BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Mickey191
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 10:37 AM

Apologies ttr, I forgot to remember that we are knot supposed too make any cents here. How dumb I am - waiter, waiter another tee pleeze. And I'll have my # 2 iron. My clothes are wrinkled. Is this wear the tide left the wrinkle? I must be off and be about my father's business.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Mickey191
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 10:28 AM

And he did!--Love that story--thanks for the remembrance, Liz.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 04:46 AM

Either that wallpaper goes or I do!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 10:04 PM

It's chartruce in here actually... and a whim with some paint could make this ol' thread slightly quaint... what's the difference then, and why? ...perhaps the charted heavens by...

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Mickey191
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 07:07 PM

You don't look heavy! Is it because the lights are dim in here?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 04:50 PM

OK then, thanks... sorry it rubbed me the wrong way... seems it created it's own meaning, and out of the juxtaposition of it's 'out of the blueness' with it's own obviously harsh drama... it had a darkening effect on my dim obtusity...

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Mickey191
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 04:21 PM

It's meaningless, because it's taken out of context. You know not the crime for which he will swing, the gaol or how it ends. Unless you knew from whence it came. It stands alone in its meaningless form. It surely has more cache then the purple cow chant.

Now you've called someone an oxymoron. Does that mean a moron the size of an ox? Or an ox that resembles a moron?

A rhetorical figure in which an epigrammatic effect is created by a paradoxical conjunction of terms. I'm getting lightheaded. Clearly out of my league-Can't play with the Big Boys. Going home to lament my failings. Thanks ttr.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Cluin
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 04:19 PM

Zounds! I'd wot thee anon a pribbling, swag-bellied, elf-marked apple-john.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 03:23 PM

So the entire existence of this thread is based upon an inplausable notion, a nonexisant nefertiti, and is an oxymoronic nonsequitur? Oh my! Now look what I've done... ttr

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 03:19 PM

Maybe "totally meaningless" cannot really exist?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 03:06 PM

Well said, and well meaning too... No I didn't know... it is tricky business to take quotes out of context when none is offered... as once again the joke is on... me... ;^)

But how does it qualify as meaningless?ttr

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Mickey191
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 02:10 PM

Thomas Dear Heart, My issues are Oscar's Wild(e) thoughts-but you knew that didn't you?

Waste not your sympathy on me
Spend it wisely on the world.

At once the sun would warm,
the stars would shine,the
flowers would delight, and we
would wish again upon the moon.

And hearts would soar.   

M.C.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 01:39 PM

Wow mickey191... the insidious cruelty of your post is most revealing... I feel sorry for you ;^(
Surely you can be (pro)found,
But a coward creeps without a sound
Many sides the fence has watches
But off you are to rorschauch blotches...

My guess is that you have issues... and are very afraid... boo! Snap out of it, and be *kind* of mean(ing)less.ttr

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Mickey191
Date: 16 Nov 03 - 12:27 AM

Himself wants to be heard:

I walked, with other souls in pain,
within another ring,
And was wondering if the man had done
a great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
"That fellow's got to swing."

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 09:48 PM

That was about as meaningless as "the Accounting Song" there Annon... Plenty of folks like that, and perchance you are three or four of them... eh?

Once I was a carriage bolt, all sleek and strong and slender
When getting loose was my revolt, I squandered legal tender
But now that consellations bear the weight of 'magination
Ordinary with a query... care I for inspiration?
ttr

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,Stupid
Date: 15 Nov 03 - 03:36 PM

I HAVE LED A GOOD LIFE (STUPID'S SONG)^^^
(Utah Phillips)

I have led a good life full of peace and quiet
Now I shall have an old age full of rum and riot
Yes, I have been a good lad, careful and artistic
Now I shall have an old age coarse and anarchistic

Once I paid my taxes and followed every rule
Banker, boss and bureaucrat thought me a willing tool
I voted Democratic and paid the church its due
Now all those swine will have to find some other chump to screw

Of interest, banks and credit, insurance, tax and rent
Of lawyers, agents, generals and clerics I repent
With this [mono digital expletive] for corporations and scorn for those elected
I shall be an old bum, loved but unrespected^^^

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,ALT
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 09:08 PM

G.B.:

If you didn't want someone to quote it,
You shouldn't have ever wrote it!

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,E.A.
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 08:54 PM

You once made a Darn Good Battery, too, Burgess...and your brother could sure act...

