I do understand that this is a rhetorical question. So what is it you want to warn me about? You sound menacing again and not at all funny. Educational games are fun to play.
Am Donnerstag, 12. März 2015 02:12:28 UTC+1 schrieb archytas: > > 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] <javascript:> >> > 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] <javascript:>> >>>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>>>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>>>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>>>>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>>>>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>>>>>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>>>>>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>>>>>>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>>>>>>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>>>>>>>> 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] <javascript:>> >>>>>>>>>> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >>>>>>>>>> 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. 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