Back to "timelies" -- Can someone Nilly the first use? I seem to remember someone doing that before.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
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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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Jon B. - Mar 10, 2003 9:03:09 am PST #7019 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 10, 2003 9:14:26 am PST #7020 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
My memory says it was Am, in Bitches. But I dunno.
Jessica - Mar 10, 2003 9:17:59 am PST #7021 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I thought it was in Natter, but without the search engine, I can't say for sure.
P.M. Marc - Mar 10, 2003 9:18:12 am PST #7022 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
I thought Timelies started in Natter.
Where, oh where is Nilly when you need her?
So, is there anyone here against trying preferential voting this one time?
Me! But, you know, so completely anti-PV I film PSAs about it.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Mar 10, 2003 9:20:18 am PST #7023 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I think I picked it up from someone in Natter. Memory says juliana, but that could be wrong.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 10, 2003 9:22:00 am PST #7024 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I thought it was Angus? Or Theo.
Sue - Mar 10, 2003 9:51:17 am PST #7025 of 10001
hip deep in pie
The first instance of Timelies I could find was PMM in Natter 6, at post 6868. Timely greetings itself was being used in Natter 4. (I looked through Natters 4, 5, 6.)
Theodosia - Mar 10, 2003 9:52:30 am PST #7026 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm pretty sure I was an early adopter -- I may have started it off as "Good Time-Period-of-Choice!" or something like that.
Nilly - Mar 10, 2003 9:59:11 am PST #7027 of 10001
Swouncing
What I could come up with:
Angus G "Natter Free 4 All" Dec 2, 2002 6:53:26 am EST: We need some formula for "good your morning/my evening".
Am-Chau Yarkona "Natter Free 4 All" Dec 2, 2002 7:02:56 am EST: How about something non-specific? 'Season's Greetings'- then whatever season it is where you are, you imagine it's that. Um... 'Timely Greetings'?
So it was "Timely greetings" for quite some threads. Until one timely time:
Sue "Natter 6: We're wearing the cheese RIGHT NOW!!" Jan 9, 2003 9:28:15 am EST: Timelies!
[Edited to add: Theo has definitely been one of the earliest to adopt this and play with it. My favorite is when she posts "Time!", as if she commands the morning to begin, and, since she's the morning-marker of the Buffistas, she probably is doing just that]
Sue - Mar 10, 2003 10:02:55 am PST #7028 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I'm pretty sure some else used Timelies first. I'm just not a phrase coining person.