Subject: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 15 Nov 05 - 11:43 AM I thought I was unique. But HERE I find Mr Red and Don(Wysiwyg)T both claiming they have never opened the mother of all threads. Who else? (I'm keeping my fingers crossed that no-one will unearth some post I contributed to it, oh, a thousand years ago.) |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Cluin Date: 15 Nov 05 - 11:59 AM I opened it once. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Amos Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:01 PM I open it every day. A |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Gervase Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:06 PM Never. Ever. And should the slightest temptation arise, I do a search for "censorship on Mudcat" and remind myself how much bandwidth is already wasted. Anyway, what's it about? How about a 200-word synopsis, someone? |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: MMario Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:08 PM usually several times a day. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: katlaughing Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:08 PM Me, never. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: greg stephens Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:10 PM I dont believe I've ever opened it. But like Fionn, it may that some aeons ago, after coming back from the pub, I just have given them the benefit of my wit and wisdom. But is there a way of searching: "greg stephens"+"mother of all threads" in google, or something like that? |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Ebbie Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:13 PM There are many threads I never open but I am aware that I'm missing out on many thoughts, much information, and helter skelter fun whose loss I would regret. The Cat and its people are a remarkable lot. But you gotta draw the line somewhere. I don't think I've opened the MOAB thread since early days. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: MMario Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:13 PM in 200 words or less; Life, the universe, freds, ralfs, motherhood, apple pie, The Idaho Legion, sex and the city. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Dave'sWife Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:13 PM me either. I'm still on Dial-up. It's all I can do just to open the Secret Santa thread and be patient enough for it to load. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:14 PM I'm afraid it is more likely to be a 200 year synopsis, Gervase. As I understand it, the thread is a free ranging interchange on a multitude of subjects, and well worth viewing, but I know if I open it I will get sucked in, and I already spend more time on Mudcat than I should. So, reluctantly, I have resisted the temptation. One day, when my mobility has deteriorated to the point of my being completely sedentary, I shall open it and read the (by then) half million posts with great relish. Don T. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: MMario Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:15 PM I'm on dial up at home as well - and by seecting the "d" to open the thread get just the most recent posts, paginated. Doesn't take much longer then a two or three post thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Morticia Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:17 PM never |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: greg stephens Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:23 PM I've always imagined it was probably a thread devoted to Little Hawk and his opinions on Shatner and Dylan, but I've never bothered to find out. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Metchosin Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:26 PM I've never opened it either, for basically the same reason as Don(Wyziwyg)T . |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:30 PM Never either... Nor do I suspect I ever will.... |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:33 PM Not me. At least, I don't think I have. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Cluin Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:38 PM Not true, MMario. The very long threads DO take a lot longer to open, not matter how you open them. And basically none of them are worth the wait. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: MMario Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:41 PM well - cluin - let me say there is no *DISCERNABLE* difference opening the MOAB and any other thread on my 28.8 modem at home. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Cluin Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:47 PM That's `cause they're ALL slow then. There's a big difference with my cable connection. The forum is a database of posts. That's why it's searchable. It's not sitting on the server in the form it appears in your web browser. The server has to search and compile the posts according to the thread title fields. The longer the thread (and the older it is) the more time it takes to do this. Add pagination and it increases the time needed. While the server is doing this, it's not doing something else. That's why I say it adds to the slowdown around here at times. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Tannywheeler Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:49 PM Me. The # of posts is daunting. Kinda like "War & Peace". Tw |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Tweed Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:50 PM That thread? Naw, not me. Never.. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: MMario Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:51 PM fabricator. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Jim Dixon Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:57 PM Never deliberately, but I think I once looked at one message by mistake. I was searching for lyrics and something came up in the search results that looked like it might be the lyrics I wanted, but it wasn't. I can't remember what it was, but it didn't make any sense to me. I do a lot of searching for lyrics, song titles, artists' names, etc., and it's amazing that this only happened once. I guess they never discuss music in that thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Beer Date: 15 Nov 05 - 12:59 PM Never. Beer |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Blowzabella Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:06 PM I haven't - nor will I, in all liklihood. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: mooman Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:08 PM I've never opened it and it is unliokely that I ever will! Peace moo |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Tweed Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:12 PM Who me?? Naw, not me, never... |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Mr Red Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:14 PM nice to be in such good company. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:34 PM We discuss music and literature and fine poetry and history and politics and computer stuff and family stuff and made-up stuff and there are a fascinating number of alter-egos who turn up regularly. "BS" doesn't mean it is nonsense, it does mean shooting the breeze with imagination and it does mean occasionally running off someone who decides they want to set the rules for us or dictate what we should talk about. Political Correctness is not in the MOAB charter, for example. It means having to deal with interlopers who have no interest except to score certain significant numbers. As it happens, Little Hawk was channeling for Willam Shatner when number 10,000 came around, because my DSL hesitated or I'd have had it. Think "streams of consciousness" and compare MOAB with some of the fine contributions to English language literature and you'll have an idea of what the Mother of All BS threads is about. It is difficult to read from the beginning because after "The Crash" it became scrambled. (170 words) I have dibs on 20,000, by the way. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: suzi Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:41 PM I never opened until I read the thread this morning, I have tried on many occasions, but alas got fed up of waiting. Hooray I can get into it now...........Thanks |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Tweed Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:44 PM Poor lost soul...pore suzie, get out while you can!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: mack/misophist Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:56 PM Hollow and pointless. Inane and jejune. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: kendall Date: 15 Nov 05 - 01:56 PM never |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Amos Date: 15 Nov 05 - 02:03 PM Ah, mack, you suffer great missed opportunities due to your exclusive filtration devices. Inane? Sometimes. Profound? More often. Jejeune? Not a scratch on some of the yuk stuff posted in many bland and clotted threads offered as humor elsewhere, IMNSHO... A |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 15 Nov 05 - 02:13 PM We can crash mudcat by all opening the MOAB thread at once?? That's funny! |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Rapparee Date: 15 Nov 05 - 03:10 PM You all are talking about MOTHER!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 15 Nov 05 - 03:25 PM Wasn't that the name of the Nostromo's homicidal computer in the movie Alien? |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Nov 05 - 03:49 PM I haven't been able to get in for a while. Too many sidewalk superintendents taking a gander, I suspect. SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: M.Ted Date: 15 Nov 05 - 04:22 PM Not me. Too much to read. But Cluin's point above makes a lot of sense, in terms of the on-again, off-again availability of Mudcat-- |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: GUEST,Martin gibson Date: 15 Nov 05 - 04:38 PM I have never opened it. The only reason I might post in it is to get Joe Offer to finally open it also. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: GUEST,Eorlgh Date: 15 Nov 05 - 04:48 PM You are such a useless toad, Martin. I bet you think people on the MOAB are going to be just devastated by the fact that you haven't opened it. To the contrary, they consider it blessed relief. Your absence makes the heart grow fonder. The longer you are not around, the better it gets. This may be why the MOAB is such a lengthy thread and goes on being so popular with its adherents. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: GUEST Date: 15 Nov 05 - 07:18 PM Me. Don't belong with the inner circle. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: bobad Date: 15 Nov 05 - 07:38 PM Me never, don't think I have enough time left in this incarnation for it to load ; dial-up. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: khandu Date: 15 Nov 05 - 07:40 PM I have never been there and never shall. However, I must tell ye all that Joe Offer officially sanctioned the MOAB thread in the opening post of that thread!!! It is true. Joe Offer, who may or may not be khandu (who, supposedly, "created" the thread), did add a comment to the opening post, giving the thread its Official Mudcat Cafe Blessing! That alone makes the thread worthy of anyone's time to open it! Let me aslo testify that Tweed speaks great truth when he says he has not opened the thread! khanduwhomayormaynotbeJoeOffer |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Col K Date: 15 Nov 05 - 08:09 PM I don't think that I have ever opened it either.Or ever will. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Peace Date: 15 Nov 05 - 08:30 PM My memory ain't that good. And now it takes too much time to load, so I guess I'll never know. |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: curmudgeon Date: 15 Nov 05 - 08:35 PM Opened t once, It was rubbis9h |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 15 Nov 05 - 08:47 PM I know I looked in the early days, but I don't know whether I posted or not. Only way to check if I posted is to click on my name when this submits & read thru the list of my posts, but I dunno whether I will. sandra |
Subject: RE: BS: Who else has never opened THAT thread? From: open mike Date: 15 Nov 05 - 09:43 PM the thought of opening it at this point, is scary!!@ I'd much rather go to Moab, Utah. |