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BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .

13 Apr 06 - 06:37 PM (#1717596)
Subject: BS: .
From: Peace

Just after the BS: there is a period. The period looks like this: . I then decided to do a periodic table. Here it is:

.....
.   .
.   .

Have a nice day.


13 Apr 06 - 07:03 PM (#1717605)
Subject: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

The post I just had deleted was a thread entitled BS:.

I drew a table which someone has found to be offensive. I called it the periodic table and it looked like this:

.....
.   .
.   .

The thread was no more a waste of space than many here. So, there is the friggin' table again.

Have a nice day.
    Over the last weekend, a dozen nonsense threads were started, most (if not all) by anonymous Guests. The thread titles made no sense {e.g., colours, bugger, politics, love, gold, yellow} and most of the beginning messages were blank or were one word. Peace's "thread" had no title other than "BS:." and just a few words and some dots in the opening message. Was it another trollspam thread, or was it an unjust deletion of Peace being cute and adorable and incredibly clever? It looked just like all the others, at first glance. I suppose if the deleted thread was a valuable and generous cultural contribution to Mudcat, then its deletion may have been an unjust misinterpretation.
    Whatever the case, I've moved the deleted message to this thread, and you can all see it - just above this message.
    -Joe Offer-


13 Apr 06 - 07:13 PM (#1717612)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: GUEST,Poopsie Mac

Here's a four legged table:

..............
..            .
. .            .
. .            .
.   .            .
.    .            .
.    ..............
.    .      .    .
.    .      .    .
.    .      .    .
.    .      .    .
.    .      .    .


13 Apr 06 - 07:14 PM (#1717613)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: GUEST

Looked better in the message window, before I hit submit


13 Apr 06 - 07:25 PM (#1717623)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Well, I guess it depends on the meaning of the word "tables".

Check this out:

"Tables represent relationships between data. Authors specify these relationships in the document language and specify their presentation in CSS, in two ways: visually and aurally.

Authors may specify the visual formatting of a table as a rectangular grid of cells. Rows and columns of cells may be organized into row groups and column groups. Rows, columns, row groups, row columns, and cells may have borders drawn around them (there are two border models in CSS2). Authors may align data vertically or horizontally within a cell and align data in all cells of a row or column.

Authors may also specify the aural rendering of a table; how headers and data will be spoken. In the document language, authors may label cells and groups of cells so that when rendered aurally, cell headers are spoken before cell data. In effect, this "serializes" the table: users browsing the table aurally hear a sequence of headers followed by data."

-snip-

Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#q1


What??

I don't have a clue what I just read. All I know is that it's some technilogical gooblygook that is waaay beyond me.

The first word I think of when someone says table is "chairs".


13 Apr 06 - 07:31 PM (#1717626)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: melodeonboy

I'm under the table!


13 Apr 06 - 07:31 PM (#1717627)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Emma B

Hey - if we attribute "The Periodic Table" to the wonderful Tom Lehrer, can we get it above the line?


13 Apr 06 - 07:42 PM (#1717633)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: number 6

This thread is table ... so are all the others ... well, except the ones that have been deleted.

sIx


13 Apr 06 - 07:55 PM (#1717643)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bert

Periodic table, Good one.


13 Apr 06 - 08:02 PM (#1717648)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: GUEST

Why was this deleted the first time?


13 Apr 06 - 08:08 PM (#1717659)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Don't even go there Guest. We don't want this discussion tabled.


13 Apr 06 - 08:11 PM (#1717660)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Emma B

Here's one for all the sons out there -

Incipe, parve puer: qui non risere parenti, Nec deus hunc mensa, dea nec dignata cabili est.

Begin then, little boy, no one who has not given his mother a smile has ever been thought worthy of his table by a god, or by a goddess of her bed.

Virgil


13 Apr 06 - 08:21 PM (#1717667)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

It just occurred to me that my "don't even go there" comment sounded kinda bossy, or even-perish the thought!-like censorship.

Sorry, Guest 13 Apr 06 - 08:02 PM. You asked a legitimate question. But I was too interested in adding that play on word example.

My bad.

I'll get up from the table now and go stand in the corner.


13 Apr 06 - 08:34 PM (#1717678)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: GUEST

No No Azizi. It was an excellent play and I thought nothing of it. (Even if it did sound as though you were the "CHAIRperson" over this thread!.

