Thanks! I could not remember whether we voted for a majority or a plurality! We really need a cheat sheet.
Also, I woke up at 2:30 am this morning and haven't been back to sleep so I may be a little slow!
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
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
Sophia Brooks - Aug 27, 2003 11:37:11 am PDT #4830 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2003 11:37:44 am PDT #4831 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Might I suggest "Volume" instead of "Season" as in "Boxed Set, Volume 1: Farscape, Smallville, due South" (or whatever order they should go in).
askye - Aug 27, 2003 1:30:28 pm PDT #4832 of 10005
Thrive to spite them
I just wanted to apologize if I made anyone uncomfortable earlier. I didn't mean to, I was...well I wasn't feeling my best because of stuff that happened yesterday and I was letting my feelings bleed over.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 27, 2003 4:06:29 pm PDT #4833 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
No worries, askye. I figure the changes are going to throw a few people for a few loops of whatever kind.
P.M. Marc - Aug 27, 2003 5:50:59 pm PDT #4834 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
Heh.
I think my sad admission is that I think I'd have preferred to see consolidation that took us back to the WX-era threads only. (And, of course, the house keeping.)
I may well be a cranky old man. (IOW, I'd have whacked Music, Hobbits, and Movies.)
(And, you know, after my coffee, I'm sure I'll be fine with it. Blah blah blah, needs of the many and all.)
Noumenon - Aug 27, 2003 7:52:36 pm PDT #4835 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
Well, my feeling was that everytime I asked a question in Lightbulbs I got shut down -- that the discussion was a place to let off steam on a ballot that was already decided.
I think in part that's a function of having the proposer have ultimate authority over the questions, fwiw. There seemed (to me) to be a fair amount of consensus over the fact that Farscape was at best an awkward fit with the other two. But that's not what the proposer chose to propose.
Hmm... I threadsucked Lightbulbs for people's opinion on Farscape, and didn't find one for Sumi. The "consensus vote" was 6-3½, with 3 "don't cares," so not a landslide.
Anyway, I think Kat is proof from attack on being inflexible on her proposal. She was really involved in the discussion and updated the proposal four times with different wording. You can tell she wasn't set on killing Farscape by the language in her original proposal:
5. Due South, Smallville and perhaps Farscape will be consolidated in some way.
Consuela - Aug 27, 2003 7:55:12 pm PDT #4836 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Besides, it's not dead! Farscape is only sleeping.
t /natter
Michele T. - Aug 27, 2003 8:10:36 pm PDT #4837 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I am annoyed at the loss of the Spoilage Lite thread for Angel, since that's the only thing being cut that isn't either at the end of its useful life or being somehow replaced by some other thread.
And I feel very strongly that we shouldn't encourage the inevitable thread drift in the SV/dS/FS thread slug -- it'll happen, I'm sure, but let's not invite it.
Jon B. - Aug 27, 2003 8:15:54 pm PDT #4838 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I am annoyed at the loss of the Spoilage Lite thread for Angel
Me too, but I've decided to take it as a sign that I should go completely spoiler-free this season. I don't think it will lessen my enjoyment of the show any. I did fine without them before the thread was created on WX.
Noumenon - Aug 27, 2003 8:18:52 pm PDT #4839 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
How about "Boxed Set 1: Farscape, Smallville, Due South, et nil." That's still kind of Latin. Besides, if you can add others, you don't have the complete boxed set, do you?