Please note, my first ever post. I was reading almost a year before I signed up. And I’m starting to regret signing up. Because of peckerheads like you.
Welcome to the Dope!
But what kind of drugs were you on at the time?
That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that sentence when it hasn’t been followed by “You posted in the wrong forum.” 
Thank you! 
Note for all the humor impaired, that was a joke.
FWIW I smiled. And think reading that as wishing harm or death on a poster as a bit much … but jokes are all abut the timing and this had timing right after the other warning …
Between reading this thread and the other one that got closed, I have to admit I had a thought about the quarry. I mean, it just sits there minding it’s own business and people like Bo just come along and throw stuff into it. I bet there’s an old now rusted tricycle in there. Imagine the stories that trike could tell if it could talk. And that old shopping cart? And how old is that quarry, anyway. Is it an active one, where they’re blasting or drilling chucks of it down or is it an old one with the bottom filled with greenish brown water?
What could an old quarry have to tell us? Did they use stones from it for some great building or monument? Who were the first men to cut stone from it? When did it realize it was no longer a pit anymore and was becoming a quarry? How did it feel watching them haul away it’s stones, never to be seen anymore?
*Dere’s an ol’ man called de quarry
Dat’s de ol’ man dat I’d like to be
What does he care if de world’s got troubles
What does he care if de land ain’t free
Ol man quarry, that ol man quarry,
He must know somethin’, but don’t say nothin’
He just gets stuff thrown in.
He just keeps gettin’ stuff thrown in.
He don’ post smilies,
He don’t give cites,
An’ dem dat gives’em
is soon forgotten,
But ol’man quarry,
He jes keeps gettin’ stuff thrown in.
You an’me, we sweat an’ strain,
Brain all achin’ an’ rack’d wid pain,
Report that troll!
Pit that asshat!
Git a little snarky
An’ you get a warnin’.
Bo gits weary an’ sick of tryin’
He tired of livin’ an’ skeered of dyin’
But ol’ man quarry
He jes’ keeps gettin’ stuff thrown in.
Ol man quarry, that ol man quarry,
He must know somethin’, but don’t say nothin’
He just gets stuff thrown in.
He just keeps gettin’ stuff thrown in.
*
Come to think of it, Arlo Guthrie might have had a story to tell about a quarry too.
Whew!…I thought he was talking about me there for a second (I’m quite proud of my zero count moderator note history). Because, you know, I wasn’t saying anyone should actually lop off Bo’s head and throw it into the quarry, I was just asking him the question hypothetically. For all I know Bo has a perfectly serviceable head that should remain firmly attached to the rest of his body. In fact, the thought of a headless Bo throwing stuff in the quarry kind of scares me more than a little.
With the greatest esteem and respect, I am, dear Sirs and Madams, your most obedient and most humble servant,
Tibby or Not Tibby—Behold, ye who shall goeth forth to the gouged Earth and doth sling gimcrack into it
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo in a quarry, and no one knows why!
Well, maybe one person knows. Or knew. She’s dead now.
Um yes they do. That is one result of true MB bullying: forcing people off of the medium or at least out of a discussion.
MB bullying does exist. Telling someone who is behaving like a jerk in a Pit thread that they are behaving like a jerk is not it. Making fun of them for whining that being told they are acting like a jerk is bullying them is not bullying them. Claiming that being Pitted for being a jerk is being bullied and portraying one’s continued jerkitude as bravely refusing to knuckle under: hiylarious.
Bumbershoot the other apt part of the fart analogy is that a few people really do think frequent farts are funny. “Pull my finger!” Height of humor for a certain crowd.
He clearly has some audience here that thinks it is funny to be annoying, along with the bulk who find it a mildly annoying but easily skippable bit of stupidity, and a few who find it more grating.
So really Guin, join the rest of us who see his name and skip the post as one unlikely to contain anything of any worth, as humor or otherwise. Let him have what he thinks of as his fun. You can’t stop him anyway and trying only encourages it more.
I submit that his favorite line should also be prohibited. The “let’s” Is clearly an attempt to incite a mob, there is ample reason to suspect that the “stuff” to be thrown may be contraband or worse, and what if one of us, or an innocent child playing with ABC blocks, happens to be in the quarry when unspecified and possibly dangerous materials are thrown carelessly into it? Leaving aside the moral and ethical concerns, from a purely practical standpoint do you want to put the board and its parent company at risk of costly legal action?
I know that I personally wouldn’t want to be party to the negligent death of a child and potential ruin of this forum simply to allow one poster to repeat a nonsensical phrase for his own personal amusement. Maybe you and the other mods and admins should take some time and think it over, or consult with legal counsel.
Aaaand … I think we’re done.
I for one get tired of being spammed with: "This message is hidden because Snowboarder Bo is on your ignore list. "
The bullying thing is fucking hilarious though.
You mean you can force people to do things? On an anonymous message board? Is it like mind control or spell casting?
Or her. Just saying .
Guin is, with all her legion faults, not an attention whore. She and I are pretty fucking far from being friends, but you are wrong on this.
But some of you aren’t just calling me names, you’re calling me names because you’re mad that I won’t do what you want. That’s bullying.
Y’all can call me names all day long; I could care less about that. It’s when someone “asks” me to do something and then gets mad that I say no and begins trying to shame or humiliate or ostracize me in order to try and gain my compliance that it turns into bullying, and a bunch of people have done just that. See, that means it wasn’t a request, it was a demand.
It’s what happened 3 years ago when people asked the Mods to force me to stop using my replacement phrase, it’s what the Pit thread 3 years ago was about, and it’s what happened here, too.
How does the saying go? If one person calls you an asshole, maybe they’re the asshole. If everyone calls you an asshole, maybe you’re the asshole.
(That said, I don’t personally mind Bo’s catchphrase at all, and I’ve even riffed on it a couple of times.)
Perhaps you might look for someone of higher caliber.
That’s like calling a fart in an elevator attempted murder.
Ranger Jeff, when I read your poetic verse, I [del]burped[/del]… [del]vomited a little in my mouth[/del]…[del]got an attack of acid reflux[/del]…[del]had an urge to commit hari kari[/del]…wept.
You sir, are as great as lyricist as the greatest musician the world has ever known, Ludwig van Beethoven!