MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]

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!!!