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BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.

28 Feb 06 - 03:17 PM (#1681480)
Subject: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Ho hum.


28 Feb 06 - 03:24 PM (#1681492)
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From: number 6

this post intentionally left blank.

sIx


28 Feb 06 - 03:25 PM (#1681494)
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From: Rapparee

As I've always said, "Quartic equations need to be solved when ray tracing 4th degree surfaces e.g., a torus. Quartics also need to be solved in a number of problems involving quadric surfaces. Quadric surfaces (i.e. ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, cones) are useful in computer graphics for generating objects with curved surfaces (Badler, 1979). Fewer primitives are required than with planar surfaces to approximate a curved surface to a given accuracy (Herbison-Evans, 1982).

Bicubic surfaces may also be used for the composition of curved objects. They have the advantage of being able to incorporate recurves: lines of inflection. There is a problem, however, when drawing the outlines of bicubics in the calculation of hidden arcs. The visibility of an outline can change where its projection intersects that of another outline. The intersection can be found as the simultaneous solution of the two projected outlines. For bicubic surfaces, these outlines are cubics, and the simultaneous solution of two of these is a sextic which can only be solved by iterative techniques. For quadric surfaces, the projected outlines are quadratic. The simultaneous solution of two of these leads to a quartic equation."


28 Feb 06 - 03:29 PM (#1681504)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: alanabit

I bet there won't be another post less interesting than this one.


28 Feb 06 - 03:38 PM (#1681513)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Sigh . . .


28 Feb 06 - 03:40 PM (#1681514)
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From: Bill D

"For every Culture has its own Civilization. In this work, for the first time the two words, hitherto used to express in an indefinite, more or less ethical, distinction, are used ina periodic sense, to express a strict and necessary organic succession. The Civilization is the inevitable destiny of the Culture, and in this principle we obtain the viewpoint from which the deepest and gravest problems of historical morphology become capable of solution. Civilizations are the most external and artificial states of which a species of developed humanity is capable. They are a conclusion, the thing-become succeeding the thing- becoming, death following life, rigidity following expansion, intellectual age and the stone-built, petrifying world-city following mother-earth and the spiritual childhood of Doric and Gothic. They are an end, irrevocable, yet by inward necessity reached again and again."

Oswald Spengler, "The Decline of the West"

it goes on a bit...more on request


28 Feb 06 - 03:43 PM (#1681516)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

don't start 'em, and we won't fill 'em.


28 Feb 06 - 03:56 PM (#1681522)
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From: fat B****rd

Twiddledeethumbs....


28 Feb 06 - 05:09 PM (#1681573)
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From: Cluin

Step we gaily, ennui go...


28 Feb 06 - 05:10 PM (#1681576)
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From: Janie

*yawn*

Janie


28 Feb 06 - 05:44 PM (#1681609)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Alba

This thread is actually a tad more stimulating than many others below the line at the moment:)


28 Feb 06 - 05:44 PM (#1681610)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


28 Feb 06 - 05:47 PM (#1681616)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Cluin


PSSSSST!

Peace passed out in the chair.

Sombody get the shaving cream.

And the cup of warm water too.


28 Feb 06 - 05:49 PM (#1681623)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Folkiedave

I don't do drugs any more - I get the same effect standing up fast.


28 Feb 06 - 05:50 PM (#1681625)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Welcome to lovely and scenic Dull.


28 Feb 06 - 05:54 PM (#1681629)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Ya know, if they grew cucumbers there . . . .


28 Feb 06 - 05:58 PM (#1681632)
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From: Cluin

Where they make the famous banjos.


28 Feb 06 - 06:17 PM (#1681649)
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From: suzi

yeeaahhh....whatever......


28 Feb 06 - 06:18 PM (#1681650)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: suzi

ps....anyone know why I dont have a line..???


28 Feb 06 - 06:21 PM (#1681653)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

where this is all headed .....and it seems it ain't far off.


28 Feb 06 - 06:24 PM (#1681654)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

I found this:

"In Kansas, where Bob Dole grew up, there used to be the little town of Exchange, a little dot on the map where Atchison-Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) trains would trade mail sacks. When the ATSF later added an east-west line through the middle of town, it became known on the area maps of the time ....as N.exchange and S.exchange."


28 Feb 06 - 06:27 PM (#1681658)
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From: Little Hawk

And then there's that other place...

that other place


28 Feb 06 - 06:37 PM (#1681669)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

(It is reliably reported that "that other place" freezes over every Winter.)


28 Feb 06 - 06:43 PM (#1681674)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

You guys are making this thread imaginitive. Talk about yer thread drift.


28 Feb 06 - 06:52 PM (#1681685)
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From: gnu

Well... oh... nevermind.


28 Feb 06 - 06:54 PM (#1681687)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Thank you.


28 Feb 06 - 07:08 PM (#1681698)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

I'm afraid of what would happen to the inside of my head if I mastered the art of being dull & unimaginative by request. It's like being asked to choose totally bland food.


28 Feb 06 - 07:53 PM (#1681720)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

"The above variants, along with those among the multiple readings of
numerous other pieces, provide convincing evidence for certain practices. Those who were commissioned to gather a collection of motets and related pieces were free to add one or even two voices to an existing Tenor-Duplum pair. Conversely, they were free to dismantle a piece for three or four voices and present it as one or more pieces for fewer voices. Usually, a piece for three voices was reduced by omission of the Triplum, while a piece for four voices lost either its Quadruplum or its Quadruplum and Triplum. The scribes occasionally even entered a Duplum or a Duplum with Triplum without Tenor. With respect to texts, scribes were free to enter a motet without its
text and give the music as a clausula or even as a discant passage in an organum, just as they could enter a motet with a text other than the original one. Conversely, they must have felt free to add a text to a Tenor-Duplum pair that had started out as a clausula or a discant passage. To a certain extent, moreover, an existing text and its music were subject to variation, and we often have no way of knowing whether the change was made deliberately or by mistake. Those who performed motets, and that probably included creators of motets, had similar freedoms. All of this strongly suggests that the modern respect for the "authentic" form had no parallel among those who transmitted motets to us."


28 Feb 06 - 08:14 PM (#1681738)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Here's some dull and unimaginative thread for ya.


