GR translation: can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids

[Mike Jing]

I think you are right.  From the OED:

*B.* n.1
......
9. Med. An emptying of the bladder.

Thanks everyone who responded.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Danny Weltman <danny.weltman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't have the book next to me, but I think shivers and voids would be
> "piss shivers" (the sensation of becoming cold while urinating) and voiding
> one's bowels, a euphemism for shitting your pants. The implication here
> being that if all else fails, conspiracy theorists can scare each other by
> pointing out the grasp the Illuminati has on the world.
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:19 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I think Mark is right, it's about scares that can give you shivers,
>> but I would take void as a noun, too:
>>
>> 1 a completely empty space: the black void of space.
>> • an emptiness caused by the loss of something: the void left by the
>> death of his wife.
>> • an unfilled space in a wall, building, or structure;
>>
>> and from the Thesaurus:
>>
>> noun
>> the void of space: vacuum, emptiness, nothingness, nullity, blankness,
>> vacuity; empty space, blank space, space, gap, cavity, chasm, abyss, gulf,
>> pit, black hole
>>
>> esp. the abysses, the pits, the black holes ...
>>
>>
>> 2015-03-16 11:08 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I would suggest an extrapolation of the below, #2 is the main meaning.
>>> Overall, the sentence sez the global conspiracy scares
>>> one.
>>>
>>> verb
>>> 3rd person present: voids
>>>
>>> 1.
>>> NORTH AMERICAN
>>> declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding.
>>> "the Supreme Court voided the statute"
>>> synonyms:invalidate, annul, nullify; More
>>> 2.
>>> discharge or drain away (water, gases, etc.).
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Mike Jing
>>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > V587.26-35   Some of the American Founding Fathers were Masons, for
>>> instance
>>> > There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a
>>> gigantic
>>> > Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the
>>> > Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye
>>> > crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin
>>> to
>>> > believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century
>>> > Europe--Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia--were Masons for it to be
>>> pure
>>> > chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can
>>> count on
>>> > the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.
>>> >
>>> > What are "shivers and voids" exactly, especially "voids"?
>>> -
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>>>
>>
>>
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