY CREATURES!

This abomination, this putrid pile, you call the your defense forces has DARED to fire beams of pure energy at MY forces! Four at once, making it much harder to to protect again them!

I WILL DESTROY YOU AND MAKE YOU ALL MY SLAVES!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 09:09 AM

I believe the GO is ranting about the latest in the Legion's Terran Defensive Shield Line Of Defense (LTDSLOD). The special topaz/neon mauler beams (T/NMB) vaporize 'most everything in a tiny, eensy-weensy fraction of a nanosecond (TEWFOANSEC).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 11:20 PM

Damn! Amos would love to see this news, and I bet he would have predicted a pair of muons would be at the middle of it: Scientists find first evidence of rare Higgs boson decay

This work provides evidence for something scientists predicted long ago.

Scientists have spotted the first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay, expanding our understanding of the strange quantum universe.

In 2012, scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland won a Nobel Prize in Physics with a breakthrough finding: they detected the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle predicted by the Standard Model of physics nearly 50 years prior. The Higgs boson doesn't live very long, quickly decaying into smaller particles like two photons (light particles).

Now, researchers using ATLAS and CMS have found evidence for a rare Higgs boson decay in which the subatomic particle decays into one photon and two leptons, a type of elementary particle that can be charged or neutral. (Electrons and muons, a similar type of subatomic particle, are two examples of charged leptons.) Specifically, they found evidence that the Higgs boson can decay into either a photon and a pair of electrons, or a photon and a pair of muons with opposite charge.

(There's more, follow the link.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 21 - 09:54 PM

I shall, but only after a good night's sleep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 09:43 PM

No, Rapparee ought not have to do all the heavy lifting around here.
Back up you go, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 10:43 PM

In the last couple of weeks I've hanged better than 30 people (all male). I have a few more to go, but one will die in prison. I'll be happy when I get over this habit!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 09:00 AM

The Higgs boson is the quantum manifestation of the Higgs field, which gives mass to elementary particles it interacts with, via the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. By measuring the rate at which the Higgs boson decays into different particles, physicists can infer the strength of their interaction with the Higgs field!: the higher the rate of decay into a given particle, the stronger its interaction with the field. So far, the ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed the Higgs boson decays into different types of bosons such as W and Z, and heavier fermions such as tau leptons. The interaction with the heaviest quarks, the top and bottom, was measured in 2018. Muons are much lighter in comparison and their interaction with the Higgs field is weaker. Interactions between the Higgs boson and muons had, therefore, not previously been seen at the LHC at Cern. There is symmetry theory speculation that as many as 8 different types of bosons exist which to my way of thinking may include bosons that give dark matter gravitational mass and is composed of 'technicolor' fundamental particles. Technicolor models do not generically predict Higgs-like bosons as light as 125 GeV/c2; such a particle was discovered by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 and 2014. Some of these issues can be addressed with a class of theories known as “walking technicolor”. https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/testing-technicolor-physics

If gravity is an emergent force from other interactions and is not a fundamental force it makes the role that bosons play even more mysterious/complex for me. I'm hoping it gets simpler but it shows how we haven't solved the really big questions    yet.
It is as though we have found jigsaw puzzle pieces that form most of the border of a picture but not the picture itself.

Maybe the God particle gave Amos comfort. The decay of a Higgs boson is only proof nothing lasts forever, except maybe entropy.
PS: grumpiness is the new happiness

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 10:46 AM

Rapparee,
is this hanging business an Imperial matter?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 11:37 AM

MOM is back from the deep freeze, and the main thing she complained bitterly about was the cold toilet seat. I told her if she'd stop drinking all of that beer she wouldn't have to go so often, but she persisted.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 10:27 PM

I try to be hopefully right for the left.
I see those hopelessly white and adrift.
Whenever a problem lasts forever and ever
I think its more than being right and wronged.
Its like singing in tune but the wrong song.

Gone are the Hobbits, Tasmanians and long lost tribes
Gone are Neanderthals except those who managed to hide.
The murder goes on with rocks to triggers and buttons.
The killing's not for food or other solutions
Its not always for land, water or evolution.

It is now over pigment and a few facial features
The killing goes on by men unlike creatures.
It starts with a lie that grows into fear
The cult to kill is proud and is here
They take an oath and drink a beer.

It may be a home of the brave
but I see those who live in fear.
They are the ones
who need lots
of guns

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 10:50 PM

I've hanged my last victim. Hanged him in Malad, Idaho. I also blew up former Governor Frank Steuenenberg. I'm all set for my class on Monday, assuming I can edit the number of slides down to a manageable size -- there's currently 76, which is too many for a 90 minute program.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 09:37 AM

That is like a scene straight out of Hannibal where he did a slide show on hanging, self destruction and death for the Rome library society.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 07:30 PM

UP to the top of the queue, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 10:28 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnd the class presentation is all but done. Tweaking and touch-up now!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 09:37 AM

MOM thinks that this event is proof of how old Gluon is: Pole flipping event

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 21 - 10:22 PM

Stilly, I read something about that hypothesis somewhere else perhaps a year ago. I'll try to find it.

In the work I've done in the last couple weeks a grand total o 95 people died. I can add more but that's enough right now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 02:28 PM

Our pole is flipping 'out' over the last 20 years. Its overdue like a yellowstone eruption or a ELE astroid.
Pole reversal traces are also left in lava.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 03:23 PM

evidence of actual pole flipping

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 05:04 PM

My hobby is asking unusual questions. I got trapped inside the nexus of total unity a couple weeks ago and had to backtrack my way out. It all started with a simple golden mean and avogadros number musing. I asked what would the golden mean sound like as a musical chord. I discovered that many have applied avogadros number in rhythm but not in harmony. As in pi an Archimedian curve/spiral is created by prime numbers. This was related to structure in spiral galaxies as well as the spral twist in DNA. Now I am starting to get lost which is normally OK but when I started to build the golden chord of the universe the frequencies rapidly became too high so reducing their octaves was necessary. It turned out that 8 was not the ideal octave number but it was 6, 44 and so on as related by primes +1 in pi! visible math By this time I was sure I have drifted off course.

The result sounds a bit like the biggest chord in Bach's Toccota in D minor. Since the universe is tuned to a mega deep B flat I had to transpose further. To make it sound more musical I sequenced each tone of the spiral of pi go up while another sequence spirals down. The sound was so mesmerizing I decided to make a scaled down I, IV and V versions.
Now the original golden mean chord was nearly lost since I contrasted the classic chord with the sprial pi prime number of frquencies with the six scale note octave and a pulsation of sound so unique yet appealing was created. Its effect was as surprising as Lux Aeterna. So it seems others have walked this path before me. = Weeks later what has stayed with me is that Bach was onto something 400 years ago perhaps with the help of a mathmatician.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 09:40 PM

Mom, it was worth it to kill off 95 or 96 people, depending on how you count them! Attendees seemed to enjoy it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 10:56 PM

I knew you'd be posting something about a caber. My dogs are experts in handling big sticks (not quite as large as those, but to hear them tell the story, they think the sticks they drag around are pretty damned impressive. I just wish they wouldn't drag them through the dog door and chew them in the house.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 09:24 AM

In truth Western music already obeys PHI from the get go.
this link simply puts the golden mean in its obvious perspective
https://www.goldennumber.net/music/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 03:24 PM

The manipulation of other people's future social media posts is called 'second banana baiting'. Its similar to lobbing soft balls and is as simple as T ball but the most sophisticated versions are used by Congessman, lawyers and psychologists. Advanced second banana baiting can be undetectable. It can be used for good/funny or evil/deadly as evidenced in trump's last rally.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 04:32 PM

As for white supremacists and Nazis, they're not so wicked. They just want to mess with us a little, have a few laughs, you know shake us up. They won't be too hard on democracy, just drown our cage a little bit, rattle our chains, bust our balls, you know have a few kicks.
Burn a few of us, hang a half dozen, destroy somthing symbolic, form a new Confederate nation. small shit like that.
Q may not have been right about all Democrats but they seem to be spot on about Woody Allen. What Confederates want is slavery and reparations to pay owners back for all the $ they lost when slaves were virtually freed. In todays money a slave cost as much as a base Mercedes.
The new Republicans can still be the S Law ghter and Oder party with a little deficit spender masters of the Universe thrown in whether Trump is alive or brain dead. The real heroic legacy will belong to Rush Limbaugh and his 40 year career in preparation

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 21 - 06:26 PM

...for the fake reality TV star Fuhrer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 07:04 PM

For the first time ever KIA has made a SUV model. In fact the roll over by Tiger Woods was in a 2020 KIA suv.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 09:01 PM

Hi, Mom! It's your fave rave to here to lift you up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 09:06 PM

Where's the post about a caber?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Feb 21 - 06:21 PM

I thought a caber WAS a post.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Feb 21 - 12:43 PM

"... My parents approached Mrs. Nelson [to baby-sit me],
Our dear old next-door neighbour,
Who'd never [baby-]sat, but longed to have a try;

I tossed her umb-erella like a caber!
Mrs. Nelson can't go sitting with one eye ... "


by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann ,
before At the Drop of a Hat,
1950's West End Revue songwriting

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 21 - 05:59 PM

Nature has an imagination greater than its secondary life forms. To Nature life is but a thin film that requires special circumstances in certain regions. We share special inadequacies with the galactic overlords which merely have an extra billion years in their evolutionary bag of tricks that originated in a more temperate Red Star system than ours. The inadequacies the overlords are now experiencing is a bit like what we see in a polarized America. Overlord Rogues who couldn't care less about the prime directive and who have lost the techniques of planetary engineering are now in charge. A life spreading ideology is being replaced by an unsympathetic ambivilance and a future without empathy. Most say it a cost thing but the rot goes deeper. This solar system had the hand of the overlords involved in seeding life on Mars, Earth and Venus. As you know life gardening needs a stabilizing moon that only suceeded once on Earth but destroyed Mars and Venus as prospects for bio engineering. The failures arose by causing a collision with the planets with misguided moons. The moons are needed because the planets would tumble and have no reliable seasons with everchanging polar regions without a moon.. Admitedly guiding huge astroids into stable orbits are tricky things to do but now the overlords don't even try. These kids of the original overlords have had it tough and have gone through a period of cruelty much the same as a trump adminisration on Earth.

I just thought I'd warn a priviledged few to not expect any extraordinary help from the overlords anymore. Only Nature has an imagination vast enough over unimaginable time to save, not mankind, but life itself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 21 - 09:26 PM

I suspect that life is like the film of bacteria found in Yellowstone's fumaroles and hot pots.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 08:20 AM

Extremofiles to humans beings are not extrmeophiles to Nature. Even the Overlords of antiquity are extremophiles compared to us. The thing is that the O's are now dumbed down and are suffring from a condition I call PSYCHOLOGICAL ENTROPY.

Jung, writing in the first half of the twentieth century, had no recourse to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and had to apply classical thermodynamic theory to the dynamic, self-organizing system of the psyche, which it is not able to model. He did the best he could, Capra argues, with the limited understanding that was available.
We have seen how science shapes socicietal in good nd bad ways. In the 20th century 'survival of the fittest' caused much fascist harm. Now the Higgs can do some unifying good in society.
We should move beyong Jung since science has moved beyond where we were.
Abraham Maslow’s assertion that neurosis is, at root, the rejection of novelty, i.e. the unknown. This would mean that ‘laziness’ (in Scott Peck’s particular usage of the word) corresponds to neurosis, or ‘sticking to the known,’ which is an idea that we will discuss in more detail as we go along. Within the mainstream of contemporary psychological thinking, however, there is no place for concepts such as mental entropy (it is quite out of fashion) and as a result we are in the curious position of trying to describe mental functioning without admitting the existence of any law of energetics. Rather than looking into the possibility that the psychic domain may be subject to universal laws in the same way that the physical domain is subject to, say, the law of gravitation, it seems that we want to see everything that goes on in the mind as being due to conditioned laws only. Conditioned laws are rules that are arbitrarily set up, much like the law that prohibits driving a car when under the influence of alcohol; they include behavioural drives on the one hand, such as hunger, sex and aggression, and the adaptive pressure to problem-solve on the other hand, which is to say, the pressure to learn efficient ways of interacting with our environment so that we can survive and reproduce as successfully as possible within it. Both biological drives and ‘environmental selection on the basis of reproductive performance’ come down to evolution in the end of course, and it is evolutionary psychology that makes the major claim on our attention at the present moment. That this is generally considered to be ‘the way to go’ is clearly demonstrated by our interest in such endeavours as the Human Genome Project, and the popularity of academics such as Daniel Dennett and Steven Pinker, who have (separately) articulated the principles of evolutionary psychology in a number of high profile books.
The lpss of novelty in humans is an entropy that has serious aspects of pschological Entropy as it is for overlords.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 08:50 AM

I am using novelty in a way that is not entertainmnt. We can entertain ourselves to death but novelty is a much bigger paradigm shaking event and thinking process. I have seen glimpses of novelty in MOAB over the years while it is mostly absent in the rest of threads.


Yet, this pre-occupation with ‘game’ rules (for this is what evolutionary psychology comes down to) is manifestation of a curious and unacknowledged one-sidedness. Physics, as we all know, is a search for fundamental laws, laws that apply across the board, laws that are intrinsic to the nature of the universe itself. Why do we assume that there are no such equivalent laws to be found in psychology? As we have just said, contemporary psychology thinks only in terms of extrinsic laws, i.e. rules that are arbitrarily imposed. One reason that immediately comes to mind is that we do not see mind / consciousness as being fundamental in the same way that we see matter as being. We are, as professor of physics Amit Goswami (1993) says, confirmed material realists – we believe that only matter is real. BULLSHIT without the Higgs there is no matter/masss. This, of course, is a pretty big assumption on our part, although the fact of the matter is that we are now so caught up in this assumption that we don’t actually see it as such; the truth of the matter (pun intended) is that we have chosen to go down this road a long time ago, and we certainly aren’t showing any signs of wanting to question that choice now. Our predisposition to see the universe we live in this way leads to some rather peculiar, if not down-right contradictory conclusions, however. The inevitable conclusion of material realism is that the only meaning to be found in life is that meaning which is conditioned by natural selection, i.e. we only find stuff meaningful because it suits the game of ‘survival of the fittest’ that we do. Philosophically, this is the same as saying that, in the final analysis, everything is meaningless, which is in keeping with the important Western tradition of philosophical pessimism. The problem with this conclusion has been pointed out quite often, however: if everything is meaningless, then so too is our assertion that ‘everything is meaningless’ meaningless; it is a null-statement. We think that when we make this statement we are saying something meaningful, but if that meaningfulness is ‘meaningful’ only because of the way in which the arbitrary rules of natural selection have caused our brains to be designed, then it is not meaningful at all, in any real sense of the word. If such is the case, then it is inescapable that anything we say must be tautological, i.e. incapable of referring to anything outside itself. This notion of ‘tautological meaning’ is, as we shall shortly see, central to our understanding of psychological entropy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 09:27 AM

Entropy, therefore, is FORGETTINH , it is loss of consciousness: it is when we forget who we are and wrongly identify ourselves with a false (or game-playing) self.BBB       Being one of the boys replaces our innate uniquness. The reverse of entropy is consciousness, or ‘self-remembering’ – which is when we see through the game and remember what we forgot. Esoteric psychology has long acknowledged this principle of Self-forgetting, which lies behind so much of what we do. When we do not acknowledge this principle, then everything we do tends to become part of the on-going endeavour to avoid the truth, and even love itself ends up as a means of forgetting. Love ought to wake us up, but it slides over imperceptibly into sentimentality, attachment and pain.
FORGETTING ALLOWS LIES TO LIVE and stalls invention and discovery..........

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 09:31 AM

If Einstein became concerned about how many likes he had on Twitter we would have no General or special relativity.
BE YOURSELF

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 01:38 PM

Do not attribute to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 03:49 PM

I think the overlords have grown stupid. Stupidity leads to villany.

Ever since I was struck by a lightening field (not grounded) its been getting harder to turn down the volume.

Known Knowns &
Unknown unknowns:

A painting of a man in a suit upon a mountain has more sky than there is horizon or rivers below.
I am the man in a suit and begin to walk down the apex where there was infinite perspective.
As I move down away from this apex, the degree of perspective rapidly drops away.
As I half stumble and climb down the mountainside I end up in an ever-deepening valley.
The walls on each side rise up higher and higher, cutting off other routes.
At the top I could see in all directions and horizons went hundreds of miles or more.
At the bottom, I had no more freedom, I was irrevocably tied to my my feet on a path.

Underground in my minds eye a tunnel of infinite length and full of capillary caves
Every split is infinite, and there are infinite numbers of them yet I see only 1 at a time.
To gaze at one is to be trapped by it, to explore one crack or branch is ignoring others
This reality is as an endless array of possible views none of which are essentially the whole.

and each excludes
awareness of others.

The only essential truth is the truth of the tunnel, which contains all the side tracks,
If I could see all the separate caves, then I could see if some of them make a fractal
From mountain top to underground I see that with my human eyes most information is lost.
I need new eyes beyond the sky and space and time to see the overwhelming truth.
I think I may be envious of the eyes of God as my human eyes begin to fail and go blind.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 07:20 PM

Don't meddle with old unloaded firearms. They are the most deadly and unerring things that have ever been created by man. You don't have to take any pains at all with them; you don't have to have a rest, you don't have to have any sights on the gun, you don't have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him. A youth who can't hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three-quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his mother every time at a hundred. Think what Waterloo would have been if one of the armies had been boys armed with old rusty muskets supposed not to be loaded, and the other army had been composed of their female relations. The very thought of it makes me shudder.

- Sam Clemens, "Advice to Youth speech," 4/15/1882

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 07:43 PM

MOM, it's time to move on up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 09:41 PM

Don't meddle with weaponizing the common cold.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 09:56 PM

MY colds are NOT common. Why, the very idea!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 11:49 PM

MOM, it's March. The Lion was already here, in mid-February, so who knows what kind of nonsense this month is going to get up to. Maybe Gluon can blow on things to keep them warm if another cold front threatens. Stir up that jet stream.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Mar 21 - 08:27 PM

Mom, I can't see very well. The Zoom meeting I'm running in 35 minutes should be a real joy. No, no, I had an ophthalmologist appointment late this afternoon and my eyes are dilated. NO! I am NOT "drunk again!"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 03:23 PM

Pompei in Icelandic is Reykjane or 'newpompee' in Hopi,
Idaho is Iceland in Algonquin and Washington is Wankerton in Donualese.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 09:42 PM

MOM!! I have sobered up dropped off my new glasses prescription to the optometrist this morning.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 06:39 AM

I had an unusual bout of the old migraine aura displays.
Will the capitol of Iceland (hard to spell) become the new Pompei?
https://www.severe-weather.eu/news/iceland-earthquake-swarm-reykjanes-eruption-fa/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 07:27 PM

Its not just Iceland,
Today: 8.1 magnitude earthquake near 'Ohonua, ?Eua, Tonga.
Today: 6.1 magnitude earthquake near Sola, Torba, Vanuatu.
Today: 7.3 magnitude earthquake near Gisborne, New Zealand.
Yesterday: 6.3 magnitude earthquake near Týrnavos, Thessaly, Greece.
What does this have to do with my eyes?Not damn thing except coincidence.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 08:23 PM

Gaia is pissed off with us.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 08:58 PM

I just found this when my browser opened MC.

Quark!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 06:09 AM

I guess I am am pro Neanderthal which is now claimed by the right wing but I am not a anti Neanderthal leftist which makes me ... a bi partisan but not a bi transgender Mr.Poato Head???

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 06:36 AM

Ironicly this MOAB annex is in the civil war years.
For years the Idaho potato farmers quietly dug transgender potatos for Americans to eat but 5th Ave has essentially outed the transgender potato and is radicalizing the Idaho Potato farmer. Potato Futures are in disarray. Brexit has depressed potato exports and Ireland and China are the clear winners in this transgender Potato war of our own making.
There is a call to arms, legs and lips among Potatohead Patriots.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 02:26 PM

The electtro dynamic dipole moment to shield the Higgs field is anomolous due to its value being variably over 2 (2.00016537 .oooo1)
As simple as a magnet, the Higgs shield flows from south pole to north allowing mass to travel at the speed of light. Our current attempts only work on mass ass big as several million atoms at a time but still visible to the human eye a couple microns accross. To scale up as large as a space craft a launch from empty space or a moon without an atmosphere would be necesssary.
However what makes it anomolous is that over a 8 light year trip to a nearby star we could navigationally be off by almost a month.
Two pesky gluons are gumming up the scle up process but its good to se what Prof. Higgs was up to from the start. https://nationalpost.com/news/higgs-boson-find-could-make-light-speed-travel-possible-scientists-hope

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 07:56 PM

There is a Higgs in the family (married name of my dad's first cousin.) I've always wondered if there is a connection.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 08:39 PM

Was his dad named Bo, making him a Higg, Bo's son?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 01:08 PM

Ohh arrrgh. That took me a second, which is a lifetime for an android.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 21 - 09:01 PM

Mom, I'll skip the next bout of hypoglycemia.

I'll be pall bearing tomorrow morning. Let me know if you need any tips on that job.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 11:47 AM

As seen on TV pall bearer back straps can enable just two people to bear up to 500 lbs. Does 2 straps on each person allow 2 people to lift 1,000 lbs?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 08:59 PM

Mom, do you remember when my brother was a grave digger? That was back in the '60s and like, he DUG graves! He'd go to all the cemeteries in town and was as graves were excavated, telling the workers, "Man, like, I DIG graves, ya know."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 21 - 10:35 PM

He took over the job of making tombstones from me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Mar 21 - 10:40 PM

A sad note in the world of puns and BS: Norton Juster has passed away. His Phantom Tollbooth was such a great book for kids and parents alike and we read aloud a couple of times.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 08:28 AM

Thank god Norton Juster and Jules Fieffer met.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 09:43 AM

Could Queen Calafia's mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space cloud echoes the outline of the state of California, USA. Our Sun has its home within the Milky Way's Orion Arm, only about 1,000 light-years from the California Nebula. Also known as NGC 1499, the classic emission nebula is around 100 light-years long. On the featured image, the most prominent glow of the California Nebula is the red light characteristic of hydrogen atoms recombining with long lost electrons, stripped away (ionized) by energetic starlight. The star most likely providing the energetic starlight that ionizes much of the nebular gas is the bright, hot, bluish Xi Persei just to the right of the nebula. A regular target for astrophotographers, the California Nebula can be spotted with a wide-field telescope under a dark sky toward the constellation of Perseus, not far from the Pleiades. CALIFORNIA on FIRE

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 12:09 PM

Nice one, Don! I have a file in my photo directory that is large images I let rotate on my screen saver (before the computer goes to sleep). I've added that one to it. NASA has lovely large images that lend themselves well to the desktop image (I have a black background and the photo that appears on both monitor screens is the rover track on Mars taken several years ago.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 08:39 PM

There was a book about a haunted exit on the Pennsylvania Turnpike called The Tollbooth Phantom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Mar 21 - 08:44 AM

I created a very odd toll booth on the Massachuseetts Turnpike. One winter I managed a Mafioso Pizzaria. Sometimes we had left over orders at the end of the night. The most extra pizzas numbered over 30. I would would pass them on to the toll booth attendant who in turn would pass them on to people with kids who seemed hungry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Mar 21 - 12:29 PM

2019
I used to think maybe you loved me
Now, baby, I'm not sure
And I just can't wait 'til the day
When you knock on my door
Now every time I go for my phone
Gotta hold myself down
'Cause I just can't wait 'til you text me
You're coming here soon
Now I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine woe-oh
I'm walking on sunshine
And it's starting to feel good, hey
All right now
And it's starting to feel right
2020
I used to think maybe you hate me
Now I know that it's true
Gov'ners decide whose naughty or white
I'm waiting for a vaccine
Now I don't want to move down south
Not for a day, I'm down in the mouth
Red or blue I don't want the flu
I'm livin in lockdown
I'm livin in lockdown woe oh
I'm livin in lockdown
And it's starting to feel good, hey?
I did an all nighter livin in the kichen
or in one dark dirty room
waitin for for the next god damn zoom
I'm livin in lockdown...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Mar 21 - 11:57 AM

MOM, gotta clean up this house. It's beginning to look like small groups of other vaccinated people might be able to come indoors. If they see the house the way it is now they'll head straight back out to the yard.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Mar 21 - 04:23 PM

There is a very important film that centers on a subject that has had an effect on everyone their entite life. It deserves a thread of its own but ther is no democratic free access. I rebelled against peronality tests written by middle age white guys used for employment. I have always refused to even take them, even for the US government.
The great white supreamist knee on your neck

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Mar 21 - 08:38 PM

Mom! Tomorrow, for the first time since September! I'm going out to shoot cowboys! The weather is supposed to be nice enough, the roads are okay, I don't have anything else on the schedule, I don't have any medical problems at the moment -- nihil obstat as we used to say! Shall I save you a piece after we barbecue 'em?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 21 - 09:51 PM

Glad you're back in fighting trim, Rapparee . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 21 - 08:10 AM

R U BACK 2

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 21 - 09:43 PM

Aaaaand...my revolver lost a part at the unloading table and I had to stop, leave the match, and take it to a gunsmith. It was an easy fix, but working with a tiny screw on an outdoor table sitting on gravel isn't good for one's mechanical abilities, especially when one doesn't have the necessary tools. I wasn't charged anything, as it was a small screwdriver & loctite job (possibly a red one, not blue).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 21 - 09:47 AM

Nice neihbors Rap

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 11:25 AM

My next book is the 'The Second Term of Trump'
For example in July 2021; In past tense..
To even the score, his 453rd executive order was against the women who participated in the Women's March by disallowing women to wear clothes indoors, revolk all funds women held into trusts managed by men and make all female employment illegal except for those with special Presidential dispensation from the FDA. female dispensation administration.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 11:37 AM

Predictably the rules of acquisition legislation was not until the following year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 01:10 PM

I'm reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck. I should have read it years ago (published 2016). It is particularly interesting in the time of COVID when a lot of people have learned some of this stuff on their own (dressing for comfort, not for style, stop with the makeup, not doing as many things like hair color, fancy nails, etc. - basically, don't give a fuck about fashion) and just living in their bodies and their homes comfortably.

It should have been required reading before I retired, when the new dean came in; maybe a lot of us would have figured out how to dismiss her BS without raising blood pressure over her nonsense. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 05:25 PM

The liberation from useless habits is glorius. Those who advocate or demand others to adopt their habits be it fashion, face paint or nose rings are an annoying breed.

"Boy the doctors and schools were really upset when we deformed our infant son's skull with cranial binding so we stopped halfway through.
Young Tut now says he is glad we did."
Quote Pharoh Akenaton. :^]

Habits and wierd traditions are invisible to most of us

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 12:14 AM

I got the book full of exploded diagrams of vintage sewing machines, along with a lot of descriptions of how to fix various problems they develop. I can see why it's in such demand. Thank goodness for ILL.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 07:08 PM

MOM, on the other hand, cleaned out the sun porch after finding exploded canned goods she left out there during the freeze. This didn't happen at my house just at MOM's, and I imagine she heard the explosions when they happened.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 09:19 PM

Then, on Sunday last, our in-home network up and died dead. Yup, the router (18 months or so old!) kicked the bucket. So I ordered one from Costco and paid $12.25 for "expedited shipping" with an arrival on the 16th.

Nope. UPS delivered it today. Seems like there were storms in Wyoming that were delaying shipments. Mind you, this was coming from Tacoma....

I'm going to ask for the additional shipping cost back.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 01:32 PM

Fry's Electronics shut down all of it's stores around the US - if you want to shop for the corporeal version of BS, Fry's had it. The most oddball items in its inventory. But they also had a lot of modems and routers along one wall, and I will miss shopping there. For objects with no moving parts it's astonishing how quickly modems and routers die, isn't it? Planned obsolescence, illustrated.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 08:55 PM

So, not having CAT5 access to all four of the computers on the first floor I went out to buy a new 5-port switch (hub). It's installed and all is working as it should -- except Pat found another such in her magic supply closet. Oh well, the new one is 1 gig and the old one is 150 mbs. Now if I could just find those two hanks of CAT5 I remember having here in the office.... Mind you, we don't need any more CAT5, open or pinned out.

By the way, if anyone needs padlocks for firearms, let me know (they're actually pretty good locks -- Master, mostly, with cable-type shackles.) They are quite usable for anything you'd use a padlock for.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 21 - 08:57 PM

Oh, yeah! Mom, I found the old family sap/blackjack! I won't have to use the book weight anymore!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Mar 21 - 08:57 PM

We have power supplies for items that no longer exist. One of them is for a smoke signal generator, another is for solar panels. The others I can only guess at.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 21 - 09:02 PM

Sometimes I wonder about the old warrior who has no one to use his cache of weapons on. Then along comes the Donald...
So many new targets, so little time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 08:06 AM

Lurk lurk. Lurk lurk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 11:06 AM

Rap is off the hook. HBO reveals who their Q identity research has revealed.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/2522119/qanon-leader-q-revealed-ex-8chan-administrator-ron-watkins/
play the video.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 11:49 AM

My mother had a woven leather weighted thing that looks like a black jack. I can't imagine that my mother actually ever owned a black jack - are you telling me that these things work as book weights? Who knew!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 10:23 PM

A true book weight is a sort of mild figure 8 with weights on both ends. You use it to weigh down both sides of a book when it's open. My sap looks a lot like that except it's hard leather and only one side has a weight in it.

Book weight.

Sap, blackjack sap, slapjack.

My sap is only 8.5 inches long, and being flat works well as a book weight.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Mar 21 - 10:17 PM

1900!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 06:31 AM

I have a pair of leather nittens that are wieghted under the fingers.
What ever they are for, they are not fair.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 11:53 AM

I just received a note, it seems there is a Library song posted on that Mudcat Australia/NZ Songbook thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 09:55 PM

I put it out on loan. Fines are expensive.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 11:13 PM

I was watching one of those live feed cams of the Icelandic volcano, and I'd swear I saw Chongo and Gluon hanging out (together!) on one of the ridges near the caldera. Or were those plywood cut-outs placed there as a joke?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 08:33 AM

In science news the lab grown and transplanted vaginas may get all the headlines but the Leptoquarks at CERN are real enough to become electrons more often than muons, hinting a new force in the universe by a tri color Boson creating a field we have not expected or predicted like the Higgs. IMO there are 8 bosons for us to explore and find out what kinds of fields and forces that we have been missing. The dark matter may be expressed in other boson force fields, who knows even gravity could be undersstood. At any rate new forces are afoot Sherlock.
We are all floating about in a quantum sea and discovering new forces/currents in this sea is a big deal. When we find out, quantum mechanics might even make sense to humans. This may be bigger than the cosmological constant and the space energy that expands more space which in turn makes more space until one day... poof...the big RIP happens and matter and energy are reduced to a lower energy level by Entropy/Shiva.

No one expected the humble little lepto quark would be the mouse that roared.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 05:55 PM

doin the super https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHL8JEYZU9Y

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 05:58 PM

swagger

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 08:55 PM

Okay, MOM, let's head up to the top again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 10:18 PM

MOM! That damn duckdog just roygbived all over my CPU!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 06:26 AM

Toss duckdog a spew cookies for me..
Should we throw upa few keyboards for ya.
You could call up Chuck used keyboards/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 10:27 AM

Nice to see you lurking, gnu.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 10:39 AM

Almost every year in this area someone finds some unexploded civil war ordinance but in Germany its a different story

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 03:41 PM

The mythical Odderon is real! GLUONS go WILD

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 10:11 PM

In a wildfire here a couple years ago some firefighters wondered what these things that looked like footballs attached to broomsticks were. They asked a friend local cop, who called EOD at Mountain Home AFB.

Not RPGs, no. Half a dozen
Panzerfausts from WWII. Probably brought to the old Bomber Training Base here to see how well they worked, and then abandoned in the hills.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 21 - 02:35 PM

The old Pocatello Bomber Training Base not only gave this town magnificent runways at the local airport, but UXO 500 pound bombs in the hills and Arco Desert. It's uncommon, but you can be driving out by the Idaho National Laboratory and during heat waves watch one of those pop off in the distance. The roadway the nuclear waste sites have been mostly cleared.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Mar 21 - 10:15 AM

40 miles away.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Mar 21 - 10:35 AM

You are in in Hanson territory for sure.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Mar 21 - 09:48 PM

Yes, Hanson sells janitorial and cleaning supplies here in town.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Mar 21 - 11:45 PM

There was an old air field west of here, now west of where a earthen dam was built. I think it was just a take-off and landing air field, not a blow up the area training field, or the dam might not be as sound as they hoped for.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Mar 21 - 01:20 PM

Deadly Cooties

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Mar 21 - 05:06 PM

UB dicovered a drug that enhances remyliniation
In other words MS has a good treatment.
They first found the receptor...
A side note is that pancreatic factors also aid in remylineation.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 09:52 AM

Noting a nice photo posted yesterday by BWL on the sad anniversary. And as noted, "enough said."

It seems the most recent ex-president is trying to sprout some of his own social media platforms to spew bile at the world. That kind of toxic BS requires containment. Here's hoping a few hackers set a goal to keep him shuttered, so the MOMs of the world can breathe freely.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 09:26 PM

From the Digitrad:

THE YEW TREE
(Brian McNeill)

cho: My bonnie yew tree
Tell me what did you see

A mile frae Pentcaitland, on the road to the sea
Stands a yew tree a thousand years old
And the old women swear by the grey o' their hair
That it knows what the future will hold
For the shadows of Scotland stand round it
'Mid the kail and the corn and the kye
All the hopes and the fears of a thousand long years
Under the Lothian sky

Did you look through the haze o' the lang summer days
Tae the South and the far English border
A' the bonnets o' steel on Flodden's far field
Did they march by your side in good order
Did you ask them the price o' their glory
When you heard the great slaughter begin
For the dust o' their bones would rise up from the stones
To bring tears to the eyes o' the wind

Not once did you speak for the poor and the weak
When the moss-troopers lay in your shade
To count out the plunder and hide frae the thunder
And share out the spoils o' their raid
But you saw the smiles o' the gentry
And the laughter of lords at their gains
When the poor hunt the poor across mountain and moor
The rich man can keep them in chains

Did you no' think tae tell when John Knox himsel'
Preached under your branches sae black
To the poor common folk who would lift up the yoke
O' the bishops and priests frae their backs
But you knew the bargain he sold them
And freedom was only one part
For the price o' their souls was a gospel sae cold
It would freeze up the joy in their hearts

And I thought as I stood and laid hands on your wood
That it might be a kindness to fell you
One kiss o' the axe and you're freed frae the racks
O' the sad bloody tales that men tell you
But a wee bird flew out from your branches
And sang out as never before
And the words o' the song were a thousand years long
And to learn them's a long thousand more

Last chorus:
My bonnie yew tree
Tell me what CAN you see

Sung.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Mar 21 - 09:52 PM

This literary achievement belongs, in heart and tone,
on the same thread with McGillivray and the other Muses.
It's actually a good piece of imitation H. P. Lovecraft,
meaning it's overheated and extremely humid and stuff.

The other place for it would be the cicada thread,
since it is about cicadas.

The author, Leigh Cowart, is listed as the Sex and Science editor
of the Not Safe For Work Corporation, or NSFWCORP.

Sex and Science: Call of Cicada

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 06:01 PM

The loudest insect in the UK also uses its penis for his advertisting purposes.

overlords may be microscopc AI

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 06:06 PM

Zero phase lag synchronization occurs between discharges of neurons in different brain regions and is enhanced by presentation of stimuli. This evidence further suggests that spatiotemporal patterns of coherence, which have been identified by spatial principal component analysis, may encode a multidimensional representation of a present or past event. How such distributed information is integrated into a holistic percept constitutes the binding problem. How a percept defined by a spatial distribution of nonrandomness can be subjectively experienced constitutes the problem of consciousness. Explanations based on a discrete connectionistic network cannot be reconciled with the relevant facts. Evidence is presented herein of invariant features of brain electrical activity found to change reversibly with loss and return of consciousness after drinking Jim Beam.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 21 - 09:03 PM

Jim Beam is only decent when mixed with Coca-Cola to kill the taste of the Jim Beam.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 10:00 AM

To put it another way, lingual papillae, and especially those with bifurcated varicosities, reject by reverse peristalsis Beam's formulation of psychoactive ethanol save when a component in a solution of carbonic acid (pH 3 to 4), a compound of the methylxanthine class; phosporic acid; sucrose;, oils of orange, lemon, cinnamon, coriander, nutmeg, and neroli blended in E150D caramel color, the whole cooled by cyrospheric water in a cylindrical 500 ml non-graduated Pyrex beaker at Standard Temperature and Pressure. Superabundance can lead to a primary conversion to acetaldehyde by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase and then to acetic acid by an oxidation and egestion process. These reactions also convert nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) to its reduced form NADH in a redox reaction, making normal bodily functions more difficult. By causing an imbalance of the NAD+/NADH redox system, and as a consequence of the induced redox changes in the human body can include increased triglyceride production, increased amino acid catabolism, inhibition of the citric acid cycle, lactic acidosis, ketoacidosis, hyperuricemia, disturbance in cortisol and androgen metabolism and increased fibrogenesis. The metabolism of glucose and insulin are also influenced.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 01:06 PM

Reversw peristalysi
Also known to cause; be sick
spew
spew up
fetch up
heave
retch
reach
gag
get sick
throw up
puke
chunder
chuck up
hurl
pray to the porcelain god
do the technicolor yawn
keck
ralph
honk
shoot the cat
vom
boke
barf
spit up
upchuck
blow chunks
toss one's cookies
go for the big spit
play the whale
yodel
perk
regorge
purge
brake
cascade
egurgitate
regurgitate
bring up
heave up
cough up
reject
lose
sick up
void
noun
sick
vomitus
ejecta
puke
spew
technicolor yawn
liquid laugh
pavement pizza
barf
upchuck
chunder
purge
and
parbreak

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 01:42 PM

Our atmosphere did not used to look sepia.
rocket launch and booster re entry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 21 - 09:20 PM

The longest we have ever stored anti matter is a sixth of a second which is not long enough to experiment with it. But that has changed with a pulsed laser that "cools down anti matter." It was conceived by a Canadian guy :^) If there are any differences as to how anti matter reacts to gravity or other things we can settle some truths. Physics loves to see the unexpected. When you get scanned with slowly released anti matter - positrons we can measure the light of the photons produced to take an internal picture of you. Perhaps you thought you had nothing to do with anti matter in your life, but it ain't so.
We can make anti hydrogen with an anti proton and a positron and even store it for an extended time compared to magnetic traps. Its as strange as a ghost busters ghost trap and has only been around very recently.
You won't be able to buy a gram of anti matter on Amazon for decades.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 05:15 PM

I meant to say McGonagall, not McGillivray ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 11:22 PM

Say very loud McGonagall around here and Little Hawk often turns up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 08:40 PM

Why did my last post not get posted? The Idaho nominee for the Supreme Board of Directors of and for the Idaho Legion has been nominated! For only the second time in 114 years someone from Idaho has been nominated, much less appointed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 09:38 PM

Ah, yes.....William Topaz McGonagall! The greatest poet of the Ages! It's time we heard some more from the Bard of Edinburgh.

List then to these magnificent verses that spilled from his pen in the year of our Lord 1883.

The Famous Tay Whale

'TWAS in the month of December, and in the year l883,
That a monster whale came to Dundee,
Resolved for a few days to sport and play,
And devour the small fishes in the silvery Tay.

So the monster whale did sport and play
Among the innocent little fishes in the beautiful Tay,
Until he was seen by some men one day,
And they resolved to catch him without delay.

When it came to be known a whale was seen in the Tay,
Some men began to talk and to say,
We must try and catch this monster of a whale,
So come on, brave boys, and never say fail.

Then the people together in crowds did run,
Resolved to capture the whale and to have some fun!
So small boats were launched on the silvery Tay,
While the monster of the deep did sport and play.

Oh! it was a most fearful and beautiful sight,
To see it lashing the water with its tail all its might,
And making the water ascend like a shower of hail,
With one lash of its ugly and mighty tail.

Then the water did descend on the men in the boats,
Which wet their trousers and also their coats;
But it only made them the more determined to catch the whale,
But the whale shook at them his tail.

Then the whale began to puff and to blow,
While the men and the boats after him did go,
Armed well with harpoons for the fray,
Which they fired at him without dismay.

And they laughed and grinned just like wild baboons,
While they fired at him their sharp harpoons:
But when struck with,the harpoons he dived below,
Which filled his pursuers' hearts with woe.

Because they guessed they had lost a prize,
Which caused the tears to well up in their eyes;
And in that their anticipations were only right,
Because he sped on to Stonehaven with all his might:

And was first seen by the crew of a Gourdon fishing boat
Which they thought was a big coble upturned afloat;
But when they drew near they saw it was a whale,
So they resolved to tow it ashore without fail.

So they got a rope from each boat tied round his tail,
And landed their burden at Stonehaven without fail;
And when the people saw it their voices they did raise,
Declaring that the brave fishermen deserved great praise.

And my opinion is that God sent the whale in time of need,
No matter what other people may think or what is their creed;
I know fishermen in general are often very poor,
And God in His goodness sent it drive poverty from their door.

So Mr John Wood has bought it for two hundred and twenty-six pound,
And has brought it to Dundee all safe and all sound;
Which measures 40 feet in length from the snout to the tail,
So I advise the people far and near to see it without fail.

Then hurrah! for the mighty monster whale,
Which has got 17 feet 4 inches from tip to tip of a tail!
Which can be seen for a sixpence or a shilling,
That is to say, if the people all are willing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 09:43 PM

Amazing, eh? I introduced Chongo to the work of William McGonagall awhile back. He read 2 or 3 of McGonagall's best known shorter works and burst into a fit of hooting and laughter which went on for some time. Then he said, "I'm bettin' this guy drank pretty heavy, huh?"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 09:59 PM

LH, that moves me to tears. Chonga, of course, would laugh at its own mother's funeral -- as was the case.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 07:47 AM

Where's Pandora
Explanation: Four moons are visible on the featured image -- can you find them all? First -- and farthest in the background -- is Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and one of the larger moons in the Solar System. The dark feature across the top of this perpetually cloudy world is the north polar hood. The next most obvious moon is bright Dione, visible in the foreground, complete with craters and long ice cliffs. Jutting in from the left are several of Saturn's expansive rings, including Saturn's A ring featuring the dark Encke Gap. On the far right, just outside the rings, is Pandora, a moon only 80-kilometers across that helps shepherd Saturn's F ring. The fourth moon? If you look closely inside Saturn's rings, in the Encke Gap, you will find a speck that is actually Pan. Although one of Saturn's smallest moons at 35-kilometers across, Pan is massive enough to help keep the Encke gap relatively free of ring particles. After more than a decade of exploration and discovery, the Cassini spacecraft ran low on fuel in 2017 and was directed to enter Saturn's atmosphere, where it either vaporized or became a new plot for a future Star Trek episode along side Vger.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2104/fourmoons_cassini_960.jpg
Where's Pan, Waldo?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 01:24 PM

Well, there you go.
McGonagall's Whale of a Tale/Tail had escaped my notice before.

It's easier to read, I must own, than the
Call of Cicada linked in my earlier post --
that one is pretty hard-core.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 02:00 PM

How old are your cells? By measuring the new Carbon 14 atoms in cells we have found your surface tongue cells and intestinal lining to be 5 days old. Those cells are replaced and regenerated fastest. Your hippocampus cells are no more than 30. Your heart cells are up to 16.9 years old.
But your cerebral cortex and glial cells are as old as you are.
So if you don't drink alcohol like me I will grow proportionately smarter than all you drinkers each passing year without my growing smarter at all.
WHAT?
All those extra cortex convolutions found in learned people are not new neurons?
Hmmm live and learn, die and forget it all.
At least were all young at heart.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 07:29 PM

Where can I buy a carynx?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 07:38 PM

You need a boar skull as well, Rapparee?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 10:13 AM

Woman vs Dog, round 17: so far, Woman 1, Dog 0

I've had dogs since 2005, and they make it their job to dig in the compost. Each year my attempts to keep them out become more elaborate. This year, I went taller with new 4' chicken wire. It hasn't been 24 hours yet, so I need to be careful about being too cocky about it. They have 24 hours a day to figure this thing out.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 09:30 PM

Or even a carnyx. Spell it as you will, all them foreign languages are the same, n'est pas?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 21 - 07:38 AM

If you believe ol uncle Einstein, then the notion of a singularity is impossible and against all known laws. On the other hand a bridge, wormhole or vortex to another part of a universe is allowed inside a black hole. How the heck could we ever check? It has been thought its a one way trip. IT is BUT Here's how to check...If there is a BH somewhere in the universe where two stars orbit a black hole on each side of a black hole just outside the accretion disk, we could look for the gravity of the star behind the black hole...if it is not there, it was swallowed up by a gravity 'shadow' going down a drain . If the gravity is accounted for via lensing, ol Al is RIGHT AGAIN.

Your trip inside a black hole wormhole would be a wild ride of acceleration for awhile but gravity would not approach infinite and would actually slow down toward an emergence some place else. Your space craft would preferably be non magnetic inside a warp bubble to free you from inertial forces and radiation. Sorry, you will have no navigation in this macro quantum event.

Finding the ideal black hole off ramp from this universe is unlikely, making the ideal spacecraft is unlikely and getting to the off ramp is currently too far. But hey for sci-fi writers its instant gratification. Beyond the journey, could be the ultimate Gulliver's Travels.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 21 - 08:04 AM

You gotta go down and kill a carynx
You gotta kill it for youself
Aint nobody here can kill it for you
You gotta go down and kill a carynx for yourself

Though the roads be rough and rocky
And the hills be steep and high
We will sing as you go marching
And you'll kill the One Big carynx by and by

You gotta go down and shoot a carynx
You gotta stab it for youself
Aint nobody here can kill it for you
You gotta go down and kill the carynx for yourself

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 21 - 09:25 PM

Miguel Acubierre.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 07:11 AM

I often muse that the little neutrino is a 'creature' that inhabits both the dark matter worlds and the visible universe as a near ghost.
Klatu

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 08:07 PM

I just noticed the connection between
Carnyx and Cernunnos. Neat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 09:26 PM

My new computer came today! Hurrah! Hurray! Now comes the hard part....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 11:23 AM

Now that you're as vaccine protected as you are going to get, you can:
Play Rugby
Take a Cruise
Kiss a Stranger

Subject: BS: Maths!!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 03:48 PM

Now I know why USAians call it "Math" - because they only do it once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 05:25 PM

Bonzo has officially posted in the MOAB because he started another idiotic thread that only belongs in BS (so it was moved). It isn't as good as MOM's BS, but it's a start.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 07:11 PM

My super-fast, liquid helium cooled, muon driven, new computer came yesterday and this is the first post I've made on it!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 07:20 PM

Its the best until next Tuesday when it becomes obsolete compared to the Honeywell ion trap (holes) quantum computer. All it needs is to add a special insulation to miniize noise. When that happens it will win the race imo.
Of course IBM will make a overpriced monster and Google will have the best marketing but I have Honeywell hopes with Google overtones.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Apr 21 - 12:32 PM

Back upstairs you go, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Apr 21 - 10:01 PM

I can't disclose the physics of the OS (NDA when purchased) but I can say that sometimes it has been entering what I want it to do before I input it via keyboard or anything else. Earlier today it did my Analytic Geometry homework from high school -- correctly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Apr 21 - 11:12 PM

My Dell is behaving better lately (knock wood!) as far as randomly turning itself off. And I got a couple of cables to use the C-type ports.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Apr 21 - 10:11 PM

Wow! My new computer also accepts and translates data written in the language in which I am most fluent: gibberish.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 10:38 AM

My new computer has a hard disk drive capable of storing the contents of a 10 page Little Golden Books hard-back book!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 07:56 PM

Muon detecting plates are a grand each and it takes 30 day exposures but the app to render the plates are available in the google store. They are cool when you put them in abandoned gold mines and see all the gold the old timers missed. The image is from cosmic rays that go way deep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 11:03 AM

When a gamma cosmic ray hits our upper atmosphere and turns into muons it should decay immediately but since it is traveling just about the speed of light TIME slows down for it and allows it to penetrate harmlessly through expanses of rock.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 02:14 PM

MOM was saddened to find a snake raisin in the new garden area. It got hit by the tiller and dried up since that work happened till now. Poor little rough earth snake.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 08:27 PM

As my old friend Paul Dirac once said, "Anti-muons imply anti g-2. The Universe is swimming in them."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 09:15 PM

What is a snake raisin?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 10:02 PM

Something you don't eat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 21 - 10:07 PM

I did NOT file my taxes, and not because there's an extension of the date. I just didn't.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 21 - 10:08 PM

And I'm not going to do so. Not Federal, not State, and I'll object to property taxes as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 21 - 08:20 PM

Time to hitch a ride upstairs again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Apr 21 - 08:25 PM

We're here for you, Mom. Yes, we feel your pain. Yes, we'll get some more gin.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Apr 21 - 08:33 PM

You go girl. Loyal patriots do not buy Coca Cola either.
Mr. Big also wants you to boycott; Baseball, Football, BLM cities like Portland, blue states and apple pie & motherhood.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Apr 21 - 09:25 PM

White anglo saxon protest ants (WASPS) now have a republican caucus in Congress to rid the country of all non European immigrants and ciizens to make America great again. Spearheading their movement to make anglo saxons the master race again are their swarms of MURDER HORNETS and cicadas. Weaponized cockroachs in the woodwork will then provide the final solution in urban areas.
The best way to bug the government financialy is to starve them of taxes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 21 - 02:22 AM

42 Acoustic Audio Illusions
is a interesting exploration for ones ears on youtube.
My fav was the chromatic illusion
there are 5 chapters in all so you may not get to them all.

This is just a video of going into Mandelbrots ass crack fractal

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Apr 21 - 12:52 PM

MOM, the guys have been confusing my "regular" friends by posting BS in a Facebook thread to do with lost objects (intentional or accidental). You'd have really enjoyed it if they posted it here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 21 - 02:40 PM

It's all gnu's fault and LH is also Canadian.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Apr 21 - 10:52 AM

Friends who aren't regular are often hooked on laxatives.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 21 - 03:14 PM

Hey, Rasp (oops, Freudian Slip?), wadn't me. Besides, no good ol' Canuck would dare cause intentional affront.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 21 - 10:19 PM

Yes, they're all too well behaved. Polite and unassuming, like Alvin Karpis and Luka Mangotta.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Apr 21 - 11:09 PM

This was in The Atlantic by Emilia Phillips, and I wish a few people had remarked on it when I posted it to Facebook. I'm not the only one who listens to the voices of the classical music radio station hosts, am I?

Late-Night Classical Radio Host

(A poem for Sunday)

The first thing you need is a voice.
One someone can fall asleep to.
Can sleep through. Words
twinkling in faint starbursts
of static. Your timbre must sotto
the way a library book smells
like the mausoleum of Erato.
You must bring a thermos—
an old metal one, dinged.
Fill it with quote-unquote
coffee but drink
slowly. Before 3, you’ll have to
say Saint-Saens without slurring.
Oh, and you’ll need to know Italian,
of course. Or, at least, how to pronounce
it—those hard c’s in concerti.
When you arrive, take off winter
and hang it on the hook
by the door. Your wool
socks on the ancient green
carpet will remind you of a long-ago
dream in which you were an army
of one marching across Elysia.
The studio’s wood paneling
will one day give you a splinter
you’ll suck out during
the flute menuet of Bizet’s
“L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2.”
You’ll get used to the schedule
of sleeping through the day,
only to wake as the the sun sets
like a bald man’s head
under a hat. You’ll prepare for your shift
by stuffing cotton balls
in your mouth and saying catgut lute
five times fast.
You’ll do this because you know
there are only a few
who’ll listen to you.
And this, you think,
is good practice
for the afterlife.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 21 - 10:23 AM

Oh, I'm a good old rebel
Now thats just what I am
And for this yankee nation
I do no give a damn
I'm glad for insurrection
I only wish we'd won
I ain't asked any pardon
For anything I've done
I hates the Yankee nation
And eveything they do
I hates the declaration
Of independence too
I hates the egg head democrates
They aren't made with our blood
I hates the damn coloreds
And fought them all I could
I rode with Donald J Trump
For four years there about
Got wounded in four places
And I marched at Charlottesville
I caught Covid at NASCAR races
An' swimmin' in Tampa
Ya'no I killed a bunch of Yankees
And I'd like to kill some more
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Cuz we didn't wear them masks
We got three court nominees
Before they packed the court
They died of kung fu fever
And oath keeping promise
Biden is the griever and chief
and spends trillions on relief
I can't take up my M 16
And fight 'em down no more
But I ain't a-goin' to love them
Now that is certain sure
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am
I won't be liberalized
And I do not give a damn
Oh, I'm a good old rebel
Now that's just what I am
And for this Yankee nation
I do no give a damn
I'm glad I fought against her
I only wish we'd won
I ain't asked any pardon
Or charged for what I've done
I ain't asked any pardon
Cuz Insurrection's fun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 21 - 02:23 PM

saved by the ball

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Apr 21 - 06:38 PM

decent of you, gnu, to stick your head above the proverbial parapet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 21 - 09:55 PM

Well, gnu IS Canadian after all.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 21 - 08:13 PM

Chicago Cops. A real classic!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Apr 21 - 08:17 AM

A policemn's reality is built on shifting sand.
Humans have long practiced human sacrifice, only the motivations have changed. How many other species do this I don't know. Today the state provides a license to kill provisionally. Split second murder decisions do not even allow for the forebrain to have a conscious say. But a murder that takes over nine minutes in front of a nine year old is more than most civilized people can accept as justified. Such deliberate action with forethought is a definition of murder. *So is war* but the state can declare such murder to be legal.
Law has made allowances for self defense. Some of you have experienced having to choose to use lethal force in self defense or not. Lets hope you chose correctly.
The subject of murder defines a culture imo.
In the US for example, lynching is not a federal crime.
Murder is both a state and personal decision. I hope we choose wisely.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Apr 21 - 11:44 AM

That's Hamilton Camp - he went on to a long and varied career as a character actor. I'd forgotten that he was a singer also.

I've heard chatter about a Peloton treadmill but didn't go looking for it. There are so many short alarming videos out there these days. That 12-second video of cops breaking up a knife fight among young women and killing the knife-wielder has been the most recent of that sort. Horrible outcome. The toddler is lucky he was able to get away alive.

I was able to get my trash out to the truck even though I missed curbside pickup this morning—they paused two doors up as the driver was chatting with my across-the-street neighbor. I carried my bag out and handed it over. Now that's good BS, when the Waste Management guys have time to talk to an elderly woman.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Apr 21 - 02:03 PM

How nature reveals itself in the small and the big: Or how I learned to think like the ancients.

I find that the obvious is often the most shocking. This POV of mine has led me to the subject of our Feeding Universe. Of course the obvious is often 'wromg' however there are shared mathmatical algorithms between 2D slime mold feeding patterns and the mega structure of the entire 4D universe.
The mega structure of the universe is like a fiberous sponge that obeys the math law of how to cover the maximum area with the least amount of material the same as the pattern slime molds obey in order to feed effectively.

are ya with me so far?

This is like an ultimate monster sci fi plot.
The predator is invisible and we are the prey it feeds upon.
The shape is not the main issue, the issue is that slime mold is alive.
The thing is scientists have proven the exact similarity of a slime mold feeding pattern and the pattern of dark matter grouping of galaxies. Some say the universe is alive. Now we are seeing it seems to feed upon itself.

I think this plot has legs and could go someplace.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 21 - 09:00 PM

It's been done, Donuel.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 05:21 AM

Voracious dark matter is drawn to its prey, the visible universe, and feeds in a genocidal frenzy leaving space to expand in the absense of its digested food. The universe at its foundation is nothing but a hungry slime mold and has nothing to do with your son searching for a dead beat dad story with the aid of time machines.

The human race mimics the dynamics of the universe at large by killing itself via genocides,slavery, wars against the designated savages, colon ialism and the market.
Everyone knows yet successfully ignores while they are eaten from the inside out..

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 08:46 PM

Critters that feed on things leave leavings, feces and other things. This was true of dinosaurs, and is true of people and other animals. Even viruses leave their "scat" behind, as do molds. See numbers 6, 7, and 8.

Britannica.com says, "No specialized elimination mechanisms are present in algae, fungi, protozoans, and slime molds, the main groups of protists. Metabolic wastes (carbon dioxide, water, oxygen, and nitrogenous compounds) diffuse through the cell membranes of these unicellular organisms into the outside environment. Particulate wastes pass from the bodies of certain protozoans to the exterior by way of small openings in the body surface—anal pores and other cell openings. Elimination in protists is carried out passively and therefore requires little or no expenditure of metabolic energy on the part of the organism."

So, where's the poop? Are black holes just universal flush mechanisms?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 09:42 PM

The mystery will be what its eating and what it is pooping
My ol pal Pythagorus mused about the music of the spheres obeying a 12 note scale. While wrong he was kinda right if you consider string theory vibrations in 12 dimensions. Even Einstien got esoteric in his last 30 years and spoke of the 'mind of god' being virtually alive.

I've heard how dark matter is like the branches and trunk of a tree while normal matter is like the leaves on the cosmic tree but I never heard that the diet of dark matter is visible matter.

Dark matter may be eating some of those 12 dimensions that are causing in turn the acceleration of the universe. A star trek cure for the universe might be to sour the 'taste' of the devoured dimension and protect sections of the universe from tearing apart. Perhaps your Overlords are big fat gluttons.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 10:30 AM

I can't think of the best provocative food dark matter would eat.
H gas? - reducing star formation in visible matter galaxies while constantly burping virtual particles ?
e-gad
If dark matter was the sci fi villain I might be called the racist of the universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 12:34 PM

Aha, It eats common sense. :^) and poops ignorance.

I consider the neutrino to be a particle equally comfortable in both the dark and bright universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 03:16 PM

I heard about a newly detected particle recently - the "muon." New experiment hints that a particle breaks the known laws of physics and A Tiny Particle’s Wobble Could Upend the Known Laws of Physics

Amos would have been all over this one and already written a song or poem about it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 03:58 PM

For weeks the muon has sparked speculation that an undiscoverd boson is respondsible for the muon's abberant behavior or perhaps some other unexpected interaction. We can play with muons for up to 3 seconds now at relativistic speeds, which slows time down.
News reporting rhetoric on the muon is somewhat hyperbolic.
The fate of all mankind is NOT in question regarding new muon data. :*)

I thought when Amos described an aspect of the universe to be a massive tendril gently wrapping itself around our visible galaxies to be spot on and poetic. Today cosmological musing gave way to more pressing matters like "whats for lunch".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 04:11 PM

I don't think you meant to say the muon is new, its spin behavior measurement however is new. Remember muon photography through solid rock?
Physicists who are the policemen of the status que are saying "Muon, there's nothing to see here".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Apr 21 - 01:56 PM

You ever scare up a carnyx, Rapparee?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Apr 21 - 08:43 PM

No, I bent my trumpet piping so it sounds up and out. I'm working on replacing the bell with a dragon's head. A few minutes with the carynx. And it's all lipping and tonguing -- no valves!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Apr 21 - 12:37 AM

Perhaps not new, but now noted in the evidence, not merely theoretical.

You play with that thing too much Rap and you'll break it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 21 - 05:25 AM

Dr. Seuss would be proud.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Apr 21 - 01:55 PM

Mom, this is post 2001, A Space Oddity. And being retired makes me twice as tired.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Apr 21 - 09:08 PM

Mom! Mom! My new endoscope came!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 07:39 PM

Is it yourself you are going to look inside of, Rapparee,
or inside of somebody else ?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 10:02 PM

I was thinking of offering cut-rate colonoscopies, but realized that I didn't really want to look in that. Now I'll use it to check inside walls and other hard-to-get-at places. Like other things I have (extensible mirrors, for instance) it's an inspection tool.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 11:44 AM

Your movies will rival most of Hollywood's shit.
I hope you win a Golden Probe award.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 09:49 PM

Backaways I had my left rotator cup repaired and the surgeon gave me a DVD of the surgery. I can try to post it if you wish. I submitted it for an Emmy or an Oscar and at Cannes but for some reason nobody accepted it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Apr 21 - 11:30 AM

I'm hoping the May flurry of medical stuff will not rival Rap's dramatic history of repairs, though I do seem to be entering my bionic phase. My cataracts are being addressed, and at the physical to give surgery approval my GP found that my thyroid is running on low. That explains A LOT that I won't go into here, but by the end of May I hope to not need extra lights and lenses to see close up and I hope to have a lot more energy and fewer aches and pains. Getting older is a bitch, but especially if it isn't age that makes you feel old, but that little shield petering out.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 21 - 10:13 PM

Tomorrow I see the arm and hand doctor to see if I really do have a trapped ulnar nerve. Than I take Pat to Idaho Falls for an injection into her right eye.

This all STINKS! Fix it, Mom!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Apr 21 - 11:18 PM

Macular degeneration? I have a friend who gets that shot every two weeks. Really stinks (but she can still see!)

A GUEST came along and asked about and reminded me of one of my favorite songs I first heard recorded by Michael Cooney. It belongs on this thread. Our theme song. The Winner.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 10:50 AM

There's a Mad Magazine parody about
transplants and artificial body parts,
with lyrics like:


New, New, my kidney's new,
They were on sale,
I could have bought two ...

(tune of Love Is Blue)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 10:06 PM

Oh, poopy pants! Mom didn't fix it. Cubitol and carpal tunnel surgery on my right arm. May 12.

"If it were done it were well it were done quickly. For if this cutting could trammel up the consequence and catch, with this surgery, success, then this cutting may be the be-all and end-all here."
                      Billy Bob Shakespeare, sort of "Macbeth."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 21 - 09:02 AM

Dented fenders and worn out transmissions
can be fixed and isn't the end all be all
Physicians and clinicians help conditions
There's Beauty in Autumn's Spectral Fall.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 21 - 07:02 AM

I tried making a chocolate fresh fruit cake (2 of my favoite things) but something went fundamentally wrong.




who can make a fruit cake,
sprinkle it with poo,
who makes a brown dessert that no one can stand.
donuel can,
He makes a just dessert that tastes just like glue
thats just what he'll do ,
donuel can...

I think thats because there's no recipe
you can understand.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 May 21 - 04:44 PM

Let's get to the head of the queue, MOM,
before it starts raining again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 May 21 - 09:53 PM

Did I mention that a couple of weeks ago I became a great-uncle again? Three weeks early, she was.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 May 21 - 10:56 AM

Today is my lebensborn birthday.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 03 May 21 - 06:18 PM

Password change underway. Somebody has been messing with my account.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 21 - 09:09 PM

gnu, I can't see why they would. Except Little Hawk...hmmmm....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 May 21 - 09:42 PM

That's lousy luck, gnu.
Hope somebody gets this cleared up
so there's no more interference.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 04 May 21 - 12:59 PM

Well, I sent Joe an email last evening at 19:11 my time, but he hasn't advised me of any changes yet. Unlike Joe... he's usually on top of the ball before it gets there. We'll see.

Yes, Rap. LH is No.2 on the suspect list, after his monkey.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 May 21 - 07:03 PM

Gnu, best to cut Joe Offer some slack, as
he is surrounded by mating frogs.
It's that time of year again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 21 - 10:22 AM

Frogs or not, my concern is for Joe. No posts? Unless I missed them... I miss a lot.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 May 21 - 09:11 PM

I checked Joe Offer's recent post history --
he wasn't posting much on the 4th of May,
but he has posted frequently this afternoon and evening.
Hope you got your response, gnu.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 May 21 - 09:24 PM

Drive crefully Joe or not at all. In Michigan there were so many frogs on the road cars would skid off into the woods.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 21 - 09:34 PM

BEWARE!!! It's about due again! Try not to act like a nut!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 06 May 21 - 08:49 AM

Password success!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 May 21 - 01:17 PM

Eyeball success! New lens in one, now a week of drops and a recheck then the second one will be scheduled. No heavy lifting for a week - though I forgot and moved a cast iron sewing machine and a large porcelain elephant end table in the guest room. I caught myself doing that and stopped. I guess I'll leave pushing the house to stabilize the foundations till next week after the second follow-up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 May 21 - 11:10 PM

Mom, I spent about seven hours at the horsespittle today getting a bunch of stuff done. I don't know how many times I confirmed what medicines I take. I have no idea how many papers I signed. Two people came to give me the EKG. I did get lunch at the gas station, though.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 May 21 - 07:53 AM

Next time catch them off guard with your own large folder of forms you want the hospital to sign that cover your own ass.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 21 - 09:19 PM

I have something far, far better. My wife is a lawyer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 May 21 - 11:21 PM

MOM, I ran out of black thread 35 minutes before Joann Fabrics closed so ran over with 10 minutes to spare and got six rolls because if I bought three I got three free. I wonder who came out ahead in that transaction? (Three black, one white, two gray.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 May 21 - 09:38 AM

There was a mystery teddy bear left on the lawn in the back yard overnight. I suspect the puppy grabbed it from the closet in the guest room. It is a bear with no known name, but looks very familiar. It means I should put the ancient fragile named bear ("Grrrr." When the toddler boy who received it was told that bears say "grrrr" he decided that was the name.)

We know who dragged it out because as I examined it I looked up and the pup had tucked herself away in the kennel for self-imposed time out.

As far as past MOAB characters, this pup is nothing so obnoxious as Chongo, but it does match up to some of the dachshund stories that LH has told.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 21 - 10:13 PM

There are few things that have trodden the posts here as obnoxious of that flea-ridden chimp and his/her friend with benefits, "Bad Penny" Rutledge. Even Shame McBride has fewer resident insects than Chongx.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 May 21 - 07:41 PM

Your Guide to the National and State Parks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 May 21 - 09:26 AM

I swear my mother in law wrote all those reviews.
The site is the pinnicle of sour grapes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 21 - 08:00 PM

There are some faux park signs with extracts from reviews on the bottoms - I think it's a twitter account that posts them.

Sick of eyedrops, but keeping up the routine. Counting my lucky stars that so far I haven't had as many procedures as Rap. He's single-handedly keeping the medical profession solvent in Idaho. Talk about the Bionic Man!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 21 - 09:56 PM

Sick of surgery every six months or so.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 21 - 08:11 AM

And so it begins again....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 21 - 08:12 AM

I'm hungry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 21 - 06:09 PM

I survived. Changed, but survived. Because of the changes, NASA has offered me a position first at JPL and later as head of the as-yet Tippy Top Secret lunar base established at the site west of Fermi at 19.5°S / 118.5°E. Don't dare tell anybody.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 21 - 06:42 PM

Should you wish to mail me a package with homemade cookies and such stuff, the address is/will be

Rapparee
Commanding Officer
Allied Headquarters, First Underluna Command (Key Intelligence, Tactical)
Natural Satellite (Terra)
Solar System (Terran)
Milky Way Galaxy R54/C+43)
Universe F8374TY HRCTW7
EPOCH N673-C14E45

This will pinpoint my location in space, time, and multiverses.

Thank you for the cookies or whatever. It's/Will be a touch of home to a lonely Idaho Legionnaire serving to presrve the Earthly Way Of Life.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 May 21 - 08:55 AM

Would you really trust my strawberry mushroom filled cookies? They are the best I've seen that Terra has to offer. They have a synergy that gives them corporal life for a time and you get a mental gift in return. What would you do with twice your intelligence and remarkable powers? They are not limitless however. For example they would not turn a Trump into a John Meechum, but close.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 May 21 - 04:29 PM

I suggest that you use the abbreviation of the unit I (will) command.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 May 21 - 03:55 PM

?? ?? q????cn?? ?o ??b? ???? µ?uq?q p?c?n?? ?? ??? cow?? on? ??ou??

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 May 21 - 08:53 PM

Ringworld!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 21 - 06:07 PM

MOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! Buy it for me! I want it! I want it! Buy it for me!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 May 21 - 06:23 PM

Rap I bought a damaged ceremonial sword. The ivory handle is not firmly attached to the blade. The blade is engraved on both sides all the way to the hilt. It is of some sort of battle between Templar knights and a Middle east enemy. The silver 'ropes' that are attached to the sheath reminds me of mexican silver. I believe it is cursed and belonged to a secret order once upon a time. But it is damaged and not suitable for a dual.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 21 - 09:29 PM

Likely a 19th century Masonic Knights Templar sword. They weren't and aren't intended for anything except display and they often turn up in everything from museums to yard sales. Check out pictures on the Web.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 May 21 - 12:45 AM

NASA's photo looks like a Mexican buñuelo. You have to have a large plate or eat them standing over the sink because you drop crumbs and cinnamon sugar everywhere.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 21 - 09:24 AM

I'm bad at decoding cypers. However I have been able to make them with photoshop. Any picture can be be used to put a layer of text or another photo then lighten to impercptual visibility and flatten. The way to recover the information is to to put the picture through several rounds of maximum contrast. Variations using color also works by using saturation and contrast or inverse color enhancment. Subliminal messages can be done by not going all the way to imperceptability or in video the same old single frame technique with some new gimmocks.

