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bein' Lucid
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posted 13 October 2001 01:55 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
We have intercepted several of your Flood Control communiques. We believe these messages are coded to provide instructions to operatives acting on your behalf in seeking to overthrow the state.

We demand you halt and desist in propagating these messages. Failure to do so will result in something unpleasant. We don't know what. But it will be unpleasant. How unpleasant? Think coming home from a long vacation and discovering you had forgot to put out the trash containing leftovers unpleasant. If that is not unpleasant enough for you, we can be more unpleasant. We represent a large group of very unpleasant people.

This is a warning.


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clersal
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posted 13 October 2001 02:05 PM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
May I timidly ask, What State do you have in mind? And what is it with this bloody flood control. It was a real pain last night. Something new and subversive perhaps?

Hell it must be the lefties and righties. Maybe even the middlies, or is it the middlers. Maybe the muddlers?


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skdadl
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posted 13 October 2001 02:10 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
But Lucid, we don't have states here; we have provinces -- pro/vin/ces. You an American?
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Debra
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posted 13 October 2001 02:15 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Are you a member of the CIA ( Canada is America) or the FBI ( For Big Industry)?
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bein' Lucid
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posted 13 October 2001 02:18 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Look, it is hard enough delivering an ultimatum and thinking up something really unpleasant, and I mean really, really unpleasant -- like discovering no toliet paper in a public bathroom after a bad Thai food experience unpleasant -- without all these questions.

All enquiries about our organization should be directed toward our leader. but I warn you, she is a very, very unpleasant person.
Michelle, these people have questions.


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clersal
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posted 13 October 2001 02:19 PM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Betcha it is our state of mind. Are you sure you are new Lucid? Something fishy here I do believe.
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clersal
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posted 13 October 2001 02:24 PM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Double post. You sneak. OUR LEADER. Don't got no leader. Don't want no leader. So there.
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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 02:24 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
What do you mean unpleasant like your mom showing naked baby pictures,or finding half a worm in your apple, or washing yourself with one of those little hotel soaps when suddenly it goes missing and you didn't hear it drop?


Damn flood control


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skdadl
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posted 13 October 2001 02:27 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Or maybe it is prov/in/ces ...

Damn flood control.


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bein' Lucid
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posted 13 October 2001 02:30 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Not YOUR leader. OUR leader.

And no, more unpleasant. Like walking out of an adults only toy store when the theft alarm goes off. Or taking someone's seat on a bus and then slowly discovering a warm, wet feeling. That kind of unpleasant.


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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 02:34 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Like finally getting to third base with your girlfriend and finding out you have A LOT more in common than you thought.
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skdadl
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posted 13 October 2001 02:35 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
bL, are you feeling unwelcome? Because we can address that condition ...

Damn flood control.


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clersal
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posted 13 October 2001 02:37 PM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Nah. The most unpleasant is when you are eating breakfast and the cat decides to throw up. Yecch.
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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 02:38 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Or how bout seeing your mother-in-law naked, or just SEEING YOUR mother-in-law.
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skdadl
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posted 13 October 2001 02:39 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
[Zeratul, where did YOU get a mother-in-law?]
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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 02:41 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
From HELL, where they all come from.
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bein' Lucid
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posted 13 October 2001 02:43 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Like finally getting to third base with your girlfriend and finding out you have A LOT more in common than you thought.

Yes, that kind of unpleasant. Are you a member of our organization. Would you like to be?

quote:
bL, are you feeling unwelcome? Because we can address that condition ...

This is not relevant. All that matters is the Damn Flood Control. It must stop. Or there will be consequences. Like the type of unpleasantness illustrated above.

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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 02:47 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Yes, that kind of unpleasant. Are you a member of our organization. Would you like to be?

Well, that would be the most unpleasant now would'nt it?


damn flood control

[ October 13, 2001: Message edited by: Zeratul ]


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skdadl
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posted 13 October 2001 02:48 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
"Not relevant" -- sigh. Everyone's always telling me I'm not relevant. Mandos especially says I'm not relevant. Relevant is like consequences -- consequences are hard for me too. I mean, like, I don't think that way -- I think I do something more like precipitation. Percolation?

