Where Have They Gone To?

[Stanislaw]

Do you guys remember Chardata.

She was the first person I spoke to at this forum, and I kind of forgot about her, I was looking through old posts (OVER A YEAR), and came across her name.

And what about wilfred, we came toe to toe, and he isn't here anymore either.

[Shea]

Yeah, I remember her! I was actually thinking about her just the other day. She was always very busy with school and band. I hope she's doing ok.

Jay's not been around here lately either. I know it's because she's been busy, but I miss her.:(

[fayefaye]

I miss jay a lot too. damn, where is everyone?? they should all stay right where they are, so you never have to miss anyone, ever

[IWilKikU]

Jay was the first person here to PM me. I miss her and Sub. They still come around now and again, but not enough to actually have a conversation with.

[Basil]

"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, and of thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, sell one, and with the dole buy hyacinths to feed thy soul."

How about Piquant?

[crisaor]

Eric, son of Chuck was one of the first people in this forum. It's been a while since he was around.

[Stanislaw]

They were lively characters, I wonder what happened to them?

[den]

Maybe life? ;) I haven't been around much myself.... `cause of life love and work.



Originally posted by Stanislaw
They were lively characters, I wonder what happened to them?

[psycojones]

perhaps you guys can enjoy some of the new ones. we can be cool to.:cool:

[Stanislaw]

The new guys are cool too, but sometimes nostalgia kicks in and you wonder how life has travelled to the point you are at know from the point when you never dreamed of being here. I am graduating in June, and wonder where has all the time gone, It sound a bit like a cliche, but it is true in the truest sence.

[psycojones]

stan, i here you buddy. time is relative. some one once said, if you were to burn your hand on the stove, one minute would seem like an hour. if you were to sit with a beautiful girl, one hour would seem like a minute. take my advice, enjoy the moments which you are given. life is all about moments in time. never wish to hurry through the week to get to friday, you have wasted five days of your life to only enjoy two. and everyday stop and enjoy something that does not rush you. like looking at the sun set, or reading a book of your choosing, of reading this sight. if you do not slow your life down, one day you will wake up and wonder what happened to the last ten years. i know i have. i am a work-a-holic, and this is why i joined a philosophy class, and got on this sight. to look at the world through a different perspective and enjoy the thoughts of other great people such as yourself and all those who are on this sight.

[Koa]

uh...piquant...but she appears from time to time

and Bart...I started getting addicted to this forum when talking with him esp. about translations.

[IWilKikU]

And what about Abdo? I think everyone misses him! :D

[Stanislaw]

That could be debated.:D

Those were pretty good words psycho. To qupte a beatles song "Life is very short and theres no time for fussing and fighting my friend".

Life is too short and passes by too quickly to really think about.

[Koa]

Originally posted by IWilKikU
And what about Abdo? I think everyone misses him! :D

I don't feel him as gone... he lives within the forum like some kind of ghost of the opera... he's absorbed in the lines of the forum I think...:rolleyes:

[Stanislaw]

Or he comes back, in the form of about a million different aliases.:rolleyes:

[Koa]

nah, i think that's over...

[Stanislaw]

I think chris banned his IP adress.

[IWilKikU]

Can he do that??? Wow. All marvel at the infinate power of Admin!!!

[crisaor]

IP banning is not that simple. There are ways around it. You could come to the site using another computer or your own with a different IP adress if you got broad band services.

[Stanislaw]

That is alot of work to return to a site that presumably is not welcoming to you, why would you go back?

[Koa]

Originally posted by Stanislaw
why would you go back?

Personally I can't seem to be able to ever stop going back.... and I'm not talking about sites only...

[a lonely weed]

wow, I never talk on here, but when I do it's always the same people and I think that in itself is cool. I don't know any of the old people, guess that makes me a new one, though I do remember Jay. I don't know, I always come on here and just look at what people say because I just think it's neat that there are only so few of us who actually talk on a literature network forum, and everyone seems to know everyone else so well, though it appears no one actually has ever met anyone else. I don't know. It's all neat to me, but I don't interfere, I'm just the person who stands in the corner anyways and watches everyone, guess that's what I am doing here. have fun reminicing!

[Koa]

cool :)

[fayefaye]

I know if I left, I'd really want to see the same people here when I got back. Feels like home. I agree with what stan says, lately I've felt so old. looking back, you wonder what happened to everything...

[fayefaye]

He came back, and admin banned him. I don't know how, since he didn't post anything. It's kind of sad. I bet he still floats around here, reading this crap. Hi Abdo!! Miss seeing you around. Even when you're being a pain in the ***, still wish you were here. :)

You know, abdo's that kinda guy. No matter what crap he pulls, he's impossible to hate. ;)

[Stanislaw]

He is like a favorite damn disease.

Ha, he wasn't such a bad guy, just antagonistical.

[fayefaye]

'you're my favourite damned disease' what song is that from?

[baddad]

Change and death kiddies...the only true constants

[Koa]

Quite true...

[verybaddmom]

Originally posted by fayefaye
'you're my favourite damned disease' what song is that from?

figured you out, by nickleback...

great song, btw
;)

[Stanislaw]

Yeah its cool, sorry I didn't answer sooner.

[IWilKikU]

eww Nickleback <shudder>

[verybaddmom]

*gasps in dismay, almost choking on gum*
ewwwww??? oh my goodness
perhaps it is my canadian-ness that pushes me to defend one of our most prominent contemporary bands, but really.....
i just like them. is that demerit points for me?

[Stanislaw]

Demerits?:eek:

Bonus points:D , Nickleback Rules:cool:

[IWilKikU]

ugh... If I have to listen to "How you remind me" once more at work, I'm going postal.

[IWilKikU]

Also, they're on the same record label that Slipknot, Mudvayne, Spineshenk, Coal Chamber, ect.. call home (Roadrunner Records). It's misleading!!! They're the only act on the label that isn't metal. I mean, come on, they're not even rock. They're a pop band. They're like any other boy/girl band exept they play guitars. They blow hard. Eff Nickleback.

That's all I have to say about that!

[verybaddmom]

I didnt realize that record labels are required to maintain loyalty only to one genre of music. I do learn something new every day.

i apologize on behalf of all nickleback fans that you have a crappy radio station that plays the hell out of songs, but do try and place the blame where it belongs: with the DJ's, not the musicians. Here we don't hear "How you remind me" hardly ever, as we have access to the newer albums of all genres and bands. Lucky lucky us!

;)

[Stanislaw]

Kik is like our favorite damned disease here, :D , He is cool, but is so different from us to, he reminds us of who we really are, he has figured us out and makes us learn the hard way,

Guess how many NB references are in that statment.

