BS: Mudcat .. was it something I said?

Subject: BS: Mudcat .. was it something I said?
From: Nemesis
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 08:18 PM

Just managed to fumble my way into the Mudcat chat room .. someone came in and asked if I was "gallowing?" Then they left.. Where's the glossary .. what have I done? Did I do something wrong? I don't like this .. it's a big scary white room with no windows .....

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From: khandu
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 08:28 PM

In the white room with black curtains...

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 08:53 PM

That chatroom is indeeed an unusual environment. It tends to make normal people weird while making weird people into gibbering blatherskites. I don't hang out there any more as it all reminds me too much of acid flashbacks.

Bruce

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From: Nemesis
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:09 PM

And the lights are .. soo .. bright ... feeling round trying to find corners .. the door ..

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From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:14 PM

Jeez Hille, I went in a few weeks ago, people said "Hi"...and my internet connection went down, and did it again....and again.

Maybe there's a secret password.

Cheers, and happy gallowin'

Rick

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From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:20 PM

OK, I'll bite - what exactly IS "gallowing"?

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From: Bobert
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:20 PM

Get over it, Hille. Thes folks routinely ignore me 'cause Iz don't talk 'er spell the way they do... Like yer dad told ya when ya' fell off the roof into the sticky bush, "Shake it off, son..."

Bobert

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From: John Routledge
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:23 PM

This Chat room sounds exciting :0)

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From: John Routledge
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:25 PM

Not exciting at all!! It's empty

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From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:26 PM

I was just there. Visited with an old friend. No problems. Although the delay makes the flow of conversation odd.

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From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:28 PM

Still like to know what gallowing means -- hanging around? Closest guess I can come up with. Its what you do when you're tired of waiting for noose, I guess. Knotty little problem, huh? Can't let it slip by though...

A

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:35 PM

Gallowing: The process of taking a trip to Galloway?

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From: Manitas_
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 09:59 PM

Hanging around?

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 10:15 PM

All right.... The online Webster's Collegiate Dictionary at the Meriam-Webster site doesn't have "Gallowing" listed. It is probably in the Unabridged Dictionary, but that site's accessible to paid members only. A Google search found ten sites where the word has been used, and it seems to have something to do with the occult or supernatural. Anybody got a really big dictionary?

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From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 10:44 PM

gallowing - drinking the cheap red wines of Earnest and Julio?????

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From: GUEST,Q
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 10:55 PM

Gallow- "to cluck or to scream." Generally said of birds. "Gallowing cries thickened the midnight air." Aird (mystery writer). From the trusty OED.
Did you really do that?

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From: GUEST,R
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 11:22 PM

Ignor Q - Cspaw was in the same room

Cspaw passed gas, and passed the insult onto you.

It is an old mudcat "trick"...agreed it is sick.

Stay or leave, it is up to you.

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From: Duane D.
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 11:32 PM

Hanging around makes sense. The gallows were where hangings took place. The comment was probably made by someone who learned English with "Hooked on Ebonics."

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From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 11:56 PM

"Gallowing" is internet slang for someone hanging around a chat room by themselves...

Usually waiting for someone, anyone else to show up and chat...

And yes, the references to being hung by the neck are valid... IOn kind of a "misery loves company" thing...

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From: Morticia
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 08:00 AM

dunno where you got the white room thing from....the MC chat room is a rather disreputable snug out the back of some tavern somewhere.It appears to have a jello pit ( empty except for a set of deflated bagpipes,a thong and two rusty kazoos), a jacuzzi that most are somewhat wary of now, given it's "life-enhancing" electrical properties and a pinball machine that is set to tilt on any rendition of Wild Rover.It has been known to be afloat before now but I suspect that may be the generous imbibing of certain intoxicants by some of our more free-spirited chat-ees.I think you must have wondered into the "special" room of the NYCFTTS by mistake.Have you found your way out yet or should I send Roger the Skiff in to fetch you?

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From: Bassic
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 09:09 AM

Don`t worry Hille. The "school playground" can be a bit scary first time! Just duck if someone kicks a football in your direction until you learn the moves! Before you know it you will be scoring goals, passing and "dribbling" yourself!

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From: Noreen
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 09:42 AM

If you're still around, pop in now- quite a select bunch having musical converstaion

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From: Noreen
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 09:49 AM

Bit of an odd group though- two fish, a partridge and a cat...

