Just re-posting this because it made me SO happy:
(except for about 400 lurkers who secretly agree with me)
This long time lurker does not agree and thinks representation is the last thing this wonderful place needs.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
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Steph L. - Mar 04, 2003 12:35:12 pm PST #6636 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jesse - Mar 04, 2003 12:35:24 pm PST #6637 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hi Maggie! Hooray for de-lurking!
FTR, I too am against having representatives or whatever.
Typo Boy - Mar 04, 2003 12:36:00 pm PST #6638 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Er in fairness to Wolfram, the "400 lurkers who agree with me" thing was a joke on his part. I'm pretty sure it was a riff on a joke that started in another thread, but I can't remember which.
Wolfram - Mar 04, 2003 12:36:13 pm PST #6639 of 10001
Visilurking
I can see I'm in the super-minority on this issue, (except for about 400 lurkers who secretly agree with me).
This statement pisses me off. Not because I think you're necessarilly wrong, but because it is, by definition, unprovable. "The will of the people," indeed!
Alas poor Sarcasm, I knew him well.
DXMachina - Mar 04, 2003 12:37:50 pm PST #6640 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I can see I'm in the super-minority on this issue, (except for about 400 lurkers who secretly agree with me).
This statement pisses me off. Not because I think you're necessarilly wrong, but because it is, by definition, unprovable. "The will of the people," indeed!
FWIW, I don't think the lurkers comment was meant to be taken seriously.
Doblerize folks!
edit: The ever difficult triple x-post
Wolfram - Mar 04, 2003 12:38:17 pm PST #6641 of 10001
Visilurking
So, this is the Beat Everyone To Death With Your Plan Until They Agree? Very uncool.
Okay Steph, don't think I went quite that far. It seemed more like BEAT THE ONE PERSON WHO DARED DISAGREE WITH THE GROUP UNTIL HE CRIED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL plan. Which is cool in some contexts.
Gandalfe - Mar 04, 2003 12:38:21 pm PST #6642 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Whew.
Dana - Mar 04, 2003 12:39:49 pm PST #6643 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It seemed more like BEAT THE ONE PERSON WHO DARED DISAGREE WITH THE GROUP UNTIL HE CRIED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL plan.
You wanted reasons, we gave you reasons.
Wolfram - Mar 04, 2003 12:44:00 pm PST #6644 of 10001
Visilurking
You wanted reasons, we gave you reasons.
Touche.
I'm sorry people got offended, it wasn't mean that way. Thanks to the people who Doblerized. However, I make no apologies for snarkiness.
Nutty - Mar 04, 2003 12:44:09 pm PST #6645 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hello! This is your friendly neighborhood Valium Dispenser.
Let us all partake and go play elsewhere until we cans top using all capital letters like apoplectic children. That only needs to be, like, 20 minutes, but I know a lot of people who would like it to be a lot longer.
Moreover, let us strive to cut out the nastiness, please? It's got no place in Bureaucracy nor among the Buffistas generally.