Hey kik, no hard feelings.:cool:

[ihrocks]

Originally posted by verybaddmom
do try and place the blame where it belongs: with the DJ's, not the musicians.

Sorry, I have to step in here and make a clarification. DJs do not program music and they haven't for years. Music on the radio, virtually all music played on the radio in North America, is controlled by a company called Clear Channel. They decide what music you listen to, not DJs, not your local radio station, and if you are listening to the radio, not even you. Which is why we are down to about seven or eight basic radio formats (one hip/hop, one country, one ez listening, one "classic rock", etc.) and no matter where you go in North America, it all sounds the same. The difference between radio in the 'States and radio in Canada is a provision in Canadian law, usually referred to as CanCon, which requires stations to include a certain percentage of music made by Canadians (Canadian Content) each day, but other than that, it's business as usual for Clear Channel.

It's big business, lots of money, the major corporations get rich while creative artists go unheard and the public in general loses out.

Rant over. Again, sorry for the interruption.

ihrocks
The Crossed Keys (http://hometown.aol.com/ihrocks/myhomepage/index.html)

[verybaddmom]

good info ihrocks, i knew not.
then we shall blame the faceless corporations for kik's angst.
however, kik is in the UK i believe, does that change anything?

[Stanislaw]

New artists are discovered and their music is played, you just need to listen to the university channels, they have some very unique stuff.

[emily655321]

Gotta stand behind kik on the Nickelback thing. Sorry. Liked their first album a lot, then they went the way of Creed and the Goo Goo Dolls (i.e. one awesome rock CD, then a ballad hits on MTV and they remake it over and over for the rest of their career).

iTunes is my haven for underground-ish stuff. It's the best I can get, but the bands on there always seem to break into the mainstream like three months after Radio IO or Soma FM or 3WK start playing them. I've discovered some of my favorite bands on there, though. Clearlake, Plus Minus, Modest Mouse, Cooper Temple Clause, Air, Muse -- great stuff.

[verybaddmom]

oh and emily, i liked you *she says regretfully*

now we shall not be friends ;)

[emily655321]

aww. I bet you hate music I like, and you're still *my* friend ;) G'head -- insult some of my music.

[Koa]

Wow... (sort of back on topic...) the forum seems to be more alive than ever, lots of lively new members... Quite interesting but it makes me even more addicted! And hey, I'll be off for a week since saturday and i wonder how long it'll take me to catch up once I'm back.... prepare a summary for me!!!:D

[Koa]

Hey is my post visible?? (wondering about technical probs)

[emily655321]

Visible. Yes, most visible. Did it give you that message about "technical problems with the site. sorry for any inconvenience. try again later"? It kept doing that to me yesterday, but it posted my stuff anyway. You just have to ignore it and hit the back button.

[amuse]

i tried to post a haiku and it didn't take. but i liked :) the "hiccup" description. so that made it worth it.

[amuse]

kik, where are you?

[ajoe]

just thought to share... from my experience, you're going to be addicted to a certain forum for about a year... then the fun factor starts to decline and soon you kind of forget about the forum. so enjoy now as long as you can. :banana: --> who's gotten me into this banana again?

[Koa]

I've been wondering about Kik too...

ajoe, sorry to disappoint you, but I've been addicted here for more than 1 year, and to other forums for longer. In some periods it wasn't really addiction but I don't think I've ever been away from any of them for more than 1 month, maybe 2. Then back, and my embarassing post count shows it!

[emily655321]

:blush: Talk about embarrassing post counts. I think I'm a candidate for some kind of forum detox treatment.

YEAH, HEY, WHERE ARE YOU, KIK?? I've been wondering that as well. No more studying to avoid, that's what it is. ;)

[fayefaye]

me too em..... I haven't seen kik for ages. do you think he can hear us? HEY KIK GET YOUR *** OVER HERE.

[verybaddmom]

maybe if we all yell at once?

[Koa]

ok...3...2...1...
KIIIIIIIIIIK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[emily655321]

KIIIIK!!!! GET YOUR *** BACK IN HERE, BOY!

[simon]

It's too late, he's just another victim of life now.

[Jay]

Guess psycojones has become yet another victim of life... :( miss him, there's not enough crazy people in the world :D... well, the right kind of crazy anyway :banana:.

[emily655321]

I never got to know him very well. And to be honest, one of my pet peeves is misspellings in an ID itself. My little perfectionist brain went "alert! alert! buzzz!" whenever I started to type "psyco." :p I think I actually managed to avoid doing it altogether.

[IWilKikU]

Allrighty kids. Settle down! Kik still lives. Sorry I was gone so long. I really wish that I had a good excuse, but Emily hit it right on the head: No more studying to avoid. I spend waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less time in front of the computer trying to get to work here at home. I'll try to pop in and say hi from time to time over the summer, but don't count on daily chitchat. Once I'm back to school I'll be here daily again though. Promise! Thanx for noticing that I wasn't around. And thank you all... or I guess thank you Faye for PMing me to make sure that I hadn't tragically died in a fiery automobile collision.

PS. Em, I love you're Avatar!

[verybaddmom]

yay...good to hear that you are well...what happened to your yahoo address though?

[IWilKikU]

I never had one. I was trying to set one up with Trillian, that 5 in 1 messenger program, but it was trying to shut down my AIM address, so that didn't work out.

[emily655321]

PS. Em, I love you're Avatar!

Thanks! :D It seems to be quite popular. I got harangued when I tried to replace it with my own ugly litso. ;) But who doesn't love an Alex?

Glad to know you're still alive and kiking. See you around -- hopefully not too seldom.

[Koa]

Thanks! :D It seems to be quite popular. I got harangued when I tried to replace it with my own ugly litso.

Litso? Where's that word from? It seems an Americanly spelled version of the Russian word for 'face'. Well of course I know you meant 'face', but you got me wondering if that word is some American slang, or maybe -I realised after half second of thinking- it is the word used in the Clockwork Orange book? I know the language there is psychedelic, and I clearly remember that even in the translations I read some words were Russian (even if I wasn't aware of it at the time), like 'malchiki' for 'guys' and maybe even other ones but I'm not sure...

Btw I was back after a few days (yesterday I got the bestest(estestest ;)) mark for the first time in my life!!!In the Russian Literature exam:)) and was glad to see that Alex was back!!! The forum wasn't evil enough without him!!!

Btw wb Kik, don't let real life make you forget the world of procrastination!!!