Damn flood control.


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Debra
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posted 13 October 2001 02:51 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Much as I would like to respond I fail to see the relevance of what you are saying.


damn flood control


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bein' Lucid
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posted 13 October 2001 02:52 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Very unpleasant. Vey, very.

quote:
Mandos especially says I'm not relevant.

That is relevant. Is Mandos unpleasant? Will he help us bring an end to this damn flood control?

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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 02:54 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
damn flooood controoooolllll save me jebus!!!!!
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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 02:59 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Hey all! I found a picture of bL !!!


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skdadl
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posted 13 October 2001 03:00 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Mandos isn't here right now. I don't know when he'll be back. Sometimes we talk, and then we don't talk for a while. But then we always talk again, and then we stop for a while. It's hard to explain, but I don't think it has "consequences."

Pleasant or unpleasant: well, that's another hard one for me, because it can be pleasant in different kinds of ways, y'know? There's the straightforward way, and then there's the schadenfreude kind of way, and then there are the other ways. It's like, um -- ah, what was the question?

Damn flood control.


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Debra
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posted 13 October 2001 03:03 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Consqences eh? Sounds like a job for Tommy-Paine.

BTW BL lovely photo.


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Zeratul
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posted 13 October 2001 03:39 PM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
bL & IT'S leader


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Dawna Matrix
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posted 13 October 2001 05:47 PM      Profile for Dawna Matrix     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I don't know about you guys but I'm scared by the LACK of LUCIDITY here...and how much is membership in the organization? I'm a joiner.
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Zeratul
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posted 14 October 2001 09:24 AM      Profile for Zeratul     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Before bL disappeared I got another message asking to join their organization. I declined but did manage to steal this information.

bein' Lucid seen here...
and it's leader seen here...
have made a new bot that will moderate us babblers, the moderaters, and also moderate the moderaters moderating the posts (say THAT 12 times fast).
The bot is seen here...
If found guilty of using the coded messages entiled Damn Flood Control this second bot seen here... will deal with them accordingly.

This message will self-dustruct in 5...4...3...2...1 BBBBOOOOOOOOMMMM
Damn flood control

[ October 14, 2001: Message edited by: Zeratul ]


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Michelle
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posted 14 October 2001 12:57 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Oh my GOD, HOW did I miss THIS thread?
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skdadl
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posted 14 October 2001 01:22 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Michelle:

quote:

All enquiries about our organization should be directed toward our leader. but I warn you, she is a very, very unpleasant person. Michelle, these people have questions.

Little late to be playing innocent, isn't it, Michelle?


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Michelle
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posted 14 October 2001 06:52 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Thank you, Lucid. I don't think there is any need for questions. I simply have this demand. Turn off the flood control. There will be no negotiations. We have made it clear from the start that the flood control is wrong. It is an assault against freedom. We will not compromise. Turn it off now, or there will be very unpleasant consequences. Like the ones that Lucid outlined.
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meades
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posted 14 October 2001 07:59 PM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Michelle- may I join your group of disinchanted revolutionaries?

How much is membership?


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LotusGrrrl
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posted 14 October 2001 08:21 PM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
uhhhh...what is Flood Control?
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Debra
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posted 14 October 2001 08:34 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Post this is.....then immediately try ro post flood control.
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LotusGrrrl
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posted 14 October 2001 08:38 PM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
earthmother...what were you trying to explain to me about flood control? scratches head
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Debra
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posted 14 October 2001 09:02 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
post reply this is.......then go back and post another reply flood control. You'll soon see what it is.
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JCL
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posted 15 October 2001 12:38 AM      Profile for JCL     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
LotusGrrl - Flood control, in short, is to prevent someone making multiple posts within seconds. Such as a chatroom where some one will fill up a screen with the same message.
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audra trower williams
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posted 15 October 2001 12:43 AM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
And I have a little theory that reading a thread and replying to it should take at least 2 minutes. And I'm a fascist.
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WingNut
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posted 15 October 2001 01:24 AM      Profile for WingNut   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Why haven't I noticed you at the meetings?

Damn flood control!


