BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 05:38 PM

For once you made a Kay without my ballyhoo. I can' find the damn thing anywhere. It was in the closet by the digeridoo and the ramadamadingdong and now it's gone. Alas, poor ballyhoo. I loved it, Horatio.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 05:24 PM

I use it to make candles....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 05:20 PM

You use that racewax on your pits, or to do a Brazilian wax?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 04:40 PM

Nine out of ten werewolves prefer Nads.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Eiseley
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 04:32 PM

I really prefer racewax.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 04:08 PM

You're better off with Nads, forget the moon to wax with.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 03:45 PM

Phase of the moon? Wax on or wax off? Tell us wain.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 03:42 PM

And you all know that the decrypt key is either B# or Cb, depending on the phase of the moon.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 03:39 PM

Wait, LH, until it arrives.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 02:26 PM

Thanks, Eiseley! I cannot imagine getting through a year without hearing the latest from the American Chestnut Foundation.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 02:23 PM

Rap... hehheee.. good one. An oldie but still a goodie.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 02:15 PM

No I don't! I gave it back along with the Panic, Eject, and Any key.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 02:11 PM

Oh, yeah, I forget to mention

39634 62349 74088 65564 16379 19713 39153 69459 17986 24537
14595 35050 40469 27478 44526 67331 93365 54526 22356 93208
30734 71571 83722 79712 25775 65178 07763 82928 31131 30196
64628 89126 91254 24090 25752 03091 39411 73146 06089 15630
42831 95113 43511 42082 15140 34733 68076 18292 69486 80468

You have the decrypt key.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 02:04 PM

Or The Poison Ivy Society? Or People For The Ethical Treatment Of People?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 01:48 PM

Hmm. The Elm Society, the Chestnut Society---what about the Hemlock Society?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 01:38 PM

(By the way, the disease-resistant elm is called the "Liberty Elm" and can be had from the American Elm Society.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 01:37 PM

I need some American chestnut lumber -- where are these trees again?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 12:18 PM

Aha! Here's information from The American Chestnut Foundation

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 10:43 AM

various states are working on hybrids and trying to devlop a blight resistant or immune American Chestnut.

Likewise Elm.....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 10:29 AM

Chestnut Blight got 'em all in the US. Sometimes a stump will shoot, but nothing comes of it because the Blight is still resident in the stump. Same thing happened to my great-great-grandpa Elmer. Brought down by the Chestnut Blight even though the court said it was great-great-grandma Gertrude's shoot that got him when she caught him sneaking out of the schoolmarm's bedroom window at 2 a.m.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Eiseley
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 01:00 AM

Yay! Way to go, Stilly! Here's to the NEXT 35000!

I'd love to visit the Ginkgo Petrified Forest. There's a ginkgo I see every day as I walk to work. The leaves are silky soft, though not hairy at all like the underside of a sycamore---just soft. (It's on Clark Street, between Hayes and Grant, in front of an engineering company.)

Down the street is a park with tall elm trees that haven't been affected by Dutch Elm disease. They are huge, and the leaves are at least a hand-length long.

My sister, who lives in Salt Lake City, has in her front yard what some arborists say is the largest Catalpa tree in Utah. It has a trunk about five feet in diameter and a huge main branch that sweeps across the garden about four feet from the ground. Her children have sword fights with the stiff green pods.

What I want to see is a spreading chestnut tree. Are there any ancient chestnuts left out in the wild?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:50 PM

But I'll give it a try. 35000

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:50 PM

No time to look up another poem. IE keeps hanging. And Firefox.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:49 PM

The Good Wife just ended with a hung jury and well-hung lawyers.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:49 PM

Getting so close, but I don't want to dig out more poems.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:44 PM

No one believed. They listened to his heart.
Little - less - nothing! - and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:43 PM

So. The hand was gone already.
The doctor put him in the dark of ether.
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
And then - the watcher at his pulse took a fright.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:43 PM

Since he was old enough to know, big boy
Doing a man's work, though a child at heart -
He saw all was spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off -
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:42 PM

His sister stood beside him in her apron
To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap -
He must have given the hand. However it was,
Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all -

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:42 PM

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behing the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:39 PM

Typing too fast. 11. Now 9.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:38 PM

Did you know that when you posted you were 111 away from 35K?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:21 PM

I like the ginko. It's a survivor tree -- did you know that it hasn't growth rings?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 09:15 PM

But the Ginkgo and the Dawn Redwood weren't so easy--both were presumed to be extinct, until they were found deep inside mainland China less than 100 years ago. They were only known by their fossils until then--and if Eiseley or Rapaire happen to travel to Seattle via Vantage, Washington, they can stop at Petrified Forest State Park (I see they've changed the park name since I was a kid - Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park).

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 05:51 PM

I bet it was pretty easy to discover a college campus.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 05:32 PM

I know something Kleinefalke don't know,
Kleinefalke don't know,
etc.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 01:20 PM

You keep talkin' that scientific-type stuff and Mom's gonna wash yer mouth out with SOAP.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 01:18 PM

Te salute!

One of the oldest dawn redwoods in the US outside of botanical gardens is on a college campus down the street from our house.....it was donated shortly after they were discovered.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 12:09 PM

Metasequoia glpytostroboides

(Dawn redwood)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 10:24 AM

Tsk, tsk. The Latin for "railroad" is "ferrívia" and Asterix knows it. Just the other night, up at the Legion Hovel, he and Obelix and Psychoanalytix and Gibtermine and Metallurgix were sitting around, drinking and in general calling Romans nasty names in Gaulish, when Asterix asked, right out loud, "Quidquid id est timeo puellas et oscula dantes in ferrivia" and gave Obelix a big hug.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Eiseley
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 12:02 AM

Last Prime of the Thirty-Four Kay!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Eiseley
Date: 06 Apr 10 - 12:00 AM

What is that translated into Latin, Rapaire?

Oh, I thought that was ut.

As in:
Asterix: "Railroad transitus , caveo cars. Quam operor vos alica ut vacuus ullus Rs?"

Obelix: U-T.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 11:51 PM

Cogito cogito cogito, ergo cogito cogito sum, cogito.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 06:44 PM

And They deleted it. Darn!
This is what it said:
Stilly, the motto of that school in Tuscon is, I believe, "Truth, Knowledge, a Good Tan."

What is that translated into Latin, Rapaire?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 06:43 PM

That last Guest post was from me at work.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 06:26 PM

I had a couple of my own, and though I don't want them to feel like second class citizens, some of the repairs and repainting are waiting until they're not always underfoot. It'd be nice for them to enjoy the updates while they're here, but they probably wouldn't notice and they might continue to scuff the paint.

Paid for tickets to Tuscon. This kid is gonna go see the new digs.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 06:19 PM

Dum-de-dum. Dee doo. (humming a little tune here)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 05:06 PM

Oh, Mom! Again I find you consorting with the bottom feeders! Whatever shall we do with you?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 11:04 AM

I have two grand-nephews which do enough damage for ten or twelve. Would you like to borrow one or both?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 10:59 AM

WOnderful. It's a good thing you are a confirmed bachelor to keep the averages down!! :D

I too have a lovely grand-niece who is making headway in the ICU, and will be coming home soon with her heart repaired; she just needs to start swallowing her food regularly. Fingers crossed. This has been a very dicey arrival.


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