Motus Mentis

44 Comments

1. Musey says

   Malcolm, I thought that you might have objected to our slightly risque frivolity. Admittedly, it is very indulgent but quite spontaneous, and probably difficult to confine to a weekly feature.

   JK, in particular, is unlikely to conform to the new rules. Is his bit the “bibulous logorrhea”? Mine is most certainly idle chat and confessions of the heart. I love you all!

   Posted May 1, 2015 at 11:20 pm | Permalink
2. Musey says

   JK, Am I to spend all night alone in the naughty corner?

   Posted May 2, 2015 at 12:46 am | Permalink
3. Whitewall says

   “bibulous logorrhea”? Hmm, I’ll have to look that up. My first impression is some sort of digestive disorder…

   Posted May 2, 2015 at 7:49 am | Permalink
4. Kevin Kim says

   I imagine that “bibulous logorrhea” is better than “rumbustious borborygmi.”

   Posted May 2, 2015 at 9:33 am | Permalink
5. Malcolm says

   Oooohh…. ‘rumbustious’. Nice word.

   Posted May 2, 2015 at 11:17 am | Permalink
6. JK says

   JK, in particular, is unlikely to conform to the new rules.

   Eau Cointreau Musey, I’m actually the most likely to conform.

   Depends on the venue of course, but here … well, this isn’t Baltimore.

   Posted May 3, 2015 at 1:45 pm | Permalink
7. JK says

   My virtue (especially around you Musey) is that I’m wretchedly reduced to expressing, and then distantly – Arkansas is about as distant from Australia as any other two points on the planet – to “Roundabout Phrases.”

   Posted May 3, 2015 at 1:57 pm | Permalink
8. JK says

   Musey?

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFy2YEkoLo

   Posted May 3, 2015 at 2:36 pm | Permalink
9. JK says

   I am introducing this new feature, in the hope: an occasional free association, idle chat; (Or, perhaps, for the introduction of serious topics or questions.)

   http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2015/04/college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-one-idea.html

   Posted May 3, 2015 at 3:04 pm | Permalink
10. TheBigHenry says

    JK,

    That was from the Onion:

    http://www.theonion.com/article/college-encourages-lively-exchange-of-idea-38496

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 3:36 pm | Permalink
11. Whitewall says

    I haven’t read Maverick P in a few weeks. That is a great title. The Onion is always good for parody, but at times, it aren’t parody no more.

    I do believe nothing can kill off liberalism quicker than an institution of liberals, run by them and for them.

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 3:40 pm | Permalink
12. Malcolm says

    See also this, from the Columbia Spectator.

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 4:48 pm | Permalink
13. JK says

    Henry.

    That was from the Onion.

    Yup. But the link was Maverick Philosopher. Bill V having some propensity to stick To Stick to Essential Truth.

    Good thing Bill isn’t likely to land here:

    http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/04/hillary-clinton-marine-one/

    Sticky Wicket as is said.

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 6:21 pm | Permalink
14. JK says

    Having now read Malcolm’s link;

    http://20committee.com/2015/05/01/the-right-and-wrong-side-of-history/

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 6:45 pm | Permalink
15. Musey says

    JK, I can see that you have put up a link to Bob Dylan but I can’t play it. Maybe it’s regional restrictions. Anyway, I’ll try to look it up.

    It’s good that you will conform to the new rules. It must be all the army training that makes you a respecter of authority. I will also try to be good on Malcolm’s blog. It shouldn’t be too difficult because I was always a goody two shoes when I was at school, unlike my sister who was continually under threat of expulsion. These days she’s a well known, very wealthy business woman and I’m not!

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 10:17 pm | Permalink
16. TheBigHenry says

    From Malcolm’s link:

    “The MAAB, an extension of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, is an advocacy group dedicated to ensuring that Columbia’s campus is welcoming and safe for students of all backgrounds.”

    Yeah. Except for, you know, students of the Jewish persuasion.

    It wasn’t like that when I was doing my graduate studies there in the 1960s. But it’s an anti-semitic cesspool now, as is my undergrad alma mater, Cornell.

    Leftist scum.

