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250 comments and not one mention of Pokemon Go?

Oops.

Still waiting for the non-emergency real ONT...

OH! There it is!

OregonMuse: ...I mean, to come up with text that looks and feels like it actually means something, but it's actually gibberish, that takes a certain genius.

I have a relative, brilliant mind, but years ago descended into madness, whose writings and drawings are decipherable only by the author. What little I was able to grasp, before his work became utterly indecipherable, was generally nonsense and self-delusion. You know the elaborate mathematical permutation tricks which basically amount to a=a? Like that.

So, I think it's a kind of dream-like madness - makes sense when you're dreaming, but upon awakening you realize it's just garbage, laced with bizarre beauty and a few seeming insights, but ultimately mostly nonsense.

Escher without the conscious controls... or something.

If I'm not clear, it's because it's hot here and I'm getting ready to head out into the day. Excuses, excuses...

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Shhh! Quiet in the library!!

Thanks for another cool Book Thread post on a hot July day, O'Muse.

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This week, whilst meandering through YouTube's back alleys of ghosts, UFOs, time-travelers and strange beings, I ran across the video linked below.

Thought I'd save you time and pass along the basic info, although the "bizarre illustrations" items are worth watching it.

Other than the gnostic gospels and the Voynich Manuscript, these were all new to me.

I see several other similar "strange books" videos. I could waste more time not reading, checking them out!

[And I'm inspired - slightly - to do a similar kind of boring ambiant-music-laden "top [number]" video on "inspired" religious works, you know, like Book of Mormon, Course in Miracles, Urantia, Levi's Gospel, and Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science work.]

This video met my standard of no more than one minute per item. That is, no "top ten" list that takes fifteen minutes to plow through.

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7 Most Mysterious Books ever Written
IndexSe7en on YouTube 7:05
https://youtu.be/DMqjZpcOwsk

1.
The Smithfield Decretals
13th Century French manuscript with bizarre illustrations

2.
The Red Book
(apparently not the Red Book of Westmarch that Bilbo wrote)
Carl Jung, 20th Century work using "active imagination" - and apparently was imaginative

3.
Prodigiorum Ac
16th Century work by French humanist Conrad Lycosthenes describes "otherworldly happenings" since the time of Adam and Eve. UFOs, sea monsters, strange critters.

4.
Gnostic Gospels
This seems like an outlier for this list. The 4th Century Nag Hammadi library, Gosp of Mary, Thomas, et al. (What most impressed me about these gospels when I read them, decades ago, was how wisely those who cobbled "the Bible" together were to choose only Matt, Mark, Luke, and Jack.)

5.
Codex Seraphinianus
"Written in a language no one understands and filled with illustrations of surreal and impossible things." Pub in 1981 by Luigi Seraffini, who apparently had some powerful hallucinogens.

6.
Voynich Manuscript
15th Century, maybe Italian. Indescipherable text, bizarre illustrations. Read recently many pages had been ripped out of this work. Hmmm.

7.
The Rohonc Codex
Illustrated manuscript, unknown language, strange illustrations, surfaced in Hungary in the 19th Century.

Still waiting for the non-emergency real overnight thread...

Still waiting for the "real" ONT...

Laurie David's Cervix: Living in the post ST:TNG era, by flipping the nacelle pylons to below the secondary hull, the ship gets a Federation/Klingon hybrid vibe.

Bu.. bu.. but...

In space, no one can say which way is "up."

Maybe it was the ship designation was painted on the bottom of... oh, never mind.

Can't get rid of Trek. It just keeps klinging on.

Laurie David's Cervix: The new Trek TV series has a name and a ship: Star Trek: Discovery...

Can anyone watch that and not think of the similar scene from Galaxy Quest?

* leaning heavily to one side in my chair *

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Say nothing
Do nothing
Be nothing
There is nothing
you will not understand
-Old wise guy

* unlurks *

Too tired to participate.
Just too late.
Y'all are great.

Good night, Gracies!

* snoozes *

Howdy, overnighties. Pass the bottle.

Study 'proves alcohol causes cancer.' The problem? There wasn't a study

It's a comment piece. It doesn't contain any new research, nor does it contain statistical analysis of previous research. It's not a meta-analysis or a systematic review. It is a short essay in the 'For Debate' section of the journal in which one woman gives her opinion about whether correlation equals causation when it comes to the epidemiological evidence on alcohol and cancer.

MJA, IOTW Report
http://bit.ly/2aftl5u
Citing Health.Spectator.co.uk

A.) I can't believe I watched the whole thing, the version with the 30 extra minutes no less.

2.) I can't believe I read the whole thing, but, well, you know, Ace movie review. Gotta read it all.

Of the two, reading the review was definitely much less of a waste of time than watching that dreadful movie.

Our time with pets is always too short. Heartbreaking as this has surely been for you (and, vicariously, for us), to have these two tiny kittens not make it, I think it is truly wonderful that you did give them what you could for as little time as they had. Bless you for that.

That unfastening-velcro sound you hear is me tearing myself away from the ONT.

Maybe I can catch the EMT tomorrow.

Good night, Gracies!

OregonMuse #282: I guess we should be grateful Maet didn't give us is a HelenThomasapalooza or a Ruth Ginsburgapalooza

Good Gawd, O'Muse, what part of "don't give him any ideas" is unclear to you??

Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics...

No matter how I try to resist, somehow, those links get clicked.

Remember, they take 20% more anesthesia!

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The bigger picture of the redhead at the top - yeah, preferred the one with the tats not showing.

Sherry, I waved back! Said, good to see you survived Chicago. But... message got lost.

First I lost net. Thought maybe Maet's Yokofest had broken the site.

Then I came back but on a banned IP number.

Once I figured this out and got back a zillion potential replies were too late for me to make. Okay, two or three.

But, Hi back, Sherry!

News Morons can use... and always suspected:

https://youtu.be/lo09U0w-tLM?t=1m49s
10 Amazing Facts #25
Today I Found Out @1:49

Redheads are harder to sedate than any other group. Need 20% more anesthesia. Also have a higher tolerance for pain than normal people.

All those photos of Melania without her makeup!!

I read the content.

I'm blind now.