Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
See?

Instead of stepping back and looking at the change in your posting styles from before you were mod to after, you take what I said and try to diffuse it by making one sad, lame joke after another about your quest for power.

The difference between you before and after is that now you have this false sense of confidence in your posts that I can only explain has arisen because leagle granted you mod powers.

And to anticipate RT's response, no, it doesn't happen to everyone. The people who are mods who created their own voice on this board (and, in my opinion, you were well on your way, ncs) don't need to change their posting styles. And they don't.

That's it. I don't think you're drunk with power. Leagle goes in and out of those phases, but my criticism of your recent posting style is limited to what I said above. Especially since I whiffed on the "step off" comment (which will now be incorporated into every post for the next 8 years).

TM

maybe you overanalyze.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Berry Hunter
This is your best post in months. Live by it.

A summary of today's action: People who post lots of boring crap complaining about people who may post other boring crap. Except one group or the other can't type worth a damn.

Back to lurking and working.

Oh, and here's a hearty fuck all y'all to the GPs and others who are working hard this afternoon to screw up what would otherwise be a nice weekend here for us lowly worker bees.

Edited because I forgot the obligitory HAPPY FRIDAY and all that.

If you are editing anyway, the first "who" needs to come out.

Is the "Berry" in "Berry Hunter" some kind of clitoris or nipple reference? Though, one more often hears clitoris referred to as "bud" when a nature theme is being used.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bilmore
All groups learn to speak in shorthand and codes. It makes communication more efficient. Also, it's human nature to want to be part of a group. Using that group's codes and shorthands is one way to both enter, and feel secure in, a group. Big deal. Why do you try to tell people that, because they're not using the codes you would choose to use, they're not part of the group? Isn't that a sort of exclusivity-based cliqueism all by itself?

"Timmy" is shorthand. "Fred" is not. If you need to repeat some dumbass Fred joke 100 times to feel like you're part of the group (listen carefully), you're probably not part of the group. Or worse yet, you are and you're making a fool of yourself.

Just be yourself and people will engage you. Inserting "Fred" into your posts isn't going to get anyone's attention. It just means that you are completely unoriginal. And that can't and shouldn't make you secure in a group.

Bilmore, when everyone steals your style of talking out of their ass about shit they know nothing about, I'll call them out on that too.

TM

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I read Thurgreed's rant as a cry for help. A cry that says, c'mon people, can't we come together and be funny? There's no need to recycle old jokes when we can make new jokes! Why, if each one of us sat down and came up with something funny and posted it this very afternoon, by this evening the board would be full of a bunch of funny new stuff! We're like an impoverished village in Africa where everyone walks around in sandals made from old tires, when we could be living large in Beverly Hills in new Uggs.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
maybe you overanalyze.

Now that is a distinct possibility.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by bilmore
Chapter two, "Waiting For Godot"?

I have never in my brief time on this earth heard anyone say or write anything worse about another person than what you have just said about Samuel Beckett.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No matter what is being criticized, almost everyone on this board automatically thinks it would be hilarious to incorporate it into every single one of their posts for all eternity. It isn't.

In the stand-up world it's referred to as a "callback," and it can be the most effective arrow in the comedian's quiver when used wisely and judiciously. It's a foul truth I utter, but everyone on the board will think I'm mainly correct on this.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Just be yourself and people will engage you. Inserting "Fred" into your posts isn't going to get anyone's attention. It just means that you are completely unoriginal.
TM

The ironic part of this is that paigow actually uses parts of people's posts in her posts all the time. A standard paigow post, has a reference in the middle back to a post a few weeks back.
She does it very well, and it is one of the funnier parts of her act.

A difference is that its always a reference back to something that only she remembered to reference until she does reference it. Sometimes I think she must keep a notebook.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

It's like we've reached some sort of self-reflexive critical mass. We must resist. Ignorance of our behavioural dynamics is good. At least, I don't want to know about it.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
"Timmy" is shorthand. "Fred" is not. If you need to repeat some dumbass Fred joke 100 times to feel like you're part of the group (listen carefully), you're probably not part of the group. Or worse yet, you are and you're making a fool of yourself.

Just be yourself and people will engage you. Inserting "Fred" into your posts isn't going to get anyone's attention. It just means that you are completely unoriginal. And that can't and shouldn't make you secure in a group.

Bilmore, when everyone steals your style of talking out of their ass about shit they know nothing about, I'll call them out on that too.

TM

You're so fun to watch when you get into your corrective-action mood.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Which joke? "Timmy" or "Fred"?

Did I mention that I was on a conference call recently with several other lawfirms and someone used the phrase "Let's not be a Timmy about this"? And I didn't even remark it at the time (seems no one did), so I can't remember who it was.

BR(I invented "em." Sorry about that, I didn't mean to)C

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
If you are editing anyway, the first "who" needs to come out.

Is the "Berry" in "Berry Hunter" some kind of clitoris or nipple reference? Though, one more often hears clitoris referred to as "bud" when a nature theme is being used.

Now this is entertaining.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Now this is entertaining.

I'm a people-pleaser.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I read Thurgreed's rant as a cry for help. A cry that says, c'mon people, can't we come together and be funny? There's no need to recycle old jokes when we can make new jokes! Why, if each one of us sat down and came up with something funny and posted it this very afternoon, by this evening the board would be full of a bunch of funny new stuff! We're like an impoverished village in Africa where everyone walks around in sandals made from old tires, when we could be living large in Beverly Hills in new Uggs.

In Thurgreed's defense, last time he felt that way he hatched the inaugural Breasticle Day.


If you can't be funny, then show us your tits.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is the "Berry" in "Berry Hunter" some kind of clitoris or nipple reference? Though, one more often hears clitoris referred to as "bud" when a nature theme is being used.

Ebert's "Movie Answer Man" column recently confirmed that "Rosebud," in addition to being a sled, was also Hearst's pet name for Marion Davies's yoohoo.

This puts me in mind of a Poll: Post the full text or best fragment of your favorite poem. Extra credit for extensive sexual metaphor.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Best. Poem. Ever.