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 10:30 pm | Permalink
17. JK says

    Musey you’ll be after all it’s simply “Making Hay While the Sun Shines” be in … well – this could be you’n me

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-the-bull-hay-bales

    & Maybe this one on the off-chance

    https://vimeo.com/25499686

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 10:41 pm | Permalink
18. JK says

    You’ll Musey know then

    https://vimeo.com/25499686

    &

    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=13185

    You’ll be Musey, staying closer to Memphis than, you’d be ordinarily to Mobile?

    Same’s same though – Henry doesn’t think Arkies rcognize The Onion even when, there’s not a consonant intercessional.

    Posted May 3, 2015 at 11:01 pm | Permalink
19. TheBigHenry says

    JK,

    I had read Bill V’s post before you mentioned it above. I was pointing out that Bill V had heard about it from somebody named Spencer Case, and that it had originated from the Onion.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 1:28 am | Permalink
20. JK says

    I know my friend.

    I was just troubled you might consider Arkies in general, me specifically, unaware there’s an Onion in this world.
    ___________

    That outta the way Henry – admitting I didn’t reckon it’d take so long, what say you (aware you’re a multiple of zero of my sum on Cricket) … don’t know Henry you’re doing work on Dark Matter but you did notice Bill V’s original, “I am tempted to go Hillarious:”

    And you being a Physicist Henry thought maybe it’d re-wire me off all people .. or one of at any rate .. needed expatriated Henry explaining Bill V couldn’t be playful?

    Open Threads being almost as much fun as redoing a classic knob & tube.

    (No Musey. Not the same thing as you’d be naturally inclined.)

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 1:58 am | Permalink
21. Musey says

    JK, I am totally familiar with knob and tube wiring and it’s potential hazards.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 3:52 am | Permalink
22. Whitewall says

    Knob and tube. I first thought that was a comedy act but then remembered my growing up years in the 50s and 60s. All our homes had that wiring. The neighborhood I grew up in became what is now fashionably known as an Historic District.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 7:37 am | Permalink
23. Whitewall says

    The Columbia Spectator. What a sad spectacle of cosseted children needing protection from “triggering” mechanisms. I guess the anti Western Civ. movement is moving at high speed. The true purpose of the college experience used to be liberal inquiry in the traditional meaning of liberal. Now the purpose of college seems to be sensitivity training. Academic rigor is now replaced by fear of bruising someone’s feelings.

    Heaven help these budding Maoists after they leave school and face the real world. Better yet, a year or two of living and working in some of the backwaters of the Eastern World might be the antidote to the rot they learned at too many Western colleges from moldy Marxist teachers.

    Nothing will destroy liberalism faster than liberals in charge of it. Sometimes I think the best political course of action is to let the Left have its way until they turn on each other and kill themselves off. Politically I mean. Well, I have seen first hand during my younger years that they do a pretty good job of it- literally too. Those third world backwaters were very instructive to me.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 8:26 am | Permalink
24. JK says

    Those third world backwaters were very instructive to me.

    Don’t know it qualifies Whitewall, as third world or even, for that matter a backwater.

    I’m talking about the CNN studios but it was oh instructive – I guess.

    Female newsreader/commentator posed to the two ‘guest commentators’ “Was the thing in Baltimore a racist thing?”
    _________

    Gotta tell you Whitewall, I don’t think I’ve ever seen two people (not engaged in a sexual act) tie themselves into such knots. The CNN lady like me, just sat and watched. I worried she wasn’t gonna be able to go to commercial.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 11:02 am | Permalink
25. TheBigHenry says

    Well, I’ll be …

    In all my years I had never come across the expression “knob-and-tube wiring”. At first glance, I thought it was a reference to vacuum-tube electronics. But then I googled it …

    And here I thought I already knew everything! :)

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 12:02 pm | Permalink
26. Whitewall says

    Henry, according to Musey, knob and tube wiring may be all the rage Down Under? It was common here way back when but it can be problematic especially with age….of the wiring I mean.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 12:47 pm | Permalink
27. Whitewall says

    JK, CNN is basically struggling with sanity these days. I didn’t see the clip as I wrote them off near the end of Gulf War 1.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 1:28 pm | Permalink
28. JK says

    Henry?

    I’m quite the EMT Bending Artiste’ (if I do say so myself) and I always did my best making my panelboards/switchgear conduit entrances things to be goggled over in awe – by other Benders of course.

    (Got an award from Disney for a designed exposed raceway for a store once.)

