From: Clare Elizabeth Aukofer 
Subject: Repost: Bogbash defined 
Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
Date: 1997/04/03 

At the request of one or two obviously strange people, I'm reposting my
"Bogbash Defined" post from August of 1995.  This ante-dated Deborah
Stevenson's report, and was for the purpose of answering the questions
of folks who had no idea what all of the folks who were suddenly
remembering attending Bogbash I were talking about.  Phetsy had
suggested that I FAQ the definition, but I didn't know how.  (Still
don't.)  However, it should help those of you who remain confused remain
confused (sic).

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Bogbash Defined: LAST TIME

Because there are obviously masochistic people out there still asking
what the bogbash is, or was (or might be), and because these requests
come up sometimes in rather odd threads, I thought it wise to once and
for all post and label as such the "working definition" of the bogbash.
As you know, by "working definition" we mean that it could change at any
time.

A bogbash occurs in a parallel universe; it is essentially a
hyper-reality superimposed over a limited notion of time, space, the
universe and everything.  Deborah Stevenson has also defined the bogbash
as "The collective unconscious of rec eq."  Those of you who have never
to your knowledge entered into a parallel universe--though if you have
horses I don't see how that could be possible--might try to suggest that
the bogbash *never happened* in the standard definition of reality; yet
the fact is that so many people remember so much, and that there are
*still* some people passed out after well more than a month, and that
there are still people who *were there* but who simply do not remember
(we strongly suspect the presence of some extraterrestrials, but we
weren't sure because we couldn't tell them from some of the horses).

A simple rule of thumb is this: if you don't remember attending the
bogbash, you were probably there, either actively participating or
lurking.  Take James McCameron, who didn't remember a thing until we
suggested he check his body for tattoos, tribal markings or burns made
by ashes from burning hemp (rope, of course).  Some of this memory loss
has also ocurred because of some strange mushrooms found growing in Kris
Carrol's compost heap.

If you don't remember, you have several options: 

1) Count your blessings
2) Stare at a pile of manure and keep saying "bogbash, bogbash" 
   until the memories start to return.  
3) Check your body for markings as described above 
4) ask your horses; I would suggest using the animal communicator 
   Sue Wong describes in her post of the same name
5) Check all of your shoes for duck feathers
6) See if you have a previously unowned nerf bat in your home somewhere. 

*Warning: Under no circumstances undergo hypnosis.  This would cause
your memories to occur in this universe instead of the parallel universe
and you would entirely lose your sense of humor, as has apparently
happened already with one or two people.

This is the very best I can do.  Perhaps Deborah Stevenson, who acted as
official historian at the bash, would be kind enough to re-post her
original report, if there is sufficient demand.

Excuse me now.  Kit just brought me another mushroom.

Clare Aukofer, who hopes that everybody's memory comes back real soon,
posting from Charlottesville


From: "Terry von Gease" 
Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
Subject: Re: What is a bogbash? and RecEquestrians
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:17:31 -0700
Organization: Lodi Home for the Bald

"Allan M. Due"  wrote in message

> Still, my nagging curiosity still is fixated on: "Whence the word"?  Who
> coined the term bogbash?  Was the bash in a bog?  Inquiring minds want to
> know.

It was coined way back when Auntie Sheila, in a fit of hormonal imbalance,
made an offer rife with extreme kinkiness to which our response was "not
without a quantity of mayonnaise, no, gag, miracle whip, as well as a midget
and a firetruck". The bog thus being created by wayward firehoses being
brandished in the imaginations of all privy to the exchange, the bogbash
just naturally followed.

...and there you are...

--
Terry

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