Well, since Dlgirl has this thread hooked up to life support I guess I’ll reply.
I always notice your posts because my best friend’s name is Tabatha. I’ve noticed a disturbing trend towards my association of people on this board with other people I know. Anyway, my friend is very bright and your posts seem to convey the same strong intelligence so my interest always perks up when I see you post.
I love fencing but it’s hard to find a place to do it. Then I got involved in SCA fencing which tries to recreate the way duels were really fought instead of the stylized sport fencing we have now. And now I suspect no respectable fencing club would take me in because as soon as someone lunges at me I’ll step off the mat and draw cut them from their hip to their ear. There’s a local SCA group at the University of Dayton, maybe this fall I’ll join up with them again.
I have that same dream! Well, except I’m not a babe in it. But the same general idea. I’ve even considered writing a book with that basic story line. So let me be in your clan. And since this is Xizor’s thread we should let him in it too. Maybe he can be the poor sap that gets tied to a stake after the mutants declare him a heretic.
Xisor you responded to a question I had earlier in the GQ section. I always appreciate anyone who tries to help me, especially if it helps me to see my Japanese porno DVDs or my Usual Suspects VCD.
So first thank you! I noticed.
Second, I am kind of new at this, so I could be like one of your minions. Not really clear on this, but I think the duty involved would be that I would do really stupid stuff to try and help you, then you would have to swoop in and save me after I got in to trouble and was helplessly cornered by your nemesis, *** the Evil Bastard, Munch!! ***
Just let me know where to fill out the application.
Aha! The gig is up. You fell victim to one of the classic superhero tactics. It’s Heroism 101: Get the bad guy to reveal his secret plan. While I won’t begrudge you that showing Battlefield Earth on HBO will bring civilization to its very knees, I can’t let you do it. I’m the SDMB’s sworn protector.
I know how you feel, at least a little bit. I don’t seem to have made a tremendous impression, myself. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Geobabe and andygirl several times and they both mean the world to me. (That’s the part where most posters would say “you know who are”, but that would be a bit out of place in this thread.) Apart from them I’m not sure if I’m recognized or not.
Hard to say why, exactly. Could just be you’re more adept in a smaller group, when there’s time to get a good conversational riff going, rather than the hit-and-run dialog of the boards.
The real irony, of course, is that the next time I see one of your posts I’ll remember this one. Which is just the foothold you need to start developing an identity.
Ah, xizor pal (for whatever reason I think you’re a guy, but I could be wrong), yes, I’ve noticed you; I can say that about almost everyone who’s posted to this thread.
We’ve not had an exchange I can remember, but I know you pop into GQ from time to time. There’s several factors working here:
The nature of the medium is such that manny people (including myself) do not present a textual personality that has the same bounce their IRL personality does;
Manny people seek out notoriety in the forums (fora, if you so desire) that are designed for that; so, one can cruise MPSIMS and post a racy word or two and get responses and become a “popular” poster - or become one who attracts responses commensurate with the pithiness of their Pit thread;
I’ve been at it for a bit now and I’ve attended manny (~24+) dopefests and have met ~50 Dopers, some of whom I’ve seen several times - all of the Dopers I’ve met IRL tend to respond to me online despite my relatively bland online personality.
Wonderous! We’ll have special warpaint for when we go into battle. And hand signs! We need secret hand signals so we can communiate silently in the forest as we set up our ambushes!
Lurkers have the wonderous power of making the number of times a thread has been viewed go up so those of us that never get replies to our threads can at least take pride in that we must have had a very good thread title.
Of course you are posting now and so have been booted from the Lurker club. I’m afraid you’ll have to hand in your lurker cloak and stealth boots at the door.
Well, actually I was kinda hoping you would stop that plan. I feel much better now.
My new plan involves world wide domination using only a can WD-40, a 77’ Vega, and a bottle of Clariol. What I’ll do is… hey I’m not falling for that again!
It would be so cool to have my own stalker. Just on the Boards , though. In real life it would be creepy.
Yeah, someone who would follow me from post to post, and just be there. It would be like being popular and loved without all that trouble of being clever, or witty, or making good or helpfull posts.
Although if I did have a groupie/stalker they would probably just post: Rue, you spelled that wrong. Rue, you got your simple facts wrong. Rue, you’re an idiot.
Waaaaaaiiittt… maybe I do have my stalker. A whole squad of them. And they stalk me in shifts, so I don’t get suspicious…
(Looks around) But a good stalker is a hot babe who sends me pornographic e-mail of her naked boobies. (It’s worth a shot)
For the record xizor, I hang on every word you ever post. I have a big xizor scrapbook. You are my hero.
