Hi, Guys, think I've found the perfect thread...
Hi, Guys, think I've found the perfect thread for Bobby, "Obscure News of The Day". His job as 'desk jockey assistant editor' will be to report interesting (and let's hope, not too pedantic) news and you can decide or y'all can both report and decide, if u wanna give Fox News a run for its money. If you think it's a good thread idea (I mean the 'perfect' non-opinionated/strictly objective thread idea) for him, I'll get him out of bed and off his sorry duff and crackin sometime in the morning. He's sleeping now, so tread lightly. No need to wake him before it's time to brew strong black Colombian Coffee and bring him his trusty 5in x 8in blue Walmart Scratchpad. My personal thanks to each of you for your help and many kindnesses to both of us over the years.
Love & Hugs, Songbird, Vice President and Editor in Charge of the 2013 Award Winning "Obsure News of The Day". Our Mission Statement Motto: "All the News that's Obscure but Interesting
(in compliance with all governing policies) and Fit to Print." Please note that I'm a well schooled and vigilant gal, who has no qualms whatever about deep sixing copy if and/or whenever it ain't.
😵 xo/xxxooo/xxxxxooooo [WORD TOO LONG]
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThanks for breakfast, Doll. So you were busy last night... and what a pleasant surprise. Well, several personal messages approve of your idea. Only caution was 'to go slowly, so as not to overwhelm'. Here's my report for Day One, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. I'll have an evening meal with candles ready. See you then. ~Dxxxx (Do you still remember the nick you gave me that summer night when we serendipitously met?)
Hi, Guys, think I've found the perfect thread...
Hi, Guys, think I've found the perfect thread for Bobby, "Obscure News of The Day". His job as 'desk jockey assistant editor' will be to report interesting (and let's hope, not too pedantic) news and you can decide or y'all can both report and decide, if u wanna give Fox News ...[text shortened]... ------------------------------------------------------------------->😏
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* Late Breaking: "Archosaur skull changes (juveniles on the left, adults on the right). While there was a significant amount of change between the juvenile and adult skulls of alligators (top) and the non-avian dinosaur Coelophysis (middle), there was little change between the juvenile and adult skulls of early birds such as Archaeopteryx (bottom) and their closest dinosaur relatives. From the Smithsonian Dinosaur Tracking Report.
* From Long Ago: Expatriated Poet Ezra Pound's still timely and relevant poem about resolving conversational thread frictions between space cadet posters on cyberspace public forums...
A Pact
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman—
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root—
Let there be commerce between us.
Ezra Pound
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That's all for today, folks!
gb
The post that was quoted here has been removedTerence, this is stupid stuff
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head:
We poor lads, 'tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad."
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be
There's brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh, many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world's not.
And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The mischief is that 'twill not last.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie god knows where,
And carried half-way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a sterling lad;
And down in lovely muck I've lain,
Happy till I woke again.
Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now remained to do
But begin the game anew.
Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
'Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
Is not so brisk a brew as ale:
Out of a stem that scored the hand
I wrung it in a weary land.
But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the embittered hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all that springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt
- I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.
- A E Housman
Here's the report of latebreaking/obscure news for Day Two, Wednesday, May 30, 2012:
"All the News that's Obscure but Interesting (in compliance with all governing policies) and Fit to Print."
* Sad News: Kings and Pawns' illness has taken a turn for the worse. Doctors have advised his family that he may not live beyond early July, 2012. Earlier this evening, His son David informed me of this prince among men's imminent departure from this life. I am heartbroken but know I shall see him again at the invitation only chess club upstairs upstairs holding court and tutoring the likes of me at table one.
* All other interesting items on my notepad have been eclipsed by this Kings and Pawns advisory and, therefore, summarily scratched at least for now.
Your Faithful Cub Reporter, As Always,
-Grampy Bobby
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