MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 04:44 PM

Hands down Rap got the last post on the resurrected MOAB thread.
What parodies and poetries
of the thread are dead and
lost forever to never
be seen again.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 09:31 PM

Turns out that putting all the Trump post eggs in one basket was a bad idea. History is written by the winners. Destroying counter histories is part of that process.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 09:55 PM

It turns out the daughter of the King of BS, Ivanka, suffered injuries from a malfunctioning court X-ray security machine. The 'extruded plastic implants' in her nose face and breasts de-adhered and sagged from the overheated radiation. An emergency plastic surgery procedure will try to reverse the accident to change the result that resembles Rosie O'Donnell.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 23 - 09:36 AM

PS the PM feature is disabled for me.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 23 - 03:16 PM

I did not know that about Roseanne.

MOAB has been a sanctuary for the biggest whoppers as well as the deepest truths, art, and confessions.
In the last 5 to 8 years the police and federal government have used a technology called Stingray made by Harris Corporation and its clandestine use has been reported in the WSJ. It can be handheld, driven around, or fly high by drone over populations that have cell phone use. It acts like a cell tower that takes everything without permission. Untold numbers of immigrants have been located and all their data collected. It has also been used to collect all the data of protesters like the women's march after the Trump inauguration. What is wrong with this practice is that a search warrant is not requested to take all of the data. Its like the 4th amendment has disappeared.

Many aspects of our current information crises are covered in the documentary 'Web of Make Believe', death lies & the internet.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 23 - 04:18 PM

btw transmogrification is seldom seen on Mudcat. The Republican party has also undergone a transmogrification.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 07:03 AM

Is it only below the line that is torn asunder?

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 07:27 AM

There is a health innovation that is prone to AI discovery that is too complex for the human mind. It is the folding of proteins in our cells that are governed by our genes. The errors in the shape of proteins are relatively many and either correct themselves or sends cells into self-destruct mode. There are hundreds of disorders and disease systems that can result from misshapen proteins. Some may make you feel like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed and others can cause retinitis pigmentosa or dementia. We did reverse a couple malformed proteins and restored vision in mice but doing so for humans and the hundreds of cooperating genes is well in the future.

We used to crowd source computer space to solve protein problems but AI may speed up this process. Put a pin in it.

Subject: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 10:06 AM

The original Mother of all BS threads had 59238 posts when it expired, and many thousands more lost in a couple of major Mudcat crashes.

The MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] has a puny (but poetic) 3636 posts. It has died the death of a thousand 500 codes, kept from dropping off the bottom of the page solely with infusions of posts transferred there by moderation.

This thread is one that will look at some of the historic original posts. Because you can see them if you know where to look - the original folks who posted there all have post histories that include their MOAB posts, even if you can't open the thread itself. So posting links to a few of the original participants will help revisit MOM's glory days, when Tweed and Khandu and Amos and Bee-dubya-ell and others dropped in to tell stories and share poetry.

I'll move over a couple of the last posts from the [annex] thread to see if we can give this one some legs to run with, so this "first" post will probably drop down the list some.

---

How's this for a little Mudelf magic? There are posts from the original MOM thread! ---mudelf

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 05:23 PM

There's an error message on the MOAB/annex thread, so the BS will have to live here.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 07:31 PM

I tried pushing a message over into the MOAB annex to point people back here, but it seems to have vanished in the ether.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Nov 23 - 11:53 AM

If you want to pick a comedian to suggest is a transmogrification for Ivanka, Rosie O'Donnell isn't the one. I'd suggest using Rosanne Barr who actually hangs out with the family and/or their attorneys.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 03:09 PM

I guess this means that
we can't post to the annex thread any more?
Then where will all the current BS go?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 08:33 AM

> The Republican party has also undergone a transmogrification.

If so, it's got the Greebo nature. Repeat-by: tickle it under the chin, then check whether your arm is still attached.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Oct 23 - 08:32 PM

Good News! The warships of the fleet of the Galactic Overlord have been determined to be ensnared in the Galactic Web! This is not expected to last long.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Nov 23 - 09:44 AM

Aw, a cute li’l baby girl!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Nov 23 - 04:31 AM

Aw, snoogie-woogie li’l woogums! You are just like your granny-wanny, always drinking from a bottle.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 23 - 10:09 AM

THE NEW OIL

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Nov 23 - 08:07 PM

Remember the asteroid movie Armageddon, here is a comet with a dust eruption. poof

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 23 - 04:35 PM

The harder the powers that be fight your FOIA request the more they have to hide.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 23 - 07:10 PM

In the war against tolerance Joe posted that he can not understand why Stilly would allow me to post ideas and history. Well when it comes to my notes on Rachel Maddow's podcast Prequel she deletes them on the grounds they are off topic philosophy.
So check out Rachel Maddow podcasts on your own to expand your sense of history.

