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a defender

Scientific studies show that have it on your page will ward off 99% of intruders. Redwolf24 (talk) 01:49, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Red wolves are wonderful creatures, although endangered by the bigotry of E. NC formers and rainchers. Lone wolves, on the other hand, experience lives that are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, and get that way because they fail to achieve a mate. Geogre 02:17, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Food for thought. What about wolf stars? —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Madness, of course. "The dog star rages," as the man said. Also, it means that it's August. Hmmm, Paul? Geogre 04:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the wolf will not ward off Geogres. Redwolf24 (talk) 04:38, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of: folks might want to keep a watch on User talk:Lonecanine while I sleep. (Likely thewolfstar sock, I've blocked, Doesn't seem worth AN/Iing.) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 05:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

That corpse you planted in the garden, has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Oh keep the dog far hence, that's friend to men, or with his nails he'll dig it up again! No, I for one have stopped ANI'ing the dogstar. Just add any new pup to the category Sockpuppets of Thewolfstar (the sock tag will do that), and we'll have the whole lot of them in a tidy flock. This one I feel should be left and watched for a while. Obviously it's one of the family, tough, and good catch Grapey. Bishonen | talk 06:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC).

Aha, he was with you in the ships at My Lai? Geogre 12:15, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Mon frère! Bishonen | talk 13:58, 29 May 2006 (UTC).

At least a hypocrite lecteur et semblabe. (Ah, it's a lost art, I tells ya'. Kids today don't even know what the thunder said or who's him when he's home or walking Dublin of a June morning with a Baedecker in your hand and Harry Blamires in the other or how Sweeney shifts from ham to ham in the bath while contemplating the darkened eye of Grishkin in the drawing room.) Geogre 14:47, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I was editing my talk page

Archiving for the first time and messing with the settings, no need to bite my head off for not responding "soon enough". Yes, okay, fine, I concede, have it your way, but I still think it's unnecessarily cruelty to someone who's already hard a hard enough time of it (have you read some of the messages on the talk page like "is there anyone out there please talk to me?" etc? It's pretty sad. --Col. Hauler 22:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

The kiss of freedom

There's a lot of history, you know, in this car. I've been living in this car and its been a big part of my life. But you know its fucked me around quite a bit and sometimes it stalls on you, doesn't work right. You get to need to go somewhere and it's like, no, you're not fucking going anywhere because i'm gonna fuckin' stall on ya and it pisses you off. El_C 10:57, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Fuck community college, let's get drunk and eat chicken fingers!

And you can teach how to get drunk, get fired from the police force, become a lousy trailer park supervisor that sucks, hangs around with a fucking idiot that doesn't wear a shirt and looks like a dick but thinks he looks good-101! El_C 10:57, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked

Thank you, your majesty. My first order of business is to tell the prosecutor to shut the fuck up, and wipe that stupid fucking grin off his face becasue it's distraculating my case. Next, I'd like to announce that Randy and Lahey have been drinking all day and they're wasted out of their fuckin minds, and they're both assholes. And the testimony they just gave is total fuckin bullshit and I can prove it ... Clearly Cory and Trevor accepted money on film, and they admitted they stole gas. And they're sick. I mean, look at them. That's gas sickness. Fucking idiots. I got nothing else to say right now except that the Crown and Lahey can go fuck themselves. The defense rests, everybody can fuck off. Except you, I didn't mean you. But those two guys, and him. Can you guys get the fuck out of the way, please? El_C 10:57, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

• Stay away from the brown acid. The brown acid is poison, man. Geogre 21:01, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

• Trinity has Got to quit smoking, like i can't have her smoking anymore, it's ridiculous. El_C 23:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Temporary Relief Assistant Trailer Park Supervisor

I guess you didn't hear what I just said.
First thing i said was "It's my walkie now."
Second thing was "you're suspended."
And the Fourth Thing was "FUCK OFF!"
El_C 23:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm not gay, I love Lucy. Wait a second, maybe I am gay

You know, there's certain accidents where you may be drunk and on drugs, but, it's gona happen anyway whether you are or you're not. Garbage truck, I mean the shocks are different, there's a lot more weight. Next thing I know, we're crashing into stuff, things are catching on fire. Like I said, it was no big deal. I don't know why I got fired over it, which really pissed me off. El_C 11:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Jim Lahey Is a fuckin' drunk and he always will be

Breaker, breaker, come in earth. This is rocketship 27, aliens have fucked over the carbonator in engine number four, I'm gonna try to refuckulate it and land on Juniper, hopefuly they got some space weed. Over. How's that, buddy? I don't fuckin' know! NÁSA power rockets are firing all over the place, they got lasers and shooting and, uh... Bubles, I can't fuckin do this, my brain dosen't work with space talk, I hate playing space! El_C 22:27, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

And IRC had better not kick any of my fiancés if they know what's good for them! Bishonen | talk 22:35, 1 June 2006 (UTC).