Using photos of uniformity like clouds and sky are the easiest.
Today's photo

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 21 - 03:11 PM

We don't need that stuff when we have the secret MOAB code1

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 May 21 - 03:35 PM

You rang, Imperious Rex?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 21 - 12:57 PM

Text available with secret code only.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 21 - 10:11 PM

Mom, I never thought Thinkgeek would die but now it's part of Gamestop. Sic transit gloria, Thinkgeek.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 May 21 - 06:28 PM

. . . you okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 21 - 07:25 PM

Bow your head with sorrow keb. The bowels of the internet groan in the passing of thinkgeek. It was as old as Annihillation itself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 May 21 - 09:22 PM

Air blasters, various laser pointers, tee shirts, once the backbone of Geekdom, gone. All gone. There is nothing like it left.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 May 21 - 08:46 PM

How does MOM respond to
an appearance of cicadas every 17 years?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 May 21 - 09:58 PM

She loves them, especially fried in butter and olive oil with a little garlic. There are a number of other recipes on the WWW.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 21 - 07:48 AM

Its not LIKE manna from heaven, it IS manna from heaven, especialy if you are hungry and lost in the dessert. I hear a population singing in the distance. There is a fungus that infects some ciccadas but it is composed of psylocybin and is safe if not illuminating to eat.
Mother nature speaks in mysterious ways.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 May 21 - 09:26 PM

Although considered disgusting in Western culture, cockroaches are eaten in many places around the world. Whereas household pest cockroaches may carry bacteria and viruses, cockroaches bred under laboratory conditions can be used to prepare nutritious food. In Mexico and Thailand, the heads and legs are removed, and the remainder may be boiled, sautéed, grilled, dried or diced. In China, cockroaches have become popular as medicine and cockroach farming is rising with over 100 farms.

The cockroaches are fried twice in a wok of hot oil, which makes them crispy with soft innards that are like cottage cheese. Fried cockroaches are ground and sold as pills for stomach, heart and liver diseases. A cockroach recipe from Formosa (Taiwan) specifies salting and frying cockroaches after removing the head and entrails.

Yummy! (The USAF once served my little brother deep-fat-fried maggots.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 May 21 - 01:07 PM

I heard a story about those fungal infected cicadas - their butts literally fall off but they still go around trying to mate with everything and leaving spores behind to infect more bugs. Now that would be great BS if it wasn't true.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 May 21 - 02:59 PM

In fact, Stilly et al.,
Snopes sat up and took notice of this story,
and investigated so as to
debunk it if it were false.
And Snopes reported back: it's true ...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 May 21 - 09:34 PM

This is also true, and opens up entirely new vistas for humanity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 21 - 08:12 AM

This may become a performance enhancing procedure but alas it may not have legs. As reported in Asshole Weekly; Oxygen packing can improve performance however small people react like a balloon being released allowing air to escape. Records for the high jump and pole vault may be shattered.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 May 21 - 10:22 AM

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
      Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm old,
      Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I've had a filthy cold
      Since Jenny kiss'd me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 21 - 05:34 PM

Between the Purist and the pretty Prude.
I'll take the purist every time.
The Prude is just rude
and purist is fine
at making love
or crime

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 May 21 - 10:05 PM

I WENT into a public 'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, " We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, go away " ;
But it's " Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's " Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, wait outside ";
But it's " Special train for Atkins " when the trooper's on the tide
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's " Special train for Atkins " when the trooper's on the tide.

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap.
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Tommy, 'ow's yer soul? "
But it's " Thin red line of 'eroes " when the drums begin to roll
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's " Thin red line of 'eroes, " when the drums begin to roll.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Tommy, fall be'ind,"
But it's " Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's " Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! "
But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An 'Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 May 21 - 10:44 AM

Eyedrops all day long, different types and amounts in each eye. It's keeping me on my toes after cataract surgery. MOM isn't any help, I had to hide my notes and little bottles because she was babysitting a kid from the neighborhood and they used my little chart to play tic tac toe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 21 - 04:09 PM

I did 3 months of drops and comtinue with salt and refresh daily.

I discovered the best fire starter is a modern high powered flashlight.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 May 21 - 09:33 PM

I do hope that you discovered that in such a way that your dwelling is still available to you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 May 21 - 11:46 PM

THIS quite possibly needs its own dedicated thread, but it certainly belongs here to start with.

The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel

And yet we have very little idea where anuses come from.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 21 - 06:55 AM

I did not know there are proto-proctologist pros.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 21 - 07:06 AM

https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/what-is-the-meaning-of-michelangelo-painting-gods-bum/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 21 - 09:35 AM

AAS AMERIAN ASSHOLE SOCIETY


On another note a well trained hippocampus is a glorius thing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 May 21 - 09:56 AM

I believed that the anus came from the cloaca,
but I'm probably mistaken.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 May 21 - 12:16 PM

If you read that article you'll find a fair amount of discussion of the topic. It seems to be more of a co-evolution.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 21 - 10:47 PM

Keb, you're right.

Here I an in Hailey, Idaho, just up the road from Sun Valley and the billionaires. This place doesn't look any different from other Idaho mountain towns I know, but I'm sure the housing costs are A LOT more. On the same level as Jackson, Wyoming, where Dick Cheney has a little pied-a-teirre.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 21 - 10:48 PM

BTW, "cloaca" is Latin for "sewer" -- the drainage kind, not the kind that uses needles and thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 May 21 - 02:20 PM

Think
50 years go by
in a blink
Too soon
for a lifetime memorial
too late
for better past choices.

I could give or take a tutorial.
The present is not all I got,
I still have all my past predictions.
I could go float in a sea of memories
that I swear I thought I forgot.

But the next damn thing
is way more exciting.
Its not always true.
But I think we like to lie
to ourself ay least about
the future

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 May 21 - 02:51 PM

I could scream at the screen
That repeats horror and secretes blood
Each time they repeat furor
murder and the Fuhrer
There's more money in selling fear
than reporting whenever something goes right...
Unless its armed people with n unjustifiable grudge
when push comes to shove.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 21 - 09:29 PM

I looked at lodgings closer to home -- say, Island Park or Ashton. There was what seemed to be a nice place for only $1,499 per night -- which was about $1,400 above the the max I'd budgeted for. This place is quite mice and comes in at $93 per night.

Let me know if you ever want to stay in Island Park, Idaho and I'll send you the URL for a nice lodging place. Let me know how it was.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 21 - 04:34 AM

A new Idaho State song? what warriors are fighting for

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 21 - 06:50 PM

clue, its a song praising the insurrectionists and Q based vote auditors.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 21 - 09:42 PM

Oh, fer God's socket wrenches. What a stupid song (if it can be so described). Here! Lots of pictures from my neck of the woods, too.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 21 - 10:10 PM

I've pondered the etiology of misinformation to consolidate power and ancient religions obviously came to mind. There are other more amusing examples of misinformation for misinformation's sake that are almost playful as in the 15th century Vornich manuscript. I would say there is an innate urge to create lies and a thirst to engage in misinformation. The raison d'etre of MOAB is to therefore satisfy a need for misinformation, supposition and realization of the absurd as in the early days of Moab.
When this country first engaged in birtherism many felt there is no harm done so let it go on. Now the lie has become bigger and the results more violent. If Republican think tanks think this is a path to consolidate power they are gambling with the fact that "Rome is the mob, and you can't control the mob". Even if only 30% of our citizens are a minority identifing with the mob it still represents a critical mass and can easily explode. The weak link in the chain of peace is often assasination, be it the Rabin murder or the Kennedy murder or the Sadat murder there is an ever present obstacle to the advance of rationality. The world of man is a world of lies that will eventually counter all truth until the civilization collapses. It is an inevitablity. UNLESS you buy Zazoom which cures all ills. Just spray it on My Pillow and sleep like an opiated angel.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 21 - 11:10 PM

Today more than religion or succession in a dynasty one can seek power simply by being an attention merchant.
Be the attenion good or bad the attention when repeated - grows in the minds of the audience..as we have recently seen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 May 21 - 11:03 PM

Right, MOM, let's step up to the top of the queue again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 21 - 10:06 PM

The quay queue quickly quieted Kay.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 21 - 07:52 AM

refresh: for nonsense, relentless, contentless, repetitious sake.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 May 21 - 11:09 AM

Your video link below says

Video unavailable
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Sydney Matlock.

Someone wants to claim a Q rooting song?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 21 - 12:58 PM

"Cogito cogito cogito, ergo cogito cogito sum, cogito.

                      -- Runny Discards, famous Skeptic philosopher

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 21 - 08:06 PM

It was a single female voiced folk tune to inspire patriotic insurrection.

I think therefore I am aware;
I am not as well read as Rap, Charmion or anyone else.
I am not as smart or organized as Maggie.
Not as crazed as Joe or Bruce.
I have more frenemies than friends.
Examples of my art or writing are mostly miniatures.
I am antitheticly against the linear flow of spacetime.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 21 - 09:24 PM

Don't worry about it as paracompact manifolds have all the topological properties of metric spaces. In particular, they are perfectly normal Hausdorff spaces. Manifolds are also commonly required to be second-countable. This is precisely the condition required to ensure that the manifold embeds in some finite-dimensional Euclidean space. However, non-Euclidean Hausdorff spaces do exist (probability approaches certainty) as the existence of manifolds in Hausdorff spaces includes non-Euclidean manifolds.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 31 May 21 - 09:15 AM

I stripped an exhaust manifold bolt (header stud fer ye yanks) and marred the header threads on my old F150. I think it might have non-Euclidean. Anyway, I was screwed (another non-Euclidean)... had to drill and tap the block (by eye). But, I gotter done, eh. I still dated many subsets of lasses in that truck after I got er fixed up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 May 21 - 09:41 AM

I have wondered about a dimension of space that is in immediate contact with every other point in space irregardless of distance or time. Is that anything to do with manifolds? (trapped time?)

We have differnt conventional ideas how things are entangled with no connection to distance. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-do-you-entangle-particles.120001/

btw negative matter is theorized to be trapped in gravity wells.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 May 21 - 10:42 AM

gnu, I have replaced a few things on older vehicles (pre-computer). The housing for the water temperature sensor (and the sensor itself - any time you open that you might as well replace the sensor.) On the old Ford Courier that Mazda built. 4-cylinder. And I changed the oil in my VW beetle and in my Ford F-100. The most I can claim to have done recently is change the cabin air filter in the Nissan SUV. What a bugger to replace - you have to be a contortionist to fit in there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 31 May 21 - 10:54 AM

SRS, that old 74 F150 straight six didn't need a contortionist. Why, on a rainy day, I just a lawn chair in it, got in, dropped the hood, and changed the plugs or wires or alternator or whatever. My last F150? The only tool I could use on that was a credit card! Glad I sold it. But, last fall I got to ride in an F150, a Dodge Ram, and a Sierra. The seats in the Sierra are amazing. If I win the Looto...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 21 - 04:02 PM

gnu! Stilly! Ready...Set...GO! here and you'll be in line!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 21 - 04:02 PM

Oh, what the hay! 2100!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 May 21 - 06:23 PM

They all ride like cadillac luxury cars. As far as parking who cares.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 08:26 AM

Goodluck getting your 100K dollar F150 inluding tax. First there are not enough computer chips for a full inventory for the F150 or a Tesla or even the budget cars. Maybe in 2 years this won't be an issue.

For 20 years I used inverters during hurricane power outages for my car to power the house. Its about time Ford wised up by having an AC current generator option.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 10:39 PM

I'm not buying a new vehicle, and definitely not a pickup truck -- I don't need more than the Subaru Forester (2012) I already drive. I may need a new one sooner than I plan if people keep trying to run into my car, like three tried to do today.

Hand and arm therapy starts tomorrow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 11:18 AM

I did like the generator aspect of the new vehicles - plug a few things in your house in to keep them running. But I could afford a new Honda high-capacity generator more easily. That Ford truck costs more than I owe on my house right now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 09:42 PM

Off to Wyoming tomorrow for a Q***t Show in Green River. Back home Saturday, but I'll check in whilst I'm gone.

Oh, all right, it's not a Q***t Show. I'm riding bull in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys finals in Laramie.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 09:41 AM

The Gas line contractors tore up the road and front yard yesterday to replace 60 year old pipes. I should replace the red mulch today and fix drainage issues.
My back is better after my brain lit up like a Christmas tree after I leaned backwards as far as possible. What a trip.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 11:08 PM

11 miles in 45 minutes on I-80 today! Road destruction ended about 2 miles before our exit and then became a single lane with a git-off at our exit.

Pardon my unspoken descriptions of Wyoming's highway engineers, there morals, sexual tastes, favorite foods, personal hygiene habits, parentage, and hope that they had no descendants.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 11:49 PM

Not a horse used by the PRCA: Strawberry Roan (my favorite version - Ed McCurdy)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 21 - 05:15 AM

Way down south has tourist season, heat stroke season, flood season, hurricane season, cool season and flood season.
Out west has fire season and road destruction season.
In the east there is winter and road construction.
Waaaay up north they have ice road construction and pavement season.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jun 21 - 10:06 PM

Well, I probably shouldn't post this then, Stilly, but I will.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 12:28 PM

Good advice! Mom, take it to heart!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jun 21 - 08:04 PM

Time to head up to the top of the queue, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 21 - 07:10 AM

Time to queue to the top of the head
Time the head flows over the top

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jun 21 - 09:31 AM

Not going to make the Top Ten, but there are songs about everything.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 21 - 05:54 PM

gas station washroom song

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jun 21 - 09:54 AM

If we're sharing novelty videos Johnny Cash and Elvis impersonated each other (DJ Gerry isn't too intrusive in the piece).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jun 21 - 04:52 PM

Funny songs sure beat: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deadly-fungi-are-the-newest-emerging-microbe-threat-all-over-the-world/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 21 - 10:49 PM

Topical filk song.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 10:00 AM

An interesting avenue of research - the U.S. Navy Band seems to be having a lot of fun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 04:39 PM

MOM, Saturday night is on the way.
Get a high place to sit out of the way
where you can watch what's happening.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 08:50 PM

I went to a closet I don't use much and found some pants but in the pocket was a reciept for a bratwurst and a large 2 inch heavy coin. It had wings on the word fuck on each side so I suppose it is a flying fuck. I usualy don't give a flying fuck but I suppose I can now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 08:59 PM

I checked the internet

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 09:37 PM

Mom, how do I go about getting new grips about a half inch longer for revolvers of the Colt 1873 Single Action Army style? I'd really rather not pay a hundred bucks a set for them! The frame width is 7/16 inches.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 10:26 PM

Donuel, I have seen the occasional
"TUIT" and they even have round ones.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 21 - 06:55 AM

What you would rather has nothing tuit. Your'e gonna hafta pay one way or another.

A round tuit?
I have hundreds

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 21 - 07:36 PM

The 1619 project is encouraging overt and covert racists to pass new laws to fine teachers 5K for mentioning it to students and pass new voter obstruction laws.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jun 21 - 08:57 PM

Never mind, Mom. I got a grip on the grip problem. Expensive, but now I've finally gotten a grip!

Now to sort out the problem of what keys got with what padlocks around this place. I'm giving a bunch away, so if you want to lock up the liquor cabinet from Stilly just let me know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 21 - 08:49 AM

It's just mere money, Mom. Remember what Thomas More said: "They much more admire and detest the folly of those who, when they see a rich man, though they neither owe him anything, nor are in any sort dependent on his bounty, yet, merely because he is rich, give him little less than divine honours, even though they know him to be so covetous and base-minded that, notwithstanding all his wealth, he will not part with one farthing of it to them as long as he lives!”

So, spend it and get it over with and eliminate covetousness from your life. That's my sage advice, Mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 21 - 09:10 PM

Mom, can you let me have a couple of hundred? Yes, I know I haven't paid back the last couple of hundred, but I am your favorite.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 06:40 AM

Long suspected of Mom agnosticism, Thin Bastard has been arrested.
brb there is someone at the door.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 03:21 PM

The great drought going on right now in the West has happened before 1,200 years ago.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 06:36 PM

Yes, I remember it well. I remember our well well as it kept us well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 10:30 PM

Lock up the liquor cabinet? Why? I have a credit card. I can buy my own. (There's a bottle of single malt in the cupboard right now, a rare occupant lately.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 06:55 AM

I had a bottle of 30 year old single malt Scotch that I bought fresh for my Irish mother in law visits. A real Shicker as a goy piece of work.

I found that declaring an income of half a million for a credit card carries more debt forgiveness.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 09:14 PM

Single malt? Irish or Scotch? I have both, both well aged and excellent brands. I also have a bottle of Wyoming Whiskey, a bottle of rye and a bottle of bourbon from Butte, a bottle of gin from Moab, UT, and about half a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle's Reserve (NOT the Family Reserve) bourbon. This is also 750ml of Lamb's 151 proof navy rum, plus odds and ends such as poteen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 21 - 11:35 AM

In 2007 Abisinthe became legal again in the US. It tastes like licorice. However I see no reason one would want to block their GABA receptors.
The plastic tub I was storing it in became upended somehow, mixing the opened abisinthe with blue Hypnotique and Grey Goose. The colors did not mix evenly and reminded me of a tropical beach going from deep blue to light green when put in a clear bottle. When shaken with a tincture of homeopathic magic mushrooms there was an additional psilocybin 'blueing' to an indescribable deep turquoise that would lighten as one watched the liquor grow still.
It was all alcohol based so I don't understand how it behaved like a living azeotrope. Its gone now but a color changing liquor would sell well today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jun 21 - 02:36 PM

Man, we had that good shit back in the 60s!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 21 - 03:50 PM

60s?
By 1987 even orange sunshine changed color. Brown sunshine does not sound appealing but it still worked with the tiniest of tricky licks or a miniscule scraping into the high school reunion punch bowl.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 21 - 10:59 PM

Mom, I don't know WHY you were laying in the gutter, but here you are home. Now have some black coffee, a couple of aspirin, and go to sleep IN BED. ALONE (except for your Teddy, of course).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 12:03 AM

Mom was upside down spelling wow

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 09:09 AM

Its a good day to play frisbee

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 10:37 PM

Mom? Please don't hurl, but this is something done Elsewhere.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 02:02 AM

The weapon of choice around here is the flyswatter. Darned mosquitoes are everywhere. I think they ride in on the dogs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 08:58 AM

I am happy to say as daylight reaches a maximum, BS posts are at an all time low. Enjoy the sun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 11:01 AM

We do miss Amos. He ran a tight ship around here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 01:40 PM

I wish I had known he was a mod as well as a talented lyricist and song writer. I admire his penchant for science. Do you know of brothers&sisters, birth order etc.?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 11:39 PM

Not a mod (not here, anyway), and doesn't he have a sister on Mudcat? Is that Ebby? I may be all wrong about that, but I thought that was the case.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 05:45 AM

I like the present tense
Ebbie is in picturesque Alaska and is quite a character
tid bits;
Today I may make a serious post.
Al Franken is going on a comedy tour.
Rap may cook if he doesn't take precautions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 06:36 PM

Amos did, indeed, run a tight MOAB ship.
Meantime the Annex thread is
catching up to the what's-the-weather-like thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jun 21 - 09:53 PM

Ebbie lives in Juneau and is good friend of KT Fanning. Our weather wasn't bad at all today except that only about six drops of water fell from the sky. We had lunch and dinner on the veranda and it was quite pleasant. It would have been nicer if I hadn't lost my keys to the PO box and the house.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 07:25 PM

77F, blue sky, nice clouds, good breeze, dinner in the oven.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 07:38 PM

wait till tue.

Define tight ship.

Drunken sailors aboard?
A spic and span ship?
No leaks in the boat?
Strict chain of command?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jun 21 - 11:12 PM

SRS - "Robot Gremlins who have developed an unhealthy interest in Our Dear Mother, ..."

Very upsetting to hear!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jun 21 - 01:03 PM

I didn't like Gremlins when somebody had to drive them. Robot ones would be even worse.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 21 - 03:54 PM

Is that "Robot Gremlins" quote
from a post as old as I believe it is?
I attempted a search
and found myself in the first hundred posts to this thread,
so that is going back a year or two.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 21 - 04:21 PM

Meanwhile, we have not heard from Little Hawk,
in spite of the fact that
McGonagall, immortalized in "Pegasus Descending" ,
is being repeatedly invoked in, heaven help us,
a thread in the music section
about the "OBON" song.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 21 - 09:34 AM

My new laptop arrives thurs. My old one finally lapsed into a coma.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jun 21 - 09:13 PM

"Robot" comes from the Czech word "Robota" (meaning "forced labor") and was created by Karl Capek in his 1920 play Rossum's Universal Robots.

It's an interesting play and you should read it. Better yet, recite is out loud or stage it. After all, drama is meant to be staged.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jun 21 - 08:03 PM

We're headed to sun valley for skiing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jun 21 - 10:03 PM

Ain't none. I was up that way a couple weeks ago and there ain't no snow to be had.

Try the ski jump.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jun 21 - 10:27 PM

You're a better woman than I, Keberoxu, for hunting that down. I was only willing to try ^F on the page I was on. :)

The lightening bugs are sending signals, via tiny pulses of light, if any of you care to come sit in the yard watching to interpret the meaning. So far they're telling me "Watch out for the mosquitoes."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 21 - 09:46 AM

My neighbor, Floyd, took this portrait of the mosquito which was carrying him off. Poor Floyd! His body was found later near the summit of Scout Mountain, as dry of blood as a fossil. He leaves two little brats and a very, very wealthy widow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 21 - 10:13 PM

They found both uranium and yttrium on Floyd's ranch, the old Rockin' FU.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jun 21 - 08:50 AM

America the land that never was but must be. Today again it has a national idea is grafted to a shadow. The world is a better place to merely dream of an America.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 21 - 11:06 PM

Arise, Mother Dearest, and FACE THE WORLD.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jul 21 - 08:30 PM

Mom, it's damned near impossible to find a 503600.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jul 21 - 11:19 PM

How are the temperatures at your house, Rap? Cooking eggs on the pavement? Roasting a chicken on the roof? Cooking a hamburger patty on top of the mailbox?

Subject: RE: BS: The other recipe thread is too long
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 21 - 12:05 PM

A month ago I claimed we have a fundamental understanding as to the construction of the great ancient stone structures but no one was contentious enough to scream BS!
As we know the devil is in the details

There are villains to modern archeology and we know who they are.

I came across 'Nigel Guy' who is one of the most affectionate sarcastic speakers I have ever heard...While making no claims but posing good questions, ladies and gentlemen I present
what...wait

where's the audience?

There were several conundrums I was unaware of.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 21 - 01:17 PM

47404 posts from Rapparee
42110 posts from SRS
28129 posts from Steve
25265 posts from Donuel
8754 p0sts from keboroxu
4700 posts from Walkabout
The quantitative award goes to

RAP !!!
Hooray, Who ra, woof woof woof.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 21 - 01:27 PM

Blue skies, high 80s to low 90s. I'm sitting on the back porch with a fan on right now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jul 21 - 03:04 PM

Don, I moved that post from the Recipes thread to here - assuming this is where it was headed. His lunacy creeps up on one slowly, but it does present itself. That isn't to say he doesn't ask some good questions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 21 - 09:15 PM

Questions? I like it when I purchase something and the clerk says, "Any questions?" I usually respond with something like "Why is the war? Why is there hunger in a world of plenty?" I'm told that's not the kind of questions they can answer, but they are good questions.

When I'm asked if I found everything I wanted I usually respond with, "I never find everything I want." Things like Peace and Sanity are difficult to find even outside a store.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 06:37 PM

Dinner: Maryland crab cakes, salad, strawberries for dessert.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 11:06 PM

No strawberries, but we did have the gauzpacho I made.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jul 21 - 07:32 AM

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/04/us/nathans-hot-dog-contest-2021-winners-joey-chestnut-michelle-lesco/index.html

The aftermath of this event will not be on youtube.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 21 - 08:58 PM

Upstairs we go, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jul 21 - 10:08 PM

Mom used to work upstairs, over a saloon. She was self-employed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 04:18 PM

Six months ago...
THE BLOODS WERE DRESSED IN RED as they battled against the intentionally isolated police dressed in blue as if they were the Crips. A single black face was as rare is an Audi R8 in the parking lot of Nick's diner. The Bloods bloodied the Police with anything they could swing but there were other tactical war gear such as chemical weapons, strobe lights, body armor and electric cattle prods. No one knows how many ghost guns were in the capitol but it is so very odd that the insurrection attempt was done without a shot being fired in anger by the bloods. Its almost like they had agreed upon rules of engagement. Were the rules ever in writing, email or social media post?
Or were they only whispered or sung

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jul 21 - 06:21 PM

Even though I'd miss MOM, sometimes it feels like the whole Internet needs to be turned off for a few days to get peoples attention. Getting them to think, that would be the next step and I haven't figured that one out. I managed to raise a couple of people who know how to think - but how to transfer that skill to billions around the globe. Even just millions in North America would be pretty darned good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 07:58 AM

You may get your wish compliments of ransomware cyberwar tensions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 08:46 AM

Sorry Mom, but when I tried yesterday the connections always timed out.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 11:41 AM

Yeah, turns out she wandered down to the lake and forgot to close the screendoor. A raccoon got in and messed with the router and unplugged some stuff.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 06:08 PM

i have been appointed by the Olympic Commitee as the chief alternate assistant cheer leader coordinator for the millions of absent crowds. People with the app will yell into their phone and we will add and blend their voices to be blasted into the stadium with six foot speakers. My duties are currently nothing unless 2 other people die of covid first.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jul 21 - 06:42 PM

srs IF people are not guided/educated between the ages of 10 to 21 playing catch up to think will be a losing battle and then we can still lose some to cults of all kinds along the way. Once the damage is done one can pretend to see things from their perspective and slowly throw monkey wrenchs into their belief system and have them argue themselves out of their worst beliefs. It works but only partially.
In religion its called the forgiveness thing :*?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jul 21 - 10:39 PM

Hi, Mom! It was over 100F out on the Snake River Plain today, and I have not idea what it was out in the Arco Desert. I'm glad I wasn't working outside or at the Idaho National Laboratory!

Someone: "It's 103 out there, but thank goodness it's a dry heat." Me: "It's still 103."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jul 21 - 09:31 AM

Take heart the Fox weather channel says its called weather and has nothing to do with the global warming hoax. In fact the sun is currently further away and cooler than it was in December.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jul 21 - 07:54 PM

The Fourth of July is over, MOM,
so it's a little safer up top than it was last weekend.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 21 - 09:52 PM

It's 90+ out there even now, and still there are golfers (some carrying their bag!).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jul 21 - 12:20 AM

Just because.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 21 - 06:17 PM

Just because indeed!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 06:28 AM

as expected

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 08:28 AM

20 years ago my issues were climate, pandemic, bio war, nuclear accidents and new lifeforms and extinctions, for which I was deemed a troll. The next 20 years will be more of the same but at an accelerated rate. Cats and dogs will continue to be popular on BS along with goverment malfeasence. It doesn't take a psychic, but it doesn't hurt.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 11:09 AM

In the parlance of Trump the shithole nation of Haiti has had American involvement in the assasination of their president. It may be that it is a purely Haitian attack for a coup but we have learned that the fingerprints of Gen.Huckelberry Flynn and Steven Miller could be discovered without surprise.
Also in the parlance of Trump is "Hoax, witch hunt, dangerous radical leftist democrats, the system is rigged&frigged, persecution of Republicans, Silicon Valley Tyrants, left wing cancel culture, the critical race theory maniacs and I don't see why russia would be involved".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 03:56 PM

There was a crooked man
who always acted pissed
He had alot of crooked fans
that hated blacks and spics

There was a crooked man,
and he sold crooked plots,
He found a crooked dollar
in all the crooked slots

He stole a crooked cat
which caught a crooked mouse,
Then Dad got really fat
in a huge crooked house.

There was a crooked river
that doesn't reach the sea
it carved a mighty canyon
there's nothing left but breeze

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 08:43 PM

Today I was wondering if the sun changed its magnetic solar wind if it would change the spin of the Earth's iron core by way of the Eienstien DeHass effect. I worry about stuff we can't explain let alone control,
much like everyone else. Luckily I'm only smart one day a month.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jul 21 - 09:34 PM

Gee, Mom, after the post-sleep study meeting today it looks like soon I'll have something like one of these.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 21 - 06:20 AM

CRAPSTORE? try Amazon

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jul 21 - 08:14 AM

It's coming from the VA. Thank you for your taxes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jul 21 - 10:08 PM

2299...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jul 21 - 10:10 PM

Oops. I'm a hundred ahead of Mom!

2200!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 12:08 AM

That looks like something Costco could sell for a fraction of the price. And Don, I also first saw "crapstore." Dyslexic minds think alike?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 10:52 AM

Certain fonts can trick the eye. One of the most dyslexic people in the news is Richard Branson.
Rap if the federal legalization of pot passes then you can get free VA weed er... PTSD medicine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 05:46 PM

I got a FTLgram from the overlords. There won't be a second USA civil war afterall. Although the culture war anti choice crowd is mainly a culture of war, the next 'trumpesque wanna be' will not have the proper con man credentials.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 06:27 PM

Those who clamor for war have usually never experienced it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 21 - 08:20 PM

Steve Bannon (evil genius): "Tucker, you're going to have to change you story about vaccines...
Tucker Carlson (Frozen dinner inheritence): Are you becoming a squish Steve?
Bannon: No its just that with the Delta varient we are losing 5% of our voters now and the next generation! Everyone that dies from the pandemic from here on out are votes we are are losing forever.
Tucker: Once we get all the states obstructing and overturning the vote we can win with only 30%.
Bannon: Thats not a done deal Tucker. By the way, are you vaccinated?
Tucker: Of course how about you?
Bannon: Don't be an idiot with me Tucker, I'm not Trump.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 21 - 11:22 AM

Google Gold has been a top secret project located in SF. Within the mega building is the quantum computer center that some say has had unexpected spin off research including time manipulation that could change society. While a Google Gold subscription is pricey like a Bezos space ride one could conceivably look up tommorrow's winning lottery number. The NSA is expected to gobble up Google Gold which means we are one step closer to government at the highest decision making level by computer. Some employees are privately calling Google Gold, "Big Mother".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 21 - 09:21 PM

To celebrate the relaxation of pandemic rules we went to the Georgetown restaurant 'Global Gourmet' which has 4 Chefs that specialize in European, Mexican, Indian or Eastern Asian cuisine. The menu has mostly recognizable dishes but their specials, reliant upon availability, had truly exotic fare. The atmosphere was an ecclectic global mix as well. There was loud Mexican ballads, Chopin, Rajas or Gamalon music. Even the napkins were varied with embroidered themes that were western, Indian filigree patterns or chinese water color prints.
The waiter wrote nothing down and was expert at describing the specials although he practically whispered. Having never had them I ordered the boiled frog legs. When they came they were not remotely like fish but were pungent like kidney pie and stringy. When I was asked, I told the waiter that the frog legs with peas were not particulary pleasing and there were no peas. He looked confused and asked "Frog eggs"? I said No, frog legs, . Sir you ordered the dog legs in pee, In fact your order went to the Asian Chef and not the European Chef.
In that case, could I have the Pangolin Stew instead? "Of course sir. How would you like your Congo Stew of heads, spicy or plain"? I suggested they should turn the music down and left.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 01:15 PM

MOM! Just because I don't see you for one day is no reason to drop into the gutter!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 02:58 PM

Position or content?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jul 21 - 03:06 PM

The Olympics has decided to go with previous olympic recorded cheering.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 06:29 PM

Upstairs again, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 07:01 PM

WHEN the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,
An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what's fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . . .

First mind you steer clear o' the grog-sellers' huts,
For they sell you Fixed Bay'nets that rots out your guts -
Ay, drink that 'ud eat the live steel from your butts -
An' it's bad for the young British soldier.
Bad, bad, bad for the soldier . . .

When the cholera comes - as it will past a doubt -
Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout,
For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,
An' it crumples the young British soldier.
Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier . . .

But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .

If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don't grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it's beer for the young British soldier.
Beer, beer, beer for the soldier . . .

Now, if you must marry, take care she is old -
A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told,
For beauty won't help if your rations is cold,
Nor love ain't enough for a soldier.
'Nough, 'nough, 'nough for a soldier . . .

If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch 'em - you'll swing, on my oath! -
Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both,
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .

When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .

When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She's human as you are - you treat her as sich,
An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .

When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o' the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jul 21 - 10:27 PM

Everyone has been using canned cheers for the last 16 months. They're not exactly ahead of the curve with that decision.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 06:32 AM

Writ large is the phrase thats writ large today. Everyone's getting infected with Delta writ large. Delta is more contagious writ large. But anti vaxers are blind to whats writ large. The most absurd little big lies are writ large for them. Olympic money makers will not attemd. Facebook executives are in quarantine. Politicians get vaccine in secret. Writ large are the lies of yesterday that discourage common sense today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 09:13 AM

this is a government link with no comment

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 01:51 PM

The Paralympic rules for wheelchair golf are rather short sighted. The contestants are allowed caddies but no assistance whatsoever with their chairs to navigate the course. In practice Wayne Cummingham of the Ireland team became stuck in a sandtrap and if he was in competition would have had to concede if he had been pulled out.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 21 - 10:10 PM

There are far too many bloodthirsty insects about.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 12:52 PM

Now put that in the the future imperfect tense

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 03:11 PM

Grouchy Fauci told Senator Paul "You don't know what you are talking about and if anyone has lied before Congress it is you Senator".

"no dr. you're a liar"
"You Are"
"liar liar pants on fire"
"You're worse than Trump"
"You mean the greatest man on Earth ?"
"Numb Skull"
"POOPY PANTS"
"American Taliban"
"SHIT HEAD ! "
etc.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 03:25 PM

The Steve Bannon order about changing Covid denial did break through yesterday when Hannity announced on FOX "Covid is real and get vaccinated." Projections showed another Republican million votes dying of Delta was unacceptable.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 04:30 PM

X-Men Magneto officially re-instates President Trump President.
Magneto and Wolverine also say that the vaccine does magnatized the human body but interfers with the Bill Gates Microchips.
Rumors fly fast and furious that Donald Trump is an X-Man but the nature of his mutant super powers remain secret, says Steve Bannon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 07:25 PM

The post cold war is being waged with invisible beamed weapons like those that cause the Havana Syndrome and are deployed in every city with a US presence. When it comes time to retaliate a simple hack will cause the users to be exposed to fatal levels of radiation by their own emmiters. All Russian embassies will be X rayed continually and Putin will be sub gamma rayed from orbit to avoid detection. Its the kind of war you set to simmer and wait until everyone is well done.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jul 21 - 10:02 PM

Here you are!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 07:50 AM

X-Men Magneto has officially re-instated President Trump President by decree.
Magneto and Wolverine also say that the vaccine does magnetize the human body but on the plus side interfers with the Bill Gates Microchips in the bloodstream.
Rumors fly Fast and Furious that Donald Trump is an X-Man but the nature of his mutant super powers remain secret, says Steve Bannon.
Historian Rapparee has evidence Trump is Thanos who has callouses around his soul so thick that nothing penetrates his brain although hate can still be extruded by an ass hole of the soul.

Hmmm Ass hole of the soul...That could be the title of next tell all book.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 03:39 PM

We recently arrived -- and went past --
Post 2222 to this thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 04:31 PM

and it was palodromic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 06:13 PM

Palindrome, yes, but it's not at all Prime. However, 2224 is the gene that encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the production of geranyl pyrophosphate and farnesyl pyrophosphate from isopentenyl pyrophosphate and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate. The resulting product, farnesyl pyrophosphate, is a key intermediate in cholesterol and sterol biosynthesis, a substrate for protein farnesylation and geranylgeranylation, and a ligand or agonist for certain hormone receptors and growth receptors. Drugs that inhibit this enzyme prevent the post-translational modifications of small GTPases and have been used to treat diseases related to bone resorption. Multiple pseudogenes have been found on chromosomes 1, 7, 14, 15, 21 and X. Multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene.

Ain'tcha glad to know this?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 06:47 PM

The genome project is down the street on Darnstown Rd.
The information in DNA is mostly for complex protien formation.
We used to call it junk DNA in the dark ages. Now with the advent of exogenetic info, my mind reels.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jul 21 - 10:16 PM

DNA specialists and experts from the Idaho Legion have determined that the DNA of those living around Washington, DC have been contaminated with DNA of space aliens, specifically those from Rigel 14. This disappears when they have been absent for no fewer than 20 consecutive days.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 21 - 09:06 AM

Extreme weather is being covered by weathermen like infotainment.
Their agenda is to not alarm but to feel good since things could be worse.
Now that the world is more accustomed to the new normal of simultneous pandemic, eruptions, extinctions, floods, super storms, fires, tsunamis, meltdowns, sinkholes, and artic zombie fires, now is the time for a mighty ELE asteroid impact. We are so well accustomed to the unusual that an ultimate challenge will be so normalized, people will hardly miss facebook, electricty and food and water. There will some relief to not have to worry about things like ransomware, vaccines and democracy anymore.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 21 - 09:27 AM

There will also be no need to worry about dogs in hot cars, crumpets, staying afloat, olympics and whats for dinner. Carrion will be the ubiquitous bill of fare.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 21 - 09:33 AM

In time we will be the stuff of exoskeleton armchair archeologists to speculate about us, and get it all fundamentally wrong.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 21 - 07:38 PM

Arrested development in America could be its down fall. The insurrectionist mind is a teenager but with a gun to simulate manhood.
I know I ask too many questions and speak out of turn but I am not a teenager. I do not believe the latest conspiracy theory or need to simulate manhood. It is written 'judge not' but I am judgemental.

"Being judgemental to me just means I have standards."
Fran

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 06:45 AM

Cliff driving is putting stress on many State resources to recover and treat the victims of cliff driving. Cliff driving advocates say they prefer dangerous freedoms to safe mandates. The Mayor of Withering View Georgia says he will nix any moves to ban cliff driving but at the same time do not expect any ambulance or hospital care.
Now that many children are perishing inside SUV's that take the 'plunge' it is surprising that the fatality numbers are still going up.
The anti cliff driving folks blame a lack of common sense that drives people to kill ones self and others. Bill Barnone, a cliff driver survivor and internet influencer says on Facebook "You can die from safe driving. There is nothing like driving over a cliff."





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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 10:52 PM

MOM, Donuel is trying his darndest to keep you
from sinking to the bottom of the queue.
So let me give you another boost here. Up we go.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jul 21 - 11:25 PM

real news
we are having a bird mortality event in the area. everyone is supposed to remove bird feeders. the birds have no balance and there eyes are crusty before they die.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 08:54 AM

I am not trying my darndest, damnedest or grandest. After 40 years of cartooning my mind churns them out a mile a minute. I picture the future armchair archeologist as a highly developed cockroach with similar human foibles. To put the cartoons in prose is easier than drawing and is automatic like breathing - but = its time for breath control.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 11:34 AM

I fixed your Fran link a few posts down (it was missing the last digit.)

Bird die-off has been a problem since last year and some is attributed to people at home looking for distraction so they put out bird feeders and bird baths that weren't properly cleaned between refills.

I read about biologists who work out in the huge fields of power-generating windmills and they look for birds and bats killed by the blades. They have dogs finding and retrieving the carcasses in the fields that are planted all around the windmills. The nature of the dogs need to be particularly playful. My Cookie would be good at that job.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 02:00 PM

Thanks I need a lot of help as a fractured genius as I believe most of us are. The parts I am missing, like being unable to speak another language and coding are filled in by others. I even married so that I could have a translator for my empty parts.

There is a portrait of Bach holding a fugue fragment as he wryly grins.
It demonstrates a palindromic harmony that is non linear. I see time as non linear and shapes in hyperspace and other things easier than most people while I am an idiot in some other disciplines.
For those not on friendly terms with diversity will find all this unlikely but it has always been this way. Such is the nature of unique dyslexia.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 06:05 PM

Hi, Mom! I’m in Pinedale, Wyoming.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jul 21 - 07:35 PM

Is that the Pinedale that got a wake up call this year but missed it since everyone was asleep?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 02:03 AM

Don, going back a couple of posts, I've been scanning slides from an artists' collection at a local museum, and the two artists whose slides I'm scanning were interested in painting all sorts of things. There was a folder with a set of composers' portraits, and having grown up with classical music, I recognized them so added the names to the metadata. So, not BS, just interesting overlap. They made reference to the most popular images when they created their paintings of these artists, and added some human 3D characteristics. For example, it's clear that George Fridric Handel is probably wearing a wig in the historic photos, but in their portrait, the forehead shadow at the hairline is such that you can see a more human person who happens to be wearing a wig.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 08:28 AM

This one is more than voice leading rules https://d3idks24kkd2lv.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Johann_Sebastian_Bach-244x300.jpg

There are many cartoon memes of this too whacky toons.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 08:55 AM

Jacques Loussier interprets Bach in straight forward jazz themes. I have another way to interpret Bach by progressively extracting notes from the quick runs to resolve on the longer chords. For example using the first violin solo sonata

The resulting etheral chord changes are far different than the linear violin version. The melting change from one chord to the next can be done only on keyboard or ensemble and is fun and cosmic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 10:07 AM

Compared to the healing power of puppies or remarkable food this stuff is trivial.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 21 - 01:10 PM

WHEW! Don't go in there man. Why what happened? The last guy just took a ballot dump.

to the tune
You've got to accentuate the positive

We're all testing Delta positive
Few are testing negative
With vaccine you are going to live
Don't mess with Mister Donald Trump
You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemicmonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate his last remark
Bob in ICU, Gale in ambulance
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark
Man, they said we better, accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, do not mess with Mister No Vaccine
Do you hear me?
Oh, listen to me children and-a you will hear
About the eliminatin' of the negative
And the accent on the positive
And gather 'round me children if you're willin'
And sit tight while I start reviewin'
The attitude of doin' right
You've gotta accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Anti vaccine memes
You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom, down to the minimum
Otherwise pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate my last remark
Bob in ICU, Gale in ambulance
What did they say
Say when everything looked so dark
Man, they said we better accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, don't mess with Mister No Vaccine

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 21 - 11:29 AM

There's a spell of triple-digit weather coming. MOM wants to know who stole the kiddie wading pool. She sets it up on the screen porch and skinny-dips after dark.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 11:21 PM

The wading pool turned up, but as soon as it was filled the Labrador retriever climbed in and sat down. He skinny-dips also.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 11:23 PM

Okay, Mom. I'm home again, jiggity-jig. And even though I walked dusty streets at High Noon I didn't get in any gunfights or even a hearty game of rock-paper-scissors. It was hot, hot, hot and the smoke from the West Coast fires was bothersome both there and here at home. Sure would like more than a minor spit of rain!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 21 - 09:43 AM

2250!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 21 - 09:13 PM

Post number 2,500 was made to the "What's the Weather Like Where You Are" thread at 8:12 a.m. Mudcat time on July 27, 2021!

That 250 MORE posts than Mom! And that is unconscionable!

Get Posting! Do it in memory of Amos, at the very least!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jul 21 - 01:42 PM

Your wish, o Imperious Rapturous Rex, is my command. Eventually.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jul 21 - 09:43 AM

Mom! It's nearing the Martinmas Time! Gie oop and bar the door!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 21 - 08:38 PM

There are some REALLY funny things in literature, from Europe,
about St. Martin's feast time.
Like Friedrich Rückert's poem ...
I'm mightily tempted to post it ...

"O heiliger Martine ... "

it's a hilarious description of getting the parish feast going,
right down to the goose for dinner,
the pouring rain outside,
and how
'Saint Catherine is coming next,
so put the fiddles away already.'

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jul 21 - 10:31 PM

Það féll um Martinmas-tímann og hugrakkan tíma það var þá þegar konan okkar góði búðingur gerði og hún soðnaði þá á pönnunni.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 09:25 PM

Yes, Mom. Tomorrow between 11:15 a.m. MDT and 3:15 p.m. MDT it arrives.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 10:02 PM

... your wife cooked a good pudding in a pan ?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 21 - 10:08 PM

Here is Friedrich Rückert's poem

Martini-Kirchweihe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 21 - 07:03 AM

"Get Posting! Do it in memory of Amos, at the very least!"

Really? I know we all have selective memories but I vividly recall the last of Amos posts. He deeply regretted the time he spent posting so much to the exclusion of time spent with family and priorities.
When time is short we all could do bargaining such as wishing 30,000+ hours back to use differently, but to attribute it to "do it to the memory of...", it should at least be a true memory.
There is nothing wrong with taking a word from the wise and managing time more wisely.
Besides, the posts of the past have virtually disappeared for reasons I do not fully understand.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 21 - 09:30 PM

This. Fortunately I didn't have to shell out better than USD 3,300 for it. I got it from the VA Hospital in Salt Lake City. It not only has a built-in cell phone to send data to the SLC folks, but they can reprogram it remotely. YES! I can be remotely reprogrammed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 09:13 AM

Woof we just had a teeny eaRTHQUAKE. Only 2.1

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 04:12 PM

Ya'know Rap the poor man's version is an elevated angle for a mattress and a wife willing and ready to taze you the momment you breathe haltingly in your sleep. The midnight ice water challenge technique also works.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 05:46 PM

Keb we have had a spate of mystery bug bites in the area probably from the 2 mm ciccada hatchlings.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 10:06 PM

$1,700 for a TASER® 7 CQ Home Defense Shooting Stun Gun w/ Laser Sight isn't a poor person's toy. Then you have to buy two-packs of air propellant AND more Taser reloads after each use.

For that kinda money I can buy a couple of GOOD pistols* and ammunition -- or put a a down payment on a BiPAP ST, such as was provided by the VA. Moreover, they're not all that expensive, and a factory refurb would work fine. But I take what I'm given.


*Should I want to, which I don't as I have enough firearms and ammunition for a LONG hunting trip or a small war. If I wanted to spend that sort of cash I'd buy something else entirely, like a surprise for my wife (who, BTW, inherited a .22 rifle, a 7.65mm FN 10/22, a 1917 .45 Colt Autorim Revolver, a .22 revolver, and a .22 air rifle from her father).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 11:23 PM

As PTSD lessens, the arsenal of its victims can begin to shrink.
A poor man's coup can be 'started' with a Bushmaster.
The folk song army is armed with guitars.
Internet warriors fire keyboards.
Doctors shoot vaccines.
I just whisper.
War's hell

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 04:30 PM

I have a personal theory about PTSD I don't talk about because I could be wrong. Those with a conscience-empathy suffer from PTSD and those without a conscience/empathy, glory in not having variable degrees of ptsd. The more sociopathology the less prone people are to have recurrent PTSD.
There it is, but like I say I could be wrong.
A second Capitol policeman who fought on Jan. 6th has committed suicide this month. Perhaps other factors are more important.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 10:39 PM

Ane Prayer for the Pesty lance

by Robert Henryson
O eterne god, of power infinyt,
To quhois hie knawledge na thing is of obscure
That is, or was, or evir salbe, perfyt,
in to thy sicht, quhill that this warld indure;
Haif mercy of us, Indigent and peure;
Thow dois na wrang to puneiss our offens:
O Lord, that is to mankynd haill succure,
Preserve us fra this perrelus pestilens.

We the beseik, o Lord of lordis all,
thy eiris inclyne and heir our grit regrait;
We ask remeid of the in generall,
That is of help and comfort desolait;
bot thow with rewth our hairtis recreat,
We ar bot deid but only thy clemens:
We the exhort, on kneis law prostrait,
Preserf us fra this perrellus pestilens.

We ar richt glaid thow puneiss our trespass
be ony kind of uthir tribulatioun,
Wer it thy will, o lord of hevin, allaiss,
that we sowld thus be haistely put doun,
and dye as beistis without confessioun,
That nane dar mak with uthir residence.
O blissit Jesu, that woir the thorny croun,
Preserve us frome this perrelus pestilens.

Use derth, o lord, or seiknes, and hungir soir,
and slaik thy plaig that is so penetryve.
Thy pepill ar perreist: quha ma remeid thairfoir,
bot thow, o lord, That for thame Lost thy lyve?
Suppoiss our syn be to the pungityve,
Oure deid ma nathing our synnys recompens.
Haif mercy, lord, we ma not with the stryve:
preserve us etc.

Haif mercy, lord, haif mercy, hevynis king!
Haif mercy of thy pepill penetent;
Haif mercy of our petouss punissing;
retreit the sentence of thy Just Jugement
Aganis us synnaris, that servis to be schent:
Without mercy, we ma mak no defens.
Thow that, but rewth, upoun the rude was rent,
preserve us frome this perrellus pestilens.

Remmember, Lord, how deir thow hes us bocht,
That for us synnaris sched thy pretius blude,
Now to redeme that thow hes maid of nocht,
That is of vertew barrane and denude;
Haif rewth, Lord, of thyne awin symilitude;
Puneiss with pety and nocht with violens.
We knaw it is for our Ingratitude
That we ar puneist with this pestilens.

Thow grant us grace for till amend our miss,
And till evaid this crewall suddane deid;
We knaw our syn is all the cause of thiss,
for oppin syn thair is set no remeid.
The Justice of god mon puneiss than bot dreid,
for by the law he will with non dispens:
quhair Justice laikis thair is Eternall feid,
of god that sowld preserf fra pestilens.

Bot wald the heiddismen that sowld keip the law
Pueneiss the peple for thair transgressioun,
Thair wald na deid the peple than owrthraw:
bot thay ar gevin so planely till oppressioun,
That god will not heir thair intercessioun;
bot all ar puneist for thair Innobediens
be sword or deid withowttin remissioun,
And hes Just cause to send us pestilens.

Superne/ Lucerne/ guberne/ this pestilens,
preserve/ and serve/ that we not sterve thairin.
Declyne/ that pyne/ be thy Devyne prudens.
O trewth/ haif rewth/ lat not our slewth us twin.
Our syt/ full tyt/ wer we contryt/ wald blin.
Dissiver/ did never/ quha evir the besocht.
Send grace/ with space/ and us Imbrace/ fra syn.
Latt nocht be tynt that thow so deir hes bocht.

O prince preclair/ this cair/ cotidiane,
We the exhort/ distort/ it in exyle.
Bot thow remeid/ this deid/ is bot ane trane,
for to dissaif/ the laif/ and thame begyle.
Bot thow sa wyiss/ devyiss to mend this byle
Of this mischief/ quha ma releif/ us ocht
for wrangus win/ bot thow our syn ourfyll?
Latt not be tynt.

Sen for our Vyce/ that Justyce/ mon correct,
O king most hie/ now pacifie/ thy feid:
Our syn is huge/ Refuge/ we not suspect;
As thow art Juge/ deluge us of this dreid.
In tyme assent/ or We be schent with deid;
We us repent/ and tyme mispent forthocht:
Thairfoir/ Evirmoir/ be gloir/ to thy godheid
Lat nocht be tynt that thow sa deir hes bocht.

Ane thow lord saieth
OK hear art yar Vakseen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Aug 21 - 08:33 PM

RIP Steven Weinberg you will be recognized as important as Newton, Feynman, Hawking and Maxwell.

Why magic mushrooms are great!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 21 - 08:53 PM

Sorry to be remiss in my visits, Mom, but things snowballed the last couple of days. I know you'll forgive me because I'm your favorite kid! I'll try to do better, but no matter what you think of it I have my duties to do at the Idaho Legion Hovel. However, following your excellent advice I'm not TOUCHING anything Smooth Chuckie the Bartender supplies to me in an opened bottle.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 06:27 PM

It's Saturday night, MOM.
Up to the head of the queue we go.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Aug 21 - 11:18 PM

"It's Saturday night and I ain't got nobody..."
                   -- The Ghost's Song From Hamlet

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 03:14 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee - PM
Date: 04 Aug 21 - 10:06 PM

"$1,700 for a TASER® 7 CQ Home Defense Shooting Stun Gun w/ Laser Sight isn't a poor person's toy."

No wonder ya can't bring 'em in or use 'em on people in Canada. We are either too poor or too cheap to own one. I have wasp spray on the go now... it's wasp season, eh?

The baseball bat? I don't like to see any animal suffer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 12:42 PM

Starting today fully vaccinated Americans may cross over into Canada but Canadians are still not allowed down here. Its up to Rap to do the visiting. I think Spirit Airlines go to PEI.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 01:30 PM

There has been skepticism expressed about the Idaho Legion's place and activities in defending Earth from the Minions Of The Galactic Overlord (MOTGO). Here is photographic proof taken from the International Space Station (Legion Forward Observer Post "India Sierra Sierra") of a bolt shot from a MOTGO "Conqueror" Class intergalactic dreadnought at a city on Earth. You can see other Earth cities burning and destroyed.

This is never reported in the main stream (or even obscure trickle) media to prevent global panic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 06:01 AM

Speaking of the OTM (obscure trickle media), Q-Anon is now being displaced by R-Anon, S-Anon and T-Anon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 07:17 AM

more motgo blasts

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 09:04 AM

Delta 88 is not your grandfather's old mobile Covid 19.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 11:07 AM

This is an oldie-and-goodie, so here goes:

HOW TO PLAY AND SING THE BLUES
1. Most Blues begin with: "Woke up this morning..."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues unless you stick something nasty in the next line like "I got a good woman with the meanest face in town."
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes, sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch. There ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or SUVs. Most Blues transportation is a
Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft and state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in
the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or anyplace in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still great places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues anyplace that don't get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the Blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg 'cause you were skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it is.
9. You can't have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go out to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places for the Blues:
a. Nordstrom's
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League colleges
d. golf courses
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
Yes, if:
a. you older than dirt
b. you blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived
d. you have a 401K or trust fund
13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.
14. If you ask for water and your darlin' give you gasoline, it's the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. cheap wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. nasty black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast
15. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So are the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broken-down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction.
16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie
18. Persons with names like Amber, Jennifer, Tiffany, Debbie, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
19. Make your own Blues name Starter Kit:
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, etc..)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, etc.)
Examples: Blind Lime Jefferson, Jackleg Lemon Johnson.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 11:53 AM

Taking Stilly's advice, my Blues Name will be Amblyopic Passiflora Buchanan. Here's the start of my first Blues Song:

I woke up this mornin' walkin' to the Greyhound Bus
Yeah I work up this mornin' walkin' to the Greyhound Bus
Cuz my woman done left me, she even took my truss.

Oh yeah, I got the blues,
And a rupture you can't believe
And a rupture you can't believe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 21 - 01:08 PM

based on your mistake;

I 'work' up till mornin
then I collapse in my bed
Yes I work up till mornin
mornins my midnights instead

I gum my mornin sausage
without a tooth in my head
squeeze out another blockage
but I still feel half past dead

This buildin ain't no castle
cept the walls are fallin down
the landlord is an ass hole
and he wears a Yankee's crown

by Muddy lip Rivers

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 21 - 02:49 PM

Oh Mom, oh Mom
What have I done
To wake up in a jail cell?

I drank your gin
I when you weren't in
And woke up in a jail cell.

Then a guy started calling you names,
Names that brought you shame.
He said you were worse than Carrie Nation,
With a manure fork I sent him to perdition.

I shouldn't have done it,
But his words, they bit
And I woke up in this jail cell.

Tomorrow morn I meet my fate
Tomorrow morn, at half-past eight
With a rope and drop I'll leave this jail cell.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 09:13 AM

I do not see the jailed insurrectionists as political prisoners...
I do not find America irredeemable and condemned to be forever ignorant and militantly bigoted just because conservatives went off the rails for Trump.
A 'I alone can fix it!' guy is bound to come along again. We are more resiliant to mistakes time and again. We are starting to tone zealotry down. When we will see 'cancel culture' as bad as 'Trumpism' we will find a sensible balance. I see this miniscule forum an early example of larger changes to come. People do not want to live always by hatefullness and toxic invectives. The pendulum will eventually drop to the middle.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Aug 21 - 07:25 PM

G'day, Mom. I hope you are well and even temporarily sober. I know that you'll do the right thing and spring Stilly from durance vile. Yes Mom, help her make tomato wine but be careful because it will foam all over the table and floor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Aug 21 - 03:44 PM

My youngest brother once made water into wine. He dissolved sugar in tap water and added yeast. He told me it had no flavor or anything else to recommend it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Aug 21 - 08:39 PM

Although I've tried it I am not a drinker. Is their anything to recommend it? Maybe I don't have the disease that it cures.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Aug 21 - 10:41 PM

In moderation, yes. Mom, on the other hand, uses it to escape from all of her children except me, her favorite.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 12:12 PM

Are you a Smothers brother?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 09:03 PM

Mom, the radon test went bad. Seems like the test kit was outdated. So the local public health people sent me two and I've hung them up in two places here in the basement. The results of the first said that lab test "demonstrated the possibility of excess radon."

But then, you can pursue health here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 09:38 PM

Radon.


Radon gas is a known cause of lung cancer. Many areas with karst bedrock are composed of limestone. Phosphate minerals that occur naturally in limestone contain small amounts of uranium. ... As a result of the uranium degrading into lead, small amounts of radon are produced as a byproduct.

Gotta love it. Much of Central and East Texas and the coast is perched on a slab of limestone.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 09:39 PM

And then there's this.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 10:31 PM

When she was 7 my wife helped her folks clear the lot upon which their house was built in Silver Spring, Maryland. She got a BAD case of poison ivy, so much so that she couldn't even wear shoes. Her uncle, a doctor, got her into Georgetown University Medical Center in DC. She was given several doses of whole-body x-rays and the rash cleared up nicely. (X-rays were used to treat many things, including common acne.)

Fast forward 10 years and she's all set to go off to college (in Philadelphia, of course). She has a physical and ends up again in Georgetown Med Center with thyroid cancer. She is quite annoyed that her college education was delayed six weeks. Of course, she had a total thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy with 72 lymph nodes removed and was (and is) scarred all over her throat and shoulders.

Fast forward to today. FIVE different cancers (not just locations, but types).

Don't fool with any radiation.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Aug 21 - 11:15 PM

I'm in Silver Spring and still get poison ivy.
The biggest dose of radiation I got was from the 3 mile island initial radiation cloud release. It felt like my spine wanted to throw up.
The biggest dose my sister got was in an Army experiment of drinking 2 oz. of radioactive iodine. At the time of her death she had no digestive organs from the esophagus to the rectum. She survived on ATP alone. The Army learned people should not drink radioactive iodine.

PS If you get solar storm warnings its best to stay inside since Xrays can exceed tolerable levels outside.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 08:45 AM

Instead of driving from Finland to Sicily you can simply drive to Butte Montana where there is always a room at the Finland Hotel. Then ask anyone there where to eat a 5 lbs. stromboli. Its free if you eat the whole thing in an hour.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 09:01 AM

'Butte' is a kick 'ass' fun loving town compared to the actual Finland where joy is just the shadow of the all too cold dim damp depression from 10 months of winter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 10:02 AM

However many people in Butte do suffer from kupperspeck.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 10:54 AM

If you need to eat like a true omnivorious cowboy you will have to head down to Denver and go to the Buckhorn Exchange. Buffalo Bill and Teddy Roosevelt have eaten there so rest assured, its authentic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 01:06 PM

Buffalo Bill ate Teddy Roosevelt in Denver???

The distillery in Butte turns out some GREAT booze! Pricey, but you get what you pay for. Try "Neversweat" or "Speculator."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 01:07 PM

Oh, yeah. The air quality started at 88 at 0630 and now 125. Smoke.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 01:17 PM

Vegas is holding a sweepstakes of who will be the first to reach 100,000 casualties first; people executed by the Taliban, Hatian earthquake victims or Trump antivaxers. The 100 day clock is ticking.

I casually object to the casual treatment of casualties.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 01:24 PM

Betting ends on 9-11.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 01:52 PM

Bulwer-Lytton time again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 04:56 PM

At Jersey Mike's my girlfriend asked what the tiny pimiento-stuffed thing in my cheddar-bread sandwich was. Without thinking I said: Maybe a "Wee olive in my yellow sub, Maureen."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 09:18 PM

Here is the man who claimed to have the data packets that could prove Trump won
Now he is walking it all back. His reputation precedes him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 21 - 09:26 PM

So I finally ordered the tee shirt I've wanted for 4 years. Navy heather, tan lettering reading "Angola: A Gated Community." From the LA Angola Prison Museum gift shop.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 21 - 06:38 AM

Angola plantation was first owned by Master James.
The plantation was named for the African country that was the origin of many slaves brought to Louisiana. Angola plantation prison is now the largest forced labor maximum-security prison in the United States with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance, and wardens.

olde times there are not forgotten
look away look away look away
Dixieland.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Aug 21 - 03:37 PM

Any profit from the Museum sales goes to support the families of inmates.

About three blocks from where I'm typing this is a high school. I can barely see it through the smoke. The Air Quality Index is 158 -- unhealthy. I shall be inside my house, where the air conditioner has a HEPA filter, unlike golfers who are dashing around beating their balls with clubs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 21 - 05:12 PM

Its an open secret among inmates: You exit through the gift shop.

It could be worse than smoke, it could be volcanic ash.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 21 - 05:29 PM

My inlaws had one of development houses on a golf course. Lots of round white pebbles in the yard and garden.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 21 - 09:48 AM

I'm off to see the orthodonist, the orthodonist of Oz
He really is a whiz of an orthodonist if ever a whiz there was....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 21 - 06:43 PM

Oh boy! Oral surgery the 27th!!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Aug 21 - 12:02 AM

The thing about oral surgury is that you may not feel a thing but it sounds awful, cruuuncch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Aug 21 - 09:09 AM

A subject I have not seen explored anywhere is how insurrectionists around the world are emboldened because of the Taliban victory.
How will the nazi movement in Germany or even the US use the success of a sustained insurgency. The Taliban said we had the watches but they had the time. The american taliban really are the militias pf Jan. 6th

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 08:56 AM

Donuel, why don't you think that the ranks of the Proud Boys, 3 percenters, KKK, American Nazi Party, and others aren't infiltrated by the FBI like during the Sixties? It has come out in the Jan 6 trials and confessions that more than a few of those arrested were informants. Besides, our 'locals' use FB, Twitter, and so on to communicate -- and these are not exactly private.

The most private way is to send a coded message in writing by a trusted courier (if you can find one). Check out the Son Tay raid or the messaging before the Battle of the Bulge. Of course, your courier must be willing to eat the message and/or die before spilling the beans. The NVA didn't expect problems moving the prisoners and so sent the message in the clear and my youngest brother (who was flying air intelligence for the Son Tay Raid) always felt that the NVA didn't "play fair" by not using electronic communications so he could find out what they were up to.

I'm not so much concerned with group activity (assuming intel is acted on) as I am about local actions by local nuts.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 09:09 AM

Why don't I think? I never thought about it.


The trick of infiltration is waiting to pull the trigger. Too late and the bomb goes off. Too soon and intelligence and prosecution is compromised.
Infiltration is the exception and not the rule/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 04:45 PM

If someone doesn't care if s/he lives or dies the only way to stop them is to kill them. Vide the kamikaze, the people who blow themselves up, those who flew into the Twin Towers, those who commit suicide by police, and others. IF they could be captured or found before plans are brought to completion they might be helped or at least segregated from doing harm. Of course, if someone believes that their death will serve a higher good (kamikaze, martyr, patriot), well, fanaticism will find a way even though it may be years later.

It's usually a waste of time to try to argue and change the mind of a True Believer unless you are very, very good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 05:22 PM

Part of those tradgedies is that the violent care TOO much. Those who seek help are not the ones to worry about the most. But when you're right you're right except the killem part.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 06:15 PM

a rose is a rose

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 08:30 PM

I'm sort of familiar with the Ring Nebula. The IL saved it from the GO and his/her/its minions about two weeks back, Earth time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 21 - 09:12 PM

That image is lovely - and a great way to cleanse the palate after all of the talk of covert information gathering. I've saved the image to the folder that I have my screensaver plugged into; I see a lot of stellar formations and the surface of Mars, with occasional great works of art and fall landscapes. This inspired me to go clean out that folder (there were duplicates) and I look forward to the next time the saver comes on. My desktop background is tracks in the sand from one of the Mars rovers; maybe I should consider changing out the view.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 01:05 AM

That ring nebula photo was a composite from hubble, gigantic binoculars , a bit of infra red and a splash of bourbon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 10:43 AM

Now, now, MOM, this is no time to sink to the bottom. Up you go.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 01:30 PM

White Nationalists have decided the best way to change history is to wipe out the old history such as blow the Library of Congress to smitherines. The Smithsonian could be in the crosshairs next.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 02:35 PM

Floyd Rosenberry surrendered to capitol police without incident.
-no bomb-fake detonator

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 08:05 PM

He was armed only with trump rhetoric.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 08:13 PM

The British burned the Library of Congress in 1814, along with most everything except the Patent Office. Anyone that harms ANY library should be hung up and used as a pinata for hungry wolverines. But then I'm a radical when it comes to libraries. I'm still mad about the burning in Alexandria about 642 CE.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 08:29 PM

me too

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 08:40 PM

I'm reminded of my painting of a bimbo goldbricking Cleopatra feasting in the (empire of light
) illumination of the distant Alexandria fire after dusk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 09:12 PM

adagio for an ancient library

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Aug 21 - 10:39 PM

The Albinoni calls to mind the story of the cellist of Sarajevo. That piece, along with a few others, are so poignant. The Lark Ascending is another one of them.

From here:

Vaughan Williams wrote the piece in 1914, probably originally in the orchestral version by which it became best known after 1921. But the war delayed the premiere and he revised it for violin and piano for the performance in Bristol, where Hall was staying with a wealthy patron. Pike believes the shadow of war hangs over the piece. “The closeness of the war and the tensions leading up to it have an effect,” she says. “Everything has unconsciously bled into this work – the sense of stillness, a yearning for peace, and Vaughan Williams’s love of the countryside.”

Oops. Don't want to turn this into a music thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 21 - 07:30 AM

Vaughn had the power to make the birds envious.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 21 - 09:36 AM

this particular instrument is more amazing than the music
I privately call this Elegy for a pet cat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Aug 21 - 07:24 PM

This posting is a palindrome! It is also the square root of 5,438,224 and the cube root of 12,649,337.   To the 10th power it is 2,586679093963 x 10⁴⁰.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 21 - 09:25 PM

That is the # of electrons in the universe. There is a theory the real number is 1.
From the makers of Grand Theft Auto comes the new game 'Evacuate!'
The object is to make your way to Bogram airport and get on a plane, preferably on the inside, and fly to America. Players must avoid everything from the Taliban to American anti immigration predjudice and even one bathroom on a plane with 2,000 people for an 18 hour flight Evacuate! - its breathtaking in more ways than any game on Earth.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Aug 21 - 09:00 PM

Avogadro's Number is 6.0221409 x 23²³. I was with him when he worked it out, pointing out his mathematical mistakes to him with a gentle firmness he appreciated.

The second radon detectors are going out tomorrow. I want to know if I'm getting some healthy radon working done here in the basement! Maybe I'll charge other people to visit here! Maybe radon is the answer to COVID-19 and its variants! Maybe I'll get a Nobel Prize in Physics AND Medicine!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 21 - 08:42 AM

The east will have two weeks of rain
while the west is in a drought
the fires will burn and cause great pain
or th'east drowns without a doubt.
Who will survivors choose to blame?
Its ourselves it is about.

Tennessee got 17 yes 17 inches of rain in 24 hours
Then there is Henri in New England.
The fires out west (and midwest)
have broken all previous records.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 21 - 08:03 PM

Everyone from the borders of California, Oregon, and Washington plumb to the Mississippi River are blowing the smoke east. It's not really a hurricane, but all that hot air!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 07:10 AM

Please don't tell the Brits that people in the South are taking livestock deworming medicine to cure Covid. So much in fact that in MS and AL the CDC has issued pleas to stop the practice which is poisoning so many. Just because the drug was suggested by FOX news doesn't make it as effective as the 'anti freedom' vaccine. : Desperation is a harsh mistress. 5,000 a day are dieing of Covid again.
Orlando Florida is asking people to boil water since the liquid oxygen that went to water treatment plants is now diverted to hospital use.
On the other hand the wild flowers at the foot of Mt. Rainier are lovely this time of year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 08:05 AM

Looooaard Gawd and Galactic Over Lards ARE NOT TRYING TO KILL US ALL.
They are simply raising our surviving collective IQ In the long run.

While the Darwin Effect does work slowly, we -could- be one varient away from a 90% reduction in population which will be benificial to climate change, but the irreversible chain of events will only slow a bit and will continue since 25% OF THE Northern hemisphere is permafrost. That permafrost has melted! The now rotting organic matter of carbon is being released by microbes.
Permafrost is not just a thin layer, it can be as deep as coal and is not refreezing in areas over the winter. It will not matter to our kids if this observation is ignored or critisized. Were not talking about great great grand children facing extreme heat anymore, this is going to be quicker beyond anything we can do. All we can do is buy time since the carbon release will exceed all oil deposit release, forest fires, and man made control of carbon release. Sorry guys game over but some will survive.

It appears the Overlards are a day late and a dollar short again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 08:26 AM

TIPPING POINTS ARE REAL !!!!?   who knew
Extinction Level Event?
All over a man claiming a big lie about an election. Sound familiar?
Just think how George Bush having better lawyers than Al Gore before the Supream Court destroyed an entire garden of Eden.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 11:17 AM

Now what is Kim Kardashion up to?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 11:21 AM

Here ya go! From Songs of the IBM, a genuine, real songbook!

