The Reilly/Bosch Incident

Date Posted: 20:48:29 06/18/03 Wed
Author: Reilly
Subject: I agree...it would be very exciting...and also very scarey to be in such a wild environment all alone and knowing what it will become. Now, if you'll pardon me I need to post a picture of one of my favorite paintings inside, because it is sooo appropriate for the subject matter. If you please>>>>

I hope this isn't way too large, but it really has to be large in order to spot all the crazy creatures in the painting. For those of you unfamiliar with this painting it is by the Dutch artist, Heironymous Bosch, and is called "The Garden of Earthly Delights". I just love this crazy painting and wonder what this guy was "on" when he painted it. Remember...it is art. ; )

Replies:

• OMG!!!! NOOOOOO!!! I didn't mean to do that!!! Big mistake...can someone fix that?? I meant to post that INSIDE below. How sooo embarrassing!!! (NT) -- Reilly - who is blood red and gasping for air, 20:50:38 06/18/03 Wed
  • Ohhhhhh...I won't be able to show my face around here ever ever again.... (NT) -- Reilly, 20:55:24 06/18/03 Wed
  
  
• Holy Smokes, Reilly!! Did you mean to post a GIANT ORGY on here??? hahahahahha! (NT) -- Renfro, 20:54:54 06/18/03 Wed
  • ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH (NT) -- Reilly, 20:57:42 06/18/03 Wed
  • Bwahahaha!!! OMG!!! If you needed attention Reilly, why didn't ya just SAY so!!! lmao!!!! (NT) -- BluEyedDaizy, 23:41:51 06/18/03 Wed
  
  
• Hmmm. This requires some study. (Lallybroch College - Art 101) (NT) -- Ron, 20:59:49 06/18/03 Wed
  • Excuse me, Professor, but I have a note from my mommy that says I'm not allowed to look at pictures like this. (NT) -- Renfro, 21:01:35 06/18/03 Wed
    • Look, kid, do you want to pass this course? (NT) -- Ron, 21:03:50 06/18/03 Wed
    • Well. Ummm. I certainly don't mean to offend anyone by this. I meant to tuck it away neatly inside my post...BELOW. I think it's a very funny painting, but I certainly didn't mean to slap it in your faces! Please forgive! (NT) -- Reilly - who is wallowing in embarrassment, 21:08:20 06/18/03 Wed
      • No forgiveness necessary! The picture along with everyone's comments gave me a GREAT belly laugh! (NT) -- stirlingirl, 21:10:47 06/18/03 Wed
        • Yes...it should definitely produce some "interesting" comments. And even in my extreme embarrassment, I can't stop laughing at my eejit self. *LOL* (NT) -- Reilly - searching for her whiskey, 21:14:59 06/18/03 Wed
      • Dinna fash yerself, Lass! Ye've given me the best laugh I've had in a week! But I still wanna know what the hell they're doing with that fish.... isn't that illegal? *BEG* (NT) -- Renfro, LMAO!!!, 21:16:47 06/18/03 Wed
        • is that illegal??? too funny!!! Renfro!!! I guess that could depend *VBG*! (NT) -- Sam, 21:20:29 06/18/03 Wed
        • Still confounded... I just found the guy upside down in the river with what looks like a giant apple in his crotch! And then there's the 3 butts hanging out of the thing on the right side of the pic, this is too interesting! (NT) -- Renfro, 21:29:03 06/18/03 Wed
          • You think this is interesting...this is not even the entire painting. There are two complete additional side panels on each side. Wacko, huh? (NT) -- Reilly - who will never go to sleep tonight, 21:31:41 06/18/03 Wed
            • I know! My DH just came out and asked me to come to bed and to quit laughing so loudly! (NT) -- Renfro, 21:36:39 06/18/03 Wed
    • This is why these boards are for people over 18, my child *g*! (NT) -- Linnie, 10:02:43 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• Very cool picture, but this guy had to have been "on" something...Boy you can look a this pic forever and still be suprised by something. Like the fish, I don't get that. And I don't think I'd call flowers up the bum an "earthly delight". (NT) -- stirlingirl, 21:09:14 06/18/03 Wed
  