Now, on with it...we are set.


13 Apr 06 - 08:39 PM (#1717682)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

I'll give you ten brownie points for that one.

I better put them on the table to cool out.






[Okay, I know it's weak. But it's the best I could do standing over there in the corner]

;o)


13 Apr 06 - 08:40 PM (#1717683)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

\
\\
\\\\
\\\\\\
\\\\\\\\
\\\\\\\\\\
\\\\\\\\\\\\
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
standing |
//////////////
////////////
//////////
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//
/

"Standing in a corner"

Okay, so it's not exactly a 90° corner. It's obtuse, just like this thread. You try doing it better withouth spending half the night on it.


13 Apr 06 - 08:48 PM (#1717687)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: GUEST

--------------
          /      
          /
         /

(uns) table.


13 Apr 06 - 08:52 PM (#1717690)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Talkin about tables...

at least it's not the end.

****

BTW,I can't see myself in the drawing Bee-dubya-ell made, but I'm there alright. I'm doing this typing by psychokinesis-I think that's what it's called. But I need a chair- or maybe I what I need is
a cheer!

Give me a T
[T]
Give me a A
[A]
Give me a BLE
[BLE]
T-A-BLE
What does that spell?

[answer]
TABLE! TABLE! TABLE!!!
Yeah!!!!!

{See this is what happens when you make grown people stand in the corner. Can I sit down now? Pretty please with sugar on top?}


13 Apr 06 - 08:54 PM (#1717692)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: GUEST

[
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[
[
[
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---------
[   ]
[   ]
[   ]
[   ]
[   ]
[   ]

a chair.


13 Apr 06 - 08:55 PM (#1717693)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: GUEST

Table was I ere I saw elbat.


13 Apr 06 - 08:57 PM (#1717695)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: freda underhill

aaaggghhh! I have spent the better part of this week working on a VERY IMPOSSIBLE table (the graph type) at work, and trying to make it mean something.

meantime, I have a very good table in my room which I'm trying to sell on ebay!

tables are big in my life right now!


13 Apr 06 - 08:57 PM (#1717696)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Rapparee

Table = Mesa.

The Third Mesa is where the Hopi live. Mesa Verde is a great place to visit.


13 Apr 06 - 09:12 PM (#1717712)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

It's not you in the corner Azizi. It's standing in the corner.

But this


| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | out | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

is out standing in his field. Just don't ask what he's growing in his field. Looks like sticks to me.


13 Apr 06 - 09:24 PM (#1717730)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Well, since y'll can't see me, you don't know if I ever left the computer on the table to stand in the corner or not.

So you just will have to trust that I took my punishment like a
ma-I mean a woman and now I'm back in the chair in front of the computer screen and I promise that from now on I'll be good.


13 Apr 06 - 09:27 PM (#1717732)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

And if out is growing something that he {or she} shouldn't be growing in that field, he or she gonna get in trouble sooner or later.

It better be something good that can be brought to the table and eaten and not smoked.


13 Apr 06 - 09:47 PM (#1717746)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

The Idiotic Table of the Elements


13 Apr 06 - 09:48 PM (#1717747)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: freda underhill

Idiocrates .. I like it!


13 Apr 06 - 11:22 PM (#1717811)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

out standing =outstanding

Why that's wonder full!

Don't ask me why I just "got" it.

But better late than never.


13 Apr 06 - 11:23 PM (#1717812)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

O and "field" can be taken too ways to.

G that's great!!!


13 Apr 06 - 11:25 PM (#1717814)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Sorry, I should have said B-W-L that's great!


14 Apr 06 - 06:58 PM (#1718394)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bert

So as guest says above - Why was this deleted the first time?

The thread seems very inoffensive to me. Come on FESS UP!!!


14 Apr 06 - 09:44 PM (#1718475)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

"Inoffensive" ain't enough for some folks, Bert, particularly if the thread is started by one of a small number of members who happen to be on a certain moderator's personal shitlist. That this sort of thing occurs has been mentioned before in numerous contexts and the typical management response usually includes the words "paranoia" or "conspiracy theory".


