MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jun 21 - 11:06 PM

Arise, Mother Dearest, and FACE THE WORLD.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 11:01 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 - 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 - 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: 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: Donuel
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 09:09 AM

Its a good day to play frisbee

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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.