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ursinator2.0
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Hi, just went member of this forum  , leaving the sinking ship  .
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BBP
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Welcome Ursinator! I see you made a second account though 
It's really bad turning the registration on, I get like 3 spammers per hour...
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ursinator2.0
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Yes cause i wanted my username exactly the way it is now ('ursinator2.0' - i also once tried it this way when register for the old forum but it didn't
work). Please xcuse the trouble i have caused this way and thnx very much for your effort 
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BBP
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Off to back-up - I have downloaded my "babies", the joke competition about my vest, the 50 Pictures in one zappa album topic, Learned Something New
Today and WW2 thread, and the original Duck Duck Goose. Also "rescued" a lot of jokes from the bad joke topic and am looking further. Fortunately I
still have a lot of backup from the time I started backupping two years ago, when I saved notable instances of What Happened To You Today.
Good thing I got this new laptop!
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polydigm
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New laptop Bonny, nice!
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polydigm
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Hi Urs!!
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polydigm
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It will be interesting to see what the new Zappa forum will be like. I was similarly pissed off with Dweezil when he dumped his original forum. I lost
a lot of stuff there without any warning.
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BBP
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On Sunday I had organized a tea party with 4 friends, all female group. It was great!
One of them was Tjitske, the viola player who has more strong tales in her repertoire than anyone I know - and she's an expert at telling them. She
had me in stitches when she told me about the time she played Bach's Mattheus Passion - it is traditionally performed the 2 weeks before Easter here -
and on the stage before the show, they had chocolate easter eggs. She was legally blind at the time. The double bass player asked: "Hey, toss me one
of those," and she threw one in the general direction of the sound.
And lo and behold, she did something a professional pitcher wih 20/20 eyesight couldn't do - the egg landed straight into the bass's F-hole! They did
everything to get the egg out, but since those holes aren't very big the egg had to be in a specific rotation and they got nowhere by holding the
unwieldy instrument upside down.
As the stage lights had warmed up the egg to a softer state, they had the idea of grabbing the conductor baton to wiggle it out. Success!
However, the baton had gotten sticky from the egg, and during the performance about the death of Jesus, the poor conductor had a baton that kept
sticking to the music sheet, while the musicians had to clench their teeth to avoid bursting out in laughter.
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BBP
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And we;re back! We have no idea why we were down for a few hours
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Eddie RUKidding
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Good to see the site back - I'm offline till the 16th gotta go do my Sh!t work 
South of the Border
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ursinator2.0
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Quote: Originally posted by BBP  | On Sunday I had organized a tea party with 4 friends, all female group. It was great!
One of them was Tjitske, the viola player who has more strong tales in her repertoire than anyone I know - and she's an expert at telling them. She
had me in stitches when she told me about the time she played Bach's Mattheus Passion - it is traditionally performed the 2 weeks before Easter here -
and on the stage before the show, they had chocolate easter eggs. She was legally blind at the time. The double bass player asked: "Hey, toss me one
of those," and she threw one in the general direction of the sound.
And lo and behold, she did something a professional pitcher wih 20/20 eyesight couldn't do - the egg landed straight into the bass's F-hole! They did
everything to get the egg out, but since those holes aren't very big the egg had to be in a specific rotation and they got nowhere by holding the
unwieldy instrument upside down.
As the stage lights had warmed up the egg to a softer state, they had the idea of grabbing the conductor baton to wiggle it out. Success!
However, the baton had gotten sticky from the egg, and during the performance about the death of Jesus, the poor conductor had a baton that kept
sticking to the music sheet, while the musicians had to clench their teeth to avoid bursting out in laughter. |
I always guessed those classical music folks being the real true rock'n'rollers
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ursinator2.0
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Hi Geoff!
I am quite sceptical against what's coming up but maybe they will surprise us in a positive way. Actually everything is still in the state of a bad
surprise 
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polydigm
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My bad surprise is that I was very unwell overnight on the ferry from Harwich to Hook Of Holland and have been in a Rotterdam hospital since yesterday
morning. The situation has righted itself overnight and we hope to be back on the road by this afternoon.
