A secont Unprovoked Attack on Liv

[Brimshack]

Helo,

It has bin awhile, about too years I think, actually, but Tom just extended the invitation, sow you can all blame him if you like. Anyway, I thowt I'd stop by and sai hello.

Hello to everyone, butt espectall, I wanted to sai hello to Liv.

:yup:

[livius drusus]

Oh. Mah. God. I forgive you, you rat bastard sonofabitch. :bigglomp:

How are you? How have you been? We missed you! :pounceglomp:

P.S. - Ha ha! You forgot it was "unprovoaked" for which you made us the top search result in Google. HA!1 :mocking:

[Brimshack]

After a little thought, I figured this was really the only way to announce mai retern.

[viscousmemories]

Great to see ya here, man. You've been sorely missed. I haven't even bashed IIDB in like years.

[livius drusus]

Ah, I see, then. That little thought must be the cause of the dropped a in unprovoaked.

[Brimshack]

Heh, I saw your thread calling for a moritorium, not long after I quit the forums. But by then I think I'd already quit modding there. Honestly, I had to choose between real life and net drama which was in very high gear at the time. A self ban gave me closure and helped me avoid several days of wasted anger and furious key tapping. I do appreciate that you gave it to me without question at the time. I also appreciate being invited back.

I have missed a lot of people here.

[D. Scarlatti]

Jumping Jesus. You got a haircut.

[LadyShea]

Oh hey! You missed like me becoming a parent after moving to Dixie I think. Got a little guy, 19 months old now :)

Glad to see you back

[Brimshack]

Ah, I see, then. That little thought must be the cause of the dropped a in unprovoaked.

Well, the important thing abowt being an artist is you have to know when a given work is dun. It was time to start anuther.

[Brimshack]

Oh hey! You missed like me becoming a parent after moving to Dixie I think. Got a little guy, 19 months old now :)

Glad to see you back

I did follow that, and noted it with great pleasure. All is well, I hope?

[LadyShea]

Oh, you've been lurking then :hmmm:

Still glad you are posting

And yes, all is very well

[viscousmemories]

Lurker! :mob:

[Brimshack]

Jumping Jesus. You got a haircut.

Yes, but I'm still green.

[viscousmemories]

A self ban gave me closure and helped me avoid several days of wasted anger and furious key tapping. I do appreciate that you gave it to me without question at the time.
No need to thank me, I was probably just being a dick.

I also appreciate being invited back.
It would've happened sooner if I'd noticed you back at IIDB earlier.

[Brimshack]

From time to time, yes, I certainly did wonder what everyone was up to. Besides, the spies I hired couldn't even use a computer and they kept telling me you all had moved to Vegas and Freethought meetings were now held in the Luxor Hotel. I almost went broke paying those guys bills, and they didn't even have it right at all...

[viscousmemories]

You'll have to change your custom title. I couldn't remember what it used to be, so I made it the default "Member".

[livius drusus]

Porigal?!? So mean. :cryhome:

[Brimshack]

Done

[viscousmemories]

:laugh:

[Brimshack]

Relintless, aren't I?

[livius drusus]

:tremble:

[Clutch Munny]

Lordy, the misspellings make me sick. I'm gunnaheave!

[Brimshack]

You culd alays /////take up Hurling.


(MY cat Junkie is helping now, the slashers were her idea. She has promise, I think.)

[wildernesse]

Good to see you again, brimshak!

[Stormlight]

Welcome back, Brimshack. Though i don't think we ever met?

[Brimshack]

Thank you Wildernesse

[Brimshack]

Welcome back, Brimshack. Though i don't think we ever met?

Don't think so. I would have remembered meeting someone from Luxembourg.

[Crumb]

Welcome back, Brimshack!

[viscousmemories]

In case anyone doesn't get the joke in the title, the original thread is here (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127).

[Novowels]

Ah, I was worried for a moment. It's so comforting to be among fellow pedants. :grouphug:

Lurker! :mob: har!

aside: it was so weird to go on forums and see 'let's do it for the lurkers' and etc. At IIDB, which was only my second forum, that phrase was constantly bandied about. (lurkers were never really discussed on the vidyagame forum I went to before that). But I always tried to use the phrase 'browser' (as in, a person who browses not the webbrowser program) instead because lurker had negative connotations to me.

