Am I having program problems or is it that nobody posted at all today? Do we have nothing to talk about? I know I don't so maybe that says something. Oh well...
a little shaky after the scare she got at alt.religion.wicca
cheryl
Slow?
Oct 17, 1999, 11:25 PM ET49 posts by 25 postersalt.tv.daria
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wicka_chick wrote in message news:7ue0ts$ofj$[email]...
well for BOB's sake, tell us about it!!
In article , "Bob" wrote:
Oh, it was nothing directed at me, but made me a bit wary of that group. People there just happen to be having a flamewar between two people (or two sides. Hard to tell), and a lot of fingerpointing and rude follow up posts to other members the day I decided to drop in. Tensions are high and I don't think they're so happy to be accepting newbies riht now. Probably because I'm so used to having the overall peaceful, compatible friendliness of a.t.d. I wasn't prepared.
I really think this quote is quite appropriate for your total "bobness" and all. Hmmmm...B.O.B.. LOL! I meant to comment on this before-- but what the hell.
cheryl
wicka_chick wrote:
Apparently a.r.w is ALWAYS like that. I highly recommend alt.religion.wicca.moderated for a very lovely and peaceful group. :-)
--J.
Hmm. I haven't been posting here as much for several reasons:
- The discussions were largly about stuff which I didn't want to discuss.
2. I'm working 6 days a week now, and my kid just learned to crawl, so when I'm not at work I'm chasing him around the living room.
Plus when I'm tired, I prefer to just read what the other nice people have to say and not bother to respond. Plus my 'December Dread' is coming apon me. Man, do I hate December!
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 01:00:12 GMT, "Jessica L." wrote:
Ok, after reading it a couple of times. What's that "wicca" religion? Do you weave baskets or what? Is it one of those happy hippy things? MSB
No, wicca (properly --but rarely-- pronounced "witch-uh") is an Old English word meaning "witch". You're thinking of wicker, which is an entirely different word.
Yes. It's a neopagan religion. Bizarrely enough, it was established a couple of years ago (by a druid of all people) that Wicca is an offshoot of the Scout movement, dib dib dib and all that. I suspect this has had a mixed reception from pagans, but it's important to realise that the original scout movement was probably closer to paganism than it was to the modern scouts. It could have been worse though, like being the invention of a retired civil servant or something....
-Shez.
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That's me!
cheryl
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 04:15:02 +0100, Shez wrote:
Is that supposed to be a joke or an insult? MSB
wicker= stuff you make baskets with
wicca= pagan religion-witchcraft
Verstehen Sie?
Dagny
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"If they outlaw evolution, only outlaws will evolve"
Wicker is no joke, it's quite amazing the things they can make from willow twigs. Something of a dying art though I think. Actually there's probably a common root with hacking there - originally a hacker was someone who made furniture with an axe. Wicker people (I'm not sure what they're actually called, I expect they have a name) and hackers were both types of people who lived in the forests and made everything they needed from the available wood.
-Shez.
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 00:26:21 +0100, Shez wrote:
<sigh> You don't get it, do you? Of course I know the word "wicker". That's exactly why I made that basket weaving remark in my "wicca" question. It was a joke. I thought that was obvious but you really seem to believe I would confuse the 2 words. You treat me like an idiot or a little kid, "Look dearie, this is a wicker basket. People weave it from twigs. Do you know what a "twig" is, dearie? Want me to show you one after kindergarten?" You put me on one level with people who write "thru", "mart" and "lite" without even noticing. Dammit, I even put the "u" in "favour" and "honour". MSB
MSB wrote:
maybe SHE was joking. :>}
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:06:50 GMT, [email] (Matthias Benkmann) wrote:
Gee, you think it's possible that Shez was joking, as well? Nah, can't be.
Methinks that the little Hatfield/McCoy feud between Jennifer and Dagny is spilling over into other threads... and that's not good.
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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:26:01 -0400, Martin J. Pollard wrote:
Could just be the dreaded usenet-cycle. First there's tranquility; then, internal bickering starts for a bit as everyone winds up letting off steam at the same time. Next up is the troll invasion, followed by another period of tranquility.
If it is just people letting off steam, the best idea is probably to stand well back and let them get it out of their system. My involvement in the other feud seems to have escalated the situation, rather than calming it. I've created a half-ass theory about why, email me if you want to hear it. (I ain't posting it, cause it might further irritate the people involved...)
Glenn (ain't ain't no word.)
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:54:49 GMT, [email] wrote:
It HAS been a while since TDH. I *almost* miss him. Not quite though. NOTHING bugs me more than unfounded intellectual arrogance.
Kyle, he who means well The Manny Alexander of alt.sports.baseball.chicago.cubs
On 25 Oct 1999 02:31:04 GMT, some letters randomly coalesced from individual pixels, claiming to be from herecomethehawks@hockeymail.....com (Kyle), and it said:
I _do_ miss TDH, and was hoping he'd return with the new episodes. You might be bugged by unfounded intellectual arrogance, but personally, I enjoy sparring with someone who is utterly convinced of their superority, and flamboyant about it. It's fun, and enables me to play a defiant character. :)
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 06:05:29 GMT, [email] (Tarvok) wrote:
Well, that makes one of us. :-)
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http://www.lawndale.net -OR- http://systech.simplenet.com/daria/Martin wrote:
Does anyone else notice that the initials TDH, when rearanged slightly, spell DTH, which could be the initials for 'Death Takes a Holiday', the most hated of all Daria episodes!
Isn't that weird?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 02:26:04 GMT, "Bob" wrote:
Isn't TDH supposed to mean The Daria Hunter - also one of the more hated episodes?
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episodes?
Most people prefer Daria: The Hunter - A wonderfully entertaining fanfic, available in the holiday section, in the fanfic section at Outpost:Daria, or at my site. Modesty forbids me from mentioning the author....OK it's me!
Nicole Lee writes:
I love The Daria Hunter!
Of course it was more a Quinn episode than a Daria episode though.
-Shez.
Matthias Benkmann wrote:
...which is still one step up for people who spell "you" as "u" and "cool" as "kewl". And though I do sometimes use the spelling "lite", I only use it in an ironic sense (e.g.: "Kenny G.'s music isn't jazz, it's jazz-lite"). ;-{)>
MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
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On 25 Oct 1999 06:24:12 GMT, [email] (Wildschwein) wrote:
'u,' 'kewl,' and 'smewth' have become standard chat jargon.
Only one of those is excusable; the one that uses less letters than the actual word.
I think 'lite' may have come from a beer or similar. So if you order a "Labbats Lite' I may think you're some kinda wuss who can't drink real beer, but I won't say anything about the spelling...
Glenn (who doesn't drink beer unless it's got more than 6%...)
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Why does that make me want to yank my eyelashes out with needlenose pliers? |-{�>
MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
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Jessica L. of EarthLink Network, Inc. writes:
Or soc.religion.paganism, which was set up because alt.pagan was such a mess. I've always avoided both alt.pagan and alt.religion.wicca, they're just too full of noise and suffer from enormous amounts of crossposts.
-Shez.
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:30:50 +0100, Shez wrote:
I 'knew' a Shez, back from when I read alt.magick
Is it just an appealing nick, or was it you?
[email] of Edmonton Community Network writes:
I used to post to alt.magick, but another shez came along a couple of years ago who posted enormous quantities of stuff, mainly cross-posted from alt.pagan/a.r.w, which led to some confusion and unfortunately I think many people stopped noticing of my posts as they mistakenly thought I was her and just skipped them.
It's a while now since I took a look at alt.magick, I don't think it was quite the same after josh came back a reformed character and started entering into constructive dialogue with people instead of just flaming people he disagreed with. Maybe I should go back there and take up the slack, newsgroups like alt.magick need a josh.
-Shez.
In article , wicka_chick wrote:
It is a little quiet... Something happen to everyone this weekend?
Um, I dreamt I was Daria last night. Repeat, I dreamt I /was/ Daria.
Something you want to talk about?
Hm. "Blair Witch Project" opens soon in the UK. I'm envisaging lots of newspaper cartoons and crap tabloid headlines about the PM now. Especially for Halloween.
today?
Well, since you asked... /begin tale of woe/
One of the benefits of working graveyard is that the highways and byways are almost empty of traffic on the way to work. The great big minus is that 90% of anyone you encounter is most likely driving drunk, 1% are highway cops, and the other 9% are poor slobs who live eight hours into the future like you do. Friday and Saturday nights are the worst.
I was scheduled to work this last weekend and had survived 19 of the 20 mile trip Friday night. The last traffic light had turned green and I was turning left to enter my place of labor when I spy two headlights looming in the starboard passenger window, quickly followed by a very loud noise and an E ticket Disneyland ride.
My car ended up already parked by the side of the road. A quick body check showed no damage to myself. I get out of the car and observe my assailant performing a weird motor ballet to get his car out of the intersection. As he accomplishes this the car that was behind him pulls over and the driver gets out.
My assailant crawls out of his car, approaches me, and barks with alcoholic fumes,"Alright! Which one of you was driving?". It's about then that I realize that I'm not in Kansas anymore. My assailant barks again,"I had the green light and you turned left right in front of me!". To which The Witness replies,"No way man. I was right behind you. You ran a red light and hit him.", pointing to me. This spark of reality seems to cool my assailant down.
We all start to exchange the required information when one of Sunnyvale's Finest pulls up and sticks his head out of his car's window saying,"If no one is hurt and you're just exchanging information, I'll just mosey along.". My assailant now shows his complete grasp of reality and common sense by demanding a police report. The Witness and I eye each other, both of us thinking,"Whoo boy! This is going to be good!".
The next ten minutes go something like this. Cop #1 talks to M.A. as cop #2 shows up. Cop #1 starts to give M.A. a field sobriety test as cop #2 checks on me and T.W. Cop #1 has M.A. blow into a plastic bag as cop #2 interviews T.W. and cop #3 arrives. Cop #1 tests the contents of the plastic bag as cop #3 watches M.A. and cop #2 interviews me as T.W. drives off waving. Cop #1, #2, and #3 handcuff M.A. and place him in the back of a squad car. Cop #1 departs with M.A., bound for jail (goalUK?). Cop #3 departs for parts unknown and cop #2 lets me use his cell phone to call my boss and a tow truck. As my poor broken car is being loaded onto the tow truck, cop #2 gives me all the paperwork necessary for my insurance company to sue M.A.'s insurance company.
I arrive home about 2am Saturday morning and spend the next hour or so explaining to my groggy wife how the commute car got broke. That's how my weekend started.
/end tale of woe/
wrote in message news:7uf3cq$e6k$[email]...
Gaol or jail.
What a way to start a shift.
And thanks for telling us about it so colurfully. It was so well described, I felt like I was there, and with such wit, I almost wish I had been.
Martin.
"Martin Sylvester" wrote:
described,
Thanks. It was quite a riot. I'm just glad no one was hurt.
Man! It's been a long time since the word 'wit' has been used to describe something I've done without the word 'half' appearing in front of it.
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:21:53 GMT, [email] wrote:
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Hey, it's not everyday you get to see an idiot dig his own grave, then jump headfirst in.
[email] wrote:
Too true. And me without my camcorder.
In article , [email] wrote:
Man, that sucked. I have no story as to my absense except that I've been off from work/school and have been busy trying to write a fanfic (which is a lot more work than I realized when I started)
Umm... I was dragged up to Fremont. They have streets only wide enough for one lane that are two ways that people evidently zoom down and solid wall of trees on each side. And they had a sign that said "The salmon and steelhead are in the river". I guess that's a good place for them. I could picture someone coming up to them:
"Hey, where are the salmon and steelfish?" "In the river." "Hey, thanks"
And "I was behind a tractor" or "I was behind an Amish family" is a valid excuse to be late.
They frighten me...
Dagny
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"And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made... and the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence" Paul Simon
Dagny Scott wrote in message news:[email]...
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trees
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LOL, not once, but three times.
I see signs on the motorways, as I'm driving along, that say, "Slow lorries for 2 miles."
And there's one I see in Nottingham: "Blind people."
In each case, I wonder what would happen if I did.
Martin.
In article , [email] (Dagny Scott) wrote:
Excellent. I'm planning a trip to teh states next year and this is one stop I *gotta* make (along with Norton I's grave and the Church of Scientology Museum ...)
IK
On 18 Oct 1999 19:33:40 GMT, [email] (Dagny Scott) wrote:
That's not funny! I live in rural Illinois! This is the time of year where farm equipment routinely clutters the roads (though they are starting to thin out), and I live about 20 minutes from 2 of the biggest Amish colonies in the midwest.
In article ,
Twenty minute drive by car or horse and buggy (ba dum bum)
I see Amish once and a while use as construction laborers. Not often becasue I live near the big city but enough that I've noticed. I hear they build a mean barn.
On the mountaintop, Bear spake thusly:
I was at my boyfriend's house in Fond du Lac for his Homecoming dance. (Point and laugh.... now!)
-Mindy
"Well bust my legs and call me shorty." -Daria Morgendorffer, "Daria"
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YES DAMNIT!! :(
Bear wrote:
Well, since everyone else is giving excuses, so will I-- I managed to catch some sort of dreadful cold on the flight back from Seattle, so I spent the weekend being very, very sick. :P My head feels as though it's about to explode, and I almost wish it would just go ahead and be done with it.
rich, who has no funny stories to tell... now...
Daria: "I always knew that I would die in Nowheresville"
Jane: "But I didn't think I'd die there quite so soon."
In article , [email] wrote:
You might have caught the cold in Los Angeles, dude. Both Richie and I are suffering from the first cold of the year.
Oh yeah, sick or not, Richie is auditioning for "Win Ben Stein's Money" tomorrow night.
--.\\<-H--
Lots of things, actually. And since they're work related, they're ugly, and you really don't want to know about it. Suffice to say I've worked 54 hours since Friday night, and it's not going to improve for the rest of this week. So I'll be pretty quiet for a while.
Peace Kevin
[email] (Michelle Klein-Hass) wrote:
Hm.... could be, but I've never had a cold with THAT long of an onset. I blame dirty telephones. ;-) Besides, I spent the previous 3 days wandering all over downtown Seattle and the waterfront area-- I had to've either caught it there, or on the damn airplane. Since airplanes have such gawdawful ventilation systems, I'm still betting on the airplane.
Cool! Wish him luck for me. Hopefully, I'll be back in Chapel Hill on either Sunday or Monday. We'll see. Fortunately, I'm feeling MUCH better. Ah, antihistamines! :)
finally able to breathe again, but with a voice a fifth lower, rich.
Jane: You know, I don't know why people say we have a bad attitude.
Daria: Screw 'em.
Yup :)
Greg *Ears still numb*
wicka_chick wrote in message news:7ue0ts$ofj$[email]...
I notice that Deja.com has been dead all weekend, apparently receiving no new messages, from U.S. feeds at least, for the last three days. Only today have I seen any activity at all. I know there's been some activity because I've been seeing new messages on my news reader so it must be Deja.
In article , "R. K. Henry" wrote:
It's almost always Deja-snooze for me when this stuff happens (good thing I didn't even notice this time).