BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 10:48 AM

Peg, I'd take your bet whether this is a kid, but since for me the question is already answered, it would be an unfair bet. It was fun for me to decide, and puzzle why--I got interested by his claim he could identify people from their posts, and started watching his-- but for me the troll is completely solipsized, and I'm not asking, or wondering, but telling. As far as I'm concerned the troll is a young guy, is whichever guest I decide he is, and my decision is final, there is no appeal. The troll could, if he wanted, try to present a more credible persona than the one I've decided on for him, but that's a troll-suicide mission, death to troll.

But what does interest me is how anyone can think Jose is an adult. Or a woman. Why do you think so? I'm amazed by it. In his offline life he's often mistaken for a foreign student, and doesn't know why, and is annoyed by it. (It's your glasses dude, you wear those foreign-student style glasses.) People sometimes overpronounce words to him and say things like How long ? Have you been? In this country? And he says things like About Twenty Years. I Am Beginning, To Learn Your Ways. ( Not really--he wanted to say that but thought of it later.) He's not good face to face with people, as we have seen, he gets rattled easy.

He has a round-faced little brother, who drinks too much Big Red and is fascinated by vacuum cleaners, and his relationship with his brother is one really likeable thing about him. If he wants to tell you about something funny, like something on South Park, get comfortable, it takes a half hour because he can't stop giggling to tell it, and he mumbles things. He's constitutionally unable to tell a funny story at all, in fact, and always has to end it with "it was funny" or "we all laughed" so that you know when it's over.

I don't know why people let themselves get riled about him, but I guess it's because he's pretty good at dictating the terms of troll-engagement, and people wind up taking his comments or "comments" seriously in spite of themselves. I did, on the ladies thread--at first I seriously wondered if I was doing/saying things that offended people, and wanted to hear their point of view, just to be civil and all. But it was just silly. I've tried to contribute a little fun to it, meant no harm.

I actually envy being able to prod people like that, to see how they react, because they'll say interesting and serious things about what they think instead of being comfortable, amiable, and conventional. One follows not to hear Jose's silly remarks (predictably, he has to win, a typical male weakness) but to read the interesting responses, get to know people. I'm a bit of a wus about it, can't do it. If it's not a good thing here, the group doesn't like it, I respect that, I quit the guitar notes forum because it was a little too classroom-like, lot's of thread policing, moderators and a star-ranking system, no kidding, and a bit churchy for me--nothing against it but I'm a fairly screwed-up person and relate easier to other odd people, my tribe. I maybe should look elsewhere, because I've kind of enjoyed this thread. If Jose wanted to be really destructive I can think of ways he could, I'm sure he can, but he hasn't from anything I've seen.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 10:01 AM

Truth be told, there really is no major ego boost possible that could be derived from posting in this place, now is there? It's not like the Guest with a 1000 Faces "won" something of value by proving a point about the idiocy of rude people posting rude responses in a rude internet forum, now is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 09:27 AM

There's only another 20 posts to go before Guest-Too-two-faced-to-count gets a major ego boost for reaching 100 posts. Do we really need that?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 09:23 AM

Hi Max of a thousand guest faces! Nice to see you donning a few guest masks too!

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From:
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 08:05 AM

Now let me get the troll's claims straight: s/he posts anonymously, changing identities, commiting to no positions, saying content-free but provocative things, (stirring up legitimate controversy for the sake of airing things is a different matter), disrupting meaningful conversation about material subjects among people with a shared interest in the subject and enough commitment to each other to take responsibility for what they say, and then gives herself/himself points for successfully annoying people? Sucks to be you, I guess. You've played so many games with truth and falsity, it's anybody's guess whether you're for real about your sociology paper. There's the makings of a very good essay in there somewhere. But if your prof approved your methods (jerking around the population you're studying), s/he's so far out of disciplinary norms her/his opinion doesn't count for much. The puzzle is, there's high energy and at least a moderate intelligence (or articulateness) in your posts. Pity.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 04:16 AM

On rereading that I think I ought to clarify that I don't think Guest has the same intentions as Gargoyle, nor the body of knowlege. I just think Guest is trying (and failing) to be as provocative. Hope I didn't offend by the comparison!
Kris

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 02:43 AM

Guest - you are not the only guest - and you are not even an important guest.
Scared of you? who is? Sorry - you're not that significant.
You are just a very pale and imperfect facsimile of the esteemed Gargoyle, to whose throne you would aspire.
This is a very messy and cringeworthy thread. Get a life.

