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Please take a look at Talk:Jonathan Wild. It's one thing for me to insult my article. It's another for someone else to do so. Geogre 21:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

I seem to recall the German guy having some interesting cultural history that I lacked, which he added in that German way. I can read the French version, and it's almost a literal translation. I'm honored by it, of course, but its being "more professional" bugged me. (I don't read German, so I can't tell how closely he stays to me, but, even if it's the way a pig would, I can read French nouns, at least.) Geogre 01:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe I was too mean. Did you see Filiocht's sonnet? I wrote it, it seems. Geogre 19:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh but you did, Dada Geogre. I just clicked some links from your user page, copy and pasted, and selected the order for the 14 lines. Filiocht | The kettle's on 14:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, I didn't mean to committ a poem, I promise! I hadn't the mens rea. Geogre 15:08, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

But now that you've done it, it doesn't feel so bad, does it? Filiocht | The kettle's on 15:32, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, that's not the problem. The first one is always free. Soon, you find yourself writing a poem just to feel normal again. Geogre 17:47, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks For The Intervention

Thank you again for being there through all of this with potw. Please let me know if there's anything I can do you in the future. karmafist 05:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've got one: stick around! ;-) Bishonen | talk 22:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

A Rare RFA Thank You Note to clutter up your talk page...

Bish:

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks for supporting me in my recent RFA. I see that you don't vote in many RFAs (or, if you do, you don't vote in many where the nominee returns later to offer his/her thanks for your participation), so I'm doubly flattered that you elected to vote in mine. I shall endeavor to live up to your expectations.

All the best.
→ Ξxtreme Unction {ł_blah} 22:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the thank you, Extreme. No, I don't vote that much, but you were so obviously suited, what could I do? Enjoy your new responsibilities: the mop, the bucket, the stun gun! Bishonen | talk 22:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

A thank you from Ann

Hello, Bishonen. I'm just dropping you a note to thank you for your support for my RfA. What you said ("dives into the pool of conflict and emerges dry") was definitely the most poetic comment I got! I should have thanked you earlier, but I got a bit caught up with college work. Anyway, although we haven't had any direct contact, I have seen you around, and I've liked what I've seen(!), so I'm looking forward to working with you in the future. Cheers. AnnH 00:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Darn! I missed her on RFA! Geogre 13:08, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, I don't know how you do it, Ann: you discuss with some of the most obstreperous editors, and edit some of the worst cesspits among articles and wiki pages, and come up smelling of roses. Bishonen | talk 21:04, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

The Buffalo Skull of Diligence

Thanks for your work reverting the vandals on Mandan while it was on the mainpage yesterday! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 19:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Restoration blurb-o-mat

Seems easy to me. From:

Restoration literature is the literature written in English during the period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), corresponding with the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The following article is designed as an overview, and the reader is advised to consult one of the more specialized articles for further information (see references within the text). Please note that the dates for "Restoration literature" are a matter of convention, and they differ markedly from genre to genre. Thus, the "Restoration" in drama may last until 1700, while in poetry it may last only until 1666 and the annus mirabilis, and in prose it might end in 1688, with the increasing tensions over succession and the corresponding rise in journalism and periodicals. In general, the term "Restoration" is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II.

Restoration literature includes extremes, for it encloses both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high spirited sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral wisdom of Pilgrim's Progress. It saw Locke's Treatises on Government, the founding of the Royal Society, the experiments and the holy meditations of Robert Boyle, the hysterical attacks on theaters from Jeremy Collier, and the pioneering of literary criticism from John Dryden and John Dennis. It saw news become a commodity, the essay develop into a periodical artform, the emergence of the stock market, and the beginnings of textual criticism.

We just turn it into:

Restoration literature is the literature written in English during the period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660 - 1689), corresponding with the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general, the term is used to denote roughly homogenous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature that includes extremes, for it encloses both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high-spirited sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral wisdom of Pilgrim's Progress. It saw Locke's Treatises on Government, the founding of the Royal Society, the experiments and holy meditations of Robert Boyle, the hysterical attacks on theaters from Jeremy Collier, and the pioneering of literary criticism from John Dryden and John Dennis. It saw news become a commodity, the essay develop into a periodical artform, the emergence of the stock market, and the beginnings of textual criticism.

