My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » δy/δx (Page 11) Email this page to a friend or enemy.   Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  ...  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  ...  35  36  37    Source: (consider it) Thread: δy/δx Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        One thing I like about the Ship is that I get to hang with people who know big words. ETA: and they get to hang with people who post like this. [ 05. November 2012, 19:13: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ] -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                          Hang Gliding is undoubtedly on the list of 101 things to do before you die. But knowing me, I'd probably die in the process. -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Spike Mostly Harmless # 36 Posted                        Knowing me, knowing you, AHAAAH! -------------------- "May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing Posts: 12860 | From: The Valley of Crocuses | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged jedijudy Organist of the Jedi Temple # 333 Posted                        One of our choral warm-ups uses the diaphragm muscles to expel air forcefully on 'Hah Hah Hah'. -------------------- Jasmine, little cat with a big heart. Posts: 18017 | From: 'Twixt the 'Glades and the Gulf | Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        I had muscles, discernible ones, back in the 1980s when I was a bit of a gym rat - I never got as far as being a Muscle Mary. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        Muscle Mary sounds to me as if it ought to be either (a) a very potent vodka-based drink; or (b) a very potent lavatory cleaner. -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        Many Hindus here have told me about visiting Sabarimala, a shrine in the mountains near here, they say Lord Ayyappa is a very potent deity. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Latchkey Kid Shipmate # 12444 Posted                           When Deuteronomy states coyly in Ch 34 that Moses' vigour was unimpaired when he died at 120 it means that his lingam was still potent. -------------------- 'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.' Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner Posts: 2592 | From: The wizardest little town in Oz | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        A man among men would generally like to die with his boots on. Having it known by posterity would be a plus. -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Spike Mostly Harmless # 36 Posted                        I bought cheap radio in Boots once. I listen to The Archers on it. -------------------- "May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing Posts: 12860 | From: The Valley of Crocuses | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Kelly Alves Bunny with an axe # 2522 Posted                        I'm a Sagittarius. Sign of the Archer. -------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003. Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        I'm a crab. Mind my pincers. -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        Although good tools are readily available over here I am yet to find a pair of pincers. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged jedijudy Organist of the Jedi Temple # 333 Posted                        There were a lot of clouds overhead this morning. Some sprinkles fell on the car as I went to w*rk. -------------------- Jasmine, little cat with a big heart. Posts: 18017 | From: 'Twixt the 'Glades and the Gulf | Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged Mamacita Lakefront liberal # 3659 Posted                        The church where I w*rk serves as a polling place so there's lots of traffic in and out of the building today. -------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Posts: 20761 | From: where the purple line ends | Registered: Dec 2002  |  IP: Logged Loquacious beachcomber Shipmate # 8783 Posted                       Building today based entirely on the experiences of yesterday is of no kindness to tomorrow. -------------------- TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop) Posts: 5954 | From: Southeast of Wawa, between the beach and the hiking trail.. | Registered: Nov 2004  |  IP: Logged Latchkey Kid Shipmate # 12444 Posted                           Is every aphorism matched by a counter-aphorism? -------------------- 'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.' Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner Posts: 2592 | From: The wizardest little town in Oz | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        I'm always amazed by a true countertenor who has a baritone speaking voice. It just seems wrong. When he sings, I keep looking around for the diva with the mike. -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                          My hairdresser is married to a man named Mike. It's one of those names you can't help thinking about the alternative meaning - like John, Willy and Nicholas. -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged jedijudy Organist of the Jedi Temple # 333 Posted                        I am so glad I took advantage of the alternative to voting today. Daughter-Unit and her hubby have been in line for over five hours today. I voted last Tuesday and left the building thirty-five minutes after walking in. -------------------- Jasmine, little cat with a big heart. Posts: 18017 | From: 'Twixt the 'Glades and the Gulf | Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        I haven't been entitled to vote since we left Northern Ireland; and voting there was a waste of time because (a) the parties were too small to make any difference to the national government and (b) most of the politicians were either terrorists or nutters. -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        Politicians as nutters seems to be theme in recent decades - when is Medication Time in the House of Commons? -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        I think Donald Trump has finally passed the last frontier of sanity. His tweets on the subject of Obama's win are rather scarily hysterical. Did he scream about the injustice of the Electoral College when Bush won? -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        I haven't been properly hysterical for years, perhaps I should give a go again, just for fun. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Latchkey Kid Shipmate # 12444 Posted                           On the wireless Wilfred Pickles got the people singing "Have a go, Joe" -------------------- 'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.' Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner Posts: 2592 | From: The wizardest little town in Oz | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        I still haven't made the pickled onions I was going to have a go at the other week. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged lily pad Shipmate # 11456 Posted                        I don't really like onions. We never had them growing up - just the dried flakes. Other houses always smelled differently and I never knew way. It was the onions. I should eat more onions. They are good for the lungs and my lungs are not good. Maybe I should go buy some onions. See ya. -------------------- Sloppiness is not caring. Fussiness is caring about the wrong things. With thanks to Adeodatus! Posts: 2468 | From: Truly Canadian | Registered: May 2006  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        Some people are very smelly, aren't they? I don't mean that stinky, I mean they smell everything - Himself is like that - there is a word for it but I don't recall what it is. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged jedijudy Organist of the Jedi Temple # 333 Posted                        I recall so many wonderful things in my life. It's a good practice to remember such things when current circumstances start to get me down. -------------------- Jasmine, little cat with a big heart. Posts: 18017 | From: 'Twixt the 'Glades and the Gulf | Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        I haven't played Pooh-Sticks for years - perhaps I need to teach the kids here how to play - I love when the current takes the sticks and whirls it round. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Spike Mostly Harmless # 36 Posted                        I had a lovely currant bun with my tea this afternoon. -------------------- "May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing Posts: 12860 | From: The Valley of Crocuses | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged lily pad Shipmate # 11456 Posted                        I wish I could drink regular tea instead of the decaf. kind. It just doesn't taste right. -------------------- Sloppiness is not caring. Fussiness is caring about the wrong things. With thanks to Adeodatus! Posts: 2468 | From: Truly Canadian | Registered: May 2006  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                          I got a free pot of tea in Exeter, as I had enough points on my Costa Card. -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged St. Stephen the Stoned Shipmate # 9841 Posted                           Sam Costa. Remember him? -------------------- Do you want to see Jesus or don't yer? Well shurrup then! Posts: 518 | From: Sheffield | Registered: Jul 2005  |  IP: Logged Latchkey Kid Shipmate # 12444 Posted                           We remembered to use our beautiful Kosta Boda bowl for Jude's party last weekend. -------------------- 'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.' Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner Posts: 2592 | From: The wizardest little town in Oz | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Mamacita Lakefront liberal # 3659 Posted                        "Hey Jude" is a song I will always associate with my senior year in college ( university). It was constantly playing on the jukebox in the student union bar or blaring out someone's dorm room window. -------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Posts: 20761 | From: where the purple line ends | Registered: Dec 2002  |  IP: Logged Loquacious beachcomber Shipmate # 8783 Posted                       We theologs were often (somewhat) politely asked to leave the graduate student lounge pub, for sitting around for hours with a single pitcher of beer shared by 6 or 8 of us while the engineering students at surrounding tables drank about a pitcher each every hour. -------------------- TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop) Posts: 5954 | From: Southeast of Wawa, between the beach and the hiking trail.. | Registered: Nov 2004  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                        The Graduate was a rather entertaining film with Dustin Hoffmann and a wonderful soundtrack. -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        I don't understand baseball - why do they call the person with the ball the pitcher when he is clearly really the bowler, even if his action is not quite per the laws of cricket? -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Lyda*Rose Ship's broken porthole # 4544 Posted                        I tried to find a bowler hat for Halloween, but was too late. I obviously was out-gunned by the Clockwork Orange brigade. -------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Latchkey Kid Shipmate # 12444 Posted                           I was flooded in in Rockhampton for a few days at the end of 1973. At least the drive-in was still open to let me see A Clockwork Orange. -------------------- 'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.' Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner Posts: 2592 | From: The wizardest little town in Oz | Registered: Mar 2007  |  IP: Logged Spike Mostly Harmless # 36 Posted                        1973 was the year my second car was built. It was a Ford Escort I bought from my next door neighbour. -------------------- "May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing Posts: 12860 | From: The Valley of Crocuses | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        My memories of President Ford are that he was a very forgettable president. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        I remember the jubilation in my nuns' convent - who ran the prep school I attended - when J.F. Kennedy was elected as the first ever RC President of the United States. -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                        I haven't heard much about Nigel Kennedy in recent years, I presume he is still plying his trade around the world. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged jacobsen seeker # 14998 Posted                        Nigel's dress sense has always left something to be desired. Now that he's getting on a bit, what was a certain attractive disorder becomes offputtingly louche* * disreputable -------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty. Posts: 8040 | From: Æbleskiver country | Registered: Aug 2009  |  IP: Logged TomOfTarsus Shipmate # 3053 Posted                       I remember when Lyndon LaLouche was a constantly unsuccessful candidate for President of the USA. Oh, wait, that's LaRouche. I suppose I am now considered louche. -------------------- By grace are ye saved through faith... not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ... ordained that we should walk in them. Posts: 1570 | From: Pittsburgh, PA USA | Registered: Jul 2002  |  IP: Logged Chorister Completely Frocked # 473 Posted                          Flyffye LaLouche sounds as if she might have a rather different profession than that of the President of the United States. -------------------- Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change. Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Mamacita Lakefront liberal # 3659 Posted                        Surely you are not thinking of the exotic dancer involved in the infamous Congressman Wilbur Mills' Tidal Basin midnight swim scandal back in the 70s? I believe her name was Fanne Foxe. [ 08. November 2012, 21:06: Message edited by: Mamacita ] -------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Posts: 20761 | From: where the purple line ends | Registered: Dec 2002  |  IP: Logged Spike Mostly Harmless # 36 Posted                        I've had four cars that were built in the 70s. A 1971 Hillman Avenger, a 1973 Ford Escort, a 1976 Austin Maxi and a 1978 Renault 14 -------------------- "May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing Posts: 12860 | From: The Valley of Crocuses | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  ...  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  ...  35  36  37    Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0