i plan to start doing the following in any comments to my blog.
1. anyone who comments and neglects to close a tag: i will delete your comment, without exception. if i think you have something interesting to say, i will repost it and attribute it correctly.
2. if all i see is gibberish, i will delete your comment. if you do it more than once, i will block you first, then delete it.
3. i will aggressively label typos in tags as bad tagging. esp when the correctly-spelled tag is already present.
ed
silverwhisper posted on Sep 07, 2006
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Alyss said on Sep 07, 2006....
That sounds fair enough to me.
I've been guilty of accidentally leaving a tag open but now that there's a working edit feature (which I notice is now a horribly leery yellow colour) it's much less likely.
(2nd attempt as SC keeps crashing. ed if this comes out as a duplicate, which I hope it doesn't as did check first, just hit the delete button...)
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sweetsoul said on Sep 07, 2006....
Not sure what you mean by 'to close a tag'. Sometimes, like this time, I see the 'tag this post' but it doesn't always come up. Not sure why that is. If the 'tag this post' doesn't come up how do you 'close a tag'?
Can you define gibberish? Not meaning to be cute...just wanting to understand your policies. Was the hijack about formating to colour and bold etc. yesterday gibberish because it wasn't on topic?
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
alyss: it may not be soulcast. it may be your browser. :>
sweetsoul: by "tag" i mean the formatting commands that enable people to employ italics or boldface, etc. by gibberish, i mean things like: fasdhkljasdfa sdljkfha.
it adds nothing to the discussion. and since it's my blog, i'm the ultimate arbiter of what does/doesn't add to the discussion.
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
heopdjgntrotruwndnsdkciewenfdvsdm
just seeing if the policy works. ;)
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Zayda said on Sep 07, 2006....
ooohhh...ohhhh...but...
damnit...i got nothing.
wait...
MOCHA MOCHA MOCHA!
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
scaly: there's always one in every crowd...
[trout-smacks scaly]
zayda: ROFL!
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Alyss said on Sep 07, 2006....
SW; but... but... but... I'm using Firefox!!! Please don't tell me I have to go back to using IE!!
Ooooh scalywag, now I understand your choice of user name! < G >
Now back on topic; how do you define on topic then? Threadjacking is a way of life in some places so when is it considered alright to do so and when isn't it? You yourself have been a skillful threadjacker in your time...
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
alyss, you could always try opera... :>
i personally don't care whether people remain on the original topic or not. and given that you've been reading me for a long time alyss, you should know by now that i consider threadjacking an art form. :D
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JadeLondon said on Sep 07, 2006....
I second the notion!
Or sixth the notion, to be precise.
Well, I spelled everything correctly, so that cannot qualify as gibberish, although it might meet the specifications for bullshit.
I think the side convos are better than the actual posts at times. Not to say anything about your posts (gee, why do I feel like I am tasting the shoe leather on this one?).
Are you undercaffienated this morning, or what? You seem almost, well...grumpy.
(Jade flinches and ducks, instinctively avoiding any trout swung her way. She waits. Nothing.
Is it safe? She wonders.)
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secretlife said on Sep 07, 2006....
you need another cup of coffee
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
jade: a little bit of both, maybe. :p
SL: hey, i'm working on my third iced tea. :p
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InterplanetJanet said on Sep 07, 2006....
what jibberisch you talk of sliver? just cause it make senses to my senses don't meane that it is sense to your sense. no?
[readies the fishing line for a fair-sized trout]
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
silver....I think you dropped something
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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InterplanetJanet said on Sep 07, 2006....
yuck; I rescind my fishing line comment. I do not like that kind of fish... ;)
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RollingC said on Sep 07, 2006....
wow....imagine your fishing line hooked on that...ouch.
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secretlife said on Sep 07, 2006....
scaly I wish you had put that on my Underwear blog!
lol@IPJ pulling back her fishing line!!!
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
secretlife....I haven't read that one yet. I'm still trying to catch my breath from reading some of your other blogs. I will take a look though.
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Alyss said on Sep 07, 2006....
SW; I was merely wondering given your response about deciding whether or not a comment added to the discussion.
Opera? I've only just got used to Firefox I don't want people to think I'm fickle. ;-)
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
SW: so if gibberish is outlawed... what about gibberjabber? Gobbledgook? Mumbo Jumbo? Jabberwocky? Twaddle? Prattle? blatherskite? Nonsense?
Where do you draw the line man!
the bold text should be read with a 'Ren' (of 'Ren and Stimpy') accent.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
ROFL!
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happykat said on Sep 07, 2006....
You know its in my nature to do exactly that which annoys you. I think you should note my restraint here.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
but what if i'm lying to you about what does/doesn't annoy me? :>
ed
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Chimaera said on Sep 07, 2006....
ed, your inner fascist is showing...