I don't know if that's not long enough, but it seems like an easy blurb. If it's not long enough, one can add in a sentence for each of the major divisions that will follow (in prose... in poetry... in theater...), but the lead attempts to have that already. Geogre 18:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm sure it's long enough. Excellent, what am I saying, I mean, it will be excellent once I perform "major surgery" on it. ;-) Like this: "It saw news become a commodity, the essay develop into a periodical artform, the beginnings of textual criticism, and the emergence of the stock market. (Just to end somewhat climactically, on something the reader has heard of yet is not expecting here.) --Bishonen | talk 19:00, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

The lead at this point is set up that way because of all the hemming and hawing over when it ends. Everyone knows when it begins, but I thought it was fair warning to set up in the lead that it wasn't going to end neatly. If it ends in '89, for example, then everyone writing under Bill & Mary is lost to literary history, as they're not 18th century until 1700 (1701, if we want to be precise). The cuts off a lot of the most interesting poetry and almost all of the interesting prose. Heck, it leaves your year of drama (1695) out in the cold. Geogre 20:44, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, it's done now. It's quite blurbable. Geogre 16:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

she LIVES!!!

Take a look at User:Camillus_McElhinney#Correspondence, and prepare to be aghast, or something. FreplySpang (talk) 00:17, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Bonjour Madame Bishonen

Sorry not to have been in touch lately, but I've been so busy with my foreign commitments and fans! I've just sent you an email which you may enjoy dealing with! There is something very strange going on with the server today. I left this message first inexplicably on Bunch of Grapes talk page, which is not even on my watch list, having first hit your name on my list, now I see you even have the same image as him just above - very odd "these things cannot be explained" Au'revoir Giano | talk 12:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC) PS: Can you not archive here on the mountainside it take ages to reach the bottom of this page! Giano | talk

Archive, archive, archive, you sing the same old song. I hate archiving my cool page, and nobody else ever complains (because I don't in fact ever let it get very long). Can't you get the peasantry to hand-crank it or something, like a mangle? Your ending up on the wrong page must have been from the Curse of the Buffalo. You have mail, monsieur! Bishonen | talk 14:42, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't care what other people do or do not complain about - I find it very trying to have to wait to get down here - soon I shall stop - Oh yes I will and then you will be sorry, I'm souht after elsewhere I don't have to come here you know. Now I've forgotten what I came for -Oh yes you have an email - it'll soon be quicker to catch a aeroplane and deliver a message personally! Giano | talk 16:27, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Situation Normal, All Forked Up

That was hilarious: "No one is more NPOV than I am! No one thinks I'm POV. .... Say, Tony, can you block Dunharris and two other people? They say I'm POV. They're so POV!" And, if that weren't enough, three references to Jimbo sez! Wow. Thaet was gode ful smoak. Geogre 00:58, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

WebComArbComArfArfArf

If you click on This link, you will be taken to the /workshop page. However, you won't see all the arguments in glory. To do that, you'd have to go back to look at a version before Tony began withdrawing stuff, which means back to probably December 8th. Rather than trying to follow the complicated evolution of the withdrawing, refactoring, and restating, you'd be better off just reading the last clean copy before the massive refactoring. There isn't even much point in reading what it says now. Geogre 02:42, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

He's everywhere — how do we know where to stop? El_C 11:19, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

The best idea is not to start. I am virtually alone among the "Other Parties" in believing that there is so little ambiguity, so little evidence, so little cause, that this thing is going to be a very easy close for the AC and that the fewer words now, the better -- just let them go ahead and say, "There's nothing here" or, better IMO, "Oops." As I said, I'm alone in thinking that, and some people are very ticked at comments made in the course of the prosecution. Geogre 13:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I meant on the revision history; I don't really know what's going and yet to even gglance at it. I remember there was something on the mailing list and afdkeeping an afd, but that's it. Then again, you seem to be saying not to even start ggthat, which I find very persuasive. El_C 13:26, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

