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Fantasy » alt.fan.pratchett » semi- (R) Introduction and general rant.
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275388 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 19:50
Dom  
Thomas Zahr wrote:
> Dom posted:
>
>> Thomas Zahr wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at
>>> least could, if we could up the content, and move off
>>> "stacie-dom", slightly.
>>
>> Erm... is this something I missed?
>
> Well, I don't know. You tell me. What do you feel, when you
> say missed? Is it something you can share with the group?

Erm..

> No?

Ermm..

> Ok.

(hides)

> What I meant was: Too many posts concerned with flirting,
> preening...

> On the positive side, traffic here is *way* up.

True, and I can never look at the spider I share my shower with
in the same way again :-) (Little minx)

There are smilies in this post, honest.
--
Dom
afpSlave to CCA
(Nothing to do with Stacie, anyone sounding like her, or spider-beings
at all. Please ignore this post, nothing no read, move along...)
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275390 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 19:05
Eric Jarvis  
Thomas Zahr ThomasZahr0604 [at] geekmail.de wrote in
<Xns97D4A907439F3ThomasZahrfreenetde [at] ID-179574.user.uni-berlin.de>:
>
> So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at least
> could, if we could up the content, and move off "stacie-dom",
> slightly.
>

A very simple ground rule is this. It's OK to include a certain amount of
flirting in a post that exists for other reasons, if the sole reason for
the post is to flirt then it should probably either be an email or not
exist. Unless, of course, if it's funny.

--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
Re: [I] Varieties [message #275395 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 20:07
Rocky Frisco  
Orjan Westin wrote:
> David Chapman wrote:
>
>>From the Collected Witterings of Anastasia, volume 23:
>>
>>>René wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>57 results for orgasms (just _one_ doesn't count as sex)
>>>
>>>Sure it does!
>>
>>Hanes 57 Varieties?
>
>
> Oh, I know that one. First there's nothing, then there's nothing, then
> you give it a smack on the bottom and you get it all at once.
>
> If I had a penny for every meal that's been ruined by a Heinz bottle of
> ketchup, I'd have enough to buy me another meal.

Hanes and Heinz are not synonymous, dear Orjan.

You deal with the Heinz by sticking a knife into its opening and coaxing
the ketchup (catsup) out.

Hanes happens to be the brand name of the pants (underwear) I am
currently wearing under my Wrangler Jeans, both newly bought on Monday.
They are comfortably, softly and warmly clasping my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

-Rocky
--
O'Toole's Corollary: Murphy was an optimist.
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275400 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 20:20
alec  
In article <1149036206.888463.44980 [at] i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
treesy2 [at] hotmail.com says...
> 1. Introduction.
> Hi, I'm Michael Trees. I'm 17 and a (obviously) big fan of Pratchett's
> works (hands around some chocolates to foster good favour). I live on
> the north coast of NSW in Australia. I've been lurking here for a fair
> while, and finally got the guts to start my own topic.


Hi, welcome aboard. You obviously know the right sort of things to do.

>
> 2. Rant
> The main thing that spurned me to write this is our public school
> censors. Their job is to block innapropriate sites from school networks
> in schools (which I agree with), however, I have cause to think that
> they may be a little heavy handed.
>
> Why, because I recently attempted to log on to afp from school, only to
> find that it had been blocked as an "adult-sex group". This, naturally,
> has caused much confusion on my part, as I'd been following afp from
> school for over a year before this.

Not uncommon for automated tools to get it wrong. In early days, they
blocked off all the breast cancer support sites. They have got slightly
more sophisticated, but still get it wrong. New Scientist had several
more examples: X-ray crystallography sites becasue it assumed that "X-
ra" had to be followed by "ted", amateur astronomy sites banned for too
many /naked/ eys observations. But the prize was won by a US High School
which banned its own website because so many references to "high" meant
it obviously had to be drug-related.
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275408 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 20:44
Rocky Frisco  
Thomas Zahr wrote:

> So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at least
> could, if we could up the content, and move off "stacie-dom",
> slightly.

This we have already accomplished. Now it's Anastasia-dom.

-Rocky
--
O'Toole's Corollary: Murphy was an optimist.
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275413 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 20:55
Nigel Stapley  
Alec Cawley wrote:

>
> Not uncommon for automated tools to get it wrong. In early days, they
> blocked off all the breast cancer support sites. They have got slightly
> more sophisticated, but still get it wrong.

