BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 08:50 PM

Don't let it get too steep, will ya?


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 07:44 PM

I have been infused.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 04:45 PM

Sounds like a loose cannon.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 04:16 PM

BEcome an infusion? By bag or by ball, it will suit you to a tea.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 03:24 PM

inspired by kat.


"madam your child was born in sin"
Aw we have a precious little cynic.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:15 PM

Farewell, cruel world! You have treated me badly, scorned me, abused me. I shall go and become an infusion!

Right after lunch.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:05 PM

That's it?????

That's your terrible "trap"??????

A hypothetical?

Whooof. I fell so trapped, I want to chew my typing fingers off to escape. Not....




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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 09:38 AM

Rapaire's trap to catch the greedy
Left him feeling poor and needy,
WHile he pipes his "looky me!"
Amos grabs another C...

Though it could have been taken by Rapaire.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 09:33 AM

Rapaire's trap to catch the greedy
Left him feeling poor and needy,
WHile he pipes his "looky me!"
Amos grabs another C.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 12:40 AM

BS to right of them, BS to left of them...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 12:05 AM

25,100

Volleyed and thundred.

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:26 PM

I shall bait a trap to catch the greedy!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:26 PM

Just three away!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 06:51 PM

...not with a whimper, but a bang.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 06:50 PM

Thus is the way the bookends...



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 06:04 PM

Just be sure you're not sitting between them, in case they've decided to become dueling librarians.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 04:12 PM

So, okay. This morning my Youth Services Supervisor bought a pistol. Right now one of my Reference Supervisors has gone to buy a pistol.

I'm not going to go to Staff Meetings any more.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 03:18 PM

Okay, so this Roman cat was lifting up Mars by his (Mars', I assume) sacred underwear? Was this some sort of wedgie sacrifice? Didn't Mars get annoyed by this?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:07 AM

At Mt Vernon they have a new life like statue what shows his face as if he had never lost all his teeth giving his visage a bolder chin and an expression much different from the dollar bill.

Washington not ever having kids did work well for a democracy rather than a dynasty. Unlike GHW and GW

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:36 AM

IT is awful and wondrous to consider that the next really good summer read you open may be hanging on the threads of some long-past bikini, or teddy, or slip, innit? Thus from beauty unto beauty every fiber shall have its service anew.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:33 AM

"Gracchus has presented to a cornet player-or perhaps it was a player on the straight horn-a dowry of four hundred thousand sesterces. The contract has been signed; the benedictions have been pronounced; a crowd of banqueters seated, the new made bride is reclining on the bosom of her husband. O ye nobles of Rome! is it a soothsayer that we need, or a Censor? Would you be more aghast, would you deem it a greater portent, if a woman gave birth to a calf, or a cow to a lamb? The man who is now arraying himself in the flounces and train and veil of a bride once carried the nodding shields[21] of Mars by the sacred thongs and sweated under the sacred burden!

126 O Father of our city, whence came such wickedness among thy Latin shepherds? How did such a lust possess thy grandchildren, O Gradivus? Behold! Here you have a man of high birth and wealth being handed over in marriage to a man, and yet neither shakest thy helmet, nor smitest the earth with thy spear, nor yet protestest to thy Father? Away with thee then; begone from the broad acres of that Martial Plain[22] which thou hast forgotten..." (Juvenal)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:29 AM

Leo, be happy that they're recycling most of these fibers, they're taking the tacky low-slung acid-washed Old Navy jeans that were too tight to begin with and now are discarded with little regard for reusing of such garments. It has been SNATCHED from the mouldering heap at the land fill and has instead been shreaded and (probably) bleached and turned into paper to live again.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:19 AM

A quote from my favorite juvenal delinquent:

... iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli
uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim
imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se
continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat,
panem et circenses. ...

( Satire 10.77–81)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:15 AM

THere's no happy solution here, is there? You're either vandalizing the souls of vegetable entities or polluting the electro-magnetosphere, and we're plumb out of stone tablets. A librarian's lot is not a happy one...



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:44 AM

YOU DESECRATE THE REMAINS OF COTTON AND LINEN CLOTH!!!!

