Actually, I'm not sure I've ever
seen anyone go out in a blaze quite like this.
*coughhorkhackamyjocoughcoughhackhork*
quote:
This was something else entirely.
I've never seen anyone burn bridges quite like this. I've also never seen such an
overwhelming "Good riddance" response.
*coughhorkhackamyjocoughcoughhackhork*
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feet. ~~~~ aspiring stewardess, Catch Me If You Can
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4535 | From: Off the Beaten Path | Registered: Mar 2000
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Actually, I'm not sure I've ever
seen anyone go out in a blaze quite like this.
*coughhorkhackamyjocoughcoughhackhork*
quote:
This was something else entirely.
I've never seen anyone burn bridges quite like this. I've also never seen such an
overwhelming "Good riddance" response.
*coughhorkhackamyjocoughcoughhackhork*
True. But with much less
profanity.
Hey, Christie's got brownies!
tag brownies....drool... urit
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5828 | From: Michigan | Registered: Mar 2000 |
Originally posted by Four Kitties: ...and is there coffee?
Lo, Allison The Repentant,
strode upon the landscape declaiming joy upon those who worship caffeine, saying
"This, drink, in remembrance of the Clueless, of which we are all members someday.
And the brethen rose up as one, and shouted "Yea, we believe in the powers of
cookies and coffee!"
And they partook of the abundance of cookies and coffee and stated "it is
good."
The Book of Allison (always wanted to have one of those)
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If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
Originally posted by Four Kitties: We accept anyone with cookies, anyone willing to eat cookies, and anyone willing
to discuss whether or not they shouldn't be eating cookies, well maybe just one, and is
there coffee?
*making small noises*
*dancing in circles*
Four Five Kitties, High Priestess
I baked banana bread last night,
will that do? It's not from a mix, it's actual homemade banana bread....and I can make
cookies later.
Oh...and I can Happy Dance, too......
Ms. "and I like to eat cookies...really, really like to eat cookies" K
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Yuck! No MUSHY stuff, please...
-Little Miss K
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176 | From: Somewhere in the Milky Way | Registered: Jul 2003
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Why exactly would Jenn be a bitchupmyass? Could it be because Kyo was being increasingly
inflammatory and vulgar? I can understand making heated statements about something that
one holds dear to one's heart....but on a daily basis? That's the point where at least I
start to question whether there is a need for anger management therapy, or if someone's
psychotropics need to be adjusted.
So, that being said, congratulations, Jenn...you've proven your worth as a bitchupmyass.
Ms. "or at least, up far enough to bother someone with a stick placed firmly there
already" K
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Yuck! No MUSHY stuff, please...
-Little Miss K
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176 | From: Somewhere in the Milky Way | Registered: Jul 2003
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Originally posted by Ms.
Kandlestick in the Library:
Why exactly would Jenn be a bitchupmyass?
And the prophet spake among
them, saying
"Lo, "bitchupmyass" shall ever refer to those who call thee on thy idocy
and bullNFBSK."
And the followers did speak "Oh, Leader, tell us more."
And the prophet did continue " Those who would be a "bitchupmyass" shall
ever strive for goodness and reason and logic, though such striving shall piss off the
recipients of such."
The multitiudes pondered shortly, and then stated, "Prophet, clarify."
And the prophet stated, "Those who pontificate crap shall receive crap in the
end."
Thus speaks the book of Jenn, in the Church of the Clueless.
Alli "I am SO going to hell" The Repentant
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If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
Originally posted by laura
Clue-Simpson's Version: Some of her posts did seem pretty farfetched - the aforementioned boyfriend
dumping and cat-killin' incidents, along with the Vietnam vet who verbally acccosted her.
I've struggled to contain my
curiosity and failed... I should just let the Church of the Clueless tidy up and go but...
