Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks
From: Bill D
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17 Oct 00 - 08:09 PM (#321351) Subject: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: bbelle HOW TO ANNOY FOLKS Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage." Specify that your drive-through order is "to go." Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up." Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think." Practice making fax and modem noises. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc." them to your boss. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy." Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way." Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now." As much as possible: skip rather than walk. Ask people what gender they are. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down. Sing along at the opera. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles." Send this list to everyone in your email address book even if they sent it to you or ask you not to send things like this. |
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17 Oct 00 - 08:27 PM (#321363) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,Betty Or, simply start a thread like this one. |
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17 Oct 00 - 08:41 PM (#321375) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: bigchuck Gee, Moon, this seems awfully familiar...almost like i'd seen it before. :>) |
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17 Oct 00 - 08:46 PM (#321377) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Play a loud instrument a half beat behind everyone else. Go to concerts and tell everybody how great the performers used to be before this, that or the other happened. Send vegemite to overly flatulent individuals on the other end of the planet. Insist that your particular instrument is the last word in whatever. ie; ________isn't worth seeing without________. ______would be better if they had a __________player (Fill in the blanks with your own examples) All I could think of for now. Rich |
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17 Oct 00 - 08:47 PM (#321378) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,Joerg *BG*, Jenny. :-D Joerg |
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17 Oct 00 - 08:59 PM (#321390) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Art Thieme Say in as many Mudcat threads as possible that ALL goddam songs are folksongs ! Art Thieme |
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17 Oct 00 - 09:15 PM (#321403) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: MK Start a thread called: HELP:Need To Learn Jazz Piano This Weekend (*BG*) |
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17 Oct 00 - 09:18 PM (#321408) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: bbelle Hey, Guest, Betty ... So why did you stop in? I couldn't have marked it any more clearly. Get with the program or don't let the door hit you in the arse on your way out. To the rest ... good 'uns, all. moonjen |
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17 Oct 00 - 09:23 PM (#321414) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Start a thread on the definition of folk music. Rich |
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17 Oct 00 - 09:40 PM (#321425) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Art Thieme creep this thread into a definition of folksongs thread. Art |
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17 Oct 00 - 09:46 PM (#321432) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: ddw Flame anybody who starts a thread you don't like. david |
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17 Oct 00 - 10:51 PM (#321472) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D start a post that you don't fin |
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17 Oct 00 - 10:58 PM (#321475) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: MK Sing or play : Doh, Ray, Mee, Fah, So, Lah, Ti.................and run away! |
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17 Oct 00 - 11:01 PM (#321479) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Matt_R Mention the "O" word around here. |
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17 Oct 00 - 11:52 PM (#321512) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: bbelle Now, now, Matt ... the word "O" could signify different things to different folks, i.e., "The Story of O" ... moonjen hauling her naughty self to bed |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:01 AM (#321540) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Helen Rich, am I ever going to be forgiven for sending Vegemite to a fartulous individual? Oh, woe is me! O me miserum! Mea culpa, mea culpa. (ha ha, I don't get any adverse effects from way over the Pacific Ocean) *grin* Helen |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:47 AM (#321571) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Start laughing loudly at a wedding service just when the minister says "and if anyone here knows just reason why these two should not be wed, let them speak now or forever hold their peace" (works every time mates) My wife always says "I cant take you anywhere twice" (well she does, but the second time is only to appologise)Aye. Dave |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:55 AM (#321575) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: rabbitrunning Sing "This is the song that never ends" or "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves" under your breath all day and claim that someone else got you started when people complain. Whenever you're leading a bunch of singers, sing really really fast... |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:40 AM (#321586) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: wysiwyg 1. Love is all it usually takes to make people trot out their worst uglinesses for a viewing. Not sure this is true annoyance but it usually looks much like it. 2. Loving them persistently, once they have done that which is indicated in #1, usually increases the apparent annoyance factor astronomically. (I don't mean those sloppy fuzzy feelings we call love, either, I mean LOVE IN ACTION.) 3. And use the J-word once too often, of course remembering that [too often] varies moment to moment, group to group, subject to subject, and place to place and depending on the phase of some planet somewhere. Thus one need not work overhard on this, and one use can be far more than is needed to accomplish one's annoyance goal. 4. [Insert verb of choice here] like you MIGHT use the J-word, or like you once did, or like someone else who once did. 5. Use the politically unpopular expression of the day that was JUST THE THING yesterday. 