I'd been on IRC for years, and at least in the channels I'd been involved with lurking was considered the height of rudeness, akin to eavesdropping on your friends' conversations (ok, not really akin; that's exactly what it was!) and "lurker" was a pretty major perjorative on par with 'troll' (indeed, constant lurking was usually considered a very passive aggressive form of trolling and harassment). There was a fine line between just idling and lurking, though.

Terminology can be so weird sometimes.

[Ex-zombie]

Fuck yeah! It's great to have you back here Brim! :cincin:

[Watser?]

Hello Brimshack :tiphat2:

[viscousmemories]

Good point about the meaning of 'lurker', Novowels. I'm so used to hearing/using it to mean "one who reads more than posts" that I forgot it has negative connotations. Personally I've got no beef with people who prefer reading to posting. Due to a heavy workload I've done a lot more reading than posting myself in the last year, despite my natural inclination to babble.

[Brimshack]

Thanks Crumb and Zombie.

Hello Watser and NV.

[Ensign Steve]

Brimshack!!!

:bigglomp:

[fragment]

Funny, I've always used lurker relatively innocuously. I like to check out a place for a week or two before I decide to start posting, which I'll usually refer to as lurking.

Welcome back Brimshack. I don't know you from before either, but you seem like nice folks so far.

[Brimshack]

Ensign Steve!!!!

Are you still in the military?

[Brimshack]

Funny, I've always used lurker relatively innocuously. I like to check out a place for a week or two before I decide to start posting, which I'll usually refer to as lurking.

Welcome back Brimshack. I don't know you from before either, but you seem like nice folks so far.

Hi Fragment. You're name seems familiar, but I can't place any specifics. I'm a terrible troll, just ask liv.

[livius drusus]

A terrible, awful, horrible troll, yes. :sadnod:

:hugtroll:

[Ensign Steve]

Are you still in the military?

So far. Not for very much longer though.

And you are a wonderful troll!

[Leesifer]

You won't remember me but as a long time IIDB lurker I remember you Mr Gunnaheave.

Welcome back to :ff:

[curses]

You won't remember me but as a long time IIDB lurker I remember you Mr Gunnaheave.

Welcome back to :ff:
What the skunk said. And a welcome back from me as well.

[Cynical-Chick]

Brim! :glomp:

[cappuccino]

Hey man! I didn't realize till now that I missed your ugly pimply green face.

Good to see you around here once again. I've been doing lurking a lot those days, life being in the way and all. But it's always good to see old-timers again.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Welcome back to teh :ffdance: Brimshack. :wave:

Like Stormlight, I bopped along here after your LOA began, though I remember seeing your posts in old threads that were linked to from time to time. Happy posting/spamming/trolling!

[fragment]

You might have seen me on II, although I've never been very prolific there. Or you might have seen someone else with a simlar name. Or maybe yer just going crazy...

[Novowels]

Good point about the meaning of 'lurker', Novowels. I'm so used to hearing/using it to mean "one who reads more than posts" that I forgot it has negative connotations. Personally I've got no beef with people who prefer reading to posting. Due to a heavy workload I've done a lot more reading than posting myself in the last year, despite my natural inclination to babble. Oh, I think it's a very different animal on a forum (which is more like a big public posting board, althought it can get conversational at times) and a chatroom (which is more like an intimate conversation with friends, albeit maybe in a public place).

[One for Sorrow]

Whoa. Welcome back, Brimshack! It is good to see you again.

[Brimshack]

More people I know! Yep, even Leesifer and Curses. Kyuss Apollo does sound new. Pleased to make your acquaintance. Cynical Chick and I still cross paths I think, though rarely. This is where you hang out now, eh?

liv, I do not have purple hair! (But I'll take the hug)

Steve could you PLEASE catch that Bin Laden guy before you get out, you know because Shrub ain't doin' a thing about it, so it's all on you babe.

Hello One For Sorrow, Capuccino

[Ensign Steve]

I don't think it's very likely, unless he decides to take a vacation to Georgia. I'll keep an eye out, just in case.

:examine:

[viscousmemories]

You remember curses? I think she was minus back in your day.

[Ensign Steve]

curses is minus?!

That explains so much. :doh:

[Brimshack]

Thought so from the name, but her picture doesn't seem familiar and I would have remembered it.

Maybe I just remember cursing.

ES:

Georgia?