• On the other hand...just think of this as what COULD become of such uncivilized land if you don't manage it well. (NT) -- Reilly, 21:10:03 06/18/03 Wed
  
• My mommy says that I must pass this course or else . . . So I must study this picture with great diligence*VBG* (NT) -- Samantha, 21:10:14 06/18/03 Wed
  • Your Mommy is right! Remember - test on Friday! (NT) -- Ron, 21:19:25 06/18/03 Wed
    • I promise to do my best Teachers Ron! and Reilly! Bosch is from the Netherlands and was born in the 1450's I think! How am I doing so far??? (NT) -- Sam - studying hard for the test *VBG*, 21:22:48 06/18/03 Wed
      • Humph! An apple might help! (NT) -- Ron, 21:24:36 06/18/03 Wed
        • Ask the upside down guy in the river, he seems to have enough *G* (NT) -- Renfro, 21:31:08 06/18/03 Wed
      • Excellent Sam! Much better than me... (NT) -- Reilly, 21:57:34 06/18/03 Wed
        • And that's going back some 20+ yrs (to college) for me! Obviously, this painting left an impression *VBG*! (NT) -- Sam - polishing apples as she speaks! *G*, 22:01:00 06/18/03 Wed
          • Yes, this one did wake us up in Art History class...and for me it was about 12 years ago. Definitely made an impression....obviously. I think it changed my opinion of Art History...I took the class again a few years later for fun. *L* (NT) -- Reilly, 22:07:00 06/18/03 Wed
  
  
• Um, I'm confused. Is this the Gathering or Jocasta's Wedding? Apparently there is a test Friday and I need to study... (NT) -- Rollaine, 21:29:42 06/18/03 Wed
  • It's a good thing for you the test isn't today! Now, study that print carefully, and tell me if you can see Aunt Jocasta. The gathering? I think it was a little too cold for even the hot-blooded Scots to be romping around in their birthday suits!! (NT) -- Ron, 21:33:22 06/18/03 Wed
    • Hey, there was some pretty wild goings on at that wedding *G*. Men dragging women out to barns, drunkeness, liaisons in the orchards-it must be her wedding. And-I think she was married in the spring-definetly hers. (NT) -- Rollaine, 21:54:55 06/18/03 Wed
      • ^^^ *LOL* Rollaine! (NT) -- Samantha, 22:31:11 06/18/03 Wed
  
  
• No...this is Fraser's Ridge when Jamie is away... (NT) -- Reilly, 21:33:30 06/18/03 Wed
  • You slay me! ROTFALMAO! I gotta quit! It's late here! (NT) -- Ron, 21:38:04 06/18/03 Wed
  • OMG! Look on the right, lower side of the pic, there's a woman with a nettel in her hand about to spank a guy bent over with a flower up his butt! (NT) -- Renfro, 21:41:17 06/18/03 Wed
    • Whatever he did, he probably deserves it! Or maybe he stopped by for a little S and M! (NT) -- Ron, 21:43:22 06/18/03 Wed
      • ROTFALMFWAO!!!! (NT) -- Sam, 22:33:34 06/18/03 Wed
  
  
• I see giant strawberries in the picture, which is why this painting is so appropriate to the subject matter in the QOTD...in case you haven't figured out what it has to do with... (NT) -- Reilly, 21:44:45 06/18/03 Wed
  • Whatever you say, lassie! (NT) -- Ron, 21:46:00 06/18/03 Wed
  • LOL! Reilly, I think it's WAY too late to try to put an intellectual spin on this! *G* (NT) -- Lady Jay, 21:48:37 06/18/03 Wed
    • Yeah...it just takes an artists perspective, Lady Jay. *winks* Oyve... (NT) -- Reilly, 21:55:51 06/18/03 Wed
      • I'm going to bed! (While visions of n_ _ _ d _ums dance in my head!) See ya tomorra! (Oh, no, now I'll be playing that somg all night!) (NT) -- Ron, 22:06:20 06/18/03 Wed
    • Nope! I saw the strawberries too, so this is either Fraser's Ridge while Fergus is in charge or a Fraser Gathering during O or DIA that was edited out by editors on both sides of the pond! (NT) -- Nancy, aka the Great One, 22:05:47 06/18/03 Wed
    • Too right, Lady Jay!!! (NT) -- Sam, 22:35:07 06/18/03 Wed
  
