BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 12 - 05:46 PM

I was thinking the same thing, Stilly. Yup, that would probably do it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 May 12 - 04:36 PM

It was an HBO nitwit who took a book and made that series, a classic "chic flick" subject matter that has its funny moments but that got old after a while.

LH, Amos, I think Rapparee would be satisfied that this would take care of all current and future animus.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 31 May 12 - 04:16 PM

Maybe it's called "Sex and the City", I dunno, but I am sure seeing all episodes in reverse order would torture you beyond repair, so I cancel my decree. Just don't go conflating the Williams again.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 12 - 10:45 AM

"Sex in the City"??? I've never seen even one episode of that show. I shudder at the thought of viewing several entire seasons! Horrifying!

I can only assume that it must have been a pretty lousy show with a name like that, but whatever Hollywood nitwit came up with the name, I bet he thought he was pretty clever. "This'll pull in the viewers, Al...Sex in the City...it's a guaranteed prime time success. Funny that no one else thought of doing it yet."

And it worked brilliantly, didn't it? I'm betting that they had a cast of 20-something bright-faced kids who had office jobs and lived in upscale apartments in New York or L.A., dressed in the latest cool styles, dated each other, and.....yawn....

Sorry. I'm just getting too bored with the whole concept to elaborate any further on it.

Rap, what do you do when you're not trying to provoke duels between your online buddies? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 12 - 11:11 PM

Tea stronger than a Munich beer.
In the room the air is hazy.
In the hearth a flamelet lazy
gleams, like a butterfly on boulders.
I've overstayed – it's time to go now …
I rise; a nod, and then another,
I say good-bye without hand-thrusting,
For so demands the local custom;
I hurry down a step, and out
into a February day.
Out of the heavens, without a lull,
descends a ceaseless, two-week flow.
Isn't it true how very dull
an ancient student town can grow?


Nabokov, 1926

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 12 - 10:36 PM

ANd for you, sirrah, a forced viewing of "Sex in the City" all seasons, in reverse order. With your hands tied to your ankles!! :D

Rapparree, your deft manipulations will not avail. I would no sooner slit yon Hawkster from guggle to zatch than marry his brutish younger sister. Forswear, go to, seek not to rile the tempers of your sibs in Mom's hall. We will have none of it.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 May 12 - 10:25 PM

Hmm. Well, I'll have to give this some considerable thought. It is not enough merely to destroy Amos for what he has done. He must be destroyed utterly and completely leaving no genetic traces, so that he can never again rise to offend apes and monkeys and disavow the greatness of Shatner.

How is it to be done?

Guns? Swords? Bombs? Drawing and quartering? Running him over with a road grader? Feeding him through a circular saw in the traditional "Perils of Pauline" fashion? Tie him on the railroad tracks? Drop him out of a high window? Poison, perhaps? Or a dart from a pigmy blowgun? A small, localized tactical nuclear strike? Arrows? Spears? Forced eating of anchovies? Forced viewings of the last 4 seasons of "Three's Company". Then there's garroting and smothering with feather pillows. And drowning. Or We could toss him in a pit of vipers. Oh, and there's burning, of course! Or perhaps...the pit and the pendulum!!!

One way may not be enough. It may be necessary to destroy Amos in almost every way possible to get him to stop his nefarious postings.

As I say, I'll need some time to settle on the best method. I intend to consult some professional experts before making my final decision.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 12 - 09:42 PM

Alright, enough! Chongo, this is a discussion between humans, not dumb brute animals...butt out.

LH, Amos -- what is your preference? Swords are the default unless one of you declares that he is no swordsman.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 30 May 12 - 06:08 PM

You got a lotta nerve! I was not livin' in "misery" when I was little, Amos! I was havin' a great time out there in the jungle, playin' and discoverin' new things all the time. Sure, there were moments of danger and tragic incidents now and then, that happens in the jungle, but all in all I was havin' a good time most of the time. I bet my childhood years were more fun than yers.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 12 - 05:52 PM

Gentlemen, gentlemen! Either shake hands and apologize or take it into the alley out back.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 12 - 05:37 PM

Ok, ok! I am sorry that Chongo is so interested in smearing interesting things with fecal matter. I take full responsibility for my part in it, including not putting him out of his misery when he was too young to cause any damage.

