Do you know the rules of Bullshit Bongo Hope, or do we need to teach you? On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 9:05:12 PM UTC, Hope Sunshine wrote: > > 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! > > >
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