BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 09 - 08:14 PM

Spaw was kind enough to send me a link to a "Welcome Home" song, just for me. In the spirit with which it was presented I would like to pass it to Rapaire and Little Hawk whose kindly demeanour and point of view it brings to mind.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 09 - 07:00 PM

They rhyme? Eh??? No more'n Pork and Park.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 May 09 - 06:00 PM

They may rhyme if you're from Canada. They don't quite rhyme down here in the U.S.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 May 09 - 05:50 PM

Quark! Stork! Cork!

They all rhyme.

How about a poem?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 09 - 04:13 PM

Yes, and you'll find even more spices than you originally had. Stuff like melange and thionite and ajidamal and bananadine and dranath and athelas.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 May 09 - 03:49 PM

But will my spice rack move from kitchen to kitchen without having to lug it around with me?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 09 - 02:40 PM

Double your space time, double your fun!! No need to park when you've got QUARK!!! Let QUARK add SPARK to your life!! Every boson is sacred!!!



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 May 09 - 01:52 PM

If space is your problem, Gluon's your answer! Can't make up your mind which kitchen is right? Get 'em all and have Gluon hide the ones you're not using in one of those dimensions we can't see. Then, when you feel like a change, QUARK, there it is!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 09 - 01:35 PM

Put it on your credit card. Then you'll be okay. No sweat.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 09 - 01:29 PM

That is a wonderful part of the coast, and the weather's beautiful. And there's folk music in the region which Mudlark can tell you all about--she lives just over the way from there. The $1.4M pricetag is an issue, though...



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 May 09 - 12:45 PM

Which kitchen? The galley (that Bruce would turn into a walk-in bathtub) or the Hearst Castle (1930s chic) or the rustic one in San Simeon? If you poke around with that link it leads you to the real estate company that hosts that listing. The house is kind of odd, even with the lovely kitchen (though I don't like that white electrical wire running around the ceiling), but it sits on 40 apparently exquisite acres.

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

Have you considered a cellar/basement?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 09 - 11:28 AM

Well, I loved some of the suggestions--the kitchen especially--but the house is a bit small for that design. We'd have to move some walls around and redesign some spaces to allow for it. Unless I can put it on Bert's card...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 May 09 - 10:43 AM

Amos, did you find any particular floor plans or furnishing suggestions useful? Will you be returning all of that stuff, or is some of it in the "keeper" category? :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 09 - 09:54 AM

IN that case, perhaps I will just go back to Belize and see what develops.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 May 09 - 09:32 AM

Gluon's notion of reality is that of a duckdog. Gluon sees things, and understands things, differently. For instance, when you flush I suspect Gluon thinks "Black Hole! Neat! And it fills back up with water so I can have a drink!"

I wouldn't put a lot of stock in reality.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 12 May 09 - 04:28 AM

Yeah, those memories are sticking in my mind, too. I don't think I will ever forget those posts... Thank God Gluon was glad to see me back again Now/then, and restored it all in a burst of tail wagging.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 09 - 10:20 PM

That'll snap him out of it in a hurry. (You forgot to mention all of that meat on the plates, covered with plastic wrap, on the ice rink.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 11 May 09 - 10:12 PM

Snap to it now, Amos. Vacation is over.


It's back to the real world of polar bear turds in the middle of a San Diego residential area, plucked penguins, used jello, and the weird marks left by a giant squid on the new paint in the master bedroom.


Not to mention the giant latrine where the rose garden used to be.

Welcome back!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 09 - 10:02 PM

As for souvenirs, a few pebbles and a Belizean coin, a couple of fine cigars--and memories, rich with the fragrance of coconut trees and tropical breeze.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 09 - 09:29 PM

I'm very happy for you, Amos. I'm sure that you enjoyed every moment of your well-deserved vacation, you lousy bastard.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 09 - 08:56 PM

I am glad you enjoyed them--that's the experience that comes just before jealousy sets in, I think... :D

It would make me jealous too.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 11 May 09 - 08:33 PM

I have one thing to say, Amos, after viewing the pics.







