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13 Oct 23 - 08:32 PM (#4191168) Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] From: Rapparee Good News! The warships of the fleet of the Galactic Overlord have been determined to be ensnared in the Galactic Web! This is not expected to last long. |
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07 Nov 23 - 10:06 AM (#4186798) Subject: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage The original Mother of all BS threads had 59238 posts when it expired, and many thousands more lost in a couple of major Mudcat crashes. The MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex] has a puny (but poetic) 3636 posts. It has died the death of a thousand 500 codes, kept from dropping off the bottom of the page solely with infusions of posts transferred there by moderation. This thread is one that will look at some of the historic original posts. Because you can see them if you know where to look - the original folks who posted there all have post histories that include their MOAB posts, even if you can't open the thread itself. So posting links to a few of the original participants will help revisit MOM's glory days, when Tweed and Khandu and Amos and Bee-dubya-ell and others dropped in to tell stories and share poetry. I'll move over a couple of the last posts from the [annex] thread to see if we can give this one some legs to run with, so this "first" post will probably drop down the list some. How's this for a little Mudelf magic? There are posts from the original MOM thread! ---mudelf |
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07 Nov 23 - 03:09 PM (#4186802) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu I guess this means that we can't post to the annex thread any more? Then where will all the current BS go? |
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07 Nov 23 - 04:44 PM (#4186789) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Hands down Rap got the last post on the resurrected MOAB thread. What parodies and poetries of the thread are dead and lost forever to never be seen again. |
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07 Nov 23 - 05:23 PM (#4186799) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage There's an error message on the MOAB/annex thread, so the BS will have to live here. |
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07 Nov 23 - 07:31 PM (#4186800) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage I tried pushing a message over into the MOAB annex to point people back here, but it seems to have vanished in the ether. |
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07 Nov 23 - 09:31 PM (#4186790) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Turns out that putting all the Trump post eggs in one basket was a bad idea. History is written by the winners. Destroying counter histories is part of that process. |
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07 Nov 23 - 09:55 PM (#4186791) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel It turns out the daughter of the King of BS, Ivanka, suffered injuries from a malfunctioning court X-ray security machine. The 'extruded plastic implants' in her nose face and breasts de-adhered and sagged from the overheated radiation. An emergency plastic surgery procedure will try to reverse the accident to change the result that resembles Rosie O'Donnell. |
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09 Nov 23 - 11:53 AM (#4186801) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage If you want to pick a comedian to suggest is a transmogrification for Ivanka, Rosie O'Donnell isn't the one. I'd suggest using Rosanne Barr who actually hangs out with the family and/or their attorneys. |
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15 Nov 23 - 09:36 AM (#4186793) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel PS the PM feature is disabled for me. |
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15 Nov 23 - 03:16 PM (#4186794) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel I did not know that about Roseanne. MOAB has been a sanctuary for the biggest whoppers as well as the deepest truths, art, and confessions. In the last 5 to 8 years the police and federal government have used a technology called Stingray made by Harris Corporation and its clandestine use has been reported in the WSJ. It can be handheld, driven around, or fly high by drone over populations that have cell phone use. It acts like a cell tower that takes everything without permission. Untold numbers of immigrants have been located and all their data collected. It has also been used to collect all the data of protesters like the women's march after the Trump inauguration. What is wrong with this practice is that a search warrant is not requested to take all of the data. Its like the 4th amendment has disappeared. Many aspects of our current information crises are covered in the documentary 'Web of Make Believe', death lies & the internet. |
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15 Nov 23 - 04:18 PM (#4186795) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel btw transmogrification is seldom seen on Mudcat. The Republican party has also undergone a transmogrification. |
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19 Nov 23 - 07:03 AM (#4186796) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Is it only below the line that is torn asunder? |
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19 Nov 23 - 07:27 AM (#4186797) Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023 From: Donuel There is a health innovation that is prone to AI discovery that is too complex for the human mind. It is the folding of proteins in our cells that are governed by our genes. The errors in the shape of proteins are relatively many and either correct themselves or sends cells into self-destruct mode. There are hundreds of disorders and disease systems that can result from misshapen proteins. Some may make you feel like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed and others can cause retinitis pigmentosa or dementia. We did reverse a couple malformed proteins and restored vision in mice but doing so for humans and the hundreds of cooperating genes is well in the future. We used to crowd source computer space to solve protein problems but AI may speed up this process. Put a pin in it. |
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19 Nov 23 - 08:33 AM (#4186803) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk > The Republican party has also undergone a transmogrification. If so, it's got the Greebo nature. Repeat-by: tickle it under the chin, then check whether your arm is still attached. |
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21 Nov 23 - 09:44 AM (#4192126) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Aw, a cute li’l baby girl! |
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22 Nov 23 - 04:31 AM (#4192176) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Aw, snoogie-woogie li’l woogums! You are just like your granny-wanny, always drinking from a bottle. |
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26 Nov 23 - 10:09 AM (#4192396) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel THE NEW OIL |
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26 Nov 23 - 08:07 PM (#4192422) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Remember the asteroid movie Armageddon, here is a comet with a dust eruption. poof |
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27 Nov 23 - 04:35 PM (#4192480) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The harder the powers that be fight your FOIA request the more they have to hide. |
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27 Nov 23 - 07:10 PM (#4192490) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel In the war against tolerance Joe posted that he can not understand why Stilly would allow me to post ideas and history. Well when it comes to my notes on Rachel Maddow's podcast Prequel she deletes them on the grounds they are off topic philosophy. So check out Rachel Maddow podcasts on your own to expand your sense of history. Joe goes on to say my head is up my ass but I still believe that when history is being changed or deleted by agenda, you should know the history that is being attacked and why. |
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28 Nov 23 - 08:47 AM (#4192520) Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus From: Donuel I will name the iceberg Donueland and charge fees for tourists on the mystery cruise. It is spring and summer for the iceberg and it should last until winter when a second season is possible. Icebergs melt from the bottom up at a millimeter a second. At 1000 feet thick it could really last a long time. With any luck, I hope it eventually docks in the Seychelles but Australia is possible. Comon down and beat the heat of global warming. Up here this is the winter for discount tents so bring your tent and money for the improv restaurants via flights from South Africa. |
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28 Nov 23 - 09:08 AM (#4192521) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Mom? I’ll be home for supper. I’d like some of your famous barbecued chicken gizzards, please. |
