BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'

Subject: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 04:23 PM

Anyone up for a little game? Here's how it goes;
I will start a rant. It can also be a story of some kind. In my rant I will have three words or phrases that are in quotation marks.
The next person will choose one of those words or phrases and start their rant, leaving three for the next person.
I think this could be interesting to see where it will go. How about it Cats? Are you game?


I turned on the "T.V." today and tuned into MTV to check out some music videos.
Seems like the kids are into a lot of death, war, hate and some pretty "outrageous music"
MTV has turned into a head banging session or a lot of hip-hop crap. A Korn video was showing a lot of war scenes, death and maggots.Another group was destroying all of the band equipment and their instuments, like this is a new thing . Eminem was burying his mother in a video called, "cleaning out the closet"
Now I can't say they were all bad, but generally it's just not my thing to watch these anymore.Seems like all the music has the same beat, and hard to tell one group from another.
Peace, Rustic
P.S. This is something I just made up so the rules are not set in stone, if anyone wants to add some changes. But let's have some fun!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 06:23 PM

While I was cleaning out the closet I found an unbelievable "amount of junk!" My partner, the slob, had spilled things from the top of his dresser and out of his pockets, "all over the floor" It was a mess!

Then there were the cats' strategically placed baby blankets on various shelves, covered with enough hair to make a few extra cats. So much insulation, when I "pulled them away," cold air came rushing in and we froze that night!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: GUEST,Fran
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 01:18 AM

The amount of junk that litters the hyways is "perverted." I notice most of it is from fast food places like "McDonalds" and Burger King.Is there some kind of correlation to that? I don't get it, the way people have to throw their garbage out of their "cars" like that.

Fran

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 10:15 AM

Is it a perverted "cross dressing" Santa Claus or just an out of control laundry day? A pair of pantihose full of calcium chloride sits on SINSULL's roof for all the world to see. The "roof rake" broke and then I fell on my ass. Neighbors must think I am a psycho. Home ownership may not be my "cup of tea". By the way, this is all came about after a small water stain appeared in a closet.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 10:39 AM

Plan for a new roof rake the lawn and fix the flushbox again; honey-dos never end, and the leisurely weekend has become a task list; it made me so grumpy I acted quite cross dressing in jeans and workboots and noone to offer a cup of tea or some friendly company. You "run as fast as you can" just to keep up in this life and it is plain murder on the "creative impulses" that always seem more important and never reach "the right moment" to put attention on them.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Firecat
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 02:27 PM

Mind you, at certain times, the CREATIVE IMPULSES make you want to RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN in the opposite direction. How come they never choose the RIGHT MOMENT to arrive!? It's especially annoying when you're asleep and you "dream" something brilliant then you can't "remember" it! I "wish" you could write stuff down in your sleep!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: death by whisky
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 03:03 PM

Its the DREAM that seems "real" that I REMEMBER.You know the kind that makes you "twitch",you WISH yourself to wake up and you do with "AARRGGHHH"!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 03:15 PM

Of course, if you want a REAL TWITCH, just try living "a dream that no-one else has even been in"!! Then you will "rapidly discover" who your "true friends" are and who are merely "hanging on" out of a convenient sense of continuity and "pre-fabricated agreement".

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 03:40 PM

It is a mystery to me why people keep HANGING ON to the outmoded ways of thinking that permeated the last century. It's a "new world" out there, people! Get with it! Are we going to change voluntarilly or is it going to take a human-made "disaster of epic proportions" to make us "open our eyes"?

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: *daylia*
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 04:49 PM

I really hated it when the swimming teacher used to make us OPEN OUR EYES underwater. It used to sting and sting and sting and I was so much happier swimming blindly around in circles with my eyes "tightly squeezed" shut kinda like most of the human population today 'cept for "folk musicians".   Until I "whacked myself" into something that is...

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 05:12 PM

I woulda [preferred to be one of those tightly squeezed folk musicians, but, finding no-one of "like interest", I took "Spaw's advice" and....ummm...well, "never mind"....I have to maintain a "modicum of propriety" here...

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 05:58 PM

Methinks that "our Mr. Bush" spends too much time listening to hiS PAW'S ADVICE. Come on, Dubya! If the man was that smart would he have gotten his "ass kicked" by Bill Clinton? "Duh!"

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Janie
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 10:24 PM

OUR MR. BUSH is smart "enough." What he is totally "lacking" in are "insight" and humility. Each citizen who didn't get out and vote should have their ass kicked.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: jimmyt
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 10:41 PM

"Lacking enough insight" seems to be a trait shared by politicians on "both sides" of the aisle. In the British Parliament, I think it is significant that the parties are separated by "2 sword lengths". Mostly though, "I am curious" about why Sinsull has pantyhose with Calcium Chloride on the roof!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 12:18 AM

"I am Curious. Yellow" Did everyone but me see that movie? jimmyt, I think Sinsull's pantihose are out there with "Cal Chloride", the well-known cowboy singer. What he's "doing with them" beats me.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 12:49 AM

I think the calcium chloride is to keep the "snow and freezing rain" from forming an ice dam on Sinsull's roof. She has a leak. Calcium chloride would lower the freezing temperature of water just like sodium chloride (regular salt) does, but it wouldn't "all disolve away" as fast. Don't quote me on it though. I'm just a dumb old Florida Cracker. Don't know much about ice and snow. "Thank God!"

