When are two bongos too many ?
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Musically, I am not competent to address this question, but, I can say that: when I opened my GMail Spam folder today, and observed a message from "Elfa Kabongo Omar Bongo," that contained only an instruction to read and open a "doc.x" file-attachment, that I did reach the place where two bongos were too many. In that place, my GPS stopped working, as well as my compass, and altimeter, and while I could see nothing, in mist so heavy that distinguishing where ground met sky was impossible, I felt it was best to stand stock-still, and watch my breath, temporarily visible as it merged with the mist. In a moment of inspiration (exhalation, actually) I screamed out: "Ramo Ognobak Afle;" and, mirabile dictu, I was returned to a whistle-clean Google Spam folder. best, Bill p.s. a Google search on the two-bongo name returns 475 hits. A search on the name, reversed, yield zero hits: this verifies the fact the name is, itself, a magical spell, or mantra, probably from the Voudon religion in the Caribbean, or one of its African sources. The sender is undoubtedly a Caplata (or Bokor), a sorcerer priest, or priestess, of said religion, and I bet you they use an iPad sanctified, charged with mana, with some kind of blood from some black animal, within which a variant of the Meursault Prime algorithm is used to generate the "name of power" used by the sender. Please note that I am not referring to the "Mersenne Prime" algorithm, but rather the algorithm used by Camus in L'Etranger to generate that eponymously named central character, which later analysis has revealed to be closely related to the future 16 years of dictatorship by the Bush dynasty: "They find the Arab but Meursault convinces Raymond to give him his gun. ..... a top-ten mutual fund holder in Halliburton, which has obtained prime contracts in Iraq. ..... The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as a ..."[^].
"While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence,in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see." Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Musically, I am not competent to address this question, but, I can say that: when I opened my GMail Spam folder today, and observed a message from "Elfa Kabongo Omar Bongo," that contained only an instruction to read and open a "doc.x" file-attachment, that I did reach the place where two bongos were too many. In that place, my GPS stopped working, as well as my compass, and altimeter, and while I could see nothing, in mist so heavy that distinguishing where ground met sky was impossible, I felt it was best to stand stock-still, and watch my breath, temporarily visible as it merged with the mist. In a moment of inspiration (exhalation, actually) I screamed out: "Ramo Ognobak Afle;" and, mirabile dictu, I was returned to a whistle-clean Google Spam folder. best, Bill p.s. a Google search on the two-bongo name returns 475 hits. A search on the name, reversed, yield zero hits: this verifies the fact the name is, itself, a magical spell, or mantra, probably from the Voudon religion in the Caribbean, or one of its African sources. The sender is undoubtedly a Caplata (or Bokor), a sorcerer priest, or priestess, of said religion, and I bet you they use an iPad sanctified, charged with mana, with some kind of blood from some black animal, within which a variant of the Meursault Prime algorithm is used to generate the "name of power" used by the sender. Please note that I am not referring to the "Mersenne Prime" algorithm, but rather the algorithm used by Camus in L'Etranger to generate that eponymously named central character, which later analysis has revealed to be closely related to the future 16 years of dictatorship by the Bush dynasty: "They find the Arab but Meursault convinces Raymond to give him his gun. ..... a top-ten mutual fund holder in Halliburton, which has obtained prime contracts in Iraq. ..... The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as a ..."[^].
"While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence,in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see." Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
If you've smoked a big spliff today, that would go a long way to explaining some of your recent posts. If you haven't, then perhaps it may help out some. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Musically, I am not competent to address this question, but, I can say that: when I opened my GMail Spam folder today, and observed a message from "Elfa Kabongo Omar Bongo," that contained only an instruction to read and open a "doc.x" file-attachment, that I did reach the place where two bongos were too many. In that place, my GPS stopped working, as well as my compass, and altimeter, and while I could see nothing, in mist so heavy that distinguishing where ground met sky was impossible, I felt it was best to stand stock-still, and watch my breath, temporarily visible as it merged with the mist. In a moment of inspiration (exhalation, actually) I screamed out: "Ramo Ognobak Afle;" and, mirabile dictu, I was returned to a whistle-clean Google Spam folder. best, Bill p.s. a Google search on the two-bongo name returns 475 hits. A search on the name, reversed, yield zero hits: this verifies the fact the name is, itself, a magical spell, or mantra, probably from the Voudon religion in the Caribbean, or one of its African sources. The sender is undoubtedly a Caplata (or Bokor), a sorcerer priest, or priestess, of said religion, and I bet you they use an iPad sanctified, charged with mana, with some kind of blood from some black animal, within which a variant of the Meursault Prime algorithm is used to generate the "name of power" used by the sender. Please note that I am not referring to the "Mersenne Prime" algorithm, but rather the algorithm used by Camus in L'Etranger to generate that eponymously named central character, which later analysis has revealed to be closely related to the future 16 years of dictatorship by the Bush dynasty: "They find the Arab but Meursault convinces Raymond to give him his gun. ..... a top-ten mutual fund holder in Halliburton, which has obtained prime contracts in Iraq. ..... The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as a ..."[^].
