BS: Guess who?

Subject: BS: Guess who?
From: kendall
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:14 AM

This from the book HEAVENS TO BETSY; a collection of well known sayings.

To Harp On One String.

To repeat one thing endlessly, to dwell on one theme at great length.
To tell the same tale over and over again.
If a harpist were to play her instrument upon one note, the monotony would drive her nuts if some unwilling lestener had not already killed her.

Sound like anyone we know?

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:17 AM

Many people.
Many, many people.
Many, many, many people.
Many, many, many, many people.
Many, many, many, many, many people.
Many, many, many, many, many, many people...

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:23 AM

Sounds like Poor Johnny One Note, Kendall.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:31 AM

Sounds like a personal attack thread, to me.

:~(

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:32 AM

Yeah, you'ze a bully, Kendall!

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:34 AM

He isn't, usually.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:40 AM

We all have our limits, Susan. Me too... but I'm just kidding Kendall.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:41 AM

What's up kendall. Not enough conflict for you now mg has gone? Sad.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 May 06 - 11:04 AM

That's another thing this site seems to have lost a lot of. People with a sense of humour!
A personal attack would mention someone by name, otherwise it would be called something else!!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 May 06 - 11:45 AM

I think the "who" is quite obvious whether named or not, and that Max seemed to think the rest of us could quit poking trouble with a stick, ourselves.

Can't we just let things settle down?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: kendall
Date: 14 May 06 - 12:04 PM

If I were to attack someone I would be much less subtle about it.
I never cared much for humorless people with thin skins.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 12:08 PM

Sound like anyone we know?

Pardon us for being so thick then. So what did you mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 May 06 - 12:20 PM

Well it sounds like several people I know, and a couple of them post under the name of Guest!
Ring any bells?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Hawker
Date: 14 May 06 - 12:22 PM

Im thick skinned Kendall and I CAN harp on one string, having a harp at my disposal......... it is the easiest tune to play. Occasionally though I enjoy more of a challenge!
Sounds like a lot of people I know - not necessarily on the 'cat - my father in law for one.
Thank you for the definition - remember folks, he copied it out of a book, it was not his opinion - he just asked a simple question.......and me being simple, I answered it, I did!
Anybody want my onestringed father in law?
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 12:31 PM

ah poor old giok is having withdrawal symptons from his shamble bashing. LOL.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Megan L
Date: 14 May 06 - 01:12 PM

Ach weel as me auld mither used tae say "if the caps fur fittin ye hid best wear it" :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 May 06 - 01:19 PM

Well said, Kendall. Those who would jump in and correct everyone else are as annoying as those who start the arguments in the first place.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 01:21 PM

pot kettle kettle pot?

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Bert
Date: 14 May 06 - 02:08 PM

I'm with Susan on this one. Sounds like a troll thread to me.

"Can't we just let things settle down?"

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 May 06 - 02:58 PM

From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 01:21 PM

pot kettle kettle pot?

Another coward Guest speaks.

[yawn]

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 May 06 - 03:05 PM

PM] kendall BS: Is closing threads censorship? (256* d) RE: BS: Is closing threads censorship? 03 May 06

"The more you stir a turd, the more it smells".
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[PM] kendall BS: Attitude problem? (72* d) RE: BS: Attitude problem? 28 Apr 06

On a dead man's door, you can knock forever. But, I repeat myself, sorry.
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[PM] kendall BS: Attitude problem? (72* d) RE: BS: Attitude problem? 26 Apr 06

After 7 years of swimming upstream, I'd examine my stand and adjust.
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[PM] kendall BS: Do we need to curb the troublemakers? (169* d) RE:
BS: Do we need to curb the troublemakers? 17 Apr 06

Definition of insanity:
Performing the same task over and over the same way hoping for a different outcome
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[PM] kendall BS: Non posting of judgements week. (506* d) RE: BS: Non posting of judgements week. 03 Apr 06

On a dead man's door you can knock forever
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PM] kendall BS: Non posting of judgements week. (506* d) RE: BS: Non posting of judgements week. 02 Apr 06

Yawn
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[PM] kendall BS: Non posting of judgements week. (506* d) RE: BS: Non posting of judgements week. 29 Mar 06

Yes, Jeri, "On a dead man's door you can knock forever."

Nuff said.
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[PM] kendall BS: Responses to bullying (146* d) RE: BS: Responses to bullying 25 Feb 06

Yawn
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LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 May 06 - 04:12 PM

Consistency is much under-rated virtue Roger.
G ☻

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: kendall
Date: 14 May 06 - 04:26 PM

Here's another one for you Roger,

If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, only the one it hits will yelp.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 May 06 - 05:10 PM

[PM] kendall BS: Responses to bullying (146* d) RE: BS: Responses to bullying 25 Feb 06

Yawn

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 May 06 - 06:30 PM

[PM] kendall BS: Responses to bullying (146* d) RE: BS: Responses to bullying 25 Feb 06

Old Jewish proverb: "If a man calls you an ass, ignore him. If TWO men call you an ass, buy a saddle."
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[PM] kendall BS: Non posting of judgements week. (506* d) RE: BS: Non posting of judgements week. 27 Mar 06

Roger, I will respond this way, and for the last time, because you just don't get it.
Old Jewish saying, "If a man calls you an ass, ignore him. If TWO men call you an ass, get a saddle." Over and out.
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Can you say it again - how many men, how many asses and how many saddles is that now?

