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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: CarolC Date: 07 May 01 - 06:09 PM ...all wrought because some people believe it's more important who says what rather than what's being said
--GUEST 04-May-01 - 02:26 PM
You've got me thinking about that one. Which one of these statements do you think you would be more inclined to believe...
1. "There's nothing to worry about, this procedure is completely safe."
--Your trusted family physician
- OR -
2. "There's nothing to worry about, this procedure is completely safe."
--Dr. Mengele Sometimes it does matter who's saying what. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: Hawker Date: 07 May 01 - 06:19 PM Hey, I am what I am Say what I think Like it or lump it, it's me! Haven't got time to waste pretending to be someone else! Christ life's complicated enough! What you see is what you get, sorry if you don't like, but at least Ive got the neck to be myself, 'nuff said! Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: mousethief Date: 07 May 01 - 06:33 PM Closer to home, Carol:
"I'm sorry I called you names."
"I'm sorry I called you names."
"I never called you no names."
"I never called you no names." Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: Willie-O Date: 07 May 01 - 06:52 PM i was really obsessed with litle mermaid for a long time. actually, i stil find it tolerable...though i marvel at the fact that i never realised her hair was pink when i was little...if i did, i would have hated her on principle. the principle being: pink=EEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. i have no idea what all this guest and flaming and stuff is about...sounds a lot like inkspot's chat war a while back...sorry, that was pointless and made no sense to any of you.
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: Matt_R Date: 07 May 01 - 07:06 PM UM...her hair is RED! I was drawing cartoons of her and the other characters when you were just 3 years old! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: DougR Date: 07 May 01 - 07:14 PM I don't post messages as "Guest" unless I inadvertently allow my cookie to crumble. Then it's Guest DougR until I get around to baking a new one.
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: kendall Date: 07 May 01 - 08:05 PM OK, I have a better picture now. It does help keep everyone separate. If we all signed on as "Guest" we wouldn't have a clue who we are talking to. If I had MY way, we would all use our real names. That would cut down on the attacks, and, we would think before posting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: DougR Date: 07 May 01 - 08:22 PM Hear, hear, Kendall! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: tonedeaf Date: 07 May 01 - 09:58 PM well, you all inspired me to join, 'tho I've no right to mingle with such great talent Cedar |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: toadfrog Date: 07 May 01 - 10:21 PM Well! I use this pseudonym because it sounds so much better than my real-life name! I'll never give it up! Anybody got a problem with that?!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: CarolC Date: 07 May 01 - 10:30 PM I like your screen name, toadfrog. I think it's great. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: GUEST,CLETUS Date: 07 May 01 - 10:49 PM Ise bin after Mr. Max ta giv me a cookie soaz i dint need to be no gest sinz ya never know who it iz whut mite be a postin' az me. I allus sines my postinz an all but Max sez he caint gimmee no cookie cuz thairz sum kinda rool bout it an he doan want ta git in no trouble by doin it. Beetz me whut it meenz but Max sez ittid be sumpin bowt "Contributin ta the foolishness uv an Imbecile" ur sorta' like thet anywayz. So I gess Ile jez hafta stay a gest. But I tell ya, iffen Max givs that fool possum a cookie than Ima gonna be rite pissed cuz thet aint nuthin I cud holt with. CLETUS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: Night Owl Date: 07 May 01 - 10:58 PM Welcome to the community here Cedar (love the name "tonedeaf")!! I assume you've already noticed that those members with the amazing musical talents and knowledge.. share freely with those of us who are hungry to learn. Teachers need students and performers need listeners...and vice versa. ENJOY "mingling" in the mix that makes this place so special!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: GUEST,Cleigh O'Possum Date: 07 May 01 - 11:13 PM Miz Night Owl is so nice and I'm so glad she posted something nice about our new member after that nasty Cletus. I too want to welcome tonedeaf and say that although I have no cookie, I am an official mascot and icon of the Mudcat and have many friends here. I hope you too will enjoy this wondeful place and the people like Night Owl who make it so fine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: Troll Date: 07 May 01 - 11:25 PM Think about this. Maybe GUEST is actually ALL of us except one or two. HELP! HELP! The paranoids are after me! troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: CRANKY YANKEE Date: 07 May 01 - 11:49 PM I wanted to join Paranoids anonymous, but they wouldn't tell me where they meet, so, I jopined the Mudcat instead. Jody Gibson MD DDS LLD |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: GUEST,Ditzee lee Date: 08 May 01 - 12:57 AM Like I know what you mean, Cletus, umm....if that possum, like gets a cookie and like we don't well it'll just make me mental, ya know and then like I don't know if I could come here anymore, like ya know, 'cause it'd just be TOO much, like that time you and me went out and like we had to get you spiffed up and, wow, that was a tough job and then something happened, like to my poo-dull and like, hey, man, that was you wasn't it, like you were the one! You like dissed my poo-dull and crashed the partee and like it wasn't very cool, ya know and what kinda cookies are we talking about, 'cause I only eat the ones that are low in fat, 'cause like I'm a size 1 now and like, oh I know isn't it cool? And, like well, I just don't want any of that possum fat around me, if ya know what I mean, ya know and like, oh...a cookie ya can't eat, oh like we're in cyberland, is that like what those technogeeks hang out in, oh like man this is really weird, I mean I never knew...hey Janeece...listen to this, like ya're never gonna belive it, ya know.....
the only other guest name i've posted under...my "alter-ego" **BG**...kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: kendall Date: 08 May 01 - 07:59 AM I dont have a problem with anyone using a handle. All I said was, "If I had MY way..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: GUEST,Dita (at work) Date: 08 May 01 - 08:33 AM "I'd tear this whole building down" - oh surely not kendall. love, john. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: CamiSu Date: 08 May 01 - 09:53 AM Sometimes I just read, sometimes I post. If I just read, sometimes it's because I can't think of what to say, or am too tired to think, or have no worthwhile opinion. But, if I post, it's under my own name. Once when I was in 4th grade, someone sent the teacher an anonymous note. His response was to give us an impromptu spelling test using the misspelled words in the note. Then he told us about the note and read it to us. I don't recall ever finding out who did it. Certainly Mr. K wouldn't tell. That would be too embarrassing for the student. BUT, I'm sure most of us learned that anonymous notes like that were bad manners, at best. That aside. I did get a PM once because I hadn't posted in a while, asking if I was OK. That was worth a great deal to me, and no one can look out for you if you post anonymously. (I know this was off original subject, but I felt it was worthwhile. Ignore it if you wish) CamiSu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: Bagpuss Date: 08 May 01 - 10:37 AM I'm just wondering if I am a part of this inner clique people keep talking about. If not, how do I join? ;-) Bagpuss |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: GUEST Date: 08 May 01 - 02:27 PM 07 May 01 6:09 PM.... Point taken. The family physician is the natural choice to believe. But "...all wrought because some people believe it is more important who says what rather than what's being said" was in response to the theme of this thread as stated in the initial post, and subsequent posts before the quote. The originator was expressing disdain for playing a 'game' of trying to guess who said what, which s/he seemed unable to control, and the quote refers to that and the posts that ensued. Outside the context of this thread, the quote doesn't hold up, as your example pointed out. In many instances in this forum the reader's job is to pass judgement on an expressed thought, opinion, idea, belief, or what-have-you. Most of the posts in this thread (and many others) could fall under the general category of thoughts/beliefs/opinions/ideas. In that context, what difference does it make in the message if there's a moniker attached to it or not? Cover up the names or substitute Guest in any of those kinds of posts, and it doesn't change the meaning of the words. Perhaps it makes a difference only in those areas where knowledge of the persona is necessary to the context, as in: "I would not want to join a club which would have me as a member." It's funnier and carries more meaning when Groucho Marx says it than when an anonymous person says it. It also makes a difference when one is concerned with giving credit and assigning blame. 07 May 01 6:33 PM.... Your example is relevant if the reader empowers the words of a name-caller to do damage. If that were the case, given the general disdain aimed indiscriminantly at Guests who dare to express an opinion, no Guest would ever venture beyond the music threads. A liberating advantage to advancing maturity is becoming less and less concerned with what other people think. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: mousethief Date: 08 May 01 - 06:15 PM Is a concern for what other people think the only relevant factor? How about respect for other people? The way people behave tells a lot about what sort of people they are, which has some weight with whether or not I want to discuss anything with them. Someone who owns up to their mistakes is far more likely to be taken seriously -- at least by this observer -- than someone who shrugs off responsibility. Posting as an anonymous guest is one way of shrugging off responsibility for one's words. It's like saying "You're not important enough, or this conversation is not important enough, for me to register a stable name." If it's not important to you, why should I care to discuss it with you? Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: Matt_R Date: 08 May 01 - 06:23 PM Camisu, I was just wondering last night where you'd gotten to!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: CamiSu Date: 08 May 01 - 06:59 PM Up to my eyeballs in lambs and keeping my AFS kid sane. (Nevermind my sanity...) CamiSu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Guest guessing game From: GUEST Date: 09 May 01 - 07:59 AM 08 May 01 6:15 pm... Shirking responsibility is only one of a myriad number of reasons for posting anonymously. Some others have been stated or insinuated in previous posts to this thread. |