Joe goes on to say my head is up my ass but I still believe that when history is being changed or deleted by agenda, you should know the history that is being attacked and why.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 23 - 08:47 AM

I will name the iceberg Donueland and charge fees for tourists on the mystery cruise. It is spring and summer for the iceberg and it should last until winter when a second season is possible. Icebergs melt from the bottom up at a millimeter a second. At 1000 feet thick it could really last a long time. With any luck, I hope it eventually docks in the Seychelles but Australia is possible. Comon down and beat the heat of global warming.
Up here this is the winter for discount tents so bring your tent and money for the improv restaurants via flights from South Africa.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Nov 23 - 09:08 AM

Mom? I’ll be home for supper. I’d like some of your famous barbecued chicken gizzards, please.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Nov 23 - 08:23 PM

I’m home, mom. Even te 92mph wind and 30+ foot waves didn’t get me! And I defended your honor against a scurrilous troll! He called a you a ¥£[<>§§&$@! In twelfth century Norwegian and I just couldn’t let that slide! Anyway, he’s a 30 meter high boulder now.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Dec 23 - 08:00 PM

I still can't get used to seeing a MOAB thread with so few posts in it.
Glad to hear that Rapparee is safely home and hungry as ever.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 23 - 10:14 PM

If you don't know, I fell outside my room in a hotel in Oslo, Norway. I have a REAL shiner of a black eye and my glasses frame cut a slit just below my right eyebrow. It's quite a mess and yes, there was a decent amount of blood shed (some of it got on the cover the book I had just purchased). When I finally got up I located the things I'd been carrying and got into the room, from which I called my wife. I went to the front desk and reported the incident. I chose not to go to the doctor/hospital/ambulance/etc.

When I got back home I made an appointment with my ophthalmologist and primary care medico. The latter I saw yesterday (also about a cold I have contracted) and the former today.

Apart from being achy and have an "eye area bruise" that's a real beauty, I'm just a bit vertiginous now and then. Yesterday the PCP told me to take the cough medicine and be VERY careful for a while when walking, etc. The eye doctor told me that I was "damend lucky" because apart from "giving your eye a shaking up there isn't anything I can see that's wrong." Of course, both said the come quickly or even go to the ER/AE if problems develop, stuff like flashes of light, which can indicate a detached retina. Stuff I don't want to have.

Anyway, that's the run down on my injury. The fall occurred last Sunday, five days ago.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 23 - 02:11 PM

Sorry that happened to you, Rapparee.
I had a fall last month, still nursing a hurt knee from it.
The worst part was the shock.
I was lucky that that was the worst of it.

Do what the doctor tells you, and feel better soon.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 23 - 05:29 AM

I hope steps were not involved. They can be a menace.
You could tell the Legion you had a knockdown drag-out bar room fight
over beer brands.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Dec 23 - 08:05 PM

It gets worse. Pat (my wife) went to the ER Saturday. Testing showed COVID, rhinovirus, and a couple other things. She asked to go. This is her third COVID case, she has residuals from the first two. She is taking I don’t know how many medicines right now. I’m trying to hold it all together until she’s at least a little better. She is, however, at home this time.

I told the Legion I got the eye fighting with a troll.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 23 - 05:45 AM

Idaho attacked by unknown particles WOW

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 23 - 09:49 AM

These high energy particles are evidenced in our visual spectrum.
I have felt invisible soundwaves of the deepest grand organ pipes on stage that one could feel in the lungs chest and tissues but in Maryland, I was exposed to an even deeper vibration that caused all my bones to vibrate in a manner unlike sound waves.
Horatio, there are stranger things...

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 23 - 10:25 AM

Kyoto / Idaho - easily confused with each other.

(Great photo that makes absolutely no sense but it is from NASA.)

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 23 - 12:23 PM

A carbon sink absorbs carbon back into the soil. There are ground rocks that can be spread over agricultural soil around the world that can accomplish this reabsorption.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Dec 23 - 08:18 PM

Why would I want a carbon sink? It’s hard enough to keep the one I have clean.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 09:11 AM

There are several 'To Catch a Smuggler' shows. The detection seems to be done primarily by trained dogs and Xrays. Cartels might be interested in a workaround for those 2 challenges.

Unlike enzymatic formulas that work slowly and leave odors behind, Pooph dismantles odors on a molecular level to eliminate them at the source --turning any organic odor into clean fresh air. It's as if the odor was never there! And as powerful as it is Pooph is safe for people, pets, your home, and the planet.

