BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Janie
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 11:14 PM

Let me show you pictures of our trip to.........

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:11 PM

Oh yeah:

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Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 10:05 PM

Shouldn't that be on "BS: Pie Party"?

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 06:54 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 06:25 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 06:23 PM

Before this disappears into the archives, I just wanted to thank everyone who took part for making this such an entertaining thread. You're all completely wunnnnnnnnnnnerful

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:03 PM

That is sabotage, DMcG. This thread is supposed to be dull. If you keep raising the bar, soon this will become entertainment for some folks and then what next? Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: DMcG
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:01 PM

I've JUST finished a book I started reading in Septemeber that is a mere 233 pages. I am afraid it has a fairly exciting title - Human Sacrifice, Militarism and Rulership: Materialization of State Ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan" - but once that is out of the way, it really gets going. For example, it spends 11 pages deciding they used probably used a measure of round about 0.83m and here's an entralling section about a set of bodies:

Although Grave 13 was seriously disturbed, the looters left a larger amount or original fill than was left in Grave 12. Reconstruction of the bodies in Grave 13 indicates that their distribution may have been similar to that of the central grave (Fig 50; compare to Fig. 49). Indicated by its position, and its location independent of others, the complete skeleton of 13-F, recovered from the original fill, seems to have been the counterpart of 14-K in the central grave. Although the general position of 13-F differs from the position of 14-K in our categorization, both may have been tied in bundles that were extremely flexed. Half of individual 13-G, discovered north of 13-F in the original fill, many have been the counterpart of 14-H, as suggested by the position of its reconstructed extremities; and part of a leg of individual 13-H, found in the disturbed layer, also supports the similarity of these two graves, since it might have been the counterpart of individual 14-E of the central grave ....

... I think I'd better stop there.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:44 AM

Yes gnu, - er - um - BUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTT, I - i - i - i - i - i,I,I,I, you see, -er - er - er -well, er,                you see, it's not - er - I mean, - um , it's hard , er , you see , I mean, being dull, well, it's eeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr, well, being dull hard, in a nutshell, e r, er ,er er.



Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: gnu
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:22 AM

173 posts? Much ado about nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 09:26 AM

From 1984 (RFC 0909):

Data is passed from the application program to the LDP user
    process in the form of commands. In the case of an LDP server
    process, command responses originate in LDP itself. Below LDP is
    the transport protocol. The Reliable Data Protocol (RDP --
    RFC 908) is the recommended transport procotol. Data is passed
    across the LDP/RDP interface in the form of messages. (TCP may
    be used in place of RDP, but it will be less efficient and it
    will require more resources to implement.) An internet layer
    (IP) normally comes between RDP and the network layer, but RDP
    may exchange data packets directly with the network layer.

(For something somewhat less dull and unimaginative, you might try RFC 1149.)

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 09:02 PM

That post may very well take the prize for the "You Want Dull, You Got It" awards. It was very adrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 08:57 PM

Dull? You want DULL??? This is excerpted from an RFC of February, 2006 dealing with IPv6 deployment:

The DNS Recursive Name Server option can be carried in any DHCPv6
Reply message, in response to either a Request or an Information
request message. Thus, the DNS Recursive Name Server option can be
used either when DHCPv6 is used for address assignment, or when
DHCPv6 is used only for other configuration information as stateless
DHCPv6.

   Stateless DHCPv6 can be deployed either by using DHCPv6 servers
running on general-purpose computers, or on router hardware. Several
router vendors currently implement stateless DHCPv6 servers.    Deploying stateless DHCPv6 in routers has the advantage that no
special hardware is required, and it should work well for networks
where DHCPv6 is needed for very straightforward configuration of
network devices.

   However, routers can also act as DHCPv6 relay agents. In this case, the DHCPv6 server need not be on the router; it can be on a general purpose computer. This has the potential to give the operator of the DHCPv6 server more flexibility in how the DHCPv6 server responds to individual clients that can easily be given different configuration information based on their identity, or for any other reason. Nothing precludes adding this flexibility to a router, but generally, in current practice, DHCP servers running on general-purpose hosts tend to have more configuration options than those that are embedded in routers.

Perhaps I'll next do stuff on subnet masking...BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 06:29 PM

OK. Yes, you are dull, but the lot of you are beginning to border brilliant. That's OK, but keep it dull. Remember, a sharp knife cuts paper, but a dull knife can be used for buttering your wicket when it's sticky.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 06:26 PM

From the FIE, 2006:

L'arbitre aura d'autre part à surveiller l'état du tapis conducteur; il n'admettra pas que le match se tire ou continue si le tapis porte des trous susceptibles de troubler l'enregistrement ou de provoquer des accidents. (Les organisateurs devront prendre les mesures nécessaires pour permettre la réparation ou le remplacement rapide des tapis conducteurs).

