BS: Another Fire Truck Thread

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 03:04 PM

. . . but 105 jus' don't mean shit.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Peace
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 03:04 PM

104 is the post to hit.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 06:14 PM

You may have missed this editing comment as it was inserted into an existing post and did not refresh this thread.

This is post #100. Since it's a complete quote from me, do I get credit for hitting #100, or does the blame credit go to Shambles?
-Joe Offer-

I don't bother with them myself but they're fair game for other posters.
*Smiles*

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 07:24 AM

Yer right, bobad, that firehouse was built on the cheap. Just a prefab metal building, not much different from an outbuilding on a farm. After the last couple of hurricane seasons you can bet nobody'd build one like that again.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 06:59 AM

Have the post deleted then, I care not!

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 06:55 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Censorship on Mudcat
From: GUEST,Joe Offer - PM
Date: 18 Mar 05 - 11:28 AM

Well, I can't log in, either, so I don't have access to proof one way or another. Generally, the 100th/200th claims are a no-no in music threads and in many serious discussions. People have come to think of them as obnoxious. I don't know why, but that's what they think.
I don't bother with them, but they're fair game for the Clones.
-Joe Offer-

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This is post #100. Since it's a complete quote from me, do I get credit for hitting #100, or does the blame credit go to Shambles?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 06:52 AM

99 is the new 100!

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 06:44 AM

Not to be forgotten are the ever-ready Trumpton Fire Brigade, Captain Flack's gallant crew, whose roll-call can be recited by every British television viewer of a certain age: Pugh! Pugh! Barney McGrew! Cuthbert! Dibble! & Grubb! (Pugh and Pugh are twins).

This roll-call is heard in every episode (except one in which Cuthbert is omitted because he is on leave), because the Fire Brigade is continually being called out to attend some emergency or other - but to Captain Flack's annoyance, never an actual fire! (Actually the reason for this is that fire would be too difficult to animate.)

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 06:23 AM

Phew!

I mean Pugh

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 05:33 AM

Grub

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 05:31 AM

No Trumpton fans here then?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: bobad
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:30 PM

Judging from what I can see in the pix the structure doesn't look any too robust for being in a hurricane zone.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:37 PM

Hey! Wanna see the fire station where I live? Click here, here, and here. That's how it looked right after Hurrican Ivan in September of 2004. It doesn't look appreciably different today. Don't ask me where the firetrucks are being kept.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 02:24 PM

Dibble
and ........

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 02:19 PM

Cuthbert

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 12:04 PM

Barney McGrew

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 11:25 AM

Pugh
Pugh

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: bobad
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 11:24 AM

The favorite saying of our local volunteer firemen is "we haven't lost a foundation yet."

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:50 AM

We have a new fire truck in our village, but we have a couple of Dufus (sp?) fire officials--they're like little boys running around playing at firemen. They spend a lot of time polishing their chrome and brass.

How's that?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:34 AM

Ya, know, nodody's said a thing about firetrucks on this thread for, like, fifty posts or so.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Peace
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:26 AM

Try talking with him instead.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Wolfgang
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:43 AM

Shambles,

you are the expert in judging other peoples' posts, so don't ask.
I talk about you for you have proved that talking to you is completely pointless.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 05:34 PM

Wolfgang -

I have no idea what you are trying to say in your post but it appears to be you needing to say things about me in public for some reason -perhaps in the hope that some other posters may join you in this?

Which could be judged to be not very polite of you?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Wolfgang
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 03:57 PM

Shambles, didn't you just shoot yourself in the foot?

He never realises when he does. ...the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them in this thread is one more of many examples.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 10:25 AM

Thanks for posting that, Roger. I totally agree with khandu's sentiments.

A similar thing happened a few weeks ago when some moron started a thread asking for URLs of people's favorite porn sites. Several of us were having fun with it, posting links to pictures of non-pornographic stuff like sheep, vegetables and Margaret Thatcher dolls when someone pointed out that, though no links to genuine porn had been posted, the potential existed. She asked permission to request that the thread be deleted and everyone saw the logic of her argument and said "Go for it."

Sometimes we tend to be like kids playing in a sandbox and when Mom snatches us out with no explanation we get angry. If Mom would take the time to explain that someone forgot to put the lid on the sandbox and the cats have been shitting in it for weeks we'd be grateful instead.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 02:56 AM

Subject: RE: In the UK..............?
From: GUEST,khandu - PM
Date: 24 Jul 05 - 10:39 AM

I am with The Shambles on this one.

A couple of years back, I created a thread regarding a certain troll. Within moments, Pene Azul pmed me and explained that he believed this thread would probably do far more harm than good and requested permission to delete it.

Certainly, he could have deleted it without bothering to ask. But Jeff showed more class than that.

The simple act of contacting me beforehand made all the difference in the world. I told him to delete it and I felt rather good about it all.

