Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness. Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.

'Never Leave Me'


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


Jon B. - Mar 22, 2003 12:46:15 am PST #8732 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Although I freaked for a moment when folks started talking about a spoiler she had posted. Then I realized it was about something else (the contract of a particular character).


P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2003 12:52:51 am PST #8733 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

Although I freaked for a moment when folks started talking about a spoiler she had posted. Then I realized it was about something else (the contract of a particular character).

Yeah.

Dude, I'm spoiled. I see spoilers from Peeps I know are spoiled? I'll call them on it, come hell, high water, and semi-flaming.

What I'm saying, you pure-hearted-unicorn-bait-virgin-goombas, is that I've got your back.

Also, that wine is nice, and I think sobriety is overrated.

Oh, and that Lent and I may have broken up.


Jon B. - Mar 22, 2003 12:54:33 am PST #8734 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

What I'm saying, you pure-hearted-unicorn-bait-virgin-goombas, is that I've got your back.

Thanks, Plei. You're a peach. We are as goooooods. t edit And I just realized that that comment was sorta spoilery (in a non-NAFDA way). Heh.


P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2003 12:58:01 am PST #8735 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

Ah, Jon, I love you all, too.

Consider my spoiled state taking one for the team and loving it. Err, or something.

But nah, spoilers do not pass go or collect $200 on my watch, damn it.


amyth - Mar 22, 2003 7:02:19 am PST #8736 of 10001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Wash: Um, can we take a vote on the murdering people?

Heh. Hehehehehehehe.

I'm for making the slugs shorter and leaving it at that, because it seems to be the simplest solution.


bicyclops - Mar 22, 2003 7:59:04 am PST #8737 of 10001

Hi folks.

I want to apologize for the ill feelings I stirred up Thursday night with my posts. Whatever point I was trying to make was not worth all the hassle it caused. I must've had a bug up my butt about this war and took my anger and frustration out on you people. I'm hoping that nothing I said was taken by anyone as a personal attack, but what I said was certainly taken by some as an attack on this board's culture and history, and for that I'm sorry. Please convey my apologies to anyone who stopped reading this thread because of the rancor I helped cause Thursday.

I've stepped back and taken a day away from the board and now I find I really don't care as passionately as I seemed to on Thursday.

On the grandfathering issue, I concede. All decisions made in the past by consensus are OK with me, and the waiting period applying to each of them is fine with me, too. Y'all can still vote on it if there remains enough opposition to make it worth putting in on the ballot, but all opposition from this corner is withdrawn. Either way, I'm abstaining from the vote.

And yeah, that means I'm accepting the war thread as dead. Wolfram, I'm sorry if this makes you feel like what little support you had is deserting you, but at least to me, it seems like time to throw in the towel. Well past time, actually. I won't withdraw my seconding of the war thread should it ever be allowed to be put on a ballot, but don't count on my support or my vote from here forward. Sorry, man. I know you care a lot about this.


Nutty - Mar 22, 2003 8:37:09 am PST #8738 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

That was a very cool post, bc, and not because of your change in opinion. I'm glad you're so invested in the community-feeling, and in having Deep Thoughts about Buffista issues. I do support the universal human right to change one's mind, but I support even more the advancement of monkey-grooming gestures as a general panacea for what ails us.


Deena - Mar 22, 2003 8:40:02 am PST #8739 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

I think we've all had bugs up our butts about the war. I know I've taken my frustration out lately in not very conciliatory ways.


amyth - Mar 22, 2003 8:45:19 am PST #8740 of 10001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

I know I've taken my frustration out lately in not very conciliatory ways.

Me too. I was a nicer person before the war. I've gotta work on that.


§ ita § - Mar 22, 2003 9:47:49 am PST #8741 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You know, we really should have a "not ultimately culpable for the contents of posts herein" disclaimer for the site.

I'm not sure a) who's the who that's not culpable, and b) how to word it, but there it is.