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Don Stockbauer

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Jun 9, 2011, 8:00:31 PM6/9/11
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Get a hold of the Science Channel's (#193 on the Dish Network)
"Through the Wormhole" episode titled "Life After Death." Prof.
Hofstadter is interviewed fairly extensively towards the end of the
program. This was a real treat for me, since the closest I had come
was audio during the "Spritual Machine" debate back 4 or 5 years ago.
But then, I had never tried youtube, that would have cinched it way
back.

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 17, 2011, 11:40:54 PM6/17/11
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Youtube has like 115 hits on "Hofstadter", so, tube away!

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 18, 2011, 7:42:20 AM6/18/11
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Like those tubers (well, canoers) that did the Texas Water Safari that
you could have tracked on trackleaders.com.

Mudge

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Jun 18, 2011, 4:18:36 PM6/18/11
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On 2011-06-18 05:42:20 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:

> Like those tubers (well, canoers) that did the Texas Water Safari that
> you could have tracked on trackleaders.com.

I had some tubers for dinner last evening !

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Don Stockbauer

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Jun 18, 2011, 7:55:56 PM6/18/11
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On Jun 18, 3:18 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
> On 2011-06-18 05:42:20 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> > Like those tubers (well, canoers) that did the Texas Water Safari that
> > you could have tracked on trackleaders.com.
>
> I had some tubers for dinner last evening !

You actually ate food, when there are starving children in Afghanistan?

Mudge

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Jun 18, 2011, 7:58:40 PM6/18/11
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Lettem eat poppies !

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 18, 2011, 8:44:15 PM6/18/11
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On Jun 18, 6:58 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
> On 2011-06-18 17:55:56 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> > On Jun 18, 3:18 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
> >> On 2011-06-18 05:42:20 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> >>> Like those tubers (well, canoers) that did the Texas Water Safari that
> >>> you could have tracked on trackleaders.com.
>
> >> I had some tubers for dinner last evening !
>
> > You actually ate food, when there are starving children in Afghanistan?
>
> Lettem eat poppies !
>

Lettem eat poppyseed cake!

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Tian

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Jun 20, 2011, 9:48:28 PM6/20/11
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Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Jun 18, 6:58 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
>> On 2011-06-18 17:55:56 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>>
>>> On Jun 18, 3:18 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
>>>> On 2011-06-18 05:42:20 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>>>>> Like those tubers (well, canoers) that did the Texas Water Safari that
>>>>> you could have tracked on trackleaders.com.
>>>> I had some tubers for dinner last evening !
>>> You actually ate food, when there are starving children in Afghanistan?
>> Lettem eat poppies !
>>
>
> Lettem eat poppyseed cake!
>
>

My friend Andrea gave me a cat litter box full of Aloe Vera plants.
One of sent up a pole a yard long with a big flower cluster on the top.
Never saw one of those before! The flowers look orange and tubular.
Now it's on my front porch beaming away...

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Latest change: words and pictures from another no nukes thing in SF.
The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is on an Ohio quarter.

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 20, 2011, 11:42:19 PM6/20/11
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On Jun 20, 8:48 pm, Tian <tnhar...@aceweb.com> wrote:
> Don Stockbauer wrote:
> > On Jun 18, 6:58 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
> >> On 2011-06-18 17:55:56 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> >>> On Jun 18, 3:18 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
> >>>> On 2011-06-18 05:42:20 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
> >>>>> Like those tubers (well, canoers) that did the Texas Water Safari that
> >>>>> you could have tracked on trackleaders.com.
> >>>> I had some tubers for dinner last evening !
> >>> You actually ate food, when there are starving children in Afghanistan?
> >> Lettem eat poppies !
>
> > Lettem eat poppyseed cake!
>
>  >
>
> My friend Andrea gave me a cat litter box full of Aloe Vera plants.
> One of sent up a pole a yard long with a big flower cluster on the top.
> Never saw one of those before! The flowers look orange and tubular.
> Now it's on my front porch beaming away...

I've never seen one bloom. It must be due to the fact that one can do
so much better in CA than in TX growing things. I knew a guy who got
a cut from a big AVP and had to break off a part of a leaf to rub the
juice on his wound. There's something vaguely Hofstadterian about
that.

