Damnatio Memoriae

Subject: RE: Damnatio Memoriae
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 07:01 PM

It just fell of the bottom, dear Dildums. Threads do that if not added to within a certain period.

If you prefer you can set your Age to a year or more and have an unwieldy long bloody page to scroll through! Your choice.

A

Subject: RE: Damnatio Memoriae
From: Gulliver
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 06:41 PM

Ah, yes--memento mori.

I was hoping that my own thread "Is closing threads better than sex?" might inspire some satire of the Juvenal (or even juvenile!) variety but it was closed after six (Latin: sex) postings.

o tempora, o mores!

Donus

Subject: RE: Damnatio Memoriae
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 05:57 PM

You'll find it if you set the Age thingy to 3 days and look in the BS below the line.

Or hust click here instead.

Subject: RE: Damnatio Memoriae
From: Acorn4
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 01:13 PM

I think it's a case of "Semper in Excretum" !

Subject: RE: Damnatio Memoriae
From: theleveller
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 12:22 PM

"Ah, yes the origins of the iambic pentameter... "

Probably written by classically-trained octopodes...er, sorry, wrong thread. Where the hell's the other one disappeared to?

Subject: RE: Damnatio Memoriae
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 12:19 PM

I can vouch for it - your message did appear. And I will swear it till I am blue in the face. Nobody can make me forget it.

What is this? Who are you and what are you doing in the hou*hmphhh**

Noooo - not the needle!

Where was I? Ah, yes the origins of the iambic pentameter...

Subject: Damnatio Memoriae
From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
Date: 19 Jun 08 - 12:14 PM

The practice amongst the Romans of going round old Mudcat threads (in those days, for technical reasons, they were mainly engraved on lumps of stone} and carving away the names of members of the previous regime who were no longer persona very grata. More recent regimes have used the same system, often carving away the actual people for added security.

Recalling the way that the thread Re More Session Rudeness had disappeared after no more than a gruff word from Big Mike, I sat down tonight to examine its love child Closing Threads, and was surprised to be unable to find it in the recent list. So I went back with Holmesian craft and found it through Charley O'Neill's listing. Its final message to the people of the world was timed 5.21 PM 18th June. Yet nothing appears on the current list between 5.19 and 5.28. All trace is gone. And did the last message constitute Big Mike's last warning to his Naughty People? No, just a slightly incomprehensible comment from Houston Diamond about people plugging in too many microwaves.

What is happening here? Are the writers of the threads disappearing as well as the messages? Will this message ever appear? Is big Mike and his band of Long Lankins and Bold Nevisons even now closing in on poor Suffolk Miracle?

Will they ........