What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?

Jayne ,'Objects In Space'


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


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!


Julie - May 11, 2003 7:24:07 am PDT #1634 of 10005

Buffista Nirvana!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I do believe we have our first "I am Buffista, hear me talk show" thread title candidate :)

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

And this? Is clearly the slug for the all Tim, all the time thread!!


P.M. Marc - May 11, 2003 7:47:33 am PDT #1635 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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

That is the PERFECT slug for a Tim thread.

(Now make with the lack of natter, funny bunnies.)

(Even if you did make me laugh like one of those drain things.)

(Because it was really funny.)


Cindy - May 11, 2003 9:18:58 am PDT #1636 of 10005
Nobody

(It was a purification ritual. We do it after every episode of The Buffistas Have A Difficult Conversation. It keeps Bureau from crumbling. This Is Not Natter.)