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 05:54 PM

I now thank Peace for his brilliant thread, and I apologise for producing a brilliant thread. Sorry.

Could go on about what I've learnt about hair, but fear drifting into interesting.

I blame the readers who lose patience with unimaginative and dull, and move on so fast. Disgraceful. So could such readers push off and leave us to our lack of devices. Thank you.

(This next bit for non-Brit. readers)

   For the batsman to be out LBW, the umpire has to believe that the ball hit the pad up to the roll of the batsman's pad, that the hit leg was in the line of the two sets of stumps, that the ball pitched between the stumps or on the off side (pitching on the leg side won't do), and that if the batsman had not got in the way of the ball, that the ball would have hit the stumps. It is, OF COURSE, very difficult for the umpire to give the batsman out if the bowler is a left-arm leg spinner (or one who bowls googlies). Thjat's because the angles are awkward. Again, if the batsman comes down the pitch to the pitch (different pitch, naturally) of the ball, the umpire is not going to give the batsman out, mostly because he becomes very unsure about the likelihood of the ball hitting the wicket. The umpire is the best person to decide if it was LBW as he is the only one directly in line, and with clear vision. He has also had to watch to see whether the bowler has bowled a no-ball as well, or first, which adds to the complications. Many a time a bowler has plonked hisd front foot over the crease,especially fiery Fred Truman, the first man to take 300 wickets in Tests which mightlook alittle laughablenow with two others having reached twice as many but in his day it was a tremendous achievement and reached without the benefit of any technology that can now show the true result where the umpire is, and might have been uncertain once upon a time. So it would be interesting to know how many wickets he didn't get because the umpire's doubt ledhimtogivenotoutwherethereplaymighthaveshownadifferentresultitisihardtosaydespiteallweghavetoday.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: bobad
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 03:37 PM

AMERICAN STOPS WASHING HAIR!
number three by Jason Headley

It's been a long time since I've been involved in any actual science. There's been the pseudo-science of figuring out the absolute latest time I can set my alarm clock and still make it to work, if not precisely on time, at least within the range of an excuse that doesn't require a bewildering melange of fantasy and bold-faced lies. (No amount of higher math prepared me for the equation I've baked up for this one.) But this hair thing is real science. I can't bullshit my way through it. I've been dedicated. I've been steadfast. But last week it struck me that I haven't been a very good scientist.

In a true scientific experiment, you have to limit your variables to truly study cause and effect. You can't have a whole shitload of stuff going on at once, otherwise you'll never learn a goddamn thing. I realized I'd made this exact rookie mistake with my hair. You see, not only had I stopped washing it, but I'd let it grow to at least twice it's normal length. And in the process I'd lost all track of what was causing what. Were the fuzzy, frizzy, flyaway properties my hair was exhibiting due to the delinquent grooming or the delinquent hygiene? I couldn't say. Because I'd strayed from the Scientific Method.

So on Friday, two weeks to the day since my last washing, I cut my hair. Brought it back down to the length I'm more familiar with, so I could more accurately study the effects of the experiment. The results to date:

OIL Over two weeks into it, and still not greasy. I think a little bit of oil is starting to call my head home, but it's really minimal. Just the right amount to keep it from looking and feeling like tumbleweed.

SMELL The haircut offered me a rare chance to find out for myself if my hair smelled bad. I scooped up a fistful of hair and breathed it in. I thought it smelled fine. I might even go so far as to say it smelled nice. Very natural.

TEXTURE It seems to be softening a little bit. By no means do the words "silky", "smooth", "fine", "velvety", or "gentle" come to mind. But there is a noticeable difference. Small victories.

SPIRITS Feelin' good. Real good. I realize I'm only a third of the way into the six week experiment, but I'm feeling pretty good about the whole thing. Of course, I also felt pretty good about that "Corky Romano" movie until the reviews came out, so it's really too early to tell. But I can say that those of you who were on suicide watch can stand down.

Next week: The Halfway Mark!

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 10:20 AM

This is becoming less than dull.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 08:36 AM

Were they the Right Guards? Or were you, well, you know....

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: David C. Carter
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 06:15 AM

What were the Scotch Guards doing round the seat of your trousers!

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 06:05 AM

I trust with the .78 child, the seats would be scotchguarded.....

My trousers weren't.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 09:13 PM

And move to Normal, Illinois while always running a body temperature of 98.6 F. and driving a Chevrolet station wagon to carry his 1.78 children?