No, you're not alone. I think there's no case to answer, and that the ArbCom should never have taken it on. Sadly, I fear that as they did take it on, they may feel forced to pretend that they were right to do so. I'm also very ticked. Filiocht | The kettle's on 13:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Guys, help me. I'm in the middle of it now. Geogre keeps telling me it's a lovely little read, just what I need to pick me up against certain RL reversals, and his pride and joy, which, well, I simply must read. *Voice fading* ok, i'm reading it, it's great, Geogre, I like it very much... a model debate, wonderful rhetoric... love the people being ticked part ... Bishonen | talk 13:35, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Which I find very persuasive! El_C 13:39, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, this is the last version where most of the debate was present. After that, the really radical cutting started, and particularly Tony's insults began disappearing. Geogre 13:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Geogre is certainly not alone in thinking the case has no merit. Some of us are just less optimistic than he is about the possible outcome. Are "the fewer words now, the better" or are the better words, now the fewer? I honestly don't know which. Paul August ☎ 16:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I cannot even lead the blind, so I wouldn't presume to lead a parade. I can't even lead the cops on a merry chase, nor a horse to water or horticulture. Geogre 16:48, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry Geogre, no matter how much you protest, you do lead, by example and the force majeure of your arguments. Paul August ☎ 18:14, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Dang it! Now I've got to get a creme to stop all this blushing (or blushing). Geogre 22:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Now I read this There isn't much to say after Filiocht's demonstration; should I be flattered or insulted? Help me out here, people. Filiocht | The kettle's on 08:15, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I meant that you kicked Tony's logic's rear fully out of the game, so doing more would be kicking a thing when down. Geogre 13:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, now I understand. Sorry for being dense. Filiocht | The kettle's on 13:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Drake Hotel

Look your chocolate shop has been edited out! but at least the distinguished, important and may I say beautiful and intelligent patrons still remain! Giano | talk 14:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

The Swiss chocolate shop gone? That certainly takes away some of the lustre. But, as you say, those patrons are the main thing. Bishonen | talk 17:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Joyeux Noël des fraudeurs du fisc

I can't believe it, I really cant' I spent half an hour this afternoon lovingly translating ( I don't do translations) this "Paggina principali" from the Sicilian Misplaced Pages (not many people know about this one!) I went to proudly present my wonderful new page (for the delight of you all) and found this Sicilian cart, which has apparently been here since 1st October 2005. However, I do feel strongly we should all be supporting the Sicilian Misplaced Pages. sadly lack of time, and the minor fact I do not speak it well, means that Geogre, Filiocht,ALoan and Paul August will be studying it over Christmas in order that our best literary contributions can be there in the new year. Well done to Geogre Filiocht and Aloan not many people would sacrifice their Christmas in such a way. I wish, I too could study this interesting subject, but unfortunately I'm entertaining Jimbo, Raul and that nice little Mrs. Bishonen at my "Palazzo Splendido, Caymen Islands" over the joyous festival. Bless you all Giano | talk 21:15, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

"Obsoletu"? What a nerve! I'm sure that's not true. Anyway, as a small tribute to Sicily's culture and wiki, I've tentatively started a Sicilian Christmas article in my userspace, to complement the December 24 Featured article on the Main Page. Please help this humble stub to grow, everybody. Bishonen | talk 22:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC).