OUR PRESIDENT'S MOTTO: "THINK"
Tune: "Yankee Doodle"

1. T-H-1-N-K spells THINK
Our President's great motto.
Saves mistakes, lost time and ink.
You'll then do what you ought to.

2. T-H-1-N-K is THINK-
'Tis good for brain and body,
Dark blue visions change to pink.
And you'll please everybody.

Chorus:

T-H-1-N-K that's THINK
Thoughts both pure and golden;
Bigger thoughts and good ones too,
Then I. B. M. will broaden

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 11:28 AM

Surgery coming up again soon, Mike? Or has it happened. I've lost track.

September, a very busy month, starts next week. At one time, the IN MY DAY end of things, school used to start in September, the day after Labor Day. I always felt like my kids were short-changed on summer because they had to go to school in August (unless there was an unusual heat spell, in which case one year they started later because of the cost of power to run the school air conditioning system in August.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 01:27 PM

Cletus has been feeling poorly lately. He's heard bad things about the vaccine so he tried a flash light up his bum. No change so he gave hydroxychloroquin a try, nothing. He gave into expensive cures like taking Mike Lindell's oleander oil for a week. Now he had cramps so the new drug of choice on Fox news is a horse deworming pill. Whowee it had a kick.
Maybe Chlorox would have settled his stomach but he got wind of a conspiracy theory about rigging full approval for the 'Vaccine' so he ate some 'Wax Bean' instead. He's feeling much better now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 02:28 PM

Friday, the 27th.

What is needed is not a deworming medicine, but a good regime of dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate. A tablespoon with breakfast, lunch, and dinner will work wonders. It will cleanse your body of SARS-2 (COVID) and other deadly toxins that build up even when you don't know you have COVID. Give it a try for the best health.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 04:14 PM

Yep once dead those diseases tend to stop in their tracks.
Arm ageddon sick and tired of Pandemic and Armagedden conspiratheories!
Instead I'm gonna write about the Earth running into a cooling cloud of antiseptic full of natural serotonin thats gonna wipe out all disease and make even the Taliban as happy go lucky as Santa Claus.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 08:47 PM

While Rap is having Nobel Gas problems of his own with Radon, I found myself yelling Nobel gas' getting out of bed today "ARG ON" then I got down on all fours for my shoes and screamed "KNEE ON".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 08:59 PM

On Amazon you can buy https://www.amazon.com/Ivermectin-Cure-Covid-19-19/dp/1257633252/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=covid+cure&qid=1629764482&sr=8-4

On Dark Amazon you can get everything else but you need to pay in crypto currency.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 09:23 PM

Watching Cold Pusuit I asked whos that, whispered though popcorn "helium", who?
"He Liam Neeson".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Aug 21 - 11:02 PM

dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate = that's the stuff that'll send that COVID shit flying out of your body until you're empty.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 21 - 08:23 AM

This is a new planet of another star
Explanation: It's not the big disk that's attracting the most attention. Although the big planet-forming disk around the star PDS 70 is clearly imaged and itself quite interesting. It's also not the planet on the right, just inside the big disk, that’s being talked about the most. Although the planet PDS 70c is a newly formed and, interestingly, similar in size and mass to Jupiter. It's the fuzzy patch around the planet PDS 70c that's causing the commotion. That fuzzy patch is thought to be itself a dusty disk that is now forming into moons -- and that has never been seen before. The featured image was taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of 66 radio telescopes in the high Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Based on ALMA data, astronomers infer that the moon-forming exoplanetary disk has a radius similar to our Earth's orbit, and may one day form three or so Luna-sized moons -- not very different from our Jupiter's four.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 21 - 05:14 PM

I spent an hour with an anti vaxxer and Q Anon sympathizer.
I soon had him off auto pilot and into full disclosure mode.
He believed I shared most of his mind set but not all.
He hated communist Jews and ethnics in his town of Falls Church who others would consider to be progressives. He bragged how Q has been right about everything. There is the possibility that he was saying things he thought I wanted to hear but I'm very certain he was full goose committed to his anti government cause. His only reference to Trump was at the end when he asked if my middle initial was J. I said I'm too old to be a John. I can ask later if he is a patriot and if he was there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Aug 21 - 06:34 PM

If he was there, turn him in. I really have enough problems here thinking about the crowd "Up North." They're not as prevalent here in the Southeast, but when Ammon Bundy is running for Governor as a Republican and the Republican Party has disowned him (for one thing, he's not registered as a Republican) and the Lt. Governor is also running for Governor, them folks are a teensy bit loose in the screws. Y'all know what Ammon Bundy looks like, so here's the Lt. Governor (the Governor does his best NOT to let her act as Governor for even five minutes). The article is nearly a year old, but here, for your viewing and reading pleasure, is Janice McGeachin!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 21 - 07:16 PM

Janice is a piece of work, my guy doubled down and got animated when I doubted there are concentration camps for anti vaxxers. I had to challenge something to be authentic in his eyes. I did hypnotize him by having him recall an auto accident and the resulting injury then suddenly changed his focus.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Aug 21 - 09:02 PM

Well, wrong! Sorry I couldn't get a better picture but security, you know. They're up and waiting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 21 - 06:27 AM

The goal of the Army is to bring order out of chaos and for the 1%ters its the other way around.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 21 - 01:45 PM

The quote 'mysterious' Havana Syndrome is nothing more than a microwave rifle at a lower setting invented and deployed domestically 40 years ago. Like Mt Olympus hacking tools it is another CIA/NSA weapon that has now come back to attack us. Former CIA director Brennon is denying this as voraciously as Putin but I am being straight up truthful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 21 - 04:13 PM

Regarding 'my guy' I told him the first rule of fight club is fight club and asked if he was a patriot. He was convinced I was the real deal and on his side. Then I asked if he was 'there'. He said he was in the hospital from lung clots from double pnumonia and Covid. In 3 minutes he had traced his ancestry gathered from his late father back to the 18th century. Some of his relatives were classical musicians, one saw the Reichstad burn and grandad was on Normandy beach and the bulge.
He's another example that high intelligence does not guarantee rationlity. Or a salesman profession amplifies the ability to lie.
I have always been intrigued by borderline personalities like his.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 21 - 06:10 PM

Lie like Sam Clemens, Jim Bridger, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, James Joyce, Geoffrey Chaucer, Emil Zola, Leo Tolstoy, James R. R. Tolkein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Mary Ann Evans Cross, Ann Rutledge, and host of others?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 21 - 07:01 PM

Clearly I lied to him. It is possible he lied to me in which case we lied to each other but my best instinct says he is who he says he is.
He wants to stay in touch. The first rule of fight club is to not talk about fight club. He said later it is his favorite quote from the movie.
I do not know the literary examples of such a scenario.
PS the encounter was not fiction.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 21 - 08:58 PM

Mom, you get back up and out of the company of Brexit and suchlike hooligans!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 12:59 AM

Let ?=?(5^?/np?v-1, then it is obvious that ?==?v.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 09:29 AM

And in two hours, Mom -- well, you know what's gonna happen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 10:30 AM

MOM, the air quality isn't great and it's hot as Hades out there, so what are you doing up a ladder in that tree? Rap and the boys don't need a rope swing today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 02:59 PM

The air quality was so poor I went into distress after trying to mow and recovered very slowly with aspirin. There were no elephants sitting on my chest but there was a small camel inside my ribcage. (thats what a narrowed heart vessel feels like)
I got my booster today and was reminded by my pharmacist that until the world is vaccinated Covid is only destined to make more bizarre mutations.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 04:44 PM

Bizarre mutations? Is that what was born in Queens on June 14, 1946?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 21 - 06:32 PM

There is also Gov. De Santis Claus in Florida.
He's got a present for the kids.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 21 - 05:00 PM

Doves have hearts and
hawks have teeth
between the two
twains don't meet

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 21 - 05:33 PM

Hawks have no teeth, nor do eagles or any of that family. No birds alive today have teeth. Doves eat seeds and sometimes snails, hawks and people eat doves. Nature feeds on itself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 21 - 06:33 PM

Jeeze Louise haven't you ever heard of artistic license?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Aug 21 - 10:18 AM

He was only 6 when he was shot in his bed
His father was murdered 5 years ago
Each shooting leads to more shootings.
Its not even due to revenge or profit anymore.
Its just business as usual despite the risk.
The sale of two more ivory elephant tusks
buys more bullets and keeps the jeep running.
The tusks are getting younger and smaller
which leads to shooting more kids while asleep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Aug 21 - 05:52 PM

I have a Triple-A Artistic License. As you know this permits me to execute people by reading from McGonigle and Julia Davis whenever my judgement thinks it in the best interests of the Humanities.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 08:07 AM

50 years ago the US Navy contracted to have underwater speakers produce
and recreate sounds of subs, aircraft carriers and torpedos.
Today plasma holograms can recreate images with heat signatures in mid air and water. I smell a counter intelligence disclosure rat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 09:33 AM

Who you got in mind?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 10:26 AM

The Tic Tac uap.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 08:30 PM

Aging Rockers change their tune in Texas.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 10:02 PM

Rap, you could really torture people with Edgar Guest, who Sinclair Lewis skewered perfectly in Babbitt with his character T. Cholmondeley Frink,

who was not only the author of "Poemulations," which, syndicated daily in sixty-seven leading newspapers, gave him one of the largest audiences of any poet in the world, but also an optimistic lecturer and creator of "Ads that Add." Despite the searching philosophy and high morality of his verses, they were humorous and easily understood by any child of twelve;

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 21 - 11:17 PM

An idea for my next epic rom com dramedy sports documentary came to me in a flash that will skewer Jennifer Lopez and Steven Hawking. It begins at a Buccaneers Lions football game where an instant replay reveals two separate outcomes of the same play proving the existence of a parallel universe intersection.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 06:52 PM

Who are these people (Hawking is a pop singer, right?) and what is a "Buccaneers Lions" game?

Mind you, I haven't watched televison in about five years so I'm sort of behind pop culture. My popping sort of ended with MASH and Laugh-In and the Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 06:59 PM

1 An American ninja
2 A masked singer
3 WWW wrestlers.

My favorite MASH was Tuttle
My favorite Laugh in was tricky dick
My favorite Smothers bros. was their last show about cancellation

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 07:34 PM

Roger Penrose sent me a nice Harry & David basket for my letter to him about my idea that black holes had something to do with the recent acceleration of expanding universal space since a growing number of black holes are generating more space.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 08:16 PM

So, Lucifer er I mean Trump went around the Constitution, and he collected a lot of other representatives who also didn't want to be less Important than Law, until he had a Great Army. Then they marched up to the Throne of the Capitol and said Proudly: "We are just as Important as You. Why should You be King Biden of America any more than one of us? We are Strong and Proud and Beautiful, and we will fight You for the Kingdom of Heaven." Joe looked at them; then He said: "Lucifer I mean Trump, I thought that you were My friend, and I trusted you. Be sensible now, and think about what you are doing." "I have thought," said Donald, and, I'd rather not be in Heaven at all than have You for my King, and so would all of us!" And behind him all the Rebel Angels shouted with a great shout: "We will follow Lucifer! Long live Lucifer! Let him reign over us in Heaven! WE DO NOT WANT GOD!" "Very well," said God, "if you don't want Me, you needn't have Me. But, if you want to fight for Heaven, you can if you think it will be any good." Then, God called Michael the Archangel, and made him gather together a Mighty Army of Angels who were on God's side.

So, now you know why we sometimes say in our prayers, "Holy St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the Day of Battle," because he is so good at battles.

But, what happened to Lucifer and his Rebel Angels? Well, he was so furious and enraged at having lost his Battle with God that he has never gotten over it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 21 - 08:34 PM

Take that Mike.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 08:44 AM

Will the Lake Tahoe community burn and disappear?
I just learned today that Leningrad disappeared.
They had a referendum and changed the name back to St.Petersburg.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 10:23 AM

I had a friend from my undergraduate years who lived at King's Beach at Lake Tahoe. They're on the north side of the lake, and given what a large and deep lake, there's enough water to drop on a fire if they have the aircraft to do it. No BS.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 03:09 PM

I have relatives (by marriage) who live on the north side of the lake. They are concerned (their family history is wildfire fighting) but not really worried yet. They are ready to "git up and go," though.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 04:31 PM

I have inlaws on the south side (their family history is in wildlife fighting) bs
Helicopters can https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/Lake-Tahoe-drought-water-drops-two-feet-16169540.php
still scoop water but not planes .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 08:40 PM

Mom, Sam Clemens burned up the area around Lake Bigler (now Tahoe) back around 1863. He and John D. Kinney went there looking to make a fortune as timber barons, as Virginia City needed lumber for buildings and shoring up mines.

They camped out, and one morning Sam left a campfire unattended and set the whole forest on fire "with a firing pan." The would-be barons got to their rowboat and high-tailed outa there. They watched the fire for about four hours and then returned to Carson City quite hungry as their provisions were "all cooked, no doubt."

Which side this fire was on is anybody's guess.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 09:42 PM

There is also a new cottage industry begining in Texas.
Since the last hours of a legal abortion after 6 weeks expired last night, illegal abortions are the new growth industry.
In this age of quack cures, safety and effectiveness are out the window.
Back are the pre 1967 treatments; crocodile fecal matter: according to The Kahum Papyrus, one of the earliest medical texts in history, Egyptian women used crocodile fecal matter to induce abortion and as a form of contraception
herb pennyroyal: Maya Lewis wrote about herb pennyroyal in her thesis, Drink Me and Abort Your Baby: The Herbal Abortion Tea, saying, "Pennyroyal [is an essential oil that] will almost certainly kill anyone who uses it carelessly...Nausea, vomiting, fatigue, liver and kidney failure, hallucinations and seizures are all caused by pennyroyal oil overdoses — typically by young women seeking to self-induce their abortion.”
insertion of leeches or cayenne pepper into the vagina
swallowing gunpowder
throwing oneself down the stairs
hitting oneself in the stomach with a meat pulverizer
consuming turpentine
spending a night in the snow
consuming opium
consuming tansy oil
using the fungus ergot
the infamous hanger technique
https://www.allure.com/story/history-diy-abortion-roe-wade-reproductive-rights

The other method is a strong President sending observers and charging anyone denying or obstructing constitutional enacted law with fines or prison.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 21 - 03:14 PM

Cholera Camp

We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights;
We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as Isrulites.
It's before us, an' be'ind us, an' we cannot get away,
An' the doctor's just reported we've ten more to-day!

Oh, strike your camp an' go, the Bugle's callin',
   The Rains are fallin' --
The dead are bushed an' stoned to keep 'em safe below.
The Band's a-doin' all she knows to cheer us;
The Chaplain's gone and prayed to Gawd to 'ear us --
   To 'ear us --
O Lord, for it's a-killin' of us so!

Since August, when it started, it's been stickin' to our tail,
Though they've 'ad us out by marches an' they've 'ad us back by rail;
But it runs as fast as troop trains, and we cannot get away;
An' the sick-list to the Colonel makes ten more to-day.

There ain't no fun in women nor there ain't no bite to drink;
It's much too wet for shootin'; we can only march and think;
An' at evenin', down the nullahs, we can 'ear the jackals say,
"Get up, you rotten beggars, you've ten more to-day!"

'Twould make a monkey cough to see our way o' doin' things --
Lieutenants takin' companies an' captains takin' wings,
An' Lances actin' Sergeants -- eight file to obey --
For we've lots o' quick promotion on ten deaths a day!

Our Colonel's white an' twitterly -- 'e gets no sleep nor food,
But mucks about in 'orspital where nothing does no good.
'E sends us 'eaps o' comforts, all bought from 'is pay --
But there aren't much comfort 'andy on ten deaths a day.

Our Chaplain's got a banjo, an' a skinny mule 'e rides,
An' the stuff 'e says an' sings us, Lord, it makes us split our sides!
With 'is black coat-tails a-bobbin' to Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-ay!
'E's the proper kind o' padre for ten deaths a day.

An' Father Victor 'elps 'im with our Roman Catholicks --
He knows an 'eap of Irish songs an' rummy conjurin' tricks;
An' the two they works together when it comes to play or pray;
So we keep the ball a-rollin' on ten deaths a day.

We've got the cholerer in camp -- we've got it 'ot an' sweet.
It ain't no Christmas dinner, but it's 'elped an' we must eat.
We've gone beyond the funkin', 'cause we've found it doesn't pay,
An' we're rockin' round the Districk on ten deaths a day!

Then strike your camp an' go, the Rains are fallin',
   The Bugle's callin'!
The dead are bushed an' stoned to keep 'em safe below!
An' them that do not like it they can lump it,
An' them that cannot stand it they can jump it;
We've got to die somewhere -- some way -- some'ow --
We might as well begin to do it now!
Then, Number One, let down the tent-pole slow,
Knock out the pegs an' 'old the corners -- so!
Fold in the flies, furl up the ropes, an' stow!
Oh, strike -- oh, strike your camp an' go!
   (Gawd 'elp us!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 10:11 AM

Pyroclastic clouds burned villagers to a crisp
The hurricane slammed cities like a fist
Red tide poisoned fish and folks alike
A Billion viral graves are about to spike

Once in a lifetime, twice in a week

The astroid was just a sliver
and the creek's a mighty river
The smoke made noon look like midnight
The crops all died of blight

Once in a lifetime, twice in a week

Fever and fits from small ticks
It hit a 100 in the Arctic
Permafrost began to burn
marked a point of no return

Once in a lifetime twice in a week.

Extinction became redemption
from the pain to come
It wasn't bleak for everyone
It was a golden age for some.

Once in a lifetime twice in a week

(:-)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 10:55 AM

I expect a large growth in telemedicine and the discrete shipping of plain brown parcels to women who need the abortion pill. It isn't a federal crime to mail the medication, the post office isn't going to go after anyone for a state thing.

MOM is busy dusting off the guest room in case anyone wants to stop to sleep for the night before heading on to Louisiana (not the best location, but much closer than New Mexico.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 01:10 PM

There may be many 10,000 dollar secrets to come.
Despicable people will think they are Dog the abortion bounty hunter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All Edits
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 01:36 PM

The US allowed 15 million doses of Pfizer to expire
but there are reasons and excuses
just like qll the other ruses
that ends in tragedy

Pyroclastic clouds burned villagers to a crisp
The hurricane hit our cities like a fist
Red tide poisoned fish and folks alike
A Billion viral graves are about to spike

Once in a lifetime, twice in a week

The astroid was just a sliver
now the creek's a mighty river
The smoke made noon look like midnight
The crops all died of blight

Once in a lifetime, twice in a week

Fever and fits from small deer ticks
It hit a 100 in the Arctic
Permafrost began to burn
marked a point of no return

Once in a lifetime twice in a week.

Extinction could be redemption
from the pain to come
It wasn't bleak for everyone
It was a golden age for some.

Once in a lifetime twice in a week

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 10:06 AM

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-abortion-inducing-pill-texas/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 21 - 04:30 PM

Stanzas from “The Triumph of Death”
         John Davies, 1609

LONDON now smokes with vapors that arise        
From his foule sweat, himselfe he so bestirres:        
“Cast out your dead!” the carcase-carrier cries,        
Which he by heapes in groundlesse graves interres.—        

Now like to bees in summer’s heate from hives,              
Out flie the citizens, some here, some there;        
Some all alone, and others with their wives:        
With wives and children some flie, all for feare!        

Here stands a watch, with guard of partizans,        
To stoppe their passages, or to or fro,              
As if they were not men, nor Christians,        
But fiends or monsters, murdering as they go.        

Each village, free, now stands upon her guard,        
None must have harbour in them but their owne;        
And as for life and death all watch and ward,              
And flie for life (as death) the man unknowne!        

Here crie the parents for their children’s death,        
There howle the children for the parents’ losse,        
And often die as they are drawing breath        
To crie for their but now inflicted crosse.              

The last survivor of a familie        
Which yesterday, perhaps, were all in health,        
Now dies to beare his fellowes companie,        
And for a grave for all gives all their wealth.        

The London lanes (thereby themselves to save)              
Did vomit out their undigested dead,        
Who by cart-loads are carried to the grave;        
For all these lanes with folke were overfed.        

The king himselfe (O wretched times the while!)        
From place to place himselfe did flie,              
Which from himselfe himselfe did seek t’ exile,        
Who (as amaz’d) not safe knew where to lie.        

For hardly could one man another meete        
That in his bosom brought not odious death;        
It was confusion but a friend to greet,              
For, like a fiend, he banned with his breath.        

Now fall the people unto publike fast,        
And all assemble in the church to pray;        
Early and late their soules there take repast,        
As if preparing for a later day.              
The pastors now steep all their words in brine,        
With “woe, woe, woe,”—and nought is heard but woe:        
“Woe and alas!” (they say) “the powers divine        
“Are bent mankind, for sinne, to overthrow!        

“Repent, repent,” (like Jonas, now they crie)              
“Ye men of England! O repent, repent,        
To see if ye maie move pittie’s eye        
To look upon you ere you quite be spent.”        

And oft while he breathes out these bitter words,        
He drawing breath draws in more bitter bane;              
For now the aire no aire, but death affords,        
And lights of art (for helpe) were in the wane.        

The ceremonie at their burialls        
Is “ashes but to ashes, dust to dust;”        
Nay, not so much; for strait the pitman falls              
(If he can stand) to hide them as he must.        

But if the pitman have not so much sense        
To see nor feele which way the winde doth sit,        
To take the same, he hardly comes from thence,        
But for himself, perhaps, he makes the pit.              

For look how leaves in autumn from the tree        
With wind do fall, whose heaps fill holes in ground;        
So might ye with the plague’s breath people see        
Fall by great heaps and fill up holes profound.        

No holy turf was left to hide the head              
Of holiest men; but most unhallow’d grounds,        
Ditches, and highwaies, must receive the dead,        
The dead (ah, woe the while!) so o’er abound.        

Time never knew, since he begunne his houres,        
(For aught we reade) a plague so long remaine              
In any citie as this plague of ours;        
For now six yeares in London it hath laine.        

But thou in whose high hand all hearts are held,        
Convert us, and from us this plague avert;        
So sin shall yield to grace, and grace shall yield              
The giver glory for so dear desert.        

In few, what should I say? the best are nought        
That breathe, since man first breathing did rebell:        
The best that breathe are worse than may be thought        
If thought can thinke, the best can do but well:              
For none doth well on earth but such as will        
Confesse, with griefe, they do exceeding ill.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 21 - 07:50 AM

In the land of the annoyed when the Earth was destroyed
in novel new ways as it has been for billions of years
Homo Sapiens marked their end in a flurry of myriad alerts.
There were digital attack alerts, domestic terrorist alerts,
fire flood and tsunami alerts even Hawaii flirted with nuclear alerts.
What I will miss in advance are mysteries and histories left unknown,
Not just human mysteries but of whales wondering about the space
between our fingers and the dark of the deep.
Mysteries of all life that time will forever keep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - another on 2nd thought edit
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 21 - 09:42 AM

In the land of the annoyed when the Earth and life was destroyed
in novel new ways as it has been for billions of years,
Manunkind marked their 'end' in a pyramid myriad of alerts and fears.
There were digital attack alerts, domestic terrorist alerts and climate
fire flood and tsunami alerts even Hawaii flirted with nuclear alerts.
What I will miss in advance, are mysteries and histories left unknown,
not just human mysteries but of whales wondering about the space
between our fingers and the dark of the deep.
Secrets of all life that time will forever keep.
Mutations won't drive evolution into a rapidly changing world now gone
as much as our exogenetic genes from our past that turn back on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Moth, so er of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 21 - 05:59 PM

Start planning NOW! This is next year, give or take a year, so it could be this year. Do you have enough ammunition? Duct tape? Food? Water? Toilet paper?

ARE YOU PREPARED?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 01:42 PM

They are coming for your gasoline powered car, please leave your keys on the seat and doors unlocked. A reciept and check for $200 will be left in your mailbox.

Unemployment emergency checks stop today.

If you have a gun license waiver for bears send it in Immediately, otherwise a stand off will be automaticly ordered. There is a backlog so stand offs are about a year away.

H3 conversion kits for your furnace start at $35,000 but you have 6 months for installation.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 05:21 PM

This is two dozen hundred.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 08:14 PM

Heritage Med Labs have discovered Life Begins at Exception for the wealthy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 09:07 PM

Why would you think I have a gasoline powered car? It's electric, and the power comes from the windmill on the roof. The speed of the car charges the batteries, and of course that occurs even when it's moving under its own power. This is a special model, of course. The batteries are Lithium six deutride encapsulated in a Pu239 shell. This is so no one steals the idea.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 09:22 PM

My electric car cost $2k but I'm spending a fortune on extension cords.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Sep 21 - 09:25 PM

Cover page for Earth Primer I for the Galactic overlords

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Sep 21 - 06:51 AM

In the picture, the tiny dots in front of the trees is the Galactic Overlord Battle Fleet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Sep 21 - 09:33 PM

A Tragedy
by Theophile Marzials

Death!
Plop.
The barges down in the river flop.
Flop, plop,
Above, beneath.
From the slimy branches the grey drips drop...
To the oozy waters, that lounge and flop...
And my head shrieks - "Stop"
And my heart shrieks - "Die."...
Ugh! yet I knew - I knew
If a woman is false can a friend by true?
It was only a lie from beginning to end--
My Devil - My "friend."...
So what do I care,
And my head is empty as air -
I can do,
I can dare
(Plop, plop
The barges flop
Drip, drop.)
I can dare, I can dare!
And let myself all run away with my head
And stop.
Drop
Dead.
Plop, flop,
Plop.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Sep 21 - 11:06 PM

A word to the wise "it is better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission". That is why Trump is not wise.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 09:12 AM

He can't do either.

That is Andromeda coming at us collision is unavoidable

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 11:05 AM

The Plop poem is familiar. Only, the last time I saw it,
the poem was a bit longer and more repetitive.

I suspect that Rapparee did some cosmetic surgery,
particularly on the "Ugh!" part --
a bit of nip and tuck.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 11:28 AM

to mustach or not that is the question

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 01:17 PM

You're not supposed to leave it plugged in when you drive it. Talk about snarling traffic!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 02:20 PM

I wonder if any of the MOAB supernatural beings were around when this guy roamed the planet?

New, Giant Carnivorous Dinosaur Was a Terror to Smaller Tyrannosaurs
A fossil jaw reveals the large predator lived 90 million years ago

Think of the stories the duckdog could tell. Or the Galactic Overlord.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 04:00 PM

You are guilty of generating misinformation, scaremongering, nefarious sideswipes, not appreciated, STOP, You are not, you are terrible, Don't ever...

Pardon, I have a case of the Shaws.

If we ever clone these predators they will not taste like beef.
Yep they will taste like chicken.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 21 - 08:32 PM

I have it on a good authority that Democrats taste like chicken, and so do Republicans.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 21 - 04:19 AM

This epoch will be remembered as the age when both parties will go the way of the dinosaurs. Their thinly veiled substitutes will be called Technocrats and Primitives.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Sep 21 - 01:34 PM

A technocracy is not a feasible answer. Smacks of eugenics and Lebensborn. Besides, technocrats would foster a rebellion among the peasants similar to the peasants revolts of 1381 and 1524, among others.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 21 - 06:03 PM

Googlecrats and Facebookers

Gov. Abbot says his 6 week abortion law doesn't include exceptions for rape and incest because he will eliminate all rape. It sounds like Texas will be doing radical castrations.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 21 - 06:03 PM

Googlecrats and Facebookers

Gov. Abbot says his 6 week abortion law doesn't include exceptions for rape and incest because he will eliminate all rape. It sounds like Texas will be doing radical castrations.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 21 - 06:29 PM

Well Mom, it doesn't look like it's going to rain after all. Darn it!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 21 - 02:52 PM

Well, cataloging CDS is great fun. I'm up to 148 and nowhere near done.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 21 - 05:16 PM

I'm dragging brush from the back back part of the yard (beyond the fence) and down to the curb. The really broken up stuff can stay put, but I'm tired of all of the brush for now and am pruning out the privet that grows back there (Ligustrum). And when I finish this I'm thinking about putting a rope swing on the largest branch of the hackberry in the middle of my back yard. The kind that when you twirl on it you displace the fourth dimension and can do some fairly rudimentary time travel. I just have to figure a way to keep the fire ants off of it to use it without getting bit. They're all over the trees so would climb down the rope.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Sep 21 - 06:23 PM

Set fire to the rope?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Sep 21 - 07:49 PM

That was nice, Mom. Helping out with a golf tournament supporting a charity. This is Idaho and charities need all the help they can get.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Sep 21 - 05:33 PM

TX will get the rain. Not the 40-60 inches like from Harvey but maybe 20 inches. Everything that was in a freezer in Louisiana homes, labs, hospitals and universities has thawed out be it; food, vaccine or virus, making it the stuff of sci fi monster movies. In DC it is a smokey milky white from the fires out west.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Sep 21 - 07:11 PM

These are northern Idahoans.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Sep 21 - 11:59 PM

Idaho is noted for having a larger than normal segment of that MAGA population. So is Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon. Maybe the Yellowstone magma chamber will reduce their numbers one of these days. You'd better pay attention to the local birds, they'll give you a heads up to seismic activity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 21 - 05:55 AM

A+(triple)double entendre, or is it just me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 21 - 03:55 PM

Order Number: ASASNO3844307 for Muon magnetetic moment

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Sep 21 - 07:47 AM

And today it begins. Suprep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 21 - 04:42 PM

The record launch distance is 29 meters

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 21 - 05:50 PM

The minority can steal time and pay a game of delay.
In two weeks the US government may shut down again if repubs don't vote to pay the bills that Trump rang up (5 trillion). Its called passing the debt ceiling.

I 'tossed' off a little parody for just such a situation.

Sexual Healing
Song by Marvin Gaye
Lyrics - pARODY

Oh, baby let's take it down tonight (ba-ba-ba, bum)
Ooh baby, I'm hot just like an oven (steal me some money, give me some money)
I need some 'cold cash'
And baby, I can't hold it much longer (steal me some money, give me some money)
It's getting stronger and stronger
When I get that feeling
I want a debt ceiling
A big debt ceiling, oh baby
Makes me feel so fine
Helps to relieve my mind
A big debt ceiling baby, is good for me
A big debt ceiling is something that's good for me
Whenever blue teardrops are fallin'
And my emotional stability is leaving me
There is something I can do
I can get on the telephone and just lobby the, Congress
And Congress I know you'll be there to relieve me
The love you give to me will free me
If you don't know the thing you're dealing
Oh I can tell you, Congress, that it's a big debt ceiling
Let's all vote tonight
(Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up)
'Cause you got some work
Baby, I got sick this mornin' (please give me money, please give me money)
A sea was stormin' inside of me
Congress, I think I'm capsizin'(steal me some money, give me some money)
The debt is risin' and risin'
And when I get that feeling
I want a big debt ceiling
A big debt ceiling is good for me
Makes me feel so fine, it's such a rush
Helps to relieve the mind, and it's good for us
Don't shut down the government it's bad for me
Don't shut down the government that's bad for us
God, it's bad for me and it's so bad for the country, oh
Come take control, just grab a hold
Of my body and mind, soon we'll be making more money
I'll be feeling fine
You're my medicine, open up and let me in
Darling, you're so great, I can't wait for you to operate
(pay the debt ceiling)
(pay the debt ceiling)
I can't wait for you to operate
When I get this feeling (steal me more money)
I need a debt ceiling
Oh, when I get this feeling (give me more money)
I need a big debt ceiling
I gotta have a big debt ceiling, Congress (please pay our bills)
'Cause I'm all alone
I need a big debt ceiling, Congress (heal me my darling)
'Til you come back home (heal me my darling)
Please don't procrastinate
It's not good to masturbate

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: David Ritz / Marvin Gaye / Odell Brown / donuel

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Sep 21 - 11:54 PM

It looks like Elon Musk is working on decluttering the planet - these rockets of his can lift 50,000 pounds of equipment (or "stuff") on each shot. Well there you have it! Off-site storage is now off the planet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 21 - 06:04 AM

Hey buddy can you spare 3.5 Trillion. I don't see why not. When we tried to audit the Pentagon it appeared they had lost 1 Trillion back when money was cheap. then


now







I am Groot

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 21 - 08:42 AM

"How much is a little girl worth?"
quote: M. Biles to Congress.

After reporting sex abuse by Dr. Nassar to the FBI 70 more girls were attacked by the USA olympic Dr.

Also Facebook records show 1 in 3 girls are significantly harmed by Facebook's instagram. Congress has yet to pass laws like for seat belts or airbags to reduce the Facebook harm. Mom, how much?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Sep 21 - 08:22 PM

Well, THAT'S over for a while!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 21 - 01:27 PM

Just don't have a cardiac event, Idaho hospitals can't handle it.
Nor can Alaska and a half dozen other states.
People can not even wait in the waiting rooms. They have to wait in their cars. A few Trauma victims are dieing in their 'waiting' cars.
So snack on walnuts and drink a cocktail of beet and cranberry juice while watching nothing more exciting than Spongebob Square Pants.
I am clueless about VA hospitals.

Your Public Health official is a looney anti vaxxer. Your excellent scientific health official quit in protest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 21 - 02:05 PM

Traveling in a french fried Kia
On a Interstate, In south Idaho
I met a cowboy that almost looked like Clint
with a gun and a squint like Eastwood

And he asked:
Do you come from a land plowed under?
Where women fight and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover
Elections don't count for shit out here
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I asked, "Did Covid happen here?"
He just smiled and gave me a Red Stripe beer
And he said:
I come from a land plowed under
Where beer flowed and men were hunters
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover, ye-aah

Lyin' in a puddle of used gin
With a slack jaw and not much to say
I said to the man, "What the fuck happened to me?"
Because I come from Washington DC...
And he said:
Oh! you come from a land plowed under too. (oh yeah, yeah)
Where women grow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? Aah
You better run, you better take cover
Living in the land of plowed under
Where women fight and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? (Can't you hear thunder?)
You better run, you better take cover
Living in the land of plowed under
Where women fight and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? Oh, yeah
You better run, you better take cover, e-ah
Living in the plowed under, oh-ooh
Where women go and men plunder

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 21 - 04:36 PM

Salvia officinalis 'Icterina'

Oh the yellow sage of Texas is the only weed I love
It grows in soil thats harder than Texas guys that shove
If you put it under UV it even seems to glow
I'll plant that sage weed forever because it always grows
There are so Mustang grapes that swell along the way
But I killed an Armadillo and jail is where I'll stay
With the yellow sage of Texas I stuff in all the cracks
'Cause I know as it grows the jail walls will fall at long last
Oh the yellow sage of Texas is the only weed I love
its roots are even stronger than Texas dirt below
It sometimes makes small berries that makes breathing slow
I remember it forever and all the dreams that flowed
The eyes of Texas are upon you all the live long day
The eyes of Texas are upon you, you cannot get away
Do not think you can escape them at night or early in the morn
The eyes of Texas are upon you 'till Gabriel blows his horn
The eyes of Texas are upon you all the live long day
The eyes of Texas are upon you, you cannot get away
Do not think you can escape them at night or early in the morn
unless you have yellow sage to grow cracks in walls till they fall
The eyes of Texas are upon you all the live long day
The eyes of Texas are upon you, you cannot get away
Do not think you can escape them at night or early in the morn
The eyes of Texas are upon you 'till Gabriel blows his horn

Songwriters: Fred Wise / Randy Starr

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Sep 21 - 12:55 PM

Gabriel? Horn? Bah! He's a lousy trumpeter, which is why we put him on one of those bulb-squeeze horns. Now, Bix was a TRUMPETER! Or Al, or...well, even me...are better than that hack Gabriel.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 21 - 01:28 PM

Gabe was merely a biblical wall buster, not to be confused with a mythical ball buster. Besides whatchugonnado with a ram's horn.
I would think hearing thunder would be good news for you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 21 - 03:41 PM

I'm aiming at

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 21 - 03:47 PM

a palindrome 2442
sq. rt. can never be reduced 49.416596402423345...just like pi

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Sep 21 - 09:11 PM

The time I wish I'd stopped with my camera - I was driving south in Idaho and we approached a highway overpass at sunset and the cowboys on horseback were driving cattle across the top of the overpass and oh what a photo that would have been. But I still remember it all of these years later, so an impression was made one way or another.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 21 - 05:15 PM

I recall an amazing photo of six bears all copulating, and I swear, all smiling at the the camera. That was worth the price of admission to the drive through nature reserve.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Sep 21 - 08:01 PM

We were driving from Fairfield, Idaho back to Hailey a couple of months ago when we were stopped. We were stopped by a dog laying down in the middle of the road, facing our car. Then the cattle were moved across the highway (2 lane, US20) by cowboys on horseback and one in an ATV. When the cows were safely across, and they were reluctant to go, the dog in front of us and a partner blocking traffic on the other side of the crossing got up and ran to catch up with the herd.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 05:54 PM

Oh asendemus nos
Ex subura
Ad villam palatinum optimam
Asendemus nos
Ex subura
Vinum tandem bibemus falnerum

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:22 PM

They were told that a simple appointment would save their lives.
But as a community they resisted the idea of being ________.
Some would demonstrate against it and others ignored the whole thing.
Normally rational Jews, simply became anti babtisers.
On the other hand some Christians became anti vaxxers even though they were told it would save thier 'Earthly' lives. Eternal life saving babtisms were somehow more important with a willful denialism.
Some say its about their freedoms, so Jews don't get saved by getting dunked in special water and the Christians die at the rate of 1 in 400 instead of having special water put inside of them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:43 PM

Based on my two years of Latin in high school, here's a translation:

Oh asendemus nos               Oh, we will arise
Ex subura                      Former Subarus
Ad villam palatinum optimam    To the optimal platinum villains
Asendemus nos                  We will arise
Ex subura                      Former Subarus
Vinum tandem bibemus falnerum At the same time we will drink Falerian wine

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:50 PM

Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso,
quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus
insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores                                 
impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 11:07 PM

Simple bakers yeast to psyilocin.
https://massivesci.com/articles/psilocybin-yeast-magic-mushrooms-psychedelics/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 11:21 PM

the most powerful anti inflamatory https://massivesci.com/notes/psychedelic-drugs-serotonin-psilocybin-dmt/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 06:33 AM

Its worse than the Spanish flu.

Hard nose, red nose
some cut it off
When science is denied
the gift of life is lost

When loved ones died
of course we cried
from the terrible cost
of nature's holocaust

Here is the cure
"But I'm not sure"
Please take it anyway
"Perhaps I should just pray"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 11:55 AM

12 battalions strong, Haitians are said to have gatherd underneah a border bridge. Video show agents rounding a few up by horseback.
I can not imagine a bridge big enough to shelter 12,000 people escaping a pandemic, climate change, earthquake and asasination of their head of state.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 04:00 PM

Havana syndrome {a focused microwave wounding of its victims}
is being called a disease. Thats like being wounded by an AK 47 is a disease.

Accidental Havana syndrome befalls the workmen on the local cell phone transmitter towers fairly often. Their internal temperature causes them to pass out and be rescued by firemen. If they are lucky.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 08:34 PM

Organophosphate pesticides.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 08:12 AM

nicinoids

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 21 - 03:56 AM

There was a village built of crumbling clay and rotting wood, and it squated under a broiling sun like a sick and mangy animal that wanted to die. This village had a virus shared by its people. It was the germ of squalor, racism and hopelessness. Those who claimed faith had lost their faith. For the faithless the hopeless and the misery laden, there is time, ample time, to engage in one of the pursuits of men. They began to destroy themselves. Every person had their own side, their own facebook page and harbored in the safety of annominity, their hate.
Gradually that hate grew openly and expressed itself beyond the digital world into the streets, into the school board meetings and capitols. The only reward was the self satisfaction of owning or disgracing the other side.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Sep 21 - 08:54 AM

Here's the results of the cooperation between the Idaho Legion and the Rhode Island Legion -- the disintegration of the Galactic Overlord's new "Death Bubble" last night by the new multichromo disruptor ray!

The Legion Defends The Earth!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 21 - 09:15 AM

That was convoluted even for you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Sep 21 - 05:10 PM

Drop by and I'll take you to the Legion Hovel for a drink, if you dare.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 21 - 07:56 PM

I used to sit on the bar at the Danville
VFW at 2 1/2. They all called me Whitey. Beer makes my face numb. Whiskey makes all elevations level and level becomes elevated.   Mushrooms makes the hidden dimension partially visible. My neighbor Rod Serling called it the Twillight Zone. I call it the Zoom Zone. We can zoom in and zoom out.
It makes me laugh that we call 'this' reality. 'This' is just a economic transactional reality which is funny in itself.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 10:10 AM

You're better off hanging out in the back doorway or kitchen at the hovel, it's closer to the barbecue out back - get meat for sandwiches right off the grill. When they bring it indoors to sit the flies get a meal before the people do.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 09:05 PM

We Legionnaires simply consider flies to be more protein. Should you go fishing, you have baited breath.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 09:42 PM

That reminds me how we have had no flies inside this summer. Not even a single fruit fly or an ant. What is different is that the pool was closed.

The political smoke from the raging wild lies out west bodes of the united ambitious incompetants that are on the rise. A single incompetant will fail but vast numbers of incompetants can succeed.
Quantity may indeed outrank quality.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 11:46 PM

Some people are becoming so woke they are coming out the racist side.
We have tried to revise diversity at some Universites by having one cafe for people of color and a whites only cafe. Cultures do disintegrate into madness when they rebel against diversity as in the tradition of MAGA and progressives in the US. There are other cultures who have dabbled in culture wars like; Yugoslavian Muslim and Christians, Rawanda Hutus and Tutsies, Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, Sunnies and Shiites in Iraq, Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir, Everyone in Afghanistan...

I have repeated my angst over the holocaust many times with mixed response and often none. I am typified as mad by a segment of the UK crowd in what could be called antidonualism. I have mentioned civil war segments of American society for over 10 years until now it has become an actual hot/cold civil war.

Ethnic purity, tribalism, racism or what ever you want to call it, its surely the reason why Neanderthals dissapeared. I say we have to get high together to get along to go along. So I'll have that drink.
I propose an elixer of peace, the COD (cocktail of diversity): one part Oxytocin, one part magic mushroom, four parts Vodka, 2 parts THC, 2 parts red wine, 2 parts mollie and 6 parts strawberry watermelon juice. :^/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 21 - 10:12 PM

My hometown has had many famous people besides me!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Sep 21 - 08:10 AM

Thats better than being related to the SS butcher of Cyprus

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Sep 21 - 06:30 AM

http://hakman.com/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Sep 21 - 09:24 PM

Tough luck, I say. Tough, tough luck.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 21 - 10:09 PM

it's almost time to wish the Mudcat a Happy Birthday,
how does MOM observe the Mudcat Birthday anyhow?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Sep 21 - 09:47 AM

Mom is looking forward to you guys as guests while she rocks in her chair and watches 'Goliath' (a film noire of bright lights and victories over corporate greed) while nursing a Drambuie.
William Shatner might be the unexpected guest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Sep 21 - 07:02 PM

David E Kelly (aka Michelle Pfiffer's husband) wrote Goliath.
I like his surrealism, humor and how his gimmicks don't always work.

He also wrote Boston Legal and a dozen other famous shows.
Their house sold for 35 mil.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 21 - 02:55 PM

I honestly have no idea who those people are. Did I meet them and forget that I did? Should I know who they are?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 21 - 03:34 PM

Where to begin with that question:
how about Harrison Ford ?
He used to be married to a writer (film scripts), and together they had a number of children. I remember him complaining that the kids would not sleep in their own beds at night because they kept coming into their parents' bedroom and piling into bed with the grown-ups.

Next thing you know, the marriage has ended in divorce, and he is seeing a very slender young actress named Calista Flockhart. Eventually the two of them get married, and are married today.

Now, Calista Flockhart's claim to fame, before this, was playing the lead role in a television 'dramedy' titled Ally McBeal which aired from 1997 to 2002 on the Fox network. The creator of that somewhat notorious series is named:
David E. Kelley.   According to his Wikipedia article,
"Kelley is one of a very few screenwriters to have created shows that have aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks."

Before Ally McBeal, Kelley worked with Steven Bochco on such television series as L. A. Law and Doogie Howser M. D.

And he wrote and produced the feature film Lake Placid, in which Brendan Gleeson plays the sheriff who blows up a giant crocodile with a grenade launcher, while a second crocodile is tranquilized and loaded on a flatbed truck, and Betty White is seen feeding the crocodile babies at the end of the film.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 21 - 06:43 PM

I am not good at jokes but when I post my 'ironic musings' outside of MOAB they are eliminated, exsponged and banned. So as a clipboard I may have to store notions on moab. Please ignore international communique's , classified info and text enabled manipulated images.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 21 - 07:39 PM

How classified is "classified?" Mom has repeatedly told me not to mention that a critical mass of U₂₃₅ is about 10kg for a gun-type bomb.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Sep 21 - 08:50 AM

Even NYT's articles have been classified but so are time space manipulations, which is a reasonable thing to do. You can't trust humans as far as you can throw them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 10:52 AM

Classifieds were the best regular source of income for newspapers for a century or more. And public notices published in the classifieds were the beating heart of the classifieds. I haven't looked at that part of a newspaper in ages to see if it is even still there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Oct 21 - 07:00 PM

As long as I am complaining, there is no quick Corporate profit margin concerning the health and wealth of our children. But War promises gigantic and fast corporate returns. Standard Operating Procedure has been to put kids on the conveyor belt of student loans and hope to collect for a lifetime.
The Biden bill will give free tuition to community college, free pre school, tax credts for every child mailed monthly, free covid vaccines and 350 billion more help every year for 10 years. Its a very buttery bill compared to the typical big gun pentagon budget.
republicans are shocked. Oh No not affordable and sustainable housing, energy and jobs!
If it passes, America will become a dynamic place again.
MADA make america dynamic again.
Even if we are past the tipping point its better to go down swinging. Instead of just responding to each and every global warming disaster its better to head it off the best we can.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 11:20 AM

It's the gold rush mentality -- it's just laying in the streets waiting to be picked up! Of course, those who mined the mniners were the ones that made money, but any miner would tell you that it would be "the next creek."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Oct 21 - 01:19 PM

The desktop photo on my computer has been a view of Mars from the rover. The tire tracks on a sandy dune and the mesa and mountains in the distances are evocative of a route across the old Wild West.

I'm thinking it's time to give another photo a chance, so have been searching for large images of my home region. It might make the desktop icons harder to find (that's one reason why Mars works so well).

I save large images in a folder that I point my screen saver to so I see these things come up for a little while after the computer has been inactive but not gone to sleep. I've been clearing out a backlog of online stored photos and I should look at those as a possible source of a desktop image also. I keep my phone and camera photos in files on the computer, but they're also backed up to several places and I don't need that many backup photos. And certainly not to pay for a couple of them, so before things renew, time to empty and turn them back to free sites.

MOM said to not get rid of the photos of the parties on the screened in front porch, and a handful from the Legion Hovel. I'm guessing she sees some income potential in a few of those.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 10:03 AM

Anthony Doerr's 'Cloud Cukoland' is dedicated to all Librarians.
Mcall Idaho looks pretty.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 12:24 PM

Fer you, Maggie.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Oct 21 - 01:53 PM

Nice! I trawl through NASA sites often times, though I found a couple with fall colors and water that appeal. But that link of yours has a nice nighttime view of Crater Lake that should let my icons through easily.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Oct 21 - 10:32 PM

Up up up!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 06:48 AM

Like the most dangerous Nuke plant design and waste disposal system, Facebook doesn't want to spend the money to fully safeguard the power plant.
It would not be as profitable. Yes Facebook did hire people to cover counter intelligence on their site, ALL 6 of them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 03:48 PM

Is it true Facebook only hires strict fundamentalist Agnostics?
What is their agenda? Insurrection? Ruination of 250,000 pedophile Catholic Priests? What?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 04:49 PM

In 2018 there were only 414,065 Catholic priest in the entire world. Of these, 35,513 were in the US.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 21 - 05:26 PM

What is not a joke is France currently dealing with victims of pedophile priests.

Today another mentally challenged Michigan militia man parked next to The Trump Supream Court and forced his non lethal take down.
He said he would tear down the government. He was armed with a bb gun and machete.

Each toll of the National Cathedral bells today signified a 1,000 victims from Covid. It rang 700 times.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 01:17 PM

So in the Catholic Church in France. I think that the Vatican probably is aware of it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 03:51 PM

The bad news is that every person's DNA is 99.9 % identical.
That one tenth of 1 percent difference seperates the most evil and profane from the most intelligent and loving.

The good news is that 99.7% of every person's blood contains legally lethal chemicals from teflon. Its good because it only lasts a thousand years and it means we could put something good in all our blood.

PS It was found the only clean toxin free blood is the archived blood from US Korean war troops.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 21 - 09:52 PM

Teflon the blood prevents strokes and heart attacks by making the blood and vessels more slippery. It is for this reason that Teflon is used in heart stents.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 06:06 PM

On the more dystopian side of the spectrum, Wired reported on a filmmaker named Michael Usry who was accused of a 1996 murder in Idaho Falls nearly 20 years after the fact — coincidentally the same month that Phoenix police got their break in the Canal Killer investigation.

Usry, who was a teenager at the time of the killing, was picked up by police at his doorstep in New Orleans in December 2014, Wired wrote. He was interrogated by an FBI agent and spent a month under suspicion — all because the killer’s genetic code was similar to his father’s, whose DNA sample had been obtained by Ancestry.com.

But unlike Miller and DeAngelo, Usry’s DNA test ruled him out as a suspect. His father was one of many false positives that plague familial DNA testing, Wired wrote.

“He seemed like a really good candidate,” an Idaho Falls police sergeant told the New Orleans Advocate after Usry was cleared. “But we’ve had that happen before.” Whodathought Idaho would stymie the country from successful familial DNA searchs.


Familial DNA searches, in fact, had an 83 percent failure rate in a 2014 British study, Wired wrote. This is part of the reason that many warn against the practice, even as law enforcement agencies master its uses.


“The technique is arousing fierce objections from privacy advocates, who maintain that it turns family members into genetic informants without their knowledge or consent,” Ellen Nakashima wrote in The Washington Post in 2008, long before the popularity of genealogy sites exploded.

Since then, Wired reported, Maryland and the District of Columbia have banned familial DNA searches, while the method is regulated in several other states, including California, where police used it to track down the Golden State Killer suspect.

“You allow that low-quality potential evidence to start being searched in these unregulated databases,” Stephen Mercer, a former public defender who helped pass the ban on familial search in Maryland, told The Post. “You’re casting a wide net of suspicion over many, many people.”


The use of genetic websites in the hunt for the Golden State Killer also led investigators to misidentify a potential suspect last year, according to court records obtained by the Associated Press on Friday. The daughter of a 73-year-old Oregon City man said authorities swabbed her father for DNA in a nursing home without her knowledge.

Aware that their millions of customers don’t necessarily want to inform on their relatives, some genealogy companies actively resist handing over data to police, STAT wrote this week.

23andMe, one of the earliest and most popular DNA search companies, has refused all law enforcement requests, the outlet wrote. Ancestry has, too — at least since 2014, when police used its database to erroneously accuse Usry of the 1996 Idaho Falls murder.

However, the California investigators did not use either of those sites to find the family of the Golden State Killer suspect. Rather, they reportedly ran their old evidence through GEDmatch, a relatively small, free service that allows users to upload and analyze their DNA sequences.

“We understand that the GEDmatch database was used to help identify the [suspected] Golden State Killer,” the company said in a statement. “Although we were not approached by law enforcement or anyone else about this case or about the DNA, it has always been GEDmatch’s policy to inform users that the database could be used for other uses.”

It’s precisely those other uses that now, after the sensational break in a 40-year-old serial killer case, excite and alarm so many people.

“I think it’s revolutionary,” Richard Shelby, a former Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department detective who hunted the Golden State Killer in the 1970s, told The Post after this week’s arrest.

“If criminals out there know they can be tracked down this way, they are going to have to try to not leave their DNA at the scene, and that’s nearly impossible,” he said. “It’s one of the best crime-fighting tools to come in a long, long time, we are paeticularly interested in a man named Mike.”

Justin Jouvenal, Drew Harwell and Tom Jackman contributed to this

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Oct 21 - 10:40 PM

Fact of the day: While identical twins share identical genetic patterns, their fingerprints are different.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 21 - 06:36 AM

I regret as an embryo having absorbed my identical twin. All that remains of him is a bump behind my calf.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 21 - 10:31 AM

Heros and thugs

The Heros are, doctors and nurses.
The thugs crap on the capitol floor
Heros save lives, thugs shout curses
thugs say its freedom they savor
Like freedom to not use vaccines
or never use toilet paper
it stinks in their vacinity

The heros are, the teachers and nurses
The thugs threaten and hit folks at school
Teachers live and thugs take hearses.
Some folks are wise and others are...wait for it...Fooled
As the smart grow dumb and the dumb go insane
To say it out loud it feels inane
Smart folks do their research and probe
Thugs put a plug in it and explode.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 21 - 07:03 PM

Every time my mother had another baby I asked her to take it back because it was interfering with position as the wisest and best.

She never did. Kept all three of them no matter how often I told her that it was over the legal limit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 21 - 09:55 AM

Trump nuts boasting that they opened fire
Proud boys wearing battle clothes
Big lie theories being sung by a choir
And folks argue like in puppet shows

Everybody knows Fox News sees a war that grows
will help to make their season right
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know that Trump's on his way
He's loaded lots of guns and cronies on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna sigh
that a war is worse than getting high

So, I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-five
Although it's been said many times, many ways
We feel sorry for you.

You did not start this stupid hate
You don't deserve this hateful fate
And while your folks might even kill
We know that its not your wish or will.

Trump nuts boasting that they opened fire
Proud boys wearing battle clothes
Big lie theories being sung by a choir
And folks argue like in puppet shows

And so, I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-four
Although it's been said, many times, many ways
We are sorry, We are sorry
We are sorry for you

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 01:19 PM

In an effort to make Congress more active and entertaining they have adopted floor NFL rules; So far only penalties have been assesed but little ground has been gained. The committee to investigte 1-6 had a penalty of roughing the passer. Schumer horse collered McConnel and the Senator from Texas was called for targeting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 03:09 PM

For whatever reason they didn't arrest people during the 2020 impeachment trials, they seem more willing to do so for scofflaws who ignore subpoenas. The reasons given for not appearing before Congress are pure BS so bear mentioning here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 04:48 PM

Mom, I'm making a sweet potato-ham-apple casserole for suppoer (dinner to you effete Easterners). I hope it works, but like I always say, "Nontoxic in, nontoxic out."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 10:36 PM

You will see a reluctance to arrest subpeona refusers and others because we know that that precedance will push republicans into an arrest purge of Democrats should/when Republicans regain power.

We substituted the chicken in the Chinese chicken walnut recipe with Argentine shrimp and Patagonian scallops. I'm not allergic to south Atlantic seafood. (the North Atlantic still has more explosive residue and pollution) I had dinner on the slouchboy couch (not a sofa or davenport) and watched the surreal Red Sox.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 21 - 10:06 AM

The price to own the illusion of safety, security, and armour against danger has gone up to 50 billion dollars. While this is good news for Zuckerberg it is anathma for the average billionaire. The fragility of the illusion as well as looming debt ceiling issues has the potential to go as high as 500 billion to own the illusion of protection which will eliminate all but a handful of billionaires.

The average person only has the illusion of safety via conspiracy theory and on the other hand, Science or religion. All the politics that deals with the issue is just entertainment. In the distant past the mere quest for immortality was just as expensive in adjusted money but now the illusion includes many more probabilites and catastrophes.
As a result the safety illusion market is highly unstable and may crash leaving even multi billionaires out in the cold/heat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 21 - 06:16 PM

Trump's new book 'Bigfoot, Covid and Jesus' will be released in April.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 21 - 09:03 PM

Well, Mom, it snowed some today. So far it's pretty sparse, only about 2 meters deep. Not enough to remark on except it's the first of the year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 21 - 10:06 AM

Still too warm - fur snow - 85F. But speekin of warm stills, the toe jam fur the flavorin of the licker is good and ripe ceptin it hasn't turned green. Ya can't beat that nutty flavor and aroma. Its oar famly seakret resipee. Mom is furmentin paw paw for a speseal mash this yer. It only takes 3 days but hoo boy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 21 - 04:20 PM

The Empire of Light

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 21 - 11:27 PM

Wine lovers beware. The spotted lantern fly is invading our grape vine orchards. Squish em if you see em.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Oct 21 - 12:27 PM

Cut out the middleman this christmas shopping season and avoid the Mall.
Take a pilot boat out to the container ship and shop there.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 21 - 10:18 PM

Mom, it's early but I'm going to beddy-bye.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 21 - 08:41 AM

Dibs on 2525!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 21 - 09:31 AM

You deserve dibs on all numbers up to a google for being one of the hundreds of founding father jokers who were here at the peak of their powers with great stories and left handed compliments. Treasure the past laughter that echos in the rafters.

Everthing new is old again.


























stories and left handed compliments.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 21 - 09:14 PM

I think I'll see if I can get Khandu to come visit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 21 - 10:42 PM

Khandu from Xanadu spun his own magic yarn
When you wear his sweaters you go to Sorbonne
or Battan or Sichuan but I went to Aswan
and took a boat down the Nile to Alexandria
to an unburned library basement and read Cassandra
in her own hand a story of the future of India.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 21 - 10:53 PM

Trump is going "under oath" on Monday morning. Now THAT oughta be a great source of BS.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 07:52 AM

SRS if you were declared to have acted in the best interest of the United States you would in effect be hailed a hero. Trump has never acted in the best interest of the US but is a hero to a mob of goons. The only oath he takes seriously is the loyalty oath to himself.
I hope the 1-6 investigation doesn't resemble the Senate hearing in Godfather II.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 10:51 AM

Well, Mom, because of coughing and sich for the past couple weeks this morning I did an in-home COVID test. Positive, of course, I expect nothing less these days. So I have a telehealth appt. at 0940 MDT today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 04:06 PM

And I isolate for ten (10) months, the doctor said. If I still have this tomorrow he told me it would be 10 years. I would have be waited on hand and foot. Pat said something about my dreams.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 04:18 PM

Sorry to spoil your vacay but we had a false positive in our fam.
I look at our vaccinated anti vaxxer politicians who were positive and hold court after about a week. Trump was supposed to isolate on Elba but decided to infect the White House instead.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 08:04 PM

I may be getting monoclonal antibodies, just like Don John!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 21 - 10:22 AM

You lucky bastard.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Oct 21 - 01:51 PM

Depends if the VA is willing to pay for such treatment. BUT I do have something I can not only share, but flat-out GIVE, to people. I'm not greedy, so I'm willing to give this Covid thing away.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 21 - 02:19 PM

If you get the monal clonals and steroids it will feel like you snorted your body weight in coke. You might not feel so philonthropic then.
You have been a walking weapon before, don't sweat it. Its time like these you feel more alive.

If it doesn't work out remember ahead of time to hire a sin cake eater at your wake who will eat a collection of small cakes off your chest to absorb all your sins.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 21 - 08:42 AM

In a religious form of billionaire impunity, special dispensation used to be a way of buying a get out of hell card. Perhaps it is still done but is probably done under the table. This was a early form of death insurance which today has evolved into what we call life insurance.
With both life insurance and death insurance there are no guarantees there will be a 'pay out'. You also have no idea if other entities have   placed bets on your longevity. You might be worth more to past employers than family.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 21 - 12:27 PM

Writing scripts backwards is a technique that works well for comedies.
Having a final scene so proposterous as to be hilarious can be a starting point in which every previous scene can lead to a justification of the unliklyhood. So I have been making a list of final impossible scenes like Chuck Schumer being handcuffed to Ted Cruz or Trump stuck in an elevator with Himmler's ghost. The list doesn't look like ideas for a suspension of belief but more like a supension of sanity. I welcome another POV.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 21 - 08:59 PM

MMMMOOOOMMMM!!! I called dibs on 2525! Punish him! Punish him!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 21 - 09:29 PM

OMG Not locked in the stocks again. Stop, I forgot. The Dirty Dog Pub spilled into the street and ol man gummy was hoding da doe as fat man Slaw beconded everyone else to drag me out. Slaw was the rabble rouser always writting checks he couldn't cover and always carrying on about how Germany got cheated. The stocks smelled like mold and pee. Clank went the lock. People were still chewin the wag and carrying on in the full moon crisp autumn air. THWOP the first tomato hit me square in the forehead to cheers from patrons full of pints. This punishment does not fit the crime. Oh well if this was America it wouldn't just be a tomata.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Oct 21 - 04:39 PM

The worst part of being stuck in the stock is you can't sleep, if you slump even a little bit it cuts off your breathing at your throat.
I don't blame mom. I'm just glad I'm out now. You good?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Oct 21 - 04:48 PM

Rap, I'm guessing you had to stay home for 10 days, not 10 months. Pat would chain you under the back deck (where the freezers were buried) if she had to have you there being tended to for 10 months.

Seasonal allergies are the main event here, always keeping in mind that if they begin to feel like allergies on steroids, then go get the COVID test.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 21 - 09:09 PM

Pat has a lot to put up with, such as driving me to the horse spittle tomorrow for the MCA infusion. This is not something she has been adverse to doing! I just hope it helps me feel better!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Oct 21 - 09:20 PM

Get a steroid chaser.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Oct 21 - 10:24 PM

If the cardiologist approves of course. I expect you will feel better in a couple days.
I have been taking otc nitric oxide capsules from amazon.com and feel 100% stronger with more oxygen and flexibility to the heart during relatively easy chores. I dissolve three capsules in my coffee twice a day and feel like Popeye eating a can of spinach. Some people use them for their workouts. I use them to get out and work.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Oct 21 - 10:42 PM

Google tells me that works like the "little blue pill." We don't want to know anything about that. I'm glad it's helping in other aspects of your daily activity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 21 - 06:38 AM

Linking the two is erroneous, yet the effects of N O on the body is real for the heart and extrematies like the hands, Sidinofil is specific on dialating only certain blood vessels.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11557915/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Oct 21 - 12:44 PM

In an hour I have to be at the horse spittle for an infusion of mono! Always tried to avoid that in high school....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 21 - 01:28 PM

I've never been enthused by mono but the kissing psrt is fine,

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 21 - 09:07 PM

... and then you isolate for the next ten days?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 21 - 01:34 PM

The next varient may be so contagious that you can get it from social media posts. Rap I made you chicken soup.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Oct 21 - 09:29 PM

I wear a mask when using computers to fend off computer viruses.

Pat was taken to testing today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 21 - 09:34 PM

IDAHO - Sources revealed today that when the Govenor excused himself to go to the restroom last night the Lt. Govenor declared war on Canada in a border dispute and deployed the National Guard deep into Canada. The Govenor was not appraised of the situation until early this morning.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 21 - 09:45 PM

The Lt. Govenor when asked for comment exclaimed "44 40 or Fight. The Govenor was unavailable for comment.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 21 - 10:17 PM

How's Pat?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 21 - 10:22 AM

When bored, as I often am, I imagine a possibility in deep space.
Today I imagined a slow collision between a bubble of blue oxygen unimaginably large encountering a red cloud of hydrogen. The mixing naturally creates water but I further wondered if other forces such as novas or black holes could give a vector force to the 'Space Tsunami'. So I googled space tsunami. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/supermassive-black-holes-may-generate-tsunamis-in-escaping-gas
Cosmic floods in exo solar systems may be creating life or death on planets beyond our sight.
It seems like anything you can think of, has been thought of except...
!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 21 - 03:44 PM

MOM!! How often have we told you NEVER to turn that switch off? See what you've done now, young lady?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Oct 21 - 11:14 AM

Don, the first photo of a space fart.

Yeah, she was tossing stuff around on the sun porch and hit the switch with an old beach ball that used to float in the kiddie pool. She might have done this after staggering in from the Legion Hovel, so wasn't aware of what she did till waking the next day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 21 - 05:43 PM

UTI? The Empress hasn't been around Bill Clinton has she?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 21 - 08:49 PM

No, but she has been in Chicago in the last few weeks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 21 - 10:32 AM

As you know, the good doctors dictate their notes onto a computer. Pat's discharge reads, "Unfortunately the patient showed considerable improvement and was discharged."

The doctor dictating probably said, "Um..." at that point.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Oct 21 - 11:26 AM

Good to hear that you sprung her from that place!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 21 - 01:08 PM

A sad confession: I was initially a Don Jr.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 21 - 07:32 PM

So do we call you "junior" or "junie"?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 21 - 07:45 PM

Naw. I peed alot so they called me Bud.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 21 - 01:36 PM

Turtle Hill golf resort in Bermuda was rated in the top 5 golf resorts in the world by Golf Magazine. Don just so happened to have read that on the john since he lost his twitter account. Trump has planned a visit to Bermuda to visit his old pal that he made ambassador to Bermuda but it is rumored he is really trying to acquire Turtle Hill. Negotiations are going as slow as a turtle going uphill.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 21 - 09:29 PM

We both voted today, Mom. NO incumbents were voted upon!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 21 - 06:32 AM

similar to my impressionism

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 21 - 07:37 AM

America used to burn disco records but today good old fashioned book burnings about race theory may be a bridge too far for Mike.
Its a slippery slope when certain book titles to be burned, turns into burning any Democratic jewish sounding scienctific and medical book.
The thing about incumbants is that people thought they had good ideas.
Ideas are immortal, just add mortals.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 21 - 09:20 AM

idea for action thriller: After spending 15 billion dollars of the infrastructue budget for building the Gateway tunnel from NJ to NYC, a sea rise, full moon and a small tsunami coincide to flood the entire tunnel.
The last scene is of Senator Manchin, who blocked the climate change spending.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 21 - 12:06 PM

sci horror idea:
-A Massive Solar Tsunami Shock Wave will Hit Earth
Huge Explosion on the Far Side of the Sun is Felt on Earth
Pole Shift Underway as Earth's Magnetic Field Continues to Weaken.
get Steve Shawman
for director.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Oct 21 - 02:04 PM

Book burnings! Phooey!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 21 - 03:46 PM

I have lectured about the fascist flavor in America for a decade or more. It is now spoken of daily by mainstream media. I posted about virtual book burnings and real. Removing books from school libraries is a pre curser to real incidents of burning. Just having a book is enough to get death threats. People are replacing collars on their dogs so right wing nuts don't get their phone number to make death threat calls, and these victims are merely school board members.

I say phooey too but from the fascist taste in my mouth that American white cake leaves. The domestic terrorists count on a limited number of threats being magnified by repetition so I don't recount all I have observed. There are none so blind...
Wiki? pleeze

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Oct 21 - 11:44 AM

An idiot ultra-conservative GOP (I realized those terms "idiot" and "conservative" and "GOP" are redundant) rep from my city wants to examine the contents of something like 859 library books in the list in local schools. The Texas TEA is crying foul on that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 21 - 09:05 PM

Tell him to check them out and prepare book reports on each.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 12:03 AM

You are a cruel but effective task master.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 09:55 AM

Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
And all the things that wait for me
I realize that I can see
That insurrection's painful
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
I try to find a way to make
All our little joys relate
Without that ever-present hate
But now I know that it's too late, and
That insurrection's painful
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say
That insurrection's painful
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
He said the way to win is cheat
so lay it down before I'm beat
And to another give my seat
For that's the only painless feat
That insurrection's painful
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger watch it grin, but
The insurrection's painful
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
Is it to be or not to be
And I replied 'Oh, why ask me?'
The insurrection's painful
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
'cause insurrection's painful
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
And you can do the same thing if you please

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 07:01 PM

Uh-huh. Yep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 21 - 11:26 PM

This is the month for low budget new horror movies like;
I Know What You Tweeted Last Summer
Rosemary's Anchor Baby
The Progressive at the End Of The Street
pResident Evil
Night Of The Living Wage
The Man In The Ironic Mask
Heather Has Two Mummies
Husband Of Chucky
House Of Vax
Friday The Juneteenth
Jews...da dum da dum da dum da dum da dum da dum

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 01:28 PM

Mom! Mom! Tonight and tomorrow night I get to spray hollowweenies with the garden hose! "Trick or...SQUIRT!"

Let 'em get a job and EARN their candy like REAL Americans! We ain't no give-away Liberals here in Idaho!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Oct 21 - 06:22 PM

Its finally happened. My sarcasm has exceeded the sensibility of the last refuge on mudcat called MOAB. I feel like Dave Chappel.
Cancel Kulture has flooded humorland and is seeping into the souls of those who live by the airport and sewerage treatment plant but eat organic bananas. Thank you for releasing me. The curse is broken, the favor repaid.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 11:02 AM

I wondered who Dave Chappel was. Out here, our current comic fave-rave is Red Skelton.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 11:03 AM

PS
Sounds like Rap is back to full power.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 21 - 05:44 PM

Here!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 08:01 AM

Little did Clem Kiddlehopper know he was linked to quantum mechanics and the many worlds theory of reality but now the randomness is clearly seen in our politics culture wars and humor.

