I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.

Angel ,'Chosen'


Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer  

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


Trudy Booth - May 11, 2003 12:05:35 am PDT #1624 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I don't see how it's fair enough that Tim gets his own thread

Tim isn't merely ME, he's a Buffista.

Really, if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.


billytea - May 11, 2003 12:52:12 am PDT #1625 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Really, if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.

t resolves to begin work on new TV show immediately

Some working episode titles:

Reindeer - Coping with light deprivation through drugs.
Naked Mole Rats - From beneath you, they devour.
Southern Right Whales - It's not the size, it's what you do with it that counts. ...Ok, it's the size.
Box Jellyfish - I always take vinegar to the beach. You're probably the same yourself.
Giraffes - Let us kiss with tongue!
Mantis Shrimp
- Nice aquarium you have here. Be a shame if anything were to happen to it...
Hyenas - Forcing together parts of unequal size.

Hmmm. This could work.


Noumenon - May 11, 2003 12:59:44 am PDT #1626 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

Pitch it as Survivor 6: Survivor of the Fittest. Now there's a reality show.

(The Survivor series is about the only thing as heavily edited as this post. Why is it spelled that way?)


billytea - May 11, 2003 1:05:50 am PDT #1627 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

So it's like Survivor of the fittest?

Hee. I shamefully admit I would watch a show where contestants had to choose what they want stuffed down their trousers, naked mole rats or mantis shrimp, and watch them make the wrong choice every. Single. Week.


Cindy - May 11, 2003 4:54:12 am PDT #1628 of 10005
Nobody

Tim isn't merely ME, he's a Buffista.

Really, if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.

Yes

(and possibly 'I second that')


Am-Chau Yarkona - May 11, 2003 5:06:15 am PDT #1629 of 10005
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I would watch a show where contestants had to choose what they want stuffed down their trousers, naked mole rats or mantis shrimp, and watch them make the wrong choice every. Single. Week.

I now want to know which billytea considers to be the right choice.

if any Buffista gets a TV show I'd think a thread would be a serious consideration. Hell, I'd even put it to a vote: Any Buffista with a TV show should get a thread, yes or no.

I like that. I'd second the proposal.


Julie - May 11, 2003 5:16:29 am PDT #1630 of 10005

okay, so I skimmed a little, and there was some skipping (but I blame that on the fact that I've been mixing pathwork squares all afternoon and my brain now refuses to recognise three quarters of the colour spectrum) but, has the conversation really become...

    A Buffista, a nekkid prawn and a pair of trousers in a treehouse get a talkshow, nobody hears them fall, how many forrest threads do we create?


Am-Chau Yarkona - May 11, 2003 5:24:33 am PDT #1631 of 10005
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

A Buffista, a nekkid prawn and a pair of trousers in a treehouse get a talkshow, nobody hears them fall, how many forrest threads do we create?

It may depend on how many monkeys typing randomly it takes to agree on the slash in Shakespeare, and whether they're grammatically correct while they do it.

Edit: and all these trees bring a new, terrible, punning meaning to 'post Graduate'.


Noumenon - May 11, 2003 5:32:07 am PDT #1632 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

When a tree falls in the forest, and no one's around, do you think it was Tim who killed it?

Natter follows.

I now want to know which billytea considers to be the right choice.

I Googled mantis shrimp when he said that and they have powerful, praying-mantis-type claws for spearing fish that can strike hard enough to break double-paned aquarium glass. They're pretty handy with the laceration. However, I also just looked up naked mole rats and I don't want anything that's a coprophage in my pants either.


Cindy - May 11, 2003 7:21:59 am PDT #1633 of 10005
Nobody

has the conversation really become...

A Buffista, a nekkid prawn and a pair of trousers in a treehouse get a talkshow, nobody hears them fall, how many forrest threads do we create?

Yes! We've reached Buffista Nirvana!