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    marye
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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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  • Anonymous (not verified)
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    it's not ok !
    it's not ok that a couple people, not entitled to do so by deadnet management ,register all the scripts of each word said at chatroom . it's not ok that one of these people feels also entitled to threatened to disrupt our computers with a virus at chat because someone's opinion is not approved by a bully . it's not ok to slander spitefully for a cheap thrill at other's expense . it's not ok to spy on other's conversations due to lack of respect and ill manners towards others , and then warp what was said to propagate needless strife among others . But , methinks, we shouldn't let that run us off chatroom and lat bullies win ! So good people , do take a stand and join us again at chat !
  • TigerLilly
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    What MONA said!
    Please don't go Badger! Would miss your wit and interesting travel tales like hell! Are a handful of us trying hard to get the old vibe back, a place for warm, intelligent conversation. If our old-timer friends desert us, how can we manage this?? ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
  • Frankly
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    Cosmicbadger' s post....
    ...oh,how right you are Badger!!!!In fact there are moments on the chat when you have the feeling that instead of bein on dead-net,you hang around in a prison yard with strange laws,Bullies eager to jump on you for whatever comment one dares to do and those ganglike codes [..like strkyep,krkbe etc.;)!!!]which make you feel very strange.Oh,and to stay with your post-i am pretty sure that there ARE people there who God only knows how,able to manipulate the whole chat.Marye,i have seen and experienced it that i came into the chat with 2 people hangin around,and beside '' hallo'',i could not send away a single letter,with them 2 guys havin Big fun that the chat seems to have ''hickups'',so they where aware of the problem i had.How?Did they see my comments which did not appear on the screen?Is there a kind of electronic trap between the chatter and the chat-room?..or is it just like badger says that some folks have found other routes in...wow,pretty scary if you add the guy who claims to have all the chats on record.Anyhow,peace to all who enjoy the chat as a nice meeting place,but it for sure aint safe...
  • cosmicbadger
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    apologies
    to all the nice, honest open people who still use the chatroom. I was really angry when I posted last night and I should have mentioned that a lot of good folks are there whose company I enjoy a lot. But it creeps me out that a) one person is apparently logged on there almost 24/7 and hardly ever never says anything. b) the names of some people in the chatroom do not appear on the lists of online users at the time (that includes the person logged in 24/7) c) Someone is claiming to be logging the entire record and is using that as a means to threaten people. If that is true, then it is quite sinister. If that person is bullshitting then that is just sick. It would be useful Marye if it could be discovered if people have 'cracked' the CR and are getting in through other routes. Thanks. I am really not sure how secure gagalive is. If course one has to accept that it is an open space and not everyone will click and see eye to eye, but it is all too weird for me these days. Its a shame cos it sure brightens up lonely nights in hotels in strange cities and there have been some great sessions (even recently) It would be good to have an 'is it safe to go in the chatroom right now' function somehow :-)
  • mona
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    to make change
    some of us on the chat r trying and hoping to have the old timers come back. last week had to stop more fights than i want to admit ;( if u all leave then thats whats left. please dont leave badger and more kind souls plz try to come back now and then. peace! :)
  • JackstrawfromC…
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    The last time
    I was in this chatroom (which I admit was a long time ago) I felt like I was hanging out with gang-bangers at a rap concert. I had to quickly check to make sure I was still in fact on dead.net. "Here's my half a dollar if you dare .. double twist when you hit the air. Look at Julie down below .. the levee doing the dopaso"
  • stuman
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    I have completley avoided the chatroom
    Ever since the gagalive thing happened . I would love to be able to chat with Dead.net members here . but it always seems like there is more people that I do not know in the chatroom then our own Dead.net members . It`s kinda sad. Bring back the old chatroom and I`ll use it .
  • Hal R
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    I used to go there a bit
    but it has seemed to have really gotten very juvenile, not funny. At times I have hit it right. I like to go there when I see certain people are there. Really had some great conversations there last year and before and as recently as several weeks ago. But usually will stay far away. There are certain topics on this site that attract certain groups of people each kind of taking on its own personality. I guess chat room is like that too. Kind of like a great bar that you used to hang out at and has slid downhill and now avoid and only visit to see if any of the old crowd might be doing the same. . If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
  • Anonymous (not verified)
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    just stuck my head in there (chatroom)...
    ...agree with Badger. It appears rather voyeuristic. Hmmm, being fast w/the keyboard and getting your mental jollies? I dunno. Doesn't seem intelligent at all, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be a place for people who want a cheap thrill. Sort of like hippie crack?
  • marye
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    Badger
    I'm not sure there's a practical way to fix this, but you're not the only one with this issue. I'll see if there's anything to be done.
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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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Thank You Marye! Excting to know. The icons r fun and the prankster censor. Cant wait to see the next level :)
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Hows the new chatroom treating evrbdy?Is it as good as the old one?I havent had the internet time to commit to it.......
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its been really nice. good ppl no drama :) just some tech issues.
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at least the drama has taken its business elsewhere...
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the new chatroom has been very kind and amiable, and DRAMA FREE!!!!!!!! :) YIPEEEEEEEEEEEe********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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some folks have been reporting trouble getting into the chat room, as in, their logins and passwords don't work, or things hang up in various weird ways. Strangely, this happened to me in the recent past, and it went away today. What changed is that I upgraded to the most recent version of Firefox. Therefore I'd suggest you might try updating your browser if you're having this problem, and trying again. Ya never know. But I have also reported this issue to our technical wizards.