(did someone say banana bread? thanks! )
but, anyway, I'm sorry, I have to ask: not meaning to have a go at anyone (no seriously,
I'm not) -- but I recall seeing the cat killing and other threads, thinking to myself that
there was approximately a .000013% chance that they were true (I'd've been inclined to
believe the Vietnam vet one had I not been primed to disbelieve by the others, so I did
give that one a pretty hefty "benefit of the doubt").... but the majority of the
responses, even to the more outrageous ones, read as if the posters were taking them 100%
seriously. I'm not suggesting for a second that people should have publicly posted
"You're lying!" (especially given the infinitesimal chance that she might
actually have been telling the truth) ... but, doesn't acting as if such things are true
encourage the poster to create more elaborate tales? I suppose, on the other hand, if
these things really did happen, it would be cruel to just ignore the threads... but it
just seemed so unlikely... was it really just a case of "benefit of the
doubt" and "apply sympathy just in case"?
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1142 | From: 51.38 N, 2.35 W (ish) | Registered: Oct 2002
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That..That.. BITCH!
She stole my "fuck-you-go-to-hell-and-die" speech verbatim! Now how am I gonna
make my grand exit when those king bitches Jenn and Noemi get all up my ass? I HATE when
this happens.
No, Kyo! Please! Come Back! Please!
YOMANK to everybody's who's posted so far.The speak and spell bits really got me
chortling.
Lind"and don't come back!"iglo
Originally posted by Christie: Cookies? Did someone say cookies? I just happened to bake brownies today - and for
a wonder they turned out beautifully. I'm willing to share if anyone has a pot of tea on
the go, Earl Grey, hot .
my favourite!
::puts kettle on hob, waits for whistle::
::passes the teapot and creamer round::
Talk
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...Can you tell tripe from truth?
...Ever tell a lie.....?
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1338 | From: The West Riding of Yorkshire | Registered: Sep 2002
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Originally posted by ElphabaFaye: Slightly OT, but can DarkDan add EBMfH to the Snopes dictionary? I like that one,
and it seems like it will stick around for a while.
Updated! I was thinking of adding
something like "To pull a Kyoto-to get fed up with everyone and call people
names", but I don't think that's in good taste.
Dark"I also added ETA"Dan
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Add yourself to the SLC
BIRTHDAY LIST! (1/28/04)
but, anyway, I'm sorry, I have to
ask: not meaning to have a go at anyone (no seriously, I'm not) -- but I recall seeing the
cat killing and other threads, thinking to myself that there was approximately a .000013%
chance that they were true (I'd've been inclined to believe the Vietnam vet one had I not
been primed to disbelieve by the others, so I did give that one a pretty hefty
"benefit of the doubt").... but the majority of the responses, even to the more
outrageous ones, read as if the posters were taking them 100% seriously. I'm not
suggesting for a second that people should have publicly posted "You're lying!"
(especially given the infinitesimal chance that she might actually have been telling the
truth) ... but, doesn't acting as if such things are true encourage the poster to create
more elaborate tales? I suppose, on the other hand, if these things really did happen, it
would be cruel to just ignore the threads... but it just seemed so unlikely... was it
really just a case of "benefit of the doubt" and "apply sympathy just in
case"?
Ok, call me a gullible maroon if
you must, but I prefer to think of the best in people. Maybe I've just seen too much
weirdness, so weirdness seems truthful to me. I really thought this stuff must be
happening, especially when no one called "bullNFBSK". It wasn't until I saw a
few more of those unhinged rantings that I began to doubt. I kind of feel like my
compassion was taken advantage of, so if she really was a confabulist, well then, don't
let the door hit you on your posterior on the way out.
I think I've really proved my worth to the Church of the Clueless now, so here, have a box
of Samoas, courtesy of the Brownies.
Thorny "I've got extra Cappuccino, Clueless Ones" Rose
Shame - I really loved the I dyed my hair black and discovered I was Japanese...
thread - laughed my arse off at the goodbye speech - and speaking of arses, she seems to
have a thing about them - perhaps she'll find a board that better satisfies her thing for
arse.
