to quote Fred Wilard, 'Wha' Happen?"

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:04 am

So there was this thread posted by El Vez called "A Perhaps Naive Request" or something like that. Basically a call for civility on the board. There were several differing opinions offered, the last of which was mine, wherein I lamented the decline in the discourse and pondered a few possible ways it had been dragged down, by many of us, myself included.

Where'd that thread go, exactly? It seems to have been disappeared. I looked through several pages of threads in the Annex. Not there. Then I looked through my own posts. Not there.

What was contraversial about that thread? What had been said that was so inflammatory as to deserve deletion? Why was it ok for a couple of days to speak ill of Mr. Average, but when a possible different spin or two is offered, the thread is zapped? Or did a Rope Leash finally get to me, and I'm suddenly paranoid?

Just wondering.

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:02 am

"I don't think so!"

El Vez requested that I remove the thread. I won't go into it any further, but it had nothing to do with any of the responses.

Post by **DrSpooky** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:16 am

Blue did something that had to be done and I completely back him up. It was - and is - a complicated personal matter that has nothing to do with any other board member. It just had to be done.

I hope everyone can find it in their hearts to accept this. Honestly, there is no ill intent meant to anyone here on the board.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:25 am

I trust the moderator(s) completely, as I'm sure Noise does too. You guys do a great job.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:14 pm

Well, pophead, I don't trust anyone completely, except my wife. I'm sure there's a good explanation, that the moderators had their reasons; I just wanted to know what they were. So I asked, and was told that they did in fact have their reasons and that that would have to be enough. And it is.

By the way, I met Fred Willard about a week ago. He was arriving at the Marco Polo airport in Venice when I was about to fly from Venice to Naples. His wife took a picture of us together, though I didn't have my camera. He signed my Venice tourist map, though, right under....

Peter Boyle, who I met the night before in front of a Gelateria near San Marco. Peter Boyle signed "Holy Crap! Love Venice...Peter Boyle."

Fred Willard said, get this, that he and his wife were meeting the Boyles in Venice. They were vacationing together, and I met them both in completely different places, under utterly coincidental circumstances. How weird/cool is that?

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:46 pm

noiseradio wrote: Or did a Rope Leash finally get to me, and I'm suddenly paranoid?

If you're paranoid there's no need to blame the absent.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 5:42 pm

I'd explain how that was supposed to be humorous, but that always seems to just piss you off. More.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:05 am

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:25 am

What are you talking about... i LOVE IT when you explain your jokes...

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:44 am

I think it's more that you just love taking shots at me. The last month must have been lonely.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:05 pm

noise! You're the best.

The man is defending himself, and somehow he will be considered the instigator in the end.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:20 pm

WHAR,

No doubt you are right. I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for saying it for me.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:26 am

Oh, yeah!??

Instigator of what major sin, exactly?

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:44 am

Noize....what happened to civil???

That lasted about en hour

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:20 am

Bamboo, I think WHAR was saying I would be called the instigator in the end. I may be wrong, but that's what I thought he meant.

And given Cope Fan's recent post, it would appear that he's right.

Cope, I'm being incredibly civil. And this doesn't concern you. Have a great day!

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:55 pm

Exactly.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:32 am

"The instigator"... Rope would have loved that.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:00 pm

Yeah, that's the english language right there. A beautiful thing.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:15 am

Bambooneedle,

I don't really know what this is, this exchange. It seems that I made a referrence to Rope that you resented. I meant nothing by it, but I apologize anyway, as it has clearly gotten under your skin. (Or maybe it stuck in your craw. Can't tell from here). But I only apologize to Rope, who isn't here to hear it. That's ok, I think, since he wasn't here to be insulted by what I said in the first place. Good of you to take offense for him, even though no harm was meant (nor, I think, caused). I think Rope would himself have laughed, were he here to read it. Again, I'd explain why I think so, but surely the hole in the ground created by the continued driving of this topic therein is large enough.

By the way, just for the record, the topic was a question as to why a thread had been deleted. That was answered, and life should have gone on from there. I even tried to help it along, by pointing out that I met Fred Willard and Peter Boyle, two of my favorite comedic actors. That didn't raise any interest, so the thread seemed to be destined for ultimate extinction until this lovely last few days of you misunderstanding me AND We Hit And Run, Cope adding his two unsolicited cents to yours, and the continued cryptic sniping on your part. ("Sniping"...Rope would have loved that). I'm still not sure what wonder the term "instigator" holds for you, but no one was calling you an instigator, nor were they calling Rope an instigator. (Especially from this thread, I can't begin to imagine why you would think anyone was calling you an instigator.) WHAR was predicting that noiseradio would be named an instigator; pretty astute of him, no? But surely you already knew that and this last paragraph, like my post-joke explanations, was futile. I feel fairly certain that it would profit us not at all to explore this further, so I'm going to take a moment to talk about coffee.

I had a really excellent cup of espresso today. Of course it comes in a demitasse cup, and a single serving only fills half of the demitasse cup (which itself means "half cup"). In a sense, then, if a regular cup of coffee is the standard unit of measure, a serving of espresso is only 1/4 full. But I prefer to think of it as 1/4 bitter and 3/4 empty.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:18 am

P.S. to Cope. Was that uncivil?

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:19 pm

You know, things are getting faggy and hot. Not my style.

I just like a bit of judo, that's all.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 1:27 am

Well at least, if you're gonna call me a fag, you called me a hot fag.

What a nice guy you are.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 1:38 am

Noise, this is where you should just pull out.

If it is going to get this ridiculous, then it is officially a waste of time. Let Bamboo sit it out and think about what he has done.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:04 am

Noise, you always seem to take things so literally and so personally, for maximum instant victim status. How so very grim.

I didn't really call you "a fag", I wouldn't call anybody that.

But... if, via your perception, you taste some cutting personal insults, so what? It might do you some good to know the taste. For when you're dishing them out.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:32 am

Let it lie guys...what is it with these little nitpicking exchanges? FFS!

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