Randomness 4, Randomness Rebooted

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:57 pm

Yep.

Serves you right, Gio, for not being a slave to the mb and putting it above all other things!!!!

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:00 pm

bobtheenchantedone wrote:Yep.

Serves you right, Gio, for not being a slave to the mb and putting it above all other things!!!!

Yeah, where are your priorities?

(The funny thing is that this was one of Dart's arguments)

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:05 pm

Yeah... I was working all day yesterday, so... I didn't really bother to read the debates and stuff. I'm not gonna lie.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:06 pm

I ate the grossest tasting meatballs for lunch today. Blech. I still get queasy just thinking about it. . .

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:08 pm

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Yeah... I was working all day yesterday, so... I didn't really bother to read the debates and stuff. I'm not gonna lie.

It doesn't matter, our side won.

D'artagnan · Post by **D'artagnan** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:12 pm

Nanti-SARRMM wrote:
Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Yeah... I was working all day yesterday, so... I didn't really bother to read the debates and stuff. I'm not gonna lie.
It doesn't matter, our side won.

You still view me as the enemy don't you? Didn't I say somewhere that I wanted to avoid the semblance of American politics? And look what has happened, we have enacted the complete election process almost to a tit. Although I decided to not vote for myself, so I wonder if Bob or Goober voted for me...

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:13 pm

D'artagnan wrote: You still view me as the enemy don't you? Didn't I say somewhere that I wanted to avoid the semblance of American politics? And look what has happened, we have enacted the complete election process almost to a tit. Although I decided to not vote for myself, so I wonder if Bob or Goober voted for me...

I must say you draw weird and odd parallels to current events.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:15 pm

I just want you to know that I hate you all.

D'artagnan · Post by **D'artagnan** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:18 pm

bobtheenchantedone wrote:I just want you to know that I hate you all.

And I thought I was beginning to be redeemed... I'll tone things down. Sorry.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:20 pm

D'artagnan wrote:
bobtheenchantedone wrote:I just want you to know that I hate you all.
And I thought I was beginning to be redeemed... I'll tone things down. Sorry.

At least I'm still viewing you on the same level as everyone else.

D'artagnan · Post by **D'artagnan** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:22 pm

bobtheenchantedone wrote:
D'artagnan wrote:
bobtheenchantedone wrote:I just want you to know that I hate you all.
And I thought I was beginning to be redeemed... I'll tone things down. Sorry.
At least I'm still viewing you on the same level as everyone else.

... You do realize that means you hate me like everyone else right? Or do you mean you view me as just another member of the message board. If it is the latter, I thank you for your patience.

Also, if you like, I'll stop calling you Miss Enchantedone.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:26 pm

bobtheenchantedone wrote:I just want you to know that I hate you all.

Dear bob,

Why's that?

Yours truly,
Gio

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:26 pm

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:
bobtheenchantedone wrote:I just want you to know that I hate you all.
Dear bob,

Why's that?

Yours truly,
Gio

I would like to know as well please.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:36 pm

You know, this bickering between Nanti and D'art reminds me of a story I read not too long ago.

My grandmother had an enemy named Mrs. Wilcox. Grandma and Mrs. Wilcox moved, as brides, into next-door houses on the main street of the tiny town in which they were to live out their lives. I donâ€™t know what started the war between themâ€”and I donâ€™t think that by the time I came along, over thirty years later, they remembered themselves what started it. This was no polite sparring match; this was total war. â€¦

Nothing in town escaped repercussion. The 300-year-old church, which had lived through the Revolution, the Civil War, and the Spanish War, almost went down when Grandma and Mrs. Wilcox fought the Battle of the Ladiesâ€™ Aid. Grandma won that engagement, but it was a hollow victory. Mrs. Wilcox, since she couldnâ€™t be president, resigned [from the Aid] in a huff. Whatâ€™s the fun of running a thing if you canâ€™t force your enemy to eat crow? Mrs. Wilcox won the Battle of the Public Library, getting her niece, Gertrude, appointed librarian instead of Aunt Phyllis. The day Gertrude took over was the day Grandma stopped reading library books. They became â€˜filthy germy thingsâ€™ overnight. The Battle of the High School was a draw. The principal got a better job and left before Mrs. Wilcox succeeded in having him ousted or Grandma in having him given life tenure of office.