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29 Nov 23 - 08:23 PM (#4192582) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee I’m home, mom. Even te 92mph wind and 30+ foot waves didn’t get me! And I defended your honor against a scurrilous troll! He called a you a ¥£[<>§§&$@! In twelfth century Norwegian and I just couldn’t let that slide! Anyway, he’s a 30 meter high boulder now. |
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01 Dec 23 - 08:00 PM (#4192735) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu I still can't get used to seeing a MOAB thread with so few posts in it. Glad to hear that Rapparee is safely home and hungry as ever. |
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01 Dec 23 - 10:14 PM (#4192737) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee If you don't know, I fell outside my room in a hotel in Oslo, Norway. I have a REAL shiner of a black eye and my glasses frame cut a slit just below my right eyebrow. It's quite a mess and yes, there was a decent amount of blood shed (some of it got on the cover the book I had just purchased). When I finally got up I located the things I'd been carrying and got into the room, from which I called my wife. I went to the front desk and reported the incident. I chose not to go to the doctor/hospital/ambulance/etc. When I got back home I made an appointment with my ophthalmologist and primary care medico. The latter I saw yesterday (also about a cold I have contracted) and the former today. Apart from being achy and have an "eye area bruise" that's a real beauty, I'm just a bit vertiginous now and then. Yesterday the PCP told me to take the cough medicine and be VERY careful for a while when walking, etc. The eye doctor told me that I was "damend lucky" because apart from "giving your eye a shaking up there isn't anything I can see that's wrong." Of course, both said the come quickly or even go to the ER/AE if problems develop, stuff like flashes of light, which can indicate a detached retina. Stuff I don't want to have. Anyway, that's the run down on my injury. The fall occurred last Sunday, five days ago. |
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03 Dec 23 - 02:11 PM (#4192830) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Sorry that happened to you, Rapparee. I had a fall last month, still nursing a hurt knee from it. The worst part was the shock. I was lucky that that was the worst of it. Do what the doctor tells you, and feel better soon. |
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04 Dec 23 - 05:29 AM (#4192866) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel I hope steps were not involved. They can be a menace. You could tell the Legion you had a knockdown drag-out bar room fight over beer brands. |
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04 Dec 23 - 08:05 PM (#4192942) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee It gets worse. Pat (my wife) went to the ER Saturday. Testing showed COVID, rhinovirus, and a couple other things. She asked to go. This is her third COVID case, she has residuals from the first two. She is taking I don’t know how many medicines right now. I’m trying to hold it all together until she’s at least a little better. She is, however, at home this time. I told the Legion I got the eye fighting with a troll. |
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05 Dec 23 - 05:45 AM (#4192969) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Idaho attacked by unknown particles WOW |
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05 Dec 23 - 09:49 AM (#4192989) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel These high energy particles are evidenced in our visual spectrum. I have felt invisible soundwaves of the deepest grand organ pipes on stage that one could feel in the lungs chest and tissues but in Maryland, I was exposed to an even deeper vibration that caused all my bones to vibrate in a manner unlike sound waves. Horatio, there are stranger things... |
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05 Dec 23 - 10:25 AM (#4192990) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Kyoto / Idaho - easily confused with each other. (Great photo that makes absolutely no sense but it is from NASA.) |
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05 Dec 23 - 12:23 PM (#4192998) Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023 From: Donuel A carbon sink absorbs carbon back into the soil. There are ground rocks that can be spread over agricultural soil around the world that can accomplish this reabsorption. |
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07 Dec 23 - 08:18 PM (#4193155) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Why would I want a carbon sink? It’s hard enough to keep the one I have clean. |
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08 Dec 23 - 09:11 AM (#4193188) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel There are several 'To Catch a Smuggler' shows. The detection seems to be done primarily by trained dogs and Xrays. Cartels might be interested in a workaround for those 2 challenges. Unlike enzymatic formulas that work slowly and leave odors behind, Pooph dismantles odors on a molecular level to eliminate them at the source --turning any organic odor into clean fresh air. It's as if the odor was never there! And as powerful as it is Pooph is safe for people, pets, your home, and the planet. That leaves X-ray detection unless a product is changed to be the same density and specific gravity as the medium it is inside. Instead of dense hard bricks, a foam version of the product could render it invisible. They would have to trade more volume for the same old dense quantity Shhh, don't tell the criminals. |
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08 Dec 23 - 08:28 PM (#4193223) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Make the shipping container out of the same material being smuggled. For instance, a suitcase made of diamond would have the same density at the diamonds being smuggled and therefore the smuggled diamonds would be undetectable on an x-ray. |
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09 Dec 23 - 09:06 PM (#4193274) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Mom! Please stay away from that awful Trump thread. You know what sort of stinker he is. |
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12 Dec 23 - 08:11 PM (#4193461) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee It was terrible awful. |
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13 Dec 23 - 12:20 AM (#4193468) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel I watched my favorite holiday special David Zeiger documentary feature 'Sir! No Sir!' It might be described as a therapeutic film, since it seeks to cure some small part of America's amnesia regarding our veterans. |
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14 Dec 23 - 08:25 PM (#4193587) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee I think I’ll channel Amos for a while. |
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16 Dec 23 - 10:41 AM (#4193677) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Amos says, “Can I have you for steak and follies the evening of Friday the 1st, or do you need to stay with the Corps?” |
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16 Dec 23 - 10:58 AM (#4193682) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Only if Spaw and son can attend too. A father and son reunion is only a poet away. |
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16 Dec 23 - 07:52 PM (#4193722) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Gluon's skills are needed. NASA can't open the container with asteroid pieces. It's Been 2 Months. Why Can't NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container? The space agency is having to develop new tools to crack open the canister containing bits from asteroid Bennu. Wouldn't you know it. The lid is stuck on the jar. |
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17 Dec 23 - 08:47 PM (#4193792) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Perhaps some things are better left unopened. Gluon could help but I haven't had that critter humping my leg for a coon's age. Oops, I spoke too soon. The duckdog is baaaaack. |
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17 Dec 23 - 09:10 PM (#4193795) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel sleepy time song |
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18 Dec 23 - 07:59 PM (#4193859) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee DAMMIT Gluon! Go hump someone else's leg right now. I've got to go get the mail...M-A-I-L, not M-A-L-E. NASA's get problems with that asteroid can. Maybe if you get inside you can open it from there? |