    But the most beautiful thing I ever saw (mind, in purely the Electrician As Installator sense) was a knob and tube installation I’d been called to inspect after a lightning strike.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 1:46 pm | Permalink
29. Musey says

    I have to own up, and admit, that I had no clue about knob and tube wiring. I looked it up. As far as I know, it isn’t all the rage here.

    Clearly, I also have no clue about the correct use of the apostrophe. Missing out an apostrophe is annoying but understandable, but putting one on where it doesn’t belong is perverse.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 5:55 pm | Permalink
30. JK says

    ♪♫♪♪♪♫

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 9:27 pm | Permalink
31. JK says

    Perverse as scoring for a stick flute?

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 9:29 pm | Permalink
32. JK says

    I have to own up, and admit, I was gonna go with another wind instrument but I didn’t know how to spell it.

    Clearly, I have no clue about the correct use of a didgeridoo. And now I listened to eight seconds of a four minute YouTube putting one anywhere is perverse.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 9:38 pm | Permalink
33. Musey says

    Putting one in not “on”. It is perverse that I don’t check before I press send.

    Sorry JK, you’ve lost me again but I can tell you that you blow into a didgeridoo and it makes a horrible sound. Listening for eight seconds is a feat of endurance, so congratulations.

    Whitewall, I always imagine that everyone will realize that I am joking. The chances of me being au fait with the workings of anything electrical are very slim indeed.

    JK, I can play the flute and the clarinet, also the piano a little.

    Posted May 4, 2015 at 11:59 pm | Permalink
34. Musey says

    Malcolm, my search for a serious topic to discuss continues but for now, my idle chatter is at an end so thank you for your patience:)

    Posted May 5, 2015 at 12:03 am | Permalink
35. JK says

    Maybe a couple “other weeks” Malcolm’d be about right.

    Musey I understand not recognizing serious knob and tube and how the artiste’ (sorry Musey, but now I’ve looked up the alt-code, `you’ll be forgiving me for .. as I understand it ..”lost you again” .. you’ll recover whole and sound?
    _____________

    I figure Musey you’ll be happy indeed to hear earlier tonight I got released (*fired) for not being “a team player.”

    Which – as my participation being nearly so much elliptical on these Western Threads as it was the GCC Advisory decided me not “a team player” only an Aussie could possibly appreciate.

    Eight seconds of listening for you Musey (the clarinet promised to come in later … but I, not the patience
    _____________

    You notice what I’ve just done Musey? And chewing my Arkie hindquarters like you is a Punctulatarianist up to Miliband standards?

    (Is – being locale are – properly speaking for me, grammatically correct. You Musey however speaking HRH English, despite your clarinet, flute and questionable piano are reasonably suspect.)

    Posted May 5, 2015 at 5:26 am | Permalink
36. TheBigHenry says

    “it can be problematic especially with age”

    I hear that, WW, albeit only when you shout it.

    Aging is not for sissies, my friend. But it sure beats the alternative.

    Posted May 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm | Permalink
37. Malcolm says

    Better to be “over the hill” than under it.

    Posted May 5, 2015 at 5:35 pm | Permalink
38. TheBigHenry says

    Amen to that, bro.

    Posted May 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm | Permalink
39. Musey says

    JK, I’m really sorry to hear that. What a rotten lot they are, not realizing that original thinkers like you are invaluable and irreplaceable. If you were closer I’d have you round for dinner. Now there’s a lucky escape!

    If you want me to write to you I’m happy for Malcolm to give you my email address.

    Posted May 5, 2015 at 9:42 pm | Permalink
40. TheBigHenry says

    It’s official (i.e., the “science is settled”): I have a temporary reprieve from old age! Until further notice, you must refer to me as middle-aged Henry.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11539573/Middle-age-now-lasts-until-74-as-baby-boomers-refuse-to-grow-old.html

    Posted May 6, 2015 at 3:46 pm | Permalink
41. JK says

    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/

    Posted May 7, 2015 at 6:42 am | Permalink
42. JK says

    http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2015/05/crikey-i-was-right.html

    Posted May 8, 2015 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
43. JK says

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/hookers-for-hillary_n_7229398.html

    Posted May 8, 2015 at 8:11 pm | Permalink
44. TheBigHenry says

    From JK’s last link:

    “Bunny Ranch Sex Workers Endorse Hillary Clinton For President”

    Smart business move. Because Bill.

    Posted May 9, 2015 at 10:55 pm | Permalink