The topic which rapidly degenerated... [MISC]

[A Lost Iguana]

Invictus_88

The Guild attracts some wonderful applications sometimes.

Quote:

O Captain! My Captain! Sorry, couldn't resist that... After skimming through the forums, I would like very much to join your guild. Despite my fanged anti-royalist/contra-conservatism tendencies, I'm very attatched to Britain...particularly the cow fields, inbred villages and competitive flower-arranging and tea-making rotas of Suffolk, where I live. The way that teatowels with 'Popular Churches of Constable Country' emblazoned on them, and embossed leather bookmarks prop up the local economy is a force to be reckoned with. As evidence that sentient thought takes place in my head, may I offer... a conditional offer to read Law at Cambridge? I'm living in an electric state of worry until results day. Any ambivalence I feel about yoghurt (alas), I more than make up for in a willingness to debate politics long after the original subject being discussed has fled into the ether, and a rather unnerving enthusiasm for Dr Who and Stephen Fry. I tend to go on if I don't pay attention, so I'll stop there, before I do something daft like insult the whole of Liverpool (Boris escapes my general mistrust of Tories in the same way that Chuck Norris *always* wins...) Yours amiably, and only occasionally antagonistically, Emily (Heterodyne) ~

They had me at "HelloO Captain"…  

[Foetus In Fetu]

I can never figure out why this is stickied you know.  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

If it wasn't stickied it might be considered spam by some who do not understand the very important topics of conversation that flow through this thread.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

It doesn't look any less like spam just because it's stickied.

It looks like sticky spam.  

[Invictus_88]

Spam? What spam?

It is just a thread whereby - distict from other threads - there is nothing but deviation. It doesn't even pretend to have a core topic.

I like that, it's handy.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

Well it did originally have a topic. It was originally the birthday thread before it got spamm-- sorry, before it deviated from that original purpose and became The Thread with No Purpose.

I do like the "[MISC]" in the title however. Pure redundancy and the clear product of our pencil-pushing, red-taping modly powers; very British.  

[Invictus_88]

Spam is meaningless posting.

These are posts with meaning, and even with purpose, but which simply do not adhere to a consistent subject.

To be spam, there would be no real conversation, or standard of spelling and grammar, and - typically - one would expect repeat posts or posts with very intelligible meaning.

No?  

[Creatio ex Nihilo]

Spam would be something like one word. For example constant posting of "meh" or "bump" no?  

[Foetus In Fetu]

Invictus_88

Spam is meaningless posting.

These are posts with meaning, and even with purpose, but which simply do not adhere to a consistent subject.

To be spam, there would be no real conversation, or standard of spelling and grammar, and - typically - one would expect repeat posts or posts with very intelligible meaning.

No?

 

[Smigg-the-Miserable]

By the gods, Foetus In Fetu, I think you just got the 30,000th post!  

[Invictus_88]

30,000th post, hm. Milestone.  

[A Lost Iguana]

I hate the ED. I really hate it with a passion. scream  

[Creatio ex Nihilo]

A Lost Iguana

I hate the ED. I really hate it with a passion. scream

Why?  

[Foetus In Fetu]

Smigg-the-Miserable

By the gods, Foetus In Fetu, I think you just got the 30,000th post!

Argh, and it was a repetition of Francis's post for the sake of being annoying.

I'll have to replace it with something more worthy later.

EDIT:

Francis

Foetus in Fetu got the 30,000th though, damn her. >_>

I feel bad now.

Creatio ex Nihilo

A Lost Iguana

I hate the ED. I really hate it with a passion. scream

Why?

If you have to ask you've never been there.

You'll probably find the reason in Iggy's post history, though.  

[A Lost Iguana]

Creatio ex Nihilo

A Lost Iguana

I hate the ED. I really hate it with a passion. scream

Why?

It is like talking to a brick wall; and when the brick wall is invariably a smug pseudo-intellectual, I just give up.

I actually have work to do! gonk