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    So, we've all had some great conversations interrupted by that misbehaving chatroom lately. Mr. Pid wrote a great song on the subject...

    Feel free to pick them up again here. Or report your more surreal episodes of being booted for misbehaving. 

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  • marye
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    all the excitement last night
    seems to have been too much for the chat room, which is currently MIA. I've got a note in to the tech folks. Thank you!
  • GratefulJewels
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    Where are the Florida DeahHeads? :) You know the saying "Maybe it was the roses"?
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    Beta be betta
    yabba dabba dooo
  • marye
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    now in progress!
    the shakedown cruise/beta test of our new improved chat room. We're hoping it proves a bit more stable than the old one. Check it out and let us know how it's working for you. Thanks!
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    Hey oh fine Ant- I take your chat and comment shenanigans with all good grace, well-being and twinkle of spirit, as I'm sure that's how you mean it. Perhaps I can match my mundane-ness and willy-nilly-but-never-chilly posting with yours...we will see, as we continue "...going down the road feeling baaaaddddd" (which is good). Tis a grateful day...be well...till later...gotta mine salt all day. G
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    How can i chill with these awesome stories! I am sorry. I type a character that is more colorful then he actually is) I love your stories, they are appreciated, as is your advice, tempo and beat. I promise I am calm/chill and relaxed as can be. I like to create an air of situation in words to break some of the mundane minutes of my day tis all. I take advantage of this internet and sometimes fill it with challenging/immature material, on purpose, but not with the intent to elicit anything negative. Though I could see how that could be. Chill I shall, as i patiently await the next chapter with baited text)
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    The Story continues, as chapter 1, etc...
    First off, Deadant, take a chill-pill, as I've got a few months to hammer away and tell you the story you so eloquently requested a few days ago(before the Seahawks crashed and burned in that wee little football game on Sunday); And Marye, thanks for putting up this pseudo-use-when-necessary-because-the-chat-line-crashes area...cause I think it might be a politically correct place to tell this story; I was bonafidely (new word, Deadant) starting to tell this story when the chat crashed twice...so if the story police are monitoring this bit of cyberspace, it is legal, necessary, and altogether appropriate to continue it here. DeadGeek said the chat crashes if you type too fast, or walk and chew gum at the same time, or whistle Dixie in Boston... PS, Any of you other Deadheads reading this story, start at the bottom where Deadant whines and work yourself up, or go take out the recycling or build a house of cards, cause this old deadhead might ramble on, just like the rose Jerry sang about. ....our story continues...25,000 deadheads roll into town, and where can they stay on this dusty mountainside...onsite, of course, but where does the band stay? In the Motel 6 at the corner? No, I think not...for they are Rock Stars! They gotta be cooler than that. How about a wilderness resort, run by hippies who stepped back in time back in the early early 70's and bought a bunch of land way out in the middle of no-where...Sure, that's the ticket. And the roads are winding dirt bumpy narrow and almost non-existent, so you can kiss the limousines goodby, as a long bed pick-up couldn't traverse those roads. I know, Jim said, let's helicopter them in and have them land over there, next to our tomato garden and corn-field. It'll be cool! And that, my friends is the beginning of how the Grateful Dead hooked up with some long time, laid back hippies, not ne'er-do-wells, but certainly some were nefarious but still kind folks, and started a catering company out of a couple of pot and pans with two or three world-class chefs who had found out about the mountain hide-away, took said catering company on the road with a bunch of dead-heads and hangers-on, and built a small but casual and friendly empire, called Avery Ranch catering, and catered to the good old Grateful Ded as their personal chefs for the next five plus years... Who is Jim you might ask, and what was Avery Ranch, and did they/we/I have fun, did the bus run well? Did Bobby really want 6 bottles of Montrachet' Chardonnay,1989, no other year, no other brand, did Jerry like hot-dogs, who wanted the Apple Pie the most? What about the mountain of M & Ms? And Nilla-Vanilla wafer at 2 AM, are you kidding me? Those stories may or not be told as others remember them, but for me, I gladly hopped on that bus and rode, drove, pushed, sang and danced my way along that ride for a good five years, and I'll share some of those with you if that's alright, just to pass some time while we wait for tickets....more later, ok? Peace...G
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    *pets his three-legged frog* more story more story waaaaa
  • geomeister
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    The Story, call it Chapter 1, or whatever...