Is it just me, or is today's Main page featured article more than usually semi-literate? Filiocht | The kettle's on 08:58, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll only say that I groaned audibly when I saw it. (Why aren't there such idee fixes on male singers and actors, one may wonder.) Geogre 13:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

• It's appalling but we have looked at worse, in fact she's looks very nice indeed to me. The problem is there aint much there (in the text I mean). As an FA it seems to have been passed on 7th September 2005, and the record shows it was unopposed, which means none of us bothered to even look at it! Perhaps we should all try to look beyond the few (in my case very few) pages which really interest us on FA, and put pay once and for all to all this drivel which is being featured. It seems the good pages (in my opinion) get honed to bland perfection on FA, while the dross seeps through uncontested. Right word of wisdom over. Giano | talk 23:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

She's purty. Absolutely no doubt about that. I saw The Village, and I thought she was real purty. Heck, most of the targets of ... interest ... are extremely attractive, and most have a very intriguing look rather than just some grotesque adolescent exaggeration (except for Gwen Stefani: I have no idea at all why people are fixated on her), but I have yet to understand why one researches a object of desire. Not, of course, that there is anything wrong with it. I just don't understand it. I am old and on medication, I guess. Geogre 11:22, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Do you like Madona I think she's terribly nice, really attractive. I think she's probably a very nice person too. I once drew up alongside her at some traffic lights in London, our eyes actually met, I could tell there was an instant frisson, but of course she has excellent self control and allowed her driver to pull away - but I could see the longing in her eyes even through the tinted glass. I wrote to explain my feelings for her, but I think I must have forgotten to include my address and phone number as she was unable to reply. She really is the most remarkable woman, I think she should be on the front page every day. Giano | talk 12:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Provided all her commas are in the right places. Filiocht | The kettle's on 12:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Giano, I'm so happy to see this frankness, you used to be quite shy about liking gay icons. Be proud, as I'm proud of you! And, Geogre, you may be old etc., but you're very well-informed; is it beneath you to do a little fact-checking on our modest Christmas effort? (And the same to you, ALoan, Paul, all visitors!) Bishonen | talk 12:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC) P.S. Giano, voodoo has been performed as requested. Bish

I now travel the planet without a soul Giano | talk 21:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Madonna and child are both wonderful, I'm sure. As an avid gazer upon her early "bootleg" nudes (with European underarm hair!) in Penthouse, I must say that I've always been impressed by her physical beauty. That is as far as it goes. I cannot recall anything she has ever caterwauled that I have enjoyed, unless it was a cover song, and those I have always preferred in their original, un-cuted state. Her public antics, her music, and her image leave me cold. I knew a dozen like her in the punkrock days, and they all were fine to look at, but never to speak to or endure the company of. At this point, I prefer the art of her husband and the looks of herself. There have been no beauties of indescribable longing since Audrey Hepburn, that Dutch girl, Charlotte Rampling, and Catherine Deneuve. And, for Bishonen, you know how humorless I am! Geogre 13:41, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Still harping on that? :-( Very well. If you should change your mind, you know where to find the masterpiece of subtle wit. masterpiece<sarcasm> of subtle <sarcasm> wit <sarcasm>Bishonen | talk 14:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I am! I was very impressed by the nudes of Madonna with unshaven armpits, and I'll continue to harp on it until ... well... it was impressive. Geogre 14:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

It's not like our efforts are all that funny! Filiocht | The kettle's on 14:09, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

No, well, I was kind of trying to make the same point. I've gone back and made it a little clearer above. Bishonen | talk 18:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Whatever qualities they have, they could only be worsened by my additions. Bishonen and I are best of friends, until we work on the same article. Geogre 14:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• She's not a gay icon, and I particuarly liked her in the Evita film, did you know they had to rescore the whole music to suit her particularly beautiful and unusual voice. Giano | talk 15:09, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

AOL Blocks

Hi Bishonen. You working tonight? Merovingian has blocked me from editing -- we seem to be starting into a new wave of blocks based on that rotating proxy. New administrators seem to go through a phase of trying to punish all AOL users. I left him the note below. Please release me if you can. Thanks. WBardwin 06:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Please note that you have blocked an AOL proxy address -- which randomly rotates among users. AOL users cannot control which number they are assigned, and blocking the number for any length of time is ineffective in fighting vandalism. Please see my user page User:WBardwin/AOL Block Collection for a history of adminstrative discussion and action regarding these blocks. They seem to hit me often. Please release your block. Information below. Thank you. WBardwin 06:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC) Your IP address is 207.200.116.202. Please include this address, along with your username, in any queries you make. Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Merovingian. The reason given is: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Kkkboi". The reason given for Kkkboi's block is: "vandal/troll".