Trinity, what the hell are you doing driving this car? Did your father tell you to drive...? Trinity, stop the car right now! TRINITY! I'M IMPOUNDING THIS VEHICLE! STOP THE CAR! ... Randy, did you see that? Goddanm shitapple driving the shitmobile. What kind of father let's his daughter do that? Nobody in this goddamn park gives a fuck, why the hell should I? El_C 05:09, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I am the liquor

I just want to say that just because Lucy spent the night in the drunk tank, dosen't mean she's a bad mother, I mean, everyone spends nights at the drunk tank. I've been there about ten times, I'm sure you have and you guys have, it's not a big deal, just happens everyonce in a while. And the problem was that she lives with this girl named Sarah, who smokes a ton of weed, and that's what happens: When Lucy gets drunk, she's fine. She gets drunk and smokes a joint of hash, she's fine. She gets drunk and smokes a joint of weed, she's a different person. And that's why she ended up in the drunk tank, because of Sarah and her little weed joints. But as for the open liquor, I mean, I live in my car. My car is my home. So that should'nt have been open liquor anyway. You guys must have liquor around your house, probably all kinds of liquor; I'm sure you got liquor at your home. Cops pull you over in your house, how is that open liquor? Anyway, the big thing is : I'm gonna have a lot of money coming to me in the next couple of days, which, I'm not gonna tell you how I'm making it, but it's gonna be a lot of money. Gonna bail my dad out of jail and I'll buy a trailer. I'll be living there, Lucy will be living there, there's going to be lot's of people watching over Trinity, so this can't ever happen again. And you know, if you just release her, send her back to her mom; her mom is great, good mother. And I'll be looking after her once in a while when she is drinking, but other than that, she'll be always watched, and my dad can watch her when he's not drunk. But tonight I'm getting drunk, because it's my turn. Lucy got drunk yesterday and this is my day, so I'm gonna get her... I'm not gonna drink before she gets home, I'm gonna get her to Lucy, Lucy will be watching her, then I'll have some drinks. So, yeah, I think we're done here, and I'll just pick up my duaghter and take her home to Lucy. Get drunk. El_C 05:09, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

A dope trailer is no place for a kitty

Oh, I get it. Treena, that's a great idea! Julian, books have stuff recorded down all over the years from people, and if we can find a book with someone who had similar problems, just take what they wrote down in the book and take what they wrote down and make it ours. El_C 07:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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Administrators should each wear a bell

I've finally seen the query you mentioned. It's nearly impossible to negotiate all those pages associated with the SS case. The drowning often flail, and it's dangerous to get near them. I'm really on edge, myself, as I still don't have the danged book I'm supposed to use for this class. That should change today. Oh, and of course everything happens the moment anything happens, so it's feast or famine on busy-ness. Geogre 12:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Your comments

Thank you for your comments concerning DreamGuy. I would ask you to review his edits in detail prior to making further statements on this matter. I note he is already the subject of an RfC for abusive and obnoxious behaviour, and has been accused (by me) of using sockpuppets to subvert the 3RR - there is clear evidence of this within the last 24 hours at Beelzebub. Victrix is his sock. I would also point out that I did not revert his talk page 5 times as you claimed - I reverted it 3 times - as it says clearly in my edit summary - and I then added 2 further comments without re-adding the original comments. --Centauri 22:20, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

These are the reverts I refer to, all within the span of an hour: 1 2 3 4 5

Note also that you edited DG's page twelve times altogether in less than an hour and a half, against repeated and insistent requests to desist. And today you resumed. Seriously, just stop. As for your accusations of sockpuppetry, they are rather serious. You may consider yourself lucky that DreamGuy isn't one to bother with RfCing people, or running to admins to complain. (He hasn't been in contact with me.) I urge you to either try to verify the specific User:Victrix accusation, or retract it as publicly as you've made it. Sockpuppet verification is quite easy: all you have to do is place the evidence you have on the Misplaced Pages:Requests for CheckUser page, and if it's at all convincing (which I assume it is, since you've been making public accusations based on it), one of the CheckUser admins will perform an IP check. Bishonen | talk 23:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC).

