That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.

Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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


DavidS - Mar 31, 2003 5:15:44 pm PST #9040 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm partial to Screw Kafka, We're Talkin Beckett because a) I made it up and b) the "talkin" double entendre

I like this one too.

Hey, I gave up on my perfect trifecta natter title because...candy and drinking. Who can argue with that?

Besides diabetics at their AA meeting.


P.M. Marc - Mar 31, 2003 5:18:33 pm PST #9041 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

Yeah. I think, when it comes down to it, they're just thread names. The natter ones will be gone in a blink.

And whatever's closest, for practical reasons, gets it.


Liese S. - Mar 31, 2003 5:20:21 pm PST #9042 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Ayup. Just needs to be done. I think it's fine.


bitterchick - Mar 31, 2003 5:29:48 pm PST #9043 of 10001

I'm firmly anti-monkey. And I'm voting for: Like Sartre, Only Longer.


Elena - Mar 31, 2003 5:39:15 pm PST #9044 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.

I'm fairly indifferent to monkey, but I think that at some point a thread, any thread, should be named

firmly anti-monkey

or, really

fairly indifferent to monkey

I'm not helping, am I?


DXMachina - Mar 31, 2003 6:01:18 pm PST #9045 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I can easily say that if I'm the admin on charge when a new thread (especially Natter) is to be created, I take the word of the first remotely plausible Joe that wanders in. I'm just not tracking thread naming with enough cycles to do anything else.

Yup. That's it exactly. They can be edited, too.


Burrell - Mar 31, 2003 6:04:29 pm PST #9046 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I wasn't dissing the stompies (as I assume they make the title whatever they are told to make it), I was just registering my mild annoyance.

My apologies if I was misread.


P.M. Marc - Mar 31, 2003 6:07:31 pm PST #9047 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

Hell, I'll admit to sometimes being tempted to name threads

Natter ##: When You Come Up With a Name, Gimme a Shout.

or

Natter ##: TBD, eventually, at some point, maybe. (monkey)


bitterchick - Mar 31, 2003 6:39:12 pm PST #9048 of 10001

I think one of those should be the next Natter title.


Michele T. - Mar 31, 2003 7:26:39 pm PST #9049 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Can I just note that the Bureaucracy title should be a SHORT one so it fits in the right-hand column easily? Thanks.