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  H2O ADVERTISERS ABOUT TO PULL PLUG

  by Magdaleen in

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  on advertising/funding due to the drastic dive in hits to ricks site.

  hence his recent brown nosing and crawling over here to both simon and all the ex-h2o-ers who used to post there.. i know this because i work indirectly for one of the sites major sponsors.. things that make you go hhhmmmmmmmmmm#8347693.

  stay tuned for further developments..........

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  COMF

  stay tuned for further developments..........

  No.

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  American / European Incomprehension.

  by Englishman in

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  reading through some of the posts re the mcveigh debate, it's obvious that there is a huge divide between the usa and europe over many issues, in particular with reference to the way that society should deal with deviants.. i think that there is a lot of other cultural differences between our societies, and i'm just wondering if this is why the wtbts has had a far higher "conversion factor" in the usa than in europe.. some of the phraseology contained in the watchtower magazines is incomprehensible to europeans.

  i remember that words that are in common usage now, were, when first used in the wt, totally baffling.. the expression "no way" wasn't in common use until years after the wt featured it, like wise with "points up", also "right on" meant nothing to anyone.

  indeed, many return visits to placed magazine householders resulted in them asking a bewildered dub for an explanation of these then strange terms.

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  Hey, larc! I have no idea what a Devil's strip is. In the town where I grew up, there were two things that "strip" referred to. One was "cruising the strip" and it meant driving your car up and down the same area over and over, from Shadrach Snack Shack up by the high school, down through the red light, circling the Tastee Freeze, back to the red light, right up across the town square to circle Dairy Queen, and then back to the light, turn right, and up to the Shack again.

  Yes, life in small-town Texas was indeed boring. About all we had to do was go "across the river" (our hometown was in a dry county... no alcohol for sale; but the next county, delineated by the river, was wet, so right across the river there were several liquor stores) and drive hotrod cars... which brings me to the second meaning of "strip." The Strip was a quarter-mile section of straight highway a few miles outside of town, and was where all the serious car races took place. In the days before the gas shortage, gas was about 14 cents a gallon, and if you had anything smaller than a 327 you were nobody. Maybe you could squeak by with a 289 or a 283 if you had a Holley 4-barrel or a 4-on-the-floor. But just barely. Guys with anything less weren't even able to find anybody who would race them.

  But that has nothing to do with Devilment, does it. Oh, well.

  Hey, here's one... does anybody know what a fade barn is?

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  "Sharing" a piece of myself - part 2

  by Tallyman in

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  if you don't want to read the small text, i've made an identical webpage.

  to the print appearing below @.

  * http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/sharing2.html.

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  COMF

  Please take my post to Tom and highlight the know-it-all parts, and explain how it is that "know-it-all" is what they are.

  Well, poop. No response. That's disheartening, even if it was expected.

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  SILENTLAMBS CONVENTION SIGNS!!!

  by VeniceIT in

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  these signs are ready for immediate duplication.

  (the bottom one entitled flyer is in actually dimensions.

  ) its 3x 4. it was done at fast signs which is a nationwide chain, (sign-a-rama or any other sign company can make these for you).

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  Ever since I read outnfree's delightful experience at the convention, I've had in my head, this idea that somehow a billboard could be rented for a month or so, and the question, "Are pedophiles knocking on your door?" emblazoned across it accompanied by an image of a hand knocking, and under it, the URL for the website. I picture this beside highway 35E, or I-45, or one of the major thoroughfares of Dallas traffic.

  I've never been even remotely involved with any kind of advertising or publicity. I can't even begin to guess what a billboard on a major highway must cost to rent, not to mention the cost of having someone do up the message itself and put it up there. Anybody know what we're talking about, costwise, here?

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  American / European Incomprehension.

  by Englishman in

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  reading through some of the posts re the mcveigh debate, it's obvious that there is a huge divide between the usa and europe over many issues, in particular with reference to the way that society should deal with deviants.. i think that there is a lot of other cultural differences between our societies, and i'm just wondering if this is why the wtbts has had a far higher "conversion factor" in the usa than in europe.. some of the phraseology contained in the watchtower magazines is incomprehensible to europeans.

  i remember that words that are in common usage now, were, when first used in the wt, totally baffling.. the expression "no way" wasn't in common use until years after the wt featured it, like wise with "points up", also "right on" meant nothing to anyone.

  indeed, many return visits to placed magazine householders resulted in them asking a bewildered dub for an explanation of these then strange terms.

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  The expression "No way" wasn't in common use until years after the WT featured it, like wise with "Points up", also "Right on" meant nothing to anyone.