[emily655321]

Yes, "litso" is "face" in nadsats.
Koa you haven't read the original version of Clockwork?? You have to! It'll be the ultimate test of your language skills, especially all the British sing-song gibberish. I don't know if your knowledge of Russian will make it easier or harder, though, because a lot of it is Anglicized Russian and Slavic words spelled phonetically, as though the kids heard them spoken and adopted them as their slang (for instance, "horrorshow" for "good" comes from the Russian "khorosho.") I've always wondered how they dealt with the Nadsats in translations.

I found this a while back; it has all the Nadsat translations, as well as the language of origin and its root word: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1974/nadsat.html

These are funny too: :banana:
1) automatic English-Nadsat translator:
(version 1.1) http://members.tripod.com/fugilyfred/nadsat/nadsat.html
(version 1.0) http://members.tripod.com/fugilyfred/oldnadsat/nadsat.html
2) The "Tower of Babel" Bible story, translated into Nadsats: http://www.langmaker.com/db/bbl_nadsat.htm
(www.langmaker.com is an awesome site, btw. Some really funny comp-slang definitions.)

BTW, have you seen the original movie, or a dubbed version, Koa? For the obsessed or very bored, this is a pretty cool essay about the language differences between Kubrick's and Burgess' ACO: http://core-relations.uchicago.edu/Volume3/Babinski.html

;) Yes, I'm off my rocker, what do you want? :p

[Koa]

Er...what's Nadsat??? :confused:

Don't worry, this is the sort of things I'd talk about for ages...I hate cinema but I can become an obsessed scholar when it's about 2001-space odissey (I once found a site about it and became a sort of expert), Shining and the Orange.

Reading the Orange in original language is one of my most important plans for the future. That 'horrorshow/khorosho' thing made me laugh but it's scary indeed, cos I'd make a mess because of my pronunciation of English which would lead me astray. Btw do you know how Russians spell foreign names? Exactly that way, like they hear them, so that Shakespeare becomes Shekspir (in cyrillic of course). It's often hard to recognise them, but lots of fun when you do!!!
Ehm, back on 'topic'...I've always wondered about the translation too, I think it worked quite well but I'm incredibly curious about how the original sounds...

I've seen the movie 3 times but never in original. To see movies in original I should grab a dvd where I can select the language, cos there's no way this lazy country lets us open our linguistic views... If I remember well, the language was quite similar to the book's (though more 'normal', I guess it makes sense to use the same translation...

Do you think there are at least bits of the book available online? I guess it's possible to put up a tiny bit even if copyrighted...

[den]

Koa you can always try a google search for `clockwork orange quotes' there are tons of sites that have them. Like

http://www.sciflicks.com/a_clockwork_orange/quotes.html

[Koa]

Eheheh thanks for the tip...

Now I'm being stupid, but is that link you gave a full passage, or random bits? I'm not sure...:confused: The language doesnt seem too weird, just I can't figure out much of the context...

[emily655321]

That's just random quotes from the movie. (BTW, if you haven't deduced by now, "nadsat" is the slang spoken by Alex and his gang, and other malenky baddiwads of the nochy. ;)) Okay, sorry, I love being silly. Here's a bit of Burgess' version of the Surprise Visit scene:

The devotchka sort of hesitated and then said: 'Wait.' Then she went off, and my three droogs had got out of the auto quiet and crept up horrorshow stealthy, putting their maskies on now, then I put mine on, then it was only a matter of me putting in the old rooker and undoing the chain, me having softened up this devotchka with my gent's goloss, so that she hadn't shut the door like she should have done, us being strangers of the night. The four of us then went roaring in, old Dim playing the shoot as usual with his jumping up and down and singing out dirty slovos, and it was a nice malenky cottage, I'll say that. We all went smecking into the room with a light on, and there was this devotchka sort of cowering, a young pretty bit of sharp with real horrorshow groodies on her, and with her was this chelloveck who was her moodge, youngish too with horn-rimmed otchkies on him, and on a table was a typewriter and all papers scattered everywhere, but there was one little pile of paper like that must have been what he'd already typed, so here was another intelligent type bookman type like that we'd fillied with some hours back, but this one was a writer not a reader. Anyway, he said:

'What is this? Who are you? How dare you enter my house without permission.' And all this time his goloss was trembling and his rookers too. So I said:

'Never fear. If fear thou hast in thy heart, O brother, pray banish it forthwith.' Then Georgie and Pete went out to find the kitchen, while old Dim waited for orders, standing next to me with his rot wide open. 'What is this, then?' I said, picking up the pile like of typing from off of the table, and the horn-rimmed moodge said, dithering:

'That's just what I want to know. What is this? What do you want? Get out at once before I throw you out.' So poor old Dim, masked like Peebee Shelley, had a good loud smeck at that, roaring like some animal.

'It's a book,' I said. 'It's a book what you're writing.' I made the old goloss very coarse. 'I have always had the strongest admiration for them as can write books.' Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?'

[Koa]

(BTW, if you haven't deduced by now, "nadsat" is the slang spoken by Alex and his gang, and other malenky baddiwads of the nochy. ;))



Yeah, but why Nadsat? I thought by the way you mentioned it that it was something pre-existing... Argh no time to read the quote now :( Laters!

Edit: Found the time :) It's strange, I think I'd hate it cos if I read it and didn't understand something I'd never know if it's because of his language or because of my English :D

I have always had the strongest admiration for them as can write books

Is this trying to sound old-fashioned? Sounds strange, not standard. It even seemed worng at first look, but seeing the oldfashioned speech Alex uses in this case, I guess it might be cos of that.

[emily655321]

"For them as can write books" is very bad English. ;) It's more of a C.ockney way of speaking. Alex jumps from one way of speech to another -- the Middle English is usually used when he's angry at a friend or insulting them.

Burgess made up the term "nadsat." In the introduction in my book, he says he chose the word "nadsat" because it's the Russian ending to numbers 11-19; it's a play on "teenager," more specifically "teen" (eg. fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, etc). So in Clockwork, "nadsat" is primarily the slang spoken by teens, and it's also the word for "teenager." Sorry, I'm just in the habit of referring to it in an offhanded way. :)

[Koa]

Cool...I've been trying to think if it was Russian, but it didn't ring a bell...though now it makes perfectly sense. (and again my mispronunciation of it took me further from the solution, cos I'd say that as nad-sat, not 'nadzat' as the Russian ;)) So Burgess practically invented a whole slang? I thought it was just some words here and there...

Oh wow good job I asked about that sentence, otherwise I might have taken it as good English ;)

[Koa]

By the way, a question struck me last night: why is this language based on Russian??? Did Burgess have any relations to Russia???

I'm having a Kubrick-phase as his movie Barry Lynon is involved in the exam I'm studying for...So I browsed some sites pretending that it'll be useful and I found here
http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/clockwork/
the script of the Clockwork Orange's film! :)

[emily655321]

Oh, that site's awesome! :D I watched the movie trailer and was laughing and laughing.