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: GUEST,ghost
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 04:56 AM

I thank God we don't have the snow and freezing rain like some of the rest of the country does! All we get "in abundance" here in the "upper left corner" of the Pacific Northwest is rain. If it weren't for "rubber boots", gortex rain gear and umbrellas we'd just all disolve away.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: *daylia*
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 10:46 AM

Here in Ontario all the salt they pour IN ABUNDANCE on the roads dissolves away everything from cars to rubber boots! But at least it keeps us from "slip slidin away" into "ghostland". The most unusual thing I saw in the Pacific Northwest is how the "moss grows" so thick on the roofs of the houses some people let their goats graze up there ...

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 11:23 AM

Slip sliden away was a pretty good Paul Simon tune, in it's pop culture "time" but what I liked better was his later music, when he got into an "african rhythm" style. I don't know what he is doing now. I haven't heard his music in awhile.
By the way, this thread is pretty damn weird! Almost beyond my "grasp of reality!"
Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 11:36 AM

FLASH!!! HOT NEWS ITEM!!! KATE MOSS GROWS A BEARD!!!

Yes folks, you heard it here first. Fashion model Kate Moss has renounced the jet-set world of "high fashion and glamour". In a unique attempt to transcend her heretofore "glamorous image" and make herself singularly unattractive to "males of the species", Ms. Moss has undergone a series of male hormone treatments that will result in the ability to grow a full beard. When asked if she was concerned that the hormone treatments might have the undesired side effect of reducing her breast size, Ms. Moss stated that she doesn't have much to worry about in that regard.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 11:36 AM

African rhythm penetrates the soul and forces it through the "thin veneer" of the ordinary grasp of reality to a place where time itself appears to be being born in a cascade of newly created impulses, a phantasmagorical "birth celebration" for the "soul at the gate" of the "universe".

A

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 11:48 AM

NOTE: THIS POST IS NOT PART OF THE GAME

As you can see, Rustic Rebel and BWL both posted responses to Daylia's post. The rules of the game now require that the next person posting incorporate "quoted" items from both posts.
Yes, it's a real rule! We couldn't possibly be just making this shit up as we go along, could we?

Wait! I just opened another window and see that Amos has posted a response to Daylia already! That means that the next post must incorporate "quoted" items from all three in order to get the game back on track! What a challenge!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 11:50 AM

(I was afraid of that (above) happening when I started this game but hey, who-ever is next can figure out what to do with it!)((mix and mingle??))

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: *daylia*
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 02:33 PM

Ok, beyond the THIN VENEER of my "rational thought processes" there is a wild and untamed spirit working tirelessly toward the day when all of the MALES OF THE SPECIES will, with "reckless and lusty abandon", engage themselves in endless performances of primeval bellydancing to AFRICAN RHYTHMS while doin the Tarzan Yell. This should keep them "too busy" to wage wars on one another!!! YIPPEEEEEEEE

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 03:06 PM

daylia, don't you mean AAARRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!?

This morning there was a peculiar noise outdoors, someone calling what appeared to be a name. Upon investigation, I found not a soul at the gate but there was a "large, very large dog" seated out there, in front of my neighbor's house. From time to time, he raised his head and moaned a forlorn howl. "Spooky".

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: *daylia*
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 03:25 PM

Ahh Ebbie I once had a very SPOOKY dream about a LARGE, VERY LARGE DOG that scared me so bad I wished my soul WAS as the gate of the universe! Very peculiar indeed! But rather than reminiscing about that now I think I'll get back to dreaming about "vast hordes" of "sweaty men" gyrating to african rhythms ... from a "safe" distance of course ...

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 03:31 PM

Is it safe to plug in the "hair dryer" while standing in the shower? "Probably not". But let's live dangerously. "THWAAAAAP!!!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 04:10 PM

Mary, I am missing where you drew your start from in that one!!

Although the creature looked like a large,very large dog of Terran origin, it was clear from the sound it made -- a cross between Sanskrit played backwards and a short-circuited hair dryer -- that it came from a species far more obscure. Ranger of the Galactic Patrol Simms pondered, drawing on his incredible memopry of strange species and little known planets of origin. Simfergian? Probably not. A Learklian Thaumadrine? No, they're hairless. It could be a SIrian system yellow-sheen Thwapp, but whyw ould it be here? The "space ranger" was "lost in thought" and the sudden arrival on his communication screen of the "Commander In Chief" startled him so badly he almost "wet himself".

