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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 14 Sep 17 - 06:34 PM She's simply irresistible. There's no tellin' where the money went. Unless you get the bill from the lawyer. Plagiarized song in progress. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 14 Sep 17 - 05:34 PM Both sides Blow dried wisps of Donald's hair And tall Trump castles in the air Fair weather friends are everywhere I've looked at clods that way But now they only block the sun They rain and blow on everyone So many things I would have done But clods got in my way I've looked at clods from both sides now From KKK to the Nazi race It's clods illusions I recall I really don't know clods at all Swooning goons and tribe appeal The neo Nazis know how you feel As every hairy tale comes real I've looked at hate that way But now it's just a TV show They'll all laugh at you when you go And if you care, don't let it show Don't give yourself away I've looked at hate from both sides now From give and take and still somehow It's wars illusions I recall I really don't know hate at all Tears and fears and feeling proud, To say "We are white" right out loud Dreams and schemes and deadly crowds I've looked at life that way But now old friends they're acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day. I've looked at strife from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's strife's illusions I recall I really don't know strife at all I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know strife at all |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: keberoxu Date: 14 Sep 17 - 12:38 PM Okay okay okay. Me and my big mouth. So sorry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 13 Sep 17 - 08:30 PM Mention of MOAB draws too much attention from the NSA web crawlers. As you know it stands for our classified mother of all bombs. Its not exactly entirely conventional. Now I've said too much. Yep spectacular evening weather out east. Noisy as a jungle night. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Sep 17 - 07:30 PM Warming up again. Darn. I grew up with fall weather starting in September; last week was spectacular temperature-wise. MOM had a sweater on the chair next to the kitchen door for when she went out in the pre-dawn morning to run the sprinklers before the code enforcement guys were out to notice that it isn't her day for watering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Sep 17 - 12:00 AM keberoxu, I notice some name-dropping about MOAB in other threads. We tend to not brag about MOM on other threads, people get jealous about how long it is (or complain if pages are slow to load, suggesting that MOM might be to blame for slowing it down). Or it might attract people who want to move their various fights somewhere new, and editing out posts is a bitch on this thread. Just sayin'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 12 Sep 17 - 10:30 PM Ha! I turned that age ages ago -- last February, to be a bit more exact. You, Amos, are but a mewling, puking, infant. A mere schoolboy, a child, a cub, a moppet, a tot, a toddler! I hope that your birthday was at least enjoyable and no one pinned that tail on the wrong donkey. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 12 Sep 17 - 11:29 AM I only confess this to my closest friends and siblings. I have gone and turned 72 today. I never thought I would see this day! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Sep 17 - 08:07 AM That means your snake population will stay out in the yard, right? Not come into the house for shelter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Sep 17 - 11:13 PM I am fine. Irma happened to the rest of Florida, not the western panhandle. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Sep 17 - 10:45 PM That should be fun; one of these years I WILL make it to the Getaway. On a somber note about Hurricane Irma, I have friends in the Miami Beach area who left during the storm, and returned home to no power. He lifted the heavy garage door manually and it dropped - killing their 15-year-old cat. There are tears in that household tonight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 11 Sep 17 - 10:12 PM I am well. We've had nothing but some light rain so far. On my way shortly to pick up Joe Offer at the airport! Tomorrow, Lonesome EJ comes to town, and Bobert. With Janie and Dani we will have ourselves a Getaway Reunion right here in li'l ole Hillsborough. Yowzah! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 11 Sep 17 - 09:53 PM Everything fell together this late summer/autumn. I was going to go to Getaway, but the trip to Iceland came up and, well.... Speaking of Amos and Bee-Dub, does anyone know how they're faring? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 11 Sep 17 - 08:03 PM Jeez Rap your schedule is busier than a Louis Black tour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 10 Sep 17 - 09:19 PM We did it. Verizon. Apple SE phones as they fit the hand better than most of the others. Outside of the Otterbox case mine is a neat-o silver color. Inside the case it's black. Now we gotta learn to use them phones, cuz we'd' always been flip phones and Sprint. Sprint since using them for our long distance carrier in the early 90s. Thank gnu! the phone numbers are the same. See, back about 2.5 weeks ago my less-than-a-year-old flip phone croaked. I took it in, Sprint fooled with it, and offered me some really stupid plans to replace it. Well, we'd decided that we wanted a GSM network, texting, and a modicum of data (use wifi, let others supply the connection whenever you can). So we did. And with only 128GB in each phone I simply don't know how we'll be able to support all that we want to do! Anyway, off to DC and then Iceland on the 15th, back on Oct. 2. Then off to see a neice git herself hitched in St. Louie on the 14th and then to Manchester, NH and then home until roughly November 12 and then back on the day after Tgiving and then...home. Nothing on the schedule for me (Pat's got a thing in early February) after that -- yet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 10 Sep 17 - 01:16 PM I'm on Verizon, mainly due to inertia. They bought up Alltel, who we originally signed on with years ago. I could possibly save a few bucks by shopping around, but I would have to endure subliminal intimidation from |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Sep 17 - 12:14 PM We all new you were busy, Amos, adjusting to life in the eastern wilderness. My son has been using a cell phone provider called TING. Bring an unlocked phone when you sign on. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 10 Sep 17 - 10:49 AM I've had good luck with AT&T but I grandfathered an unlimited data plan on the business schema, years back. Love iPhones. Verizon is recommended by some. I am aghast at the passage of time since my last MOAB post. I am surprised Mom hasn't hunted me down and killed me. "He didn't call. He didn't write! He didn't even post"... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: keberoxu Date: 09 Sep 17 - 11:41 PM Philip K. Dick was respectfully mentioned a few posts back. Are you all aware that Mudcat's irreplaceable Max has a long-standing interest in Philip K. Dick? He participates in a series of internet sites that study and consider PKD's more inscrutable writings. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 09 Sep 17 - 11:31 PM Sorry, I meant a good cell phone service. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 09 Sep 17 - 10:45 PM Living vacuums, huh? Are there any other pets that double as household appliances? I'd like a gerbil that's also a DVD player. Or maybe a ferret that's a toaster. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Sep 17 - 12:03 PM Look on eBay. Tons of them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Sep 17 - 10:55 PM Living vacuums. Anyone have a suggestion for a smart phone? GSM, unlocked only. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 08 Sep 17 - 09:47 PM Every evening this week has been like Friday evening because I took the week off. But now it really is Friday evening and I have only a weekend between me and heading back to work next week. Maybe I'll finally finish some of the things I've intended to do all week. Right now I'm eating popcorn at the computer and any time I drop a piece one of the dogs gets up and cleans up after me. I have them trained. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 08 Sep 17 - 02:34 PM heheehehe out loud. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 08 Sep 17 - 02:29 PM Our visitors have left. Do you remember, Mom, when I was doing the pro rasslin' circuit as The Terran Terror? I had that little dog, The Terran Terror Terrier, as my sidekick. And I had the The Terran Terror Terrier's Terrarium for sale in comic books. Good times, back then. I remember when we sold a truckload of city-customized ones, The Terran Terror's Terrier Trenton Terrarium, in New Jersey. I gave you all the profit from you vacation to Tobago and we called it The Terran Terror's Terrier's Trenton Terrarium Tobago Trip, and you ate all those tamales. (I shan't continue with this, although I could quite easily.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 08 Sep 17 - 09:27 AM Irma has confirmed a karma of a pharma phenomenal terror wiping all the opioid pill mills from the face of good ol' Terra. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 07 Sep 17 - 11:56 PM Acme, it's unlikely we'll get much of anything from Irma unless it tracks much further west than currently anticipated. Looks like the eye is going to pass over the I10-I75 interchange on its way into Georgia. That's almost 300 miles east of where I live. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Sep 17 - 09:24 PM BWL, are you going to get wet when Irma passes nearby or over your neck of the woods? Any creeks in your area likely to rise, and are all of the really big trees far away from the house enough to not be a problem? Harvey wants to know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 07 Sep 17 - 01:32 PM Phillip U. Asshole had a brief cameo in the movie Spaceballs. "I'm surrounded by assholes" Mel Brooks. Phillip Dick needs a middle name doesn't it. To venture through his untrusting mind, darkly illuminates the instrument we use to observe the universe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Sep 17 - 12:26 PM I have several of his stories in my listening queue for my mp3 player. I listen to books during my daily commutes instead of news - I can't take all Trump all day. I heard part of an interview with Salmon Rushdie yesterday, in which he said times have become so bizarre that magical realism isn't a great feature for modern books, but hyper-realism is coming back. Because of Trump. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: JennyO Date: 07 Sep 17 - 12:08 PM I had never even heard of Philip K Dick until a few days ago, when Channel 4 here in the UK started advertising a series of stories called Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams, and it looks most interesting! Right up my alley, knowing my tastes! Starts on Sunday 17th of this month and I'm really looking forward to it! Looking at him on IMDB, it appears I have already seen some of his stuff, without knowing it was his - The Adjustment Bureau being the most recent. Bring it on!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 07 Sep 17 - 10:58 AM Of course, I meant "PKD", not "PDK". PDK is Phillip D. Kick, not Phillip K. Dick. Phillip D. Kick was not an author at all. He was a janitor at an elementary school in Gary, Indiana. A film based on one of his stories would be a surefire failure since he was barely literate and had the imagination of a garden slug. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 06 Sep 17 - 11:46 PM Hi, Mom! Have you ever noticed that it's impossible to make a bad film based on a Phillip K. Dick story? If PDK were still alive, he'd probably write a story in which several film-makers attempted to intentionally make bad films from his stories, but they all turned out to be a roaring successes. Then they'd make a film based on that story and, needless to say, it would be great. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 06 Sep 17 - 08:39 PM The best time to sell gas cans is just after a hurricane when the regulated gas price is expected to go up 13p/l. I should have increased the price but they sold fast. The price is not reflective of what happened but what might happen. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 06 Sep 17 - 08:14 PM ".... too sane to go insane." I beg to differ. Any man can go insane. All it takes is insanity. And, insanity surrounds us daily. I bought roast beef subs today. 3 for $8 plus HST. No tomato... no onion... no lettuce to speak of. In THIS not insanity? Even the mozzarella cheese was not evenly placed within the sub. Surely someone has flipped their lid??? Seriously, I may be already insane. How else could I not go back to Sobeys and shove this roast beef sub up the manager's ass? That's just not like me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 06 Sep 17 - 01:39 PM I saw my first rodeo in Fort Collins when I was six. I remember when a calf broke its little horn off while being tied. It sounded painful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 06 Sep 17 - 10:45 AM My personal number, and this is very, very personal, is six (6). That was my age when I got spurs for my birthday. Being a kid they didn't have Spanish rowels, just little ones, but I was the envy of every kid in first grade. You only "earned your spurs" after you successfully rode in no fewer than ten (10) bronc events in the local rodeos. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 06 Sep 17 - 10:05 AM You have a point, some numbers are more attractive than others. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Sep 17 - 09:55 AM Why not? 56525. It's an attractive bobble. Bawble. Bauble. Something like that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 06 Sep 17 - 05:59 AM #56565 could portend the end or will it be spinning a beginning? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 05 Sep 17 - 11:11 PM btw post #56522 is a zip code in Minnesota and Prime Factors for the number 56522 = (2 × 59 × 479) which is just as significant as Raps magical affection for palindromic numbers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Donuel Date: 05 Sep 17 - 11:01 PM gnu you are too sane to go insane. Sometimes it is enough to understand what happened and why than to be an active activist against activism or not. 'Fantasyland' A 500 year history by Kurt Anderson Its one of those books that causes the voice in your head to respond to every sentence with "That's it exactly". |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 05 Sep 17 - 10:44 PM Sure and I didn't hear any commentary. I've found that if you open a window or door a bat (animal, cricket, baseball) will eventually find its way outside. Except for Idaho's Ice Cave bats, which live in volcanic tubes left as the Yellowstone hotspot barfed up lava in its move across Idaho. THOSE bats are bad characters -- usually rabid and with a very, very cold bite. They live mostly on ice worms. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Sep 17 - 10:12 PM MOM asked me to post this; she nearly peed her pants laughing when she watched these folks try to catch and release a bat. Does it make it sound more tempting that this is an Irish bat? Video. The commentary is priceless. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 05 Sep 17 - 05:37 PM I am fighting insanity. It's not easy. These fuckers are insane. So is the life of an "activist". You know... someone who is trying to save all the rest of the fucking sheep so that they don't get sheared too. It's not easy or pleasant at all. I have two FB groups. They are literature reviews. No discussion. Oh well. Just venting. Carry on. Smoke em if ya got em. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 05 Sep 17 - 10:14 AM I created Amos. He doesn't like to admit it, though he knows the Truth. And so, we are home. In our domicile. Doing laundry. Getting the mail. Getting ready to go to Iceland. Hoping that someday the bank account will recover. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 04 Sep 17 - 01:35 PM Happy Labor Day, Mom! We'll ignore the fact that, to the best of our knowledge, you've never done a bit of labor in your life. In fact, you didn't even have to endure the pains of labor to give birth to your children. Instead, we gave birth to you. That such a backwards maternal/child relationship should exist here on the MOAB is totally appropriate and normal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: keberoxu Date: 03 Sep 17 - 11:57 PM I ought to have said, talking the Talking Union Blues. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: keberoxu Date: 03 Sep 17 - 11:56 PM Arrived, as planned, at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday 2 September, with my rental car reservation in hand. Hoo Lord. On Friday 1 September, to go by the lady who let me through the turnstile at the Rental Car Center after checking my license, the whole world and his brother showed up at Sky Harbor airport and proceeded to the airport's Rental Car Center to take all the autos. What remained for the likes of me, the next day, was pickup trucks and minivans. All the sedans and coupes were outtathere. So I'm driving the rental minivan (sigh) in beautiful Paradise Valley with the Sirius satellite radio on, some station called the Bridge. And whom should they broadcast, but Pete Seeger, with six-string guitar, singing the Talking Union Blues. |
