| From: | snake.eyes@***.net (Snake Eyes) |
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| Subject: | Lurking Scrota |
| Date: | Fri, 11 Oct 2002 03:21:21 -0700 |
>Why does everyone who returns here after being away for a while think
>nobody will remember them? :) Now if you'd said "Nobody probably missed
>me," you'd be right -- at least as far as I'm concerned: I usually only
>realize someone went away when they return :)
and on 10 OCT 2002, Lone Eagle wrote:
>no more than about a quarter of the list actually post stuff, the rest are
>all just glowing pairs of eyes between the trees :-)
and on 11 OCT 2002, Robert Ennew wrote:
>I was once a lurker for a long time running (until I found my balls again
>& spoke up for the first time in a deep loud voice, making sure they've
>dropped enough that'll never look back & have them recede back up into the
>dark recesses of a rapidly shrinking scrotum ever again), their time will
>come, hopefully soon, when they join the rest of the sharks & join in on
>the feeding frenzy that is (consisting of) the list.
>
>([G]row some balls you pussy's, & speak up, stop actin' like a pack of big
>wu[Z]'s)
<DELURKING>
Judging from the archives, it's been around 14 months since my last post,
and (as Gurth has so eloquently observed above) I doubt anybody is missing
me, even if my absence has managed to somehow not go unnoticed. But that
is neither here nor there, as -- while I often had occasion to contribute
to the quality of the stimulating discourse -- I never considered myself a
community insider anyway.
It doesn't really seem like it's been that long, mostly because I reply in
spirit, if not in word, to those posts I actually read that do evoke and
warrant such a response -- though it has recently come to my attention that
I am not in fact receiving 100% of all messages posted (I occasionally get
replies to messages the original posts of which never show up).
I have any number of reasons for not posting more often -- an ongoing
search for gainful employment, appeasement of my girlfriend, and
participation in an active Twilight:2000 campaign are chief among them. I
also adhere to advice received as a boy from my great-grandfather: "If you
don't have anything to say, keep your mouth shut." [1]
However, dear sir -- in reference to your misplaced concern with the
specifics of my big, hairy beanbag -- I can assure your that my testicles
have long ago fully descended, and remain happily so. Further, I am quite
confident that the remainder of the glowing-eyed lurkers amongst the trees
who do sport nut-sacks will appreciate your refrainment from further
comment on matters regarding our genitalia just as much as those
subscribers (active or otherwise) not so fortunately endowed.
To bring this ever so slightly back on topic [2], and, in so doing, herald
my triumphant return to active membership in the ongoing ShadowRN
discussion: Has any work been done on the SR Geek Code [3] in the last
three and a half years? Any interest in revising/revisiting it in order to
take into account any of the more recent developments in the SR
uni/metaverse? I am woefully out of touch with the state of affairs
post-2060 (or post-collapse of FASA), would but relish the opportunity to
collaborate on such an endeavor.
Kind Regards,
~ Snake Eyes
[1] Originally taught to me by MSGT W. H. Stein, US Army (Ret.), this maxim
later evolved into Rule for Peaceful Cohabitation #3: "If you don't have
anything nice to say, put a [male reproductive organ] in your mouth."
[2] Is there such thing as an "ObSR:" on this list?
[3] Currently found online at
<http://mailer.fsu.edu/~bmonroe/Shadowrun/SRGeek.html>;; only about three of
the original contributors still hanging around the list, by my estimate.
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