BS: Thread Drift

Subject: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:09 PM

Have YOU ever felt bad about Thread Drift, Continental Drift, Catchmy Drift? Tell us all about it here and save a Thread somewhere out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:15 PM

Yes.

But a drift net fixed me right up.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Mar 06 - 11:54 PM

Yo Ho Heave Ho!

Pulling drifted thread back onto course.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 12:07 AM

Continental drift is the tendency of Lincoln Continental automobiles to steer a bit to the left at speeds over 85 MPH. It is not considered an important malfunction in the vehicles since 99% of Lincoln Continental owners are over the age of 65 and it's extremely unlikely any of them would even be driving over 55 MPH, much less 85 MPH.

Subject: RE: BS: Dan Drift
From: Peace
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 12:09 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 12:11 AM

I thought Bush and his cronies had outlawed any drift to the Left?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: number 6
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 12:54 AM

I don't get the drift of this thread .

But I'll tell ya one thing ... I don't beleive in goats, ghosts, Atlantis, prune danishes, dupleted urananium, Chongo, that Shatner changed the world, that there is a limited bandwidth, in Martin guitars, Jesus, tarot, Zimmerman .... I better stop here cause I'm sounding like a copycat

But I do beleive in kings, and not the one from Memphis.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:39 AM

Well, I'm a believer.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:50 AM

For some reason that sounds like a song.

Okay help me out here. That line was used as the sound track for some commercial-in the USA anyway. I don't have any way of watching commercials anywhere else. Not that I watch tv that much in the USA. But since I haven't been anywhere else, how could I watch tv in any other country?

But I can hear someone singin "I'm a believer"...Yeah Yeah Yeah" or something like that. I bet it was a R&B song.

Maybe it was from the 1960s. That was when all the great R&B music was made. Or should I say "Soul" music?

And what's the difference between R&B and Soul music, anyway?

I could go on, since thread drift is such a Sagittarian thing. And my Sun, and Mercury, and Jupiter is in Sagittarius. Plus my Ascendent is in Virgo which is square all those Sagittarius planets. And I also have Uranus in the 10th house which opposes those Sagittarius placements and squares my Virgo ascendant. And I'm a believer about that too. Not that I want to open up the can of worms that was in that most recent Astrology thread.

I'm just sayin...

And since I came full circle, I will stop.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:58 AM

I'm a Believer The Monkees also covered by Robert Wyatt.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 05:10 AM

Well, I've had one belief shot down.

Not that I believe in shooting. Except in cases of self-defense. And defense of your children and your house. But that can get awfully muddy like when is it okay to shoot a prowler?

But anyway-Purple Foxx {I guess you're no relation to Red Foxx, right?}-thanks for the info on who recorded that song "I'm A Believer". I have heard of the Monkees-from a tv show as a matter of fact {that's when I used to watch much more tv than I watch now. As to why I don't watch tv now-that's a whole 'nother story}.

And sorry to say, I never heard of Robert Wyatt. But that doesn't mean nothing. I bet ya one thing, Robert Wyatt hasn't heard of me. LOL!

Not that I believe in betting. But why I never bet is a whole nother story, too.   

But I'll save that story for another time.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 05:55 AM

Love to tell you that Red Foxx was my Father & Blue Foxx was my Mother but that would be a lie.
My "Alias" comes from an obscure Jimi Hendrix tribute band.
I added an extra x to avoid copyright infringement though you are at liberty to interpret it as a kiss.
My understanding is that "Soul" has its roots in Church music & R'n'B in secular music.
The song Number 6 alludes to is "God" by John Lennon who drew creatively on both those musical traditions.
In Mudcat Cafe you are more famous than Robert Wyatt ,Azizi.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:30 AM

LOL!

But now you gonna make me use a search engine to find out who Robert Wyatt is. So now I know that

"Robert Wyatt, born Robert Ellidge, in Bristol on 28 January 1945, is an English musician, and a former member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wyatt


Since I was "searchin and searchin"-Wait! That's another line from some song or the other. The next line that popped into my head was "gotta find my bay-bee"...

Ummm..sorry. As I started to say, since I was googlin the name "Robert Wyatt", I also googled "the difference between R&B and Soul music". I did so because of your comment that
"My understanding is that "Soul" has its roots in Church music & R'n'B in secular music."

That observation just didn't feel right to me. I knew that I knew that I knew that there is and there isn't any differences between R&B and Soul music. I mean off the top of my head, I would say that they came from the same roots, but what is called "Soul music" eventually became more mellow, less percussive, not as uptempo, but still danceable in a slow drag, grindin way...Plus, speaking {okay "writing"} off the top of my head, I would say that the lyrics in Soul music are usually more important than the lyrics in R&B music, but that's debatable. I would also say that in Soul music the words are more "lovey dovey" than the words to "R&B" songs, but that is also debatable. And since the 1990s-at least-it seems to me that R&B music has borrowed from dancehall toastin reggae music and Caribban East Indian music, but Soul music hasn't. But I might be wrong about that, too. What I'm sayin about these two [?] music genres is still too simplistic {I mean no disrespect with that "too" word, Purple Foxx-child of Red Foxx & Blue Foxx
[I loved that sentence!!]