I take your point concerning the reversions - I had overlooked the fact that each time I added a new comment I also restored the old ones, and I apologise for my oversight. However, that does not change the fact that DreamGuy is obviously using at least 1 sockpuppet to openly subvert the 3RR, and I have formally sought verification accordingly, per your advice, so thanks for that. --Centauri 02:21, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

On RFA

I don't know what you were going for, but I don't think this edit had the desired effect... Dragons flight 00:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Dragon. I was just adding my Oppose vote, that's all. Didn't get an edit conflict or anything. And do you see how a crapload of Oppose votes timestamped much earlier than mine have now appeared, also? Do you see any unclosed HTML tags on the page? Those can have effects like that. Bishonen | talk 01:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC).

Ummm... Help?

I don't know how busy you are, but we may have a WP:LAME in progress at SimCity 4. I don't know the rules well enough to yell at anyone, plus, I'm not an admin. It looks like both sides are being pretty stupid, so you should have fun with this one. RyanGerbil10 21:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Er... so I see. "Recognized by hundreds", lol. Sorry, Ryan, no, I think I am too busy, really. I just this moment waded into an edit war at Eton College — I get these crazy impulses. I never yet had one of them over a game article, though. Could you please ask somebody who has actually ever played a computer game? I think it might help. I don't even understand half the edit summarries. Sorry. Bishonen | talk 22:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC).

Throw the book, I mean WP:EL, at them. The linkspam should go. (No, I'm not going to do it either.) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok. I just figured the ALL CAPS EDIT SUMMARIES and needed some attention. Thanks for your time, though. I'll let you know if it makes WP:LAME. RyanGerbil10 23:03, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Howdy, Stranger

Or l'Etranger. So, do we have an article on...ready?...Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, duchess of Portsmouth and duchess Aubigny? You know her as the duchess of Portsmouth. Is it worth the bother? I took notes on William Kidd, only to find that we have a fair enough article on him. I had also wanted to get John Gale (theologian) in, and did, but only after finding that John Gale was full of what is now at John Gale (director), and it had about 12 pages that linked to it, as someone had made a full web of B-movies. Changing all those links, then blanking (because John Gale (director) already existed with a one line substub about some dude who directed a play, once) and copying over, and then.... All so I could get in there, because there were four guys with that name with articles, so a disambig was necessary. BTW, found the coolest band in years: Drive By Truckers and particularly the album Pizza Deliverance and particularly the songs "Uncle Frank" and "The President's Penis is Missing" and "Nine Bullets" and "Margo and Harold" and virtually the whole record. Geogre 02:55, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, or, as I know her (thanks to my gal Nell), "Squintabella". Speaking of Nell's rivals, it's Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland that seems to have the most room for improvement -- she was something, I guess. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 14:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Barbara was the "Wycherley, you're a son of a whore" lady, right? The 1911 EB Wycherley article relates that story so coyly as to make it pretty much incomprehensible. Bishonen | talk 16:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC).

Yep, that's her, sleeping her way through the theatre circles on her way down from the king. The word "nymphomaniac" seems to crop up a lot in modern scholarship on her. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:26, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I think the DNB's entry for Portsmouth is exactly the kind of thing our honorifics people are heading toward. Cleveland: check. I'll get her on Monday. (Maybe Giano would like to meet her?) Geogre 17:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Foolish sinners

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, Salve Maria - it is a miracle she is returned to us. Forgive Oh Holly Mother the foolish one who is going to end up with very burnt fingers . Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. Giano | talk 07:43, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, we know you're very pious, how about you shut up now? Bishonen | talk 07:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC).