:)
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quidnunc said on Sep 07, 2006....
**carefully picks up what silver "dropped" and sheepishly hands it over to him. then scampers away lest he be trout smacked in the process**
:-)
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
secretlife....you do need to check your underwear blog some time.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
[trout-smacks the peanut gallery, just cuz]
:>
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ALIENated said on Sep 07, 2006....
I find it very difficult to comment under these
circumstances. And I had a really, really good comment,
too. But no, you have to go and post a bunch of rules.
Well, I say "revolution". Power to the people!
Fidel
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
[also trout-smacks alienated]
:>
ed
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
the censorship here is incredible. whatever happened to free speech.
maybe he secretly works for the bush administration
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
hey: there's no need to be insulting!
ed
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
yeah scalywag, that was below the belt! Talking about what ed & his misses do behind closed do... oh... wait... you were talking politics... my bad.
Chimaera: this is Ed's blogdom, he's the blogtator, he can make formal decree's all he wants. All we can make comments with british acents about being repressed and how some tart throwing a sword at people isn't a sound method of determining political position...
yes, that was a Monty Python reference, and No, I will not take it back...
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
geez, everywhere I go tonight I've crossed the line.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 07, 2006....
indie, i've known chimaera and scalywag for literally years. :> and very nice python-fu.
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
so indie....you saying silver's first name is fidel?
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
SW: [takes a bow] I do try to fit one in every now and again. Along with the obligitory Douglas Adams reference...
Scalywag: ... I can neither confirm, nor deny that allegation...
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
indie (and yeah, I got the name right this time) was I supposed to define what the definition of is is?
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
Scalywag: ... I'm going to recomend the formation of a committee to take that question under advisement so that the issue might be further explored under amicable circumstances and charge them with the responsibility of the creation of a detailed report catagorizing not only the definition of what is is, a but its history of abuse in this country and around the globe and we will get to the bottom of this matter and lay to rest the demonstrably false allegations of its mis-use by this administration and we will find the real people behind it and they will be punished for their crimes against humanity.
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secretlife said on Sep 07, 2006....
I think everybody should go to bed
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
Wife's not home yet :( so I honestly have nothing better to do.
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Zayda said on Sep 07, 2006....
wait...wait...no one else is concerned that sliver dropped his trouser trout underwear?!?! just what is he blogging in now?!?! someone get the man a robe!
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
Indie.....what kind of budget do you need to perform this task?
secretlife......I've been trying to do that for 45 minutes....but I seem to be stuck here.
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
Z: up until just a second ago... I had managed to mentally block that out. Thanks. Now I've got to start drinking again just to wash away the mental picture.
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
Scalywag: the budget review committee will be meeting next tuesday, there is a motion to have this issue on the agenda, and we hope to be able to propose a prelimary budget estimate to the department of redundany department sometime after then.
I could soooo be a politcal speach writter... If I could just find a polititian willing to pay me enough for my soul...
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ALIENated said on Sep 07, 2006....
Hey, that trout was smelly. Get a fresh on next time.
I accuse Indie of gibberish.
And I am commenting in the nude. Everyone else is, right?
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scalywag said on Sep 07, 2006....
indie: but wait...you need to have the proper form filled out to get that on the agenda, but you don't have the form. you can get one by submitting a requisition form. but if you're out of requisition forms, you'll have to borrow one, because you can't get more requisition forms without submitting the request on a requisition form.
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
Alien...
1. yes, but how do you think you smell to the fish?
2. It's gibberjabber, not giberish... pity da foo
3. we're all naked under our clothes.
4. I have no idea why i've started listing... maybe if I keep at it i'll fall over. man oh man, i get worse when i'm tired... that last pun was a bit out of line...
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Indiefilm said on Sep 07, 2006....
Scalywag: our request for request of requisition form was already delivered and filled with the department of requitition requests. The processing fees have been paid along with the pre & post secondary processing fees. As well it has been approved by the proper requisition request authoritative committee for the approval of needless request forms.
In addition to that our brib... er... ah... gifts.... have been well recieved by the appropriate authorities. We fully expect for our 'motion to appear on next weeks budget meeting's agenda to appear on the agenda, so that the motion may be discussed in detail and at length, and if there is time, we are optimistic that the motion to discuss the newly formed committee's budgetary spending will be approved and that the matter will be discusseded.
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RollingC said on Sep 07, 2006....
doughnuts anyone? :p
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WhyChromosome said on Sep 08, 2006....
Hi SW and everyone else whose comments and posts I've been looking forward to reading these past frantic days. Man, I think I see your point -- and before my second cup of coffee for the morning that means it must have been very succint indeed. I wanted to ask what ROFL means and also let you all know that if you ever come to Prague we wallop people with carp rather than trout, but OMG now I realise I've broken the rules!!