  
• Before I go to bed, I have to say that I know I haven't been on the boards long...none of you know me very well, yet. But tonight you have glimpsed into a typical "Reilly" moment. Yes, I'm a very "special" gal...full of these kinda moments, a la Bridget Jones(which is why I so loved those books). I have to say you've witnessed one of the Top 10 Most Embarrassing Moments Ever in my life, but because you're all the best, it isn't half bad. *G* Thanks! (NT) -- Reilly, 22:21:09 06/18/03 Wed
  • Oh, thank you Reilly, for posting one of my FAVORITE paintings! But what 'wild and scary environment' were you initially referring to? Personally, I think this is Lallybroch while Jennie is away, shopping in Brach Mordha! (NT) -- Lemora - I love Bosch!, 23:06:24 06/18/03 Wed
    • My pleasure, Lemora. ; ) I love Bosch too...that crazy Dutch. The wild and scary environment I was referring to was Fraser's Ridge as they discovered it. I had meant to post mine right after Renfro's post. The whole Garden of Eden scene between C and J was what brought this painting to mind(this is how my mind works). The strawberries too. ; ) (NT) -- Reilly, 06:54:33 06/19/03 Thu
      • Everyone who loves this painting should read "Coldheart Canyon" by Clive Barker. it's got scenes like this one in it! Imagine a woman who could give Geillie Duncan & BJR a run for their $ doing a 'makeover' on Tom Cruise, and you've got it! (NT) -- Lemora, 21:30:34 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• HELL-O! :D Just roll with it, eh? :D (NT) -- Judie, 22:21:45 06/18/03 Wed
  • Errrrr...sure Judie. Could be interesting... *g* (NT) -- Reilly, 22:25:01 06/18/03 Wed
  
  
• It's 6.15 am here and I am on the boards for my early morning quick fix. You're sending me off with a smile on my face today Reilly. I just love you lot! Mwah! (NT) -- Kirsten, 22:36:04 06/18/03 Wed
  • Well I'm here at work - guess I'd better think up a reason why Yellow Pages needs to have this picture on its computer!!! Heck, I'll just say I fancied looking at porn!! (NT) -- Em - ROFL at all the stuff I missed! Bloody time difference!, 00:30:49 06/19/03 Thu
  • Mwah back, Kirsten! : ) (NT) -- Reilly, 07:13:37 06/19/03 Thu
    • Thank you darling! (NT) -- Kirsten, 11:18:54 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• (NT) -- ff, 22:37:13 06/18/03 Wed
  
• Oh good God, my 3 year old DD just strolled by with "look at ALL those people mommy!". (LOL!!!) Go away honey, mommy's studying art...... (NT) -- ColleenO, 22:42:31 06/18/03 Wed
  • 'Go away honey, Mommy's studying art . . .' ROFLMAO!!!! (NT) -- Samantha, 00:23:39 06/19/03 Thu
  • bwahahaha! Hope you never catch her studying art! (NT) -- Renfro, 06:25:51 06/19/03 Thu
    • Isn't it funny how we'd never want out kids to do what we do! Maybe its just because my kids are still young, but I would be mortified if they were having discussions about orgies and sex in the strawberry patch online! (LOL!!) Even when they do get older! But.....its certainly OK for mommy! In fact, I couldn't wait to log in to see this pic again! HA HA! (NT) -- ColleenO, 17:00:33 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• ROFL !!!! I've been loving this board. (NT) -- MaryKay, 22:59:58 06/18/03 Wed
  
