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What's killing this forum

POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 16:52
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:28 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


But all the men would come around,
And lay the monkey down


(How sweet of them!)

Ok, I 'fess up... I'm Riverlove.

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Let's party like its 1929.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:28 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by pizmobeach:
RiverLove for $1000 - "who is River6213?"



Pizmo - Funny you should bring it up. I was thinking the exact same thing!

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:36 PM

COLE23


To be honest,this forum has almost scared me off.I'm a definate newbie.A month ago i'd never watched a single episode of Firefly.I love the 'verse now.
I wanted to get involved in the fan community,try to help get a sequel or whatever I could do.The more I got involved in the forums,the more I realized that some people are just brutal to each other.I'm actually a little scared to post sometimes.I'm afraid I'll post the wrong things and just get scorched.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:50 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Cole23:
To be honest,this forum has almost scared me off.I'm a definate newbie.A month ago i'd never watched a single episode of Firefly.I love the 'verse now.
I wanted to get involved in the fan community,try to help get a sequel or whatever I could do.The more I got involved in the forums,the more I realized that some people are just brutal to each other.I'm actually a little scared to post sometimes.I'm afraid I'll post the wrong things and just get scorched.



Bah! Post away. We've all been flamed at one time or another. Several of us can still share a beer and have a laugh about it.

Best bet is to stay out of the RWED area unless you've got a very thick skin. Other parts of the site are much friendlier, even between those who fight tooth and nail in here.

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:04 PM

DEADLOCKVICTIM


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together...."

That is a take-off on a poem. Looking it up, it lead me to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song ...



interesting... but I took the line from I Am The Walrus... by john lennon

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:12 PM

KIRKULES


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I don't encourage them to self-destruct, I encourage them to destroy each other in such a way that the ranks of both sides get thinned in the process whilst I watch from the sidelines, quite entertained by the whole thing.


-F


I find it interesting that Frem calls others sock puppets in one post, then in the next post claims to be the puppet master over all of us.

I think almost all of the posters here seem to have distinctive personalities, multiple personality disorder is so rare as not to be a possibility, but I have noticed a few sex changes over time though.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:13 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


"interesting... but I took the line from I Am The Walrus... by john lennon"

Oh, yeah, I know. But one thing led to another ... and then I was laughing so hard I nearly peed.

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Silence is consent.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:24 PM

CANTTAKESKY


Interesting thread. That is why I left. I actually found some other forums where discussion is heated, yes, but civil and intelligent. RWED has intelligence, which attracts me, but also a lot of emotional immaturity, projection, and downright hatred. Maybe it is the anonymity, I don't know. People feel they can cathart here, but forget there are real people behind the fake names on the receiving end.

I have a love hate relationship here. I hate the negativity, and won't argue anymore. But I can't seem to help stopping by and seeing what everyone is thinking today.

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Dr. Horrible Karaoke


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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:19 PM

DEADLOCKVICTIM


well, you know what They say... "you can pick your friends and your can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' nose..."

i think that ties in here.... maybe not, but the point is - the circumstances of total anonymity as provided by blogs and forums, makes for some interesting, albeit, strange conversation....

carry on my wayward son, there'll be peas when we are done....

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:03 PM

DREAMTROVE


Can't take the Sky

You're always a welcome addition, please stick around, and post.

Cole 23,

We're all criminally insane, but we don't know where you live. Please, stay, and post away.

river6213

Please, stick around, and be yourself. I fought for this forum to accept Pirate News, who has serious issues, and has been through some stuff the rest of us haven't. Moreover, they accept me, which is a sign of i think a pretty extreme level of tolerance. Yeah, sure, do people get shot at here? All the time, including, perhaps especially, yours truly.

Now, if you forgive me, or even if you don't, I aim to misbehave.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:03 PM

DREAMTROVE


Quote:


Yes, apparently we drove her crazy. Although, admittedly, it wasn't exactly a long drive...



Pizmo, Mike,

While that's funny in its way, there's also a level on which it's not funny, and there is a serious side to all this. Didn't strike me until someone resurected the name.

After seeing that post by '13, I changed my mind.

Honestly, I was assuming it was Whozit, or part of that crowd playing a prank on us, and so I was having fun with it. No offense to any of the parties concerned.

But these people aren't really crazy, they're just annoying, at times.


