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

Message ID: 389586 Posted By: peredurabefrog Posted On: 2006-07-11 13:51:00 Subject: Re: Syd Barret has died... Recs: 3 And so has part of my youth. I played in a group on the same bill as Pink Floyd once. I think it was the (late unlamented) Spalding Rock Festival, or something, in perhaps 1967 or 1968. Jimi Hendrix was also in there somewhere, as I recall. The group I played with probably never even got onto the promotional literature, but it sounds good to say, "I played the same gig as Pink Floyd". But this was the '60s. So I could have this completely wrong. :) PAE ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "peredurabefrog" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 389508 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-11 12:39:00 Subject: Re: Madcap's Last Laugh Recs: 8 << Syd Barret has died...>> << I thought some of the elder gentlemen of the board might be interested.>> Ouch! Syd was the soundtrack to many a sunrise back in the daze. Shine on you crazy diamond ------------------------------------------------------------ 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: 388824 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-07-10 09:38:00 Subject: Re: Alright, who's the asshat? Recs: 8 Salty: I have received the same warning letter several times over the years and none of those accounts got nuked. The one account I did lose got nuked without warning over (apparently) an innocuous post my mischievous wife wrote about Merkey. I have since posted far more provocative stupidity without any nukings. In each case where I got a warning from Yahoo, it was just some thumbsucker I flamed or who had some other grudge cravenly trying to get at my ankles from a safe distance. Don't worry about it. Instead, take solace in the utter lameness behind such a puny, desperate act. ------------------------------------------------------------ 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:

Message ID: 388808 Posted By: saltydogmn Posted On: 2006-07-10 08:49:00 Subject: Alright, who's the asshat? Recs: 14 I decided to check my belgianwaffle AT backinfullforce DOT com inbox this morning, just to see if there was any troll droppings there; instead, there was this; >>> From: Yahoo!< yahoo-dev-null@yahoo-inc.com> To: <belgianwaffle AT backinfullforce DOT com> Subject: Yahoo! Administrative Notice Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Dear Yahoo! account holder: By creating and using your Yahoo! account, you agree to abide by Yahoo!'s Terms of Service (TOS). Pursuant to the TOS, Yahoo! reserves the right to terminate your account or otherwise prohibit use of your account in the event that, among other things, Yahoo! believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the TOS. It has come to our attention that you may have violated the TOS. Please reread the TOS and cease any use