I might add, however, that you are hardly an exemplar of respectful conduct yourself, you addle-pated scamp; the insult you have levied on the person of our great extraterrestrial writer, Mr Shakespeare, by impugning his reincarnations with the person of the swollen has-been.wanna-be Bill What's His Name, is beyond the pale of civilized behavior.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 May 12 - 04:15 PM

I find your lack of respect for myself and Chongo disturbing, Amos. In Chongo's case, it verges on outright specism of the rankest sort. I don't care that much what you think about me, but I am not going to stand silent when you impugn the character of a respectable ape and a public candidate for president. Are you sure you want people to be aware that you are carrying such a heinous level of prejudice in your heart? Do you realize it could result in you being forever stigmatized in the public mind and the mass media as...a specist? And can you see how that could affect your future in terms of employment, the respect of your neighbours and peers, and your public reputation? Can you see how President Obama might wish to distance himself from you and disavow your support for him under these circumstances?

Were you, however, to issue a retraction and a full public apology to Chongo for those unfortunate remarks you made about him, then I think we could put this unpleasant chapter behind us, forgive and forget, and move on to more productive things.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 12 - 03:40 PM

You and Chongo do have something in common, then, LH!! You both like to smear interesting things with fecal matter.

I am sure this discovery will make Chongo very happy.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 May 12 - 12:59 PM

William Shakespeare was an earlier incarnation of William Shatner. This is well known in most occult circles, and it helps to explain Shatner's extraordinary grasp of Shakespearian acting techniques as well as his general gift for dramatic exposition. The present incarnation of the Shatner oversoul has taken on even greater challenges than the famous playwright did, boldly going where none had gone before. What amazing things will he do next?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 12 - 12:32 PM

WIlliam Shakespeare was an extraterrestrial, of that there is no question. No mortal man of woman born, raised in the midden of human noise and sodden emotional vulcanism, could have done what he did. Consider his real estate prowess, let alone his poetry. Oh, and his plays, also.

No, he was not from here; but the interesting question is how he arrived.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 30 May 12 - 12:24 PM

44,902!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ook! Ook!

I got this one and you didn't. And that's not all. I got this one because I have personally downed 44,902 shots of whiskey since this time last year. Or was it the year before? Well, who's countin'?   

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 12 - 08:33 PM

Only 99 to go until a RATHER LARGE NUMBER.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 12 - 07:52 PM

here's another donation to PETBEN.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 12 - 07:52 PM

Alright, dearest Mom

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 May 12 - 12:43 PM

IT's only three more yards, my friends,
To 44 and nine.
And if we play the defense right
The next K close behind.

If we can get a first and ten
By running past their end
Why yard, by yard, we'll get there, pard
That Big K at the end.

So hunker down and dig the play
And how we plan the ride.
And don't be fouling the defense team,
Or jumping in off-sides.

The forces ranged against us, pals
Are no ordinary foes.
They'll stomp and block and head you off
Whichever way you go.

They're fast and big, you can't deny
And solid as the night
And they'll do anything they can
To block the BS light.

They do not care for wit, aplomb
And cultural ideas,
They hate the very thought of Mom,
THey'd like to see her freeze.

They're serious and hard, these guys
With tough and gloomy souls
They hate to see the BS light
Come winking through the holes.

But holes they have! Their defense line
Is riddled with their flaws
And that means Mom can grab a win
From failure's sodden jaws!

And when the long pass is complete,
And the yards have all been run,
The crowds will shout and hail Our Mom,
When the next of Kay is done.

So Rapp go wide and Hawk stay tight
And Gnu, go out a way.
And Stilly snap her back on ten;
We're bound for the next of Kay!

Coach WInkleman Radislov
Faculty Emeritus
School of High BS

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 May 12 - 11:58 AM

Well, it was a heroic notion indeed.