Still goes on, of course:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5031156.stm

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.judgemental.plus.com

<reply-to will bounce>
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275415 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 21:13
Rocky Frisco  
Alec Cawley wrote:

> In article <1149036206.888463.44980 [at] i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> treesy2 [at] hotmail.com says...
>
>>1. Introduction.
>>Hi, I'm Michael Trees. I'm 17 and a (obviously) big fan of Pratchett's
>>works (hands around some chocolates to foster good favour). I live on
>>the north coast of NSW in Australia. I've been lurking here for a fair
>>while, and finally got the guts to start my own topic.
>
>
>
> Hi, welcome aboard. You obviously know the right sort of things to do.
>
>
>>2. Rant
>>The main thing that spurned me to write this is our public school
>>censors. Their job is to block innapropriate sites from school networks
>>in schools (which I agree with), however, I have cause to think that
>>they may be a little heavy handed.
>>
>>Why, because I recently attempted to log on to afp from school, only to
>>find that it had been blocked as an "adult-sex group". This, naturally,
>>has caused much confusion on my part, as I'd been following afp from
>>school for over a year before this.
>
>
> Not uncommon for automated tools to get it wrong. In early days, they
> blocked off all the breast cancer support sites. They have got slightly
> more sophisticated, but still get it wrong. New Scientist had several
> more examples: X-ray crystallography sites becasue it assumed that "X-
> ra" had to be followed by "ted", amateur astronomy sites banned for too
> many /naked/ eys observations. But the prize was won by a US High School
> which banned its own website because so many references to "high" meant
> it obviously had to be drug-related.

And then there's Scunthorpe.

-Rocky
--
O'Toole's Corollary: Murphy was an optimist.
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275418 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 21:59
Stacie Hanes  
Eric Jarvis wrote:
> Anastasia house_damodred [at] yahoo.com wrote in
> <km8fg.7170$921.2674 [at] newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>:
>>
>> I can't help the people who can't hold up their end of the
>> flirting.
>>
>
> Surely when they hold up their end it's something other than
> flirting?

I think that depends on which end and where it's aimed.
--
Anastasia, 4th swordswoman of the afpocalypse.
AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons, Bondage-happy predator,
Speaker-To-Students, AFPMistress to peachy ashie passion &
AFPDeliciousSnack to 8'FED "If you can't be a good example, you'll
just have to be a horrible warning." C. Aird, _His Burial Too_
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275424 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:11
Stacie Hanes  
Thomas Zahr wrote:

> OTGH we do seem to be just below the threshold of a new
> "temple" or similar centred around "Stacie-dom" [1] and all
> variations thereof.

Don't think that Stacie hasn't noticed. Stacie can't deny enjoying the
attention, to a point, but Stacie has also started several serious threads
in the past week or so in an effort to change the subject.

I admit it, I was trying to forcibly shift the content away from Those
Threads, by myself if necessary, but y'all joined right in, so I call it
good.

> So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at least
> could, if we could up the content, and move off "stacie-dom",
> slightly.

Yes, please, just a bit.

> [1] which doesn't have all that much to do with Stacie anyway [2]

That's a bit of a relief.

> [2] but in a certain light Stacie seems to have become the sex
> dream of choice hereabouts

Honestly, I am *not* sure how that happened. (I gotta share that I
originally typoed "sore" instead of sure.) [3]


> [3] to the point that Stacie herself almost can't start a serious
> thread anymore (see self esteem)


Yes I can! It just takes some fairly serious effort to keep it that way.

--
Anastasia, 4th swordswoman of the afpocalypse.
AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons, Bondage-happy predator,
Speaker-To-Students, AFPMistress to peachy ashie passion &
AFPDeliciousSnack to 8'FED "If you can't be a good example, you'll
just have to be a horrible warning." C. Aird, _His Burial Too_
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275427 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:12
Diane L  
treesy wrote:
> 1. Introduction.
> Hi, I'm Michael Trees. I'm 17 and a (obviously) big fan of Pratchett's
> works (hands around some chocolates to foster good favour). I live on
> the north coast of NSW in Australia. I've been lurking here for a fair
> while, and finally got the guts to start my own topic.

OK, since the thread seems to have been hijacked into [M]-dom I'll
try to get back to welcoming you to afp (although I've seen you
around afp for quite a while now, unless I'm confusing you with some
other tree). Pull up a crocodile, mind the drink, have a cat and call the
chair a bastard.

