The Longest Thread Ever!

[BadNick]

out in left field? way out there

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I know, but my friend,
the flock astray, I don't lead,
though I might like to.

[BadNick]

I'd vote for you

[Ourcrazymodern?]

If I'm counting right,
that makes one for the good guys,
& that's all it takes.

I'd vote for you, too.

[BadNick]

thanks. I know some vices so I feel qualified for the VP spot.

[ring]

I have a treasured chest, so I'm qualified for the treasurer spot.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Funny you say that.
I was just thinking something
pretty similar.

[BadNick]

I can already see we're way more qualified than other governments I know.

We might also look for a Secretary of Nonsense, Fun, and Peace.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Then there came poets,
vastly unreasonable,
but with strange beauty.

(I still want to be the guy that sits on the corner with his broom)

[BadNick]

btw, I believe Kay Ryan is still the Poet Laureate of the U.S. and she has something to say about uncle phil

Say Uncle

Every day
you say,
Just one
more try.
Then another
irrecoverable
day slips by.
You will
say ankle,
you will
say knuckle;
why won't
you why
won't you
say uncle?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

uncle?

[BadNick]

you're so easy


I saw my younger son earlier today sitting in our town so I texted him and he said

I saw you looking
thinking it was me
but it wasn't

[Zooksport2]

So... is this really TLTE????

[MexicanOnABike]

for TFP of all the years since it started, YES.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Others eclipse this
by orders of magnitude,
but this one is ours.

[BadNick]

This one happened not too long ago.

The longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium enters India at Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala and exits India at Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu on January 15, 2010.

YouTube - Solar eclipse 2010 in Thiruvananthapuram

YouTube - Solar eclipse 2010 in Thiruvananthapuram

[Jetée]

BNik -
I finally remembered that the Stanley Cup Playoffs are still ongoing, watched it tonight, and it was a barnyard clinic. Can you tell me the history of these two teams? neither one looks defensively stout, nor does it look as though there is a "hot goaltender" on either side of the ice, let alone one static and appointed bearer of the facemask.
Also, I never heard that either one of these teams were considered "fiery", as in they had much scoring potential or stars. Am I wrong about that? (Was wishing that the Habs would've took the spot instead.)

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ring -
I am very glad to be out of that horrendous(-ly) egomaniacal, self-loathing, and surreptitiously-degrading snit of a thread, however popular it may be with the "masses". I normally don't care about a lot of things, even things that I say I like, follow, and actually comment upon, but this one bag of portentedness, I actually hold within myself a great deal of disdain for, and towards. So much so, I avoid it at near all costs (but they keep abasing me there, knowing half-obliviously-well I will n'er forth step my fingers' thoughts within it again).

But, of one good thing I found and took from it, was this, and I thank you for giving me a (hidden) challenge.

Originally Posted by ring

Here's the scoop: Concentric Rings 04a by ~Debaser2020


author's comments:
Based on MC Escher's drawing 'Concentric Rings'

There were no results on TinEye using the image, but I just thought to see what the filename-affixtion had in a simple Google search it popped right up. I am one with the machine in this image (although that film that I'm thinking about right now was terrible.. oh! and that other one, too - it made no sense.)


[im-possible.]

[ring]

I posted that image because it is spireless.
Its pointlessness was a thing of great beauty.

I hadn't noticed this abasing you speak of.

Plenty of leisure time I have these days.
(I'm recovering from a nasty bleeding ulcer episode.)

So, I shall peruse the entire thread where this abasing has taken place.

Should I take those unwashed masses to task?

Perhaps it might be best to just let the hurt & disdain melt out of your hands.

I'll paraphrase a quote. I do believe Tecoyah has it as his signature.

"Holding on to anger is like holding on to hot coals, you only end up hurting yourself"

Thanks for re-posting that image, Eddy. I find it's a pleasant image for meditation time.
& and its electric blueness, appeals to my Aquarian nature.

[Jetée]

I forget by not participating (there, but somehow, I still find myself peeking). And while I love having a reason for (re-)vengeance, I still like to hold true my idealization of non-violence and quelling of disputes through unfolding understanding and reason.

And (:apart) while friends and acquaintances of mine calling by a myriad of names, least of all anything close to my name, there's still something weird when I see someone refer to me, in writing, as 'Eddy'. It feels weird, near as weird as someone calling me 'Ed'.

I'm doing away the (in)formal-ized denominations. I do like being called 'Jetty', though.
Also, I want my new name to catch on as well: EA. (initials)


Question: I was wondering, not intensely, though, but only those few instances recently when it occurred, as recently as maybe less than five pages ago, and no longer a time period than a year ago when (I believe) I made the off-comment about this: Is thy real name 'Grace'?

[ring]

Yes, my name is Grace.
If you prefer the less familiar, Jetty; I shall honor that request.

EA. Cool, it's like the first two letters of Earth.