I'm jealous.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 09 - 08:08 PM

I am very happy for you Stilly--it is a rare Spinner you snarked for yourself there.



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 09 - 05:20 PM

It works as well, also.

snark

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 May 09 - 05:13 PM

"I will lurk, haunt, infest, spy, and skulk about until the time is ripe. THEN I will STRIKE."

That sounds very much like the technique Chongo often uses, Amos...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 09 - 05:12 PM

29092

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 09 - 05:12 PM

And you haven't said taken time to show MOM what souvenirs you brought home.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 09 - 05:12 PM

And you haven't dropped in at the May Mudcat tavern (it was moved back to the old location once you returned home).

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 09 - 05:09 PM

Meanwhile, I asked about those coral reefs over on the house party and redecorating thread. Did you bring back any big honker chunks of coral to adorn your house? (Of course we know about all of the reasons why you wouldn't be we're talking garish house decorating here).

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 09 - 05:03 PM

I will lurk, haunt, infest, spy, and skulk about until the time is ripe. THEN I will STRIKE.




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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 May 09 - 04:05 PM

Dibs only works if you're here to grab it, you know that! Surely all of that sunshine and alcohol didn't erase your memory* of this corner of the world.







*I won't be surprised if all of the fumes from paint, high explosives, new furniture, and probably carpet pads in the recently rerereremodeled house have had some affect.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 09 - 03:33 PM

I could have sworn I saw him at Amos' place, riding a snowmobile.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 May 09 - 02:38 PM

You think YOU have it tough! Shane had to spend the last two days in the slammer recovering from a massive drinking session and explaining to the cops how all that property damage occurred and why someone else's snowmobile was found in his backyard, half taken apart...

"I am flippin' INNOCENT, man! I never SEEN that flippin' snowmobile in my life before, I swear! Somebody else musta drug it in there and dumped it to, like, incrimindate me... I been home all week watchin' videos, eh?"

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 09 - 02:17 PM

I wish to put in a DIBS on 29092.



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 09 - 12:00 PM

It sounds to me like we are in different departments of the same nightmare, mayhap.

Perhaps we should try tranquilizers...Acepromazine might make life less ambivalent.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 09 - 11:39 AM

Oooooooooh, poor baby. I spent a good chunk of LAST WEEK straightening out the mess left by a predecessor so that our two legacy Class C IP blocks could be correctly assigned to us.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 11 May 09 - 11:07 AM

Poor thing indeed. I sit in an office, sorting through signatures and patent assignments, wondering when I will wake up in the spring-fresh sea-breezes of the blue Carib again. The bad dream keeps persisting. Every time I think I am waking up, ready to go snorkeling, the universe shifts and I am back in this damn office dream-world again...



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 May 09 - 08:34 AM

Boozing, looting Mayan and Toltec ruins, hanging around with wild wenches...just as Mom feared, poor thing.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 10 May 09 - 11:24 PM

A small set of photos but none of the underwater stuff.

Still working on that,


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 10 May 09 - 10:44 PM

Well, I'm very glad to learn that you enjoyed your vacation as much as we did;>)

Looking forward to to pics/video and more stories.

Went to a small "For Pete's Sake" song circle that Dani pulled together at a local park. Most pleasant.   Couldn't stay very long 'cuz had to fetch Sum Yung Sun from his Arnis class. It was just as well I had a good excuse to leave very soon after some one joined the gathering who was a former client - one major pitfall of being a practicing therapist in my own small town. We called Kendall and sang happy b-day to him before I left.

MOM, it seems Rapaire kept the money we gave him to buy the card and flowers - probably bought a round at the Legion Hovel with it. And I see LH let you go without brunch. It's bedtime now, but let me fetch you a bowl of mint-chocolate chip ice cream for your bedtime snack.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 May 09 - 09:35 PM

Isn't that a folk song -- "Rich of the Reef Country"?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 10 May 09 - 09:04 PM

I'll try to assemble a raft of pix and bvideo clisp somewhere. We had a neat-o tiny Flip Video camera, which had a waterproof case, so I got some great shots of manta rays, sharks, barracuda and other denizens of the reef country/

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 10 May 09 - 03:44 PM

YEah--he had to be real careful not to be sucked in...



