Reconnoiter is an interesting word.
by MichaelRyerson
10/29/2009, 10:20 PM couple of interesting and profoundly amusing things turn up on a recent (last ten minutes) reconnoiter...first off, botf is dying. No, really. Relative to Procrastination botf is dying. How's that for irony? A cursory glance at the main page of botf finds precious few replies (124 excluding gatewood's brain fart) and thumbs activity directly traceable to basically three posters (hahaha). While a similar cursory perusal of the Procrastination main page finds a vibrant collection of top posts and reply activity and thumbs activity across a wide range of posters. Doubt it? Total up the number of replies currently showing on botf for a total of 124 replies, the same exercise on Procrastination yields a total of 377. Now to be fair, and aren't I always(?), there is one other clutch of replies (68) on botf wherein gatewood threatens to do to Procrastination what he's already done to botf, that is destroy it!! His words. hahaha. Yeah, he's threatening to go over to Procrastination and DESTROY it!! hahaha. This guy cracks me up, what a show. In fact, when you consider the wonderful entertainment being meted out weekly by such shows as The Office and 30 Rock and Curb Your Enthusiasm and then look at the main players on botf(!) god what a competent scriptwriter could do with that clutch of goofballs, I mean...really!

Someone wants Gatewood's attention. Reads like a last second Hail Mary play to me.

You can not miss this gem! I was looking at Ryerson's MBTU yesterday because he's been stalking me & posting my first name as well ... and I wanted to see how many times he would use my real first name in his posts (five, so far) ... when I came across this gem. Not only are we all, apparently, 'goofballs' but we are... deceased. As is our BOTF. dead, says Ryerson, dead in the water. Etc.

Today being Halloween and all, thought you might like a cruise through our 'graveyard.'

Feel the chills yet, folks? All you 'haunts' out there -- how are you posting from your graves? (Ironically, of the many replies that MR so 'accurately' counts some are from me, Over There twitting them. And several posts are by Jack Dallas and other folks responding to Jack's Top Post Over There the same day. So, if one subtracts those posts from his total, his numbers will come down quite a bit. (Do the math, Michael)

As for this series he's apparently doing, he's posting it on an unused Fray called "Shameful Conduct" that a previous editor (or two?) used to use. Just, you know, so he can 'hide' from us. And as for the 510 views and 65-68 posts in the discussion on my Reports from the Front post yesterday that sparked such a lively discussion, well -- MR. calls that Top Post and thread, 'a brain fart."

Do we miss him yet?

Hopefully, Cicero/Gatewood will see it. Ryerson also wants Jack's attention and apparently mine, because he's been Top Posting about me on two other Frays, steadily for days now. It's getting a little creepy, Pogue -- no, actually it's MORE than a little creepy.

Happy Halloween, Pogue! Sn/t.

"Alan Smithee," aka M. Ryerson himself. Can we believe this guy?

Clue to MR: Get a life, Mikey. But OTOH, thanks for the laughs, truly. You poor sap.

I know I suck but at least I have been consistently sucking as a top poster for the last 3 years or so. The rest of you have always sucked. Now, Ryerson, he never struck me as much of anything at all, kind of like a wall flower in a florist shop. You only notice him if he moves.

"You only notice him if he moves." Well, W., he's been moving around a lot these days! Apparently he "left" (snort) the Geeroid Country Club because Jack had a Top Post there -- but of course, he was back on there that same night. Next day, looks like, he emigrated himself over to the "Shameful Conduct" Fray where he alternates between dissing BOTF in these inane Top Posts and using my first name in every other post. He's a sad, sad case, W.

O.T., loved your post yest. about "Mercedes" -- she sounds fabulous. Oh and Dr. No came on there to make a nice comment about her to you.

Best, but watch those misleading subject lines, please! SN/t.

Jessica Lange was the star in a movie about military families. She was the resident drunk gorgeous wife that always made a scene at parties, danced a little too risque, told a bit off color jokes and made all the other wives jealous. That was my mom. Up, down, sideways, over there, back here, circling clouds, crawling in gutters, always completely naked emotionally and totally exhausting. Pretty much sums up Andalucian women, too hot to handle but hang on because the ride is going to be the most intense shit storm you have ever been on....

I read Pat Conroy's book twice, just couldn't take it all in in one reading, "The Prince of Tides". I loved the movie and, hated it when began to veer from the story. The affair with the psychiatrist (can't remember her name in the book) was just a wee small part of the greater story but it was still an amazingly well made film Saw it twice too, don't how I managed it because I wasn't living in America at the time it came out. I liked the film "Blue Sky" too, Think I saw that twice also. Great films like those two just aren't made anymore, films don't have the impact that those did on our lives anymore either. Write your book or short story. Your muse is apparently calling.

I was not happy with the movie either. The part in the book when the kids are swimming near the island, diving for oysters or something and just loving the life of a kid was so moving, so touching to me. If you remember, both kids family lives were monstrosities yet their escape was so personal. Then, the scene when the tiger rescue him from the rape...unbelievable stuff. I am reading him again, not sure if I am ready for the emotional story which is going to happen, I just know it....

Ryerson is wrong.

Jack

alan smithy has his own sock puppet named stack trace..

Is a particularly revealing turn of phrase.

Just the shambling zombie of Ballot Box. Except real Ballot Boxers don't want anything to do with you pack of losers.

This board NEVER WAS TBOF, ever. I have always assumed everyone just knew that. i must say, such a hypocrite you are. Here you are attacking posters for conduct ;you feel free to indulge in ;yourself. Such as: going around to different boards attacking other posters who do the same thing, but to a much lesser extent. Tell me this please; what are your favourite forums/boards? We certainly are well aware of whom and what you don't like, how about what you do like for a change?