>
> 2. Rant
> The main thing that spurned me to write this is our public school
> censors. Their job is to block innapropriate sites from school
> networks in schools (which I agree with), however, I have cause to
> think that they may be a little heavy handed.
>
> Why, because I recently attempted to log on to afp from school, only
> to find that it had been blocked as an "adult-sex group". This,
> naturally, has caused much confusion on my part, as I'd been
> following afp from school for over a year before this.

On a completely ... um ... related note, a recent project with Year
7 showed that it is much easier for someone searching from a school
connection to find pictures of penises than it is to find pictures of
vaginas. Make of this what you will.

>
> I will conclude my two sections now with hello, and Aaargh.

Right back at ya.

Diane L.
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275430 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:14
Stacie Hanes  
Rocky Frisco wrote:
> Thomas Zahr wrote:
>
>> So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at least
>> could, if we could up the content, and move off "stacie-dom",
>> slightly.
>
> This we have already accomplished. Now it's Anastasia-dom.

That was my Witness Protection Program! Damn it, now even the newbies will
know.

--
Anastasia, 4th swordswoman of the afpocalypse.
AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons, Bondage-happy predator,
Speaker-To-Students, AFPMistress to peachy ashie passion &
AFPDeliciousSnack to 8'FED "If you can't be a good example, you'll
just have to be a horrible warning." C. Aird, _His Burial Too_
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275431 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:17
Diane L  
Puck wrote:

<snip>
> I'd say that very few of the threads ever go above a pg-13 rating.
> How does your school decide what's smut and what's not? Do they scan
> for certain words? Because if hedgehog, chocolate, spider and Terry
> Pratchett are common terms on sex groups then the internet is even
> more twisted and bizarre than I had imagined.

The internet is not only more twisted and bizarre than you had imagined,
it is more twisted and bizarre than you can imagine.

:-)

Diane L.
Re: (I) Re: semi- {R} Introduction and general rant. [message #275432 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:17
Stacie Hanes  
redtiger wrote:
> "Anastasia" <house_damodred [at] yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:VI8fg.7180$921.4403 [at] newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> René wrote:
>>
>>> 57 results for orgasms (just _one_ doesn't count as sex)
>>
>> Sure it does!
>>
>
> Stacie talking about 57 and orgasms.
> You know we're going to have to put a gag order on that don't you.

Ph, crud, I didn't even NOTICE that.
--
Anastasia, 4th swordswoman of the afpocalypse.
AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons, Bondage-happy predator,
Speaker-To-Students, AFPMistress to peachy ashie passion &
AFPDeliciousSnack to 8'FED "If you can't be a good example, you'll
just have to be a horrible warning." C. Aird, _His Burial Too_
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275435 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:22
sphira9343  
Thomas Zahr wrote:

> What I meant was: Too many posts concerned with flirting,
> preening and making jokes about how many boots an arachnoid
> would wear and if they come in big enough sizes to stamp on
> arachnophobes (I may have this the wrong way round), and to
> few posts that provide something meaty, to get the teeth of
> your intellect into.

Hmmm...
I've noticed 'spiders' as a theme popping quite a bit recently, and
while it doesn't bother me, I know that sort of thing sometimes leads
to grumpiness around here. It would be a shame if that happened now,
because there have also been a lot of interesting and good-natured
threads such as the self-esteem one, and they're a bit of a change
after the heavy 'abortion, child-rearing, religion, etc' ones we've
been having recently, not to mention the many huge rows that seemed to
take place during the first few months of this year.

CCA
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275436 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:24
sphira9343  
Dom wrote:
> Thomas Zahr wrote:

> > So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at least
> > could, if we could up the content, and move off "stacie-dom",
> > slightly.

> Erm... is this something I missed?

It means you've been turning into Stacie at night, like Jekyll and Hyde
;-) Or possibly the other way around...