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 09:50 PM

Never mind the guest with 1000 faces, let's just assume Guest is only 2 faced!. We can then refer to Guest as 'Janus'. Not only was Janus 2 faced, but 'Janus' is 80% full of S**t!

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: JohnnyBGoode
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 06:52 PM

What makes a guest think that they're the only guest? Anyone without a cookie for whatever reason will post that way.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Punless in Punxatawney
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 06:49 PM

Well gosh darn, if you're going to turn my funny little 'nom de plooome' into that of a female pornstar, I'll have to come up with another one.

Honestly though, this thread IS for laffs isn't it? Right from the start, right? It's hardly destructive, the poster is well known by many on the internet, and obviously she's having a blast. What the heck is wrong with it reaching a hundred entries? Now those Shatner threads, They're diaboloical!

PP

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Peg
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 06:08 PM

Dear many-visaged GUEST: I think the word you wanted to use was "paragon", not "paradigm."

This is no high school student or youngster, I'll wager (I thought so at the beginning of the thread and towards the end others have suggested as much). It is, however, a truly pathetic adult. Male or female I am not sure but the overwhelming majority of no-life trolls on the internet do tend to be male (why is this? is it a sexual sublimation thing? Do they type up the nasty newsgroup posts while waiting to download porn?)

I do feel sorry for this person; whatever their age or gender, they are clearly lonely, angry, disillusioned and desperately in need of social interaction.

Milk and cookies, anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 01:11 PM

Enter stage left:- The three billy goats Gruff

Sing:-
I'm a troll tol de wol
I'm a troll tol de wol
I'm a troll tol de wol
And I'll eat you for my supper

Then off they went, tic trac tric trac, over the rickety bridge.
Ah childhood and innocence!.......Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,CC Rider
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 01:03 PM

This is all very strange and entertaining because of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 10:41 AM

I tried to help, just as if getting people to post actually did prove anything. Remember when there was supposed to be some social issues point? Back in the day.

A guy. Only a guy who doesn't know many women, and doesn't much know the ones he does know, would try to start the ladies only thread, then announce he was female on this thread. That would be a lousy female troll. Also the ridiculous exaggeration, as Blackcatter pointed out, fuck off vs pax yall. The most common logical fallacy is a false dichotomy, and a young guy, or popular right-wing radio commentator, will make more false logical constructs than anybody. This is definately either a young guy or we have an idea what Rush Limbaugh is up to these days. Could be.

And the fantasies are of omnipotence--the thousand masks, phantom menace, I can get you all with my google super powers, etc. and those are typically young guy type fantasies. Females tend to fantasize uniqueness, more than omnipotence. Amanda, dude, you're a master of the young guy mask but you can't play women, they're beyond your range. It's like watching Redford trying to play a military guy. Did you really expect women to rise up in arms to your childish idea of what they're offended by? Get to know some, one is a good start. Still you're a decent troll, just need to be more fun, get know your limitations. You could go into law, or the arts maybe? That's my take, I'm sticking with it, since, well, who cares. Take it easy, I think you'd be fun to talk to as a young guy, but your troll has become tiresome, Eddie Munster.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Blackcatter
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 12:47 AM

Oh, and you made it only to around 60 posts before midnight, but then again, you're probably used to falling short of goals, aren't you?

And I'd suggest you study your keyboard. There's these two buttons called "shift" they do so remarkable things, try it occasionally.

Oh, and notch away on your belt - eventually you'll cut through it and you drop your pants. Then you'll look as silly as you sound.

pax yall

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Blackcatter
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 12:42 AM

GUEST - I'm honored.

"the mudcatter i find the funniest is blackcatter. first he tells someone to "fuck off," then he tells them they're "too stupid," then he signs his post with "pax, y'all."

you can't be too sincere about pax after telling someone to fuck off."

Once again, however, you miss the point - hence the stupid reference. See, fuckin' off is a non-violent thing to do. I means "go away" - even if you take it literally, rarely is it violent.

I haven't suggested to do violence to you, or expressed any hope that violence will come to you. That is why I can sign off with "pax yall".

By the way, I do own swamp land in Florida. It's about 40 miles south of my home in Orlando, on the Kissimmee River. I am currently holding it until the Nature Conservancy purchases more land in the area and then I will sell it to them for a minimal price so they can then develop a reserve to help keep part of my world green. What have you done lately?