    So Bill Graham booked the fairgrounds to have a massive Grateful Dead concert, right in my backyard...as I lived in Columbia, which was right across the Stansilaus River (which is now a reservoir-waahhh), a stones throw from Angels Camp. We all used to raft that river back in the day, and it was majestic. Friends of the River was founded to save that river, btw, which ultimately failed, not for lack of trying tho. FOTR did end up saving the Tuolumne River and making it wild and scenic, and that's a good thing. The GD may have thrown some money at FOTR through their Rex Foundation...but this story is not about the river, or our environmental fight in the 70's to save it... So roll back the clock to 1987, summer, August, about a hundred degrees in the shade, with 25,000 hippies rolling in to this paranoid town (Angels Camp) to celebrate the last blast of partying before school started, etc...August 22, 23, the end of the west coast summer tour, but the start of our journey... Deadant, you still with us?
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    okay, where were we...oh yes, in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, in the County of Calaveras, a quaint small town called Angels Camp, population around 5000 or so, at at the Frogtown Fairground that Mark Twain wrote about in his book, The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" By the way, the Hells Angels, long before Altamont, way back in 1957, roared in to that small town and took it over, and scared the bejeebus out of everyone, and effectively shut down the downtown for around 20 years every year,the weekend the Frog Jump took place...but I digress, because this story is not about Frogs, or Hells Angels, it's about the Grateful Dead and a small but pretty cool chapter in their touring lives...one which I was so very fortunate to be a part of...
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So, we've all had some great conversations interrupted by that misbehaving chatroom lately. Mr. Pid wrote a great song on the subject...

Feel free to pick them up again here. Or report your more surreal episodes of being booted for misbehaving. 

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its around the back.. just a half a mile from the rail road track.....You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant .
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rider i LOVE U! MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Whipper Snapper Bench :)!! That's a hoot. & I LOVE YA"LL ! PEACE
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...seems to be a euphemism for all the rejects/recalcitrants. Officer Obie indeed!
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The default location where most in our community of free spirits can find themselves at some point along the way....
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I have received complaints from A that B is harassing him, complaints from B that C is making his life miserable, etc. Whereas I'm sure it would make A happy if I nuked B's account, and B happy if I nuked C's, and so on ad infinitem, that is, as we have seen in many online venues, the path to perdition. Put it this way. As any community grows, there are going to be people in it who just can't stand each other. There is no harm and no foul in this; no one is required to like everybody. What they ARE required to do here is get along. (Anyone who went to shows for any length of time quickly identified people in the scene who drove them nuts, or got really ugly on drugs, or had run off with their ex, or burned them on some deal. And yet they usually managed to stay out of each other's way. Online communities enable a particular sort of viciousness that wouldn't last five minutes in real life.) On other systems I've been on, the most effective way of dealing with this issue is to have available a tool called (on the Well at least, and in Unixy culture generally I think) a bozo filter. If you can't stand somebody, put them in your bozo filter and their communiques will be invisible to you forevermore. This occasionally makes online discussions a bit cryptic but is a great--and controlled by you--tool for keeping the peace. I've asked if we can have one installed here; currently you can block PMs but not posts, chat, etc. This may or may not be possible. But until such time as we have it available, pretend it's there anyway. If A drives you crazy, ignore every word A posts. We're all grownups here, we can do it. And, just a hint, do not announce to A that neener neener, I can't HEEAARR you... This invariably fans the flames, TMOT. If the chatroom continues to be a trouble vector and haven for bad actors, it will go on hiatus, but since I am very reluctant to have a few people ruin the scene for everybody, and lots of people use the chatroom in perfectly civil fashion, I would cordially invite folks to straighten this out for themselves before I am obliged to resort to such draconian measures. Thank you. (mod hat off)
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Wise words indeed. The BoZo filter sounds fine to me. But what I really want to know is what this 'mod hat' looks like is it any of these? http://tinyurl.com/33e4dd6
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is so giving me flashbacks to my college days. But somehow I see the mod hat looking a bit more like a jester's cap.
