Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.

'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


Jesse - Oct 03, 2002 3:44:48 pm PDT #352 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten!


Jesse - Oct 03, 2002 3:45:09 pm PDT #353 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Natter+Buffistas=TLA!!

4 EVA!!


Michele T. - Oct 03, 2002 3:46:32 pm PDT #354 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Natter 2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten is fun!


msbelle - Oct 03, 2002 5:07:34 pm PDT #355 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

t Lucinda hey hey. t /Lucinda


P.M. Marc - Oct 03, 2002 8:55:11 pm PDT #356 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Natter 2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten! is up.


§ ita § - Oct 03, 2002 9:26:47 pm PDT #357 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Natter 1 is down.

Admins -- you will be seeing a posting box, but no one else.

Now we just have to work out where to put it.

And how to automate what I just did.


P.M. Marc - Oct 03, 2002 10:07:02 pm PDT #358 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Added the slug to Natter.


Rebecca Lizard - Oct 04, 2002 11:02:19 pm PDT #359 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

Can we say what a "meara" post or "doing a meara" is in the FAQ?

I'd write a paragraph to submit here but I am tired, tired, tired. Plus I wasn't around when the term was coined.


Nilly - Oct 06, 2002 3:42:34 am PDT #360 of 10001
Swouncing

Hec (who coined it for usage, IIRC) defined 'meara' in WX:

To meara: do a long catchup post in Natter interspersed with quotes.


DXMachina - Oct 06, 2002 5:17:45 am PDT #361 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

It was Fred Pete who coined the term a day or two before Hec wrote the formal definition:

"Mearaing (also known as catching up on several topics) -- "