See this excerpt from Wikipedia:
"Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. It replaced the term race music, which was deemed offensive, and was initially used to identify the style of music that later developed into rock and roll. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk as well. Today, the acronym "R&B" is almost always used instead of "rhythm and blues", and defines the modern version of the soul and funk influenced African-American pop music that originated with the demise of disco in 1980.

In its first manifestation, rhythm and blues was the predecessor to rockabilly and rock and roll. It was strongly influenced by jazz and jump music as well as black gospel music, and influenced jazz in return (hard bop was the product of the influence of rhythm and blues, blues, and gospel music on bebop) and African tribal beats."..

For more of this article, click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R&B

****

Something tells me that if this question came up in an above the line Mudcat thread, a number of 'Catters would have something to say about this topic. Maybe the question about the differences-if any-between Soul and R&B music, has already been the topic of a separate Mudcat thread. If not, Purple Foxx, why don't you start a thread on this subject?

After all, new threads are often by-products of Mudcat thread drift.
I think this would be an interesting topic for a thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:33 AM

I had a friend called Gray Fox- He lived on the streets in Santa Cruz, CA. I still remember his song he would sing walking on the mall...

All my friends are on SSI
Me, I'm wanted by the FBI
Cuz' I'm a foodstamp gangster,
And a vegtable hoodlum.

I loved that guy!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:55 AM

Oh, more colored foxes! LOL!

I was gonna say that I'm a Colored fox too, but I guess I better not go there. [oops! I already did. LOL!!

****

Since this is how rumors start, I want to correct the record and say that I mis-spoke {"mis-wrote"} when I said that Purple Foxx was the child of Red Foxx & Blue Foxx. Apparently, Red Foxx is not Purple Foxx's daddy.

I'm wondering if his father's name is "Barney"?

I'm just kiddin, Purple Foxx. Much respect. For real.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Amos
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 09:49 AM

I thought love was just a thing i fairy tales.
Something for the rest but not for me.
Love was out to get me.
That was how it seemed.
Disappointment haunted all my dreams.
Then a saw her face!
And I'm a believer!
There's not a trace
Of doubt in my mind.....

♫♫♫
I believe in thread drift, since you came along, you incoherent thing.♫♫♫


A

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 10:06 AM

Sorry Azizi, I've been offline.
Actually in the Real World my Dad's name was Bernard so you were close.
Hi to you RR I can't claim Gray Fox as a relative but I like the sound of him.
As far as a Soul/R'n'B thread goes Azizi it seems to me that you have already provided an authoritve answer to that one.
Deep respect to you.
Their are some 'Catters whose postings always reward reading.
You are definitely one of them. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Mo the caller
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 10:24 AM

I've got a book by Grey Wolf

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 11:21 AM

R&B Wallbanger is a mixture of Tequila Galliano and OJ, Vodka can be used instead of the Tequila, or if suicidally inclined, as well as!
Drink enough of them and it becomes the aforesaid all embracing, or blanket term.
Sufferers tend to go round embracing all, and telling them that they are their best mate, or that they love them. This leads to the blanket under which the sufferer is later placed to recover.
This is also known as pissed out your brains in some countries.
Giok.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 11:26 AM

Haven't had a wallbanger in years Giok.
Nevertheless you belong with Azizi on my list of 'Catters who always make rewarding reading.
(Though I suppose that could be construed as telling you that your my best mate.Hmm)

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 11:37 AM

I'm a Believer is sung at the end of a really cool play by Tom Stoppard.
The Grey Fox is also a really cool movie. the Grey Fox was a gentleman bank robber.
We used to call it a Harvey Wallbanger.
Purple haze all in my brain....'scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 11:43 AM

Hey Elmer where you goin' wit' that gun in your hand...
Kill the wabbit,kill the wabbit ,Kill the wabbit...

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bert
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 01:31 PM

Getting back to drifting to the left. I was heading south over Tower Bridge one time in the left hand lane, and came to a keep left sign. So I obeyed the sign and ended up turning down a side street.

I called the RAC the next morning. Next time I went acroos the bridge I saw that the sign had been removed.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 03:11 PM

Purple haze, all in my mind
I'm tired of wasting all my precious time,
Foxxy lady.
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour.
Now where is that wascally wabbit? Gone south to Mexico.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 03:18 PM

I am having trouble getting my postings to take for a diferent thread. I didn't think you would notice if I stuck in a posting off thread, so I can test if it is a general problem I'm having.
Yours faithfully,
Geoff.(Qack)

Subject: RE: BS: Short shrift for thread drift
From: Peace
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 03:30 PM

I started this thread to help stop other threads from getting thread drifted. You folks are saving lotsa angst on other threads by screwing this one up. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: number 6
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:56 PM

Your welcome.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 04:58 PM

Ditto
PF

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:21 PM

Is someone trying to change the subject?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 06:34 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:54 PM

Please stop all this drift guys. It's piling up against my garage door, and I can't get the car out.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 09:21 PM

What about us gals? Or are you using "guys" as a term for males and females?