But self-acknowledged, heroic BS--the kind that Mom loves dearly -- is only the best of breed, so to speak.

Mongrel BS still permeates the echoing high halls of The Forum. Half-blood, addlepated, dewlapped and cross-eyed, BS of every stamp and kind, tatterdemalion and nitwitted, ragtag BS with no glory in it.

Still, we must carry our BS cross...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 12 - 09:48 AM

That's what Khandu (God Save The King!) has tried to do here.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 May 12 - 09:47 AM

I've always wondered if it were possible to train BS to all show up in one place in the yar5d; but it tends to be upiquitous in its generation.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 12 - 10:13 PM

It is possible to train them to poop in one place in the yard.

I've always thought my neighbor's yard was the place for this.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 May 12 - 08:33 PM

That's the big problem, the deal-killer with dogs. I don't mind that they shit, everyone does. But dogs get ideas. I dunno if I could handle that.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 May 12 - 05:58 PM

MOM, you're perilously close to the bottom this afternoon. Come on over to the shady spot in the yard to sip tea and watch the dogs. You can tell Amos about how pleasant it is to live with several dogs (you need more than one so they have companionship). You don't need to mention that this morning as I finished scooping poop through the yard I found that in the last five minutes of my work all three dogs made more deposits I had to go back for. I guess I gave them the idea.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 28 May 12 - 12:44 PM

What ya need to do, gnu, is knock back a few shots of whisky, smoke a good cigar, and reflect on how great yer life has been goin' lately. Then get out the old Tommygun, disassemble and clean and oil it, reassemble, load up, go out in the backyard and blast away at the scarecrow or whatever else ya got that makes a good target. I find this gets the cobwebs outta yer head real good.

I wish I was in the country where I could do this regular. It's not allowed in downtown Chicago. Maybe I can get that changed after I'm elected.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 12 - 10:32 AM

Add dried habenero peppers to the baked beans. You'll be up for a week or more.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 27 May 12 - 08:41 PM

Congrats to your nephew, Rap.

A... no worries. It's just that the constant sniping and near inane oneupmanship gets a tad boring after thousands of such posts. It lacks freshness when it's as stale as a carp in the sun for days... months.

Sorry if I am bringing the room down. Been a bad day gone worse. Maybe I'll just gain some weight and go to bed. I have a can of baked beans with molasses that should do the trick. Yeah, beans and cracked wheat bread. That oughta make me sleep until I hafta "get up".

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 12 - 02:24 PM

I bet Amos could sit in his driveway on his lawn chair with a cold drink and one day a stray dog will wander up. That's often how it happens around here (the stray dog wanders up part, anyway).

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 12 - 12:16 PM

Amos needs a big, black Newfie dog. He says the climate is idyllic, so the long hair won't make the dog suffer in the heat.

Or an Irish Wolfhound.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 12 - 11:39 AM

Amos, you can remedy that problem quickly and easily, and a dog will always improve your mood and supply a much-needed dose of unconditional love to your household.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 12 - 10:44 AM

Today we're going to visit Mr and Mrs Lincoln's home.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 12 - 10:33 AM

Well, I apologize for the bottomless stream of carping, potshots, takedowns, putdowns, incivility, snideness and general antagonism I have contributed to this thread, 'deed I do, old Gnu.

I can only plead extenuating circumstances including self-defense and extreme provocation. Also, fulfilling my God-given role as an active member of said extenuating circumstances and provocateur par excellence.

You see, I do not have a dog.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 12 - 09:58 PM

My nephew, resplendent in his green gown, gold rope, and white satin collar, received his diploma in a mercifully brief ceremony this morning. "Mercifully brief" because it was in an un-airconditioned high school gym packed with people. There were eight (8) valedictorians and they each said two lines -- even the HS Principal was happy with that. During the (roughly) 90 minute ceremony I drank 20 ounces of water. There were 78 graduates; one will be entering West Point and the other the Naval Academy.

My nephew will be at the University of Illinois this Fall, majoring in Electrical Engineering. There is a good chance he will be graduating in EE at the same time his older brother graduates in the same subject.