6. Stick around the Mudcat long enough that one person finds your stay too damn long and organizes a posse to root you (and your ilk) the hell out. 7. Act uncharacteristically acerbic when sweet goo is expected, or the reverse, especially flipping back and forth between them. I find this method most natural personally and when annoyance is my goal I employ it almost effectively. Genuine but unwanted apologies are a related strategy. 8. Try NOT to annoy, which is very annoying to annoyed people in general. 9. When all else fails, commit the grave sin of using someone's favorite word all wrong (according to them, and done seemingly on purpose), misspelling it if possible. 10. To really annoy FOLKS, do any of these in a song. ~S~ |
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18 Oct 00 - 03:39 AM (#321599) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Patrish(inactive) When making love, be sure and let your partner know your enjoyment, every now and then laugh out loud
Allow your dog to show his love for your friends by letting him roger their knees |
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18 Oct 00 - 04:21 AM (#321616) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Catrin Take a bodrhan to a sing around. Stand just behind someone who is singing an unnacompained song and sing a different version, louder! Start a thread called 'all mudcatters are dimwits, without posting a message'
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18 Oct 00 - 05:21 AM (#321631) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Lena I know partners who would get up and walk out if you laugh while making love. |
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18 Oct 00 - 08:26 AM (#321677) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Jeri The #1 thing to do to annoy others is to not get annoyed. People intentionally try to jerk your chain, and others are really into being offended or angry while you sit there smiling obliviously. Drives 'em nuts. |
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18 Oct 00 - 08:51 AM (#321693) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bernard Be me. |
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18 Oct 00 - 08:55 AM (#321695) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Giac Say once too often, "Let me tell you about this really cool thing that was on Mudcat today ... ." Then tell them, complete with hand gestures, about a post that makes no sense unless one had read the whole thread and several others that lead into it. Guaranteed to elicit a response such as, "Uh, I just remembered, I have to schedule a root canal."
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18 Oct 00 - 09:41 AM (#321725) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Marion Use expressions like "the O word" or "the J word" without explaining them.
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18 Oct 00 - 09:56 AM (#321736) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: wysiwyg Marion, maybe I'm just not up to being raked over the coals one more time today for using the J-word. I guess I'd rather annoy, if I am going to anyway, this one time, by using the euphemism instead. Have a good day. ~S~ |
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18 Oct 00 - 09:58 AM (#321737) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Kim C Do like Dieter on the old Sprockets (from Satruday Night Live, the last time it was good) and say in a serious German accent, "your conversation has become tiresome," when a co-worker comes over to your cube and starts talking about stuff that you really don't give a sh*t about. I almost did this the other day. |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:02 AM (#321784) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: LR Mole Pretend you're Doc Savage and do a lot of eerie trilling that no one can identify the source of. |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:23 AM (#321806) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,Hardy Hahr ***Use logic in Irish Tribal Trouble threads. ***reply to the initial poster here with humor, or God forbid, mild disagreement. ***Make the claim that Dylan didn't 'steal' tunes, he merely 'borrowed' them. H.H. |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:36 AM (#321812) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: bbelle Well, GUEST,Hardy Hahr ... since I'm the initial poster and a member and you're the guest with an alias ... enough said. Oh, and if that was a flame, you gotta get more creative. Flames no longer bother me, but to make me LOL, I expect them to be both original AND creative, which may be a stretch for you. BTW ... you don't annoy me, you are an "annoyance," sort of like a fly. moonjen |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:02 PM (#321835) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Ask Art Thieme to define "goddam song". :-) Matt - the "O" word??? Dave - brilliant wedding suggestion...a major coughing fit is pretty cool for that too! Here are some more ways to really annoy people: 1. Drive around town after a wedding in a long line of cars, all honking their bloody horns endlessly. 2. When above group of horn honkers passes, hold up a huge sign advertising the number of a cheap divorce service in case it doesn't work out! 3. Throw a pie in your chief executive's face as he mingles with the public, as was done recently to Canada's PM, Jean Chretien (WHO??? ask all the Americans...). This will actually annoy a few...and delight many, I can assure you. 4. Assert on ANY Mudcat thread that Nazis/Custer/Confederate soldiers/Communists/and/or/any-other-presently-hated-and-conveniently-demonized-group-of-people-from-any-particular-historical-episode...might actually sometimes have been human...despite their obvious errors in judgement or moral conduct. 5. Have the outright temerity and nerve to be yourself at all times, even if people don't get it. 6. Apologize when they would rather you didn't, cos it's more fun for them to stay good and mad at you. 7. Or don't...either way works great. 8. Be Bernard. :-) Oh...and Dylan didn't steal tunes, he simply improved upon them, IMNSHO. :-D - LH
