Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.

'Out Of Gas'


Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

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


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 19, 2003 10:43:14 pm PST #3203 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

I just mean that I *know* I'm tribal, and if it were up to me, we'd be Buffista Island. I like my people and ONLY my people.

Oh, sure, me too. But the nasty problem is all the people who haven't figured out they're my people just yet, and therefore aren't Buffistas yet or are, in best situations, just-registered Buffistas. Like Deena, for one example, who we've only gotten fairly recently but about whom I now feel as possessive as I do for any of my Buffista Crushes.


Allyson - Jan 19, 2003 10:44:30 pm PST #3204 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

You're not alone, there, Hec. Not by a longshot. I don't really care, though, honestly. It's not like the world isn't filled with Mieskes, or even Allysons, truth be told.


Steph L. - Jan 19, 2003 10:44:55 pm PST #3205 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think Schmoker is mieskie, too. Any textual analysis would yield some too-close-for-comfort similarities.

And I'd use MARCIE, only b/c I don't have time or patience for bullshit.


Burrell - Jan 19, 2003 10:49:02 pm PST #3206 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

If it's about the whole community, I do think that there has been some circling the wagons, but as I said elsewhere, I think it's growing pains. All in all, most of the new members *have* been able to integrate themselves just fine.

We call ourselves a community. We behave like one. Which means that there are *people* here, not just faceless monikers, and there are some basic rules of polite interaction that have guided our behavior. I'd prefer to not see that change.


Burrell - Jan 19, 2003 10:50:11 pm PST #3207 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

or even Allysons, truth be told.

Hold on there. Allyson, you are truly an original.


Elena - Jan 19, 2003 10:51:10 pm PST #3208 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.

Thing is, if Schmoker is mieskye, then he is breaking our community standards by posting while banned, regardless of the content of his posts.

I've been a Buffistas for a while. I think that I'm moderately well integrated. I would never insult Shawn the way I might insult Teppy or Trudy or SA or connie. Because I have not developed that kind of relationship with Shawn.


Steph L. - Jan 19, 2003 10:54:12 pm PST #3209 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I would never insult Shawn the way I might insult Teppy or Trudy or SA or connie. Because I have not developed that kind of relationship with Shawn.
t feeling the Elena-love...


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 19, 2003 10:54:12 pm PST #3210 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Thing is, if Schmoker is mieskye, then he is breaking our community standards by posting while banned, regardless of the content of his posts.

But we'd have to prove that he is mieskie. And that's very tricky.


billytea - Jan 19, 2003 10:54:29 pm PST #3211 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I think Schmoker is mieskie, too. Any textual analysis would yield some too-close-for-comfort similarities.

I was finally swayed by the news that they're both from Cleveland. Or, alternatively, maybe it's just something about Cleveland.


Sue - Jan 19, 2003 10:57:11 pm PST #3212 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I would never insult Shawn the way I might insult Teppy or Trudy or SA or connie. Because I have not developed that kind of relationship with Shawn.

Here, here.

I wouldn't also feel comfortable plunking myself down in Bitches and posting like I've been there all along. I'd want to lurk first and get to know the lay of the land before I posted, even though I know most of the people who post there.