Post #10,443
9/24/01 8:09:30 PM
9/28/01 11:25:34 AM
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Whad'ya mean, real life?
This >is< real life.
I've made a point to try and meet as many of this group as is possible. I'm truly sorry to have missed an opportunity to meet Andrew last time I was in LA....but couldn't take my eye off the boss...lest he get me into trouble.
I can tell you...this is no fluke.
In the (somwhat modified) words of Will Rogers...I've never met a zIwetheyer I didn't like. Maybe I can negotiate discount airfares for the 4th of July party. Nothing like telling the wife you want to go to a party 3 thousand miles away ;-)
It >is< a good party though...even if we didn't have enough l***e women for Karsten.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
Edited by bepatient
Sept. 28, 2001, 11:25:34 AM EDT
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Post #10,514
9/26/01 6:06:15 AM
9/28/01 11:17:27 AM
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"iabl"? (Still just wondering. :-)
Duh, "ayab" lacks the 'l' to make it "layabLe"! And "ayabl" was too long for Bill's four asterisks...
So what on Earth is it Karsten wants to do to women?!?
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Mostly Just Knows About Ordinary Fucking...
Edited by CRConrad
Sept. 28, 2001, 11:17:27 AM EDT
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Post #10,780
9/28/01 11:24:53 AM
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Humble apologies...
...the error has been fixed...there should only be 3 asterisks.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #10,782
9/28/01 11:39:41 AM
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Aaargh! Thank you *so* much!!! :-)
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Post #10,796
9/28/01 12:13:38 PM
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Does that mean you >get< it now? or was the argh! to...
...tell me that I continued to be of no use you you whatsoever.
The 3 asterisks should be replaced by only 2 letters
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #10,852
9/28/01 8:28:08 PM
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Huh?
Three letters works perfectly. The way I read it, two would mean that you just made one of the most annoying spelling errors out there.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #10,889
9/29/01 5:59:45 AM
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No...
spelled correctly....
L _ _ _ E
Where the 3 spaces are filled using 2 letters.
And at dictionary.com...the ninth entry for this word is the most apropos...based upon the subject at hand.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #11,183
10/1/01 8:50:50 PM
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Antonym alert
Odd.. I thought most preferred rather an opposite quality, er -
Never mind. The whole topic is fraught with constriction.
:-\ufffd
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Post #11,350
10/2/01 10:00:35 PM
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Well it was more....
...of the behavioral trait as opposed to the attribute.
It was simply the running gag of the weekend.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #11,460
10/3/01 12:13:55 PM
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My memory must be bad
The word I mentally filled in with was, "loose".
What were you thinking, "love"?
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #11,467
10/3/01 12:31:45 PM
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Ben!
FINALLY I get a fucking handle on this!!!
I stopped replying after my second "Aargh", because I thought BeeP was just jerking me around...
But "loose" makes *perfect* sense, if you read BeeP's instructions as, "filling in those three spaces using only *two different* letters".
As a "the letter 'o' (in the abstract), and two occurrences of it", as opposed to "three 'letters': an 'O', another 'O', and..." kind of thing, that is.
Sorry I suspected you unjustly, BeeP; and again, thank you, Ben.
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
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Post #11,472
10/3/01 12:38:13 PM
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Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto
Whew, thank goodness that's over.
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html|Thomas Friedman]
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Post #11,728
10/4/01 10:21:49 AM
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D'oh
I had missed the word game.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #11,498
10/3/01 2:11:43 PM
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We have a WINNA!
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #11,583
10/3/01 6:14:57 PM
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Well.. two at least, unless antonym was too suBPtle_____:-\ufffd
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Post #11,628
10/3/01 8:21:09 PM
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I should stop by here more often
...clearly somebody's got to keep y'all in order.
--
Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
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Post #11,648
10/3/01 10:05:27 PM
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And obviously it should be...
...you????????
Uh...sure...whatever you say Karsten.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #11,625
10/3/01 8:16:06 PM
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There is such a thing...
... as too much of either quality...
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #10,698
9/27/01 6:32:12 PM
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Always meant to post about that
I met Bill(bepatient) and his wife, and Hugh(hnick) a while back when Bill was in Cleveland. My wife enjoyed it as much as I did, and said she finally understands why I'm always talking about this place when I get home. All she knew about online communities was what she'd heard, and the little she'd seen, of AOL chat rooms. She never could figure out why I bothered. Now she understands that the people I know here are better friends than most of the people I just happen to live on the same street with.
I used to worry that maybe the fact that I could find people of like mind online would mean I wouldn't bother to look so hard in my "real life." I don't worry about that any more. Knowing everyone here has raised my standards for friends. If I'd rather talk to a bunch of people online than spend time with someone in person, that doesn't say much for that other person, does it?
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html|Thomas Friedman]
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