Oh, the English language, it be changin.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 09:34 PM

I'm from Illinois, and Chicago corrupted Illinoisian so that "guys" means anyone of any (or no) sex. Like in "Hey guys, where'd ya get that lipstick?" or "Hey guys, where'd ya get that Tommy gun?" or "Hey guys, ya wanna dance?" or "Hey guys, let's get the hell outa here!" Please note that in any of these instances the word "guys" is a sex-neutral referant.

Now substitute "gals" for "guys" in the foregoing sentences and see what happens.

See? Right.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 09:46 PM

Does anyone remember the TV program for older elementary school age children called "Electric Company?

Its' theme song started out with the yell "Hey you guuuys!"

In some ways "Electric Company" was a Sesame Street for older kids. The show introduced & reinforced reading and math skills through really creative skits. One of the characters on that series was Morgan Freeman, an African American actor who has achieved some fame in the movies. On Electric Company Morgan Freeman played a character called "Easy Reader".

I loved that show. Unfortunately, it didn't remain on television very long.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Ron Davies
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 09:52 PM

Drifting too far from the thread
You're drifting too far from the thread
Come to (your choice) today
Let him (or her) show you the way
You're drifting too far from the thread

Now it's (almost) a musical thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Red Shift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 12:25 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:33 AM

Would a remake of the famous Musical be retitled "Guys & Guys"?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:22 AM

Fawkes and Barbies?
G

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: autolycus
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:24 AM

Thread drift happens amongst creative types like us who know that things are connected - we prefer joined up thinking.

A downside of thread drift is that interesting stuff in the drift cannot be found, cos it's not identifiable from the thread title.

Another downside is that a subject can't be properly discussed by the point being kept to.

Perhaps, Peace, in our 'against thread drift' moments , we can bring subjects back to the point. If there turn out to be determined drifters.............well that's yin/yang life.

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:39 AM

The Google ads at the page bottom are both for Lincoln automobiles which have not been mentioned since the fourth post to this thread. That means the thread has been 100% content-free for the last thirty-five posts. Congratulations!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:52 AM

Bee-dubya-ell

You broke it mate - the ads are now for 'personal lovers'....

"Hot Rod Lincoln"!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:59 AM

Speaking of ads, what are your favorite lines from commercials?

Off the top of my head, my favorites are:

"Let's give it to Mikey-He'll eat anything" [for "Life" cereal of some other kind of cereal].

"Ancient Chinese secret, un? [for some kind of clothing detergent, I think].

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing. You did it, Ralph." [for Pepto Bismal or some other kind of stomach antacid, I think]

"Where's the beef?" [for...I don't remember. Was it for some fast food restaurant?]

"Sorry Charlie". [for Chicken of the Sea tuna fish, I think]

and

"Jump. It's fun. Jump. It's easy. We love to play Parchese" [for a children's board game that may or may not still sold now].

****

Any care to share their favorites?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 08:02 AM

BTW, the ads down the bottom of the page now are for "Fine Vintage Violins" and for "West Country Violins."

Google can't keep up with us.

Shame on them!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 08:09 AM

Now it says "Mudcat on Yahoo!"

I've always been partial to an ad for Campbell's Soup (although we did change it just a little tiny bit):

Mm-mm Good!
Mm-mm Good!
That's what Campbell's Soup is,
ACK! CHOKE!! (Vomiting sounds)

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:40 AM

Back to "Official Lincoln Site" and "Lincoln Continental." Continental drift. Whew!

I'm just driftin' and driftin' baby,
Like a ship out on the sea.
and sometimes I wonder,
Does that woman ever think of me?
    --Paul Butterfield

My pappy said 'son, you gonna drive me to drinkin'
if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln.'
--Commander Cody

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:54 AM

Lincoln, made by Ford--like, is that even a car?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:06 AM

Abraham Lincoln was killed in Ford's theater.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:08 AM

By an out of work actor too! At least he didn't get shot in the arse like Garfield
G

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:03 AM

Gerald said he was a Ford, not a Lincoln.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:05 AM

However, this thread is beginning to take on a focus. That is not good, because if that happens, it will give us a topic from which we can drift--and knowing some of the posters here, that WILL happen--and if it does then the thread meant for thread drift will drift from itself and THEN where the hell will we all be, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:22 AM

Huh? What you talkin' bout, Willis?

I don't get your drift.

No comprendo nada.

[How's that for 12th grade Spanish many moons ago?! Did I get it right?]

What I'm tryin to say,Peace, is that I get some of what you're sayin in your last post, but that last sentence was kinda confusing, eh?

[I would usually say "that last sentence was kinda confusing, right?" but "eh" is associated with Canadian expression, right?
or am I wrong about that?]