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18 Oct 00 - 12:16 PM (#321843) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Wolfgang The "O" word? Oasis, a group often mentioned approvingly by the poster formerly known as Mbo. Wolfgang |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:17 PM (#321844) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Micca State or overtly (or covertly) imply that your belief system/religion/god/godess, is THE only "one true" belief and "the only moral code" that has any validity... and therefore is "superor" to all others. Well, it works for me... |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:21 PM (#321845) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: SINSULL Remind everyone across the US and Canada that New York City is having a SUBWAY SERIES! A twice in a lifetime event! And you're all losers!!!! "O" = Oasis "J" = Jesus |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:30 PM (#321853) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk OASIS!!!!! So there. |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:30 PM (#321854) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D you know, Little Hawk,.. "J"...he walked on water, sort of like "D"...;>)) |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:32 PM (#321856) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: mousethief Start a mudcat thread about how other mudcatters don't use the thread title field properly, or talk about too many non-traditional-musical topics. Make "feminist" jokes. Give your real, honest opinion on something you disagree with the vast majority of mudcatters on, rather than pretend to agree with them. Go into a thread about some topic and argue strenuously about how you have a right to post to that thread your disagreement with and/or disbelief in that topic. Make serious posts in a lighthearted thread. Make lighthearted posts in a serious thread. Like music that is not "traditional" according to the opinion of one anal-retentive mudcatter or another. Go to a baptist (or other teatotalling) church and comment on how your buddy Jim here showed such hospitality having you over for a beer last weekend. Answer everything people say with, "No, not really."
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18 Oct 00 - 12:40 PM (#321865) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Yeah! Right on, Bill D! :-) Here's are more ways to really annoy people... 1. Refuse to post to the thread they so hopefully launched. 2. Or do post, and go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on....without any paragraph breaks...and on, and on... (I, of course, would never have the bad taste and thoughtlessness to do that...I put paragraph breaks in all my stuff now) 3. Use irony. It annoys the literal-minded terribly. Ditto for sarcasm. 4. Be crass and insensitive, with no provocation whatsover. GUEST is great for that. 5. Laugh at a very serious point someone has just made. 6. Say "I have just one thing to say about that..." and then go on for 5 pages about it. 7. Keep putting the acronym IMHO in everything you write, when everyone knows that your damned opinion is anything but humble...that's why I prefer to put IMNSHO. |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:43 PM (#321869) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: SINSULL Revive the "Killing the Thread" thread. |
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18 Oct 00 - 12:47 PM (#321873) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Please, God, not that. |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:02 PM (#321885) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: harpgirl Play a tune in any time, and, trot your foot randomly in no rhythm at all. |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:08 PM (#321888) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bert Harpgirl, That's IMPOSSIBLE! |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:39 PM (#321923) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Jim Krause Bert, no it ain't. I've seen it done. Didn't know whether to laugh out loud, or cry. Soddy |
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18 Oct 00 - 01:58 PM (#321942) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Jim Dixon 1. Start a thread with a title that makes no sense. 2. Post a long rambling message that never gets to the point, or doesn't have one. 3. Make lots of vague references to other messages in other threads without identifying the threads or explaining what they were about. 4. Make lots of references to personal messages you have sent to other people, or received from them, or intend to send them, or want them to send you. 5. Drop lots of hints that you have a lot of grievances against other Mudcatters but that you're too polite to say who they are or what the grievances are about. 6. Drop lots of hints that a lot of other Mudcatters are close personal friends of yours who would defend you to the death, and since THEY understand you, you can't help it if no one else does. 7. Keep accusing other people of violating various etiquette rules, and keep inventing new rules to stay ahead of them. 8. Turn every difference of opinion into a personal attack, and make sure YOU are seen as the victim of that attack. 9. If anyone criticizes you for any reason, insist that the REAL reason they criticized you is because they're prejudiced against you because you --- (fill in your favorite reason for being a martyr here). 10. Imply that, since you have been a Mudcatter since before dirt was invented, you can't help it if you understand everything better than everyone else does, or ever will. 11. Don't show a sense of humor about any of this. |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:00 PM (#321946) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: SINSULL Not for the rhythm impaired, Bert. I had hoped you would be a little more sympathetic. Can't waltz due to the same impairment. |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:12 PM (#321958) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Geoff the Duck The late English Punk Philisopher Sid Snot, on the Kenny Everett Show once said "Playing loud music in your garden can annoy your neighbours, - and another good one is to set fire to their cat!" 'nuff said! |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:43 PM (#321989) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Tikcle some akk!...one while theme,.re try9ing to pooo9st to Mudcat!!11! Stop that, yoo..I mean it now, stop! |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:48 PM (#321993) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,kendall that was me Bert. Believe me, I have a cousin who does it all the time. I cant stand to look at his feet! He has NO sense of rhythm at all. (He has 8 kids to prove it) |
