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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on May 24, 2007, 04:14:25 PM
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In another topic, Roger posted: God, I'm boring.
This is topic is for everyone to list all the things they have a passion for but which bore the pants of other people.
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1. Numbers bigger than infinity.
2. Roman and Greek strategy and weapons.
3. Brain in a Vat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat).
4. Relativity and Quantum Theory.
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5. English Grammar.
6. Object Oriented Programming.
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Those are excellent choices, Mincey; I got bored just reading the list.
I'll have to come back to this though - I have too many interesting things to do at the moment.
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I'll have to come back to this though - I have too many interesting things to do at the moment.
They're probably only interesting to you.
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Vocal impressions of my old teachers.
My theories of why the universe has picked me out for special treatment.
Which way the goalie will dive in a penalty shootout and why.
Six Degrees Of Separation.
Foreign Players In The SPL And How all the Lisbon Lions Were Born Within Thirty Miles Of Celtic Park.
The innumerable ways my wife does not understand me.
Whether or not I should have a nose job, and does it really matter when the rest of my face is no great shakes?
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7. Why "Pop Idol", "X Factor" and similar shows are utter rubbish and why this strangely does not apply to "Grease is the Word" which I watch with my sister-in-law every Saturday.
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Whether or not I should have a nose job, and does it really matter when the rest of my face is no great shakes?
I've seen your photo on the cartoonists' forum, Malc. Your left eyebrow isn't that bad.
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Your left eyebrow isn't that bad.
Yes, but not all of it.
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As has been established, I can be spectacularly boring about Custer, The Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse, The Old West and Montana. Here are some other sleep-inducing topics I can launch into:
The importance of verbal rhythm in comic strips.
The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Coleridge and Wordsworth were hippies.
Soup.
Why pyramids appeared in South America and Egypt.
I'd like to think I can be boring on a wide variety of subjects.
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Sorry, Roger - I can't make Birmingham after all...
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No, but really...the first three in that list are completely fascinating to me also...and it'll probably be time to go home by the time we get around to shark attacks.
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I've always thought it quite interesting that some people are called Johnston, while some are called Johnson and others Johnstone. I also walk round thinking "Jackson", and feel I'm probably affected by names commencing with "J". I wrote a poem about it once:
Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, and Jamie,
Were all most erstwhile friends of mine
Whose names were all the samey.
But Jack, Jo, Jeff, Jules, Jenny, Jill and Jed
Had differing names - although they shared
The letter with which they led.
I'm also quite fascinated by fish that don't have an "s' on the end when spoken of in the plural.Some do, but they're vastly in the minority. We discussed this once before, and I think Roger did a Beau Peep strip about it even. I remember he named a trout, Nigel. I have the original artwork from one of those strips.
Collective terms for animals and birds is great too. A murder of crows is a killer.
I like real ale too, but haven't had any for a while.
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The interest in shark attacks stemmed from one of the few books available in my Primary School "library". It's weird how stuff like that sticks with you. I still remember the name of a kid attacked in Matawan Creek, several miles upstream from the ocean, in a series of incidents that inspired Benchley's "Jaws". (Lester Stillwell).
God, I really AM boring. When we meet up in Birmingham, I promise to talk about the golden days of St. Johnstone.
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Sorry, Nige---we seem to have been posting at the same time. Love the poem.
And I agree---why isn't it "salmons"?
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I bought 4 tins of salmons today, interestingly enough!
My ears pricked up when I saw your mention of "Johnstone" in "St Johnstone" by the way.
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A bevy of quail
A bouquet of pheasants [when flushed]
A brood of hens
A building of rooks
A cast of hawks [or falcons]
A charm of finches
A colony of penguins
A company of parrots
A congregation of plovers
A cover of coots
A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans]
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dissimulation of birds
A dole of doves
An exaltation of larks
A fall of woodcocks
A flight of swallows [or doves, goshawks, or cormorants]
A gaggle of geese [wild or domesticated]
A host of sparrows
A kettle of hawks [riding a thermal]
A murmuration of starlings
A murder of crows
A muster of storks
A nye of pheasants [on the ground]
An ostentation of peacocks
A paddling of ducks [on the water]
A parliament of owls
A party of jays
A peep of chickens
A pitying of turtledoves
A raft of ducks
A rafter of turkeys
A siege of herons
A skein of geese [in flight]
A sord of mallards
A spring of teal
A tidings of magpies
A trip of dotterel
An unkindness of ravens
A watch of nightingales
A wedge of swans [or geese, flying in a "V"]
A wisp of snipe
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We should market this topic as a cure for insomnia.
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Mind you, I usually just go "Look, there's loadsa birdies".
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It's salmon (plural) because they're an odd fish - even when they're in a crowd they're never really 'together', if you know what I mean.
I guess you're waiting for me to make some crack about what we'll talk about after we've discussed St Johnstone's glory days, and we've taken our coats off to sit down for a drink. But I think you'd be surprised. So many Forfarshire cup ties.....
Peepsie, you always delight when you reveal what a big bard you are.
Still trying to think of something boring that I'm passionate about. It's really difficult.
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"A trip of dotterel".
I have no idea what this is but I love it.
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"A trip of dotterel".
I have no idea what this is but I love it.
Don't you know nuffink!
Dotterel
For wader enthusiasts each spring provides an opportunity to discover a trip of dotterel. These exciting passage migrants regularly halt in Norfolk before continuing their journey to northern mountains and the tundra.
http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/dotterel.asp
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Crikey, Peepsie - all this time that you've gone on and on about these birds of yours, I thought..... :o
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7. Why "Pop Idol", "X Factor" and similar shows are utter rubbish and why this strangely does not apply to "Grease is the Word" which I watch with my sister-in-law every Saturday.
