BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 May 09 - 01:19 PM

Some people live just to get in arguments with other people and see if they can "win", Stilly. That propensity has driven otherwise trivial threads into hundreds or even thousands of essentially vain and empty posts. To be tempted into posting on such threads is akin to entering the door of a casino...you can play all you want, but the chances of gaining anything profitable from it are extremely slim.

At least in the case of the casino, though, somebody wins. The house wins. ;-)

In the case of those threads I was alluding to you can't even say that. They're more like WWI. Lots of sound and fury. Lots of dirt and mud. Nobody really wins anything.

What I would suggest is, if someone wants to damn Susan Boyle with faint praise....just ignore it. It doesn't matter anyway, and you won't change their opinion one iota by fighting with them about it.

Nor will Susan Boyle ever know or care what anyone here said about her, in all probability.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 May 09 - 01:03 PM

I would prefer sui-gametic. SInce neither word exists anyway, woth the hell, Archie.

As for ding-dongs, yahoos, bandarlogs, and copracephalic nonentities disturbing the flow of ideation in other threads, I am afraid it is part of our fate in life to learn to rise above such low-grade distractions. Be unto thine own self sufficient acknowledgement, and all will be well.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 09 - 12:35 PM

Say to them, "Coprophagics such are you are autogametes."

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 May 09 - 11:26 AM

Trying to carry on a lucid discussion over on the What Should Susan Boyle Sing Next? thread but Lox and Crow Sister and Sinister Sister/Suibhne O'Piobaireachd, etc keep coming in to suggest that there is something wrong with the messenger if she protests that they come in and say she's awful or damn with faint praise. They can take that conversation somewhere else. Threads are cheap.

If I say FUCK YOU to those folks over on that thread, I imagine it would start a firestorm and a shit-throwing fest, wouldn't it? So I guess I won't say it. Over there. But consider it said. :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 28 May 09 - 10:00 AM

Most species of ant not only remove the wings post mating but eat them. It's an easy food source until she rears up her first batch of slaves workers.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 May 09 - 09:57 AM

Lazy bum!! I've been at work for an hour!


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 May 09 - 09:21 AM

It's about time!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 09 - 09:13 AM

Hi, Mom. I'm going to work now.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 09 - 11:14 PM

The sale was a complete success...for god's sake take down those signs!!! :D

What a good observation, Janie. I remember spending whole coffee breaks studying the ants in their organized chaos scuttling along the trails behind the office. People thought I was slightly mad, but I never get tired of watching them and considering how they know what they know. Or at least, how they do what they do.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 09 - 10:28 PM

Whatever it takes to get the guys to leave her alone, now the mission is accomplished?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 27 May 09 - 09:57 PM

Did all ya'll know that queen ants remove their own wings after mating?

Neither did I. Approached the car this evening to see a red winged ant on the door, grotesquely contorting. It had three wings attached, and one wing was clinging to the metal. I stood and watched as it twisted and struggled to get assorted legs up onto it's back to scrape off each remaining wing at the base. The ant calmed immediately when the last wing came off, briefly explored the last wing as it lay on the door, then sauntered toward the carhood.

I don't know if the wings hurt or itched like mad to get the lady to twist and turn so.

Google is a wonderful thing. I would never have gone to the library to research what I had just witnessed.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 09 - 07:44 PM

Wow...I must defer to the master of invented monkey people, second only to Mister Kipling.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 09 - 07:43 PM

The term is "bandarlog" - the monkey people.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 09 - 07:34 PM

Only fair. I can't count the number of parties I have missed at Tweed's place, and never been invited to; and it should be obvious why I can't. But there's more of 'em than one band of inebriated banderlogs making free with one virtual domicile.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 09 - 05:13 PM

Tweed missed the party at Amos' place.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 09 - 04:56 PM

Hello, Tweed. What's a smart good looking guy doing slumming around here?

Maybe flattery will keep him around for a post or two more?

.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Tweed
Date: 27 May 09 - 04:37 PM

Yow it still lives....the Kurse of KingKhandu.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 09 - 04:06 PM

I dunno about oil, but I could possibly shoot the water lines to the sprinkler system and cost myself a bunch of money to get it fixed.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 09 - 04:04 PM

That gives me an idea--Rapaire, see if you can take that new gun of yours out and discover oil on your property. You'll be rich!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 09 - 02:02 PM

Jed Clampett? THE Jed Clampett?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 09 - 10:53 AM

Oh!! I thought it was your Texas house.

