July 29, 2004

Fight fire with fire; fight dung with dung. I don't remember this in Dante, but it must appear somewhere within Malebolge: a smoky, stinky blaze in the dried crust of a three-acre manure lagoon on a dairy farm.
posted by goetter 20 years ago
  • This post is a flaming lake of poo.
  • BlueHorse, quit crapping on the thread, please.
  • re: Dante - it was the flatterers, if memory serves ...
  • But the flatterers' feces wasn't flaming. The ditch of the evil counselors had the flame. So - evil, flattering counselors? (above reads like it was badly translated, hmmm)
  • Go to Canto 18 or so of the Inferno and start reading -- if it's there, you'll eventually come upon it And I won't. Never sweetened, chores like these. It is far better to be bees -- We flip our little wings and flit In order to avoid the Pit.
  • I went and looked when this post went up, actually, and I found shit, and I found flames, but I did not find flaming shit, but maybe I didn't look hard enough?
  • This actually happens a lot. This happened when I was a kid down on the farm with a big pile of cow shit, caused by composting. We just let the fuckin thing burn, to hell with it, said Dante. And in Nepal, when I was there, they were using dried yak dung as fuel for their hearths. True. I ate tsampa made with yak butter, cooked over a dung fire. And in Badagara I met a swami who ate cow shit, and who later set himself on fire. And so the circle is complete. When I left you, I was Butter churner, now I am the Mooster.
  • Ah, Nostril, We 'merkins need not look to them furriners for examples of how to burn shit. Wagon trains coming West used buffalo dung to cook their dinners. We've never been able to duplicate that yummy smoky flavor in our boiled beans since then. Perhaps this was simply a bean-fest gone wrong.
  • Royal We, or just spaced out on sentence construction--you decide.
  • In context, probably Royal Wee. "How 'bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?" "I'd say you've had enough!!"
  • Buffalo Dung Beans. This thread must never die.
  • Dung of Buffalo Eye of Bean Leg of Antelope Fart of steam
  • So, Nostril - do we have to keep 3 going now? May be a bit of a challange for monkey brains. We don't have to abandon Turkmenbashi, do we?
  • Maybe we can just delegate the duties to him. And then, like watch.
  • One more tagline! (This one is dedicated to Nostrildamus) Monkeyfilter: "I'd say you've had enough!!"