Laura totally rocks the dimples.
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
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
Scrappy - Jan 02, 2007 9:49:17 am PST #7677 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
JZ - Jan 02, 2007 9:49:59 am PST #7678 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm gonna just stop posting in Bureaucracy altogether; from now on, every time Betsy posts, y'all can just imagine me pointing and nodding vigorously.
DavidS - Jan 02, 2007 9:55:03 am PST #7679 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm gonna just stop posting in Bureaucracy altogether; from now on, every time Betsy posts, y'all can just imagine me pointing and nodding vigorously.
Oh shit, I married Betsy's sockpuppet.
erikaj - Jan 02, 2007 9:55:07 am PST #7680 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Mostly they're not. Damn...the opportunities I've missed to be Erika Johnston from Fayette and Gilmor, witnessing buys and all sorts of shit. But it's the pasty white chick in the wheelchair that needs to communicate with Outside, right? And I'm not even sure Fayette and Gilmor intersect. Guess I'm stuck with myself.
Connie Neil - Jan 02, 2007 9:56:38 am PST #7681 of 10001
brillig
I married Betsy's sockpuppet
sockpuppet of . . .
victor infante - Jan 02, 2007 9:56:48 am PST #7682 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Point of information: If people are looking for a newspaper obituary, they're more and more uncommon as newspapers rarely provide them for free anymore. Lots of families do without them these days.
Other than that, not enough information to have an opinion.
sj - Jan 02, 2007 10:00:31 am PST #7683 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am glad that I know so many buffistas irl, because if you tried to google my name to see if I was real, you would get about half a million hits.
Jesse - Jan 02, 2007 10:00:58 am PST #7684 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If people are looking for a newspaper obituary, they're more and more uncommon as newspapers rarely provide them for free anymore.
Huh. I did not know that. I was going off the basis of my grandfather getting a decent-sized reporter-written obit in the Boston Globe on the strength of being a veteran and former small-town pharmacist (as far as I can recall. There might have been something more). Not exactly an exotic story. But it was many years ago.
That it is!
I'm just saying -- with three pieces of information (name + former location), it was pretty easy to find the real you online.
Ginger - Jan 02, 2007 10:01:45 am PST #7685 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I was vastly entertained by Gus, whoever he was. If it was a persona, it was an excellent one. If the person who played Gus wrote a book, I'd buy it, because I'd expect it to be entertaining and imaginative. He did have actual programming skills and added some things to the board, including, IIRC, the code to create (link). He put together the Nilly site.
I assumed from his posts that he was in his late '50s or early '60s, because he and I had similar memories of things like '70s fandom and art.
His references to his illness were either joking or oblique. He never, that I recall, asked for anything, including sympathy.
It is a small possibility that he was quite real but wished to continue to remain anonymous and "Guy Straley" is also a pseudonym.
I will miss Gus, whoever he was.
Connie Neil - Jan 02, 2007 10:02:03 am PST #7686 of 10001
brillig
In all honesty, I'm tempted to save the past several days of board somewhere as a study in the nature of grief and the nature of reality. Someone/something was deeply mourned, that is the incontrovertible fact. Even if Gus was a real person, the entity that was mourned exists only virtually for several people. If there is no physical "Gus" as previously defined, the entity still existed and was loved. It begs redefinition of the term "real".
I've been accused of thinking too much about sensitive things. My apologies for the writer in my head who's taking notes.