In my mothers' house are many states, many hands. I am sure thatdormer can be put right in short order. We have to tear away the half-burned shigling, inspect the rafters, and scarf or wholly replace any that have been compromised. While we are int here we can add insulation. Then re-sheathe, and re-shingle. Bob's your uncle!! And Jedidiah's your mother's uncle!


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 May 09 - 10:45 AM

Is that where MOM lives? In Texas? I thought it was somewhere in Mississippi? Or California?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 09 - 10:37 AM

Rapaire's rattling and crashing landscape of delusions is no yardstick, Janie; one must at least try to be fair in making these judgments.

Next time I am in Texas I will patch that roof up properly.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 27 May 09 - 09:08 AM

Stilly - I rest my case.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 May 09 - 09:06 AM

Your act?

Well, you DID pioneer the use of pyrotechnics on stage, but I still don't think that drummer appreciated the detonators attached to his foot pedal. You know who I mean...whatsisname...Stumpy or Pegleg or something. That bit about setting your hair on fire DID impress me, but it took some kind of surgery to repair the damage done after your "ZZ Top beard" took fire too.

Even then the repairs didn't really take.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 27 May 09 - 06:37 AM

All better, MOM. Suspect food poisoning.

Well, gotta get ready and head to work. No coffee in the house will get one up and out quite early on a Wednesday morning.

last chance Harvey is quite good.

Don't know as I would trust any roof repairs made by the boys. Might end up with a bigger problem than the one they climbed up to fix.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 09 - 12:06 AM

It is quite ungentlemanly of you, Rapaire, to go telling such tales out of school. Tricks like that only work when mum's the word, you know. If you keep this up, you'll ruin my reputation and spoil my act!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 09 - 10:14 PM

'Twasn't lightning. Amos lit off one of those super-mega-firecrackers he has and threw it on the roof to see if it would damage the roof. It did.

The ATF came and said it was equivalent to a half a stick of 60% dynamite. They confiscated the rest of his firecrackers and fined him $10.00 US and told on him. Only he pointed to old Mrs. Schmeerkase and told the Agents that she was his mother (Mom being out at the time) and the Agents turned him over to her "wrath."

Now we all know that Mrs. Schmeerkase is deafer'n a post and not quite with us all the time anymore, so she just gave Amos some cookies and milk, told him to be a good boy (yeah, right!), and sent him home.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 09 - 09:57 PM

Thunderstorm this evening, MOM. Come in off of the porch again, please. You know that lightening hit the house and blasted one dormer a couple of years ago. The blue plastic tarp has finally weathered to kind of match the rest of the roof by now. One of these days one of the Boys will climb up there and finish the repairs and fix the roof.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 09 - 07:20 PM

I have Last Chance Harvey waiting for me here (NetFlix). Did you like it? Thompson and Hoffman were good in Stranger Than Fiction, the little time they had together, so I was glad to see someone else noticed that. I bet MOM would like to watch it with you. Shall we ask her to pop some popcorn?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 26 May 09 - 06:04 PM

Hi MOM. Came home sick before noon today. Have watchedFrost Nixon, last chance Harvey, and am working on Brokeback Mountain when I can hold my head up.

Lucky I didn't get them watched this weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 09 - 01:51 PM

Yes, Amos. Strictly for target shooting -- say, 100 meters. It has precision front and rear sights, adjusting as little as .01 minute of angle at 100 meters.

Much like your kayak, but cheaper.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 May 09 - 12:57 PM

That's a world geomap symbolized by domain suffixes.

THere are many ways to map the internet.

Here is a map of hierarchical connections.

Here is an early map of connectivity.

Here's a 2005 map of Internet users internationally.

A professor at Manchester offers this Atlas of Cyberspace Maps.

Here's the Jellyfish Model of the Internet. And many more from mappamundi.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 09 - 11:30 AM

Map of the Internet (this page will change as the day goes on, but the front page now shows this poster).

Okay. Back to the BS.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 09 - 11:17 AM

Ah, Monday! Tuesday!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 May 09 - 10:33 AM

...also connected with the trigger guard, I wot.


Why buy a single-shot target model? For the sport of it?


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 09 - 10:27 AM

No, silly. This.   Only in a single-shot .22 long rifle (5.5mm) caliber. It's a much older gun, probably from the late '60s or early '70s. It's missing a screw in front of the trigger guard, but then I have a few screws loose and missing myself.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 May 09 - 09:53 AM

Welcome home, oh Manne of Bookes. Mom has been quite the yoyo without your steadfast support. I am not sure how your team is going to use the 404 caliber Pagenot FOunde you ordered, but I am sure you'll work out something.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 26 May 09 - 08:48 AM

You ordered a "page not found"?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 09 - 08:46 AM

Many times Amos has been abed with Edith Wharton.

I have returned. I have made arrangements to purchase one of these, -- Amos, it's a single shot target model formerly used by the US Olympic shooting team.

Now I must away, for I must be a work early enough to prepare for my monthly meeting with the Mayor.

Later I shall post more.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 09 - 01:44 AM

Amos, have you read any Edith Wharton?

And Amos, see if you can do this with your iPhone.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 May 09 - 12:14 AM

Well, the day draws down with only half my writing target finished, but that is far far better than the none I have turned in so many times before, so I take it as progress. I hate turning in nones, even when they deserve it....


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 25 May 09 - 11:14 PM

Not to mention the high tech Governator.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 May 09 - 11:11 PM

It is in the blood in these parts--the proximity of Silicon Valley, or the climate, or perhaps the EMF fields from the power grid--whatever it is, using these things is part of the culture, like knowing how to repair wagon traces once was in Indiana. There is so much agreement that the psychic maps are easy to follow without particularly knowing anything at all.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 25 May 09 - 09:56 PM

And I never use the I pod I inherited from Sum Yung Sun, because I can't figure out consistently how to navigate it.

I guess that southern California sun on the brain must be good for something.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 May 09 - 09:48 PM

I finished Candide and Crome Yellow and am now partway through Daisy Miller, a wonderful portrait of an American girl is Switzerland in the early part of the 20th c.

It is a strange timetravel going back to these old books I read in my youth. What happened was, I found a package of 50 of them for 99 cents I could download to my iPhone. It is such easy reading--lighter than abook, with flickable pages back and forth--a wonder, and perfectly pleasant to read, backlit so you can see it in shadowy places. A gem.

So I am wandering the corridors of time with Aldous huxley and William James, perfectly delightful. I could do it forever.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 May 09 - 08:10 PM

Peace is worth the price.

It has been a quiet day here in Lake Woebegone.

Writing target only 25% done so far, but oh, the distractive delights!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 25 May 09 - 05:15 PM

Hi MOM. I et early so as to not have probable storms snuff out the charcoal. Only had one little spate of sprinkles. Don't eat much meat, so don't grill often and am prone to overcook the meat.

However, the steak was absolutely perfect! Somewhere between medium-rare and medium, which is just how I likes 'em. Fixed the asparagus on the grill also. The whole bunch of it, drizzled with olive oil and lemon and cracked pepper. 'Twere also perfect.


Ate out on the patio and watched the birds in the Mulberry.

Haven't spoken or heard a word spoken all day. Sorry none of yuse could join me but I sure do love the peace and quiet.

Right here, right now, I am content.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 May 09 - 04:15 PM

One is a chemical compound, the other an automotive valve.

POSITIVE CRANKCASE VENTILATION (PCV) - system for removing blow-by gases from the crankcase and returning them, through the carburetor intake manifold, to the combustion chamber, where the recirculated hydrocarbons are burned, thus reducing hydrocarbon emissions to the atmosphere. A PCV valve, operated by engine vacuum, controls the flow of gases from the crankcase. PCV systems have been standard equipment in all U.S. cars since 1963, replacing the simpler vent, or breather, that allowed crankcase vapors to be emitted to the atmosphere.

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL, a synthetic, organic chemical once widely used in electrical equipment, specialized hydraulic systems, heat transfer systems, and other industrial products. Highly toxic and a potent carcinogen.

An urban fish often gets confused about which it is he really desires.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 May 09 - 03:18 PM

Or PCV. Whatever.