CCA
--
Afpmistress to Dom
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275437 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:19
Steve Rogers  
"Rocky Frisco" <rocknatural [at] gmail.com> wrote in message
news:DVlfg.205897$5Z.11812 [at] dukeread02...
> Alec Cawley wrote:
>
>> In article <1149036206.888463.44980 [at] i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>> treesy2 [at] hotmail.com says...
>>
>>>1. Introduction.
>>>Hi, I'm Michael Trees. I'm 17 and a (obviously) big fan of
>>>Pratchett's
>>>works (hands around some chocolates to foster good favour). I live on
>>>the north coast of NSW in Australia. I've been lurking here for a
>>>fair
>>>while, and finally got the guts to start my own topic.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi, welcome aboard. You obviously know the right sort of things to
>> do.
>>
>>
>>>2. Rant
>>>The main thing that spurned me to write this is our public school
>>>censors. Their job is to block innapropriate sites from school
>>>networks
>>>in schools (which I agree with), however, I have cause to think that
>>>they may be a little heavy handed.
>>>
>>>Why, because I recently attempted to log on to afp from school, only
>>>to
>>>find that it had been blocked as an "adult-sex group". This,
>>>naturally,
>>>has caused much confusion on my part, as I'd been following afp from
>>>school for over a year before this.
>>
>>
>> Not uncommon for automated tools to get it wrong. In early days, they
>> blocked off all the breast cancer support sites. They have got
>> slightly more sophisticated, but still get it wrong. New Scientist
>> had several more examples: X-ray crystallography sites becasue it
>> assumed that "X-
>> ra" had to be followed by "ted", amateur astronomy sites banned for
>> too many /naked/ eys observations. But the prize was won by a US High
>> School which banned its own website because so many references to
>> "high" meant it obviously had to be drug-related.
>
> And then there's Scunthorpe.
>
And Essex and Wessex

Steve
Re: [I] semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275441 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:33
sphira9343  
Richard Heathfield wrote:

> We also have at least one regular here who does not consider himself a
> "fundie", who would love to be able to allow his Pratchett-reading children
> to read afp, but can't because the level of so-called "adult" talk is way
> too high.
> You might think "adults" would be clever enough to find topics of discussion
> that are suitable for younger Pratchett fans to join in, or at least read,
> without (in some cases) blushing or (in other cases, perhaps) having to
> hide the screen from their mothers.
> But you'd be wrong.

But it is primarily a newsgroup for adults, and if you have a large
group of adults in one place, you're going to get them discussing adult
topics, and probably using a few swear words too[1]. It's just a fact
of life.
[1] By which I do not mean excessive swearing in the style of Pumba.
There are limits to everything, after all.
CCA
Re: [I] Varieties [message #275442 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:36
Stacie Hanes  
Rocky Frisco wrote:

> They are comfortably, softly and warmly clasping my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER ONE!?!?!?
--
Anastasia, 4th swordswoman of the afpocalypse.
AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons, Bondage-happy predator,
Speaker-To-Students, AFPMistress to peachy ashie passion &
AFPDeliciousSnack to 8'FED "If you can't be a good example, you'll
just have to be a horrible warning." C. Aird, _His Burial Too_
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275448 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:49
sphira9343  
Anastasia wrote:
> Thomas Zahr wrote:

> > OTGH we do seem to be just below the threshold of a new
> > "temple" or similar centred around "Stacie-dom" [1] and all
> > variations thereof.

> Don't think that Stacie hasn't noticed. Stacie can't deny enjoying the
> attention, to a point, but Stacie has also started several serious threads
> in the past week or so in an effort to change the subject.

I felt the same a few years ago, when the amount of 'CCA' and 'things
to do with gold or chocolate' threads had got to the point where I got
the impression that some people were starting to resent me being around


> > So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at least
> > could, if we could up the content, and move off "stacie-dom",
> > slightly.

> Yes, please, just a bit.

I'd been wondering if it was sometimes making you feel a mite
uncomfortable.

> > [2] but in a certain light Stacie seems to have become the sex
> > dream of choice hereabouts

> Honestly, I am *not* sure how that happened. (I gotta share that I
> originally typoed "sore" instead of sure.) [3]

I think it's one of those things that just builds up and up, often
without very much encouragement from the poster herself (or himself,
although I can't remember the same happening to a male poster here.)
CCA
Re: [I] semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275450 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 22:56
Brenda  
CCA said:

> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>
>> You might think "adults" would be clever enough to find topics of
>> discussion that are suitable for younger Pratchett fans to join in, or at
>> least read, without (in some cases) blushing or (in other cases, perhaps)
>> having to hide the screen from their mothers.
>> But you'd be wrong.
>
> But it is primarily a newsgroup for adults,

Surely it is primarily a newsgroup for Terry Pratchett fans. He has written
several excellent stories for children.