Had he or anyone else deleted it without contact, I would have been pissed and would have posted a grumbling thread about it.

Simple decency goes a long way.

Change my thread titles? Sure, if you believe there is a good reason. But show some civility and respect to the creator of the thread by sending a simple PM.

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:16 PM

Ya' know khandu, it's been almost exactly three years since that exorcism of your Joe Offer worship.
........Might be time for another.....Or maybe one for Shambles.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 09:34 PM

Let me reassure you, BeeDub...I have offered no apologies, explanations or reassuranc...uh, no apologies or explanations. If you'd asked me a minute ago I would have hit 100%! But I am skeptical that you would have asked.

k

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 09:19 PM

Thanks for all the explanations, apologies and reassurances. I hope you'll understand if I choose to remain skeptical.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:12 PM

Why would you think that?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: John O'L
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:06 PM

Shambles, didn't you just shoot yourself in the foot?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:41 PM

The higher the building the lower the morals.

Noel Coward

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: bobad
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:37 PM

What do you get to eat, Mudcat chow?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:09 PM

Jeeeze Joe .... sounds rather bleak.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 05:08 PM

At one time Mudcat Central was a very nice office located right above a very nice tavern in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It has a round-the-clock staff and lots of niceties - and Bert and Max were there, in the flesh. we had a live Webcast from the tavern once, and they even let me sing a few songs.

Alas, the office closed and now we're in a basement, and Max opens our cages only at feeding times. He's a harsh taskmaster, he is...

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:51 PM

It's in an unromantic basement in PA.
Bert is your credit card still good at the Mudcat Hotel?
G. ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:47 PM

Yeah ... a railway station in some small outback town where the trains don't stop anymore.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:45 PM

Sounds more like a railway station to me six.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:39 PM

Mudcat Central ... sounds intriguing ... that's the first time I've heard of that. Is this some big nameless tower in downtown Manhattin, or some undground complex in the flatlands of Kansas with men in gray jumpsuits driving around in golf carts.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bert
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:35 PM

I'll second that Joe.

Whatever the case, the people responsible are Max and Jeff and Joe, and those are the people to consult if you have problems or questions.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 04:21 PM

Ah, the click that launched a thousand words....

Mountain-molehill analogies might be appropriate here also.

If you have complaints about Mudcat editorial actions, complain to me and I'll check it out. My name is prominently displayed in the FAQ as the public contact person, the one to contact about such problems - and you can also contact Jeff and Max. That's why we don't have the Clones identify their actions, to help prevent the Manipulators from playing one volunteer against another.

Bert isn't really a JoeClone because he used to be employed at Mudcat Central, and I'm pretty sure he had editing ability before I got it in 1997. So, maybe I'm a BertClone?

Whatever the case, the people responsible are Max and Jeff and Joe, and those are the people to consult if you have problems or questions.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 02:41 PM

Your divide and rule campaign is going well Roger!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bert
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:34 PM

I KNOW, I KNOW!!! I was BAD. *Grinning fiendishly*

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:26 PM

Subject: RE: In the UK..............?
From: Bert - PM
Date: 21 Jul 05 - 09:11 PM

Well said Shambles. The thread title should NEVER be changed without the consent of the originator.

*smiles*

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Peace
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:22 PM

Yeah. Well, you are upfront about it, Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bert
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:19 PM

....And they get all the shit that any member cares to fling at them...

Not true, I've always (well for the last few years at least) made changes using my own name.

I have never received any flack for it from anyone.

Why I even changed one of Shambles thread titles the other day, changing week to year. It was probably an abuse of my editing priveleges because it was done as a joke. I just couldn't resist it. But I did fess up immediately and haven't received any flack for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:58 PM

And they get all the shit that any member cares to fling at them.

Shit does not stick to shadows

Benson Spencer-Goodrich

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 12:54 PM

It is a good rule in life never to apologize.
The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:58 AM

And they get all the shit that any member cares to fling at them. I bet you wouldn't like to deal with Joe Offer's PMs etc, from members complaining about this that and the other. I know that when I was at Max's he had a very long list of PMs, apparently a regular occurence.
I certainly wouldn't like to have someone with the persistence of The Shambles PMing or e-mailing me with their complaints for 7 years!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:34 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Another Fire Truck Thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:14 PM

I also would like to see an explanation of why the other thread was closed. And I would like to see said explanation posted under the actual member's name instead of some anonymous "Joe Clone" handle. But I don't know why I'm bothering with this post. We'll get a signed explanation when pigs fly.


As we can see from the post by "Guilty Party" above, pigs still don't fly. I, personally, find sincerity and anonymity to be somewhat contradictory concepts.


Rhetorical question:

If forum moderator anonymity is such a great idea, why is this the only discussion forum I can recall visiting where the names of the moderators aren't prominently listed right on the opening page?