And you can go ahead and say we're scared - we know better. As for us responding to you, ever watch a cat capture a mouse. They usually PLAY with the hapless beast prior to killing it and eating it. Since this is the MudCAT and there are a fair amount of cats around here, imagine you're the mouse. Metaphorically speaking, of course...

pax yall

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Alt Erego
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 12:02 AM

Can there be only one Guest with a 1000 Faces? Or is collaboration an option?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 11:45 PM

Hi Amanda, I can't stop myself, see, I've got this self-control problem, but enough about me. I'm really wondering why Bill and Alan-hi!-why you think Amanda is a middle-aged woman? That'd be the last thing I'd say. If you're listening Amanda, you albino squirrel (and you are) hi again. Any kind of adult, I really would be concerned. And impressed. The impersonation of a typically messed up, reasonably bright kid is so artistic I'd want to grant it on points. I'd tend to say a young guy, but then, a girl is okay, since, well, who cares?

Granted, the guessing game is sort of like an easter-egg hunt with no eggs. Like when my wife was in kindergarten and her silly teacher tried to incubate unfertilized eggs--so it turned into a kindergarten version of Waiting For Godot. The bad news is Amanda won't tell us if we guess right, the good news is, well, ibid.

But I'm saying the confused sophistry, the "thousand" masks that can't be changed fast enough--you can still catch the need to redefine the whole point of the trolling so that Amanda can congratulate herself on some kind of success. "It's all about THIS, so I'm winning. Hooray for me!" It all says someone who is arguing around, aimlessly trying to find a point, a kid. And then the goofy notions of internet Anarchy--like the character on the Young Ones "We've stayed up all night, that's what I call real ANARCHY!" (My favorite line was Omigod I've killed an 'ippie.)

The reference to the phantom menace, conflating censure and censorship to the point that if people don't jump to say what Amanda suggests they should say they are persecuting Amanda's free speech. Saying that people feel the need to "comment"--in quotes, as if it were somehow a euphemism for anything other than plain old comments. Annoying people then acting all persecuted when they are annoyed--okay I may know a few middle-aged women who do that but they are usually one's mother. No, it's teenager stuff, teenager bumper-car sophistry to a t. If not, it's as good as Salinger. Better. The important issues Amanda brings up are like the Clare Danes character on my so-called life thinking about people chewing food when they eat--if you think about what chewing is, and that people do it, like, in public! Re-read the line about Max can handle the lawyers. Boy, that's good, if a kid didn't write it. And it's funny anyway. I wrote a paper about you people--got an "A" by the way, for your information, I'll have you know-- and did I mention, the teacher thinks you're dumb. A middle aged woman? Young guy, or, whatever.

I really don't mean to belittle anybody for being young when they are young. Kids who aren't messed-up and generally appalled and disgusted are the ones that worry me--must not be paying attention. There's an old church behind my house that never reached to younger people, so, cool, there's always plenty of parking spaces. It's like a Sears out there. All the mudcats can come over sometime.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Al Terego, Porn Star Extraordinaire
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 11:16 PM

Yes, it's true. I'm a middle aged woman named Amanda, who made films under this pseudonym. I also wrote a Procol Harum song, which was a big hit with the cross-dressing exotic dancers I used to hang out with back in the day. I'm glad you all let me talk about this here. It feels so good to come clean--I felt so smutty using all those pseudonyms. But I've seen the light now, thanks to all of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,face #1001
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 11:01 PM

the mudcatter i find the funniest is blackcatter. first he tells someone to "fuck off," then he tells them they're "too stupid," then he signs his post with "pax, y'all."

you can't be too sincere about pax after telling someone to fuck off.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 09:11 PM

I'm glad to see that Guest- Amanda,is it?- has a sense of humor. I can see her now, just sitting there laughing and laughing. Glad to see it, Amanda!

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Fred Miller
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 08:31 PM

Sure I'll throw you a mercy post, but that was pretty lame, Amanda. I did like you insisting that this thread about you isn't about you, and I mean that, it's really pretty clever. And it's true, you got me again--I hate how you're ruining the mudcat! It's driving me insane. Aaaiigh! There. Now I am insane. But Ghengis Khan? He couldn't keep all his trolls supplied with sleep.

And I'm going to have to spend less time here, now that I'm feeling better. Not going to exercise any self control, though, so no offence. I'll try to check in with you when I can, I just didn't want you to feel like I'm seeing another troll. You're my fave and all that, other trolls are so superficial. But thanks for saying hi. I was starting to think you didn't like me, you goof.

See, I'm really perceptive about things like that, like how I know how tall you are and whether you like indian food, and like this one time at work there was this woman and she and I had this funny antagonism going, where although I liked her, I pretended not to. And she pretended she didn't like me, but if I'm any judge of people, I could tell she was only pretending she just didn't like me to disguise the fact that she really really hated me. Which was a pretty good facade, I thought. What do you think?