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you have a difficult job and, if i may say, you do it admirably!!
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Yes, MaryE -thanks for your wise words.......Whipper Snapper & Group W benches seem fine....now did the Chat Room Nerds ever Unite???
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Chat room nerds are diametrically opposed by design as to facilitate "intense chat", yes? It would be all platitudes and niceties, mutual admiration societies... Geez, have you been to the Philzone forum or livearchive? It's harsh in there. This is a gentle friendly breeze by comparison. It's when people start taking it seriously and comments personally that the fun goes down the tube. Some get their fix by venting in a "safe" place, though when others are getting crapped on who didn't ask for it, it really sucks. Hard to be sure who's willing to play.. some are oblivious even after testing the waters. CHaos conquers and No One is having fun anymore, least of all ms. mod. Let's all of our own actions at least, be mod, shall we? Or are we rockers??
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interesting
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You do have a tough job, and we all appreciate you very much! Thanks Marye. Chat room nerds unite! I wonder if her hat looks like this? Mod Hat _____________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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Hey Marye...has there been any progress on the filter idea. After the events of the last few days I think we need it really bad. After walking out for a couple of months the last time things went nasty I am trying to stay on board this time. But , to borrow a phrase 'it gets to wearing thin'.
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This filter sounds like a great idea. I hope it is put in.
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i have been called the worse names over the last month on chat. the worse one today over a missunderstanding.this is not wy i or anyone comes here. to much of ppl taking what u say to someone else negative just because they r only seeing things thru there anger. aint no time to hate. bearly time to wait! (((((((((((((((((HUGZ))))))))))))))))))))
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it's a great idea. And Mona deserves an apology from one source, as she was called unspeakable names!!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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is not part of Chat Room Nerds Unite in my opinion......whoever called Mona names for whatever reason should apologize 4 sure.....what happened to the fun part? geez.....
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gagalive would implement an Ignore User toggle, which isn't actually that difficult of a thing to do, programming-wise. Unfortunately, the chat room is their code, and while free to use it's not open source so such features are their purview to implement or not. So as it stands the only possible implementation is left to users to physically ignore those who offend them instead of being able to virtually ignore them. And yes I know that it's annoying to have to use personal discipline as the only solution, and having to do so certainly does detract from the experience, but much like dealing with any schoolyard bully it does eventually work. The bullies will tire of their games once they figure out no one is playing with them, and all they have left to do is play with themselves. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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missin' lotsa fun and games in da chats roooom, hope all the chatfolk are ok and i hope to have time to hang out again soon
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I'm sorry for the trouble, folks, and hope it gets straightened out soonest. Thanks.
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it's not your fault....you do what you can, and we appreciate it!!
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the problem is at gagalive, not here. I do not think this has anything to do with Lady Gaga however.
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thought it was my computer:(Peace- Moye
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Wow when this chatroom is down i really know why i like it so much,i miss the folks in there tremendously when i can't chat with them.I hope everyone is alright and i hope to see you all again very soon.Peace,love and prosperity until we meet again.
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we're visiting friends who have the GD sirius channel & on it they're playing "Spinash Jam".....I told my friends....NOW that's a BIG type-O.....! but it was still funny as hell....:))) Spinach??? oh yeh, Spanish......heh....
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gagalive's entire website has vanished so it looks like a big problem. When I use a search engine to find out what is happening, I just get 100s of results about Lady Gaga live! Very distracting ;-)
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It was awfully kind of the good doctor to allocate his resources for free for as long as he did, but this certainly does point out the fundamental flaw in activities devoid of a revenue model. Something perhaps to keep in mind before complaining about the next release around here... Dunno if it's really gone for good but it sure ain't there now. Anyone else have any bright ideas besides going back to the flaky Drupal implementation? What's a poor Rhino to do? Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Well, I sure hope we can find a replacement soon, cuz I miss all of you boyz and girlz. I'll do some researching and try to find some good chat options for our site! Love you guys! ♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥ Twirly Banner
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It seemed that recently there was alot of 'trashing' and hackinggoing on, as far as the Grateful Dead are concerned and the Cds that are for sale here and alot of personal converstaion as well- as people logging on under their own screen name then switching to someone elses screen name, and posting awful statements ! just tricks and games and very little about the music. I posted music everytime I came in- and I did my best to support Bobby Phil Mickey Billy etc ,because I have been to over 50 shows in the past year and I was a radio DJ when the Grateful Dead was alive and well. others just put me down and made fun even impersonated me, wrote lies, then it came into my real life activities at shows. If there is a new chat room it needs to be way more secured ... Deadhead hackers, hell, half of them never even saw the Grateful Dead ! I met Jerry Garcia when I was 17 years old ! I am 50 now OO play on- KEEP LISTENING LIZ KEMPF Farmington NY
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on to the next generation............no reason why they shouldn't enjoy it too........
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the emotional support and caring and sharing going on in the chatroom. Reminds us that we are family and not alone. And I 2nd Mona and Johnman-sharing with the ones who are too young to have seen shows, or too broke, or on the wrong continent, is a good thing! ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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So the story so far as i understand it........ Lady gaga assisted by her army of sad,drunken flying monkeys has stolen the chat room and sold it to Donald tramp am i correct in thinking this? I have to pick up on what dancingsinginggirl has posted what we have here is deadhead snobbery and i am sad to see it i am in wales in the uk and have been to 3 shows does this mean no chatroom for me cos i havent seen them 50 times.Is it not our duty to pass this on to the young that are interested enough to look in here or does it stop when we stop.If you dont like some one DONT TALK TO THEM simple as. Teach your children well.
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My 19 year old son has been to 15 or 20 shows, from age 6 months to 4 years, but doesn't remember much before the "Furthur Festivals" after Jerry's passing. But he proudly wears my tie-dyes and has some of his own Dead tapes and cd's....where does that put him?....ain't no wannabe's here...we all love the music, or we wouldn't frequent this website, but you are right, ripple, there do seem to be some snobs and I won't point fingers cuz some folks just take things the way they want to take them and they may or may not be delusional...hmmm.....do the spammers count?
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she is STILL is don' works....I will soon be ungruntled.....on the plus side, I have discovered that "ain't" is actually a contraction of "am not" and can be used correctly........sort of....
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it may be just that the dead is a very personal thing with people but the 'hipper than thou' attitude - typified by the words "old school" - is definitely out there turning off a lot of otherwise friendly people. say a prayer for the tragically hip (not the band), they really need it...
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The dead is a personal thing and has been a part of my life for over 30 years that dosnt make me better than some one who got on the bus last week or more deserving, we are hearing the same thing yes.I despair gonz never thought id say the words deadhead and snobbery in the same sentence but there you go.Lifes for learning.
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doesn't mean that we aren't heads if we don't discuss them 24/7 in the chatroom either. Everybody's got their own story to tell. The music is the common thread, but we are all unique-Thank Goodness!!! Methinks that folks with no life of their own are more inclined to resort to Deadhead snobbery.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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doesn't mean that we aren't heads if we don't discuss them 24/7 in the chatroom either. Everybody's got their own story to tell. The music is the common thread, but we are all unique-Thank Goodness!!! Methinks that folks with no life of their own are more inclined to resort to Deadhead snobbery.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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double post syndrome strikes again-my apologies.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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that statement is so making me laugh......love it.......teach your children well, for sure!.....