Friday Poll: Greatest age difference?
 

My cousin is about 25 years younger than her husband. He was 55 and she was 30 when they married. They've been married 3-4 years and have a 1.5 year old child.

Thriller
 

You posted it. I was just planning on averting my eyes from that perpetual car wreck this time and mourning quietly on my own.

Widespread/Phish/Allmans/Dead/Poseurs
 

Coltrane,

First, I just noticed the Webster Papadopolis tag-line - that's fucking killer. You're a twisted cat.

Phish fans are the way they are because only doctors' kids from the burbs can afford to follow a band around these days. Back when folks followed the dead, it was a more varied mix of fan, ranging from dangerous bikers all the way to rich white guys with cigars in limos. That was a wild scene - a microcosm of America where everybody seemed to fit in. Hell, who pays attention to what shirt the guy next to you is wearing when you have a head full of acid? If a guy came up to me in a pantless tuxedo at a Daed show I would not have been surprised. That was a scene that can't replicated.

Phish is second rate attempt to recreate the romanec of the Dead's scene. It fails for exactly the reason you cited - the kids are into the look, not the tunes. I think that's because Phish's music appeals to a less mature audience than the Dead'd did. The Dead did classics in the vein of Woodie Guthrie and Leadbelly and infused them with complex arrangements which could approach Coltrane or Miles Davis-esque. The music was also universal - the lyrics were simple folk stories. Phish fills its music with inside jokes and references to childish literature which only Phish fans would recognize. They also strip the blues "dirt" from their music - Phish never sings a drak tale. The closest they get is apocalyptic ballads that sound like science fiction or Lord of The Rings type drivel. Their immature themes create an audience of kids who want to get high and feel safe and protected. They don't have the biker element or the "needle people" you saw at Stones or Dead shows. They have a bunch of college freshman smoking cheap weed and shrooming and pretending their in the circus. Its all very plasticky and contrived, and that's a shame. I miss the circus that was the Grateful Dead. Where else could you split a joint with a biker, some "spinning chick" and an accountant and feel totally at ease. That sort of mind blending doesn't go on at Phish shows and there are too many "Colorado by way of Connecticut" types at Widespread shows. That's a shame. Dead shows were one of the few places where a cynic like me would say "Fuck, at the core, we're all the same - everybody's just looking for a good time."

S(There never will be a replacement for what the Grateful Dead were or the crowd they created)D

PS: Oh, we're agreed. As much as I'm now part of the system, I like to say "fuck you" to society whenever I get the chance. It ain't rebellion - its just annoyance at the red tape. Everything organized seems to be bureaucratic, and my motto in life has always been "faster." I have a Holden Caulfield complex toward bureaucracy.

Friday Poll: Greatest age difference?
 

Mr. Kiss's Grandfather "T" went to war when he was about 24 years old. Before he left his farming community, he visited his neighbors up the road, who had just had a new addition to the family--"M". T held M for a few minutes before heading off to war. When he finally returned to his community 16 years later (he went to war and then was somewhere else for a while) he was smitten with M, and they married within a year.

So, I guess that would be about 24 years.

Yeh, the dead were kinda cool, but...
 

Sebman, the place where you really hit it was here:

Yeh, the dead were pretty cool. Their concerts were definitely a thing. But the dead were not Trane or Bird or even Miles. There is cool.

Best concert I ever saw was a Keith Jarrett concert. He is the true inheritor of the legacy.

Friday Poll: Greatest age difference?
 

That's a very sweet story, but now I'm never gonna let ANYONE hold my kid. Fuckin' perverts, all of 'em.

If you let your PM box fill up so you can't receive messages, OK, fine whatever, it wasn't that important anyway. But if you let your PM box fill up so you can't receive messages, send PMs that say, were you trying to PM me, 'cause my box was full, and then let your PM box fill up again so that you can't receive the response, well now, that's a little irritating.

That's all I'm saying.

I know there's a help Board, but this one gets more traffic
 

I need PM Inbox help.