• This calls for a song! Click http://www.hoser-central.com/pete-love">HEREand download LOVE TRAIN by Pete Belasco. *G* And if you don't think that "fits" this painting, perhaps you'd prefer ALL IN MY MIND, which is there for your "downloading" "pleasure", as well. :D ROFL! (NT) -- Judie - I LOVE PETE BELASCO!!!!!, 23:20:58 06/18/03 Wed
  • HAHAHAHA! The titles are perfect, Judie! And the music is great, too. Thanks! (NT) -- Lady Jay, 06:34:46 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• I want to thank Reilly for giving us one great time! It may have been one of your top ten most embarrassing moments, but the spontaneity which arose from your "moment" just enlivened us all! We luv ya, Reilly! Lookin' forward to tomorra! (NT) -- Ron, 04:11:22 06/19/03 Thu
  • Good morning, Reilly! Yep, Ron, she definitely livened us up, not that we really needed that much help with some of the conversations that have been going on here lately! BTW, Reilly, I had a HELL of a TIME getting to sleep last night... I couldn't stop giggling! (NT) -- Renfro, 06:20:40 06/19/03 Thu
    • Good morning, all! Boy, were the dreams vivid last night. *L* I could not stop laughing last night either...and could NOT focus on my reading before going to bed. And then I woke up wondering what the heck hosers were saying about my painting. Glad to entertain....anytime. *G* (NT) -- Reilly, 07:05:10 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• OMG, Reilly!! Here I come, innocently expecting QOTD and WHAM! I'm in the garden of earthly delights...Personally, I've always wondered about the couple with the owl on their heads,..Gotta Love Bosch, as no matter how long you look, you always see something new....at least I'm no longer wondering why I craved strawberry shortcake last night (NT) -- FloraMac-the shortcake was yummy, 04:41:46 06/19/03 Thu
  
