Fear not, it's only the smell Gabby left ... On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 10:08:05 AM UTC, Hope Sunshine wrote: > > 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]> 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. 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