When as children we visited my grandmother, part of the fun was making faces at Mrs. Wilcoxâ€™s grandchildren. One banner day we put a snake into the Wilcox rain barrel. My grandmother made token protests, but we sensed tacit sympathy.

Donâ€™t think for a minute that this was a one-sided campaign. Mrs. Wilcox had grandchildren, too. Grandma didnâ€™t get off scot free. Never a windy washday went by that the clothesline didnâ€™t mysteriously break, with the clothes falling in the dirt.

I donâ€™t know how Grandma could have borne her troubles so long if it hadnâ€™t been for the household page of her daily Boston newspaper. This household page was a wonderful institution. Besides the usual cooking hints and cleaning advice, it had a department composed of letters from readers to each other. The idea was that if you had a problemâ€”or even only some steam to blow offâ€”you wrote a letter to the paper, signing some fancy name like Arbutus. That was Grandmaâ€™s pen name. Then some of the other ladies who had the same problem wrote back and told you what they had done about it, signing themselves One Who Knows or Xanthippe or whatever. Very often, the problem disposed of, you kept on for years writing to each other through the column of the paper, telling each other about your children and your canning and your new dining-room suite. Thatâ€™s what happened to Grandma. She and a woman called Sea Gull corresponded for a quarter of a century. Sea Gull was Grandmaâ€™s true friend.

When I was about sixteen, Mrs. Wilcox died. In a small town, no matter how much you have hated your next-door neighbor, it is only common decency to run over and see what practical service you can do the bereaved. Grandma, neat in a percale apron to show that she meant what she said about being put to work, crossed the lawn to the Wilcox house, where the Wilcox daughters set her to cleaning the already-immaculate front parlor for the funeral. And there on the parlor table in the place of honor was a huge scrapbook; and in the scrapbook, pasted neatly in parallel columns were Grandmaâ€™s letters to Sea Gull over the years and Sea Gullâ€™s letters to her. Though neither woman had known it, Grandmaâ€™s worst enemy had been her best friend. That was the only time I remember seeing my grandmother cry. I didnâ€™t know then exactly what she was crying about, but I do now. She was crying for all the wasted years which could never be salvaged.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:38 pm

Wait, so Dart and Sam are best friends, but they don't know it? But that is true. We don't know what Dart has against Sam.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:39 pm

Fredjikrang wrote:You know, this bickering between Nanti and D'art reminds me of a story I read not too long ago.

And if Dart was a girl, people would be saying that we are fighting like an old married couple.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:40 pm

D'artagnan wrote:
bobtheenchantedone wrote:
D'artagnan wrote: And I thought I was beginning to be redeemed... I'll tone things down. Sorry.
At least I'm still viewing you on the same level as everyone else.
... You do realize that means you hate me like everyone else right? Or do you mean you view me as just another member of the message board. If it is the latter, I thank you for your patience.

Also, if you like, I'll stop calling you Miss Enchantedone.

Yes, I did mean that I hate you like everyone else. I thought it was funny.

And I don't mind being called Miss Enchantedone.

Unit of Energy · Post by **Unit of Energy** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:47 pm

bobtheenchantedone wrote:I just want you to know that I hate you all.

But why? What did I ever do to you? I sincerely apologize for any pain or grievance I may have caused you.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:06 pm

Well, I was talking with Bob, and she does have a great point.

So Dart, I am going to put all that hostility behind me and treat you with the same respect that any new member should be treated with. So I apologize for my behavior

D'artagnan · Post by **D'artagnan** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:19 pm

Nanti-SARRMM wrote:Well, I was talking with Bob, and she does have a great point.

So Dart, I am going to put all that hostility behind me and treat you with the same respect that any new member should be treated with. So I apologize for my behavior

I accept your apology, on the condition that you don't make fun of my twitterpation with/of Goober.