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: number 6
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:28 AM

The best veggie sub sandwiches are from the Irving Big Stops. Oh, for those that don't know what an Irving Big Stop is it is a Maritime Gas Bar chain.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:46 AM

Check the air pressure in your tires regularly, especially if they are steel-belted radials; underinflated tires can cause binding between the layers and lead to a bad situation: tread rift.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 11:58 AM

I just bought my first ever uke this afternoon.
Never felt the need to before now.
It's just the way the 'cat effects me.
Now what sounds good on Diatonic Harmonica & Uke?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 12:49 PM

A road roller?
G

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 12:54 PM

So I posted my last thread.
So I thought I bet somebody says a road roller.
So I thought I bet it's Giock.
Why oh why did I not put money on it ?!?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:19 PM

"Maritime Gas Bar"

We stick with old fashioned booze here. FYI

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:21 PM

I'm so reliable, I just love it!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:22 PM

Say that backwards ten times and ya grow horns.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:30 PM

I think I'll get a banjo. I'm told that all the great orchestras have them, and that JS Bach's "Trio Sonata For Clavichord, Viola and Banjo" is a true gem, though rarely performed. Mozart and Beethoven, I'm also told, were among the great composers who wrote for banjo and the last movement ("Allegro con molto banjo") of Beethoven's "Symphony Number 10 in G-Flat Minor" surpasses the finale to his Ninth. Besides, I think I can talk my brother out of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:39 PM

Moray eels

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:45 PM

"Moray eels"

THAT was funny. I have been laughing for about two minutes and I have no idea why. Good one, Shambles. Made my day.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:51 PM

When you're swimming at sea
And something bites off your knee,
That's a moray....

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:59 PM

Is Moray Amsterdam still alive?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Wesley S
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:03 PM

So this is not a thread about sewing ? I need the cuffs shortened on some pants.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:20 PM

If you run round the house a few times you should have short pants.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:53 PM

My apology for my sucky Scots.

Ye heel and ye toe and
Ye whole bloody foot
And ye he hands and yer arms
Be careful where you put
For there is a braw beastie
Fleet of strike and strong of jaw
And the bonnie Eel o'Moray
Will bite ye on 'em aa...

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:53 PM

I'll have some more, eh!

A moray, Oh, oh . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bert
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 02:57 PM

'tread rift" indeed - BILL YOU'RE OUTA HERE!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 03:15 PM

Originally there were FOUR "Stooges": Raymond, Moe, Curly, and Guido. Guido didn't make the final cut, because one day Raymond, seeing one of the group off in the distance, said, "Guido, who's that?" and Guido replied, "Thats-a Moe, Ray."

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: autolycus
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:22 PM

Halloooooooooooooooooooow

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:35 PM

I can see I was right to pause & ponder my impulse to do something with "earl" and Moray...

~~a tip 'o the hat to Jeri, who hit it just right~~

(out of here, Bert? but that was just for YOU!)

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:43 PM

I'm thinking of experimenying with a chromatic Harmonica.
Why do these get such a bad press?
Are they more likely to survive an encounter with a road roller?
Did Ruby Moray ever play one?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:45 PM

When I'm done experimenying I may experiment.
Always poofread you may have missed something important.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:50 PM

. . . but the truth is that Christine Keeler was no carpenter. Think about it. One screw and the whole cabinet fell apart.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: number 6
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:51 PM

Learn to play the uke first ... then try experimenting with that chromatic harp.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:51 PM

Okay.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:52 PM

I thought all harmonicas are chromatic. Isn't that shiny silver plating on the metal parts chrome?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:55 PM

And all Guitars are acoustic, otherwise you wouldn't be able to hear them.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 04:59 PM

"Did Ruby Moray ever play one?"

only on Tuesdays....

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:00 PM

Moray Amsterdam.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:02 PM

True story Bill.
Swear on my life. I was in a Church hall this afternoon,where the caretaker was called Eleanor Rigby!
Can you believe that?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:06 PM

FREE BEER!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:21 PM

I trust she had the wherewithal and composure to run a bath.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:37 PM

You mean run after it?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:48 PM

"Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps."

Sounds like a normal English Pub to me...

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 05:57 PM

"he helped bartenders reconnect the pipes by telephone."

Hmmm, now THAT's an idea... beer thru the phone....

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 06:56 PM

This thread is going round in circles.

Must be Groundhog Day! That's Bill Moray innit?

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:05 PM

Not to mention that the TV crew in the movie was from Pittsburgh.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: number 6
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 07:45 PM

Jeeez, Purple Foxx ... I was in a church once were the pastor was Father Mackenzie, he played a uke and harmonica held in a rack around his neck. He knocked out one hell of a version of Lady madonna.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 08:53 PM

...he played a uke and harmonica held in a rack around his neck.

A rack doesn't go around the neck. Stocks go around the neck. A rack is the thing that stretches your spine and tries to pull your arms and legs off. Either is suitable punishment for someone who would dare play a harmonica and a uke at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:17 PM

I played the uke for Vernon Duke so well in Dubuque
That Vladamir Stokowski said "Gee!"
My fingering a (blah blah) string was such a big thing
That Annie's cousin Fanny's taking lessons from me.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: number 6
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:50 PM

"Stocks go around the neck."

Oh .... ok ... yeah, now I remember it was a 'stock' around his neck, a big wooden one and somewhere in it, it had a harmonica.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 10:48 PM

Bill Clinton had a big wooden one, but he got it from a hum-monica.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:37 AM

I have only ever heard a couple of dozen people who could play Guitar & Harmonica proficiently, simultaneously but I must have heard a couple of hundred people who thought they could.
Is that just me?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: autolycus
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:56 AM

Helloooooooooooooooooooooow

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:00 AM

Hi.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:02 AM

This thread is getting very silly!

