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. Anyone any recommendations? 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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