BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 05:40 PM

I shower every so often, need it or not. Physical dirt does not long adhere to me!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 05:01 PM

Imputation by projection will get you no-where, old bean. Very old bean. You are the one who was fascinated by the possibility -- i merely facilitated your nightmare. Come clean.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 03:33 PM

I myself? I don't use public bulletin boards for that sort of thing. That is not to say that I would stop YOU from using them. I mean, it's okay with me as long as both you and the bulletin board are old enough and there's mutual consent and all.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 03:26 PM

Ya just HAD to go back and check, huh? LOL!!!

Now, since you brought the subject up, by trying so hard NOT to, what kind of information would you expect to find on a pubic bulletin board?


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 03:21 PM

Thank goodness! I remembered to put the "L" in "public."

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 12:45 PM

Right now, we're installing a 42" screen in the public area. Connected to a computer it will act as an electronic bulletin board.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 11:18 AM

They could make a little flashing sign come up when someone has poured over 100 nickels into the same bandit machine, that says "Face it, you're on a losing streak. Go read a book in our Library Lounge and try again later."


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 10:44 AM

Perhaps you should discuss it with them. A grant for an extension of library services.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 10:41 AM

If you mean the tax base that supports this Library, I can answer in one short word:

HAH!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 09:41 AM

Rapaire:

Are these gambling casinos part of your Base?


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Oct 06 - 08:18 AM

The Bannocks have the Western Casino and the Shoshones have the Eastern one, up about 10 miles north of here on the reservations. The Western one is off of Interstate 86 and the Eastern one off of I-15. The Fort Hall Shoshone-Bannock Reservation gets you no matter what Interstate you travel on.

Good folks, up there, mostly. Like everyone else including the Scots.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:22 PM

It could have been the Sheepeater wars....


Glad to see it wasn't just us with silly names for the one sided adventures anginst natives in the 19th century

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:34 PM

In the interests of full and complete disclosure, I actually stopped four trains (they thought there was another on the tracks) and restarted the Bannock War. And at 5:30 the folks at the Mill heard the "whistle," saw the steam, and quit for the day three hours early.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:16 PM

Well, after a visit to the emergency room, I can state with complete authority that, yes indeed, you belch smoke. In fact, the mouth is not the only bodily orifice to send smoke signals.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 08:20 PM

You are so right. I should never have mentioned it....come to think of it I have been entirely too reckless with advices and suggestions on this thread and I will tone it down forthwith. We must be careful, after all. One never knows, does one?

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 08:03 PM

You shoudn't have brough it up at all then. Keeping people safe from themselves is a full time job, you know....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 06:14 PM

I'd be careful about letting hi think that, Bunn-me-lad. He's likely to try it out. That would put the brakes on in a big way!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 05:41 PM

You'd be fine, so long as you stayed well away from naked flames for a few days afterwards....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 04:40 PM

I didn't say it wouldn't hurt you. I don't know whether it would be a painful death or not.

If you find out, let me...oh, never mind...



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 02:14 PM

So you're saying that drinking brake fluid won't hurt me? And if I also had some swimming pool chlorine I could belch smoke?

COOL!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 01:53 PM

A similar warning to those who would like to experiment with pool chlorine and brake fluid. A lousy drink, and it ruins the braking fluid, as wlel as making an awful smoke bomb.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:30 AM

The old makers in the States did the same thing, wetting the powder with whiskey and then seeing if the alcohol would burn off and "poof!" the powder. I'd even demonstrated this myself with (legal) grain alcohol).

However, the Legion is concerned with those who might do something like stir a cup of gunpowder into a half-gallon of whiskey and then try to drink it or shoot it or both.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 11:22 AM

Never mix alcohol and gunpowder. It makes a lousy drink, and your gunpowder gets wet and won't work.

Therefore demonstarting your alchol is less than 100 proof. What is the legion playing at drinking that kind of stuff, it might as well be fruit juice?

Knowing the old field test for alcohol levels would be useful for something, eventually. Gunpowder soaked in 100 prof alcohol still burns, any weaker it doesn't. The exicsemans test was to test it and then to add more alcohol or water as needed to get to 100 proof, and so see how much tax was due on it....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:58 AM

Or possibly psylocybin?

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:43 AM

Mom's gonna strip search Rapaire next time he heads out to the back yard by himself. She's afraid that he's playing with matches out there.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:27 AM

This information is passed down from son to father to son to daughter to mother to the lady behind the bar to wife to grandson to nephew to the girls upstairs to Anne Landers.

Yes, it has all been gathered into The Idaho Legion's Guide To Surviving In The Great Outdoors When You're Nekkid And Only Have A Pickup Camper Full Of Gear And Stuff And A Full Tank Of Gas But You've Run Plumb Out Of Drinks Except Water, also know to outdoorsmen as "The Emergency Charmin."