I like that in a thread!

G

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:04 AM

"Started off a nice sensible thread about thread drift..."

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:05 AM

99's are much finer than 100's.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:05 AM

100

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:06 AM

BOL-X

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 06:07 AM

Hmmmm,Not much Marmite here.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 06:26 AM

Never mind Foxy that's all El Ted has to do in life is go looking for centurian posts, he doesn't seem to have anything else to do. Next thing you know he'll be taking his teeth out for a laugh!
G. ☻

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:35 AM

Taking someone's teeth out isn't funny? There's a couple bars around here where they'll take your teeth out, and they must think it's funny because they laugh. For real yucks they'll even stomp you.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:05 AM

Send them down to Georgia, and JimmyT will sort them out!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 09:24 AM

Has the Devil been fiddlin' around down there again?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:16 AM

The nice thing about having a top plate is that I can eat and brush my teeth at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:13 PM

Lawyer in dentist's office:

"Do you swear to pull the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth?"

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:15 PM

Theologian in dentist's office:

"You shall know the tooth, and the tooth shall make your fee."

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:17 PM

American TV game show title:

"Tooth or Consequences"

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:20 PM

Incy Wincy spider's surname was Dental.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:20 PM

Tooth, tooth, toothie, goodbye!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 12:32 PM

Honesty may be the best policy, but sometimes the tooth hurts.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 02:59 PM

This thread is really starting to bite.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:08 PM

Molar Exploration by I Pullem.

White Fang    by   Pop Sodent

K9            by   M Y Rover


G.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:12 PM

OK. Not to bitch and complain or anything, but once the thread gets a focus like this, it's gotta be someone's responsibility to get it off topis or what the hell is the use of having a thread drift thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:26 PM

Is itd generally agreed that the difference between a g-string and a thong is that the g-string pretty much disappears between the cheeks, whereas the thong has enough cloth to remain visible?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:36 PM

Thing, thing a thong/Keep it thimple/To latht your whole life long....

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:39 PM

I am going to be selling the tops to topless bathing suits. I think there's a real potential in that.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:43 PM

Nothing wrong with topless bathing suits.
I've been wearing them all my life.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:48 PM

I had this fantasy for awhile about opening a place with a sign that said "topless", and staffing it with fully dressed flat-chested waitresses. Hadn't thought about that for years....

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:48 PM

maybe it is more thread undertow?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 03:55 PM

Mildly Political point.The prefered term now is top free.
This is because a)It doesn't actually entail removal of torso
                b)This term emphasises that this is an issue of
                  personal freedom.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:00 PM

Dang, now do we even hafta be politically correct about bare titties?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:02 PM

Bears got them. It's a fact of life.

Political correctness: That's spelling Libral right, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:19 PM

Nope. "Political Correctness" is a semi-mythological construct sometimes used by authoritarian middle class gobshites to provide spurious rationalisations for their control freakery.
also (& more frequently) used by the more hard-of-thinking Rightwingers to categorise just aboutanything they don't like.
Top Free is a term coined by the International Naturist Federation whose credentials on defending personal freedom are as good as anybody's & better than most

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:31 PM

Gobshite--which I assume can be singularized--well, what does that MEAN?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:33 PM

Gob=mouth shite=shit.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:39 PM

Oh, so we're off on politicians now. Cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:52 PM

I never understood 'gob'.....why does it = mouth?   And COB webs.....I have never knowingly seen a Cob. Is this more silliness from my ancestors in The Olde Country?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:59 PM

I wanted to open a topless restaurant staffed by fully clothed people, but without a roof on the building.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:02 PM

What a novel idea!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:14 PM

Bad idea: alot of things fall from the sky that you wouldn't want in your food.

Like rain, and snow, and other less desirable stuff...

But eating outside is not on my favorite things-to-do list. Since I hate ants and other creepy crawlers, I prefer my picnics indoors.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:17 PM

I was having a meal with a nice woman one time at an outside restaurant, and a seagull chose to drop something less desirable right in the middle of our table (directly between her plate and mine).

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:23 PM

Well, for krissake, don't keep us in suspense. WHAT WAS IT?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:25 PM

A baby? Oh right, that's a stork not a seagull.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:27 PM

Not that babies aren't desirable.

They're so cute and so cuddly and so time intensive.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:27 PM

Dare I ask: A Timex watch?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:31 PM

Over-sized wrist watch.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 05:40 PM

A baby wearing a timex watch?

Babies can't tell time, unless they're really super beings from outer space. Like Superman. When he was a baby, he was superbaby, right? Then when he got a little older, he was superboy. And at 18 years old he earned the right to be called "Superman".

So maybe he could tell time when he was a baby. But most babies can't so that timex watch is wasted on them.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: autolycus
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 05:13 AM

Morey Amsterdam is deceased. Is this thread? Or just a drift too far?

You can't just drift and then disappear. What does that say about 2000 years of civilization?

Paradoxically, answer and we're not drifting.

Does anyone hold the catters record for last posts on threads?