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19 Dec 23 - 06:20 AM (#4193872) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter Might makes Right From: Donuel Every man wants to be a MAGA, MAGA man To have the kind of weapon always in demand Joggin' in the mornings, go man go Workouts in the militia, muscles grow You can best believe me, he's a MAGA man Glad he took you down with anyone you can Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey! MAGA MAGA man ( yeah) I gotta be a MAGA man (I gotta be a MAGA man) MAGA MAGA man (yeah) I gotta be a MAGA (oowh) MAGA MAGA man (yeah) I gotta be a MAGA maN Body (baby), it's so good, my body (heey) You can tell a MAGA, he has a funky walk His western shirts and leather, always look so boss Funky with his body, he's a king Call him Mister Ego, dig his chains You can best believe that, he's a MAGA man He likes to be the leader, he never dresses grand Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey! MAGA MAGA man ( yeah) I gotta be a MAGA man (I gotta be a MAGA man) MAGA MAGA man (yeah) I gotta be a MAGA (oowh) MAGA MAGA man (yeah) I gotta be a MAGA maN To live a life of freedom, machos make a stand Have your own lifestyles and ideals Possess the strength of confidence, that's the skill You can best believe that he's a MAGA man He's the special god son in anybody's land Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey! MAGA MAGA man (macho man, yeah) I gotta be a MAGA man (I gotta be a) MAGA MAGA man (mucho, mucho, macho man) I've got to be a MAGA! (Dig the hair on my chest) MAGA MAGA man (see my big thick mustache) I gotta be a MAGA man (all right, I gotta be a) MAGAS MAGA man (mucho, mucho, macho man) I've got to be a MAGA! (Dig broad shoulders, yeah) Macho, macho man (dig my muscles!) I gotta be a MAGA man (talking about) MAGA MAGA man (mucho, mucho, macho man) I gotta be a MAGA (hey) I gotta be a MAGA man (I gotta be a mucho mucho, macho MAGA man) (Alright, I said I'm a man, yeah! |
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19 Dec 23 - 08:50 PM (#4193906) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Amos once said to me, “ You certainly jumped some vortices there,” |
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20 Dec 23 - 11:13 AM (#4193945) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Tornados in volcanos foreshadow feasts in Barbados Nature's air fryer roasts birds with divine fires but burnin human vermin with cumin tastes like tires |
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22 Dec 23 - 05:03 PM (#4194083) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee As I once and more said to Amos, Let Sporus tremble—"What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys, So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this , Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. And which I now dedicate to a certain Don Juan in Florida. |
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23 Dec 23 - 06:58 PM (#4194179) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Thinking of Rapparee and his good wife Pat, and hoping that both are recovering well from what ails each of them. |
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24 Dec 23 - 08:19 PM (#4194238) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee He’s here, Mom. Hear the sides of the chimney collapsing? |
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27 Dec 23 - 03:52 PM (#4194348) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee MMario dropped by on Christmas Eve. He said to say hello. So did Spaw. |
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29 Dec 23 - 08:55 PM (#4194463) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Anyone heard from John from Hull recently? |
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30 Dec 23 - 09:32 AM (#4194481) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel John from Kansas settled a dispute on Friday. |
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01 Jan 24 - 08:53 PM (#4194666) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Another year, another journey around the sun has been accomplished, Mom. Please simply keep your resolutions from 2005, okay? |
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02 Jan 24 - 08:07 AM (#4194690) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel As the sun orbits our galaxy our journey is a spiral around the sun ad infinitum right down to the spiral of our DNA. Even black holes spiral space-time in what we call frame dragging. Rap why so cryptic? |
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03 Jan 24 - 10:09 AM (#4194797) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Happy Nude Year!!!! |
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08 Jan 24 - 02:03 PM (#4195131) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage The winter doldrums are here. Is MOM ready for the snow? Does she still have a sled or has she shifted to sliding on an inner tube or a plastic slide? That will cheer her up! |
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08 Jan 24 - 07:55 PM (#4195150) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Last I saw she was sliding on an ice slide downhill toward ice covered "Bottomless Lake." Had a pretty smart speed going, too. I think she was going to attempt to jump the lake. |
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13 Jan 24 - 08:09 PM (#4195397) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Mom's okay. I just got a call from the police station and she's resting quietly in her usual cell. Her usual lawyer has been called, and she's eaten her usual hearty breakfast. They expect that the usual bail will be set and she'll be out again in a day or so, as usual. |
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14 Jan 24 - 07:06 PM (#4195447) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel A Green Winter |
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14 Jan 24 - 09:02 PM (#4195454) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee That's why we go to the Arctic. It's certainly not to fall down and hurt myself. |
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15 Jan 24 - 06:42 AM (#4195465) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage I just heard from gnu's nephew - G.O. is at the hospital in palliative/end-of-life care. |
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15 Jan 24 - 08:35 AM (#4195476) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Thinking of gnu and his surviving family at this sensitive time. Thanks for the news, Stilly. |
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17 Jan 24 - 08:10 PM (#4195660) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Gnu is no longer on this side of The Great Divide. He was one of the good ones. Hope he, Amos, Kendall, MMario, Spaw and the rest are having a great time! |
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22 Jan 24 - 09:50 PM (#4195981) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee As he once said to me, “ you.” |
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23 Jan 24 - 01:42 PM (#4196011) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel and the horse you rode in on. |
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24 Jan 24 - 09:21 PM (#4196085) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee What did my poor horse ever do to you? |
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28 Jan 24 - 08:40 PM (#4196308) Subject: RE: BS: Apple TV series - Foundation From: Donuel I'm not saying anyone forgot Holocaust Remembrance Day but on Saturday I watched the 9 1/2 hour European 'Shoa' documentary. I learned more than from all other documentaries combined. It was in German, Polish, Yiddish, and French with English subtitles. |
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28 Jan 24 - 08:45 PM (#4196309) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Mother, once again I find you associated with denizens of the lower depths, swilling cheap wine and acting like a ne’er do well. Your clothing is filthy, you hose downgyved, your purse empty of coin or bills, and I don’t know what you’ve done but there’s blood on your switchblade. Get in the cab, you’re going home. In the morning you’ll see the priest to be exorcised again. |
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04 Feb 24 - 07:14 PM (#4196675) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Once again, MOM and her Daughter need to get up to the top of the queue. |
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08 Feb 24 - 05:44 PM (#4196788) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Monday the narrow surgeon is going to drill holes in my head to let the evil spirits out. I have ordered them to avoid their friends in DC, London, and suchlike places as there are enough evil spirits there. |
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09 Feb 24 - 07:08 AM (#4196811) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Good luck with your timpanation. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demons-and-evil-spirits-from-idaho/id1477139871?i=1000543830448 |
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11 Feb 24 - 08:57 AM (#4196924) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The Boston typewriter orchestra |
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11 Feb 24 - 05:02 PM (#4197021) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The first hospital in the USA was founded by Ben Franklin. The second largest commodity in the world is concrete. The red team will win the Super Bowl without a doubt. all stuff I didn't know when I woke this morning. |