That leaves X-ray detection unless a product is changed to be the same density and specific gravity as the medium it is inside. Instead of dense hard bricks, a foam version of the product could render it invisible.
They would have to trade more volume for the same old dense quantity
Shhh, don't tell the criminals.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 08:28 PM

Make the shipping container out of the same material being smuggled. For instance, a suitcase made of diamond would have the same density at the diamonds being smuggled and therefore the smuggled diamonds would be undetectable on an x-ray.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 09:06 PM

Mom! Please stay away from that awful Trump thread. You know what sort of stinker he is.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Dec 23 - 08:11 PM

It was terrible awful.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Dec 23 - 12:20 AM

I watched my favorite holiday special David Zeiger documentary feature 'Sir! No Sir!'
It might be described as a therapeutic film, since it seeks to cure some small part of America's amnesia regarding our veterans.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Dec 23 - 08:25 PM

I think I’ll channel Amos for a while.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 23 - 10:41 AM

Amos says, “Can I have you for steak and follies the evening of Friday the 1st, or do you need to stay with
the Corps?”

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 23 - 10:58 AM

Only if Spaw and son can attend too. A father and son reunion is only a poet away.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Dec 23 - 07:52 PM

Gluon's skills are needed. NASA can't open the container with asteroid pieces.

It's Been 2 Months. Why Can't NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?
The space agency is having to develop new tools to crack open the canister containing bits from asteroid Bennu.

Wouldn't you know it. The lid is stuck on the jar.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 08:47 PM

Perhaps some things are better left unopened. Gluon could help but I haven't had that critter humping my leg for a coon's age.

Oops, I spoke too soon. The duckdog is baaaaack.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 23 - 09:10 PM

sleepy time song

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 23 - 07:59 PM

DAMMIT Gluon! Go hump someone else's leg right now. I've got to go get the mail...M-A-I-L, not M-A-L-E. NASA's get problems with that asteroid can. Maybe if you get inside you can open it from there?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter Might makes Right
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 06:20 AM

Every man wants to be a MAGA, MAGA man
To have the kind of weapon always in demand
Joggin' in the mornings, go man go
Workouts in the militia, muscles grow
You can best believe me, he's a MAGA man
Glad he took you down with anyone you can
Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
MAGA MAGA man ( yeah)
I gotta be a MAGA man (I gotta be a MAGA man)
MAGA MAGA man (yeah)
I gotta be a MAGA (oowh)
MAGA MAGA man (yeah)
I gotta be a MAGA maN

Body (baby), it's so good, my body (heey)
You can tell a MAGA, he has a funky walk
His western shirts and leather, always look so boss
Funky with his body, he's a king
Call him Mister Ego, dig his chains
You can best believe that, he's a MAGA man
He likes to be the leader, he never dresses grand
Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
MAGA MAGA man ( yeah)
I gotta be a MAGA man (I gotta be a MAGA man)
MAGA MAGA man (yeah)
I gotta be a MAGA (oowh)
MAGA MAGA man (yeah)
I gotta be a MAGA maN

To live a life of freedom, machos make a stand
Have your own lifestyles and ideals
Possess the strength of confidence, that's the skill
You can best believe that he's a MAGA man
He's the special god son in anybody's land
Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!
MAGA MAGA man (macho man, yeah)
I gotta be a MAGA man (I gotta be a)
MAGA MAGA man (mucho, mucho, macho man)
I've got to be a MAGA! (Dig the hair on my chest)
MAGA MAGA man (see my big thick mustache)
I gotta be a MAGA man (all right, I gotta be a)
MAGAS MAGA man (mucho, mucho, macho man)
I've got to be a MAGA! (Dig broad shoulders, yeah)
Macho, macho man (dig my muscles!)
I gotta be a MAGA man (talking about)
MAGA MAGA man (mucho, mucho, macho man)
I gotta be a MAGA (hey)
I gotta be a MAGA man
(I gotta be a mucho mucho, macho MAGA man)
(Alright, I said I'm a man, yeah!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 08:50 PM

Amos once said to me, “ You certainly jumped some vortices there,”

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Dec 23 - 11:13 AM

Tornados in volcanos foreshadow feasts in Barbados
Nature's air fryer roasts birds with divine fires
but burnin human vermin with cumin tastes like tires

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 05:03 PM

As I once and more said to Amos,


       Let Sporus tremble—"What? that thing of silk,
Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"
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.

