Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 5:18:15 PM

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From the daytime thread, a jukebox JCM posted

And my parody:

There are bats in the kettle at the Wuhan Moon
The place where eating lunch brings doom
They can feed you bat and you'll never know
'till you come down sick with COVID you get real sick with COVID

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 5:42:45 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

Well, if I didn't kill the thread, I got it sick

turn 10/15/2020 5:49:56 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:

I’m lurking in between trying to find Trumps town hall on TV. I can find Joe Biden’s no problem but I’m finding no coverage for Trump. Imagine that ...

turn 10/15/2020 5:50:57 PM

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Reply to turn in 3:

I’ll try YouTube on my iPhone...

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 5:59:43 PM

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In #3 turn said: I’m lurking in between trying to find Trumps town hall on TV. I can find Joe Biden’s no problem but I’m finding no coverage for Trump. Imagine that ...

We need to find the chink in Biden's campaign

@PBJ3 10/15/2020 6:03:59 PM

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Reply to turn in 4: 

Let us know if you find Trump's!

turn 10/15/2020 6:04:54 PM

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In #4 turn said: I’ll try YouTube on my iPhone...

I managed to catch the tail end of the town hall on YouTube. Two things popped out, first Trump looks healthy as ever! Second, and this should come as no surprise, the moderator was argumentative with Trump.

turn 10/15/2020 6:08:33 PM

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In #6 @PBJ3 said: Let us know if you find Trump's!

Found the very tail end, he looked fantastic! Really sharp and he spent a good deal of the Q&A recapping the accomplishments of his administration. He did well IMO, I’m sorry I missed most of it 😕

@PBJ3 10/15/2020 6:09:13 PM

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Reply to turn in 7:

I'm glad he's looking well.

turn 10/15/2020 6:10:07 PM

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In #5 Kosh's Shadow said: We need to find the chink in Biden's campaign

I got that, chink as in the people wielding China’s influence on him

turn 10/15/2020 6:13:29 PM

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In #9 @PBJ3 said: I'm glad he's looking well.

He looked as if Covid never happened to him. Biden is such a weeny in comparison, the chicken shit won’t even debate him one on one! Trump would mop the floor with him.

turn 10/15/2020 6:20:16 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:26:38 PM

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Reply to turn in 10:

Years ago, when Wang was an independent computer company (later bought by IBM), they had an ad - Wang, the chink in IBM's armor.

At the time, as Wang was going down the tubes because An Wang's number 1 son turned out to be a number 2 CEO, I was working for DEC, and the joke was "What is the difference between Wang and DEC? About 5 years"

JCM 10/15/2020 6:28:00 PM

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turn 10/15/2020 6:29:13 PM

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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: Years ago, when Wang was an independent computer company (later bought by IBM), they had an ad - Wang, the chink in IBM's armor.

I didn’t know that but can you imagine the faux outrage if that add ran today ?

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:31:15 PM

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In #15 turn said: I didn’t know that but can you imagine the faux outrage if that add ran today ?

Another bad Wang ad was run in England - it said "Wang cares" - which sounds like "wankers" - e.g. masterbaters.

buzzsawmonkey 10/15/2020 6:33:49 PM

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In #12 turn said: He’s taking a question from a transgender mother

Clementine (updated)

Since the trend is towards “transgender”
And has been so for some time
A young minor sans vagina
Declared he was “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me
You must call me “Clementine”—
Though my given name is Clement
You must call me “Clementine.”

He said he was “non-binary”
Hewing to the party line
And he’d frown at the wrong pronoun
Because he was “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me
You must call me “Clementine”—
Though my given name is Clement
You must call me “Clementine.”

With hormone blockers and fake knockers,
Litigation for a time,
The court system did assist him
In becoming “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me
You must call me “Clementine”—
Though my given name is Clement
You must call me “Clementine.”