"The Devil went down to Geogia... that's fucking bulshit, because I wouldn't be caught DEAD in Georgia, it's like, Oh My Go-od!"

- Steven Lynch

[viscousmemories]

That's right, Ensign, and Adam is the artist formerly known as Pomp(ous Bastard).

[Ensign Steve]

I knew that much about Adam.

Wait. Are you teasing me?

[viscousmemories]

Nah, I'm teasing Cynical Chick.

[Roland98]

:pounceglomp:

That is all.

[Brimshack]

Okay, so is there a smiley that shows the green smiley chasing back after the blue one?

[Stormlight]

Sure there is.

:chase:

[Brimshack]

Hm... I dunno,

I was thinking more along the lines of soft lighting, mood music, you know...



...and clown suits. Definitely gotta have clown suits.

[Stormlight]

:lol:

[Petra]

Bugger me, it's Brimshack!

Bloody marvellous to see you, ol' boy! Welcome back. :)

:hug: :kiss: :wave:

[beyelzu]

welcome back brim, thought i already posted in this thread.

now i feel all retarded and shit.

[JoeP]

Hi Brimshack! I remember your avatar. I remember you having a/some extremely long threads with Roland (might have been on another board tho). I remember you still owe me $750.

My memory ain't what it used to be.

[Brimshack]

Hi Petra, Hi Beyel, Hi Joe.

Hey Joe, I can have the money transferred to you from the bank of Uganda by Thursday. We'll even throw in a thousand percent interest. Could you run your bank numbers by me real quick, and we'll get that deposit right to ya.

:ffwink:

[Roland98]

Hm... I dunno,

I was thinking more along the lines of soft lighting, mood music, you know...



...and clown suits. Definitely gotta have clown suits.

And a wobbly box?

[Brimshack]

Well now some things just go without saying. It's like a gun rack in a pick-up, or a Prongorn trophy on the wall of the best eats in town.

Clown suits and a six pack of Lone Star with Luther playin loud in a Wobbly Box. I'm tellin ya! (Don't forget the black light.)

[Shake]

In case anyone doesn't get the joke in the title, the original thread is here (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127).
Just read it and still don't get it. Oh well. Whatever.

Welcome back, Brim!
curses is minus?!

That explains so much. :doh:
I must have missed that, too.

[chick]

There was a fine line between just idling and lurking, though.
True, they're spelled with different letters. The difference ends there.

Terminology can be so weird sometimes.
Assigning your own notions of how words are defined and used can lead to some really weird statements, yeah.

[Shake]

Oh man! I can't believe I found a situation for which we have no smilie here ... yet.

OK, so, sorry about the non-native, but here we go:
http://spams-ukwildcatbasketball.com/Lurking.gif

[Novowels]

There was a fine line between just idling and lurking, though.
True, they're spelled with different letters. The difference ends there. I'd hardly call them synonyms, even if you don't consider 'lurking' to be harassment like it was back in the day in irc. Idle just means you aren't active or around; whereas lurking isn't necessarily inactive at all, just non-participatory. In any case, outside of the computer terminology (which has changed over the years!) lurking certainly has a negative connotation, so it's hardly a surprise that it would start out that way in chatting's infancy.

If there's a debate over this (that I'm unaware of!) perhaps a thread should be started about it instead of gumming up Brimshack's thread, I only meant it as an interesting aside to the history of the word after vm's usage of it.

[livius drusus]

Oh, there's no gumming up this thread. Anything involving reasonably accurate spelling is a marked improvement. :hellyes:

[Novowels]

What about assigning my own notions of how words are defined and used?!

[livius drusus]

Oh that's a big step up from the OP. Big.

[godfry n. glad]

Brimshack!

Your biliousness!

Hey...Nice new red tie. Didja get a new rug, or just renovate the old one?

[Ensign Steve]

What about assigning my own notions of how words are defined and used?!

Round here we just assign our own notions of how words are speelt.

[livius drusus]

:glare:

[godfry n. glad]

liv!

Ensign Steve speelt some words!

Make her clean it up. :order:

[Ensign Steve]

Oh, it's just going to get worse the deeper I get into this vino.

:winedunk:

[livius drusus]

I shall shake things at y'all. Several things!1 :shakeshake:

[Brimshack]

Hi Shake, Hi Godfrey,

I actually had the avatar when I left. I got it while I was still at HH I think. Who gave it to me? I think he still posts here...