Anyhoo - i'd just like to add that that was the best 'Spit the dummy' i've seen this side
of the DAF forums!
Posts:
614 | From: Khazad-dûm | Registered: Oct 2002 |
Originally posted by DarkDan: Updated! I was thinking of adding something like "To pull a Kyoto-to get fed
up with everyone and call people names", but I don't think that's in good taste.
Originally posted by ThornyRose: Ok, call me a gullible maroon if you must
It's a lot nicer than calling you
a gullible "moron" anyway (sorry, just teasing -- I can't resist
the opportunity to pick on a typo!)
No really, I didn't mean to "get at" anyone with my question -- it was a genuine
question, but I may have worded it poorly. ie, did people really believe that stuff or
were they just humouring her? And if it was the latter, then my thought was, it may seem
like the kind thing to do to begin with (ie to humour someone when they're telling you
what seems like a huge porky), but ultimately it would probably lead to greater delusions.
I think people like you who genuinely believed it are probably extremely trustworthy
themselves -- you wouldn't dream of spinning tales, so you find it hard to believe that
others would. It definitely doesn't deserve a label like "gullible moron".
I guess I was wondering how many people were like you (ie just took the posts at face
value), and how many were skeptical but thought they should just go along with it to be
polite (or something, maybe just to have a little fun ???). She sent me a PM once (can't
remember why), so I'd thought of sending her a PM sort of subtley suggesting that the
forum probably wasn't the best place to test out new story ideas and that I didn't think
many people were buying what she was trying to sell. But I couldn't think of a subtle or
polite way to do it, so I just opted to ignore her more fantastic posts.
(edited to expand explanation)
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1142 | From: 51.38 N, 2.35 W (ish) | Registered: Oct 2002
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Originally posted by laura
Clue-Simpson's Version: Trollface...TROLLFACE!? Good Lord, Trollface, you're one of the most fair posters
on this entire board - I mean, whenever you state your opinion, I always detect an
unspoken YMMV along with it. Not to mention that you take plenty of time to explain WHY
you feel the way you do.
Thank you very much. Count me
flattered. And, yes, I do try to have an implied "YMMV" when posting any
opinion. I'm always aware of the opinion/aresholes concurrence.
quote:
Cato said:
but the majority of the responses, even to the more outrageous ones, read as if the
posters were taking them 100% seriously.
Speaking personally, there was
enough doubt in my mind to stop me from posting in the first thread, and then I stopped
looking at the rest of the threads. I imagine that most people were giving her the benifit
of the doubt. There is, as you say, always the tiniest of possibilities that these
outlandish things may be true, and it is my belief that there are loads and loads of
people on these boards who are just good souls and have an almost infinite "benifit
of the doubtometer". People here are compassionate, and will help someone out, even
if they feel that it's unlikely that the person actually needs that help.
Personally, I'm a bit more callous than that (altohugh I'll just tend to stay out of it),
but it's one of the qualities that makes me very proud to be a long-time member here. It
also makes the taking advantage and exploitation of these qualities that much more ugly.
quote:
Col Furious said:
And isn't it "kyoko?"
Yes. And if this thread is just a
cry for attention, the fact that everyone's getting her name wrong must chafe somewhat.
quote:
Cato again:
It's a lot nicer than calling you a gullible "moron" anyway (sorry, just teasing
-- I can't resist the opportunity to pick on a typo!)
Actually, I believe that
ThornyRose was quoting Mr. Buggs Bunny, as he calls himself and others a
"maroon" on more than one occasion. This is possibly the right place to say that
I recently discovered that it wasn't, as I had assumed him saying "moron" in a
goofy way, but him actually being somewhat racist (not a charge I'm leveling at
ThornyRose). Maroon:
quote:
ma·roon1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key
(m-rn)
tr.v. ma·rooned, ma·roon·ing, ma·roons
To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.
