BS: Staying on topic in threads.

Subject: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:24 PM

I thought it would be a good thing to start a thread about staying on topic.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:26 PM

That's only possible when people don't have their own agenda, as so many do.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:27 PM

well I bought some milk at the shop today. Ooops sorry :p

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:28 PM

Well I hope it was skimmed milk and not whole milk which is bad for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:31 PM

Exactly. Eggs are good for you unless you shouldn't eat them.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:31 PM

Right onybody whit strays aff topic gets a skelp

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:33 PM

She's back to that sex stuff agin.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:34 PM

"Butt and ben wi' Burke and Hare." I've always liked that, I think it's a nice family kind of image.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:34 PM

Ya wee scunner

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:47 PM

We went shopping to Asda to-day.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 03:47 PM

Butt and Ben flowerpot men?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: autolycus
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:01 PM

if I stay on topic and make a stupendous point, people change the subject !!!!!!!! :-)

Trouble is, no topic has definitive boundaries, aaaaand, if you go in for joined-up thinking, then oft the discussion is gwin ter meander from the point of view of those who can't handle more than one point at a time.

I've been told it's called conversation. Some go in for that; others go in for debate. Mebbe the non-music chunk could itself be divided into conversation threads and debate threads.

And

There's

More where that came from - da-da-da-dada

There's more where that came frooooom, [clash.]

    I thang yow.

ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Janie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:03 PM

Topic? What's a topic:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:05 PM

Well there's the Topic of Capricorn

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:08 PM

Giok, the proper spelling is 'Topic of Cappycorn'. I know, because I recently ate fried mush made from it.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:09 PM

The topical jungles.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:11 PM

If you were in a meeting and people went off topic then that would a waste of time. It wouldn't be allowed to continue if the chairperson was good at the job.

If you start a thread about one specific music topic, say, then it could also be frustrating having to wade through a lot of irrelevant posts to get to what you want.

On some threads half of the fun is when people go off topic.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:12 PM

Missed out a "be".

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:14 PM

Please! Let's centralize the discission here about going off topic if we could?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:14 PM

And you took the thread off topic . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:15 PM

Thast was for eanjay.

Hey, Gnu, did the doctors give you any topical ointment?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:15 PM

inless you want to pint ot yptos.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Megan L
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:18 PM

Cant be bothered reading back over everything just now so SKELP, I am sure someone deserves it

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:24 PM

If it's what I think it is, I DO, I DO.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:33 PM

Topical application is only skin deep, Bruce. What we really need is a thread on "Threads of a Differing Kidney".


A

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:37 PM

I guess when we meet friends on the street or in homes...we don't sort of stick to one subject once we get engrossed in conversation do we? So I suppose it is a little the same on here....you read and you post by what comes into your head at the time. If particularly focussed then I stay on topic but mostly I say what comes into my head. I am surely not the only one!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:40 PM

Well, after getting all that straight, what do y'all think the topic of this thread should be?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:48 PM

Paranoid schizophrenia?

Or do you think someone might try to stop us?


Shhhhhhhh you know who.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Janie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:52 PM

Systems Theory?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:05 PM

I'm careful about sticking to what *I* think is relevant to the topic...I hope no one is suggesting I should limit myself to what others think as well...☺

(friend of mine got a traffic ticket. Officer asked him - "Didn't you see that 'One Way' sign?"

"Gee, officer", he replied, "I was only going one way.")







(how'm I doin?)

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:07 PM

Iconoclastic aberations in subliminal applications of messages to do with diacritical subnormalities in the print media?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:08 PM

TRY to stay on track, Bill, PLEASE!

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Slag
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:10 PM

Only Leftists would try to fence me in. What WOULD Jesus do in this situation. You racist bigots! Take that! I wonder if this thread will reach 50 trillion posts??? Hmmm? If it Does maybe Winona would give ME a tumble. So there, Little Chicken Hawk. And yer pet Ape dick too. TOO? the square root of two? Have they ever reached the end of that root? And what about square circles? If they're real then maybe, just maybe crop circles are real. Well, I mean they ARE real but maybe they ARE made by space critters who lost their navigational instruments. And that Is kinda what this is all about, isn't it? Instruments? And IF so then maybe this post should have gone above the line! Personally I LIKE the Taylor the best. I used to serenade Wendy Taylor on my Taylor! What a coincidence. But things didn't work out for us as she was pretty Left leaning, if you know what I mean. She really cramped my style. She was always boxing me in. Only leftists would try to fence me in. What would Jesus do in this situation? To be continued in other threads....

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:10 PM

Pizza, anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:12 PM

Hold the mayo . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:15 PM

I think everyone should take a lesson from Slag. See how well he is focussed?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:16 PM

Here are three Topics to choose from.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:30 PM

I'm on track...it just happens to be a monorail.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:34 PM

Well if the Topic is as those shown above, then I'll stick with it!!

TOPIC!! A hazelnut in every bite!


Of course, if you mean keeping to one subject.... ever tried knitting fog in a traditional Fairisle pattern?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:34 PM

Does anyone know the names of the seven hundred elves?

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:34 PM

Is the topic now trains? OK. Trains it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: JennieG
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:34 PM

Don't derail, Bill......it's a narrow track.

Speaking of narrow tracks, did I tell you about my last walk in the bush?

To be continued..........

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:35 PM

Topic bars used to be advertised with a Jingle that went.
What has a hazel nut in every bite....TOPIC♫♪

Thus giving rise to the joke.



Q. What has a hazelnut in every bite?

A. Squirrel shit.




Boom boom.



Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:43 PM

Drum roll. So, now the topic is drum rolls. Remember, stay on topic.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:45 PM

You're telling paradiddles

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:49 PM

"A topic a day keeps the doctrine away"

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:50 PM

Paradiddles.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:50 PM

Bill, Bill, Bill, . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:55 PM

Ah, finally a topic dear to my heart.

Subject: RE: BS: Staying on topic in threads.
From: Janie
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 05:58 PM

Welcome back, Ebbie! Missed you bunches.

ummm......sorry about the thread drift.