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275454 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 23:12
Stacie Hanes  
CCA wrote:
> Anastasia wrote:

>> Honestly, I am *not* sure how that happened. (I gotta share that I
>> originally typoed "sore" instead of sure.) [3]
>
> I think it's one of those things that just builds up and up, often
> without very much encouragement from the poster herself (or himself,
> although I can't remember the same happening to a male poster here.)

Well, I know I've played along. It's been a helluva lot of fun, mostly. But
sometimes a bit much of a muchness, IYKWIM.

I have considered changing my posting name and e-mail addy and coming back
in another incarnation, because I think "uh, maybe I should take a break
from afp" isn't really the thing to do.
--
Anastasia, 4th swordswoman of the afpocalypse.
AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons, Bondage-happy predator,
Speaker-To-Students, AFPMistress to peachy ashie passion &
AFPDeliciousSnack to 8'FED "If you can't be a good example, you'll
just have to be a horrible warning." C. Aird, _His Burial Too_
Re: [I] Ketchup (was: Varieties (was: Introduction and general rant.)) [message #275460 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 23:26
Hendrik Schober  
Orjan Westin <nospam [at] cunobaros.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Oh, I know that one. First there's nothing, then there's nothing, then
> you give it a smack on the bottom and you get it all at once.
>
> If I had a penny for every meal that's been ruined by a Heinz bottle of
> ketchup, I'd have enough to buy me another meal.

But Ketchup will ruins the meal anyway, no matter
how little you manage to get out of the bottle and
onto the meal. (FiX'll be with me on that.)

Schobi

--
SpamTrap [at] gmx.de is never read
I'm Schobi at suespammers dot org

"The sarcasm is mightier than the sword."
Eric Jarvis
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275461 ] Mi, 31 Mai 2006 23:22
Hendrik Schober  
Eric Jarvis <usenet [at] ericjarvis.co.uk> wrote:
> Thomas Zahr ThomasZahr0604 [at] geekmail.de wrote in
> <Xns97D4A907439F3ThomasZahrfreenetde [at] ID-179574.user.uni-berlin.de>:
> >
> > So we have to ask ourselves, ok don't have to, but at least
> > could, if we could up the content, and move off "stacie-dom",
> > slightly.
> >
>
> A very simple ground rule is this. It's OK to include a certain amount of
> flirting in a post that exists for other reasons, if the sole reason for
> the post is to flirt then it should probably either be an email or not
> exist. Unless, of course, if it's funny.

Define funny.

Schobi

--
SpamTrap [at] gmx.de is never read
I'm Schobi at suespammers dot org

"The sarcasm is mightier than the sword."
Eric Jarvis
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275464 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 00:02
Orjan Westin  
Hendrik Schober wrote:
> Eric Jarvis <usenet [at] ericjarvis.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> A very simple ground rule is this. It's OK to include a certain
>> amount of flirting in a post that exists for other reasons, if the
>> sole reason for the post is to flirt then it should probably either
>> be an email or not exist. Unless, of course, if it's funny.
>
> Define funny.

It's to bunny what "bucked up" is to... ah... replies like this.

Orjan
--
The Tale of Westala and Villtin
http://tale.cunobaros.com/
Fiction, Thoughts and Software
http://www.cunobaros.com/
Re: [I] Ketchup (was: Varieties (was: Introduction and general rant.)) [message #275465 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 00:17
Puck  
Hendrik Schober wrote:
> Orjan Westin <nospam [at] cunobaros.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Oh, I know that one. First there's nothing, then there's nothing,
>> then you give it a smack on the bottom and you get it all at once.
>>
>> If I had a penny for every meal that's been ruined by a Heinz bottle
>> of ketchup, I'd have enough to buy me another meal.
>
> But Ketchup will ruins the meal anyway, no matter
> how little you manage to get out of the bottle and
> onto the meal. (FiX'll be with me on that.)
>
> Schobi


I pretty much agree. Ketchup is the most overused condiment in the world.
--
Puck (onstage): I am that merry wanderer of the night!
Peaseblossom (in audience): "I am that merry wanderer of the night",
indeed! "I am that
giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life and limb,
more like." -Neil Gaiman
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275467 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 00:20
Philippa Cowderoy  
On Wed, 31 May 2006, CCA wrote:

> Anastasia wrote:
> > Thomas Zahr wrote:
> > > [2] but in a certain light Stacie seems to have become the sex
> > > dream of choice hereabouts
>
> > Honestly, I am *not* sure how that happened. (I gotta share that I
> > originally typoed "sore" instead of sure.) [3]
>
> I think it's one of those things that just builds up and up, often
> without very much encouragement from the poster herself (or himself,
> although I can't remember the same happening to a male poster here.)