28 Feb 06 - 08:17 PM (#1681742)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

OK. You guys are getting the hang of this.

rssz oj;zdorkg

Shucks. My forehead hit the keyboard . . .


28 Feb 06 - 08:20 PM (#1681743)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Kaleea

While I haven't been to Hell, Michigan, I've been to where Exchange is not, in Kansas. It was a very dull day.


28 Feb 06 - 09:23 PM (#1681793)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: number 6

Peace ... did you move that chair?

sIx


28 Feb 06 - 09:24 PM (#1681794)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Soon, sIx, soon . . . .


28 Feb 06 - 09:28 PM (#1681798)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: number 6

ok ... just wonderin'

sIx


28 Feb 06 - 09:32 PM (#1681804)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

I have lost my socks, BTW. Not in the fridge.


28 Feb 06 - 09:37 PM (#1681809)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

Leodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife;                               
willað hy hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð.                           
Ungelic is us.                           
Wulf is on iege, ic on oþerre.           
Fæst is þæt eglond, fenne biworpen.                           
Sindon wælreowe weras þær on ige;                           
willað hy hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð.                           
Ungelice is us.                           
Wulfes ic mines widlastum wenum dogode;                  
þonne hit wæs renig weder ond ic reotugu sæt,                           
þonne mec se beaducafa bogum bilegde,                           
wæs me wyn to þon, wæs me hwæþre eac lað.                           
Wulf, min Wulf, wena me þine                           
seoce gedydon, þine seldcymas,           
murnende mod, nales meteliste.                           
Gehyrest þu, Eadwacer? Uncerne earne hwelp                           
bireð wulf to wuda.                           
þæt mon eaþe tosliteð þætte næfre gesomnad wæs,                           
uncer giedd geador.


28 Feb 06 - 09:44 PM (#1681815)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

A mystery within a mystery, even to the academics.


28 Feb 06 - 10:09 PM (#1681834)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

If you had caught me thirty years ago, Rapaire, I could've translated that in a flash but my OE is so rusty it's, well, dull.


28 Feb 06 - 10:21 PM (#1681844)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Thank you for bringing this thread back to its true purpose.


28 Feb 06 - 10:31 PM (#1681855)
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From: Alba

It is as though my people had been given
A present. They will wish to capture him
If he comes with a troop. We are apart.
Wulf is on one isle, I am on another.
Fast is that island set among the fens.
Murderous are the people who inhabit
That island. They will wish to capture him
If he comes with a troop. We are apart.
Grieved have I for my Wulf with distant longings.
Then it was rainy weather, and I sad,
When the bold warrior laid his arms about me.
I took delight in that and also pain.
O Wulf, my Wulf, my longing for your coming
Has made me ill, the rareness of your visits,
My grieving spirit, not the lack of food.
Eadwacer, do you hear me? For a wolf
Shall carry to the woods our wretched whelp.
Men very easily may put asunder
That which was never joined, our song together.

Translation by Richard Hamer... A choice of Anglo Saxon verse


eh I like it better in OE myself...:>{
Jude


28 Feb 06 - 11:55 PM (#1681905)
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From: Cluin

Once upon a time they lived happily ever after.
The End.
Go to sleep.


01 Mar 06 - 12:06 AM (#1681917)
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From: Skivee

If somebody had something to say about this...ah, I mean, something to contribute...Like maybe something that they have been thinking about for a long time, and maybe a guy might think that folks could learn from hearing, or...maybe just something to try to explain that stuff that happened...I mean, there was a lot of bad stuff said about it, and bad feelings and... I guess that...ah...
Oh, nevermind...forget I said anything...sorry for taking up your time...I should get back to my rubber band collection.
The ozone is bad for then...makes them get brittle and gummy...then you can't use them...I mean, not that I would because you can't use them in a collection...I mean that would just be a box of rubber bands...not a collection...right?
That's your new oxygen mask, right?
Sorry about your cat...I heard somebody say that he could lose the eye, but you never know about that sort of thing, right?
So I'll just go look at my bands, ok.
Who knew paper clips could do that, okay?
I'll just go now...I'm going...okay?


01 Mar 06 - 08:59 AM (#1682170)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: JennyO

Cluin, Doolin may be small, but it ain't dull - at least, not for a visit.

Here's a place for ya!

Center for the dull


01 Mar 06 - 11:49 AM (#1682340)
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From: alanabit

A more interesting place to talk about.


01 Mar 06 - 12:28 PM (#1682369)
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From: Cluin

I know, Jen. Been there. Left the pub one dark night to walk back to the campsite. Blacker than the inside of a cow out; good thing some folks came by with a flashlight or I might have walked off the Cliffs of Moher.


01 Mar 06 - 12:32 PM (#1682377)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: kendall

I have this book titled "Rock formations in Death Valley." It's a tough read...


01 Mar 06 - 04:06 PM (#1682577)
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From: Liz the Squeak

Doolin - I went there once... cos Ballybunion was closed.

I have a pair of yellow trousers.

LTS


01 Mar 06 - 04:11 PM (#1682582)
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From: Rapparee

Ballyfungus...I went there once because Ballyonion was closed.

I have a pair of mellow trousers.


01 Mar 06 - 08:15 PM (#1682747)
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From: Don(Wyziwyg)T

Belgium........Need I say more?

Do........MMffft.....Wha'?.....Oh yeah......n.T.


01 Mar 06 - 08:38 PM (#1682772)
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From: Bee-dubya-ell

I had a yellow trouser once. Best damned dog I ever owned. He could trouse all day long without getting tired. Poor thing ripped an inseam and I had to shoot him.


01 Mar 06 - 09:36 PM (#1682819)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

I know the breed, Bee-Dubya. You can tell 'em by their pants.