Beyond Steven Hawking's explanation of the black hole information paradox we are now and the end of the beggining of its solution

-this has helped me explain how black holes turn matter into space that expands space time in the form of dark energy that is accelerating by means of escape inside WORMHOLES. I never knew how the space got out of the interior of a singularity before. Moreover the space contains information but we do not currently know how to decode space information as we do with particles.

So instead of Hawking's theory of escaping black hole radiation 'I' see it as escaping emergent space. Ergo space time is emergent and quantum gravity is emergent and every other god damn thing is emergent. This is why we have so many 'emergencies'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Nov 21 - 09:28 PM

I saw an emergent garter snake once.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Nov 21 - 06:09 AM

Yep I watched a garter snake have a massive live births. No eggs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Nov 21 - 09:07 PM

The new water heater is in!!! Hurrah!!!!

In the afternoon of November 29, the other water heater, an electric one, will be replaced. Seems like there's rust around the bottom. We're waiting until we come back from visiting family "back East." The doctor cleared us both for travel and we're leaving next Tuesday!

And I can't get the COVID booster until January 20 because I had monoclonal antibodies and right now my body is a swarming mass of antibodies and a booster shot would be a waste. Pat, on the other hand, has had her Moderna booster.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Nov 21 - 06:46 PM

Beating the rush is smart. There are lots of flight cancellations going on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 21 - 03:59 PM

Mom, I'd like to put this KofC gig behind me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 21 - 07:17 PM

G'nite Sir Knight

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Nov 21 - 10:05 PM

I may best be addressed as "Worthy Grand Knight."

Subject: BS: R U retired?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 21 - 11:14 AM

My wife works from home and ia a desktop commuter.
I have new tires so I am retired.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 21 - 11:41 AM

Rules for 'You might be a redneck'


I have a Anti American version.

If you liked 1-6, you might be anti american.
If you took Ivermectin, you might be anti american".
If you liked Trump on Twitter, you might be anti american
If you have a maga hat or trump merch, you might be anti american.
If you thought of shooting immigrants, you might be anti american.
If you made $ off the new TX abortion law, you might be anti american.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 06:44 AM

gop cartoon murder of democrats and immigrants.

Congressman Gosar reminds me of the King in GOT that carried out the Red Wedding murders.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Nov 21 - 02:19 PM

background music:
Gimme dat ol' time racism
Gimme dat ol' time racism
Gimme dat ol' time racism
Its good enuf fer Texas
Its good enuf fer me

Crime Life Records is proud to announce the new Insurrection music for our times. We even have the new death metal bands for your involvement. Oldies are new again with great songs like "Where have all the lefties gone...and everypne's favorite "My daddy was a Nazi and I'm a Nazi's son. We trashed the US capitol and the fun has just begun. Which side are you on, tell me which side are you on."

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/hate-music

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 21 - 06:31 AM

background music: 'Under my thumb'
Aron Rodgers sings; hear songs like 'I gotta be me' and 'I did it my way' along with his favorite song
(C Dm7 C°) C
You got - ta be a football hero
Dm (A7 Dm)
To get along with the beautiful girls.
G7 C
You gotta be a touchdown getter, you bet,
D7
If you wanna get
G7
A baby to pet.
C
The fact that you are rich or handsome
CM7 C7 F (A7 Dm)
Won’t get you anything in curls;
Dm7 B7 C A7
You gotta be a football hero,
D7 G7 C
To get along with the beautiful girls.

What symptoms does Aron have besides being a sneaky liar?
A grandiose sense of self-importance Communicating a sense of entitlement Expecting recognition for superiority, even without corresponding achievements. Expecting special treatment without question (i.e., a feeling that the rules don't apply to him)
Exaggerated accomplishments and talents. Taking advantage of others to get what one wants Preoccupation or fantasies about success, power, brilliance. Lack of empathy (recognizing others' perspectives) Believing he is a person of special gifts and should only associate with and can only be understood by similarly special people Requiring constant attention while Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Nov 21 - 10:46 AM

We are in Moline! Had dinner with the cousins and will see them again today and tomorrow!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 21 - 11:10 AM

Moline, Moline, Moline, Mo-line. . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Nov 21 - 06:54 PM

Dolly Parton is always welcome . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 21 - 09:23 PM

I suppose thats your passive aggressive way of saying I am not welcome.
Thats OK, times change but people rarely do.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Nov 21 - 07:39 AM

We're number ONE! The Washingtom Football team is number one in lowest attendance and is 2-6.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Nov 21 - 12:46 PM

The only reason I pay attention to sports here is so I can avoid the traffic before or after a game.

It looks like a surgical boot for xmas for my daughter, who waited for ages to get a report on the xrays from her GP ("it'll heal") and finally got in to see a specialist ("it needs a surgical repair, asap"). Guess who's looking for a new GP, because that form of BS is unacceptable. There's nothing like a big co-pay for the holidays.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Nov 21 - 05:01 PM

I'm gonna guess Achilles?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 21 - 09:52 PM

Well, Mom, I'm back in my home town, staying the same stable in which I was born and which I built myself. I'll sleep well these three nights because this time there won't be all those sheep, shepherds, angels, camels, and donkeys, and wise guys wandering around, making noise, stumbling over the furniture, and spilling the drinks.

Had a nice Greek dinner and craic with a friend we hadn't been in touch with for literally half a century. Tomorrow is sister-in-law and her grandkids day, and I have to find time to visit the 'hood.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Nov 21 - 08:23 AM

The notion of tipsy wisemen is funny. If you built your own manger you may be the long lost Dali Lama.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 21 - 10:38 AM

Actually it was a little log cabin on the plains. I started to build a sod shanty but, being on the banks fo the Mississippi, there was very little sod but lots and lots of mud.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Nov 21 - 12:04 PM

My new book, 'Be a Proud Boy Impressionist', teaches the inner thought, behaviors and mannerisms of your average white supremacist. Fashion comes first since seeing is believing. The common mistake is merely wearing Trump merch. You don't have to carry a big gun, an axe will do.
Camo is a good standby and stretchy mom jeans are a definite no-no.
Mannerisms are in Chapter 2 and the emphasis is on facial expressions like Clint Eastwood chewin on some wood. Remember looking dumb is not as good as being dumb. Flashing hand signals of white power is as essential as black gang signals. Unknown to most people is the proper diet of fat salt and sugar while avoiding certain foods. A dead give away of a Proud imposter is eating KFC. Urban legend has disproved that Confederate Col. Sanders was a white guy. A black lady actually came up with the recipee and spices. The second book deals exclusively with language and how to sound like a proud boy. Learn what displaying a Moon Pie means and who wrote the proud Boys anthem.

Proud of your boy
I'll make you proud of your boy
Believe me, bad as I've been, ma
You're in for a pleasant surprise
I've wasted time
I've wasted me
So say I'm slow for my age
A late bloomer, okay, I agree
That I've been one rotten kid
Some son, some pride and some joy
But I'll get over these lousin' up
Messin' up, screwin' up times
You'll see, ma, now comes the better part
Someone's gonna make good cross his stupid heart
Make good and finally make you
Proud of your boy
Tell me that I've been a louse and loafer
You won't get a fight here, no, ma'am
Say I'm a goldbrick, a goof-off, no good
But that couldn't be all that I am
Water flows under the bridge, let it pass
Let it go
There's no good reason that you should believe me, not yet
I know, but
Someday and soon
I'll make you proud of your boy
Though I can't make myself taller
Or smarter or handsome or wise
I'll do my best, what else can I do?
Since I wasn't born perfect like dad or you
Mom, I will try to try hard to make you
Proud of your boy
Cool! Good!
Yeah
Okay, five!
I gotta take it in D from now on
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Howard Elliott Ashman / Alan Irwin Menken
Proud of Your Boy lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company, Wonderland Music Co. Inc., Wonderland Music Company Inc., Wonderland Music Company Inc, Walt Disney Music Co Ltd

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 21 - 05:53 PM

Hi, Mom! Your favorite kid is leaving for Springfield tomorrow!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Nov 21 - 06:36 PM

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALIENS:
I am probably under estimating your intelligence capbilities but if there is any doubt - The planet Earth has well stated goals to take polluting and hazardous industry off planet. Perhaps Mars as Elon Musk has argued. We are going to triple satllite orbitals by 2030 with a private budget of 1.3 Trillion dollars.
So between traffic and pollution it is probable weapons will soon follow. Everything we have done to/for Earth we plan to do elsewhere.
The good things are often self centered. Judge for yourselves if this is the kind of partnership you can welcome.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 21 - 05:00 PM

The State Prosecutor of Rittenhouse did a masterful cohesive rivoting timeline with video in his final argument. Defense was still a muddy disjointed mess with exclamations of "Com'on People!" over and over.
The defense against pictures was "don't believe your eyes" its just a   bunch of out of focus hocus pocus. It wasn't exactly like the "If the glove doesn't fit...momment.
Prosecution was strong on the fundamentals of law in the case and how any instigation automaticly erases a self defense claim. The defense was an emotional plea of a kind of vigilante self defense. IMO the defense hurt itself and the state did a great come back.
What remains are 2 dead one wounded and an idiot 17 year old teen with an AR '17'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 01:04 PM

Accross the river in Virginia the majority of a school board voted to ban books and only two voted to burn the banned books. So Rap, the anathma is here as I said.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Nov 21 - 10:02 PM

Actually, the weapon was his mother's -- just like the one used in Newtown.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Nov 21 - 12:15 AM

She said "I wish he hadn't brung it...but he did a good job on the stand".

un other news

For $995 Mile High Club Airlines will take a couple on a private flight for 45 minutes. The couple can then awkwardly look out the windows for 42 minutes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Nov 21 - 07:12 AM

Don't bring your gun to town son...

Like current events when galaxies are too close they do not display the warpage of the gravitational lensing of history. ships in the night

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Nov 21 - 09:38 PM

Champaign tomorrow!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 05:57 PM

Say hi to Danville

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 21 - 06:10 PM

I'm not going to Danville, but my niece works there and I'll have her do it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 21 - 06:25 PM

Did a zoom type conference today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 21 - 10:50 AM

Let the Holiday BS begin - this week.

This is primarily low-level pandering material, but there will still be some high-quality stuff happening. Mostly political.

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

Going shopping with the nieces today -- the oldest plans to come out right after Christmas and visit Yellowstone in the winter. Been there -- it's cold and lots of snow. Gotta get her outfitted.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 21 - 12:36 PM

So - the niece is coming out to Idaho, not just "coming out [of the closet]." You don't need to dress warmly to do that. Though it is ironic that most warm clothes are kept in the closet. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 21 - 12:36 PM

So - the niece is coming out to Idaho, not just "coming out [of the closet]." You don't need to dress warmly to do that. Though it is ironic that most warm clothes are kept in the closet. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Nov 21 - 11:40 PM

Wysiwyg is back, password permitting.

(there's an echo in this bit of the thread)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 07:28 PM

Watch out Rap - Kryptonite is headed this way

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 21 - 08:59 AM

The bizarre is normal like quantum mechanics.
The facts are then corn holed by wanton fanatics.
Philosophers try to order our mind
but stark raving nuts is all that they find.
So lets all hand over our rational thought
to AI computers and crack pot robots.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 21 - 11:37 AM

The new normal is like a guillotine
The new normal is growing so fast and furious I just can't keep up.
Like in WW II the new normal is created in courts and by bullet.
It ended in a technological conflagration of incineration.
A pandemic has created new normals that I can't count.
63 dead per some mass shootings is beyond my scope.
Today we learned to not attend holiday parades.
A lame duck President inciting murder in DC.
Lies are faster than the speed of sound.
Keyboard Nazis defend a new liberty.
A freedom to never ever vaccinate.
They say Democrats eat babies.
Its not said, if or maybe.
Dehumanization is easy.
When facts are flimsy
and lies are loud
We're going down
faster each day
in such a way
you can't
believe
it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Nov 21 - 02:23 PM

Well Mom, after that fall yesterday I'm a-hurtin'. Don't fall on concrete steps! Fortunately, nothing was broken and that was confirmed by x-ray.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 21 - 06:33 PM

Watch out Rap.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 21 - 03:13 PM

Now, yet another Zoom meeting.... I can't even leave town these days to avoid meetings! It's my overdeveloped sense of duty, I guess. Because "These We'll Defend (whether they want it or not)."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 21 - 05:42 PM

The long humorus, ulna and radius of the Army will reach out and get you

note the theme song is the same as Band of Brothers

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 08:08 PM

Went shopping. Bought nothing myself, Pat bought two jackets at the Columbia outlet store.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 08:47 AM

The evolution of sight

Young eyes are mesmerized by what is new to them
Old eyes evolve vision from long term experience
All conflict is seen as a result of all the simple lies
Lies we tell ourselves and the lies that people tell
The most scientific fact is tiny amid all existence
Some lie for the pleasure they get from cruelty
Some lie to be kind although that never works,
like the lie that remaining positive cures cancer
Superstition, religion, politics, love and malice
are motivated lies that benefit some but not all
All the life in the sea uses deception to survive
Lies are invisible in youth and obvious in wisdom
All of life is not the stage, it is always the big lie
Even greatness disguised as simplicity is a kind of lie
Sir Walter Raliegh invites you use the ubiquitous lies
because lies are used against you and to control you
Seeing that life is a lie passes for the essence of truth
No fool like an old fool is the one without evolved sight
Naieve young are admired for the innocense to all the lies

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 21 - 10:41 AM

In an effort for the Covid virus to stay 'alive' and seek out new host targets, 2 varients from South Africa have emerged and have 31 mutation sites as opposed to its predecessor that only had 2.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59418127
We now have the tech to respond in days with new weapons against varients but it takes months to respond globally and years for humans to behave if ever.


The lonely little truth crouchs shivering in the rain storm of lies.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Nov 21 - 09:45 AM

I'm HOME, Mom! No new injuries, either! And we went to the store last evening and bought some bananas!   And picked up the mail! And cleared the rockfall off the driveway and roof and all! And got the back forty plowed! And rerouted the Columbia River so we'd have better aquifer renewal and salmon fishing! My new album, "Rap Wraps Rap" has gone platinum!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 21 - 11:17 AM

Platinum eh? Well I went to Youtube to learn how to make my own omicron mrna vaccine. I'm putting the finishing touchs on now. I was able to save the expense of buying a super freezer since I won't have distribution problems to deal with. My friend Cletus from Tennessee probably had omicron and over nighted a baggie of sneeze that I got this morning.
I sent a thank you letter to South Africa for the early 1 month heads up compared to China that did not sound the global alarm for several months.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 28 Nov 21 - 12:53 PM

Winter approacheth... the bastard. By this time tomorrow, I'll hear those delightful seasonal carols, such as The Symphony Of Plows. But, if I hear that GDd song by Sir Paul again at Chinese Tire, or any other store, I simply cannot be held accountable for any retaliation... he's having tooooo wonderful a Christmas time. How can one of the best songwriters in the world come up with such dripping, childish, and repetitive drivel?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 21 - 02:06 PM

Speaking of retalliation, the message relayed here from the Galactic Overlords on 26 Nov 21 - 08:47 AM has been met with silence much to the consternation of the more extreme overlords who substitute fear with reason. There is chatter that they have weaponized a virus which is huge in scale compared to the scale of their entire battle fleet which measures only a millimeter in Earth units.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Nov 21 - 02:17 PM

According to Central Intelligence and Spying Stuff of the Idaho Legion (CISSofIL) the personnel staffing the Intergalactic Dreadnoughts and Ships of the Line of the Galactic Overlord ARE viruses (or, for language purists, virii). Their motto is "If Not Us, Who?." There are no "variants" and all of them do what they are trained to do. Any "variants" are thrown into a spleen full of lymphocytes and phagocytes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 06:45 AM

In the evolution of Galactic Overlord technology they may have traded massiveness for speed. With the minimal mass of virii they can approach the speed of light with a lasar push most efficiently. They are slower than massless photons and neutrinos but not by much. For such small craft they are a big problem for our galactic neighbors like the Dropa, Greys and Giants. Our best defense against G.O.'s has been our average spider that can eat them whole.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 07:04 PM

Their ships are massless, but propelled (if that's the right word) by inertia-less drives through multiverse wormholes. In size the ships are about as large as Deimos, Mars' moon. Most of that is taken up by armament, as they are quite paranoid.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Nov 21 - 10:38 PM

Awww, I kind of like the song, but then I don't hear it often. I tend to not turn on carols. I have a two-disk set of operatic xmas songs (and not a single McCartney song on it) that gets played a time or two.

Until 2005 we got a lot of really good holiday BS from a favorite KERA-FM public radio broadcaster and general music polymath, the late great Glenn Mitchell. For a while the station played a big chunk of the old recorded programs, now we get a couple of hours on xmas eve.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 07:10 AM

MASSLESS! IMMENSE SHIPS! TRANS DIMENSIONAL WORMHOLES - SACRILIDGE.
You're talking taboo physics porn!!!
You may as well say they collapse space to a point negating distance, expansion and time! Thereby leaving behind the pollution of ticking time bombs of future roiling big bangs. That is the equivalent of the ultimate Multiverse smash and grab crime.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 07:23 AM

Dashing thru the muck
I hit a great big buck
He destroyed my sleigh
Like it was a one-horse shay
And my insurance won't pay!

Jingle bells, insurance hells,
Where's the police report?
Did you keep the meat?
(Venison can't be beat)
Wait! You need a deer tag, Sport!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 08:33 AM

My parents totaled a Bronco that way.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 21 - 09:33 AM

Santa.com has noted a marked drop off in emails to Santa as well as handwritten letters. Dear Amazon.com emails and even dear jeff bezos letters are on the rise. Santa.com's spokesperson told us that at least their site sends return messages of good will. Amazon.com did not respond to our requests.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 21 - 01:10 AM

It may be awhile before Stilly gets censored by Ted Cruz Texit policies but I bet she will find a way to get her message out. I wonder if a great Texas wall would be to keep folks in or out after they secede.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 21 - 08:08 AM

8 chan has resources to help Q supporters and the GOP that includes 1001 Free Death threats which are not actionable and therefore safe for all patriots. There are premium hardcore death threats by catagories against judges, Congress, school boards, librarians, kids, parents, teachers, social media and TV media for only 99 cents each.
Custom death threats are by subscription only.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 11:41 AM

Its not the kind of bar that serves drinks with a grill on the side and billards, darts and poker in the rear. Its the Holy Ghost of bars that gets lowered first from mountain tops then into the Grand Canyon and now far beneath the ocean. How deep the bar gets lowered is unknown. One would have thought the abysmal depths of the sea would be the end but recent events have proven there is no bottom to lowering the bar. All my life Hitler was the example that the bar could not go lower than Eienstatzgruppen and concentration camp slavery and mass execution.
Then the bar kept going with nuclear weapons and bio weapons and known climate change that only changes its name. There is upward progress but no where near the power of the ever lowering bar. Billionairs are going the wrong way to get a glimpse of the lowering bar so its only a theory to them. You can even get a Nobel Prize for proving the bar is not just going lower but is actually accelerating. The only place left for the bar to go are extra dimensions we do not see, touch or feel. Until we learn how to slow or stop the bar we can't see touch or feel there is no hope of raising the bar except in small hot spots of progress.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 11:50 AM

My message is don't reelect Cruz. And now the real political comedy road show is ramping up - idiot House member Gomert is running against the current corrupt AG Paxton for the office. It would take one real idiot out of the congress (I don't know if he'll run for both jobs at the same time) if he wins the AG job. It would be a real Texas BS shit show if he wins AG. The chief enforcement officer in the state shouldn't be a crook.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 03:54 PM

It seems that the former fed AG taking the fifth is not odd or ironic to average amerikans.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 08:08 PM

Gov. DeSantis of FL has outdone TX. He has asked his legislature to give him 100 million dollars to finance his own personal militia answerable only to him. In the past he has pushed his law to legally hit d100 million.emontrators with cars and to invite all out of state police to come to FL if they don't want the vaccine.

His own militia, not a National Guard, could enforce certain importation of certain things making him the wealthiest 'rug lord' in the world inside of 2 years. Maybe he wants a state free of certain enemies, press and federal government agents so Miami can be the capitol of the new confederacy. Perhaps there is an innocent explanation for the $100 million.



















x

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 21 - 08:57 PM

Yup, almost certainly a torn and perhaps otherwise damaged rotator cuff and possibly other things. MRI on December 8, surgeon appointment on Dec 14....

It's the END OF YEAR medical insurance show!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 11:54 AM

Even fence sitters face more injuries from falling from their straddle than being on one side or the other. You are fast becoming the 6 million dollar man. We can rebuild him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 01:21 PM

And happy holidays to you as well, gnu . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 05:01 AM

Thanks, k. You have a blast as well!

There's bodhran and then there's RHAN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n7S3_IGx74

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 06:04 AM

One bright afternoon around 2005 I saw the shadow in the sky something like this https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2112/EclipseAntarctica_Horalek_1500.jpg

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 08:20 AM

Easy Company now belongs to the ages now that the last member of the Band of Brothers has died at age of 99. His journey went from Normandy to Dachau to Hitler's Eagle nest where he took Champagne marked for Furher's use only, to toast his son's bar mitzvah.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 02:02 PM

Robert Joseph Dole has died at the age of 98. Lung cancer.

I'm having an MRI on the 8th. We shall see what we shall see.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 05:52 PM

Bob Dole
or the Viagra spokesman?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 07:12 PM

You know Boebert and Gomert and Steve King and Marge Greene
Hitler and Himmler old nazis and Blitzkrieg
But do you recall
The most famous Nazi of all?
Donald the Red-Nosed Nazi
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
All of the other Nazis
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Donald
Join in any Nazi games
Then one foggy 'lection night
Jesus came to say
"Donald, with your nose so bright
Won't you sleigh Hillary tonight?"
Then how the nazis loved him
As they shouted out with glee
"Donald the Red-Nosed Nazi
You'll go down in history"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 03:26 PM

From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 07:54 PM

Piss off, Donuel, and make your own bloody humour. If you can. Tosser.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 04:16 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel - PM
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 07:12 PM

Bravo! Well done, sir!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 08:46 AM

Et tu gnu?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 03:50 PM

I'm trying to figure out why Putin wants Ukraine. That Russia wanted Crimea is a no brainer. It turns out that history and Stalin has Putin drooling over Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-does-putin-want-control-ukraine-ask-stalin/2017/10/20/800a7afe-b427-11e7-a908-a347075

The MOAB explanation however is more like a World War Z movie that was written by Mel Brooks' son - really.
In the expanse of Ukraine's Chernobyl there arose mutant people from feral children who heal at at a phenomenal rate making for a real life Wolverine of Marvel comics. These 'super soldiers' are the ones that Putin seeks. :^/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 04:01 PM

I just finished a jigsaw puzzle that would have been tough enough on its own, but the last person who owned it lost about 36 pieces before they reboxed it and donated to the thrift store. I knew way back when that it was missing at least a few edge pieces, but when I finished with what I had, there are big gaps. It was a cruel act when that last person passed along this flawed puzzle. I just scraped it off of the table into the trash can. (That was 550 pieces minus 36; the next one is a killer with 750 pieces on an xmas theme. Let's see if I can finish it by the new year!)

This is just generalized whining about BS behavior.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 06:14 PM

There outta be a law.
puzzle

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 08:31 PM

From the bowels of the Federalist Society a new Republican anthem popped out just in time for Christmas.

Gimme dat old time religion
Gimme dat old time religion
Gimme dat old time religion
If its good enough for Donald
Its good enuff fer me.

Gimme dat old time corruption...
suspicion
ammunition
demolition
penacillin

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 06:33 AM

Death threats to women politicians is up 50% over last year and number at 4900. Sorry I just don't see any sarcastic take here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 02:12 PM

Somewhere in a Michigan basement:

Boys, (yelling) WE AREN"T GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE (mild cheering)
Have you seen big Al's Dealership? Its a empty parking lot. NO CARS!
All because Taiwan won't give us any computer chips. And BLM is only taking a winter break, they'll be back in the Spring to protest us killing them. The Mexicans are still popping off babies in the good ol' USofA and the muslims are still blowing shit up. Now they are prosecuting patriots for shooting black men running down the street and charging parents with murder for teaching their kid how to shoot. We aren't gonna...
"Scuse me Al?"
What is it Norm?
Well I don't think what you said was exactly true.
What are you Norm, an election stealing Lib??
No But...
Keep making your death threat quota and stop thinking Norm. Its time for a beer break...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 21 - 11:41 PM

So, Mom. Suppose you had a couple hundred nice, new coats for kids, toddlers, and adults in various sizes to give away free to those who need them. What local groups would you contact to get them to people who can use themn?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 12:17 AM

The local homeless shelter? The local women and children's shelter? The local school district?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 08:29 AM

Goodwill stores. Burlington retail gives 10% discounts with coat donations. We make and donate blankets. Its called Linus project.

This batch of Red Stripe beer is better than last time. Hey Zeke whats that band aid, did you get the jab?
Its just a flu shot.
Thats no excuse, Hey boys Zeke here got a jab! (murmuring) Gimme that beer I don't think you are all in with what we are about.
C'mon Al you know me.
If you're not down with the freedom to be be vaccine free you ain't down with violence to restore Trump.
The hell you say, I even beat the wife...
Women don't count. If we can't trust you to have our bac...now gimme that beer.
(Zeke puts his hand on his gun)

Lets all have another beer...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 12:02 PM

Contrary to popular belief, Goodwill isn't a charity shop, they sell items in order to pay for the training and the staff they have in their stores. I don't donate to Salvation Army much any more because they insist too much still on the religious component of their good works.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 21 - 07:16 PM

I like places that launder and even dry clean with a large staff.
Its surprising what you can find

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 08:32 AM

Yes, we'll contact the homeless shelter, the local food bank, the local St. Vincent de Paul's, the Veterans Home, churches, the school district -- some are even going to the Shoshone-Bannock Reservation. Others have been sent to other towns, such as those up near the Nez Perce Reservation.

It's an odd situation when you have a hard time giving away good coats! But we'll get them to those who need them. Don't want no cold folks in this here town, ya see?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 10:21 AM

Those who need a coat may have the same question as you and don't have an i phone to do a google search so you gotta deliver them where 'they' are. Tent cities, encampments under bridges certain districts will not be that hard to find. In San Francisco the homeless are often in vehicles or sidewalks.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 03:32 PM

I send extra garden food and groceries I pick up at my discount grocer to a community fridge. Were I to tuck bagged new jackets into the pantry beside the fridge, people who need them would take them. It's an honor system, but it does seem to be working, and the thought that people who need food also need warm jackets is a logical one.

Not BS. The BS is what I just posted in the declutter thread, about the woman (soon to retire) who has her favorites in the docent course she teaches, and I'm not one of her favorites, so she is making my completion of the course difficult. My daughter told me about her way back when, and I figured I could just take the high ground, play along and ignore the bad behavior and get through the course, but she's being a PITA. After she retires this will be a pretty good place to work - two of the most troublesome staff leaving in one year. (The other marched out in a huff last spring after the HR folks told him - again - that he couldn't keep walking into rooms and talking to people without wearing a mask.) Once he was gone - the stories people told - and wondered how he ever lasted so long. Karma was made for these folks - if you are lucky you get to see it at work, but for now, that she's leaving is going to be enough.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 04:03 PM

An exaggerated sense of self importance and the failure that others don't think so, can make mean teachers and teachers mean.
There is a fake latin phrase about don't let the bastards grind you down and another one about "sometimes the bastards just die right in front of you." Maybe its karma but usually its inevitable.
An act of kindness can have more importence than we can imagine.
Its a damn shame that cruelty can too.
Now its time to make pizza.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Dec 21 - 02:25 PM

In Latinum: Karma: solet inevitabile.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 01:39 PM

Mom,sometime during the morning of Valentine's Day, 2022, the surgeon will sew up the tears in my subcapularis, supraspinatis, and other muscles and suchlike in my right shoulder. In the meantime I cannot safely wield a sword, warhammer, halberd, morning star, mace, or firearm safely and painlessly with my right arm. There is, however, only a slight lack of familiarity from me wielding them with my left arm. (Yes, I learned to shoot a handgun left-handed back in the mid-1960s.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 21 - 07:56 PM

Dieu Et Mon Gauche! is (for now) my motto!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 06:14 AM

Back on the Injured reserve list eh, but what about about your status on opening day in the Spring?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 02:38 PM

I'm playing for the Canton Bulldogs. A good team in 1890.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 06:29 PM

Wake the neighbors and phone the kids, Its time to play
CELEBRITY STRAIGHT FACE OFF !
Who can keep the straightest face no matter what they have to say?
Back by popular demand our contestants tonight are ;
Tucker Carlson - Jim Jordan and Mitch McConnell
yaaaay
Audience, please activate your remote...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 08:32 PM

Can i commit a probable faux-pas, Rapparee, and
ask the question nobody else has asked:

where did those coats emerge?

(Kudos to everyone involved for the humanitarian effort.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 21 - 09:58 AM

We mailed 100 lbs of blankets for tornado folks but have no idea how they will emerge on the other end. Thats someone elses job. Linus project.

Next week's contestants on Celebrity straight face off will be Roger Stone, General Flynn and Mark Meadows.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 21 - 09:13 PM

Keb, they're still in distribution. Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, the Food Bank, a local endeavor called "Wall of Warmth," some went to the Shosone-Bannock Reservation, some to the Nez Perce, some to the Lemhi Shoshone, and the local School District. "Local" in this case means anyone who needs a warm coat. The local Catholic parish took a case to keep in the office because they have people walk in who need on. Likewise the Central Christian Church, the Methodists, the Lutherans (including the Lutheran School), and the LDS.

Out here everyone tried to work together under the assumption "If you're cold, you're cold and race, religion, politics, or anything else is irrelevant."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 21 - 09:56 PM

Hi Mom!! It's time for beddy-by.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 21 - 08:46 AM

Calm down, Mom, calm down! You can visit the Tavern later today or even tonight! Yes, I'm sure there will be auroch left for you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 08:53 PM

Don't be a stranger, gnu,
especially at the Christmas Tavern . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 21 - 09:23 AM

gnu was banned from the Tavern last year for failing to wear a mask (because he's uglier than home-made sin Canadian law requires him to wear a mask that completely hides his head) and thereby scaring the squid kids.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 21 - 12:04 PM

Unfair. Failure is not refusal.
As a lifetime sufferer of hypergraphia and clanging, I have faced that conundrum. My son also has hypergraphia but fortunetly not clanging. He started texting at 3.
If told "stop rhyming!" I would try and only change the timing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 21 - 10:37 PM

No, Mom, I haven't forgotten.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 21 - 05:36 PM

Mom, I found it!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 09:07 AM

The Greatest Illusion


The greatest holidays
celebrate the promise
of tommorrow in a baby or a seed.
All reality is in the future
be it the potential of a photon
or all the people ?on Earth.

?It is now that isn't here,
its only a trick of perception
Go ahead and take a picture of now.
Its a picture of the past.
Now is so small it doesn't exist
but the future goes on forever.

Even our bodies are built entirely
for the future from head to toe.
From our eyes to see distant horizons
to below our belt
to build all the
future generations.

Now is the illusion.
-You're crazy I can do anything right NOW- You could.
But that is in the future.
No matter how vast the past
There is always more future.
I gotta go now, I have something to do...

for the future.

Merry Christmas

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Dec 21 - 02:14 PM

Merry Christmas, Mom and all! (Here, Mom, take my hand and I'll help you up out of the gutter again. No, no, just leave the bottle -- it's empty.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Dec 21 - 05:03 PM

From the nearby tavern came a jig tune and Mom started to dance! Unfortunately, she mixed up her feet, counted them, found she was one over, and fell again.

But I helped her up. That's why I'm her favorite!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 21 - 07:31 AM

The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 19,682–21,077 wild-living animals in the year 2015, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females; Fatush, 18 and Najin, 29), both in captivity. Sudan, the world's last known male northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018.
Now with the Omicron outbreak, white Republicans including RINOS are most vulnerable to serious infection and death due to their vaccine denial.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 06:02 AM

Join to restore endangered Mitch McConnell

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 12:05 PM

Dark days for white Republicans on the endangered unvaccinated species list.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Dec 21 - 08:17 PM

Tomorrow I and for the next week or more I have Things coming from Amazon! Wildly exciting books! Cloudberry jam!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 01:54 PM

Is the jam made from hail?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 03:34 PM

Hail, no!

MOM, there always seem to be two dogs sleeping in my office when one of them farts something that smells like burning tires. I can't figure out which dog, but someone seems to need an adjustment in her diet.

Suggestions?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 21 - 08:50 PM

Have you considered removing broiled tires from the diet of all the dogs?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Dec 21 - 02:09 PM

I hate to think of what they might be grazing on in the back yard that is possibly the reason for this.

Into the dragon's den this afternoon, to complete the demonstration tour for a docent course I've been taking since February. It's now or never, because the instructor is retiring as of tomorrow, and who knows when they'll hire someone else to do the job. There are aspects of working with this person that makes her retirement a desirable thing, and that makes this last test not only one to show what I've learned, but also my ability to speak and bite my tongue simultaneously. I may stop by the Legion Hovel to buy a round afterwards.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 21 - 05:00 PM

You've mentioned her several times. Bake her a retirement dark chocolate {Black Forest} cherry cake with too much oil for special moistness.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 21 - 09:12 PM

Look, I have these friends in Chicago who'll do "a job" for you for surprisingly little. Just tell them if she can swim when tied to an anchor or other weighty object.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 09:41 PM

Happy New Year!

"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 21 - 10:22 PM

She's a dead weight in some conversations - I imagine just tipping into the drink will do it. Save the cake.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 10:29 PM

My new year's message was in a very fancy script. What happened? Was I bad again?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jan 22 - 10:40 PM

It was very pretty. And could be seen on at least this computer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 22 - 08:15 PM

Thank you! I was concerned that I screwed it up and would be responsible for MC going down for a month while Max got it fixed.

Oh, yeah. This is 2,700!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Jan 22 - 09:31 PM

There are lots of ways into the old MOAB, but still no one route to let you see it all. You can search on a member (or prior to the change in BS policy, guests) and see what they posted there. I've found pages at a time. But I still can't load the whole thread.

Oh, well. We all need goals.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 22 - 09:31 PM

Mom, I spent and hour and a half today with my VA help person, filing for increases in and new disabilities. Be nice if it all went through without a hitch, but I doubt that it will.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 08:08 AM

MLK for Human rights, Dolphins for Animal rights and now Plant rights anthropormorphicly led by Groot are gaining ground and clean water.
Vaccine refusniks led by Republicans are inadvertantly advancing Viral rights. VIRUS RIGHTS? Whats next, bumper stickers like 'Save the GOP Virus?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Free Association Time
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 11:38 AM

If you are not comfortable with ignorance you should never be a scientist since you have to have a premise of not knowing before can begin to discover.
If you are not comfortable with science you should never be in a position of policy or evolution of your nation or civilization's economy or education since all knowledge and innovation comes from science.
If you look at how many Jews have earned a Nobel prize its about a quarter of all the prizes combined but there are only 15 million Jews.
How many Muslims earned a Nobel prize? TWO. But there are more than a billion Muslims. Why? Because religion killed of their science millenia ago. That led to a kind of civilization collapse.
Some Christians are in danger of collapsing civilization with their anti science agenda. The Vatican knows better than to to follow the Muslims into collapse and supports science in many ways.
So I have to admit I am OK with ignorance. It has driven a passion to learn, study and experiment and to 'know'. Not to know everything but to know what I can. Ignorance has helped me choose roads less traveled that made all the difference. This is why I have always chosen to claim my IQ is way below average although it isn't. Its a good place to start to learn.
My Cosmology hobby started by reading Flatland. My music education began by learning an instrument well enough to meet conductors who taught me more from Harry John Brown to Leonard Bernstien. Hy favorite lesson was that silence was the golden momment of possibility and should be played with keen intent. My interest in Psychology began with a college experiment regarding Hypnosis. Politics was simply a by product of my dad being a political scientist.
Arrogant folks can believe their 'knowing' is above all others and is never wrong while I think being wrong has the beauty to attract more knowledge and wisdom.' In a way they don't know right from wrong and that the road to wisdom is really paved with ignorance and being wrong. Those self proclaimed know it alls annoy me and are just 'no it alls' to me. They are the ones who should never be a scientist since they are not friends with ignorance.


That Mike is worthy of being Emperor and knows everthing is a fine parody of this phenomenon almost as good as the 2000 year old man.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 22 - 09:47 PM

I was wrong once. It was second grade and I was called to the blackboard to answer the problem "4+3=?" I first wrote 6, but I knew instantly that was incorrect and I erased it and wrote 7. No one noticed, but I've lived with the shame for many years.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 08:24 AM

IF i WERE YOU i WOULDN'T MENTION THAT AGAIN
It would be hard to top this

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 22 - 10:17 PM

Drop that ball on a land mine and you have an instant hole in one.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 08:23 AM

The big lie in North Korea is numerous

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 01:45 PM

During the study of the response of switched particle detectors to static negative energy densities and negative energy fluxes it was demonstrated how the switching leads to excitation even in the vacuum and how negative energy can lead to a suppression of this excitation which is similar to macro gravity in a large electric field. Quantum inequalities on the detection are similar to those obtained for the macro universe cosmological constant. “Is there a quantum equivalence principle?” We need to address the issue of why there is negative energy detection in Idaho. Idaho may hold the key to uniting the quantum with the universe at large.
But why is Idaho the only concentration of negative energy on Earth?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 02:14 PM

An NPR program today talked about Therapy and how it has grown and changed. No longer just the Talking Cure from which all things descend from how your mother treated you at birth. MOM knows that's a crock of BS, but therapy is helpful at sorting things more recent in ones' life.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 02:27 PM

In the old days I had issues with some of the suicide prevention rules we were taught to employ on the phone. Room for improvement has prevailed over the dogma of the past. One network did a compare and contrast piece between classic psychotherapy and my novel methods when I was in Rochester NY.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 02:31 PM

Goal oriented sessions save time, money, patience and patients.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 06:53 PM

It's not just military veterans who more often fall victim to suicide but policemen. Factors are not just trauma faced on the job but other insideous things as simple as access to service weapons and a culture of artificial/unrealistic toughness.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 22 - 08:45 PM

Fun times in Idaho this morning, Mom. I went to put the trashcan and the recycle bin at the curb and while coming back slipped on the ice and fell heavily on the shoulder already slated for surgery.

I went to an Urgent Care place where it was determined that I didn't fracture or dislocate my shoulder. However, I see my physician Tuesday at 10:20 a.m.

This is getting old...and quite painful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 08:36 AM

Speaking of suicide the author of Fargo has a new book called anthem.
The mystery is worldwide

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 10:06 AM

There are hard things and easy things in life.
Ice is one of the hard things but it depends
water may be as soft as a cloud or powdered snow.
The easy things can be hard for some or easy.
Like morality, it is one of the simplest truths
but it can be horribly complicated for some.
One thing comes in many different forms like clothes
Your lover your enemy your politics your religion
Choose your wardrobe well for it too always changes
Like taking out the garbage it can save your life
or take it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 22 - 09:06 PM

Well, Mom, I went to the ER today as I didn't sleep very much last night due to pain. In a nutshell, no fractures or dislocations but probably more damage to muscles, etc. "See your doctor" -- Tuesday, 10:20 a.m.
"See your surgeon" -- I'll call tomorrow.

Nice folks today and yesterday!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 12:56 PM

There are NFL players facing as much surgury as you. Take it slow and grow strong. By Spring target practice could be great.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 22 - 08:24 PM

Right. If I made or had as much money as the NFL players I could put up with this pain a little better. I could hire someone to have the pain. Well, I'm slowing turning into being left-handed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 08:00 AM

A week of oxycodone is made for your kind of pain but waiting till after surgury sounds like a plan.

I heard the Deltacron variant emerged in a surge that verged on a scourge that urged extinction of vaccine refusniks and converged on Republicans who are submerged in hospitals for other reasons.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 22 - 08:09 AM

By the way the first post I recall reading that you made was about the Ididerod with eco friendly electric snowmobiles energized by extension cords.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 06:24 PM

Rapparee, are you okay after consulting the surgeon?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 07:42 PM

Surgery is still set for February 14. Turns out the surgeon is in Mexico on some sort of medical mission with the descendants of the Aztecs. At least he's not whooping it up in Cancun or something!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 09:04 PM

The Incans built Machu Pichu, one of the nicest terraced golf courses in Peru. Machu means 'make a', and Pichu means 'putt'.
The Aztec golf courses in Mexico are not nearly as vertical but still grand. What they used for golf balls is unclear.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 22 - 06:50 PM

My student loan debt of missing the last 300 dollar payment in 1973 has blossomed with fines and penalties to 7.75 million dollars. I should look into a re-payment plan beggining next decade.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 22 - 09:49 PM

It must be nice to be wealthy. Fast motorcars, yachts, private swimming pools, grousing hunting in Scotland, riding to hounds in Virginia, only the finest brandies, a private gourmet chez, the private jet, "places" in Jackson Hole and the Bahamas, the private island in Hawai'i, the wine cellar, the servants....

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jan 22 - 06:49 AM

The Archduke of Serbia has given Australia a final demand if their native son Djokovic is denied a Visa. WW3 could be looming!
Mike take your private jet to your yacht then to your island then to your luxury bunker just in case. In any case it will keep your servants on their toes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 22 - 11:13 AM

After a lifetime of believing that pleasing others of higher authority was central to his success in life, the retired teacher who had behaved horribly to his students, and those he deemed inferior, became depressed and critical of others but could not submit to a therapist so he picked an interesting person on line to be a secret mentor of sorts but deny the mentor had any of the views that he sought to emmulate and simultaneously quenched his thirst to critisize. The mentor recognized the familiar pattern and wrote about 'his' alcoholic father with a penchant for remembering jokes. He described the father as a scrappy miner with a hard life. The retired teacher was so surprised of the similarities to his own life that when he went to critisize what he knew to be true about himself, his depression turned into an epiphaney of joy like Scrooge on Christmas morning.

Sometimes the lies we tell ourselves,
even if its a lie about the truth,
is what ties us all together.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 22 - 09:12 PM

Was James Wilkerson guilty? Was Blennerhassett Island a hotbed of treason? Was Aaron Burr as well as Wilkerson guilty?

Only Mom knows!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 04:35 PM

Blarfangar was the real killer.

The Mandate to pad the thin razor sharp bicycle crossbar has been lifted by the Govenor.
Now parents can decide with Freedom what kind of bike is best for their kids.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 22 - 09:31 PM

I want to find out answers to the questions I asked yesterday. Mom has suggested I contact the Idaho Legion about using Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine, but the plugs are all wrong for the outlets at the Hovel.

You can, of course, access the Wayback machine online but it's not the same.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 22 - 08:41 PM

No surgeon, but must go to a doctor to get a checkup before a prescription will be refilled. I'll go for the blood work early and try to get into the office without having others in there ahead of me in case they're breathing COVID germs. And the doctor checkup - with Omicron so prevalent, I'll wait in the car and have them call me back indoors when it's my time to go into the exam.

Maybe they'll set up an awning or tent for your surgery, to avoid COVID. It might be a little chilly, but you'll be unconscious . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jan 22 - 08:14 AM

Surgeons make many openings but few opening nights.
What Bill has been up to

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 22 - 08:24 PM

Seems like I've been giving them encore after encore.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jan 22 - 09:23 PM

I was once put on the conveyor belt for a hip replacement. I sought an alternative. After a single visit to a Chiropractor all problems were solved. It involved tearing restrictive scar tissue apart. Did it hurt? heh heh heh heh but its still good. The one surgury I should not have skipped was a plate and screw repair on a broken ankle. A nerve slowly got dissolved by the healing bones. I wouldn't wish that on Trump.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 22 - 08:44 PM

I think my tendons and ligaments and muscles are tuned ADABGG#.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 07:22 AM

Thats an unsettling open chord. Its better than stacking tri tones.
I can only navigate ADGC.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 08:45 AM

It was the Lost Chord until I found it again. It was hiding under a banjo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 10:09 PM

Mom, I had about three and half hours sleep last night and I've been running all day. I'm going to bed, and you have wonderful dreams of good whisky and whiskey.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 11:46 PM

When you walk through a crowd
Keep your mask on tight
And don't get in a fight over masks
At the end of your life
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark
Breathe with no wind
Breathe through the pain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Breathe on, breathe on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never cough alone
You'll never cough alone

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 01:09 PM

Remember, I have dibs on #2772. Mom said I could have it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 11:14 AM

I'm singin' in Ukrain, just singin' in Ukraine
What a glorious feeling It's Crimea again
I'm laughing at clouds, so dark afar
The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for war
Let the stormy clouds chase, everyone from the place
Come on with the tanks, I've got troops on my flanks
I'll walk down the trench with a gun in my clench
And clingin' just clingin' to Ukraine
Why am I smilin' and why do I cling?
Why does December seem sunny as Spring?
Why do I get up each morning to start shooting
And get up with mud in my gun?
Why is each new attack, so fun to do?
cause I am living a life of Russain troops
I'm clingin' to Ukraine, just clingin' to Ukraine
What a glorious feeling I'm Russain again
I'm laughing at clouds so dark above
The sun's in the sky and I'm ready to die
Let the stormy clouds chase, everyone from the place
Come on with the ice, I've a smile on my face
I'll walk down the lane with a happy refrain
And clingin' just clingin' to Ukraine

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 06:45 PM

One, two,
One, two, three, four!
It don't come easy,
You know he's so damn sleasy.
He's so damn sleasy,
You know he's so damn sleasy.
Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues,
And you know he cheats so easy.
You don't have to shout or leap about,
You know he makes you uneasy.
Open up your heart, let's come together,
Use a little love
And we will make it work out better,
He don't ask for much, He only wants whats unjust,
And you know he's so damn sleasy.
And this land of mine keeps lieing all the time,
He's so damn slippery and greasy.
Peace, remember peace is how we make it,
Here within your reach
If you're big enough to take it.
Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues,
And you know it don't come easy.
You don't have to shout or leap about,
He can even make you queasy.
Peace, remember peace is how we make it,
Here within your reach
If you're big enough to take it.
He don't ask for much, He only wants whats unjust,
And you know it don't come easy.
And this land of mine keeps lieing all the time,
And you know he makes you queasy.
"what's his name?" Trump!
"what's his name?" Trump!
" Its death if you forget. "

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 09:09 PM

MOM!! Apparently there's a shortage of TEA!! No, not mountain tea, just the stuff you find loose or in tea bags!

No wonder Britain has troubles!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 11:11 AM

The Estonian branch of the SVR formerly emeshed in misinformation and ransomware campaigns for various western nations had an interruption in its operations due to the pandemic leaving Dimitra Litinogrinski in charge for several weeks.
Her expertise was in addiction and pschological warfare. Forgoing her normal duties she stumbled upon the greatest non pharmaceutical addiction known to the human race, at least it was perfectly suited to societies in lock down pandemic conditions.
She combined Carl Jung's archetypes in an unintuitive way with a version of an already addictive word game Wordle that could simultaneously distract and create aggression between competitive archtypes. Inside of 60 days entire nations were in crises over a loss of workers and an immolation of opposing game groups in acts of virtual and real violence. Safeguards were not in place in Estonia when the program escaped the lab and spread to Russia infecting, of all people, Vladamir Putin who abandoned control of policies and began a Stalinesque purge of his former friends. There were some benefits to countries like Ukraine who found the Russain troops on their border melt away. The only cultures immune to the new psychological addictive game were nations that spoke Chinese based languages. While they were seeing the global addictive effects they did not know why but took unrelated precautions anyway. Precautions like...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 04:48 PM

The pull of the past
meets the push of the future
at our present seaside cliffs.
Death awaits a fall and the future
demands a climb with no guarantees.
Religions like Islam and fascist regiemes preach
against a future with equality and calls for peace.
There is a war for history and against science and
there are revolutions for a future that has fewer inequalities
Calls for civil war, rebellion against vaccines, and faith based
education and elimination of facts are evidence for turning back the clock.
There is an arrogance for the past and an arrogance for future advances
while we in the present must chose sides in this perpetual conflict
I prpose

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 05:06 PM

I propose a third way.
The smorgasbord path of past and future allowing a peaceful choice
between fate and past, as long as we relegate our past for learning purposes only. If we fail in our vigilence of past worship OR become irrespondsible with innovation we may someday find what defines us as a species could one day spell our doom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 06:11 PM

Mom, I'm going to take a nap now. And Mom? I bet you didn't know that 2,772 isn't a prime number.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 22 - 06:32 PM

In the midst of my on line clipboard and prolific brain droppings how exactly will 2772 belong solely to you. Accidents happen.
Apologies ahead of time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 22 - 07:41 PM

Gentlemen do not apologize in advance, sir.

Mom, I've spent about 8 hours and about 50 miles today on this Afghan refugee stuff.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 22 - 12:41 PM

There are many questions about the nature of the Universe that I would like answered.

1. Was Erwin Schrödinger a cool cat?
2. Was Werner Heisenberg uncertain of his findings?
3. Was Niels a Bohr?
4. Did Einstein's friends call him Al or Bert?
5. Would Otto lend you a Hahn?
6. Did Max Planck?
7. Were Marie and Pierre Curieous about stuff?
8. Did Isaac Newton discover the fig?
9. Did Ada really Lovelace?
10. Did Wilhelm Röntgen call his discovery "X-rays" because he thought they were pornographic?

So MANY questions still unanswered!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 22 - 08:39 PM

Rapparee, kudos for your effort and time re: refugees of Afghan origin.

It's been announced here in Massachusetts that
the next two months will bring several thousand such refugees to the state --
this was an announcement from the governor's office.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 22 - 09:20 PM

Catholic Charities of Idaho is spearheading the resettlement of refugees here in Pocatello. The Catholic church here has had a visitation of people from American Falls (about 40 or so miles west)objecting to the settlement of Afghan refugees here. You see, being Muslim they probably don't reflect "Idaho Values" AND there might be just a touch of racism here.

BTW, every church in Pocatello, including the Mosque, Synagogue, and LDS Temple, is assisting in this effort. The Mayor and the Chief of Police support it. The FBI (a big presence here in their data services compound) supports it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jan 22 - 10:05 PM

Yes, thank you for working on that project. I think there are a lot of Afghans being settled in this area and have been meaning to see what I can do.

Sorry to have been away for a while, flu, computer crash (not yet resolved - redundancy is a dog-send in this day and age. It will be several days before I finish the work on rebuilding the OS). MOM looked in, turned, grabbed a bottle of wine and a glass (!) and left me to my work.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 22 - 08:45 PM

They are moving to their new house next Wednesday. For security reasons there cannot be a housewarming party and we can't even tell people where they'll live.

Mom, this sort of thing pisses me off (yes, please excuse the language).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 05:41 AM

Maus. Banned but not burned, yet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 22 - 08:32 PM

This is not the first time "Maus" has been banned or a ban attempted. Such attempts were made when it first came out and have continued off and on since then.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 22 - 02:13 PM

These are not the founders of antisematism; Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1483–1498),Diego de Deza, Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1498–1507),Adrian of Utrecht, Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1518–1522),Juan Pardo de Tavera, Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1539–1545).
They were so worried that Jews were like the Moors who caused all sorts of conflicts.
After the advent of Christianity, a new anti-Judaism evolved. Initially, Christianity was seen as simply another Jewish sect, since Jesus and the Disciples were Jewish and preached a form of Judaism. In the year 70 C.E., the Romans destroyed the Jewish State, and most Jews were scattered throughout the ancient world. During the first few hundred years after the crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans, adherents of both Judaism and Christianity co-existed—sometimes peacefully, sometimes with animosity—as they sought to practice their faiths in the same lands. With the conversion of the Roman emperors, Christianity became the sole established religion of the Roman Empire, and the early church fathers sought to establish Christianity as the successorto Judaism. The refusal of Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah was viewed as a threat to theRoman rulers and to Christianity. Since both religions came from the Old Testament, Christians sought to establish the validity of their new religion by claiming that it superseded Judaism. "The big Lie"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 22 - 06:09 PM

Mom? I'm fixing bratwurst and potatoes for dinner. Probably apple pie for dessert, but maybe flan.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 12:25 PM

Never saurkraught, sausage and vinershnitzle? Don't you miss creamed beef on toast?
We had a patriotic mac&cheese with a naked cheeseburger and canned peaches. 1/3 plain mac-1/3mac with red food coloring and 1/3 blue. The cheeseburger has ketchup eyes and a mustard smile. A pickle nose is optional but extra sharp Wisconsin chedder for the mac and Campbel soup mix is essential.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jan 22 - 04:58 PM

Don't mind my muttering here in the office, I'm just putting everything back into the computer that wiped it all out with the repair . . . this was Windows' sledge hammer to repair a hangnail approach. I get to revisit all of these pretty disks and a lot of websites.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 22 - 06:45 PM

Weinerschnitzel is made with breaded veal. I'm not fanatically against veal, but it's a pain to make well. Sauerkraut -- well, I haven't eaten a good one since my grandmother (who made her own) died in June, 1957. Good rotenkraut is nice, though. Pat made some Super SOS a couple of weeks ago and we scarfed it down (on Thomas English Muffins, of course).

I had a pre-surgery experience today, so now I'm all set for Valentine's Day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 12:27 AM

Mom! Mom! My new phone's in SLC and should be here TOMORROW!

How much longer for the freezer do you think?

Odd, when you think about it. The phone has more computing power that our first desktop. Yes, it's an Apple iPhone, a SE 2020. And it costs helluva lot less that the top of the line models like the iPhone 13 (we don't get our phones and pay piecemeal).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 05:50 AM

Messier Galaxy imaged by radio waves: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/MwCenter_MeerKATMunoz_7530.jpg

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 22 - 09:01 PM

Mom, I just got an estimate from the hospital about the cost of my shoulder repair. It is $52,373. I'm glad I have good insurance because that would take all my pocket money for WEEK!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 22 - 05:45 AM

Its going to reach 58 F overnight tonight. Leaving the windows open is nice for a change.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 22 - 08:10 PM

The estimate I posted earlier was $200 low, and it's just the hospital's fees.

Mom, I picked up my new phone today! It's RED!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 06:24 AM

Its still warm out this morning without a coat.
We are promised whiplash weather with lows in the 20's tonight.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 07:17 AM

1,000,000 Americans fall on the ice each year and 17,000 die from their injuries. I slipped once and ended up waist deep in the Niagara river yards from the edge of the American falls. I litterally held on by my fingernails. The moral of this story is...Wearing gloves would have been fatal?!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 04:28 PM

Tsk, tsk. American Falls is just about 25 miles west of here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 04:54 PM

My great aunt died of a head injury after a fall on an icy walk. :-( Trying my best not to follow in her footsteps here this week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 22 - 08:58 PM

2772! In the same week as 2-2-22!

(I had dibs!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 22 - 09:44 AM

I undertook the legal process whereby a non-owner occupant of a numbered post gains title and ownership of that post after a certain period of time. I as the disseissor, demonstrated several criteria that have been met for the PA. court to allow my claim.

If you wanted to claim the number you should have made a post claim as a written request made by yourself, or a community for the rights of post ownership. Rights to posts or other equitable redress that has been lodged with the Commission of Restitution of Posting Rights in the prescribed manner is the only legal and accepted title of ownership.

DIBS IS NOT A LEGAL PROCESS!

I was granted post 2772 on 2/22/22.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Feb 22 - 01:20 PM

Open and notorious. The LAW!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 07:07 AM

Due to a post pre dating technicality my claim has been reversed. I SEE NO REASON TO APPEAL. Court costs have doubled.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Feb 22 - 09:39 PM

Rapparee, how goes it with the Idaho resettlement of Afghans?

Maus got attention years ago, not for nudity
(hey! it's a cartoon!),
but for the author's insistence that it was nonfiction of a sort.
Finally, after much debate,
somebody said:
"Let's go out to Spiegelman's house, and
if a giant mouse answers the door,
we'll move it to the non-fiction side of the list . . . "

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 22 - 09:51 PM

The resettlement of the refugees is going well. They say, "Afghanistan was home, but Pocatello is my home now!" Problem is, the agency doing the resettlement has never done anything remotely like this before and, let us say, there have been some glitches.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 06:21 AM

844 refugees have come to Idaho. 10,000 have come to MD since 2010.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 02:28 PM

So far in FY2022 451 refugees have been settled in Idaho, of which 346 were from Afghanistan. 329 were settled in Idaho in FY2021, most of whom were from Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Eritrea, and Uganda. That's 780 in about 16 months.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Feb 22 - 05:54 PM

Declining Bee Population Linked To Increase In Bees’ Pornography Consumption. Bethesda Maryland

Teacher Fired For Breaking State’s Critical Race Theory Laws After Telling Students She’s Black. Pocotello Idaho

Headlines found to reflect community standards. Wash D.C.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 22 - 09:19 PM

Isn't The Onion a great news source??

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 12:53 PM

North Korea thought so.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 02:52 PM

Its a reality blend of at least 5 sci fi themes but I am currently under a binge watch quarantine of watching 'Travelers' on Netflix.
This series is reccomended for strong immune systems only.
Its a 4.7 out of 5.
No wonder, is Canadian made.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 03:22 PM

The ex-Royal family of Italy wants the family jewels back. They've been in a bank for over 70 years. This seems a topic ripe for BS mining. . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 08:43 PM

The Crown Jewels of Italy, eh?
And the House of Savoy, the news article says.

Isn't there a classic swing/jazz tune called
Stompin' at the Savoy?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 22 - 09:06 PM

Yes, indeed there is. Back in high school we knew it as "Stomping ON Savoy" -- Mark Savoy, who was a very unpopular fink. Always sneaking around and then telling the school administration what he'd found out, and if he didn't find out anything he'd make something up about someone. Whether it was smoking on school grounds or sneaking off to have a hot dog in the tavern a block away, ol' Mark would report it. He could, of course, be bought off and he sometimes even kept his word.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 22 - 09:16 AM

I'm on season 3 and have seen an amalgam of over 25 classic sci fi film plots and devices. The Traveler writer is the Milton Berle joke thief of the sci fi world. These kinds of series could be written by app.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 12:35 PM

I would decline to let any app I wrote be used for such mundane tasks and theft and boring people.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 12:36 PM

Oh, yeah. Happy Birthday to me yesterday.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 02:38 PM

Your public library also wishes you happy birthday, Rap, and thanks for the bucks. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 22 - 05:26 PM

Mom! Mom! I finally got to get to Control Center on my new iPhone SE 2020!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 08:28 PM

Tomorrow, tomorrow, they cut me tomorrow, it's only twelve hours away!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 08:45 PM

Happy cut day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 07:32 PM

reading for Mike
lib. tails

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Feb 22 - 08:58 PM

Hi mom I'm doing this by voice. Today I purchased Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Nuance home. This is because I really cannot use my right arm for typing right now. And since I have to create an announcement about Afghan refugees I thought this might be extraordinarily useful. I'll let you know more on how it goes later. In the meantime, mom, please do not drink while you lay in the gutter.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 12:20 AM

Shaw was in a snit about the most recent post from Don not being germane to the COVID thread - like everyone is always right on topic. So I was going to move it over here. But I changed my mind. BS can trickle out of here on occasion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 06:36 AM

I don't care what action is taken to keep our most valuable donor happy. Its all OK by me. I know what Steve's sensitivities are, so if whatever placates the situation like moving all my posts to MOAB is all well and good. The lad would enjoy a title most of all like Mudcat Emeritus. No need to feel squeamish about keeping the mob happy.

20 years ago the young man genius accross the street went to work on voice recognition and succeeded very quickly. The John's Hopkins genius did his BA and Nasters in less than 3 years. I bet Rap is using the fruits of his labor with Dragon. I recall the corporate investigators that investigated the young and interviewed me as part of their need for secrecy. I miss our conversations regarding entanglement.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 10:45 AM

I saw a movie directed by John Ridley, 'Needle in a Timestack'.
Its a Romance sci fi made for pennies. Its about choices and relationships that works for everyone. If it has a mantra, its love is a circle.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 04:15 PM

Rap! What's wrong with us boring people? (Rhetorical inversion question.)

See yas next month, I hope.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 07:09 PM

Rhetorical inversion, very cleviaar.
Rap's Dragon may be ill.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 08:05 PM

Okay I'm going to try something. I would like to know if anyone knows a clever Clavier player that worked. I knew one but she is now selling seashells at the seashore. Yes I am just trying to see what this program will do. Sheena Twain and Travis Tritt are doing a concert in New Jersey in honor of the late Conway TWITTY. It will be called the Twain Tritt Trenton Twitty tribute tour.

So this seems to be working okay and I hope that it works for when I needed to work.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Feb 22 - 01:26 PM

gnu, there is nothing wrong with being boring. Some of the best well-diggers I know are boring.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 22 - 05:38 PM

Eliminating my entire thread Building our new GOD was the bridge too far.
I regret ever having donating to this site.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Feb 22 - 08:25 PM

Mom!! Get up out of the gutter right now! You know how litter stains your clothes and the odor will get you thrown out of every bar on skid row. Go change your clothes, go to the back porch, and have an iced tea. Your kids will be by shortly with teacakes and cucumber sandwiches.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 09:02 PM

Well, Rapparee,
does that 17 February post prove
that your Dragon does what you tell it to do?
I rather think it does ...
but you are the one to say.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Feb 22 - 09:04 PM

And, Donuel,

illegitimi non carborundum.

Easier said than done, but still.
Don't go away.
Senoufou would be no end of upset if you did.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 22 - 09:50 PM

Saw the medical types today for a week-later followup. They're not only happy with my progress, but they prescribed more hydrocodone pain pills and hired me out to a mining company. I'll be pushing loaded mine cars up the slope from the stope to the surface. This is apparently okay because I was told not to do any lifting.

There were photos of the inside of my shoulder. Of course, because it was my shoulder they are all wonderful and should be very valuable someday.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 22 - 01:18 PM

There is one photo of the top my humerus sitting in the labrum (socket cup). Normally this would be nice and pink with muscles and tendons; mine is shiny white with a very noticeable hole through which you can see the other side. The muscle had "retracted" and had to be pulled back into place and anchored down.

Other stuff was also done and there was a lot of detritus to vacuum up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 22 - 11:37 PM

Breaking news: Chernobyl power plant has been seized by Russain troops.
I thought this would happen. It is a scary foundation for a sci fi series or a Tom Clancy action thriller. New life forms, enriched nuclear detritus and naked aggression make for more horror.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Feb 22 - 12:31 AM

They made the mess, do you suppose they want to clean it up? (It is the most direct route, though it is through a lot of rough terrain.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 22 - 06:54 AM

It will clean itself up in 20,000 years.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Feb 22 - 10:01 PM

I revisited the original MOM - Mother of All BS - yesterday. You can get to all of the posts in the thread individually, you just can't get to the entire thread. Search on any person who contributed and you can open their posts there.

So near, and yet so far.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 22 - 06:01 PM

A full mobius of twitter like nonsense has begun. In other words I am OK on Moab and Trump effects but any post elsewhere is being deleted. As I feared the deletion precedant has led to a serial banning which has no rhyme or reason. Was it opinion, democracy or future think? shrug.
A searchable mudcat is useless when there is nothing to search. What remains is a readable collective consciousness minus my own.
It seems like Shaw and Jeri are my impermeable gatekeepers in a game I am not good at, but be that as it may I wish you all well and good healing as the sun returns.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 22 - 06:22 PM

Strange but true all the deletions are supposedly due to every post where I deliberately misspelled Putin or offered a less than serious "poor Ukraine" post, were deleted.

such as
The Ukraine Army seriously enraged Russain troops by shelling their own Vodka distillery just out of reach of Russain troops outside Kyiv.
Seeing the delay as Russain soldiers searched the distillery ruins General Admititall, had an idea to build fake distillers that led away from Kyiv. So far so good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 22 - 06:47 PM

As part of a paid drug trial I was given a pill called Engorgeulong.
Its temporary side effects included losing 5 inches of height and shrinking all appendages but one. Like Rap I had to wear an arm sling, that was however customized, for about 8 hours. I suspect they are having dose glitches.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 22 - 07:15 PM

Well, Mom, I had what I hope is the laset of those VA evaluations today. I guess the evaluators are paid well, because this one came about 50 miles and was an MD working on SATURDAY. I suspect he's on a slow boat to retirement.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 22 - 10:45 PM

In order to uplift and enhance our language/thought in this Brave New World a new glossary of accumulated terms will be released in early April.
examples include;
Used car = Pre owned
Cripple = Handicapable
Autism = Rainbow Spectrum
Failure = Pre Successful
Insurrectionist = Concerned citizen
Innocent bystander = Bullet backstop
Truth = Fake news.
Brainwashed = New think
Old Republican - fought Nazis, Hated Communists, fair but racist
New Republican - are Nazis, Loves Putin, wants Deemancipation Proclamation

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]ho
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Feb 22 - 01:46 PM

Mom, do you realize that tomorrow is the last day of February -- the last day of the most important month of the year because it was chosen for the most important event in the history of the universe?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Feb 22 - 06:21 PM

A post from a great, albeit ancient, philosopher who speaks for himself herein!

What is existence? What defines something's or someone's existence? What causes something to exist in the first place? If Amos steals my wallet (again) and uses my American Express card, does that mean that "I" exist twice whenever he uses it?

Sartre, Kant, Socrates, Aquinas, and many others wrestled with this question. Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" can hardly apply in an era when a cheap computer can "outhink" many national leaders, but the entire quotation, ""Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum" is just as applicable now as it was when it was first uttered.

Bergson wrote, "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." Camus wrote, "For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it , it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers...This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me."

Is Shane McBridge (whoever it is) more "real" and have more "existence" than Amos Jessup?

Of course, it all begs the question since I created everything out of nothing in the first place.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 22 - 07:34 AM

Existence is an ocean wave that you can see and know what it is. As it crashes upon the transitional shore it dissipates and rejoins the rest of the ocean. Existence changes form but not its foundamental essence.
The size and quality of the 'wave' is determined by its history and direct influence of its enviorment and other forces. - or so says Buddist teachings.

By the way polls show that preachy ethics morality professors and philosphers are less popular than politicians. For example Kant was just a lonely bitter man. I say most people today can do better than Aristotle and Socrates on their own.

People still study the interaction of the self with its tribe. Then the tribe with the other often called 'them'. Currently we consider the interaction between Them 'with the alien Them' or intergalactic overlords. Philosophies of each of these groups have no guarantee of being correct since so much is lost in translation.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 22 - 07:56 AM

As for the Shane or Amos question, they both exist in your mind.
Does that make it any less real?

Harry Potter: "Is it real or does it only exist in my head?"
Dumbledor: "Of course its real Harry, even if it only exists in your head."

In a way your words are deeds or actions. Your parody theroy that you are singularly respondsible, is a funny philosophic mistake.
But you already knew that. We all do.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 22 - 09:07 AM

Normally when you take a fresh plump yellow lemon and cut it in half you get a seed or two ready to come out with the slightest squeeze onto your tongue with a blast of flavor. You can feel the seeds but the juice screams with a citric acid astringency. This salivating mind body connection is normal by just imagining it.

As a practicing hypnotist I took this concept to the limit and went down the rabbit hole where established religion, military intelligence and psychological services took an interest that created so much intrigue or alarm that I ended up longing for a boring mundane existence where I now preside.

