I doubt starting off by saying she is at least a decade older than you would be the best start Allan. We are in touch most days.
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 2:15:14 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: > > I miss rigsy. When in contact give her my greetings.. both emails still > work and i would enjoy hearing from her.. > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: archytas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 2:46 PM > Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Games? > > Rigsy is still about Allan. She is on a genetic quest too. It seems we > share a highland connection some time after Gabby's grass porridge lot came > with agriculture 3000 years ago. Rigs comes from the MacDonalds, my lot > were MacArthars - though at some earlier point we must have been MacGabby. > Rigs is still cleaning her own windows and quite easily has me wishing I'd > been a few years older. > > Hope is so obviously the splendid person Allan imagines, with the surf > rising as she smiles, as Tony implies. Indeed, she already has us playing > ring-a-ring-of-roses, the traditional plague celebration of my youth. I > am, as I'm sure she knows, missing Gabby already. It's a sort of Daniel in > the lion's den sort of thing, where you have to keep putting the thorn back > in to bring her back. Sure, you soon realise she is putting the thorn back > in while you sleep, but this is surely just part of some fairytale she > tells to inform one of Nietzsche's eternal return. Now she is working on > Hume's concept of self in her lair (surely 'retreat'?). And what Hope we > have been given. > > The war games are educational. It depends on how one looks at them. For > me, unless on a killing spree with Gabbyraptor, including women in short > leather skirts and our Russian Zombie allies against the evil machines (see > earlier photos) - these games are an example of the fetish of the current > Utopia of Rules and the secret pleasures of bureaucracy. The games model > bureaucracy to a 'T'. If only Gabby were here we could get a linguistic > understanding of what a 'T' is. Hope will no doubt offer her new > therapy-educational gaming to help with my Gabby-withdrawal symptoms. A > cake at the Cafe Atopia perhaps, rather than a tour of the Bullshit Bingo > (TM) board? > > Hope has already started our needed re-education with an interesting > gambit on the internet self. I welcome the sunshine unconditionally, > though it's overcast here and the nation is mourning the demise of our > leading boystoys presenter, suspending for chinning a BBC producer. Some > of us welcome the sunshine that will come with the absence of Top Gear for > three weeks - though with this now first-up news we are seeing even more of > Jeremy Clarkson. > > Gabby was prone to instruct us to do all the work on her suggestions Hope. > One hopes you will lead us by example, explicating an exegesis of your own > ideas. Bureaucracies create games that are in no sense fun, and it would > be good to see what you mean by educational content and aspiration. > Indeed, Mind's Eye could become such a game. In loving memory of Gabby, > for surely forgiveness is educational, and in your beaming new presence, we > might give Thiedy Bears as prizes. Perhaps an early boss fight could be > between Allan and Gabby, involving overcoming the bully through educational > means. I volunteer to write the scene, if I can be drawn away from > cuddling my Thiedy Bear - assuming I can retrieve it from the dogs' bed. > Allan will triumph through attribution study, extreme value analysis and > conclusive proof of global warming. To add spice, the Hope Sunshine > surfboard will help in slaying the anti-educational Bokoharam vampires. > > Hope Floats was a movie I intended to send to Gabby for educational > purposes. I think it had Sandra Bullock in it and couldn't stomach > watching it myself. The educational purpose, of course, was that if the > bullying ceased I would send no further examples of American waterboarding. > Now we have Hope to re-educate Gabby, such dire measures may not be needed. > > > > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 8:48:18 AM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> Rigs is older than I am by at least a decade. I have no idea as to what >> is happening with her but i think her children placed her in a nursing >> home.. >> As for Pat. I have not heard from him personally in a long long time.. I >> tried contacting his publisher with no results.. i always like Pat and >> miss both of them very much >> . >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hope Sunshine <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 8:31 AM >> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Games? >> >> Oh yes Rigs! And maybe you will also find Pat somewhere there! They were >> forgotten on the list of dearly missed former members of Minds Eye. Thanks >> for bringing her up again. :-) >> >> Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2015 01:16:38 UTC+1 schrieb archytas: >>> >>> It would be handy to have Gabby along to play Grand Theft Auto. Die >>> neuen Farben würde uns in San Andreus getötet. You sound a safer :bet for >>> the hot coffee mod Hope, but down and dirty playing in cop mode given my >>> relevant experience, I would need Gabby's steel to balance my good cop >>> routines with her bullet-spraying mayhem. And really, for GTA, Hope goes >>> to bed too early. >>> >>> I am sure Gabby, as a democratic bully, would insist on spin the bottle >>> to choose game partners, so I'm watching the BBC's second episode on >>> women's emancipation in case I have to team up with Hope to gain some 'new >>> man' conversation. Gabby, of course, would slap any such rot down as a >>> flagrant attempt to get inside her head by bewitchment and far too wimpy >>> for a real man. Bully is a wimp version of GTA with bicycles, so she >>> wouldn't play that anyway. Should I have to take this assignment, we would >>> speak German to sound more menacing and ensure her standard corruption of >>> anything I say was genuinely a matter of lost in translation. Other teams >>> might pull out at the beginning if the dream team killers were put together >>> by the bottle spin, though with luck the Gabbseraptor (her screen name in >>> Dark Spore) would soon enter a killing loop with Allan's dead body and the >>> rest of us could follow Molly in pacifying the neighbourhood through >>> self-development. >>> >>> Should the group be prepared to take on this mission impossible, Hope >>> Sunshine will fade to rain in five seconds. On the whole, I have decided >>> on a previous engagement in Philadelphia, of preferably Rigsy's cooking and >>> a bottle of malt. >>> >>> On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:43:11 PM UTC, archytas wrote: >>>> >>>> Having fun would be a good idea. Don't we know you already? >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 10:31:56 PM UTC, Hope Sunshine wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Good night everyone, see you back tomorrow. :-) >>>>> >>>>> Am Dienstag, 10. März 2015 23:29:51 UTC+1 schrieb Hope Sunshine >>>>>> >>>>>> Hey, everyone! I think it could do us all good to start having more >>>>>> fun and be more relaxed. Life is too short to constantly quarrel about >>>>>> ultimately unnecessary things. So how about some edutainment? Does >>>>>> anyone >>>>>> know some games that are both fun to play and educational at the same >>>>>> time? >>>>>> I just stumbled over the game "Bully" but thought that might be not such >>>>>> a >>>>>> good idea at the moment... haha ... no, how about some serious games. >>>>>> Anyone any recommendations? >>>>>> >>>>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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