02 Mar 06 - 07:42 PM (#1683706)
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From: autolycus

I would like to thank my manager, my mother , my father, my mother, my manager, my brother, all the members of my kindergarten class, God for having thought the whole thing up, my mother, my life coach, my my, your my, m my (sorry, that should have read'my my'sorry sorry sorry sorry, my home in EWdgware, my home in Hendon, my flat elsewhere, the flat after that, my mother (mustn't forget her0, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr, my ,eeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr, my first meal, my second meal, my third meal, my fourth meal, my toilet, my friend, too numerous to mention one bu one by one by one by one one by one , my sister, our dog, I'd also - ooops FULL STOP i'D ALSO LIKE TO -E R er I'd like to thank my teachers for most of what they (sorry? time to wind up?), I'd like to thank my teachers - again - , I'd like to thank everybody from best grip to worst grip to get-a grip (sotty about the thread drift). I'd like to thasnk anfd thank and thank and thank and thank    till I'm sick (or you are) basically cos I can't thinkl what else to do on receipt of this wonderful award which will gone onto a thankful table which will groan under the weight of the award. I'd like to thank myself for being here. I'd like to thank the makers of the award for making it, the transporters for transporting it, the porters for porting, the maids for maiding, the king for kinging, the people who put the bit of non-slip baize under the awars so that it wouldn't slip; and by golly, it hasn't slipped once. Not to mention the stand manufacturerers for manufacturururing the stand so the award would have somewhere to go.

I'm sorry if I've forgotten anyone who should be thanked, I really seem quite unable to gwt i.e. get, ahem, anything right tho' I try to be good until I FALL ASLEEP Oops, cAPS IN ERROR, SEE (damn) see what I mean. I'd also like tpo thank my late father again, in case i forgot hom - er him.

Ehank you all so much , I love you all, you're wunnerful people, I mean nice people. Very, very nice. I think that's all I have to say, well for the time being. Any thanks I have forgotten, and there are bound to be many knowing my sister, I'll pop them in envelopes, then write the addresses on, add stamps, probably one per envelope, and put them carefu#lly in the post box.

Ehank you again. Hope I bored you.


Ivor


02 Mar 06 - 07:44 PM (#1683709)
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From: Peace

......and world peace.


02 Mar 06 - 10:09 PM (#1683841)
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From: Cluin

Okay, but you'll have to fill out these forms first.

Have a seat.


02 Mar 06 - 10:16 PM (#1683851)
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From: Janie

The NC div of MH/DD/SA is requiring all Area programs to divest themselves of services. The Area programs are now Local Management Entities (LME) who will manage and monitor services. They will accept bids from the private sector for an entity to become the local Comprehensive Service Agency (CSA). The CSA will provide CSS services, including CBS services with 5 member teams supervised by a QMHP. They must serve all in the IPRS population. Non target IPRS populations will not be served. The CSA will also provide a comprehensive CES 24-7. There will be both UCR and non-UCR funding streams. IPRS eligibility will be determined by the individual's DSM-IV or ICD-9 diagnosis in combination with the current GAF score. COI's will no longer be required as the State is moving to the TOPPS system of outcome assessment. MR-CAPP clients will be served by a separate agency. Services for the SA population have yet to be determined.


02 Mar 06 - 10:23 PM (#1683863)
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From: Peace

Wow. A new low. Great work, Janie. This is beyond doing the limbo. We gotta tunnel now.


02 Mar 06 - 10:33 PM (#1683881)
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From: Rapparee

1. The data elements in field 007 are positionally defined and the number of character positions in field 007 depends upon the code contained in 007/00. Character position 00 contains a code that identifies the category of material. The fill character (|) is not allowed in this position. The fill character may be used in any other character position when the cataloging agency makes no attempt to code the position.

The categories of material for which field 007 is applicable in bibliographic records are presented in the following order in the field description: map, electronic resource, globe, tactile material, projected graphic, microform, nonprojected graphic, motion picture, kit, notated music, remote-sensing image, sound recording, text, videorecording, and unspecified.


2. A subnet mask increases the amount of address that is deemed to be "network" thereby reducing the amount of host for each address.

e.g. Class C address 194.64.48.86, mask 255.255.255.240

In binary:

Address 11000010.01000000.00110000.01010110

Mask 11111111.11111111.11111111.11110000

So the network is the 28 most significant bits.

To determine the subnet, the address is ANDed with the mask.

Address 11000010.01000000.00110000.01010110

Mask 11111111.11111111.11111111.11110000

=========================================

ANDed 11000010.01000000.00110000.01010000

Thus, to determine whether two addresses are in the same subnet, the address is ANDed with the mask, and the two results compared.

E.g. Is 194.64.48.86 in the same subnet as 194.64.48.162, when a mask of 255.255.255.240 is applied?

Address 11000010.01000000.00110000.01010110 194.64.48.86

Mask 11111111.11111111.11111111.11110000 255.255.255.240

=======================================================

ANDed 11000010.01000000.00110000.01010000 194.64.48.80

Address 11000010.01000000.00110000.10100010 194.64.48.162

Mask 11111111.11111111.11111111.11110000 255.255.255.240

========================================================

ANDed 11000010.01000000.00110000.10100000 194.64.48.160

Subnets are 194.64.48.80 and 194.64.48.160, so they are not in the same subnet.

Only the last octet need really be considered when testing this - 195.200.21.50 is clearly not the same network!

Also, if the subnet is applied in this way, simply determining the least significant bit of the mask (in our case, 100002 or 16) gives the number of addresses in each subnet, so the addresses will be 0-15, 16-31, 32-47, 48-63, etc. As "all zero" and "all one" addresses are not allowed, 194.64.48.0, 194.64.48.15, 194.64.48.16, 194.64.48.31, 194.64.48.32, etc. are not legitimate when masked to 255.255.255.240 (in binary, these make the last 4 bits all zeroes or all ones; these are the host addresses reserved for network or broadcast).


02 Mar 06 - 10:36 PM (#1683885)
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From: Cluin

Can you repeat that? I wasn't listening.


02 Mar 06 - 10:39 PM (#1683890)
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From: bobad

Very interesting Rap, is that MARC?


02 Mar 06 - 10:44 PM (#1683896)
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From: Rapparee

You want dull? I'll give you dull!

When data is received, the opposite happens. Each layer strips off its header and/or trailer before passing the data up to the layer above. As information flows back up the stack, information received from a lower layer is interpreted as both a header/trailer and data. The process of removing headers and trailers from data is called decapsulation. This mechanism enables each layer in the transmitting computer to communicate with its corresponding layer in the receiving computer. Each layer in the transmitting computer communicates with its peer layer in the receiving computer via a process called peer-to-peer communication.