"While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence,in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see." Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
It seems to me that two Bongos is just the right number[^]. Sadly, there would seem to be insufficient pairs, as they are an endangered species.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Musically, I am not competent to address this question, but, I can say that: when I opened my GMail Spam folder today, and observed a message from "Elfa Kabongo Omar Bongo," that contained only an instruction to read and open a "doc.x" file-attachment, that I did reach the place where two bongos were too many. In that place, my GPS stopped working, as well as my compass, and altimeter, and while I could see nothing, in mist so heavy that distinguishing where ground met sky was impossible, I felt it was best to stand stock-still, and watch my breath, temporarily visible as it merged with the mist. In a moment of inspiration (exhalation, actually) I screamed out: "Ramo Ognobak Afle;" and, mirabile dictu, I was returned to a whistle-clean Google Spam folder. best, Bill p.s. a Google search on the two-bongo name returns 475 hits. A search on the name, reversed, yield zero hits: this verifies the fact the name is, itself, a magical spell, or mantra, probably from the Voudon religion in the Caribbean, or one of its African sources. The sender is undoubtedly a Caplata (or Bokor), a sorcerer priest, or priestess, of said religion, and I bet you they use an iPad sanctified, charged with mana, with some kind of blood from some black animal, within which a variant of the Meursault Prime algorithm is used to generate the "name of power" used by the sender. Please note that I am not referring to the "Mersenne Prime" algorithm, but rather the algorithm used by Camus in L'Etranger to generate that eponymously named central character, which later analysis has revealed to be closely related to the future 16 years of dictatorship by the Bush dynasty: "They find the Arab but Meursault convinces Raymond to give him his gun. ..... a top-ten mutual fund holder in Halliburton, which has obtained prime contracts in Iraq. ..... The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as a ..."[^].
"While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence,in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see." Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
I take it you watched the entire Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-Fi channel this weekend?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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If you've smoked a big spliff today, that would go a long way to explaining some of your recent posts. If you haven't, then perhaps it may help out some. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
Thanks for your concern, Chris, but for me the only two drugs I ever use are caffeine in the am, and the internet. Never smoked, never drank alcohol. Now in my twenties (which started in 1963) ... well ... you know, the usual, but I was trying to be a beatnik then, and I was always too intellectual and literary to ever fit in the numb-skull "come on people now, fall on your brother, let's all get together and infect one another" type thing. Whether yogic pranayama, and anapasati (not a type of Italian pasta) meditation is a drug or not: I leave up to you :) best, Bill
"While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence,in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see." Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I take it you watched the entire Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-Fi channel this weekend?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
Thanks for the concern, SH, but I do not have any tv service here, and do not watch tv with the exception of the weekly net re-run of the American Sunday morning "Meet the Press" program, and some YouTube videos. best, Bill
"While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence,in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see." Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Musically, I am not competent to address this question, but, I can say that: when I opened my GMail Spam folder today, and observed a message from "Elfa Kabongo Omar Bongo," that contained only an instruction to read and open a "doc.x" file-attachment, that I did reach the place where two bongos were too many. In that place, my GPS stopped working, as well as my compass, and altimeter, and while I could see nothing, in mist so heavy that distinguishing where ground met sky was impossible, I felt it was best to stand stock-still, and watch my breath, temporarily visible as it merged with the mist. In a moment of inspiration (exhalation, actually) I screamed out: "Ramo Ognobak Afle;" and, mirabile dictu, I was returned to a whistle-clean Google Spam folder. best, Bill p.s. a Google search on the two-bongo name returns 475 hits. A search on the name, reversed, yield zero hits: this verifies the fact the name is, itself, a magical spell, or mantra, probably from the Voudon religion in the Caribbean, or one of its African sources. The sender is undoubtedly a Caplata (or Bokor), a sorcerer priest, or priestess, of said religion, and I bet you they use an iPad sanctified, charged with mana, with some kind of blood from some black animal, within which a variant of the Meursault Prime algorithm is used to generate the "name of power" used by the sender. Please note that I am not referring to the "Mersenne Prime" algorithm, but rather the algorithm used by Camus in L'Etranger to generate that eponymously named central character, which later analysis has revealed to be closely related to the future 16 years of dictatorship by the Bush dynasty: "They find the Arab but Meursault convinces Raymond to give him his gun. ..... a top-ten mutual fund holder in Halliburton, which has obtained prime contracts in Iraq. ..... The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as a ..."[^].
"While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence,in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see." Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
Bill, you are just a weird bloke, don't ever stop being you.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH