Tim Ransom's Feeble Mind

Message ID: 393016 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-26 15:48:09 Subject: Umm, see you in the funny papers Recs: 0 I was going to cross post something I put on IV about being too busy to be around for the next several weeks, but why bother? Quick! Someone bump up the Colonel's posts! Quick! Someone whine about it! Quick! Time for a rating war! What a shithole. The whole idea of 'negative rating' is just idiotic. Now, you can't simply ignore idiots, you must rate them down! You know damn well they're gonna do it to you! it made more sense to simply rec the posts you liked. A range of 1 to 5 is totally inadequate. Whatever... I'm going to be far to busy for this dump or any other time wasting places for a good while, so.... Good effin' riddance, Yahoo. ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Messag

Message ID: 392230 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-18 13:22:00 Subject: SCOX Desperate, Blows Own Toes Off!!!! Recs: 0 In a desperate legal gambit, SCOX attorneys have taken to self mutilation in response to the brutal mugging they suffered in Judge Wells' decision, which gutted 2/3rds of their suit against IBM. Their response appears to be calculated to invoke yet more wrath from the judge, as *each and every section in the TOC* of their filing starts with "The Judge erred..."!!! A Noted Footgun Expert was overheard to say: "*Whistle*! That's some gawdamn nice shootin'!" ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "timransom@rogers.com" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ---------------------------------------

Message ID: 392101 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-17 15:56:00 Subject: We're at Investor Village Dot Com!!! Recs: 0 So, umm, kill the lights and lock up when you're done, OK? ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "timransom@rogers.com" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 391949 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-17 10:11:00 Subject: Agressive Bogosity! Recs: 0 I have been using this to get to a chronological list of at least a page worth of posts: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mb?s=SCOX Went there and noticed this subject line: "Link to the original msg board format" Elated at the prospect, I clicked the link and got: << Error: This message has been deleted>> Thanks, Y! moderator! Notice the posting volume has *plummeted*? I suspect the numbers won't look so sweet for advertisers after this fiasco! *gibber*! ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "timransom@rogers.com" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 391403 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-15 12:33:00 Subject: Board Unusable, Craptacular Tardware Recs: 0 Good Lord, this sucks! Words cannot express the sheer tardacity, the absolute suckitude of this format!!! What happened to the "return to original" link? ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "timransom@rogers.com" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 389672 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-11 16:30:00 Subject: Re: Syd Barret has died... Recs: 6 << But I think there actually WAS a ton of good music being made in the 80's. The problem was that a new "movement" was maturing but it was being completely ignored by the US music business.>> Oh, definitely. The whole undercurrent of punk and new wave was fine, but it wasn't anywhere near the radio. I can't recall ever hearing the Buzzcocks, Magazine, PIL, Jah Wobble, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, etc etc on the radio. And there was the 80s blues renaissance, including Stevie Ray Vaughn, one of my favorite guitar players. So yes, there was actually a lot of very good music made in the 80s. Unfortunately, from the perspective local radio, only the worst dreck ever got played. Also, I hate the f*ck out of MTV, which I will always associate with the 80s. << Maybe your friends didn't get as emotionally attache

Message ID: 389630 Posted By: peredurabefrog Posted On: 2006-07-11 15:01:00 Subject: Re: Syd Barret has died... Recs: 7 >> Have you seen this site? << No. I hadn't. Isn't the interweb a wonderful thing! I was right though. Didn't even make the handbills :) To be honest, I can't remember much about it, and I certainly never met any of the stars. As I recall we'd played a private party in Luton or somewhere the night before. Then we played a wedding on a farm nearby (in Lincolnshire, that is) - in a huge greenhouse I think - then we did Spalding and then belted up the motorway to do Manchester Students Union the following evening. I was the lead singer - so I was entirely out of it the whole time. Singers are supposed to do that, apparently. Well, that's my excuse and I've been using it for 30 years. Looking at the date, it seems as though I should have been doing my 2nd year exams at the time. Goodness only knows how (o

Message ID: 389628 Posted By: rex007can Posted On: 2006-07-11 14:58:00 Subject: Re: Syd Barret has died... Recs: 1 Wow, this is like, the most OT it can get, but here goes. << Just shows to go you how miserable the 80s were when a whole generation had to look backwards to find music worth listening to.>> IMO, if you weren't into hair bands or Dance Music in the 80's, AND if you didn't go looking into what was being done in the UK, yeah...it sucked. But I think there actually WAS a ton of good music being made in the 80's. The problem was that a new "movement" was maturing but it was being completely ignored by the US music business. Alternative rock music was already old and mainstream in the UK in the 80's. << I have received several calls today from people I haven't seen in a while over this.>> Yeah...I got a few emails too. << It is worth noting that none of these people called me when the guy from Nir

Message ID: 389610 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-11 14:20:00 Subject: Re: Syd Barret has died... Recs: 5 I was indoctrinated by older siblings. I remember my brother playing The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in his Zen Room with the quadrophonic speaker setup. I guess my friends and I were a bunch of anachronists, because they were all into the same thing. So there you have it: even a swaddling like myself at a tender 40 years of age had a Floyd soaked adolescence. Just shows to go you how miserable the 80s were when a whole generation had to look backwards to find music worth listening to. I have received several calls today from people I haven't seen in a while over this. It is worth noting that none of these people called me when the guy from Nirvana died. ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user &qu