|
thompson1780
|
 |
« Reply #1860 on: 23:18:09, 01-10-2007 » |
|
Come on Ollie - can't you decide where to put that 3000th post? Surely (shurely?) it shoudl be on the on-topic POST thread.
Tommo
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
|
|
|
|
martle
|
|
« Reply #1861 on: 23:20:32, 01-10-2007 » |
|
Yes, I need to go to bed; but can't until Ollie flips the tonnage. (Eh? I'm making up language as I go along. It's fun!)
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Green. Always green.
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #1862 on: 23:21:54, 01-10-2007 » |
|
Well, I reckon he's sleeping on his 3000th post, as it were, so I'm off to noddyland.
It's Nono and out from me!
night guys
xxx
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
oliver sudden
|
|
« Reply #1863 on: 23:22:24, 01-10-2007 » |
|
Tja, tinners missed it then...  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Ruth Elleson
|
|
« Reply #1864 on: 23:49:39, 01-10-2007 » |
|
You have got Oliver Sudden, haven't you?
(Ollie - are you missing?)
Tommo
Embarrassingly, I didn't! Until a few weeks ago when I was reading an archive thread on tOP with his unabbreviated user name. In other words, well after I actually met him  In fact it has occurred to me that I must have met about eight or nine messageboarders this summer at the Proms who I didn't know in "real life" before - and in only two cases (HtoHe and eruanto) did I ever think to ask their real names  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #1865 on: 10:03:18, 02-10-2007 » |
|
In fact it has occurred to me that I must have met about eight or nine messageboarders this summer at the Proms who I didn't know in "real life" before - and in only two cases (HtoHe and eruanto) did I ever think to ask their real names I find it very hard to refer to people by their real names, Ruth. Especially the ones whose screen names are real names, just not their own ... I'm sure Tommo must have told me his real name when we first met, but I'd completely forgotten it and was utterly confused when someone mentioned it to me last week. I'm sure I'll always call you Ruth, even if I should meet you and find out that it's not your real name (which, for all I know, it may not be ). I must admit, very few people call me Time in real life, although I certainly wouldn't mind if they did. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #1866 on: 10:05:41, 02-10-2007 » |
|
Tja, tinners missed it then... I miss all the important things, don't I.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
oliver sudden
|
|
« Reply #1867 on: 12:08:41, 02-10-2007 » |
|
Tja, tinners missed it then... I miss all the important things, don't I. Perhaps, but you missed that as well. Names: absolutely. Even in person I find it very hard to call George anything but George, Ron anything but Ron, Tommo anything but Tommo, Baz anything but Baz. And for that matter I'm certainly quite happy to be called Ollie... |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #1868 on: 12:11:38, 02-10-2007 » |
|
Names: absolutely. Even in person I find it very hard to call George anything but George, Ron anything but Ron, Tommo anything but Tommo, Baz anything but Baz. And for that matter I'm certainly quite happy to be called Ollie...
Yes, I have been known to refer to you in conversation as Ollie. I don't remember who it was now that laughed at me for it, but it feels normal to me. I can't even remember what Baz's name is, and as for Ron, he's got far too many of them anyway. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
Mary Chambers
|
|
« Reply #1869 on: 12:28:56, 02-10-2007 » |
|
Even in person I find it very hard to call George anything but George, Ron anything but Ron, Tommo anything but Tommo, Baz anything but Baz. And for that matter I'm certainly quite happy to be called Ollie...
You mean George isn't really called George?  Oh well, I'm not really called Mary. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
martle
|
|
« Reply #1870 on: 12:52:46, 02-10-2007 » |
|
And guess what. roslynmuse is not a woman! (I know, it's pretty obvious really, but he had me fooled for quite a while.) Mort is not Mort, jennyhorn is not called that, nor is he female either. It's all very bizarre. I'm almost called martle, though. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Green. Always green.
|
|
|
|
George Garnett
|
|
« Reply #1871 on: 13:10:27, 02-10-2007 » |
|
I think I was present when George Garnett and Ron Dough first met. Of at least equal moment, was that not also the historic occasion when Ron Dough and Oliver Sudden first met, or had there been a previous occasion? Now I'm going to find Mary Chambers not being Mary very hard to cope with. In fact I think I shall instruct my superego to suppress and repress that piece of information even if it costs me dear in later emotional health. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #1872 on: 13:19:02, 02-10-2007 » |
|
And I hope he won't mind me divulging that Don B is neither a Don nor a Basil(io). PS. Ollie/Mary - I was deliberately keeping quiet about George, partly because I thought it might be a secret, but mainly because I still believe deep down that George is George. I also have trouble thinking of Mary as anything other than Mary, although I don't know her real name (I did guess it might not be Mary, though). |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
richard barrett
Guest
|
|
« Reply #1873 on: 13:28:47, 02-10-2007 » |
|
My name isn't Veronika either (not round here anyway).
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
oliver sudden
|
|
« Reply #1874 on: 13:31:22, 02-10-2007 » |
|
I think I was present when George Garnett and Ron Dough first met. Of at least equal moment, was that not also the historic occasion when Ron Dough and Oliver Sudden first met, or had there been a previous occasion? Equal or not, that was indeed the selfsame moment. Oh dear, tinners has awoken a spark of doubt as to whether the non-Georgeness of George might have been subject to the Official Waffle Secrets Act. If so, but say the word, George, and I shall efface all record of same in my postings. I can safely say that I have NEVER been tempted to call Richard Veronika in person except for comic variation. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