But alas for our heroine!
Eventually he did find
Drugs and trimmin’ don’t make women
Deep down, he was masculine

Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling “Clementine”—
What’s cut off is gone forever 
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

turn 10/15/2020 6:34:25 PM

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Reply to JCM in 14:

+++

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:35:47 PM

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Reply to JCM in 14:

Mark Knopfler has a talent for writing songs about stuff you wouldn't expect to be song material, like this JUKEBOX

turn 10/15/2020 6:36:51 PM

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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: What’s cut off is gone forever  Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

ROFLMAO 

+++++

Occasional Reader 10/15/2020 6:45:15 PM

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In #16 Kosh's Shadow said: masterbaters

People who are adept at holding their breath?

Occasional Reader 10/15/2020 6:47:51 PM

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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: when Wang was an independent computer company

My first couple of years with Manhattan BigLaw, the firm was still using Wang Office.  The machines reminded me of something from Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”.

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:47:54 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

OK, tired and not spell chucking/ I knew there was a misteak somewhere

turn 10/15/2020 6:48:28 PM

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Hmmm the links to the Hunter Biden laptop story all seem to be crashing on my iPhone, I’m suspicious as hell. Here try this one and see what happens on your computers ...

LINK

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:49:52 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 22:

The first Wang device I used was this:

A calculator. This was their first product, back in the 1960's

Link

Occasional Reader 10/15/2020 6:50:06 PM

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Reply to turn in 24:

it worked (on my iPhone).

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:51:41 PM

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In #24 turn said: Hmmm the links to the Hunter Biden laptop story all seem to be crashing on my iPhone, I’m suspicious as hell. Here try this one and see what happens on your computers ...

Works for me. Note that Apple stuff is built in China

turn 10/15/2020 6:52:16 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 26:

Thanks for checking, I’ll try powering down my iPhone and rebooting then ... brb

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:53:14 PM

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A Biden campaign sign should show the White House with a sign "For Sale - contact agent Hunter Biden"

Wait, that wouldn't be good as a Biden sign

JCM 10/15/2020 6:54:09 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 19:

One of my favorite in the unexpected subject category.

I came across the song shortly after reading this book.

turn 10/15/2020 6:58:17 PM

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In #28 turn said: I’ll try powering down my iPhone and rebooting then

That stopped the problem ... when in doubt, reboot

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 6:58:39 PM

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Reply to JCM in 30:

That's one of my favorites. The album version has James Taylor as one of the vocals.

I have not yet figured out what a Geordie Lad is, though.

JCM 10/15/2020 7:10:58 PM

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In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: I have not yet figured out what a Geordie Lad is, though.

Term for people from the area of England Jeremiah Dixon came from I believe.

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 7:21:43 PM

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In #33 JCM said: In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: I have not yet figured out what a Geordie Lad is, though. Term for people from the area of England Jeremiah Dixon came from I believe.

Geordgeia?/

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 7:25:44 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 10/15/2020 7:26:30 PM

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In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: I have not yet figured out what a Geordie Lad is, though.

Someone from the North/Northeast area of England, near Newcastle---i.e., Yorkshiremen & coal-miners.

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 7:31:05 PM

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In #36 buzzsawmonkey said: Someone from the North/Northeast area of England, near Newcastle---i.e., Yorkshiremen & coal-miners.h

Well, that calls for the Four Yorkshiremen sketch

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 7:42:00 PM

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Occasional Reader 10/15/2020 7:55:37 PM

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In #32 Kosh's Shadow said: I have not yet figured out what a Geordie Lad is, though.

He's the chief engineer on NCC-1701-D.  

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Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 8:05:05 PM

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In #39 Occasional Reader said: He's the chief engineer on NCC-1701-D.  

When it's not at the Worf (wharf)

Kosh's Shadow 10/15/2020 8:13:40 PM

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The oldest mention I have for a Scottish engineer is this poem from 1894

Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
An', taught by time, I tak' it so - exceptin' always Steam.
From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see Thy Hand, O God -
Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.
John Calvin might ha' forged the same - enorrmous, certain, slow -
Ay, wrought it in the furnace-flame - my "Institutio."

RTWT