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Geoffrey · Post by **Geoffrey** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:48 am

Margaret wrote:
>That really is not fair. There are a great many good people who use this forum who have made worthwhile contributions.

It's a snake-pit, my dear. Time to put the blow-torch to it and give all this vermin one less drinking hole.

Geoffrey · Post by **Geoffrey** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:53 am

Laura wrote:
>Was that meant to be ironical and I missed it, Geoffrey?

There's only one thing you've missed, young lady - and that's a jolly good rogering by someone who knows how.

mat james · Post by **mat james** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:10 pm

"Eli, Eli, la'ma sabach-tha'ni?"

(matthew 27,46)

blonde madonna · Post by **blonde madonna** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:29 pm

Geoffrey should have wrote:Laura wrote:
>Was that meant to be ironical and I missed it, Geoffrey?

There's only one thing you've missed, young lady - and that's a warm loving hug from me

I am editing this post as it may have been obtuse and for this I apologise.

As a relative newcomer to this forum I find Geoffrey’s posts on this thread confusing.
Is he a troll or is this just troll like behavior?
Is he being hostile or ironic?
Do the forum members he has insulted know him and know that he means to be humorous or are they willing to accommodate him in letting off steam?

Whatever the answer to these questions, the fact is that when we write we write for an audience. Good writing communicates its intention clearly. I don’t think Geoffrey is writing appropriately for this audience (which includes me). Perhaps he should be PMing his friends on this thread and leaving me out of it. Otherwise I feel the need to defend Laura as his comment to her was offensive, no matter how he meant it.

I am sorry if I have offended anyone with my previous religious reference, but that was in response to Mat’s quote which BTW seems really out of context on this thread.

Now I shall go back to just sighing and sitting on my hands and going elsewhere when good threads go feral before my very eyes.

Peace to you all

~greg · Post by **~greg** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:30 pm

blonde madonna wrote:Otherwise I feel the need to defend Laura
as his comment to her was offensive, no matter how he meant it.

Subject: Re: Happiness
Date: 1998/11/30
From: laura
Newsgroups: alt.music.leonard-cohen

It seems I'm here only to thank you. For each new lesson you teach me, for
each new feeling you make me touch. But tonight I can't do my job, I can't
find the any words that would be good enough. Just one. Geoffrey, I can't
know either who or how made you what you are, but you are certainly not a
whacko. Tonight I'd probably even trust you as my father. Don't laugh! I know
these aren't the kind of declarations made here, but I'm serious. Do you know
someone a girl would trust more than her father? At least for me, I don't.
Laura

simonmoorehead · Post by **simonmoorehead** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:16 pm

please don't pass me by
please keep the forum open
it is an invaluable source of information
thanks
simon moorehead

Geoffrey · Post by **Geoffrey** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:28 pm

blonde madonna wrote:
>As a relative newcomer to this forum . . .

Welcome, and thank you for taking such an interest in my post :-)

g

Laura · Post by **Laura** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:22 pm

Thank you, Greg, for reminding me why I shouldn't hurry in trusting people. Geoffrey's post actually didn't bother me for more than a couple of moments, since he totally missed his target; but reminding me of how I was and what kind of mistakes I could make hurts, it really hurts.
I wanted to keep out of this thread because it is in the "news" section and it's totally going off-topic, but I couldn't resist... I'm out of it now, though.
Laura

Teratogen · Post by **Teratogen** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:27 am

Sooo.... this whole entire forum (domain: http://www.leonardcohenforum.com) will be shut down completely??????? But... but... but...

Geoffrey · Post by **Geoffrey** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:23 pm

Laura wrote:
>Geoffrey's post actually didn't bother me for more than a couple of moments

I am losing my touch :-(

Nice to see the humour and harmony of this sad little forum taking an upward swing again since that 31st May deadline, even if it is superficial. You won't be able to maintain it, though. Yes, you're all being so nice and polite - like shop assistants trying to sell expensive jewellery. Before I returned last week - after my forced little sojourn - there were wars and rumours of wars in here. And now, brethren, today's quiz: What stung Leonard 'like a hornet'? Find the answer and meditate upon it, my self-righteous and pious friends.

Henning · Post by **Henning** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:45 pm

Let me quote Average Brundy (1972): "The games must go on". There's a mistake in each posting, even in this one.

mat james · Post by **mat james** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:01 pm

Mat’s quote which BTW seems really out of context on this thread.

"out of context" in this case, probably means you missed the point/relevance, Blonde M.

Well, you are Blonde! ....

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:09 pm

Greg, the thing is not so much to be polite. ("Excuse me Sir, Madam, I'll hit you under the belt in a few seconds, I hope you don't mind, if you are it is just more fun, my kick you know, my interest, my, me, myself and I, you can't be such a jerk as to deny it to me, I'll suffer badly if you ask me to respect you and you'll be jerk and my friends will protect me and attack you - and it will be much more fun to watch you in such trouble" - or entering an exquisite knife in the back of a user while having an angelic smile in the face and/or tears in the eyes, the kind not-this-poor-innocent-lamb-can-do-such-a-thing? he? nooooooo)

The thing is to have real respect for others, while being anything else, having fun, being humorous, imaginative, serious, sad, happy, ironic, against something, a bit crazy, a lot crazy, offensed, what ever. Being respectful of others and their differences, that could be learned like anything else. Bitching is out (of fashion) anyway. People look soooooooooo ridiculous trying to ridicule others, and so liiiiiitle they appear (and "littlier"). Petits. It is a pity, really. And there is no joy in it, only emptyness that does try to compensate by bringing just more and more and more and more and more emptiness.

Henning, I would go for tumb up with this one.

Let the gladiators alive. Does somebody knows if the word "glad" comes from "gladiator"?

We must admit that humanity had civilized a bit, on the long run.

P.S. : I profit to give free lecture again, while the post is not at 100 $ US/unity yet.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:52 pm

What stung Leonard 'like a hornet'

A bee?

Buzz a hornet; sting like a bee.

[They're similar, but different, you know

.]

~ Lizzy

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:35 pm

I think the hornet reference is in a line from the song The Traitor (Recent Songs album)

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