Each layer has specific responsibilities and specific rules for carrying out those responsibilities, and it knows nothing about the procedures that the other layers follow. A layer carries out its tasks and delivers the message to the next layer in the protocol stack. An address mechanism is the common element that allows data to be routed through the various layers until it reaches its destination.

Each layer also has its own independent data structures. Conceptually, a layer is unaware of the data structures used by the layers above and below it. In reality, the data structures of a layer are designed to be compatible with the structures used by the surrounding layers for the sake of more efficient data transmission. Still, each layer has its own data structures and its own terminology to describe those structures.


Had enough? Gonna cry "Uncle"???


02 Mar 06 - 10:45 PM (#1683897)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

Yup. The good ol' Double-O Seven field.


02 Mar 06 - 10:53 PM (#1683903)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: bobad

I don't really know MARC from French firewater, I'm just pretending.

Actually my familiarity with the term comes from googling an old girlfriend who is a librarian and it turns out that she must be some kinda expert on MARC as she goes around giving seminars and such.


02 Mar 06 - 11:04 PM (#1683914)
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From: Peace

Brunswick Line       Take a peek at March Schedule
MARC Train service operates on Monday through Friday ONLY. Please check the schedule for Holiday & Inclement Weather service.

Servicing: Union Station-Washington, DC; Silver Spring, Kensington, Garrett Park, Rockville, Washington Grove, Gaithersburg, Metropolitan Grove, Germantown, Boyds, Barnesville, Dickerson, Point Of Rocks, Brunswick, MD; Harpers Ferry, Duffields & Martinsburg, W.V.

Additionally, a MARC Train extention services Monocacy & Frederick.


03 Mar 06 - 03:09 AM (#1684068)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Skivee

I came back today to visit like I said I would.
The nurse lets me in, cause I said I was your friend.
So I was cleaning out my desk drawer yesterday.
I found more rubber bands to put in the collection...you remember my rubber band collection. Most of them are brown, but some are different colors.
Do you think I should put them all together, or keep the red and blue ones away from the brown ones.
I saw a picture once on a TV show about a guy who made a big ball of rubber bands, but this seems like a waste of time to me.
Later they put it in a plane to see if it would bounce, but it blew up instead. There was big blobs of rubber everywhere.
I also found a felt tip pen, but it was dried up.
Do you know a way to make them work after they dry up?
I put the Celeon Deyon CD on, cause somebody said you like music.
If you don't, blink your eyes twice. If you can't blink twice, just blink to let me know that.
Do you think she's really French?
I really liked that song she sings.
And you like music so I brought it.
So. anyway, the felt tip pen was red, but the most I get is a pink spot, and I have to push the point on the paper for a long time.
Now the point is all mushy.
I was going to make some signs for my rubber band collection, but I guess I'll have to look for another felt tip pen. I hope it's no dry, too.
Do you think people keep dry felt tip pens on purpose, or they just forget them in the drawer.
Maybe there's a different color in there.
Are you crying from the dust?
I see that tear on your face.
I'll wipe it off with my sweater sleeve.
There's a lot of dust in air. Maybe that why you got that tear.
Did you know that half of dust is really mites who eat the dust, so you have bugs crawling on you all the time, when you thought it was just dust. I saw that in a TV message.
They live in your pillow. Sometimes at night, I think I hear them crawling around in my pillow.
Do you hear them.
Maybe you can listen for them tonight. I think they make little clicky noises...but really tiny.
I have to go now, 'cause my cousin gave me a big box of rubber bands to put in the collection. Maybe there will be colors mixed in.
I'll just turn the CD up so you can enjoy the music when I leave.
But I'll be back soon.


03 Mar 06 - 03:15 AM (#1684072)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Joe Offer

Is this another damn Shatner thread?


03 Mar 06 - 03:52 AM (#1684089)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

Please leave, Joe. That was far, far,far,far,far,far,far,far too interesting.

I add thanking you to my thanks list. See, told you I'd miss someone I needed to thank.

Thankfully.

Thank you.

Ivor































Thank you.


03 Mar 06 - 08:50 AM (#1684291)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Janie

"Uncle"


03 Mar 06 - 10:30 AM (#1684361)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Man from?


03 Mar 06 - 03:21 PM (#1684498)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: gnu

Carb?


03 Mar 06 - 03:26 PM (#1684501)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Garf?


03 Mar 06 - 04:24 PM (#1684515)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Any of you dull unimaginative people care for a dull unimaginative snack?


03 Mar 06 - 05:54 PM (#1684548)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

Well, since you people have obviously not found enough dullness:

All humane things are subject to decay,
And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must obey:
This Fleckno found, who, like Augustus, young
Was call'd to Empire, and had govern'd long:
In Prose and Verse, was own'd, without dispute
Through all the Realms of Non-sense, absolute.
This aged Prince now flourishing in Peace,
And blest with issue of a large increase,
Worn out with business, did at length debate
To settle the succession of the State:
And pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit
To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit;
Cry'd, 'tis resolv'd; for Nature pleads that He
Should onely rule, who most resembles me:
Sh—— alone my perfect image bears,
Mature in dullness from his tender years.
Sh—— alone, of all my Sons, is he
Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity.
The rest to some faint meaning make pretence,
But Sh—— never deviates into sense.
Some Beams of Wit on other souls may fall,
Strike through and make a lucid interval;
But Sh——'s genuine night admits no ray,
His rising Fogs prevail upon the Day:
Besides his goodly Fabrick fills the eye,
And seems design'd for thoughtless Majesty:
Thoughtless as Monarch Oakes, that shade the plain,
And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign.
Heywood and Shirley were but Types of thee,
Thou last great Prophet of Tautology:
Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,
Was sent before but to prepare thy way;
And coarsely clad in Norwich drugget came
To teach the nations in thy greater name.
My warbling Lute, the Lute I whilom strung
When to King John of Portugal I sung,
Was but the prelude to that glorious day,
When thou on silver Thames did'st cut thy way,
With well tim'd Oars before the Royal Barge,
Swell'd with the Pride of thy Celestial charge;
And big with Hymn, Commander of an Host,
The like was ne'er in Epsom blankets toss'd.
Methinks I see the new Arion Sail,
The Lute still trembling underneath thy nail.
At thy well sharpned thumb from Shore to Shore
The Treble squeaks for fear, the Bases roar:
Echoes from Pissing-Ally, Sh—— call,
And Sh—— they resound from A—— Hall.
About thy boat the little Fishes throng,
As at the Morning Toast, that Floats along.
Sometimes as Prince of thy Harmonious band
Thou wield'st thy Papers in thy threshing hand.
St. André's feet ne'er kept more equal time,
Not ev'n the feet of thy own Psyche's rhime:
Though they in number as in sense excell;
So just, so like tautology they fell,
That, pale with envy, Singleton forswore
The Lute and Sword which he in Triumph bore
And vow'd he ne'er would act Villerius more.
Here stopt the good old Syre; and wept for joy
In silent raptures of the hopefull boy.
All arguments, but most his Plays, perswade,
That for anointed dullness he was made.
Close to the Walls which fair Augusta bind,
(The fair Augusta much to fears inclin'd)
An ancient fabrick, rais'd t' inform the sight,
There stood of yore, and Barbican it hight:
A watch Tower once; but now, so Fate ordains,
Of all the Pile an empty name remains.
From its old Ruins Brothel-houses rise,
Scenes of lewd loves, and of polluted joys.
Where their vast Courts, the Mother-Strumpets keep,
And, undisturb'd by Watch, in silence sleep.
Near these a Nursery erects its head,
Where Queens are form'd, and future Hero's bred;
Where unfledg'd Actors learn to laugh and cry,
Where infant Punks their tender Voices try,
And little Maximins the Gods defy.
Great Fletcher never treads in Buskins here,
Nor greater Johnson dares in Socks appear;
But gentle Simkin just reception finds
Amidst this Monument of vanisht minds:
Pure Clinches, the suburbian Muse affords;
And Panton waging harmless war with words.
Here Fleckno, as a place to Fame well known,
Ambitiously design'd his Sh——'s Throne.
For ancient Decker propheci'd long since,
That in this Pile should reign a mighty Prince,
Born for a scourge of wit, and flail of sense:
To whom true dullness should some Psyches owe,
But worlds of Misers from his pen should flow;
Humorists and hypocrites it should produce,
Whole Raymond families, and Tribes of Bruce.
Now Empress Fame had publisht the renown,
Of Sh——'s coronation through the town.
Rous'd by report of fame, the nations meet,
From near Bun-Hill, and distant Watling-street.
No Persian Carpets spread th'imperial way,
But scatter'd limbs of mangled poets lay:
From dusty shops neglected authors come,
Martyrs of Pies, and Reliques of the Bum.
Much Heywood, Shirly, Ogleby there lay,
But loads of Sh—— almost choakt the way.
Bilk't Stationers for Yeomen stood prepar'd,
And H—— was Captain of the Guard.
The hoary Prince in Majesty appear'd,
High on a Throne of his own Labours rear'd.
At his right hand our young Ascanius sat
Rome's other hope, and pillar of the State.
His Brows thick fogs, instead of glories, grace,
And lambent dullness plaid arround his face.
As Hannibal did to the Altars come,
Sworn by his Syre a mortal Foe to Rome;
So Sh—— swore, nor should his Vow bee vain,
That he till Death true dullness would maintain;
And in his father's Right, and Realms defence,
Ne'er to have peace with Wit, nor truce with Sense.
The King himself the sacred Unction made,
As King by Office, and as Priest by Trade:
In his sinister hand, instead of Ball,
He plac'd a mighty Mug of potent Ale;
Love's Kingdom to his right he did convey,
At once his Sceptre and his rule of Sway;
Whose righteous Lore the Prince had practis'd young,
And from whose Loyns recorded Psyche sprung,
His Temples last with Poppies were o'er spread,
That nodding seem'd to consecrate his head:
Just at that point of time, if Fame not lye,
On his left hand twelve reverend Owls did fly.
So Romulus, 'tis sung, by Tyber's Brook,
Presage of Sway from twice six Vultures took.
Th' admiring throng loud acclamations make,
And Omens of his future Empire take.
The Syre then shook the honours of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness: long he stood,
Repelling from his Breast the raging God;
At length burst out in this prophetick mood:

Heavens bless my Son, from Ireland let him reign
To farr Barbadoes on the Western main;
Of his Dominion may no end be known,
And greater than his Father's be his Throne.
Beyond loves Kingdom let him stretch his Pen;
He paus'd, and all the people cry'd Amen.
Then thus, continu'd he, my Son advance
Still in new Impudence, new Ignorance.
Success let other teach, learn thou from me
Pangs without birth, and fruitless industry.
Let Virtuoso's in five years be Writ;
Yet not one thought accuse thy toyl of wit.
Let gentle George in triumph tread the Stage,
Make Dorimant betray, and Loveit rage;
Let Cully, Cockwood, Fopling, charm the Pit,
And in their folly show the Writers wit.
Yet still thy fools shall stand in thy defence,
And justifie their Author's want of sense.
Let 'em be all by thy own model made
Of dullness, and desire no foreign aid:
That they to future ages may be known,
Not Copies drawn, but issue of thy own.
Nay let thy men of wit too be the same,
All full of thee, and differing but in name;
But let no alien S—dl—y interpose
To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
And when false flowers of Rhetorick thou would'st cull,
Trust Nature, do not labour to be dull;
But write thy best, and top; and in each line,
Sir Formal's oratory will be thine.
Sir Formal, though unsought, attends thy quill,
And does thy Northern Dedications fill.
Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame,
By arrogating Johnson's Hostile name.
Let Father Fleckno fire thy mind with praise,
And Uncle Ogleby thy envy raise.
Thou art my blood, where Johnson has no part;
What share have we in Nature or in Art?
Where did his wit on learning fix a brand,
And rail at Arts he did not understand?
Where made he love in Prince Nicander's vein,
Or swept the dust in Psyche's humble strain?
Where sold he Bargains, Whip-stitch, kiss my Arse,
Promis'd a Play and dwindled to a Farce?
When did his Muse from Fletcher scenes purloin,
As thou whole Eth'ridg dost transfuse to thine?
But so transfus'd as Oyl on Waters flow,
His always floats above, thine sinks below.
This is thy Province, this thy wondrous way,
New Humours to invent for each new Play:
This is that boasted Byas of thy mind,
By which one way, to dullness, 'tis inclin'd,
Which makes thy writings lean on one side still,
And in all changes that way bends thy will.
Nor let thy mountain belly make pretence
Of likeness; thine's a tympany of sense.
A Tun of Man in thy Large bulk is writ,
But sure thou'rt but a Kilderkin of wit.
Like mine thy gentle numbers feebly creep,
Thy Tragick Muse gives smiles, thy Comick sleep.
With whate'er gall thou sett'st thy self to write,
Thy inoffensive Satyrs never bite.
In thy felonious heart, though Venom lies,
It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dyes.
Thy Genius calls thee not to purchase fame
In keen Iambicks, but mild Anagram:
Leave writing Plays, and choose for thy command
Some peaceful Province in Acrostick Land.
There thou maist wings display and Altars raise,
And torture one poor word Ten thousand ways.
Or if thou would'st thy diff'rent talents suit,
Set thy own Songs, and sing them to thy lute.
He said, but his last words were scarcely heard,
For Bruce and Longvil had a Trap prepar'd,
And down they sent the yet declaiming Bard.
Sinking he left his Drugget robe behind,
Born upwards by a subterranean wind.
The Mantle fell to the young Prophet's part,
With double portion of his Father's Art.


