BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:26 PM

As usual, I am only wrong in your eyes because you go out of your way to make me wrong.   Why you persist is this counterproductive obsession is a question only you can answer.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 08:43 PM

So you think it's an old 3-8-8-8-8 steam engine, huh, Amos? Well, you're wrong as usual: it's a 3-8-8-8-9.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 07:31 PM

Some numbers spin, gyrate
And others flip along their center
As though trying to smile
But this number: 3-8-8-8-8
Is more like a freight
Train never stopping
In the conquest
Of miles.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 07:29 PM

Oh, I bet it was the Amos and Andy show...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 05:40 PM

Yeah, I was puzzled about that spike in '39 too, and I can hardly believe that Shatner doesn't get a big spike from around the mid-60s to now. It's inexplicable, unless that site is being secretly run by cultist saboteurs who are intent on rewriting history, misleading the public, and destroying the integrity of poodles through a clandestine program of canine miscegenation! (The latter is a mew theory espoused by Hector Ballsworthy of the Independent Press...and I think he may be onto something!)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:31 PM

Who he?


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:27 PM

"Amos" was Adolph Hitler's middle name.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:22 PM

Interesting. I wonder what was behind that spike in 1939? I assume the modern one is Tori or Famous cookies.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 02:32 PM

Oops. Forgot to post the link. Here it is...

Who really rates?

SHAMEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 02:29 PM

Cheeky bastard. ;-) You'll pay for that.

This is even more shameful!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 02:04 PM

SRS... sign her up! And, thanks.

Rap... flying Chaucers... HAHAHAHAAAAA

Finally, some decent research.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 01:33 PM

Chongo would be most gratified by the results shown on this chart, a charting of the popularity of the greatest city-stomping movie monsters in our culture.

Who's number One?

King Kong rates way higher than the others. The odd thing, though, is that he doesn't appear at all on the chart until the 1940s. That's very odd indeed, because the original King Kong movie came out in the early 30s as far as I know!

Something is seriously wrong with the search engine on that charting system.

The other really odd thing is that Rodan has a big spike of popularity around 1920, long before any movies were ever made about him!

Furthermore, Godzilla isn't scoring nearly as high as he should for some reason. He ought to be as well known as King Kong, in my opinion, or very nearly so.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 11:59 AM

You have to fend them off with a large thesaurus.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 09:54 AM

She brought up a harrowing incident from my past when the other students in my Medieval Literature class threw their books at me. Yes, I was attacked by flying Chaucers.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Eiseley
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 07:29 AM

Oh, yes, let's invite this gal. I like how she rhymed media and encyclopedia.

Eiseley

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 12:43 AM

Go ahead. You get her signed up and I'll second her nomination just like it was necessary.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 11:50 PM

I want to nominate a potential MOAB member:

Library Girl. (Or I should qualify this by saying ANOTHER library girl.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:29 PM

How about "Mangez-moi, tête du merde!" or "Foutrez votre mama, couchon-garçon."

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 05:09 PM

T'est fou, la. Flit mon tu. (local Shaques for "you are crazy, bite me"... toned down a touch in translation... actually it's to do with somebody named Richard and no actual biting unless you are French and are gentle).

As has been stated, there really is no way that I know of to tell someone to "fuck off" in French. There are international signs of friendship but these are sans voice and require no translation. Although they may differ somewhat between cultures, there is little problem with recognition. The NA version being "the finger". The European versin is not as static and uses two fingers, sometimes an entire forearm but the Europeons are naturally kinda passionate and sometimes a bit more kinky in these matters.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 04:44 PM

"suing the poop outa Mr. Ed"


There is plenty poop (aks bs) here! Bring it on, legal poop finders.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:48 PM

The French use "baiser" when they want to refer earthily to the act itself, and foudrer when they mean it in a general expletive sense such as "fuck off" (foudrez-moi la paix) or "Fuck it!" (Je m'en fous).

Or so I remember it from my apache days.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:15 PM

Who changed his name to the more common spelling (at the behest of the extraordinarily common Amos) and who, as a result of Ed T.'s posting, has contacted his lawyer about suing the poop outa Mr. Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 02:53 PM

Exponential potential before us . . .

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 01:47 PM

Now, if someone were to say, Va te faire foutre, Raparee!

Would it have the same impact as go and get fucked (or fuck off) Rapairee?

Disclaimer: There is no intent, now or in the future, to say that anyone would (did or will) say that to this fictional person (used for demonstration only), named Raparee. Nor to be confused with the person formerly known as Repaire.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 01:41 PM

Maybe it was foutre, and prounces as I had noted?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 01:35 PM

The French do not fuck...they make love and also repoduce. I suspect because they respect the act (and have fewer sex hang-ups).

Fuck is a unique multi purpose word that has crept into many languages, unofficially.

I suspect the French don't have an official crude term like it.
You would have to seek out unofficial street lingo...that likely varies by area. I remember one crude word for it, but can't spell it...It is something like forier?

Here is a start, But, I suspect there are more.

The Uncensored French Language

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 01:13 PM

Another jello cup, please! Drop "fuck, sex, intercourse, consummate," into the babel fish and go for French, then check out the French corpus, and one wonders what the slang for "fuck" is in French? It disappears from the screen, and one presumes the French do have an interest in this activity, with a bawdy nomenclature to accompany it. (And something tells me that "rapports" is talking, not doing, in French.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Eiseley
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 12:52 PM

I am not so optimistic. It seems like those words you chose: love,hate,enlighten,war,sex may be just doublespeak for the same ideas.

It is an entertaining toy, though.

Eiseley

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:30 AM

This is like giving a bunch of third graders a dozen free cups of jello each...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 10:18 AM

Yes, Amos, but make a close study of this one and tell me there is hope.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:39 PM

Yeah--love was on a decline through the Bush years but has rebounded.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:55 PM

Yes, but just recently love appears to be trumping the others. That's a good sign.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 08:19 PM

Year by year, Love and Peace seem to be losing ground.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 08:09 PM

All the really interesting words took a huge upswing starting in 1955 just like global warming.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:20 PM

I find the results of this one dramatic, and a bit disturbing...

Are we living in a sex-obsessed century (and a bit)?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 10:07 AM

Mom's had her ups and downs over the years, hasn't she?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 02:52 AM

Thus. :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 02:27 AM

Like I predicted, lots of potential!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 01:58 AM

Fascinating! There seems, according to the chart, to have been an unprecedented rise in both idiocy and githood since the year 2000!!! Hmmm....why do I not find that particularly surprising? ;-) Bush was elected president in 2000, wasn't he? Yes, society HAS been getting stupider ever since the turn of the new century, and we see the steady decline with things like the Patriot Act, the War in Afghanistan, the War in Iraq, the subprime meltdown, the new security measures at airports, the draconian activities of Homeland Security, etc...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 01:29 AM

I predict a lot of MOAB play with another great Google toy. . .

Voila!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 01:22 AM

Amos, you silly-ass human, you should be goin' after the outfit that does the chart if that is your complaint, not after LH. I know you been on a vendetta against me for a long time, and I can understand that, cos I can be an irritatin' guy to some people bein' as how I speak my mind and don't suffer human fools gladly...but LH is a nice person, he is softspoken, he don't mean no harm to no one...so why you pickin' on him all the time, bub? What is yer problem? You want I should come down to San Diego and teach you the facts of life? Is that what you are anglin' for? Cos I will if you keep carryin' on and makin' uncalled-for attacks on LH. He didn't do nothin' different in reportin' on that chart fer the words Black/Negro/etc than Stilly River Sage did with the Indian/Native American thing....and I don't see you goin' after her over that, do I? "Indian" could also mean people from India, couldn't it, and it could mean a brand of motorcycle too, but I don't see you buggin' Stilly River Sage about that. She gets a free ticket from you...but LH gets jumped on.

So whaddya got to say about that, buster? He made a point about how the word Negro spiked in use during the Civil War years, and "colored" spiked in used during and just after WWI and WWII. That's sigificant. That's his key point...and it remains a valid point regardless of the number of occurences of the word "Black" over the whole danged period.

If you was standin' under my tree, there'd be a large coconut bouncin' off yer thick skull right about now.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 12:16 AM

I think it would be interesting to do a similar graph using gat, sidearm, shooting iron, piece, rod, Saturday Night special, and other related terms as inputs.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:14 PM

LH:

Your graph is useless unless you think there is some way to exclude the million other uses of the words black and colored aside from referring to people's pigments.

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:56 PM

Lissen ya big ape! Ain't nobody puts a micky on this guy, ya unnerstand? I carry both a gat and Chicago typewriter, a shiv and a pair of brass knucks, so don't monkey around with me, see?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:38 PM

You been readin' them Mike Hammer stories again, Rap?

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:36 PM

Oh, FFS!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:32 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 01:58 PM

Stilly, here's an even more interesting take on politically correct terms in the popular culture:

Different historical terms for Blacks

Study the chart carefully, and a fascinating thing becomes clear: Only 3 times in history did the most common term "Black" become less widely used in America than some other term....and it was during...

The Civil War - "Negro" became more widely used for a brief few years.

WWI - "Colored" became more widely used for about 3 years.

WWII - "Colored" again became more widely used during the war years and shortly after.

Other than those 3 short spikes during and just after those 3 major wars, "Black" has always been the dominant term in public use.

This clearly indicates that there was some kind of government policy affecting public perceptions and habit during the war years.

The term "Afro-American" which appeared briefly in the 60s doesn't even raise a visible blip on the chart, but the term "African American" experiences a brief surge in common usage from about the mid-80s until the present. What's that about???

The abusive term "nigger" begins to show on the chart around 1830 and holds more or less steady thereafter, but at a rather low level of usage (in literature).

I find it quite intriguing that the overall most popular term "Black" only got knocked off the top spot during the three largest wars ever fought by the USA....evidently because people (in the government, I assume?) decided for political reasons that they should use some more politically acceptable term...that is, "Negro" during the Civil War, and "Colored" during the two World Wars.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:46 PM

I'm going to call 'em "Indians" as long as they call themselves "Indians" -- but I prefer "Ute", "Bannock," "Apache," etc.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:31 AM

Casts an interesting light on what is really "politically correct."