And no, PP, this is not a gratuitous look-how-popular-I-am post.
;)

Where do messages go when you "move" them?

Why can't I see all my messages?

Why is my inbox still full even though I deleted all the crazy ranting vitriolic PMs from Not Bob*?

I can't be the only one with these questions. If MR, Leagl, or somebody who has figured this all out will reply, I'll test things out and cross-post on the Help Board.

r(*NotBob did not send me crazy vitriolic messages, I was just funning)p

reasonable inferences
 

Now some of you might take my message and Tyrone's message together -- which obviously were being drafted at the same time
-- and deduce that I am the poster to whom he is referring.

But that deduction might not be accurate, especially if it makes me seem like a dork.

r(can do that all on my own, thanks)p

Yeh, the dead were kinda cool, but...
 

Great concerts, but I never heard anyone moan so much as they played. First time, I thought he was sick.

reasonable inferences
 

I think it's becoming a universal problem. I got in to work, tried to answer four PM's, and got the "full" response from each person.

Thriller
 

Goddamn you Thurgreed, now on second thought I feel almost compelled to watch...it's like being sucked into a black hole...aaaaiiiiiiggggghhhh!

I will try to mourn (well, sob) quietly afterwards however.

And did he strum the insides of the piano, too? Will I be accused of NYD like proclivities if I confess that I really dig the strumming and moaning?

Maybe we should create a thread just for "empty your inbox," and "my inbox is now empty, PM again, please" posts so we don't clutter up the "substantive" threads with those types of posts.

It still amounts to advertising one's side conversations -- so not a perfect method.

I know there's a help Board, but this one gets more traffic
 

Thanks. I don't mind people knowing that I send crazy messages (hell, all y'all must have received the email I forwarded from my cousin's friend's neighbor who woke up in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney after getting picked up by a hot chick at the Ghost Bar in Vegas), but I'm glad that people don't mistakenly think that my crazy messages are vitriolic.

I know there's a help Board, but this one gets more traffic
 

So much fun to have. Actually, NB, I picked you bc I thought that you would be the last person that others might expect to send crazy or vitriolic messages.

But then I thought maybe you might want people to think you're a little crazy (to be an effective moderator shouldn't you be feared?), and I didn't want to mess with your street cred.

Um, No.
 

Why not simply PM the person trying to PM you after you clear your mailbox?

Friday Poll: Greatest Age Difference
 

Although not technically compliant with the question, the greatest age difference in my family is 20 years.

My mother, being newly single, decided to take up ice skating so she'd have something fun to do a couple of nights a week. A few weeks later, she'd found herself a former Olympic speed skater twenty years her junior. My sisters were all disgusted but I was thrilled for her.

AM (those thighs said it all and said it quite emphatically in skating attire)M

And I'm just sitting over here at the tool table, because no one ever PMs me.

:sobbing:

tm

Friday Poll: Greatest Age Difference
 

In the 20th-21st centuries, the greatest age difference in any couple in my extended family was 7 years. 19th century, there were a couple of 40-year gaps. Hoorah polygamy.

tm

Um, No.
 

That is the simplest solution, but it assumes the other person's inbox hasn't also become full, and it's not an action the person trying to send the PM can take. That person just has to wait or forget it.

But to be clear, I did not suggest the separate thread as the best solution to the temporary communication problem between the PMers; rather, I thought it might be a method for keeping the "empty your inbox posts" off the other threads. Those types of posts are probably inevitable bc it's frustrating to have messages bounce back.

The full inbox problem is likely to persist even among regulars who have figured it out, because it requires a little bit of attention to keep one's inbox clear and ready to receive messages.

Um, No.
 

I couldn't disagree more. Keeping my PM inbox empty seems to require no effort at all.

Um, No.
 

I just tried to PM you to say, no, I hope it wasn't important because I can't even remember why (or that) I was trying to PM you on Monday. But it still says your box is full.

Oh the humanity. I hope this has been as much fun for all of you as it has been for me.