03 Mar 06 - 06:19 PM (#1684562)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


03 Mar 06 - 07:09 PM (#1684596)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

This thread is so liberating! I'm usually leary of skipping over lengthy. boring-looking posts in most threads because there might be some gems in them. Not so with this thread! You can skip over anything over three lines long and be absolutely certain you haven't missed a damned thing!


03 Mar 06 - 07:11 PM (#1684599)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Until now. Way to go. Ya fucked up a perfectly boring thread. Could you rewrite that post so as to tone it down a bit?


03 Mar 06 - 11:36 PM (#1684774)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

I was kidding.


04 Mar 06 - 05:28 PM (#1685239)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Cobble

YAWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN


04 Mar 06 - 05:33 PM (#1685242)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

It's turned out nice again.


04 Mar 06 - 06:15 PM (#1685271)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: GUEST,Rapaire

Ya want BORING? I'm in Nashville!!!


04 Mar 06 - 09:07 PM (#1685322)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

How's the skyline? Bob wants to know.


04 Mar 06 - 09:48 PM (#1685338)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

Skyline? Geez, it's DARK outside. It's nighttime. Things get very dark in Tennessee at night, unlike Idaho or Alberta or BC or Oregon or Washington or places like those.

Besides, I'm inside a hotel. The Gaylord Opryland, to be specific. There are so many palms and stuff that I'm afraid of snipers, and I think I saw Tarzan swinging from a vine.


04 Mar 06 - 10:16 PM (#1685346)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

"The Gaylord Opryland"

You sure pick hotels with great names.

I stayed years ago in the Tiki-Tiki Motel on the way to somewhere. They should have named it the Taki-Taki.


05 Mar 06 - 05:56 AM (#1685448)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: GUEST,Toenails John

Seeing as you mudcat's seem to be dredging up all kinds of stuff, Maybe you should take a look at the perfect site for ya

The Perfect Site?


05 Mar 06 - 07:23 AM (#1685480)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

The US Army of Engineers find Mud Cat 95%-99% efficient?

What does that tell you about the USAoE? Or statistics?


he asked dully.


05 Mar 06 - 08:10 AM (#1685518)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

Dredges are important. I was out on the Mississippi river once, in early October during the week, when we broke a shear pin in the outboard motor. We were able to paddle to a sandbar made by a dredge and got ashore. Finally we found the remains of some welding rod, with which we were able to create a temporary shear pin and get back.*

Dredges are important. Without dredges I might still be out on the Mississippi, living with my friends on a sandbar, surviving on beer and catfish, trying to get to shore. Instead, I live in Idaho.















*The next Spring the owner of the boat took it out fishing and hit an submerged log. My friend had forgot to mention to his father that we'd had to use welding rod for a shear pin, and welding rod is a LOT tougher than the soft bronze of the correct shear pin. In short, the clutch of the motor broke and his father had to paddle five MILES against the Spring current of the Mississippi River to get back. That's five MILES of paddling with a board, not a paddle or an oar. He wasn't in a very good mood after that....


05 Mar 06 - 03:36 PM (#1685818)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

That's not boring, Rapaire. Stop thread-drift or someone will get upset about it.


05 Mar 06 - 03:49 PM (#1685823)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak

I've also got a green pair.

LTS


05 Mar 06 - 04:04 PM (#1685841)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Damn, Liz! Get to a doctor! Only alien women on Star Trek are supposed to have a green pair.


05 Mar 06 - 04:07 PM (#1685843)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Speaking of which, did anyone see the movie "Total Recall"?


05 Mar 06 - 04:39 PM (#1685879)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Yes, I saw "Total Recall". But I don't recall a damned thing about it. Something about green tits?


05 Mar 06 - 04:40 PM (#1685881)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

The gal in the bar on Mars had THREE of them. They weren't green, but there was a trinity.


05 Mar 06 - 06:17 PM (#1685952)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak

Eccentrica Galumbits, the triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6 or somewhere.....

There was another triple breasted one in 'Star Wars', but she had three mouths as well.

LTS


05 Mar 06 - 08:29 PM (#1686055)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

Is that like tit for tat?


05 Mar 06 - 08:35 PM (#1686059)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: MaineDog

Its BRAZING rod you're supposed to use for that
MD


05 Mar 06 - 10:54 PM (#1686148)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

More like tit for tat for tit. But hey, ya know?


05 Mar 06 - 10:56 PM (#1686149)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: number 6

tit for tat for tit ... how did she get like that ?

sIx


05 Mar 06 - 10:58 PM (#1686151)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

I think she was keeping abreast of things . . . .


05 Mar 06 - 10:59 PM (#1686152)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: number 6

Oh ... that makes sense.


05 Mar 06 - 11:32 PM (#1686160)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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05 Mar 06 - 11:33 PM (#1686162)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

See? Pi are squared.


05 Mar 06 - 11:34 PM (#1686163)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

100. Ho-hum. Big deal. So what?


05 Mar 06 - 11:34 PM (#1686164)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Azizi

Boring. Boring. Bored.
and #100?


