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Monday, June 18, 2007
Don't be anonymous
Guys, please notice that you don't have to have a Blogger account to not be anonymous when you make comments. You simply select the "other" button and write in your name or nick name.
15 comments:
Anonymous
said...
My friend Neville Owen Neemus would love to post on your blog, but now he's having second thoughts. N.O. hates unwittingly upsetting nice blogmasters. Any suggestions?
I PO'd a message board leader once. I retracted my post, and posted humble apologies. Nothing servile, just honest openness.
It was the right thing then.
To offer your opinions and views in a blog, you are soliciting response. You hope that people are of the opinion "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all". You also know that what you post are your observations, and maybe opinions, and in this big wide world, we all know there are many varying opinions.
Now as for anonymity, that is the blessing of a forum like this. Sure I'm Alex, but beyond what I've elected to share here, I am anonymous. Trouble is, if everyone is simply "Anonymous" then we get pretty confused. You could use a different nick name everytime you visit here, or have one for each persona you wish to use, or agenda you wish to represent.
I may be speaking out of turn here, but one thing that is irksome is the anonymous posts that are rants. Terse, incomplete rants of the "That suck mega you Dillweed" caliber. If "Hates Python Muchly" had said "Mr Cleese's idiotic perambulations are slapstick nonsense of a degree below the inanities of the Loathsome Stooges", then I would have respect for HPM, even though I find Ministry of Funnywalks more entertaining than someone shouting "You, why I oughta you..." closely followed by poking each other in the eyes.
If I were Neville Own Name, I'd probably grab a good moniker and join in the fun with gay abandon...
If "Hates Python Muchly" had said "Mr Cleese's idiotic perambulations are slapstick nonsense of a degree below the inanities of the Loathsome Stooges", then I would have respect for HPM
You don't say! I ALWAYS respect a walking dictionnary. Be it only because they probably pach a weighty punch if upset. P.S.: What language was that HPM post in, anyway? ;-)
"If I were Neville Own Name, I'd probably grab a good moniker and join in the fun with gay abandon..."
Please, please, tell me this hasn't turned into a gay blog! As you well know, I'm too confident in my manliness to ever come near those.
Mr TTL, please don't make fun. Some of us are trying very hard to overcome their shyness problem, you know. We've even founded a support group. Now if only somebody dared show up at the meetings, we could finally start making some progress.
If "Hates Python Muchly" had said "Mr Cleese's idiotic perambulations are slapstick nonsense of a degree below the inanities of the Loathsome Stooges", then I would have respect for HPM.
Muchly is Northern British English for "A great deal". You could be very grateful and say "Ta muchly". You could not walk into Woolworths and get a muchly on a cheap pair of shoes.
The rest I've seen or heard on both side of The Pond and both sides of Watford Gap.
to all the anonymous', especially the shy ones, what's there to be afraid of ? Who isn't accepted here? Give us a little name and form, it makes it so much more interesting. Thanks Alex.
Laurie, you're welcome, though I lost track of what for.
Pascal, my lexicon is capacious, multi-cultural, embracing the superlatives of both the archaic and contemporary, BBC English and the common vernacular.
I owe most of it to HG Wells, Douglas Adams and Monty Python, plus too many Saturday nights with Radio 4, with it's "Saturday Night Fry" (Fry and Laurie on radio), "Unnatural Acts" and "Tales from the Mausoleum Club amongst others.
My latest dictionary was the Miriam Websters and weighed in at about 30lbs. It cost $120, and it is a poor substitute for the compact OED I hanker after. Either would be as good in hand to hand combat as in a war of the words.
15 comments:
My friend Neville Owen Neemus would love to post on your blog, but now he's having second thoughts. N.O. hates unwittingly upsetting nice blogmasters. Any suggestions?
Nikolai Naimovitch
I PO'd a message board leader once. I retracted my post, and posted humble apologies. Nothing servile, just honest openness.
It was the right thing then.