Bless you my child! Giano | talk 07:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Did I ever tell you about the Regent's exam I graded? The question was, "If you could meet any person, living or dead, who would it be and why?" Well, I had several people answer "David Bowie." It was strange. While other people might say "Jesus Christ" or "Plato" or "William Shakespeare" or "Franklin Delano Roosevelt" or even "August Strindberg," these younguns kept saying "David Bowie," and one of them put it succinctly: "Because he has been so very attractive to both males and females for so very long." Geogre 11:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Just as bishounen are. I got called "pretty boy" yesterday, which would have been kind of interesting if it hadn't been by the biggest bastard and least attractive man on the entire site. (ZOMG NPA!) Bishonen | talk 16:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC).

"If you could meet any person, living or dead, who would it be and why?" Anybody who doesn't name somebody dead should just be quietly removed from society for terminal lack of imagination. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:29, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, personally I would like to meet Charlene Tilton from Dallas, she had such amazing attributes. It was very unfair the way the British press called her the "The Poison Dwarf", actually while I think of it I quite liked Victoria Principal too, her portrayal of Pammy was very poignant and sensitive.......Oh those were the days they don't film quality literature like that any more........who was the one who played Sue-Ellen?, she and I would have got on like a house on fire....nothing wrong with my imagination Bunch, who wants to meet one of those dead mopey old women like Jeanne d'Arc running arownd doing goodly works - I wonder if she was a lesbian; allthough I do think Diane de Poitiers had nice attributes too, very firm, and was a bit of a go-er, not a lesbian at all, so perhaps I'd like to meet her too. Of sourse I would like to meet you as well Bishonen, but I know what you look like already - the blond one from Abba - can you sing as well? Giano | talk 17:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Can I sing as well? You're kidding me. I can sing much better. (Didn't you hear the toneless droning back there? That was me humming Momus' song in celebration of myself.) Bishonen | talk 18:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Another question from that exam: "If you could have any job for one year, what would it be and why?" My favorite answer was "Sales clerk at a department store," because "then I would get a 15% discount on clothes and get to see them before anyone else does." A bold vision, there. Geogre 17:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Do they really get 15%? God! I wonder what the mark up is............Giano | talk 19:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure they do, but she seemed convinced so. I think the markup is about 50% or a bit more. Geogre 19:32, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

So you are saying if I sent my kids to work in Armani and Gucci, I could make a considerable saving each year? Not to mention the college fees, hypothetically meant to provide them with jobs which will not benefeit me. - Interesting! Giano | talk 19:44, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Stuyvesant edit

My edit (12 faculty) was a misunderstanding and, well, I still don't understand. I'm not a native speaker and would appreciate an explanation very much :) --Missmarple 19:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

"Faculty" is used as a plural word meaning teaching staff. Right, Geogre..? American usage, I believe. I thought of changing it to "staff", but I bet that's open to misunderstanding too, so I went with "teachers". Hope I got it right. I'm not a native speaker either. Bishonen | talk 20:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC).

The faculty is a collective noun. There are twelve (spell all numbers below a thousand) faculty is Ok, but better to have "twelve faculty members." Geogre 21:07, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Here it is, I should have linked it. The point is, Geogre, originally it did say "twelve faculty", which Missmarple misunderstood, in spite of clearly being a highly competent English speaker. Therefore, "twelve faculty" is not good; the text shouldn't be throwing up pointless snares for non-Americans. Therefore, I changed it to "teachers". As for spelling seven hundred and eighty-three, you jest, surely. I don't even spell "19th", when I'm talking about the century, and you don't either. Bishonen | talk 22:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC).

"Teachers" is fine, of course, and it's shorter than "faculty members," so it wins. (Didn't you hear that MOS can beat you up? That it is wrong to change from it? That it must be obeyed blindly and in all cases thoroughly? Didn't you hear that people who go around unlinking every year are doing good and that you must not object? Didn't you hear that the MOS says no apostrophe for plural dates, and therefore it doesn't matter what grammar says or national convention or other publications? You need to get with the program. See talk:Patriot Whigs for reeducation.) No, I do 18th century, but it really is a style sheet must to spell out all numbers below a thousand. Geogre 02:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks to you both :) --Missmarple 08:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

"Teachers" is fine, "staff" would not have been. In American education, "staff" means administrative, janitorial, etc. personnel, and "faculty" means instructional and research personnel. Faculty members, even those in secondary education, find it insulting to be called staff members. Thanks for the help on the article to all of you! RossPatterson 22:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. Insulting? Hmmm. We do? Hmm. Staff/faculty is an operative distinction within education, but all faculty and staff are "staffing" outside of education. I don't think I mind being called a member of the staff, but I'm not staff. Even within, though, I wouldn't say that it's insulting to be accidentally referred to as staff. After all, "staff" includes administration, and they're in charge. Geogre 03:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

