BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 07:10 PM

Well as long as there is a piece of ground at Camp Ramblewood on which you have trodden, my happiness will be complete.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 07:06 PM

Oh, gee, Giok - I can't make it to the Getaway this year. I have a seminar in Sacramento that weekend, and a number of other commitments. I'm sorry I won't get to mee you.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 06:59 PM

I'm afraid I am coming to the Getaway so if you want to cancel now's the time to do it TW. I have to come to America to make obeisance at the altar of the great Joe Offer, sorta like my own personal Haj.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 06:55 PM

Analogies happen where you find 'em.    ;-) Some are bad I guess. Sorry.

Joe, This was meant to reflect my admiration for you.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 06:26 PM

Well, in Boy Scouts, I was called "Joe Awful." I guess it's no worse than being compared to a condom.
How'd THAT happen?
I guess I'll always remember Art Thieme as the guy who compared me to a condom. What a guy, that Art....
-Joe Rubber-

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 05:18 PM

It's OFFER, not OFFAL.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 04:54 PM

I sort of like the idea of Joe as the knotted sheep's intestine of folk music......


yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 04:35 PM

There's a Charlie in Silver Spring, MD, who IS an angel, btw.

Giok, do you come to Getaway? Or is it too far, over "the pond" and all, for you to make the trip?          Tw

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 03:42 PM

The Unwanted Overture (AKA The William Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Overture)
Slapping noises instead of cannons.
Yikes, that's bad...

Thanks Giok. I thought it might be "Clarence" but wasn't sure. "Charlie" was a distinct possibility too.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 02:31 PM

There are more posts to this thread (almost-but not quite) than were posted at my (as someone once called it) "infamous" "condom thread". That almost makes Joe, one might say, The man who did for folk music, what condoms did for sex! -------- He added a needed inhibiting factor to unwanted overtures, while only sacrificing a bit of overzealous impetuousness*----and, also, maybe as much as a third of the sensational feelings involved.

*rape? = The heat of the moment! / a.k.a. Shooting from the hip!

Love,

Art

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: gnu
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 02:11 PM

No way I will EVER have enough patience and reserve to even come close.

Big Tim... you got that right.

Thanks yet again, Joe (I know you are tired of hearing it, but, I am not tired of saying it.)

BTW, Peter T., "messes"? You must mean feasts. There certainly are a lot of satisfied 'Cats around here.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: GUEST,Guest, Big Tim
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 01:46 PM

If more people were more like Joe, the world would be a better place.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 01:46 PM

I want to be a goddess, Claudius...

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 11:26 AM

He was called Clarence, no not the cross eyed lion!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 11:17 AM

Rap, dear, calm down. Nobody meant anything bad about Michael. He's just not Joe-like. Imagine recent Mudcat events which I hope no one will feel the need to get specific about and how darned [expletive deleted] nice Joe is, even when you want him to be more like Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 11:08 AM

Hey, you guys got a problem with Michael? I happen to like Michael, 'cuz he's named after me. You don't like Michael? Wanna step outside? Know what the name "Michael" means in English? "Who is like God." That's me, Michael. Godlike.

Now, Uriel is another matter. Maybe Joe is like Uriel.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 11:03 AM

Peter, I think Michael is the Chief Angle, but didn't he kick a lot of butt? Joe's more like the angel in "It's a Wonderful Life." "Ask not for whom the bell tolls," and all that.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 10:38 AM

So, if Max is God (Max Vobiscum), Creator of the Site, Master of this Domain, Holiest of Holies, and so on; one must assume that Joe is something like Raphael, the top angel who cleans up after the messes of His Creation. (Or is Michael the top archangel, I can't remember).....

mere mortals tremble and shake......

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 09:22 AM

I'll settle for occasionally making sense, if only by accident.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 03:37 AM

Nope, it's got to be a Western Star or nothing.
G

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 12:21 AM

I've changed my mind. I don't wanna be Joe Offer and I don't wanna be a head of lettuce.

I wanna be a truck. A BIG truck. Preferably either a Kenworth or Peterbilt. Maybe a Volvo or Freightliner. Definitely not a Mack.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 12:03 AM

Ether by nature has a low flash point and is quite volatile. I am not convinced it would be possible to zap something into ether that has an even lower flash point. The very act of zapping is fraught with the potential of activating one or both of these flash points with catastrophic consequences. I think that is a good enough reason.


the ether bunny

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 10:22 PM

ROF....and I am NOT playing Spaw's game...when wil Shambles realize he is a joke???? In my lifetime????

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 09:50 PM

Dave the Gnome-
ME- volatile???

















...only when I fart.

-Joe Offer-

Did Joe Offer say that???

Yes he did but I fixed his html screw-up! Fat Clone

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 09:33 PM

And if he was British in years gone by, Art, then he would have been an Offer Tory.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: artbrooks
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 08:40 PM

Spaw, it's no fair to just cut-n-paste one of his existing diatribes...