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:09 PM

It's not a record any more auto. It's been remastered to CD.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:25 PM

And if you believe Don, yer way behind. It's now DVD.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:33 PM

Is censorship a good or a bad thing. What's YOUR opinion?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: bobad
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:35 PM

Don't be L7 man, mp3's the cat's meow.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:25 PM

Rhetorical question:

If you were standing in shit up to your neck and someone threw a bucket of puke at you, would you duck?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: number 6
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:58 PM

No ... ducking would create waves ... you certainly wouldn't want to make any waves in that shitty situation.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 10:11 PM

"okay, everybody; end of the coffeebreak; back on your knees"...

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Mo the caller
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 05:25 PM

Moray Eels
Will e come and work for the NHS?

Subject: Lyr Add: WHIFFENPOOF SONG
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 05:39 PM

Whiffenpoof Song

To the tables down at Mory's
To the place where Louie dwells
To the dear old Temple bar we love so well
Sing the Whiffenpoofs assembled with their glasses raised on high
And the magic of their singing casts its spell

Yes, the magic of their singing of the songs we love so well
"Shall I Wasting" and "Mavourneen" and the rest
We will serenade our Louie while life and voice shall last
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest

We're poor little lambs who have lost our way
Baa, baa, baa
We're little black sheep who have gone astray
Baa, baa, baa

Gentleman songsters off on a spree
Doomed from here to eternity
Lord have mercy on such as we
Baa, baa, baa

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 06:40 PM

So why is it that the black sheep are the ones who have gone astray?

Why are they "little"? And how come them lambs are poor?

And what about that song "Bye Bye Blackbird, Bye Bye"?
Why does it have to be the blackbirds that you say bye bye to?

It seems kinda fishy to me.

Whose got the power? It ain't them "little black sheep" and those "poor little lambs" and those bye bye blackbirds, that's for sure.

This situation calls for an old style/ new style chant:

"Hey hey what da ya say
We blackbirds are here to stay"!


And after chanting that, get into the groove with this here one:   

"Power to the black birds and the black sheep and the little lambies too!
Hey, songwriters, we're on to you!"

{repeat as often as you have a mind to-

or not}





[snark] Maybe. And maybe not.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 06:58 PM

It was a light and stormy night . . . ? That ain't gonna work.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 07:16 PM

Why not? It rhymes don't it?

I'm one of them people who believe poetry has to rhyme.

What about you?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 07:26 PM

Does the language have to be gender neutral?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 07:32 PM

No. Later for washy-washiness. All genders should take as stand

or a seat

or whatever works for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 07:32 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 10:43 PM

Oh, what gender
Crushed the fender
While on a bender?

And did the gender
Money tender
To the mender?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 04:11 AM

Rapaire, your poem only works in American English.

According to this website on

in British English it would be
Oh, what gender
Crushed the mudguard
While on a bender?

or

Oh, what gender
Crushed the wing
While on a bender?

-snip-


If you used the first British version, Americans probably would think "Mudguard?" What's a Mudguard?".

And if you used that last version, Americans {and British?} people might think you were talking about birds' wings.

It also occurs to me that the word "bender" might not mean the same thing in British English as it does in American English and by
"American" here I mean, UnitedStater English and not necessarily Canadian English. It seems to me that the Canadians have retained an awful lot of Britishism in their language-like "bloody" used as an adjective..that sounds like British to me...

but maybe I'm stereotyping..

God forbid I do that.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 04:14 AM

Ooh, I made a boo boo!

I forgot to add the online source that I used for the information that fender=mudguard/wing

My bad.

That site won't let me make a linky, so here's the URL:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/americanbritish.html#car

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 04:27 AM

In Britain a fender is a bumper rather than a mudguard.
Next question,why do Americans talk of "Bumper Stickers" rather than "Fender Stickers"?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Mo the caller
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 04:33 AM

My British bicycle has 2 mudguards.
A wing is the side of a car

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Mo the caller
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 04:35 AM

Bicycle, whycycle, bycycle, bicicle.
I never could spell.
Last week we had icicles.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:02 AM

Well do you know I never spotted the little black sheep line, I learned it as a child with the words little lost sheep, so it must have been changed for children to learn in Scotland.☻

Bender... a shelter made by pegging the top of a sapling to the ground and draping a waterproof sheet over the stem to make a rudimentary tent.

Bender....As Bruce said go out on a bender means to go out with the intentions of achieving alchoholic amnesia.

Bender....Slang term for a male homosexual

Bender....Another name for a curve ball in baseball

Fender.....The UK equivalent is a bumper

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:15 AM

Oh, a bumper is it? Well, one other thing I learned from this is to be very wary of online websites that won't allow you to make links.

****

I have a nephew whose nickname is "Bunmper". Why I don't know. Maybe he got that name cause he was always bumping into things.

Somehow "Bunmper" as a nickname sounds better than "Fender".

And "Bumper" definitely sounds better than "Mudguard".

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:21 AM

"Next question,why do Americans talk of "Bumper Stickers" rather than "Fender Stickers"? "

Oh, so you expect Americans to be consistent?

"Silly rabbit, "Tricks" are for kids"" *


*1} from a cereal commercial which featured the escapades of a rabbit who tried his darnest to get some "Tricks" cereal but alway failed because he was revealed to be a rabbit.