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14 Feb 24 - 09:18 AM (#4197169) Subject: Its time to condemn Simon Says games. From: Donuel The 'average person' gets a bad rap. At least I hope so. Most politicians are willing to say the average American is exceedingly stupid. Worse than that it is said stupid average people are in the majority. IF true, those who can manipulate the average person must ensure that the average person stays stupid and never smarten up. There is plenty of evidence that the ignorance campaign is alive and well. Part of that campaign is to convince the rest of us that the average person is stupid. I believe that is a big fat lie. Barricades to the smart average people are internet apps, cults, and weakest links to religion. Rewarding old hateful knowledge is also a strategy. Its time to exclaim the wisdom of the average person. |
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14 Feb 24 - 10:31 AM (#4197172) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage So much depends on context. When headlines say "Florida man" did this or that (in the non-Trump meaning) it tends to say average or below average who you've never heard of. If you want to do the math then in the spread, 25% would be below average, you could give the middle 26 to 50% as average, and the top IQ or some other functional measurement to the 76-100% of the group. Or you could do 33.3 for each group. 100% of the people who vote for the majority of the GOP slate of electors at least have a screw loose if they can't figure out that they're being taken to the cleaners by Trump's gang. |
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14 Feb 24 - 11:30 AM (#4197175) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Hate is a far more potent emotion than love, Stilly: a red rage takes rather longer to wear off than a pink glow. That's why political attack ads work. If you can get the masses to hate someone else (eg foreigners) enough, you've got a zombie army at your command. .... Just make sure that, when you're leading your zombie army, you don't trip over. Oh, and aim at the institutions of learning first, as critical thinking is Kryptonite to a berserker.* * Apologies for crashing gears in mid-metaphor without using the clutch. |
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14 Feb 24 - 02:19 PM (#4197187) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage I was thinking more about the term "average" than I was the rest of the content in that post. |
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14 Feb 24 - 06:00 PM (#4197202) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel My scatter shot thoughts on the Kansas City shooting today are about the emotions of all those involved; from the politicians that allow/encourage mass shootings to the hateful shooter to all the victims wounded physically or not. Some politicians don't care, some will feign a prayer. The shooter had a moment of satisfaction probably stemming from bullying at some point. The victims include 8 children with gunshot wounds. What they are feeling is beyond my comprehension. This rips apart the spirit, destroys hope and kills safety in all celebrations. |
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14 Feb 24 - 06:11 PM (#4197204) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage And it is a problem unique to the US, the number of gun shootings per capita. MOM outta send Gluon out to retrieve all of those assault rifles and drop them into whatever volcano is newly churning out lava. |
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16 Feb 24 - 08:14 AM (#4197301) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel well oiled military weapons won't rust shut for hundreds of years. The leading cause of childhood death isn't disease anymore. There has never been an incident abhorrent enough to change a thing. Sanity regarding guns will never be threatened by rational minds in America. Somehow crazy trumps common sense here. |
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16 Feb 24 - 07:36 PM (#4197351) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The Invention of Race NPR listen here Race distinction is as artificial as the Caste system. The ancient Greeks had no concept of race, only different cultures. Race was invented by a Portuguese man in the 14th century... |
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21 Feb 24 - 02:47 PM (#4197665) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel With the sudden disappearance of my stalker, I found I was suffering from a version of the Stockholm effect. Perhaps he had found his true calling and became the author, editor, and publisher of 'Critic's Corner' where all critics of every genre were criticized. It would have a companion book 'The Autocritocrisy of the World's Greatest Critic'. While the book was full of glowing self-praise, 'Critics Corner' was a scathing digital profane diatribe of libelous insults. Perhaps the book propelled the online critics corner or simply the phenomenon of the most negative influencer caught on, but in no time there were more followers than on Truth Social. This success was followed up with emails from MAGA internet threateners, Swatters, and apps from stalkers of young women influencers that have had threats via Venn diagram information of every person who was acquainted. Stalking and threatening turned out to be a huge industry. Suddenly my exstalker was a small fish in a big sea. To be as important as he desired meant that he had to become a global villain and that did not have the appeal he had always wanted. Stopping hurt and torture had some withdrawal symptoms but soon he felt happier than before. He had time to enjoy life and lived happily ever after. |
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21 Feb 24 - 07:08 PM (#4197680) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The last thing J Allan Hynek showed me what he was working on was a compendium of different types of UFO shapes. There were over 30 types but the one type that has been recorded since his death that did not appear in his collection is the dynamic type that separated into many like images from three to many and form patterns or shapes. Over the last 60 years there is a progressive change in the shape and navigation abilities. Some earlier types do not appear anymore. |
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02 Mar 24 - 01:20 PM (#4198387) Subject: RE: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024 From: Donuel What is toxic is the manipulation and addiction society. We used to be a tool and skill society. Now apps on your phone, that you do not know is there; will measure your dopamine reward levels and lets you play against AI features for your attention. Its not a fair fight. Suicide levels have doubled for adolescents exposed to social trashing techniques by other users whose playground has addictive app features. Speaking of users, there are drug users and tech users but for other things we are customers, clients or patients. Smart and secure people can use the internet rabbit hole to investigate many issues. The negative rabbit holes are tunnels of disinformation like Pizzagate and the holy Trump. Tools of persuasion normally move slowly Like Nazi laws that gradually criminalized a certain branch of society. Facebook and other techs can move faster. I addressed addiction by limiting hypnosis sessions to three. More than that would be considered unnecessary but possibly helpful. Apps have no limits on there growth. AI will never solve the problem of fake news. The existential threat is as real and abusive to democracy as slavery. Laws against addictive tech is a rational eventual outcome. I hope. But I am the odd man out who does not use or carry a digital phone. |
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02 Mar 24 - 02:25 PM (#4198391) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Not sure where that last post was intended to go but it didn't fit the declutter thread so is parked over here where just about everything fits in somehow or other. |
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03 Mar 24 - 08:16 AM (#4198446) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Once again I'm towed to the impound lot. At least there is no fine. |
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03 Mar 24 - 04:59 PM (#4198471) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu I miss Rapparee. His last post here said he was to be treated by a narrow surgeon? |
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04 Mar 24 - 05:30 AM (#4198488) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel I thought he said Fresno Sturgeon. |
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06 Mar 24 - 04:46 PM (#4198650) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel It gives all the oil and gas that it can give But the USA just takes it all for granted We forgive you when you hurt us For a while we think you love the US But all you really do is use us, what can we do, Texas It's so hard to be a Texan Every man is after something Is it wrong when we give in If we like the Constitution is it a sin Every Walmart shooting we regret it But it happens 'cause we let it Is it the only way to hold you 'Cause your strong desires control you And I just don't want to lose you, what else can we do, Texas It's so hard to be a Texan There is so much hate at your border Is it wrong to let folks in If you steal kids is it a sin It's so hard to be a Texan You win with the most executions Is it wrong when you give in |
