MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 27 Mar 23 - 03:10 PM

3 4 0 0 ! !

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 - 03:06 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 18 Mar 23 - 07:11 PM

Thats a lucky photo.

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: 14 Mar 23 - 07:35 PM

Hell is empty, all the devils are here.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 06 Mar 23 - 09:27 AM

Jupiter and Venus

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 01 Mar 23 - 06:06 AM

You can feed some of the people crap...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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.