They came, They went

[EarlyMorningLight]

I’ve been here for more than a decade and a half, and I’m still delighted by Aussie colloquialisms.

 

[Thefireflies]

Never had a mullett. Did the hippy long hair thing at school and uni, then got barber cuts when I started working.

Now it's a No.2 razor out in the back garden, doing my best Sean Connery impression, but with stubble, not a moustache.

Sorry EB, I didn’t actually think you might have a mullet, but whenever I hear the song Electric Blue, or see any reference to it, I can’t help but think 1980s rock mullets! And saxophone solos, a la, Electric Blue!

 

[jaykaythree]

This Yank can identify the states and the two territories, and a rough placing (within about 50 km) of their capitals -- and that pretty much exhausts my knowledge.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Sorry EB, I didn’t actually think you might have a mullet, but whenever I hear the song Electric Blue, or see any reference to it, I can’t help but think 1980s rock mullets! And saxophone solos, a la, Electric Blue!

Excellent that you know Electric Blue!

I saw Icehouse earlier this year, doing a fortieth anniversary tour of Great Southern Land. Iva Davies still rocks it, looking pretty cool in a black leather jacket.

When I was at uni in the late seventies, Flowers (as they were then) often did a double ended gig with Chrissie Amphlett and the Divinyls. Each band would play a set, the audience would turn and face the other end of the room, and the other band would start playing. Two sets each for five bucks.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Also because it's down south.

When I was at uni, in Canberra, folk from Victoria were known as Mexicans, coz they were from south of the border.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I’m enjoying the profiles discussion. BTW, mine is true but intentionally so anonymized, it doesn't actually matter. We all should be cautious on the internet as a whole, and more so on a site like this.

But still. Wtf was the question? I'm not really convinced it was about profiles. From Cemeteries to stories to whether profiles are real or not to mental illness (more on this later.) And masks and commutes and 2016. Plus the title, “they came they went.” Perhaps the masks should be made of tin foil?

Irony alert too: It's also one post and gone by the OP.

I'd never put my name and photo on here, although I do have my name on my mostly inactive Facebook page. Now some people truly put way too much personal info on that site.

I'm not worried that I've got some blocks to pin down my location for Lit - at least forty square blocks, but I'm not going to count them, plus thousands and thousands of residents. I'm more worried about his kind of thing, which happens every day:

Riders robbed at gunpoint.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Excellent that you know Electric Blue!

I saw Icehouse earlier this year, doing a fortieth anniversary tour of Great Southern Land. Iva Davies still rocks it, looking pretty cool in a black leather jacket.

When I was at uni in the late seventies, Flowers (as they were then) often did a double ended gig with Chrissie Amphlett and the Divinyls. Each band would play a set, the audience would turn and face the other end of the room, and the other band would start playing. Two sets each for five bucks.

Obviously this. I have heard the song, but not in a while.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Oh, trying to show your Australian credibility? I heard Midnight Oil's Beds Are Burning on the jukebox of a Long Island bar while getting stood up by my Internet "date."

Four-wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore east to Yuendumu.

I wonder if they still make Holdens? A fictionalized version of the story is here: Love Is The Drug

eh? i lived there for a time. dad had a ford falcon at the time.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Obviously this. I have heard the song, but not in a while.

Yep, same tour, earlier this year.

 

[Ambient4190]

my suggestion is to leave the Age field blank on the author's profile....that way, you the author, are forever young in the mind of the reader who checks out your bio after falling in love/lust with one of your stories....

 

[gunhilltrain]

my suggestion is to leave the Age field blank on the author's profile....that way, you the author, are forever young in the mind of the reader who checks out your bio after falling in love/lust with one of your stories....

I'd rather they know my age and thus guess, I hope, that I have enough experience to have some idea of what I'm talking about.

 

[gunhilltrain]

eh? i lived there for a time. dad had a ford falcon at the time.

Holden was part of General Motors. I'd have to check to see if they even operate there any longer. How about Ford?

 

[BronzePlaceWriter]

…..sometimes it feels like walking thru a cemetery when I do a deep dive into Literotica’s libraries. I pause at the headstones that look interesting or the names that catch my eye. Yeah. This is porn site. I get it.
Would you say more than 65%, 75% of the content in the author profiles are BS? 90%? I read that some authors have more than one profile for various reasons. Now that masks are no longer required, long workdays & stressful commutes are my life. I appreciate anyone who takes the time to share a story. It is the bio which mentions health or mental health issues combined with a most recent story 2016 or older that makes me wonder…..

I mean, it may be morbid but if you think about it almost any old site is part graveyard. We all have profiles, stories and posts here on the forum. Through those things we create a trail and a legacy which will endure after we no longer post here. Sometimes, we move on or find other things to do. Sometimes, something big happens - good or bad - and by the time it's dealt with, we're no longer the same person.

Sometimes, we die. We could die young of an emergency or an accident. A tragedy could befall any one of us and all the rest would know is simply that we stopped posting. Our profile and our stories would sit, silent and brooding. An unknown memorial to a person no longer among the living. Years would pass, and we might be forgotten here. But now and then, when someone stumbles across and enjoys one of the stories we wrote, a little part of us lives again in them.

That is what it means to be a writer, to form a connection with your reader. You can create something which endures beyond yourself. I truly do believe that this is one of the very core fundamentals of what makes humans human. Connection. Relationship. The ability for someone long dead to reach out and touch your heart or mind.

Any site which grows old enough will have hundreds of members who simply vanish. How many of them are dead, I wonder? How many tombs do we have and not even know it?

 

[Rustyoznail]

Holden was part of General Motors. I'd have to check to see if they even operate there any longer. How about Ford?

Holden has gone the same way as Plymouth in the USA. Exists as a service centre only. GM are importing some specialised vehicles - Camaros and Silverados. Ford still exists as an importer.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Holden was part of General Motors. I'd have to check to see if they even operate there any longer. How about Ford?

Holden FJ and FX: classics. dunno, i don't live there anymore!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Holden was part of General Motors. I'd have to check to see if they even operate there any longer. How about Ford?

Ford assemble cars from kits, as do Toyota, but no there's no car manufacturing left in Australia.

Holden is gone from Australia, all the dealerships closed a couple of years ago. The last gasp was badging something from Germany, but that's over.

Surprisingly though, Australia manufactures the Bushmaster, an armoured troop carrier, twenty of which have been shipped to Ukraine. Go figure.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Ford doesn’t even assemble kits. They all come in on a ship.

We can certainly design and build good things. Kenworth, Iveco, and Volvo /Mack trucks are built here.

 

[Ambient4190]

..sounds like a good number of authors have an SO who is aware they publish on this site. When the author dies, how does the site handle IF that significant other comes forward? Death Certificate required? From a risk standpoint I imagine the site would respond. But for those authors who don't have one, the stories sit....It is sad after reading a great story to view the bio and have the thought 'Oh, (insert pronoun here) is most likely deceased'. Leave the Age field blank...just my two cents...

 

[oggbashan]

I will leave instructions for my youngest, most tech-savvy daughter to announce my decease, probably as jeanne_d_artois and to amend my bio to show the year of my death.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I had a offer from a fellow writer to be my literary executor, but he disappeared into some far Earth orbit, so that won't work.

If I disappear suddenly it'll be because I've been hit by a truck. But, if all goes to plan, I'll have plenty of time to sort something out.

Mind you, Lit will only be accessible through the Wayback Machine and the Guttenberg Archives by then, unless someone gets it into the Library of Congress as a cultural artefact in the meantime. Which it should be.

 

[gunhilltrain]

..sounds like a good number of authors have an SO who is aware they publish on this site. When the author dies, how does the site handle IF that significant other comes forward? Death Certificate required? From a risk standpoint I imagine the site would respond. But for those authors who don't have one, the stories sit....It is sad after reading a great story to view the bio and have the thought 'Oh, (insert pronoun here) is most likely deceased'. Leave the Age field blank...just my two cents...

I can't find where you said this, that this is a porn site - but this site has porn on it but supposedly it's more than that. I'm not going to try to define the difference between erotica and porn (I don't even know what it is exactly), but I know a true porn site when I see one.

I don't care what the readers think about my age or impending mortality. I also don't care about deceased authors and what the site does with their profiles and whether or not they are replaced one for one. That's the site's problem, if it is a problem, not mine. Ultimately, I have no control over whether or not the site survives in the long run. It's been around for over two decades, which is good enough for me.

 

[Aavvaa]

Mine is pretty accurate, but as a woman, I feel like I have to guard specific details. It's the world we live in.

Yeah, I used to be at a site that is academic in nature, as well as 90% male. I was getting hit on by the moderators within a week.

 

[Voboy]

Yeah, I used to be at a site that is academic in nature, as well as 90% male. I was getting hit on by the moderators within a week.

Lol. Bolded/italicized is the best part.

 

[Aavvaa]

Excellent that you know Electric Blue!

Electric blue was also the name of a 1970s era European (maybe Swedish?) porn series.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Electric blue was also the name of a 1970s era European (maybe Swedish?) porn series.

I think I vaguely knew that. There might have been a magazine, too, with a similar title.