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18 Oct 00 - 02:51 PM (#321995) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: hesperis Little Hawk - wrestling with your reflection again, are you? |
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18 Oct 00 - 03:54 PM (#322052) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Jeri If you don't like the way a certain group operates, attempt to convince them they're wrong, you're right, and they must all change. Every last one of 'em. This probably won't annoy the group members as much as it will frustrate you for as long as you keep trying. |
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18 Oct 00 - 09:36 PM (#322334) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Helen, The Vegemite Incident (as it shall ever be called) seems to be one of the only things that's safe to joke about as of late without somebody getting annoyed. It certainly wasn't intended as an attack, but just in case ti was taken as such, let me put in my nomination that you be the Snog Of The Week recipient next week. And here's a big hug until then (((((((((((((((((((((((((((HUG!!!!!!)))))))))))))))))))))))) Rich |
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18 Oct 00 - 10:46 PM (#322375) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D
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18 Oct 00 - 10:51 PM (#322379) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: sophocleese How did you do that Bill? That's nifty. |
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18 Oct 00 - 10:54 PM (#322383) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D blue smoke and mirrors |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:00 PM (#322387) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: doodlezak nice, bill d. i admit i went for the russian-english translator.--doodlezak |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:08 PM (#322396) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Okay, there are certain words that really annoy certain people...like "solipsism", for instance. I recommend that we all get together and establish some really SOLID Mudcat rules and get those words either banned outright, or make people print them backwards, so as not to annoy anyone in future. With any luck we could get Congress to pass legislation on this eventually, and clean up language everywhere in the good ol' USA. The word "tit", for instance is very offensive. It offends me every time I see it. I demand that everyone spell it backwards from now on...or stop using it altogether! |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:14 PM (#322403) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: hesperis LH, there are birds in England called 'tits'. Blue Tit and Lesser Tit, I believe. Our UK people can probably tell us more about that........ "Tit" is not an inherently offensive word. It's just the way it is used by certain narrow-minded individuals that is the problem. Just like any other word. "Fuck" for example. |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:18 PM (#322406) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: catspaw49 Don't want to interupt here folks.........Just making a few notes for future reference................go right ahead...................... ..........and what the fuck is your fuckin' problem hesp? Spaw |
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18 Oct 00 - 11:18 PM (#322407) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D Little Hawk...if I wasn't heading for bed, I'd do it upside down just to torment you..*grin* (I really lied before-I have tame aliens who fix it for me!) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke |
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19 Oct 00 - 12:51 AM (#322461) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing RANT - Take a joke about someone's bodiily functions and run it into the ground, so that eventually every thread has references which make this seem like a site for repressed teens, getting away from mom and dad for the first time and using all of the "no-no" words and tasteless humour they can think of. In other words, lay off of Spaw, already!/RANT BillD, that is one of the best quotes I've ever read, really like that, shoulda been on the Unexplained thread. |
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19 Oct 00 - 12:59 AM (#322464) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: bbelle Thank you, kat. jenny |
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19 Oct 00 - 01:26 AM (#322474) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Sorcha You guys is all nutso. I liked the original post,but why does silliness always have to degenerate into nastiness? Silliness is sometimes just silliness, with no (Freudian) overtones........... |
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19 Oct 00 - 01:46 AM (#322480) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Lonesome EJ Paraphrase a previous post with only minor variations,add "I'm surprised no one has said this yet!",then PM several of your pals to post messages praising your intelligence,insight,and creativity. Walk around work with your tie thrown over your shoulder.When someone mentions it,tell them you flew to the office in a biplane. Walk around with your pants unzipped.If someone mentions it,tell them you just got your underwear out of the drier and are cooling them off. When you are in an ethnic restaurant,for example Chinese,order loudly using a Chinese accent.Insist that all of your tablemates also use a chinese accent, to make the experience more "authentic". |
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19 Oct 00 - 12:34 PM (#322574) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Amergin Kat, you mean this is not a site for repressed teens? Damn, I guess, I'll have to find another site then... Amergin |
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19 Oct 00 - 01:20 PM (#322608) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Grab Damn Bill, I was trying to copy that so I could find what font you'd used, and I was well puzzled by why it wouldn't select the characters... :-) 1) Say you work for Microsoft. 2) If someone you know really does work for Microsoft, start with the "Here's a Bill Gates joke I bet you haven't heard." 3) Submit the same post more than once. 4) Submit the same post more than once. 5) Submit the (you get the idea) Grab. |
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19 Oct 00 - 01:41 PM (#322619) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Mention Bob Dylan in every thread you can, no matter whether there is any good reason for it or not. Actually, I can always come up with a good reason to mention Bob Dylan, but that's just me, of course... Throw in a quote from a Dylan lyric to further illustrate whatever point you are making. Add an obscure anecdote about Dylan which nobody except a total Bobaholic would know about, or even CARE about. My God, there are a lot of philistines out there... "You've got a lotta nerve, to say you are my friend..." Hesperis - taking me seriously, eh? Cool! If you do happen to use the word "tit" I will assume that you are referring to the bird, not the bodily attachment. Actually, I would have assumed that in any case, but it was good of you to point it out. We can't be too careful in our continuing struggle to provide totally non-annoying and inoffensive material to the masses on Mudcat. Please note that I did spell "tit" backwards in this posting, so that no one need be offended. I vote that we also spell "Spaw" backwards from now on, which is "Waps". Neat, eh? Kat - I'm willing to stop making fart jokes about Spaw if the rest of you are...but is HE willing to? Bill D - Actually, EVERYTHING is indistinguishable from magic. It's all magic. Or it isn't. Whatever turns you on. |
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19 Oct 00 - 01:54 PM (#322631) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D Grab...the font is called "Dabbington"...it comes that way , but knowing that no one would have it installed, I had to do a couple of 'extra' things...(like sort of bending one of Max's posting rules...don't tell him *wink*) |
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19 Oct 00 - 02:22 PM (#322656) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Now, Bill, don't go ignoring my post just because it's too long... |
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19 Oct 00 - 02:34 PM (#322669) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D ignore?...what, ME ignore?Nawwwwww...I merely failed to RESPOND... ok, here you go..... it follows that "Bob Dylan is indistinguishable from magic", which means I oughta be able to buy a book showing how they DID him. (now...off to the Getaway tomorrow...not sure if I can continute this witty repartee' until Tuesday or so,,,but maybe NOT doing so will reduce annoyment for some) |
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19 Oct 00 - 02:45 PM (#322678) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: wildlone você pode usar um programa da tradução escrever suas mensagens e para fazê-lo parecer você seja clever.But somente àqueles que o dont compreende
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19 Oct 00 - 03:29 PM (#322717) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing It doesn't have to be an all or nothing, LH, just not in every damn mention of him. And, no, Spaw backwards is not neat. Don't be messing with our Spaw, ya hear?!! One more for the general list: make every posting long and write it in know-it-all rhetoric, esp. make it sound as though no one else could possibly know as much or more than you. BillD, whadja do pass the "ole curmudgeon" stick to me? I guess I'll continue on in your absence, unless they throw me out! katlaughinginacurmudgeonlyway |
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19 Oct 00 - 03:51 PM (#322739) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Tinker Just smile and shake your head in amusement at random times... no reason needed... and insist that there's no reason... really.. Tinker |
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19 Oct 00 - 04:22 PM (#322781) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Irish Rover I find being myself, and stating my thoughts and positions is usally enough to piss of the general population. however I'm still here! |
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19 Oct 00 - 07:10 PM (#322903) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D reminds me of one of the best lines I ever heard...a guy I knew in high school once looked at me and said,"I'm probably the only one at North High that more people don't like than don't know!" he DID have his ways of annoying people....like sitting in algebra class with his book closed, looking bored...and when the teacher would call on him, just look up, give the correct answer, and go back to being seemingly inattentive...I know it drove ME crazy.... |
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20 Oct 00 - 12:00 AM (#323146) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Troll Stand at the ATM yelling "I WON! I WON! Third time this week!" troll |
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20 Oct 00 - 12:29 AM (#323161) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: catspaw49 Oh gawd troll....That's GREAT!!! If they don't find me weird enough in this town, you can bet this will put them over the edge. Tomorrow for sure!!!! Had a friend who would pull through McDonald's in the old days when you could hear the customer over a speaker inside instead of the headsets they wear now. Jim would wait for the kid to come on and ask for the order and then say, "Hello......HELLO.......HELLO" and of course the kid would keep asking for the order. After about 3 or 4 of these non-exchanges, Jim would add, HELLO......HELLO.....HELLO????????..........Aw shit, these fuckin' things NEVER work!!!"..............and drive off. Spaw |
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20 Oct 00 - 12:34 AM (#323165) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Lonesome EJ "One more for the general list: make every posting long and write it in know-it-all rhetoric, esp. make it sound as though no one else could possibly know as much or more than you"...Katlaughing But oh how easy it is to simply scoff at the so-called know-it-all,who in fact may not actually know it all,but may merely be seeking to explain to himself that which he may indeed not know,but merely suspect. And after all,is not all alleged knowledge suspect? Is not knowledge,when kept hidden from healthy questioning suspicion,nothing more than blind,accepting ignorance? I hope that you might,Katlaughing,be able to grasp the brilliance of this statement,which seems so obvious to Your Humble Servant LEJ PS..That sorta along the lines of what you were talking about Kat?
