um, k.

You captured one!

Sorry. My bad. I made a continuity fuckup, sisters.

Hey, no problem.
Amused us retards for a good ten posts.
I'd say job well done.

Me and Celty ride the short bus to school.

If there are enough of us short-bus riders here, we could overfill the bus and cause them to give us a long bus.

Who is with me?

Tardo-Power, ACTIVATE!

The short bus clown car!
How many of us you think we can fit in before we graduate to a long bus?

Who the hell knows? We aren't smart enough to figure it out.

i'm gettin down like syndrome.

I believe that was *my* line.

Fu Cuff

I seem to have been subjected to the same treatment, but her last PM makes me think that perhaps the mayor's wedgie^W"intervention" may prove effective. I'll Wait'n'see.

The last time I got PM'd was when the Whigs were in power.

I am amused.

(Holy shit, shit like this makes me
tired.)

Justin.
Knock off the fuckin' quoting the
post above you.
Now.
Thank you.

I'm seriously thinking about using
the Admin Time Out Meter for fucks
who won't listen.
You can be banned from posting for
X amount of time.
There aren't many rules here, please
follow 'em.

Think of posting here as a
conversation.
You wouldn't repeat what a person
just said before responding.
Or maybe you would, and you'd
be real annoying, and I'd beat
your ass anyway.

Perhaps we should add a "rules of order" to the FAQ.

Might save some time.

DG

Too much work.
Besides, who the fuck would I yell
at then?

As good a time as any to wear out my welcome, and seek some clarification.

While the tone on many forums (including this one) is quite conversational, the medium does have some effect. It is more asynchronous, partially due to people not being around all at the same time. Now quoting the person right above you might be a little much, but sometimes somebody can jump in between while you're posting. That, and the previously mentioned asynchronosity can lead to many threads in the conversation, and people replying to a variety of different posts in the same thread.

I am not meaning to be contentious, just explaining where I am coming from so my confusion with the anti-quoting things is clearer. Should we indicate what we are replying to like this

Liver, ...

what about posts a page bacK? Use quotes as needed, but try to minimize it? It just seems like it is easy to skip over the different colored parts when they aren't neccessary. Of course, six quotes deep or a page of vertical space does suck, so perhaps I do unerstand a little of the reasoning.

You know posting to forums is a lot like playing a musical instrument. When you're first getting started, no one wants to hear you.

The cool thing about this place is that the more interesting your post is, the less you have to worry about the rules.

I'd say it's a good thing you followed the rules on your last post.

Over the years,
I've become quite handy
at a certain instrument.

I'm guessing "handy" is the key word in that statement.

BTW, did you just see me click over two hundred?

Louchie'd beat that in a day and a half.

S. Robert - great job, fun guy.

QueenTick,
If you notice, I do use someone's
name to call attention to something
they've said.

If someone jumps the queue on your
post, there is the edit button. This
seems to be a common fear, that
you'll get aced. Fuck it. Just use the
edit button and rewrite your post.
Of course, if the post is way back there
somewhere, then quote it, but please
edit out the bullshit and just slap up
the salient bit.

Also, when I was a wee poster, back
about 14,000 posts ago, I'd read my
post out loud before I'd send it off to
the ether. If it sounds like shit, it reads
like shit.

Finally, we don't have tone here,
we have TONE. And it is policed
heavily, if you haven't noticed.

(TONE) Hey Louie, where the fuck are you!

The full moon is over.


Thank God!

Who's Louie?

I haven't seen The Boys in the Band
in decades.

Liver: a'ight.

Yow. Didn't mean to step on my dick like that. Sorry about the quoting. It wasn't an intentional rebellion thing, just a habit I picked up elsewhere that isn't welcome here. I'll try to be more aware of it. Fair?

Louie is my affectionate verbage for you Louche.

Gosh, I hope you do not mind?

J,
Ok.
Q,
Coo'.
S,

Should call this thread the phone
call that launched a 1,000 views.

Gosh, we should talk more often.

Only when it matters!

Morning, Cat.
I'm off to bed.
Once I get some cheap phone
time reupped, I'll yell at you
again.
The Lounge needs the ratings.

Good Night, Mr. Mayor.

Round 2, Feb. 14th!

$10 buys the whole seat, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE!!!

"I'm an O.E.D. man, Doctor"¹

Peepers -- , supposing you remember where that comes from.

--
¹Actually, out of principle, I'm a Collins-Cobuild type.

Sixela, you read "The Professor and the Madman"? A book about the development of the OED, and how much of it was contributed by a mental patient waiting out their life in St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital after killing someone? (And how he cut off his penis while incarcerated.)

Should be right up your alley.

Scary, I'm not actually totally illiterate. Just mostly.

Hee! I no longer have the reference, but I'm certain you Jest. Even reading it quoted, I feel like a smug, arrogant bastard for enjoying it. I hope you're getting some enjoyment out of it, too.

BTW, have you read "Eats, shoots and leaves"?

No, I haven't. Why — are you suggesting that I would benefit from a reading?

Sixer,

Is that a book or a dating ritual?

Hee!

I am sure that Madame P could benefit by many things including a good reading.

Maybe, She would allow you to sit at her feet and read something to her.

I likes!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1...6401309-5523843

No, it's not a dating ritual, and it's funny as hell.

Amazon Reviews: This book sucks; recommends books by Bill Bryson

reminds me of that "eats bushes and leaves" joke.

Care for some floss?

nah, it's ok.

i like to savor the flavor.