Natter 2 Good 2 B 4 Gotten is fun!
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
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
Michele T. - Oct 03, 2002 3:46:32 pm PDT #354 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
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) -- "
Noumenon - Oct 06, 2002 8:12:03 am PDT #362 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
In the last couple days I've seen both ted r and Dai Watkins in Natter 2, which is good support for the "engage them with analysis and capture them in natter" theory. But I also saw Spidra concede to the thread speed and had Tick complain to me about hours of catching up even in the show threads. I told him about Nilly.
Burrell - Oct 06, 2002 10:55:33 am PDT #363 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Maybe we need a whole section in the FAQ to deal with the various Natter strategies. In addition to mearaing, we could have an explanation of the John H Natter diet (what is it? Read Beep Me and COMM and the last 50 posts of Natter, I think.)