  You're puzzling me now, E. I can imagine "points up" being in a Watchtower, but the other two I don't recall seeing in there. "No way" is just a bit of teenage slang that caught on in the sixties and didn't fade away like "far out" and "psychedelic." Sometime later, in the eighties, a new generation added "Yes, way" to it, and with that extra momentum it stuck around until now. As for "right on," that originated with the Black Panthers, if I remember correctly. If not them, then with black Americans in general (they called themselves Afro-American then; now it's African-American). Like many expressions the black population started, "right on" became popular across racial lines and everybody used it. Backed by his veddy British two-man band, Jimi Hendrix sang it: "Right on... straight ahead..." Cheech and Chong, the comedy duo who got famous doing skits about the drug scene, used a parody of it -

  Cheech: Which arm?
  Chong: Right arm, man!

  I sure can't recall ever seeing it in a Watchtower, though.

  Fact is, the Watchtower boys pretty much have their own way of speaking, which comes across as weird even to typical American types. There have been some highly ludicrous titles to magazine articles over the years, but one of the weirdest was one where the author appeared to have just returned from a refresher course in dangling participles. I don't remember the exact title, but it was something like, "The Ruler, Than Which There Is No Greater". No way is that normal American speech, man.

  Prisca:
  

  Americans act like everyone knows and share their language, their customs, their attitudes.

  Maybe it's just that Americans speak and behave according to what they know, reckon? How is an average person of any nation, living and working his life away in a typical town in the middle of his country, supposed to know how much of his everyday life exists and how much doesn't exist on another continent? If I've always used a fork to eat, when it's time to eat I'm going to look for a fork, not chopsticks. If I've got habits and mannerisms deeply ingrained in me, and I've never encountered anything different, how am I to know which of my habits are universal and which are peculiar to the area where I live?

  It's only by exposure to different ways of doing things that we even learn of their existence.

  Well, the rest of the world wouldn't have, if it wasn't for the infiltration of the American way of life on the rest of the world.

  So... stop it! If Aussies don't want MacDonalds franchises popping up like mushrooms all over Oz, then by god stop selling pieces of land to MacDonalds! Stop taking mamager jobs in the stores!

  So possibly, this is why the WTS was more accepted in the Americas than anywhere else.

  Makes sense to me.

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  They march like ants...

  by biblexaminer in

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  this song is meant to be sung with the music from "the ants go marching one by one".

  they march like ants from door to door.

  hurah... hurah.

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  Excellent! Love it!

  Man, with all this talent we've got on the board, we could have our own apostate songbook in no time!

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  "Sharing" a piece of myself - part 2

  by Tallyman in

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  if you don't want to read the small text, i've made an identical webpage.

  to the print appearing below @.

  * http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/sharing2.html.

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  Somebody, since you addressed your words to me, I gather that I'm the one you're calling a know-it-all. Would you mind explaining that?

  Tom misunderstood something I said. He brought it up here, which gave me a chance to clarify what was meant. Where does know-it-allness come into play in that?

  Please take my post to Tom and highlight the know-it-all parts, and explain how it is that "know-it-all" is what they are. That way I can be better educated about this unwelcome trait and avoid giving offense in the future.

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  "Sharing" a piece of myself - part 4

  by Tallyman in

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  if you don't want to read the small text, i've made an identical webpage.

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  * http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/sharing4.html.

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  COMF

  after I criticized your favorite poem, ...you inquired:

  "Struggling inside a little bit these days, Tom?
  That's okay. Rant on, dude, it's good for the soul." - COMF

  Hell yes, I'm struggling inside these days. More than a little bit.
  I killed my brother. No matter the circumstance, I will ALWAYS
  be struggling with it. I'd have to be a Sociopath not to be struggling with it.

  Why do you ask, COMF? Because you really care?

  Yep. That's why I said what I did, Tom. It was a nod to, an acknowledgement of, the emotional state I know you must be in. I could have argued with you. I could have posted my refutation, my explanation of the poem's meaning. But what good would that do? I didn't want to argue with you over a poem. It sounded like you had a lot of pent-up pain, anger and disillusionment that needed an outlet. So I said, "Rant on, dude, it's good for the soul." I said that because I have ranted in public that way too, not so long ago, when I was in pain and angry about it. And the ranting helped. Not only that, but folks online who listened to my rants forgave me. They understood.

  "Okay", how did you like my "rant", dude?

  Was it "good" for your "soul"?

  Yeah, buddy. It was righteous!

  COMF

  Edited to add this P.S.:
  Tom, I replied to part 2 and part 3 before this one. I mention this because I didn't repeat myself in any of the three posts, and I want to be sure you see my complete answer to you.
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  "Sharing" a piece of myself - part 3

  by Tallyman in

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  if you don't want to read the small text, i've made an identical webpage.