And which I now dedicate to a certain Don Juan in Florida.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 23 - 06:58 PM

Thinking of Rapparee and his good wife Pat,
and hoping that both are recovering well from what ails each of them.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 23 - 08:19 PM

He’s here, Mom. Hear the sides of the chimney collapsing?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 03:52 PM

MMario dropped by on Christmas Eve. He said to say hello. So did Spaw.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 23 - 08:55 PM

Anyone heard from John from Hull recently?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 23 - 09:32 AM

John from Kansas settled a dispute on Friday.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 08:53 PM

Another year, another journey around the sun has been accomplished, Mom. Please simply keep your resolutions from 2005, okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 24 - 08:07 AM

As the sun orbits our galaxy our journey is a spiral around the sun ad infinitum right down to the spiral of our DNA. Even black holes spiral space-time in what we call frame dragging.

Rap why so cryptic?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jan 24 - 10:09 AM

Happy Nude Year!!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 02:03 PM

The winter doldrums are here. Is MOM ready for the snow? Does she still have a sled or has she shifted to sliding on an inner tube or a plastic slide? That will cheer her up!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 24 - 07:55 PM

Last I saw she was sliding on an ice slide downhill toward ice covered "Bottomless Lake." Had a pretty smart speed going, too. I think she was going to attempt to jump the lake.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 24 - 08:09 PM

Mom's okay. I just got a call from the police station and she's resting quietly in her usual cell. Her usual lawyer has been called, and she's eaten her usual hearty breakfast. They expect that the usual bail will be set and she'll be out again in a day or so, as usual.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 24 - 07:06 PM

A Green Winter

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 24 - 09:02 PM

That's why we go to the Arctic. It's certainly not to fall down and hurt myself.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 06:42 AM

I just heard from gnu's nephew - G.O. is at the hospital in palliative/end-of-life care.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 08:35 AM

Thinking of gnu and his surviving family at this sensitive time.
Thanks for the news, Stilly.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 24 - 08:10 PM

Gnu is no longer on this side of The Great Divide. He was one of the good ones. Hope he, Amos, Kendall, MMario, Spaw and the rest are having a great time!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 24 - 09:50 PM

As he once said to me, “                         you.”

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 24 - 01:42 PM

and the horse you rode in on.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 24 - 09:21 PM

What did my poor horse ever do to you?

Subject: RE: BS: Apple TV series - Foundation
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Jan 24 - 08:40 PM

I'm not saying anyone forgot Holocaust Remembrance Day but on Saturday I watched the 9 1/2 hour European 'Shoa' documentary.
I learned more than from all other documentaries combined.
It was in German, Polish, Yiddish, and French with English subtitles.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 24 - 08:45 PM

Mother, once again I find you associated with denizens of the lower depths, swilling cheap wine and acting like a ne’er do well. Your clothing is filthy, you hose downgyved, your purse empty of coin or bills, and I don’t know what you’ve done but there’s blood on your switchblade. Get in the cab, you’re going home. In the morning you’ll see the priest to be exorcised again.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 24 - 07:14 PM

Once again, MOM and her Daughter
need to get up to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 24 - 05:44 PM

Monday the narrow surgeon is going to drill holes in my head to let the evil spirits out. I have ordered them to avoid their friends in DC, London, and suchlike places as there are enough evil spirits there.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Feb 24 - 07:08 AM

Good luck with your timpanation. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demons-and-evil-spirits-from-idaho/id1477139871?i=1000543830448

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 24 - 08:57 AM

The Boston typewriter orchestra

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Feb 24 - 05:02 PM

The first hospital in the USA was founded by Ben Franklin.
The second largest commodity in the world is concrete.
The red team will win the Super Bowl without a doubt.

all stuff I didn't know when I woke this morning.

Subject: Its time to condemn Simon Says games.
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 09:18 AM

The 'average person' gets a bad rap.
At least I hope so. Most politicians are willing to say the average American is exceedingly stupid. Worse than that it is said stupid average people are in the majority.

IF true, those who can manipulate the average person must ensure that the average person stays stupid and never smarten up. There is plenty of evidence that the ignorance campaign is alive and well. Part of that campaign is to convince the rest of us that the average person is stupid. I believe that is a big fat lie.

Barricades to the smart average people are internet apps, cults, and weakest links to religion. Rewarding old hateful knowledge is also a strategy.

Its time to exclaim the wisdom of the average person.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 10:31 AM

So much depends on context. When headlines say "Florida man" did this or that (in the non-Trump meaning) it tends to say average or below average who you've never heard of.

If you want to do the math then in the spread, 25% would be below average, you could give the middle 26 to 50% as average, and the top IQ or some other functional measurement to the 76-100% of the group. Or you could do 33.3 for each group.

100% of the people who vote for the majority of the GOP slate of electors at least have a screw loose if they can't figure out that they're being taken to the cleaners by Trump's gang.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 11:30 AM

Hate is a far more potent emotion than love, Stilly: a red rage takes rather longer to wear off than a pink glow. That's why political attack ads work. If you can get the masses to hate someone else (eg foreigners) enough, you've got a zombie army at your command.