14 Apr 06 - 10:24 PM (#1718487)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Barry Finn

First thing I think of when some one says "cheers" is tables

Barry


14 Apr 06 - 11:03 PM (#1718499)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Alba

Bee-dubya-ell it isn't like you to cast a comment out there and not expand on the meaning behind your post.
Who do you 'think is on a shitlist?
(Cards on the Table kind of question...staying within the context of the Thread:)
Seriously...there is an undercurrent on the Mudcat tonight that is not very pleasant. Better out than in...so I thought I would ask.
Best Wishes
Jude


14 Apr 06 - 11:06 PM (#1718501)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

"It's A Serious Matter" is the signature chant [or cheer] for
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., the first African American Greek letter university sorority.

I'm a member of that sorority. I also am a member of this Mudcat community. And all jokes aside, I firmly believe that Bert's 14 Apr 06 - 06:58 PM question "Why was this [thread]deleted the first time?" should be taken seriously. I also very much believe that what Bee-dubya-ell said in his 14 Apr 06 - 09:44 PM post is a serious matter.

I have never been a "my country right or wrong" type of person.
I'm also not a "my online discussion forum right or wrong" type of perrson.

If -as it appears to be the case- any Mudcat moderator has a personal "shit list" and regularly or sometimes deletes the posts or threads of members or guests on that list just because he or she has a beef with those persons on that list, than that is not only serious-it is wrong.


14 Apr 06 - 11:08 PM (#1718502)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Alba,

For the record, I submitted my 14 Apr 06 - 11:06 PM comment before reading yours.


15 Apr 06 - 01:08 AM (#1718526)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Correction of my 14 Apr 06 - 11:06 PM post:

I meant to write that

"I have never been a "my country can do no wrong" type of person.
I'm also not a "my online discussion forum can do no wrong" type of person."


15 Apr 06 - 07:31 AM (#1718625)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Alba

Just wanted to clear a wee thing up about my question to Bee-dubya-ell:)

I don't think that any Folks behind the buttons have a ' personal shitlist on the go. That does seem paranoid...(sorry BDL I borrowed your description.)

I do believe that this place would go down the toilet in a heartbeat if those behind the scenes actually outed the real truth about a few here. I can only imagine what is removed before we see it...gives me goosbumps that one...yuk! "Fess up"....Fess up to what! Why should anyone that helps run the Mudcat be ordered to explain anything!

Of course if certain members were outed for the shit they pull on people around this place most 'members' would ignore the shit pulled and complain that the poor wee victims were outed! It's a lose, lose situation. Twisted even.

There are Members however that definetly have a shitlist and actively exchange who is a top of 'said' list in PMs to their buds on whoever is the target for today or who is to be ignored or who is whatever.or what they know that no-one else knows.. That is a FACT . It is so obvious just who are the members of the wee inner circles, it's like spotting a Rhino in daisy patch!


It was said on another Thread, this is just a section in a Music forum. This section used to be a less serious section to come to and enjoy the 'Patter and have a wee blether' (Scottish terms for chat) on non Music related topics.
Now it's like coming into a bad Social History/Political Class or even worse it is a tippy toe enviroment were one is forced to rethink every bloody word they type.
Nonesense. How and when did that shit come about. Fess up to that and you will have my attention.

Actually the Music section is much, much more fun lately and has, as it always has been, a place to learn about the good stuff.

So...anyways. BDL please forget I asked my question, really. It is none of my business and I should have Pmd you anyway instead of putting you on the spot. I apologize for that and for causing the drifting from topic on this Thread.

I find it impossible to take myself and a BS section on a Forum so seriously. There as so many things in my LIFE that are serious, from the area of work I do, to personal things in General, that I cannot begin to think of a Website getting that kind of energy input from me. Damn, no way.

No I don't think ANYONE who moderates has a shitlist here. That's just my opinion however. I do sincerly hope that those that moniter this place have a list of shit stirrers and weirdos! I bet there are some members, however, who really would love to believe that moderators here spend their daily time just hatching wee nasty personal vendettas..lol...(actually that is not funny that people would want that so bad when I really think about it...in fact that is just plain sad ( in the true sense of the word )

If I have made any grammatical errors in my post...too bad..bite me.
Dyslexia rules at this time of my day.
Woke up thinking about this and really don't want it in my head for any longer than it has taken to write this post. Off to do something else..like make Coffee. Maybe Skarpi has the right idea.

