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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jan 08 - 09:39 PM If given proper exercise and companionship, they can be extremely lively and capable dogs, and they have great personalities too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:41 AM I can't get a long little doggie, I can't even get one that's small I can't get a long little doggie, I can't get a doggie at all |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: topical tom Date: 10 Jan 08 - 10:31 AM Just look in the window. ("How Much is That Doggie in the Window" arf arf)......If the price is right... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 16 Jan 08 - 04:41 PM Seems no one is biting at the moment. Is this thread going to the dogs? Are we all barking? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Jan 08 - 04:52 PM I am broken up about the demise of "Shane" It has been a struggle just to carry on. I have tried posting to 85B but just have not been able to, the pain is still too fresh. Just when it seems I am working through it something happens. Just last night, for instance, I was laying in bed and heard an owl hoot (remember the owls?). Just one owl though, not two like it was before, and s/he flew off after only two whooos. I can only assume that the owl was confirming that Shane has gone, possibly for good. What is to become of us? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:19 PM I'm certain it was about "Shane," who always was an owlhoot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:24 PM And when you think about it, are we not all just mouse bones in the owl pellet of life? Dear, dear Shane. We hardly knew ya. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:29 PM Yup, that fits "Shane" to a tee: a mouse bone in owl poop. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: topical tom Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:53 PM At least he passed on content. After all, he found out WHOOOO put the squeak in his treat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 08 - 06:37 PM Yup. It's owl over for poor ol' "Shane." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 16 Jan 08 - 09:42 PM Flip YOU, looser-boy! I am doin' real good here. I just lernt how to operate this here thingy that repticates beer and pizza. ARtixes shown me how. It is way cool, eh? I plan to make a flippin' HUGE pizza that the whole flippin' crew can, like, chow down on, eh? This is the life. I totally pity you dipwad flippin' idiots that are livin' in Idaho where everything stinks! - Shane |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 16 Jan 08 - 10:58 PM Poor "Shane" is dead "Shane" McBride is dead All gather round his coffin now and cry He had a paunch from beer And it was settlin' in his rear Oh why did such a feller have to die? Poor "Shane" is dead "Shane McBride" is dead He's now oh so peaceful and serene His life it was a botch And his hands are acrost his crotch His fingernails have never been so clean [spoken] Then the preacher'd get up and he'd say "Folks, we are gathered here to mourn and groan over our brother "Shane" McBride Who did hisself in by drinkin' and messin' with Sudbury skanks" And then there'd be weepin' an' wailin' -- from some of those women -- Then he'd say, "Shane" was the most misunderstood man in this territory People used to think he was a mean ugly fella and called him a poxy drunk and an ornery pig stealer and they was mostly right" But [sung] The folks that really knowed him Knowed that beneath them two filthy shirts he always wore There beat a heart as big as all outdoors "Shane" McBride loved to "touch" his fellow man [spoken] He loved the birds of the forest And the beasts of the fields He loved the mice, and the lice in his shirts And he treated the rats like equals (which was right) He loved all the hostesses at Tim's He loved two-fours and everybody in the world Only . . . only he never let on And nobody ever knowed it [sung] Poor "Shane" is dead "Shane" McBride is dead His friends are weepin' wail for miles around Blind River in the dell Will give out a better smell Because poor "Shane" is underneath the ground Poor "Shane" is dead A candle lights his head He's layin' in a coffin made of wood And folks are feelin' sad 'Cuz his hangover was bad And they know them aliens feasted really good Poor "Shane" is dead A candle lights his head He's lookin' oh so purty and so nice He looks like he's asleep It's a shame that he won't keep But it's summer and we're runnin' out a' ice |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Jan 08 - 11:06 PM LOL!!! Man, I was in tears reading that, and I bet it would have that effect on purtineer anyone who lives around Blind River. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Jan 08 - 09:56 AM Yeah, I figgered he needed SOMEONE to |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: topical tom Date: 17 Jan 08 - 11:34 AM Man, that tribute brought tears to my eyes! No, nay, never, No, nay, never no more Will Shane be a rover, No, never no more. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 17 Jan 08 - 01:28 PM I say we all have a beer or six (maybe a two-four if you're up to it) in Shane's honor. It's the least we could do for the least among us. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: topical tom Date: 17 Jan 08 - 03:03 PM Hear, hear, K.B.!Here's to dear Shane, but let's hurry to celebrate his life. After all, he (or she) who "hops" to it will surely get a "head". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 17 Jan 08 - 03:40 PM Hard to believe he's not among us anymore. Sure couldn't tell by the smell! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 18 Jan 08 - 10:26 AM I got stopped by a train on my drive to work this morning. I cross the tracks twice, once in the country and again as I pass through a small, unincorporated, town. The train was at the latter of the two. The crossing is at the bottom of the hill and I sat and watched and listened as the train clickety-clacked past. I turned off the CD player so I could really hear it. If it wasn't so cold (5 F this morning) I would have rolled down the window, that is what I usually do. As I looked to the left I got a great view of the train passing in front of the old grain elevator, it was wonderful. After the train had passed and we started going again I must not have gotten up to speed soon enough as the fellow behind me went roaring past. He was still only just in front as we got to the next town and had to slow doan again, probably gained about 5 seconds for his trouble. Still, I was happier for it because it meant he wasn't riding my ass the whole way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: topical tom Date: 19 Jan 08 - 09:07 AM KB in Iowa: You need the bumper sticker that reads "If you can read this you'd better be a hemmorhoid!" The printing is appropriately small. The alternative would be a retractable battering ram.(If none are available they should be.