| 13 JUL 2010 at 8:25am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Heya, Gonchi! [smiley=wave.gif] Thanks! [smiley=thumbup.gif]
Regarding the post count: how it works on one psychologically is actually quite an interesting phenomenon, if you think about it.
You know, it's not the post count itself, it's that I honestly feel strange being an intergalactic janitor again. Much as one might not be concerned about such things, the fact is that the website does 'reward' people for posting by giving them a higher ranking the more they post. On other websites this doesn't bother me (well on Gamefaqs my "karma" did bother me at a stage) ; but on this particular site, (JA) I especially don't enjoy being a janitor with a toilet plunger on my head. :-[ shallow and silly as that might sound. Hey, it's not a big deal - it's a kind of a subtle thing, but it's there.
...so I might have been subconsciously pushing my posts slightly more than when I was a Grand Inquisitor, in the sense that I'd be more inclined to double post, rather than edit.
On the other hand, editing an old post, makes that people following the thread don't always realize you had posted something new, so... :
Anyway, I think what suits me so well on this site, is that I enjoy reading and posting on all the different forums: Off-topic, Other games, and Adventure game discussion, Tech help and game help and hints and so on..
So, like Caroline says, I'm a menace, and will probably soon shake the plunger off again, thanks anyway, Shadow and Mark. :-* :-*
The only other thing I find a pity, and let it be a warning for people thinking of deleting: once you're deleted, you cannot go and do a "search" for you old posts anymore. Your old name and account becomes completely inactive, and your old posts (and eventually of course threads too) get lost in the ether as well... Ah, well... one has to learn to let go sometimes..
Caroline, I'd be interested to know how you had felt the previous times you had gone from Inquisitor, "woosh!" back down to janitor again. Did you also feel slightly strange and displaced? I suppose one soon gets used to it though, eh?
Hehehe, well, it is a T-shirt to have, eh?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 12:45pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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I see we both have the capacity to analyse things to death..... [smiley=rofl.gif]
You truly don't need your numbers. Everyone here knows you had them - and after the response from everyone to the possibility of losing you, I'd think you'd realise you already have the only numbers that are important here. :-*
So how did I feel when I started over again? Well, this is my fourth membership here so I've done it a few times and I was even on the brink of doing it again as a show of solidarity with you when I remembered how shocked and annoyed with myself I had been when I realised that my inbox was suddenly off-limits to me last time I deleted myself. Hot on the heels of that memory was the realisation that you'd probably overtake me in the post count and make Grand Inquisitor before me, because you post in more forums than I do and I know how competitive you can be. So I didn't.
As for the plunger, last time I deleted, it was on a whim to show a newbie that there was nothing wrong with plungers. So how fickle and spontaneous is that? [smiley=rofl.gif]
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 12:45pm |
MarkGuild Master
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"May all your post counts live long... and then perish."
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Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 1:45pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (13 JUL 2010 12:45pm)
So how did I feel when I started over again? Well, this is my fourth membership here so I've done it a few times and I was even on the brink of doing it again as a show of solidarity with you when I remembered how shocked and annoyed with myself I had been when I realised that my inbox was suddenly off-limits to me last time I deleted myself. [smiley=rofl.gif]
Thanks for all your kind words and sentiments, Caroline. Ok, I'm going to confess to something that will show you in exactly what a foul and demented mood I was that day. Once I'd gotten the idea into into my head that i felt i needed to... well, to crush or destroy something :-[ (I honestly very seldom get such feelings - which is why i don't have a clue what to do with them if I do get them [smiley=blush.gif] ) ; I sat the evening with wine bottle in one hand and mouse in one hand, backing up my full Inbox and full Outbox and full storage - all in all 300 messages - by one by one copying and pasting them into text files named "Traveller is Dead" . *gulp* [smiley=blush.gif]
All the time that i was doing that, i felt like Thelma and Louise, heading towards the cliff. ..and yes, pushing the "delete" button did make me feel like i was driving over that cliff. id it feel worth it at the time? Probably.
..and when i climbed out of the wreckage i didn't really care for a few days.
...do I regret it now? I do. o I understand now about "the heat of the moment" and "everything fades over time" and so forth. I do.
Until next time - and I sincerely hope there will not be a next time for me.
Anyway, think quickly and well. Don't you feel alone there at the top, soon to overtake Terry? You could always join me before I shake this plunger, you know...
[smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
[smiley=whistle.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 1:47pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | ...then we can pull away on equal footing... [smiley=angel_smiley.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 1:48pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | ...no, just joking, honestly. on't do it please.
I'd never survive the guilt.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 3:19pm |
MaraPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Just think of the fun you'll have catching up and passing Mark this time around.
Mara
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 5:47pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Welcome to the forum Traveler. I notice from your post count that you're new here.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 5:55pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (13 JUL 2010 5:47pm)
Welcome to the forum Traveler. I notice from your post count that you're new here.