I can't remember if/how Burgess had connections with Russia. Obviously he knew the language, but I think it was chosen primarily because he wrote Clockwork in 1960, during the Cold War, and I got the impression that in this hypothetical future world there has been actual warfare between Russia and England -- the British soldiers would have picked up Russian phrases while they were there, and adopted them into their own vernacular, creating Nadsat. They continued to use it when they returned to Britain, one could even speculate as a kind of code to identify fellow members of their "lost generation," who had a new and separate way of looking at the world than those who had not been to war. Of course I'm getting entirely into the realm of the hypothetical now. But I think at that time in history, if one was to imagine a sort of post-apocolyptic future, the USSR would definitely be involved somehow. It was their number one fear.

There was also a code of slang used among gay men in the late 50's/early 60's that sounds remarkably similar to Nadsat. Since people back then could have horrible things done to them if they were discovered to be gay, nevermind what would happen if they hit on someone who turned out to be straight -- this slang was developed so that kind of confusion wouldn't occur. I've been wracking my brain trying to remember what it was called, ever since your first post on this subject, but I can't for the life of me remember. :(

P.S. I think it starts with a P. Or maybe an F?

[Koa]

Ah right, I had thought of the cold war too, but I couldnt find a good reason other than the era...and I thought I was being banal in linking the era to the cold war ;)

It's interesting though, it's a good exercise of Russian ;) I think Emily that your Russian vocabulary is as rich as mine...if not even more ;)

[emily655321]

Haha! Doubtful. I'd love to learn it though. One of my life goals is to be able to read Dostoevsky in the original.

[Koa]

:eek: I think you'll need to have a long long life... I've already given up about reading anything Russian in original :( They have too much of a huge vocabulary, it's hard to master it and you'd miss something anyway. I'm so awfully excited when I read something and manage to get the general sense without a dictionary... Cos if I start to look things up, I'd never get out of it (and I generally hate to spend hours on the dictionary).

[emily655321]

Aw shucks. :( Well, that's one motive for longevity, at least.

[subterranean]

.........no one consider AP as one of the lost ones?

Well i miss this forum, but been very busy and somehow i lost track of whats going on this forum..and obviously i dont want to just "jump in" into a conversation without knowing what really is going on....

guidance will be appriciate ..

and Kik where have u been lately anyway? i visit the forum lately and not much posts from you...

[emily655321]

Hey, you're in danger of becoming a Lost One yourself, Sub! ;)
Kik is out on the town and lovey-doveying it up for the summer back at home, but he'll be back when his life gets less exciting this fall at school. :D
AP has stopped in recently for a bout or two and a poetry fix. He's still out there somewhere beyond the Wired.

[subterranean]

well thanks for the info Em...i notice you're going to hit the 2000 posts...only in 4 months...i'm impress

cheers

[Koa]

a couple of days without spotting trace of emily, and i'm worried she's lost out there already... :D

[crisaor]

Give her a break. No one can stand posting 21 posts per day for a long time. I'm sure she'll return soon. :)

[amuse]

Lara, i miss you...

[emily655321]

Hi kiddies. I'm not lost, just sick. :sick: There's a bad cold going around here. Plus, the kitties are keeping me quite, quite busy. One of them has a cold too. :(

Koa, I replied to your PM but I'm not sure if it sent. If you don't get it, just say "nope" and I'll send one along again.

[Koa]

I got it em, I replied. But forgot to say WB in it :D

[Jay]

Just thought someone else might be missing someone...
Where's Shea? Sindhu's still not back? Miss Faye. Think I saw AP on poetry thread not that long ago, still no psycojones, see Stan made it back in one piece, Mike's enjoying not having school, oh yeah, talking about game threads, still no Lara, Zooey got back for a little while too but now is gone again, is it me or den's been gone for some time as well, and hey, waxmephilosophical, your thread's being taken over, loong time no Demona as well. Geez guys, we're not that bad, come back, VBM seems to be lacking playmates ;).

[emily655321]

Yeah, we miss 'em. :(

But I'm glad you're back, Jay! :banana: We missed you too.

[Jay]

Thanks Em :).

[amuse]

Isagel, you've been quiet lately, too.

[emily655321]

So.has.ajoe.
Ajoe.come.back.and.give.us.pointless.internet.game s!

I'm.glad.Simon's.back.(Welome.back.Simon!:D)
I.was.beginning.to.think.she.was.destined.for.the. list.too.

[Stanislaw]

Looking back our friends of old are withering and gone, and new ones only remind us of days once forgotten, My grandmother said that... she was feeling pretty down.

But I am kinda there, I mean the new guys are nice and the newbies are now good friends, but whenever a new "hey i am new" pops up, One has to remember those who have drifted off into the sea of memories never to be heard from again.

[Koa]

I think I scared Libra Swords away... :D Shame, I thought it would take longer... ;)

[subterranean]

Looking back our friends of old are withering and gone, and new ones only remind us of days once forgotten, My grandmother said that... she was feeling pretty down.

But I am kinda there, I mean the new guys are nice and the newbies are now good friends, but whenever a new "hey i am new" pops up, One has to remember those who have drifted off into the sea of memories never to be heard from again.

Many forums are like this, the same pattern i found in few forums i once joined also..(perhaps i also considered as the lost one in those forums :()

But i suppose it's more of daily activity or something happen going on in each person's life.

[verybaddmom]

honestly, i have often wondered if it is our inane chatter that has chased the lost ones away......

[simon]

Those lost either were locked away in a mental asylum, a prediciton of what will inevitably happen to us all, or became miraculously cured of their insane compulsive posting behavior, take your pick be you optomisitic or pessimistic. But eventually all will become lost in some sense of the word.

[Jay]

Hey, spotted Ickmeister on the haiku thread, if I'm not mistaken he's been gone for a long time too. Welcome back, Ickmeister :). Have you read Paradise Lost already? ;):D

[crisaor]

I think I scared Libra Swords away... :D Shame, I thought it would take longer... ;)
Koa, you're indeed a BAD girl... ;)

[subterranean]

honestly, i have often wondered if it is our inane chatter that has chased the lost ones away......


nah,,,,we're not that talented enough ;)

[Isagel]

I´m not lost. Just misplaced.

[Jay]

Says the cat as she's already about to get 'misplaced' again ;)
Hope you're not though, Isagel :)

[Koa]

Koa, you're indeed a BAD girl... ;)

And proud of it :D Muchas gracias senor.
*evil* :brow:

[Isagel]

Says the cat as she's already about to get 'misplaced' again ;)
Hope you're not though, Isagel :)
No, now I´m stuck by the computer again. I just wandered off for awhile.