You guys really give me a lift. Thank you. I mean it!
Now I must go do a post, just in case anyone missed me ;) Oh, my ego my ego...Whyc.
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quidnunc said on Sep 08, 2006....
silver, I try very hard to understand these rules way beyond exculpation of those diverted barriers that encompass our encumbersome indiosyncratic maxim of vitality and wallowy pirth. It would seem that we no longer satiate the penumbra of immortality's banal way of circumlocutory salutations emancipating us from trite, critchy, angsty, and intolerable insinuations. Here in SC, it is apparently imperturbable that panaceas can burrow into innuendos and quixotic tattle, given the testatrix's as well as this generation's phantomy spectre of pith that quasi-cringe those reformed plesionsaur apparently in ironclad behind those thresholds of carnal shambles.
***immediately departs the scene, afraid to be trout-smacked by silver***
:-)
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silverwhisper said on Sep 08, 2006....
[trout-smacks quidnunc w/ great vigor and abandon]
:D
this may be the single most fun set of comments it's been my privilege to get in my time here. :>
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RollingC said on Sep 08, 2006....
wow...my online dictionary just burned out... ;p
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Zayda said on Sep 08, 2006....
and what are you going to do about drunk comments?!?!?!?!
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Indiefilm said on Sep 09, 2006....
Z: How int he hell did oyou know i[been drinkin???
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scalywag said on Sep 09, 2006....
geez silver, if you're gonna pull out a gun, you'd better be ready to shoot
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silverwhisper said on Sep 09, 2006....
[carp-smacks whyc]
[distracts drunk super z w/ alton brown]
scaly: it's more fun this way. if i start blowing away comments i'm a dictatorial asshole. besides, all of this is in fun.
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Zayda said on Sep 09, 2006....
ooohhhhh...silver and alton brown and scaly in the same space.
[faints]
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silverwhisper said on Sep 09, 2006....
[waves some smelling salts under super z's nose]
quit that. :p
ed
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Zayda said on Sep 09, 2006....
[pushes smelling salts away]
ow....
darn you, silver!
you know alton brown makes my knees go weak.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 09, 2006....
yes, yes i do. :>
[wonders what effect it would have if it were possible to clone alton]
;D
ed
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Zayda said on Sep 09, 2006....
[gasps]
oh no..you did NOT say that!
you evil, evil man you!
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silverwhisper said on Sep 09, 2006....
you have no idea of the depths of my evil, super z. none at all.
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Zayda said on Sep 09, 2006....
and you have no idea of the depths of mine, dearest silver.
margarita time. YUM-O!
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silverwhisper said on Sep 09, 2006....
you unbelievable...
[trout-smacks super z]
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Zayda said on Sep 09, 2006....
[grins impishly]
yes, i am unbelievable...'tis why j00 likes me so!
[hands silver a honey wheat beer]
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silverwhisper said on Sep 09, 2006....
you know...honey wheat beer is a superb match w/ goat cheese.
oddly, the mrs and i were gonna get a growler of honey wheat today while at our brewpub, but we opted for the belgian wheat beer instead. the honey wheat would have necessitated a trip to our supermarket to get a log of goat cheese + crackers and we were feeling a tad lazy. :>
ed
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Zayda said on Sep 09, 2006....
[smirks and points to her dining room table]
there is a plate of goat cheese, crackers, grapes, fresh pear slices on it. Along with a plate of some fresh mozzarella infused/marinated with italian spices, some olives, and some salami slices.
well, the two of you could come on down, but that would be a long trip.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 09, 2006....
[drools slightly]
:p
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Zayda said on Dec 04, 2006....
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happykat said on Dec 04, 2006....
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Zayda said on Dec 04, 2006....
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silverwhisper said on Dec 05, 2006....
of course she does: it takes a true goofball to know one...:D
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Zayda said on Dec 05, 2006....
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silverwhisper said on Dec 05, 2006....
[dons crown]
:p
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Taffy000 said on Jan 19, 2007....
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silverwhisper said on Jan 19, 2007....
pretty well, esp now that i've blocked anonymous commenters. :>
how in the world did you find this old blog entry?!
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Matchmakingmomma said on Jan 31, 2007....
On the Internet everything is just a click away. Hope I am keeping with policy. Went to check my tags. I just have to learn how everything works. I use flickr and will be going on Youtube soon.
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silverwhisper said on Jan 31, 2007....
matchmakingmomma: how did you find this this old blog entry? welcome to my blog and thank you for visiting.
and yes, you're quite in keeping.
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Matchmakingmomma said on Jan 31, 2007....
Actually I think what happens if someone comments on a blog it gets pulled into one of the newer pages. I did not have to search, it just came up on one of the pages as someone had made a recent comment.
Cheers from Canada
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silverwhisper said on Jan 31, 2007....
ah...in that case, cheers!
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