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meades
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posted 15 October 2001 01:43 AM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Audra, Wingnut, you too better stop if you don't plan on helping me off the floor
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LotusGrrrl
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posted 15 October 2001 02:10 AM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
Hey, can I help it if I can type over 80 wpm and I'm on a cable modem? Damn flood control...can't it keep up with me?
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meades
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posted 15 October 2001 02:14 AM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
80! HOLY HEAVEN! The best I could ever do was 60! And I thought I was speeding! I can't even picture over 80! Jebus!
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DrConway
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posted 15 October 2001 02:18 AM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I average at 75.
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WingNut
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posted 15 October 2001 02:21 AM      Profile for WingNut   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I average at 180. But 60 if it is going to make any sense.

See for yourself (180 wpm): thiaes oisadoi osDfj dstoiwe aspofi lksafmaLs


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posted 15 October 2001 02:27 AM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
tries to decipher WingNut's typing and gets out my secret decoder ring....
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posted 15 October 2001 02:28 AM      Profile for JCL     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
When I was taking journalism, I was cruising at around 48 wpm. In my younger days in high school I cruised at around the high 60s wpm.
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Debra
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posted 15 October 2001 07:21 AM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I took a course to be a leagal sectretary for one semester and you had to type 120 words a minute minimum to pass.
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skdadl
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posted 15 October 2001 08:52 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Michelle, I really think you're going to have to constructively dehire bein' Lucid.

I mean, deeply opposed though I remain on principled and ideological grounds to his worldview, I will admit to having felt some grudging admiration at first for a worthy opponent. But just look at what's happened to this thread. I thought he'd been delegated to impose some discipline: you call this disciplined? It's wandering all over the place ...

Meanwhile, bein' Lucid seems to have wandered himself, over to some thread about hippie enlightenment, where he's maundering on about being a Unitarian and apparently having an identity crisis or something. You expect us to engage in heroic resistance against a creampuff colonial governor like that? Piffle.


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Michelle
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posted 15 October 2001 09:30 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Hey, can I help it if I can type over 80 wpm and I'm on a cable modem?

I hear you, sister. Being a former secretary seems to be a liability around here.

Skdadl: your complaint is noted. Don't complain again or there will be consequences. Unpleasant consequences.


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posted 15 October 2001 06:15 PM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
Michelle, never was a secretary--only a geek in my Grade 12 typing class!
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posted 15 October 2001 06:16 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Sorry, it wasn't clear, but I was referring to myself - I was a secretary for several years before going back to school last year.
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posted 15 October 2001 06:23 PM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
Hey Michelle, that's cool with me. I still stand by my definition of me being a geek in Grade 12 though.
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posted 16 October 2001 12:58 PM      Profile for Gayle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I'm pretty sure I type at around 95wpm. I didn't think it was *that* fast....

And this thread is funny and frightening


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bandit
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posted 16 October 2001 01:10 PM      Profile for bandit     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
A simple solution gayle would be to make each post 190 words long. I type to slow for this to bother me so it looks like the dummy wins.
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LotusGrrrl
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posted 16 October 2001 01:50 PM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
Well we all know we're in here to vent and/or to give our two cents worth. Some of us can't help it if we're fast. Does that mean we enjoy quickies? Okay......thread drift...guilty !!!!
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posted 16 October 2001 01:56 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Evidently, LotusGrrrl, you missed the original flood control/Sixty Minute Man thread. Well, it's forgiveable, you're new around here.
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Debra
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posted 16 October 2001 01:59 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Sixty Minute Man; what no foreplay?
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posted 16 October 2001 02:02 PM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
'lance, new but quickly learning
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posted 16 October 2001 02:03 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
Sixty Minute Man; what no foreplay?

O plenty of foreplay -- tho' it's not always required .

"It ain't what you do/it's the way that you do it/that's what gets results."

Whatever happened to Bananarama, anyway? Ahead of their time, I say.

[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: 'lance ]


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posted 16 October 2001 02:06 PM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
Trying to bring it back full circle here, has anyone noticed that the flood control 120 seconds is not always 120 seconds? I've been timing it. I think it has flood control preference!
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posted 16 October 2001 02:39 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Ah, but once you get up into the empyrean realms of DrConway & co. (what co., he's head, shoulders and chest above we mere mortals), that "120 seconds" gets shorter and shorter, and finally approaches 0, albeit asymptotically. Out of admirable democratic sentiment, he keeps up the pretence that it still affects him.