PSS...Oh,another suggestion for annoying people.Show off your limited knowledge of HTML by scattering little HTML effects throughout your |
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20 Oct 00 - 12:38 AM (#323169) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: catspaw49 You're on a roll this week Leej..........Can you send me a new keyboard? I can get the mess off the screen, but the keyboard may be a goner real soon. Spaw |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:41 AM (#323193) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing OH! My LeeJ! Yes, indeed, darlin', THAT is exactly what I was getting at, but then of course you would know that IF you had the same references that I have, being the annotated text of the Sacred Fertility Rites from the Temple of Teksab, which is supported by the subtext of the Yhtapmys, so important to the timeline of what I was referring to in Thread #2397?88794&--707779. Of course, you wouldn't know about the Ancient Mother Mysteries of the Seventh and Thirteenth Houses of the MatreMonious Chapter of the Most Wholly-Owned Subsidiarary of the Humble Order of the Reconstituted Virgins, either, which knowledge I am not at liberty to divulge having taken the Sacred and UnDying Oath of Allegiance to the United Order Vulvania Amazonia, especiallly to those of the Dangly Bits, upon pain of losing my newly acquired virginity, which one works all of their life to regain if one wants to serve in the Higher Realms of Possibilies concerning the Absolutes of the Unexplained, for which I can reveal no explanation, neither for why we want to reconstitute our Hi!Mens nor what the Unexplained really is all about, but I'll give you a hint: it ain't about the Hokey Pokey! kattheerudite
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20 Oct 00 - 08:44 AM (#323300) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Bill D kat....why, if I didn't understand a bit of that, do I feel all tingly and flushed? (you didn't have some of that there subliminable stuff in there, did you?) |
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20 Oct 00 - 10:21 AM (#323308) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing My Dear Mr. BillDee, There are those rare times, when one of the Dangly Bits reaches a certain stage of advanced age, when in the consistent company of even one of the UOVA, that they might gain a slight knowledge of the Rites, although, most greivously do I report they are never quite able to reach the Higher Realms as it would take a miracle to reconsititute a rent asunder beFORE epidermal over a Dangly Bit, thus, they remain forever non-virginal, unable to partake in any of those ceremonies of the Inner Circle of Possibilities, Applications, and Decreed Activities. As to your question regarding any mind-altering techniques of the Realms: what is in your mind, is that which was placed there by those of you who know who you are and noone, not even they, nor those, can tell you exactly what it is that you believe has been used upon you, nor placed therein, except of course that part of yourself which is all-knowing, which is a smaller portion of the greater InSight of us all. In the sincerest wish that this has been, in some small measure, worthy of your attention and has shed even a glimmer of Light upon your world, I am maniacal giggle most humbly yours, katonarollwithoutthemayo! |
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20 Oct 00 - 10:45 AM (#323309) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: catspaw49 Well, I did it! I waited til there were a few people around who would notice and I acted really happy and hopped out with my money in hand and a big smile. One lady looked completely confused....a truly CLASSIC look!!! Thank you troll.....I feel GREAT!!! Spaw |
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20 Oct 00 - 12:26 PM (#323340) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: McGrath of Harlow There's teasing annoying, and there's slipping the knife in deftly, like in this post which hit quite a few targets pretty accurately. Well, that''s a mixed metaphor, of course, and that annoys people quite often.
Of course if you really want to cause an eruption, start a thread like this one....
Or when people get annoyed by something like that, say that you can't understand why they're upset.