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 06:09 PM

You have outdone yourself, BWL. The chances are such that the inquisitive meanderings of the running stream would walk slowly to the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 06:06 PM

If a woman from Dull, Scotland were to marry a man from Normal, Oklahoma, what do you suppose the chances are that their son would attend the local public high school where he would play trombone poorly in the marching band before graduating with a perfect "C" average, work for ten years as a stock-clerk at Wal-Mart while attending classes part-time at the local community college, eventually receiving an Associates Degree in Business (again with a perfect "C" average) and settling into a lifelong career in insurance sales?

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 05:53 PM

How is this going to keep being a boring thread if--ah, what's the sense in talking.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 05:51 PM

I just spent ten minutes composing a very boring post for this thread and it fell through one of those Mudcat post-holes that mysteriously appear every now and then. I'd try to type it up again, but it was so boring I can't remember what it was about. Ho, hum.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 04:53 PM

It's not working, Bill. No bumps.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 04:49 PM

I am feeling the screen even as we speak . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 04:29 PM

It is a used copy, of course...It even has all the irrelevant passages neatly underlined.

We strives to please. I 'spose the Braille version would be overkill?

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:36 PM

I have been lookin' for that info for AGES. You da man, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:34 PM

be warned!

"Features of Batch Type Sealed Quench Furnace :-

Uniform heating, carburising and quenching to ensure high quality heat treatment.

Reliable control system througn PLC providers excellent control of furnace processes and work quality.

High heating efficiency and reduced power consumption.

Suited for mass production.

Designed for fully automatic control. Several furnaces, their feed systems and their associated upstream and downstream equipment can be easily automated.

Low Operating Cost.

Easy Maintenance.

Can be adapted for both Endogas and Nitrogen Methanol Atmospheres.

Turn-key project offered with process know-how."

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:19 PM

Hegel?? HA! re-raise with C.S. Peirce, Kierkegaard IN Danish, a video of the International Tourette's Syndrome Conference, and an old article on a batch-type carbo-nitriding furnace with forced circulation of atmosphere thru the charge and built-in quench tank!

Play your hand while I sing for you: ♫" LLoyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George...LLoyd George knew my ^father, Father knew Lloyd George....LLoyd George knew my father, Father knew Lloyd George..LLoyd George knew my fa-a-ther, Father knew Lloyd George...♫

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 02:48 PM

Brilliant post (especially how the thread drifted so far to the right). It will unfortunately be seen by few people. But the six or seven of us will know.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 02:47 PM

I'll see you two Husserls and a Sartre, and raise you Hegel's complete works, A History of Etching in the Shetland Isles, and the complete works of Barbara Cartland.

Meantime it was a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his mate, "Bill, tell us a tale," and this is the tale he told.
"It was a dark and stormy night, and the captain said to his mate,'Bill, tell us a tale,' and this is the tale he told.'It was a dark and stormy.....eeeeeeeeettttttttccccccccc. , eeeeeeeettttttccccccc.       eeeeeeettttttcccccccccc.,    etc.etc.eeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttttttcccccccccczzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.



(Sorry for the thread drift - this is a tough one to stick to.


Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 02:26 PM

Well, that sure screws the thread. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 02:21 PM

Okay. I'm going to try to do this right this time. Dull, boring, unimagiative, unexciting. That's the idea isn't it? All right. Here goes....


































Aw shit!
I just can't do it!

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 01:48 PM

My breath is coming in short pants.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 01:45 PM

trousers is a very unusual noun, because it is singular at one end and plural at the other.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 01:09 PM

I once had a pair of trousers.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 03:54 AM

I've got a pair of purple trousers, but I'm afraid they're a bit faded.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:38 PM

Nothing more boring than someone who just can't stop spouting off...

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 11:29 PM

Spigot by name, Spigot by nature...

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 10:09 PM

"Wouldn't touch that one with an eleven foot pole."

You are a rebel at heart, aren't you? That would have been a perfectly boring statement IF you'd said ten. But, nooooooooooooooo, not you. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 10:02 PM

Wouldn't touch that one with an eleven foot pole.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 09:48 PM

Here, kitty kitty kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 09:46 PM

tap, tap, tap...

Ha! Now I understand. I'se swift.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 09:43 PM

Spigot, spigot, spigot, spigot...

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 09:26 PM

faucet, faucet, faucet...

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Azizi
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 08:21 PM

I know the feeling, Bee-dubya-ell.

I guess some people find me boring, but that's not how I see myself.
And, I figure, my mirror don't lie.

Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 08:15 PM

Sorry I haven't been doing my part to keep this thread going. I've been feeling imaginative and energetic. I'm sure I'll get over it in a few days. Maybe I'll post something then.