I thought the consensus in Precious was to whitefont what happens in the books out of courtesy--and, at least on my part, enjoying the innocence of the unspoiled.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
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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
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2003 10:03:47 am PDT #2648 of 10005
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Nutty - Jun 23, 2003 10:06:56 am PDT #2649 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Like I said, Aimee, no offense meant to you. (And I hope the conversation as a whole worked as advertising for you.) But I do think that the whitefont train can go too far down the track, especially on no notice.
If we'd been having the conversation 4 years ago, or 1 year from now, it would not be whitefontable; and it's not whitefontable in the thread devoted to the topic; and it's not a NAFDA issue; so I'm having trouble coming up with a reason to whitefont.
I mean, besides the greater glee and screaming, and if it were a topic to be gleeful and/or scream about, I'd whitefont with, you know, glee. (As we did, when talking about the spiders a few months ago.)
Aims - Jun 23, 2003 10:09:12 am PDT #2650 of 10005
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Like I said, Aimee, no offense meant to you
Oh I know!! I am one of few that hasn't read the books. I'm one of those people that reads after the movie if I haven't read before. Really, it's no big. The fact that I've remained as unspoiled as I have up til now, is pretty good.
bon bon - Jun 23, 2003 10:12:03 am PDT #2651 of 10005
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
If we'd been having the conversation 4 years ago, or 1 year from now, it would not be whitefontable; and it's not whitefontable in the thread devoted to the topic; and it's not a NAFDA issue; so I'm having trouble coming up with a reason to whitefont.
Because there is a rational reason to not want to read the books and yet enjoy the movie unspoiled. The movie and book are different things; one, yes, has been out forty years but the other hasn't and has appeal beyond the book. I don't go into "Dude" because I haven't read the books (and don't plan to) but I'd rather not be spoiled in Natter.
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2003 10:13:42 am PDT #2652 of 10005
brillig
Aimee, I take great joy in anticipating your reaction to events as they develop. Makes me want to be sitting next to you in the theatre. We ought to get all the non-readers together for the premier, then sprinkle of bunch of the readers in the audience wtih them, just so we can say, "Just wait, just wait," then we can enjoy their gasps.
Oh, topic, right. And I also think we should whitefont in Precious. Isnt' that thread primarily about the movie phenomenon? A purely book discussion might be better suited in Literary.
Jessica - Jun 23, 2003 10:14:32 am PDT #2653 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I thought the consensus in Precious was to whitefont what happens in the books out of courtesy--and, at least on my part, enjoying the innocence of the unspoiled.
I'm not sure what you're talking about here, because there's never been any book-related whitefonting in Precious -- the ability to talk freely about 40+ year-old books was one of the main reasons for giving them their own thread.
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2003 10:15:57 am PDT #2654 of 10005
brillig
I thought the reason for giving them/us their own thread was because the Movies people were getting tired of slogging past posts going "Boromir! Aragorn! Hobbitses!"
Yes, I am smiling.
amych - Jun 23, 2003 10:18:24 am PDT #2655 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I thought the reason for giving them/us their own thread was because the Movies people were getting tired of slogging past posts going "Boromir! Aragorn! Hobbitses!"
LotR threads long predate Movies. And, yeah, I'm being pedantic and pointy-headed.
Although having just typed "being" as "boing" should redeem me somewhat.
Connie Neil - Jun 23, 2003 10:20:41 am PDT #2656 of 10005
brillig
Oh, that's right, the Movies people were sad about the LotR people getting a thread for their movie when they wanted a general one as well. I still think whitefonting is the kindest option, there, because the thread was created as a response to the movies, not to the books.
Nutty - Jun 23, 2003 10:31:06 am PDT #2657 of 10005
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well, but the fact is, we do discuss the books as often as we do the movies, and that discussion needs a space. We could move it to Literary, but inevitably book-talk will bleed over to movie-talk, and then people will have to move from one thread to another to follow a single conversation.
In sum: I think book-Tolkien talk should stay in Dude; I don't think it can bear to be whitefonted. (Unlike HP talk, it would have to be whitefonted for the next 6+ months .) We did talk about this in Dude a long time ago; and I had thought we consensed enough about it that I put it into my Buffista Rules Precedents document.
(Hey, Jon, is that done being HTMLified yet? If not, I'll post the linky citation when I get home.)