It's happened to me to an extent with haskellers, although I guess to an
extent part of that's my fault for being rather openly bi poly switch
around some of them. Oh, and there's this article I wrote that took the
term "B&D language" and ran with it. But you don't have to do a whole lot
of actual flirting...

--
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I will listen to Ivanova.
I will not ignore Ivanova's recomendations.
Ivanova is God.
And, if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275468 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 00:31
Kar98  
On 2006-05-31 16:22:48 -0500, "Hendrik Schober" <SpamTrap [at] gmx.de> said:

> Define funny.

Funny is, everybody else laughs, but the German wants a definition.


--
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Re: [I] Afp content [message #275470 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 00:36
Orjan Westin  
Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, CCA wrote:
>> Anastasia wrote:
>>> Thomas Zahr wrote:
>>>> [2] but in a certain light Stacie seems to have become the sex
>>>> dream of choice hereabouts
>>
>>> Honestly, I am *not* sure how that happened. (I gotta share that I
>>> originally typoed "sore" instead of sure.) [3]
>>
>> I think it's one of those things that just builds up and up, often
>> without very much encouragement from the poster herself (or himself,
>> although I can't remember the same happening to a male poster here.)
>
> It's happened to me to an extent with haskellers, although I guess to
> an extent part of that's my fault for being rather openly bi poly
> switch around some of them. Oh, and there's this article I wrote that
> took the term "B&D language" and ran with it. But you don't have to
> do a whole lot of actual flirting...

Being openly and blatantly female on the Internet is in some cases all it
takes.

Orjan
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Re: [I] Varieties [message #275472 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 00:47
Rocky Frisco  
Anastasia wrote:

> Rocky Frisco wrote:
>
>
>>They are comfortably, softly and warmly clasping my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
>
>
> WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER ONE!?!?!?

All are there, I assure you. You may have guessed wrong on the terminology.

Reminds me of the one about the young lady's question: "Is anything worn
under your kilt?"

"Nay, lassie, it's as good as ever!"

-Rocky
--
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Re: [I] Afp content [message #275473 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 00:54
sphira9343  
Anastasia wrote:
> CCA wrote:
> > Anastasia wrote:

> >> Honestly, I am *not* sure how that happened. (I gotta share that I
> >> originally typoed "sore" instead of sure.) [3]

> > I think it's one of those things that just builds up and up, often
> > without very much encouragement from the poster herself (or himself,
> > although I can't remember the same happening to a male poster here.)

> Well, I know I've played along. It's been a helluva lot of fun, mostly. But
> sometimes a bit much of a muchness, IYKWIM.
> I have considered changing my posting name and e-mail addy and coming back
> in another incarnation, because I think "uh, maybe I should take a break
> from afp" isn't really the thing to do.

I don't really think you need to do those things, and certainly not
take a break from afp unless you really feel you need to.
CCA
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275477 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 01:20
Leo Breebaart  
"CCA" <sphira9343 [at] aol.com> writes:

> I've noticed 'spiders' as a theme popping quite a bit recently,
> and while it doesn't bother me, I know that sort of thing
> sometimes leads to grumpiness around here.

I didn't say anything!!!


> It would be a shame if that happened now, because there have
> also been a lot of interesting and good-natured threads such as
> the self-esteem one, and they're a bit of a change after the
> heavy 'abortion, child-rearing, religion, etc' ones we've been
> having recently, not to mention the many huge rows that seemed
> to take place during the first few months of this year.

Yeah, that's more or less the reason *why* I haven't said
anything.

--
Leo Breebaart <leo [at] lspace.org>
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275483 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 01:53
Lesley Weston  
in article Xns97D4B60ECE797ThomasZahrfreenetde [at] ID-179574.user.uni-berlin.de,
Thomas Zahr at ThomasZahr0604 [at] geekmail.de wrote on 31/05/2006 8:53 AM:


<snip>

> What I meant was: Too many posts concerned with flirting,
> preening and making jokes about how many boots an arachnoid
> would wear and if they come in big enough sizes to stamp on
> arachnophobes (I may have this the wrong way round), and to
> few posts that provide something meaty, to get the teeth of
> your intellect into.

