A Toast to Banned and Disappeared Posters

[stefano]

To JackRiddler and Joe Hillshoist, hoping they haven't disappeared.

[nathan28]

No one misses 8bit's posts? I mean, jeez, I really wanted to blue-line the hell out of his posts ("ect.", "Saint Lewis") but goddamn he had an exhaustive degree of knowledge. Internet stalking reveals he's working on some graphic and sound projects though so he ain't dead

geogeo posted yesterday but he said he was "in a rough patch, getting rougher" so who knows.

[monster]

No one misses 8bit's posts?

Hell, yeah. But what are ya gonna do?

[brainpanhandler]

To JackRiddler and Joe Hillshoist, hoping they haven't disappeared.

I'll drink to that. I wanna know if Jack ever got an answer from askbobmarley about who shot the deputy and I want him to acknowledge that I am indeed the winner of the edit war thread. And wasn't there a thread recently about internet censorship in Australia? I don't think Joe said anything on it and I count on him for all things Australian. Besides I want Joe to write some more about his encounters with interdimensional/extraterrestrial creatures and such.

[lightningBugout]

How bout biaothanatoi? He was so good at manning up to perp-resembling trolls.

[mentalgongfu2]

on the Net, we are all ghosts
we can appear or disappear at ease
and many do, for amusement or necessity
or otherwise


existence goes on

our words are not ourselves
as are not our bodies

ghosts return to their haunts
as souls return to the river
& each lives in its own way

Beware the Temple Perilous?
stay out of real world strange loops
seek and find,
knock and enter

take a strange vacation

Is H/Sh e leaving? Has Sh/H e gone already?
Is there a cipher buried in the text?

good bye, good bye, to all, Hello
I hope to see you soon, again

the End is never what it seems
& life is just a waking dream






wait, this isn't the poems only thread?

[nathan28]

Here's a temporary toast to HMWs's temporary ban. Whatever it was he was on when he wrote "Are Zionists UFOs smarter than Jane Harman's influenza", I don't know, but I want some. HMW, PM me with your guy's phone number.

[beeline]

To JackRiddler and Joe Hillshoist, hoping they haven't disappeared.

i second that, cheers

[Seamus OBlimey]

Over and out. For at least a week.

If not until I get my books.

[barracuda]

Here's a temporary toast to HMWs's temporary ban. Whatever it was he was on when he wrote "Are Zionists UFOs smarter than Jane Harman's influenza", I don't know, but I want some. HMW, PM me with your guy's phone number.

Well, it ain't like he wasn't warned. But I wish Jeff would have held out long enough for me to tell kentcambo to fuck off. Because I never got the real chance to express my true feelings there.



Geez, Seamus, if you wait til you get yer books you may never return.

[Mask]

[AlicetheKurious]

Eh! Life is a river. I didn't know I'd be posting again until I did. There's a real sense of freedom to lurking occasionally without feeling the urge to post, but for some reason I can't seem to stay away for too long.

I hope Hugh will not be so offended by his temporary banning that he will stay away forever. He's one of the good guys (very, very smart, too, and with a dogged persistence that is truly awe-inspiring), and I can't believe Jeff banned him, even for a week.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

I'll raise a toast to HMW too, It's hard for me to imagine the RI forum without him, actually. That said, he was really being insulting to Jeff on many threads lately, and there's no excuse for disparaging our host in a completely off-topic manner, just being... petualant and annoying. I think Jeff put up with a lot from HMW and I'm sure he didn't temporary-ban him without weighing the idea carefully.

Let's hope HMW doesn't give up on RI and comes back with a cooler head.

[lightningBugout]

I'll raise a toast to HMW too, It's hard for me to imagine the RI forum without him, actually. That said, he was really being insulting to Jeff on many threads lately, and there's no excuse for disparaging our host in a completely off-topic manner, just being... petualant and annoying. I think Jeff put up with a lot from HMW and I'm sure he didn't temporary-ban him without weighing the idea carefully.

Let's hope HMW doesn't give up on RI and comes back with a cooler head.

I'll second everything you've said. I've actually missed Hugh's input on the pandemic and his attempts to index its shadow in all forms of pop culture.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

To Vigilant, wherever he may be lurking or posting, for his excellent no-nonsense contributions to JR's "End of Wall-Street" thread, which I could actually sort of follow and get a grasp on all that financial sorcery. Also for the scores of great posts he's made over the years.

Not posting, or toasting any posting, about Steves or Jews or nonesuch. Feh.

I don't exactly understand exactly why he was banned, but it's not my place to really say, and that's okay. Maybe he was kinda a dick, it seems teh bigga yer postcount gets, the more likely you are to start swinging yer ... eh.

Drink up and be merry, for tomorrow we shall be banned!

EDIT (I'm not a post whore, really, hence why I'm editing instead of making a new post).

I wonder what zhivkov has gotten into. I always enjoyed reading his rambling, rambunctious prose postings. While not a RI heavy-hitter, he added a lot of color and humor to the board.