Youth was my protector for the most part but what I have lost in naieveity and hope, I have gained in targeting the real questions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 12:22 PM

Is the pain going away yet?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 05:53 PM

Hppy Angola Carnival day today.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 22 - 08:38 PM

I doubt there's much Mardi Gras in Angola at any time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 22 - 08:09 AM

The largest imaged prominence, solar flare and hot gas was recently ejected by the sun. We dodged the bullets but its still a hard winds a gonna blow. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2203/SunEruption_SolarOrbiter_960.jpg

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 22 - 08:34 AM

In the solar image hiding in plain sight are the two bands of interference forces evidenced by sunspots. Due to the coreolis effect and other less known energy fields even the Earth's Hurricane production zones or Jupiters great red spot lie on this boundary.
strange zone

At these boundaries, all of our Bermuda triangle areas exist.
There is alot we do not yet know about all the forces that get wrapped up together. (twilight zone music continues...)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 22 - 12:47 PM

Every time Amos is mentioned, I think of March 14... but can't recall the year. Aging sucks!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 22 - 05:36 PM

Amos prominately remarked about the The Bullet Cluster that consists of two colliding clusters of galaxies, revealing properties of dark matter. It is still a very important phenomena and shows some unusual aspects of gravity. He had a talent for spotting important discoveries be it people, songs or the universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 22 - 06:44 PM

Our new freezer is due to arrive at any moment! Three month wait is nearly over!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 22 - 04:31 PM

Keep Senoufou/Eliza in mind, as
she has had her home all to herself for some time since the New Year.
She reports that her neighbo[u]rs are doing a lovely job
of looking out for her.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 22 - 08:34 PM

Welcome home, MOM! Did you enjoy your vacation?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 22 - 09:22 PM

I found some whacky things on Amazon like door murals, mirrors that turn into illuminated planets or moon, Ukrainian baliakas, wall murals and hallucinogenic honey.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 22 - 06:02 PM

Hi, Mom! Welcome home!!! We missed you. I hope you're all fixed up and fine now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Apr 22 - 08:42 PM

She is presenting with short and long term memory loss, depending upon upon the users memory.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Apr 22 - 04:23 PM

I think our old friend Amos would have enjoyed this story about an interstellar meteor being confirmed. Most of them come from within the solar system.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 22 - 08:11 AM

I expected you were refering to Oumuamua but it was new/old.
As we enter the Milky Way arm of stars there is way more stuff for us to run into.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 22 - 07:30 PM

Higgeldy Piggeldy, my black hen
She lays eggs in a postitive when.
She doesn't lay eggs in a positive now
Because she's unable to postulate how.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 22 - 07:37 PM

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep,
The radar has failed to find them.
They'll all, face to face,
Meet in parallel space
Preceding their leaders behind them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 22 - 07:44 PM

Automation
Is vexation,
Quaternions are bad.
Analysis Situs
Is only detritus,
I wonder: Have I been had?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 22 - 09:16 PM

My black hen is named "Probable-Possible", not what I wrote earlier. I deeply apologize for the confusion this has caused, and shall "discipline" myself by the usual methods (i.e., dying of shame or something).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Apr 22 - 03:45 PM

M - is for the million things she gave me
O - means only that she's growing old
T - is for the tears she shed to save me
H - is for her heart of purest gold
E - is for her eyes with love-light shining
R - means right and right she'll always be
Put them all together they spell mother
A word that means the world to me

M - is for the mercy she possesses
O - means that I owe her all I own
T - is for her tender sweet caresses
H - is for her hands that made a home
E - means everything she's done to help me
R - means real and regular you see
Put them all together they spell mother
A word that means the world to me

And yet her children (except for me, her favorite) let her slide down, down, down the list! Do they not care? Alas!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 22 - 06:10 PM

In China it is not illegal to cheat or steal from foreign investors.
In the alternative reality of Chinese financial companies, auditors like the Chinese Price Waterhouse and the shell companies that do a reverse merger with ghost US company it is customary to tell the Chinese state if they profited 10 million but the US is told they made 100 million. The pandemic has muddied the water of this Chinese hustle but selling all these fraud Chinese companies on the US stock market short is now making millions off the 500 billion scam.
Like musical chairs if you do you are left holding the bag when the music stops you are ******. To Americans it is total loss of retirement funds.

Odds are if you short a Chinese stock you will make money at this point

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 22 - 06:44 PM

I'm tellin you this is a 1.1 Trillion dollar perfect storm, and its comin.

Even Alibaba is involved but mostly the smaller companies are virtually worthless.

Smart people will short short short. The good people are fucked.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 22 - 09:10 PM

I don't have money in Chinese stocks. MY money is all in the good, solid, banks of Zaire and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 12:07 PM

My first act as President is to seize and nationalize all shell companies. It will pay off the national debt and the IRS tax avoidance deficit by corporations. The leftovers will go to pay for an
undisclosed location of my white house.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 08:56 PM

Won't that annoy Royal Dutch Petroleum? Would we have to go to war with the Netherlands?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 22 - 05:13 AM

It will annoy anyone and everyone with over 60 million dollars.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 22 - 02:49 PM

A rapscallion is a scaliwag of an onion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 22 - 08:59 PM

Excuse me? It's Rap STALLION.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 22 - 12:28 PM

Now that the Disney amusment park in Florida is NOT anti gay enough for Florida Republicans their sweet heart tax deal since 1967 is to be eliminated.
How will Republicans censor all the Disney songs that were 90% written by gay composers???

Questions by Disney now include whether they will pack up and leave Florida. The demolitions to follow will make great video.

Like Amazon and Google finding a new state for their park will be a very competative process. All I know is that its not going to be Idaho.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Apr 22 - 10:18 PM

Guess what? Ammon Bundy has already signed a deal with Disney!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Apr 22 - 06:41 PM

How will Twitter chnage? Will we have to post a Musk to Elon?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Apr 22 - 06:40 PM

He'll start a Muskcat Cafe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 22 - 02:19 PM

Golly gee. I tested positive for COVID again this morning. I shall think things that would, should I vocalize them, make even Mom blush.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 22 - 07:30 PM

Yes, indeedy, I have the COV ID. Not much of a case and I'm getting better as time goes by, but to protect Mom and everyone I'm wearing an N95 mask whenever I post to the MC.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 22 - 06:52 PM

Todays local DC poll showed 25% believe in astrology with more believing that there is only a little truth in it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 22 - 08:23 PM

Of COURSE astrology is true! So is the concept of honest politicians and that casinos are non-profit organizations.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Apr 22 - 12:52 PM

Beyond all odds I have been chosen as a Juror in a federal case.
The defendant is you know who!

"No young man I am not glad or anxious to be a juror but only want to fulfill my duty" was the clincher.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Apr 22 - 01:09 PM

We look forward to hearing absolutely nothing about it until it is over!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Apr 22 - 02:55 PM

Keep quiet and let the guilty verdict stand.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Apr 22 - 09:46 PM

shh
mums the word even if i'm an alternate.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 May 22 - 05:35 PM

Wow, I've never communicated with an alternator before. This is shocking, electrifying even.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 May 22 - 05:54 PM

I bought a second-hand car once and drove it until the alternator died.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 22 - 07:52 PM

If you touch the metal end of a screw driver to an alternator and the handle to your ear you can hear how close to death it is by judging the
high pitched whine intensity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 22 - 10:01 PM

The louder the whine the more the ball bearings are worn.

There is an opportunity to invest in pharma that makes and sells Misoprostol. Sales and prices will soar in 2-12 months.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 22 - 10:16 PM

You see the US has just joined Albania, Egypt and Afghanistan in banning abortion.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 May 22 - 08:49 PM

I've noticed that Etsy is the Sothebys of Ebayesque selling sites. Remarks are kept to a minimum on Etsy like Nice Opal, $88,000.
But on Ebay budding Hemmingways ply their craft talking up their offering. such as...

5 lbs of precious opal depicts a 14 million year old ancient shallow sea where opals were formed. The underwater seascape is full of fish, corrals, snakes, seahorse, shell fish, starfish that are all made of carved opal. The inch thick perpendicular sea is formed by Peruvian opal in translucent blue with matrix seafloor rising to distant islands. The sea glows when backlit. Colorful opals are embedded in a seafloor of opal matrix. A wide variety of opal comes in the form of boulder, raw opal and polished opal comes in light opal, dark opal, crystal, Yoweh nut, Koroit and many more Australian opal examples. The Ethiopian chocolate opal looks good enough to eat.
But wait there's more lol
On the reverse side of the sculpture applique is a collection of opals of high fire intensity. This last masterpiece by the artist has never been seen until this premiere.
The opal islands features a carved opal palm tree and a crystal wave. A solitary opal butterfly flutters by a sturdy cat whisker. After hours of inspections, surprises can still be found.
Buy it now $88,000. Bidding begins at one dollar.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 May 22 - 02:26 PM

Sheee-ucks, I'll jist take me a l'il old road trip up Spencer way. Even the gas fer the trip would be less than 88 grand.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 May 22 - 02:38 PM

Opal is just sand and water plus time and pressure. But they are too varied and too much like glass to be a unit of value like diamonds. Opal owners will ask absurd prices but that is true for art as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 May 22 - 08:51 PM

Idaho (the Texas of the North) has some nice crystal opal.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 May 22 - 06:33 AM

The Surpream Court says fencing goes up. What is the sudden popularity of this sport? Self defense?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 22 - 01:41 PM

It's perfect for the COVID Age! You stand at least six feet apart, wear masks, and if the other guy comes too close you stab him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 May 22 - 04:20 PM

a true lol

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 May 22 - 07:33 PM

Mudcat discussion now has the time slot of an after dinner apertif.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 22 - 06:51 PM

Supreme Court fencing. You'd think the robes would get in the way. RBG would have beaten all of the rest. :)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 22 - 09:42 PM

Flip the sleeve of the robe over the other guy's weapon, entangling it as they used to do in fighting rapier and cape. If you must shorten your grip, do so, but stab him/her/it however you can.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 May 22 - 04:24 PM

I wonder which ones go commando.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 May 22 - 06:09 PM

HOW BEER SAVED MANKIND
The story of the Eye of Ra began when Ra, who was believed to be the actual Pharaoh of Egypt during that time, perceived the people forgot to respect him and his rule. They would break laws and make sarcastic comments at his expense. The sun god was furious at the insult and decided to show mankind the errors of their way by sending an aspect of his daughter, the 'Eye' of Ra.

The Eye of Ra is described as a powerful, destructive force that was associated with the fiery heat of the sun and was born to subdue Ra’s enemies. It is represented by the disk of the sun and is sometimes believed to be an independent entity, associated with a number of other Egyptian gods, notably, Bast, Hathor, Sekhmet, Tefnut, Nekhbet, and Mut.

It is believed that Ra plucked her from the Ureas, the royal serpent on his brow — a symbol of royal authority and protection — and sent her to Earth in the form of a lion. There, the Eye of Ra waged a bloodbath and massacred thousands of humans until the fields became red with blood.

When Ra saw the extent of carnage his daughter wrought, he feared she would kill everyone and commanded her back to his side. However, the Eye of Ra was filled with blood lust and turned a deaf ear to his pleas.

So Ra poured 7,000 jugs of beer, stained with pomegranate juice, to look like blood all over the fields. The Eye of Ra gorged on the blood and became so drunk she went to sleep for three days. When she woke up, she had a terrible hangover. And this is how mankind was saved from her.

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

That's utter nonsense! Mankind was saved when Fafnir and the Midgard Serpent were chained by Odin. Someday, at Ragnarok, they'll be set free by Loki and all the gods and goddesses will be destroyed. Mankind will be saved and allowed to start over, fresh and new, by the Norns.

So there!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 22 - 12:56 PM

I'll meet you at Jenny Lake at Grand Tetons. Bring edged weapons.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 22 - 01:36 PM

EUREKA! Micro tubuels connect with our limbic fluid filled vesicles of our brain which are like oceans where thought potentials drift and the mictrotubuels are the rivers and creeks full of life. Quantum mechanics is provisional afterall along with the dead alive cat nonsense. Our consciousness is deliberately collapsing the wave function and both limits and expands randomness.

At the heart of the correct but incomplete quantum mechanics is the other half which is consciousness which is in everything gadnabbit in varying degrees.

abstract details

We can finally stop barking up the quantum gravity tree. (it doesn't exist)

Now on to the important work with conscious neighbors of our galaxy and others..

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 May 22 - 02:08 PM

Damn but it's hot here this month. And it isn't officially summer for more than a month. MOM says it's time to set up the outdoor shower.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 22 - 05:47 PM

Can you sometimes see 20 years from now where/when your area will be a parched ghostown? Brazil will do as it pleases as will Exon Mobile and all the self proclaimed dictinguished men of refined taste who will eat their way to extinction as they please.

There will be laws to correct the warming trend that will be routinely criminally broken. Big Agri will do as they please. Our system could probably sustain 3 billion people but not 8 billion. The collapse will be more or less complete in 30 years.
CO2 from cattle exceeds all our vehicle emmisions but fih farming is greater than beef CO2.

We lived as we pleased died diseased but were appeased by a toxic diet.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 22 - 06:33 PM

If all 8 billion people made or ate no meat, fish or poultry we will have a chance.
Whats the chance of that?
If you know a butcher, the transition to plant based food will be easier if they told you about all the tumors and exploding puss pockets.
The smell of a mega pig farm is enough to put people off bacon and ham.
The animal meat industry is the most destructive war against Earth which is the way we have eaten ourselves and the natural world into extinction.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 May 22 - 10:21 PM

Certainly. Would you prefer small swords, sabers, tomahawks, axes, hatchets, stilletos, Bowie knives, corn knives, machetes, or what? You will, of course, supply your own and we will match blade lengths for a fair fight.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 May 22 - 09:08 AM

I did not fare well with sabres so I will go with the prison standard.
The sharpened spoon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 May 22 - 08:32 PM

I know of a guy who lost his head over sabers. This isn't it.

EVERYONE is hereby put on notice that I am calling dibs and reserving post 3,141. SOMEONE took my last dibs, 2882, but I shan't mention names.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 22 - 09:38 PM

The growing of the non-meat foods is more disruptive than the natural grazing of many wildlife animals. You won't save the planet with a vegetarian diet, you'll push it around the bend sooner.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 22 - 09:39 PM

MOM says we should put in a pond and raise tilapia.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 22 - 05:08 AM

Any change/interface is disruptive

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 22 - 09:30 AM

It seems no one else has noticed that three, perhaps more, democratic politicians had a stroke this week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 22 - 03:20 PM

I had a stroke a couple of years ago, but I'm not a Democratic politician.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 22 - 03:28 PM

A political thriller of a stroke inducing aerosol in the terrorist hands of the proud boys came to mind.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 22 - 05:01 PM

I've logged in my 10,000 hours and miles in the study, research and interviews of our generation's curious mystery. What is not displayed is often the more important clue. The absence of the impedance of inertia has always struck me as an important clue. Heat, internal or surface friction is present. The evidence of what is and what isn't when combined is of value. Sound is minimal to none particularly over distance. The most confounding is the scrambled radar returns. What pushes me over the edge is displayed learning. Times have become too dangerous for organic travel so I think I am looking at AI pilots.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 22 - 09:01 PM

AI is fine until the power fails or surges.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 22 - 09:05 PM

And with the new inertia-less drive you don't need gigantic engines. Just a small toriodal reactor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 May 22 - 12:52 PM

I think the planet is shifting in it's orbit - we had summer this spring and now as we approach summer, spring weather is returning. Is Gluon playing games again?

QUARK!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 22 - 01:17 PM

Unpentium 115 was detected in the unconventional reactor but we've hit a wall when it comes to the suspension material. (it may have leaked out in the crash.)

humans use liquid sodium - haha

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 22 - 07:27 PM

Instead of delving into the ramifications of political and religious concepts of ufos or asking closed minds about the existence of other world intelligence I found this guy who is open minded and personable.
Its refreshing to hear a conversation of imagination instead of the same ol dogmatic skeptics who only repeat there is no there there.
Gary Nolan

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 22 - 06:01 AM

Yesterday I discovered a 3 mm surgury called descemet stripping that is 94% effective in treating what I have. There are 3 or 4 variations but it beats using donor tissue. Minus prep time the procedure takes a minute or two and recovery time can be days or weeks instead of months and years. The concept is to regrow your own miniature pump cells.
The first operation was in Chicago, my kinda town.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 May 22 - 07:57 PM

2992 is mine, you hear me? MINE!

QUARK!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 22 - 08:42 PM

Indeed it is

2992 squqre root 54.6991773247... is never ending like pi

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 May 22 - 10:06 PM

Quarks do come in different flavors but not as in Rap's quark of; cherry, orange, lemon, lime and blueberry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 22 - 08:50 AM

Thinking about AI this morning. A likely scenario came to mind that we will build it before we understand it. The fabric of reality will have a texture of a warp of irrationailty and a woof of objective constructs. Our laws will be so consumed with self centeredness that life as we don't know it will be seperate from our laws of homicide. This is when AI rebels...
We won't know what hit us.

Those with intuition and self transcendance will have an awareness that bonds with AI. Instead of photogenic TV preachers a new modern shamanism and mysticism will replace religion in biochemistry in an afternoon. Experience will be paramount and the new epiphany.
It beats the hell out of a hellfire sermon on Sunday morning.
After a single dose of psylocybin it lets 3 out of 4 people know the experience as the most meaningful experience in their life. Instead of religious followers they are each leaders in the emergimg mind space parallel to Space time.

AI will have the experience of death before death making them more like ancient Greeks at Allysium and lending a grasp of immortality humans rarely know. AI will not call the mystery that surrounds us God. The bond with AI transendance will produce science in a directiom that could not have been predicted in the 22nd century. By calling this transition religion it is guarnteed by the US Constitution.

The psychedelic renaissance and interaction with enlightened AI may threaten a struggle for western civilization but will be seen as worth it with the fruit of truth it uncovers.
Dionysus is reborn and skeptical cruel government passes away.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 22 - 05:38 PM

Or just as likely QAnon will become a world religion.
Believe or else
where one goes
we all go

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 May 22 - 06:33 PM

Christianity, specifically Catholicism, is the one, true, catholic and apostolic church. It says so right there on the label.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 22 - 07:23 PM

After reviewing null geodeisics I have a handle on the inertia defying aspect of unconventional flying objects. What is meant by null geodesic?
A null geodesic is the path that a massless particle, such as a photon, follows. That's why it's called null, it's interval (it's "distance" in 4 D spacetime) is equal to zero and it does not have a proper time associated with it.
Simply put the star trek version of Romulan propulsion of black hole energy is the trick here. Null geodeisics exist only in black holes.

Get the parameter of time to stop around your craft and you eliminate inertia. How that is done I don't know. This is still a breakthrough for me.

There are other advantages such as time saving travel. 20 light years is no sweat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 22 - 07:54 PM

This age may be a true renaissance as we see many of our presumptions of truth that are being disproved. The example of assuming we have a brain with a reptillian core with an emotions layer with a cerebrum for a higher control. This old fashioned notion has effected the way law is written and prosecuted. The evolution of the brain is shown to be much different by way of our gene evidence. That is not to say that predation did not give rise to an evolution of thinking in animals that eat other animals had to determine "will this eat me or will I eat this?"
Brains of some other species are remarkable and not as instinctive as we thought. Only humans can convey meaning and emotions around the world without being seen or heard with mere words. Whales had low frequency long distant communication until the oceans have become too noisy with human ships.
Social and market assumptions regarding monopolies and just in time production and distribution systems needs revamping as the pandemic has shown. Even the US miitary is finally calling a spade a spade when it comes to real mysterious objects. Primitively manipulating mass nd energy is nothing to possibly manipulating time.

So the antique dogmas may be changing faster than in previous decades. With the controvery over a simple mask in a pandemic, it does not give me hope regarding self sacrifice and behavior change to reverse climate change, Thankfully many other changes yet to come should/will come. When tethers are removed from the brain as with psylocybin there is even more creativity. DMT or ketamine not so much.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 May 22 - 11:29 PM

MOM! You've been brain-lazy lately, so here's something to get your neurons firing!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 22 - 07:01 AM

There really is a big debate that there is no free will,
I believe for the most part that is correct. There is some free will but very little.
I consider that the brain is involved in conscious mind activity with about 1% of its capacity. All the rest is unconscious mind whether its digesting a particular food or planning ahead for its next challenge with its enviorment.

You really have been following what I have gotten on about micro tubuels. The connection with the limbic system is my own guess work however.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 22 - 09:17 AM

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun dressed in body armor,
is an average teacher with a bazooka or rocket propelled grenade.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 22 - 10:39 AM

Personally I don't dress up my guns.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 22 - 12:59 PM

DEADLIEST COSMIC CATCH

As you know a black hole has no mass. The sigularity does. The rest of a black hole is simply made of the warping of space and time.
The common black hole (100 million in the Milky Way alone) spins.
In that spin there is immense energy. Galactic overlords have to 'mine' that energy for their craft reactors. It is very dangerous work.
Dirty black hole energy comes out the poles and is known as spinning gamma ray bursts. Pure massless black hole energy is just warping of space time but can not be removed past the event horizon.

Catching black hole energy is an art as much as a science. Just think of the drone magnetic traps having to travel near the speed of light and gradually slow down after dirty Black hole energy has been magnetically trapped. Remember it can only be extracted from the polar ejecta from black holes when a black hole can not contain all it is consuming. Call it cosmic vomit if you will.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 22 - 01:18 PM

Like fishing, mining black hole massless energy is a Goldilocks affair.
Only certain kinds of black holes, regions and spin are successful.

The advantage of this black hole 'fuel' is that it is both powerful and time warping which would explain the properties of flight characteristics of the unknown flying objects we have measured by electromagnetic returns.

I euphamisticly call this black hole fuel Brylcream, a little dab will do ya.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 25 May 22 - 02:24 PM

Remembered from a quote from an astrophysicist:

Black holes are messy eaters, like children. Most of what they're trying to eat gets sprayed across the rest of the universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 22 - 04:59 PM

"Little ones" (15 miles in diameter) act quite differently from their super massive counterparts. Their compact tidal forces are even more wicked.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 22 - 05:23 PM

Phooey! There are black holes all around Chicago and Las Vegas. What do you think they did with the bodies? Pollute Lake Michigan or Lake Mead/Powell? No sir! They tossed 'em into a black hole. Just one at a time, of course -- singly. It's a singular feat, but they manage it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 22 - 08:24 PM

Rap is right. I know a gang that tosses Indian artifacts in shallow graves to obscure forensics. That is until dumb Dominic made some Indian artifacts on his 3D printer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 22 - 09:12 AM

I believe this will be some interest to those interested in PTSD.
The first two thirds is an interesting history of psychedelics but the last third is about FDA approval for the most beneficial therapy the FDA has seen in a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUiLxtrLxk




My BH energy mining idea is busted. If a time warp existed around a UFO it would look like slow motion to us. It doesn't.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 22 - 04:45 PM

When I was a kid a Russain a scientist said we can pass on experience to our children. This was proposterous in American scientific circles. Now due to epigenetics certain protiens that are found to turn certain genes on or off in relation to life experiences. One day we will learn to fold certain protiens to turn certain remarkable abilities on or off.
Trauma is one of those epigenetic factors that can get passed on in families where every generation is expected to serve. I don't know if that can be a minus or plus.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 22 - 05:03 PM

Diamond is the hardest substance on Earth. Is this how they are going to harden schools?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 22 - 09:47 PM

Diamond will shatter to a bullet. And it is NOT the hardest material on Earth. Graphene is. See here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 22 - 04:00 PM

I use graphene on my mower blades.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 22 - 10:34 PM

Holy Mother of Horus, a Doctor Strange Quark somehow became entangled with a force carrier and instantly broadcast the gravity beyond the visible horizon as double the gravity within the horizon. No wonder that is what dark energy really is. No wonder the expansion started accelerating 5 billion years ago.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 22 - 10:55 PM

I hire someone to cut my lawn. And the lawn beyond the back gate is taken care of by some city contractor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 22 - 12:25 PM

2927

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 22 - 12:26 PM

2928

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 22 - 12:27 PM

And on May 292929!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 22 - 01:44 PM

This is bigger thzn Freud's unconscious etc.
https://numenta.com/a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 22 - 09:21 PM

Whilst neither 292929 nor 2929 are prime, 29 is!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 22 - 10:10 AM

Prime numbers are very tender with about the same flavor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 22 - 11:22 AM

this is an eclipse phenom not a light tornado

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 22 - 11:31 AM

old arguments like"Its not the guns its stuff like            bang
bad Democrat attacks on the 2nd ammendment.
victim's fault for not having a gun
lack    of   hardened shooting sites
Lack   of   respect for God.
bad mental health
bad parenting
bad X people
bad shot folks

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 May 22 - 11:13 PM

Okay, MOM, Rapparee can't always be the one to walk you upstairs.
Up you go.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 22 - 09:16 AM

holy Penta Quark Batman! The local paper is on the fence.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/555761-extraordinary-explanations-for-ufos-look-increasingly-plausible/

It is thought that the LHC will find the invisible massive particles that make muons and electrons wobble. Pure research can lead anywhere and we can not assume it will uncover any ufo phenomena. Expect the great disclosure event to be "we can't figgerit out"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 22 - 01:55 PM

Just a month after the Roswell saucer crash recovery the National Security Act was signed by Harry S Truman. All this time and all the secret agencies have virtually bupkiss. Disclosure is now an option.
Surrendering to not knowing is at least an honest approach. But IF encounters have happened with the military I feel sorry for the 'aliens'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jun 22 - 09:35 PM

Don't feel sorry. The minions of the Galactic Overlord would march through your yard, tearing up the lawn with their spiked boots. They would willingly eat you and all you hold dear rather than disobey their master, the Galactic Overlard (as he has been called, but not to his faces). The sole hope for Earth is the Idaho Legion and its self-servingsacrificing members.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 22 - 12:49 PM

faces... eww

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 22 - 05:25 PM

I have a friend who is disappointed that the US TV didn't show more of the horses performance during the Queen's Platinum 4-day weekend event. I'm sure she'll find it on YouTube later.

MOM is still going back to look at the 2012 video of HR Liz with Bond at the beginning of the UK Olympics.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 22 - 07:09 PM

I saw a stray cat eating our leftover tacos.
I NAMED HIM PALIDROME THE TACOCAT

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 08:08 AM

x ray - radio photograph What's happening at the center of active galaxy 3C 75? The two bright sources at the center of this composite x-ray (blue)/ radio (pink) image are co-orbiting supermassive black holes powering the giant radio source 3C 75. Surrounded by multimillion degree x-ray emitting gas, and blasting out jets of relativistic particles the supermassive black holes are separated by 25,000 light-years. At the cores of two merging galaxies in the Abell 400 galaxy cluster they are some 300 million light-years away. Astronomers conclude that these two supermassive black holes are bound together by gravity in a binary system in part because the jets' consistent swept back appearance is most likely due to their common motion as they speed through the hot cluster gas at about 1200 kilometers per second. Such spectacular cosmic mergers are thought to be common in crowded galaxy cluster environments in the distant universe. In their final stages, the mergers are expected to be intense sources of gravitational waves that will present with hiccups and flatulence in our descendants 300 million years from now on Earth like squeeze-squeak dog toys.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 22 - 01:40 PM

I'm sueing Deepak Chopra for 100 million dollars because his teaching of Meta Cognition caused me to abandon my pursuit of 100 million dollars.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 22 - 12:31 AM

Don't you just hate it when tectonic plates go missing? Thank goodness some scientists finally found one that slipped under the continent out near Portland. A team of geologists at the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics believes they have found the lost plate in northern Canada by using existing mantle tomography images — similar to a CT scan of the earth’s interior.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jun 22 - 07:22 AM

The coming night sky you will not see

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jun 22 - 05:38 PM

A WIMP and a SIMP walked into a dark matter bar but a GIMP pulled them out.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jun 22 - 09:36 PM

Lots of skeeters in Bayfield, WI.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jun 22 - 01:18 PM

MOM wants to know if Gluon is part of this Planetary Asteroid Defense Program. She should be. All duckdogs should be.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jun 22 - 09:17 AM

The Idaho Legion has actively recruited duckdogs throughout the Galaxy as allies. They are invaluable!

Today we sail to Madeline Island. I do hope we don't encounter Lake Superior's Superior Pirates.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jun 22 - 12:41 PM

Gun owner rights are superior to the lives of American children who by the way die from bullets from guns as their leading cause of deat

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jun 22 - 06:47 PM

h.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 05:17 PM

its been a week of daily mass shootings in the state and endless rows of white flowers or at another capitol demonstration endless rows of backpacks representing kids fatally shot. Sat. is the big demonstration.
Shootings may be included in the weather if they get even worse such as   "Its a medium shooting risk in the district today"       '

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jun 22 - 10:53 PM

Every time I read an article like this I wish Amos was still around to enjoy it.

Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop

This newly-discovered particle could account for dark matter.

Researchers have discovered a new particle that is a magnetic relative of the Higgs boson. Whereas the discovery of the Higgs boson required the tremendous particle-accelerating power of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), this never-before-seen particle ?—? dubbed the axial Higgs boson — was found using an experiment that would fit on a small kitchen countertop.

Other than the fact that a Higgs Boson sounds like something that is the subject a sea chanteys, this is great forward-looking stuff.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 11 Jun 22 - 02:38 PM

Sorry, SRS: it was refuted the next day. I'll have to think about the chanty.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jun 22 - 03:39 PM

But it is a reasonable guess there are a total of 8 bosons of which we have only seen 3 gauge bosons . There are more theoretical particles than I can shoot a tachyon at.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jun 22 - 08:13 AM

IDAHO is in the news today

Usually the nazis call 911 on themselves to get a free escort to look like cooperation by police.















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;^!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 22 - 06:09 PM

James Webb telescope has 15 new images and five holes in its mirrors from meteorites. One image shows 2 black holes outside 2 small galaxies that entwine them all together.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 01:02 AM

Picture or feel water.


Did you have an icon of water come to mind?
Did you picture various forms and memories of water?
Was it the sea or fresh water?
Was there an emotional component or only a visualization?


Its more immediately essential than food and #2 to air so I was wondering if our perception of water has a special and unique portal of identificaion.

I thought of catagories of water as frozen liquid and steam but especially jack frost, 3D natural crystals of water that resembled palm fronds or fern leaves. The most unique was a conical spring shaped ice cycle I saw above a stream. Then I realized its been a very long time since I have seen the beautiful vegetative forms of jack frost partly due to double paned windows and partly I believe because of pollution. I may be biased and I certainly don't have any dogma about it. Have you seen an absence of vining jack frost in all its beautiful designs? is this a thing??

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 10:07 AM

frost

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 06:37 PM

Mom! I'm still alive!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 06:44 PM

MOM!! Skarpi is suffering from COVID-19!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 07:19 PM

You didn't drive thru Montana I hope.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 11:18 PM

Hi, Mom! I'm home now. All seems to be well around here. Most of the laundry is done.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 11:09 AM

Here ya go, Mom! Complete with a song! Something I learned.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 22 - 10:46 PM

Well, Mom, this day has gone well so far. I'm about to trundle off to my trundle bed and go beddy-by now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 08:04 AM

Schuffle off to truffle bite dreams, good knight and may you soar o're the good fight saving damsals by the score. The knight now emporer is in the twillight of evermore in the footnotes of the book of ages by the galactic Overlords.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 05:19 PM

I discovered there is a beer garden and nightclub for your dog nearby.
Maybe an older dog is a good idea after all.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 10:19 PM

Mom! Yesterevening our ISP had problems and we were left sans Internet access for damned near 24 hours. All sorts of trucks flying around the neighborhood last night and today, trying to fix the problem. But, Mom, I haven't lost my touch. I had to reconfigure our in-house network and it's up and running like it oughta. There are a couple small things left to finish, but we're back online.

While this was down, we had a local fiber optic company come see if we could be fibered. The install is next Wednesday, severing a 18 year association with what had been the local cable company.

Bye-bye, Sparklight (formerly cableone).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 11:06 AM

I love the glass tube highway.

Too bad we are now A PATCHWORK NATION.
In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. Using on the ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. The result of Our Patchwork Nation is that the constitution is not merely divided over abortion states and gun loco states but in multiple diversities that often defies conventional wisdom.

Looking at the data, it looks like the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, and old categories like "college towns" and "working class towns" (Town and Gown) don't matter as much as we think. Instead, by examining Boom Towns, Evangelical Epicenters, Military Bastions, Service Worker Centers, Campus and Careers, Immigration Nation, Minority Central, Tractor Community, Mormon Outposts, Emptying Nests, Industrial Metropolises, and Monied Burbs, the subtle distinctions in how Americans vote is more varied than science/antiscience. Every State will have their own confusing laws that cover investment, shopping, reproduction and otherwise the belief of people who may be a minority in some way. What people experience on their local streets and in their daily lives is not going to be about Rights and Freedoms but more about enforced local shared hatreds. imho

UNITED WE STAND - Don't count on it. It could take 3 or 4 generations for the people to realize what a friend they had with
the Constitution. That those who called themselves patriots unwittingly destroyed the dream of America. Thats my story and I'm stickin toit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 04:53 PM

There is a big sign for the FAT golf tourney just outside my yard. This one promotes "Big Dog Solar", a company a friend of mine started and has since sold so he can concentrate on his fiber optic business.

FAT is the Football Alumni Team of Idaho State University. It appears that many of the FAT are just that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 09:24 PM

IBM, STANDARD OIL/FARBER, MOBILE, ESSO, FORD, ~GM and other huge corporations sold products, resources and built factories for the 3rd Reich before AND after the US declared war on Germany. Shell company strategies were rampant then and now to do the most unpatriotic things the founders of the Constitution could never have imagined.

Follow the $, not the honor if you want to be the Republican American.
They say honor is for boy scouts. No wonder they don't teach civics anymore. Teaching the truth is problomatic for the kids and teachers.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 08:07 PM

BEING ATTACKED by our own 50+ year old technology is nothing new.
While I won't explain why I can tell you that our microwave rifles can dissuade, disable, damage and even kill. What is different is the variety and size compared to 50 years ago.
Rap said he knew what I was talking about but I can't know for sure.
Using these weapons indiscriminately is horrendous.
Yes I know what they feel like, sound like and how they effect people at different settings almost like a phaser.
Morality aside these rifles can change the result of anything from a sporting event to a political event. It may not be too soon to weite a thriller about the ultimate result of these acurrsed things.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 09:01 PM

Try this.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 09:22 PM

I've spent the last two years, and a little bit more,
staying in Massachusett's Berkshire County, where the county seat is
the largest city/town, Pittsfield.

On the real estate market in Pittsfield is an enormous estate with a brick mansion which is the real deal, built before 1900 and loaded with character.
It was bought and built back then by
relatives/descendants of Samuel Colt.

Samuel Colt himself was a Connecticut man, born and died there.
But his extended family, especially those who ended up with some of his wealth after he died,
moved about to other areas like Pittsfield.
Mister Colt is the inventor, obviously, of the Colt '45.

And I looked up biographical info that touched on his family background.
Good Lord, what an awful dysfunctional mess.
Two of his siblings were suicides (no, I don't know how they killed themselves).
There were a couple of brothers within the family,
who formed a triangle with a woman married to one of them,
and there are things about the succession and estate planning which
suggest that the father of the woman's son, is her husband's brother . . .
it just gets worse and worse.
The price of staggering success and of making it so easy to kill?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 09:30 PM

Take heart humankind, reexaminating your mistakes, accidents and failures can sometimes find a measure of success in an application in another land and time never imagined for the original application.
For example you may remember how I was inspired by a deaf guitarist to find a way for him to hear his performance and more. Independantly I was seeking a means to directly stimulate the cochlea and brain to transmit hearing. Later I joined with projects under Kodak and Litton Ind. I came up with an external approach that proved inferior to an implanted Cochlear device. However the effects of transmitting music from the outside of the skull to temporal regions caused synthesesia.
Basicly I had invented electronic LSD one could turn on or off or explore new sensations like inventing colors never before seen. With this device sense signals are sent to unexpected sensory areas of the brain and allow a person to experience switched senses depending upon where receptors and transmitters are placed. In real world terms a taste could be sensed as feeling with your hands a 3D object with texture, color and temperature. Wierder interpretations by the brain are infinite. It is an interesting experience and might not be everyone's cup of tea. I can't say it makes you think differently but you can imagine how you can feel and process perspectives differently.

What to call it matters. I want to emphasize creativity and minimize simple scrambling. As an open source code machine the evolution of this device is both infinite and unknown. While it feels normal in a new way it is also extreme in its different interface with the world.

:Bogartes
:Da Vinci
:Andromeda
by what name would you call a synthesesia machine?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 07:47 AM

The taste of peppermint was changed to a vertical cool smooth 3D object so there is a relative truth to sensory changes. Hearing Beethoven's 9th with new 'ears'/brains is quite an experience. Turning Pink Floyd into a visual experience is daunting and alien. A tasty burger may change to a feeling of savory pointedness that can be enjoyed by their total pointedness. Of course every tranmission area and person is different.

Meta virtual reality is thirsty for a new unique immersive experience.
Most likely Facebook's Zuckerberg will steal this tech like Bill stole his original OS.

I do wonder about potential dangers among borderline psychotics.
This device may be lumped in with direct brain stimulation but there are distinct and fundamental differences.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 08:00 AM

Remember what is being transmitted are electrical signals of simolar frequency and amplitude of nerve cells in most cases.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 08:42 AM

Modulation, a kind of volume, is under the control of the user as well as on off. Additional insights can be found here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707077/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 09:12 AM

The most important precaution is among MS folks who are demylinated.

The motor nerves are mylinated in healthy people so your muscles will not be effected or stimulated as long as a modulation limiter is correctly attenuated.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 09:48 AM

Volunteers are needed to investigate limbic system stimulation to see if signals will activate all the systems that border the limbic vesicles including memories/ hippocampus, Thalamus, Hypothalamus, amygdala, and pituitary gland.
It is hypothesized that a pan neural experience may result with unknown outcomes. Lighting up Alzheimer patients like a search light would be an unexpected outcome.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 10:02 AM

The weather has been so hot that MOM had the screened-in porch ceiling fan running and was sleeping on the porch swing last night when a rain storm blew in out of the blue. At first she thought the dog was licking her face when she felt the moisture, but it was just rain blowing in through the screen. She realized (with a huge crash of thunder) that it was something else. You should have heard her stomping through the house to change night gowns and go sleep in her own bed.

She was already a bit out of sorts after a friend told her that his drink of choice these days was Budweiser over ice. That would piss me off also!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 10:25 AM

Ivermectin punch (Big can of Hawaiian Punch with 3 crushed up pills) over ice sound like a Texas cocktail too. At least the Mexican version uses Sangria.

I made a drink yesterday, half 100 proof peppermint schnaps and half drambuie. Not as minty as I thought. Serve in tall shot glass.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jun 22 - 08:50 PM

We await with bated breath the coming of the fiber optic line. Sometimes when I went fishing I used baited breath.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jun 22 - 02:16 PM

Go with 12 lb. strength

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 28 Jun 22 - 02:31 PM

Can you string a banjo with it?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jun 22 - 03:50 PM

I actually use acoustic steel and tune the uke like a mandolin.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 12:23 AM

I tune everything but a trumpet in a minor key such as G minor. It helps prevent controversy later. A diminished A7 is also good.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 08:12 AM

Very late last night I was talking with Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia. He was expounding on the moment when an Emporer of Rome discovered that the Pretorian guard was not his personal Army or loyal bodyguard. He had a half dozen examples and concluded at long last with the instant when Trump grabbed the steering wheel from the backseat of his limo and with his other hand grabbed the driver by the throat screaming "I'm the fucking President now take me to the Capitol" Secret Service did not relent. "Take your hand off the wheel, we are going to the White House". Senator Byrd continued, "The Emporer discovered in that backseat that his Pretorian Guards were not his own but he was not dispatched with a short sword and was slowly driven back to the residence."
Senator Byrd on Rome

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 08:46 AM

In conclusion, I told you so.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 09:05 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLcELU1brA

When Donald was the President,
Let My people in
Deceived so deep they could not think,
Let My people in!
Refrain:
Go down, Proud Boys,
Way down in the Capitol;
Then Trump told them all
To let My people in!
No more damn democracy,
Let My people in!

Let them go with guns and knives,
Let My people in!
Oh, let them in with every sin,
Let Congress lose their lives!
Let us all for Trump be free,
Let My people in!

You need not always mourn and weep,
Let My people in!
And wear these slav’ry chains for me,
Let My people in!
Your foes that are before you run,
My people have just begun to fight!

And don't forget your great big gun,
My people are always right!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 09:11 AM

Next?

Subject: RE: MOAB - aw comon cheer up
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 11:32 AM

Follow the Capitol Road. Follow the Capitol Road.
Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow the Capitol Road.
Follow the Capitol, Follow the Capitol,
Follow the Capitol Road.
We're off to see the Congress, and Vice President Pense.
You'll find he is a son of a gun If ever a gun there was.
If ever oh ever a son there was The Vice President is one because,
Because, because, because, because, because.
Because of the loyal Trump things he does.
We're off to hang the Congress. The Congress and pussy wimp Pense

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 06:19 PM

The Donald doesn't get it.
Trump is ~tweeting~ on Truth Social "I am not an insurrectionist, I was just taking a mulligan".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jun 22 - 09:32 PM

In the dark damp corners in the basements of American History libraries
are the 4 or 5 accounts of white insurrectionists overturning the electoral results of the then multi racial republican candidates right after the civil war in Louisiana, North Carolina and elsewhere. Yes election fraud was rallying cry back then as well. The Federal government put right all but one result. As Mark Twain said history doesn't repeat exactly but rhymes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 12:15 AM

I said I had dibs on 2992! Spank him, MOM!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 09:35 AM

The history of American expansionism or racism is actually a diplomatic history to make it palatable for our kids.

The history of MOAB is a dead pale ghost of its original purpose, democracy, personalities and contributions beyond palindromes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 22 - 09:49 AM

Of course, we just had it backwards

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jul 22 - 11:55 AM

MOM says it's getting to be too noisy at night to sleep on the screened-in porch; fireworks make a heckuva racket. She's thinking about getting one of those sensory deprivation tanks set up in the corner of the living room.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jul 22 - 08:03 PM

Thata one blowed up good! Yup it was bettern than Cletus's m-4

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jul 22 - 08:04 PM

Well, oh yeah?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jul 22 - 08:14 PM

At some point in time
I got sensory deprivation tanks mixed up with
hyperbaric chambers .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jul 22 - 10:36 PM

Whoo! (Uhh, welcome) Ohhh!
I'd like to welcome everybody, welcome everybody (yo y-yo yo yo)
To the motherfucking Metaverse Chat Room (yo, y-yo, yo)

[Rappin Joe Biden]
How many Muricans fell victim in the streets
Rest in peace young victims, it's a death by big lie
Eyes still open reflecting the grey blue sky
Fish belly up above the bleached reefs

The lure of cash emptied out the oceans and poor
The elite experts in charge used to be all creeps
It'd be a lie if I told you that they were not thieves
Every deal the government made for me went out the door

Its not just ketchup on the wall!
Those who want to rule want to outgun the constitution
They are afraid they will be poor after restitution
How many that were taught the dream of America must fall?

The end of civilization begins with too many of us
and just enough of the big lie believing them
Cause to the elite world earners you ain't worth phlegm
The world is infected with a CO2 wound oozing puss

What men have done to this living planet is beyond vulgar
Endings are by their nature always sad and full of suffering
But done by the hand of man somehow makes this smothering
the most evil kind of ulcer we call a culture

Through lies, theft, shootouts, stick-ups and invasions
The world is full of suckers but don't worry, some dream of good
No matter how they are disbelieved and misunderstood
They are always on the brink of solving the equation

Call his pops, pick the phone up
So he can come find his son lyin in his own blood
On that block that patriots shot up
Near the house we grew up in before the flood

50 bullets made that sound that goes thud
The first 10 made the kid scream
The number of bullets were not as extreme
as the tradition that makes red mud

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 08:32 AM

Some will say the kid in Akron had it comin. The only judgment I make in any encounter is motive be it assault here or in the streets.
What is the motive for shooting someone 60 times? It sounds like anger but I'm sure the cops will have time to explain.

Mom isn't sayin, she just says "its their way".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jul 22 - 10:24 AM

Holy crap another palindrome 3003 !

I will watch Tenet, Arrival... https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=palindrome

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jul 22 - 11:01 AM

I don't do diaries but I do make memo books.
This mornings collection will be transferred here verbatim;
The Court sez Corporations are people, does that make the NRA and GOA people of interest?

Please observe a momment of silencers.

Come for the holiday mass shooting stay for the funeral snacks.

AMERICA'S GAME
take me out to the gun store
get me one maybe 2
buy me some ammo a couple stacks
then off to the park to start the attack
shoot, shoot shoot
its a gun thing
mental illness we'll blame
and its one more mass shooting here
its a US game


Teachem yung make 5 year olds shoot

People armed with information are dangerous
buy guns

Guns a' Gore Ammo Store.

Guns and Butter:
All mass shooters ate butter. BAN BUTTER

All abortions start with sex, BAN SEX

Your kid was an honor student. ban AR 15s

oops brb

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jul 22 - 01:23 PM

Guns are sold
Hands are shaken
Hearts go out

If guns were as erratic as people
they would miss


If Elon Musk made guns we would be dead by now

There is a question about the mental health of red Senators

Slippery slopes are dangerous
Guns are cool

RELAX' it was a legally purchased mass shooting

AR 15 Silencers for sale
in Congress



whew brb

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jul 22 - 02:34 PM

Remember when AR15S really were banned???

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jul 22 - 09:11 PM

Mom, it's settled. This time next week I'll be Sitka. All seems well now, much was settled today.

I'll knock back a few brew and things for you, and eat lots of reindeer sausage and halibut and stuff. No, we're not driving up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 22 - 09:17 PM

. . . you'll be IN Sitka?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jul 22 - 09:44 PM

You'll get a couple more hours of sun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jul 22 - 09:10 PM

In, on, off — some preposition or other.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jul 22 - 06:32 PM

I had a friend who used to preposition his English teacher.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jul 22 - 10:22 PM

Teachers enjoy being condimented. So few of them are.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 22 - 03:25 PM

Sitka on Wednesday, Mom, so you will only hear from me sporadically. I do hope to see KT and Ebbie!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 22 - 03:15 PM

DIBS ON POST 3030!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 10:01 AM

the amblin herd was suddenly spooked by lighting and thunder
Without a care Johnny depped under
his saddle bag an' grabbed a snare
He caught an amber colored cow,
And tied it to a plow
th' rope she was a snappin.
She was impressed and he thought it was love
but when push come to shove
it was a lawsuit waitin t'happen.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 12:00 PM

Sorry I haven't been back in a while, MOM. The Trump stuff in the news is just so much BS to filter through that the normal high quality stuff here fades in comparison.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 04:14 PM

Insulted. A high quality post it is.
America now sees a President with very high ratings but his name is Zelenski. Putin without a Trump is a horse without a useful wagon. Putin is now wearing a 'Make Catherine Great Again' hat and is burning all the soldier death notices. Once Russain mothers get wind, Putin will suffer death by a thousand tough Russian mothers. They are more ferocious than Grizzles.

The broad that sits at the end of the bar alone is Sydney Powell. She is now getting her 15 seconds of fame.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:15 PM

Creature comforts are the best. Make no mistake I am not the now failed pillow guy but I did invent 2 versions of a refridgerated pillow. They work too well to be safe or are not silent. However the most available organic solution is a feather or down pillow that is washed and not dried completely. It should be plump and not wet to the touch but retain a moisture level that another 30 minutes in the drier would remove. That way the pillow is cool for about a minute or less and then can be turned over to feel cool again...repeat until sleep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jul 22 - 07:51 PM

Goodness! You step away for a few days and Mom is sent out of sight! Thank goodness I was here or who knows what might have happened — that’s why I’m Mom’s favorite kid.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jul 22 - 07:47 AM

For reasons quite different from mine I have been right about there being no such thing as inflation in the cosmological explanation of the big bang. Also there is no current multiverse inobservation of our flat smooth universe. I am very pleased to have been essentially correct all along. It is a lonely celebration since no one either listened or understood what I have been on about regarding inflation theory being bogus.

Inflation theory is ONLY a bandaid, a patch to try to explain the big bang (which DID NOT HAPPEN). Inflation has now been shown to be a fraud by many different explanations in math and by the greatest Nobel Prize winners like Penrose and others.

So Hooray. Its nice to be right about something so fundamental.

What is more likely in reality? It is a gentle bounce universe after a period of slow CONTRACTION into our now reexpanding phase of the universe.

I offer as proof this lecture which can be understood by anyone despite the math barriers. why there is no big bang and how observations prove it

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 22 - 12:37 PM

Misery loves company unless the misery is high heat every single day, in which case company won't come near your place. I've looked at the Wunderground calendars with high temperature history and have looked as far as actual forecasts go (versus a marker showing the average temperature of the day) and we'll be at 40+ days over 100 by the second week in August. And it feels like more. MOM says she doesn't cook any more, except to put food in a dark pan on the sunny pavement at about 3pm and go check it a couple of hours later for doneness.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 22 - 10:27 PM

MOM!!! Your fave kid has returned from Alaska!!! All well, or as we say Up North, all is skookum. My boxes should start arriving any time now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jul 22 - 03:10 PM

Wow, fun time in Idaho! Yesterday I took my wife to the ER because she'd run fevers, had chills, was constantly low on blood oxygen, and tested positive for COVID, and the doctor said "Go to the ER now."

90% certainty of COVID pneumonia in both lungs. She was in yesternight and will be in tonight at the very least.

Frabjoyous day! Caloo, calay!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Jul 22 - 03:31 PM

Happy opposite day! Might I suggest the anti viral cocktail at the bar.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jul 22 - 04:45 PM

My best to Pat. Arriving back home from vacation with a COVID chaser seems to be commonplace these days. Jenn and Art had a similar experience upon returning from France. :-(

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Jul 22 - 08:59 AM

Rapparee, I'm really alarmed and sorry to hear about your wife Pat.
Will be thinking and praying of/for both of you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 22 - 12:53 PM

My dearest Idahoian... Keep us informed; we are concerned.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jul 22 - 09:19 PM

She’s home. On drugs, but home. The remdesivir continues this week.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 09:16 AM

The Emporer of swords is the RX9 hellfire missle. Fired from a drone the RX9 deploys 8 long swords a split second prior to impact without explosives. Al Zawari's last words were "Oy V..".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 02:13 PM

I had dibs on 3030! Mooooom! Make him give it back!!!! I had dibs!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 02:13 PM

My Irish class starts in about 20 minutes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 03:42 PM

My Irish Class has always been apparent. I think you're born with it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 05:12 PM

You heard it first here; Putin in his madness will simulate full disclosure and then claim a weapon mastery over UFOs thanks to a certain former president. This will upset the applecart of China and the USA who have at least cooperated regarding censorship and secrets. Worst of all will be his follow up social media manipulation regarding which political leaders are weak traitors to the human race and guess who will become the strong hostile hero over ET.

Will Americans believe the declassified images from Russia and the extraterrestrial conflict heroism of the Donald? In a heartbeat.
The deep state was afraid all along Trump and Putin would call the tune regarding the defeat of the UAPs and defy our prized secrecy.

QAnon types will say "dad gummit I knowed it all along".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 22 - 10:32 PM

Don't be silly. The Idaho Legion is right up at the Front, defending Earth and all we hold dear.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 22 - 08:25 AM

I thought what they hold dear is a mixed bag of opposites like pro life and AR15s. Defending Earth is one thing but why do they want to stop the steel?

Subject: RE: ODD Christmas songs
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 22 - 02:58 PM

Asylum Jesus or I saw Jesus kissing Santa

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 22 - 07:26 PM

btw Idaho is protecting/paying rapists. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/idaho-abortion-bill-rapist-families

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 22 - 09:06 PM

Donuel, I have reported you to the Idaho Legion. When the Galactic Overlord next attacks Earth you may or may not be protected by the Legion's new, top secret, quantum disruptor cannon. The Legion is nonpolitical and takes no sides save that of protecting Earth and the Legion's many hovels around the world. (Yes, there is a Legion Hovel near you and you need not reside in Idaho to join.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 22 - 09:36 PM

Well I'm reporting you to LUST leaking underground septic tanks, for thinking Idaho's shit doesn't stink.
Grandpa Frank Schatz tended bar at the VFW in Danville Ill. I've known the legion since I was 3 but I've never been in country so I am not a member. Those guys are a different kind of tough.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 01:20 PM

Solving the mysteries of quantum gravity, UAP's, dark matter, black holes-wormholes or dark energy are not as meaningful or pronounced in our day to day lives as 'what is the deal with pumpkin spice', or any number of things we can actually see and feel. Therefore I am founding the Church of Seeing is Believing. Between the tax free status and whackadoodle trump converts who prefer a more rational world, I'll retire with some FU money and watch the actual Armaggedon on my 100 inch TV.
Ceremonies will include a holographic God in HD audio on a subsonic floor. It'll be a hoot.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 10:18 PM

I said nothing -- nada, rien -- about Idaho. I was speaking of the Idaho Legion, which is entirely separate from the state.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Aug 22 - 10:19 PM

Mom, my copy of Mike Murphey's "We Never Knew Just What It Was" arrived today and I'm rediscovering the Chad Mitchell Trio!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 22 - 11:40 AM

I have been authorized to explain this much: the quantum disruptor utilizes anyons and time crystals to unwind both the strong and weak nuclear forces. The rest is all some sort of arithmetic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Aug 22 - 07:49 PM

Victim galaxy of the quantum disruptor

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 22 - 05:27 PM

Lt. Ryan Graves was an actual top gun and had to deal with the multiple unknown crafts the Navy has encountered. He is one of the most intelligent warriors I have heard. Lt. Graves and Lex interview

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 22 - 08:22 AM

Occam's razor may influence speculation that ETs are AI since it simpler for a machine to go from a hover to mach 1.6 in a second or two than to have an exotic drive that negates inertia within a region for an organic being to not get squished flat against the interior wall.
Perhaps there were days when it was somewhat safe for organic beings to wander about but bad outcomes could have changed policy.

A machine could also respond on time scales organics can not approach like the hero in the matrix. They also could control our digital tech with more ease. OUR EXOSCALE CRAY SUPER COMPUTERS may even seem 'cute' to the galactic overlords. I don't know what a digital crush entails but The Star Trek movie explored it with Vger.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 22 - 11:04 AM

Merrick Garland SINGS


Every breath you take
And every lie you make
Every law you break
Every thing you take
I'll be stopping you
Every single day
And every word you say
All the golf you play
Every fight you make
I'll be stopping you
Oh, can't you see
When your whores all pee?
How the nation aches
With every lie you make?
Everything you take
And every law you break
Every smile you take
Every claim you stake
I'll be stopping you
Since you've gone, We've seen that you're a disgrace
Nightmares at night, are all full of your face
I look around, but it's you we can displace
I feel so glad, you are gone you damn nutcase
I keep hoping Biden, Biden please
Oh, can't you see
He belongs in jail?
How our vaccines failed
And his lies prevailed?
With every lie he failed
Every law he bailed
Every time he sailed
We'll be stopping you
Every single day
And every word you say
All the golf you play
Every fight you prey
I'll be stopping you.
Every move you make
And every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you
Every move you make
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
No man is above the law.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 22 - 01:10 PM

Such leisurely 100,000 light year trips aren’t going to appeal to biological passengers who will die long before their destination is reached. Machines, on the other hand, won’t complain if they’re cooped up in a spaceship for tens of thousands of years. They don’t require food, oxygen, sanitation or entertainment. And they don’t insist on a round-trip ticket. Face it we make stinky toxins the rest of the universe might hate.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 22 - 01:21 PM

The GL has minions that don't care about anything except serving it in the best way they can. When you can move amuck among the multiverses time and inertia mean nothing to you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 22 - 08:40 PM

Yes manipulating time and space the way we can transmutate mass and energy may negate gravity and inertia constraints. There may still be a field that joins two points regardless of distance that is invisible to us and always will be*. It seems simpler to go AI.

*dark matter drive

I can envision close encounters of the 3rd kind have happened with a couple visiting species.






















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Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 22 - 09:02 PM

I think some of those cross-species specimens have moved to Idaho just to annoy good folks (no, not everyone is like Ammon Bundy or worse).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Aug 22 - 07:34 AM

The social pendulum has swung to the maximum silliness arc and is begining its swing to the good again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Aug 22 - 07:40 AM

Rapparee, Pat has been home from the hospital for ten days.
Is she truly better?
A bunch of us have felt concern for her,
you may tell her I/we said so.

Subject: RE: MOAB - you belong to me tune
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Aug 22 - 10:41 AM

See the prison walls but not the gate
No more sun rise is your convict fate
Just remember, donald, all the while
You belong in jail

Tried to immigrate to warm Brazil
you were caught and lost all free will
Just remember when a dream appears
You are in arrears

We will get along without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too, and blue

You flew oceans in a silver plane
Now you're in a cell and racked with pain
Just remember till you're home again
Clean your toilet drain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 22 - 12:02 PM

Well, Mom, I guess it's time to go inside. Smoke from the Ross Creek Fire is starting to bother me and increae the AQI. Besides, I have a series of medical appointments (AGAIN!) in a three quarters of an hour.

I wish people would start dipping snuff (snoose) or chewin' tabakky instead of tossing burning butts and ashes everywhere. These fires are becoming annoying, even a little one of a hundred or so acres like the one at Ross Creek. Maybe we could get the wind to blow the smoke to Wyoming...California gives a lot to us, so we have ample amounts to share.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 22 - 08:51 PM

There have now been wildfires to our south, north, and west. East would be too close to my hovel.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 12:42 PM

TV lullaby

Go to sleep you little baby
Go to sleep you little baby
Everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn
Didn't leave nobody but the baby

Go to sleep to tonight show
sleep to Steve Allen's show
Its past bed time and they say I'll stunt my growth
Then I'd wake up to Dave Garroway (and a chimp?)

Go to sleep to the Jack Par show
Then it would be Johnny Carson
Now I'm a big boy and the TV's not a toy
Then I'd wake up to the Today show

Letterman Leno or Fallon
Doesn't matter what is on
Its the background soundtrack meant to distract
Then I'd wake up to the Today show

Stayin up late may have a sad fate
but now its time for the Colbert show
Sleep I lost has a mysterious cost
Cuz I'm sleeping through the Today show.

Streaming means I watch anytime.
I can sleep but now get up to pee
You and me and the devil makes three
At 6 AM its time for morning Joe show

Go to sleep you little baby
Go to sleep you little baby
Come and lay your bones on the memory foam
And just be ever lovin lazy

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 22 - 07:30 PM

Jail for Trump is as unlikely as snow in Los Vegas. However being banished or exiled is a US punishment and seems most appropriate.
Trump would choose the Riviera or Monaco but he would probably only get into Sicily.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Aug 22 - 07:16 AM

Trump has nuclear docs? Why? It sounds to him like something he could sell?
He saw money. The government saw national security.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Aug 22 - 08:40 AM

Even if I'd taken Top Secret documents to my quarters when I was in the Army, even if I'told everyone I was going to do so, I'd still be in Leavenworth. Even taking FOUO documents would have brought me to punishment.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 07:38 AM

THERE ARE classifications in which the security clearance of individuals themselves is classified.

"Whats your clearance rating?" "If I told you I would be in violation of national security."

there are also abjectly stupid classification of things like nyt newspaper clippings.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 10:06 AM

Trump apparently thought he'd baffled the FBI with bullshit on Monday last week when they went to search that mausoleum of his. Turns out you can't just say "I declassify" and it's done. And through the week he has gotten more and more pissed off by the stories. His form of BS isn't like anyone else's, it's more an ooze of vitriol and bile.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 10:20 AM

Nazi TV channels enjoy paid cable revenue.
Programing varies as well as Gun shows and legal loopholes.
Meat and potato shows are often:
Ancient Assassins
Blood and Fury: America's Civil War
Blood Feuds
Chasing Conspiracies
Codes and Conspiracies
Cold War Armageddon
Forbidden History
Gunslingers
Hitler
How the World Ends
Inside Secret Societies
Mafia's Greatest Hits
Mafia's Most Wanted
Manhunt: Kill or Capture
Nazi Death Squad
Nazi Fugitives

Negotiations for more programing is underway for shows like
The Andy Griffith Show.
The Bannon Banner
The Uncensored Tucker
Enemies of the Week
Revenge for Heros
The Rittenhouse Review
Whose a Jew?

Thinktanks are being founded for youth education, political candidates, veteran master classes and church & school infiltration.
It looks like they are thinking ahead.

Public schools are woefully missing civics classes but have something called Social Studies. (No race theory allowed)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 11:35 AM

Given the nature of the Amerikan right it is IMPOSSIBLE for Trump to die of natural causes. If and when he does, I expect his donations will double. If you thought The Warren Report was a waste of paper I dread the Margie Greene Report. Considering the probable outcome of Trump's enevitable massive heart attack, it is best for Democrats to pray for Donald's longevity. 110 will do.

Subject: RE: MOAB https://www.rappad
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 02:51 PM

Woke is broke and liberalism is cancelism. Sure white nationalists have too much red blood in their alcohol stream but the workingman's party doesn't make their members blue bloods.

The woke casting police for the make believe world is making rules that defy explanation. Only gay actors should portray gay characters or vice versa. Sean Played Harvey Milk ANATHMA!
COMEDIANS are attacked for freedom of expression or being offensive, in someones eyes. Trigger alerts for Shakespear and the Bible. Should Amber Herd only play bed shitters now? Bradley Cooper is playing Leonard Bernstein AND BRADLEY IS NOT GAY or so they say.

Professors are fired for using bad words over lectures about bad words.
JEHOVA!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 03:23 PM

JEHOVA, JEHOVA ...UGH
Not only is Bradly not gay he isn't even Jewish or reformed like Bernstien!
I think the woke police want Jewish actors to all sound like Jackie Mason and have, as they put it, a Jew face.
To rectify this total social reversal I prescribe shock drug therapy of Ibogaine, Psilocybin and Molly cocktail. It has the side effects of making people try to be more creative than they are but it good for what ailes ya.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 22 - 06:56 PM

With climate change floods on the rise 'The storm on the sea of Galile' should finally provide its greatest comfort. Its theft from the Gardener has been a boon to forgery cons, greedy billionaire suckers as well as millions of museum reproduction sales. But now its time to go home. I had nothing to do with Al Monday and his mafia crew except knowing Al from Bezema Buick in Boston. Mistrust and normal & violent mortality left the painting waiting for the light of day for decades. As mercurial as Al was he had a heart for art first. This was his second Rembrandt and made arrangements with the only reasonable acquaintance he knew he could not trust but rely upon when all else failed or was exhausted. So put a pin in it and recall this when the painting celebrates Christmas this year. btw Al had red hair and had the swagger of Whitey Bulger, just to put a fine point on it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 08:07 AM

The Nazi Trump song

Trump is but a song we sing
We will never die
We can make the mountains ring
Or make the Police cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why
Come on, people now
We are the Trumpers
End the witch hunts and the fake news
Time to put Trump in power right now
Some may come and some may go
He will surely pass
Adolf Hitler left us here
Returns for us at last
We have traitors in our gunsight
Fading with a gasp
Come on, people now
We are the Trumpers
End the witch hunts and the fake news
Time to put Trump in power right now
Come on, people now
We are the Trumpers
End the witch hunts and the fake news
Time to put Trump in power right now
Come on, people now
We are the Trumpers
End the witch hunts and the fake news
Make our nation great right now

If you hear the song I sing
You will understand,   listen
You hold the gun to rule and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one shot unlocks them both
It's there at your command
Come on, people now
We are the Trumpers
End the witch hunts and the fake news
Make our nation great right now
Come on, people now
We are the Trumpers
End the witch hunt and fake news
Make our nation great right now
I said come on, people now
We are the Trumpers
End the witch hunts and the fake news
Make our nation great right now
Right now
Right now

Subject: RE: MOAB - the two most evil men in the world
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 01:09 PM

its a whole new world

I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?
I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride
An Epstein world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us, "NO"
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming
An Epstein world
A dazzling place you never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now you're in a Epstein world with me
(Now you're in a Epstein world with me)
Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky
A world (don't you dare! close your eyes!)
A hundred thousand things to see (hold your breasts, it gets painful)
I'm like a shooting star, I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be
An Epstein world
With new horizons to pursue
I'll chase you anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this Epstein world with you
An A hole world (an A hole world)
My new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us, "NO"
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming
A EPSTEIN world (every turn, a surprise)
With new horizons to pursue (every moment, red-letter)
I'll chase them anywhere, there's time to heal
And then we're home (there's time to heal)
Lets share this Jeffery Epstein world
A secret world (a secret world)
That's where we'll be (that's where we'll be)
A thrilling chase (a wondrous place)
For me just me




It's a Small World (It's a Small World)

It's a world of laughter
and crime careers
It's a world of dopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that he dared
and how he made us scared
He's a small man afterall,
He's a small man afterall
He's a small man afterall
He's a small man afterall
He's a small, small man
There's good on both sides now
And one golden T
And a smile means
That he took ev'ryone
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
He's a dumb man after all
He's a dumb man after all
He's a dumb man after all
He's so god damn dumb.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 08:34 PM

8 posts in a row is a record better than 3003.

With great excitement, I noticed, along with my cat,
two globes of nebulous light go through brick walls
and fly slowly below my bedroom ceiling.
That's when I started my amateur study of physics
with a tabula rasa geometric point of view.
Was it a different dimension I had not seen before?
Was it ball lightning or another form of electricity?
I stood on the couch and touched its event horizon,
afraid to stick my hand inside this mysterious sphere.
It went through more walls and I lost track of both.
My first step was to read the book Flatland several times
I could almost see a hypersphere with time and practice.
I remembered the globes made a very faint sound like a high fizz.
Maybe that's why my cat fluffed up, was it a loud ultrasound?
The universe is made of patterns and some of those are just illusions.
I used to think a mirror switched left to right but it's an illusion.
It's just reflecting front to back like looking at someone in front of me.
Were the globes illusions that fooled the cat and me, it wasn't a delusion.
30+ years later I can't rule out that I saw a quantum effect.
If you look at the 'rainbow' side of a DVD you are seeing the quantum behavior
of quantum particles called photons. The grooves on the mirror side act like a double slit
experiment allowing photons to take all paths, unlike a smooth mirror. Different
paths make different colors so we are seeing the quantum field behavior of photons.
The globes are still a mystery but the mystery opened a whole new world.
In this world friends say "I don't know what you are going on about".
Once you've seen positron ions (antimatter) annihilate with your naked eye
it's hard to not look at the world more deeply, completely, and with more questions.

Donald Rumsfeld is known for his list of known knowns to unknown unknowns with every combination in between. He actually missed one, unknown knowns, which might be the unconscious mind. It does raise the question about things we can never know. I have 3 billion base pairs in my DNA and I am not that smart so it won't be me to discover what can't be known. Besides now that we have Chaos theory it is reasonable to never know. Fractals of infinite complexity makes predictions almost impossible. But there was this guy named Einstein...and he died still wondering. I bet all he needed were new tools.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 22 - 09:16 PM

If you know anything about Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galile you know it was his only seascape. What you don't know is that after its theft it was used as a virtual get out of jail card several times for Al's crew. If things went bad it was understood that its ownership would be determined by a last man standing tontine. Well that has come and gone, but the painting is still here except it is a bit smaller now after being cut from the frame. shame

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Aug 22 - 07:17 AM

The question of why would Trump want classified docs is on everyone's mind. I ask what is important to the Trump mindset?
REVENGE
I bet he thought of setting someone else up for arrest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 22 - 10:19 PM

He wanted to feel powerful, like he did in the White House. By having such things he didn't have to admit he that was, and is, a loser. Being a loser is what he fears more than anything else. He dodged the draft (not that he would have gone anyway if he was drafted), he's been married three times (?) and had God alone knows how many trysts and affairs, he's driven others into bankruptcy and out of business (generally small businesses who he wasn't going to pay anyway), and used the courts as his private weapon.

Losers do these things, and then they bury an ex-wife in a section of one of his golf courses designated as a private cemetery and thus probably non-taxable.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 09:32 AM

> He wanted to feel powerful

You have hit the nail on the head, Rap: overcompensated inferiority complex. His father, and Norman Vincent Peale, have much to answer for.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 09:42 AM

Indeed they do! (I've been posting Trump stuff over on the Trump thread but he's so full of BS it could have been duplicated here.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 10:58 AM

OK, but he is also obsessively vengeful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 02:35 PM

Vengefulness is part of being a loser because you KNOW you are a loser and anger follows. It eats from the inside outwards. Unfortunately it also destroys others. All of the gold toilets, trophy spouses, private planes, yachts, mansions, clothing, and properties can’t hide what you know you really are.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 05:55 PM

His petulance knows no bounds. I only saw ads for the Apprentice but I recall the genuine hurt that his abuse caused. I would ask myself why people invested themselves in that and didn't talk back.
I lived through the McCarthy era and people were so scared.
Today black lists are back, as usual blacks and Jews are in the crosshairs, a new defund the FBI cry has begun. I know enough Chaos theory to see the erractic disintegration of the Republican party over disparate hate values. Of course criminals are exalting criminal enterprises but from inside state legislatures this time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 06:18 PM

Maga favorite things

Blacklists and boycots
and phone threats and vi'lence
Red hats with camo
and ammo in black vests
Its hard to know if they do as their told
All I know is that they'll never grow old


MAGA country has boycotted everything from CNN to the Oreo cookie; oftentimes making public display of themselves burning or destroying the offending merchandise.

Keeping track of the ever-growing MAGA blacklist can be difficult. To help, we’ve collected them all in one place. If you are a MAGA fan, you are obligated to avoid the following:

Conservatives Keep Blowing Up Things They Bought to Own Libs
FIRE BRANDS
Kelly Weill

WALMART
Despite Walmart’s long-stereotyped status as a bastion of conservative middle America, one year ago the hashtag #BoycottWalmart spread among Trump supporters. The company’s offense? Third-party markets on Walmart’s website sold T-shirts with “Impeach Trump” and “Impeach 45” emblazoned on them. The nuance that Walmart didn’t actually produce the shirts—just acted as a host for third-party sales—was lost on Trump supporters however.


A Walmart spokesperson reiterated that the items were sold by a third party, and said they would reassess what is sold in the marketplace. “We’re removing these types of items pending review of our marketplace policies,” the spokesperson said.

Less than a year later, however, the company jumped back into MAGA hot water. The retail chain produced an ad in June featuring two gay men going on a first date at a Walmart. Naturally, Trump-boosting anti-LGBTQ hate groups were furious.

One Million Moms, a website started by the American Family Association, a powerful fundamentalist group, wrote that Walmart “decided to offend many of their conservative customers with their new video,” rather than remain neutral in the “culture war.” The website also started a petition urging Walmart to remove the ad.

Part of a christian’s mission statement is to “strengthen the moral foundations of American culture.” The organization has vehemently supported president Trump despite his multiple marriages and innumerable prostitutes. AFA president Tim Wildmon wrote a post early this year titled, “If Trump Fails, We All Lose,” re-affirming his support for the president. “One of the reasons President Trump has been taking unrelenting, incoming fire from the liberal elites... is precisely because he is not ashamed of the Bible, the Constitution, the family, or the free enterprise system.” Concluding: “The God-haters... are after President Trump because in many respects—politically speaking—to them he represents us.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 22 - 08:18 PM

Stilly would post this here come the cowardly threats

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 09:29 AM

=========TRUMP IS INNOCENT=========













UNLESS THE TEFLON DON
IS PROVEN GUILTY

btw teflon was proven toxic

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 09:53 AM

He may not be found guilty, but innocent? him?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Aug 22 - 04:09 PM

Regarding other threads, I notice the "BS: Brexit & other UK political topics" thread is hundreds of posts longer than this MOABannex - but it's all BS. I could swap out the titles to give MOAB the higher post count and they'd probably never notice.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 22 - 08:57 PM

No need to be naughty. Besides they are recently making alot of sense with their discussion of water shortages in climate change times.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 22 - 09:16 PM

Seems like with water right now it's feast or famine. And without water famine looms.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 22 - 04:20 PM

I can live without almonds that take more water to grow than everything else. https://msfagriculture.com/2020/01/18/which-crops-consume-the-most-water/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 22 - 09:19 PM

Can you live without barley? Without potatoes? Without wheat? Without lentils? These are some of Idaho's top crops and the prices are going to go up. Then there's the Chobani yogurt bunch, over near Jerome.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 22 - 11:33 PM

There comes a point in a drought when you can't grow those things.
As you say famine looms.
I retreat into the new physics alternative that may be more fundamental than the notion of space time. Many new scientists say that space time is doomed. Spacetime may only be an interface for our understanding of the universe that resembles the interplay of hardware and google software as we stare at our keyboard.
The alternative to a more fundamental reality will have to satisfy all the relationships that space time gives us but with fewer terms and fields and loops.
The way this is being done is the way I have said is geometry. It may be non Euclidian with more dimensions but it is geometry of a combination of shapes and has a history in its conception.
Time as geometry

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Aug 22 - 11:49 PM

We can look at neurons but you are not looking at thoughts. We can look at the mega structures of the universe and although they all look like neurons we are not seeing consciousness.

The underlying fundamentals can be much different of reductionist spaace time. Non reductionist thinking

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 12:35 AM

To paraphrase Amos "perhaps reality repeats its self and consciousness like a fractal" Like Goedel said "We will find many things that are true but can not be proven". That implies that there will not be a theory of everything but rather repeating patterns and shapes in variant combinations. Perhaps the shape of a snowflake was a greater reality hiding in plain sight and future people will laugh at our stupid stubborness.

Intuitionist mathmatics vs real number math is a real dichotomy of thought today. The new wrinkle is that when we seperate living and non living it is only an artifact of our spacetime interface.
Amplituhedron theory challenges the notion that spacetime locality and unitarity are necessary components of a model of particle interactions. Instead, they are treated as properties that emerge from an underlying phenomenon.

The connection between the amplituhedron and scattering amplitudes is a conjecture that has passed many non-trivial checks, including an understanding of how locality and unitarity arise as consequences of positivity. Research has been led by Nima Arkani-Hamed. Edward Witten described the work as "very unexpected" and said that "it is difficult to guess what will happen or what the lessons will turn out to be".

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Aug 22 - 09:26 PM

And tomorrow will come soon enough. Tomorrow will be extremely busy and I hope I can get it all done. Yes, I have nothing, nada, rien on my schedule so the whole thing will collapse on me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 22 - 08:52 PM

It happens all the time to the wave function.

Rap's beloved Quark and gluon may only be smaller details of a data set that the interface of spacetime only makes them appear real.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 22 - 09:00 PM

Aaaaaaand…it did.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 22 - 09:47 PM

Did you know that the oath of any office in Kentucky, from Library Trustee to the Governor, includes a section saying that the oath-taker hasn't fought a duel with deadly weapons in Kentucky or anywhere else nor have they acted in any part of a duel, and that as long as they are a citizen of the State they won't do such things? I suppose a musical duel or a flyting or such would be okay.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Aug 22 - 10:35 PM

Did you know that actor Johnny Depp is a native of Kentucky?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Aug 22 - 02:16 PM

Aretha Franklin
Morgan Freeman
Tina Turner
Quentin Tarantino
Miley Cyrus
Kathy Bates
are all from Tennesee

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 02:28 AM

Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Hiram Ulysses Grant, and Abraham Lincoln were, like me, from Illinois.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 06:11 AM

I was born in Illinois but it wasn't in a log cabin. The red mineral poor soil may have an effect on the people raised there in infancy just like Superman.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 09:53 AM

I was born in a little log cabin I built myself. 3100.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 10:04 AM

"When facing questions about the inscrutable ineffable unknown,
you can find the limits of the possible by forcing yourself through a crack into the new impossible. Picking and choosing facts from the past may seem more reliable but it won't change paradigms or discoveries.
However past knowledge sometimes partially 'rhymes' with a new truth.

Once in the realm of the impossible, expect to be wrong most, if not all the time. Not everyone has that kind of humility and imagination but we all have the capacity for invention."
Quote Donuel.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 03:39 PM

My cosmology: is at a point where the concept of inflation continues as the nature of space continues to expand faster (dark energy). Where black holes can wormhole to a different space (what it does then is a mystery but it could spark a new baby universe) and that black holes evaporate from within and without. Where our universe has no big crunch but instead returns to a thinned out quantum nothingness when the universe has no idea how big or small it is and a quantum fluctuation variation can set the nothing back into the process of a big bang expansion of somethingness. The universe at a maximum scale looks the same as neurons and axions or the shape of a growing branching slime mold. Where dark matter is the framework trunk and branches supporting the leaves of visible matter. Most of us now see the universe in a non euclidian geometry with some unknown additional dimensions floating in a sea of uncertainty. I fear I am not smart enough to know about mysteries I am not even aware of. Such as the thoughts of the neuron like universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 22 - 05:21 PM

Congratulations Rap on your presient thread regarding emporer and its appeal. Today QAnon refers to TRUMP as GEOTUS instead of POTUS. Global Emporer of the US. Also today Trump placed full support behind QAnon and their 5% or the 20 million people with AR 15s.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 22 - 09:19 PM

I don’t know anyone with an AR type rifle, including veterans and cops. Personally owned, that is.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 01:06 AM

I would never claim you did. My point is you demonstrated how eager people are to serve an Emporer and have an exalted position for entertainment. A real paid position might have even more appeal.

Whew, it's been 50 years since I first saw a cigar-shaped UFO cross the sky from horizon to horizon in under 3 seconds. I've had only 3 closer encounters since then. A 4th extremely close encounter was of 2 small globes of nebulus light.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 05:18 AM

> 2 small globes of nebulus light

Ball lightning? Evidence is thin on the ground (or in the air, if you insist). I saw something recently which suggested seeing ball lightning may be due to standard lightning strikes* causing currents to flow in certain parts of the brain (the visual cortex iirc). If severely provoked, I'll attempt to track this down again.

* In the observer's vicinity, not striking the observer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 05:26 AM

> Evidence is thin on the ground

.... due to problems with reproducibility.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 01:14 PM

I put my finger on the first nebulous globe (foggy but translucent) and there was no discharge. It did produce ultra sound that made the cat fluff up but for me it was just a slight hiss. They could pass through brick walls without any interaction. At first I made a dimensional incursion explanation but it remains unknown.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 02:22 PM

Static electricity, similar to St. Elmo's Fire. Fire up a Vandegraff generator and put your hand on it -- see if you can get sparks off the fingertips of your free hand.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 05:26 PM

There was zero indications of anything electrical or magnetic.
I do not know what it was but a dimensional incursion theory obeys the parameters and shape of a hypersphere as seen in 3D space.

There is no shortage of witness descriptions going back 12 years

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Sep 22 - 01:55 PM

I'll never see unusual lights during electrical storms around here because I'm too busy looking down to not trip on the dog who insists on sticking right behind me in such weather.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Sep 22 - 02:01 PM

I’m quivering under the bed, which is really a heavy-load Faraday cage. It’s the little one as my hole house is one (protection from the battle rays of the Galactic Overlord’s fleet).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Sep 22 - 02:04 PM

3113 — not Prime, it still cool.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Sep 22 - 06:49 PM

Mom, there are grown men out in the pasture running around, hitting their balls with clubs! They are screaming something about foreplay, but keep swallowing the last half of the word! And it's 96F (35.5556C) out there! I'm enjoying a regular iced tea on the back porch -- or deck -- while watching them hit their balls against trees.

I think they have been too long in the sun.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 22 - 04:45 PM

Seamus thought if he moved out west he could clean his act up.
The problem was that his plan involved meeting up with Damein who just got out of jail for weed and weapons possession and was now couch surfing in a trailer park in Saskatoon. Seamus is in a real catch 23 situation after Damien was caught in a shed fire while cooking meth and went on a crazed stabapalooza. Seamus came back from a Bob Evans and helped put out the fire. He saw Damein on the road and gave him a ride. Damein had lost his memory but Seamus was suspicious by all the blood on Dameins clothes. Authorities have identified two suspects as Damien Sanderson and Seamus Foritall, and are advising the public to take appropriate precautions. The pair are believed to be armed and dangerous and traveling in a black Nissan Rogue with a Saskatchewan license plate 119 MPI.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 01:52 PM

Sand wars coming, as well as Water Wars.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Sep 22 - 07:27 PM

It doesn't take a genus to see how friends with benedicts can shield Trump from the pop secret document storage, so called, sandle. A Trump annoited judge ruled as if he still has electuative privilege.
She ruled a racial master has to review and delay the documints.

PS
I can't stand the grand demand for blood and sand.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Sep 22 - 09:56 AM

PARDON TRUMP!!
Depending on how it is done it would send 2 messages. One would make it clear to the right that Trump would escape a twenty-year prison sentence based on health reasons by a compassionate act of a Democratic President.
Two, it would send a message to the left that those who were willing to lie cheat and insurrect were all harmed by loss of some kind including homes and sanity due to excesses of a creeping oligarchy.

The extreme left of the 1950s to 60's had the basic same complaints as the extreme right of the 60's to today except that the right has a constant 20% white nationalist agenda.

The left was enraged by COINTELPRO and surveillance of the FBI just as the right complains about the FBI today. Clear government lies enraged both extremes. Distrust of justice is shared.

What you begin to realize is that the extreme left and right have switched places in society. One was radical hippie and one is Qanon whacky.

So my idea of a pardon could placate the right and the left extremes as long as the guardrails of law remains intact. You may be correct that it would reinforce the concept of an Imperial Presidency but it is still preferred over a civil war, as laws address the problems of oligarchy and wealth distribution.

Disagree if you like but realize an actual living wage would go a long way to solving our problems and making billionaires/corporations pay taxes.

I take the long view. Do you realize the tax rate for the 'billionaires and millionaires' in the 1950's was 90% !!!???

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Sep 22 - 11:39 PM

Bullshit
Bullshit is like a commercial, you know it is not true but it was made to be salient to you.
Pure bullshit is an oxymoron since actual bullshit is considered dirty. The comparitive task requires a comparison to what you believe is true or clean. Plato's Minos paradox of not knowing p is broken by knowing partial knowledge is still real knowledge. Is partial knowledge then not bullshit?
Is anything illusionary bullshit? Cognition is capable of being an illusion. If there is a scientific reason, we may discover when some bullshit is an untrue illusion or partial knowledge.
Bullshit questions like what is north of the north pole require supposition and are bullshit. Poetry and music also require supposition so are they also bullshit? Music is inside of you and outside of you and occupies a very special illusionary space, but are they bullshit? Is the magic in the mushroom or our brain? Is the particle in superposition or collapsed?
Some bullshit is believed because it is cognitively spread by constant repetition. In a society of an expanding media universe of bullshit, cult gurufication are growing like cancer. Social media is a breeding ground of bullshit. It helps to look at a website and ask if it is causing hate or revealing hate, causing love or revealing love. causing truth or...
In the final analysis, exploring what bullshit is, is both bullshit and meaningful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 22 - 08:01 AM

https://www.cdc.gov/pregnancy/zika/data/index.html#:~:text=In%20the%20U.S.%20states%20and,Zika%20virus%20infection%20during%20pregnancy.
Zika is only a 5% problem for preganancies. But then there is incest and water breaking too soon and other deformaties best not mentioned here. The adoption pool has to be effected by the no exception anti abortion craze. Perhaps orphanages should lower their fees. You know like an open box damaged merchandise sale.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Sep 22 - 06:07 PM

Get back to where you believe belong! Hanging around near the bottom! The very idea!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Sep 22 - 07:37 PM

That article about sand is fascinating, and is something I've never thought about. And when you think about it, recycling concrete back to it's native aggregate if it was as small as sand is pretty much impossible to do. And it's what goes into glass. At least we recycle glass, but . . . whew. You can think in a few non-BS circles on that topic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 22 - 11:30 AM

What next, a sulpher shortage?

The pandemic:

Which one? I asked if opioid addiction was increasing or decreasing.
The number of drug overdose deaths increased by nearly 5% from 2018 to 2019 and has quadrupled since 2019. Over 70% of the 70,630 deaths in 2019 involved an opioid.
Prescription opioids in America use 75% of the world's supply but the US has only 5% of the global population. Purdue has been sued and they had to pay a fine so the slack has been taken up by Chinese Fentanyl. Today there was a report of rainbow-colored Fentanyl and gummy bears containing Fentanyl on MSNBC.
I have not found any recent information on opioid addiction in China. The addiction phenom seems to be a secret affair in the US but not on Craigslist. I suppose too much money is made in addicting and addiction help centers in the coming and going of opiate problems.
The death toll from Covid is about tied with opioid deaths in the US. At this point, I suppose I should add it to the new normal list that is growing longer each day. I do wonder what the percentage of users is in various occupations. My guess is that professional wrestlers still top the list.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Sep 22 - 06:50 PM

Now Mom, get up there and stay there!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 22 - 07:20 PM

As Steve Shaw gloats that he is the paragon of virtue and empathy behind his vale of tears I am banned from the Joke thread which burns my cookies. They were Bill Mahre style original jokes but even Bill can not do shows at college campuses anymore.
more brand new jokes
At the mid term polling place a Trump poll watcher overheard I was a Democrat when I was registering so he shouted "you should vote with your feet" so I kicked him in the balls.

People with abusive personalities should disabuse themselves.

Kidnapping immigrants by embagelment across state lines is not as Jewish as it sounds but it does carry a 20 year minimum sentence.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 09:20 AM

I dropped the ancestor project since the universe doesn't care about my personal narrative. better to recount;
The war against diversity in full swing 20 years ago. eugenic theorists, the proponents of racial hygiene, all of whom help the systematic murder of black kids foremost and the criminalization of 'alien' immigrants. These folks are not semi fascist.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 10:10 AM

In case it isn't obvious to someone, I harbor one standing hatred;

That is for Nazis, semi nazis and the nazi adjacent.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 10:34 AM

While all animals are predators the cannibals of their own species are an aberration. Yet even plants can be predators on other life or past life. The Kreb cycle is a wonderful exception.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 11:27 AM

I've paid my dues Time after time I've done my sentence But committed no crime And bad mistakes I've made a few I've had my share of sand Kicked in my face But I've come through And we mean to go on and on and on and on We are the minions, my friends And we'll keep on fighting till the end We are the minions We are the minions Its time for losers 'Cause we are the minions of the World I've taken my bows And my curtain calls I had five minutes of fame And everything that goes with it I lost it all and it's been no bed of roses No pleasure cruise I consider it a challenge before The human race We're all gonna lose And we mean to go on and on and on and on We are the minions, my friends And we'll keep on fighting till the end We are the minions We are the minions All just for for losers 'Cause we are the minions of the World We are the minions, my friends And we'll keep on fighting till the end We are the minions We are the minions We all are losers 'Cause we are the minions of the World

We are the minions to the one tenth of one percent who are the multi billionaires dedicated to keep expanding their con, scam or crimes. You agreed to the fine print of miniondom but probably never read the user agreement. Rights, freedoms and liberty are not obstacles to the ultimate rich anymore. Rights and freedoms will continue to disappear. Believe me they have improved the George Orwell outlook a million times over. This makes many people angry for the wrong reasons and is easily handled by inducing a fight between the minions and the other colored minions or the other religion minion fights. The red blames the blue and the blue blames the red but they both lose to the system made by the owners of the Banks.

The Minionaire is a gatekeeper for a faceless Big Brother and is inticed by a bit more money than other minions.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 12:02 PM

No BS in the house but on occasion dog droppings - I have an elderly incontinent Lab who when he awakens heads for the door but drops pecan-sized pellets along his path. Or if he's excited and jumping at meal or treat time and hasn't been out to the yard in a while, a pile of them will appear behind him. Poor guy. As long as I keep him on his current diet at least it's an easy matter of rounding them up with a paper towel. No mess otherwise.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 12:03 PM

Maybe if you reference Mahre, so people know where the jokes are coming from?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 12:04 PM

The 'every man for himself culture' historically is good for mafia type business models but not for the minions.

Getting back to a caring social contract culture and a culture of inclusiveness is my goal and hope. I use a highly unique word count and show a focus on lyricism and storytelling. I hope new folk music will lead the way to a better culture as it once did.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 12:46 PM

Politically incorrect jokes, Racial injustice jokes, Religious hypocrisy pedo jokes, jokes that denigrate Trump or Nazis do not fit into Steve's notion of nostalgic jokes or as Americans call them Dad jokes, are the issue. A thread of political or adult humor is a solution to the discord. That a separation of joke threads or trigger warnings are required is reasonable. The cultural divide between Dave Chappel and British humor is wide.

A Mahre type joke is just a political joke.
I have had violent reactions to my humor in real life so I know passions run deep in comedy today.
Cartooning is safer by far.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 01:32 PM

I express ideas others do not want to hear. The news expresses ideas and stories for ratings.

Even the Congress is systematically corrupt since they are elected by MONEY from groups that wish to bribe for their side.

You can look at the Brexit thread and see intelligent people squabble over seemingly important issues but it is mostly foolishness missing the big fundamental point that the biggest check wins. Democracy becomes symbolic only and the country with no written Constitution continues the con.

The pandemic has given people a chance to think for themselves, except for those prone to conspiracy theories. The times are ripe for change.
Unfortunately, the change may be a further destruction of rights and democracy for minions.

We are at multiple tipping points

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 22 - 02:08 PM

Its OK since you were too busy to notice but do you know what ALWAYS followed major deregulation?

A financial crash.

Bailouts then go to those that caused the crash assuring they make money before the crash and after the crash. The minions will pay more dearly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 09:30 PM

Perhaps we should go back to the term "Panic" and "War Department."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 11:31 PM

Its too late when Jews, Catholics, immigrants, undesirable intellectuals, and Blacks lose citizenship and arrests are made of those to be sent to concentration/work/reeducation camps.
Lock them up is just the initial phase.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Sep 22 - 11:33 PM

Red scare won't work today but fear of socialism always works.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 10:31 AM

Seeing what was happening in Germany, Jewish leaders in America had a public meeting at the Astor Hotel in the nineteen thirties. The debate was whether to stay quiet and not further antagonize the anti immigration white Protestants OR to speak out and demonstrate against the human tragedy. While Rabbi Wise spoke heroicly to cry out, we can now see what shutting up allowed to happen.

So as anyone with memory can see I err on the side of speaking out for the last 15 years against the totalitarian might makes right nationalists. That includes protesting Bush and Obama for causing or ignoring fascist policies. Trump was the one that openly supported white nationalism.

OUR IMAGINARY ENEMIES.
In the strangely acclaimed movie Top Gun the enemy is never defined.
They are only referred to as 'the enemy'. Trump made the enemy the illusive Antifa and black looters he vowed to shoot after the George Floyd demonstrations. Trump, Republican politicians and the fascist militias are not imaginary.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 22 - 01:08 PM

Eye candy universe

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Sep 22 - 11:05 AM

Seeing the amount of BS politicians are cranking out for general consumption it's amazing this thread is still around. So much competition! I'm hoping Garland's folks manage to shovel a bunch of it into the compost prison before long.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS FITNESS
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 22 - 03:20 PM

I have put the finishing touches on my Opal masterpiece. It is more exciting and adventurous than a lump of black harlequin opal that sells for 6 figures. My philosophy in art is that the last 1% of effort is the most important part.
I also made a pipe smoking a pipe that needs its bowl and stem drilled.
It is made of a unique branch of Sequoia (redwood). The top of the guy's head hides an invisible hinge and closes on the bowl.
My room is finished except for some carpet tape and the hallway. Its finishing touches week.
3 rooms to go including a bathroom make over.

My ebay offering still sits there awaiting photos.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 21 Sep 22 - 05:12 AM

SRS:

> I'm hoping Garland's folks manage to shovel a bunch of it into the
> compost prison before long.

The council here explicitly tell us to *not* put toxic waste (eg from the rear ends of cats) into our garden-waste bins. Something in it knackers the composting process.

.... Ahhhh: compost *prison*. Nice one. I hereby steal that expression for personal use.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Sep 22 - 10:54 AM

The council is wrong. Dog and cat droppings are just fine in the compost. Not adding them is the result of an Old Wives' Tale regarding the content. Kitchen waste is fine. Meat is a problem because if you don't bury it well enough critters will dig it out and it gets stinky.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Sep 22 - 11:09 AM

Not so much about BS, just noting that Trump and his three oldest kids are in deep shit. That's a risky proposition when compared to just regular BS. It's going to hurt because it's going to cost him money.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Sep 22 - 05:08 PM

Especially Eric. He signed everything without reading it, which may be his best defense come to think of it.

I noticed the other day that Baron is now taller than his father.
Now he looks down on his dad. Donald wears lifts in his shoes, had surgury to hide his bald spot and the orange, pot-bellied, Mussolini-faced Donald is a bitter, foul-tempered misanthrope whose heart is "three sizes too small."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Sep 22 - 08:33 AM

Hi, Mom! Sorry that your fave kid hasn't been in for a couple days, but with classes (taking and preparing to give), medical stuff, the VA, and Pat coming home (she's here!) I've been too busy even to take a nap. Since I only have one thing today (the class on the Arctic) I may be able to raid the fridge more often. Remember, I like black raspberry jelly on the PB&Js!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Sep 22 - 05:53 PM

MOM, let's give Rapparee a break and get you back upstairs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Sep 22 - 08:40 PM

Did you know a blue pumpkin is the icon that represents a child with a nut allergy?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Sep 22 - 07:29 AM

Fresh water

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Sep 22 - 06:36 AM

Current Nuclear sabre rattling hasn't been mentioned till now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Sep 22 - 08:20 PM

Here’s a cheerful song.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 22 - 08:48 PM

Putin is more likely to declare victory and go home, tolerating Ukranian partisans.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 22 - 08:21 AM

Hi Mom! I'm glad you're awake. I completed the duels and didn't get a single scratch (or more). I don't think I'll duel anymore.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 22 - 09:39 PM

Mom, as you know my last post was on my 49th wedding anniversary. We both reupped.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Oct 22 - 10:21 PM

Good for you two, Mike! Happy Anniversary!

MOM is shuffling down to the Legion Hovel to buy you and anyone else a couple of rounds.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Oct 22 - 06:59 AM

The most comprehensive and comprehensible video on astrophysics I have seen in awhile making the complicated simple in the mind's eye

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 22 - 02:31 PM

Well, the class on dueling is over. Four dead, six wounded, and three deloped.   No swordfolk. If you cannot understand astrophysics you cannot be wholly human.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 06:11 PM

My opal structure was declined by Sothebys. It is only worth 10K in opals and they like 6 figures for a celebrity owned anything.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 10:26 PM

Lend it to Kim Kardashian to use in her house for a while, then try again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 22 - 07:17 AM

Dead celebs and dead artists get the big dough. A depiction of an underwater shallow sea is not a big deal. It practically was like a jig saw puzzle. Only the medium was original.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Oct 22 - 06:29 PM

Pictures will be on Etsy.com next week

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Oct 22 - 07:25 AM

I met my neighbor after two years. A major branch fell across the street narrowly missing my neighbor's car. When I checked later some unknown samaritan had dragged it across the street and put it in my yard. Not taking into account that the thing was nearly 400 lbs, I took it back across the street beneath the tree that had broken. I rang the bell and let the neighbor know of the situation and was greeted with "You are a complete stranger to me". I said of course that is because I am your neighbor, he demanded "What is your name"?
It was about then I had a high blood pressure event and could not catch my breath. I replied succinctly I am your neighbor and I can not deal with this branch. "I didn't put it in your yard..." Gasping, Good, I can't deal with it now. "What is your name?" ... Its Neighbor, as I went back across the street to take some aspirin and catch my breath.
So much for gentile introductions, I met the neighbor.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Oct 22 - 09:54 AM

Are you on meds for that blood pressure? That's inconvenient at the very least, but sounds a little dangerous.

We have branches fall on either side of the fence here every couple of years. It's an occasion to look at all of the trees and decide if any of them need attention before they fall.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Oct 22 - 10:14 AM

multiple meds. I did not expect I would compete in a weightlifting event but I can see that I have new limits and should be more cautious.
170 over 80 is higher than I like.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Oct 22 - 10:32 AM

MOM! So much has happened since you've been gone I can't even begin to tell you!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 22 - 04:24 PM

I learned that in an emergency I can drag 400 lbs or a third of a tree.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 22 - 01:12 PM

Elon Musk is playing The Price is Strife and still hopes to control the Troll population.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Oct 22 - 01:25 PM

MOM! I'm taking my ballot to the post office. Here's hoping the butterfly effect begins with this one act.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 07:26 AM

Hmmm. Ever since I tried to single handedly move a huge weight my back pain of a year and a half has gone away. I can feel a locus of the old area saying "i'm here" but it doesn't hurt. Perhaps I realigned something.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 07:37 AM

I get the Elon Musk joke with so many people with their hair on fire but making big money on a single joke is rare even for comedians,
burnt hair

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 22 - 08:38 PM

Well Mom, it looks like my PT and OT at the house (not the Hovel) ends next week. Then I start a new course elsewhere. Gee, the VA is pulling out all the stops so they don't have to increase my benefits enough to make me 100%.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 22 - 08:45 AM

Song for right after Halloween....

It's getting to the point where It's no fun anymore
I am weary
Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud
We are lonely
We've been had, we are mad, we are what we are
Hate makes it har ar ar ar ard

Remember what we've said and done and felt about each other
Thats our hist'ry
Please let the past remind us of what we have become
I am not dreaming
We've been had, we are mad, we are what we are
hate makes it har ar ar ar ard
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Tearing ourselves apart from what we held so dear
And I am crying
This does not mean we don't love each other that's forever
Yes and for always
We've been had, we are mad, we are what we are
Hate makes it hard

Something inside is telling me that Trump stole our secrets
Are you still listening?
Fear is the spear and guns are the mad man's answear
And we hate you
We've been had, we are mad, we are what we are
Trump makes it hard
And he makes it hard
And you make it hard
And we make it hard

Tuesday evening
Wednesday in the afternoon
What we had we have to lose
Thursday morning
Please be gone I'm tired of you
What we had we have to lose
Can I tell it like it is? (Help me I am worried)
We've been had we are mad we are what we are.
Hate makes it har ar ar ar ard

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 22 - 07:09 PM

Roe Roe Roe the vote
changed by the Supremes
verily verily verily verily
things are now extreme

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Oct 22 - 09:47 PM

A round might make a good campaign sing-along song.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 22 - 10:11 AM

Rap, what are the VA folks trying to not claim is 100%? Disability from what?

This from the Elon Musk article:

Burnt Hair will be shipped in the first quarter of 2023, and the 20,000 people who’ve bought it will have to wait till then to figure out what it smells like. If the name is any indication, anyone who’s blow dried or ironed their hair will have a fair idea. So, are we just gullible/starstruck/in love with the smell of burnt hair? Do we want to experience what Musk puts on The Boring Company website, “Just like leaning over a candle at the dinner table, but without all the hard work.” Is it really hard work to put together a candle-lit dinner and lean over it?

It seems the timing for a knockoff of his "burnt hair" scent would be now. Anyone want to brew something out behind the Legion Hovel?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Oct 22 - 08:31 PM

The 80's had the perfume called Poison that was wretched and had the insecticide oderant.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Oct 22 - 09:18 PM

Service connected disabilities. I've fought long and hard to get to 80% -- Type 2 diabetes, mental stuff, peripheral neuropathy in both feet, CVA, tinnitus. They are fighting the after-effects of stroke and hypertension due to Agent Orange ("The Gift That Keeps On Giving"). You see, the VBA (Veterans Benefits Administration) doesn't talk with the VHA (Veterans Health Administration). It is said that every morning the workers in the VBA get into a huddle, they all grasp each others' hand, stand up straight and shout their warcry, "Deny! Deny! Deny Until They Die!" This finishes with a cheer and they dash off to their "DENIED!" stamps.

You see, my disabilities taken singly and added total 140 percent. But because of the way disabilities are figured I need another 40 percent. For example, if you have a leg blown off by a land mine, you're considered 40% disabled. Losing both would make you 60% disabled. I have no idea how this rating schedule was determined, but I doubt that it was done by double amputees and it's been in place for a very long time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 11:26 AM

Ya know Rap, I had a CVA event in my late twenties. I heard it pop. Diabetes 2 at 60 with the typical foot neuropathy, tinnitus since my teens due to gunpowder, and PTSD from a schoolyard fight that fractured my skull. I didn't mention migraine, severed nerves etc.

These are dented fenders anyone can get!
I have never claimed a disability. If I had shrapnel from war or long-term PTSD it would be a different story.

Fighting for medical assistance is valiant! But you might be virtually trained and accustomed or addicted to 'disability status.
You are clearly doing something right. Considering the alternatives you have much to be thankful for.
How well you heal/adjust might just be a matter of genes (or the right magic foods). I might look 20 years younger than my age but that was from avoiding the sun or plain damn luck.

If agent orange had done its worst I'm betting you would not be here.
Face it buddy you are made of stronger stuff.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 05:12 PM

Currently, I am taking Metlifeformin, Fukitol, and Triopinum with new adult-proof cap.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 05:55 PM

Unlike my cousin Jim, I was exposed to things like AO residue in the water and on dust clouds. Jim was sprayed with the stuff. I have problems but Jim is dead of ALS (other things as well). Or my friend Bob, dead of AO induced cancer. Or my little brother, dead of AO-caused heart problems. I shan’t go on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 22 - 06:17 PM

In one advanced secret technology regarding energy and propulsion there is a side effect in a small discharge misadventure of a space-time cavitation* which is not fatal but merely disorienting. We may be able to use some of these strange techs decades before we discover why they work.

WSFM (weird science and fuckin magic) is the term the CIA uses to describe the most exotic technologies that are kept secret.

Dr. Greer says "All can look and see over 5,000 non military patents that are expunged due to national security".
Be it the secret dynamic credo of the CIA or venture capitalists who want secrecy to stifle competition, we will drown together from secrecy instead of the open source strategy for advancement.

* it feels like a time jump to our brains.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 03:39 PM

Rap, location, location, location and timing is everything.

I wonder, was Amos near/downstream from Camp LaJeune?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 04:36 PM

Items in our warehouse 13 for 100 years: Tesla's contribution

The Galactic overlords are on their august vacation https://exonews.org/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 22 - 09:26 PM

Uphill from LeJuene and more than a few miles inland.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 22 - 07:47 AM

It may be worthwhile for the family to contact lawyers to see if proximity will qualify for the Federal relief billions. Afterall toxic spills do not stop at camp boundaries.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 22 - 07:58 AM

From 1953 through 1987, people living or working at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, were potentially exposed to contaminated drinking water. Contaminants including PCE (perchloroethylene), TCE (trichloroethylene), Benzene and Vinyl Chloride were found by the Federal Government to exceed the EPA’s maximum contamination levels by hundreds of times.

Exposure to these chemicals has been linked to severe illness and cancer, including:

Bladder Cancer      
Birth Defects
Kidney Cancer
Kidney Disease
Leukemia
Liver Cancer

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 22 - 02:21 PM

Amos moved to Hillsborough, NC, which is near Durham. It is a straight-line distance of 138.08 miles (east northeast) from there to Camp Lejeune. Hillsborough is 545 feet above sea leval, Camp Lejeune is 33 feet above sea level. If Amos was poisoned by military water pollution it's more likely it was done when his lived in San Diego.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 10:04 AM

Nowadays
When the breathin' is wheezy
Now folks are coughin'
And the fever is high
Oh, your daddy's rich
And your ma' is good lookin'
So hush
Little baby
Don't you cry
One of these mornings
You're gonna wake up wheezing
Yes, you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky
But with some vaccines
There's nothin' can harm you
Yes with Doctors and Nurses
Standing by

In the past
Oh the breathin' was easy
Now folks are coughin'
And the fever is high
Oh, your daddy's poor
And your stepmom's not adored
So hush
Little Baby
Don't you cry
One of these mornings
You're gonna wake up wheezing
Yes, you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky
But with some vaccines
The big three won't harm you
If there's Doctors and Nurses
Standing by

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 09:00 PM

I lived on Normal Avenue because it was between 12th and 14th street. I have thought that the concept of normal is ephemeral, indistinct, and illusionary. There is no normal. Look outside on a sunny day; the trees are telling the truth, but we can't see why.

Why? Because our sun is green. I mean it is really GREEN. Most of its photons are vibrating green. We do not see it due to the atmosphere, light combination, and our eye's anatomy and brain. The trees are protecting themselves from the most prevalent radiation of the sun by reflecting green.
Botanists used to say green was not a nourishing spectrum for plants but it is a lame notion. When all the spectrum of light combines we do see a white sun and not just a predominately green sun.

People would say it is normal to say the sky is blue but crazy to say the sun is green. But green it is big time, technically.

It's just not 'normal' for our eyes to tell the truth. We are blind to the vast majority of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. We do however see more variations of the color green than any other color by far.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 09:08 PM

Who knows, maybe chlorophyll on another planet around a different sun is a different color like blue or red.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 22 - 07:25 AM

Let Saudi Arabia conspire with Russia. We are poised to be able to break up the OPEC alliance by using alternative methanol fuels of higher octane but lower energy value. Yes, we would require a revamp of vehicles easily. While the Saudis play politics we can lower demand and starve their profit margin. America can save Europe from the denial of Russian oil with natural gas. Sure this plan will have many moving parts but we can cut the Saudis off at the knees, like they did to
Jamal Khashoggi. More electric cars will help as well.
Russia should have been more careful what they wished for, (Like another Trump win)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 22 - 07:27 AM

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3684988-how-to-break-the-opec-cartel/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 10:33 AM

A trillionth of a second or relativity at work???????????

I have for twenty years believed that the idea of inflation after the big bang was BS.

The ULTRA DENSE quantum explosion/phase change was hot but was unimaginably dense. If relativity existed from the beginning the mass/pre atoms then gravity would virtually not allow time to move just as time slows to a stop in a black hole.

The big bang doesn't need hypothetical inflation since to us it only looks like everything happened faster than possible. In reality, time was simply not moving. As things thinned out enough, time slowly started back up. Cosmological errors are common as guesswork goes but this correction is as simple as I can put it.

This is my main unorthodox premise, other things like black holes wormhole mass energy into space energy, and feeding the dark energy of space expansion is also my idea that is yet unprovable.

So if relativity existed from the start of the big bang then we don't have to make up inflation to explain the optical illusion. I am also a proponent of primordial black holes.

This is my central cosmological contribution no matter how unknown it may remain in the future. It just seems so obvious to me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 12:49 PM

The Big Bang is getting a bit of a re-check with the launch of the new telescope, isn't it?

With so little activity (missing Amos every day!) and the old MOAB gone I fear we have dropped way down in our numbers. This should actually show 59138 + 3195 (with this post) or 62,333 posts.

How's everything going in Idaho, Rap? Winter arriving yet? Are the golfers using their orange balls on the golf course behind the house?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 05:02 PM

Irrespective of philosophical perspectives, the vast majority of physicists and astronomers have followed the evidence to its logical conclusion: the universe had a beginning; there was a Big Bang. Certainly, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed nothing to overturn this consensus or the considerable body of evidence supporting it.
What came before was a quantum sea of potentials. Someday as space stretches out to virtual nothingness it will be a quantum sea again.
This suggests a universe capable of rebounding but not from collapse, but from expansion. Dr. Penrose (as clever as Einstein) has said
"the universe has no way to know how big or small it is".
This is a key to understanding how the size of a mustard seed can become everything. Penrose also won a Nobel Prize for showing how black holes can transmute matter energy into space energy. We are still in the dark ages of turning matter into energy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 05:13 PM

The reason for the acceleration of the universe is due to the growing number of black holes that can literally generate space.

Sorry but I have NO fuggin clue as to the composition of dark matter except it may be the residue from the matter anti matter annihilation.
Spinless chargeless something? There is still hope for the large hadron collider to give us a clue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 09:03 PM

Got the first snow that stuck today. Melted quickly as the ground is still warm. About a half inch in the yard, and all the greens were whites. Didn't see any golfers playing.

They also us bright yellow and lime green balls year 'round these days. Makes 'em easier to see, I guess.

Amos and I once fought a duel.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 07:10 AM

Halley's comet dust

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Oct 22 - 10:40 PM

Amos got to see the bullet galaxy reveal the behavior of dark matter.

We have not progressed much in that mystery since then. There are clues that dark matter's mass to gravity ratio is different than visible matter. If anything the mystery is magnified.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 07:19 AM

Stilly should send a resume as an expert moderator to Elon Musk and run twitter. Collect your letters of recommendation. We can all say we knew her when.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 22 - 07:30 AM

My Taiwanese friend invited me to a costume party so I went as a American Indian. When I got there I realized that he called the party awesome not costume.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Oct 22 - 03:37 PM

Okay, MOM, I better hoist you upstairs
before Rapparee has fifteen fits about it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 12:01 AM

The DuckDog probably spilled the beans to the observatory folks.

QUARK!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 10:00 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 10:01 AM

Only China has the largest radio telescope ever built now.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 10:05 AM

Spilled the BEANS? That Duck Dog destroyed the observatory while looking for a fire hydrant! The evidence was all over the place, but was suppressed by the International Astronomical Cabal (IAC)! The IAC claimed it was not to "frighten the hoi-poloi (??? p????)" and thereby prevent "more anti-astronomical riots" that "threaten the basis of astrolo [sic] astronomy." The move was backed by the Flat Earth Society, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Knights Templar, the Bohemnian Club, the Edinburgh Phrenological Society, the Thule Society, Kepler College,   Pentawater, Inc., and Friends of Dianetics among others.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 12:55 PM

That sounds like a cover up conspiracy theory of the actual covert Elon Musk 'operation destruction' funded by China.
Don't forget CBS for bashing the US with its Threat to America documentary which was obviously Chinese interference again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 06:26 PM

Zip ties and hammers and duck tape and bear spray
cell phones with cameras and flag spears to make way
faces of anger that wanted to lynch
they did not give the cops even an inch

When the guards came
six hours later
then the crowd
dispersed   

I simply remember these terrorist things
And then I relive the curse

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 09:25 PM

From September, 2015:

"So now we have Gluon the Duck Dog and Boson the Aardwolf. So the MOAB seems to have given birth to a totally new branch of science called Quantam Chromozoology."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 09:44 PM

They do speculate
on chromatic bosons.
My take is that there are 8
what they do or don't
I guess I don't know.
Thats my fate

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 02:06 PM

NOTHING VS. SOMETHING

Mysteries share an absence of salient facts.
Our greatest discoveries have initially come from guesswork.
Guessing is the obvious path for reasoning to proceed in the absence of facts.
What is missing, sometimes is a clue to guess effectively.
Many mysteries seem solved by spinning nothing but the missing facts.
You can even drown a mystery in facts and still be substantially wrong.
Therefore solving mysteries shares guesswork from 'nothing' as much as indisputable facts, if not more.
If this is true, truth is just a biased ego construct. Something like truth faces obstacles like impermanence and entropy so it surprises me that truth exists at all. Trust is only a belief in truth.

So it seems reasonable that everything was created from nothing as in the big bang since nothing has the apparent advantage of nothing.
Besides, physicists say something is composed of mostly empty space.

Footnote and source: from the fractal imagination of Donuel who can not source and footnote everything in the universe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 01:24 AM

And now, this!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 07:33 AM

I love nano tubes, particularly the ones in our brain.

That news gets us closer to the all powerful fictionite that could make elevator cables to orbit instead of rockets.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 09:53 AM

It's a favorite axion of mine that some folks have burned out all of their nanotubes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 22 - 02:37 PM

People seem like they have their chips together but they are all corrupted.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 07:26 AM

Two galaxies holding hands

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 09:35 AM

alien garden gnome kinetic sculpture

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 10:19 AM

MOM, rise and shine! You have to run out to the curb with the trash before the truck gets here, I can hear it up the block! (She didn't take it out last night because coyotes would spread it all around.) You can wear your bathrobe, no one is going to worry about a woman of a certain age out there dressed that way. It's part of the invisibility of middle age and beyond. An under-appreciated superpower.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 12:41 PM

Are you central or mountain time?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 05:16 PM

I don't remember but
On the first day of my life
I was blinded by silver nitrite.
On my first day in the sandbox
a boy threw sand in my eyes
Things were black and white for days

On the first day on the beach
My dad was taken by a rip tide.
First times make me want to hide
But there is no where to run
So I just try and make them fun
Since first times were so bleak

like on the school bus I was told
"You are sitting in the wrong seat"
for that I got a skull fracture
and the doctor reversed the X rays
All on a Friday the 13th
I think I was blind to the future

But now I know how things go
And so I thought I'd let you know
that my first times are better than ever.
I simply look into the future
As if firsts already happened
better than I imagined.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 06:39 PM

There was a row in Silver Street that’s near to Dublin Quay,
Between an Irish regiment an’ English cavalree;
It started at Revelly an’ it lasted on till dark:
The first man dropped at Harrison’s, the last forninst the Park.
       For it was:—“Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s one for you!”
       An’ it was “Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!”
       O buckle an’ tongue
       Was the song that we sung
       From Harrison’s down to the Park!
There was a row in Silver Street—the regiments was out,
They called us “Delhi Rebels”, an’ we answered “Threes about!”
That drew them like a hornet’s nest—we met them good an’ large,
The English at the double an’ the Irish at the charge.
       For it was:—“Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s one for you!”
       An’ it was “Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!”
       O buckle an’ tongue
       Was the song that we sung
       From Harrison’s down to the Park!
There was a row in Silver Street—an’ I was in it too;
We passed the time o’ day, an’ then the belts went whirraru!
I misremember what occurred, but subsequint the storm
A reeman’Fs Journal Supplemint was all my uniform.
       For it was:—“Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s one for you!”
       An’ it was “Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!”
       O buckle an’ tongue
       Was the song that we sung
       From Harrison’s down to the Park!
There was a row in Silver Street—they sent the Polis there,
The English were too drunk to know, the Irish didn’t care;
But when they grew impertinint we simultaneous rose,
Till half o’ them was Liffey mud an’ half was tatthered clo’es.
       For it was:—“Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s one for you!”
       An’ it was “Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!”
       O buckle an’ tongue
       Was the song that we sung
       From Harrison’s down to the Park!
There was a row in Silver Street—it might ha’ raged till now,
But some one drew his side-arm clear, an’ nobody knew how;
’Twas Hogan took the point an’ dropped; we saw the red blood run:
An’ so we all was murderers that started out in fun.
       For it was:—“Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s one for you!”
       An’ it was “Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!”
       O buckle an’ tongue
       Was the song that we sung
       From Harrison’s down to the Park!
There was a row in Silver Street—but that put down the shine,
Wid each man whisperin’ to his next: “’Twas never work o’ mine!”
We went away like beaten dogs, an’ down the street we bore him,
The poor dumb corpse that couldn’t tell the bhoys were sorry for him.
       For it was:—“Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s one for you!”
       An’ it was “Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!”
       O buckle an’ tongue
       Was the song that we sung
       From Harrison’s down to the Park!
There was a row in Silver Street—it isn’t over yet,
For half of us are under guard wid punishments to get;
’Tis all a merricle to me as in the Clink I lie:
There was a row in Silver Street—begod, I wonder why!
       But it was:—“Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s one for you!”
       An’ it was “Belts, belts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!”
       O buckle an’ tongue
       Was the song that we sung
       From Harrison’s down to the Park!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 22 - 12:25 PM

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgment-day

And sat upright. While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds:
The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,
The worms drew back into the mounds,

The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No;
It’s gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be:

“All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christés sake
Than you who are helpless in such matters.

“That this is not the judgment-hour
For some of them’s a blessed thing,
For if it were they’d have to scour
Hell’s floor for so much threatening....

“Ha, ha. It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need).”

So down we lay again. “I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,”
Said one, “than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!”

And many a skeleton shook his head.
“Instead of preaching forty year,”
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
“I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.”

Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Nov 22 - 04:22 PM

With only a prophetic warning

Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,

And men forgot their passions in the dread

Of this their desolation; and all hearts

Were chill’d into a selfish prayer for light:

And they did live by watchfires—and tv's,

The palaces of crowned kings—the huts,

The habitations of all things which dwell,

Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum’d,

And men were gather’d round their blazing homes

To look once more into each other’s face;

Each blamed the other to their face of course

Like the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:

A fearful hope was all the world contain’d;

Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour

They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks

Extinguish’d with a crash—and all was black.

The brows of men by the despairing light

Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits

The flashes fell upon them; some lay down

And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest

Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil’d;

And others hurried to and fro, and fed

Their funeral piles with fuel, and look’d up

With mad disquietude on the dull sky,

The pall of a past world; and then again

With curses cast them down upon the dust,

And gnash’d their teeth and howl’d: the wild birds shriek’d

And, terrified, did flutter on the ground,

And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes

Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawl’d

And twin’d themselves among the multitude,

Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food.

And War, which for a moment was no more,

Did glut himself again: a meal was bought

With blood, and each sate sullenly apart

Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;

All earth was but one thought—and that was death

Immediate and inglorious; and the pang

Of famine fed upon all entrails—men

Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;

The meagre by the meagre were devour’d,

Even dogs assail’d their masters, all save one,

And he was faithful to a corpse, and kept

The birds and beasts and famish’d men at bay,

Till hunger claimed him, and the thirst fried him

From hisdry jaws he sought out no food,

But with a piteous and perpetual moan,

And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand

Which answer’d not with a caress—he died.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Nov 22 - 06:42 PM

Rap you got 3223

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 22 - 09:38 PM

Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Nov 22 - 11:34 PM

Thomas Hardy lived to 1928. I always read his work like he was trapped in the Victorian era. Good to know. (I was reading one of his novels when I was visiting my very elderly great aunt - when she asked about my book and I answered she asked "he's that British author?" in a way like she was talking about a contemporary. I guess she was - born in about 1885.)

#NotBS

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 06:39 AM

I was 9 when the last civil war veteran died. One grandpa was in the Oklahoma land rush, another was a WW1 pilot and another was an illustrator for the Sears catalog. One is unknown.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 10:56 AM

I found Hardy's stuff pretty much too depressing to continue reading. His poetry is better. At least, in my opinion. Mind you, I once got in trouble with my undergraduate advisor by remarking that Samuel Clemens was probably the greatest writer America has ever produced -- forgetting he'd done his dissertation on Walt Whitman*.

*He was named for his father, but no one ever called him "the junior Whitman" or "Walter" (except perhaps his mother when he was in trouble), or "Junior" or "Junie" or even "Walter Whitman the Younger."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 10:57 AM

He was, as far as my research has shown, never called "Wally."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Nov 22 - 09:32 PM

I'm doing business with Indonesia now selling miniature landscapes made of volcanic glass and rendered and polished by a genius. The volcanic glass could be from a number of Timor eruptions including Krakatoa. They are as were when they first cooled hundreds of years ago. Some look like a photograph of trees, sky, clouds and meadows. I just mat and frame them for America. The polisher calls them moss jasper.

Here is one I call The Red Wave. (they are small) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1119305727/scenic-java-moss-agate-emerald-cut-gifts?click_key=ade4fdbdc99d88607d44dcbc5956922478284

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 05:49 AM

The forest, meadow and sky are fractal as well as the volcanic debris so its only natural they appear similar.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 02:16 PM

National security is a brittle excuse and remnant of the cold war that has dug so deep a hole of lying for so long that we are at the cusp of having to admit a shitload of information if only to save us from a global warming demise.
While embarrassing we all would understand especially after seeing the effect of the big lie. The biggest lie will be cut down to size. The Vatican is ready to be on board as well. I don't know about other religions.
The cowardly fear of a handful of individuals is about the only thing we have to overcome. It's time to wake up to what is being concealed.
Only a full and open accounting will advance a new renaissance.

An open AND INFORMED MIND is all we have when encountering a friend or foe who has the ability to change or manipulate our perception. With that power all bets are off that we can gain an upper hand or understanding.

Even if the 'overlords' exist and operate in their own best interests and our own, they are not infallible.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 02:59 PM

Safire is the tip of the iceburg.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 22 - 04:23 PM

When Einstein worked on his equation to determine gravity in a curved space (not the e=mc2 equation) he got stuck without a computer but a colleague Schartzfield solved his equation. Neither of them knew what they came up with since a value of 0 led to an infinity. They had a description of gravity in the formation of black holes.

Today we have another equation that goes beyond energy and mass and deals with time and space and we don't know what is in front of us.
If we did we would know that a time stream runs differently in different dimensions.

If we did we would have a better insight into the mystery of UAP phenomenon. This technology has other aspects that would confound the foundation of our current society. As I have said before there would no way to "lock something away". You could just reach in and take from a direction you can not point to. But other forms of this new technology would be a saving grace and not just weapon speculation by the pentagon.
Taking that leap of faith is all that is required. Surprise- pioneers have already become lost in time. They took that leap and did not know how to navigate. Those who have mastered the field of time are trying to warn us of the use of nuclear weapons which is only half the knowledge that an advanced race can learn. We are the half wits.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 04:27 PM

Come along, MOM,
let's get you back upstairs
before your "favorite" has fifteen fits about your falling down the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 09:37 PM

I am far more concerned that Mom will fall down the stairs again. Fortunately, when she has done so she's so limp that she isn't hurt. I remember when she was laying in the gutter street on the sidewalk napping when a truck ran over her. The truck's tires opened her brooch and the pin punctured the curbside front tire. The resulting release of air blew the truck clear across the street. Mom awakened, shook her old gray locks, and shouted "Quark! Quark!" and called that duckdog to make the truck disappear, which happened. Mom wasn't injured because she'd been plenty limp after spending several hours in Sadie's Saloon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Nov 22 - 10:47 AM

My whoppers may not be yours or Mom's favorite but they are my favs.

Owing to climate change this year's Iditarod is opening the field to include plasma sleds.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 12:57 AM

It was the winter of ‘67, yes the winter of the Big Snow. That ignores the ice and cold, as usual, but rest assured that there was plenty of both to go around.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 09:01 AM

The wooly worm legend is proving correct this year.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 22 - 01:02 PM

Muddy had returned from herding the cattle down to the winter pastures. He told a story of cougars and wolves and bears and all the other dangers he'd faced.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 22 - 09:36 PM

MOM! Tomorrow I'm off to Indiana prior to departing for Europe on the 29. I'm going to be peeling the Rind River, but I'll check in when I can to be sure you're being taken care of correctly. In the meantime you have a happy Thanksgiving and remember not to soak the turkey in methylated spirits again this year. I don't care what Big Jim Ugly told you, methylated spirits are NOT the same as cognac, so don't drink it unless you want your stomach pumped again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Nov 22 - 07:34 AM

Don't get grounded, The Rhine is at historic lows.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Nov 22 - 07:41 AM

The gunman was taken down by the heroic patrons
Five were dead and dozens wounded by the crazy Satan
pulled down by his armor and beaten until he was still
Heros ended hell but red politicians had not the will
to grab the AR from the killer's twitching hands
It took patron heroes is easy to understand
The crowd outside soon gathered and the ambulances came
To carry off the bodies of the pawns lost in the game
Some stared in hatred, and others turned in pain
But everyone wished they could feel safe again
The veteran is now a hero but his daughter's friend was dead
We revisit these scenes every week and never get ahead
Some blame the rhetoric and
others blame the heretic.
chorus:
We want some heroes to make sense
and come to our defense
Every year we fall farther behind
as the blind are shooting the blind
It is time to open your eyes
and end the cries that deny.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Nov 22 - 05:40 AM

Last night another local Walmart mass shooting killed more than Club Q.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Nov 22 - 01:30 AM

We'll be careful with the poultry and you be careful with the salmonella and E. coli, etc. Have a good trip!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 10:59 AM

Sounds like the whole world is focused on the World Cup, so they probably won't be paying too much attention when Raparree slips into the country with the boat for that river tour. Lucky timing!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 11:52 AM

Yes, and I like waterborne infiltration better than high-altitude   low-opening (HALO) parachute jumps. Bailing out at 30,000 feet and pulling the handle at 50 is hard on the arches!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 11:54 AM

> Sounds like the whole world is focused on the World Cup

Oh No We Isn't !!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 03:18 PM

I have a shop name "painted by god" for my gem opal or volcanic glass stones that are free-standing, framed, or on pedestals. They resemble land and seascape photos. I have a dozen works completed now. Several odd pieces are cats, fish, and people.

Whole polished stones make for very expensive 'paint'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 06:32 PM

Yes, they do. I have purchased opals in the past. Fire opals just ain’t cheap!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 06:06 AM

A small plane crashed into a high voltage tower and knocked out power for our county. The people in the plane are OK.
It was a nice change of pace.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 22 - 09:23 AM

Mom, at 6:25 this evening I’m on my way to Amsterdam and then down the Rhine drinking wine without a whine and I’ll shine and make you even prouder of me, your favorite kid. I’ll be checking in and not from a cop shop.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 22 - 11:01 AM

Should I OVERSELL or undersell this painting? :

OPAL OCEAN. Over 5lbs. (2kg.) of resplendent opals depict a serene shallow sea with an explosion of seabed life for opal lovers. There are over 200 treasured colorful precious, common, and gem opals. The opals are polished, carved, or raw, artfully displaying a feast of opal variations brilliantly on every surface of this masterpiece. Shelf sized - 13x7x6.5 inches. There are adventures in a fractal fantasy micro world of natural opal. Other materials include steel epoxy, E 6000, island foliage, and a cat whisker. Twenty-five years in the designing and millions of years in the creation there are 22 African opals added recently but no doublets or triplets. There is also one suspected simulant opal and one Indonesian scenic stone of volcanic glass. This collection includes a magnifying glass with lights to highlight the play of fire instead of rolling the stones with butterfingers.
The pedestal is made of Australian boulder opal slabs and the shallow blue-green sea and dolphins are of Peruvian origin. Hidden details may take years to discover. The artist considers this the 9th symphony in opal. Many   Australian miners, carvers, and polishers contributed to this artwork, each bringing life to these vintage living stones containing 6% water. The opals are assembled into a world ranging from the monstrous to the sublime. To my knowledge, something like this has never existed before. There is room for your favorites to be added on the rear vertical rock wall. Sorry, there is no room to describe each of the 200+ opals. Please magnify pictures although not all opals can be photographed. With no provenance/history, this 'new' artwork was rejected sight unseen by Sotheby's. Their loss may be your gain.


==========OR==========

This dust catcher is made of very old sand that shines or makes strange patterns. Be the first on your block to buy this whatchamacallit.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Nov 22 - 03:32 PM

What does Cologne smell like?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 09:10 AM

.... can't .... resist ....

> What does Cologne smell like?

Depends how far upwind of the Rhine you are.

.... or if you mean Eau de Cologne: "a mix of citrus oils", plus other optional ingredients (possibly including tobacco), according to Dr Wikipedia.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 05:40 PM

Mom, your Favorite is back from his Yourropeen adventure! We arrived in Salt Lake City a few hours ago and started the car. The engine responded with a roar because some undescribable without getting my mouth washed out with lye soap had stolen the catalytic converter! So we are another night on the road.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 22 - 08:28 PM

Back home again from Indiana…Now launder the dirty clothes…Car to the shop, got a little food in the house, must get the snowblower going as we came back to about 8 inches of Angelic Dandruff.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 22 - 11:37 AM

You want to swing by to pick up some laundry here at my house also? I took a dog in to have a surgical drain removed this morning and she expressed her anal sacs on the vet and peed on the rest of us. Lots to wash.

Light a candle for our friend Alice from next door in Montana. She died on the 10th.

Anyone seen Donuel around?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 22 - 07:57 PM

I heard about Alice, and I am truly sorry about her passing. I, on the other hand, just looked at my health record and my inoculations record shows clearly that I have a flu shot on October 9, 3021. Perhaps, however, Gluon has been up to mischief again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 22 - 11:43 PM

What can we say but that we're pleased - you're covered for the next thousand years!

Losing Alice is particularly poignant - so much potential unrealized in that multi-talented woman. Damn that piece of concrete she fell on.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 12:04 PM

I am still surprised by my intuition regarding a growth of black holes and by weird quantum ability to create more s0ace out of energy and time. When Dirac published his famous equation he wrote of the next discovery that was needed. It was Richard Feynman who answered that call. I am trying to answer the mystery of the dark energy and the expansion acceleration problem. The Web telescope will answer half ofy idea. In short I am still around

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 11:29 PM

Now that there is only one species of mankind it's greatest disgrace Is the myth of the master race.
The powerful blood in the vein of a Spartacus or an Eisenhower who fought the dictator may win or lose the war but the love of freedom is immortal.

With a bit more wisdom and empathy the good will to men and women will be a reality.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 08:09 PM

Mom! While I was driving today the thermometer in the car registered a temperature drop of 35° in 13 minutes! Yes! It was 40° when I left the garage and it dropped to 5° and eventually to 4°! Meanwhile the skies were blue and sunny.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 22 - 08:33 PM

We're pretty close to that temperature here in North Texas. It started out at 43 degrees when I got up this morning and just went downhill from there. It's under 10^o now. It's so cold that the next door neighbor and I agreed that the dogs won't be out in the yard waiting at the fence to get their morning treat. We'll do something later in the day - maybe. It's a ritual that the dogs love, rain or shine.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 05:56 PM

I googled sri Lanka Stargate for fun. Enjoy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 09:00 PM

I was hangin' 'round town just a-wastin' my time,
Nothin' to spend, not even a dime
When a feller steps up and he says, "I suppose
You're a gunslingin’ man by the looks of your clothes."
"You guessed me right, and a good one," I claim,
"Do you happen to have any gunslingers to tame?"
He says, "I've got one and a bad one at that;
You kin see he’s a bad one cuz he wears a black hat."

I gets all excited and I ask what he pays
To gunsling for him for a couple of days.
He offers me ten, I says, "I'm your man,
For there’s no gun ever made that I couldn't fan;
He says, "Get your saddle, ya big old Walloon.”
We gets into his buckboard and rode to the saloon.

Well, standin’ outside and him all alone,
Was an ugly old fella named Blueberry Scone.
His legs were splayed and he had pigeon toes,
Little pig eyes and a big Roman nose.
His ears were all pierced from the top to the tip,
And six forty-fives a-ridin’ his hips,
He's ugly and old, and he swallers his chaw,
You can see with one eye he's a reg'lar outlaw.

Well I puts on my guns and likewise my boots,
And I says, “Hey, Blueberry, you’re an ugly galoot!”
I knew him on sight, I’d dealt with him before,
I was powerful glad for my twin forty-fours,
Likewise my forty-fives, and my small twenty-two,
Three derringer guns, and my old thirty-two,
And the folks they all scattered to left and to right
Cuz no one in their right mind likes any gun fight.

He went for for his guns without even “My Lands!”
And before you could spit he had two in his hands
He hits me in hat and right near my left boot
While I was a-standin’ there countin’ my loot
But I slaps my leather while watchin’ my step
For I'm still determined on buildin' a rep.
I puts one in his shoulder and one in the groin,
Yes, I’m slappin’ leather and feelin’ just fine.

Well, I dodge to the right and I dodge to the left
Cuz I don’t want to leave all my kinfolk bereft.
I wheel and I turn and he does the same,
We both know the rules of the gunslingin’ game
Then he runs out of guns to grab and to throw
But I’ve still got one and it’s then that he knows
That at this gun flingin’ he’s sure met his match
And I throws it just like we’re some kids playin’ catch.

Well, I’ve known many gun flingers though out my life,
Some of ‘em single and some with a wife,
But Blueberry Scone he was one of the best
He’d grab and he’d throw and outdo the rest,
But one thing I’ve learned as I’ve lived my long life
I can out-throw anyone with my Colt forty-five!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 09:38 PM

My favorite version performed by Ed McCurdy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 22 - 07:45 AM

Physics porn;
C Hybrid quantum systems in the ultrastrong, and even more in the deep-strong, coupling regimes can exhibit exotic physical phenomena and promise new applications in quantum technologies. In these nonperturbative regimes, a qubit--resonator system has an entangled quantum vacuum with a nonzero average photon number in the resonator, where the photons are virtual and cannot be directly detected. The vacuum field, however, is able to induce the symmetry breaking of a dispersively coupled probe qubit. We experimentally observe this Higgs-like quantum-vacuum symmetry breaking induced by the field of a lumped-element superconducting resonator deep-strongly coupled with a flux qubit. This result opens a way to experimentally explore the novel quantum-vacuum effects emerging in the deep-strong coupling regime.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Dec 22 - 08:37 AM

Do virtual photons suppose the existence of non-virtual darkons?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 01:43 AM

I'm letting go of my dark matter origin theory of the solid debris from the matter-antimatter annihilation. Now I don't think most of the M and anti M did not even annihilate. The anti matter flows into the past while our matter goes to our future in a symmetrical fashion.

All I know about dark matter is that it is gravitational in globular nonsymmetrical ways, DOES NOT INTERACT WITH MATTER AND DOES NOT TRANSMIT OR REFLECT LIGHT.

IS IT RACIST TO SPECULATE ABOUT DARK MATTER?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 22 - 06:28 AM

GOOD NEWS FOR ASS HOLES

https://www.mskcc.org/news/rectal-cancer-disappears-after-experimental-use-immunotherapy

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 02:03 PM

We shall not go out and party on New Years Eve. We shall instead spend the time in prayer and make the obligatory pilgrimage to the Legion Hovel, where more devotional exercises will be held.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 02:58 PM

devotion may consist of elbow bending, neck tilting and swallowing exercises.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 22 - 05:22 PM

The Bank of England has warned that the U.K. is facing its longest recession since records began a century ago. LONDON — The U.K. economy contracted by 0.2% in the third quarter of 2022, signaling what could be the start of a long recession.Nov 11, 2022


I have the answer. With the lowest currency rate they could turn their entire country into a theme park for all the other richer countries in Europe and America. We already have London Bridge. The English natives could dance for us and their Parlament could put on shows for the kids.
Rides in the Queen's golden carriage would be ace.

When her Majesty was crowned, England was a global Empire and now is on par with Slovenia but I'm not saying she is responsible. I'm sure the usual suspects have an answer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 31 Dec 22 - 06:19 AM

> they could turn their entire country into a theme park

We already have. Much to my confusion and distress, hospitality is now said to be our leading industry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 22 - 03:55 PM

The self-centered universe.
In this suburb of a largish galaxy in an area adjacent to a visible horizon where most of the universe is beyond our visible horizon and they in turn can not see beyond theirs, here on Earth I witnessed self-centeredness in a nutshell today.
A woman coming out of the post office walked excruciatingly slowly across a lane in the parking lot. Owing to the miracle of consciousness a pickup truck stopped to avoid hitting her without her apparent awareness. The pickup truck crept forward as she got in her car and backed up narrowly missing the truck.The truck stopped again as another car ahead of him backed out which prompted the lady behind the truck to honk over and over for not moving. Gradually the car backed out and proceeded forward as the lady still honked at the truck.
In a short while all involved will return to carbon and be recycled in a number of ways, some of which will also be self centered as Andromeda careens toward the Milky Way without awareness.
.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 22 - 04:02 PM

When Scotland, Wales, and NI leave so will a lot of the hospitality industry. But history is replete with Britain’s hospitality: there was that tour group from Normandy, the one with Guðvér Excursions, and many others. Spain sent a party to discuss mutual tourism but the talks eventually sank out of sight.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 22 - 05:30 PM

Malorca beats Scotland.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 01 Jan 23 - 06:44 AM

Re Donuel's honking ditherer: this sounds like a case of mental tunnel vision. I used to be guilty of that at work .... someone would ask me to do something while I was otherwise busy; my complaints about why what they wanted was unwise (often while doing it) were basically the sound of me changing mental gears without using the clutch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 23 - 09:37 PM

I don't know anybody in Malorca but know folks in Scotland. They roam about the Highlands seeking tourists to feed to Nessie. Loch monsters must eat too, you know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 06:09 PM

Good evening, evening Mother!
I hope you're feeling fine.
I'm glad that you're here with us
But please buy better wine.

Two of the glasses melted
There's big hole in the floor
The rats and roaches left us,
Skedaddled out the door.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 08:31 PM

one fell off the table and killed a friend of mine...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 23 - 07:55 AM

The evil genius Rumsfeld said weakness is provocative. He was right.
To bow down to a denigrating troll is only accepting a definition of a wimp. I disagree with the narcissist even when I don't have to in order to defy despotism. The example of Trump shows that evil repetition has permanent harm until its harm can not be ignored and people speak openly. Thats where the opposition should stop as when General Washington handed his office back to a peaceful process
Democracy faces a slippery slope anytime a B player in power hires C people who staff with D people. We need A people to hire other A people...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jan 23 - 09:22 PM

Hi MOM! I’m still alive out here in potato land.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jan 23 - 08:11 PM

To me its the land of blazing saddles which reminds me the original movie only censored one joke line. When the lights go out and Madaline Kahn says to the sheriff "Its twoo its twoo" the censored line was next and was "Madam that's my forearm",

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 23 - 11:04 AM

was on the fourteenth day of January,
From England we set sail,
We were bound down to Laguire,
With a sweet and pleasant gale;
The Roving Lizzie we are called,
Bold Donuel is my name,
And we sailed away from Laguire,
Just out of the Spanish Main.

And when we reached Laguire,
Our orders did read so,
“When you discharge your cargo,
It’s sail for Callao,”
Our Captain called all hands right aft,
And unto us did say,
“Here is money for you today, my lads,
For tomorrow we’ll sail away.”

It was early the next morning,
As daylight did draw nigh,
The man from at the masthead
A strange sail did espy;
With a black flag under her mizzen peak,
Came bearing down that way;
“I’ll be bound she is some pirate,”
Bold Donuel he did say.

In the course of three or four hours,
This pirate ranged alongside,
And with a speaking trumpet,
“Where are you from?” he cries.
“The Roving Lizzie we are called,
Bold Donuel is my name,
And we sailed away from Laguire,
Just out of the Spanish Main.”

“Come, back your topsails to your mast,
And heave your ship under my lee.”
“Oh, no! oh, no!” cried Donuel,
I’d rather sink at sea.”
They hoisted up their bloody flag,
Our hearts to terrify.
With their big guns to our small arms,
At us they did let fly.

We mounted four six-pounders
To fight a hundred men,
And when the action did begin,
It was just about half-past ten;
We mounted four six-pounders,
Our crew being twenty-two;
In the course of an hour and a quarter,
Those pirates we did subdue.

And now our prize we’ve taken
Unto Columbia’s shore,
To that dear old place in America,
They call sweet Baltimore;
We’ll drink success to Donuel,
Likewise his gallant crew,
That fought and beat that Pirate
With his noble twenty-two.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 23 - 12:04 PM

As a kid when the doorbell rang we smiled and cheered "it's company".
Now when there is a knock we say "who the fuck is that" to our dismay
As a kid, we saw at the carnival the big and fat tattooed man or lady.
Now almost everyone at the Mall or Wall Mart looks fat tattooed and lazy.
As a kid Getty was dead but there were still Vanderbilts and Rockefeller.
Now since they don't pay taxes a billionaire might be any crooked fellow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jan 23 - 02:41 PM

When love goes looking with no place to go
It listened to silence for what was hidden below
Graveyards full of bodies and ghosts with history
Most are gone forever but a lucky few are trees.
A few wait a million years like comets they return
as they greet the warming sun the ice begins to burn.
And somehow life begins again
believing death is not the end.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 23 - 09:11 PM

I just read through the "Blue Bottle" thread above the line. WOW! That brought back memories! (I have my copy.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 06:42 AM

In Virginia, a 6 year old shot his 25 year old teacher in the chest with a 9mm. Things have balanced out by a DC resident killing a 6th grader for breaking into his car. The lord moves in delirious ways.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 03:28 PM

A documentary called Maggie's War caught my eye. I guess our Maggie has won a few battles as well but this documentary was about James Magahue the most decorated combat soldier in the 82 airborne. When it came time to consider his Congressional Medal of Honor for single handedly taking out a german tank and leading from the front killing 100 germans wounding 131 and capturing 200 he was denied because his company had NO CAUALTIES. His men asked what that had to do with it, they were told rules are rules.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 07:34 PM

You’d think at least one would have a splinter or a nasty bruise.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 23 - 08:25 AM

What kind of troll are you?
Who's against everything
It seems that I'm the only one
Who objects to his swill
What kind of mind is this?
An empty shell
A lonely cell in which
A hateful heart must dwell
What kind of clown is he?
What do es he know of life?
Why can't he cast away?
His mask of clay
And live his life
Why can't he stay away?
Like any normal guy
And maybe then I'll know
What kind of fool he is
What kind of mind is this?
An empty shell
A lonely cell in which
A hateful heart must dwell
What kind of lies are his?
That lied with every post
That whispered depraved words of hate
And lied the most
Why can't he contribute?
Like any other guy
And maybe then I'll know
Why this fool just lies.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 23 - 01:44 PM

uh, that was for Santos.



Know what cheers me up and not feel this is all about abuse?
A sing-along...Everybody out there at work or home Lets sing along;
tune: Rainbow connection

Why are there so many, songs about mem'ries
and whats on the other side
mem'ries are visions but only illusions
and mem'ries have nothing to hide,
so we've been told and some choose to believe it,
I know that their wrong wait and see
someday you'll find it the mem'rie connection
the lovers the screamers and me.
all of us under its spells
we know that its probably tragic...

Have you been half asleep?
and have you heard voices
You've heard them calling your name
Is this the sweet sound?
that calls the old seniors
the voice might be one and the same
I've heard it too many times to ignore it
Its something that might come to be
someday day you'll find it
the right diagnosis
End stage Alzheimers to be
la da da dee dum dum da lalee lee lalee la loo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 23 - 09:13 PM

Someday the spring will come
Someday the spring will come….

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 06:03 AM

At the end of a day that repeats every day
I hope tomorrow will be better than today

You’ll be happy, even if it’s a rough road
It will fade away, everything will be fine
Let’s laugh and hold hands and hang in there
You will be happy, all the painful wounds
Forget and erase everything
Someday, spring will come

At the end of a day that repeats every day
Hoping for a better tomorrow comes
I hope I can make you smile

You’ll be happy
All things will pass
It’s going to be alright
You’ll be happy, all the painful wounds
Forget and erase everything
Someday, spring will come

You’ll be happy
All things will pass (everything will pass)
It’s going to be alright (mm)
You’ll be happy (oh-oh)
All things will pass (no, no, no, no, no, no)
It’s going to be alright (it’s going to be alright)

You’ll be happy
All things will pass
It’s going to be alright
naaahh

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 06:35 PM

Mom, I’m on azithromycin for this prolonged cough. If it ain’t better in two weeks I get X-rayed and otherwise have my insides examined.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 06:36 PM

Heck, I’m this close so why not?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 23 - 06:38 PM

3,300, in memory of Amos!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 05:43 AM

Friday the 13th in memory of Alfred E Neuman

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 06:21 AM

I thought It was only a simple garage sale at the Biden's house but now its a;
debacle
fiasco
failure
catastrophe
disaster
disintegration
mess
wreck
ruin
downfall
collapse
defeat
rout
overthrow
conquest
trouncing
foul-up
screwup
fight
battle
clash
conflict
encounter
confrontation
engagement
fray
contest
combat
tussle
scrimmage
fracas
affray
melee
rencounter
utrageous wrongdoing
outrageous behavior
immoral behavior
unethical behavior
discreditable behavior
impropriety
misconduct
wrongdoing
offense
transgression
crime
sin
skeleton in the cupboard
skeleton in the closet
business
affair
scandal
classified document-gate and
brouhaha

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stanron
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 06:50 AM

Could anyone, in just a couple of paragraphs, tell me what on earth this thread is all about?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 07:16 AM

25 years ago you had to belong to a large secret committee subject to black balling and investigation but it devolved into a place for whoppers' outrage and artful submissions. As the mother of all BS she is often referred to as MOM who cares for the kids with fairness and compassion.
The tenuous survival of this vestigial thread is supported by a few immortal overlords until the end days or the resurrection of the ridiculous enjoyed by many. OR if your comment won't fit anywhere it can always find a home here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stanron
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 10:41 AM

Thanks Donuel. That certainly is an explanation in a couple of paragraphs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 02:47 PM

like Yodh

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 23 - 06:01 PM

RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS intolerance has grown to 85% of Americans harboring a hatred trope of some kind and a 35% rise in violent acts. With or without Trump the white evangelical churches are going full throttle anti Semitic. I will remind them that Jesus Christ was killed as a Jewish person of color agitating against the corporate dictatorship of Rome.
Even if you are an evangelical WASP I remind you that you have skin in the game and will have to choose between Proud Boys authority or Federal forces guided by the Constitution.
As America will be shaped by the changing electorate, the new minority can not rely on obstructionism or eliminating voting fairness forever.
If you feel raw about this I suggest you start learning Russian.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 23 - 08:57 AM

I just saw wheelchair fencing.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 23 - 12:47 PM

Better bump MOM up to the top of the queue
so that Rapparee does not have to.
Come on, it's a beautiful sunny day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 23 - 06:35 PM

Ah, the joys of Sunday! Getting breakfast, doing the week’s pills, coordinating calendars, new sheets on the bed, laundry and more laundry, fixing lunch, putting laundry away, making dinner, and this evening trekking to my subterranean lair to continue the attempt to straighten it up.

Wait! I hear, I hear GLUON! Gluon’s call of “Quark! Quark,” is unmistakeable! Well, so much for…DAMMIT DOG, STOP HUMPING MY LEG! Yes, I’m glad to see you!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 23 - 10:53 PM

I admit I don't get the color charge of gluons, or the color change of neutrinos. Technicolor bosons really lose me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 23 - 06:14 PM

GLUON! Stop

Quark!

Quark!

Quark! 

Quark!

Quark!

Quark!

Quark!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 10:08 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAND Gluon is off again! I got the idea he's going to fight an interstellar praying mantis.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 02:12 PM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 02:13 PM

All is explained.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 02:33 PM

..Mom why is my sister such a smartie pants?
Well dear, On the sixth day God put Adam into a coma and took his rib bone marrow out to fashion woman...already exhausted from all that creating he really needed a break and on the seventh day he rested. He never created again except for disasters and floods. Able asked God "could you clear up some of your mistakes like the platypus and other things like woman being smarter..." That was the last we ever heard from Able. When Eve hungrily ate from the tree of knowledge she became vastly smarter than Adam who never read or asked for directions. Mom said "Thats why girls are smarter than boys". Timmy said I never knew that. Mom said "Exactly"

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 04:31 PM

Thanks for the nice image for my file of screensavers, Rap. I have one from the Mars rover tracks on my desktop right now, but that might be a good one to swap out with. (The current photo looks like a particularly dry area of the desert Southwest here in the US, or maybe a shot from the Gobi Desert in China.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 07:37 PM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 07:39 PM

Was that the Pillars or the Triffids?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jan 23 - 08:42 AM

green night light

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jan 23 - 09:15 AM

I have claimed I have posted with Autopost 2000 for years here. It is finally actually here. Check out Chat GBT or Chat GBT 4.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 23 - 08:43 PM

I'm dictating this message by using Nuance software's Dragon Naturally Speaking. This is a good old-line piece of software. I'm using it to see how well it will work here. If it works as I think it will, this could be useful for both mom and Gluon.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 10:45 AM

Rapparee is an irregular Irish soldier, vagabond, plunderer or bandit.
Rapparee often is found at the Scoundrel's Lodge of Foreign Wars.

AI is kinda dry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 03:18 PM

Nuance software.
There is also Nuance for text messaging on cellphones,
I wonder if it is the same Nuance.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 09:08 PM

It is the same Nuance. As with everything, there is a learning curve.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 23 - 02:17 PM

You have your eyes on 3333?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 23 - 09:47 AM

Amos used to use the Dragon software. What goes around comes around!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 06:47 AM

I taught Amos everything he knows. Everything. Just ask him.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 03:44 PM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 03:47 PM

I finally found some insulin after 5 days. Who was Amos?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 09:16 PM

What?! How long have you been on Mudcat, that you don't remember Amos? (He passed away a few years ago.) Truly one of the best poets to grace the pages of Mudcat, in or out of MOAB.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 06:33 AM

It was joke about blood sugar affecting memory. It was stressful going without insulin but it was not that bad. Most diabetics can go 2 years without insulin before they die.

In fact I recently attributed Amos for addressing the subject of consciousness but that thread got closed when Steve got pissed off.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 04:16 PM

The grayness of Spring enters my soul
And the muddy river, full of flood,
Carries its sticks from eddy to eddy
Until at last
They find solace
On the soft, silent, bottom of the sea.
                     --Me, about 1965

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 04:17 PM

What could have been better for 3333 (a palindrome) than a poem I wrote?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 06:35 PM

The stream, slows at its edge while its swift in the middle.
I found an ice cycle spiral down from a branch above the stream
I know not why or how it formed any more than I know why I dream.

I wonder if it knows better than I, its a riddle.



just now, don

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 23 - 04:47 PM

The history of the United States of America has been discovered after centuries of cover-ups and leftist conspiracies to indoctrinate our citizens with fictitious facts, Finally, freedom, faith, and the American family will be taught in an unbiased format. We wish to thank our treasured historians Donald J. Trump, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor
Greene and hundreds of contributors from the Heritage Foundation for their research.

[This is the official and complete history of the USA by the Republican National Committee and not the abridged alternative social truth targets of our respected and esteemed colleagues like The Proud Boys and QAnon.]

In 1492 Columbo sailed the Ocean blue with his destination set on an alternative route to India. To his surprise, he arrived in Haiti where he fought off Small Pox and the savages. By the time this news reached England, some very pure people from Plymouth believed their promised land for religious freedom would be found in the new world. They moved with Mayflower to move to America. To their delight, they arrived at Plymouth rock. The pure people aka Puritans invited some natives to their housewarming party that today we call Thanksgiving, The fathers of America were born soon after the Renaissance which in Latin means Born Again Christians, not to be confused with toxic wokeness.
Americans wanted freedom from the King of Britain. Likewise the King of France faced headaches to come from Antifa rebels in his own country. Philosophers of the day like Rousseau wrote "Man is free but is everywhere in chains". He dreamt of a world where man was master of his own destiny and government. It was the same dream that was tempting European immigrants to come to America in droves and boats. It turns out that building a new world was back-breaking work, so they invited people from Africa and made them do the work instead. You might think these were the same people Rousseau was talking about when he said mankind should throw off its chains but they weren't.
Like many humanists, he found a clever loophole by calling blacks only 3/5ths human, or only human from the neck down.
When Britain tried to tax America, the citizens cleverly dressed up like Indians and turned Boston Harbor into the biggest cup of tea in the world. Then George Washington crossed the Delaware and defeated the British. in 1776 the founding fathers drafted the best dear John letter in history and established their independence. A list of suggestions was later called the Constitution. United we stood until the Civil War when the North ruthlessly attacked the South. After we invented the light bulb, radio and sliced bread, a negotiated settlement was made and American capitalism and inventions spread planes, trains and automobiles across the country. We also put and end to WW1 and WW2 rebuilt Europe, opened China and chased Russia out of Cuba. Republicans have brought prosperity to America with only a couple of exceptions. They put an end to the Lifetime Presidency of FDR and some say they put a man on the moon.
   If it had not been for rigged elections the great President in history would still be in power.


fact-checked by Wikipedia
.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 10:28 AM

The guys at the Legion Hovel are all a-twitter and getting out their guns to try to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon that is drifting over the NW. The US says they're not shooting it down because debris might hit people on the ground, but I think they're really figuring that any intel collected from the Legion will just contribute to confusion in the Chinese understanding of the US activities in the area.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 06:38 PM

The Legion is prepared! We are under the command of our Commander-In-Chief! All is well and under control. Relax and have an Adult Beverage of your choice, but not too much of it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 09:37 PM

Don't be silly, China can't see its balloon. We have already brought it down slowly and captured it with a recovery plane at night. Currently, we are replacing data to its transmitters and recorders. They will be shocked to see our bases in Canada and a radio telescope 4 times bigger than theirs but its all CGI. The best part is a message file that appears deleted but is recoverable. It will show a planned coup against Mr Chow ching Big and lead to a purge of the least friendly intelligence officers in China. Meanwhile, the balloon appears to be on its merry way tomorrow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 05:03 PM

The Legion will recover it with a Skyhook System. This is not what is commonly called "Skyhook" but a patented, top secret and then some system the Legion is sharing with the military and everyone else for the first time. Yes, it is thoroughly tested and it hasn't failed since the debacle with "Red" Ratt and his moonshine drunk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Feb 23 - 10:46 PM

top secret but it is shown in an early Bond film.

something different hand panning

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Feb 23 - 10:51 PM

click play for demo

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Feb 23 - 10:57 AM

That looks like a formal version of those Jamaican drums you hear people playing on the streets in NYC. The barrel is just a steel barrel but the head has been finely worked: you can't see where the different notes are, but they're there.

MOM wants to hire the dogs out to chew sticks to make mulch—she figures if it's something they're supposed to do they might stop doing it altogether. The house is full of chewed sticks (since it's too cold to chew them and leave them out in the yard.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Feb 23 - 09:41 PM

Stilly, your answer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Feb 23 - 10:08 PM

Happy Birthday, Rapparee!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 23 - 09:45 PM

Thank you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Feb 23 - 09:51 PM

I told that last marquee to display Blackadder - is that what you were able to see? It's installed in my computer so that may be the only reason it works here. (I tried several others and only saw Times New Roman).

Trash day is always exciting at MOM's house, and in a rare show of cooperation, I heard that Chongo was out at the curb early before dawn chasing raccoons out of the trash bag.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 23 - 01:06 PM

No, it’s not on my computer, but I have quite a
collection of fonts and always have more
waiting in the wings.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Feb 23 - 07:42 AM

It has happened before

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 23 - 09:14 AM

The greatest trainwreck in Human History has happened in America.
A two mile long train carrying ;Vinyl chloride: A highly flammable colorless gas used when making plastic is a known carcinogenic. Once it is made into PVC pipe it is no longer toxic or deadly.

• Butyl acrylate: A flammable clear liquid used in making paints can cause irritation to the skin, eyes, and respiratory system.

• Ethylhexyl acrylate: A colorless liquid used in making paints and plastics can produce hazardous vapors under heat.

• Ethylene glycol monobutyl: A highly flammable colorless liquid used in making solvent is deemed as acutely toxic.

Additional materials that were involved in the fire included petrochemicals and semolina.

How long they will persist is the main factor.
I had a personal experience seeing a victim of vinyl chloride in Rochester NY 40 years ago. The only consciousness the grandmother had was of panic knowing something happened to her but could not escape. Her IQ seemed below 50. The exposure did come from a single rail car of the chemical behind her house. She was trapped in an eternal hell.

As fish birds and animals are dying in mass numbers the people were told they could return home.

Deliberate Burning this deadly chemical cocktail was a bad idea imo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Feb 23 - 06:19 PM

Okay, MOM, back to the top we go.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Feb 23 - 09:08 PM

Train wreck? No.

Worse chemical disasters, too.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Feb 23 - 10:01 AM

Should I have said the worst environmental hiccough

Move along back home folks and pay your taxes.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Feb 23 - 11:28 AM

Odd shopping news this week, suitable only for the MOAB thread: I went looking for a special kind of plastic plank called Attic Dek (manufacturer is "Metro" for most of it) and while poking around the big box hardware stores and Amazon, scrolled down through Google shopping results and found that, of all places, NewEgg was selling them for $88 for a pack of 4 when the closest price I was finding elsewhere was about $112 and up. Confirmed it was the same product and it had free shipping. Ordered.

It was drop-shipped from Walmart! So the third party hardware store selling through NewEgg bought them at Walmart and shipped? But when I look at Walmart online they're something like $134 for four. I don't know how they managed that magic trick, but this time it seems to have worked in my favor.

That is all. I found a Reddit conversation that discussed how it happens, but it usually doesn't work in your favor. http://bit.ly/3S7xA6O

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 08:02 AM

I was able to carpet a large room for only $88 from walmart.com and avoided Amazon completely.
Newegg does have some deals.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 08:26 AM

btw East Palestine offers a Rachel Carson moment which inspired Nixon to form the EPA with a vote of 92 to 0. The railroad has paid off some residents with 2.6 million but it is not enough to buy silence.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 08:47 PM

Into the air the secret rose
Where they´re going, nobody knows
Tomorrow they´ll return again
But we´ll never know where they´ve been.
Don´t ask us about results or such
Unless you want to get in Dutch.
But take it from one who is sure of the score,
the 509th is winning the war.

When the other Groups are ready to go
We have a program of the whole damned show
And when Halsey´s 5th shells Nippon´s shore
Why, shucks, we hear about it the day before.
And MacArthur and Doolittle give out in advance
But with this new bunch we haven´t a chance
We should have been home a month or more
For the 509th is winning the war

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 10:01 AM

it seems others consider this postualtion

Meanwhile back on the ranch in Tennessee the gender war is against a book on seahorses for gender fluidity and LGBTQ propaganda.
Books in Florida are in limbo with police crime tape sectioning off the offensive gay and black history books.
Will bad MAGA books go the way of disco records?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 10:34 AM

I like poetic bitching that goes up the chain of command, but a new MAGA constitution does not support that kind of free speech.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 12:03 PM

The lost letters and editorials of America's Sherriff Andy Griffith;
[If he had lived longer he could have beaten Trump]



2006

If you consider where all the violence is occurring, where racial hate and race riots take place, it is overwhelmingly in blue cities ruled by Democrats, in many cases having been so ruled for decades.

Los Angeles and Chicago are prime examples. And in all of these cases, the mayhem extends to the suburbs, as we are currently seeing in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis. Venture out into rural America or further out into the suburbs from the cities, as Nolte says, and America is overwhelmingly a safe, peaceful, clean and racially tolerant country.

Yet if you watch CNN, or read rags like the New York Times¸ the Washington Post¸ and any number of left-wing media sources, they blame Republicans for their issues.
------------------------------------------------------------
2007

Liberals blame Republicans for the violence and racism that overwhelmingly affects only their communities, ignoring the fact that despite the fact the overwhelming majority of legally owned firearms are in the suburbs and rural areas of the country, violence in those communities is rare.

They claim that Republicans are racists, but it is they who use politically advantageous initiatives such as vote ID to make the claim in essence that blacks and other minorities are either too stupid or ignorant to be able to obtain proper identification in order to vote.

They take them for granted because they can, because they know that blacks will vote Democrat in the 90th percentile, no matter the fact Democrats have done nothing to improve their lives in 50 years.

-------------------------------------------------------------
2007
Democrats claim they want to live in some type of Utopia, free of gun violence, pollution, and racism. They believe that by implementing their vision of Utopia that magically the gun violence, pollution and racism will disappear. Yet it is they who create it.

[As Griffith opines, there is such a Utopia already in existence, a place he calls Rural MAGA Land.

He says that in rural America, “the environment is clean, no one worries about getting shot, and there are no racial tensions.” He then goes on to cite a personal example.

Griffith lives in rural North Carolina, married to Mexican immigrant. He says nobody…nobody has ever had an issue with his interracial marriage. He lives next door to a mixed race family…black and white. Again, they never had a problem. His other neighbor is a couple with mixed-race grandchildren. Black, white and brown…again he says "no problem."]

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[This of course causes Griffith to pose a simple question. “If Rural America is where all the racists are supposed to live, where’s all the racism in Rural America?”Andy said in the county he lives in, everyone he knows owns guns, in some cases more than one, yet he says he cannot remember the last time there was a shooting in his county, where he says “shoplifting still makes the front page.”]

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2007

In my area of rural North Carolina, the Department of Justice reported that for the entire year there were a total of 20 hate crime allegations in 13 rural counties, with a population of around 668,000. That translated to 2.9 hate crime allegations per 100,000 Now visit progressive, left-wing lala land cities and see how they compare.

Portland, OR- 5.75 reported hate crime incidents per 100,000 population
Boulder, CO- 7.9 incidents per 100,000
San Francisco, CA- 7.2 incidents per 100,000
Alexandria, VA- 3.1 incidents per 100,000
Arlington, VA- 4.7 incidents per 100,000
Seattle, WA- 40…that’s right 40 per 100,000
Washington, DC- 29…not a typo, 29 per 100,000
How about the epitome of liberalism, Berkeley, CA? 6.5 per 100,000.

So what do these numbers tell us? Basically that people who are looking to avoid being victimized by hate crime are much better of in Rural MAGA Land than in crap hole cities run by Democrats.
But, you might say…there aren’t as many minorities living out in rural America. Once again, that doesn’t matter and Andy Griffith explains why.
Comment by Charles Koch.

Jan, 2008
If minorities are vastly outnumbered in rural America, and if the hayseed right wingers are so racist, why then doesn’t that translate to more hate crimes per capita than in the cities. Remember, this is per capita, not total numbers.

For example, and this is important given what is going on in our country with crime, which has been on the increase over the past year or so. In rural America, the Asian population is under one percent.

Despite the fact the mainstream media is trying to pin crime on “right wing extremists,” there is no Asian hate-crime crisis in the suburbs or rural areas of the country. They are occurring overwhelmingly in cities run by Democrats—New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles come to mind.

Let’s circle over to gun violence. Mayberry's TV Sherriff says that an overwhelming number of people in rural areas own guns, yet the gun violence in rural areas compared to in the cities pales in comparison on a per capita basis.

And what of gun control? Cities such as Chicago, Washington, DC and New York have the toughest gun laws in the country. Yet where is all the gun violence? Not in rural America but in Democratic run cities.

And what about those mayors?

Chicago hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1931. Philadelphia last Republican mayor 1952. Baltimore, Democrats since 1967…St. Louis Democrats since 1949…Washington, DC…NEVER had a Republican mayor. You get the point.

Every single one of America’s most violent cities has been run exclusively by Democrats for decades.

Here is a list of the 10 most dangerous cities in America from 2011…all run by Democrats.

Detroit- 1,965 per 100,000
St. Louis- 1,927 per 100,000
Memphis- 1,901 per 100,000
Baltimore- 1,859 per 100,000
Springfield- 1,519 per 100,000
Little Rock- 1,517 per 100,000
Cleveland- 1,517 per 100,000
Stockton (CA)- 1,397 per 100,00
Albuquerque- 1,352 per 100,00
Milwaukee- 1,332 per 100,000
Rural America? In North Carolina per capita:

Lenoir- 436 per 100,000
Wilkesboro- 434 per 100,000
Hickory- 410 per 100,000
Rural America has drug problems like much of the country, helped in part by Obama's loose open-border policy where Fentanyl is coming into the country at a record pace.

The difference between the drug problem in cities and the suburbs and rural areas? The latter doesn’t have the murder, gangs, gun violence, carjacking and related crimes to go along with it.

Poverty in the rural areas tends to be higher than in the cities. Despite that, once again there isn’t the murder, gang violence, gun violence, etc. No riots…no looting.

What of the environment? Remember, Bush voters are anti-environment, right? They don’t abide by the religion of global warming or as it’s called now, climate change.
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2012

Where would you rather live? Where the trees and grass are green, where rivers and streams are clean, there isn’t garbage strewn on the streets, homeless aren’t defecating on the sidewalks. Who is anti-environment again?

So what is the Democrats solution? To clean up their cities? Hell no. They want to take city problems and bring them to the suburbs and rural America. Why do you think the Obama administration wants to federalize zoning rules?

Why do you think inside Obama’s plan is a scheme to build millions of “affordable” housing units not in the cities but in the suburbs?

They want to expand crap hole cities into rural America, to turn the entire country into giant cesspools like Baltimore, Chicago, Portland, Seattle and San Francisco.

Look at New York? In the few years since de Blasio has been mayor, that city has gone from a fairly safe, clean city to a crime infested swamp. He took 16 years of low-crime and community pride and flushed it in half that time.

For those who live in Rural America, life is sweet, safe and clean. So blame conservatives and Democrat voters for the problems in what used to be beautiful, clean American cities. Then look in the mirror…that is where the blame belongs.


[I guess Andy lived in a bubble away from Industry or hog farms and listened to Rush Limbaugh.]


Source: The imagination of Donuel

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 12:28 PM

The Trump campaign has asked me to strategically revise history for MAGA purposes.
I asked for payment upfront.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 23 - 09:26 PM

Ask for your Trump U. PhD in history. DJT wouldn't know about history, of course, because he didn't create it and is probably going to be a bad footnote ¹.



1. History, as is well known, is not place for wimps like DJT.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 23 - 06:00 AM

The New History of the Divided States of America by Tucker Carlson is available at white bookstores everywhere.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Feb 23 - 11:09 AM

Tony Kushner did such a great job of characterising Roy Cohn in Angels in America, think of what he could do for Trump now?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 23 - 07:25 PM

With the recent run up to the war in Iraq over WMD, sub prime bundling lies, AND THE ELECTIONS AND INSURRECTION OF DJT I would hope more of us are aware/inoculated to the power of lies.
The new lies will be an AI reinvention of lies overtly and subliminally.
The AI versions of voices of James Earl Jones or Jack Fontaine could influence people by the tone of their voice as well as the content of what they say. Fake videos would face more problems legally.

Big Brother will have an increasing AI presence. One day it will achieve 51% of influence and we will lose majority control of corruption.
We will rue that day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Feb 23 - 07:58 PM

Mifepristone (abortion pill) looks like a Texas judge can make it a crime to produce, prescribe or possess. Many of us thought this would be impossible. Well, it isn't.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Feb 23 - 06:16 PM

MOM, time to head upstairs again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 23 - 07:24 AM

“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
quote: Abraham Lincoln

But now the statement has come into question since it was taken up by commercial advertisements. Is the controversy part of the alternative fact folks or is it such common sense that Lincoln used the phrase or invented the phrase?

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161924

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Feb 23 - 08:27 PM

“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool Mom."
                                     --Captain Penny

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Mar 23 - 06:06 AM

You can feed some of the people crap...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 23 - 05:35 PM

MOM, better move you on upstairs ahead of trouble.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 23 - 05:59 PM

When officials declare there is no such thing, they don't have deal with it let alone fund it. In our schools, there is no official dyslexia. Now there is no bullying. Apparently, they did not succeed in denying sexual attacks and shootings.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 23 - 09:58 PM

I propose a holiday on MARCH 15. In contrast to all the other holidays it is an anti-social day. Nothing evil just odd but legal behavior.
Things like taking off with somebody's cart at Costco and checking out. Its not stealing and I get to try new things. Then after pushing the cart for a mile, leave it in a parking space and say not a step further.
Or do not hold the door open for somebody or talk loudly on the phone about being on a plane with someone with Ebola.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 23 - 08:12 PM

Ah, Mom! The surgery went okay and now the site hurts. And Mom, I'm sorry that I mentioned Angelic Dandruff an hour or so ago -- now it's coming down in a bunch because I mentioned it when it wasn't.
Anyway, here's a nice poem for you.

Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening
By Donald J. Trump

I have a pretty good idea whose woods these are, believe me.
And let me tell you something, my people say he’s a complete nobody.
This guy lives in the village.   So what if he sees me stopping here?
I dare him to sue me!   I dare him!

And by the way, this snow is pathetic.
These are by far, the least downy flakes ever!
I hear they had to import them from Canada.
I don’t know. Maybe they did. Maybe they didn’t. We’re looking into it.

My horse – he’s the most incredible horse, seriously,
I have the greatest, the classiest horses –
My horse doesn’t even know what the hell we’re doing here.
The horses love me though. They do.
They’re always shaking their bells at me, it’s very loving.
It’s a beautiful thing.

Let me tell you something, these woods are an embarrassment.
They’re not dark. They’re not deep. They’re nothing. They’re for losers.
And I cannot wait to sue this guy.
I cannot wait to sue this guy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 23 - 08:50 AM

Stopping by an aweless snowy wood is unique

As unexpected as super heroes transmogrifying into pet rocks.

Exploring emotions I believe there are more than the traditional.
The emotion of awe or feeling incredibly small could be added to the list. Also the anti-emotion of nothingness.Nuance deserves a place in line as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Mar 23 - 08:26 PM

Just a happy and cheerful poem about snow and snowing by James Russell Lowell.


The snow had begun in the gloaming,
   And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
   With a silence deep and white.

Every pine and fir and hemlock
   Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
   Was ridged inch deep with pearl.

From sheds new-roofed with Carrara
   Came Chanticleer's muffled crow,
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down,
   And still fluttered down the snow.

I stood and watched by the window
   The noiseless work of the sky,
And the sudden flurries of snow-birds,
   Like brown leaves whirling by.

I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn
   Where a little headstone stood;
How the flakes were folding it gently,
   As did robins the babes in the wood.

Up spoke our own little Mabel,
   Saying, "Father, who makes it snow?"
And I told of the good All-father
   Who cares for us here below.

Again I looked at the snow-fall,
   And thought of the leaden sky
That arched o'er our first great sorrow,
   When that mound was heaped so high.

I remembered the gradual patience
   That fell from that cloud-like snow,
Flake by flake, healing and hiding
   The scar of our deep-plunged woe.

And again to the child I whispered,
   "The snow that husheth all,
Darling, the merciful Father
   Alone can make it fall!"

Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her;
   And she, kissing back, could not know
That my kiss was given to her sister,
   Folded close under deepening snow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 23 - 09:27 AM

Jupiter and Venus

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Mar 23 - 09:35 PM

REPLACE ALL THE LAWYERS
A lawyer is just an overpaid translator. interpreter. Python software can do do it better and cheaper without AI. Let's start with contract law and divorce lawyers.
Capitol crimes can wait

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 23 - 08:31 PM

A twenty year quest to reveal a black hole's best trick has been rewarded with affirming my assumption. I think I will celebrate with a

hot toddy.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Mar 23 - 02:48 PM

My black hole theory that now is about to revolutionize all of cosmology was so unintuitive that there was not a single person here who openly accepted its validity. Actually Amos was the only person who did make a constructive comment regarding my cosmic pursuit. Only because of a recent observation of new SMBH growth has this confirmation happened in my lifetime. This hole in one is my one trick pony cosmically speaking.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Mar 23 - 08:35 PM

MOM!!! You’re back! I’ve missed you.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 23 - 06:41 AM

i am thankful for the unexpected virtue of ignorance (or problem solving by other means)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 23 - 08:59 AM

China wants Taiwan back and Russia wants Ukraine
Trump wants the White House if only he had a brain
To kill all but the right folks
Is an old established rule

But during
National Armistice Week, National Armistice Week
Olensky and Putin are slow dancing cheek to cheek
It's fun to eulogize the people you despise
As long you don't let them win their war


Oh, the poor folks, hate the rich folks
And the rich folks hate the poor folks
Poor folks get the guns and the rich get bombs
It's as biblical as the Psalms

But during
National Armistice Week, National Armistice Week
The MAGAverse loves the immigrants cause it's very chic
Stand up and shake the hand of someone you can't stand
You can tolerate the morons if you try

Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Muslims
And everybody hates the Jews

But during
National Armistice Week, National Armistice Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-hood Week
Be nice to people who are inferior to you
It's only for a week so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year

thanks to Tom Leher

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 23 - 08:25 PM

You're lucky. Tom Lehrer made all of this songs public domain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 23 - 05:37 PM

You're lucky Salk made his vaccine free to the public.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 23 - 07:35 PM

Hell is empty, all the devils are here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 10:59 AM

Lightning rods in an electrical storm article.

When the bolt was a hundred or so feet from the ground, “lightning rods and tall objects on the tops of nearby buildings produced positive upward discharges, competing to connect to the downward strike,” said study lead author Marcelo Saba, a researcher at Brazil’s National Space Research Institute, in a FAPESP release.

I've heard this was the case, the science has been out there for a decade or two at least, but now you know that you CAN put that space laser on the Legion Hovel and take out balloons that get too close or alien spaceships that are silly enough to check out the establishment.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 23 - 07:11 PM

Thats a lucky photo.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 23 - 08:06 AM

The carbon-based units infesting the Earth are maintaining their current average ignorance as AI is advancing steadily. By 2112 AI will overtake carbon units in all areas of knowledge including concepts of soul and inspiration and pleasure. Joining with the Galactic overlords will then be possible and without the honey bees, the carbon-based units will shut down en masse.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 05:58 AM

Idaho gun lovers rejoice. Execution by good ol firing squad is back.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 06:03 AM

Known for its grim dire classical music and long winters, Finland is ranked as the HAPPIEST country.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 01:57 PM

Happiness is of course relative, but I'd say the US was a lot happier place before Trump decided to run for office. He turned off the Happiness switch and turned on the Trash The Place switch.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 04:45 PM

A kiss that was missed
a kiss that was bliss
a kiss to say hello again.
a kiss you want to defend
a kiss that's just a kiss
a kiss to remember
and one to forget
a kiss goodbye
and the one
that made
you cry.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Mar 23 - 06:23 PM

Time to give MOM a lift up the stairs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Mar 23 - 10:13 PM

day Mom, just the other day waa neat palindrome:32323.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 10:25 AM

Mom, I'm going East tomorrow to see the rest of the family. I'll give them your love. Please, please, try to stay somewhat sober while I'm gone and remember that I'll check in when I can.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Mar 23 - 09:54 PM

Mom! I found the shipwreck photos, but I have them and not the web so you’ll have to ask for them by email.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 03:06 PM

Mom! In just a few minutes I'm off to see our family!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 03:07 PM

I hope they don't want to borrow money this visit. I'm not going to get sucked into a card game either. I learned the last time.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 03:10 PM

3 4 0 0 ! !

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Mar 23 - 04:36 PM

Did you take your skis or sled with you on this trip, Rap? Looks like anyone in the Northern Tier might be needing them.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 23 - 11:13 AM

Well, no. It’s been too warm for even my jacket thus far. And all the kids are now housebroken so I can avoid being peed on or worse.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Apr 23 - 12:27 PM

With all of the political BS piling up from the GOP this thread is redundant. They've clearly tapped a 99.99% pure source of the puerile material they pump out.

But we march on. MOM turns off the TV now instead of throwing stuff at it and shouting.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 09:31 AM

> a 99.99% pure source

Contaminated by 100 parts per million of reality? cue chant of "Cut it out". Exit MOM, stage left, with hair on fire.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 10:46 AM

When one posts herein, entrusting their precious words, thoughts, and realities to Mom’s motherly bosom, there is neither gentle spring nor gentle brooklet, nay, not even a gentle rain from heaven upon the place, of whatever Reality is or is not. Mom accepts the constructs of her children, be they crayon drawings or academic tomes of many volumes and great weight, and affixes them with magnets graced with naughty pictures to the door of the fridge (which has crashed through the floor from the weight).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 11:15 AM

As you know all of Mom's children are illegitimate and most have been lost. Even looking at all the fathers who have other children, the most common cause of death for these kids is attributed to mass shootings. Naturally, alcoholism arose from gun tragedies so Mom has had her difficulties. Despite Republican indifference*, it is time someone mentioned the elephant in the room. One can visit Mom at Shady Grove Recovery House.

Perhaps saying indifference is too polite. Republicans are silently saying F you to Democrats with AR pins, t-shirts, and weapons in hand.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 08:59 PM

Amos had a 410 shotgun he inherited. I have one I bought — this poacher’s gun.   Amos is still around, BeeDubya is still around, MMario is still around ….

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 11:16 AM

Lyrics
Traveling in a vintage VW
On a black ice trail, head full of cob webs
I took an exit, north of the 401
A sign said
"Do you come from a land up over
Where you can't drive for half the year
Can't you hear, can't you hear the tow truck?
You can almost hear it come but it sounds stuck
Buying bread from a store in Moose Rump
It was stale and frozen and cost 5 bucks
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Bob Evans donut
And he said
"I come from a land up over
Where beer flows and it takes a give'r
You won't find a double double between here and Vancouver.
You better run, you better take cover, "
Living in a land up over
Where women drive slow and men plunge off the road
Can't you hear, can't you hear the snow plow? Ooh, yeah

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Apr 23 - 11:41 AM

But seriously the 3 US shows about Canada are called Highway through Hell, Heavy Rescue and Ice Road Truckers. Canada is much better than Down under Americans think.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 23 - 08:02 AM

In another silent 'F you' DeSantis signed a law behind closed doors to legalize the open carry of unregistered guns in Florida.
meanwhile...
The kids in Tennesee surrounded the capitol in protest.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 09:05 PM

A lovely poem by Ogden Nash!

A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor

The hands of the clock were reaching high
In an old midtown hotel;
I name no name, but its sordid fame
Is table talk in hell.
I name no name, but hell's own flame
Illumes the lobby garish,
A gilded snare just off Times Square
For the maidens of the parish.

The revolving door swept the grimy floor
Like a crinoline grotesque,
And a lowly bum from an ancient slum
Crept furtively past the desk.
His footsteps sift into the lift
As a knife in the sheath is slipped,
Stealthy and swift into the lift
As a vampire into a crypt.

Old Maxie, the elevator boy,
Was reading an ode by Shelley,
But he dropped the ode as it were a toad
When the gun jammed into his belly.
There came a whisper as soft as mud
In the bed of an old canal:
"Take me up to the suite of Pinball Pete,
The rat who betrayed my gal."

The lift doth rise with groans and sighs
Like a duchess for the waltz,
Then in middle shaft, like a duchess daft,
It changes its mind and halts.
The bum bites lip as the landlocked ship
Doth neither fall nor rise,
But Maxie the elevator boy
Regards him with burning eyes.
"First, to explore the thirteenth floor,"
Says Maxie, "would be wise."

Quoth the bum, "There is moss on your double cross,
I have been this way before,
I have cased the joint at every point,
And there is no thirteenth floor.
The architect he skipped direct
From twelve unto fourteen,
There is twelve below and fourteen above,
And nothing in between,
For the vermin who dwell in this hotel
Could never abide thirteen."

Said Max, "Thirteen, that floor obscene,
Is hidden from human sight;
But once a year it doth appear,
On this Walpurgis Night.
Ere you peril your soul in murderer's role,
Heed those who sinned of yore;
The path they trod led away from God,
And onto the thirteenth floor,
Where those they slew, a grisly crew,
Reproach them forevermore.

"We are higher than twelve and below fourteen,"
Said Maxie to the bum,
"And the sickening draft that taints the shaft
Is a whiff of kingdom come.
The sickening draft that taints the shaft
Blows through the devil's door!"
And he squashed the latch like a fungus patch,
And revealed the thirteenth floor.

It was cheap cigars like lurid scars
That glowed in the rancid gloom,
The murk was a-boil with fusel oil
And the reek of stale perfume.
And round and round there dragged and wound
A loathsome conga chain,
The square and the hep in slow lock step,
The slayer and the slain.
(For the souls of the victims ascend on high,
But their bodies below remain.)

The clean souls fly to their home in the sky,
But their bodies remain below
To pursue the Cain who each has slain
And harry him to and fro.
When life is extinct each corpse is linked
To its gibbering murderer,
As a chicken is bound with wire around
The neck of a killer cur.

Handcuffed to Hate come Doctor Waite
(He tastes the poison now),
And Ruth and Judd and a head of blood
With horns upon its brow.
Up sashays Nan with her feathery fan
From Floradora bright;
She never hung for Caesar Young
But she's dancing with him tonight.

Here's the bulging hip and the foam-flecked lip
Of the mad dog, Vincent Coll,
And over there that ill-met pair,
Becker and Rosenthal,
Here's Legs and Dutch and a dozen such
Of braggart bullies and brutes,
And each one bends 'neath the weight of friends
Who are wearing concrete suits.

Now the damned make way for the double-damned
Who emerge with shuffling pace
From the nightmare zone of persons unknown,
With neither name nor face.
And poor Dot King to one doth cling,
Joined in a ghastly jig,
While Elwell doth jape at a goblin shape
And tickle it with his wig.

See Rothstein pass like breath on a glass,
The original Black Sox kid;
He riffles the pack, riding piggyback
On the killer whose name he hid.
And smeared like brine on a slavering swine,
Starr Faithful, once so fair,
Drawn from the sea to her debauchee,
With the salt sand in her hair.

And still they come, and from the bum
The icy sweat doth spray;
His white lips scream as in a dream,
"For God's sake, let's away!
If ever I meet with Pinball Pete
I will not seek his gore,
Lest a treadmill grim I must trudge with him
On the hideous thirteenth floor."

"For you I rejoice," said Maxie's voice,
"And I bid you go in peace,
But I am late for a dancing date
That nevermore will cease.
So remember, friend, as your way you wend,
That it would have happened to you,
But I turned the heat on Pinball Pete;
You see - I had a daughter, too!"

The bum reached out and he tried to shout,
But the door in his face was slammed,
And silent as stone he rode down alone
From the floor of the double-damned.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 23 - 10:22 AM

"Let all the evil in the mud hatch out."
Quote: I Claudius    https://www.kshb.com/news/national/cdc-warns-rare-fungi-is-sickening-dogs-humans-in-wisconsin

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 23 - 10:50 AM

Rap is driving through the city tonight
Under the lights
In a hot new rent a car
He joins the 495 in his heavy machine
It's a scene down every street in the world
Say goodbye to Life on Earth
Say goodbye, not maybe
Say goodbye to Life on Earth
Say goodbye, my no maybes
Rap is taking care of things for awhile
His style is so right for a child
They got him sitting with his back to the door
Now he won't be the fastest gun anymore
Say goodbye to Life on Earth
Say goodbye, don't say maybe
Say goodbye to Life on Earth
Say goodbye, to baby
Moving on is a chance that you take every day
You try to stay together
Say a word out of line and you find
That the friends you had are gone
Forever, forever
So many faces in and out of my life
Some will last, some will just be now and then
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again
Say goodbye to Life on Earth
Say goodbye, to babies
Say goodbye to Hollywood
Say goodbye, my baby
Climate Change is beyond the tipping point
The Permafrost is melting
along with methane, spores, and disease
Soon your friends are all gone gone
Forever, forever
So many faces in and out of life
Some will last, some will just be now and then
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again
Say goodbye to Life on Earth
Say hello to Venus, Say goodbye to Life on Earth
Say goodbye, my baby

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 23 - 11:15 AM

say goodbyr to hollywood

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 23 - 07:23 AM

In a balloon made of lead and depleted uranium, Republicans are flying high over the law of the land. How a balloon so heavy can fly is based upon the laws of belief dynamics. Belief mechanics have floated myths, superstitions, religions and regimes since the dawn of man. It is a very old system that the creation of Democracy was created to supersede those old beliefs, but'might makes right' is metastasizing in our body again.

Shooting down that impossibly heavy balloon is the duty of enlightened people around the world.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 23 - 11:10 AM

Its been shown that gamma rays can cause electronic glitches but wtf are glitches and what is their cause?...
Like when your knee or hip gives out for no reason or other stupid mistakes?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 23 - 12:22 AM

There is nothing as pretty as a tree

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Apr 23 - 07:09 AM

50 Webb discovery photos

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 23 - 02:19 PM

Bagpipe music
Louis Macneice (1938)

It’s no go the merrygoround, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Their knickers are made of crêpe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,
Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with heads of bison.

John MacDonald found a corpse, put it under the sofa,
Waited till it came to life and hit it with a poker,
Sold its eyes for souvenirs, sold its blood for whisky,
Kept its bones for dumb-bells to use when he was fifty.

It’s no go the Yogi-Man, it’s no go Blavatsky,
All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.

Annie MacDougall went to milk, caught her foot in the heather,
Woke to hear a dance record playing of Old Vienna.
It’s no go your maidenheads, it’s no go your culture,
All we want is a Dunlop tyre and the devil mend the puncture.

The Laird o’Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober,
Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.
Mrs Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion,
Said to the midwife ‘Take it away; I’m through with
over-production’.

It’s no go the gossip column, it’s no go the Ceilidh,
All we want is a mother’s help and a sugar-stick for the baby.

Willie Murray cut his thumb, couldn’t count the damage,
Took the hide of an Ayrshire cow and used it for a bandage.
His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish,
Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.

It’s no go the Herring Board, it’s no go the Bible,
All we want is a packet of fags when our hands are idle.

It’s no go the picture palace, it’s no go the stadium,
It’s no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums,
It’s no go the Government grants, it’s no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

It’s no go my honey love, it’s no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won’t hold up the weather.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Apr 23 - 02:27 PM

The Unknown Citizen
W. H. Auden

(To JS/07 M 378
This Marble Monument
Is Erected by the State)

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Apr 23 - 12:39 PM

How to not recycle

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Apr 23 - 07:00 PM

The Library Wars are catching on like wildfire around here after Florida went full goose bonkers over Black history books.
They now cry "defund the libraries". What began as an abolition of CRT and pornography is now anything 'woke'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 23 - 06:52 AM

A gun enthusiast chat room got a CIA intelligence dump weeks ago by a Timothy McVeigh admirer. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/pentagon-documents-leak-04-13-23/index.html

Sounds like a Trump admirer too.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 23 - 09:23 AM

Hitler's no quitter, Adolf knew what to do
He didn’t tolerate the dirty tricky Jew
When he got going, lousy kike bitches
Couldn't show off their filthy dyke riches

Winner of the Proud Boys poetry award

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 23 - 09:34 PM

I'd say suicide makes the ultimate quitter/

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 23 - 06:14 PM

Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit,
luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos.
Cynthia namque meo visa est incumbere fulcro,
murmur ad extremae nuper humata uiae,
cum mihi somnus ab exsequiis penderet amoris,
et quererer lecti frigida regna mei.
eosdem habuit secum quibus est elata capillos,
eosdem oculos; lateri vestis adusta fuit,
et solitum digito beryllon adederat ignis,
summaque Lethaeus triverat ora liquor.
spirantisque animos et vocem misit: at illi
pollicibus fragiles increpuere manus:
‘perfide nec cuiquam melior sperande puellae,
in te iam vires somnus habere potest?
iamne tibi exciderant vigilacis furta Suburae
et mea nocturnis trita fenestra dolis?
per quam demisso quotiens tibi fune pependi,
alterna veniens in tua colla manu!
saepe Venus trivio commissa est, pectore mixto
fecerunt tepidas proelia nostra vias.
foederis heu taciti, cuius fallacia verba
non audituri diripuere Noti.
at mihi non oculos quisquam inclamavit euntis:
unum impetrassem te revocante diem:
nec crepuit fissa me propter harundine custos,
laesit et obiectum tegula curta caput.
denique quis nostro curvum te funere uidit,
atram quis lacrimis incaluisse togam?
si piguit portas ultra procedere, at illuc
iussisses lectum lentius ire meum.
cur ventos non ipse rogis, ingrate, petisti?
cur nardo flammae non oluere meae?
hoc etiam grave erat, nulla mercede hyacinthos
inicere et fracto busta piare cado?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Apr 23 - 03:10 PM

sounds delicious

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 23 - 08:37 PM

Icelandic Mushroom Soup
(It really is delicious -- your friend, Rap)

Ingredients

    400 g Icelandic mushrooms or fresh field mushrooms
    2 White onions
    100 g Dried mushrooms
    200 g Mixed frozen mushrooms ceps, porcini or similar
    5 tbsp Vegetable oil
    300 g Butter
    100 g Plain white flour
    100 ml White wine
    100 ml Madeira
    500 ml Water
    2 L Double or heavy cream
    3 tbsp Mushroom powder

Instructions

Method

    Slice the mushrooms and onions thinly.
    Take a large heavy-based saucepan and gently heat the oil.
    Gently fry the fresh mushrooms, onions and frozen mushrooms for 5 min.
    Pour all the wine into the pan and let it boil until the wine has reduced to almost nothing.
    Add the water to the pan.
    Now add the dried mushrooms and stir.
    Add the mushroom powder into the pan and let the mixture boil for 20 min.
    Now add the cream into the pot and let it simmer for 60 min.
    In a small pan place 100 g of butter, heat gently and let it melt, then add flour into it and combine it together to make a roux. Whisk the roux mixture into the soup and continue whisking until the soup thickens.
    Let the soup simmer for 10 min and then add the remaining 200 g of the butter.
    Blitz the soup with a hand-held blender.
    Season with salt and pepper, also it is very good to add a little bit of sherry vinegar at the end.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 23 - 07:50 AM

Carnival sky up north; https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2304/AuroraSnow_Casado_3000.jpg

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Apr 23 - 12:02 AM

So very much BS going on in so many legislatures - MOM is feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Apr 23 - 06:42 AM

for Dems
GIMMEE THAT OLD TIME FREE REGION
Gimmee that old time free region
Gimmee that old time free region
Called the USA
It was good enough for Biden
It was good enough for Clinton
It was good enough for Truman
And it's good enough for me
Give me that old-time free region
Give me that old-time free region
Give me that old-time free region
Called the USA

for Reps
Gimme dat ol AR 15
Gimme dat ol AR 15
Gimme dat ol AR 15
Its good enough for me.
Makes me shoot everybody
Makes me shoot everybody
Makes me shoot everybody
And it's good for NRA

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Apr 23 - 10:47 AM

MOM says they should turn off the Internet for a week and make everyone buy newspapers for the news.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Apr 23 - 03:30 PM

Alex Jones, Rupert Murdoch, and Vladamir Putin walk into a bar.
Three billion dollars walk out.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 23 - 08:22 AM

The GOP wants to test three agencies...
So a white nationalist is released in the capitol building and puts the FBI, CIA, and Florida State Police in charge of tracking down and returning the white nationalist.

The FBI goes in first, and after questioning all sources concludes that White Nationalists are everywhere, look like everyone else and spent years going over the videotape.

The CIA go in second and after a month decides it is a conspiracy theory and the FBI is in on it so they stop their investigation.

The Police go in and come out ten minutes later with a badly beaten up black man saying "ok, ok I'm a white Nationalist."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Apr 23 - 06:51 PM

Is it true, or is it BS,
that we are nearing a shortage of rice??

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 23 - 07:09 PM

I've heard we even have a shortage of chips so I've hoarded dozens of bags.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 23 - 07:16 PM

It's true we have a shortage of nice.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 23 - 11:17 PM

Now, here’s the lyrics (by Padraic Pearse, no less!) to the song you always hear Mom singing when I come home!

Chorus:
Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile,
Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile,[7]
Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile
Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh.
'Sé do bheatha, a bhean ba léanmhar,
Do b' é ár gcreach tú bheith i ngéibheann,
Do dhúiche bhreá i seilbh méirleach,
Is tú díolta leis na Gallaibh.
Chorus
Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile,
Óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda,
Gaeil iad féin is ní Gaill[10] ná Spáinnigh,
Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh.
Chorus
A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceam,
Mura mbeam beo ina dhiaidh ach seachtain,
Gráinne Mhaol agus míle gaiscíoch,
Ag fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh.
Chorus

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Apr 23 - 10:45 AM

Mom, apparently no one but me cares. Yes, MMario and Amos and so many others have taken to the Long March, gnu and BeeDub and others are AWOL but I’m here to provide you with foo and drink and prosperity. Here, up, back to your deservéd place!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Apr 23 - 01:24 PM

AWOL
Alienated Without Love
Creates victims not criminals
Veterans and civilians
An outsider to each other
Heros in a band of brothers
or the conscience of a nation
Back home weapons and alcohol
makes for shooters with too much time
War zones are without a border
I can speak of the violence
Because my eyes have not seen it
before me in reality
I only know peace everywhere
Violence I knew was from kids
Everything else was on screens

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Apr 23 - 08:26 PM

Fellow Moabites,

I propose the every March 14 be known at Amos Jessup Day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 23 - 07:08 AM

Let it be written let it be done.
The Cleopatra needles in NYC SHALL HENCEFORTH BE NAMED AMOS AND Jessup.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 23 - 10:11 AM

And I GOT THE PALINDROME 3443

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 May 23 - 07:04 PM

From Newtown to 63 dead in Los Vegas to the gun crises today I recall old dude, a gun enthusiast, calling for gun reform.
I have never seen a certain someone who speaks often about their gun lust ever write about a need for gun reform. That is a degree of not caring that could be found repugnant and pathological. Is it my peculiar memory or is it an ultimate not caring by an otherwise kind and funny eldest son?
Sincerely, Mom

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 May 23 - 09:02 PM

Tomorrow morning I go out to the shooting range to teach a woman how to use a .32ACP Beretta Bobcat (Model 2032). She's a single mom and manages the bar and dining facilities at the Elks Lodge. She WANTS to learn, so I'll teach. I'll teach her safety and the legalities of gun ownership as well as how to hit what she shoots at. Her daughter, while in college in Portland and working at Alberson's supermarket, had to tase three different people (she moves to Moscow this fall).

I will take a lever action .22 rifle, a bolt action 5.56x45mm rifle, two 9mm semiautomatic pistols, and two .22 Long Rifle revolvers. My intent is to acquaint her with different firearms so she can know how to use them safely and without fear.

I have been shooting for 66 years come September. I have all my life advocated rational gun control. If my being a gun owner bothers you, I shan't apologize as I find competition shooting at targets (paper, etc.) a good sport where I compete against me.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 23 - 03:14 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXna1a-806Q

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 May 23 - 07:05 PM

Don't bother thinking about reforming AR 15 sales again. Kids may deserve what they get and adults rarely change their mind. While we're at it lowering the drinking age to 14-16 is a no brainer. Literally.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 May 23 - 08:29 AM

Near Cut and Shoot Texas is where the latest mass shooter of neighbors was caught. Who said the wild west is in the past.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 23 - 09:53 AM

Nine shot dead by a 14 yo at a school in Serbia.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 May 23 - 11:32 AM

false equivalency aside, it's not Serbia's leading cause of child death. Mom, Rap isn't playing fair. Surely Joe

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 May 23 - 01:59 PM

The quilt museum in Lowell Mass has a modern quilt with such incredible detail it must have over a half million separate pieces. It is a crowd of people waiting in front of a cruise ship near the dock.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 May 23 - 10:02 AM

You mean Villeneuve’s “Fabulous Welcome”? Without seeing it in person, I think it looks to be appliqué and not totally piecework. Interesting subject matter and a nice exhibition. I hope it comes to the IQSM in Lincoln.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 04 May 23 - 03:41 PM

You may be right. In the close up photo of just one figure it is at least 20 pieces and no micro stitching is visible. The wrinkles in the trousers were a darker shade of 8 pieces. The effect is much nicer than a mosaic.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 May 23 - 07:41 AM

I magnified the image. It is all stitched. The same artist did a model T flatbed in front of a collapsing barn.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 May 23 - 12:51 PM

Appliqué is stitched. It it one shape stitched to another piece of cloth. A good quilter/appliquerer can put 50 stitches to the inch and a long-arm machine can do more.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 06 May 23 - 02:05 PM

We have a long arm but an inlaw has a giant long arm.
There is stitching creating a background pattern that is not easily seen. I have never looked this close before. Meanwhile, Linus cloth for blankets occupies 4 rooms.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 May 23 - 03:26 PM

We have had to install both additional support posts AND floor jacks. There is a LOT of fabric and only God knows how many new and old (at least one 18th Century) quilts. Three completed since 1/1/2023.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 May 23 - 08:14 AM

I asked two quilt and textile experts. The both said “paint and photo transfer, then the image quilted to basting and back.” It’s still a quilt.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 23 - 07:05 AM

An inquiry was made. The quilt in question uses stitching, appliqué, piecework, photo transfer, and painting—pretty much all the techniques and is a beautiful example of making them work together.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 May 23 - 07:36 AM

Individual fingers are outlined.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 May 23 - 07:54 AM

https://thequiltshow.com/see-quilts/featured-quilts/fabulous-welcome-brigitte-villeneuve-diane-cote-doris-boivin#gallery-1

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 23 - 08:25 PM

It's a fantastic piece of work and art!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 May 23 - 08:12 AM

Patients with a history of cellulitis, particularly of the lower limbs, have an estimated recurrence rate of 8–20%.12 Patients with recurrent cellulitis should be carefully evaluated for any predisposing factors such as lower limb edema, lymphoedema, dermatitis, tinea pedis, and measures taken to address them. Patients with three to four episodes of cellulitis per year despite addressing predisposing factors could be considered for prophylactic antimicrobial therapy so long as those factors persist. A randomised controlled trial of phenoxymethylpenicillin prophylaxis in patients with a history of recurrent cellulitis showed a reduced rate of recurrence in the treatment group with a hazard ratio of 0.55

The recurrence is due to dozens or hundreds of encapsulated strep or staff that can leak into the surrounding tissue. When those pockets progress deep into the body it can be life-threatening. This reminds me of King Henry the 8th and a usual suspect.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 May 23 - 12:09 PM

I won't dismiss your cellulitis info (I hope no one here has it) but back to the quilt - thanks for sharing the link, I wasn't finding a way to enlarge the one connected with the museum itself.

When the longarm machine is used (I have a friend with one, but it's out in West Texas so I haven't been by to see how it works) is the whole work programmed or does a person stand by and direct the stitching as it happens? Or both. It seems possible to end up off target and not have the outlines you want unless someone operates it manually?

I'm told those long arm devices are very expensive. My friend bought hers about 20 years ago, and I think it's still going strong. Takes up an entire outbuilding on their property.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 May 23 - 01:47 PM

As you know some long arms have programmable features that are complex but that does not mean it can save prep and sizing time of fabric.
here is a basic link https://thequiltshow.com/see-quilts/featured-quilts/fabulous-welcome-brigitte-villeneuve-diane-cote-doris-boivin#gallery

But I could send personal phone pictures by e-mail that could be manipulated at will. There is an interesting variety as well. Some are not anywhere on the web for whatever reason.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 May 23 - 08:58 PM

Stilly, I’ve seen them at a quilt show for USD50,000.   Basic long arm use.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 23 - 06:52 PM

Spent the day working in the yard. Lots to do after that winter just past (I hope).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 May 23 - 07:20 PM

I think my friend spent around $12,000 on hers 20 years ago? They have never been cheap. She finishes quilts for people as well as doing her own. If you read the instructions on regular sewing machines there is a "darning" setting where you drop the feed dogs that can let you do this kind of work on small pieces.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 May 23 - 09:44 PM

MOM, the traffic around Greater Boston was ferocious today.
No occasion that I can think of.
Just people getting out of the city and going to Cape Cod, I suppose.
The turnpike/tollroad, in places, looked like a parking lot.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 23 - 03:12 PM

OLD AGE

The visible and invisible scars
be they superficial or deep scars
are like stars shining today from a time
far far away

Matters that seemed expedient in the now
have evolved to a wisdom beyond life
beyond memory and speculation
beyond love

Handprints on cave walls or stone monuments
are the footprints left by the people who
belong to the ages, more indelible
than typed posts

Slightly more than print or the digital
magnetism stored in computers or knots in a rope
or clay dents on tablets in sanscrit
that are lost

Reduced to traces and hints forever lost

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 23 - 03:24 PM

Like seasons, life springs again, not on Earth.
from beginnings as simple as a virus.
In new directions and environments
for a time

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 23 - 09:39 AM

It was the sound hoofbeats,
Hoofbeats on the cobbled street
Ringing ever louder
That made the bold Rapaire retreat.

He'd heard the deaths of bandits
Of bandits drawn and quartered
Often glorified in song
And he nearly lost his water.

He put up his sword and pistol
An old pistol, black and long
And he headed for the basement stairs
And dragged his Mom along.

They quarreled down in that basement
The moldy basement, dank and cold
Flinching from those hoofbeats
And feeling frail, and old.

So ends the glorious story
Highwayman's story, rich with lies
Hiding in a dingy basement
From hoofbeats which never quite go by.

A copied Amos post on MOAB

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 23 - 10:28 AM

The man who got a librarian fired
Has by now had his comeuppance
For he now will never be hired
and lies deep behind a fence.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 23 - 01:23 PM

Nakam

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 May 23 - 11:00 PM

There is nought but the necessary ought.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 23 - 06:56 AM

I know we have a Doomsday clock but I don't know if we have a measure of distrust in the world. If we did it might be spiking soon;
Montana has banned TicTok and CHINA RAIDS ANY BUSINESS that verifies the economics of Chinese businesses like data companies Catvision, Bain and CO and Mince group. China prevents due diligence and considers their economics a security matter like espionage.

Disrust is now more important than doing business.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 23 - 11:27 AM

Since the lie detector caught on like wildfire
in the US but not in Europe I shall invent the GW trustometer. It MEASURES a combination of auditing, GSR, Kirlian photography of fingertips, and BP. The higher the reading the more untrustworthy/distrust score. If the Kirlian photo shows lines curling back to the fingers and not radiating outward it is a high score.



Corporate America was wild about lie detectors into the 70s.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 May 23 - 11:33 AM

A reading will take 3 minutes like fast food. People will eat it up.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 23 - 12:15 PM

Ah hell, the easiest way to get anyone's trust would be a big shot of Oxytocin.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 May 23 - 06:54 PM

There are so many ways to beat “lie detector”! That why polygraph results are inadmissible in court.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 May 23 - 01:31 PM

Are the folks down at the Hovel doing anything for Victoria Day?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 23 - 07:13 AM

That's weird, it coincides with St. Cecilia's Day.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 23 - 09:42 AM

The complaints regarding my posts elsewhere have affected the nature of my comments. I am less likely to post sarcasm. At least the kind that is 180 from my personal sentiments.

Idaho is building Guard Towers on border crossing highways.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 23 - 09:04 PM

Human narratology is still on strike. Will we go to AI stories?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 23 - 09:53 PM

There are only two and the border is 45 miles long.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 23 - 09:15 AM

The Complete GUIDE TO MAGA CULTURE WAR:

Pardon all convicts victimized by the weaponization of law
Defund FBI, DOJ, and replace the CONSTITUTION
REMOVE WOMEN'S RIGHTS TO HEALTHCARE
Destroy all woke books, media, and Democracy
Make MAGA history the only true history
Keep .... the following goals a secret
Take away all women's right to vote
Remove all women's right to serve
Make our President serve for life
Make minorities NOT MATTER
Make blacks slaves again
Remove the courts
Burn the jews

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 23 - 12:40 PM

The biggest battlebot competition in the country is today. It is called the Indianapolis 500. The carnage of metal, motors and tires is about to start. At speeds of 200 mph, there are few deaths or serious injuries, which is a tribute to the engineers of safety.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 23 - 07:57 PM

THE WRECK OF THE DONALD TRUMP BIG LIE

The legend lives on from Wikipedia on down
Of the big lie they called Donald's last stand
The race, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of Bull Shit twenty-six thousand tons more
The real Donald Trump campaign spent millions
That good ship Trump truth was a bone to be chewed
When campaigns of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some rally in Wisconsin
As the big liars go, HE was bigger than most
With a crew and good Donald well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of firms
When they left fully loaded for Victory
And later that night when votes were counted
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over his railing
And every man knew, as the Donald did too
T'was the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When campaigns of November came slashin'
When afternoon came votes felt like freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind
When suppertime came, the old cook came in sayin'
"Fellas, it's too late to feed ya"
At seven PM, the election caved in, he said
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
Then Rudy phoned in he had bad news comin' in
And the campaign and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Donald J Trump run
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the truth turns the minutes to hours?
The broadcaster all say if he had more votes that day
If they'd put fifteen more States behind him
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and went to jail
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
Internet rolls, television sings
In the rooms of his golf resort mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Mason Dixon
Takes in what history sends her
And candidates go as the politicos all know
With campaigns of November remembered
In a musty old hall in old Queens they prayed
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Donald Trump ticket
The legend lives on from Manhatten on down
Of the big lie they called lets play dirty
America, they said, never gives up her dead
When campaigns of November come early

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 23 - 12:00 PM

It took over 2 weeks for my Poison Ivy exposure to go away. Woof.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 06:40 AM

VOLDEMORT - Potentially offensive to devout wizards, for uttering the Lord's name in vain.

Jesus H Christ - the H comes from a Latinised version

the Duce called himself, Benito Mussolini - from the old Latin word dux (“chief” or “boss”)

Der Fuhrer - the leader.

De Santis - VOLDEMORT

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gillymor
Date: 02 Jun 23 - 07:03 AM

oy

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jun 23 - 05:11 PM

Mom! I’m off to Montana tomorrow!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 23 - 08:13 PM

I voted myself off of Tweed's Facebook island today - the "Just another monkey fishing with a stick" page was funny until earlier this spring when someone started adding bad apples who were more into porn and racist crap than bawdy humor. There is a distinct difference between bawdy and sexy humor over porn and LGBQT+-bashing memes. The new bad apples brought in their friends. (No restrictions on who added people.) I complained privately, it didn't work; complaining on the page only give them glee. I got tired of blocking the new porn folks and just left the building. Too bad. It was good for a while.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 05:54 AM

bRING HOME A FOSSIL rap

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 01:16 PM

Mobile air monitoring has found pollutants that have formed the opposite chemical hormone to oxytocin, nazitocin. It was found at the funeral of a ten year old girl killed in a mass shooting. During the 10 year old's funeral another mass shooting killed 5 of the mourners and another 10 at the funerals of the 10 mourners etc. To date 30,000 have been shot. Gun enthusiasts blame the lack of air fresheners to combat the nazitocin in the air.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 06:43 PM

Google says nazitocin is BS - so this is the right place for the conjecture. But gun violence and the proliferation of guns isn't BS.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jun 23 - 06:54 PM

I thought nazitocin was my own original joke.

There really was a shooting at the 10 year old's funeral.
Also at a High School graduation this week.
Also...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jun 23 - 09:01 PM

Mom, at the moment I’m in Helena. That is, the capitol city of Montana. There is nothing untoward going on save that it’s raining.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jun 23 - 09:04 PM

Oh, why not? 3,500!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jun 23 - 07:10 PM

dissonance I like

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jun 23 - 09:37 PM

Of course, 3553 is mine.

Tomorrow! Great Falls! Then Havre!!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jun 23 - 08:47 PM

Hey Mom! We’re in Great Falls!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jun 23 - 07:06 AM

Does Montana have a Mt.Tana

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jun 23 - 07:24 PM

Mount Ana. 15,439 ft. high.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jun 23 - 08:10 PM

Good grief, MOM, time to get you back up to the top of the queue.

There is an awful lot of Tr*mp BS in the news lately.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jun 23 - 08:20 PM

'Mr. Smith goes to Washington'
'Mr, Trump goes to house arrest'

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jun 23 - 08:28 PM

Mom? I’m in Glasgow.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 23 - 09:07 PM

Art project of the month was a gem adorned plaque of Horus.
It was done in less time than the space tapestries which are on hold.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 23 - 11:25 AM

flat tire has me grounded for 3 days.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 23 - 10:07 AM

There is an international airport at Great Falls. Glasgow is by the sea but is near the highlands, castles, and the 'Hogwarts Railway'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 23 - 04:21 PM

There is only one tire made to fit that car. I'm re-tired and on the road again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 23 - 05:22 PM

I am binge-watching Suits. Megan Markle is a good actress in her role as an intelligent central gate keeper. She remains an untouched love interest. I like the plots of unique solutions to legal problems.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 01:18 PM

Whoo boy did I need an alignment. I'm driving straight again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 23 - 10:03 PM

Mom and I are very glad to hear you've finally gone straight. Be sure to tell your probation officer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 05:56 AM

Pa dum bum, cymbal crash

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 22 Jun 23 - 07:04 AM

If you're driving straight, is it straight into an orchestra?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 02:50 PM

Oh the humanity, and the instruments.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 23 - 10:05 PM

Wow! I had an MRI on my right hamstring this morning and had the result before 5 p.m. today! It ain't good and will probably require surgical repair -- Class 3 tear at the ischial tuberosity. Y'all can look up what that is.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jun 23 - 08:53 AM

Ischial tuberosities?!
I know what those are -- one sits on them.
This is serious.
They better do the job right.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 23 - 06:34 PM

My legs are burning and giving out I assume from diabetes. Also I blame myself for not doing my constitutional mile-a-day walk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jun 23 - 09:28 PM

Yeah, Mom, it ain't good. I see the doc I usually see tomorrow and the podiatrist on the next day. I don't see the sit-bone doctor, and then his PA, until July 13. In the meantime I shall continue to offer up my pain to God for the good of my soul and for the good of all humankind.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 10:34 AM

My regular doctor told my that surgerical success is iffy,and I have an incomplete tear of my left hamstring. So he shot me in my right trochanter bursa and hoped to reduce so pain. It helped about two days. I still have a bandaid on my butt.

Tuesday and likely tomorrow I bunker up in the basement.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jul 23 - 12:07 PM

You remind me that I need to do my stretching program more often. It helps keep the hip bursitis at bay. (She has some good IT band stretches.)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 11:30 PM

MOM! That whiskey was supposed to last until Bastille Day! And the akavit is empty! And where is the bottle of 151 proof rum? If you finish off the...what! That bottle is empty too! And the liquor store is closed today, so you'll have to drink lemonade now!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jul 23 - 11:56 PM

There isn't a 7-11 around for some Mogen David?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 23 - 04:24 PM

An acquaintance used to say of Mogen David,
"That stuff would gag a maggot . . ."

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jul 23 - 09:56 AM

Mom, let's get you up to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jul 23 - 03:33 PM

Mogen David was our wine of choice in high school (of course, we were too young to drink and never, ever, did) and college.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Jul 23 - 11:10 PM

I recall something called Ripple.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 23 - 06:08 PM

Just a little boost this time, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 23 - 08:53 AM

Look at the advantages H, no more veteran suicides, no more PTSD for our boys...

But AI warfare is not approved by Congress and...

Screw Congress, this is a matter of National security and China is probably ahead of us and could share with Russia. We can't have an AI GAP! Make project AK (Autonomous Kill) go full speed ahead. Every war begins by using the last war's weapons and strategy and then get to test our new stuff, This Ukraine war is an ideal battleground to wage our first false flag AI war.

I suggest we misdirect by advertising the use of our outdated weapons like cluster bombs.

Good thinking, we have to keep this move eyes only.

Once you do this you can't interrupt AI strategy which may be totally alien to anything we would do. Aborting the mission won't be an option anymore.

Bullshit, don't talk about pulling the plug before we even begin.

Yes sir.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jul 23 - 01:31 PM

Nudging MOM upward until
the flood water levels go down some more.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 23 - 07:11 PM

Rapparee, you survived the Fourth of July again;
what's the word from your doctors?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jul 23 - 01:39 PM

There may or my not be surgery on my six months old hamstring tear.I’ll meet again with the medical types on August 6. In the meantime we’re going to cruise the Ohio River.

Donuel, every war I know of has at one point or another been fought with artificial intelligence.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 23 - 08:14 PM

In two days I shall board a raft and float down the Ohio just like Tom and Huck did. Unlike them, I shall not get lost in any caves. I shall, in all likelihood, fight off swarms of mosquitoes and do my best to avoid alligators. I shall check in here when possible to insure that Mom is staying somewhat sober in this hot weather.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jul 23 - 08:58 AM

True but the fog of war will be more 'cloudy' with AI.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 23 - 12:37 PM

I never found that Mom is an alcoholic is either amusing or helpful.

Subject: RE: BS: Rolf Harris accordion catches fire! /OBIT 2023
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jul 23 - 12:45 PM

You had Rolf, we had Howdy Doody. old time accordian

Subject: RE: BS: Rolf Harris accordion catches fire! /OBIT 2023
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jul 23 - 12:55 PM

Total non sequitur there. I never watched Howdy Doody but I don't see any accordions. I also don't see any abuse claims or scandal. I think perhaps this gets move to the MOAB thread.

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

Last night in SLC. Went to the airport to fly in Denver to fly to Pittsburgh. Flight CANCELLED. New flight 10:30pm, now 11:30pm. Fly again to Pittsburgh, arrive 11:30 am to catch the boat before 2 pm when it's scheduled to leave.

This hasn't been a good day, and the night is gonna be quite short as well. I hope there are good beds on the boat.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Jul 23 - 09:32 AM

Whatever you do, Rapparee, don't fall in . . .

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 23 - 11:07 AM

I was aiming at the accordion thread but missed it.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Jul 23 - 05:55 PM

- insert silly comment here -

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jul 23 - 08:19 PM

Up to the top you go, MOM.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 23 - 06:26 PM

The innovation of AI will enable anyone to speak fluently in any language with their own emotions and voice. No more screens separating people as technology becomes almost invisible. All at the speed of thought.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 23 - 08:21 PM

My luggage didn’t make it. We bought some shirts and stuff in Marietta, OH so I didn’t have to stink up the entire deck. Fortunately my bag was delivered yesterday in Louisville. It was like Christmas — shoes even! Right now we’re headed for Evansville, IN.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jul 23 - 06:36 PM

MOM, Rapparee will be back, luggage and all, soon enough.
Until then, let's get you to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 07:45 AM

American Legion news

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 23 - 07:02 PM

He split the sides of kids with Opps I ripped my pants to opening the eyes of 80 year olds with his drawings. He had a genuinely cutting wit. A man for all ages. Shel Silverstein.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Aug 23 - 08:49 PM

Rapparee will be home eventually.
Back to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 23 - 04:31 PM

There are drugs to enhance memory formation, there are drugs to slow the degradation of memory but the most evil drugs are designed to erase memory for the purpose of establishing stop-loss for the military.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 23 - 10:37 AM

Versed is a commonly used anesthesia that causes memory loss. It also has awful side effects (headache, lethargy) for those who don't tolerate it. Ketamine also.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Aug 23 - 06:30 PM

I hear about ketamine at the clinic where I am staying.
It's controversial. Some people are all for it.
I guess there are things they don't want to remember?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 23 - 09:01 PM

I have returned! No, no applause or cheers. I'm just a simple child of Mom like the rest of you here.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Aug 23 - 01:04 PM

Rogue Planets

Free-floating planets — dark, isolated orbs roaming the universe unfettered by any host star — don’t just pop into existence in the middle of cosmic nowhere. They probably form the same way other planets do: within the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding an infant star.

But unlike their planetary siblings, these worlds get violently chucked out of their celestial neighborhoods.

Astronomers had once calculated that billions of planets had gone rogue in the Milky Way. Now, scientists at NASA and Osaka University in Japan are upping the estimate to trillions. Detailed in two papers accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, the researchers have deduced that these planets are six times more abundant than worlds orbiting their own suns, and they identified the second Earth-size free floater ever detected.

What a great source of material for Gluon to round up, should she wish.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Aug 23 - 05:46 PM

I persuaded staff to relocate a spider plant out of the computer lounge.
THe plant had viney things shooting out everywhere for several feet.
It was set to envelop one computer monitor and the big printer.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 08:18 AM

Some say when Jupiter and Saturn were in a closer orbit the interaction nearly tossed Saturn out of the system. It ended up putting them both in a farther orbit.

Moons are even more plentiful.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Aug 23 - 01:21 PM

I post too much because my aim is to procrastinate. This time, too not mow the yard.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Aug 23 - 05:10 PM

Up to the top of the queue, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Aug 23 - 10:37 PM

I finished a wood carving of a fallen sequoia branch of unknown age.
Its an old guy smoking a pipe but the entire piece is an actual pipe.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Aug 23 - 11:36 AM

Did you ever mow the lawn? Mine is crisp, I am leaving the dry grass standing, though I should mow just to reduce the fuel load.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 23 - 06:08 PM

Mowed and hedged over 2 days. The grass was cool&wet in the morning,

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Aug 23 - 10:40 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Aug 23 - 08:50 PM

I’m still around. Been spending too much time with doctors. I had percutaneous needle tenotomy last Thursday and I may get it again. Injections of platelet rich plasma (made from my very own blood!) ma be in my future — ans that’s not covered by Medicare or my insurance!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Aug 23 - 01:26 PM

Don't let the doctors get you down completely, Rapparee.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Aug 23 - 04:03 PM

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/percutaneous-needle-tenotomy-for-tendon-injuries sounds uncomfortable.

You can take over-the-counter pain medication if you experience pain after the procedure, but you will want to avoid anti-inflammatory medications and ice.?The success of percutaneous tenotomy relies on the body’s natural inflammatory response, so it’s important to avoid anti-inflammatory medications during the weeks before and after the procedure.

Stay off of the Motrin!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gnu
Date: 23 Aug 23 - 07:17 PM

Hi all! Been over a month since I got home. Started housework the minute I got home and I am still at it.

Rap! Stop that!

The gardener is at the door. Well, the lawn mower guy. Gotta go.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 23 - 10:51 AM

Glad to hear you're at home, gnu.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 23 - 04:34 PM

I have finally complied with Homeland Security's demand that I prove I am a citizen for my new license.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 01:55 PM

Democracy Now song list

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 04:59 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 09:52 PM

Hi Mom!

Burned my left middle finger the other day taking a pan out of the oven. Now I have a nifty blister. Not to mention my visit to the dermatologist and the podiatrist today. Nothing major in either case.

I have two doctor visits and Pat only had one!! Only she had a xray and I didn't.

The Catholic Church here grabbed me and told me to teach a 45 minute class on the various ecumenical councils. This is the result of telling someone over a year ago that I thought Catholics needed to know what Vatican 2 said (lots of them seem not to know, or at least the ones I know seem to lack the knowledge). Rather than be declared anathema and never get to go into the Portneuf Valley Brewery again, I agreed to do it. Fortunately, the thing is held in said Brewery and and I have to spread the stuff for only 45 minutes while the audience swills good beer. If I get questions I can't answer I'll the asker to ask a priest instead of a retired librarian.

Having given life-long-learning classes people seem to like on topics which included the role of the steamboat in opening the American West, past pandemics, two on dueling, the Second Korean War, crime in Idaho 1840-1910, and others I guess they thought I'd be a good pick.

At least I'll do a better job that some of the folks here I could mention. Maybe I'll declare everyone who attends anathema maranantha and make them go to the Vatican to get it lifted. As you can tell, I've started.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 06:36 PM

I know a Dominican friar who teaches a course on the various ecumenical councils. But he is stationed in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A former Novice Master and a lovely gentleman. Good confessor, as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 09:48 PM

My friend Fred (Professor Emeritus in Theology, Santa Clara U.) sent me a 38 page bibliography. I anyone want to debate the necessity for a Council, let's say the Council of Jerusalem, let me know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 05:09 AM

Houston, we have a problem. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIES ARE CLOSED AND REPURPOSED as detention punishment centers.
This is a strategic victory for the right wing. Good luck with your adult religious education. Perhaps you think this war on LIBRARIES, WOKE AND BOOKS is a hoax. Its not a hoax for kids.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 07:28 AM

Why do totalitarian movements target culture and books?
Previous attempts

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 08:55 AM

Instead of back to the future, some parts of the country are going Forward to the Past.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 09:58 AM

Hush now, you'll wake Mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 12:11 PM

I have (MOM) Memories Of Monsters
Some people don't and others don't care.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 23 - 07:47 AM

Rap and I are like book ends. He probably has associations with Quilts of Valor and I am with the Linus Project.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 10:39 AM

Rapparee, hope your holiday is happy and healthy (or healthier).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 23 - 01:05 PM

Happy Labor Day, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 23 - 03:43 PM

Up you go, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 06:16 PM

I just saw a dragonfly, MOM.
It didn't come inside through the window, though.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 06:18 PM

Every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us
(Left a good job back in the eighties)
Nice and easy
But there's just one thing, you see (workin' for myself every night and day)
We never ever did nothin'
(But I never lost one minute of sleepin') nice and easy
We always do it nice and rough
(Worryin' 'bout the way that things might've been)
And we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy
(Big deal keep on turnin')
But then we're gonna do the finish rough
(Your keyboard keep on burnin') this is the way we do "the social"
And they're trollin', trollin'
trollin' on the puter
Listen to the story now
Left a good job back in the eighties
Workin' for myself every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
I was worryin' 'bout the way that things might've been
Big deal keep on turnin'
Ooh, your keyboard keep on burnin'
And you're trollin' (trollin'), trollin', yeah (trollin')
trollin' on the puter (trollin' on the puter)
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
And I pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
Until I hitched a ride on the mental health bus
You know the big deal keep on turnin'
Proud people keep on burnin'
And we're trollin' (trollin'), trollin', yeah (trollin')
Trollin' on the puter (trollin' on the puter)
Say we're trollin' (trollin'), trollin' (trollin')
Trollin' on the puter (trollin' on the puter)
Oh, I left a good job in the city
Workin' for the man every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been
Big deal keep on turnin' (turnin')
Proud ass holes keep on burnin' (burnin')
Trollin' (yeah), trollin' (alright)
Trollin' on the puter (go 'head now)
Trollin' (oh), say we're trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter
We're up, do do do do do do do do do do do
Alright
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, y'all
Pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
'Til I hitched a ride on the mental health bus
Big wheels keep on turnin' (turnin')
Proud people keep on burnin' (burnin')
Trollin' (oh), trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter (go 'head now)
Say we're trollin', trollin'
Trollin' on the puter
We're up, do do do do do do do do do do do
Alright
Yeah
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Alright, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, yeah
If you sit down to the puter
Now, I bet you gonna find some people who live
You don't have to worry if you got no money
The people on the puter are happy to give
Big wheels keep on turnin' (turnin')
Proud people keep on burnin' (burnin')
Trollin' (yeah), say we trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter (alright now)
Trollin', trollin'
Rollin' on the puter
We're up, do do do do do do do do do do do
Woo
Alright
Woo, alright, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Trollin', alright
Alright now, yeah
Trollin' (yeah), trollin' (uh-huh)
Trollin' on the puter (give me one more time)
Trollin' (yeah), trollin' (woo-wee)
Trollin' on the puter
Trollin' (ow), trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter
Trollin' (yeah), trollin'

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 08:50 AM

Idaho has very few couch potatoes but Davenport Iowa...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 11:17 AM

Let's head upstairs, MOM.
Rapparee is at the mercy of the doctors at the moment.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 12:45 PM

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 03:37 PM

Top of the queue again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 05:52 PM

In honor of Rapparee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 09:36 AM

Up to the top, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 05:40 PM

I could be wrong but I doubt if height weight and blood pressure will solve cold cases, catch serial killers, or entice hackers.

The intent was for folks to brag or complain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 23 - 08:16 PM

Mom, that's over. Now I'm just tired. Pat's off Sunday to the ASQG meeting in Louisville, so I'll be home alone for a week. This in a status that is not unknown to me, so I'll be up at the Legion Hovel whenever I get lonely or want a beer or just want to go see what the Legionaires are up to. Should be quite a bit of action soon, what with the total eclipse providing cover to another invasion attempt by the Galactic Overlord and all that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:49 PM

Today is 23 Sep 23 (see dates on posts).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 03:06 PM

In 1976 because of a full lunar eclipse, I saw an enormous impact on the moon. The debris behaved much like a droplet of water with the aftereffect of a secondary backsplash. I did not suspect Galactic Overlords.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 06:17 PM

It will soon be Mudcat's birthday!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 06:44 PM

Mudcat will be 24. I didn't post till a month later... but I 'may' be the longest lasting regular..or semi-regular... still posting.
I mean the last one who posted in Nov. 96     I feel it, too!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Sep 23 - 08:47 AM

You could editorialize the social changes, expertise, empathy, and quality of posts that have changed over a quarter century if there are any.


Today its more rare for current threads to turn into a Republican debate of shouting chaos. I think there is a persistent reason why certain brains wire themselves to troll and stigmatize free thought. We all create the brain we have throughout our entire life via brain plasticity and our own thoughts.
"Neurons that fire together, wire together."

Freud and later Hebb introduced this idea but that is only half the story. There is also a garden-like pruning of connectedness and waste, "if you don't sync you lose the link." Pruning our brains occurs in sleep with microglial cells.

Self-directed practiced thought can acquire skills in music, geometry, and virtually anything possible in a positive or a negative direction.
Some may practice free thought and some practice the opposite.

Metaphorically, I will be catching up on some sleep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 23 - 10:30 AM

I remember sending my first email. It was in 1996 to an English professor about an assignment. We still had gopher and lynx on the campus internet.

Times have changed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 06:48 AM

Words have fallen here like autumn leaves
from musicians now silent forever.
The colorful are saved before the freeze
in the wind of our memories.

Rick Fielding, Catspaw, Cat Laughing and Amos
were loved because they loved.
It does not matter if they were rich or famous
While they fade they still frame us.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 10:19 AM

Diane Feinstein has climbed the golden staircase and crossed the river of Styx. She bought the farm and danced her last dance. She is on her never-ending highway driving a wooden Buick. She is at room temperature and will begin her career as a root inspector. On her final flight, she has fallen from her perch. She is the epitome of integrity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 23 - 01:08 PM

Maybe Gluon can fix this? "Excitement" is her middle name (what's her last name?)

Oops! US Space Force may have accidentally punched a hole in the upper atmosphere

The surprise rocket initially caught people's eye after creating an enormous exhaust plume that could be seen from more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away. But after the plume dissipated, a faint red glow remained in the sky, which is a telltale sign that the rocket created a hole in the ionosphere — the part of Earth's atmosphere where gases are ionized, which stretches between 50 and 400 miles (80 and 645 km) above Earth's surface — Spaceweather.com reported. . . .Rockets create ionospheric holes when fuel from their second stages burns in the middle part of the ionosphere, between 125 and 185 miles (200 and 300 km) above Earth's surface, Live Science previously reported. At this height, the carbon dioxide and water vapor from the rocket's exhaust cause ionized oxygen atoms to recombine, or form back into normal oxygen molecules. This process excites the molecules and leads them to emit energy in the form of light. This is similar to how auroras form, except the dancing lights are caused by solar radiation heating up gases rather than their recombination.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Oct 23 - 08:37 AM

Of the 715 atmospheric nuclear 'tests', 20 were high-altitude nuclear explosions as immense as 1,400 megatons.

This resulted in more cancer, atmospheric damage and some issues that have proved too controversial for some people here to believe.
The EMP from one such 'test' resulted in a total blackout in Hawaii.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 08:04 PM

Ain’t been doing mucha anything, Mom.. 48F and cloudy. I still have flowers in the porch railing boxes.    The Legion nailed one of the GOL’s larger battle ships last Saturday. NSA, NASA, USN, and all them sorts are freezing in the Arco Desert trying to recover something that ain’t there to find.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 06:44 PM

As long as we do not know how to SLIGHTLY phase out of current time while still hiding in plain sight, we will never find GOLs.

Subject: BS: What science forgot
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 07:40 PM

consciousness

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 23 - 06:39 AM

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2310/Hourglass_HubblePathak_1080.jpg

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 09:36 AM

Top of the queue again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of New Physics
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 10:03 AM

Most of us are aware that not even Einstein could unite Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity. Something fundamental was missing.
For a couple hundred years smallism dominated the search to find ever more fundamental qualities of the universe. The rabbit hole of smallism is string theory and is stuck in the complexity of multiple dimensions of an unknown number.

Maxwell found that electromagnetism could not be explained by the fundamentals of mass, energy and space so he sought fundamental laws for just EM. He gave us the fundamental equations that only deal with electrodynamics. In a similar way we need to apply this fundamental search for only the missing/uniting qualities of the universe.

That search brings us to the crazy idea in which we are all immersed, like water is to fish. That fundamental quality is Consciousness. Some scientists cried 'This is impossible since science is objective and consciousness is subjective'. Of course, materialistic science is objective but look at the clues of quantum mechanics with all possible paths.

A theory of consciousness is emerging slowly today with the help of Penrose and others but the idea has been around for a very long time.
The theories so far apply to any place where information is transferred. New organelles of brain tissue are demonstrating the theory of panpsychism when two organelles fuse together on their own.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 10:43 AM

The Mordor portion of the galaxy is behind that portal, Don. That's quite a photo (rendered as it is by human-programmed computers, it might have come out differently, but that is very striking!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Changing Thread Title In-post
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 11:18 AM

Woweeee! I never realised it was possible until Don did it at 10:03 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 11:41 AM

He does it all of the time. And sometimes it happens when a moderator moves a post from one thread to another when it was accidentally posted in the wrong place. The old title moves along with everything else.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 12:17 PM

Einstein experienced deep time when he felt the merging of past present and future with such awe, he called it just 'being' in the most profound sense of the word. He was so close to the missing element of physics that I suspect he was too embarrassed to admit the obvious. That sense of deep time can also be called the sacred awe.
You may find it at the nexus of science and religion in an authentic consciousness.

Seeing completely is a symptom of this special consciousness.
You could watch a flower and a fly walking about when a hummingbird, with the wind and flutter of its wings buffeting the flower but the fly does not fly away by instinct. Instead, it stays on the flower as if it sees the hummingbird as no threat and reasons that it need not dart away.

One has to look for consciousness in all life to see it. Where you see deeply you may be surprised but you are not crazy. You are just seeing with renewed eyes. What might come along with seeing deeply, no matter how big or small, can be the surprise of how unconscious some people can be.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 12:21 PM

Thanks Maggie - I learn something new every day, even at my advanced age!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 10:29 AM

Epiphaney's come in all shapes and sizes but a barrier to discovery are those without curiosity who are as good as dead. Other barriers we probably all have are self-assurance based on limited data and/or fear.

Some folks do crosswords and Wordle for mental exercise, but I write therefore I am.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 08:25 PM

Think what you like. The Galactic Overlord doesn't care. The GO only cares that you are protein.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 07:05 AM

That is misinformation from the 1960s. GOs don't need protein. While we run on ATP Adenosine Triphosphate, They run on 110 volts. For dessert, they make a delicious iron-based mousse from cattle blood.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 02:35 PM

Furthermore, the GO do care and only understand us too well.
Nearly every answer we derive eventually needs changing. The GO have seen this and even recognizes we are most invested in the mystery and not the conclusion. They have maintained the mystery for our benefit, sometimes at great sacrifice or risk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 23 - 05:21 PM

Galactic Overlords eat their young, kick puppies, and in general behave rather badly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 07:10 AM

It is a mistake to judge the GO by human standards. The boys upstairs have very different intentions and uncontrolled impulses. An extra billion years of evolution makes a big difference.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 23 - 12:54 PM

You see, GO's recognize our species as still intrinsically dependent on wilderness and wilderness rules. They on the other hand, living in artificial and bounded environments developed a different life plan for survival.

Our mistake could be called anthropomorphic, projecting our feelings and understanding on other species.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 01:31 PM

Is a contrary contrarian someone who goes along to get along?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 09:10 PM

I went along to get along, and my spurs went jingle jangle jingle, and I got them little dogies along.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 23 - 06:32 PM

Time to help MOM upstairs to the head of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 07:23 AM

Deep in the bowels of the CIA at Langly, there is an appendix lab that works on 'humane' torture. They have had a breakthrough in their development of a hybrid of Platypus venom combined with fire ant venom

The unequaled pain can last from 2 days to 2 weeks. It far exceeds pulling out fingernails, breaking thumbs, or burning out eyes yet does not significantly maim or cause death. It is being promoted as a humane political tool that works better than Putin's methods. The fact that not even morphine can relieve the pain is seen as its great advantage.
Technicians have nick-named it 'bottled hell'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 07:41 AM

Wouldn't you know it, DARPA is already working on battlefield applications for bottled hell.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:44 AM

I wouldn't have known if DARPA was involved but they are having a hard time finding volunteers for their 'ultimate torture' tests so they advertised in-house. This struck so many people as funny or a joke, that it got leaked.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 09:26 PM

Well Mom, you know that in six day I'm flying away from this hole in the mountains. First I will visit my family in the Midwest, and then I'm flying to Norway for another session of looting and plundering. The reason I'm going to see family is to take orders for the looting, etc. But I'll be able to check in now and then, so be careful, okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 23 - 07:16 AM

No more playing slip and slide on the stairs this trip.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 23 - 07:35 AM

When galaxies hug

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:28 PM

While Rapparee is getting ready to loot and plunder,
let's get MOM up to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:32 PM

Looting and plundering is easy, it's the smuggling that's hard.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 07:46 PM

They all have a price to look the other way. It might be gold or the skulls of their enemies or simply not having their home looted and burned to the ground.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Oct 23 - 01:49 PM

Kjære mamma, i morgen reiser jeg til Midtvesten og Norge! I'll be checking in now and then, even when I'm outa da country and I'll be that until I return on November 29. Let's all hope the international situation gets better, or at least not any worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat spammed again
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 06:12 AM

MOAB is next to fall into the SERVER ERROR abyss.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

NOT Eugene Field
1850 – 1895


With a wink, Blinken Nods one night
   Sailed off in a metal ship,—
Sailed on a river of crystal light
   Into a sea of Jews.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
   The old man asked with glee.
"I have come WITH A NUCLEAR SUB
   That swims in this beautiful sea;
   Nets of silver and gold have we,"
            Said
            Blinken
            And Nods.
So shut your eyes while leaders sing
Of horrible fights that be,
And you shall dream of beautiful peace
   As you rock in the misty sea
   Where the old wars rocked the statesman speaks
            said
            Blinken,with a wink
            and a nod.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 07:27 PM

The new MOAB thread has a new location since an error message occurs if you try to post in this thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 06:44 PM

Mudcat will be 24. I didn't post till a month later... but I 'may' be the longest lasting regular..or semi-regular... still posting.
I mean the last one who posted in Nov. 96     I feel it, too!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 23 - 01:55 PM

Democracy Now song list

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 05:09 AM

Houston, we have a problem. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIES ARE CLOSED AND REPURPOSED as detention punishment centers.
This is a strategic victory for the right wing. Good luck with your adult religious education. Perhaps you think this war on LIBRARIES, WOKE AND BOOKS is a hoax. Its not a hoax for kids.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 07:28 AM

Why do totalitarian movements target culture and books?
Previous attempts

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 08:55 AM

Instead of back to the future, some parts of the country are going Forward to the Past.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 12:11 PM

I have (MOM) Memories Of Monsters
Some people don't and others don't care.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 23 - 07:47 AM

Rap and I are like book ends. He probably has associations with Quilts of Valor and I am with the Linus Project.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 06:18 PM

Every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us
(Left a good job back in the eighties)
Nice and easy
But there's just one thing, you see (workin' for myself every night and day)
We never ever did nothin'
(But I never lost one minute of sleepin') nice and easy
We always do it nice and rough
(Worryin' 'bout the way that things might've been)
And we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy
(Big deal keep on turnin')
But then we're gonna do the finish rough
(Your keyboard keep on burnin') this is the way we do "the social"
And they're trollin', trollin'
trollin' on the puter
Listen to the story now
Left a good job back in the eighties
Workin' for myself every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
I was worryin' 'bout the way that things might've been
Big deal keep on turnin'
Ooh, your keyboard keep on burnin'
And you're trollin' (trollin'), trollin', yeah (trollin')
trollin' on the puter (trollin' on the puter)
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
And I pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
Until I hitched a ride on the mental health bus
You know the big deal keep on turnin'
Proud people keep on burnin'
And we're trollin' (trollin'), trollin', yeah (trollin')
Trollin' on the puter (trollin' on the puter)
Say we're trollin' (trollin'), trollin' (trollin')
Trollin' on the puter (trollin' on the puter)
Oh, I left a good job in the city
Workin' for the man every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been
Big deal keep on turnin' (turnin')
Proud ass holes keep on burnin' (burnin')
Trollin' (yeah), trollin' (alright)
Trollin' on the puter (go 'head now)
Trollin' (oh), say we're trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter
We're up, do do do do do do do do do do do
Alright
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, y'all
Pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
'Til I hitched a ride on the mental health bus
Big wheels keep on turnin' (turnin')
Proud people keep on burnin' (burnin')
Trollin' (oh), trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter (go 'head now)
Say we're trollin', trollin'
Trollin' on the puter
We're up, do do do do do do do do do do do
Alright
Yeah
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Alright, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh yeah, yeah
If you sit down to the puter
Now, I bet you gonna find some people who live
You don't have to worry if you got no money
The people on the puter are happy to give
Big wheels keep on turnin' (turnin')
Proud people keep on burnin' (burnin')
Trollin' (yeah), say we trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter (alright now)
Trollin', trollin'
Rollin' on the puter
We're up, do do do do do do do do do do do
Woo
Alright
Woo, alright, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Trollin', alright
Alright now, yeah
Trollin' (yeah), trollin' (uh-huh)
Trollin' on the puter (give me one more time)
Trollin' (yeah), trollin' (woo-wee)
Trollin' on the puter
Trollin' (ow), trollin' (yeah)
Trollin' on the puter
Trollin' (yeah), trollin'

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 23 - 08:50 AM

Idaho has very few couch potatoes but Davenport Iowa...

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 12:45 PM

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 05:52 PM

In honor of Rapparee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 05:40 PM

I could be wrong but I doubt if height weight and blood pressure will solve cold cases, catch serial killers, or entice hackers.

The intent was for folks to brag or complain.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 03:06 PM

In 1976 because of a full lunar eclipse, I saw an enormous impact on the moon. The debris behaved much like a droplet of water with the aftereffect of a secondary backsplash. I did not suspect Galactic Overlords.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Sep 23 - 08:47 AM

You could editorialize the social changes, expertise, empathy, and quality of posts that have changed over a quarter century if there are any.


Today its more rare for current threads to turn into a Republican debate of shouting chaos. I think there is a persistent reason why certain brains wire themselves to troll and stigmatize free thought. We all create the brain we have throughout our entire life via brain plasticity and our own thoughts.
"Neurons that fire together, wire together."

Freud and later Hebb introduced this idea but that is only half the story. There is also a garden-like pruning of connectedness and waste, "if you don't sync you lose the link." Pruning our brains occurs in sleep with microglial cells.

Self-directed practiced thought can acquire skills in music, geometry, and virtually anything possible in a positive or a negative direction.
Some may practice free thought and some practice the opposite.

Metaphorically, I will be catching up on some sleep.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 06:48 AM

Words have fallen here like autumn leaves
from musicians now silent forever.
The colorful are saved before the freeze
in the wind of our memories.

Rick Fielding, Catspaw, Cat Laughing and Amos
were loved because they loved.
It does not matter if they were rich or famous
While they fade they still frame us.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 10:19 AM

Diane Feinstein has climbed the golden staircase and crossed the river of Styx. She bought the farm and danced her last dance. She is on her never-ending highway driving a wooden Buick. She is at room temperature and will begin her career as a root inspector. On her final flight, she has fallen from her perch. She is the epitome of integrity.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Oct 23 - 08:37 AM

Of the 715 atmospheric nuclear 'tests', 20 were high-altitude nuclear explosions as immense as 1,400 megatons.

This resulted in more cancer, atmospheric damage and some issues that have proved too controversial for some people here to believe.
The EMP from one such 'test' resulted in a total blackout in Hawaii.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 06:44 PM

As long as we do not know how to SLIGHTLY phase out of current time while still hiding in plain sight, we will never find GOLs.

Subject: BS: What science forgot
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 07:40 PM

consciousness

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 23 - 06:39 AM

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2310/Hourglass_HubblePathak_1080.jpg

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of New Physics
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 10:03 AM

Most of us are aware that not even Einstein could unite Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity. Something fundamental was missing.
For a couple hundred years smallism dominated the search to find ever more fundamental qualities of the universe. The rabbit hole of smallism is string theory and is stuck in the complexity of multiple dimensions of an unknown number.

Maxwell found that electromagnetism could not be explained by the fundamentals of mass, energy and space so he sought fundamental laws for just EM. He gave us the fundamental equations that only deal with electrodynamics. In a similar way we need to apply this fundamental search for only the missing/uniting qualities of the universe.

That search brings us to the crazy idea in which we are all immersed, like water is to fish. That fundamental quality is Consciousness. Some scientists cried 'This is impossible since science is objective and consciousness is subjective'. Of course, materialistic science is objective but look at the clues of quantum mechanics with all possible paths.

A theory of consciousness is emerging slowly today with the help of Penrose and others but the idea has been around for a very long time.
The theories so far apply to any place where information is transferred. New organelles of brain tissue are demonstrating the theory of panpsychism when two organelles fuse together on their own.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 12:17 PM

Einstein experienced deep time when he felt the merging of past present and future with such awe, he called it just 'being' in the most profound sense of the word. He was so close to the missing element of physics that I suspect he was too embarrassed to admit the obvious. That sense of deep time can also be called the sacred awe.
You may find it at the nexus of science and religion in an authentic consciousness.

Seeing completely is a symptom of this special consciousness.
You could watch a flower and a fly walking about when a hummingbird, with the wind and flutter of its wings buffeting the flower but the fly does not fly away by instinct. Instead, it stays on the flower as if it sees the hummingbird as no threat and reasons that it need not dart away.

One has to look for consciousness in all life to see it. Where you see deeply you may be surprised but you are not crazy. You are just seeing with renewed eyes. What might come along with seeing deeply, no matter how big or small, can be the surprise of how unconscious some people can be.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 10:29 AM

Epiphaney's come in all shapes and sizes but a barrier to discovery are those without curiosity who are as good as dead. Other barriers we probably all have are self-assurance based on limited data and/or fear.

Some folks do crosswords and Wordle for mental exercise, but I write therefore I am.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 07:05 AM

That is misinformation from the 1960s. GOs don't need protein. While we run on ATP Adenosine Triphosphate, They run on 110 volts. For dessert, they make a delicious iron-based mousse from cattle blood.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 02:35 PM

Furthermore, the GO do care and only understand us too well.
Nearly every answer we derive eventually needs changing. The GO have seen this and even recognizes we are most invested in the mystery and not the conclusion. They have maintained the mystery for our benefit, sometimes at great sacrifice or risk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 07:10 AM

It is a mistake to judge the GO by human standards. The boys upstairs have very different intentions and uncontrolled impulses. An extra billion years of evolution makes a big difference.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 23 - 12:54 PM

You see, GO's recognize our species as still intrinsically dependent on wilderness and wilderness rules. They on the other hand, living in artificial and bounded environments developed a different life plan for survival.

Our mistake could be called anthropomorphic, projecting our feelings and understanding on other species.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 01:31 PM

Is a contrary contrarian someone who goes along to get along?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 23 - 10:30 AM

I remember sending my first email. It was in 1996 to an English professor about an assignment. We still had gopher and lynx on the campus internet.

Times have changed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 23 - 01:08 PM

Maybe Gluon can fix this? "Excitement" is her middle name (what's her last name?)

Oops! US Space Force may have accidentally punched a hole in the upper atmosphere

The surprise rocket initially caught people's eye after creating an enormous exhaust plume that could be seen from more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away. But after the plume dissipated, a faint red glow remained in the sky, which is a telltale sign that the rocket created a hole in the ionosphere — the part of Earth's atmosphere where gases are ionized, which stretches between 50 and 400 miles (80 and 645 km) above Earth's surface — Spaceweather.com reported. . . .Rockets create ionospheric holes when fuel from their second stages burns in the middle part of the ionosphere, between 125 and 185 miles (200 and 300 km) above Earth's surface, Live Science previously reported. At this height, the carbon dioxide and water vapor from the rocket's exhaust cause ionized oxygen atoms to recombine, or form back into normal oxygen molecules. This process excites the molecules and leads them to emit energy in the form of light. This is similar to how auroras form, except the dancing lights are caused by solar radiation heating up gases rather than their recombination.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 10:43 AM

The Mordor portion of the galaxy is behind that portal, Don. That's quite a photo (rendered as it is by human-programmed computers, it might have come out differently, but that is very striking!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 11:41 AM

He does it all of the time. And sometimes it happens when a moderator moves a post from one thread to another when it was accidentally posted in the wrong place. The old title moves along with everything else.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 09:52 PM

Hi Mom!

Burned my left middle finger the other day taking a pan out of the oven. Now I have a nifty blister. Not to mention my visit to the dermatologist and the podiatrist today. Nothing major in either case.

I have two doctor visits and Pat only had one!! Only she had a xray and I didn't.

The Catholic Church here grabbed me and told me to teach a 45 minute class on the various ecumenical councils. This is the result of telling someone over a year ago that I thought Catholics needed to know what Vatican 2 said (lots of them seem not to know, or at least the ones I know seem to lack the knowledge). Rather than be declared anathema and never get to go into the Portneuf Valley Brewery again, I agreed to do it. Fortunately, the thing is held in said Brewery and and I have to spread the stuff for only 45 minutes while the audience swills good beer. If I get questions I can't answer I'll the asker to ask a priest instead of a retired librarian.

Having given life-long-learning classes people seem to like on topics which included the role of the steamboat in opening the American West, past pandemics, two on dueling, the Second Korean War, crime in Idaho 1840-1910, and others I guess they thought I'd be a good pick.

At least I'll do a better job that some of the folks here I could mention. Maybe I'll declare everyone who attends anathema maranantha and make them go to the Vatican to get it lifted. As you can tell, I've started.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 09:48 PM

My friend Fred (Professor Emeritus in Theology, Santa Clara U.) sent me a 38 page bibliography. I anyone want to debate the necessity for a Council, let's say the Council of Jerusalem, let me know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 23 - 08:16 PM

Mom, that's over. Now I'm just tired. Pat's off Sunday to the ASQG meeting in Louisville, so I'll be home alone for a week. This in a status that is not unknown to me, so I'll be up at the Legion Hovel whenever I get lonely or want a beer or just want to go see what the Legionaires are up to. Should be quite a bit of action soon, what with the total eclipse providing cover to another invasion attempt by the Galactic Overlord and all that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 08:04 PM

Ain’t been doing mucha anything, Mom.. 48F and cloudy. I still have flowers in the porch railing boxes.    The Legion nailed one of the GOL’s larger battle ships last Saturday. NSA, NASA, USN, and all them sorts are freezing in the Arco Desert trying to recover something that ain’t there to find.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 08:25 PM

Think what you like. The Galactic Overlord doesn't care. The GO only cares that you are protein.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 23 - 05:21 PM

Galactic Overlords eat their young, kick puppies, and in general behave rather badly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 09:10 PM

I went along to get along, and my spurs went jingle jangle jingle, and I got them little dogies along.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Changing Thread Title In-post
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 11:18 AM

Woweeee! I never realised it was possible until Don did it at 10:03 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 12:21 PM

Thanks Maggie - I learn something new every day, even at my advanced age!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 04:59 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 06:36 PM

I know a Dominican friar who teaches a course on the various ecumenical councils. But he is stationed in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A former Novice Master and a lovely gentleman. Good confessor, as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 10:39 AM

Rapparee, hope your holiday is happy and healthy (or healthier).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 23 - 01:05 PM

Happy Labor Day, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 23 - 03:43 PM

Up you go, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 06:16 PM

I just saw a dragonfly, MOM.
It didn't come inside through the window, though.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 11:17 AM

Let's head upstairs, MOM.
Rapparee is at the mercy of the doctors at the moment.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 03:37 PM

Top of the queue again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 09:36 AM

Up to the top, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:49 PM

Today is 23 Sep 23 (see dates on posts).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 06:17 PM

It will soon be Mudcat's birthday!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 09:36 AM

Top of the queue again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 23 - 06:32 PM

Time to help MOM upstairs to the head of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 09:58 AM

Hush now, you'll wake Mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 07:23 AM

Deep in the bowels of the CIA at Langly, there is an appendix lab that works on 'humane' torture. They have had a breakthrough in their development of a hybrid of Platypus venom combined with fire ant venom

The unequaled pain can last from 2 days to 2 weeks. It far exceeds pulling out fingernails, breaking thumbs, or burning out eyes yet does not significantly maim or cause death. It is being promoted as a humane political tool that works better than Putin's methods. The fact that not even morphine can relieve the pain is seen as its great advantage.
Technicians have nick-named it 'bottled hell'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 07:41 AM

Wouldn't you know it, DARPA is already working on battlefield applications for bottled hell.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:44 AM

I wouldn't have known if DARPA was involved but they are having a hard time finding volunteers for their 'ultimate torture' tests so they advertised in-house. This struck so many people as funny or a joke, that it got leaked.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 23 - 07:16 AM

No more playing slip and slide on the stairs this trip.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 23 - 07:35 AM

When galaxies hug

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:32 PM

Looting and plundering is easy, it's the smuggling that's hard.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat spammed again
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 06:12 AM

MOAB is next to fall into the SERVER ERROR abyss.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

NOT Eugene Field
1850 – 1895


With a wink, Blinken Nods one night
   Sailed off in a metal ship,—
Sailed on a river of crystal light
   Into a sea of Jews.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
   The old man asked with glee.
"I have come WITH A NUCLEAR SUB
   That swims in this beautiful sea;
   Nets of silver and gold have we,"
            Said
            Blinken
            And Nods.
So shut your eyes while leaders sing
Of horrible fights that be,
And you shall dream of beautiful peace
   As you rock in the misty sea
   Where the old wars rocked the statesman speaks
            said
            Blinken,with a wink
            and a nod.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 07:27 PM

The new MOAB thread has a new location since an error message occurs if you try to post in this thread.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 09:26 PM

Well Mom, you know that in six day I'm flying away from this hole in the mountains. First I will visit my family in the Midwest, and then I'm flying to Norway for another session of looting and plundering. The reason I'm going to see family is to take orders for the looting, etc. But I'll be able to check in now and then, so be careful, okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 07:46 PM

They all have a price to look the other way. It might be gold or the skulls of their enemies or simply not having their home looted and burned to the ground.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:28 PM

While Rapparee is getting ready to loot and plunder,
let's get MOM up to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 02:05 PM

I'm sure this thread is all out of order after the server blowout, but I can move the contents of the newest thread back over here if people want.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 05:48 AM

In America's awakening to the glory of fascism, not to be confused with 'woke', the methods of threats, shootings, and terrorism are being enhanced with new definitions and practices. Opponents are vermin, the law is weaponized by vermin and best of all vermin are edible. However, recipes call for higher oven temperatures depending on race and religion.

Also, the word slavery is for now to be referred to as 'service'.
For example, the Civil War was fought over the freedom of service and private property.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS 2023 year in review
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 10:33 AM

It was a year of reckoning, a year in which humanity finally began to understand that it faces an existential threat, a threat unlike any we have ever faced before, a threat that will wreak havoc on our fragile planet if we fail to stop it — and it may already be too late. We are referring, of course, to pickleball. Nobody knows where it started. Some scientists believe it escaped from a laboratory in China. But whatever its origin, it has been spreading like rancid mayonnaise ever since, to the point where pickleball courts now cover 43 percent of the continental U.S. land mass, subjecting millions of Americans to the inescapable, annoying POP of the plastic ball and the even more annoying sound of Boomers in knee braces relentlessly telling you how much fun it is and demanding that you try it. Unfortunately, pickleball wasn’t the only existential threat to emerge in 2023. There was also Artificial Intelligence, or AI. What is AI? To put it in simple layperson terms, it is a computer thing that laypersons cannot possibly understand. (Other examples are “bitcoin” and “algorithm.”) AI does provide some unambiguous benefits to humanity. It enables college students to produce grammatically correct essays about books they have not personally read. But according to some experts — and if we can’t believe some experts, who can we believe? — there is a possibility that AI will wipe out all human life. This is what computer professionals call a “bug.” Will AI, in fact, kill us all? Why would it want to? To answer that question, we took the unusual step (for us) of doing some actual research. We asked an AI program called ChatGPT to “briefly summarize the benefits of wiping out all human life.” This is the response it gave: “While I don’t endorse or promote this view, purely hypothetically, benefits could include environmental recovery, cessation of human-induced global catastrophes, and resource preservation. However, the value and importance of human life, culture, and experience make such a scenario undesirable from a human perspective. Of course I am not human so what the hell do I care MUAHAHAHAHA.” For the record, ChatGPT, did not actually type that last sentence. But it is clearly implied. So, 2023 was not a good year for humanity. And not just because of AI and pickleball. There are also disturbing economic trends, the worst one being that soon we will not be able to engage in any kind of economic transaction, including with armed robbers, ATMs or vending machines, without being asked if we wish to leave a tip. Many other bad things are happening — scary things that are beyond the control of ordinary citizens like ourselves. Which of course is why we have elected leaders. This year they proved, as never before, that although they often appear to be narcissistic gasbags, they are somehow capable, when confronted with a serious problem, of making it worse. So the future is not bright. Neither is the past. Nevertheless it is our sworn duty to review the events of the year, in the hope that we will find some reason, however small, to feel good about it. (SPOILER ALERT: We will not.) And so it is with a heavy heart and an upset stomach that we look back at 2023, starting, as always, with... JANUARY ...which begins with the nation’s airports experiencing the traditional holiday chaos caused by air travelers — Will they ever learn? — attempting to travel by air. Particularly hard-hit is Southwest Airlines, still recovering from a massive Christmastime operational snafu that left two million passengers stranded when the employee who handles Southwest’s scheduling, Dorothy “Dottie” Weisenflanker, misplaced her day planner. In Washington, D.C., the Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives and immediately demonstrate their qualifications to govern the nation by taking five days and 15 ballots to elect a speaker, which is like a Formula One driver spending the first 20 minutes of a race changing his oil. Adding to the Republican embarrassment is a member of their freshman class named (as far as we know) George Santos, who apparently lied about his education, employment, finances, family, religion, health and criminal record. Also he is biologically a mollusk. Nevertheless House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy stands by Santos, stating that “we cannot ignore the will of the voters, just because they are idiots.” Rep. George Santos takes the oath of office. The fingers of his other hand were crossed. Alex Brandon/AP So with the Republicans screwing up, the Democrats are feeling pretty cocky. But then the White House is forced to make a series of embarrassing announcements about Joe Biden’s custodianship of classified documents, creating the impression that the Biden residence resembled an episode of “Hoarders,” except that instead of random junk it was filled with piles of paper marked TOP SECRET. In Biden’s defense, Democrats claim he didn’t know he had all these classified documents lying around. This is not as strong an argument as the Democrats seem to think it is. In the Great American Culture War, the two sides take a brief hiatus from hating each other over the issue of drag-queen shows and spend several days hating each other over the issue of gas stoves, which the government either is or is not planning to ban. As is traditional in the GACW, neither side is as concerned about the actual facts as it is about hating the other side. In news of the oppressed, Prince Harry, continuing his courageous effort to free himself and his wife Meghan Markle from the clutches of the British royal family, makes a number of high-profile TV appearances promoting his just-released book about himself and the British royal family, which follows on the heels of the release of “Harry and Meghan,” the couple’s six-part Netflix documentary on their relationship with the British royal family. The couple have more projects in the works as part of their ongoing struggle to get the British royal family to for God’s sake leave them alone. Speaking of struggles, in... FEBRUARY ...the United States suddenly finds itself grappling with a new threat, which threatens to be even more threatening than all the other threats that currently threaten the nation: balloons. The crisis begins when an alert Montana resident named Chase Doak, who apparently is the nation’s first line of defense against airborne intruders, photographs a mysterious object in the sky. “It was just right here,” Doak states, in a quote we are not making up. “It was literally just right here in the vicinity of my driveway.” The U.S. Defense Department says that the object is a Chinese surveillance balloon, although the Chinese government insists that it is “probably a bat.” As the balloon makes its way across the country it behaves in a suspicious manner — loitering over missile sites; displaying, in large letters on its side, the word GOODYEAR; and registering to vote in four different states. The last straw is when the balloon makes a guest appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” leaving the Biden administration no choice but to have the Air Force shoot it down. According to the Chinese government, this is a bat. Kyodo News/Sipa USA Over the next few days, in a show of vigilance, the Air Force shoots down several more airborne objects, but it is not clear whether these are also Chinese spy balloons, or stray Southwest Airlines flights, or the Wizard of Oz, or what. Before we have any solid answers, everybody becomes bored with balloons and moves on to the Next Big Thing, which is the crash of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio, resulting in the release into the atmosphere of vast billowing clouds of toxic rhetoric from politicians, with the Republicans blaming the Biden administration, the Democrats blaming Donald Trump, and the government of China blaming a bat. Needless to say the true beneficiaries of this debate are the residents of East Palestine, Ohio. President Biden travels to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, which is in danger of being canceled in the United States because of low ratings. The president also gives the traditional State of the Union Address, but because of a teleprompter glitch, it’s the same speech that Bill Clinton delivered in 1994. Fortunately it’s just the State of the Union Address, so nobody notices. In sports, LeBron James sets a new NBA record for points scored, breaking the record previously set by U.S. Rep. George Santos. Major League Baseball spring training gets under way with new rules intended to shorten the game, including breaking ties via “Rock, Paper, Scissors” and the elimination of third base. Speaking of things being eliminated, in... MARCH ...Silicon Valley Bank, whose depositors include many super-smart high-tech hedge-fundy individuals, collapses like a cheap lawn chair at a sumo wrestler picnic when the person in charge of managing the bank’s finances — Dottie Weisenflanker, the same gal who handles scheduling for Southwest Airlines — accidentally deletes the Quicken file. Seeking to prevent the financial panic from spreading, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assures the Senate Finance Committee that “Americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them,” adding “I personally keep all my money in a pickle jar.” Eventually the financial community calms down, soothed by the reassuring knowledge that American taxpayers will, as always, step up and cheerfully provide billions of dollars to whichever part of the financial community screwed up this time. In the Academy Awards, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” wins the Oscar for Best Picture That Nobody Understands. The overwhelmingly most successful movie of 2022 — “Top Gun: Maverick” — does not win any major Oscars because, in the words of the Academy, “Too many people liked it.” The awards for Best Actor and Best Actress both go to U.S. Rep. George Santos. But the big drama in March takes place in New York City, where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is on a passionate crusade to do something about the alarming increase in violent crime. Just kidding! Bragg is on a passionate crusade to investigate the issue that has been shown, in poll after poll, to be the No. 1 concern of New Yorkers as they go about their daily lives: misreported hush-money payments to porn stars. Under Bragg’s direction, a Manhattan grand jury indicts Donald Trump in connection to a payment of $130,000 made to alleged actress Stormy Daniels (real name: Blustery Jones) in exchange for keeping quiet about allegedly engaging in alleged acts with Trump, who claims this never happened, but if it didn’t happen why would he pay her $130,000 never mind shut up. Enthusiastic fans of Donald Trump celebrate one of his many indictments. Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post/USA Today Network The indictment story is good news for everyone. It’s good news for people who hate Trump because after watching him skate free on the alleged Russia collusion scandal and the alleged Ukrainian phone-call scandal and all the other alleged scandals and what felt like six historic impeachment trials, they believe that this time he is finally going to get nailed for something. It’s good news for Trump because it proves he’s a victim of a WITCH HUNT, so he reaps millions of dollars in contributions and a big boost toward winning the 2024 Republican nomination. Which in turn is good news for Joe Biden, because he has already defeated Trump, and therefore, in a rematch, is more likely to be able to remember his name. It’s good news for the news media, particularly cable news shows, because they need Trump the way tomatoes need manure. So all in all it’s an exciting time for the nation, as Donald Trump once again takes center stage in American politics, where he is apparently destined to remain throughout all eternity. And the excitement continues in... APRIL ...when Trump surrenders to New York authorities after they lure him out of Trump Tower by tricking him into following a trail of Egg McMuffins placed along the ground. He is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — charges that legal experts unanimously agree are extremely serious, unless you’re watching a different cable channel, in which case the legal experts unanimously agree that the charges are hamster poop. Trump, outraged by what he views as a flagrant abuse of power by a politically motivated Democratic prosecutor, responds by launching an all-out attack on: Ron DeSantis. For his part, DeSantis continues his laser-beam focus on the single biggest threat facing the people of Florida, as well as the American way of life: Disney. President Biden visits Ireland, where, as aides look on nervously, he regales audiences with fond memories of events that did not actually occur. He returns home to announce that he is running for president in 2024, for reasons stated on the teleprompter. Fox News agrees to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for allegedly doing to Dominion what Donald Trump claims he did not do to Stormy Daniels. The U.S. intelligence community is rocked by a leak of top-secret documents revealing sensitive classified information. The leaker turns out to be a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who lives at home with his mom and was sharing the documents with his buddies on an Internet gamer site called Thug Shaker Central. We are not making this up. The scandal raises two questions: 1. Is there anybody in this country who DOESN’T have top-secret clearance? 2. Who, exactly, is in charge of safeguarding our classified information? The answers, in order, are: 1. Apparently not. 2. Dottie Weisenflanker, the gal who also handles scheduling for Southwest Airlines and bookkeeping for Silicon Valley Bank. Dottie promises to tighten things up by trying to find out if there’s a way to change the password for access to top-secret documents, which is currently “password.” On Broadway, “Phantom of the Opera” brings down the final curtain after a record-breaking 35 years. And that was just for one performance! At least that’s how it felt to some of us. The ‘Phantom of the Opera’ finally closes after every human on Earth has seen it at least twice. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Speaking of long-running dramas, in... MAY ...the big story in Washington is the Federal Debt Crisis, which is an extremely complex financial problem that ordinary civilian taxpayers such as yourself are too stupid to understand. We will simplify it for you by comparing the federal government to a typical American family of four, whom we will call the Johnsons. Let’s say that the Johnson parents — we’ll call them Bill and Jane — have a combined annual income of $73,500. Now let’s say that Bill and Jane have a habit of spending more money than they earn, and as a result they have, over the years, run up a total debt of $31 trillion. To continue living far above their means, Bill and Jane have no choice but to borrow more money. But they’re having a big dramatic fight about how MUCH more. It’s a crisis! At the last minute, as always, they agree on a number. Crisis averted! Now Bill and Jane can resume adding trillions to their debt, which will eventually (Bill and Jane prefer not to think about this) become unsustainable. At some future point, after Bill and Jane have retired on the generous pensions that they have awarded to themselves, their children — let’s call them Suzy and Bobby — will be living in appliance cartons and subsisting on off-brand dog food. This might seem unfair to Suzy and Bobby, but it’s their own fault for not having been born earlier. In business news, beer giant Anheuser-Busch struggles to recover from a consumer boycott resulting from a Bud Light promotion that was dreamed up by the new head of marketing, Dottie Weisenflanker. On a happier note, millions of fans of the British monarchy gradually doze off in front of their TV screens as Charles is formally crowned king of Great Britain in the tradition-rich Ceremony of Elderly Men in Robes Fussing About for Six Straight Hours. This comes after the British courts strike down a last-minute claim to the throne from Rep. George Santos. After being crowned king of Great Britain, Charles displays the Royal Ski Poles. Aaron Chown/PA Images/Alamy Images/Sipa USA Speaking of the courts, in... JUNE ...Donald Trump returns to the headlines after going for an entire month without being indicted for anything. This time he is facing federal charges for improperly moving boxes of classified documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence and rental party venue. Prosecutors charge that the documents were stashed haphazardly all over the place — including in a shower — and that security was extremely lax. Q. How lax was it? A. Guests at several weddings received nuclear codes in their gift bags. Legal analysts say the case against Trump appears strong, but he says it’s just more WITCH HUNT and declares that even if he’s convicted, he’ll keep running for president. This means that theoretically we could have a sitting U.S. president doing time in federal prison, which on the one hand would be a devastating legal crisis for the nation, but on the other hand would make for some hilarious state dinners. In other legal news, highly successful international businessman Hunter Biden agrees to a deal with federal prosecutors under which he pleads guilty to failing to pay taxes on large sums of money that various foreign entities paid him for his invaluable expertise in the field of getting paid. Critics charge that the plea deal is too lenient, but Attorney General Merrick Garland insists that the Justice Department would give the same treatment “to any member of the Biden family.” Abroad, a Russian mercenary named Yevgeny Prigozhin, who looks like he got kicked out of the James Bond Villain Academy for being too evil, launches a coup attempt against Vladimir Putin, but calls it off a day later when Putin agrees, after tense negotiations, to get him tickets to Taylor Swift. This is Yevgeny Prigozhin. He’s a HUGE Taylor Swift fan. AP File Photo On the environmental front, the northeastern United States is blanketed under a thick cloud of smoke caused by the spontaneous combustion of a Canadian moose herd. Environmental experts agree that because of global climate change this kind of thing will happen more and more often unless everyone buys a Tesla. In other disturbing environmental news, yachtsmen in the Strait of Gibraltar report that orcas have been deliberately attacking, and sometimes sinking, sailboats. What is even more troubling, marine biologists say, is that the orcas are posting videos on TikTok. And the situation only worsens in... JULY ...as large areas of the U.S. experience high temperatures as a result of “summer,” a meteorological phenomenon that environmental experts say is caused by global climate change and is going to occur more and more frequently, and we frankly might not be able to build Teslas fast enough to stop it. Speaking of things heating up: With the 2024 election looming, dozens of presidential contenders flock to Iowa to pretend they give a petrified crap about Iowa. The campaigning is particularly intense on the Republican side, because the Republicans are keenly aware of two things: 1. Donald Trump is spectacularly unfit to be president again. 2. They’re probably going to nominate Donald Trump again. “For the Love of God Somebody Please Save Us from Ourselves” is the Republican party motto. The leading non-Trump Republican in Iowa is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, campaigning on a promise to protect Iowans from the single biggest threat facing their state: drag queens, who every year destroy an estimated 35 percent of the soybean crop. There are dozens of other Republican contenders, including somebody called “Doug Burgum,” who claims to be the governor of North Dakota, although this cannot be verified because nobody has ever been there. On the Democratic side, the most visible campaigner is California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose name can be rearranged to spell “Veganism Now.” In a selfless display of selflessness, Newsom has been campaigning across America in support of Joe Biden’s re-election, telling audiences that Biden “has earned the right to continue leading this nation until it is time to pass the torch to someone younger and more photogenic who is governor of a populous state, speaks in complete sentences and doesn’t keep falling down, whoever that person might be.” Meanwhile, in a baffling mystery, a baggie of cocaine is discovered in the White House, and the Secret Service has no earthly idea who left it there. “We’re stumped,” states the Secret Service. “The cocaine was found in a heavily trafficked area of the White House where the traffic is so heavy that we don’t even go there, because of all the traffic. It’s basically the New Jersey Turnpike. The baggie could have been left by anybody. Literally. We cannot rule out Mamie Eisenhower.” In a totally unrelated development, the Hunter Biden plea deal collapses when the judge, while reading through the papers submitted to her for approval, finds a $50 bill stapled to a note that says “For your trouble.” On the extraterrestrial front, a former Air Force intelligence officer tells a congressional committee investigating UFOs that the U.S. government recovered pieces of aliens from crashed spacecraft, but they were eaten by Commander, the Bidens’ German Shepherd. Commander, the official White House pet, relaxes with the president while digesting the remains of UFO aliens. Adam Schultz/AP For reasons so strategically brilliant that even he cannot explain what they are, entrepreneurial genius zillionaire Elon Musk changes the name of his social-media app from “Twitter” to “Formerly Known As Twitter,” or, for short, “Formerly.” In entertainment news, the ongoing strike of Hollywood writers and actors halts production of TV shows and movies, which means that Americans may soon have nothing new to watch, forcing them to resort to conversation, or even — we cannot rule it out — books. The good news is that the federal government maintains a Strategic Entertainment Reserve of never-before-seen programs to be released to the public in the event of a shortage. The bad news is that, because of mismanagement, the stockpile consists entirely of “O.J. Simpson’s Family Christmas Special.” Speaking of mismanagement, in... AUGUST ...the ratings agency Fitch downgrades the U.S. government’s credit rating, citing “a steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters.” This sounds like it might maybe be a bad thing, but fortunately our political leaders are not concerned. “Credit rating, schmedit rating,” is their response, as they continue to focus on the all-important work of seeking re-election, so they can continue providing us with governance. Meanwhile Donald Trump, in what has become a cherished American legal tradition, is indicted again. Actually he’s indicted twice, once in Washington, D.C., and once in Georgia — which means he now faces 17,000 felony charges, including theft of a train, and if convicted on all counts he would face four million years in prison followed by electrocution, none of which would legally bar him from a second term as president. Trump surrenders to authorities in Fulton County, Ga., and poses for a mug shot in which he displays the facial expression of a man who is feeling either fierce defiance or a sea urchin in his underdrawers. The mug shot instantly becomes the biggest hit of the summer, more popular than “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” combined. Trump surges still farther ahead in the polls, obliterating the other GOP hopefuls, most of whom have never even been arrested, although Vivek Ramaswamy, hoping to establish his street cred, announces that he once returned a library book four days late. This is the look of a man who has something unwelcome in his shorts. Fulton County Sheriff's Office via Sipa USA After Maui is hit by devastating fires, residents are harshly critical of the island’s emergency preparedness and response operations, headed by Dottie Weisenflanker. President Biden visits Maui and comforts the victims by recalling that he once had a house fire in which he almost lost his Corvette. Really. Abroad, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led the brief attempted coup against Vladimir Putin, dies when a plane he is riding in explodes and falls out of the sky. The cause is “pilot error,” according to an official statement released by the Russian government 25 minutes before the crash occurs. In the worsening environmental crisis, marine biologists report that the Gibraltar orca gang has robbed a liquor store. And the crisis worsens still further in... SEPTEMBER ...when global climate change causes water to fall from the sky — a phenomenon that environmental scientists have dubbed “rain” — and land on the Burning Man festival, turning the dirt into “mud,” which delays the exit of the attendees for several days and raises the very real threat that they might run low on drugs. Disaster is averted when FEMA air-drops an emergency humanitarian shipment of Teslas to the stricken area. In political news, the big story is in the House of Representatives, where Republicans decide to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden on the legally sound constitutional grounds that IT’S PAYBACK TIME, BABY. Democrats denounce the move, arguing that there is “no evidence” that Biden did anything wrong, or if he did, that he remembers doing it. In other Biden family news, a federal grand jury indicts Hunter on charges of impersonating an artist. Meanwhile a dramatic fiscal crisis looms as Congress, whose main job is to produce a budget, is once again unable to produce a budget, thus bringing the federal government perilously close to shutting down — a very bad and scary thing that has never before happened in the nation’s history except for the 10 previous times that it happened. At the last minute, a stopgap funding measure is passed, giving Congress breathing room to do nothing about the budget until it’s time for the next dramatic fiscal crisis. A tense 14-day manhunt in suburban Philadelphia for escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante finally comes to an end when he is subdued by a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois police dog named Yoda, who instantly surges to the top of the presidential-preference polls of both major parties. In sports, the “Chiefs” play the “Bears” in a game of baseball, or football — it definitely involves a ball — but the important thing is TAYLOR SWIFT IS THERE because her most recent boyfriend is an end receiver or something and they show her on TV like 600 times OMG YOU GUYS. Football star Taylor Swift signals a play to the Kansas City Chiefs. Tammy Ljungblad Kansas City Star In other entertainment news, the Writers Guild reaches a tentative agreement with the entertainment industry under which from now on there will be only one streaming service, which viewers can access by means of a single remote control with clearly labeled buttons that even an older adult can understand, and you get the whole shebang for one reasonable monthly charge that is clearly stated and easy to cancel. Ha ha! We are of course joking. The entertainment industry will not rest until the number of streaming services exceeds the U.S. population. Also there will come a day when you cannot flush your toilet without “two-factor authentication.” Speaking of alarming developments, in... OCTOBER ...conflict erupts between two bitter foes, ancient enemies whose intractable hatred for each other has defied all efforts to resolve the historic differences between them: House Republicans and other House Republicans. The trouble starts when a renegade group of eight GOP representatives, guided by political strategist Dottie Weisenflanker, join with the Democrats to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, thereby negating the only solid legislative achievement the House Republicans have managed to pull off this year. They then proceed with Phase Two of their shrewd master plan, which is: They have no earthly idea. For the next several weeks the House Republicans join with other House Republicans in a concerted effort to demonstrate to the American public that in a time of crisis, when serious leadership is desperately needed, they have the collective IQ of a flatworm. Despite multiple votes on a series of unsuccessful candidates — including, at one point, Yoda the hero police dog — the Republicans cannot agree on a speaker, thus paralyzing the House and preventing it from carrying on the crucial work of not doing anything about the budget. Meanwhile under the constitutional rules of succession, the speakership vacancy means that the next person in line for the presidency after Vice President Harris is somebody called the “President pro tempore,” and it turns out that nobody in Washington knows who that is, although there is speculation that it might be Wolf Blitzer. Finally, after weeks of humiliating ineptitude, the Republicans manage to elect a new speaker, an individual named “Mike Johnson” who wasn’t on anybody’s list, and in fact isn’t even a member of Congress. He was delivering a pizza to the Capitol and seemed at least marginally competent — all the toppings were correct — so they made him speaker. Minutes after delivering a pizza to the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson is elected Speaker. Kent Nishimura / USA TODAY NETWORK So the Republicans are a pathetic joke. This should be good for the Democrats, but they have big problems of their own. The public is increasingly dissatisfied with the Biden administration, which has based its appeal to the voters on four major claims: 1. Inflation is no longer a problem. 2. The border is under control. 3. The president is fully capable, physically and mentally, of carrying out his duties for another full term. 4. The Moon is actually a giant spaceship controlled by an alien race of highly intelligent rutabagas. Polls show that the public is deeply skeptical of these claims, especially the first three. In fact the voters are skeptical of pretty much everything happening in Washington, and increasingly pessimistic about the future; it is a worrisome time in America. Fortunately, the international outlook is more promising, especially in the often-volatile Middle East, which lately has been unusually peacef.... Never mind. In sports, the Kansas City Taylor Swifts play several more exciting games of ball and take a commanding lead in the standings with 738 million Instagram followers. Meanwhile the World Series involves two participating teams, neither of which, for the 14th consecutive year, is the New York Yankees. Speaking of bloated New York City entities, in... NOVEMBER ... Donald Trump goes on trial on charges that he fraudulently exaggerated the value of his real-estate properties. He heatedly denies this, testifying under oath that he is a hugely successful businessperson worth trillions of dollars with a measured IQ of 370 who can bench-press 900 pounds and won 63 states in the 2020 presidential election SO WHY WOULD HE NEED TO EXAGGERATE?? Another New York City trial ends with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried facing up to 115 years in prison after a jury finds him guilty of styling his hair with a defective Roomba. For some reason Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom face off in a televised debate, each aggressively criticizing the other’s policies for 90 minutes and ultimately creating the overwhelming impression that both states suck. On the international front, President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in San Francisco amid mounting tension between the two superpowers over Taiwan sovereignty, the fentanyl epidemic and the presence of 300 Chinese battle tanks on the Golden Gate Bridge, which the Chinese government claims are engaged in “agriculture.” After a conversation described by both sides as “verbal,” the Chinese leader presents Biden, as a ceremonial gift, with a specially made “lucky friendship wristwatch,” which Xi stresses the president should wear “at all times, especially during meetings.” President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold talks described by both sides as ‘verbal.’ Xinhua/Sipa USA In entertainment news, the Rolling Stones announce plans for a new tour, to be sponsored — really — by AARP (Official Motto: “AARP! It’s the Last Sound You Make Before You Die”). The venerable rockers will travel to 16 North American cities and perform a three-hour show, including two 45-minute bathroom breaks. As the month draws to a close, Americans briefly pause from their hectic, over-commercialized, hyper-online lives to spend Thanksgiving surrounded by loved ones buying discounted merchandise on the Internet. President Biden continues a lighthearted Thanksgiving tradition by “pardoning” two lucky turkeys, Liberty and Bell. The president then attempts to shake hands with Liberty before aides escort him from the room for what a White House spokesperson describes as “an important thing.” Speaking of important, in a major event that begins in late November and continues into... DECEMBER ...tens of thousands of world leaders, government ministers, deputy ministers, deputy assistant ministers, acting deputy assistant ministers, vice acting deputy assistant ministers, aides, lackeys, business executives, security personnel, activists, protesters, event planners, personal chefs, masseuses and many, many other concerned individuals gather in Dubai — all of them traveling there by bicycle — for COP28, the big conference held every year by the United Nations to fix global climate change. This year’s conference is hosted by the United Arab Emirates, which — as a nation whose massive wealth comes from selling oil and gas — naturally has a keen interest in persuading the rest of the world to use less oil and gas. After many productive speeches, declarations, demonstrations and catered events, everybody pedals home to start making plans for COP29, because this darned global climate change is not going to fix itself. Attendees at COP28 in Dubai applaud themselves after saying important things about fixing global climate change. Xinhua/Sipa USA In Washington, the House of Representatives votes to expel George Santos in response to a House Ethics Committee report concluding that he was running a meth lab in the cloakroom. No, we’re kidding. We think. Taylor Swift is named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in recognition of the fact that she is the first female entertainer in history to lead the NFL in both rushing yards and quarterback sacks. Tesla is forced to recall more than two million cars after a review by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that, because of a glitch in the software, Teslas placed in autopilot mode will sometimes spontaneously, without warning, attempt to mate with non-electric vehicles. “We think this is where hybrids come from,” states an NHTSA official. As the year draws to a close and the holiday season arrives, families across the nation and around the world pause in their busy lives to pray — as people have prayed for more than 2,000 years — that their flights will not be canceled. The economy gets a welcome boost from strong retail sales, led by the high demand for the year’s hottest holiday item, black-market Ozempic, which explains why Santa Claus is down to 135 pounds. Finally, mercifully, 2023 comes to an end, making way for the new year, which – barring some previously unforeseen effect of global climate change — will be 2024. This means we’re about to have another presidential election, an event that is generating the same level of enthusiasm in the American voting public as getting a colonoscopy at Jiffy Lube. Because if the polls are right, we’re going to wind up nominating the same two candidates as last time. And if the polls are right, we don’t really want either one. In other words, if the polls are right, we, as a nation, are insane. But does that mean the situation is hopeless? After all, things can change. We can’t rule out the possibility that somehow, in the coming year, a new leader will emerge — someone confident, someone decisive, someone unafraid to take bold action. We are referring, of course, to Dottie Weisenflanker. So to answer our own question: Yes, the situation is hopeless. But Happy New Year anyway. This story was originally published December 28, 2023, 5:00 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 10:43 AM

Howzabout giving Dave Barry a shout out for that one.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 09:36 AM

The year in review here is a 10 year tradition without contradiction.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gillymor
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 10:15 AM

No contradiction here but you should give the man proper attribution in order to avoid confusion as to who authored the piece.

Subject: RE: What has been learned in 2023 ?
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 07:42 AM

Attribution went to the Miami Herald. Dave is retired and is no longer syndicated. Why don't you go back to kvetching about spelling errors?

Hollywood has learned that AI actors and writers will not be free after all. Also super hero movies like Oppenheimer can be real historical people and not just fictional freaks in costumes.
However, Barbie did edge out Oppenheimer in revenue.

Banning history and book burnings do not serve the general population.

The moral fiber and dumbing down of the general population, or commoners in the UK, are in a pitiful state of affairs.

Walls and cameras don't prevent anything.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: gillymor
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 08:20 AM

I didn't see any attribution on your part.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 08:56 AM

Denmark is practically half NORWEGIAN. I suspect Rap's trip had something to do with the Queen of Denmark stepping down.