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,Gelett Burgess
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 07:42 PM

Ah, YES! I wrote "The Purple Cow",
I'm sorry now I wrote it.
But I can tell you anyhow,
I'll kill you if you quote it.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,Great American
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 05:05 PM

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 04:37 PM

BOY! do some people have too much time on their hands!!!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Cluin
Date: 14 Nov 03 - 04:30 PM

I prefer to have my cake and eat it too. Otherwise, what's the effing point?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 04:39 PM

"To make a proper Simnel cake,
First you boil, and then you bake"

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 04:30 PM

You ever tried frying a cake? It takes over the entire cooker top.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 03:43 PM

OK. I concede. sob

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 03:16 PM

we DO cook a cake...we just usually say 'bake'...and it IS possible to cook a cake other ways.. (by microwave, for example)

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 02:54 PM

Cooking.]
    1. To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking,
       broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency
       of fire or heat.
Ha! Piffle yourself! So you are right. But do we cook a cake? Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 01:18 PM

piffle! 'cook' simply means 'applying heat to food to render it (more)palatable. It's just that we often use specific terms, like 'bake' and 'fry'.

(durn...there I go again...making sense!) well, 27 Hail Susies for penance ("if you knew Susie, like I know Susie.."

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 01:10 PM

USA applicability: Why is it 'cookies' and not 'bakies'? Ya don't cook cookies.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 10:38 AM

true story:

I woke up this morning, after dreaming of diners (as in small restaurants) and tried to clear my head; when a thought came to me unbidden: "Caligula exacerbates velocipedes redundantly."

that's all...go on with what you're doing.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: muppett
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 10:10 AM

Why are buildings called buildings,when they're built, shouldn't they be called builts?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 10:02 AM

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Gurney
Date: 13 Nov 03 - 05:14 AM

Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same?

Kitty litter, or Castrol Mop, is Atapulgite, and they dig it up in Australia and export it to us.
If this keeps up, we will be a desert of clay and catshit, and they will have the biggest swimming-hole in the world.
Am I the only one who finds something sinister in this?

Why do I keep asking kvestions?
Ve haf vays of making you tok.

You could look at the "Lyric wanted" thread above.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 10:19 PM

Right, BillD... mind your Ps and Qs and sometimes Ys... but Us is bad English and should never be used. Mind you... the meaningless police are weighting the relative relevence factors of your posts here... and completely nonexistant and extremeless punishment will undoubtedly be wielded wantonly... if you veer even a smidge over this purely imaginary line... Cheers! ttr

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 09:42 PM

"Bill, if you can't Dicuss...."

I prefer to mono-cuss...but the only Olympic gold I will ever win is Unlimited Procrastination.

....but again, that makes too much sense, so I will balance it by reciting "Father William" backwards in Urdu...as soon as I find a left-handed bagel.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 08:08 PM

From an Oxford University examination paper (allegedly)

Q. Is this a question?

And the student wrote:

A. If it is, then this is an answer.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 07:15 PM

In New Zealand, there is a parrot that is so stupid, it has a) forgotten it can fly and b) doesn't know what the opposite sex looks like until they happen across each other at mating time. When this happens the male forgets it can fly and spends all its time hopping round on the ground waiting for the female who is in a tree. The female sits there thinking - 'here I am, come and get me. I'd come down to you, but I can't fly'.

Needless to say, they are quite rare.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 05:23 PM

These puns are discus-ting.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 05:19 PM

Bill, if you can't Dicuss you'll never win Olympic Gold in the Decathlon!

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 05:03 PM

DIScuss? I have barely begun to cuss!

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 04:45 PM

Johnny Nash: "There are more questions than answers"

Are there?

Discuss

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Jeanie
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 04:36 PM

tuwatuwa

(from the Vadstena bracteate)

Is it meaningless ? Discuss !

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Hrothgar
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 04:16 PM

If Essence and Quintessence were Essentially the same, the same, the difference between them would be Nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 03:08 PM

Whatever you lot are drinking I'll have a gallon - the loo needs a good clean.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:49 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:10 PM

Now that we have delved into the profound, remember.....
The difference between Essence and Quintessence is Quadressence.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:07 PM

Why was the "Killing The Thread" thread closed? Did someone finally kill it?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 02:02 PM

Why do knowing squat about something and not knowing squat about something mean the same thing? Is squat its own antithesis?

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 01:34 PM

I am a ray of pure light shining forth in the darkness, illuminating this world of shadows and fears. I will be sending you a statement of your account; unmarked currency in small demoninations only, please.

Subject: RE: BS: 'a totally meaningless thread'
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Nov 03 - 12:47 PM

Definitely, Bill.

Wolfgang