05 Mar 06 - 11:35 PM (#1686165)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Yeah, I got it. Thanks for noticing. LOLOL


05 Mar 06 - 11:41 PM (#1686167)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Azizi

Darn! Foiled again!!

This is not exciting at all. Not that I expected excitement on an thread with this title.

BTW-is "unimaginitive" spelled that way? I thought it was spelled
"u-n-i-m-a-g-i-n-A-t-i-v-e".

????

So this is what I've come to. A Dullsville spelling excercise.

Sad.


05 Mar 06 - 11:44 PM (#1686169)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

How imaginitive is it to spell the word the same old way?


06 Mar 06 - 07:37 PM (#1686834)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

Y'know - er -er - I -er -er -er was just thinj=king (bit like thinking only spelt better - er -where was I? -um - well - y'kmow, Iwas , in a manner of speaking, as it were , or was, (never was too sure abi#out that) - anyway -as I was saying, er- I was just thinking. Yup, that's about the size of it - I was just thinking - not um (cough)- not- hang on a minute.............it's OK he's gone now - bloody Godot, always passing through - ah, yes right, well, as I say I was , in the grammatically faultless manner of the grammatically faultless, whose grammar, let's be honest about this, just, well, can't be (Waiiiiiiiiiit for it - ta) faulted, thinking.Now thinking - er -er -er -er -er isn't , is it? Not really, anyway. so, that'll be time for bed sans teeth , sans cocoa, sans meaning, probably - is THAT the time, goodness me.

If that was too interetsing, or imaginative, or interetsing or imaginative at all, then I'm sorryI've failed. Please accept meapologies. I apologise from the bottom of my heart abd my ex's bottom,too.


Ivor


06 Mar 06 - 07:46 PM (#1686837)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

There. Tha's got it all back on traczzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


06 Mar 06 - 07:51 PM (#1686845)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

I used to apologize but found it to be too much trouble. Besides, how many ways can you say "I'm sorry" without sounding repetitious? Now if anyone wants me to apologize I just punch 'em out. Saves all that hanging around, waiting for them to throw the first punch. Premptive, ya know? Just the other day I got stopped by a cop and he told me to apologize and he'd only give me a warning for doing 124 mph in a schoolyard, so I just punched him out. Simple, really. Now I'm hiding up in the hills, running from the cops and the posse. That's the other thing. Nobody today seems to have a sense of humor. I remember a sense of humor, back in the days of "Francis The Talking Mule" and "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies. Now, those were funny. Not like the stuff you have today, stuff like "Geech and Chong" or "Firestone Theatre" or "Saturday Night Life" and things. Why can't they bring back Francis and maybe pair him up with Mr. Ed? Now, you gotta admit that that would be funny, a talking horse and a talking mule. And while there at it they could combine the Beverly Hillbillies with Ma and Pa Kettle, and maybe Hee-Haw with the Dukes of Hazzard and that show with Barney Fife. But nobody listens to my suggestions anyway, like that cop I was telling you about. I made a suggestion to him just before I punched him out, but he sort of took umbrage at the suggestions. Which is why I'm living up in the hills.


06 Mar 06 - 07:57 PM (#1686853)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: bobad

"I'm Sorry" was the entry under my "Favorite Saying" in my high school yearbook. You can't get much more unimaginative and boring than that.


06 Mar 06 - 10:15 PM (#1686922)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

♫"Whose Sari Now?"♫


06 Mar 06 - 10:19 PM (#1686923)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Janie

uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?


06 Mar 06 - 10:28 PM (#1686930)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Janie

I. I. I. I I I IIIIIII
My. My. My my my my my mymymymymymy
Me. Me. Me me me me me me memememememememememe
Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine mine mine minemineminemineminemine
Mymymemememine
My my, me me me, mine.

*SIGH*


06 Mar 06 - 10:31 PM (#1686931)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


07 Mar 06 - 06:14 AM (#1687085)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: gnu

I haven't been following this thread. Can anyone not tell me the gist of it? Thanks in advance.


07 Mar 06 - 07:12 AM (#1687120)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: John O'L

Me neither.

No.

No worries.


07 Mar 06 - 10:25 AM (#1687289)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

I keep hoping this thread will disappear. It is BORING.


07 Mar 06 - 10:29 AM (#1687293)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Sheesh . . .

I am tryin' to find a third way to cross my legs.


07 Mar 06 - 11:36 AM (#1687371)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak

Have you tried it wearing yellow trousers?

LTS


07 Mar 06 - 11:40 AM (#1687376)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

That's why I need to croos my legs. Gotta pee real bad.


07 Mar 06 - 11:52 AM (#1687386)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Alba

"I keep hoping this thread will disappear. It is BORING. "

No sooner had the words had left his Mouth when the Excitement and very Interesting Thread Faery appeared before Peace.

"Hello Peace" she said, "please allow me to make your hopes and dreams become a reality" and with the first wave of the EAVIT Faery's Wand, Peace no longer felt the desperate urge to pee and thus the yellow trousers fashion error was averted and with second wave of the EAVIT Faery's wand the Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.

simply va.......................................................

The End.....or is it!


07 Mar 06 - 11:57 AM (#1687392)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

. . . Part Deux.


07 Mar 06 - 11:57 AM (#1687394)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Alba

LOL


07 Mar 06 - 12:40 PM (#1687435)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

No, no! Yellow trousers are for NUMBER 1! Brown trousers are for Number 2! And you confuse them at your peril....


07 Mar 06 - 02:25 PM (#1687523)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

I thought it was a fart. At my age that happens.


07 Mar 06 - 06:25 PM (#1687757)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak

That's what the green trousers are for.

LTS


07 Mar 06 - 06:34 PM (#1687765)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

NOW YOU TELL ME!


08 Mar 06 - 11:43 AM (#1688320)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Ebbie

I don't need instruction in the art of boring. I'm a past master (mistress?) at it.

"The visibility of an outline can change where its projection intersects that of another outline. The intersection can be found as the simultaneous solution of the two projected outlines." Rap

Rapaire, I'd like to see a collage of figures, each with its own colour but overlapping other figures, each clearly defined and visible from a certain angle perhaps or maybe glowing sequentially.

Maybe one could do it manually, perhaps with transparent colours that wink in and out as one tilts the board?