-Rue.
Hey, xizor, you want MY personality? I was thinking about starting over fresh anyway.
What do you say? Fifty bucks takes it away!
{Yells to kitchen} One irritating left-wing egghead, over easy! Knows old movies, music, books, and paintings, plus other pantywaist ephemera! Can cook! Hold the golf!
(watch this space for the New Ukulele Ike: driving his SUV to a parking space near you. Right in front of your house, in fact. Will know how to fix your air conditioner, why we should kick shiftless minority-types off welfare, and the entire starting lineup of the 1934 Detroit Tigers, and be overbearing about it.)
I have an older brother and he and my cousins would ambush us (my best friend and I) in the woods behind our house with B-B guns. We developed hand signals for these occasions. BTW they are helpful when playing Spades as well.
War Paint, cool. Can we paint our horses too? Oooh, I want a bow and arrows too. And I get an attack wolf named JoJo, who also understands our hand signals.
Crikey. Looks like I picked the wrong side. Now everyone is teaming up with xizor to beat the crap out of me!
[sub]Is it 5:00 yet?[/sub]
But anyway, I know what you feel like. And Blackclaw was I believe the 3rd person to mention my name in a MPSIMS thread. The ONLY time I’ve been mentioned in a thread I hadn’t started or posted to yet is when Gazoo started a 1000 post thread for me. Bless his heart.
And just to help out with the visual, I picture my nemisishood to be along the lines of Christopher Lloyd in “Who Killed Roger Rabbit?” crossed with Dennis Hopper in “Waterworld,” insofaras wearing a cape, lots of black, and I have a fake eye sewn into my eye orbital.
[sub]And when you rip my face off, I’m actually a cartoon that talks real squeeky-like.[/sub]
Wow, so many replies to my “I’m all alone thread”! I am now hearing the Police song Message in a Bottle playing in the background of my brain.
“Woke up this morning, can’t believe what I saw
A hundred million bottles, washed up on the shore
seems I’m not alone in being alone
A hundred million castaways, looking for a ho-ome”
Come, all ye un-noticed teeming millions, let’s take over this board and show those popular people what’s what. Nah, nevermind, they probably wouldn’t notice anyway.
dlgirl - I now have a crush on you ENugent - Every time I see your name, I start singing “Wango Tango” Manda JO - Don’t hate me, but I think I called you Mandy JO in a recent pit thread Blackclaw - I always picture you as one of the bad guys from the GI Joe cartoon series. Superdude - good thing you didn’t do the glove slap on me, I would have pulled the old Bugs Bunny trick of brick-in-the-glove-return-slap on you. Cyn - I promise I won’t hit you, but sometimes I do bite Lady Juliet - I will always have a smile for someone who uses the word “dandy” Vestal Blue - I used to idolize your posts when I was a newby. whiterabbit - Something tells me you already have people following you around, at least one blond girl name Alice right? FairyChatMom - I notice you all the time, you have a very memorable name. Jeannie - [cue film-noir music] I noticed Jeannie the moment she walked into my thread Tabeitha - What a cool fantasy you have. I like it and my want to borrow it during my next daydream. deb2world - I would be proud to have you follow me around with a rat. Wow, my first inside joke! ShibbOleth - Anyone who digs Japaneese porn has got to be cool. Robot Arm - you met Geobabe and andygirl? Lucky bastard. beatle - You make me laugh because I imagine your posts as coming from Beatle Bailey. Pnuk Guy - Your british, aren’t you? Rue DeDay - You have a very good Disney villian name, and if you get a stalker who is a hot chick sending you naked pics because of this thread, you must share. BunnyGirl - Shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is ‘Roger the Shrubber’. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies. Did I make you swoon? Ukulele Ike - I’ll pass on your personality, there is no way I could handle that many women. Munch - Nice visual, I picture my end of the nemesis-ity to be kind of a cross between Ace Ventura and Nick Rivers from “Top Secret!”
And I would have gotten away with this thread if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
Well, you’ve now got your personality staked out with ME. Anytime I see a xizor post I’ll be thinking “There’s that pleasant xizor person! Let’s see what perspicacious bon mot he has for me today! Capital fellow! Capital fellow!”
(I personally would have posted “I always wanted to have your personality, but I couldn’t get used to the taste of gin.”)
or my Usual Suspects VCD.