Here's another tip:

If you're lost, start a fire, the bigger the better. The smokejumpers and hotshot crews will find you in no time and can often be touched for spare change. Of course, this won't work in the winter so start an avalanche and block an Interstate highway with it. Don't stand in front of the avalanche, and always stand upwind from the fire.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:26 AM

Here's MONDAY, Mom. Up and AT 'em!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 12:11 AM

Wow...this is the sort of know-how your Legionnaires come up with?

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 09:27 PM

Here's another outdoorsy tip from Rapaire, your source for everything outdoorsy:

Never mix alcohol and gunpowder. It makes a lousy drink, and your gunpowder gets wet and won't work.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:32 PM

Last night, though, the heat went out and we had to spend the night cuddled inside the buffalo I'd just killed so we'd have meat for breakfast. Dead buffalo stay warm inside for a very long time, especially if you build a small fire, and in the morning breakfast is already cooked and waiting.

This outdoorsy tip brought to you by Rapaire, your guide to everything outdoorsy.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 06:40 PM

Welcome back, kind sir! I have been down in the park playing with Banjoest and several friends of like persuasion. Great pleasure.

Mom, tell Rapaire he really is your favorite.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 06:39 PM

I was trying to run my end of an event, when the organiser is in hiding, they had no timetable of any sort, would not shut up and listen for two seconds, and forgot to pay, whilst I had an unknown number of people, with varying abilities randomly decide to turn up or not, without informing me. Out Of this I had to come up with a plan, and be expected to know stuff when asked. And the decnt beer thay had on a few days ago hadn't been looked fater, so had gone off...

On a totally unrelated matter, why doesn't HTML have a dedicated rant tag? It would be really rather useful on occasion.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 06:01 PM

Camped (in a cabin, with heat, it got down to 25 F.) for two nights and back now. Lovely time, saw some mergansers, pelicans, gulls (of course), sandhills. One red fox this morning and this afternoon one cottontail. But blue skies and a nice time.

I'm back.

Be very, very...well, something.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 05:50 PM

I've been busy this afternoon, but still, I'm making a little time to check on MOM. What's the excuse for the rest of you? Camping, away from the computer, doing brain surgery or building invisibility shields? Is that REALLY more important than checking on dear ol' MOM?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 02:46 PM

I could probably find some at the high-end supermarket (Central Market here in North Texas) or at World Market (I think that's a chain). Maybe worth the test. The dogs would eat it if no one else would. :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:38 AM

If vegemite is illegal, then have marmite (www. marmite.com) instead. British, and virtually indistinguisable to all but the most refined tastes. It's one of those you love it or hate it things, and their advertising has played on this for years...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:29 AM

For those who have more sense than I do, and who therefore don't go near the Shamblescentric threads, let me share my new found word that I think perfectly describes Shambles.

'BOREGASMIC'

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Oct 06 - 12:46 AM

It seems that one thing that would benefit Moonglow is developing a taste for vegemite and its added folate. But according to our Oz 'catters, the U.S. has outlawed it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 06:51 PM

Moonglow is out of the hospital as of Thursday afternoon. We had to kind of pry her loose--they weren't doing any treatment after the transfusion on Monday, just had her hanging out. We asked if it was dangerous if she left, and they said no, as long as she returns to the ER if she feels bad. I talk to her a couple of times a day. She's studying this weekend instead of going to work, to catch up with her classes. I think a cold a couple of weeks ago triggered the cascade of events. There has been a symptom all along that I've queried her doctors about at her annual physical, and no one ever addressed it. (I always knew which kid didn't flush the toilet by the darkness of the urine).

Docs think she has a genetic form of anemia, spherocytosis. Conclusive test will be in next week. Second opinions coming next, and deciding on treatment.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 03:15 PM

A rogue, a scamp, a ne'er-do-well peely-wally ba-heidt!! Off and bile yer head!

LOL!! Nice to see you are at least alive below the wrists, Giok!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 01:29 PM

Tempting isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 01:11 PM

There is a time and a place for all things, and hospital is one of those that has to take priority. Hope you and moonglow get out of there soon.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 11:16 AM

How's Moonglow?


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 10:32 AM

Thanks for catching her, Bunn. I've wandered in after a good night's sleep (in my own bed--those fold-out hospital contraptions are torturous!) and brewed a strong cuppa tea. I'll go walk the dogs in a few minutes, then get down to a lot of work that needs to be done around here. Playing catch-up, big time.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 10:24 AM

Man's gotta catch up on sleep some-when, Mom. Thanks for letting me snooze!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 21 Oct 06 - 10:15 AM

16 hours and nobody drops by. Must all be off camping in the Idaho wilderness....

Well it's more fun that trekking back and forth to hospital, or some of the other things people are up to.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 06:39 PM

Thank you. I'll be careful to forget that in short order. Mudcat is the fount of all knowledge, but sometimes you don't want fish in your fountain...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 03:04 PM

It has been attributed to Jackie Fisher, the First World War Admiral, who said, "Never apologise, never explain".

Not sure this is a reliable attribution or not.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 02:09 PM

Best advice for a poet you could ask for!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 01:56 PM

Never apologise, never explain!

Never able to remember that that comes from....