.... Just make sure that, when you're leading your zombie army, you don't trip over. Oh, and aim at the institutions of learning first, as critical thinking is Kryptonite to a berserker.*

* Apologies for crashing gears in mid-metaphor without using the clutch.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 02:19 PM

I was thinking more about the term "average" than I was the rest of the content in that post.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 06:00 PM

My scatter shot thoughts on the Kansas City shooting today are about the emotions of all those involved; from the politicians that allow/encourage mass shootings to the hateful shooter to all the victims wounded physically or not.

Some politicians don't care, some will feign a prayer.
The shooter had a moment of satisfaction probably stemming from bullying at some point.
The victims include 8 children with gunshot wounds. What they are feeling is beyond my comprehension.

This rips apart the spirit, destroys hope and kills safety in all celebrations.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Feb 24 - 06:11 PM

And it is a problem unique to the US, the number of gun shootings per capita.

MOM outta send Gluon out to retrieve all of those assault rifles and drop them into whatever volcano is newly churning out lava.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 08:14 AM

well oiled military weapons won't rust shut for hundreds of years.
The leading cause of childhood death isn't disease anymore.
There has never been an incident abhorrent enough to change a thing.

Sanity regarding guns will never be threatened by rational minds in America. Somehow crazy trumps common sense here.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 07:36 PM

The Invention of Race NPR listen here

Race distinction is as artificial as the Caste system.
The ancient Greeks had no concept of race, only different cultures.
Race was invented by a Portuguese man in the 14th century...

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 02:47 PM

With the sudden disappearance of my stalker, I found I was suffering from a version of the Stockholm effect. Perhaps he had found his true calling and became the author, editor, and publisher of 'Critic's Corner' where all critics of every genre were criticized.
It would have a companion book 'The Autocritocrisy of the World's Greatest Critic'.

While the book was full of glowing self-praise, 'Critics Corner' was a scathing digital profane diatribe of libelous insults. Perhaps the book propelled the online critics corner or simply the phenomenon of the most negative influencer caught on, but in no time there were more followers than on Truth Social.

This success was followed up with emails from MAGA internet threateners, Swatters, and apps from stalkers of young women influencers that have had threats via Venn diagram information of every person who was acquainted. Stalking and threatening turned out to be a huge industry.

Suddenly my exstalker was a small fish in a big sea. To be as important as he desired meant that he had to become a global villain and that did not have the appeal he had always wanted. Stopping hurt and torture had some withdrawal symptoms but soon he felt happier than before. He had time to enjoy life and lived happily ever after.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Feb 24 - 07:08 PM

The last thing J Allan Hynek showed me what he was working on was a compendium of different types of UFO shapes. There were over 30 types but the one type that has been recorded since his death that did not appear in his collection is the dynamic type that separated into many like images from three to many and form patterns or shapes.

Over the last 60 years there is a progressive change in the shape and navigation abilities. Some earlier types do not appear anymore.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Mar 24 - 01:20 PM

What is toxic is the manipulation and addiction society. We used to be a tool and skill society. Now apps on your phone, that you do not know is there; will measure your dopamine reward levels and lets you play against AI features for your attention. Its not a fair fight.

Suicide levels have doubled for adolescents exposed to social trashing techniques by other users whose playground has addictive app features.
Speaking of users, there are drug users and tech users but for other things we are customers, clients or patients.

Smart and secure people can use the internet rabbit hole to investigate many issues. The negative rabbit holes are tunnels of disinformation like Pizzagate and the holy Trump. Tools of persuasion normally move slowly Like Nazi laws that gradually criminalized a certain branch of society. Facebook and other techs can move faster.

I addressed addiction by limiting hypnosis sessions to three. More than that would be considered unnecessary but possibly helpful. Apps have no limits on there growth. AI will never solve the problem of fake news. The existential threat is as real and abusive to democracy as slavery. Laws against addictive tech is a rational eventual outcome. I hope. But I am the odd man out who does not use or carry a digital phone.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 24 - 02:25 PM

Not sure where that last post was intended to go but it didn't fit the declutter thread so is parked over here where just about everything fits in somehow or other.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Mar 24 - 08:16 AM

Once again I'm towed to the impound lot. At least there is no fine.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Mar 24 - 04:59 PM

I miss Rapparee.
His last post here said he was to be treated by a narrow surgeon?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Mar 24 - 05:30 AM

I thought he said Fresno Sturgeon.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Mar 24 - 04:46 PM

It gives all the oil and gas that it can give
But the USA just takes it all for granted
We forgive you when you hurt us
For a while we think you love the US
But all you really do is use us, what can we do, Texas
It's so hard to be a Texan
Every man is after something
Is it wrong when we give in
If we like the Constitution is it a sin
Every Walmart shooting we regret it
But it happens 'cause we let it
Is it the only way to hold you
'Cause your strong desires control you
And I just don't want to lose you, what else can we do, Texas
It's so hard to be a Texan
There is so much hate at your border
Is it wrong to let folks in
If you steal kids is it a sin
It's so hard to be a Texan
You win with the most executions
Is it wrong when you give in

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Mar 24 - 06:23 PM

I miss gnu filling my Facebook account with posts he shared. Haven't seen Rap for a little while. Hmmm. Travelling?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 06:19 PM

Worry goes to your empathetic credit. If there was bad news, it would travel faster than good news.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 06:53 PM

Every heart has tasted bitter betrayal
We all know lies but the poor swim in them
Governments are famous for their lies
In troubled times truth is told silently
like the furtive solemn glances at a funeral.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 09:39 PM

He hasn't posted on Mudcat since February 8.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 06:02 AM

As you might expect a skilled carpenter makes a superior orthopedic surgeon. The same is true of artists and astrophysicists. The reason is the skill of seeing in new imaginative ways with their mind's eye.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 09:09 AM

What a load of hooey. I was a skilled carpenter at one time, I doubt you would have wanted me to perform a hip arthroplasty on you.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 10:16 AM

gillymore, you just identified the reason for this thread. So settle in for the nonsense or find a different thread.

I texted with Rap a few days ago - he is dealing with a medical situation (again).

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 10:23 AM

Well, I'm not doing anything tomorrow, if anyone needs a hinky joint scoped, I'm your man.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 11:31 AM

Naturally, a well-trained orthopedist would benefit from well-honed carpentry skills which is not the nonsense Maggie implied.
My ultimate point is that our limited 5 senses can not image the quantum realm without a virtual imagination. Atoms are not spheres with orbiting particles like planetary mechanics. Atoms are more like vibrating energy fields that operate more like perpetual motion particle waves.

Imagination can unlock the concept that what we perceive as solid is actually empty space that also contains vibratory energy. Energy and mass are two aspects of the same thing just as space and time are a different aspect of a similar energy. It helps to have an artist's concept to imagine the reality of our quantum universe. The quality of the mind's eye and imagination is our best tool to know more of the universe and scientists speculate that we only know about 4% of reality. Math is our other best tool.

Even the art of music offers clues to the quantum world. It seems like a particle occupying the same space at the same time is a paradox but music allows for two or more frequencies in the same sound space without confusion. The wisdom of the music is that the relationship between the notes is most important in the effect it has.

It is said truth is beauty and beauty is truth. It is in our mind that beauty exists. If the universe has a consciousness it too may perceive beauty. If not, the universe is blind. I doubt that.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 11:48 AM

My musical relationship with gillmor is that of a tritone.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 11:55 AM

The skills required of an orthopedic surgeon are so far in advance of what even a master carpenter can do that what you're proposing is pure nonsense.
And SRS, you obviously know how to spell my handle correctly so please spare me the passive aggression.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 12:10 PM

Yeah, no.
You are not a victim. You are a discordant disharmony in err.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 12:19 PM

I think we have a 3 part disharmony going this morning.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 12:34 PM

The connection between art and science is particularly evident to me lately. Trial and error with experimentation separates imagination from truth. It is a slow but accelerating process.

There is such a chasm between intelligence and wisdom I would say institutional insanity has been the predominant human story so far.
Our nuclear weapon race is but one example.
US gun policy is a microcosm of the mass destruction industry.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 24 - 11:42 AM

dyslexia is a different door to perception that can have savant aspects but fails at school regimes. It is also a gift with negative externalities. Imagination and dreams make for poor science but truly great leaps do come from imaginative unlikely places in rare circumstances. These leaps are not intuitive and are often not accepted for years.

IF YOU TRY TO GRAVITATIONALIZE THE QUANTUM WORLD, people would think you are nuts since no one has succeeded with quantum gravity. However, if you allow macro gravity to convert to an electrical potential of a pair of gluons in the quantum world we may have united some important theories. Just look at dust bunnies that coalesce by electric charge or asteroidal dust that combines.

All energies seem to have the ability to exist in another form whether it is mass and energy or a neutrino which can metamorphose into a different neutrino. This notion would simplify many energy relationships. But in the meantime since we can't even find evidence for supersymmetry this idea will be put on hold.

Everyone who looks at it agrees that quantum mechanics is incomplete.
Finding its form of gravity will not complete its nature. Science has been called the new religion. It is true that most of it can be as dull as church. A great breakthrough will probably have to bypass administration.

Such a breakthrough will probably demonstrate that converting space into time may exceed the energy that converts mass into energy.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 24 - 08:58 AM

Hi Mom! Yesterday they let me out of the hospital after 34 days in durance vile.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 24 - 05:56 PM

Quark! Quark! Quark!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 24 - 06:28 PM

Good to see you back. You'll have to whip this thread into shape - too many folks want to come here to argue.

And Gilly - Passive/aggressive my ass - just bad spelling.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 24 - 06:48 PM

Rapparee, what was that earlier post about getting holes drilled in your head? Was that BS or not?
Good to see you back, your silence had me worried.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 24 - 07:02 PM

From what he told me it wasn't hyperbole. Sounds uncomfortable!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 07:52 AM

It's great the pressure is off and you're home again.
Kate Middleton has had a rough time of it as well.
That's not to say you are not one tough cookie, a jaw-breaker, and a survivor extraordinaire. Mom would be jealous.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 03:44 PM

Surgery for chronic subdural hematoma. Four burr holes drilled. Drainage that messed up the tidy operating room. 3.5 weeks rehab, still going on but at home.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 05:00 PM

The main thing is, you're home, Rapparee. You are a survivor.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 24 - 08:12 PM

Trephination refers to the process of creating a hole in the skull and, in specific cases, the nail and is one of the oldest surgical procedures documented to date. It has been used throughout history with the goal of relieving pressure; managing symptoms of head trauma, such as subdural and epidural hematomas; and accessing brain tumors. Trephination can be performed using a trephine, a drill, by scraping with an abrasive instrument, or for the hard headed, cutting with a jackhammer. Rare complications that may arise with trephination include infection and, if the dura matter surrounding the brain is damaged in the process, damage to the underlying blood vessels, meninges, and brain. Modern medicine has used trephination as part of treatments for frontal sinus disease, glaucoma, and subungual hematomas.

Newagers believe that Akashic memories and signals from the universe are enhanced with trephination.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Mar 24 - 11:39 AM

Knowing Rap, I suspect he required his surgeon to use one of the fine steel weapons he has in his collection at home.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Mar 24 - 08:40 PM

I keep getting signals from the universe, they're incoherent.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 24 - 12:14 PM

My favorite mashup movie is on, The Day After Strangelove On the Beach.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 24 - 07:03 PM

The new physics we need to be open-source is actually almost a hundred years old. Much of that tech was explored by Thomas Thompson Brown Who died in 1985. Electrogravitics was one of his inventions that used high voltage low current science. The last 20% of this video explains his contributions. An explanation how UFO's work.

Sorry but classified info is often approached obliquely.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 09:06 AM

Only two tidbits of innovative cosmology have become apparent to me this decade. 1 is that the inflation theory is far from what we are led to believe leading to a much older universe than we deduced from background microwave radiation.
2 is that black holes are space-time generators.

There is a meme that says if you don't contribute a major discovery by 30 you never will. The problem is too many people believe that is true.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 24 - 01:09 PM

I did, over a cuppa with Steve Hawking at Kings one afternoon. We came up with the whole lack hole thing. I did the thinking and he did the math.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 06:03 AM

I cannot say that I know you well
But you can't lie to me with all these books that you sell
I'm not trying to follow you to the end of the world
I'm just trying to leave something behind
Words have come from men and mouse
Oh, but I can't help thinking that I have heard the wrong crowd
When all the water is gone my job will be too
So I'm trying to leave something behind
Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread
And the ceiling is hard to reach
Oh, the future ahead is broken and red
And I'm trying to leave something behind
This whole world is a foreign land
We swallow the moon, but we do not know our own hand
Oh, we're running with the case, but we ain't got the gold
Yet we're trying to leave something behind
My friends, I belive we are at the wrong fight
And I can not read what I did not write
I've been to his house, but the master is gone
Yet we're trying to leave something behind
Now there is a beast who has taken my brain
You can put me to bed, but you can't feel my pain
When the machine has taken the soul from the man
It's time to leave something behind
Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread
And the ceiling is hard to reach
Oh, the future ahead is already dead
And it's time to leave something behind
Now, I've got this feeling that I'm still at the shore
And pockets don't know what it means to be poor
I can get through the wall if you give me a door
So I can leave something behind
Oh, wisdom is lost in the trees somewhere
Oh, you're not gonna find it in some mental gray hair
It's locked up from those who hurry ahead
And it's time to leave something behind
Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread
And the ceiling is hard to reach
When my son is a man, he will know what I meant
When I was just trying to leave something behind
And I'm trying to leave something behind
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Sean Rowe

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 07:38 AM

> I keep getting signals from the universe, they're incoherent.