Yikes. 1386 posts and counting, and around 1347 of them frivolous fluff. If my boss could see me now...


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posted 16 October 2001 03:37 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Full circle is back to the initial warning about flood control.

You call yourselves revolutionaries? Revolutionaries do not care about typing speed.
Revolutionaries concern themselves with greater issues like flood control.

I have warned the battle authorities about this flood control to no avail. They pretend they do not hear. Now it is time for a taste of the unpleasantness that will follow if action is not taken immediately.

The following unpleasantness is only mildly unpleasant. Unpleasant enough to get the attention of the babble authorities. Not so unpleasant as to wreak permanent damage.

Beware the unpleasantness:


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posted 16 October 2001 03:53 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Dig the graphic. He's a bit knock-kneed for those stockings, tho'. (As am I -- guess it'll have to be below the knee for me. Sigh).

So obsession with typing speed is counter-revolutionary? I could buy that, especially as I'm not sure I could manage 50.


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posted 16 October 2001 03:59 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Hey, I had that as one of my "links of the day" on my little family website a month or two ago. Click on the Elton John link - it's a hilarious rendition of "Rocket Man" by Shatner. It's only mildly unpleasant compared to the consequences of keeping flood control active, though.
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posted 16 October 2001 04:04 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Didja see Shatner's "I Am Canadian" rant on Just for Laughs a while ago? Brilliant, whether or not he wrote it.

Best part -- his "I! Don't! Speak! Every! Word! Like! A! Sentence!" Brought the house down.

Or "I've acted at Carnegie Hall in New York! The Royal Albert Hall in London! And the extinct Monkton Theatre in NDG!"


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Michelle
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posted 16 October 2001 04:08 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I love William Shatner. I just think he's such a cool guy. Talk about making an entire second career out of being a parody of yourself.

One of my favorite Shatner times was when he was on SNL and told all the Trekkies at the convention to "get a life". I'll bet he got some flak for that one.

Leonard Nimoy has done a few of those speaking-type songs too, I think, but it just isn't Shatner, you know?


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skdadl
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posted 16 October 2001 04:46 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Ha ha, Lucid ... 'nother Shatner crush here ... Oh, you're scaring us, Lucid, you're really scaring us, woo-oo-oo-oo ... I defy your unpleasantness. I stick my tongue out at your unpleasantness. How long do you think Michelle is going to employ a cream-puff, Lucid? Everybody tickle li'l Lucid, now!

('lance, Cleo Laine does a great version of 'taint whatcha do ... Know it?)


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'lance
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posted 16 October 2001 05:52 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
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('lance, Cleo Laine does a great version of 'taint whatcha do ... Know it?)

I do not, but I'll have to check it out. Especially as our smaller, grey cat is named Cleo -- after Ms Laine, natch.


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skdadl
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posted 16 October 2001 05:54 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
(Do you think I'm being a little too hard on bein' L there? I mean, the poor guy, working for Michelle and all ... Should I cut him some slack?)
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Michelle
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posted 16 October 2001 05:59 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
SILENCE! I will not have my employees maligned by the likes of Skdadl. One more outburst like that from you, and I will be forced to hack into babble's administrator function, and program "Disco Duck" to play continuously whenever the babble window is open.

You have been warned.


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Debra
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posted 16 October 2001 06:02 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
nooooooo....nooooooo...oh dear god....noooooo....
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'lance
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posted 16 October 2001 06:19 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
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SILENCE! I will not have my employees maligned by the likes of Skdadl. One more outburst like that from you, and I will be forced to hack into babble's administrator function, and program "Disco Duck" to play continuously whenever the babble window is open.

Bah. And BAH! again, I say. You wouldn't be so tough -- or fascist -- were you not at Queen's.

You're bluffing anyway, and I'm calling it, but even if you're not, bring it on! We're tougher than you, and besides it'll only lead to escalation.

Yes -- I'm coding a virus, which I'll implant in the next PM you get -- not necessarily from me.