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  * http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/sharing3.html.

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  COMF

  I had looked on COMF as a friend.

  I'm glad to know that. I figured you for a friend, too, as much as online posters can ever get to be friends.

  I know what it stands for, but Who are YOU? I don't recall ever reading your
  real name.

  It would tell you nothing. What you know about me, you know from my words online, not from a name. I am, in real life, the personality that you see on here.

  What's with the email address you use, COMF?
  [email protected]
  I don't know.
  Is it? Is it you or not? Who are you? Do we have to guess?
  and the '@hotmail.com' ?
  What's up with that, COMF? A Hotmail email address?
  THAT'S Out in the Open and Visible?

  I created it a couple of years ago, when Gary LaMotta was going through one of his spells of posting as several different personalities, and H2O had become obsessed with figuring out who was behind what names. I thought the whole thing was so funny/silly, that I decided to do a parody on it. I created the email address, and then got an extra identity on H2O under it. I was going to carry on conversations with myself, and give blatant clues (the email name itself was to be one) but then I lost interest in it and never went through with it. Later, I decided I'd rather use a hotmail account than my regular one when publishing my email online. Since I already had that one set up, I just used it. Besides, I just like the sound of it.

  Shit, dude, you're hiding from something or someone . . .

  In part 1 of your story, you said this:

  No one else, in my immediate or extended family ever converted to the jehovah Witnesses.

  That being the case, it's understandable that you would so easily overlook the obvious reason why I don't reveal my name and particulars online. I have a son still in. He is a very zealous witness; extremely so. But for reasons only he knows, he does not shun me or his disfellowshipped brother. I expect that if he knew of my activity as COMF, that would change. I'd rather it didn't.

  I saw that as you implying I was the aggressor, in the family tragedy...

  Or did I misunderstand you there, COMF?

  You did misunderstand. See my answer to part 2.

  I'm glad you were not sitting in my jury.

  Being the kind of guy who doesn't make up his mind on a matter and take sides based on nothing more than a little bit of second- or third-hand hearsay he read on the internet, Tom, I am the ideal person to have been sitting on your jury, and you'd have been very lucky to have me.

  And then to see INVICTUS in print - the Last Words of Timothy McVeigh... YOUR words, too, COMF ... well, all this that's been bothering me since last August, came flooding back.

  I understand. I can see how that would happen.

  Tom, if a rapist calls what he does "making love," that doesn't expose love as being a hateful, abhorrent, abusive thing. Nor does McVeigh's misapplication of that poem cause it to lose any of its dignity and meaning.

  I'm glad you got all this out of you and down on paper. Good man, good man! I gotta tell you, though, I didn't realize when I answered part 2, that part three was going to be where you unloaded full force on me. What's waiting in part 4?

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  "Sharing" a piece of myself - part 2

  by Tallyman in

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  if you don't want to read the small text, i've made an identical webpage.

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  * http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/sharing2.html.

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  COMF

  All replies to this New Thread which Farkel started were positive and supportive, with the exception of one - the last person who weighed in - COMF

  
  It was neither positive and supportive, nor negative and undermining. It was a neutral observation. I was not in a position to be either positive or negative about what happened, since I knew absolutely nothing about it. Anyone with a lick of sense knows better than to choose sides in such issues as yours based on what he reads on an internet forum.

  Talleyman had an online reputation for being loud, obnoxious and in-your-face. Farkel's description didn't match that:
  

  He is a very soft-spoken and sensitive guy

  
  Please. Those who, like me, know you only from observing your online activities on H2O will agree that "softspoken" and "sensitive" are the last words anyone would have chosen to describe you. And so, being one who calls it like I see it, I said as much, taking issue with the words of my good friend Farkel. I couched my observation in terms that conveyed a tongue-in-cheek humor, exaggerating my description of your online persona and adopting the use of your K for C trademark:
  

  ...this Kalm Koncerned Karacter you describe Kan't be the King of the Killer Kult busters!

  
  Then, in a nod to the understanding that Farkel probably knows you better, knows a side of you that doesn't show online, I said:
  

  Another case of aggression emerging from behind the shields of internet distance and invisibility?

  
  ...meaning, if you really are the "very soft-spoken and sensitive guy" that Farkel describes, then the loud, aggressive, antisocial behavior you exhibit online must be... well, read my quote again.

  As someone experiencing great emotional stress and upheaval, you aren't expected to see the subtleties at work here. I hope you'll be able to grasp that fact that there was no slight to you in anything I said. If not... oh, well.

  COMF