...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!

Spike ,'Selfless'


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


DXMachina - Sep 18, 2002 5:31:20 pm PDT #78 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Running times shouldn't be a problem. I have a drenload of threadsucks that I have to zip and put up, so I'll be working on the archive anyway.


Angus G - Sep 19, 2002 8:22:19 am PDT #79 of 10001
Roguish Laird

I'd be in favour of a politics thread; I'm presuming flame-free doesn't mean vigorous-disagreement-free, and I think a thread where the conversation was a bit more robust than Natter would actually be quite good. (Although it would probably end up being mostly American politics, but I can live with that.)


sumi - Sep 19, 2002 8:26:17 am PDT #80 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I've got a question: when I click on message center shouldn't I get a list of only those threads I'm subscribed to?

But no - I got the Atlantic Monday Madness thread - - I'm SOOO not subscribed to that!!!

Is that the way it's supposed to work?


Jen - Sep 19, 2002 9:00:37 am PDT #81 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

I'm presuming flame-free doesn't mean vigorous-disagreement-free

Correct. I just won't stick around in a thread where my beliefs are belittled--I consider that a flame. Disagreed with? Bring it on. *g*


Sue - Sep 19, 2002 9:07:16 am PDT #82 of 10001
hip deep in pie

But no - I got the Atlantic Monday Madness thread - - I'm SOOO not subscribed to that!!!

Hey! Do I smell?


Megan E. - Sep 19, 2002 9:10:15 am PDT #83 of 10001

Hey! Do I smell?

You do smell, but I don't think you stink.


billytea - Sep 19, 2002 10:10:34 am PDT #84 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

You do smell, but I don't think you stink.

On which note, yesterday was Samuel Johnson's birthday. (Ever the advocate of proper English, and an infrequent bather, he once responded to a woman complaining "Sir, you smell" with "No madam, you smell. I stink.")


sumi - Sep 19, 2002 10:20:10 am PDT #85 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

I don't want those kind of Spoilers - - no offense to any Atlantic Canadians intended.


§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:29:20 am PDT #86 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sumi, Alibelle says she has to log off and log back on again for her subs changes to show up. Does that work for you?


brenda m - Sep 19, 2002 10:37:20 am PDT #87 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

shouldn't I get a list of only those threads I'm subscribed to?

I get that thread (and a couple of others I'm not subbed to) showing up on the message center, but when I go through on Read New it skips them. Doesn't bother me to have them there, I can see where other centers of activity are.