But where is Sindhu? She should have been back by now.

[subterranean]

sent her PM, no reply, hope she's ok!

[Jay]

Got a word from Shea, she's been unable to get to a computer with internet, should be back as soon as the next semester starts :).

[Stanislaw]

It is nice that our old friends are returning however we have lost some for good. And that is a shame.

[verybaddmom]

speaking of lost ones....where the heck is Em??

[subterranean]

been asking the same Q my self...and where's Faye...and Kik as well..

[amuse]

i was thinking of Kik, too. and Sindhu never returned. :(

[Stanislaw]

Maybe we should erect a thread in their honour, where we post the nmae of someone who has left, this forum, or even your life, and write a little memorial for them.

[subterranean]

suppose that would make everyone wants to leave so they would be remembered as the lost ones?
....kinda un-important...

Cheers

[verybaddmom]

i miss Em...where the heck did she go??

[ajoe]

Maybe she'd be back once school starts.

[verybaddmom]

i just dont think its like her to not post even a little bit....

[Koa]

last time I heard from her she said she was busy making shopping lists for school etc, which reduced her posting... but still, I didnt think it could last so long...

[Stanislaw]

Prepping for school can be a nightmare.

[papayahed]

Has anyone seen the new staples commercial with Alice Cooper? Pretty Funny.

[amuse]

Geez, Den, you've become one of the missing...stop back some time.

[EAP]

I am amazed at the number of posts some of your folks have made! woah, like amuse joined in feb and allready more then 1000 posts....woah!

[amuse]

there's a reason: i had online classes last semester. it's embarassing almost. :D

[Stanislaw]

It seems that people have left our family, hopefully not for good, Maybe they will be back some day?

School is a really stressfull, I have a lot of labs this semester, too much work.

[simon]

Yes there is too much work this term and only more for next term. There is little time not spent in class, and thus rendering the time online at a minimum.

[amuse]

vbm, sancho, sindhu, ajoe, faye. and kik of course.

[subterranean]

yea..hope the list doesn't get longer :(

[Shea]

lol, Do you guy's remember this? I still giggle from time to time when I think about it! :lol:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2260&page=3&pp=15&highlight=game

[mono]

Thinking of long lost threads and members, I wonder what ever happened to forum members, BSturdy and Shore_Dude. Does anyone remember them?

[Isagel]

Yes, and Emily - the clockwork orange fan.

[amuse]

hm..Shore_Dude might be busy teaching right now

[subterranean]

teaching how to surf? ;)..maybe he's busy feeding his ilama :D..


I miss everybody :wave:...come back...

[Koa]

I think I m back in full time or almost...

[Jay]

Back from Hungary? Welcome back :)
And post a lot of gory details ;):D

[Koa]

LOL, you'll have the gore then :D And dont complain, you asked for it :D
(btw, why arent you on msn? I need help from an expert ;))

[Chava]

Does anyone remember WX6?

[mono]

I looked into the last posts by WK6[ck], Chava, and he/she came before I existed on the forum.
And, oh, welcome back, Koa! How pleasant for you to return!

[subterranean]

Hi ya Koa... :D
Waiting for your full action here ..


I think I m back in full time or almost...

[Jay]

(btw, why arent you on msn? I need help from an expert ;))
One word? UNIVERSITY :p, not at home most of the time now and uni comps somehow don't like messengers :), but you could send an email, will reply asap... well, if it's not 'reply now, later doesn't matter' kinda situation :)

[Koa]

Ah right Jay... well in my experience it's not uni pc that dont like msn...it's uni pc technicians who don't :D Bah I was just confused about versions and I know you are the expert so... I ll send a mail with mroe precise questions if I need to, it's nothing urgent anyway :)

[mono]

Does anyone else wonder where Sitaram went? He quickly became a very active user on joining the forum, then disappeared just as swiftly. :confused:

[mono]

O subterranean, subterranean! Wherefore art thou, subterranean?

[shortysweetp]

i saw her on yahoo messenger the other day but she didnt responde when i messaged her.

[Sitaram]

Does anyone else wonder where Sitaram went? He quickly became a very active user on joining the forum, then disappeared just as swiftly. :confused:


Well, now you know why I left.

You are that "one friend" in my poem, "Crippled Strength".

http://online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12852

I was E-mailing you as I was composing that poem.

[amuse]

Shea's been gone for a while.

[shortysweetp]

yeah i was noticing that and that bandini was too (did something happen with him during my absence?)

[Koa]

I've been wondering about sub for a while...
and occasionally also about bandini...he was fun :)

[Jay]

Anyone seen Sindhu around? We can never have enough teachers around *ducks a certain bop ;)*

[baddad]

How dare those missing few carry on life in the real world, while soulless friends of electronic build while away time reminiscing........wish the missing well, wish their electronic representations recurring life............and maybe we will 'meet' agian..........

[Sancho]

Anybody seen simon lately?

Hope she hasn't gone off and joined the Army or something.

(anyone who's read her stuff knows there's very little likelihood of that)

[Jay]

Nice seeing you back for a post of two :)

[Sancho]

Hiya Jay,
Glad to see that you're still here. I never intended to leave, but it has been an extraordinarily insane (and tragic) season at my house. BTW, I had the rare opportunity to fly over your house several months ago as I was going from Frankfurt to Bombay. Unfortunately, the entire Czech Republic was cloud covered so I couldn’t see much.

[imthefoolonthehill]

Simon's around. I talked to her the other day.

[Sancho]

Thanks fool. Been kinda scarce myself ‘round here with work (P’tooey) and all.

[Jay]

Excuses, Sancho, excuses ;)

[Sancho]

Aiy-aiy-aiy Jay, you’ve seen through my façade.

[Jay]

Got a good training ;)

[verybaddmom]

*pokes head in*
hi all !!!
*scoots out*

[baddad]

*pokes head in*
hi all !!!
*scoots out*

....hmmmm........scooting........

...........................in........out........pr etty sneaky................damn oldtimers............

[Jay]

HEY, I saw that! Now they're going to use 'real life' (what an unreal thing) for an excuse for their absence again! Hi VBM, long time to see! Too long that poking your head in would suffice (borrowed that from Frost ;))
If you know what's good for you you're sticking around ;)
oh btw, WELCOME BACK :D
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/jayellen/smileys/welcome.gif

[Taliesin]

welcome back, VBM, and do not even think of leaving.

Oh, and btw, Jay, about a thing you said:

'real life' - where can we download it?