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 May 06 - 09:57 AM

I think that for you to accuse someone else of repetitive postings is about the most absurd thing you could do Roger.
Considering you have been repeating yourself for the last several years!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: kendall
Date: 15 May 06 - 10:31 AM

I tend to repeat a pithy sayings, Roger repeats long winded, convoluted ramblings year after year and he thinks it's the same thing?

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Amos
Date: 15 May 06 - 10:43 AM

Not only redundant, convoluted and long-winded but also repetitive, repetitious and echoic, windy with pleonastic recapitulations, and prolix with iterative , tautological, verbose and platitudinous redundancy!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 May 06 - 10:51 AM

Consistency is much under-rated virtue Roger.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Amos
Date: 15 May 06 - 10:56 AM

That's why I always wear my pith helmet when visiting Kendall. He's not someone you want to see pithed off. Especially, you don't want him taking the pith on ye.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 May 06 - 11:18 AM

I tend to repeat a pithy sayings, Roger repeats long winded, convoluted ramblings year after year and he thinks it's the same thing?

I am a truly terrible person I know and really do deserved to be made our forum's scape goat and be bullied. But I do not however start threads about my fellow posters, or hold public conversations about them and I try very hard not to post any personal judgements about them or respond in kind to the many I am subjected to.

But if things don't get better - they tend to get worse and if a suggestion was once the solution - it probably always will be....

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: freda underhill
Date: 15 May 06 - 12:17 PM

To Harp On One String.

"To repeat one thing endlessly, to dwell on one theme at great length. To tell the same tale over and over again.
If a harpist were to play her instrument upon one note, the monotony would drive her nuts if some unwilling lestener had not already killed her."

That comment does not attack any person - but it does point out some behaviour which drenches this site.

I started a thread recently on the need to win. Again, it wasn't targeted at a particular person - there were a few of us being highly focussed about winning arguments, to the point of making negative comments about other catters.

In an open forum, destructive behaviour, whether its obsessive repetition, victimhood or nagging, effects the site. Comments on behaviour, ideas, methods of communication are constructive - anyone can think about.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 May 06 - 12:34 PM

Sound like anyone we know?

Our forum has become been encouraged to become obsessed with making personal judgements of each other or of ganging-up to make judgments of certain easy targets (bullying).

All this is pointless and counter-productive as all that ever matters is what we say.

If how it is said by others is thought a problem - then learn to live with it, ingore it or post elsewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 May 06 - 12:42 PM

Fer gawds sake someone buy a D strings - even a humble drummer like me would attempt to tune it fer yer. Can't gaurantee it would harmonise with the existing one.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: kendall
Date: 15 May 06 - 01:07 PM

Maybe I should have posted as Guest.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 15 May 06 - 01:13 PM

Dammit Kendall! Now look what you've started! *G*

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 06 - 01:14 PM

Why? I don't see any starting inflamatory threads. Another bug bear you want to air?

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Amos
Date: 15 May 06 - 01:35 PM

NAw, he's just feeling pithy.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 May 06 - 02:29 PM

Tis a pithy he's ashore!
by
John Ford 1633

G.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Bert
Date: 15 May 06 - 04:14 PM

OK, enough already, the troll worked and you caught enough people.

Now can we let this die gracefully?

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: kendall
Date: 15 May 06 - 09:39 PM

Troll? Me?
Hell, I thought I was simply commenting on the obvious.

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 May 06 - 01:07 AM

Kendall,

Pleasth don't take the pith out of me...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 May 06 - 01:08 AM

I'd be cut to the quick...

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 May 06 - 03:59 AM

( This is Autolycos posting from work hence we get Guest)


   I thought everyone ought to know that the composer Peter Cornelius wrote a song early in the 19th century using only one note.


   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: JennyO
Date: 16 May 06 - 11:54 AM

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Den
Date: 16 May 06 - 12:46 PM

Father Ted and Dougall did it too with the fabulous, "My lovely horse."

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 May 06 - 06:24 PM

Kendall, are you taking about poor Johnny One-Note and how he did the One-Note Samba?
-Joe Clueless-

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 May 06 - 09:21 AM

Shouldn't it be Guess whom?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 May 06 - 09:28 AM

Ivor

Of course Mr Cage cleverly managed to create a piano piece that lasted for a couple of minutes in live performance, without using ANY musical notes at all...

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 May 06 - 09:37 AM

Ya, know, kendall you were right, some people seem to be able to spout away on the Mudcat for ages without saying anything at all either!

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 06 - 10:46 AM

Froim Autolycos,


   Should I jump in and correct you Foolestroupe? No,no,no,no,no.


   Almost nobody corrects anybody apart from ........um......

   I suddenly like the idea of not correcting anybody for the next wee while. Good for the soul.


   Oh, back to work. Byeeeeeeeeeeee.



    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Guess who?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 06 - 10:54 AM

Easy guess . . . .