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From: MairSea
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 10:13 AM

Tried to get in this afternoon - thought from this thread there were people in but at 'mudcat time' 1002 - everyone had gone - think I must be putting folk 'off'! Think I might be developing a complex - will try later! :-)

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From: Burke
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 10:33 AM

OED has 3 definitions for Gallow as a verb. It looks like internet has sort of revived an obsolete usage in Hang around.

(Obs.)To hang on a gallows or cross.
Lit. cite: 1400 Leg. Rood Wi grete lewes he is galwed, And dye for Monnes gelte.


(rare)Of a bird: To cluck, to scream. Hence gallowing.
Lit. cite:
1825 HOGG Q. Hynde 80 The capperkailzie scorn'd to flee But gallow'd on the forest tree. 1830 AIRD in Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 817 Choked shrieks..And gallowing cries..thicken'd the midnight air.

obs. form of GALLY v., to frighten.
1605 SHAKES. Lear III. ii. 44 The wrathfull Skies Gallow the very wanderers of the darke And make them keep their Caues

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From: MMario
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 10:36 AM

okay - have proved to MairSea that the chatroom exists and it works.

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From: Noreen
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 11:35 AM

Should have said that we were in the room entered via shorty, as www.mudcat.org was down at the time- perhaps you got in later after www. was back up, cos I've only just left the chat now.
(And yes, there ARE 2 separate rooms, one via shorty and one via www., Skipjack & I demonstrated that the other night.)

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From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 02:24 PM

You won't find the internet usage of "Gallowing" in any dictionary...

Nor will you find the net usage of "Ghost" or "Ghosting"...

But if some day you get tired of gallowing around in the mudchat, maybe you can take it upon yourself to ghost a few other chat rooms at random, and pick up some of the 'standard slang' (if that's not a contradiction in terms...)

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat .. was it something I said?
From: Nemesis
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 02:32 PM

Well, it was less "Gallowing" (now I know what it means :) than staring mystified at the screen wondering what should happen next .. still, I am a Mudcat Chatroom virgin no more .. eventually had an animated discussion / several-ways conversation touching on sloe gin and lubrication :) .. Sloely lubricated or something .. So, I guess I am now thoroughly inititiated!!

There are two rooms? Oh, no! My liddle luddite brain just about managed to work one out .. and I've had to lose knowing how to use the VCR in order to make space for Chatroom procedures :(

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From: EBarnacle1
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 04:20 PM

Noreen--Shouldn't that be 3 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow?

Tra la!

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From: Morticia
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 04:56 PM

You knew how to programme the VCR????

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From: Tig
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 05:08 PM

I went looking for someone to talk to, but everyone else had gone away. WAAAHHHHH!!!! Did the doors eat them up too?

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From: Noreen
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 06:34 PM

Anyone around now? With the help of shorty?

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From: Nemesis
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:16 PM

MOrti .. I'm not sure about the VCR .. I THINK I could program it .. but that was before the new microwave and MUdchat.

What are the two rooms then anyone? www. and shorty (uh?)

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From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:25 PM

12 in chat now.....

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From: CapriUni
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:31 PM

I've made many friends in the chatroom. There's something about "live", real-time conversation -- when you know the person you're chatting with is actually "there" at the same time you are -- that just lends a sense of comaraderie.

But lately, everytime I've checked the quick links menu, it tells me that no one is in the chatroom...

Is Everyone Avoiding Me??

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From: John Routledge
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:34 PM

CU This is the two room syndrome
12 in one room none in the other.

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From: death by whisky
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:39 PM

I pop in ocasionaly

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From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:39 PM

The shorty room should be the same as the org room. The Tech room is different. When you get the grey box, click private, then Enter. I'm going to go see if shorty and org are the same room.....

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From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:40 PM

No they aren't, and that is weird. But, I can't acess the auction from shorty, either. Oh well.

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From: Noreen
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 08:52 PM

NOW you believe me, Sorcha?

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From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 08:58 PM

Yes dear, NOW I believe you.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat .. was it something I said?
From: Nemesis
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 10:06 AM

3pm Thursday .. I've just looked and Mr Happy has cloned himself (or something) .. he's
in www.mudcat with Schantjieman and MMario and
in shorty.mudcat with Partridge

Or is it a virtual doppelganger .. can one person exist simultaneously at two places at the same time ..

MUDCHAT = a genuine warp in the space time continuum?

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From: Snuffy
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 05:54 PM

Parallel universes - you can't communicate with yourself

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From: Nemesis
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 06:06 PM

Oh, well that probably explains the problems I have getting through to my newly-teenage son (now he's on a different planet :)