(http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/haushalt/b050.gif)
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As has been established, I can be spectacularly boring about Custer, The Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse, The Old West and Montana. Here are some other sleep-inducing topics I can launch into:
The importance of verbal rhythm in comic strips.
The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Coleridge and Wordsworth were hippies.
Soup.
Why pyramids appeared in South America and Egypt.
I'd like to think I can be boring on a wide variety of subjects.
(http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/muede/d015.gif)
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That looks remarkably like me at work.
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I?ve just gone through the list to see if there may be anything of interest and found a few that I don?t think are boring that we can use for new threads. Sorry Mince, yours were really boring but at least you can take comfort in being right about the choices on your list.
Vocal impressions of my old teachers.
My theories of why the universe has picked me out for special treatment.
The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Soup
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I?ve just gone through the list to see if there may be anything of interest and found a few that I don?t think are boring that we can use for new threads. Sorry Mince, yours were really boring but at least you can take comfort in being right about the choices on your list.
Vocal impressions of my old teachers.
My theories of why the universe has picked me out for special treatment.
The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Soup
You mean there's more that 1?
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There's either none or several.
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There's either none or several.
What do you mean none?
Surely your not a disbeliever Roger.
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This is where I get boring. I WARNED YOU ABOUT THIS!
The author G.K. Chesterton once said that people have been hung on less evidence than there is for the Loch Ness Monster. Strange things have been sighted there for centuries. (This is why it's ridiculous to talk about ONE animal). Over the years, there have been liars, hoaxers and, quite simply, those who have mistaken something perfectly normal for something they WANTED to see. But that doesn't explain the hundreds of rational people--including monks, doctors, experienced locals and respected professionals---who swear they've witnessed something extraordinary in those waters. Loch Ness is 20 odd miles long, 2 miles wide and, at certain points, deeper than than the North Sea. I'm certainly not going to say that it's impossible for some strange animals to be swimming around in there. In 1969, I was driving with friends on the North shore when we saw something weird in the loch. This "thing" disappeared below the surface in seconds and, for all I know, was a trick of the light. We were shaken enough to stop the car at the first opportunity and ask some tourists if they'd seen anything. They hadn't.
I don't know if the Loch Ness Monster exists but I would certainly never say that it doesn't.
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... hundreds of rational people--including monks, doctors, experienced locals and respected professionals---who swear they've witnessed something extraordinary in those waters.
And let us not forget St Columba and Ted Danson!
Actually, I concur with every word Roger writes about this. I've been to Loch Ness many times, and seen nothing out of the ordinary...except a very, very big and beautiful loch. I'm a natural-born believer, and over time have come to the conclusion that the onus is on the sceptics to disprove what they choose not to believe in.
So far, no-one has managed to convince me there is no Loch Ness Monster, that there is no intelligent life beyond this planet (perhaps one of man's most arrogant assertions), and that there is no God. I find it a little sad that anyone would devote any great length of time in order to prove such spurious claims (it's much more fun to believe), but I'm always happy to listen with an open mind...which is often more than they are.
Birmingham is looking more and more interesting, Roger - I just hope Hunt Emerson isn't boring. Perhaps the ladies may prefer to retire to the billiards room for brandy and cigars...
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Of course there are Loch Ness monster(s).
I'm a person who isn't a natural believer, I'm a sceptic at heart, and experts all queue up to show how much more expert they are than everyone else by dismissing reports of Nessie.
How would it live, etc? there are no natural shoals of fish in Loch Ness to sustain it.
How would it see? Loch Ness is very murky due to peaty soil.
Well, I don't think sea creatures actually suffer the handicaps we manufacture for them. Otherwise we'd be saying "how could Blue Whales survive in the crushing deep and freezing antarctic waters?"
Fact is, they do. I believe Nessies to be warm blooded creatures, air breathers who travel from Loch Ness to other lochs and the sea. Many people don't understand the nature of Loch Ness, and that it isn't an isolated body of water. Loch Ness is part of the Caledonian Canal which cuts right across Scotland, starting in the North Sea and ending in the North Atlantic. It contains more fresh water than all the lakes of England and Wales combined. That's a lot of water to get lost in.
Scientific evidence is fine, but I believe eyewitness accounts from people who have no reason to bullsh*t me. There have been many, and the ones which interest me most are the accounts of Nessie on dry land, all of which tally in their description of the creature which apparently is able to walk as a seal does, and hold up its neck.
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It's also incredibly good for the tourist industry.
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Do I detect a hint of cynicism in your words, Peepsie?
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Do I detect a hint of cynicism in your words, Peepsie?
Oh no, no no, no, no. It was just an additional observation. I couldn't expand on Malcolm's eloquence other than with that wee smidgen.
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Glad to hear it. Because if Malcolm's theory is correct, and I see nothing wrong with it, then it wouldnae tak a whole heap of effort on the Beastie's behalf to swim round to the Firth Of Clyde for a wee bit o' a snack...if ye catch ma drift? MWAAHHHAAAHHHAAAAAAA!
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So you'd use Nessie to put a contract out on Peepsie? Interesting.
Like Joe Dolce's "What's A Matter You?" it would be a monster hit. But ridiculous.
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Having said that, would it be any more ridiculous than Jaws IV where the shark (son of the one that was blown up in Jaws 1) stalked his victim to a Florida apartment block?
I never saw the film, but someone told me the shark took the lift to the ninth floor and ate a whole family before driving a souped up Mustang through a pile of empty cardboard boxes and dying with Butch Cassidy in a hail of bullets in Bolivia.
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"Jaws IV" was the one with Michael Caine. I'd love to see one of the scripts he turned DOWN.
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I've ordered extra security measures for my front door...
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And the toilet seat?
BWAAAHHAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAA!.....