Assume this is river6213, and take it seriously.
It's not a joke anymore. If it is a joke, and some Whozit is behind it, come clean, but don't pretend to do so ask a prank.

I'm extremely serious about this. I was a guineapig of the Blue Sun Corporation for 3 years, and let me say, two by two, hands of blue, I know where that comes from. And let me say, I ran, I fled the country, almost didn't make it, I was detained by Homeland security for 3 days on my way out, they had a doctor come and check me out. He gave me a clean bill of health, because I was a damn good faker. For a while. Just long enough. But Blue Sun held me down and forcefed me drugs, even stuff that was on my medical record that I had a negative reaction to. They screwed me up real good. They had me slated for shock therapy, and they wanted to cut open my brain. It wasn't an old style frontal lobotomy they had in mind, it was just some lobe they wanted to cut in and remove. In fact, Firefly was a real help to me, as was, and this may sound corny, Matchbox 20, because Rob Thomas sang about this sort of stuff, and he'd been there, and was okay, and that was more comfort than watching the Wall, listening to Pink Floyd and knowing that Syd Barrett had lost his mind and been in the nuthouse for life, that wasn't helping.

SO, Yeah, I sympathize with character of River Tam very much. Anyone else who does, because they've been there, they know the score, I'm not going to be neutral, I have there back, whether they want me on their side or not, they just might need it.

You were around when I came on, I was here when river6213 came on, we both were. And sure, we watched the fireworks. But we also know that she's for real, and not just pulling a prank on everyone. So, assume that's the case, and that this isn't funny anymore.



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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:24 PM

KIRKULES


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
But we also know that she's for real, and not just pulling a prank on everyone. So, assume that's the case, and that this isn't funny anymore.


You actually make sense sometimes Dream. I'm with you on this one.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:28 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Kirkules:
Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
But we also know that she's for real, and not just pulling a prank on everyone. So, assume that's the case, and that this isn't funny anymore.


You actually make sense sometimes Dream. I'm with you on this one.



Yup. Bygones.

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:37 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by pizmobeach:
RiverLove for $1000 - "who is River6213?"



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

Yes We Did!




“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:40 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together...."

That is a take-off on a poem. Looking it up, it lead me to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song ...


The "top 3" mondegreens submitted regularly to mondegreen expert Jon Carroll are:

Gladly the cross-eyed bear (from the line in the hymn "Keep Thou My Way" by Fanny Crosby, "Kept by Thy tender care, gladly the cross I'll bear")

There's a bathroom on the right (the line at the end of each verse of "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival: "There's a bad moon on the rise")

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from a lyric in the song "Purple Haze", by Jimi Hendrix: "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky").


Perhaps the greatest number of mondegreens for a single line of lyrics is for the song Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65. The actual lyrics are gibberish ("n da ba dee da ba dye"), but there are tens of possible mondegreens for it, perhaps the most well-known ones being "if I were green I would die", "in Aberdeen I will die" and "and I'm in need of a guy".

In Stevie Nicks' song Edge of Seventeen the line "Just like a white-winged dove" is often misheard as "Just like a one-winged dove". The title itself originated from a mishearing of "age of seventeen".

In an episode of the television sitcom Friends, Phoebe believes the lyric from Elton John's "Tiny Dancer", "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" is actually "Hold me close, young Tony Danza."

In the CBS sitcom The Nanny, "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes," from the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles, is misheard as "The girl with colitis goes by."



Plus, you HAVE to read this
http://www.verlakay.com/boards/index.php?PHPSESSID=4c990d0f73637b0584e
f6c359150a1a7&topic=23273.0

and this
http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/archive/index.php/t-14540.html

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Silence is consent.



"surely good Mrs Murphy shall follow us all the days of our lives"

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

Yes We Did!




“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:50 PM

DREAMTROVE


Mike, Caveman, glad to see you with me on this one.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:56 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Kirk, what took ya so long ?
I was waitin for someone to catch that little joke, usually folks don't, some of my humor is a bit too subtle and obscure to carry over into text.
Sometimes it's a bit cruel too, but I blame the cat.

While I do like to yank a chain here and there, I wouldn't sock puppet though, no damn good at it since it'd be bloody obvious within the first two paragraphs who it was, lol.

-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:23 AM

RIVERLOVE


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Oh, and also, I apologize for being RiverLove.