To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were
marooned by the blizzard.
n.
often Maroon
A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A descendant of such a slave.
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You know, they tell you to never hit a man with a closed fist but it is, on occasion,
hilarious.
Originally posted by ThornyRose: Ok, call me a gullible maroon if you must
It's a lot nicer than calling you
a gullible "moron" anyway (sorry, just teasing -- I can't resist
the opportunity to pick on a typo!)
It's not a typo.
"Maroon" is commonly substituted for "moron" in old Warner Bros.
cartoons, and (IIRC) "Three Stooges" films.
Oops, sorry! I loved Bugs Bunny
when I was a kid, how can I have missed that reference?
Okay -- Gullible Maroon it is Thornyrose (although really, I don't think that title is
deserved either -- really, as trollface says, it's more a mark of an extremely
compassionate nature from my PoV )
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1142 | From: 51.38 N, 2.35 W (ish) | Registered: Oct 2002
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Originally posted by CatoSH:
No really, I didn't mean to "get at" anyone with my question -- it was a genuine
question, but I may have worded it poorly. ie, did people really believe that stuff or
were they just humouring her? And if it was the latter, then my thought was, it may seem
like the kind thing to do to begin with (ie to humour someone when they're telling you
what seems like a huge porky), but ultimately it would probably lead to greater delusions.
I think people like you who genuinely believed it are probably extremely trustworthy
themselves -- you wouldn't dream of spinning tales, so you find it hard to believe that
others would. It definitely doesn't deserve a label like "gullible moron".
I guess I was wondering how many people were like you (ie just took the posts at face
value), and how many were skeptical but thought they should just go along with it to be
polite (or something, maybe just to have a little fun ???). She sent me a PM once (can't
remember why), so I'd thought of sending her a PM sort of subtley suggesting that the
forum probably wasn't the best place to test out new story ideas and that I didn't think
many people were buying what she was trying to sell. But I couldn't think of a subtle or
polite way to do it, so I just opted to ignore her more fantastic posts.
(edited to expand explanation)
I think I only responded in the
cat thread. I noticed her initial rant but frankly thought "uh huh". The very
next day, after all the profane laced diatribe about how the authorities basically laughed
at her and did nothing, she posted about how the guy in question was being evicted.
I posted and very gently asked why she was still so angry with the authorites when they
have moved remarkably quickly IMO. I was trying to point out that her timeline of events
didn't jibe but I admit I couldn't come right out and say it and did dance around the
issue.
This is what makes me so angry with her little farewell speech. Most of us, I think, did
think she was lying, or at least exagerating some of the time, yet we gave her the benefit
of the doubt and many of us tried to be very supportive and helpful. In the fantastic
woe-is-my-life threads I don't recall anyone ever calling her a liar or telling her she
deserved what happened to her.
Ed. Oh I also responded in the profane laced one where she was supposed to bring her
wayward brother and her parents back together. That was the last straw one for me, it
sounded so much like a chapter in a novel that she was writing and was trying out on us
for our reactions.
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Sir Winston Churchill
Posts:
3547 | From: Canada | Registered: Nov 2001 |
Originally posted by RingKeeper: Can I join the church of the clueless? I've got chocolate chip cookies, the
homemade kind, and hot chocolate.
I'm not religious type myself, but
I was wondering if I could donate some chocolate mousse to this particular church...okay,
so it's an actual chocolate moose, and she's named Bullwinkle...but she does windows!!!!
And Linux, too!!!
(I'm sleep-deprived at the moment...do forgive the weirdity of this post).
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"It's 7:48. Time for all you people in Dundalk to move your El Caminos to the other
side of the street".
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822 | From: In an acid-washed tangerine dream | Registered: Jan 2002
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Want to know what
"Bookachow", "YOMANK!" and other lingo means? (1/28/04)
DarkDan, could you add YMMV? I'm
blond, and a member of the church of the clueless. I've had my coffee and pound cake this
morning, so I've got plenty of that caffeine and sugar going on, but still haven't figured
out YMMV. Someone chow me if need be.
Good-bye Kyo, we hardly knew ye.
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"I'm not leaving until I get a mummy hand."
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272 | From: somewhere in NC | Registered: Aug 2003 |
It's easy to join the church of
the clueless. Step 1: go somewhere. Step 2: ask where the cookies are. In my case it was a
Victoria's Secret. I'm very thankful for fellow churchmembers bailing me out of jail.
Back to the topic at hand, this is why whenever I have disappeared for months at a time
(something I've done at least three or four times), I never make a post about it. I just
bottle up all the hate and anger and resentment inside, which is why I've never ever
called trollface a nfbsking nfbsk who nfbsk nfbsk's. That way people don't roll their eyes
when I leave, nor do they shun me when I come back. Everyone wins.
I kid! I kid because I love. Actually, disappearing without posting anything seems to be
almost as bad a way to leave the boards. Once in a while during my absence from the
boards, dad would mention that people were asking about me. It's just I would go through
cycles where I either couldn't come to snopes due to my schedule or just couldn't think of
anything interesting to say (I still can't, but it doesn't stop me from posting at this
point in the cycle).
I guess we need a happy medium. You know, post something to let people know you won't be
around, but you're ok. Allow for a maximum of two to three curse words reserved for those
whom have offended you. Don't single out posters, because those you accidentally leave out
will feel neglected. Instead, post something like, "Some of you people have made my
life a living hell, and you know who you are." That way anyone who thinks they belong
to that group can assume it is so.
Follow my guidelines and you are sure to have a much easier transition in your post snopes
existence.
Mack da "and for the record, trollface is NOT a nfbsking nfbsk" Knife
Posts:
350 | From: Atlanta, GA | Registered: Dec 2002 |
Originally posted by DarkDan: I was thinking of adding something like "To pull a Kyoto-to get fed up with
everyone and call people names", but I don't think that's in good taste.
Hey! You can't just go off willy
nilly and make up terms on your own. You need consensus, or at least a few yays, or
flinging up of hands.
Or bring cookies. Snopesters are easily bribed.
tag
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Posts:
5828 | From: Michigan | Registered: Mar 2000 |
Lo, I come unto thee little more than a heathen. I have done many deeds of cluelessness
through my time on this planet, but, yea, verily, the light has shone upon me.
Yea, though I walk through the shadow of the Valley of bad ULs, I shall fear no rumors.
Thy MB and PM, they comfort me, they soothe my soul. Thy makest for me a cookie in the
presence of mine enemies, my keyboard runneth over. Yea, goodness and knowledge shall
follow me all the rest of my life.
ETA- Cookie, anyone? I've a nice batch of double chocolate chunk cooling, and I still have
the bowl if anyone wants to lick the spoon.
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By the time you read this, you'll have already read it.
Seriously, the boards here seem to have dipped a bit into vulgar territory. I'm not a
prude or anything, but I was a bit shocked at the casual profanity I was seeing in some
posts. I don't remember that being the case at all back when I was posting regularly ages
ago.
I agree. When I first started
lurking here, and afterword started posting, I was impressed by the lack of swearwords
posted. The occasional NFBSK was posted but rarely a vulgarity. Seems to have picked up
somewhat. *shrug* I am not a power user or anything but I feel that I have been here long
enough to suggest the we all try to remember snopes and Barbra's basic rules of order.
Ranger "**** Not a sermon, just a thought" Dog
**** 20 points for the obscure, localized reference!!!!
-------------------- To be a Virginian either by Birth, Marriage, Adoption, or even on one's Mother's side,
is an Introduction to any State in the Union, a Passport to any Foreign country and a
Benediction from Above. —Anonymous
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410 | From: Home of Peanuts, Pork, and Pines | Registered: Jul 2002
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