BS: Other Forums

Subject: BS: Other Forums
From: GUEST,Mickey 191
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 07:58 PM

Thought I'd share an experience I had on another site. For a short time I was posting on a senior forum, a strict, no nonsense place. At first I wasn't aware of the restrictions & censorship governing the place. I posted a "Favorite Author" thread, mentioning that Charles Dickens was one of my favorites. When I looked at the post it was printed as Charles Privateparts ens. I thought it was a mistake-- So I mentioned a book by Tricky Dick Nixon. It came out as Tricky Privateparts Nixon. Well this was just too funny for words. Lots of other members, newly joined, got a charge out of thinking up stuff just to get the special appellation attached. Privateparts (Cock) & Bull story, Privateparts (Dick)Tracy, etc. I wrote the form admin. that seeing the Word Dick was not going to send we seniors out in a fornicating frenzy.   

Anyone have stories from other sites, which make us all the more appreciative of Mudcat?

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Amos
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 08:06 PM

My god!! Are you talking about a forum for Senior Citizens or a forum, for senior-grade students in High School or University?

Why is it that universal parts is so confuzzling to some folks?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 08:11 PM

Charles Dickens.

if you rearrange the letters,   you get chicken salerds!

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 10:01 PM

we haven't come so far from the days when they put discreet coverings over curvey piano legs, hmmm? Indeed some offices run programs designed to keep employees from surfing for porn which do similar things.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Amos
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 10:18 PM

Bill:

I think you mean...ummm...limbs??


A

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 10:34 PM

I thought parts is parts! **bg**

*Big sigh* when will our society ever get out of the puritan stage? What happened to free love, burning our bras, and letting it all hang out!?

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 10:36 PM

Kat, by the time you get to a certain age, it hangs out whether you want it to or not...

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: GUEST,Mickey191
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 10:50 PM

Amos, Yes it was for seniors 50 & older. A few of us were comparing notes on masectomys( I was shocked that in an hour 5 of us were gathered.) and it was a rare, honest,funny time of sharing. I ended it with an innocuous Boob joke. Cute--not obscene. We all rec'd. notices that this subject was verboten. It was removed.

On another senior site a man of 95 was being made fun of for his grammar & punctuation. I & several others came to his defense. Our posts were removed with an admonishment that this was causing turmoil. On that site, one was not allowed to speak of the war, social security, Bush, high cost of meds, etc. Which leaves corn bread recipes! Run by a 21 kid--whose Daddy owned the website. This squirt was drunk with power-all this control was used because he wanted the old people to remain calm & non suicidal. Can you believe that?

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 11:10 PM

well, even though I have been designated as "senior" by the AARP and the US govt., I think I will just stick to THIS place as my 'senior site' where I am suspect if I do NOT use raunchy language...(getting to be quite a few of us, huh?)

But, folks differ, and I am sure a few at that site are glad to have such a sanitized place.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 12:35 AM

Lady calls the few surviving men at her senior center together. "First man who can guess what I'm holding in my hand, can have me ALL NIGHT LONG. Well?? How about it? Any takers?"

"Oh, I'll give it a go," sez one old fella. "Elephants!!?"

"Close enough!"

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 12:47 AM

pdc, I am finding that out!**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 05:38 AM

How old do you have to be to qualify as a Senior? In the UK, "senior citizen" has never quite caught on. We've used "pensioner" since "OAP" (Old-Age Pensioner: 60+ for women, 65+ for men) became none-pc; can't remember what came before OAP, but it was back in the 1960s, I think. If you call my mother a pensioner, you're not likely to become one yourself!

I'm only 52, but I've been drawing the pension from my previous job since I was 50 (it's just an extra couple of day's wages, so I'm not going to get fat on it); does that make me a pensioner?


Mickey191, I think youneed to find a better forum, then tell all your pals!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: RangerSteve
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 08:38 AM

I find this ri - privateparts - ulous.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 09:01 AM

reminds me of a recipe forum I visited once where the recipe I posted for grilled vegetables ended up calling for ****ake and lemongr*** among the ingredients.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Pied Piper
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 09:34 AM

Here in Britain Men in NHS old Folks homes are issued with Viagra to stop them falling out of bed at night.

TTFN
PP

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Amos
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 10:49 AM

MM-

WHat are those? Shitake and huh?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: jeffp
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 11:45 AM

I'm betting it's lemongrass.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Amos
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 11:53 AM

Oh, of course.

BTW on the issue of Other Forums, those of you who have an affinity for creatiove ideas of a technical, or social, nature might greatly enjoy the spirited discussions occasionally going on at tyhe Halfbakery (www.hal;fbakery.com) dedicated to the exchange of new possibilities in all areas and the discussion of how they would or wouldn't work. Really bright folks. Our kinda people, IMHO.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 01:05 PM

All I can say is ' Thank God for the Cat '

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 02:04 PM

There's a seaside town in England called Scunthorpe which has quite a lot of problems along these lines.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 02:56 PM

Seaside town, Kevin? You've been in Harlow too long...

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 03:10 PM

Yea the BBC website. I post (in disguise) on the Mornington Crescent message board and they don't allow web addresses but it took them a few weeks to realise I have given my surname as .com which a few astute postees spotted and surfed to me. I was only sussed when I bragged about it.

Then we have had all sorts of problems with Underground Stations but _Cockfosters & C0ckfosters get through unscathed. I even started a morse code thread (when it was killed off on SW) and that was the first thing I said in Morse. The first reply was B*ll*cks in morse -did we have a ball.

They didn't like my reference to the main trunk road in NZ having Trunk added to State Highway 1 ---- SH1(T) - but it took a week to be noticed.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 03:37 PM

In the mystery novel I am reading right now, Partner in Crime. by J. A. Vance, one of the "dicks," i.e. Special Investigators works for the fictional "Special Homicide Investigation Team" aka S.H.I.T.

The character sounds like a Mudcatter when giving the reader his take on the bureaucrats who dreamed that one up, of course, without realising the acronym.

She's a pretty funny writer. She's also got a character named Harry I. Ball! Worthy of a Mudcat Tavern thread, that one, imo!

So, do these stodgy type boards allow one to talk about balls?

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Mark Clark
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 03:44 PM

There are other forums? (Or do you say fora?)

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 03:48 PM

I just finished a detective novel where all the characters except the detective know each other mainly through an online community. It was pretty weird, how much the thing was like Mudcat.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 05:54 PM

I'm afraid we lacked the imagination that's been shown here. Never thought of tennis or volley balls.Never thought of sh-take mushrooms or a-sumption. Oh, the joy we missed! I did post this story (so help me it's true) as my farewell to such an inane forum.

My Dad's name was Richard, he was fair & redheaded.
His cousin was olive skinned with black hair, also named Richard. In Ireland, Dick was a common nickname.To distinguish between the two-Dad was Red Dick & cousin was Black Dick. It came out as Red private parts & Black private parts. Dad dropped the nickname in the Atlantic on his way here. The other fellow kept it until he was planted.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: GUEST,Mickey191
Date: 02 Oct 03 - 05:55 PM

The above is mine.

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: Mr Happy
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 10:38 AM

& then there's also that well know footy team '****nal'

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: GUEST,Mickey191
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 11:38 AM

Mr. Happy, I've had my coffee-my head is clear. However, I need clarification on your post. Thanking
you in advance. Mickey191

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 11:42 AM

arsenal?

Subject: RE: BS: Other Forums
From: AliUK
Date: 03 Oct 03 - 05:53 PM

only the greatest football team in the world