As you can see, my life is exciting. But only to me.


08 Mar 06 - 11:51 AM (#1688327)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Many people here are making what I am sure are unconscious attempts to raise the level of discourse and thus the entertainment value of this thread. Talk about yer thread drift.


08 Mar 06 - 02:55 PM (#1688456)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Northerner

Tap tap tap tap...


08 Mar 06 - 03:57 PM (#1688505)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Faucet faucet faucet faucet


08 Mar 06 - 06:51 PM (#1688637)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

But quite apart from the specific problem of the world itself, can the Being of what we encounter proximally within-the-world be reached ontologically by this procedure? When we speak of material Thinghood , have we not tacitly posited a kind of Being - the constant presence-at-hand of Things - which is so far from having been rounded out ontologically by subsequently




            (By the way, this is going, particularly for the 'dull'
                bit.)


(to resume)   by subsequently endowing entities with value predicates, that these value-characters are rather just ontological characteristics of those entities which have the kind of Being possessed by Things?


       (Please note he's just asked you a question. To continue..)

                        Adding on value-predicates cannot tell us anything at all about the Being of goods, b u t w o u l d            m e r e l y   p r e s u p p o s e a g a i n t h a t g o o d s   h a v e p u r e p r e s e n c e - a t - h a n d a s t h e i r    k i n d o f B e i n g.





If you'd like more of that (Heidegger), just say the word.

Ivor


08 Mar 06 - 06:57 PM (#1688640)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

see your Heidegger and raise you two Husserls and a Sartré....(and my hole card is a Whitehead)


08 Mar 06 - 06:58 PM (#1688642)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

There's the humour again. Always gotta be one person to create thread drift. Now there's two.


08 Mar 06 - 08:15 PM (#1688686)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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


08 Mar 06 - 08:21 PM (#1688692)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Azizi

I know the feeling, Bee-dubya-ell.

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


08 Mar 06 - 09:26 PM (#1688733)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Ebbie

faucet, faucet, faucet...

LOL


08 Mar 06 - 09:43 PM (#1688751)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Spigot, spigot, spigot, spigot...


08 Mar 06 - 09:46 PM (#1688757)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Ebbie

tap, tap, tap...

Ha! Now I understand. I'se swift.


08 Mar 06 - 09:48 PM (#1688758)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Here, kitty kitty kitty


08 Mar 06 - 10:02 PM (#1688770)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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


08 Mar 06 - 10:09 PM (#1688772)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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

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


08 Mar 06 - 11:29 PM (#1688820)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Cluin

Spigot by name, Spigot by nature...


08 Mar 06 - 11:38 PM (#1688826)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: frogprince

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


09 Mar 06 - 03:54 AM (#1688920)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak

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

LTS


09 Mar 06 - 01:09 PM (#1689363)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

I once had a pair of trousers.


09 Mar 06 - 01:45 PM (#1689382)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

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


09 Mar 06 - 01:48 PM (#1689385)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

My breath is coming in short pants.


09 Mar 06 - 02:21 PM (#1689400)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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


































Aw shit!
I just can't do it!


09 Mar 06 - 02:26 PM (#1689407)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Well, that sure screws the thread. LOL


09 Mar 06 - 02:47 PM (#1689425)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

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

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



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


Ivor


09 Mar 06 - 02:48 PM (#1689428)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


09 Mar 06 - 03:19 PM (#1689444)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

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

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


09 Mar 06 - 03:34 PM (#1689456)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

be warned!

"Features of Batch Type Sealed Quench Furnace :-

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

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

High heating efficiency and reduced power consumption.

Suited for mass production.

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

Low Operating Cost.

Easy Maintenance.

Can be adapted for both Endogas and Nitrogen Methanol Atmospheres.

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


09 Mar 06 - 03:36 PM (#1689460)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


09 Mar 06 - 04:29 PM (#1689490)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

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

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


09 Mar 06 - 04:49 PM (#1689498)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


09 Mar 06 - 04:53 PM (#1689500)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

It's not working, Bill. No bumps.


09 Mar 06 - 05:51 PM (#1689545)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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


09 Mar 06 - 05:53 PM (#1689549)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


09 Mar 06 - 06:06 PM (#1689558)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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


09 Mar 06 - 06:09 PM (#1689561)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


09 Mar 06 - 09:13 PM (#1689671)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

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


10 Mar 06 - 06:05 AM (#1689876)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Liz the Squeak

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

My trousers weren't.

LTS


10 Mar 06 - 06:15 AM (#1689883)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: David C. Carter

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


10 Mar 06 - 08:36 AM (#1689940)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

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


10 Mar 06 - 10:20 AM (#1690024)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

This is becoming less than dull.


10 Mar 06 - 03:37 PM (#1690233)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: bobad

AMERICAN STOPS WASHING HAIR!
number three by Jason Headley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Next week: The Halfway Mark!


10 Mar 06 - 05:54 PM (#1690311)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

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

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

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

(This next bit for non-Brit. readers)

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


Ivor


10 Mar 06 - 06:26 PM (#1690324)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

From the FIE, 2006:

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


10 Mar 06 - 06:29 PM (#1690327)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


10 Mar 06 - 08:57 PM (#1690390)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

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

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

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

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


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


10 Mar 06 - 09:02 PM (#1690393)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


11 Mar 06 - 09:26 AM (#1690579)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Rapparee

From 1984 (RFC 0909):

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


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


11 Mar 06 - 11:22 AM (#1690631)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: gnu

173 posts? Much ado about nothing.


12 Mar 06 - 04:44 AM (#1691067)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

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



Ivor


12 Mar 06 - 04:01 PM (#1691441)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: DMcG

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

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

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


12 Mar 06 - 04:03 PM (#1691442)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


15 Mar 06 - 06:23 PM (#1694520)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: autolycus

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

Ivor


15 Mar 06 - 06:25 PM (#1694523)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

88


15 Mar 06 - 06:54 PM (#1694564)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Bill D

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8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
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15 Mar 06 - 10:05 PM (#1694741)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

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


15 Mar 06 - 10:11 PM (#1694746)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Peace

Oh yeah:

35


15 Mar 06 - 11:14 PM (#1694809)
Subject: RE: BS: Unimaginitive and VERY dull thread.
From: Janie

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