There were about 20 people at the party afterwards, which just broke up about 45 minutes ago. At any given time there about 10 separate conversations going on. Among those present were a 1st grader, a 3rd grader, a JD degree, an MS degree, an MPA, several bachelor's degrees, an MBA. These included two former Marines, two Army veterans, two retired teachers, an active librarian, a railroad carman, and a couple of "significant others."

And an miniature pinscher named "Selena."

A good time was had by all.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 26 May 12 - 05:44 PM

Sounds like a good time was had by all, Amos. A positive post... for a change. Encouraging. I may be back.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 May 12 - 12:11 PM

We had a great time last night, Mom--we had a buffalo steak with home fries and baby peas with pearl onions and salad, lotsa red wine and high-falutin discussion about Being and other profound metaphysical issues of Cosmic Import. The Choreographer, the SOftware entrepreneur and the Lady Executive were there. A fine time was had by all, and I sang them "When the WOrk's All Done This Fall" so they would not completely forget the mportality of life.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 26 May 12 - 10:47 AM

Now yer just makin' up silly stories again, Rap. Tryin' to get under my skin. It ain't gonna work. I don't believe fer a minute that yer little brother sounds like that.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 12 - 09:04 AM

When we shoot something it becomes food, it is not food beforehand. I told my brother about Chumpooze coming and he clapped his tiny hands in glee at the thought of again having barbecued monkey while he said, "Goodie goodie gum drop! Eat monkey. Monkey GOOD eat!"

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 12 - 02:03 AM

Geez, Rap, the produce you would waste for target practice. I bet the juicy Texas peaches sitting on my kitchen counter right now are nothing more than pit shrapnel or a splat on the side of the barn when you're finished with them. You and Chongo need to break bread (fruit, that is - at a table, on a plate).

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 12 - 09:47 PM

Maybe tomorrow, Chongooze, we'll just fire a few rounds in the direction of Chicago for old times sake.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 12 - 12:25 PM

Younger. We can use mangoes as skeet targets when you toss them up in the air as you play "Catch The Bullets."

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 25 May 12 - 12:19 PM

Yer brother's place, huh? Okay. Is this a younger or an older brother? Should I bring some mangos?

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 12 - 10:48 AM

Oh, no. This is my brother's place. Before it was put in a museum he had charge of Ye Old Familie Stille as well as Ye Olde Familie Tommie Gunne. You can come around for dinner.











Bush meat...mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 May 12 - 09:29 AM

I kinda doubt there even exists any good way to mean it.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 25 May 12 - 01:02 AM

Rap, I been dreamin' fer years of gettin' together with you and comparin' our gun collections. I gotta admit that although you can be a bit of a bonehead about some things, when it comes to guns you know what end of the banana to start peelin' from! Yessir. Everything from light weapons to heavy ordnance...KREE-GAH!

You are my kinda human. I mean that in a good way.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 12 - 12:22 AM

Chumpo -- Drop around Athens, IL on Saturday afternoon. South Main Street, up the hill from the creek on the right hand side of the road. We'll have presents for you. Let's see. They'll be from an M-1, an 8mm Mauser, an '03, an AR-7, several shotguns of various gauges, a few .45s, at least on .357, and a bunch of .22s. And if you're lucky, some from Ye Olde Familie Tommie Gun. And a couple of cannons; can't forget the cannons.

We can discuss you political ass-pirations.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 May 12 - 12:10 AM

He would , but the thought of touching dogs makes him kinda nervous...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 12 - 09:22 PM

Chongo, are you running for dog catcher?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 24 May 12 - 12:35 PM

Amos? Rap? You still flappin' yer lips here? Well, this is what I got to say to you:

Awww shut up, you mangy, poop-flingin', flea-infested, banana-peelin', hootin', gibberin', caperin', grub-eatin', subspecies creeps! Go back to the jungle where ya belong!

There. How ya like that, humans? Doesn't feel so good, does it? Eat yer own insultin' words for a change, suckers. After I get elected there will be sweepin' changes that will bring an end to yer corrupt specist ways.

- Chongo