[Jay]

Well, you see Tal, so sorry it's gotta be me who tells you... but... real life is not downloadable, if it were we wouldn't be looking for one, would we? Though I gotta admit I might be too immature or whatnot, right about now I don't really give a rat's butt about not having a real life. I've got a computer with relatively decent music on it, internet connectivity is behaving, what more can a gal want? ;)

[simon]

Sancho there have been terrible things afoot, how keen of you to intuitively know the extent of my adventures. They came to my door, two black boot clad men and they stuffed me in a green suit ten sizes too big and lowered me into a tank and ordered me to shoot at all who dared challege the green. So that night when I steered the tank through the wall I caught them in their whites and brought them down. So they discharged me and declared people who are small enough that the helmets come down infront of their eyes causing misfire not fit for the Army. But I still haven't seen a paycheck.

Reality may beckon, but I can resist temptation,
working customer service though, I've learned cooperation (not bloody likely)
The land of boston is where I currently am
a place where I don't have to exam cram
I scoop ice cream under the title barista
but all I am looking for is a nice siesta? (rhyme-- why bother)
These people all live in a world of high fashion
where I look on wholly without any passion.

There are evil things afoot in this world and I intent to plant myself at their origins so I can learn from the masters.
So long till I have anything more useless to say, and thanks for noticing my glib diatribes.

[Sancho]

simon, bravo.

you know, those kevlars come in different sizes.

[Stanislaw]

welcome back, VBM, and do not even think of leaving.

Oh, and btw, Jay, about a thing you said:
- where can we download it?

that starwars online universe game thing??? :D

[Jay]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/jayellen/smileys/pirate.gif Uhoh, the pirates are back! Welcome back!

[Stanislaw]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/jayellen/smileys/pirate.gif Uhoh, the pirates are back! Welcome back!
arrr, thankye! :D

[mono]

that starwars online universe game thing??? :D
Yes, welcome back, Stanislaw - very nice to see you around again.
You should get Grandpa Wladyslaw to show up more often, too. ;)

[Stanislaw]

Yeah that would be cool, but he's kinda over computers now, mostly just sticks to news sites. but, ohvell!

Thanks for the welcome though!!!

[Stanislaw]

sorry to dredge up an ooold post, but what ever happened to Den?

[shortysweetp]

i dont know , i was wondering that too. she was still posting when i joined but i havent seen her much or verybadmom (even though I see her on my yahoo messenger, just not here)

[Koa]

yeah i often wonder about den... and vbm too...

[Stanislaw]

maybe even youknowwho...he who should not be named...abdorinbo...*crossesself*...lol, but I suppose he got his fate.

Lots of good people disapearing though. :(

[Stanislaw]

No Shea either.

[mono]

No Shea either.
Yes, I miss Shea also, but I imagine with graduate school one keeps quite pre-occupied. :(
She will show up again soon, no doubt, signing in sporadically sometimes. :)

[Stanislaw]

I hope, how about bongity...My padawan?

[shortysweetp]

i know i mentioned him in the time game thread. what has he been up to? he needs to get back on here

[subterranean]

I wonder where baddad is....

[Pensive]

I wonder where baddad is....

Me too!
I also can't see verybaddmom...and its her birthday today...Happy Birthday :banana:

[Stanislaw]

ai, many people have left. :(

[verybaddmom]

hi guys. i just want to peek in and say a quick hi and thank you for thinking of me.
im sorry i havent been around much, although i do lurk a bit just to see how things are going. my life has changed so drastically since i was here, i wouldnt even know what to say to start explaining (my absence and my changes), and im not sure that i've been ready to.
i appreciate that some here thought to pm me and wish me a happy birthday. i wish you all the best of everything you aspire to.
my heart is still here, even if my words arent always visible.

[Koa]

vbm!!!! :eek2: what a wonderful sight!!! Glad you remember us and I hope everything's fine with you and nothing negative is going on... Say a few words when you pass by! :)

And I was wondering about kilted exile...

[Koa]

foruming aorund today i was reminded of crisaor, who always comes back after months... and bianca fransen! where's she gone?

[verybaddmom]

koa, i sometimes wonder if it hasnt changed too much for us oldies to come back in and start posting and i wonder if that isnt what's happened to some of the lost ones. i peek in quite often and i see games that i started still going, but i dont recognize any of the players. it feels very strange, to be honest.
i'll try and stop in and say something more often, but i dont want to ... well.... interrupt is the best word. does that make sense?

[Jay]

No. ;)
Play a newbie and join in the craze as a new player, be that games or general chat or literary discussions. If you vote for good books you might want to read some in the Book Club :p... that is, are you easilly swayed to someone else's whims? :D

[Stanislaw]

HAHAHAHAHAHA the 8000th prfecy is coming true
In the ancient tohm: :banana: :flare: :( :cold: :crash: :bday_2: :wave:

so now the old members flocketh back to reign in the glory of 8000!

btw: a warm welcome back for verybadmom! :thumbs_up

[Koa]

koa, i sometimes wonder if it hasnt changed too much for us oldies to come back in and start posting and i wonder if that isnt what's happened to some of the lost ones. i peek in quite often and i see games that i started still going, but i dont recognize any of the players. it feels very strange, to be honest.
i'll try and stop in and say something more often, but i dont want to ... well.... interrupt is the best word. does that make sense?

Well it happened to me as well at some point... it was hard to catch up cos I didnt really recognise the forums anymore, many new people, many new things... I dont remember if this was when I was back from Hungary (most likely) or on another occasion... but then after a while I felt like I belonged here again... Maybe you'd feel like a newbie again, but then you'll get hold of the situation again... I find it much harder to join forums where there are lots of old members who know each other really well and even in person and I always feel like a minor member, whose words are less important than someone else's cos I'm not "into" the community as they are... Here at least there are usually no differences between oldbies and newbies, which is cool and probably the reason why many newbies post like 400 messages a day...;)

and where's amuse? havent seen much of her lately.

[simon]

It certainly is becoming harder and harder to post. It is as though I can find little to say in reponse. And there seem to be so many other things to do physically around me, that I think what happens to the lost ones is they are sucked into that realm of participation in the world around them. Perhaps they become wonderfully functioning human beings-- not to say that manic posters are not...persay.

[Koa]

Well simon, that's it...they get involved in real life... I'm not sure we are perfectly functioning real humans, speaking for myself at least... the lost ones get out of here and find a place in real life and we both miss them and kinda envy them but at the same time pity them a bit for losing us...but we wonder what they'd found out there that keeps them there...
(hope my use of 'we' doesnt offend anyone, that's what I feel but I try to imagine I'm not the only one...)

[Jay]

Been thinking about psycojones, he just... disappeared. All the lost and misplaced ones better be doing ok.

[Koa]

yay baddad is back again....and vbm is here! and im not sure i spotted crisaor or it was an old post...