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06 Mar 24 - 06:23 PM (#4198655) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage I miss gnu filling my Facebook account with posts he shared. Haven't seen Rap for a little while. Hmmm. Travelling? |
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07 Mar 24 - 06:19 PM (#4198717) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Worry goes to your empathetic credit. If there was bad news, it would travel faster than good news. |
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07 Mar 24 - 06:53 PM (#4198719) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Every heart has tasted bitter betrayal We all know lies but the poor swim in them Governments are famous for their lies In troubled times truth is told silently like the furtive solemn glances at a funeral. |
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07 Mar 24 - 09:39 PM (#4198731) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage He hasn't posted on Mudcat since February 8. |
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13 Mar 24 - 06:02 AM (#4199011) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel As you might expect a skilled carpenter makes a superior orthopedic surgeon. The same is true of artists and astrophysicists. The reason is the skill of seeing in new imaginative ways with their mind's eye. |
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13 Mar 24 - 09:09 AM (#4199016) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: gillymor What a load of hooey. I was a skilled carpenter at one time, I doubt you would have wanted me to perform a hip arthroplasty on you. |
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13 Mar 24 - 10:16 AM (#4199020) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage gillymore, you just identified the reason for this thread. So settle in for the nonsense or find a different thread. I texted with Rap a few days ago - he is dealing with a medical situation (again). |
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13 Mar 24 - 10:23 AM (#4199022) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: gillymor Well, I'm not doing anything tomorrow, if anyone needs a hinky joint scoped, I'm your man. |
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13 Mar 24 - 11:31 AM (#4199026) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Naturally, a well-trained orthopedist would benefit from well-honed carpentry skills which is not the nonsense Maggie implied. My ultimate point is that our limited 5 senses can not image the quantum realm without a virtual imagination. Atoms are not spheres with orbiting particles like planetary mechanics. Atoms are more like vibrating energy fields that operate more like perpetual motion particle waves. Imagination can unlock the concept that what we perceive as solid is actually empty space that also contains vibratory energy. Energy and mass are two aspects of the same thing just as space and time are a different aspect of a similar energy. It helps to have an artist's concept to imagine the reality of our quantum universe. The quality of the mind's eye and imagination is our best tool to know more of the universe and scientists speculate that we only know about 4% of reality. Math is our other best tool. Even the art of music offers clues to the quantum world. It seems like a particle occupying the same space at the same time is a paradox but music allows for two or more frequencies in the same sound space without confusion. The wisdom of the music is that the relationship between the notes is most important in the effect it has. It is said truth is beauty and beauty is truth. It is in our mind that beauty exists. If the universe has a consciousness it too may perceive beauty. If not, the universe is blind. I doubt that. |
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13 Mar 24 - 11:48 AM (#4199030) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel My musical relationship with gillmor is that of a tritone. |
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13 Mar 24 - 11:55 AM (#4199031) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: gillymor The skills required of an orthopedic surgeon are so far in advance of what even a master carpenter can do that what you're proposing is pure nonsense. And SRS, you obviously know how to spell my handle correctly so please spare me the passive aggression. |
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13 Mar 24 - 12:10 PM (#4199032) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Yeah, no. You are not a victim. You are a discordant disharmony in err. |
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13 Mar 24 - 12:19 PM (#4199033) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: gillymor I think we have a 3 part disharmony going this morning. |
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13 Mar 24 - 12:34 PM (#4199036) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The connection between art and science is particularly evident to me lately. Trial and error with experimentation separates imagination from truth. It is a slow but accelerating process. There is such a chasm between intelligence and wisdom I would say institutional insanity has been the predominant human story so far. Our nuclear weapon race is but one example. US gun policy is a microcosm of the mass destruction industry. |
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14 Mar 24 - 11:42 AM (#4199110) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel dyslexia is a different door to perception that can have savant aspects but fails at school regimes. It is also a gift with negative externalities. Imagination and dreams make for poor science but truly great leaps do come from imaginative unlikely places in rare circumstances. These leaps are not intuitive and are often not accepted for years. IF YOU TRY TO GRAVITATIONALIZE THE QUANTUM WORLD, people would think you are nuts since no one has succeeded with quantum gravity. However, if you allow macro gravity to convert to an electrical potential of a pair of gluons in the quantum world we may have united some important theories. Just look at dust bunnies that coalesce by electric charge or asteroidal dust that combines. All energies seem to have the ability to exist in another form whether it is mass and energy or a neutrino which can metamorphose into a different neutrino. This notion would simplify many energy relationships. But in the meantime since we can't even find evidence for supersymmetry this idea will be put on hold. Everyone who looks at it agrees that quantum mechanics is incomplete. Finding its form of gravity will not complete its nature. Science has been called the new religion. It is true that most of it can be as dull as church. A great breakthrough will probably have to bypass administration. Such a breakthrough will probably demonstrate that converting space into time may exceed the energy that converts mass into energy. |
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16 Mar 24 - 08:58 AM (#4199174) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Hi Mom! Yesterday they let me out of the hospital after 34 days in durance vile. |
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16 Mar 24 - 05:56 PM (#4199196) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Quark! Quark! Quark! |
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16 Mar 24 - 06:28 PM (#4199198) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Good to see you back. You'll have to whip this thread into shape - too many folks want to come here to argue. And Gilly - Passive/aggressive my ass - just bad spelling. |
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16 Mar 24 - 06:48 PM (#4199199) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Rapparee, what was that earlier post about getting holes drilled in your head? Was that BS or not? Good to see you back, your silence had me worried. |
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16 Mar 24 - 07:02 PM (#4199202) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage From what he told me it wasn't hyperbole. Sounds uncomfortable! |
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17 Mar 24 - 07:52 AM (#4199216) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel It's great the pressure is off and you're home again. Kate Middleton has had a rough time of it as well. That's not to say you are not one tough cookie, a jaw-breaker, and a survivor extraordinaire. Mom would be jealous. |
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17 Mar 24 - 03:44 PM (#4199236) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Surgery for chronic subdural hematoma. Four burr holes drilled. Drainage that messed up the tidy operating room. 3.5 weeks rehab, still going on but at home. |
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17 Mar 24 - 05:00 PM (#4199242) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu The main thing is, you're home, Rapparee. You are a survivor. |