Are you a radioastronomer, Rap? it's the only field I've been in where noise is the signal, and coherent signals are the noise.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 10:45 AM

Rap, has Gluon been by to see you lately?

QUARK!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Mar 24 - 06:38 PM

Yes, but didn’t stay long. Barely long enough to hump my leg eight or ten times.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Mar 24 - 02:37 PM

Well, the city golf course workers starting to clean up after the heavy snow three weeks or so back.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Mar 24 - 07:32 AM

The world's burnin at both ends
but we're waking up slowly
News is a game of pretend
and the best liars are holy

Change has always been this way
but were waking up slowly
Morning feels like a new day
The same old thing is phony

When you're waking up slowly
think of one thing you can change
and then just go out boldly
and do it even if its strange

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 24 - 06:44 PM

I awakened from a nap and picked up a book — and there was a reference to Eleanor of Aquitaine. This triggered another memory and I quietly sang all of “Quen Eleanor’s Confession.” Odd. I can remember lyrics I learned fifty years back, but not things that happened three weeks ago.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 03 Apr 24 - 06:39 AM

> I can remember lyrics I learned fifty years back, but not
> things that happened three weeks ago.

The wax of the tablet of memory gets hardened with age. Once you've seen it all, nothing new makes much of an impression.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 24 - 03:57 PM

The wax of my memory was scraped and melted for a couple of months. Right now, a drain will be installed next Tuesday and then plugged to stop the continued leak of cerebral-spinal fluid. The leak is considerably slowed but not yet stopped.   My life seems to be one medical thing after another right now.

Gluon dropped by and tried to console me with a fresh tokamak.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 10:50 AM

Thinking of you, Rapparee.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 04:40 PM

I went with a friend for a nice long ride this morning. Lots of snow up in them thar hills 'round hyar.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 24 - 07:27 PM

I seem to remember, Rapparee, that you live in
what you called the "banana belt" of Idaho.
So, along with the snow,
I hope there are soon flowers to enjoy, like crocuses.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Apr 24 - 04:14 PM

Anything interesting happening out on the golf course? Have you set up a golf ball vending machine at your back fence?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Apr 24 - 07:08 PM

With my vintage mixer I am making natural casing pastrami dogs.
Its 4 parts minced pastrami and one part Nathan's hot dog.

Today was nice with iconic puffy clouds so we went for a long walk down to Turtle Pond but it felt like it was uphill both ways.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 24 - 01:11 PM

Goodness me!   Mom, why are ou hanging out with the old folks? And shake those cigar ashes off your shawl!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 24 - 09:23 PM

Today was National Librarian Day.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 02:28 PM

Everyday is, it’s not just celebrated. WE RULE!!!

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 08:24 PM

Librarians are the secret masters of the Universe. DON'T ever piss one off.

                                 Spider Robinson

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 24 - 09:11 PM

Since the ophthalmologist I've been seeing for 20 years has retired, I had an appointment today with another one (who worked with the first and has his records). HOWEVER, he is in a practice of ophthamology only -- he can't prescribe glasses. Sooo...I have an appointment with another person who can (who also worked with my original eye doctor) at the end of May, unless there's a cancellation and they can work me in. Fortunately, the optician is still the same in the same place so getting new specs isn't a problem (save for the cost).

This is the first time in my life I've run into this situation.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 24 - 02:49 PM

Mom! Am I the only one who now cares?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Apr 24 - 03:51 PM

No, you aren't.
I was away for three days.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Apr 24 - 06:11 AM

It ain't the sixties but there are still some young people who care and believe they can change the world. After our leaders like JFK, RFK and MLK were assassinated, today there are leaderless collectives of dissent. However, there has been enough disinterest and old-time religion to turn the clock back on women 200 years. There are more guns than peace signs and more fascists than progressives in the House. There are more mass shootings than Taylor Swift songs, and more extinctions than politicians.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Apr 24 - 06:59 PM

Like MOM, like daughter:
sinking to the bottom of the queue.
Let's head back up to the top.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Apr 24 - 10:49 AM

Glucosamine Chondroitin worked on my stuck shoulder.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Apr 24 - 11:48 AM

Discontinue use if it causes death.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Apr 24 - 05:41 PM

So far today I have spent better that five (5) hours installing a new Netgear Nighthawk MESH network system here in the house. The sprinkler people come out, replaced the bent pipe comprising the top rail of the back fence, dug out and replaced TWO breaks in the main sprinkler line in the back yard, and replaced a busted sprinkler head.

I had planned to do other things today that mess with routers, satellites, IP addresses, and suchlike nonsense. Of course, neither had I planned to do what the sprinkler guys did. I had hoped to read and nap.

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 24 - 12:52 PM

The network is working fine. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT. That's why I'm down here again working on it.