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20 Oct 00 - 12:36 PM (#323345) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: catspaw49 I think kat has shown great deftness with the knife you speak of Mac. Of course that's an oobscure reference without naming names and generally annoys folks too. And Bill, at your age, the wee dangly bits....well............uh, well......like,uh.... they are just wee dangly bits... Spaw |
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20 Oct 00 - 12:37 PM (#323346) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Lonesome EJ LEJ(prostrating self before Katlaughing)- "I am not worthy,Oh Mighty One! Oh Great Fountain of Obscure Allusion,Mistress of the Arcane Reference,have moicy on me!" |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:01 PM (#323364) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing E'now, m'Lord! Rise up o' thou Prostrator of the First Order. Ye have shown yourself worthy of the Mighty Honour of the T'irdee-t'ird Degree of Obfuscation of the Most Precious Mud, a subsect of the UOVA, unto which you will comport yourself in a seemly manner of untoward behaviour, delivering the eulogenic accolades of the HORV, while appopriately demonstrating the proper application of digital dexterity and satiation to those Dangly Bits of your own. Oyez, Oyez and so it is! MAR(s) |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:07 PM (#323367) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk I believe you spoke of your "newly acquired virginity", Kat. Intriguing. I have been running a virginity restoration service here in Orillia for several years now. Its slogan is "Re-experience The Thrill Of The First Time". I do, of course, have a professional interest in exactly what method was used to restore your virginity, as it might involve copyright infringement on the Coventry Method, or then again, it might not. It would probably be good if we could exchange some detailed info on this at some point. Virginity restoration is a tricky business, but entirely worth the trouble to some people, while others simply can't be bothered. We once undertook the virginity restoration of an Ontario politician (whose name I cannot divulge). It was a desperate business. It took 75 days, and 130 gallons of chicken fat, but we finally succeeded. I sometimes wake up in the night, wondering if we made a tragic mistake in his case... The only group we have found that is almost completely impervious to virginity restoration is lawyers. Bankers aren't easy either... At any rate, do PM me on this at your convenience. I never fail to appreciate the erudite nature, the good humour, and the well expressed consistencies that are so liberally sprinkled throughout your postings on this and various other threads of dubious value. :-D |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:25 PM (#323391) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: John Hardly Lonesome EJ, You are the annoyance KING!! I mean that in the best way. LOL John |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:33 PM (#323403) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: WyoWoman Kat ... I am simply in awe. ww
(I've found, actually, that the virginity restoration thing sort of takes care of itself if one waits long enough ...) |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:34 PM (#323406) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Jim Dixon McGrath: Just curious - In your last message above, why does your first blue clicky point to http://ragtime.mudcat.org/ instead of http://www.mudcat.org/? What IS http://ragtime.mudcat.org/? I've never encountered it before that I'm aware of -- |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:41 PM (#323412) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Jim Dixon And if anyone admits to being annoyed by anything, accuse them of being narrow-minded and too judgmental. (Boy, I hate judgmental people. They really annoy me!) |
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20 Oct 00 - 01:48 PM (#323418) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: McGrath of Harlow Aha! The mysteries of the mudcat. There are in fact two identical mudcat sites. I think the official term is "mirror sites" - I think they're in parallel universes that happen to be running in synch for the time being.