Tian

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Jun 21, 2011, 4:38:33 PM6/21/11
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I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the plant:

http://tian.greens.org/MountainView/My/Porch/AloeVeraPlants.html


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Mudge

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Jun 21, 2011, 6:01:59 PM6/21/11
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On 2011-06-21 14:38:33 -0600, Tian said:

> I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the plant:

Works well as a salve - can't smoke worth a damn tho !!!!

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Tian

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Jun 21, 2011, 7:53:09 PM6/21/11
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Mudge wrote:
> On 2011-06-21 14:38:33 -0600, Tian said:
>
>> I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the plant:
>
> Works well as a salve - can't smoke worth a damn tho !!!!
>
That's probably why she was willing to give it away free.
Owners of smokable plants can charge a lot for the leaves and flowers.

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Tian
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Latest change: words and pictures from another no nukes thing in SF.

The screw I got mile 81 of bike the limits is on a Louisiana quarter.

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 21, 2011, 8:44:18 PM6/21/11
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On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, Tian <tnhar...@aceweb.com> wrote:
> Mudge wrote:
> > On 2011-06-21 14:38:33 -0600, Tian said:
>
> >> I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the plant:
>
> > Works well as a salve - can't smoke worth a damn tho !!!!
>
> That's probably why she was willing to give it away free.
> Owners of smokable plants can charge a lot for the leaves and flowers.

That bloom looks like the French Tickler I gave Darlene back in 1974.

Tian

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Jun 22, 2011, 4:49:41 PM6/22/11
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I'll take your word for it.

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 22, 2011, 4:53:28 PM6/22/11
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On Jun 22, 3:49 pm, Tian <tnhar...@aceweb.com> wrote:
> Don Stockbauer wrote:
> > On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, Tian <tnhar...@aceweb.com> wrote:
> >> Mudge wrote:
> >>> On 2011-06-21 14:38:33 -0600, Tian said:
> >>>> I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the plant:
> >>> Works well as a salve - can't smoke worth a damn tho !!!!
> >> That's probably why she was willing to give it away free.
> >> Owners of smokable plants can charge a lot for the leaves and flowers.
>
> > That bloom looks like the French Tickler I gave Darlene back in 1974.
>
> I'll take your word for it.

Why, thank you so much. Now I can say at least one person has
accepted at least one thing I've asserted.

Mudge

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Jun 22, 2011, 9:37:20 PM6/22/11
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On 2011-06-22 14:49:41 -0600, Tian said:
> Don Stockbauer wrote:
>> On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, Tian wrote:
>>> Mudge wrote:
>>>> On 2011-06-21 14:38:33 -0600, Tian said:
>>>>> I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the plant:
>>>> Works well as a salve - can't smoke worth a damn tho !!!!
>>> That's probably why she was willing to give it away free.
>>> Owners of smokable plants can charge a lot for the leaves and flowers.
>>
>> That bloom looks like the French Tickler I gave Darlene back in 1974.
>
> I'll take your word for it.

Me too !

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Don Stockbauer

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Jun 22, 2011, 10:45:27 PM6/22/11
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On Jun 22, 8:37 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
> On 2011-06-22 14:49:41 -0600, Tian said:
>
> > Don Stockbauer wrote:
> >> On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, Tian wrote:
> >>> Mudge wrote:
> >>>> On 2011-06-21 14:38:33 -0600, Tian said:
> >>>>> I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the plant:
> >>>> Works well as a salve - can't smoke worth a damn tho !!!!
> >>> That's probably why she was willing to give it away free.
> >>> Owners of smokable plants can charge a lot for the leaves and flowers.
>
> >> That bloom looks like the French Tickler I gave Darlene back in 1974.
>
> > I'll take your word for it.
>
> Me too !

OK, then. In the tradition of former President Bill Clinton, "That
bloom DOES NOT look like the French Tickler I gave Darlene back in
1974."

Mudge

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Jun 22, 2011, 11:03:39 PM6/22/11
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On 2011-06-22 20:45:27 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:

I'd smile - but - I'm too young to know wot one of them is !!!!!

Tian

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Jun 23, 2011, 2:14:59 AM6/23/11
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I know a Darlene in San Jose. I've known her for years. I am not going
near her with a french tickler, with or without the capital letters.

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 23, 2011, 8:24:29 AM6/23/11
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A bloom?

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 23, 2011, 8:28:06 AM6/23/11
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On Jun 23, 1:14 am, Tian <tnhar...@aceweb.com> wrote:
> Mudge wrote:
> > On 2011-06-22 20:45:27 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
> >> On Jun 22, 8:37 pm, Mudge wrote:
> >>> On 2011-06-22 14:49:41 -0600, Tian said:
> >>>> Don Stockbauer wrote:
> >>>>> On Jun 21, 6:53 pm, Tian wrote:
> >>>>>> Mudge wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 2011-06-21 14:38:33 -0600, Tian said:
> >>>>>>>> I've not tried using it as a salve yet. Here are picture of the
> >>>>>>>> plant:
> >>>>>>> Works well as a salve - can't smoke worth a damn tho !!!!
> >>>>>> That's probably why she was willing to give it away free.
> >>>>>> Owners of smokable plants can charge a lot for the leaves and
> >>>>>> flowers.
>
> >>>>> That bloom looks like the French Tickler I gave Darlene back in 1974.
>
> >>>> I'll take your word for it.
>
> >>> Me too !
>
> >> OK, then.  In the tradition of former President Bill Clinton, "That
> >> bloom DOES NOT look like the French Tickler I gave Darlene back in
> >> 1974."
>
> > I'd smile - but - I'm too young to know wot one of them is !!!!!
>
> I know a Darlene in San Jose. I've known her for years. I am not going
> near her with a french tickler, with or without the capital letters.

My fictitious former girlfriend 's name was stolen from a soft-porn
novel title I once saw for sale in a gas station while Mitch Harbin
and I were travelling to some football game long ago in Alabama:
"Darlene takes a Toss."

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 23, 2011, 8:32:38 AM6/23/11
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My favorite song's playing!

"Follow me, don't follow me.
I've got my spine, I've got my Orange Crush."

Well, one of my favorites.

But who cares?

Tian

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Jun 23, 2011, 5:45:45 PM6/23/11
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I'm remembering Steely Dan singing "they call Alabama the Crimson Tide".

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Tian

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Jun 23, 2011, 5:47:05 PM6/23/11
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I hear ya. This is not meant in a derrogatory way:

A 1981 cent goes in the pink piggy bank.
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Don Stockbauer

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Jun 23, 2011, 8:06:10 PM6/23/11
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I'm remembering that line too. It makes more sense than that
contradictory "Follow me, don't follow me" stuff.

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 23, 2011, 8:09:02 PM6/23/11
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That's your harshest criticism possible. I'll never recover. Off to
cry in the pecan orchard.

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 29, 2011, 11:32:54 PM6/29/11
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And on top of it, you might explain to the readers out there, if any,
what you mean by it, since your last explanation was what, maybe 7
years ago?

Don Stockbauer

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Jun 30, 2011, 6:11:10 AM6/30/11
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Test

Mudge

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Jun 30, 2011, 2:02:18 PM6/30/11
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On 2011-06-30 04:11:10 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:

> Test

Tickle !

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Tian

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Jun 30, 2011, 4:20:35 PM6/30/11
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Mudge wrote:
> On 2011-06-30 04:11:10 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>
>> Test
>
> Tickle !
>
I gotta go tinkle...

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Don Stockbauer

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On Jun 30, 3:20 pm, Tian <tnhar...@aceweb.com> wrote:
> Mudge wrote:
> > On 2011-06-30 04:11:10 -0600, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> >> Test
>
> > Tickle !
>
> I gotta go tinkle...

"You can ring my bell el el,
Ring my bell."

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Don Stockbauer

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Once Don Oliver and I were doing a lunar grazing occultation near Houston and a person’s home was near the graze path , he gave Don Oliver a huge aloe vera plant , largest I ever saw maybe 4 feet across and 6 feet high , as Don Oliver was loading the plant into his truck he cut himself on the thorns so it worked out very well because he just broke off the tip of one of the leaves and rubbed the juice on the wound.
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Don Stockbauer

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On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 7:36:49 AM UTC-5, Don Stockbauer wrote:
> Once Don Oliver and I were doing a lunar grazing occultation near Houston and a person’s home was near the graze path , he gave Don Oliver a huge aloe vera plant , largest I ever saw maybe 4 feet across and 6 feet high , as Don Oliver was loading the plant into his truck he cut himself on the thorns so it worked out very well because he just broke off the tip of one of the leaves and rubbed the juice on the wound.

I miss Tian and Mudge.
Mudge is out of reach forever but I assume Tian is still out there.
I'm finding that teasing people never comes to any good.
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Don Stockbauer

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