"Good morning, Chief!" he sang out.

"Simms, we need to talk seriously....". Simms swallowed. He knew he was in "deep doodoo".

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 04:46 PM

Swallowing the deep doodoo made Simms almost vomit but knowing that his "boss would question" it, he recovered himself in time to answer. "Could we go somewhere there are other people?", he asked. He knew that could save his hide, since his commander in chief was such a stickler for the "proprietries".

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 07:49 PM

LOL!! This is kinda fun!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Cluin
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 07:54 PM

Fault! Yer outta there!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 09:20 PM

Sorry, Cluin, according to the rules it takes a double fault to merit expulsion. A single fault is wiped out as long as the next post is in-bounds. Just like tennis.

Anyway....

The proprietress of the restaurant was serving toast with preserves made from the fruit of papaya trees. It was a "seedy" little diner that rarely paid any attention to the proprieties of conventional table service. Her customer, a "bearded little man", was working a crossword and trying to find the word "PROPRIETRIES" in his dictionary, but to "no avail".

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 10:34 PM

Proprieties, listed under propriety, is accepted standards of behavior in a "polite society." Now I'm not one to spout off about "manners" but, what happened to the gentleman who puts his coat down on a "mud puddle" for women? What has this world come to??

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 11:29 PM

I like the idea of a MUD PUDDLE for women. Then we can all be female mud wrestlers together and be real "mudcats". Why should the men have "all the fun". We can be "slippery customers", too!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 12:04 AM

hahhahaha Slipper customers, indeed. Did you know that in some places, mudcats are called "mudpuppies"? True. That's what they were called in Oregon when I was growing up a "hundred or so years" ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: *daylia*
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 10:29 AM

OK according to my dictionary a MUDPUPPY is a large North American salamader - "Necturus maculosus" that has external gills and is gray to rusty brown usually with "bluish-black spots". Now I'm all into mud-wrestling - especially if we could do it side by side with all those men doin the belly-dance thing - but do we hafta "tackle them" slippery mudpuppies tooooo???? Sounds like Paul Simon again ....

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 12:44 PM

Mudpuppies, indeed! I've got bluish-black spots all over me from when I tackle(d) them, those darn necturus maculosus, anyway! Now, if there'd actually "been some mud" it would've helped a bit and if they'd not had those "sharp little baby teeth!" I swear it was like tussling with a baby "vampire!"

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 01:20 PM

Oh, dear! So that's what what my brothers meant when they mentioned necturus maculosus? That'll "learn" me. I knew they found them where there'd been some mud.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 05:23 PM

An aside:
I got the word "safe" from day-lia
Ahh Ebbie I once had a very SPOOKY dream about a LARGE, VERY LARGE DOG that scared me so bad I wished my
soul WAS as the gate of the universe! Very peculiar indeed! But rather than reminiscing about that now I think I'll get back to
dreaming about "vast hordes" of "sweaty men" gyrating to african rhythms ... from a "safe" distance of course ...

Did I screw up again?

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 05:51 PM

Vast hordes of sweaty men gyrating to african rhythms - good gracious! My imagination fails me- or, at least "speech" does.

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Malachy
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 06:47 PM

Or at the very least , you have accidentally strayed into a gay night club!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Malachy
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 06:50 PM

Ignore that...I missed the ''...sorry!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 03 - 07:20 PM

(Try it again, Malachy!) As Sinsull says, her soul is as the gate of the universe. So is mine. So is "yours". (Great "typo", Sins.)

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 07 Jan 03 - 02:19 AM

The vasr hordes of sweaty little men, with the sharp little baby teeth, that resembled vampires stood on a podium. They felt safe there while giving their speech.
We are not on this planet to harm you or your brothers, all we ask is a little "life sustaining" plasma.
Perhaps, just a little tap from your blood "banks" would do us fine.
But the people responded in fear and loathing.No! we cannot afford to just give our blood away. We fear we might need it for the "revolution" is upon us!


(whoa-I had to use words from like 6 or 7 posts to get this weirdness back in line! and now to continue?)

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 03 - 04:02 AM

While wiling away in the "whirls of space" we came upon a planet in the throes of revolution. Whereas it had formerly been filled with banks of life-sustaining plasma, it wasn't enough for the "blood-suckers of consumerism." No, they preferred to rend their planet devoid of all life until they themselves were no longer sustainable. "Piteous creatures," the lot of them!

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: JennyO
Date: 07 Jan 03 - 06:56 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Rant on, or tell a story-'Game'
From: *daylia*
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 02:48 PM

Today I'm feeling like a 'piteous creature' indeed. I won't bore you with the details but you all don't know "how lucky you are" to be you and "not me" today. Oops, I almost forgot - I AM you! "Little Hawk's" had a Trinidadian influence on me lately - can you tell? YIKES!

daylia