Cycles

[Ferris]

1) The cycles of this board are intriguing, friends become enemies and then friends again, people come and people go (What ever happened to Rick Deville, any way?) and the general mood of the board also swings between highs and lows.

2) And has anyone enjoyed a good opera experience lately?




(I don't post much and when I do I'm economical)

 

[mig]

No2.

If you mean Grand Opera,it's impossible.

if you mean G&S yes.

 

[kotori]

Joe Green's Opera

I'm going to see Verdi's Falstaff this weekend--I'll get back to you.

 

[OUTSIDER]

1) The cycles of this board are intriguing, friends become enemies and then friends again, people come and people go (What ever happened to Rick Deville, any way?) and the general mood of the board also swings between highs and lows.

2) And has anyone enjoyed a good opera experience lately?




(I don't post much and when I do I'm economical)

For a newbie you have a very good grasp of the BB.......I look forward to reading more of your posts.

 

[cymbidia]

This is an interesting observation coming from someone who seems so new to posting here, Ferris. Have you been lurking a long time, perhaps, or had experience in other slipstream places somewhat like Lit?

I've just been discussing this very phenimena with one or two others via pm conversations. I think that the GB is going into one of its transitory fluff phases.

We've just come out of a time of real hostilities, a time of ugly, incendiary, intercine warfare that dragged even often stubbornly non-combatants into the carnage, if only to protest the continuing nastiness. Additionally, and suddenly, there are a bunch, and i mean a bunch of newbies around, many of them fluffy-seeming types. (I'm really not downing fluff. Fluff is fun and cheery and upbeat, mostly. It's just, well, for me, a steady diet of fluff leaves me craving some substance. )

I think that the fluffy, snuggly, huggy types are gonna rule the roost for awhile. Then the politicos will be back... and then some new outbreak of some new kinda hostilities... and then back to the snuggly stuff.

We run in cycles.
We always have, from the somewhat short-sighted perspective that my almost-a-year gives me, anyway.

I just pray to all the gods listening that the dollies don't come back. We're done with them, right? Right? RIGHT?




I watched The Vagina Monologues on HBO last night but i don't think they'd qualify as a soap opera. Who needs one when we have... this.

And welcome to Lit, Ferris.
Good observation. Good thread topic. We've done it before, of course. (We've done everything before.) But this is a good time to kick this one back up into the front part of the collective mind that is Lit's Page 1 Threads.

 

[daedalos]

Additionally, and suddenly, there are a bunch, and i mean a bunch of newbies around, many of them fluffy-seeming types. (I'm really not downing fluff. Fluff is fun and cheery and upbeat, mostly. It's just, well, for me, a steady diet of fluff leaves me craving some substance. )

I think that the fluffy, snuggly, huggy types are gonna rule the roost for awhile. Then the politicos will be back... and then some new outbreak of some new kinda hostilities... and then back to the snuggly stuff.

We run in cycles.
We always have, from the somewhat short-sighted perspective that my almost-a-year gives me, anyway.

I just pray to all the gods listening that the dollies don't come back. We're done with them, right? Right? RIGHT?




So what counts as "fluff"? Also, what are dollies?

Just curious

 

[cymbidia]

What is fluff?
What are dollies?


Good questions. Sometime we who've been around awhile tend to forget how troublesome and confusing such terms were when we first arrived.


Fluff
Generally, used as a noun, the term "fluff" refers to the overall tone of posts, whether they be from a particular individual, a certain thread, or an attitude that seems to be permeating much of the Board.

Fluff is... fluffy. It's light. It's not an idea or thread topic of enduring substance. It's not something that generates much, if any, controversy.

Here are examples of fluff threads:
"What are you wearing right NOW?"
"Anal, Oral, or Vaginal?"
"What is your middle name and do you like it?
"Coke or Pepsi: you make the call."
"I just love it when..."
"What kind of sounds do you make when you're orgasming?"
"What do you wear when you want to impress him on a first date?"

You get the drift, i assume.

There are those who never venture far from such fluff. They're generally happy and kindly people, too, i'm sure.

Dollies
"Dollies" are insidious, ugly, all-alike, scary av's that bloomed into life here last summer. The number of them overwhelmed some of us and the eventual triumph of the Forces Against Dollies (FAD) have left some of us scarred and scared, jumping at any shadow that looks like a dollie. We fear them in the dark of our nightmares, fear them regrouping, rearming, and returning again to threaten us with their monotonous sameness, their deadening similarity, no matter what hair color or clothing differences they might sport.

(CB had the only really original dolly.
She's exempted from the dolly-terror that still grips many of us.)

Go do a SEARCH for "dollies" or "dolly" and try to find threads from last July, August, September that relate to the issue. Only, though, if you aren't afraid of the dark...

 

[CelestialBody]

Speaking of...

 

[riff]

I have been thinking of buying one myself. Maybe ride it to Pallo Alto this summer or somewhere.

Nope, haven't seen an opera in a very long time.

 

[Mensa]

Re: Speaking of...

I went looking for it-can't find it anywhere. Slightly concerned I appear to have lost my cd of pictures for sharing.

Which pics were those, dollies or the drop-dead gorgeous actresses?

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[cymbidia]

I have been thinking of buying one myself. Maybe ride it to Pallo Alto this summer or somewhere.

Are you going to Stanford in the fall? Why wold anyone pick Palo Alto if they're not going to Stanford? They'd pick San Francisco or Napa or even San Jose before they'd pick Palo Alto, i think.

Just curious...
What's in Palo Alto besides Stanford?

 

[Mensa]

Both

Somebody, who shall remain nameless to avoid humiliation, should clean out her pm's so other people could get in touch with her.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I'm not fluffy, I eat dollies for lunch, and my father graduated from Stanford. Of course, considering that it's my father it's not much of a recommendation. The man is a waste of hemoglobin.

So. Yes, this board goes in cycles. Just like everything else in humanity. We're an extremely circular or cyclical species. I think it has a lot to do with our need for closure and circadian rhythms.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Guest]

I'm not fluffy, I eat dollies for lunch, and my father graduated from Stanford. Of course, considering that it's my father it's not much of a recommendation. The man is a waste of hemoglobin.

So. Yes, this board goes in cycles. Just like everything else in humanity. We're an extremely circular or cyclical species. I think it has a lot to do with our need for closure and circadian rhythms.

KillerM:

I love your Edge! The above made me laugh so much that I'm still grinning after five minutes.

 

[cymbidia]

Methinks Muffie is on some kinda alliteration kick.
Watch out D's!

 

[Jimi]

I'm still...

Shit - why does this Board sometimes decide to turn me into a Troll? I don't live under no Granville Island Bridge, Dammit!

KillerM, you are Mahvellous, Dahling! May I steal the "waste of haemoglobin" please?

At the risk of echoing the acerbic tone... My best friend (lives in Toronto) has a tall, willowy blonde wife from Menlo Park/PaloAlto - she is just too much, sometimes... I love her dearly, but she's always whining. Esp. about her Volvo, $700K house and being a fulltime Mommy. the image of your "bloodless" father just cracked me up!

Some of us aren't as blessed with your wit - including me... I kneel before you, Oh Great Minerva of lotusLand!

 

[Ferris]

Answers

I've lurked for sometime, as I could never see myself answering a thread with an original thought before anybody else, I just didn't consider registering. Then, sometime in January, I did and I've been posting non stop since then.
(Somebody stop me, I'll get to 50 posts sometime in April/May)

As a long time fan of the Lord High Executioner and, of course, The Three Little Maids from School, I enjoy G&S in moderation.

However, for an emotional and artistc high, I enjoy Madam Butterfly, La Boheme etc etc.

Natural life is based on cycles, humans either because we are part of nature (doubtful) or we just never ever learn from the past.