But when we do have meaty threads, people complain that there's too much Big
Issue stuff. Perhaps the best thing is for people to post whatever they want
(subject to the normal standards of common courtesy, of course), and then
for people to read whichever threads they like and ignore the ones they
don't like.
>
> On the positive side, traffic here is *way* up.

That may or may not be a Good Thing; there are only 24 hours in a day...

--
Lesley Weston.

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that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
changing spelling and spacing as required.
Re: [I] semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275484 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 01:57
Arthur Hagen  
Richard Heathfield <invalid [at] invalid.invalid> wrote:
> CCA said:
>
>> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>
>>> You might think "adults" would be clever enough to find topics of
>>> discussion that are suitable for younger Pratchett fans to join in,
>>> or at least read, without (in some cases) blushing or (in other
>>> cases, perhaps) having to hide the screen from their mothers.
>>> But you'd be wrong.
>>
>> But it is primarily a newsgroup for adults,
>
> Surely it is primarily a newsgroup for Terry Pratchett fans. He has
> written several excellent stories for children.

And several more for adults. Should one limit oneself to the children's
level because he's also written children's books?

Regards,
--
*Art
[M]Afp content [message #275486 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 02:04
Karen  
In article <Pine.WNT.4.61.0605311846410.884 [at] SLINKY>, Philippa Cowderoy
<flippa [at] flippac.org> writes
>On Wed, 31 May 2006, The Stainless Steel Cat wrote:
>
>> In article <Xns97D4A907439F3ThomasZahrfreenetde [at] ID-179574.user.uni-berlin.,
>> Thomas Zahr <ThomasZahr0604 [at] geekmail.de> wrote:
>>
>> >OTGH we do seem to be just below the threshold of a new
>> >"temple" or similar centred around "Stacie-dom" [1] and all variations
>> >thereof.
>>
>> It certainly sounds more likely than "Stacie-Sub"...
>>
>> Oh, wait... that's the kind of thing you're talking about, isn't it?
>>
>
>It leaves me feeling a bit awkward occasionally - I tend to avoid it and
>sometimes end up emailing Stacie the pun instead (those paying attention
>will've worked out we talk more off-group than on). Thing is, I know I'm
>flirting, it's just that the group as a whole doesn't need to pile in on
>it...
>

Yes that is good advice in my experience and I can really identify with
that sentiment. I tend to follow up by mail more often than by post
because quite often the comment or question I have is more appropriate
in that form and not really of interest to the wider group or a publicly
archived medium.

That goes double if its of a more direct and personal nature, like a
congratulations or condolences or simply a personal joke/comment. Not
everything needs validating by being said in public.



--
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Re: [I] Varieties [message #275488 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 02:00
Arthur Hagen  
Anastasia <house_damodred [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rocky Frisco wrote:
>
>> They are comfortably, softly and warmly clasping my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
>
> WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER ONE!?!?!?

He played with his navel.

--
*Art
Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275489 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 02:07
Arthur Hagen  
Rocky Frisco <rocknatural [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And then there's Scunthorpe.

Don't forget Washita (over in your neighborhood, unless I'm mistaken) :-)

Regards,
--
*Art
Re: [M] Afp content [message #275491 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 02:17
Leo Breebaart  
"Anastasia" <house_damodred [at] yahoo.com> writes:

> Thomas Zahr wrote:
>
> > OTGH we do seem to be just below the threshold of a new
> > "temple" or similar centred around "Stacie-dom" [1] and all
> > variations thereof.
>
> Don't think that Stacie hasn't noticed. Stacie can't deny
> enjoying the attention, to a point, [...] I am *not* sure how
> that happened.

I am not sure why things evolved this way, but almost from the
very beginning of the newsgroup, afp has often featured a
resident 'alpha female' who becomes the focus of much on-line
banter and flirtation. You are the current incarnation, but
before you it was CCA, and before her we had e.g. Michelena
(anybody remember the Testosterone Brigade?) and Colette
(cabbages at dawn!) and the Temple (a rare instance of a queen
hive) and probably many others I've forgotten, going all the way
back to Laura Johnson inspiring the afp marriage proposal fad in
1994.

And yeah, usually other people get grumpy about it after a while,
typically at the point where the flirting starts to crop up and
take over completely unrelated threads, as has been happening for
some time now with e.g. the 'spider' meme. Usually, once
grumpiness has been expressed or hinted at, things tend to die
down for a while, but occasionally feathers get ruffled and
before you know it we achieve, as Orjan so eloquently put it,
flirtquake.