• WOW!!! Reilly, your Festival picture turned out great, but you got me with my eyes closed! (NT) -- Wee..waving good morning, 04:44:51 06/19/03 Thu
  • I don't think anyone will notice your eyes, Wee. Hehehehe. (NT) -- Reilly - waving morning back!, 07:10:31 06/19/03 Thu
    • When are you going to show these pictures to the rest of us? (NT) -- Kirsten, 15:29:19 06/19/03 Thu
      • Still taking senseless pictures to use up the rest of the film, Kirsten. But I'm making progress. Tomorrow, maybe I'll take a picture of my dinner plate. And then I'll take one of my DVD collection...that might come in handy. *L* It won't be too long...I promise! Probably next week. (NT) -- Reilly, 21:11:20 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• HEY, ROLLAINE!??? What the hell kind of birds are *THOSE*???? (NT) -- FloraMac, 04:57:15 06/19/03 Thu
  • Bloody big, freakishly mutant ones!!!! (NT) -- Em - not a scientist, can you tell?!, 05:19:49 06/19/03 Thu
  • Barnwall Swallows. When they choose a mate, the male swallow throws the female up against a barnwall and proceeds with the mating ritual. Very rare to spot one... (NT) -- Rollaine, 07:17:56 06/19/03 Thu
    • Bwahahaha!! Rollaine you crack me up. Reilly, thanks for a great morning! My computer at home is broken so I am just reading all the posts this morning at work. This is too funny. (NT) -- Patti, 07:36:17 06/19/03 Thu
    • Swallow, eh?!! *beg* What an appropriate type of bird!! (NT) -- Em - filthy mind today thanks to you lot!, 07:45:57 06/19/03 Thu
      • I've always thought the person who came up with bird names was some kind of sexual deviant *G*! Here are some real names: the swallows, the TITmouse, the woodcock, woodpeckers, bushtit, the cock-of-the-rock, and the booby birds (blue-footed, brown, etc) just to name a few. Hmmm, I wonder why I took up studying birds?? (NT) -- Rollaine (I can't make this stuff up!), 08:51:16 06/19/03 Thu
        • Rollaine, speaking of birds, we saw a red-bellied woodpecker at our feeder tha past two mornings!! They are pretty rare around here--about 26 miles west of Boston! We've had so many birds this spring, my 2.8yo dd is hooked and makes me show her the pictures in the book after we see birds...I just saw the bushtit listed in my book...bwahaha! (NT) -- FloraMac, 10:13:05 06/19/03 Thu
          • Red-bellies are fairly common around here-I'm on LI. Woodpeckers are pretty cool-I love to show them to people when I do banding programs. Their tails are very stiff-they use them for balance when they grip the side of a tree. Also, they have unsual feet. 2 toes point forward, and 2 back-also to help grip. It's called zygodactyl toes, my favorite word!! Learned it in ornithology & I never forgot it. It's one of those big words I'll use at a dinner party if I ever get to one!! (NT) -- Rollaine (waving hi to Floramac), 10:27:58 06/19/03 Thu
            • Bwahaha!! Those birds names are hilarious! Maybe you don't have them over there, but we also have a Blue Tit, Great Tit, Shag, and Booby! Dontcha just love nature!! (NT) -- Em - waving to all!!!, 12:23:58 06/19/03 Thu
              • Ok - scratch the booby - bwahahaha!!!!!!!! Shouldn't have read your mesage in such a sexual frenzy, Rollaine!!! (NT) -- Em - off to use that champagne!, 12:26:01 06/19/03 Thu
          • Rollaine, you are welcome, lass!! Dinna fash. We all know you are a great mom!!! (NT) -- FloraMac, 13:19:18 06/19/03 Thu
            • Thanks! I'll show this to my kids when they are teenagers & will probably be mortified at everything I do!! I'll say-look-everyone at LOL thinks I'm OK!!! (NT) -- Rollaine, 13:33:07 06/19/03 Thu
      • Oh Em!! Wash your mouth out with soap and water!!........or champagne if you prefer..... (NT) -- Kirsten- I must have a mucky mind as well!, 11:23:29 06/19/03 Thu
    • LMAO, Rollaine! I'm glad you're here to share the benefits of your education with us lesser informed folks. (NT) -- Wee, 12:15:13 06/19/03 Thu
      • Oh, well, glad to be of service. You can find them in the Field Guide to Birds of Erotic Paintings. Over on the left, I believe I can spot the Whiskey-Eyed Butterchurn Warbler. It has the highly unusual habit of mating on crank-handle butterchurns, while in motion. Apparently, the female's tail bobbing up and down drives the males crazy. (NT) -- Rollaine, 12:43:37 06/19/03 Thu
        • Oh! HAHAHA! Rollaine, you should have put a spew alert on that! (NT) -- Renfro, cleaning up her monitor, 13:33:19 06/19/03 Thu
        • Hahaha! I couldn't find that one! But check out the arse on the guy with the blueberry head! (NT) -- Wee, 13:39:35 06/19/03 Thu
          • Not too often you see a guy with a blueberry head. Although, sometimes my Dh acts like he has fruit for brains. Now, I did spot an owl in the water getting a hug from some naked dude. My guess is this was actually painted by John Audubon on drugs. That's the only way I can explain why the hell there are birds in this picture. (NT) -- Rollaine, 13:47:01 06/19/03 Thu
            • I think it's the winter headquarters for some circus. How else would you explain all the trained animals and fruity mutants? (NT) -- Wee, 13:57:08 06/19/03 Thu
        • ROTFLMFWAO!!!! Did you know that if the Barnwall Swallows cross breed with the Whiskey-eyed Butterchurn Warblers, they produce the rare, but beautiful Nocturnal Windowsill Pecker.... (NT) -- FloraMac--right back at ya!, 13:49:16 06/19/03 Thu
          • BWAAHAHAHA!!! (NT) -- Wee...diligently wiping water off monitor, 14:02:49 06/19/03 Thu
          • Or, things can get totally screwy(like they haven't already), and genetics can backfire, producing the lovely, but lonely, black feathered-green-eyed Wish I had a Condom Crow. Can't find an mate 'cause the poor thing can't sing. (NT) -- Rollaine, 14:03:41 06/19/03 Thu
            • And all the poor crow is looking for is a Red-Headed Booby-Breasted Milk Wren (NT) -- FloraMac, 14:10:47 06/19/03 Thu
              • Bwahahaha!! But, she's too busy tending to her nestling, the Screeching Sex-Interrupting Sparrow. (NT) -- Rollaine (who really must get home!), 14:16:57 06/19/03 Thu
          • BTW, Nocturnal Windowsill Pecker-good one!!! LMAO!! Can you identify it by the splinters in its arse? (NT) -- Rollaine, 14:07:33 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• Reilly, you are hysterical, lass! Like Flora, I jumped on the computer to see QOTD, and this 'delightful' piccie smacks me in the face *g*. It certainly gave me and the DH a giggle - he thinks we're all loons, and this just reinforced his opinion (in the nicest possible way, of course *g*). Thanks for the laugh. I'm going to have to copy it and save it for future study, you know :-D (NT) -- Kylie McA, 05:43:29 06/19/03 Thu
  