To offer your opinions and views in a blog, you are soliciting response. You hope that people are of the opinion "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all". You also know that what you post are your observations, and maybe opinions, and in this big wide world, we all know there are many varying opinions.
Now as for anonymity, that is the blessing of a forum like this. Sure I'm Alex, but beyond what I've elected to share here, I am anonymous. Trouble is, if everyone is simply "Anonymous" then we get pretty confused. You could use a different nick name everytime you visit here, or have one for each persona you wish to use, or agenda you wish to represent.
I may be speaking out of turn here, but one thing that is irksome is the anonymous posts that are rants. Terse, incomplete rants of the "That suck mega you Dillweed" caliber. If "Hates Python Muchly" had said "Mr Cleese's idiotic perambulations are slapstick nonsense of a degree below the inanities of the Loathsome Stooges", then I would have respect for HPM, even though I find Ministry of Funnywalks more entertaining than someone shouting "You, why I oughta you..." closely followed by poking each other in the eyes.
If I were Neville Own Name, I'd probably grab a good moniker and join in the fun with gay abandon...
we understand and will obey you eolake stobblehouse.
Any suggestions?
please post regardless, he's entitled to his viewpoints nick.
have a great sexless day.
No more shall I be anonymous! Ho!
This place is full of anonymouses. Is it even advisable for us men to hang here, in case your wimpyness might rub off on us?
ttl, you don't have to worry about wimpiness rubbing off on you - you're already about as wimpy as they come!
Now now, boys, play nice.
If "Hates Python Muchly" had said "Mr Cleese's idiotic perambulations are slapstick nonsense of a degree below the inanities of the Loathsome Stooges", then I would have respect for HPM
You don't say! I ALWAYS respect a walking dictionnary. Be it only because they probably pach a weighty punch if upset.
P.S.: What language was that HPM post in, anyway? ;-)
"If I were Neville Own Name, I'd probably grab a good moniker and join in the fun with gay abandon..."
Please, please, tell me this hasn't turned into a gay blog! As you well know, I'm too confident in my manliness to ever come near those.
Anybody called my name? Ooh, is that sweet hamburger I smell?
Mr TTL, please don't make fun. Some of us are trying very hard to overcome their shyness problem, you know. We've even founded a support group.
Now if only somebody dared show up at the meetings, we could finally start making some progress.
If "Hates Python Muchly" had said "Mr Cleese's idiotic perambulations are slapstick nonsense of a degree below the inanities of the Loathsome Stooges", then I would have respect for HPM.
Muchly is Northern British English for "A great deal". You could be very grateful and say "Ta muchly". You could not walk into Woolworths and get a muchly on a cheap pair of shoes.
The rest I've seen or heard on both side of The Pond and both sides of Watford Gap.
ttl, stop making me laugh, it's so MANLY.
to all the anonymous', especially the shy ones, what's there to be afraid of ? Who isn't accepted here? Give us a little name and form, it makes it so much more interesting. Thanks Alex.
yours,
Lauren Jean O'Connell
Alex said...
"The rest I've seen or heard on both side of The Pond and both sides of Watford Gap."
Then I reckon you must know "muchly" of vocabulary! ;-)
"Agent Pond. James Pond. Codename: Robocod. Her Majesty's specialist in fishy mysteries."
Laurie, you're welcome, though I lost track of what for.
Pascal, my lexicon is capacious, multi-cultural, embracing the superlatives of both the archaic and contemporary, BBC English and the common vernacular.
I owe most of it to HG Wells, Douglas Adams and Monty Python, plus too many Saturday nights with Radio 4, with it's "Saturday Night Fry" (Fry and Laurie on radio), "Unnatural Acts" and "Tales from the Mausoleum Club amongst others.
My latest dictionary was the Miriam Websters and weighed in at about 30lbs. It cost $120, and it is a poor substitute for the compact OED I hanker after. Either would be as good in hand to hand combat as in a war of the words.
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