[PenultimateManStanding]

I like threads where nothing can be said to be 'off-topic'. A potpourri grab bag where you can say anything you want to. When I was an undergraduate at UCSC, I knew an intellectual guy who liked to sing, "Tabula Rasa, Tabula Rasa". I say 'intellectual' advisedly, because he took chemistry three times before he could pass it. He was hung up on the idea of a mole. I wish I'd known then what I know know, I could have saved him a lot of trouble. 'Mole' is just a number. But he passed anyway and got a degree and then went on to work for a San Fransisco psychology research outfit before getting disgusted and going off to New York to be an artist. I never saw him after that time he came back to campus and asked me to use my library card so he could check out a bunch of Picasso books. I let him and he didn't disappoint me because he turned them in. But I talked to his mother a year or so later and she said he was unhappy in New York. He was living with other art students who were just into gay orgies. But that isn't what I wanted to talk about. I mentioned jimsonweed in the Zombie thread and it brought back childhood memories. As a little kid in a rural area, I used to eat all kinds of stuff that grew natural. I would eat the wild peas, suck the honey out of yellow trumpet shaped flowers that I later learned were on the tobacco plants that the Spanish Missionaries introduced into California. There were berries and fruits that I ate. Then there was the jimsonweed. They were all over the place, very mysterious with their big white trumpet-flowers, their prickly ball seed pods. But somehow, even though they were fascinating, they scared me. I never dreamed of eating anything on that plant even as a small child. Many years later I found out how poisonous they were, not just sick-poison, but insidiously psychotropic poison. Nobody told me, so how did I know?

[PenultimateManStanding]

Check this out: the intellectual guy used to make saunas, very interersting guy. I went with him and my roommate down to Baja to find hot springs. He was the one who told me that the human brain finishes making it's neural connections at around 29, thus setting indentity, so I'd better get laid as many times as possible before then. I googled his name and got this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')I'm pleased to see Noel writing about his make-do kilns and use of human =
bone ash. He stopped by here on the way to New Mexico from Big =
Sur/Carmel area of California for a too brief visit a couple of weeks =
ago .... was delivering a load of abalone shells to a Medicine Man in =
New Mexico. I've encouraged Noel to write more for Clayart; he has an =
independent perspective, yet he is a thoroughly ensconced clayperson, =
just as we all are.

[Daculling]

I grew up in suburban Cali on the edge of large tracts of undeveloped land. As a child (with other children) we would eat the fruit of prickly pear cactus raw, it was sweet and a good snack but you had to be able to judge the ripeness correctly. We ate rattlesnake when we came across them but they mostly ran away so only the most ornery were killed and consumed. Crawdads from the creek when we had time to build a fire... that stopped when we accidentally caused as small wildfire, no more than 1/4 acre burned before it was put out so don't call the authorities Of course I was adept in bee handling, so the local hive deployments were robbed by myself.

[Daculling]

Oh, forgot where you are PMS. This was early 80's by lake Hodges.

[Kylon]

If the guy was/is into gay orgies, chances are he has/had AIDS.

If he's an artist most likely he's poor.

If he's poor and has AIDS most likely he would've died due to expensiveness of the medication.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'I')f the guy was/is into gay orgies, chances are he has/had AIDS.

If he's an artist most likely he's poor.

If he's poor and has AIDS most likely he would've died due to expensiveness of the medication.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daculling', 'O')h, forgot where you are PMS. This was early 80's by lake Hodges.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ElijahJones', ' ')but then humans can sometimes become so craven that the word 'no' is not an acceptable answer.

[lateralus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')this is a thread where you can post anything you want to.

[PenultimateManStanding]

don't be a fool:

God in the Movies Any idiot can see that they were living like we can only dream of.

[PenultimateManStanding]

lateralus: there have been many joke threads. I even started a sick joke thread once that got some choice entries

But back to hot springs. I seem to be posting a kind of slow-motion 'life passes before my eyes' thing here as though I was about to die. hmm. . . Once when I was a geology student, we went to sit in a geothermal hot spring in the Owens Valley of eastern California at dusk. very nice, someone passed a joint around, very groovy. Then my friend Noel and my roommate & I went down to Baja California during the Xmas break and visited hot springs down there. The best one was in Puertocitos, about 50 miles south of San Felipe by dirt road (1976). It's in the rocks along the Sea of Cortez between high and low tides. You can only use it certain times of the day because as the tide rolls out, it gets too hot. And as the tide rolls in, it gets swamped by the ocean water. I remember sitting in it and looking out to the sea: schools of sharks swam nearby. The only time I have ever seen anything like that, very spooky. Sharp dorsal fins by the dozens.

[holmes]

Hey PMS! Have a very good family friend who lives in Carmel. next to Jerry Garcias home. She lives in a renovated barn. I remember in 1977 when I was there as a 7 year old. it was still open and in construction. I remember running around outside amongst the pot plants.
She has a radio show on the local radio station and when I go down sehs goign to have me on in the studio. Gonna address some serious doomer topics. The audience is gonna love it! Its going to be fun. I will be HOLMES on there! My alter ego. PO will definately be on it and I am sure going to address the absurdity of the corniocopiaholios. Sugar beets gonna save the day? LOL! hahahahahaha!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', '
')She has a radio show on the local radio station and when I go down sehs goign to have me on in the studio. Gonna address some serious doomer topics. The audience is gonna love it!

[jboogy]

I think I've heard that same story Lateralus, with a few minor variations. The story I'd heard was of a planet of extra large woman who demanded sex from wayward space travelers , their word for sex was "snu snu" or something like that. apparently they also would kill the men once they were completely drained of their seminal fluids. supposedly the only males spared death were boneless green slug-like men from a neighboring solar system because they were the best at "snu snu", this race of beings were called Kiff's if I remember correctly. (red face emoticon)
Didn't ulysses almost get killed by a woman from too much sex, while his shipmates were turned into animals? I haven't brushed up on my greek mythology in quite a while so I'm not sure.
In a distantly related vein, a buddy of mine came over today upset 'cause he caught his wife in bed with his best friend,he told me he called her things he'd never called anyone before(he's religious) and now he regretted the things he'd said to her. I couldn't help but ask what he'd said to his best friend when this happened , did he curse him out too? He told me he just yelled "BAD DOG" and chased him outside .(tongue out emoticon)

[lateralus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'l')ateralus: there have been many joke threads. I even started a sick joke thread once that got some choice entries