Schmoker just posted this morning in When come back bring tape.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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Rebecca Lizard - Jan 26, 2003 1:43:42 pm PST #3530 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
John H - Jan 26, 2003 1:46:41 pm PST #3531 of 10001
Then I think someone should ask him, yet again, if he's mieskie.
That quote pretty much admits it anyway, right?
Lyra Jane - Jan 26, 2003 1:53:09 pm PST #3532 of 10001
Up with the sun
That quote pretty much admits it anyway, right?
No. He started the discussion in bureaucracy ?last week? by asking how come Cordy could be snarky on the show, but we can't on the boards. Much angst ensued, he took some time off, he came back (and does seem to have toned it down). That's probably what he's referring to.
Beverly - Jan 26, 2003 1:53:12 pm PST #3533 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No, John, I respectfully disagree. Schmoker had his own "bad experience," completely separate from any mieskie-ness. Not that that conclusively disproves separate identity, but it doesn't prove it, either.
Schmoker is going out of his way to play by our rules, at present. I'm very much for the sleeping puppies rule as long as that's the case.
Noumenon - Jan 26, 2003 1:56:35 pm PST #3534 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
It's a good quote, though. It deserved to be in COMM because it seems to signal an attitude shift I would want to hear about, and has funny context.
John H - Jan 26, 2003 1:57:14 pm PST #3535 of 10001
OK sorry I was out of line there. And I forgot that he had his own bad experience. It's interpretable either way.
Cashmere - Jan 26, 2003 1:59:03 pm PST #3536 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
John H, you're not the only one with suspicions. I am reserving the right to be suspicious. Way too many coincidences for my taste.
edited to add: not that this cries for action, just that that is the way that I feel.
John H - Jan 26, 2003 2:03:22 pm PST #3537 of 10001
The thing that gets me is that he's been asked, more than once, to confirm or deny, and he's never replied. But of course, we don't know if he's read the post.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2003 2:03:55 pm PST #3538 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John, why don't you send an e-mail?
Cindy - Jan 26, 2003 2:24:20 pm PST #3539 of 10001
Nobody
Schmoker is going out of his way to play by our rules, at present. I'm very much for the sleeping puppies rule as long as that's the case.
I COMMed it because it made me laugh fairly early in the morning. At this time of day, I'd say it also is (to me) a good humored acknowledgement of the growing pains we all had last week, and am with Beverly on the sleeping puppies, regardless of my opinion on the identity issue.
On edit, I see it wasn't that early - but it felt early.