BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 08:57 AM

Oh, no. You get it by colonic infusion ; it's healthier that way (or so I'm told).

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:16 AM

Alright, buddy...just put the infusion pump down, nice and easy, and leave your hands where I can see them.....



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:24 AM

Why? Do you want to use it too?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:26 AM

At this point I want the caffiene any way ...err...almost any way I can get it.

I want my, I want my, I want my

COFFEE

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:32 AM

MM is bending over, Rapaire. Do your thing...


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:01 PM

You guys, stop picking on MMario! Put that thing down, you can't baste the turkey with it at Thanskgiving if you do that now. No way, no how. Un Unh.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:25 PM

Spoilsport. Anyway, I got better equipment. (We can now make house calls.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:13 PM

Hahaha!! And here we thought you were in Idaho!!


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 02:06 PM

This is used equipment I got from Kitchener, ON. After MMario I'm going after those that owe the Library money and/or materials.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 02:09 PM

all I wanted was a little coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 02:12 PM

Coffee for you. Soapsuds (made from lye soap) for the others.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 08:04 PM

Mom says to give MMario his coffee and leave him alone. Take your fire truck out in the back yard to play and don't fool with the laundry that's drying on the line.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 10:18 PM

That's not a firetruck. It's a genuine Mark VII Clyster Pumper.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:53 PM

Clyster is an old-fashioned word for enema, more particularly for enemas administered using as clyster syringe — that is, a syringe with a rectal nozzle and a plunger. Clyster syringes were used from the modern era to the 19th century, when they were largely replaced by enema bulb syringes, bocks and bags.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyster


Dr Rapaire, in his newly found Republican abilities, has deftly ignored what was being said and turned it into something that was not.

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:54 PM

13,360!!!! And it's mine, all mine. My God...I waited months for this. I must savour the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 12:03 AM

I think we have a clue to Little Hawk's fixation on second-rate actors. He has a VERY low amusement threshold...


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 09:05 AM

Neat, LH! 13360! 3+3=6, the fourth number. And 3+3-6=0, the last number. So you really have post number 1!! Way to go! Congratulations!















Sheesh, the hoops ya gotta jump through to amuse some folks....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:47 PM

13363
This number belongs to me!
Anyone around my number is "It"!


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 04:01 PM

The coffee-pot is "home" and I'm touching it so I can't be "it!" nyah-nyah!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 08:42 PM

You live in a coffee pot, Mmario?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 09:24 PM

Isn't the pot hot? Don't you get burned if you live in it? And what does that do to the taste of the coffee? I knew you were a perky type, but I didn't know it was literal. Does this mean you have a grounds keeper?

Well, back to the same old grind....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 10:41 PM

It is not widely known that MM is a French Roast on his mother's side....

But what is important is what kind of a bean he has become, himself. We all have our dark side...



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:31 AM

As someone observed on another thread regarding my verbal antics toward his posts, I seem to be feeding Amos all the good straight lines lately. :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 01:43 AM

Mom, I could use a hug.

I just learned that an acquaintance over many year's duration is dying of brain cancer. He's smart and a good teacher and a wicked flirt, and way too young to die, but he has round-the-clock hospice at his home. If he was in the room when you read a paper at a conference, you always felt like he really listened to it, enjoyed it, and had good comments, and he was this way for students and colleagues alike.

sniff

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:10 AM

Sorry about your colleague, Maggie. Not much else to say, except that the good ones go and the rotten ones are left, or so it seems to me anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 09:18 AM

Present company excepted, of course...

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:15 AM

Thanks! I called to speak with him this morning--the oddest call I've made in ages, I must admit. He sounded so good and so "normal," but knows that he's dying very soon--days--and ends up spending his time comforting friends about his own passing. I wish I could have gotten past that to make it a better call for him. I let an old friend of his know that this is occurring, so I hope that her call will truly make him feel good. He did sound pleased when I encouraged him to keep flirting as long as he feels like it. Do people want to know they're still sexy even when they're dying?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:12 PM

Even more so than usual, I think; there is something in the shadow of mortality that makes the cells very anxious to know they are being duplicated out there somewhere. Thus, the baby boom occurred at a time when we were losing lives by the thousand. Protoplasm does not take extinction lying down, no matter how tranquil the spirit may be about it.