[BadNick]

hi EA. I never knew you are an "Ed". I do know that I've spent a bunch of money on EA toys my boys like, well I like some of them, too ...i.e., Electronic Arts. That also seems like a quite fitting association for you.

The Flyers didn't do so well yesterday. As far as how the teams and players stack up against some standard of hockey measure, I have no idea. But I have a visitor today from Westinghouse who is staying at the local Holiday Inn Express so I'll ask him what he knows.

[Jetée]

I entirely forgot that Westinghouse was/is actually a town; in Pennsylvania, I'll guess.

I write a lot of words, too, I notice, but they just roll off of my mind's wave. You do know I only think when pressed (remaining static, unnassuming and without a care at any other time) and this topic gives me a good reason to ponder.

Oh, and to call upon my coincidence monster again, to "coincide" with me actually having cable again, too (but only on the weekends), I've come to notice one universal and generational truth: everyone on television is named "Edward". Everywhere. Any network. Any realm of situation. Any gender (which is weird). So many "Ed's" everywhere. No other name comes to mind with such ubiquitous status, not even a 'Marie', or a 'John' (well, there quite a few more Maries now that I think about it).

[ring]

Have you seen this film?


Edward Scissorhands

Or this one?

Two films starring Johnny Depp with the same character name.


Ed Wood.

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by Jetée

I entirely forgot that Westinghouse was/is actually a town; in Pennsylvania, I'll guess...

In case you ever want to go hide there in that game we play here, I would like you to be geographically correct. So you might want to know that there is no town named Westinghouse in PA, at least that I know of. But the Westinghouse company, from where my visitor has come, has a long and illustrious history as a U.S. company.

Westinghouse Electric was an American power company. It was founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997.

It was historically the rival to General Electric which was founded by George Westinghouse's arch-rival, Thomas Edison.

[ring]

Perhaps he was thinking of Bethlehem Steel Co.

[BadNick]

Perhaps you are correct. We do have a Bethlehem, PA, and we did have a Bethlehem Steel Co., once the second largest steel producer in the U.S. and one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the world, as well as one of the most powerful symbols of American industrial manufacturing leadership. But it filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Now it's the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, which, ironically had difficulty finding structural steel for construction, thanks to a global steel shortage.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Last time I couldn't find steel,
I looked for the ore & recycling,
& called my psychologist.

[Jetée]

I thought Thomas Edison's arch-rival was Nikola Tesla

[BadNick]

el correcto, Jeto

The Westinghouse Electric Company pioneered long-distance power transmission and high-voltage transmission. Westinghouse Electric received the rights for the first patent for alternating-current transmission from Nikola Tesla and unveiled the technology for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company included William Stanley, Nikola Tesla, Oliver B. Shallenberger, Benjamin Garver Lamme and his sister Bertha Lamme.

[Jetée]

El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama



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by the way, not to get all silly, but that History Channel doc chronicling (sp?) the rivalry between Edison and Tesla is among one the best I have ever seen, anywhere, either produced by the BBC, A&E Networks, Nat'l Geo, PBS, or the Discovery Corp.

It outshines the conglomerations.

[cdwonderful]

Originally Posted by Jetée

I thought Thomas Edison's arch-rival was Nikola Tesla

they were POLAR opposites.....

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I band no focus,
you know it's only homing,
& I like pigeons.

[Jetée]

[lukejudge.]

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Do me a favor?
Post "Five Years" on Insula.
Otherwise, ring will.

[Jetée]

I'll need to look that up.

[Jetée]

You know what: I know not that of which you speak.

But, seeing as I'm still living in mind and (un)sound as though it may be and still quite is: 2007; and furthermore, as seeing as though I just got through reading a wiki of a tune of which I've not heard of either, but read the synopsis of, and therefore, this, and only thus... popped up in a mind's eye.


(would you happen to know of what and where it is from, contextually, and cinematically?)

[Jetée]

O, now, and nay, I see. But know.

You meant the topic, no? But did you also mean the tune, of which I hinted at above? (link-y)

I'll need to find and audibilize it, for I have not yet laid ears upon it; to add, I don't believe I've contributed to your topic at all, seeing as I'm trying to eschew my penchant for "chaos", however nonsensical that may seem. Being in this topic's aim is my only way to channel it.

(I have rummaged a bit inside, though; and it is quite pretty.chuckles-worth, even.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

You amaze me, Jet.

22-5-9=8

[Jetée]

But did I get it right? I've stalled too long to listen to the tune, I think.


I'll post it now, and listen to it as I do.

YouTube - David Bowie & Arcade Fire - Five years

YouTube - David Bowie & Arcade Fire - Five years

(I don't usually like or allow youtube videos to embed in topics where they are not warranted, but I think I'll pass up on that idiosynrasy of mine, if only for once. Additionally, I was about to post the '72 Live version, but next to it, I saw it reprised, alongside Arcade Fire, and well, I got captured by the moment.)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Did you enjoy it?
It ran through my head last night...
Thank you very much.