Womack ,'The Message'
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Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
happen all the time where you toss an idea around but it just never goes anywhere
That's what I eventually took it for, but I was very disappointed at the time it didn't happen. Ultimately, it was nice spending a long weekend by myself with no expectations.
Speaking just to this one issue, that never really pinged me as weird because it just seemed more like one of those things htat happen all the time where you toss an idea around but it just never goes anywhere.
I was under the impression that it was a definite thing. I remember I was going to drive up in my Mercury and I was scrambling around trying to get my rebuilt carb to work.
I don't like that coinage because there's no verbal distinction.
I've always seen/heard it as "pseudicide", if that helps. Anyway, sockpuppet has a perfectly useful meaning that doesn't require faking death.
Cindy, Raq did mention in Bitches that she had been looking for a response from Gus in email. Raq "Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else" Jan 1, 2007 11:26:09 am PST I don't know if anyone else had written to him recently. Apparently none of us ever talked to him or met him IRL.
We had e-mail contact in November, I think. Just fannish chat, but he did mention being "in hospital off and on" But being physically fucked myself, I didn't think much of that. Because unlike the real case of Munchausen's I knew about, he didn't claim to be poisting from ICU while receiving brain cancer treatment. I will still miss talking over The Wire with that person, but he did coax emotional vulnerability from me and that's not easy for me to give all the time.
I don't like that coinage because there's no verbal distinction. Dammit!
But it's a purely online term and thus needs no verbal distinction!
In an Internet forum there's always someone who knows someone who can call you on your crap.
Heh. Yeah. In the situation I was involved in, people found an Amazon Wishlist, grabbed the real name, searched the name, found an address, and then Google Earthed the address to discover that it was not, in fact, a rural farm with horses and such.
The uncomfortable side to that situation is that we did actually find an obit for her husband, who she claimed had died (though perhaps not under the circumstances she claimed (and it described her as a "loving wife" even though he had supposedly divorced her and married her best friend)), although there was no record of her son (who also supposedly died) ever existing. So my point is that there may be some element of truth mixed in with the untruth.
Probably so, actually.
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***I'd like to ask the Stompies to please consider disabling both Gus's password and Kimi's, in some way, so that they can't edit/delete posts. I don't know how everyone else feels about that.***
That's probably a wise precaution any time any poster dies, whether or not they're "real" or not.
I never thought about that. But I suppose it'd be like getting the key back.