Oh - how truly perverted! Obviously, Rapaire, you are one of those who believe that perennials are superior to mere annuals. Why is an Aspen or other pulp tree more precious a life then that of flax? Indeed, since the latter's life is so fleeting, to descrate their mortal remains is even more hideous.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:37 AM

(Besides, rag-based paper isn't acid based and hence will not go brown and crumbly.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:36 AM

No, merely mindful of our friends the trees.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:31 AM

all of our materials are made from rag-based cloth, not (shudder!) wood pulp

A quick estimation of costs seems to indicate that yours muust be the only super-rich library in the nation.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:27 AM

Fences!? Arboreal necrophilia? Pervert! You're the sort who frequent lumber yards and lumber mills, panting and drooling in overheated lust! The sort who give honest craftspeople a bad name! I hope that you're buried in a cheap coffin of rough-sawn poison ivy stems, face down, your perverted part shoved through a knothole so that it will be the first thing the worms nibble upon.

And Amos, all of our materials are made from rag-based cloth, not (shudder!) wood pulp. The paper, that is. CDs, DVDs, and especially MP3s aren't made from paper.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 12:22 AM

Trees with knotholes are particularly nervous about that sort of thing. Fences also, but to a much lesser extent since the average fence is pretty much oblivious to most of what goes on around it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 12:14 AM

Sad fate for an honest hugger of trees.

But you are no great friend of trees, yourself--your trade in their sorry remains gives the lie to any assertions of friendship. For them, you are a trafficker in cadavers and parts.

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 10:26 PM

I would not be speaking from experience, but from only a branch of it, watching my friend Rob crumple into sawdust from venereal dry rot. You see, he became too fond of a tree and could not separate xylem from phloem or love from lust. One night of passion, a few days of splinters, and then a lifetime of VDR. He tried everything, even epoxy treatments, but it was too late and he finally crumbled away. And the tree, it continued to lift its leafy arms to prey.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 07:33 PM

Woodest thou be speaking from experience? Tho' he swears he woodst not, yet as his bark biteth, so his tongue gives rough answers to the truth. The root of the matter's too deep to wot, whole or rotten.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 06:31 PM

And don't get me started on the perversions of dendrophiles and arborophiles. I will only say that venereal dry rot is a gruesome thing, God wot.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 06:26 PM

And they call this a BS thread. . . amazing what you'll learn here. :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 05:58 PM

Actually, one set was hippo ivory. Nobody ever had teeth made of wood -- why, the dental termites would have had a field day!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 05:45 PM

I believe his teeth were made of the stuff...


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 05:16 PM

Just those of presidential timber.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 03:55 PM

Well then

Did you know that the father of our country, George Washington, was sterile?

If he's not the father, does that make us bastards?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 03:37 PM

Isn't that the truth? I once saw (from a distance - I don't think I would have survived otherwise) the Head Librarian of a CONVENT! That's a double whammy - Nun AND Librarian! And she was from a teaching order to boot!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 03:34 PM

Don't I know it. Librarians. They struck terror in the hearts of other humans.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 12:36 PM

You needn't. I can find it readily enough. I am, after all, a Librarian.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 11:56 AM

No, no, you misunderstand. I want to do as Rapaire is doing and relieve the sufferings of others. I stand ready to forward my address.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 11:43 AM

Well, since I was not complaining of this malaise, but LH was, and he approves of both ideas, itseems logtical to predict he will be implementing them shortly. Go ahead and send him the wealth address. It won't be much, but it will surely lift his spirits to send it,, pittance or no.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 11:38 AM

Very good idea, Rapaire! Both of them, in fact.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 11:31 AM

I once suffered from that, Amos. But dedicating your life and wealth to others is a certain cure. May I send an address to which you can send your wealth?

Another certain cure (albeit one with certain side effects possible) is to become active in the Idaho Legion. Right now they are lobbying the Idaho Congressional Delegation for an anti-submarine blimp base so that the Snake River can be properly protected against U-boats.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 11:07 AM

The real problem, I suspect, is not actually slowness, but a buildup of too many not-quite-understood messages causing the onset of creeping unconsciousnes.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 10:48 AM

Hmm.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 10:44 AM

Amos, I was referring to Rapaire's musicians, not to Barky.

LH, maybe you need to take crochet and knitting lessons from MMario or other Mudcatters. It might take the edge off of your separation anxiety when MOAB gets a little slow for you.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Aug 08 - 10:37 AM

"We are not here to be your substitute for luife, LH, nor to entertain you."

You're NOT???

Damn. Well, there goes that idea.

Amos, I've noticed that your spelling is deteriorating at an exponential rate lately. What's up, doc? Are you under stress? Is the election campaign getting to you? Meds not working right? Womenopause setting in?