2} a saying I would sometimes use with my children when they did
or said something foolish

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:27 AM

Pardon my curiosity,Azizi but are you up early or up late?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:28 AM

"Bunmber" is supposed to be "Bumper"

I could blame that typo on having taken some cold medication that is making me feel not all there {or more there than here}.

But I'm prone to typos cause I'm Russian *.


*I bet y'll didn't know that, eh?

[as to my use of "eh", I love that Canadian lingo!]

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:44 AM

Hello Purple Fox!

As to your question 'bout me being up [and on Mudcat, I assume] at this time.

Well, if I were going to work at the office where I'm based, this would be a wee bit early for me {it's about 6:30 AM}. That's cause my office is only 5 minutes away by car..and yes I've walked it, but I assure you it wasn't a 5 minute walk...plus it was uphill some of the time, and so I usually drive. I don't really mind walking downhill but walking uphill can be a bit much.

But I digress {who moi??! LOL!}. I'm not even going in to work today since I figure no one there wants whatever fluey/cold/virus whatever germs I have. And it seems that some cold or flu or whatever is going around since a number of people there have it. I tried to make it through the whole day yesterday, but had to come home to sleep.

And I did [sleep that is-finally] But I woke up at different times last night and took some medicine and then came to Mudcat and then went back to bed. By myself, unfortunately.

So that's my story, told in a convoluted way that might be caused by my Sagittarius Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter {and that's a whole 'nuther Mudcat thread, and I don't even wanna go there-but I just did, didn't I?}

LOL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:45 AM

Can you give me the name of that cold medication Azizi, the effects are apparently 'interesting'.
Giok has visions of going on a cold medication bender!!
Giok ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:46 AM

Hey, Purple Foxx, I meant to ask "What time is it where you are?"

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:49 AM

Giok, they say "We live in interesting times".

I can't tell. Are you saying that I'm more "interesting" than I usually am?

I'll take that as a compliment.

And btw, the Comtrex cold & cough medicine's not working all that well so I don't wanna promote it-oh I just did or didn't as the case may be.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 06:55 AM

It's 5 Hours ahead of EST here Azizi.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 07:05 AM

Okay. Thanks.

I'm back to bed.

I'm curious to see what subject this thread will be on when I get up next.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 07:55 AM

How can you raise people's consciences? I mean you are either conscious or you're unconscious aren't you?
Giok.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 08:31 AM

I have often raised my conscience while conscious, and vice-versa. In fact I find that it's best to be conscious while doing lots of things, like fencing and shooting and driving and parachute jumping and working with explosives and performing any sort of surgery and playing chess and working a chain saw and lots and lots of things.

I, of course, do all of these things extremely well and all at the same time. You might want to work up to it gradually.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 09:01 AM

Like suggesting sex to a girl for the first time Rap?
G☺
(Or a boy, just in case Roger's reading this)

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Peace
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 11:21 AM

Nothin' like drop-starting a chain saw . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 12:50 PM

Running my cursor along the bottom of this page (& others) I came across a hidden link which state "Max now works on the Schemm team"
This has a link to a Real Estate site.
Please pardon the ignorance of a relative newbiebut whats this all about?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 12:52 PM

Geez, I'd think it was obvious.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 12:54 PM

To you maybe to me no.
Hence the question.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 12:58 PM

Surely you know about the work of John Bell Stuart in communications!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 12:59 PM

Not "our" Max!!!

Say it ain't so.



Purple Foxx-I don't have a clue if this "Max" is the Max who founded and owns Mudcat. If he is the same Max, "Right on with the right on!
{insert your own cheering statement}.

If not, I guess Google is just trying to make sense out of this thread. Let's continue to make it difficult for it {or him or her, as the case may be}.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 01:07 PM

Thanks Azizi,no Rapaire I am unfamiliar with John Bell Stuart.
Please enlighten me.Extra marks will be given for establishing a link to the question I actually asked.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 05:55 PM

What if there is no answer to the question you asked? Do I get extra points if I do know the answer but won't tell you? And I do apologize; I was thinking of John Stewart Bell.   There was no intention to mislead.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 01:46 AM

Thanks Rapaire, John Stewart Bell I have heard of.
Still "in the dark" vis a vis "hidden clickies" though.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:13 AM

Any relation to Alexander Graham Dingdong, who invented that bane of modern existence, the telephone?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:19 AM

Not as far as I'm aware Don.
Though I do know that Mr Dingdong's claim to have invented the Telling Bone is more persuasive than accurate.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Mo the caller
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 02:54 PM

What this hidden clicky. Where do you have to click. If its hidden, how does anyone find it, and why would they want to?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 02:59 PM

Mo, I found it by accident.
If you hold your left mouse button down & move your cursor up the page you will find it halfway between the bottom of the page & the forum home link.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 05:00 PM

I couldn't find the hidden clicky either. But what's this Mudcat on Yahoo google ad all about?

It says "View photos, music videos, lyrics. Listen to Internet radio. All free.

I clicked it and got to a music site that was definitely not folk. Well, there were folk featured but not vocalists that we would call "folk" unless hip-hop and R&B is the new folk music.

For example, the featured artist of the day is Prince {you know the one who changed his name to a symbol and wanted to be referred to as the artist formerly known as "Prince"-oh you don't know-well never mind..