Have a grand Saturday Folks.

Hope that a lighter Fare returns to the BS TABLE at some point down the road or not. Whatever. In fact I couldn't give a rat's arse if Max decides to dump this section altogether.

Here's the rub... you know that Thread that got deleted... well I am just about to post to it! FFS

J


15 Apr 06 - 07:43 AM (#1718628)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: DMcG

I go along with Samuel Johnson here: "You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables."


15 Apr 06 - 10:50 AM (#1718727)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: open mike

i sawed that leg off three times and it's still too short

      _______________________________
          |    |          |    |
          |    |          |    |
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and about the best song --
see the sitting at the table thread..
Trumpet Vine by Kate Wolf
which proves that the best tables
are kitchen tables
especially when you sit and make music around them
kitchen tables thread


15 Apr 06 - 11:00 AM (#1718737)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

I bought a table saw a few years ago. Hah! Shows you how unimaginative some people are. I've used it to saw lots of other things besides just tables.


15 Apr 06 - 11:18 AM (#1718748)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bunnahabhain

I have an occasional table, it's hardly ever there. I though I saw it yesterday, but I can't remember where.....

Les Dawson

( I neither remember it properly, nor have the determination to find a link to the whole thing)


15 Apr 06 - 04:14 PM (#1719027)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

Well, soon as there's an end table the thread gets the heave ho.


15 Apr 06 - 04:18 PM (#1719030)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Some hos are too heafty to heave.

[oh, I didn't go there did I?]

Yep.


15 Apr 06 - 04:28 PM (#1719037)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

LOL

You bad.


15 Apr 06 - 04:53 PM (#1719051)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

I assume that "bad" here means "good".

If so, I'd say some of the time, yes and other times no.

Btw, how you gonna start a thread and then get up from the table
and leave the thread to go it's merry or un-merry way?

What's up with that??

Anyway, I'm glad your back.


15 Apr 06 - 04:55 PM (#1719055)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

As soon as I hit submit I realized that I had made a grammatical error. So here's my correction:

I'm glad you're back.


15 Apr 06 - 05:12 PM (#1719067)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

YOU made a grammatical error? Sheesh: I left a letter out of the title. "RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . ." should read "It's really about stables."

Too late now . . . .


15 Apr 06 - 05:15 PM (#1719069)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bill D

as thread starter of record, you could always request a title change in 'help'...*grin* might work....


15 Apr 06 - 05:16 PM (#1719072)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

LOLOLOL


15 Apr 06 - 05:33 PM (#1719092)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

What??!!!

Stables???! Stables???!!!

You mean we talked all about tables for nothin?

All along you wanted to talk about "stables".

Aren't stables barns with hay and pitchforks and stalls where horses live?

I'm a city girl. We don't have no stables around here. I can't say nothin 'bout no stables.

Aint that a cryin shame. Here I was gettin all geeked up to talk about poker tables and ping pong tables and tables made out of milk crates and tables made out of wood but with glass on top and of course I could have talked about kitchen tables but that they have their own Mudcat discussion thread so I don't need to go there, But I could have talked about all the stuff people put on tables like in the middle you know as decoration and then I planned to talk about the junk drawers in end tables and then there's those long work tables and all kinds of other tables that I'm sure not just me but other people were fixin to bring up. But no Bruce you had to come and change the subject on us.

I hope you know what trauma this change of subject will cause all the table lovers of the world.


15 Apr 06 - 05:36 PM (#1719098)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

I know, I know . . . .


15 Apr 06 - 05:40 PM (#1719108)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

And not to mention that I even composed a cheer about tables.

I guess I could change it to stables but I'm just not feelin it, you know what I mean?

I guess I'm gonna go off somewhere and cry.

See you later.


15 Apr 06 - 05:50 PM (#1719131)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

Stables reminds me of my favourite tobacco: Old Bridge. It's a mixture of horseshit and splinters.


15 Apr 06 - 06:35 PM (#1719168)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bert

What's a periodic stable?


15 Apr 06 - 06:46 PM (#1719175)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

Well, Bert it's a stable that sometimes doubles as a manger.


15 Apr 06 - 06:58 PM (#1719182)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

The following is a fable about a guy named Abel and his mother, Mabel.