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 23 Jan 08 - 02:39 PM Awake and post, we have work to do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 23 Jan 08 - 03:12 PM I have been feeling a bit let down. As I was finishing my drive to work last Friday I was so excited about sharing my train story with my 85B brethren I could hardly contain myself. I was expecting this to kick off such a round of back and forth as to rival the great tomato debate of years gone by. Alas, my dreams have been squashed flatter than a penny left on the tracks as the morning freight rolls through. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 23 Jan 08 - 04:09 PM You certainly know how to make folks feel guilty KB. Your train story was very enjoyable and, for a few moments, I too was a passenger on your journey to work, though I live many miles away (over 95 I'm sure). However I think it will be a millennia before we ever have a controversy like the green tomato debate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 23 Jan 08 - 04:25 PM Yes, I suppose I was over-reaching. A fellow can dream though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: IWTATBM Date: 23 Jan 08 - 05:39 PM He sure can KB, he sure can. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 23 Jan 08 - 05:42 PM I'm not going to tell you about my dreams. Too embarassing and y'all might get too excited. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: topical tom Date: 23 Jan 08 - 08:52 PM What one does in one's bedroom is nobody else's business. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 23 Jan 08 - 09:47 PM What makes you think I do all my dreaming in the bedroom? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: topical tom Date: 23 Jan 08 - 11:10 PM Omnipresent dreaming? Far out! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 23 Jan 08 - 11:15 PM Hey, man, I have, like, had them dreams too...know'm sayin'? It happens to guys. Specially when you been alone too long and stuff... I'm not sayin' it's happened to me lately. But it has happened. You got nothin' to be ashamed of, Rap, so don't let it get to ya, okay? It's a nacheral thing. - Shane |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jan 08 - 09:13 AM Dreaming about winning the Nobel Prize for Librarianship is something everyone, even "Shane," has done? Wow! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Donuel Date: 24 Jan 08 - 09:19 AM So we were watching some balloons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEcHrsJuoQ&NR=1 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 08 - 09:58 AM Sort of makes being stopped by a train seem rather mundane. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jan 08 - 12:58 PM Dear God, NO! Tell me they're not bringing "Shane" back! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:09 PM Interestingly enough, a neighbour of ours had a sighting a few nights ago. A pretty detailed one. I have no reason to doubt her. Anyway, what the hell, I've seen some myself but it was way back in the late 60's. I just shrug at people's attitudes about such matters, because their attitudes reflect nothing more, generally speaking, than their desire to continue rigidly clinging to whatever they already think, and to automatically oppose anything that is different. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:14 PM I really can't agree with you there LH and I can't think of anything you could say to make me change my mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:17 PM Right... (grin) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:25 PM Show me undoubted proof of UFOs, ghosts, or anything, and I'll accept it. I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years, accepting what I used to doubt. And I'm not talking about sticking my hand into the wounds, either -- just evidence that can be explained in no other way. Take ghosts, for instance: I have had no experiences with them, but I have experienced what can only be called hostile feeling directed at me while I was working in a cemetery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:31 PM Reliable proof of all such things is pretty much limited to one's own direct experience. Having had a wee bit of direct experience myself, I have all the proof I need. And that's the way it works for most people....although there are a good many people who will believe anything at all if CCN or somebody like that on the TV says it's true... ;-) They are the "daddy knows best" type, I guess. I don't see it that way, not having ever had much trust in Big Brother. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:32 PM "I have experienced what can only be called hostile feeling directed at me while I was working in a cemetery." I am dying to find out more about this. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Donuel Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:34 PM If I ignore my lieing eyes, ears and electric field perceptions, I too would not believe in such pair of normal things. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 08 - 01:50 PM My wife believes in ghosts and other such pair of normal things, I am more skeptical. Sometimes I experience something and think to myself that if she had been there she would have chalked it up to ghosts (or whatever) while I think it was a trick of the light (or whatever). I am open to the possibility that she may be right. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jan 08 - 02:16 PM "pair of" ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 08 - 02:58 PM Don't blame me, Donuel started it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jan 08 - 03:39 PM I used to make and set gravestones. You know, those pieces of engraved rock they use to mark graves? Well, whenever I worked in the local Jewish cemetery I would get the feeling of "Finish your work and shove off, you don't belong and aren't wanted here!" Some years ago my brother, who followed me in the business, told me he experienced the same thing. No other cemetery projected that feeling, and we worked in a LOT of them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jan 08 - 04:22 PM You should have worn a sign on your chest and back when working in that particular place that said... "Yeah? Screw you! What are you going to do about it? I'll stay here just as long as I bloody well want to, so there!" ....and then you could have observed if the hostile feelings you were receiving got any stronger. ;-) It wouldn't be the kind of evidence that would serve to necessarily convince anyone else, but it would still have been an interesting experiment, I think. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: KB in Iowa Date: 24 Jan 08 - 04:38 PM Have you read Bobok by Dostoevsky? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jan 08 - 08:17 PM ??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jan 08 - 09:03 PM And? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Will this thread reach 85 billion posts? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jan 08 - 09:03 PM 2,600. THAT'S something you can believe in! |