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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · Post by **Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)** » 15 Apr 2010 4:54 pm

The 76th page of Nothing ...

I used to gas up at the Union 76 and it didn't take me long to learn that I got no mileage with their fuel. Now I'm at the Nothing 76 and my tank is just as empty.

Jon Smorada · Post by **Jon Smorada** » 15 Apr 2010 5:16 pm

The fact that I'm posting this means I have nothing better to do but beat a dead horse, which does absolutely nothing for the horse considering it's already dead, but I digress...without good there would be no evil, without light there would be no darkness...ad nauseum. It's a big part of ancient Taoist philosophy; the yin and yang. I'd dig out the Book but I don't want my brain to explode.

chas smith · Post by **chas smith** » 15 Apr 2010 7:44 pm

Hate to think that I didn't get to participate in this one. And now that I've sent in my tax payment, I have a little more nothing in the account. Sure wish I had rebuilt the Bridgeport and gotten the writeoff, instead of sending it you-know-where.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 16 Apr 2010 6:33 am

Following on from my previous posting....

There's no such thing as darkness: darkness is the absence of light.

Savell · Post by **Savell** » 16 Apr 2010 4:41 pm

Is there nothing that can stop this madness?

Jon Smorada · Post by **Jon Smorada** » 16 Apr 2010 6:14 pm

b0b can lock the post. it's probably eating up disk space on the server. he can do a cleanup and then this whole thread will go from something to nothing...a just fate. I better stop now since I just got back from the next door neighbors. He gave me three glasses of a concoction that contains several alcoholic substances including dago red wine and cherries. It was aged for three years and it's a good thing I could see the porch lights across the field. Otherwise I'd be wandering through the woods looking for home. I don't want to hear dueling banjos...lol!

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 17 Apr 2010 5:34 am

On Page 70 of this endeavor (???) I mentioned a thread in Steel Players that had 837 replies and 155,166 views; way in excess of the space this one has created/consumed...

I keep thinking it has died but it doesn't and that may be the attraction it holds. No matter what we do or say, NOTHING seems to affect it. The effect then is that it stays vibrant and well with no apparent source of direction or accomplishment.

I don't know why...maybe b0b will kill it; maybe not !!

Regards, Paul

Jon Smorada · Post by **Jon Smorada** » 17 Apr 2010 8:59 am

Yes, he may kill it or maybe he'll do nothing, either way he's doing something even if what he does is nothing. Maybe we should find something else to do.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 17 Apr 2010 9:09 am

I check this thread when I'm doing NOTHING __ else.
There must be a way to retain the last 10 pages in memory and delete the first posted up to that point.
This would clear disk space __ would it not?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 17 Apr 2010 9:42 am

There's an old saying, "Speak of the Devil and he will appear." Don't even talk about closing this thread: it puts ideas into people's heads. Besides, words don't take up much space on a database. What takes up space is images, which is why we're limited in the size of photos that can be uploaded.

Say NOTHING.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 17 Apr 2010 9:43 am

Rick Collins wrote:I check this thread when I'm doing NOTHING __ else.
There must be a way to retain the last 10 pages in memory and delete the first posted up to that point.
This would clear disk space __ would it not?

Very little. Almost NOTHING.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 17 Apr 2010 9:16 pm

Notice the additional references to line item 3...

NINE WORDS WOMEN USE

(1) Fine : This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you
need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes : If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour.
Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch
the game before helping around the house.

(3) Nothing : This is the calm before the
storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with
nothing usually end in fine.

(4) Go Ahead : This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

(5) Loud Sigh : This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often
misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she
is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to # 3
for the meaning of nothing.)

(6) That's Okay : This is one of the most dangerous
statements a woman can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard
before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7) Thanks : A woman is
thanking you, do not question, or faint.. Just say you're welcome. (I want to add in a
clause here - This is true, unless she says 'Thanks a lot' - that is PURE sarcasm and she
is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say 'you're welcome' , that will bring on a
'whatever')

(8) Whatever : Is a woman's way of saying GO TO HELL

(9) Don't worry about
it, I got it : Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has
told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a
man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to # 3.

Scott Shipley · Post by **Scott Shipley** » 17 Apr 2010 11:12 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:There's an old saying, "Speak of the Devil and he will appear."

You know my ex-wife?

Alan Brookes wrote:Say NOTHING.

And you can quote me on that.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 18 Apr 2010 10:01 am

And you can quote me on that.
Winking

Scott Shipley said, "

".

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 18 Apr 2010 10:33 am

"Hing mui is salty dried plum. It can be found in Hawaiian and Asian markets. It has a strong, distinctive flavor, and is often said to be an acquired taste, as it has a combination of sweet, sour, and salty taste. It has also been described as tart, and even tangy. Originally from China, the name "li hing mui" means "traveling plum". "Li hing" is "traveling" and "mui" is "plum." Li hing mui is also good for dry and scratchy throats, as it stimulates salivation."

But what we're talking about is NOT HING.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 18 Apr 2010 12:52 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:"Hing mui is salty dried plum. It can be found in Hawaiian and Asian markets. It has a strong, distinctive flavor, and is often said to be an acquired taste, as it has a combination of sweet, sour, and salty taste. It has also been described as tart, and even tangy. Originally from China, the name "li hing mui" means "traveling plum". "Li hing" is "traveling" and "mui" is "plum." Li hing mui is also good for dry and scratchy throats, as it stimulates salivation."

But what we're talking about is NOT HING.

Yes, I remember this very same thing when I was studying Oriental Mother Goose.
Little Jack Horner put in his thumb and pulled out a hing mui.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 19 Apr 2010 12:12 pm

Maybe someday it will be a movie.

Published in the United States
by Oxford University Press Inc., New York
c Frank Close 2009

ISBN 978–0–19–922586–6

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 19 Apr 2010 1:48 pm

I thought at first the movie had already been made but I was thinking about the THING and this is NOTHING !!

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 20 Apr 2010 11:07 am

http://www.nothing.net/deult.html

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 24 Apr 2010 5:41 am

NOTHING to shout about, Show Off Your Steel has
34 pages, 841 contributors and 156,559 views.

NOTHING has 76 pages, 1,898 contributors and 64,183 views.

And the winner is....

Regards, Paul

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 24 Apr 2010 6:00 am

Paul,
That shows us that we <i>may</i> have twice as many that know more about <b>NOTHING</b> than they know about steel guitars.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 24 Apr 2010 8:39 am

Paul Graupp wrote:...And the winner is....

The race is still on.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 24 Apr 2010 9:35 am

For all of the time I've been keeping-up with this thread,
SGF members have said that there is a lot of NOTHING here.
NOTHING could be further from a lie.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 24 Apr 2010 3:38 pm

Whether there's a lot of nothing or not much nothing amounts to the same thing.

Joe Harwell · Post by **Joe Harwell** » 24 Apr 2010 4:04 pm

And then there's Maude.

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