Free Drinks (to get people into the chat room)

Subject: Free Drinks
From: jamas
Date: 19 Sep 97 - 05:20 AM

You need some sort of gimmick to get people into the Chat Room. I don't know what - maybe you could run a gimmick competion or a wet tee shirt compo.

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Jamas
Date: 19 Sep 97 - 05:24 AM

I only posted the above message once!

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Sep 97 - 05:16 PM

I would be somewhat careful about proposing things involving wet t-shirt competitions, given that there is a powerful women's circle (not that I ever listen in, except while doing the dishes from the other room) on this site. You might want to watch your back entering and exiting the chat room. Of course I am sure that if you wanted to strangle yourself in your own wet t-shirt, there would be no objections. Well, its a gimmick. Yours, Peter

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Shula
Date: 19 Sep 97 - 06:18 PM

Jamas, not to worry about the occasional stutter, Boychick, we're friendly here, (Peter T.'s and Joe O.'s womb-an envy notwithstanding).

Gotta tell ya though, Zeiskeit, considering the vintage on some of us Crones, a wet-T contest would be more likely to reinforce your healthy respect for the effects of gravity (not to mention producing a nasty little upper-respiratory epidemic, which would tend to complicate the singin') than to promote feats of masculine hydraulic engineering or group socialisation.

Peter, Peter, Peter...what will we do with you? Spots on the glasses, eyes off the ... Tell ya what, just so as to reduce your apparent anxiety, I'll go do a man-lovin' "Yiddische ditty-sche", my next turn up in the WSC. Will that help?

Kiss, kiss,

Shula

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Sep 97 - 07:13 PM

Shula, Peter and I promise to be quiet when we peek in on the Women's Song Circle, but couldn't you just offer us a drink and some dessert? I get awful hungry and thirsty when I peek in, and I KNOW I dare not utter a peep.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: alison
Date: 20 Sep 97 - 06:51 AM

Hi Joe

Seeing as there's never anyone in the chat room I'll talk to you here..........and while we're at it I slipped you out a nice bit of mudcake...(Don't tell Shula!!!!!)

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Peter T.
Date: 20 Sep 97 - 08:48 AM

Dear Shula, As we used to say in grade 6, if you think we are interested in your dumb old circle, you are crazy. We are having way more fun over here in our treehouse throwing rocks. Yours, Peter

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Shula
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 12:03 AM

Dear, dear Joe and Peter, et al, sent ya'll a feast up t' the tree-house by way of my ever-lovin.' Bon appetit!

Shula

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 02:23 AM

Ah, what a feast! Thank you, Shula and Alison.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Sharon
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 10:48 PM

Now guys, I make these big tall German Chocolate Cakes... Think you'd like a slice.. Nice caramel, coconutty frosting. But don't get the wrong Idea. We Suzy homemakers arent necessarily opposed to a lilttle fun.

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Earl
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 11:56 PM

In the virtual world we're all wearing wet t-shirts and we all look swell. As one who has been in the chat room several times, I envy those who still have high expectations. Its no big rock candy mountain. Its more like two kids with dixie cups and a string: "I can hear you, can you hear me?"

Maybe we don't need gimmicks but I think a discussion topic would help. Its like replaying those agonizing first 20 minutes of a party again and again. There's been more interaction in this thread than I've ever seen in the chatroom.

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Earl
Date: 21 Sep 97 - 11:57 PM

In the virtual world we're all wearing wet t-shirts and we all look swell. As one who has been in the chat room several times, I envy those who still have high expectations. Its no big rock candy mountain. Its more like two kids with dixie cups and a string: "I can hear you, can you hear me?"

Maybe we don't need gimmicks but I think a discussion topic would help. Its like replaying those agonizing first 20 minutes of a party again and again. There's been more interaction in this thread than I've ever seen in the chatroom.

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Jon W.
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 02:19 PM

Last time I wore a wet tee shirt I nearly drowned. And last time I went in the chat room, I got Null Pointer Exception. And the time before that, etc. etc. ad infinitum.

Subject: Earl's right about chat
From: Wkailey
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 05:03 PM

Earl's right about the chat room not being the answer to a maiden's prayer. And no chat room I've seen is. They're all as dull as a weekend in Salt Lake City. Forums are better, because people have time and space to develop their ideas. The problem appears to be intrinsic to the chat concept itself. Of course, I'm sure it could be improved with better, faster software, but it'll never be as good as forums for people who actually want to discuss something, as opposed to exchanging witty one-liners or (more often) not-so-witty ones.

Subject: RE: Free Drinks
From: Jon W.
Date: 22 Sep 97 - 05:25 PM

Here in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, if we want some excitement on the weekends we go camping in the mountains, or skiing if it's winter - not into the city - unless there's a good folk music concert going on somewhere.