[Brimshack]

...and, you guys aren't gonna out splellerize me!

It may be a liddle late on accounta I tooked it easy on liv thics time, but it's time I tolded the story of the last too yirs:

Okay, sews i ona surfin way was bein' and then I read lotsa stuff bout lotsa stuff an' everwhere stuff people maed, an eye lukt atta clok and gots all mad, sad no more fer me. Said that like awhole buncha times, byebye here and there, even to Pakistani guys, then I'm all offa the net fer like 2 years, mostly, 'cept ta' bug Kristins sometimes. That mutch y'all know.

But what you din't no is that I hadda great gal fer awhile there, 'ceptin she wuz Sweedish, so it was all yust this and yust that, and since she was all hiker-like in Switzycheese land when she were younger, it was kinda danger-Russ. She'd say wanna go ferwok, and I'd say sure, an' like be ona top a mountain 4 hours later (Wheezy-wheezy mean glarin like at happy Euro-Lady). So, she says gotta luncherize ona mountaintoppy, lookin over a whole lotta feetses ona way down, but I says maybe bout the middle, then I drink awl her water and scoul. Old jurmin guy says hai. He din't need no water allaway up. I hate old jurmin guy. Mad at cute Swede lady too, awl happy an me wheezin' gonna die ona mountain top. Swede lady don't laik spice, an' I no ken subtle foodzes on accounta tacos mai dad maid (laik alla time). But real fun, nice lady, kindist purson ever dune mett. Ceptin when she haiks.

Not dating now on accounta bad figs.

Sos, I started this busniss, done real good, spent lotsa dough till it wuz awl gone nau. Brother says gotsa maik dough, that's what budiness do. :doh:

Big waitt set ina back room. Sleap in the middle room on accounta big waits need thuh spaise, cause lifting big heavy is bliss. Wait set sits there laik 2 years. Shirts awl bigger now.

Kitties laik back room on accounta no-one goes there now, but they say meow an' make me feed 'em & stuph. Fido and Junkie happy Mommy stays home ever nait now, steady commuterizin' ta' thuh rez. Daddies don't mean nuthin ta' Fido and Junkie, sos I'm there Mawmie.

I'ma teachin' it up good till bos get fired by a Bad Dean type person named "Bad Dean Type Person." ...sos she gets maybe whole buncha people resign on accounta stupid pay-math and general bitchyess. She fires moar cause they gots labs she wunts fer other things. Then supervisor-o-mine gets rittn up laik a whole buncha times, so shie sez "fuk thics shit" I'ma get me a Masters, then Dean-type flunkie sez, Dan you gotta go there or go there, but ewe kan't stai hier. First there is lotsa ministrators but secont there is closer ta' home. I go 2nd there, but new boss is a dumb-asssss Moar-on. So I sez, 'fuck this shit, I'ma get me a masters." Only without thuh last part, so now I say "______ Houzes, mai I help ewe?" That, aend I spent money on bizniz on accounta moar taim nau. Stil knot sure bout makin' dough part.

Too yirs, big complisherization? Leant lotta not-to-dos.

Thatcalleyegottasai

[livius drusus]

You awful, awful man. :cries:

[viscousmemories]

Sounds like you were lost without us. Welcome home. :manhug:

[Ensign Steve]

:clap:

[Brimshack]

Thankye, thankyeverymuzh... [/Elvis]

[Cynical-Chick]

Nah, I'm teasing Cynical Chick.
:biteme:

* Cynical-Chick cries too, and tries to comfort livius through own tears

[Dingfod]

Welcome back you dirty rotten bastage!

[Brimshack]

Welcome back you dirty rotten bastage!

I'm not...

...well, yes I am.



It's Warrenly, isn't it?

[Dingfod]

It's Warrenly, isn't it?Not any more, I'm not.

[Brimshack]

Fair enough.

Thanks for the welcome

[Roland98]

Wait, bad figs?

[Brimshack]

I only use them for evil.

[livius drusus]

Of that I have no doubt. :no:

[Ymir's blood]

Figs are cursed according to the Bible.

[Dingfod]

One barren fig tree was cursed by Jesus, I think.

[Brimshack]

Yeah God hates Figs

[Kyuss Apollo]

http://www.humorlinks.com/humornet/cards/figleaf.gif