No, not new, it's just that I don't post a lot. [smiley=angel.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 6:42pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mara (13 JUL 2010 3:19pm)
Just think of the fun you'll have catching up and passing Mark this time around.
Don't let my post count fool you. Most of them have been a bunch of non sequiturs.
Using the time machine I ordered from the Home Shopping Network in 1981, I posted all that verbage over a weekend - within the past six or seven years.
I'm etching this "notch" on my post pole on December 14th, 1777, in Valley Forge. I'm also George Washington right now, BTW.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 7:11pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By Mark (13 JUL 2010 6:42pm)
Originally Posted By Mara (13 JUL 2010 3:19pm)
Just think of the fun you'll have catching up and passing Mark this time around.
Don't let my post count fool you. Most of them have been a bunch of non sequiturs.
Using the time machine I ordered from the Home Shopping Network in 1981, I posted all that verbage over a weekend - within the past six or seven years.
I'm etching this "notch" on my post pole on December 14th, 1777, in Valley Forge. I'm also George Washington right now, BTW.
Dear General Washington:
I have finished proofreading your letter to Mister Henry Laurens, which will be posted shortly for final review.
Respectfully, Terty
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 7:15pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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PROOF COPY
Dec. 14, 1777
Sir:
On Thursday Evening I had the Honor to receive your Favor of the 8th Inst. From the several letters which have lately passed between Gen. Howe & myself, I am fully convinced that any proposition by us to release the Baron St. Vicary from captivity, either by an Exchange or on parole, would be unavailling. [strike-out] In his letter of the [blank space] he has explicitly stated his sentiments and has declared himself to be utterly against a partial Exchange. The situation of the Baron, thro the interest and acquaintance of the Marquis Fayette with an officer in the Guards, is much more comfortable than that of any of our officers, who are prisoners, he being on parole in the City, whilst they are all confined in the State House. I do not know that it is the practice in Europe not to consider Volunteers as prisoners. I am inclined to believe, that it is not, and that they are generally held as such, unless the contrary is particularly stipulated by Cartel. However this may be, they have been held in the present contest on both sides on the footing of other prisoners, and exchanged as such. Beside this, I fear that a prop*osition* calculated for the peculiar benefit of the Baron, would be illy received by our Unhappy officers, who have been much longer in confinement ?? whose sufferings are far greater than his, and who claim a right to exchange in due course.
The inquiries directed in the Resolutions contained in your letter of the 30th Ulto, respecting the loss of the Forts in the Highlands and of Fort Mifflin I shall order [2] to be made, as soon as circumstances will admit. These However, it is probable, will not be effected in a short time from the situation of our affairs & inevitable necessity.
On Thursday morning we marched from our old Encampment and intended to pass the Schuylkill at Maddison's [Matson’s] Ford, where a Bridge had been laid across the River. When the first Division and a part of the Second had passed, they found a body of the Enemy, consisting from the best accounts we have been able to obtain[,] of Four Thousand men under the command of Lord Cornwallis possessing themselves of the Heights on both sides of the Road, leading from the River, and the defile called the Gulph which I presume are well known to some part of your Hon[ora]ble body. This unexpected event obliged such of our Troops as had crossed to repass, and prevented our getting over till the succeeding night. This maneuver on the part of the Enemy was not in consequence of any information they had of our movement ?? but was designed to secure the pass whilst they were foraging in the Neighboring Country. They were met in their advance by Gen[era]l Potter with part of the Pennsylvania Militia who behaved with bravery and gave them every possible Opposition till they were obliged to retreat from their Superior numbers. Had we been *an* Hour sooner or had had the least intimat*ion of* the measure, I am persuaded we should have given his Lordship a fortunate stroke, or obliged him to have returned without effecting his purpose, or drawn out all General Howe's force to have supported him. Our first intelligence was, that it was nearly all out. He collected a good deal of Forage and returned to the City the Night we passed the River. [3] No discrimination marked his proceedings ?? all property, whether Friends or Foes, that came in their way was seized and carried off.
CONTINUED
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 7:16pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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PROOF COPY CONTINUED
Dec. 14, 1777
Enclosed is a copy of a letter from General Burgoyne by which you will perceive he requests leave to embark his troops at Rhode Island or at some place on the Sound, and in case this cannot be granted that he may be allowed to go there with his Suite and return from thence to England. His First proposition, as I have observed on a former occasion[,] is certainly inadmissible and for reasons obvious to himself. ?? As to the second which respects the departure of himself and suite, Congress will be pleased to determine upon it and to favor me with their Sentiments by the first opportunity that I may know what answer to give him. I learn from a Gentleman who has just come from Boston, that this Gentleman either holds or professes to hold very different ideas of our power than what he formerly entertained. That without reserve, he has said, it would be next to impossible for Britain to succeed in her views, and that he should with freedom declare his Sentiments accordingly on his arrival in England, and seemed to think the recognition of our Independence an eligible measure under a treaty of Commerce upon a large and extensive Scale. How far these professions are founded in Sincerity it is not easy to determine: -- But if they are, what a mighty change. While I am on the subject of Mr. Burgoyne & his army, I would submit it to Congress, whether it will not be right & reasonable, that all expenses incurred on their account for provisions, etc., should be paid and satisfied previous to their embarkation and departure. I mean by an actual deposit of the money. Unless this is done, there will be little reason to suppose, that it will ever be paid. [4] They have failed, that is the Nation, in other instances as I have been told after liquidating their accounts and giving the fullest certificates, and we cannot expect that they will keep better faith with us than with Others. The payment too, I should apprehend ought to be in Coin, as it will enable us to administer releif [sic] to our Unfortunate Officers and men who are in Captivity.
(Name / Title / Signature)
END PROOF COPY
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 7:43pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Damn, I hate it when people make such long paragraphs... [smiley=doh.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 7:48pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Terry_Penrod (13 JUL 2010 7:14pm)
"PROOF COPY"
t/l; d/r
I jest, Sir. I will address your thoughtful verbage anon. However, one cannot assume that I wouldn't be posting as a Paleolith at that time.
Cave scratchin's, anyone?
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 8:16pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By Mark (13 JUL 2010 7:48pm)
Originally Posted By Terry_Penrod (13 JUL 2010 7:14pm)
"PROOF COPY"
t/l; d/r
I jest, Sir. I will address your thoughtful verbage anon. However, one cannot assume that I wouldn't be posting as a Paleolith at that time.
Cave scratchin's, anyone?
Once you have approved the above letter as General Washington, please tell us all about the advent of technology in 2.5 million BC.
Did you get a chance to meet the inventor of the first stone-age tools and were his (or her) marketing materials and tech manuals as poorly written as today's?
Hey, it's tough finding jobs in this economy and I'd jump at the chance to travel back in time for some steady work - even if it is pays in animal hides.
Cheers, Terry
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 8:17pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Maybe if you played the Space Quest games, you'd look more fondly at your plunger.
http://www.spacequest.net/
Mark...er...George,
Why aren't you wearing your wig? It makes you look less unkempt (more kempt?).
Tert...er...Terry,
Proof of what? Verbosity?
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 8:34pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By LadyKestrel (13 JUL 2010 8:17pm)
...
Tert...er...Terry,
Proof of what? Verbosity?
Hey, talk to old George over there. He's the one that wrote the letter back in 1777.
Cheers, Terry
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 8:42pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By LadyKestrel (13 JUL 2010 8:17pm)
Trav,
Maybe if you played the Space Quest games, you'd look more fondly at your plunger.
http://www.spacequest.net/
Aaargh! The Space Quest games. Not a very happy memory for me. The only one I ever tried, waaay back when I wuz a teeny tot, I just couldn't progress beyond the starting screen. I just couldn't figure out what to do... :-[
I think I even kept the disc as a badge of shame.
On the bright side, being a masochist, I recently bought the Space Quest Collection for Windows XP. I've just taken it off my shelf, and I see that the blurb says: "A long time ago in a janitor closet far far away..." and yes, there is our beautiful plunger, on the front cover, all shiny and heroic, being held up in triumph as if it was Excalibur... [smiley=laughing.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 13 JUL 2010 at 11:12pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | A tourist, Erich Von Daniken, stumbles upon Mark's cave scriblings and reaches some alarming conclusions which, when published, make him millions of dollars - to Mark's everlasting annoyance.
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| 14 JUL 2010 at 6:20am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (13 JUL 2010 5:54pm)
Originally Posted By SirDave (13 JUL 2010 5:47pm)
Welcome to the forum Traveler. I notice from your post count that you're new here.
No, not new, it's just that I don't post a lot. [smiley=angel.gif]
Not to worry. I am a great Grand Inquisitor. One day, even a janitor can achieve such greatness. And remember, when everything gets backed up, everyone wants a plunger.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 14 JUL 2010 at 8:15am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Not to worry. I am a great Grand Inquisitor. One day, even a janitor can achieve such greatness. And remember, when everything gets backed up, everyone wants a plunger.
Which finds its real life echo in this little news item about London's sewers..... [smiley=boggled.gif]
more than a plunger job
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| 14 JUL 2010 at 10:56am |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (14 JUL 2010 6:20am)
And remember, when everything gets backed up, everyone wants a plunger.
A time machine's pretty useful, too, so I'm not surprised if Jen would rather trade in her plunger sooner than later.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 14 JUL 2010 at 12:39pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Location: US
Status : Offline | I'd prefer the time machine anytime. So how's it, Mark, want to trade a time machine for my beautiful, extremely useful , intergalactic plunger? You might just get to save the world with it, you know...
..or London - judging by Caroline's link... [smiley=eww.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 14 JUL 2010 at 1:32pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Looks like we're in need of another FOUR WORD THREAD..... gotta get poor Traveler out from under her plunger before she runs off into the mists of time with Mark who, as we all know, is as old and as unkempt as only an Intergalactic Time Lord can be.......
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