In my experience as the son, brother, and ex-spouse of teachers and having been staff (but not faculty :-) ) at a university, that was the case. But far be it from me to contradict one of y'all. Y'all don't mind "staff", I'm fine with it too :-) RossPatterson 04:16, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

No, well, I have the endowed Mellow Fellowship, so.... (Really, I don't figure the staff is an enemy. They just don't understand is all.) Geogre 13:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

tell tale tit

I just noticed this. How positively irksome. ElectricRay 23:26, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't usually encourage people to delete anything at all on my page, but in this case, do feel free to remove your comment in case you come to realize how it makes you look. We all type too fast sometimes. Best wishes, Bishonen | talk 23:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC).

thanks for your magnanimity. But I'll take the consequences like a man. ElectricRay 23:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Sucks when those targets you've been aiming at turn out to be strawmen, doesn't it? Geogre 02:23, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Removing material you didn't like from SlimVirgin page

My comments were serious. The comment I posted deserves to be heard. The accusation of trolling is a personal attack on me and is uncivil. If perhaps the header didn't meet with your approval then we could have talked about it.Mccready 06:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

All right, I won't remove it again, but I'm sure other people will, if you restore it in the same form. Do you want to sound like you're not trolling? Then you need to avoid using a sneering heading/edit summary, and avoid legalese like "allegedly banned" (you mean "blocked", right?) for a fact that you could so easily have verified (tip: click on Col. Hauler's talkpage, where the block message can be seen). Give your messages a chance to be heard. Bishonen 10:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC).

I removed Mccready's comment. He was recently given a short block for wikistalking SlimVirgin. The block was discussed and supported on AN/I. I see the comment I removed as uncivil and part of a pattern of tendentious editing. He has rigid thinking that shows up on Misplaced Pages as wikistalking, edit wars, and the inability to engage in consensus editing, and so on... We need to keep gently reminding him of our observations and enforcing Misplaced Pages policy. This is the only way that he will be transformed in to the very good editor that I know that he can be. Take care, FloNight 13:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Is there a problem? Do you see my comment as encouraging trolling and harassment? Bishonen | talk 15:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC).

Or course not! The opposite is true. My comment was meant to be a statement of unity with you. I felt Mccready was pressuring you to let him post comments on SV talk page. The constant drip, drip, drip... of tendentious editors takes a toll on its recipients. Sorry I did not express myself more clearly. Take care, FloNight 16:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Dog Day Afternoon

Hey Bishonen. You were very very helpful with Hopkins School, and I recently saw you on FAC explaining your vote on Stuy. I was wondering if you could take a quick look at Dog Day Afternoon and possibly vote on the FAC, it currently has a couple of very small, technical opposes, and running up the support count (if you think it's worthy) a little couldn't hurt just numbers-wise. Staxringold _talk 20:57, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#.7B.7BUser.7CMoby_Dick.7D.7D

I thought you might want to review this. --Cat out 12:22, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Please use html links to subsections, Kawaii! Those actually work. (Until the page is refactored.) I'll take a look. Bishonen | talk 12:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC).

I took this to arbitration . -Tony Sidaway 01:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Yeah, I saw, good call. Bishonen | talk 01:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC).

3RR abuse

Hi. Thought you'd be interested to know that my well-founded suspicions concerning DreamGuy / Victrix sockpuppetry and abuse of the 3RR have been borne out. --Centauri 22:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I saw it was deemed "likely", yes. Bishonen | talk 23:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC).

Compounded with the fact that edit summaries are the same, the likely verdict seems even more likely. It would be nice if somebody could advise Centauri what steps can be taken. Englishrose 14:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Sure. I'd rather not initiate any action myself — I feel I'm the wrong person to, from several angles — but please tell Centauri he can report the situation on WP:ANI to request review and admin action. In fact, posting on ANI for input from other admins is the first thing I'd do in any case, if I was handling it. If you like, you can check out Misplaced Pages:Requests for administrator attention to look for alternatives, but I believe ANI is it. Bishonen | talk 15:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC).