# A Conversation with Bjorn **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229 "2000-04-07T14:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/21 "2000-04-08T18:47:00Z")
Sorry. I didn’t realize that no spaces would make the screen go really long . I’ll try to rectify this by using up a lot of space. But, hey, it’s just “my style” and my opinion is true. buCky ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/22 "2000-04-08T21:01:00Z")
People… It’s painful enough to be recovering from a hysterectomy. It’s painful enough to read Bj0rn and Bj0rn pastiches. But when you make the screen scroll, it’s unbearable. Please don’t do it again. Or I’ll have to chop your right little fingers off, since you’re not using them properly anyway. Lynn Queen of the Pit ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/23 "2000-04-08T21:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Or I’ll have to chop your right little fingers off, since you’re not using them properly anyway. Although there might have been some missing semicolons, I think the main problem would be the lack of spaces. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/24 "2000-04-08T21:20:00Z")
Thank you, **Lynn,** you are a sweetie! And “sweets for the sweet”, I always say–I want you to pretend that the phone is ringing, and when you answer it, a voice with a faint Swiss accent informs you that, due to a quirk in the Belgian inheritance laws, you have just become the sole proprietor of […](http://www.godiva.com/godiva/welcome.asp) 🙂 * * * “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/25 "2000-04-08T22:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by waterj2: > \*\* Although there might have been some missing semicolons, I think the main problem would be the lack of spaces. > :)\*\* Eh, I was thinking of the carriage return/enter key, myself. Lynn Queen of the Pit ---
**Author:** ![bj0rn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/26 "2000-04-10T11:25:00Z")
take a time, to think out loud. record it, but dont you show it. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but your voice may not. take a time, to look around. look at all the people you didnt see before. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but they may not. take a time, to breathe the air. inhale slowly, like you have never breathed before. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but your breath may not. bj0rn - is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/27 "2000-04-10T11:38:00Z")
Dammit. First he fucked up prose, and now poetry’s gotta die too. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/28 "2000-04-10T11:42:00Z")
Coldfire, you made me laugh so hard it started to hurt. But it was worth the pain. 😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/29 "2000-04-10T12:27:00Z")
**Bjorn,** that was a lovely poem. Thank you for sharing it with us. 🙂 However, I didn’t invite you to a poetry reading. I invited you to have a conversation. The prefix “con” means “with”. We talk “with” each other, rather than saying poetry “at” each other. How are you coming with thinking of something you’d either like to change, or hope never changes? Note to **Coldfire** and **Wally:** well, I did promise him the freedom to indulge in gnomic utterances, so I guess it’s all my fault. And actually, as poetry goes, it’s not that bad (IMHO, of course :D) He could have uncorked one of those Alanis Morissette, long-hair beatnik girl folksinger-type poems. Count your blessings. 😃 * * * “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/30 "2000-04-10T12:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Notthemama: > \*\* > [/list] > I have said it before, and I’ll say it again–I don’t care how a person says something, as long as it’s interesting. If your typewritten copy looks like something from the Special Ed class, I don’t care, as long as you’ve got something to say. > [list] > > /B] (Using Pit language) Why in the fuck is it okay for bjOrn to write in any kind of gobbledygook he chooses but not me? Lynn is just monkey-piling, but notthemama is ragging on me for what she says we can’t rag onf bjOrn for in this thread. Now I have to explain sarcasm to the non-ICelanders? Good grief–I mean, good goddam grief! Bucky ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/31 "2000-04-10T13:00:00Z")
Sarcasm is irrelevent. Futility is resistant. Irony will be assimilated. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/32 "2000-04-10T13:06:00Z")
. * * * **Defect borg: _“Refutile is sistance. Your ass will be simulated”._** * * * **WallyM7** on Coldfire: _ **"Yeah, he knows a little about everything because they have a good prison library."** _ ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/33 "2000-04-10T13:14:00Z")
You’re right, Coldfire. You said it better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bj0rn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/34 "2000-04-10T14:45:00Z")
try reading it as if it isnt a poem. that is what i want. bj0rn - enjoy ---
**Author:** ![bj0rn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/35 "2000-04-10T14:47:00Z")
here, ill make it easier for those of you that might need it: take a time, to think out loud. record it, but dont you show it. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but your voice may not. take a time, to look around. look at all the people you didnt see before. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but they may not. take a time, to breathe the air.inhale slowly, like you have never breathed before. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but your breath may not. bj0rn - is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/36 "2000-04-10T14:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by bj0rn: > **take a time, > to breathe the air. > inhale slowly, > like you have never breathed before. > cause you will still be here tomorrow, > but your breath may not.** [Cornholio]_Are you threatening me?_[/Cornholio] ---
**Author:** ![bj0rn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@bj0rn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bj0rn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/37 "2000-04-10T14:50:00Z")
or better yet…(please excuse the reposting thingy): take a time, to think out loud. record it, but dont you show it. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but your voice may not. take a time, to look around. look at all the people you didnt see before. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but they may not. take a time, to breathe the air. inhale slowly, like you have never breathed before. cause you will still be here tomorrow, but your breath may not. bj0rn - is that possible? ps. again, please excuse me posting this so often. it does serve a purpose ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/38 "2000-04-10T15:00:00Z")
**BjOrn** That looks rather like one of those folk sayings that you find printed on calenders and things like it. I guess you are saying something quite deep to us but often these things are cultural. I think I may have picked up on it but I’m not sure. Please explain it. I’m not going to go through what I think you meant ,chances are that I’d be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/39 "2000-04-10T15:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by bj0rn: > \*\*take a time, > to think out loud. > record it, > but dont you show it. > cause you will still be here tomorrow, > but your voice may not. > > bj0rn - is that possible?\*\* To bj0rn: as an aside, if you’re going to post your mutant version of someone else’s words, it’s considered gracious (and, I believe it’s legally required) to _give the original artist credit_ To everyone else: > [@](#): > > Nothemomma wrote: > \*\*And actually, as poetry goes, it’s not that bad (IMHO, of course ) \*\* There’s a reason for that…Cat Stevens was an excellent songwriter. From Cat Steven’s song “Father and Son” \*\* Take your time, Think a lot, Think of everything you’ve got For you will still be here tomorrow But your dreams may not. \*\* Fenris ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229/40 "2000-04-11T05:11:00Z")
Fenris, I love you. 😃 . . . . :mad: . \*\*BJORN, SHAME ON YOU! BAD PUPPY–NO BISCUIT! It took you _three whole days_ to come up with that, copying lyrics off the liner notes! That’s the best you can do, when someone offers you an unparalleled, never-to-be-repeated opportunity to have a conversation like a civilized human being. And here I was, walking around all morning feeling pleased that you had finally made a contribution, albeit a rather off-the-wall one. Damn! Now I AM angry! Coldfire, Wally, Bucky, you may fire when ready.\*\* (But I _was_ right about one thing–it’s not a BAD poem, as such things go…) * * * “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-conversation-with-bjorn/6229.md?page=3)