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: 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.