Abel and Mabel had a table made from an old spool that used to hold cable.

Abel and Mabel kept their cable table in their stable.

Abel and Mabel's stable was very nice, with a lovely stained-glass window in the northern gable.

Having no horses, Abel and Mabel used their stable for raising ermine, mink and sable.

That's the end of the fable since finding more words that rhyme I am unable.


15 Apr 06 - 07:41 PM (#1719207)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bunnahabhain

It could be a stable anything. it could be a billion year old Craton, a well practiced tight rope walker, or maybe structures at the Lagragian points....


16 Apr 06 - 11:07 AM (#1719474)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

You did a heck of a job, Bee-dubya-ell.

Really. Your Abel and Mable fable is GREAT!!!

But are you able to say what is the label that Abel and Mable use for the ermine, mink and sable that they raise in their stable that has a lovely stained-glass window in the northern gable and that also has a table made from an old spool that used to hold cable?

Inquiring minds wanna no.

:o}}


16 Apr 06 - 02:03 PM (#1719576)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

Get the two bucks off the table;
I think it just confuses Mabel.


16 Apr 06 - 02:26 PM (#1719593)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

You're right Azizzi. I forgot to mention that Mabel would sew a silk label into the coats Abel made from the furs of the ermine, mink, and sable, which he skinned upon the table made from a spool that once held cable, right there in the stable under the multi-colored light from that northern gable. It was all a pretty gruesome process.


16 Apr 06 - 02:35 PM (#1719599)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

The Paris mobs, the unwashed rable
Makes it all a Tower of Babel.


16 Apr 06 - 02:47 PM (#1719611)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Oh.

I heard that Abel sewed that labels on the coats made from the fur of the ermine, mink, and sable that Mabel skinned upon the table made from a spool that once held cable that was placed in the stable under the multi-colored light from that northern gable.

And yes,
I can imagine that it was a pretty gruesome process but the coats sell well to the Paris mobs, and the unwashed rable in this world that's become a veritable Tower of Babel.


16 Apr 06 - 04:52 PM (#1719667)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: frogprince

But you usually don't find a retable in a stable where Mable sews labels in the coats made from sables that Able skins on the cable-spool table, enabled by the light from the northern gable.


16 Apr 06 - 05:03 PM (#1719672)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

You're right frogprince. You usually won't find a retable in a stable where Mable sews labels in the coats made from sables that Able skins on the cable-spool table, enabled by the light from the northern gable. But let us not forget, this is a fable. And within the context of a fable one is able to find a retable in a stable where Mable sews labels in the coats made from sables that Able skins on the cable-spool table, enabled by the light from the northern gable.


16 Apr 06 - 06:57 PM (#1719725)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Hey you guys, what's a retable?


16 Apr 06 - 07:06 PM (#1719731)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

It's what happens when a subject has been held for another meeting, whereat the subject is retabled.


16 Apr 06 - 07:23 PM (#1719741)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

"whereat"??

Okay. I can run with that.

****

Where's the next meeting at?

[in the stable]
with the horses, and the ermine, the mink, and the sable]

Who's the chair?

[It was Abel,but now it's Mabel
She's ready and she's able.
and that's no fable.]

****
or maybe it is.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.


16 Apr 06 - 07:25 PM (#1719744)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: dick greenhaus

I'll take the legs from some old table..."


16 Apr 06 - 07:28 PM (#1719747)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Peace

. . . and what about Betty Grable?


16 Apr 06 - 07:56 PM (#1719763)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: melodeonboy

She's hiding under the gable..


16 Apr 06 - 08:31 PM (#1719785)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: freda underhill

There once was a women called Maybell,
who had a most wonderful table.
She delighted to dabble
With the hoons and the rabble
And started her own culinary cabel.

She invited the masses to dinner,
And served Maybell's syrup – a winner
The ragged and torn
Ate pancakes til dawn
While Maybell got thinner and thinner,

Now remember as you read this small fable
That whatever you have at your table
It ain't worth a hoot
If you don't share your fruit
With the cabel at Maybell's old table.


16 Apr 06 - 08:39 PM (#1719790)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: frogprince

Well, okay, I guess that in a fable you can have a retable in a stable. Usually a retable is a screen behind the altar in a church; I never heard of it before either, but it was the only word left in my rhymning dictionary that you hadn't already used up.


