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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Teresa Date: 09 Feb 05 - 12:05 PM Thanks, SRS, shall try that. Yes, it was grrrr cubed; that bad ... at that very instant. :) Teresa |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Bee-dubs Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:56 AM Yas, sometimes clicking the "d" times out on me but clicking the number works. And sometimes it'll load faster from this "back-door" server than from ".org". And sometimes it'll load faster if I switch browsers. And sometimes it'll load faster if I restart my computer to clear all those built up temp files out. But sometimes it just sits and spins until it times out no matter what I do. Better watch it though, or Mom might hear us talkin' this tech stuff and send us to our rooms... alone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Amos Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:51 AM who I really am will be revealed as soon as I calculate the exact relationship between the sheep, the onions, the mangelwurzels, the Swedes (can't say "rutabagas"), the onions, the trebuchets, the spatulas, the onions, the old tires, and exactly why men wear socks with sandals. I think the silver-tongued obfuscator has been revealed, and he is buck nekkid!!LOL! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Spock Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:45 AM Most illogical discussion. However, due to my mind-meld with the chair a while ago, it's making some kind of sense. I'm feeling a sense of apprehension. Live long and Prosper, Spock |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:41 AM Let's examine Teresa's rant: Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!³ Is this Grrrrr to the third? Is it that bad? Grrrrrr Cubed? Wow! (But it is slow to click on the "d"--sometimes it seems faster to just click on the number then click on the last page). |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,lle-aybud-eeB Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:38 AM There is a distinction between its name, what it's called, and who it is... You mean like Tweed's name is "Rick", what he's called is "Hizonner da Mayor obv Tweedsburg", and who he is is "idjit personified"? Or like Amos' name is "Amos", what he's called is "silver-tongued obfuscator", and who he is is "not anything we're at all certain we really want to know". Or like my name is "Bruce", what I'm called is "dumbass, idjit or moron, depending on the phase of the moon" and who I really am will be revealed as soon as I calculate the exact relationship between the sheep, the onions, the mangelwurzels, the Swedes (can't say "rutabagas"), the onions, the trebuchets, the spatulas, the onions, the old tires, and exactly why men wear socks with sandals. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Teresa Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:29 AM Ok, I need to "vent". Even when I use the "D" to break up the number of posts per page, it still takes two minutes for it to load on DSL. Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!³ There, I feel better now. Now what was it we were saying. Oh, to heck with it. :) Teresa |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:21 AM 6162 I mean to say - it's like a championship show dog - who often has a long involved title incorperating the kennel name, sometimes a "line name" and all the various awards - (just like people with PhD, Ma, BS, etc) Then there is the "family name" they go by - usually much shorter - sometimes seemingly totally unrelated to the dog's official title. and then frequently you will find out they have a nick-name or pet name used by the owner and/or handler that usually succintly somes up the dog in a word. but not sneccessarily the same name for the owner as the handler. because the dog *is* not the same for the two people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,MMario Date: 09 Feb 05 - 11:09 AM you couldn't be more correct Teresa. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Teresa Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:11 AM There is a distinction between its name, what it's called, and who it is, isn't it? :) Teresa |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Bandersnatch Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:49 AM Would that I was what I am not; then would I go where I may not; Here am I where I must be, Go where I will I cannot. Oh, diddle-i-oh! Oh, lonseome li-oe-day! Oh, Rustic you have raised the standard of confuscatory concatenators everywhere. You deserve an invitations tot he very Olympics of DIsintermediation and Amplified Clarification. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Rapaire Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:16 AM Well, yes and no. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rustic Rebel Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:04 AM Ode to finding the true meaning; If it was to be that I should know what it means than I will. If it is true meaning that I should not, than I'll find out some way that I don't. If I should know anything without really thinking I do, please, stop me now. If I forgot to remember the meaning and told you what it was anyway, I meant it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Teresa Date: 09 Feb 05 - 02:11 AM Are you sure it doesn't mean "O yen pounds section O E euros?" I hope I got that right; my brain ain't what it once were. ... Teresa |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 09 Feb 05 - 02:04 AM Google ads are back to the tinned haggis and a book called Whitman's Self Explained: On Mysticism in American Literature. And speaking of haggis... From THIS PAGE: Gordon Sinclair, owner of Gordon's Fine Meats, once again honours Scotland's national bard, Robbie Burns, with his annual haggis toss across the mighty Bow River. Sinclair always improves upon the mechanism used to hurl the haggis across the river. Sinclair says customers of his built this years machine, a trebuchet, which is a catapult-type device used to hurl heavy missles like rocks, or in this case, a haggis. ...apparently they've never managed to get the haggis completely across the river. Yes, that's right folks! Used a trebuchet to fling a haggis across a river! Coincidence that we were talking about using trebuchets to toss salads on the "Salad Shooter" thread? Coincidence that this thread seems to be enamored of root vegetables? Coincidence that when sheep eat mangelwurzels they give birth to old tires? I think not! There's something going on here. Some power greater than ourselves is trying to send us a message. I can almost make it out! The part I can almost make out says "B-e-d--ya is - f--k-n' d-mb--s." I don't quite understand. Wonder what the message really says? Anyone have a magic decoder ring with ya? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 08 Feb 05 - 11:38 PM sigh! We're back to good ol' freebie "Folk Alley" and "Free - Music Downloads." My cat is sitting in my lap with her chilly nose tucked under my left forearm (keeping her forehead warm) and all is right with the world. Haggis was a bad dream, like a "bit of undigested beef," or to whatever Scrooge attributed Marley's ghost. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 05 - 10:52 PM Whitman (whose father, let it be said, was ALSO named Walter, so the poet is really "Junior" Whitman, which sounds like a small box of candy or the leader of a 1930s-era swing band) also wrote "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed" and "Oh Pioneers!" I don't think that we'd serve lilacs OR dooryards OR pioneers. Especially pioneers, because according to the poem they have pistols. I don't like to eat any dinner that shoots back once it's on my plate. Haggis. Oatmeal, root veggies, and little bits of mystery meat boiled up in a sheep's stomach. Why, that's awful! Not at all like the dishes of my youth, like panhaus or blutwurst! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Feb 05 - 10:43 PM Wasn't there a band named "Roasted Root"? And haggis... Why do they feel compelled to serve haggis at Burns Night dinners just because Robert Burns wrote a poem called "To a Haggis"? If some group were to host a dinner in honor of Walt Whitman would they serve compost because he wrote a poem called "This Compost"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 05 - 10:16 PM Sounds like that old song from the Walt Disney movie: ...that's why the veggie is a trap. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 08 Feb 05 - 10:12 PM Well, I wasted time looking up mangelwurzel when Rap beat (beet?) me to it. I shoulda read on before stopping to search. That said, I must say it is with great pleasure that at the bottom of THIS VERY PAGE are two ads. They're for
That veggie ad is a trap. But anyway, Wow! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:23 PM My God! That picture of the mangoworzels...it explains where sheep come from! It is so obvious! Sheep are hatched, like chickens, but not from eggs but from old tires! Or maybe when sheep die they turn into old tires. Yes, that must be it. It would explain that mutton I had the other night. But...perhaps...it's both! Sheep die and become old tires, which are then reincarnated into sheep! Of course! I can see clearly now! It's the sheep-tire-sheep cycle! I've discovered the STS Cycle; now all that remains is for someone to determine which came first, the sheep or the tire. When do I get my Nobel Prize? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Layah Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:13 PM You don't know how incredibly pleased I am that mangelwurzel is a real name of an actual vegetable. That just made my day. It's even better than eating swedes for dinner and then meeting swedes after dinner. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Feb 05 - 08:07 PM Layah - Swedes is just another name for rutabagas. Don't ask me why anyone would want to give ugly rootcrops and statuesque blondes the same name. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Feb 05 - 08:02 PM Any Tom Robbins fan knows of that large beet courtesy of Jitterbug Perfume. Here's a picture of a whole bunch of 'em with a few sheep thrown in for good measure. CLICK! Teh corect spellnig sems two bee eether "mangelwurzel" ore "mangel-wurzel". |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 08 Feb 05 - 08:02 PM There is that Chomsky, but don't forget Chomsky the vegetable; that would be a serious omission as long as we have wandered off into this part of the BS jungle... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bunnahabhain Date: 08 Feb 05 - 07:45 PM Except that Haggis, mangle-wurtzle and tatties will never sound right. And to all you heathens out there who insist anything with Haggis in will never be right, you may be right but we'll never admit it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Layah Date: 08 Feb 05 - 07:17 PM *whine* it's gonna be forever before I am 37. I wanna see the picture noo-oow. By the time I'm 37 I'll have broken some other of those rules (hopefully). I was vaguely aware that turnips and the R word were both root vegetables, but have no idea what they actually taste like, and I've never heard of Swedes. I went to the pub with a Swede today. She didn't look like anything that was in my soup, but it was all chunky little bits of stuff so I couldn't really identify any of it. Except the onions. Spawn of the devil. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bunnahabhain Date: 08 Feb 05 - 07:17 PM Swedes? Rutabaga? See, I'm not afraid, I'll say it again, rutabaga, are as nothing compared to the mangle-wurtzle. The biggest, ugliest, most strangly named vegtable around.... And no, I can't find a picture of one, nor the regimental march about them. There's a challenge for you... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 05 - 07:13 PM This is the Chomsky, I presume? Aloysius? The guy who always beat everyone else at eight-ball down at Maudie's Place? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 08 Feb 05 - 06:46 PM Chomsky and Herman test their model empirically by picking "paired examples" — pairs of events that were objectively similar except for the alignment of domestic elite interests. They use a number of such examples to show that in cases where an "official enemy" does something (like murder of a religious official), the press investigates thoroughly and devotes a great amount of coverage to the matter. But when the domestic government or an ally does the same thing (or worse), the press downplays the story. Crucially, also they test their model against the case that is often held up as the best example of a free and aggressively independent press, the media coverage of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. Even in this case, they again find that the press was behaving subserviently to elite interests. Critics of Chomsky and Herman's mass media analysis, including author and historian Victor Davis Hanson severely disagree with Chomsky and Herman's theories. They see the idea of "Manufacturing Consent" as nothing more than a recycling of the Marxist idea of "false consciousness" in where the masses have been so manipulated that they have neither the perspective or intellect to see beyond the propaganda and require superior intellects like Chomsky's to point out to them the real truth. Arch Puddington of the Hoover Institution also points out what he sees as virtually no empirical evidence in media coverage, specifically with Chomsky and Herman's analysis of the mass media's treatment of Cambodia and East Timor, to back the claims made in "Manufacturing Consent". That'll fix them rabygata sucking legal fleagles!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Feb 05 - 04:45 PM I remembered where the "don't say r-t-b-ga" thing came from. It was on the radio this past weekend on "Michael Feldman's What Do Yo Know?". I forget the circumstances, but an audience member said something about she wasn't supposed to say "r-t-b-ga" on the air. Now, I have a clear conscience and Feldman has no reason to file a lawsuit which means that Dire, Serious and Grave will have to postpone that bloodsucking feast they were planning until another day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 08 Feb 05 - 04:12 PM Here is a more interesting photo of the thing that isn't a rut*beg* or a turnip, being handled by someone who knows what she's doing (and makes it look like a turnip). |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 08 Feb 05 - 04:05 PM My neighbor uses them when she makes her greens recipe. They're very good, though I wouldn't mind if there were a little less tart. As an aside, these things are sometimes confused with turnips. American Indians used to dig something referred to by colonists as a turnip, or a prairie turnip. It was actually a legume called Psoralea esculenta. Also called pomme blanche, and pomme de prairie, (funny how that works--the French name it by what it isn't, i.e., and apple--"white apple" or "prairie apple" as in naming a potato the "pomme de terre" or "apple of the earth") but, as far as I know, never called rut*beg*. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Teresa Date: 08 Feb 05 - 03:37 PM I love rut ... swedes. Got a whole case of canned ones at the canned-food salvage, and loved eating them. Didn't have to mess with peeling and all that, either. Haven't seen any since, so I guess no one else likes them. Teresa |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 05 - 02:40 PM I care not a wit for lawyers (except my wife, who are one). So I post this picture, but must also state that it is of a disgusting and repulsive nature that is suitable only for mature adults, that by clicking on the link (a/k/a "blicky," "blue clicky," and other names) you certify that you are over 37 years of age, of sound physical and mental health (as defined for your age group by the CDC), are financially solvent, have had no major defects in your primary means of transportation within the last ten (10) years, have not been convicted or even suspected of any crime against either nature or the state, and have made no claims against any insurance company, profit or not-for-profit organization, corporation, group, bunch, mob, aggregation, federation combine, federation, union, institution, trust, cartel, business, company, society, band, clique, troupe or system, whether publicly or privately held, in North America or any outlying continent, in the last four hundred (400) years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 08 Feb 05 - 02:34 PM Here is the small print in that r*tabega rule. It's left over from a broken link of Masato's. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Dire, Serious & Grave Date: 08 Feb 05 - 01:18 PM Feb. 8th, 2005 Dear MOAB It has come to our recent attention that Should the use of such term continue we will be forced to report your and the user to such authorities as appropriate. S.O. Dire B. Serious N. Grave |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Feb 05 - 01:01 PM Thank God it only has Swedes! It could have rutabagas instead! We have very few rules here on th MOAB but even mentioning the word "rutabaga" is absolutely forbidden. The consequences are Dire, Serious and Grave, which, just by happenstance, is also the name of the law firm that handles all of our plagiarism lawsuits. (Yes, I hijacked the rutabaga bit from someplace, but I don't remember where. No, it has nothing to do with Belgium.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Layah Date: 08 Feb 05 - 12:35 PM My soup says suitable for vegetarians, but it lies! I read the ingredients, and it contains Swedes. It's only suitable for cannibals. I would have thought the Swedish government would protest if no one else. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 08 Feb 05 - 12:25 PM Rap, you forgot to mention Bobert's Wes Ginny spontaneous bidet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 08 Feb 05 - 12:25 PM See what I mean??Technology! ! Innovation!!! Compassion!!! Philosophical Insight! Food and Shelter!! The MOAB has EVERYTHING!!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:46 AM No, Rapaire, that's not my new outhouse, though the idea's kinda similar. That one's for land use. Mine is built on an old paddleboat so we can paddle around the pond while takin' a dump. And it's a two-seater, not a single-wide. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:33 AM Thank God there are volunteers like Rapaire around who have the will and fortitude to pull off such miracles of desperate travail, saving us all from the trouble of it. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:24 AM And "hard drive," too. But! After long and difficult work, I have managed to track down a picture not only of Khandu's head, but of Bee-Dubya's golf cart (Khandu's is the second photo). |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 08 Feb 05 - 12:33 AM Gives new meaning to the term "laptop." ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 07 Feb 05 - 10:32 PM Khandu has a computer and Internet connection by his toilet?? And people call me geeky???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: khandu Date: 07 Feb 05 - 09:55 PM Teresa, you are correct..we have met formerly & formally, but that was another place & and another time. Tony Joe White said that but he wasn't talking about you & me. No, T.J. was speaking of Willie & Laura Mae, who do indeed live in a parallel omniverse! Thanks for the homage, however. I greatly enjoy every drop of homage I get! Layah, to begin the process of spending time in a random day in your past, you must spend an inordinate amount of time at MOAB. This has a similar effect upon the head as does an "ASCID" (AKA "Witches Cradle") only more so, with only half the carbs! heric, all too well I remember your first post to MOAB. It made me question my existence, until I finally realized that I am, therefore I think, I think. All this came to me as I was sitting on the toilet, straining over your enigmatic post. The fact that you have never been heard from since that first post proves that you were sent from the Great "Out-there"! A Statue is being built upon the site of your visitation. Oh, I smell the ...gotta go!! k |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 07 Feb 05 - 08:40 PM Yeah! Bring back Lake Bonneville! Great fishing, great water-skiing, great all-around fun!! And Lake Agassiz, too! I used to go surfing there, and it was all time! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bunnahabhain Date: 07 Feb 05 - 06:56 PM By the way, Bunn, what is the significance of "Bunnahabhain"? Is it your real name? The name of a demon of whom you are extremely fond? The name of a nearby hill where restless spirits roam the night? Actually a bay, on Islay, where the spirits are restlessly distilled, and tend to roam the night in hip flasks... And not far from where Harris tweed comes from, which being in the outer Hebredies, definitly counts as another dimension, at the very least. Bring back lake Bonneville! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 07 Feb 05 - 04:34 PM The Salton Sea is indeed a very salty inland sea, but smaller than the Mormon's own Great Salt Lake. It is amusing to swim in the Great Salt Lake as long as you keep your eyes from splash. You tend to bob on the surface more than you expect. I haven't tried the Salton Sea which is just north of the Sea or Cortez and was once connected to it. In fact legend has it there is a large Spanish galleon buried in the sand near the Salton Sea, which sailed up from the Manila trade route and was cut off by an earthquake which sealed off the North end, leaving the Salton Sea separate from the Sea of Cortez. I wasn't there at the time, but a friends says he has seen the spars of her sticking out of the sand. A |