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 10 May 09 - 03:38 PM

Ilike the phot of the diver swimming around Montero's Uvula.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 10 May 09 - 02:03 PM

Some pictures (from someone else)...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 10 May 09 - 11:50 AM

Jaysus, you people are something wonderul. You took SUCH good care of Mom!! All my doubts were without merit. She's in terrific shape!! Even Rustic showed up!! I mean, I am so proud!


The house is another story. We shall have some discussions as soon as I finish tabulating the bills

Came back to two pounds of mail and a locked up house, late last night. Our planned means of entry--leaving the back door unlocked--was foiled. The whole house was locked. I had to jimmy a window to make entry. That done, we just crashed. I have to tell you, a full day of travel living on airplane colas and chewing gum is wearing n an old salt.

his was y first stop once consciousness re-asserted itself. Janie is psychicsch--she pegged the spring breezes, the brandy, the snorkelling and the sunburn.

We dove with a flock of manta rays so big and black they looked like flying black carpets or B-17s or something. We swam through walls of yellow jacks and school-master fish, the crowds so thick they looked like solid sheets of eyeballs and colored fins. We took a longboat twenty-five miles up the old Belize River, through the twisting jungle, to the ancient temples called Laminae, where the howler monkeys guard the comedy of lost religion and the creeper vines and palms make shadowed alleys under the towering pyramids of Mayan kings and jaguars. We read a thousand pages of cheap fiction. We SCUBA'd inside the Barrier Reef and drank ourselves silly with big-hearted Tennessee song writers and crafty international entrepreneurs.

I got featured at le local haute cuisine French Thai Fusion restaurant one night, my name illuminated on the multi-colored chalkboard outside in the sand, and snag all evening in exchange for a dinner fit for kings.

We snorkeled with nurse sharks, rays, groupers, huge thunderheads of ancient coral, where gigantic grandaddy spiny lobsters dwell.

We slept and drank and tipped and wandered the beach. Drove into town in a gold cart over the rutted dirt trail that runs the length of the Cay.

The wind was a constant friend, day and night. For one thing, it kep all the skeeters away. Not one did we see, except in the jungle trails up the lagoon at Laminae.

And, to cap it all off, we talked to a couple of manatee on their morning lunch break. This was the capstone, because it was thirty years ago that a much younger moi sat down in front of a much younger BBW and asked if she would go diving for manatee. When she said "Yes", it was without any idea what a manatee was. But what she said yes to, which was something much larger than a diving trip, has endured thirty years, hence the grand vacances in celebration.

I am brown and a bit pink in places, but I am deeply happy with my vacation. I could live on Ambergris Cay. Dunno what I would do, there. I'd find something.

Thank you all for being such fine sibs.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 May 09 - 11:39 AM

I read elsewhere, second-hand report, that Amos is approaching with his contribution. I haven't seen him, and there are no posts since May 2. MOM is getting a little worried that he might not get here. Conversely, she's been reading another thread at Mudcat and is also a little worried that he MIGHT get here. :-/

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 10 May 09 - 09:01 AM

Happy Mother's Day, MOM.

Rap is who is supposed to bring the card and flowers. LH is going to fix you breakfast, and MMario has knitted something nice. Hopefully, Amos will bring you back something pretty from Belize.

Stilly & my contributions were to tell them what to do.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 09 May 09 - 11:58 PM

Pretty interesting story, actually. Egyptologists for quite some time assumed she must have been the personification of the evil stepmother to warrant Thutmose III ordering so many of her images chiseled away, and destroying so many of her monuments. Turns out, none of this happened until 20 years after her death. Anything that portrayed her as a queen was left alone. ONly those things representing her as pharaoh were destroyed. Speculation now is that Thutmose III found that necessary to reinforce his own line of succession, since he was not actually descended from any of the lines of pharaohs.

I understand why he did it. He was a sweet kid and l always loved him, though I couldn't abide his mother.