Update: On the road since 1100h. Yay!!
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BBP
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I'm sorry to hear that, stay healthy!
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BBP
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For the curious, I had the forum open from 20:29 to midnight CET. In these 3.5 hours, we received 20 spam registrations and 0 clean ones. One account
had managed to "log on".
In my admin tools I can set member search to "Pending first login" - these members don't yet show up in the Members list. There are 4 users of that
variety that I won't delete since they were Zappa forum dwellers, and one of them is the sorely missed KU. The 19 spammers who never logged in could
then easily be found and deleted.
However, one logged in. Since I intend to keep sign-up closed as much as possible, I changed that spam account into Placeholder3. Otherwise, if a new
person would want to join, I'd have to re-open, make a new account registered to my e-mail, open my e-mail and log in, then change all the user data,
then close before disaster breaks out. Now, all I need to do is change U/N and P/W for that account.
Or: When Spammers Are Useful.
It's unfortunately not manageable to add better spam check than the Captcha as XMB software has been discontinued, and any new spam prevention
measures would have to be either written by us, or we would need to upgrade to PHPBB.
Upgrading to PHPBB is still going to require round-the-clock spam control. It's nigh impossible to win. Leave the site open, spammers come in, forum
breaks down until you chuck them up. Shut the site, forum breaks down because nobody can join. I mod a Cluedo forum at TheArtOfMurder.com and joined
due to the all-too-frequent spam. Currently we get an influx about every 2 days, and I delete, ban and IP-ban straight away. The admin there needs to
come in and change the security questions regularly.
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Eddie RUKidding
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Good to hear you are back on deck polydigm
South of the Border
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polydigm
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Cheers Eddie!
Bonny, yesterday when Valentina Ciardelli, playing double bass, performed with her trio, including piano and viola, she kept talking about viola
player jokes, which I found ironic having already read your story above.
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BBP
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hey I thought I'd posted an answer to this oh well... At any rate, looking forward to today, although the heat has left us in a pretty poor state.
It'll be 38 degs C today which is not as hot as I've had here.. but damn it's close!
RINGTONE! Mortgage! Pharmacist!!! Freedom!!
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Eddie RUKidding
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Should come down my way (Cohuna lol ) was -2 Deg C yesterday morning and looks like the same today
South of the Border
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BBP
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Poly and I met up for the second time, which was fantastic - alas the road back home was quite an ordeal - I had to walk back to where I parked my
bicycle - and I was wearing murderous shoes that gave me massive blisters on the ankles, to the point I even took them off and walked on my socks. Dad
couldn't watch that, since he was on his bicycle he let me cycle on it - but the heat quickly became overpowering. We made a stop at the pavillion
where we met up with Poly and Mrs Poly, but alas we weren't allowed to sit inside by the fans, we had to sit outside on the hot hot terrace - where
they were having an even hotter barbecue. With the smoke taking whatever was left of his breath away we both went to our bicycles and attempted to
cycle home.
I had refilled my water bottle at the restaurant, but it wasn't enough, we weren't even at the halfway point when my dad had already paused to rest
three times. Without water and there being a long hot road ahead, I went ahead home, to nurse my feet and get lots of water.
Arrived home, cut the very loose skin from one massive heel blister and put bandaids on both heels, put on extra heel protectors and my sneakers,
filled 6 bottles with water and put them in the isolation bag to bring them back to Dad.
When I found him he had again paused, maybe 300m from home, and was in such bad shape three friendly neighbors were checking him out and inviting him
into their airconditioned home. By then the temperature was officially 38, but reaching the 40s in places.
One neighbor finally persuaded my father and me to come in, gave him some energy drink and let him rest, then brought him and his bicycle home.
We're both recovering from the ordeal. Dad is doing better, still not 100% though, but it's still hot.
Lesson learned - take more care when selecting your shoes.
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