But actually, I liked Prince's song "When Doves Cry" and I also liked Purple Rain-the song much more than the movie, though the movie wasn't as bad [bad=bad-not bad=good] as it other movies I've seen.

So is Prince folk music? And is Mudcat on Yahoo rippin off our name?

What do you think?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 05:57 PM

When you are The Greatest, people rip you off. Look at what happened to Cassius Clay.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:04 PM

What happened to Cassius Clay?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 06:23 PM

He changed his name!
G. ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:40 AM

Speaking of names, how about Muhammad Ali's opponent in the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match in Zaire? George Forman named his five sons George and two of his daughter's have his first name or a version of it as their middle name.

See this thread that I started on that subject:

Naming Practices & Ceremonies

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:46 AM

On second thought, for those on dail-up or for those who may be reading this but just don't feel like doin the clicky thingy, here's that post I was referring to:

Speaking of being named after a family member, former two time
Heavyweight boxing champion and rather successful businessman Goerge Foreman named his 5 boys after him and included the name "George" in at least two of his 5 daughter's names.

All five boys are named "George Edward". The sons are George Jr., George III, George IV, George V, and George VI.

His daughters? names are Michi, Freeda George, Georgetta, Natalie, and Leola.

-various sources

-snip-

Lots of people laugh at Foreman for this tradition. However, a 1995 interview in Ebony magazine suggests that Foreman started this tradition because he didn't know his father, and he wanted to make sure that his children [but particularly his sons]had a reference point [him] that they could be proud of.

See this excerpt from that article by Hans J. Massaquoi *

"Asked what gave him the idea to name all his boys after himself, Foreman offers an elaborate explanation that seems as novel as the idea itself. "I wanted my boys to have something that nobody could ever take from them," he says, "and I figured, give them a name that they could run into whenever they had problems or if they ever got lost, their children's children's children could always run back to that name and have something to fall back on so that they wouldn't get lost.

"I didn't find out who my real father was and didn't even know it until 1976," he continues. "After I lost the title to muhammad, I found out I had another father other than the one that I thought was my father. I looked him up and was friends with him until he died in 1978. So I made sure that my boys were going to have something to know one another."

"Home on the range with George Foreman "- Ebony magazine
July, 1995 by Hans J. Massaquoi

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Sorry, the link that was provided in the "Naming Practices And Ceremonies" thread doesn't appear to work now or maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:54 AM

And speaking of "the clicky thingy" how about this information I stumbled upon the other day?:

{it's from another thread that I started}

Subject: RE: BS: You know that it's Spring when...
From: Azizi - PM
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 04:39 PM

More Thread Drift {but of possible interest to others here}

open mike, when I aearched online for some information about Solomon Linda's Mbube {The Lion Sleeps Tonight}, I found this informational tidbit:

"[Miriam Makeba's]The Click Song" (#1) had it's origin in the Xhosa language as "Gqongqotwane": Gqongqotwane is the dung-gathering beetle-- the miser of the insect world, known to the Xhosas as the Road Wizard. (Quoted from an early mid-60's LP by the Manhattan Brothers, issued in the US on Joy Records [#5004]). This is why "The Click Song" was also known in English as "The African Beetle Song".

Source: Behind The Hits: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

That information was posted for open mike who noted that her* group's totem was the beetle.

*I think I recall learning that open mike is a "her". If not-NHI [no harm intended]. Hey, i like that abbreviation-I think that's a keeper -for me anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:58 AM

You may have noticed that I referred to two threads that I started{ "Naming Practices and Ceremonies" and "You Know That It's Spring When".

For the record, I want to say that I'm really not trying to pimp these threads. But you can read them if you wanna.

I'm not even sure that women can be pimps.

I think some unkind people might more readily call me a "blimp" then a "pimp".

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:01 AM

Women can be blimps or pimps Azizi but you are neither.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:15 AM

Thanks, Purple Foxx.

But for those who might doubt your words and may have forgotten what I look like, I'm posting my photo HERE




LOL!!

[Have a good day, ya'll!]

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:22 AM

That's amazing Azizi!
That's EXACTLY as I imagined you would look!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:29 AM

LOL!!

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 06:08 PM

Good'n, Azizi; I'm LOL too.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:04 PM

Well just as long as you're laughing with me and not laughing at me...

Not to mention the fact that sometimes I don't get the punch line of jokes..

Speaking of which, anybody heard any good jokes lately?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 02:38 AM

Heard of a good practical joke yesterday,Azizi.
Apparently somebody reconfigured Google so that if you entered the word "failure" & clicked on the "I feel lucky" option it took you straight to Dick Cheney's site.
Doing the same thing with "Liar" would take you to Tony Blair's.

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 02:44 AM

STOP PRESS:Have just googled to check.At time of posting "failure" now gives the Whitehouse.Can't imagine Google allowing this for long.
Would any other 'Catter be kind enough to verify my result?

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 09:22 AM

Yep, here is where it goes - the White House and the biography of President George W Bush :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Thread Drift
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 09:25 AM

Followed by the biography of Jimmy Carter and Welcome to MichaelMoore.com!