This time it's not waffling. This time it's the inexorability of my point.
Whole different vibe.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
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
§ ita § - Jul 08, 2003 6:47:03 pm PDT #3017 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean K - Jul 08, 2003 6:48:35 pm PDT #3018 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
This time it's the inexorability of my point.
And you used the word 'inexorability' too. That's some serious mojo right there.
Ginger - Jul 08, 2003 6:50:48 pm PDT #3019 of 10005
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It does seem to be true that math will be with us always. Nothing comes to me for 15, so I tend to skip ahead to 2 to the 4th. (Too tired to figure out if I can superscript.) I'm sure Nilly could come up with an equation for almost any thread number.
Noumenon - Jul 08, 2003 8:04:08 pm PDT #3020 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
I wish that there was some other term for those of us who read but do not post. "Lurking" sounds so sinister, as though we are skulking around in the bushes while the rest of you have a party.
You're not lurking. You're standing about. It's a whole different vibe. Can't call you "standabouters," though. How about "lurchers"? Lurch, from the Addams Family, was a man of few words, yet very loyal and able to keep the family secrets to himself. (The true implication is that you are all our silent audience of lurching, drunken monkeys, but if you want to contest that, you're just going to have to sober up and delurch.)
Holli - Jul 08, 2003 8:13:57 pm PDT #3021 of 10005
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
oh! I love "standabouters." It's a bit unwieldy, I'll admit, but when has wordiness ever deterred us from a good in-joke?
Sean K - Jul 08, 2003 8:17:12 pm PDT #3022 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
How 'bout "extras?" Filling out the scene, but without any dialogue, yet. Instead of "delurking," we would say they "have lines!"
Aims - Jul 08, 2003 8:21:57 pm PDT #3023 of 10005
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yes, and then, when they "have lines", they hafta give us $1500 to be a "real" Buffista.
Allyson - Jul 08, 2003 8:52:32 pm PDT #3024 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There's a lurvely post in Press that doesn't quite belong there.
May I suggest, "When come back, post here."
Cass - Jul 08, 2003 9:08:55 pm PDT #3025 of 10005
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Totally going with "Natter 2 x (3+4): It could be mathier."
Not going for Aimée's fee for real Buffista (though I might pay...)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jul 08, 2003 11:26:45 pm PDT #3026 of 10005
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Returning abruptly to the Firefly thread naming: Like Vera. Want Vera.
Firefly 3: We call it Vera.or even just
Firefly 3: Vera.
Also like "standabouters". I was wondering about different words for 'lurker' myself, but the best I'd got was 'listener', which sounds very team-building-training, somehow.