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:54 PM

Also why soldiers and sailors (including merchant sailors) have the reputations they do with the ladies. A biological imperative.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 03:03 PM

And now, add to the list, literature professors. I think he'd like that.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 03:21 PM

It is even more important for literature professors; they have invested all their energies in collecting and purifying the memes of their age, and selecting those worthy of being forwarded, and it takes a long time to gird yourself for such altitudinous work. So the shadow of death puts great things at risk, and important thoughts at risk of being left unsaid. One can only hope to have many children to inherit the best of such beliefs and views for the good of Mankind Future.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 04:05 PM

...important thoughts at risk of being left unsaid.

Libraries exist to keep important thoughts (and unimportant thoughts) available to the future.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 04:06 PM

Of course -- but only after they have been said.

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 05:43 PM

Written or said. We're pretty bad with smoke signals, heliograph, ASL, and so on. Unless you film or tape them. But as a medium smoke signals (for example) is not prone to preservation and they lead to mass resignations of catalogers.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 05:52 PM

You could only get a puff or two at a time to fit in that Book Wagon you have featured on your library home page. About the translated equivalent of throat clearing.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 07:01 PM

Video it, digitize it, and reproduce it via the car's exhaust system. Simple, really.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 08:39 PM

I thought out there in rugged Idaho you'd still be pulling that wagon with mules or oxen.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:46 PM

"Hey, Jim -- how come yer car's stalled out 'longside the Interstate there?"

"Ah dunno -- it musta been somp'n Ah said..."



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 09:02 AM

I was going to have the Book Wagon pulled by people, like the Mormon handcarts, but the staff objected for some reason.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 10:09 AM

It's so hard to get good help anymore.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 11:41 AM

I hate to see a good man die,
Even if he is only ordinary, because
Sometimes the most ordinary things said well
Make all the difference. And if not,
If he had some special spark,
Then any minute walkiing might unfold
Some seed, some small bright thing
That never would have reached us from the dark.
There is always some finer moment waiting!
That is why
I hate see a good man die.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 01:26 PM

Outriders At The End Of The Trail
Dedicated To The Memory Of My Uncle, Evan D. McRae
By Wallace McRae

They contemplate their town-boot toes
As they stand around and mill.
They check the south horizon,
'Cross the tracks above the hill.
Their suitcoats hint of mothballs.
Their Levis are clean and creased.
They speak of grass or cattle
But never the deceased.
Some have shook the Gov'ner's hand,
And one's been in the pen.
Crooked legs define the bronc hands,
Cropped-off thumbs the dally men.
Their spring-toothed necks are throttled up
In silky black wild rags.
Their faces scored like flower stamps
On well-worn saddle bags. .
They've come early to the funeral home,
Yet don't want to go inside.
There's no comfort in a breathless room
Or words of "eventide."
They somehow share a secret bond
As each one recollects:
Together.
Separate.
Silently.
Each pays his last respects.

You'll hear no keening to the vaulted skies,
But the good hands know when a good hand dies.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 02:27 PM

Thanks, Amos!

Ordinary (in a short and balding sort of way--he's the one in the boxing shirt, all 5'2" or so of him) and extraordinary at the same time. When we first met, he was quite rotund, but he decided about then that fitness was a good thing and got so fit that he has been working as a personal trainer on the side for some time now. And planned to keep doing that after retirement.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 02:42 PM

Thanks also, Mike. I let the screen sit there for a while while I was poking around for the photo and missed the poem.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 08:21 PM

I've just been visiting the home grown tomato thread that Bobert started. Has anyone remembered to bring MOM anything from their gardens this year? I didn't put one in, but maybe this fall. How about you, Rap? Growing anything interesting along the golf course fenceline?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 09:13 PM

Thistles. Weeds. I have been working on xeriscaping. I do have some purple basil, golden sage, and Roma tomatoes in pots though. The voles (which I hope are now exterminated) were causing problems -- along with the other issues that have pretty much taken care of the Summer.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 09:39 PM

Also some potted Rosemary (the plant, not the woman).

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 10:02 PM

Hi, Mom! Want some green beans? Got lots of 'em. One little patch has been providing more than we can eat since early June and they're not finished yet. They're a bush variety, not pole beans, and bush beans usually only produce for a few weeks. They should have been totally spent a month ago but they just keep on going.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 12:30 AM

Potted Rosemary around the golf course could be dangerous. She might get hit by a ball or run over by a cart.

I have a rosemary plant here that must be about 10' in diameter about now. It's a monster. I could keep all of Fort Worth supplied with rosemary for an entire year.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Bunnahabhain
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 11:21 AM

Yes, indeed. Trying to pot Rosemary is not a good idea. You are likley to get thumped, and she can be vicious, but I love her anyway.

I did try to offer Mom some of the Rhubarb growing outside, even the good stuff that the sheep haven't half eaten, but nobody seemed interested.