lumpy wafflesquirt
588 posts
Jun 28, 2012
2:25 PM
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If that's the answer, what on earth was the question?
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"Come on Brackett let's get changed"
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kudzurunner
3349 posts
Jun 28, 2012
3:00 PM
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It's the motion. You know the question.
If it ain't got that swing....well, too bad daddy.
Last Edited by on Jun 28, 2012 3:02 PM
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BronzeWailer
662 posts
Jun 28, 2012
3:24 PM
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The question? To bee or not to bee,
Super B, you forgot the dirty south!
Stop looking down man, put your stinger away,
put your gaze back to her mouth...
She's the queen, and we just drones circling around her sweet honey yeah.
As the cat said: "Woman... skiddly-dee-dah, whoa man, woe.... man!
It's a forum that's for 'em and for us
so keep on the beat off the beat
Nix the bad vibes and keep jivin'
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nacoran
5900 posts
Jun 28, 2012
3:33 PM
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I always wanted to be a writer. I've always thought dialogue was one of my stronger suites. I think I can write a handful of different dialects pretty well. I've even imitated Faulkner. It just occurred to me though, reading this, that I don't think I really have any idea how to do passable beatnik speak.
I shall away. The language is learning. (Hmm, I seem to have hit the Old English button instead...)
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Frank
823 posts
Jun 28, 2012
5:42 PM
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You jive turkeys be drinkin from the drug induced den of thieves inhibited by the psyche of the colored girls go dut di dutdidut dut di du du dit where Andy Warhol pissed in the corner of rancid debauchery - drugs, speed, heroin, lust, bondage to self - philosophers of long ago, cognitive disorders that mimic the answer only to supply the question where there once was negative philanthropy, not knowing the consequences yet following the blues and little walters demons to the depths of blackness, oh hear the yell of the bluest of notes, make way for lost souls yet to be eaten alive by harmonic madness that echoes mindlessly throughout the wretched walls of hell. You harmonica playing tin eared jive turkeys listen, selah.
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laurent2015
283 posts
Jun 28, 2012
5:47 PM
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"theres two kinds of american music blues and shit."
Someone to set light to the dynamite's wick?
Last Edited by on Jun 28, 2012 5:56 PM
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ReedSqueal
293 posts
Jun 28, 2012
5:52 PM
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How my kids would retort to this: "WTF?"
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
-Dan Castellaneta
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1211 posts
Jun 28, 2012
7:25 PM
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Hey Nacoran, as you know I actually am a writer. Its a pain in the ass sometimes, like any other job - prolly more so. You do write very well.
On dialects, I think the trick is to not accurately portray the dialect, but just do enough to give the flavor, kind of like when you playa piece of music and imply some if the notes ala Junior Wells. I will tell you who was good at dialects, Erskine Caldwell.
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David
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"Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
Last Edited by on Jun 28, 2012 7:29 PM
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Miles Dewar
1294 posts
Jun 28, 2012
9:27 PM
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Am I missing something? What was the question?
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KingoBad
1129 posts
Jun 28, 2012
9:41 PM
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Billy keeps pulling his posts. His prerogative I guess, but it leaves a huge hole in the threads.
Billy, either stand by what you post or think more carefully before you do.
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1212 posts
Jun 28, 2012
11:06 PM
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Doesn't matter if he does pull them, they always seem to be permanently burned into my brain somehow.
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David
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At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong.
