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MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 10 Oct 24 - 08:41 PM Even Nessie can't digest all that hair on Highland cattle. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 10 Oct 24 - 04:19 PM A dispatch from the Mudcat Tavern for the Bewildered links to a story from the Scottish Highlands that a herd of special cattle is to be located close to Loch Ness. Maybe the Loch Ness Monster will come out and devour them. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 10 Oct 24 - 11:36 AM Let's get you upstairs before Rapparee sees you down here. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 05 Oct 24 - 01:41 PM Mom! Just what did I tell you?! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Sep 24 - 07:42 PM Mom! Tell her to get up there and stay up there! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 28 Sep 24 - 06:09 PM Believe it or don’t, but our drinking water is pumped from the aquifer. It is minimally treated for nitrates (farming and ranching country), examined and treated for waterborne pathogens, and pumped to the city. Very little treatment overall. The mountains act as a natural filter as the stuff soaks to the aquifer. On the other hand, slurping down some from a creek up in the hills will almost certainly guarantee you a case of giardiasis or worse. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:34 AM Oh, and our local river occasionally has enough water to float a stick, but we wouldn't be able to tell the stick from the sewage by colour. It's even worse than the Ankh, especially in high summer. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 27 Sep 24 - 11:17 AM Apologies, Rap: my thoughts had flown to the gnarly-county part of Carpe Jugulum. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 27 Sep 24 - 10:15 AM No, not Agnes. Her name was Clementine and her daddy was a miner and she raised ducklings to help with the family bills. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 24 Sep 24 - 11:15 AM > the story that a betrayed young maiden decided to > throw herself from a bridge and end it all, but only > sprained her ankle when she landed, is a folktale Was she called Agnes? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 24 - 08:05 PM I have a secret about doing this sort of thing. I figure that if it's interesting to me it's probably interesting to others. So I can use presenting a class as a reason to research something and buy books about it. Like a few years ago when I did a class on "Pandemics Of The Past" for this sort of thing. COVID was going on and there was all sorts of talk about whether or not it was real, if it was dangerous, and if so what did people do about such things as plagues in times gone by. I became interested and did some research and put together a presentation on past epidemics. Most of the audience was by Zoom but it seemed to be well received. I got a question about the title of one, "The Recent Crime Wave in Idaho, 1840 to 1910" but I answered that it's just a nanosecond ago in geologic time. AND I got to look up the crooks, and there were a lot of them. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 22 Sep 24 - 08:37 PM The river that flows here is the Mighty and Powerful Portneuf, which sometimes carries enough water to float a stick (the story that a betrayed young maiden decided to throw herself from a bridge and end it all but only sprained her ankle when she landed is a folktale). So no, we didn’t even visit Mink Creek or Pocatello Creek. I, however, grew up on the banks and water of the Upper River and have steamboated from St. Paul to Nawlins, as well as being personally involved with the Hudson, Potomac, Columbia, Tehana, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Tombigbee, Yazoo, intercostal waterway, St. Lawrence River and Seaway, and other such waters. Mostly it was putting a bunch of stuff together in a way that made it interesting. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 21 Sep 24 - 04:36 PM Librarians rule! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:41 PM Good job! Did this involve actually going to the river or getting onto a boat? MOM would love that! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 18 Sep 24 - 01:25 PM Yes, I am still around. Yesterday I gave a class (Life-Long Learning sort of thing) entitled something like "Riverboats, Steamboats, and the Growth of America." It went okay, and I even got applause because I didn't sing anything. I went on for 90 minutes, and talked to about 60 people if you count the Zoomers. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 17 Sep 24 - 07:12 PM It's been a long time since any BS from Donuel appeared here. At least Rapparee is still at large. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 14 Sep 24 - 03:38 PM There must be a witty post one could put on this thread about the eating of dogs and cats (see: second presidential debate), but I can't come up with it myself for some reason. I suppose because I don't think it's all that funny. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 12 Sep 24 - 04:13 PM I'm surprised there isn't any BS over here from the presidential debates ... |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 07 Sep 24 - 10:57 AM Mom's kid Amos Jessup for President! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 05 Sep 24 - 03:08 PM For president? I guess you could do worse than a president who crashes periodically. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 03 Sep 24 - 02:11 PM Another boost upward for Moab's daughter. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 30 Aug 24 - 09:09 PM MOM MOAB FOR PRESIDENT!!! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Aug 24 - 02:59 PM MOAB has a tough time competing with the realtime BS going on in our political landscape. She's feeling a bit abandoned. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 30 Aug 24 - 02:13 PM Up to the top of the queue before you disappear. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 25 Aug 24 - 09:43 AM Like mother, like daughter. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 24 Aug 24 - 07:02 PM Ahem. This is her Daughter, as opposed to MOAB herself. The latter seems to be in permanent crash mode. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 24 Aug 24 - 05:06 PM MOM!!! You git back up where you belong! Enough of this gutter sniping, young lady! I mean it! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 19 Aug 24 - 06:21 PM MOM!!! You git back up where you belong! Enough of this gutter sniping, young lady! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 18 Aug 24 - 02:49 PM Bumping her back upstairs for now. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Aug 24 - 11:43 PM Skykomish, Swinomish, Snohomish, Wahkiakum, Skagit, Yakima, Kittitas, Skamania, Walla Walla - and those are the anglicised versions of the names. The Pacific Northwest has some great names. You want a good password? Try Whatcom or Nooksack. Add a couple of symbols for letters and you're set. No codebreaker will ever defeat it. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 12 Aug 24 - 08:06 PM Not the Nimiipuu? Or the Haudenosaunee? Or the Absaalooke (little though they are)? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Little Hawk Date: 12 Aug 24 - 11:30 AM I think the Potawatomi win the prize! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 10 Aug 24 - 02:46 PM In New England it would include Wampanoag. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 09 Aug 24 - 08:56 PM How about the Salish, the Tlingit, the Potawatomi, the Shoshone, the Abseroka? "Yes, I'd like the Abseroka, medium rare, with the Tlingit Salish, and I'll have the huckleberry Shoshone for dessert." |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Aug 24 - 05:00 PM Okay, what sounds weirder as a Native American tribal name...the Kickapoos or the Passamaquoddy? And then there are the Penobscots, who do not hail from Scotland. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 08 Aug 24 - 03:22 PM MOM! You will never guess what I get to do this evening! For example, right now I'm dictating this! Directly dictating this! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 07 Aug 24 - 08:16 AM up to the top of the queue. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Aug 24 - 11:56 PM And some of those folks are in the Annex before the last crash also. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 05 Aug 24 - 08:11 PM You can search for me, for Amos, for any number of people Bee-dubya-ell is a good one, as is MMario. I'll post more of our brethren as I think of them. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Aug 24 - 06:33 PM You can see parts of it but it involves searching on individuals who posted to it and then looking at their posts and going from there. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 04 Aug 24 - 06:01 PM Humble suggestion: Is it possible to arrange for the Old Thread to be viewed one page at a time, eg by using the link-to-first-page links on the index page, while keeping the full thread closed? I'm fully aware I'm flouting my own "don't say JUST" rule here, as there'll doubtless be some severe magic underneath each such link which needs no further complication. .... Or did I suggest that before? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 04 Aug 24 - 12:15 PM Goddard to to top! |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Aug 24 - 08:30 PM It was! But I think that what happens is that trolls or whoever does DNS stuff open it several times in a row and that ties up the Mudcat bandwidth. If you go to your own posts and look for those that went to the MOAB you can see it piecemeal. There are ways. . . I suggested to Max that he probably needed to pull the plug if we want to use the rest of the site. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 02 Aug 24 - 05:59 PM Ah well! It was nice to see Mom again, even briefly. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 02 Aug 24 - 02:20 PM Well, that was quick -- the Mother of all BS Threads is closed for repairs now. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 Jul 24 - 11:19 PM MOM's working - the original thread (for now, anyway) - BS: The Mother of all BS threads. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 25 Jul 24 - 06:52 PM I’m back home and plodding again through medical appointments. The last of the trip laundry is done. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Date: 25 Jul 24 - 10:00 AM Hope you are safely back Home, Rapparee. |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jul 24 - 09:59 AM Brunch and dinner today, then to St. Louie and fly back. The reunion was fun, saw relatives I hadn’t seen in years. Gluon showed up, of course, and tried to hump Ziggy (a pug) who objected vociferously. No fights, no real excitement like in the past. The only cops who showed up were retired family members. Ah well. Ou sont les neiges d’antan? |
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Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Date: 19 Jul 24 - 08:44 PM Tomorrow, the reunion of my maternal side of the family. |
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