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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 22 Sep 10 - 04:30 PM As long as San Diego has better weather than Idaho in January, it can snow in autumn if it wants to. Eiseley |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 22 Sep 10 - 05:14 PM Never fear, a side by side comparison is almost guaranteed to show Idaho up--depending on whoich way one holds the map. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 22 Sep 10 - 06:35 PM I have communed with with my gramps and other forefathers as well as seeking the sage advice of some of my still living Native Peoples brothers (well, I saw Jim One Feather and his bro at the beer store yesterday) regarding the sudden onset of fall. I had predicted the last four years of seasonal weather here almost to a tee and I also predicted, three months ago, an early, but long and dry fall this year with early snowfall but moderate snow until close to the winter equalknocks. Then, Mom Nature is gonna knock us good here in The Merrytimes with a rather nasty winter. Or not. Depends eh? As for the glow at dusk, it is dusk now and I only have a slight glow on. But, there is a beautiful reddish pink glow to the west as the sun illuminates the undeside of the cloud cover... or maybe that's a reflection off of A and/or Rap. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Sep 10 - 07:16 PM But see, his Brilliantness drank himself to death. How cool was that? Not very. Dylan Thomas drank way too much, but there is speculation that it was some kind of mis-matched drug cocktail between what he was taking and what his doctors gave him that killed him. Here is a site called "Neurotic Poets" that offers one version. I didn't realize John Berryman was with him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 22 Sep 10 - 07:51 PM I agree with Dylan Thomas about changing the color of the lampshades. It really makes me angry. As DT wrote, "Rage, rage, against the dyeing of the light." |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 22 Sep 10 - 07:56 PM Reminds me of the old ditty used to sell a poets books: No one says "lovin'" Like someone from Llangollen And Dylan Thomas Says it best. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 22 Sep 10 - 11:23 PM Ah, Rap, it is good to hear his virtues being extolled; but I fear me you may have misheard his words, or left your dictionary at home. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Sep 10 - 12:49 AM It was another distinguished poet who inspired him in that work, with Little lamp, who made thee? Little lamp, who made thee? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 23 Sep 10 - 07:57 AM That's right, along with his other inspiring poem that begins: Taper, taper, burning bright In the hallways of the night . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 10:51 AM Today's word, in association with the commanding Oxford English Dictionary, is mifky-pifky (n.) Sexual activity, flirting (esp. of an illicit nature). Used in a sentence in 1985 by J. Margolis: "There's all this mifky-pifky going on, but not for me, and I'm envious." |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 10 - 10:56 AM Earlier, Johnny Dunne gave the inspiration to Billy Blake: No man is an candle, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the wick, a part of the wax. If a wick be burnt out by silly usage, the world is the darker, as well as if a searchlight were, as well as if a ligthouse of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's taper diminishes my light, because I am brighter than everybody else; and therefore must go about blowing out candles and tapers and dashing buckets of water upon fires so that my light will shine the brighter. Never send to know for whom the light went out; it was quenched for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:02 AM I think that's a lot of hooey-wooey. (Used in a sentence by me, 2010.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:04 AM Not so bad as if it were blathertwaddle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:32 AM You brace of clinchpoops with your Grimgribber punctiuncles! I am hard put to say which of you is the polyphloisboiotatotic amongst the pigwidgeons. A pair of skeezicks seized by extremes of polemomania in an endless histrionic quest for satisdiction which is nver forthcoming. It is for fie, I swan. A (Lookups may be performed here in the Search box. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:53 AM LOOK! MOM's laughing and heading across the lawn to drop a bushel basket over the top of Rapaire and Eiseley. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:55 AM Your sesquipedalian tirades, Amos, are evidence of a mind careening uncontrolled through a labyrinth of quasi-intellectual sludgewallow that resembles nothing more than the entrails of a goat scattered randomly upon a verdant sward. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 12:13 PM Why would Mom want to hide these lights under a bushel? And why does Rapaire insist on referring to people by their first names whom he has never met, and to whom he has not been introduced?? Talk about blathertwaddle!! LED torch, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal eye, or hand Made the form, or named the brand? In what distant fab or shop Turned he out thy screw-on top? From what ancient Mandarin Did he import thy body thin? And what shoulder and what art made the chip within thy heart? And, when thy heart was made by day, What night-shift ran thy QA? What the hammer? what the chain? And thy blueprint, from what brain? Whence the copper? From what sea Silicon for thy main IC? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did the Maker then foresee Who would make an LED?? LED torch, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal eye, or hand Made the form, or named the brand? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 02:39 PM Apt questions indeed! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 03:10 PM Asbery, R.J., Pretlove, J. R. G., Telepresence for remote inspection, Service Robot, Vol. 1(2), pp20-23, 1995. Pretlove, J.R.G., Get a head in telepresence: Active vision for remote intervention, Proc of the Int Conf on Remote Techniques for Hazardous Environments, British Nuclear Energy Society, Leicestershire, pp264-269, 29-30 April, 1996. Wheeler, A. C., Pretlove, J.R.G., Parker, G.A., Augmented Reality to Enhance Active Telepresence System, SPIE Int Conf on Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies III, SPIE Photonics East 1996, 18-22nd November, 1996. Wheeler, A. C., Pretlove, J.R.G., Parker, G.A., Augmented Reality: Calibration of the Real and Virtual Worlds, SPIE Int Conf on Intelligent Systems & Advanced Manufacturing: Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies IV, SPIE Photonics East 1997, Pittsburgh, October 1997. Yu, W., and Pretlove, J.R. Semi-autonomous teleoperation system with vision guidance, to be presented at the SPIE Int Symp on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies V, Boston, Nov,. 1998, SPIE conference number 3524, 1998. Chen, N., Yu, W., and Pretlove, J.R. Haptic interfaced telemanipulation, to be presented at the SPIE Int Symp on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies V, Boston, Nov,. 1998, SPIE conference number 3524, 1998. Ganapathy, S., Decomposition of transformation matrices for robot vision, Proc. Of IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 1984, pp 130-139. Just in case Mom needed some prior-art references on augmented reality systems... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:07 PM God...the tedium! What are you trying to do, bore me to death? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:34 PM Oh, my poor amigo!! I am so sorry to have exposed you to the horrid, putrid, tedious entrails of regular employment!! Never mind. Have some Ramen noodles;you'll feel much better. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:45 PM There yees goes again eh. Makin this stuff up as yees goes along. I don't believe any of it sos I am not even goolgin them there big words. Geezoh! An what's with the Roman Numerals? Yer too high falooten fer the loikes a me youse. I gotta stir me Kraft Dinner. Later eh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:50 PM Amos - You irk me with your presumptuous putdowns and snide implications, sir. Your arrgance offends me. Were I inclined to soil my hands with the blood of a worthless poltroon, you would be in serious trouble... ;-D As it is, however, I shall spare you my wrath, for I have compassion for the culturally impaired. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 05:59 PM When I typed "arrgance", it should have been "arrogance". Come to think of it, though, your arrgance does offend me as well. ;-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 10 - 07:32 PM Last Sunday it would have been "Arrghance, Matey!" Last Sunday was Talk Like A Pirate Day. It's too late now, you'll have to wait for next year. I went fishing today. At Medicare Beach, not Cardiac Arrest Beach as I did before. Lost TWO good sized trout; both snapped my good ol' line (one took my good ol' bait rig and the other my good ol' Rapalla sinking lure). I suppose that was to be expected after 23 years of use, though. Good thing I have more line, eh? Finally I just gave up, listened to my audiobook, and watched the grebes, pelicans, gulls, and a red-headed duck as I sat in my fishing chair close to the water's edge. The good ol' wind also carried off my good ol' straw hat -- fortunately the OLD one with the holes in it (Eiseley isn't THAT good of a shot). Last seen it was sailing towards American Falls dam. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Sep 10 - 08:06 PM My arrgance, sirrah? MY arrgance? You never even showed ANY interest in Haptic interfaced telemanipulation, nor had a single kind word to say about Decomposition of transformation matrices, and you have the sheer effrontery to accuse me of arrgance???? May tthe dimming crepuscule of naked mortality descend upon your cerebellum and darken your minicephalic meanderings for all time, you petulant huff-snuff! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 08:37 PM Ah-Ha! Ha! Ha! Wonderful response, Amos. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 10 - 09:15 PM LH, you want me to "take Amos out" at Getaway? The swords have already been received by the receptor on the other end, so it won't be a problem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Sep 10 - 09:37 PM Methinks all that is really necessary is to give the rascal a drubbing sufficient to cause him to beg for mercy, Rapaire. After all, we'd miss him if he were gone for good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Sep 10 - 10:09 PM So, I have Vinnie and Rocco break his knees or somethin', huh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Sep 10 - 11:22 PM Naw, don't break his knees, just make him do a break dance. That ought to be enough torture. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Sep 10 - 12:06 AM Oh, never mind--they are shaking so violently in sheer terror that they may give way on their own. You are soooooo SCAREY, Rapaire. However did you learn to be SOOOO frightning and all?