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 08:17 PM

I still wanna be a cowboy.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Deckman
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 06:43 PM

Tannywheeler! ... thanks for your support. I was going to add more but my tongue got twisted up in my eye teeth and I couldn't see what I saying! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 06:11 PM

Deckman and DtG--as long as I'm anywhere you can be there torturing the language to your hearts' content. You can hide behind me if ANYone tries to put you out. You are toooooo much fun to let go away. Just look around for me and, if you don't see me, tell 'em I SAID you were specially invited and are MY guests.             Tw

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 05:47 PM

I tried diagramming a couple of those, but my subjunctive referential noun clause got caught in my hyper-superlative compound adjectival disjunct, and would not fit through the garage door.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 05:37 PM

Got me beat!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 05:26 PM

No JoeBro thread would be complete unless it contained a mish-mash of illogical, untrue, and grammatically incorrect, ravings of a lunatic mind known as "The Shambles." Since this is a fun thread, I decided to post a Shambles Rambles just for fun! Better still, it's also a contest!!! WIN PRIZES by finding the following things in the Shamble's posting below:

Find ONE grammatically correct sentence.
Find ONE coherent thought.
Find ONE piece of logical reasoning.
Find ONE good reason Shambles shouldn't be zapped off into the ether.

"Thread title changes are now imposed to ensure that it is clear to our forum's readers what the content of the thread may be – so a poster should have no real excuse for opening any thread with a title that may not be of interest them. And if they are still unsure – a quick scan will quickly indicate if the thread is of interest to them - or not.

Can anyone explain the apparent need now - for so many posters - to not only open a thread with a title indicating a subject that does not interest them – but to repeatedly open such threads? And not only to do this – but to post (often many times) - only to make personal judgements upon the hread and upon some of the thread's active participants?

Posters to our forum - may judge these threads and some of their active participants to be boring – repetitious – long-winded – convoluted – mentally unstable – delusional – manipulative and post only to make other equally pointless personal judgements – but could these judgements be far more positively made - by simply ignoring such threads and letting the thread die a natural death?

For to post repeatedly to a thread that does not interest you – complain about the fact that other posters are still posting to the thread and expressing a view that the thread is too long or has run its course. Or to post only some indication of frustration like AAAAAAAGGGGG – will quite logically and counter-productively for these posters - only serve to refresh and prolong the thread's active life.

In addition to displaying this lack of control over their own postings - some posters having repeatedly opened a thread that is not to their taste - seem to think that - in addition to only posting personal judgements of their fellow posters - they also have some right to control the postings of others. By instructing others to stop posting - and post requests for editing actions like deletion and closure – be imposed upon the posts of other posters - who are actively involved in posting - to address the thread's subject.

Can any one explain the logic of why any poster on our forum would wish to repeatedly open, post and refresh a thread that they state to be of no interest to them and also feel they have some right to prevent others from contributing to it?

Is this practice - and the current encouragement of the posting of only personal judgements of fellow posters by example – a really desirable example to now on our forum and if it is thought not to be – what (if anything) can be done by posters to our forum - to address it?

This is posted in the hope of a reasoned debate. However, I suspect and fear that - (always assuming that this thread is not first subject to any imposed editing action) - it will not be too long before posts containing only personal judgements will appear in this thread. I will ignore these, not respond in kind and try to debate the issue – hopefully other posters may also."


We love you Joe.......and by the way, you're the one supplying the prizes!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 05:04 PM

I guess being a head of lettuce is better than being behind lettuce.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 05:01 PM

Maybe Shambles could make him an offer he doesn't understand!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 04:49 PM

I've heard he can be very volatile.

To be like him you need to say 'Make me an Offer you can't difuse'

I'll get my coat...

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 04:27 PM

"When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer"

You can't have it both ways!

(Hi Joe)

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Deckman
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 04:13 PM

Joe ... Did I just hear you say that it's "been a long time since you didn't do nuthin!"? Or words to that effect! Bob

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 03:02 PM

When first I began reading/posting to this site there was no such a person as Joe Offer! There was only one page of postings, so some threads appeared to be about one thing ended up being about posters egos and politics and such. Now since Joe Offer arrived threads are separated into two lots, each with its own thread games, ie the same as before.

Hull,whatever that is, gets a lot of airtime.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 02:51 PM

On second thought, what's so bad about being a head of lettuce?

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Dani
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 02:31 PM

Yeah, then!

THEN he went and fell in love and got married again.

JUST in time....

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 02:30 PM

I dunno. I wouldn't call being Joe Offer one of my major goals in life. But, heck, it probably beats being a head of lettuce.

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 02:28 PM

Make me an Offer. 'Swhat his fiance said. (And the genie granted her wish.)

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 02:20 PM

Hey, it would have been a lot easier to pick up chicks when I was in the seminary.
The chicks thought I was hot stuff.
But I was a good seminarian, and didn't do nothin'.

That was a long time ago.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Deckman
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 02:16 PM

Do you guys realize who you're messing with here? With a simple flick of the button, he can erase you!!! You might almost say that he can "off" you. (O.K. I'll find my rubbers and sneak out the back door ... again)! Bob

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 01:31 PM

She offered her honor,
He honored the offer,
and all night long,
Joe Offer was 'on 'er...

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 11:41 AM

Ay carumba, Batman! I think Clinton may be right about something!

One wonders if Joe ever used THE line - you know the one I'm talkin'bout - when he was fresh out of the seminary and trying to pick up chicks. [In Joe's very best Barry White voice] "Hey, baby, I'm Joe Offer. You know, the Offer you can't refuse. Let's blow off this joint - this pew's making my butt hurt anyway - and go listen to my Peter Paul and Mary records."

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Amos
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 11:39 AM

That would really be an artful Offer I couldn't refuse, Art.

A

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 11:30 AM

What makes you think Joe has grown up?

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 10:48 AM

Growing up is optional! Anyway who said he was a grownup?
Giok [sorry Joe] ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: When I grow up I wanna be Joe Offer
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 10:34 AM

I want to be a cowboy. But I'll settle for Art Thieme (at least for music).