[Taliesin]

Crisaor is certainly here.

[subterranean]

Yeps,, Cris is here once in a while ;)...baddad was stealing a little time and peeped up ..

Mom, Simon, and KOA..I too shared the same feelings when I was gone some months ago..;)
But I think eventhough we have new people here, most of the are so nice and they make you feel welcome again...

[baddad]

...many come. few ever really 'leave'. Years from now, when this site has burgeoned into its deserved fate, the lost shall still periodically visit if only to stir fond memory. This is not a bad thing. There are many incredibly talented people here, and many who fear life's direction, worry their future until it is, or seems, raw, and yet they carry on, they share fresh insight, share their stutters and staggers and winning strokes and so this site acts as a place of birth, a beginning point for bright futures.......and no one really truly leaves.........................

[subterranean]

....sounds complicated

[lhaeber]

no one truly leaves...you're all still here?

[Jay]

Obviously, and so are you. Hey ho, it's been a while :wave:

[amuse]

Koa, thanks for wondering; yes i'm aliveandwell. the schedule's beyond full is all, not mention jumbled everyday and not so everyday complications...

hi, vbm!!! the power supply on my comp went down, and i haven't had i-m since. have thought of you much.

hopefully in mid-december i can visit more.

Jay, i will pm you.

[verybaddmom]

oooooh ash! that explains so much!
loook forward to seeing you more :D

[Pensive]

I have not seen baddad. I wonder if he still visits the forum...

[Stanislaw]

heh thought I would resurect this thread and ask where did bongitybongbong get to...and fool on the hill?

[Nightshade]

and kaltrina... and jack albeney

[Stanislaw]

ai, lots of people missing again!

[Virgil]

Shall we all shed a tear for Starwriter? Not.

[Nightshade]

tut tut.
.Not very nice Virg....
how about those annoying people who attacked scher and we had flaming going on??

[Virgil]

tut tut.
.Not very nice Virg....

You're right. I actually liked Star, somewhat.



how about those annoying people who attacked scher and we had flaming going on

I don't kow what you're referring to? Where was that?

[Nightshade]

umm their posts ended up being deleted but it got pretty nasty I ended up doing a word of the day on baiting You know i think it might have been in the random thought of the day thread back n the summer it was well august or semptember anyway or wait it could have been december? yes manybe decemberhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/sad/533.gif

[Virgil]

umm their posts ended up being deleted but it got pretty nasty I ended up doing a word of the day on baiting You know i think it might have been in the random thought of the day thread back n the summer it was well august or semptember anyway or wait it could have been december? yes manybe decemberhttp://www.websmileys.com/sm/sad/533.gif
Hmmm. Well I started in November. If it was in December, I missed it or forgot about it.

[Stanislaw]

an lets not forget the ever missed :rolleyes: jollie@#$@!ollie.

Star wasn't that bad though.

[Pensive]

I miss starrwriter. I am also missing Kaltrina and baddad.

Night: Which annoying people are you talking about? Sorry, I started the forum in August but I can't remember...

[IrishCanadian]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=192273#post192273
My last post as uf this morning early: sigh.
I miss Star too. I was pretty upset when he decided to go. Don't you pull that on us!

[Nightshade]

huh?!:confused:

[Pensive]

huh?!:confused:

Hmmmm.....

:confused: :confused:

[Nightshade]

Im menat it to the dont you pull that on us who is you?
who is leaving so we can gang up on them and tie them to a chair:nod:

[IrishCanadian]

No ones leaving methinks. I was going to direct that "you" to everyone using this thread, but thats too narrow a list of peoples. Ah well, its no use to live in the past.

[Nightshade]

where is emily???

:confused:

[Pensive]

Yuppy, where is emily?

[rachel]

I so miss B-Mental. he was a good friend, awesome musician and very wise. he went to New Zealand for work for six months and hasn't come on th eforum since. AFter Jakobin I get so worried wondering how he is. I miss Baddad too.

[Pensive]

I miss Darlin, B Mental, baddad, emily, BongityBongBong, IWillKiku, Taliesin and mono...

[rachel]

glady sweetheart, Emily told me she from time to time has to let go of the forum for a while so she can get things done. she will be back.
hugs,

[optimisticnad]

I'm sorry. I'm new. So don't miss anyone. lol. Give it time. BUt miss plenty of people who were in my life once upon a time... but thats a long story, anyone got 24 hours to spare? And i just want to thank you all...for making the newbies feel bad...and isoltaed....lol. In a few more years time I want someone to ask, oh where's optimisticnad gone, i miss her. lol

[optimisticnad]

but i wont be going anywhere. life work love, yep, take a lot of time, but how long does it take to post even one message? And this way...you're immortalised (is that a word?)

if u want, u will find a way, if u dont u wont. (so life love work...just not good enough excuses! I hope no one says this back to me in a few years time when I say oh im so busy with life. lol.)

[rachel]

I will make twenty four hours for you if you like,
just tell me when.

[Riesa]

I was wondering about emily too, last time she left a note, this time she just vanished.

Whatever happened to verybaddmom?

[optimisticnad]

rachel: you're too too sweet!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder everyone likes you and keeps saying that, I have a picture of you as some nice old granny. (sorry not very complimentary-actually it is, i love my nan more than anythiing)

[Petrarch's Love]

And i just want to thank you all...for making the newbies feel bad...and isoltaed....lol. In a few more years time I want someone to ask, oh where's optimisticnad gone, i miss her. lol


Hi optimisticnad, I've been seeing you around lately but we haven't really been introduced (did you post on the "Introduce yourself here and say hi" thread and I just missed you?). Anyway, just thought I'd wave hello since it's not good to have newbies feeling bad and isolated :wave:. Luckily you've had Rachel, one of our nicest members here to welcome you (she just posted some lovely pics of herself on the photoalbum looking very un-granny like, but I agree that she's just as sweet as one ;)). And don't worry, I'm sure we'll all wonder "where's optimisticnad gone?" if you ever disappear for some reason (which we'll just hope you won't).

[rachel]

I suddenly had a vision of looking like the granny from tweetybird.Oh and you should see Petrarch's Love's pictures. She is a dream princess. And one day she shall marry a prince and we all will be invited to the ball. And I hope I get to baby sit all the little princes and princesses. And Petrarch's love is one of the most understanding and compassionate and incredibly wise people Ihave met in the whole of my life!

verybadmom is in Calgary still I think going to university. she is pretty and a real go getter. I hope we hear from her soon.