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:24 AM Okay, that does it. I'm calling out the heavies. Amos, two people dressed in black and white will visit you today or tomorrow. Their names are Sister Mary John and Sister Margaret Mary. The are members of the Sisters of Divine Obedience In Others. Quake, don't shake. They'll have rulers with them. Sorry it had to come to this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:25 AM Heh! Heh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:58 AM Wow!! Rapaire is sending in the NUNS!! Oh my Gawd!! And also WTF!! Man, you are so intimidating, I'm gonna have to cancel our date at BWI's Comfort Quality Sleepy Bide-a-Wee Motel and Miniature Golf Resort. You've just made it too, too, terribly dangerous. I might eat your penguins for brunch, dude. Snarf!! Bewildered collapsed metaphysical invulnerabilties, just gone, just like that! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Sep 10 - 11:11 AM What's black and white and read all over? Two nuns rolling down a hill. Oh, wait, wrong punchline. . . :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Sep 10 - 03:00 PM Really awful, politically incorrect, joke: What's black and white and red all over? Sister Mary Ignatius. Sister's not red all over. She taught at Columbine. Or: Poor Jeff Dahmer. The cops busted him just as he was having a ball and starting to get a head. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 24 Sep 10 - 09:59 PM MOM's sitting out on the porch swing looking a little pale and wan. I took her a plate of roast beef and gravy but she just shook her head and lay back against the swing. She said she was feeling a bit off her fodder. I think it was something Rapaire wrote. Eiseley |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:06 PM Did you hear Jeff Dahmer broke out of jail? They caught him with a bottle of barbecue sauce, heading for Waco. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Sep 10 - 10:14 PM I've known sick jokes for years and years. "How'd you get a flat tire?" "Ran over a bottle." "Didn't you see it?" "Damn kid had it under his coat." |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Sep 10 - 06:57 AM That sounds like the jokes Chongo makes when he's kibittzing with his bar buddies..."big laffs all around". |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 25 Sep 10 - 10:37 AM Well, that last one dates from about 1962. "Mrs. Jones, can Tommy come out and play?" "Jimmy, Tommy died last night." "Can I have his bike?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 25 Sep 10 - 10:41 AM I've been reading The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian and discovered this erudite, apt, and even aurgurous passage: "The Navy is the life for me," said Martin again, "Quite apart from the excellent company—and I may say that as far as I have seen, the ordinary sailormen are quite as obliging as the officers." "I have certainly found it so, in many cases, Aft the more honor, forward the better man, as Lord Nelson put it," said Stephen. "Aft being the officers and young gentlemen, forward the hands—the container for the contents, you understand. Yet I think that by forward we are to take him to mean real sailors; for you are to observe that in a crew such as this a great many scrovies are necessarily swept in, froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees to begin with, and sometimes forever. O'Brian, P. (1981). The Ionian mission. New York: W. W. Norton. p. 78. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 25 Sep 10 - 11:21 AM Oh, EIseley!! How CHERCE!! How POIFECT!! :D Mom: Last night I stood on a stage with Christine Lavin and sang a bit part in the background chorus for hner performance of "Sensitive New Age Guys". I mean, she was right there, and I coulda touched her and everything, and he glasses were slipping down her well-formed nose and she plays really good guitar, and I woulda gotten fresh but we're both too old for all that and besides her brother was standing right next to me. It was a loverly evening. BBW smuggled her a note asking her to play "The Kind of Love You Never Recover From" and by gawd, she did. It is as far as I am concerned the best song she ever wrote, and one I have done for years. BBW says she likes my version better. A foine compliment, no mistake. Things I did not know about Christine Lavin: She used to work at a lot of funny odd jobs. She is a WHIZ baton twirler. She once had (well her sister did) a guinea pig which bit Joe Namath on the finger. And she is a great showperson. A loverly evening. Ya just gotta laugh and laugh. Tom Paxton comes to San Diego later this year. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 10 - 12:00 PM Wow, Eiseley! It may SEEM like serendipity that led you to find that remark, but I'm sure it was FATE! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Sep 10 - 12:17 PM Nice font! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 10 - 12:44 PM comic sans ms |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 25 Sep 10 - 01:25 PM "... a guinea pig which bit Joe Namath on the finger." So that's what happened to his career. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 25 Sep 10 - 02:06 PM In her telling of it, the young sister hid under the bed in tears and terror almost all the day, fearing her guinea pig would be promptly taken off and put to a sorry death for having endangered one finger on Joe Namath's million-dollar hands. In the actual event nothing happened. I suppose the finger healed shortly and he went on to play more football. Another little-known fact: Joe Namath taught Christine Lavin how to throw a forward pass. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 25 Sep 10 - 02:16 PM To throw it or to receive it? |