I had an idea on the ladies thread how you could do a personal advice thread for us, be like a house troll, and be all rude to people about their personal problems. That'd be fun, since this is getting so thin. I'll join if you'll do it, promise. Got to sign off--do you get points for length of posts? I'd go on, but I've been looking forward to an evening enjoying a book of my favorite naughty and demeaning words.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Blues=Life
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 08:30 PM

Guest Posts: "No, I won't post my paper here...As to your advice--what makes you think I want it from people in this place? You people aren't exactly a paradigm of adult responsibility, in case you hadn't noticed."

Well, Folks, I did what I set out to do... I TROLLED the TROLL! It is fun getting an expected response from an idiot... and it was so easy to do.

I repeat, I'm not anti-youth, you're just young. That means I have an overwhelming intellectual and spiritual advantage over you... I survived youth, and you have not, yet. Plus, it is obvious that I, and most of the people here, are immensely smarter than you, since you prove it every time you post.

You realize anything you can possibly respond here, is responding to a troll. So go ahead, you spew, we'll laugh.

TaTa, you little moron.

No, I won't post my paper here.

As to your advice--what makes you think I want it from people in this place? You people aren't exactly a paradigm of adult responsibility, in case you hadn't noticed.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 06:03 PM

You are so right.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 05:29 PM

Alan...funny, I was debating a post in which I bet a dollar this was no teenager...guess we'll never know, huh? *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST,Alan Terego
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 05:01 PM

Ummmm, Guest. I'd be more concerned why a middle aged woman (and you are) is posting as a teenager. Different strokes I guess.

Al

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:54 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Don Firth
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:48 PM

Scared? Of you? Who could be afraid of a child rolling on the floor, kicking and screaming and demanding attention? By the way, since you're getting off by keeping count, are you deducting the ones you post yourself? 21 so far. It's that kind of accounting that got Enron into trouble.

You're kind of amusing, actually. Sometimes there's a perverse interest in feeding the troll. Watching you scarf down the attention can be fascinating in an zoological sort of way. You obviously can't control yourself. As long as we keep tossing you crumbs, you'll keep gobbling them down. I'm curious to see how long we can keep this up.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:23 PM

an opinion

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 04:17 PM

I gi's a bloody damn as to the number of posts here, so rant all you will about how we are that much closer to 100. I have but one observation for you, and then I am happily trotting back to the music threads.

If it is peoples supposed desire to control that has you so up in arms, why are you *demanding* that no one respond to you? Ultimately, that is a *huge* control issue.

Physician, heal thyself.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 03:54 PM

I am SO pleased we have broken the 50 mark! Let's hear it for the impulse control impaired! We've actually doubled the number of posts to the thread in a matter of hours--on a slow Saturday no less!

You are all to be commended, I think. What great sports you are, for making me the most popular poster at Mudcat. I'm WAAAAY ahead of happy birthday wishes to Joe Offer (only 29 posts)! My public (so to speak) debut has been much more successful than kendall's (only 22 posts)! Why, I've almost overtaken the "Why do men wear socks with sandals" thread!

Kiss kiss!

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 03:43 PM

Notches? What notches? I don't need no steeeenkin' notches!

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: DMcG
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:43 PM

Try here

Maybe the next 50 posts can be more positive, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:37 PM

Thank you, "Trickster" The Cheetah Club is of definite interst to my patient. Can you find any research by Marshal Kadin, MD? He is referenced at Nikki's website. Again, thank you from both of us. hg

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Oaklet
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:22 PM

Guest, of your 1000 faeces, I found that you peaked at twenty eight. Then the by-products of your existence all tended to look and smell (and to you probably taste) the same. It WILL get better for you as you grow up. It did for me. Promise.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:21 PM

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[e-mail]
If you would prefer to speak with me first, my phone number is: [phone]
The link for our LyP web page is: http://www.Lymphomainfo.net/conditions/lyp.html

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:14 PM

Actually, "Trickster", I have a much more pressing need for your Google skills, at the moment. One of my cancer patients with skin cell lymphoma has developed Lyp.

She asked me to search for some information about the relationship between Lyp and the possible development of cellulitis. She wants to know as much as she can because she wants to improve her quality of life and in addition to her T-cell skin lymphoma, she has now developed Lyp. Any double blind placebo controlled studies would be most appreciated. thank you, hg

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:05 PM

why, GUEST! Do you need some attention? I'm home in the den watching "Lord of The Rings" with my son. But, I'll debate something with you if you like.