Anyway, when for some reason the http://www.mudcat.org/ site is playing up - giving unobtainable, or being remarkably slow, it's worth trying the other one, which is http://ragtime.mudcat.org/
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20 Oct 00 - 01:48 PM (#323419) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: mousethief "...and intolerant people are guillotined immediately..." --Roy Zimmerman
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20 Oct 00 - 06:19 PM (#323602) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: hesperis kat - that was SO good! LH - assuming that the lawyers have, in fact, lost their virginity. If they HADN'T lost their virginity before purchasing your service, they might have a little difficulty in RESTORING what had not actually been lost. (I mean, who would DO IT with a lawyer?!!!) (That was supposed to be a joke, eh?) |
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20 Oct 00 - 07:41 PM (#323665) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Ebbie Rofl, kat, Lej, BillD, spaw, LH... It even shut up my budgies. (Why does that sound obscene??) JimDixon, I have never found a way to say, " Fundamentalists are the most judgmental religious people I have ever known." As soon as I say that, I've done the ultimate, myself. I need help with that... Ebbie |
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20 Oct 00 - 07:54 PM (#323674) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Jim Dixon Ebbie, I don't think you've done the ultimate. There's a difference between saying, "I say you're wrong" and saying, "I say you're wrong and God does too." Between the two, I'd say the second is more judgmental. On the other hand, if you're condemning fundamentalists on the ground that God says they're wrong, then you're pretty much in the same boat with them. |
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20 Oct 00 - 11:29 PM (#323764) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) I see the "killing the thread" thread is back up. Spaw, you suck! :( Rich |
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20 Oct 00 - 11:40 PM (#323771) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: catspaw49 Now wait a minute here......It was Morticia's idea. Well, not exactly her idea, but it was just one of those things.....and you'll notice that Morty is the last poster at the present time. So let's all blame Morty......(see the thread about BS:Fin I'm proud" or something to that effect) On the other hand, I see we're still wallowing around on that stupid "Goodbye" crap.......gawd save us from a part 3!! Spaw |
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21 Oct 00 - 12:36 AM (#323789) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: hesperis Yes, but JimDixon, Ebbie, God DOES think that fundamentalists are wrong!!! Trust me... |
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21 Oct 00 - 12:46 AM (#323795) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing God - the Cosmic gave humankind free will, GtheC is impersonal in that S/He will not override a person's free will. The Universe is accepting of all, as a loving mother/father god of our hearts and makes no judgements; that is left up to the infallibility of we daft humans. |
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21 Oct 00 - 01:00 AM (#323805) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,GOD Dear, misguided kat: I DO disapprove of fundamentalists' ideas, whatever their religion. Fundamentalism was NOT foreseen when I drafted the concept of 'Free Will'. Although Free Will is a beautiful idea, it hasn't worked out the way I planned it. (Neither has Democracy.) If you need more assurance that this is, in fact, Me, GOD, please read 'Conversations With God' by N. D. Walsh. Of course, fundamentalists are still My Children, and are fully acceptable to me as human beings.
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21 Oct 00 - 01:08 AM (#323808) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,Jesus Verily I say unto thee, the Father is right, and his counsels are wise. A fundmentalist is like unto a canker on the hind end of an ass. It was ones such as these who condemned me to death, and would do so again in a moment, had they the chance. I say unto them, ye have prophesized in my name and yet ye know me not. Get ye behind me! |
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21 Oct 00 - 01:12 AM (#323811) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,Sat;an DON'T LISTEN TO THOSE 2 PREVIOUS POSTERS! THEY ARE IMPOSTORS! EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS A VILE, TWISTED LIE!!! FUNDAMENTALISTS RULE!!! |
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21 Oct 00 - 01:13 AM (#323812) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing Being a little presumptious and judgemental there, Guest. I am not defending fundamentalism of any ilk, so take a chill pill and call us in the morning. kat |
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21 Oct 00 - 01:17 AM (#323814) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: GUEST,Jesus O thou devious wretch, thou hast perjured thyself with thine own unruly tongue, for thou canst not even spell thine own name. In any case, dost thou not recall that it is the meek who shall inherit the Earth. Little care I for who "RULES" over the present corrupt systems. |
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21 Oct 00 - 01:22 AM (#323819) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: katlaughing How To Really Annoy Folks: post as a know-it-all deity, then argue with yourself! |
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21 Oct 00 - 01:27 AM (#323822) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Lonesome EJ I'm just glad my delusions of grandeur are limited to Napoleon.Thanks guest,for raising the normalcy curve. |
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21 Oct 00 - 06:07 AM (#323872) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: McGrath of Harlow Using split infinitives is one way to really annoy some people...
If I say you're wrong, it means that I think you are wrong; in that case, if I believe I am right, and it follows that, if I believe in God, I think that God thinks you are wrong - and of course God has to be right. On the other hand, of course, I could be wrong, in which case God thinks I am wrong...
Am I right or am I right? |
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21 Oct 00 - 11:03 AM (#323947) Subject: RE: Real BS: How To Really Annoy Folks From: Little Hawk Sort of like "to boldly fuck up where no Mudcatter has ever fucked up before", right, McGrath? Actually, that's Spaw's job, isn't it? Anyway, If you were as right as you think you are you'd really be right, but you're not as right as you think you are, you're only as right as I think you are, and IMNSHO I don't think you're so right! Do you follow me? Lonesome - You can't be Napoleon. I am Napoleon. How do I know this? God told me. End of story. Ha ha. I really think we should relaunch this thread as Part II. What say? I am going to do so right now. Moonjen can indeed be proud of launching this digital bastard, this tastelessly excessive and painfully drawn out thread, especially since it has drawn input from on high, as it were... Way to go, Jenny! Now here we go... |