16 Apr 06 - 08:58 PM (#1719801)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Freda, that's a GREAT poem!!

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frogprince, you used a rhyming dictionary?!! Is that playing fair?
;o)

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The ayes have it that Betty Grable had a great pair of eyes-or was it a great pair of legs?


16 Apr 06 - 09:08 PM (#1719808)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

I just checked. It's Betty Davis who had the eyes.

Bette Davis Eyes

Her hair is Harlow gold, her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold, she's got Better Davis eyes

She'll turn the music on you, you won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow, she got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you, she'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious, and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll let you take her home, it works her appetite
She'll lay you on the throne, she got Bette Davis eyes

She'll take a tumble on you, roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue, she's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll expose you, when she snows you
Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you, she'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious, and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy, she's got Bette Davis eyes...

Source: http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/kimcarnes.htm

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Of course, this doesn't have anything to do with "stable" or "table" or grable or Mabel or any other able bodied rhyming word...But it is a song and it's sung by folks and this is a folk music website {okay a blues/folk music website though there's not much blues to be found most times} and this is a thread drift thread and this certainly counts as thread drift so at least I got the Betty/eyes association right.

Okay okay I goofed.

I'm may be down but I'm not out.

I shall return.


16 Apr 06 - 09:12 PM (#1719811)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: freda underhill

thanks Azizi - i think it was her legs they were on about.

my daughter is still keeping her eye on an ad for my table + 6 chairs in ebay - its a big family table and I need to sell it (tribe has moved on)- not only do I need the space for a smaller table, but I need the money. This table is a BIG thing for me right now. my daughter (the one in Austria) has bought me a return ticket to visit her in 2 weeks. I'll be in souther Austria for a month, + am hoping to sell the table so I can get to London for a couple of days to see Hilda Hish's show, and see some catters. I will buy a bottle of Maybell's syrup to celebrate if it sells!

fingers crossed

freda


16 Apr 06 - 09:19 PM (#1719817)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: freda underhill

oops.. Hilda Fish ( and a few other typos)

As soon as I'm able
I'll sell that old table
and fly to Vienna
(with Mabel)


16 Apr 06 - 09:44 PM (#1719831)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Bee-dubya-ell

I suppose we should be grateful this thread wasn't entitled "Well, it's really about chairs . . . .", what with there being about a zillion times more words that rhyme with "chair" than "table". It would take us months to share a fair number of them and would invariably cause some of us to tear their hair in despair.


16 Apr 06 - 09:54 PM (#1719847)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: freda underhill

the thread would go pear-shaped - or dissolve into cyber-air..


16 Apr 06 - 10:27 PM (#1719874)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

but would anyone care?


16 Apr 06 - 10:30 PM (#1719876)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Azizi

Who would shed a tear if Mudcat wasn't there.
I would -I declare. I'd be grouchy as a bear.

[Umm-are bears grouchy? I don't remember Yogi and Boo Boo bear being grouchy].


17 Apr 06 - 10:07 PM (#1720720)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Ebbie

The antelope family too has a sable
It will bound away or it will stand and fight
Depending on its mood but trust me, the label
Of 'fierce' fits it any time of day or night.

Its horns are tall and they are ringed and ridged
Its maned coat is glossy and black and handsome
Bucks pursue the does- if they be not frigid.
Packaged energy, Bucks gallop fast and prance some.

Sheeesh.


18 Apr 06 - 09:19 AM (#1721043)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Dave the Gnome

Les DAWSON? Les Barker, surely:-)

I've lost my camoflague net...

What has four legs and sounds like Napoleon Bonaparte?

A mad table.

:D (tG)


18 Apr 06 - 02:33 PM (#1721322)
Subject: RE: BS: Well, it's really about tables . . . .
From: Kaleea

Poopsie's table doesn't look like a table to me--it looks like an easel.
I sometimes wish I could make interesting drawings with a 'puter keyboard--but it never looks like I intend it to.
Course, I have the same trouble with using pencils, pens, crayons, & such. I have to admit, crayons would be my medium of choice were I to attempt to be an Art artiste. The big 64 pack!

   
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