• What the hell did I miss? left ya all @ 9ish last night and what do I find this morning*G*......my boys strolled over when they saw all the color and they are looking for all of the animals-I raised real nature lovers!! (NT) -- AmyGirl, 05:56:33 06/19/03 Thu
  • Me too, AmyGirl! I usually check the Boards early in the morning. I'm going to have to start hanging around here at night!!! *G* (NT) -- GinC, 06:46:14 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• Hey, Reilly, have you ever read The Snow Garden, by Christopher Rice? It's kind of a weird book, but it's basically a mystery centered around the works of Heironymous Bosch. You might enjoy it, if you like his work (NT) -- Reid, 08:39:37 06/19/03 Thu
  • Really? That sounds interesting. Will have to check it out...thanks Reid. (NT) -- Reilly, 09:03:56 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• Hmmm...the only thing missing from this picture is Father Fogden. I canna find him! (NT) -- Shana, 09:46:54 06/19/03 Thu
  • Isn't he the guy getting spanked with the nettles? (NT) -- Ron, 10:22:07 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• HAHAHA I think you're right Ron! But who could be spanking him?!? Naughty, naughty Father Fogden! (NT) -- Shana, 10:39:27 06/19/03 Thu
  • Mother Hildegarde (NT) -- Renfro, 13:53:33 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• What have you started Reilly? I've got back from work, come to check the boards and it's still continuing from what I was reading at 6.00am this morning. Well done, accidental or not, the response has been hilarious. Keep it coming girls (and Ron!) (NT) -- Kirsten, 11:27:46 06/19/03 Thu
  • Now now Kirsten! No talk of 'coming' or my mind will never drag itself out of the gutter!! (NT) -- Em, 12:27:41 06/19/03 Thu
    • Geez, Em! You haven't used that champagne yet??? (NT) -- Renfro, 13:35:21 06/19/03 Thu
  
  
• Now that is different Reilly (vbg)this will take time to view (NT) -- PeggyC adjusting her glasses, 12:22:22 06/19/03 Thu
  
• Ya know, I've been starrin' at this thing for a while now, trying to find the deeper meaning, and here's my conclusion: What the f*ck?!?!?! {BTW, Reilly, thank you so much! bwahahaha! I love it!} (NT) -- BluEyedDaizy, 13:11:20 06/19/03 Thu
  • Blu, here's your meaning... THE MORE THE MERRIER!!! (NT) -- Renfro, still lmao, 13:36:51 06/19/03 Thu
    • I suppose. . .I still don't get the guy w'the flower in his @$$!!! Maybe I'm more sheltered than I thought. Maybe they guy just has really bad gas and the flower is some kind of chronic flatulance remedy - like Fabreez for the butt - I dunno. . . (NT) -- Blu - *shaking head in bewilderment* lmao!!, 14:34:35 06/19/03 Thu
      • Maybe he needs some fertilizer for his flower. (NT) -- Rollaine, 15:06:25 06/19/03 Thu
        • Is that a nice way of saying he's full of sh*t? lmao!!!! (NT) -- BluEyedDaizy, 21:13:16 06/19/03 Thu
    • ^^^Hmmm...."More the Merrier"....Would that be more heads up an Owl's butt? or more legs sticking out of an oyster shell or more. . .well hell! Take yer pick!! Bwahahaha!!! (NT) -- Blu - officially goin' cross-eyed!, 15:17:26 06/19/03 Thu
  • Ha! That was exactly what I said, Blu! (NT) -- KarynM, 13:45:11 06/19/03 Thu