Um, No.
 

Actually, the simplest solution is for everyone to realize that this happens, so that, when you don't get a reply, your first reaction isn't "ass", but is, instead, "I better check my in-box".

The problem isn't ever that a message can't wait, but that you don't want the person to think you're not answering on purpose.

A New Low
 

And she was actually doing pretty well for a while.

:wtf:

neigh

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Fashio...42,542,00.html



edited to fix code - MR

Um, No.
 

:D

Well it doesn't take much to fill it up -- either in terms of number of messages or actual content within the messages.

A New Low
 

Well, f&*% me sideways--what did I do wrong?? I haven't posted a pic before, and apparently I don't know how.

Friday Poll: Greatest Age Difference
 

Another age gap story--

My 32 year old sister-in-law's 63 year old father (who is an ACTUAL self-made millionaire many times over, although perhaps not "classy" in the paigow sense) has been married four times and divorced four times. He recently introduced my sister-in-law to his new fiance, who is 31. Ouch.

Friday Poll: Greatest age difference?
 

Was their first born named TM?

TM

Um, No.
 

You are allowed to have 15 PMs. I think leagl set it that way to save space. I don't THINK that messages in your sent box count towards the limit. If this gets to be too big of a problem, we may consider increasing this number.

In the mean time, the best thing to do is to clear your inbox, and your sent box, of any messages you think do not need to be saved. As far as organizing your saved messages, you can create a folder called "Saved" or whatever, and move messages you want to keep over to that folder. Any messages you save there will count towards the 15 PM limit.

The PM service is not supposed to be an e-mail service. It is for quick messages that really don't need to be saved. If you have an important message to send to someone, you should e-mail em.

Irish Coffee Saves Lives
 

Coffee cocktail 'limits stroke damage'

The drug has as much caffeine as two strong cups of coffee

A 'coffee cocktail' drug could reduce the amount of damage caused by strokes, researchers say.

The drug is as potent as two cups of strong coffee combined with an alcoholic drink.

The drug - a mixture of caffeine and ethanol (alcohol), called caffeinol - had already been shown to limit damage from ischaemic strokes in animal studies. It has now been shown to be safe in a small study of human stroke patients.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2935439.stm

A New Low
 

Now let's not blame Christina--she was forced to wear this full-body Pepto-Bismol bottle for a charity event.

If she had her choice, she'd merely look like a $5 crack whore.

p(voice of mercy)j

Irish Coffee Saves Lives
 

I have been pushing this combination for years as part of a healthy breakfast, and finally have some vindication.

A New Low
 

Xtina is by no means a *large* girl, but she is no longer the stick figure she was in her teens. She suffers from the Anna Nicole problem of not realizing that she can't wear what she once could and still get away with it. Beyond the fact that that dress is horrible, the fit is awful. Sort of like the chaps she wears--not butt or like-handle* appropriate anymore.

*like-handle (since they are not quite full-blown love-handles) because she is not large, she is just maybe a size four now trying to still wear her size zeros

A New Low
 

I don't see where it says she was forced to wear it.

A New Low
 

The pouchy belly and widening face scream "unannounced pregnancy."

But maybe it's just me.

Um, No.
 

Thanks. I know you all are still busy but at when you have the time, it would be helpful if this limit were clearly indicated on the PM screen.

I also don't mind being reminded that I should what I can to preserve space on the server.

r(shutting up now)p

Um, No.
 

I may or may not be able to code that in there. It would probably be easier for me to put in into the FAQs (assuming it's not already in there...)

edit: it's in the FAQs, as are answers to most other issues. :)

Ghosts of the Abyss
 

Has anyone seen this 3D James Cameron Does the Titanic Again movie? If you get a chance, I suggest checking it out.

A New Low
 

Which leads me to yet another fashion axiom that should be brainwashed into her--unless you are actually wrangling a steer at a rodeo at that very moment, never, never, wear chaps.

Or for God's sake, at least wear some decent underwear beneath 'em.