What do you want to talk about? If I find your approach prosocial enough, I will join you. But please start another thread and label it B.S. from "Trickster" so I know where you are...Sincerely, hg

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:02 PM

And by the way "a 1000"?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 01:59 PM

OK, if he (s/he) can post anonymously as Guest, so can I.

May I suggest a nick for you, Guest? Call yourself Noticebox.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 01:58 PM

Still waiting for an answer about that paper. What do you say, GUEST? Please let me know.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 01:51 PM

I hope, Guest, you are not counting several responses from Giok as new notches. Wouldn't be fair, would it? And should you count this one? I may be someone you've counted already. That's the trouble with Anon posts. Of course, as far as the rest of Mudcat knows, I may be just one of your 1000 faces. Maybe I'm just posting answers to myself so I can reach the magic 100 by midnight.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 01:42 PM

Notches Guest!! What a quaint old fashioned pre-punk, and dare I say, cowboy concept. I too used to play cowboys when I was young and immature, I grew out of it. Something tells me it will not be an easy transition for you. A bad case of arrested development; however we will pray for your recovery.
Whittlin' away......Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 01:23 PM

Comfortable with your existence, Blackcatter? Sure, and you've got swamp land in Florida, right? If you truly didn't have these self-control problems, if you truly didn't give a shit about the things I'm poking at, you wouldn't respond. There are plenty of people here reading this thread, who simply don't respond. Some, like harpgirl won't come into this thread directly, but try to sneak attack their responses in another thread--as if I won't notice. When you are so bloody fucking lame that you don't have to resort to carrying the attacks into another thread to get your licks in, you look even more pitiful. So I'm counting double notches for that!

Like I said, there is a core group of people in Mudcat who ARE the problem. They are the people who have self-control issues. They show up loud and clear in their attempts to control what other people post by "commenting" or "giving their opinion." People like you and harpgirl just HAVE to tell me off. If you don't do it directly, because you are passive/aggressive indirect communicators (as a lot of the people in this forum are), it shows you really do care--so much so that you can't control your responses to me.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. None of this is about me. No, no, no. This phony "some people here are just trying to help you" facade is a load of shite. What you care about is that I make you and/or the forum you love, look bad in some way that is a hot button issue for you personally.

That's why you have no self-control when it comes to responding to me. That's why I got a whole lotta notches in my belt. Keep going there catters! I say we reach 100 posts by midnite! There is a challenge for you!

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 12:24 PM

Why, just because we choose to respond to you, do you think we're scared? What is there to be scared about?

Are we afraid you're ruining Mudcat? - not really, many of the people here have been here longer than I (and I have been here for 4 years) and we've seen dozens of GUESTS and MEMBERS who have tried to upset us come and go.

Are we afraid that you're poking holes in are facade - that we're afraid that you will uncover us in all our real, embarassing existences? Nope - you see, those people who love folk music are usually pretty comfortable with their lives. We share our limitations here as well as our strngths. It's difficult to deal with folk music on a daily basis with out being "real" since that what folk music is all about.

So you ca nsay we're afraid, but what we are is amused and to some extent concerned. We think it's a shame you appear to derrive joy and satisfaction from intentionally antagonizing people. Sure, some of us rise to the bait, but over-all, we respond to GUESTs like you because it's just something to do. Also, you are a part of our own research projects, albeit a disappointing one, especially since we don't really know which statements you make are lies and which are delusions. My guess is that few of your statements are truths, except through coincidence.

The thing is that if and when responding to you becomes tedious and not enjoyable, we stop. We're not addicted to this little ritual like you are.

Now I'm off to check other threads.

pax yall

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 12:17 PM

Oh yeah, the caring for me in this thread is overwhelming.

Another notch. Shall we reach 100 posts today?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: Oaklet
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 11:49 AM

But luckily, I didn't exist wholly behind the monitor and had a lot of wise people around me who explained (often forcibly) that you cannot afford to be a this much of a twat at twenty. You have six years to get this stuff out of your system, Guest of a Thousand Faeces. Why don't you learn to play something or sing? You'll be socialised within months, I promise. And start to see that there some friends out there, who might start to care about you.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 11:42 AM

Another notch.

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 11:22 AM

Jerry Springer where are you now that we need you?

Subject: RE: BS: Guest with a 1000 Faces
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 10:31 AM

Fred Miller is living proof that even if the catspaws and McGraths and Big Micks get better at not responding like the reactionary control freaks that they are, that there will always be someone new to come in to take their place.

Welcome on board Mudcat, Mr. Miller. You can stand in the "lacks self-control" line to the right of Gengis Khan with all the others over there.