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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


Frankenbuddha - Apr 14, 2004 6:31:19 am PDT #9979 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

That post could have been a haiku Frank, if only for the
tag.

I can never remember the form. But I could do limericks:

There once was a thread named bureaublahblah

Where Buffistas hashed out their own law

The posts went to ten-

thousand and then

A new thread then opened its maw.


Nilly - Apr 14, 2004 6:33:04 am PDT #9980 of 10005
Swouncing

Frank, if you write <br> at the end of a line, it would put whatever is after it at the following line. So

blah <br>blah

is

blah
blah


Topic!Cindy - Apr 14, 2004 6:46:42 am PDT #9981 of 10005
What is even happening?

I can never remember the form.

It's five syllables
Then it's seven syllables
Finally five more

(Jon's Haiku is much more Haikuier than mine, though)

Also, if you want to make a fake HTML tag like t br or t weeps or what have you, there is quick edit for that. You start new line by using your "enter" or "return" key, type a lower-case t, then a space, then the text you want in the tag. Hit return again, right after that, so that your whole post doesn't doesn't end up in the tag.


esse - Apr 14, 2004 6:46:55 am PDT #9982 of 10005
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Just getting in my end o' thread post. Because I can. Though I can't think of haikus. I'm not sure I even remember the syllabic form for haikus.


Steph L. - Apr 14, 2004 7:00:33 am PDT #9983 of 10005
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

My favorite haiku:

One, two, three, four, five;
one, two, three, four, five, six, sev....
Shit; that's too many!


SuziQ - Apr 14, 2004 7:04:51 am PDT #9984 of 10005
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

My writing is bad
I just want to say good-bye
In haiku for you

t / sad attempt

ETA - I know /=end - duh


Fred Pete - Apr 14, 2004 7:07:27 am PDT #9985 of 10005
Ann, that's a ferret.

Farewell, Bureau 2!
More rule-type talk coming up.
Hello, Bureau 3!


Topic!Cindy - Apr 14, 2004 7:09:05 am PDT #9986 of 10005
What is even happening?

(lexine, not a haiku, and not really the thread for it, but I wanted to let you knew I'm sending you all the ~ma in the world. Having a seriously ill parent and an ill child at the same time, is a special kind of Hell. Take care of yourself, to the extent you can.)


Jon B. - Apr 14, 2004 7:09:35 am PDT #9987 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

It's Bureaublahblah!
What will the next thread be called?
Bureaublahblahblah?


Lyra Jane - Apr 14, 2004 7:10:58 am PDT #9988 of 10005
Up with the sun

Bureau 3 to come
Maybe this time, we can spend
More posts naming it.