Originally posted by SignyM:

Please, don't come whining at me about how horrible I am for calling you names, you drunken, death-loving cunt.

I hope you die in your own drunken vomit.

and BTW Fuck you.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:24 AM

RIVERLOVE


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
As for RiverLove, I think we broke her. She's turned into a spambot. I suppose that if she were a real person she wouldn't be trying to get banned. I feel dumb.

Quote:

Hi DT

I know SignyM personally (hey, it's a small world for people who do what we do), and she is NOT RiverLove.



lol. I've known this for many years. I'm not sure that she's not RiverLove, but it was mostly meant as a snark, and an interesting and humorous possibility. They share a number of mannerism, I was just analyzing posts, that's what lead me to the conclusion. I was less serious about Whozit being Chrisisall, but again, not something I would completely rule out. I mean, if someone were just screwing with us for no particular reason.

Neither of them are Finn. I can't say that neither of them are Auraptor for sure. If they are someone's second ID, it's more likely that a lurker is suspect.

As for "Who is River6213?" Can I get the $1000!?

Sorry, that didn't occur to me earlier. Ouch. Firsted. Pwned, all of that. Actually, I'm going to go with RiverLove is plenty crazy enough to be River6213, but not smart enough, no offense love.




Yes, apparently we drove her crazy. Although, admittedly, it wasn't exactly a long drive...



Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."


Originally posted by SignyM:

Please, don't come whining at me about how horrible I am for calling you names, you drunken, death-loving cunt.

I hope you die in your own drunken vomit.

and BTW Fuck you.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:26 AM

RIVERLOVE


Quote:

Originally posted by Storymark:
Quote:

Originally posted by Riverlove:
Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
Hey, I thought I was you! Now I'm so confused!!


Originally posted by SignyM:

Please, don't come whining at me about how horrible I am for calling you names, you drunken, death-loving cunt.

I hope you die in your own drunken vomit.

and BTW Fuck you.
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Let's party like its 1929




Oh.... okay. That's now your standard response to Sig, regardless of the topic.

Creepy much?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."


Originally posted by SignyM:

Please, don't come whining at me about how horrible I am for calling you names, you drunken, death-loving cunt.

I hope you die in your own drunken vomit.

and BTW Fuck you.
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Let's party like its 1929


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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:49 AM

DREAMTROVE


RiverLove,

My days of taking you seriously are definitely coming to a middle.

Your whole bagel fixation ain't helpin' the situation much.

She just wants to be banned now, rather than admit to being who she is. Girl, here's a tip. Stop being afraid of who you are. Go back to you're original username, and be yourself, no need to apologize, just give it a rest, 'cause frankly, it's gettin' a lil gorram boring. I want life to be interesting. Now if you opened up and told us the whole story, we'd find that all sorts of interesting.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:14 PM

COLE23


Dream posted that no one knows where I live,even though you guys are all insane.Hahaha.That's a good point.What am I scared of?haha

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:46 PM

KIRKULES


Quote:

Originally posted by Cole23:
Dream posted that no one knows where I live,even though you guys are all insane.Hahaha.That's a good point.What am I scared of?haha


Actually, we had you sprayed with radioactive dye the same day you signed up, we've been tracking you by satellite ever since, but don't worry it's for your own good.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:52 PM

DREAMTROVE


Quote:

Dream posted that no one knows where I live,even though you guys are all insane.Hahaha.That's a good point.What am I scared of?haha


Actually, I'm pretty good and I don't know jack about you, you have a wife and four kids, who think Jayne is kewl. That's because Jayne *is* kewl.

What I know about some of these users could fill a book, or a large file, but I have no desire to track them down. The internet is a place where all information is infinitely available. But then, so is the supermarket. The trick is to not be the guy holding up the cash register. Don't draw attention to yourself, and the forces of darkness will ignore you.

As for the craziness, sure, there's a lot of it here, but trust me, I've tried to motivate some of thee people to act, it's impossible. They're certainly not going to do it on their own [/snark]

If I told them that I had Summer Glau here, it might work, 'ceptin' that they wouldn't believe me.

But if you have netaphobia, let it pass. You're a random face in a community of a billion people. Some of the people here have gone out of their way to draw an inordinate amount of attention to themselves to no avail. They haven't even managed to get themselves fired. :)

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