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17 Mar 24 - 08:12 PM (#4199253) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Trephination refers to the process of creating a hole in the skull and, in specific cases, the nail and is one of the oldest surgical procedures documented to date. It has been used throughout history with the goal of relieving pressure; managing symptoms of head trauma, such as subdural and epidural hematomas; and accessing brain tumors. Trephination can be performed using a trephine, a drill, by scraping with an abrasive instrument, or for the hard headed, cutting with a jackhammer. Rare complications that may arise with trephination include infection and, if the dura matter surrounding the brain is damaged in the process, damage to the underlying blood vessels, meninges, and brain. Modern medicine has used trephination as part of treatments for frontal sinus disease, glaucoma, and subungual hematomas. Newagers believe that Akashic memories and signals from the universe are enhanced with trephination. |
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18 Mar 24 - 11:39 AM (#4199288) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Knowing Rap, I suspect he required his surgeon to use one of the fine steel weapons he has in his collection at home. |
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18 Mar 24 - 08:40 PM (#4199301) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee I keep getting signals from the universe, they're incoherent. |
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19 Mar 24 - 12:14 PM (#4199337) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel My favorite mashup movie is on, The Day After Strangelove On the Beach. |
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19 Mar 24 - 07:03 PM (#4199368) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The new physics we need to be open-source is actually almost a hundred years old. Much of that tech was explored by Thomas Thompson Brown Who died in 1985. Electrogravitics was one of his inventions that used high voltage low current science. The last 20% of this video explains his contributions. An explanation how UFO's work. Sorry but classified info is often approached obliquely. |
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21 Mar 24 - 09:06 AM (#4199448) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Only two tidbits of innovative cosmology have become apparent to me this decade. 1 is that the inflation theory is far from what we are led to believe leading to a much older universe than we deduced from background microwave radiation. 2 is that black holes are space-time generators. There is a meme that says if you don't contribute a major discovery by 30 you never will. The problem is too many people believe that is true. |
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22 Mar 24 - 01:09 PM (#4199529) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee I did, over a cuppa with Steve Hawking at Kings one afternoon. We came up with the whole lack hole thing. I did the thinking and he did the math. |
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23 Mar 24 - 06:03 AM (#4199574) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel I cannot say that I know you well But you can't lie to me with all these books that you sell I'm not trying to follow you to the end of the world I'm just trying to leave something behind Words have come from men and mouse Oh, but I can't help thinking that I have heard the wrong crowd When all the water is gone my job will be too So I'm trying to leave something behind Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread And the ceiling is hard to reach Oh, the future ahead is broken and red And I'm trying to leave something behind This whole world is a foreign land We swallow the moon, but we do not know our own hand Oh, we're running with the case, but we ain't got the gold Yet we're trying to leave something behind My friends, I belive we are at the wrong fight And I can not read what I did not write I've been to his house, but the master is gone Yet we're trying to leave something behind Now there is a beast who has taken my brain You can put me to bed, but you can't feel my pain When the machine has taken the soul from the man It's time to leave something behind Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread And the ceiling is hard to reach Oh, the future ahead is already dead And it's time to leave something behind Now, I've got this feeling that I'm still at the shore And pockets don't know what it means to be poor I can get through the wall if you give me a door So I can leave something behind Oh, wisdom is lost in the trees somewhere Oh, you're not gonna find it in some mental gray hair It's locked up from those who hurry ahead And it's time to leave something behind Oh, money is free but love costs more than our bread And the ceiling is hard to reach When my son is a man, he will know what I meant When I was just trying to leave something behind And I'm trying to leave something behind Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Sean Rowe |
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23 Mar 24 - 07:38 AM (#4199577) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk > I keep getting signals from the universe, they're incoherent. Are you a radioastronomer, Rap? it's the only field I've been in where noise is the signal, and coherent signals are the noise. |
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23 Mar 24 - 10:45 AM (#4199587) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Rap, has Gluon been by to see you lately? |
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23 Mar 24 - 06:38 PM (#4199608) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Yes, but didn’t stay long. Barely long enough to hump my leg eight or ten times. |
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27 Mar 24 - 02:37 PM (#4199878) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Well, the city golf course workers starting to clean up after the heavy snow three weeks or so back. |
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29 Mar 24 - 07:32 AM (#4199980) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The world's burnin at both ends but we're waking up slowly News is a game of pretend and the best liars are holy Change has always been this way but were waking up slowly Morning feels like a new day The same old thing is phony When you're waking up slowly think of one thing you can change and then just go out boldly and do it even if its strange |
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01 Apr 24 - 06:44 PM (#4200250) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee I awakened from a nap and picked up a book — and there was a reference to Eleanor of Aquitaine. This triggered another memory and I quietly sang all of “Quen Eleanor’s Confession.” Odd. I can remember lyrics I learned fifty years back, but not things that happened three weeks ago. |
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03 Apr 24 - 06:39 AM (#4200335) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk > I can remember lyrics I learned fifty years back, but not > things that happened three weeks ago. The wax of the tablet of memory gets hardened with age. Once you've seen it all, nothing new makes much of an impression. |
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03 Apr 24 - 03:57 PM (#4200354) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee The wax of my memory was scraped and melted for a couple of months. Right now, a drain will be installed next Tuesday and then plugged to stop the continued leak of cerebral-spinal fluid. The leak is considerably slowed but not yet stopped. My life seems to be one medical thing after another right now. Gluon dropped by and tried to console me with a fresh tokamak. |
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06 Apr 24 - 10:50 AM (#4200508) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Thinking of you, Rapparee. |
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06 Apr 24 - 04:40 PM (#4200533) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee I went with a friend for a nice long ride this morning. Lots of snow up in them thar hills 'round hyar. |
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06 Apr 24 - 07:27 PM (#4200546) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu I seem to remember, Rapparee, that you live in what you called the "banana belt" of Idaho. So, along with the snow, I hope there are soon flowers to enjoy, like crocuses. |
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07 Apr 24 - 04:14 PM (#4200584) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Anything interesting happening out on the golf course? Have you set up a golf ball vending machine at your back fence? |
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07 Apr 24 - 07:08 PM (#4200595) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel With my vintage mixer I am making natural casing pastrami dogs. Its 4 parts minced pastrami and one part Nathan's hot dog. Today was nice with iconic puffy clouds so we went for a long walk down to Turtle Pond but it felt like it was uphill both ways. |
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15 Apr 24 - 01:11 PM (#4200998) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Goodness me! Mom, why are ou hanging out with the old folks? And shake those cigar ashes off your shawl! |
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17 Apr 24 - 09:23 PM (#4201166) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Today was National Librarian Day. |
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18 Apr 24 - 02:28 PM (#4201205) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Everyday is, it’s not just celebrated. WE RULE!!! |
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18 Apr 24 - 08:24 PM (#4201214) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Librarians are the secret masters of the Universe. DON'T ever piss one off. Spider Robinson |
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19 Apr 24 - 09:11 PM (#4201264) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Since the ophthalmologist I've been seeing for 20 years has retired, I had an appointment today with another one (who worked with the first and has his records). HOWEVER, he is in a practice of ophthamology only -- he can't prescribe glasses. Sooo...I have an appointment with another person who can (who also worked with my original eye doctor) at the end of May, unless there's a cancellation and they can work me in. Fortunately, the optician is still the same in the same place so getting new specs isn't a problem (save for the cost). This is the first time in my life I've run into this situation. |
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21 Apr 24 - 02:49 PM (#4201344) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Mom! Am I the only one who now cares? |
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21 Apr 24 - 03:51 PM (#4201349) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu No, you aren't. I was away for three days. |
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22 Apr 24 - 06:11 AM (#4201382) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel It ain't the sixties but there are still some young people who care and believe they can change the world. After our leaders like JFK, RFK and MLK were assassinated, today there are leaderless collectives of dissent. However, there has been enough disinterest and old-time religion to turn the clock back on women 200 years. There are more guns than peace signs and more fascists than progressives in the House. There are more mass shootings than Taylor Swift songs, and more extinctions than politicians. |
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24 Apr 24 - 06:59 PM (#4201559) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: keberoxu Like MOM, like daughter: sinking to the bottom of the queue. Let's head back up to the top. |
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25 Apr 24 - 10:49 AM (#4201592) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Glucosamine Chondroitin worked on my stuck shoulder. |
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25 Apr 24 - 11:48 AM (#4201597) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Discontinue use if it causes death. |
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26 Apr 24 - 05:41 PM (#4201663) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee So far today I have spent better that five (5) hours installing a new Netgear Nighthawk MESH network system here in the house. The sprinkler people come out, replaced the bent pipe comprising the top rail of the back fence, dug out and replaced TWO breaks in the main sprinkler line in the back yard, and replaced a busted sprinkler head. I had planned to do other things today that mess with routers, satellites, IP addresses, and suchlike nonsense. Of course, neither had I planned to do what the sprinkler guys did. I had hoped to read and nap. |
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27 Apr 24 - 12:52 PM (#4201690) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee The network is working fine. RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT. That's why I'm down here again working on it. |
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28 Apr 24 - 02:11 PM (#4201720) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Rap, having to set up or restore the home system is the price we pay for not letting the IP company send a tech out who fiddles with stuff and leaves you with whatever their default setting is, and not giving you much information. I've helped several friends with the systems the cable or phone company left behind, usually with setting up a booster or extra ports for the router. If I ever get the house leveled (right now it is at its most level time of the year, the soil is moist and the cracks have almost disappeared in the walls and at the ceiling edge) I'll put in a sprinkler system. That I will diagram and supervise because too often those sprinkler guys just wing it. (Neighbors up the street paid for a high dollar system only to find later that they put in a cheap set of buried hoses and such, workmen long gone along with their cash). MOM should have Gluon train to help with this stuff, I bet a duckdog would be great at digging and working out the water end of things. |
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28 Apr 24 - 09:07 PM (#4201726) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee We have a good sprinkler system and good sprinkler techs. We do NOT have good weather or control over tiny earthquakes which barely move a seismograph needle. Or rodents that live underground and gnaw on plastic sprinkler pipes and whom I shall feed a poison dinner as soon as I am able. Yes, I shall be certain that what I use is well underground and that the corpses are not when they might be eaten by the various hawks, owls, eagles, and other critters who frequent the golf course behind the house. Oddly enough, the cops take a dim view of shooting in the city limits, even with an air rifle (BB gun). I'd trap them, but releasing them out in the national forest is nearly certain death for them anyway. I've checked before and our animal control bunch doesn't deal with moles, voles, skunks, feral cats, and certain others. |
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28 Apr 24 - 10:10 PM (#4201728) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage Trouble with that "poison dinner" is that the next hawk that eats one of those critters will also die of the poison. Don't you have any other options? Lead poisoning is probably preferable to the other poisons. |
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29 Apr 24 - 06:08 AM (#4201742) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Good news for Putin. Journalists from Reuters, AP, and even Forbes have been arrested. |
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29 Apr 24 - 06:24 AM (#4201743) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Their crime is fake news about the Russian Army. |
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29 Apr 24 - 07:55 PM (#4201793) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Stilly, I agree about lead poisoning. The cops and the city, however, frown on it. Otherwise I'd just use a .22 or an air rifle. But...I have a friend who is a legal trapper and supports his family partially by the pelts he sells and the money he makes trapping for various ranchers. He's very ethical and may have another suggestion. I'll ask him. I could be persuaded to do nothing, except that the tunnels run downhill from my lawn to the golf course and I don't want my backyard to develop a bad case of erosion. |
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30 Apr 24 - 09:24 PM (#4201850) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Today the neurosurgeon told me not to come back until I need him again. He approved the way I walk and use a stick to help with balance when needed. |
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01 May 24 - 11:16 PM (#4201896) Subject: RE: MOAB science trivia (of all BS) From: Donuel Tantalum, Boron and a touch of Iridium make an alloy that has solid solutions, a nonoxidizing subsurface and high conductivity that makes a good hard but flexible skin for UFOs. (EYES ONLY) Gold is only formed in the largest massive supernovas or colliding neutron stars but silver is produced in any ol' run-of-the-mill nova. |
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02 May 24 - 05:28 PM (#4201946) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel The firemen and police left a half hour ago. It all started by leaving the car interior lights on. I accidentally hit the switch when I opened the sunroof days ago. I have seen episodes of airplane disasters when the pilot hit the wrong switch. I didn't expect I would do the same. This morning the door opened but it would not start, dead battery. I could call AAA and get a jump but I thought if I waited when it was 90 degrees it might start this afternoon. So when I went out an hour ago the door would not even open. Aha a tow truck driver taught me how to unlock the door if disabled due to an attempted break-in or dead battery. There is a secret key slot at the rear of the car that opens the trunk and from there a hidden cable that can be pulled to open the door. It all worked so now I could unlatch the hood. I was feeling pretty smart when I sat down. Muscle memory was closing the door when my brain said don't do that. Click. I was now locked in a small 90 degree car with no horn or phone. The windows were sealed but by lying down and kicking it I could jam a pair of scissors and umbrella in the crack to get an inch of air by bending the window outward. I was winded and hot from the kicking so I took of my shirt. Eventually my neighbor was unloading her kids when she heard my yell for help. She called the fire dept and I gave my info through the small window opening. I heard the sirens when the first lady cop arrived. I explained how to find the secret cable to unlock the door while she held a window breaker. It worked and I explained to the firemen how she had opened the door and thanked them all. She wanted to know how I knew about the secret cable and I explained about the tow truck driver. I thanked the neighbor and went in the house. My wife was none the wiser wearing her noise cancelling headphones and in a meeting about ribosomic DNA. |