R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
Elk River Institute for Advanced Harmonica Studies
Elk River Harmonicas on Facebook
"Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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Frank
824 posts
Jun 29, 2012
4:46 AM
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billyshines writes poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where he's given the illustration first. Thus he is a special snowflake and being nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and preferably death - billyshines does not permit exceptions and He is to be appreciated by his general effects, and not by particular exceptions. Sometimes his seemingly decline of manners and cynical pursuits are subjectively viewed without shame or restraint of personal advantage, which give power to his musical restraints regardless of our feelings, not without withholding of course, our emotions, which are not defined perfectly, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. The harmonica player in general seeks love, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable rebellions, they are simply folks who want to be loved. That said, There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of not accepting the mores of society. With billy shines there seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It really is the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. I doubt billy would want to be modest about it, though you'll find that with only a couple of caveats, most of the threads that billy has participated in have brought out the best from all members on this forum. It's true that total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth. And it is best to treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. Though life is not fair and with but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. All in all Billyshines lives what he writes, or knows something about it. There are curves in the road, story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to ask good or interesting questions, though when answering, it is imperative that you do. Some go on stage and pretend they are other people, but to pretend is to be mentally handicapped. It is really wrong, like being a bad magician. billyshines whether he knows it or not is a Christian comic. Think about it, the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those are the things that make him great. That's his magic. Familiarity for billy is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. We know, of course, that trees and plants have roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reach up toward the light. But we are all coming to realize that billyshines is light itself. I'll end with that profound insight.
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Miles Dewar
1298 posts
Jul 01, 2012
3:11 PM
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Frank, I didn't understand one thing in that rant. Can you translate it for us mortals?
Last Edited by on Jul 02, 2012 10:47 AM
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Miles Dewar
1313 posts
Jul 05, 2012
6:45 PM
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@Frank, lmao, I think I get it.
Covariance? I have only heard that in mathematics.
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nacoran
5926 posts
Jul 05, 2012
6:48 PM
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"Miles, I'm afraid a translation would only make the analysis of covariance regarding fictional comprehension strategies more difficult to understand?"
In Journalism class we once were given the assignment to take the sentence, "My Roommates Socks Stink." and complicatify it. I had the longest at 85 words. It went something to the effect of, "My college-assigned dormitory-cubicle-cohabitant's under-sneaker-white cotton-weave foot apparel has developed at truly malodorous cloud of foot bacteria and sweat based chemical markers that are wafting through the aforementioned college assigned dormitory cubicle and into the awaiting proboscides is generating electrical signals to the appropriate lobe of my thought processing matter, which is sitting atop my spinal column, which is located in my body, in the State of New York, on the Planet Earth, in the Sol system, in the Milkyway Galaxy somewhere in the Universe."
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laurent2015
303 posts
Jul 05, 2012
8:40 PM
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Nate, you could have ended by :"period" to reach 86.
Anyway, it's called "circumlocution" I think.
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Miles Dewar
1314 posts
Jul 05, 2012
10:43 PM
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@nacoran, is that something like the couple in California who are always pushing society to talk strictly *scientifically*? I forgot their names, I will have to search for them.
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Frank
835 posts
Jul 06, 2012
8:26 AM
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Miles I agree. I absolutely hated "philosophy" though I got an "A" in it...I hated it because I could sum up in one sentence what took some philosophers a whole friggin book to get their point across.The teacher was a wackjob too - if you said thin he said fat, if you saw blue he saw black, there were no absolutes...The more BS you could fit into a test paper the better your grade. Sittin in his class was like being in the twilightzone - sorta like this thread?
Last Edited by on Jul 06, 2012 8:27 AM
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Littoral
546 posts
Jul 06, 2012
9:07 AM
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Frank, your question mark at the end pretty much says it all:
"Miles, I'm afraid a translation would only make the analysis of covariance regarding fictional comprehension strategies more difficult to understand?"
But at least it was a one sentence version (to get your point across?) instead of the book in your prior post.
...there is no need to adjust your television set.
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Frank
836 posts
Jul 06, 2012
9:13 AM
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Litt - You didn't actually read it did you? - It wasn't meant to be read, only written...
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Littoral
547 posts
Jul 06, 2012
10:49 AM
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:) Nice. No, I didn't actually read it.
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Frank
841 posts
Jul 06, 2012
2:49 PM
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If you did, It's good you did'nt admit it?
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