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stupid keyboard..
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at least they're not posting spam in Japanese in the chat room. Yet, anyway...
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whats up with the chat? For 2 days u get "page not found". Have PPL asking about it it is missed. Hoping it is under construction and is a good thing :) PLZ let us know.
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that this is related to some site maintenance that happened on Friday. I've reported it to the intrepid techs, and am hopeful they will be able to deal with it when they return tomorrow.
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the chat room is working fine now. If this is not the case, please advise.
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bein' Jerry's Bday, and all.....I just missed GC, I mean by mere seconds, and waited around...but no-body else came in, so, I went to facebook, but I don't dig the chat there AT ALL. I'll try again periodically. Maybe folks will be there on the 9th, cryin' on each other's shoulders, missin' you know who.....
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No post, no forums, no chat and a CAPCHA. Whats up??
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I'm not seeing what mona's seeing...
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Just to let all my CR buddies know that I am not avoiding you. I have been unable to get into the CR for several months now, for technical reasons I do not understand. It is not a problem at my end, I have tried with different computers, settings, changing names, changing passwords etc. Apparently the tech people know about it, but they have a lot of other more important glitches to clear up so I have to wait. Maybe I did something bad in the CR?? Hope not. Please know that I miss you, especially on these long cold lonely evenings and when I am on the road. I hope to be back some time. Happy Midwinter Festival of your choice Badger
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you are missed in the chat, and looking foreward to you making it back in there!
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you are missed in the chat, and looking foreward to you making it back in there!
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Might as well use this space for something useful. Let's see, Tiger Woods won his first championship in over 2 years. Goooooo Tiger! I hope he comes back for the last of his prime of his career. Age 49 is the last year a golfer qualifies for the pro tour. Thereafter they are relegated to the still very lucrative Champions (Seniors) tour. If Tiger (now 35) can win 10 more majors and 25 more championships he will set the high water mark for golfers for probably the next century, if not forever (100+ wins in the regular season). Moral turpitude is reprehensible and not to be condoned, but in this most difficult of games, a true great like Woods can make it a small asterisk in a rather large biography of one of those they call "The Greatest".
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But yeah, I don't see what his personal life has to do with his sporting skill.
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Tiger, as well as a select handful of others can play in any PGA Tour sponsored or co-sponsored event they want for the rest of their lives. Tour grants lifetime exemption for anyone with 30 or more career wins. Golfers do not become eligible for the Champions Tour until they are 50, but they are not precluded from regular Tour events just because they are 50 or older. And yes, I'd like to see Tiger fulfil his potential as well, and I think he will. Only Nicklaus and Snead have more career Tour wins, and only Nicklaus has more professional Majors. Tiger should be able to eclipse both of those marks. As for his off-course behavior, it is unfortunate but let's face it, he's no Michael Vick, and thank goodness for that!
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You can tell I'm a duffer, though I like to watch
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What's up with it this week?
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I have filed an inquiry. A lot of things seem to be behaving oddly.
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So is that chat room finsihed for ever? Does dead net want to get rid of it? I spent months shut out of it and despite messages via MaryeE nobody fixed it. Now the whole thing seems to have vanished. If it is closed for good then please let us know. thanks
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Marye thanx for all you do. We know its beyond your control. What makes it sad is each time it goes down the less come back and then new ppl come on and goes down again and then we lose them. Almost makes it not worth it because the ones there do try to work hard to build it back up again. So i agree with badger. Just let us know if the chat is dead.If so rhino has lost a special part of Dead.net
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I agree with both of them. Just tell us please.
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our intrepid tech team has a chat room set up and ready for testing. Send me a PM if you'd like the link.
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I would not go so far as to say that everything is just exactly perfect, but the current version of chat appears to be at least somewhat functional, so please go check it out and report issues you may encounter. Thanks so much! Link is http://www.dead.net/chat. Onward, furthur, etc...
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Is it true that an old extension cord last used in the Wall of Sound is responsible for the periodic crashes of the chat room?
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They sell every other style! What about a 50th Anniversary Special Edition duct Tape?
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Is an awesome idea....sell them on Shakedown Street!
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my lawyer assures me this social anxiety experiment of perma chat crash is both cruel and unusual and you can expect a letter from him much sooner then the denied "pink slip" letter your chat karma will get you from gdtstoo! -throws a fit-smashes computer monitor-cuts himself repeatably on the testicles-screams-cries-begs-pisses himself -calms down ok, ok, im ok, just alittle anxiety, loss of control from chat crashing, im fine now, its back up, im sorry, im sure itll stay up this time, im sure, oh no...no NO NO NO....AgggagaggrrrrrrggrgrgrrrrrrraaagaaghahHHHHHH! Where is my story geooooOOOOOOOOOOOO I hope you have enjoyed this comedy skit brought to you by super bowl 49!
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Simmer down, Sir Ant, or we'll turn this bus around. Stop me if you've heard this one...except you Marye. you get to listen, or feed the puppies or whatever.
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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 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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*pets his three-legged frog* more story more story waaaaa