Anyways, if you are yourself getting a bit bored with being the
reigning afp alpha queen, the best remedy I can suggest is to
simply stop responding to overly obvious attempts to impress you.
Without your active participation the situation should normalise
itself quickly. CCA handled it that way too, and it worked like a
charm.

--
Leo Breebaart <leo [at] lspace.org>
Re: [I] Ketchup (was: Varieties (was: Introduction and general [message #275494 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 02:33
Lesley Weston  
in article 447e0cf6$0$11069$9b4e6d93 [at] newsread4.arcor-online.net, Hendrik
Schober at SpamTrap [at] gmx.de wrote on 31/05/2006 2:26 PM:

> Orjan Westin <nospam [at] cunobaros.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Oh, I know that one. First there's nothing, then there's nothing, then
>> you give it a smack on the bottom and you get it all at once.
>>
>> If I had a penny for every meal that's been ruined by a Heinz bottle of
>> ketchup, I'd have enough to buy me another meal.
>
> But Ketchup will ruins the meal anyway, no matter
> how little you manage to get out of the bottle and
> onto the meal. (FiX'll be with me on that.)

Unless the meal is bangers-and-mash or anything with fries; then ketchup is
essential. We had fish and chips at the beach for lunch today, and the
ketchup dispenser wasn't working. We had to make do with sauce tartar, which
was not really an adequate substitute. It was still a good meal though,
possibly because we had walked for miles along the beach and in the adjacent
marshland before eating it. Boundary Bay, for those afpers who know the
Lower Mainland (all three of us); Baker was looking particularly magnificent
and unusually close, and there were many eagles and herons and a wonderful
butterfly of a type I've never seen before, and the swallows are back.

--
Lesley Weston.

Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
changing spelling and spacing as required.
Re: [I] Afp content [message #275495 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 02:34
Karen  
In article <1149108586.253282.256650 [at] u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>, CCA
<sphira9343 [at] aol.com> writes
>Anastasia wrote:
>> Thomas Zahr wrote:
>
>> > OTGH we do seem to be just below the threshold of a new
>> > "temple" or similar centred around "Stacie-dom" [1] and all
>> > variations thereof.
>
>> Don't think that Stacie hasn't noticed. Stacie can't deny enjoying the
>> attention, to a point, but Stacie has also started several serious threads
>> in the past week or so in an effort to change the subject.
>
>I felt the same a few years ago, when the amount of 'CCA' and 'things
>to do with gold or chocolate' threads had got to the point where I got
>the impression that some people were starting to resent me being around


I think the problem was the mass of similar patterned threads. Even
chocolate can get too much when taken to excess. I still think its to
your particular credit that when you realised the effect it was having
you made a point of actually asking specific posters to reduce it, you
seemed to be trying to take care not to encouraging the posters who
posted in that manner (and Om knows it doesn't take much) and as I
recall you diverted some of the more personalised IRC like banter off
group to a more appropriate medium.
I also thought it was quite cool that you had a book published and never
uttered a word that I could recall until it was out - few people would
have resisted that temptation. Somewhere in between times the maya gold
banter of appreciation and congratulation turned into a repetitive
dairy milk excess with each thread apparently trying to outdo the
previous and that was where it became overwhelming. Too much of a good
thing and all that.


>> > [2] but in a certain light Stacie seems to have become the sex
>> > dream of choice hereabouts
>
>> Honestly, I am *not* sure how that happened. (I gotta share that I
>> originally typoed "sore" instead of sure.) [3]


Well engaging in banter about belly buttons with photographs, sexual
preferences, clothing preferences etc is all it takes sometimes

>
>I think it's one of those things that just builds up and up, often
>without very much encouragement from the poster herself (or himself,
>although I can't remember the same happening to a male poster here.)

Oh there have been some toe curling male icons and objects as well at
times...the archives have it :)


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Re: semi- (R) Introduction and general rant. [message #275497 ] Do, 01 Juni 2006 02:45
Rocky Frisco  
Arthur Hagen wrote:

> Rocky Frisco <rocknatural [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>> And then there's Scunthorpe.

> Don't forget Washita (over in your neighborhood, unless I'm mistaken) :-)

Yes, definitely in Oklahoma.

-Rocky
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