Two grumpy old men reaffirming themselves they are not. Hahaha. You two are really funny. And educational. ;-)
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:46 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Dangermouse has agreed to take the job when he gets back off holiday in a > few weeks. I'd do it myself, but you know how ungrateful she gets when you > try to do something nice for her, like the endless hours of teasing I put > in so she could play 'whackamole'. One could rescue her from Grendle and > she'd claim you;d interrupted a sisterly embrace. Been a while since we > sailed with Beowulf. Do you think we are still up for it? And who would > feed the dogs? We could ask Hope - she's a ray of sunshine, after all. > > > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 5:14:33 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> No, they have seemed to have severed all links including back doors, >> windows and vents. . . . sorry >> >> 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 6:05 PM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Games? >> >> I fear Gabby may have been abducted by a cloner. We should really hire a >> rescue team. How about International Rescue? I did phone, but they said >> the Thunderbirds weren't go because all the pilots were celebrating. Do >> you still have influence on Tracy Island? >> >> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 4:20:52 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>> >>> LOL (",) >>> >>> 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 4:58 PM >>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Games? >>> >>> Don't even rocking horses snort Allan? Sniffing is a bit wimpy. Fear >>> not dear chap, you were the original on which we are all modelled. >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 3:42:31 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>> >>>> Darn I thought was unique.. now you are telling me i am nothing more >>>> than a clone.. what more demeaning can be said. I am no longer special.. >>>> sniff no longer have a high horse to ride. sniff sniff >>>> >>>> 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 4:27 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Games? >>>> >>>> No theft needed old chap - we can clone it now! >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 3:21:32 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>>> >>>>> No wait a minute the title of "Grumpy old man" is mine.. no >>>>> stealing.. lol (",) ♡ >>>>> >>>>> 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 4:04 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Games? >>>>> >>>>> So age is irrelevant and then relevant as good insights only come with >>>>> age. Some of us just get more grumpy. >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 2:44:52 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I figured that out she voted in the '50's I could not vote for a >>>>>> decade later.. Age has nothing to do with anything.. she always had good >>>>>> insights that comes only with age, that is very enjoyable.. >>>>>> >>>>>> 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 3:38 PM >>>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Games? >>>>>> >>>>>> 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. >>>>>> 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. >>>> 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. >> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/minds-eye/mqoMqWcy9dY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *"as well as" = "equals"* Take a stand against sexism, racism and other forms of structural violence! -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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