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05 May 24 - 05:23 AM (#4202055) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk ignisecond, n: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!" -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" |
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05 May 24 - 06:14 PM (#4202089) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Katagelasticism is a psychological condition in which a person excessively enjoys mocking others. Katagelasticists actively seek and establish situations in which they can laugh at others (at the expense of these people). There is a broad variety of things that katagelasticists would do—starting from harmless pranks or word plays to truly embarrassing and even harmful, mean-spirited jokes. They would be of the opinion that mocking others is part of the daily life and if others do not like being laughed at, they should just fight back. For katagelasticists, it is fun mocking others and there is almost nothing that might hinder them from doing so. For them, some people might even provoke getting mocked. This condition often makes it difficult for sufferers behave on social media. however some deserve mockery |
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05 May 24 - 07:58 PM (#4202098) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff to Condemn the recently arrested journalists and politicians. At the prison he gave each prisoner a Condom. |
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05 May 24 - 08:25 PM (#4202100) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee Little Jack Horner Sits in a corner Extracting cube roots to infinity, An assignment for boys The will minimize noise And produce a more peaceful vicinity. Automation Is vexation, Quaternions are bad; Analysis Situs Is only detritus, I wonder: Have I been had? Little Bo-Peep Has lost her sheep, The radar has failed to find them. They'll all, face to face, Meet in parallel space, Preceding their leaders behind them. |
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06 May 24 - 06:13 AM (#4202123) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel 1. AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks'trus)adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes. 2. CARPETUATION (kar pet' u a shun)n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance. 3. DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v. To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow 'remove' all the germs. 4. ELBONICS (el bon'iks) n. The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater. 5. UNDUST (un dust')n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug. 6. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun)n. The act of manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side. 7. PEPPIER (peph ee ay')n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want ground pepper. 8. PHONESIA (fo nee' zhuh)n. The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer. 9. LATTEBLOW (la tay' blow)v. Unintentional expusion of milk through the nose during a laugh. 10. TELECRASTINATION (tel e kras tin ay' shun)n. The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away. |
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06 May 24 - 08:51 PM (#4202187) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Rapparee And for something entirely different.... Go mbí do chaid amuigh agat. Go gcuire sé sconna siar sí ort, agus scread maidne ort. Nár fhaighir slí i geaiseal. Now go practice your Irish curses! |
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06 May 24 - 10:27 PM (#4202188) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Donuel Yiddish curses are a mouthful too. |
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06 May 24 - 10:32 PM (#4202189) Subject: RE: BS: Joke thread for 2024 From: Donuel A black hole is where God divides by zero The gene pool could use a little chlorine." "Forget about World Peace.....Visualize Using Your Turn Signal!" "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." "I love cats...they taste just like chicken." "Out of my mind. Back in five minutes." "Cover me. I'm changing lanes." "As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools." "Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot." "Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let him sleep." "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather...Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car...." "I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian." "Don't blame me - I'm from Uranus." "Your kid may be an honor student but YOU'RE still an IDIOT!" "It's as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you." "When you do a good deed, get a receipt, in case heaven is like the IRS." "Smile - it's the second best thing you can do with your lips." "Friends don't let friends drive Naked." "Wink, I'll do the rest!" "I took an IQ test and the results were negative." "When there's a will, I want to be in it!" "Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?" "If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?" "Time is the best teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its students!" "It's lonely at the top, but you eat better." "Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear." "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes." "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." "Consciousness: that annoying time between naps." "I souport publik edekasion." "We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated." "Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home." "3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't." "Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?" "Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock." "2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2." "I like you, but I wouldn't want to see you working with sub-atomic particles." "I killed a 6-pack just to watch it die." On Criticism... Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them... you are a mile away from them... and you have their shoes. Some Time-Honored Truths... 1. Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. 2. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. 3. One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people. 4. To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it. 5. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. 6. The older you get, the better you realize you were. 7. I doubt, therefore I might be. 8. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. 9. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. 10. Women like silent men, they think they're listening. 11. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. 12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. 13. A fool and his money are soon partying. 14. Do pediatricians play miniature golf on Wednesdays? 15. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? 16. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery. 17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? 18. If God dropped acid, would he see people? 19. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too? 20. If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? 21. If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it? 22. If you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons? 23. If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry? 24. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? |
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07 May 24 - 12:20 AM (#4202194) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: Stilly River Sage 6. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun)n. The act of manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side. The easier definition of this is when the child you nurse at home is riding in a tummy pack in the grocery store and they're trying to break through your shirt and bra to nurse while in a grocery store. (Throw a small blanket over the shoulder and head of the child and let them have access and no one in the store is the wiser.) Donuel, stick to MOAB for a while, let the joke thread alone. I love you and your whimsy but your darker side is not helping that other thread. |
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07 May 24 - 11:24 AM (#4202210) Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3 From: MaJoC the Filk My fault, Stilly, for sneaking in the relevant Sniglet in response to Donuel's description of an ignisecond. I abase myself in dust and ashes. |