[Petrarch's Love]

I suddenly had a vision of looking like the granny from tweetybird.Oh and you should see Petrarch's Love's pictures. She is a dream princess. And one day she shall marry a prince and we all will be invited to the ball. And I hope I get to baby sit all the little princes and princesses. And Petrarch's love is one of the most understanding and compassionate and incredibly wise people Ihave met in the whole of my life!
:blush: :blush: :blush: Rachel seems to have confused this with the Compliment the PAM thread, and she's applied all these lovely compliments to me when they obviously should be given to her instead. Thank you for your sweet thoughts, Rachel, and not only can you help babysit my little princes and princesses, but I will be sure that my prince's charming older brother marries you and you too will be a princess and live happily ever after. You will be loved and cherished by all the people in the kingdom and little Hasia can wear a princess crown all the time. :)

P.S. You mean this Granny Rachel? Maybe we'll both look like that someday when we're little old white haired princesses. :lol:
http://www.everwonder.com/david/tweety/t3.gif

To get back to the purpose of this thread, I was just wondering the other day what has happened to Madhura. She's obviously decided to leave. She erased all previous posts except the ones on a locked thread that I guess couldn't be accessed to be erased. I hope that she is well, and ekeing out some happiness for herself in the world. It's strange and sad not to know what happens to people when they leave here.

[rachel]

hullo pretty girl. you sound like a teacher. right...back to the thread
I get emails still from Honey(Madura), she deleted the posts because, having reread them she felt too naked, too exposed with those thoughts 'out there' to be read by strangers. By nature she is very closed and private and felt she had erred by posting.
She is busy with some things right now and no I don't think she will be back except perhaps to pm others or read our posts.But she is alright.

YAHOO I SHALL BE RELATED TO PL. START THE CELEBRATIONS. AND I HAVE TO TELL YOU I SHOWED MY SON YOUR PICTURE,ONE OF MY SONS WHO IS VERY HANDSOME AND SHY AND HE THOUGHT YOU VERY VERY PRETTY.

[Petrarch's Love]

Oh Rachel I'm so glad you're so good at keeping in touch with everyone. You keep us all connected. I'm glad to hear Madhura is doing alright. I'm glad she was just shy about keeping the posts up, I was afraid she had gotten angry at us or something. Tell her hello from me if you are in touch and that I wish her all the best. :)

Oh and tell your son thank you for the compliment. :blush: How old is he, by the way? I don't think you've mentioned before.

[rachel]

I actually had a wonderful email from her this morning. she is fine, really.
sweet girl, a few ten by twelve pictures of you and later you and your dollies for my scrapbook for baby hasia at my email would be highly appreciated.
Further, I got an email from Mono this morning, he is nearly finished his preceptorship to become a nurse, he is doing fine although naturally very exhausted.He is and always will be one of my favorite people.
Psyche has been unwell for a bit now,had surgery, but I am sure she will be feeling better very soon.
baby Samercury emailed me that she has two more grinding weeks to go for school and then all will be over and she will be back full force.

[baddad]

.....and of course, a reminder that not all who wander are lost, nor are memories..........peekabootothoseIknew............ .hehehe...........

[rachel]

BADDAD IS THAT REALLY REALLY REALLY YOU?
I have missed you just buckets and think about your story book life just about every other day. HOW ARE YOU, YOU WONDERFUL DEAR ADORABLE GUY? :banana: :banana: :D

[subterranean]

.....and of course, a reminder that not all who wander are lost, nor are memories..........peekabootothoseIknew............ .hehehe...........


Oh, you love that feeling don't you? We, screaming and welcoming you again, you ol' lad.. That's why you peek out and dissapear over and over again :D

[Pensive]

baddad, that's a nice surprise!

[Isagel]

Hello baddad! Nice to see you!

I suspect that some of us come and go like Kipling´s cat, not lost, just taking a walk by ourselves, before coming back and keeping company -

"But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone."

[rachel]

ah Isagel,
it is glorious to 'hear' your wonderful voice once more. You are always missed. I think of you as a time traveller for some reason, a very mystical sort of person.

[Isagel]

And you, dear Rachel, are a sweetheart.

[Pensive]

Oh, where is Night and where is Kaltrina??? Does anyone know??? I miss them both!!!

[RJbibliophil]

Yes, and Eva, Elizabeth, and a few others are missing as well.

But what of the Lit Net Courier?

[Petrarch's Love]

Just thinking that I'm going to miss seeing Rachel around here :(. I've also been hoping that Elizabeth Sewell is doing alright. Has anyone heard from her lately?

[Virgil]

My heart was broken when I found out Rachel was no longer here. That was the unkindest cut of all.

Petrarch, I believe Elizabeth said she was busy this summer and would not have that much time for lit net.

[Pensive]

Oh, rachel has not gone. She is busy now a days, that's why she is not being able to visit the forum actually.

[Petrarch's Love]

Virgil--Thanks for letting me know Elizabeth's just been busy. I seemed to recall her mentioning having health problems and I was concerned that she is O.K.

Pensive--I'm sorry, I wouldn't have brought it up this way but I thought it was common knowledge that Rachel has been banned from here. You can see that her name is gone from the members list. Last time I was in touch with her she expressed wishes that everybody not make too big a deal about it or be too sad, but just to say she misses everyone and sends you all her love.

[Logos]

About banning.. you've got to realise that you do not always see the whole picture here. The decision to ban someone is *not* taken lightly, but ultimately done to maintain the integrity and best possible atmosphere for as many as possible at this site.

[grace86]

Awww I didn't know Rachel was gone!! She was the sweetest person and always so loving to all of us here. I am sure she has found a spot in all our hearts as she has found in mine.

[RobinHood3000]

I thought it was common knowledge that Rachel has been banned from here. You can see that her name is gone from the members list. HOLYJEEZWHATTHEHECKHAPPENEDWHILEIWASGONE???!!!

Sorry...came as a bit of a shock.

[Pendragon]

And a cry rang out all though the night,
From each heart that she touched, each burden made light
We miss you, dearest Rachel

Goodness, I can't even write about it...

[grace86]

How could she possibly get banned??!! Or did she leave?

[bazarov]

What do I have to do to be banned??? I am asking it because I don't want to be banned...:D , but someone might think that sometimes I'm a little bit evil and so(maybe because of Brothers :lol: ), but I'm just joking, no hard feelings...

[kathycf]

Wow, I feel so incredibly stupid. I have been wondering for ages where Rachel and Mililail were...and now I know. . I guess I got caught up in my own stuff and missed the departure of two very kind people.

Whatever the reasons for their leaving, I will still miss them.

[Logos]

They didn't leave, they were banned for contravening the forum rules.


About banning.. you've got to realise that you do not always see the whole picture here. The decision to ban someone is *not* taken lightly, but ultimately done to maintain the integrity and best possible atmosphere for as many as possible at this site.