The dingbat blocked the proxy number for 24 hours. Doesn't wikipedia give new admins any training at all? I'd appreciate if you would intervene for me. Thanks. WBardwin 07:08, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. Sorry to say this happens regardless of the experience of the admin, they've no way of telling whether a name account is AOL. You see the IP address, but they don't. Some day it'll be me or JRM that blocks you, probably. :-( Bishonen | talk 07:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help -- sorry to sound irritated but I feel like a target is on my back these days. Stress high -- and, oddly, I find Wiki a great stress reliever, so what time I have here is more precious to me. Remind me not to get 'Knowledge Seeker' on my bad side -- I didn't appeal to him/her so he/she must have read my notes to "friendly" administrators, like you, and decided to leave me a little note. Best wishes. WBardwin 08:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

And at least two "respected administrators" use AOL in one way or another. One uses AOL per se. The other uses Netscape ISP. Netscape ISP is a wholly owned, etc. of AOL. (Hey! What can I say? I'm poor! Netscape only costs $10/month for unlimited hours.) Geogre 11:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Something's missing...

Ah, there, completeness. Redwolf24 (talk) Attention Washingtonians! 07:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

And there we go! Bishonen | talk 10:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

My big drake

So, there's my drake, all shrunken -- his masculinity threatened by yet another fearful viewer. Have you seen TFD and the debate over the "Maintained" template? Pretty active debate, if you're interested. (What is it with these templates? I want to read articles, not banners!) Geogre 12:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I shrunk your drake because of the space he took up. By no means blame Redwolf24, who had posted him LIKE THIS:

(signed) --Bishonen | talk 13:04, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

He's happier now. The chicks will like him and be attracted to his nest. Geogre 16:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, yes, indeed they will. This is him from a distance. See? He's actually bigger than the swan in Lohengrin, or the flying eagle that Jupiter appeared on in the machine house at Dorset Garden. Bishonen | talk 18:12, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I understand. All that masculinity made you nervous. They call it Leda Syndrome: the fear of large, male water fowl. Geogre 20:41, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

That's it. Bishonen | talk 20:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Sir Francis seems to be well endowed with all the right equipment, to defend that poor "little ducky". Paul August ☎ 14:58, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Noooo! He sank the Armada using fireships! Think of the number of ducks harmed in that way -- all so he could tell the Spanish ladies that he was hot. Geogre 16:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA

Thank you for supporting my recent bid for adminship, which passed 64-2. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 07:25, Dec. 17, 2005

VARNING!

• Var försiktig så att ingen kroppsdel eller något husdjur kommer i kläm i mellanrummet vid stativet eller skärmens underdel.
• Se upp så att du inte klämmer fingrarna mellan stället och bildskärmen när du justerar bildskärmens vinkel.
  • Heh-heh-heh: they said "vinkel!" Geogre 14:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
    • What did he just call us? El_C 14:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
      • That one's for you both, Geogre and El; be careful no body part OR PET (husdjur) gets squashed when Geogre assembles his new computer! Oh, my goodness, what's THAT body part doing in there? I said careful! Bishonen | talk 15:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
        • A necromancer's computer? Remember when Sauron was sorta saucy & ringless, the manifestation of his spirit's potency wasn't quite at Dark Lord — rather, a necromancer! Although what or whom he was necromancing remains an open question. El_C 15:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  • "Gosh, I wonder where I can put down this monitor? Fifi! Sit." At this point, I'm viewing my words on that monitor, and none of my body parts are impinged in any way, and all the pages display differently on account of all this new real estate on the display. Geogre 19:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Absolutely hilarious: all and sundry must see the "strongly critical editorial" on Misplaced Pages at The Onion. Now this is the sort of editorial I've been expecting. Geogre 03:11, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • We can all be thankful that the points of criticism were amply addressed in the intervening year, except, disturbingly, Yankovic's groundbreaking TV work on The Weird Al Show is now summed up in just one paragraph of puff, not even the three present when the critique was crafted. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 04:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

My Re-RFA

Thank you for understanding the situation. SWD316 16:25, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

De nada. People are always getting terrifically upset about their own RFA's, over slights that are practically invisible to anybody else, whereas you were subjected to a really bad attack. I hope you pass this time, even though the figures aren't looking so hot at the moment. Bishonen | talk 16:37, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Kim Bruning

My dear Bishonen: No, I did notice he was blocked; you see, he made the original request for us to mediate down at Conspiracy theory and it doesn't much matter when he replies, it is hardly an urgent matter since I expect the dispute will take a good long time to settle down. All the best, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 16:32, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Dear request

Hello Bishonen. I know that niceness is not my strong side, so I resort to you. Someone just re-added a picture he himself took to article Kalmar (at the bottom). Could you kindly tell him that one image of that kind is enough? / Fred-Chess 22:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

So you thought the well-known Bishonen tactlessness might do it? Well, I agree with you about one castle pic being enough for Kalmar, especially since there are more at Kalmar Castle. I've dropped Brookie a note. Bishonen | talk 01:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Ooh you tactful lot! I've swapped the picture for one of the bridge - ok? No I'm not from Kalmar - but the UK! Merry Xmas! Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! 13:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Brookie, looking good! I always liked that bridge. (Now do the caption! ;P) Bishonen | talk 14:01, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

A cracking bridge - excellent on a cruise ship - altered the caption! Merry Xmas - this is where i Live - Grendon -we've got no bridge - or even water! We're about as far from the sea in the UK as you can get! Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! 14:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

After a request from Mr Chess - I've uploaded the bridge pic to Commons as well. Have a beer for me! Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! 14:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Much obliged , Merry Christmas to you too. Ah, Grendon is gorgeous: the hatchment, the advowson, the squint, the Domesday Book, and the niece of William the Conqueror! Just so! The article does seem rather centered on the church (which I'm sure is a lovely church), to the exclusion of the village itself. Are you sure there isn't a bridge across the brook..? Bishonen | talk 15:39, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Cultures of the World

Would you consider contributing? Or how about voting for it as collaboration of the week for this new but important article.--Culturesoftheworld 19:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

I'd like to thank you, first and foremost; if you're receiving this message, it's because I think you were one of the people I adopted as a personal mentor, and who helped to make the whole Misplaced Pages experience more enjoyable.

The fact is, I've got no choice but to leave. The recent sordid affair with User:Deeceevoice and my appalling conduct in that showed me that I have not the calibre required to maintain good relations with users on the wiki. Worse still, I violated almost all of the principles I swore to uphold when I first arrived.

I've now been desysopped, and I plan on devoting a little more time to what I am good at, which is developing. I don't fit in on this side of the servers, but perhaps I can still be of use to the project.

Thank you. Rob Church 20:03, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

SWD316 RFA

I want you to see the comment under the "comments" section I left at My RFA. It partially involves you. SWD316 22:35, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I command you! :) El_C 05:25, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

As you already know:

60 minutes of research

<sigh> Ok, I've now spent an hour or so in the lieberry attempting to find some facts. Miraculously, these Baptists actually had a book specifically about 60 Minutes, although one that "exposes" it for liberalism. I found the facts in it and ignored the rest. Also, it turns out that Ambi should know something of it, as there is an Australian spin-off on Channel 9, or at least there was in 1984, when the book I used was written. Am I afraid of old information? Yeah. Will I be careful? Yeah. Do I have some lipstick to put on that pig? I suppose. Geogre 16:17, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Michael Snow also worked on it. I'm done, now. It's not perfect, not FA, but not horrendous anymore. I caught some POV that Michael had missed, and I did some sentence wrenching. 'S'Ok. Geogre 18:07, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

A move

We could use some help in moving reconstructed pronunciation of ancient Greek back to its original title Ancient Greek phonology. It was moved by Thrax on his own accord after minor revert war and some pointless edits of the redirect link trumped any plans of simple salvage.

Peter 04:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)