quote:Originally posted by Mimik:quote:Originally posted by SD-Wineaux:
Say Something Completely Random And Off Topic
Sad but true.
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quote:Originally posted by ThistlinTom:quote:Originally posted by Mimik:quote:Originally posted by SD-Wineaux:
Say Something Completely Random And Off Topic
Sad but true.
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?? It’s still alive.
“I’m not dead yet.”
"Topic closed", so it can't be added to.
Congratulations
quote:Originally posted by billhike:
"Topic closed", so it can't be added to.
I knew without even looking that the final post to that glorious thread would be from bman.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've warned him never to mention PG Wodehouse in these forums. I told him it's just not possible to mention Wodehouse without offending someone (or maybe I should have said 'without offending everyone'). He promised me that he would listen to my advice, but clearly that was just a ruse.
It figures that the straw that broke the camel's back in that long-running thread wouldn't be political, or sexual, or combative, or commercial, or racist, or insulting.
No. To kill off a thread that way took something LITERARY!
And I think now everyone knows just how insidious books and authors can be.
At least it reached 2811 replies, 113 pages and 408558 views.
quote:Originally posted by Mimik:
At least it reached 2811 replies, 113 pages and 408558 views.
Not that you're counting Mim
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It appears jburman's politically incendiary comment was deleted, but got a second life in a reply by Fl Wino. If that comment was indeed the thread's death knell, I guess one could say Robert put Jack in the box.
Sad. I did not see what happened
Yeah... A little sorry to see it gone as well.
Can't say that we weren't warned. A little heavy handed on Robert's part, methinks.
PH
Can't say that we weren't warned. A little heavy handed on Robert's part, methinks.
PH
quote:Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
A little heavy handed on Robert's part, methinks.
I dunno, PH. It looks like a fairly even-handed application of a 'three strikes you're out' policy on Robert's part. Warnings from him on Feb 9th and March 7th, along with posts from Mimik and I, were ignored. The non-random, non-off-topic political posts continued, and the end was a foregone conclusion.
quote:Originally posted by VinT:
I dunno, PH. It looks like a fairly even-handed application of a 'three strikes you're out' policy on Robert's part...
I think nuking the thread was over-kill. What did he hope to accomplish? Did he think that doing this was going to somehow stop future political posts here? Given the egregious crap that was permitted to go on here for years with several well known suspects, this seemed like a lazy way out.
The TOS for the WS site says political posts are "subject" to deletion. I didn't see the post(s) that precipitated the locking of the thread in question, but most of the political discourse I say there was good natured and funny. The TOS also say that "offenders" would get an e-mail warning them of the inappropriate post(s). I know I've made a post or twelve in violation of the TOS and I haven't heard a peep.
PH
Is Marvin angling for a Cabinet post, maybe? He's as qualified as any of the rest of them.
quote:Originally posted by sunnylea57:quote:Originally posted by ThistlinTom:quote:Originally posted by Mimik:quote:Originally posted by SD-Wineaux:
Say Something Completely Random And Off Topic
Sad but true.
+1
?? It’s still alive.
“I’m not dead yet.”
Hey, turns out you were right! At least until someone hits it over the head...
Did no one notice that Cecil Taylor died a few days ago? Maybe everyone should stop worrying about who should hang it up, and pay attention to what deserves attention.
quote:Originally posted by PurpleHaze:quote:Originally posted by VinT:
I dunno, PH. It looks like a fairly even-handed application of a 'three strikes you're out' policy on Robert's part...
I think nuking the thread was over-kill. What did he hope to accomplish? Did he think that doing this was going to somehow stop future political posts here? Given the egregious crap that was permitted to go on here for years with several well known suspects, this seemed like a lazy way out.
The TOS for the WS site says political posts are "subject" to deletion. I didn't see the post(s) that precipitated the locking of the thread in question, but most of the political discourse I say there was good natured and funny. The TOS also say that "offenders" would get an e-mail warning them of the inappropriate post(s). I know I've made a post or twelve in violation of the TOS and I haven't heard a peep.
PH
WORD.
quote:Originally posted by pape du neuf:
Did no one notice that Cecil Taylor died a few days ago? Maybe everyone should stop worrying about who should hang it up, and pay attention to what deserves attention.
Visit the What are you listening to thread and you see VERY little interest in free jazz.
quote:Originally posted by pape du neuf:
Did no one notice that Cecil Taylor died a few days ago? Maybe everyone should stop worrying about who should hang it up, and pay attention to what deserves attention.
Missed this. Saw him in the late 70s at the Jazz Showcase on Rush St. My head is still hurting; it was the most intense concert I've ever been to.
quote:Originally posted by The Old Man:quote:Originally posted by pape du neuf:
Did no one notice that Cecil Taylor died a few days ago? Maybe everyone should stop worrying about who should hang it up, and pay attention to what deserves attention.
Missed this. Saw him in the late 70s at the Jazz Showcase on Rush St. My head is still hurting; it was the most intense concert I've ever been to.
I, too, missed this news. Bummer.
Milos Forman, director of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest