There was head?
This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Topic!Cindy - May 13, 2005 9:23:46 am PDT #4823 of 10001
What is even happening?
Trudy Booth - May 13, 2005 9:24:15 am PDT #4824 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
oh bringing up old discussions where we feel wronged. awesome.
Arguably, joking about it is bringing it up, now isn't it?
I'm saying I dislike that. Perhapse we agree.
msbelle - May 13, 2005 9:27:16 am PDT #4825 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
perhaps I was addressing Kat.
Scrappy - May 13, 2005 9:35:06 am PDT #4826 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Trudy--I'm afraid I don't understand how the BItch cabal joke is making fun of something serious. The tone of the accusation and the use of the word "cabal" is what people are making fun of, unless I misunderstand. I see you think you are protecting someone or something but I can't figure out who. Teppy and whoever else the post was going on about were the victims in that scenario. And I can't see who has "power" on this board, except the stompies and we gave them that. How does anyone have power over you or anyone? There are folks whose opinions one might pay more attention to, or folks one might think are funnier (You, for example, can be one of the funniest posters here when you are on a roll) and for me funny is great, so you have more power over my enjoyment than a duller poster, but there's no way around that, is there?
Noumenon - May 13, 2005 9:43:59 am PDT #4827 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
My secret cabal ring....well, I can't tell you where it is, because it's secret.
I know where you wear an earring, and I know where you'd wear a nose ring, but being that you're a girl, I have absolutely no idea where you would wear a cabal ring. I guess that's just going to be your little secret.
Topic!Cindy - May 13, 2005 9:45:45 am PDT #4828 of 10001
What is even happening?
It's her little pink secret. Ooops. Perhaps I've said too much.
megan walker - May 13, 2005 9:49:55 am PDT #4829 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
FTR, and really not wanting to start a whole thing, especially as a long-term outsider:
While I don't have any problems with "cabal" jokes as such (love the idea of a decoder ring), I would have to agree that they are jokes about what I remember as a seriously divisive time on the board, one that caused at least one poster to leave. I totally see why someone might reasonably think they are not funny.
t /tired of supporting people through email
Topic!Cindy - May 13, 2005 9:51:11 am PDT #4830 of 10001
What is even happening?
Megan, what's your tag from?
Karl - May 13, 2005 9:54:01 am PDT #4831 of 10001
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
From way upthread:
ita: I can't recommend the wayback machine highly enough.
Heh, funny you should mention it. Yeah, the Internet Archive is pretty cool. Did you know it's based in San Francisco? In one of the prettiest parts of a very pretty city? And you know why I haven't been around and posting much for the past few weeks?
Because I just started working there, as of 29 April. Fear my Mighty Wayback Powers!
(I'm doing testing and automation for their web-crawler, for you techie types.)
Lyra Jane - May 13, 2005 9:55:05 am PDT #4832 of 10001
Up with the sun
Karl, you rock. The wayback machine helped me to recover a file I thought was lost forever, from the web page I had in college.
I love the Wayback machine.