The instant you open it, your sound card will cycle randomly among "Yummy Yummy Yummy (I've Got Love In My Tummy)," "You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd," (I'm not making that up -- I couldn't), "The Battle of New Orleans," "The Ballad of the Green Berets," and some Britney Spears to be determined later, every time you turn your computer on or off, log onto the net, or even so much as move your mouse.

Forewarned!


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Michelle
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posted 16 October 2001 06:21 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I see your Roger Miller and I raise you a Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias!
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vaudree
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posted 16 October 2001 06:27 PM      Profile for vaudree     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
What about "Snoopy and the Red Baron: "ten-twenty thirty fourty fifty or more...came and tried aimed and died now their burried all together on the country-side," Polk-mon by Weird Al, or that Pledge of Allegance we will have to soon start learning and repeating each morning if his Bushiness has his way.
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bein' Lucid
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posted 16 October 2001 06:34 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
How dare you speak to the leader like that you babble authoratarian. So far we have not been very unpleasant. So far the leader has not been very unpleasant. So far the flood control remains.

Now this 'lance threatens the esteemed leader of the movement and this skdadl threatens myself with the terrible torture of tickling. How dare you. You have been warned. We raise the stakes.


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'lance
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posted 16 October 2001 06:51 PM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
I see your Roger Miller and I raise you a Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias!

See your Nelson and Iglesias, raise you a Charles Aznavour and a Max Bygraves.

quote:
How dare you speak to the leader like that you babble authoratarian.

Authoritarian? Rubbish. It's the Babble Authoritories, comfortably ensconced in their Babbleburo, or swanning around on bourgeois water-craft, who have become the authoritarians.

Once revolutionaries themselves, they've become -- counter-revolutionaries! Bad music, computer viruses and tickling are the People's Tactics! To the barricades, babble proletarians! You have nothing to lose but your Flood Control! You have a board to win!


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bein' Lucid
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posted 16 October 2001 07:36 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post

[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: bein' Lucid ]


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Debra
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posted 16 October 2001 08:02 PM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Oh no bL has been captured damn damn flood control.
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bein' Lucid
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posted 16 October 2001 08:55 PM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I have escaped. And now for something truly unpleasant. When I think of it.

[ October 16, 2001: Message edited by: bein' Lucid ]


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Nic
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posted 17 October 2001 12:39 AM      Profile for Nic     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Has anyone seen the new star trek? I've been working to hard for the revolution to catch it.
Damn flood control and solidarity through slurpies comrad.

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LotusGrrrl
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posted 17 October 2001 01:01 AM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
Now is shat past tense for shit? Just wondering.....
and I've timed this thing..it's definitely longer than 120 seconds! Grrrrrrr!

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MJ
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posted 17 October 2001 01:06 AM      Profile for MJ     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
test
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MJ
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posted 17 October 2001 01:08 AM      Profile for MJ     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I have tested your theories on this so-called flood control. You are correct.

That is all, continue as you were.


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bein' Lucid
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posted 17 October 2001 01:26 AM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
ATTENTION BABBLE AUTHORITIES:

You have been warned. END FLOOD CONTROL NOW!
The following is very, very, very unpleasant. If you are not a babble authority hit your back button now. You have been warned. Very, very, unpleasant.

Do you take me seriously now!


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la Lance
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posted 17 October 2001 01:26 AM      Profile for la Lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Anti-WTO protestors come out of their shells.


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bein' Lucid
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posted 17 October 2001 01:28 AM      Profile for bein' Lucid     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
Sorry to have to do that. But you were warned. And it will only get more unpleasant.
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'lance
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posted 17 October 2001 01:59 AM      Profile for 'lance     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
How's that unpleasant? I like turtles, and for that matter people in turtle costumes. Who doesn't? Show us more!
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LotusGrrrl
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posted 17 October 2001 03:31 AM      Profile for LotusGrrrl        Edit/Delete Post
MJ..AHA! I was right! That damn 120 seconds isn't on!
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audra trower williams
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posted 17 October 2001 07:18 AM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
I haven't changed any of the settings. And I'm closing this long and tiring thread.
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