The Longest Thread Ever!

[Jetée]

Idea!

[Jetée]

I honestly try not to give up any contextual spoilers to what I have in mind for any post of mine, but when other members just quote the first five words I state, or place me in a virtual headlock over parenthetical, silly thoughts I just included to give you a piece of my mind as I was jotting down this post, it doesn't serve me well to ever voice an opinion again if the 3 second snippet is taken, and the other 30 minutes I spent composing is trashed. Maybe it's the everything you say, I'll think the opposite mentality that the internet has bred? THIS is why I have such a contempt for sarcasm (and also, I don't understand it half the time either).

That's why I mostly curtailed my involvement in general discussion. It's too hard to keep up with the joneses, and actually be let alone to be serious.


The lying down game was a post and thematic expression idea I received from a Polish forum/blog (I think everything is a blog nowadays). I'd give an example of it, but again, that would be "contextually-spoiling" its awesome premise (first use of the A-word this month).

[Jetée]

(one flew over the rainbow) by batiks


In this case, I used parentheses (see above) to substitute a photograph's title that was never really there, or marked as "untitled", so I casually went ahead and supplanted my own "feel" to what it could have been. After reading what square brackets were mostly about (in literature, not mathematics) on th previosu page, I am wondering if I should eschew and abandon the curves, and go for squares instead?

I wonder if a TFP meet-up would be be more or less successful if there was a promise to play some kickball thrown into the foray.

[BadNick]

Around here if you kick the balls they call it "mountain pool". I suppose that's to make fun of the mountain folks for some strange reason...maybe insecure city folks. In any case, I believe the official rules are you have to keep at least one foot on the ground.

[ring]

He's hyper-focused.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Or hyper-something,
other than what has been named,
& still a oner.

[BadNick]

I believe he's just marking his twain of thought.

[Jetée]

That was the longest day ever. I can't believe how long it was, I still think I'm in it.

[BadNick]

I even got more than the usual amount of sunburn from all the extra solar radiation!

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I walked in the rain,
through the woods, beside the creek,
relishing angles.

Happy summer, everybody!

[Jetée]

Larry McClure and his 31-inch wide moustache hold distinction as the winner of
the first-ever National Beard and Moustache Championships, taking first place
in the Best Moustache division. The Concord, California man, with his famous
“cookie duster” at home, June 17, 2010, is looking toward an international
championship later this year in Denmark.
-- (Karl Mondon/Contra Costa Times/MCT)

[ring]

Out-of-the-blue random thought:

I'd like to see this film, for a second time.


Waking Ned Divine

[MexicanOnABike]

Originally Posted by ring

Out-of-the-blue random thought:

I'd like to see this film, for a second time.


Waking Ned Divine

it starts slow, but ends as a fantastic movie!!

[Zooksport2]

[Ourcrazymodern?]

22775

Math may be in there,
but the focus is elsewhere,
occasionally.

[BadNick]

To me, today seems like the longest day. The 21st blew by so fast I thought it was the Winter Solstice.

[Jetée]

Thanks for bringing that point back up. Are we sure that the longest day really even ended? Today, much as you've said, seems to be a continuation of that fact and observance,and one only needs to look at the eerire coincidences around the Wide Wide World of Sports to realize this is an extraordinary year, in terms of length.

Perhaps it's our last great run?

[ring]

Soccer balls as Langoliers, perhaps?

[BadNick]

I'm an optimistic non-fatalist so I believe things are getting better and our greatest runs are yet to come. By "runs" I don't necessarily mean just sports related achievements nor do I imply that anyone is having gastrointestinal problems.

[Jetée]

Why does the word Langoliers sound familiar, but still look entirely foreign to me (in terms of contextual meaning)?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Maybe something else:
Entertainment overload,
finally winning.

[ring]

Nintendo soccer ball:
[IMG] [/IMG]
Stephen King's Langoliers.

---------- Post added at 04:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 PM ----------

The Langoliers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Ourcrazymodern?]

An alien's tongue,
& a ball, patterned Bowzer,
what more could one ask?

[Jetée]

Man, I don't even know what a 'Bowzer' is either.

I'm sleeping on my vocabularium expansion.

water tanker - equates to - river imp

(In my mind, I equate a 'bowser' to a bruising, hulk sort of character. A 'kuppa', or as I more familiarly recognize it as, a KAPPA, is a river monster/spirit. Forgot to mention a Japanese spirit. On the other hand, I equate a 'koopa' to the green-shelled antagonists to Sir Mario, but the way they sport beaks and shells, well, that is a direct tie-in to the legend and mythos associated towards the demonic, foul-tempered KAPPAs.)

[ring]

Yes, it's been a very long day.

The timekeepers are weary, too.

[Jetée]

Is anybody else as fascinated as I am by this folklore article I posted above?

I'm currently at this stage of the reading:

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by ring

Yes, it's been a very long day.

The timekeepers are weary, too.

We've lost track of time altogether now.


Awesomely minimalist clock literally uses batteries to tell time | DVICE

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random thought for the day: nobody uses the word 'literally' right anymore, so far removed from the orginal contextual meaning, it's downright pitiful.

[BadNick]

it sounds like an alley where cats go to have their kittens

btw, one of my dear sisters (they are both very dear) and some of her neighbor friends have caught a large number of feral cats that come to her yard to eat, rest. Then they have them spayed or neutered at a friendly local vet. I'm glad they do this since these cats seem to live a tough life in the city so at least this way their numbers seem to be diminishing, though too many people are irresponsible about caring for their pets so there's always more where they came from.

[Jetée]

Thanks for reminding endearing me to your story about stray, accumulating cats, BadNick. It has called forth something within me, to give me notice.

Were you talking about 'KAPPA' when you stated it sounds like an alleyway where cats gather?

[BadNick]

Jet, not KAPPA. I was referring to literally. Playing with words can be more dangerous than playing with fire. I bet a fireman didn't say that.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

2-(27/9)=-1

With too many thoughts
coming outside the wordings,
one has to learn more.

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

Jet, not KAPPA. I was referring to literally. Playing with words can be more dangerous than playing with fire. I bet a fireman didn't say that.

Oh. Litter-alley. I get it.

Let's see what pops up in a quick search for the play on words...


Black and white series: newspaper in an alleyway by askinimages

More found HERE

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Some prematurely
slip in through the barriers
wreaking their havoc.

[ring]

The woods are teeming with skeeters.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

I'm glad I'm not there
(he said, lying, quite shameful)
but without the welts.

[Jetée]

I knew I forgot about something. Now this reply seems so wasted, coming in-between and after one, for so long.


Gangsta Skeeter by ~queenmari on deviantART

author's comments:
My friend Xand had a dream one night that Doug (from the old Nick cartoon Doug) had grown up and was now a heroin addict and was shooting up in an alley when up walks adult Skeeter, decked out in gangsta apparel. I had a laugh and then drew this on an oekaki later XD Enjoy

[ring]

Hey, that ties together, Alley-Skeeters-Nick-and perhaps a soccer ball.

& probably others if I look intently enough.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Averting my eyes
from their object's observance
disserves all concerned.

[ring]

Keen vision provides many a meal.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Keen hearing,
many an insight,
analyzed.