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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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  • cosmicbadger
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    thanks Marye
    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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    (mod hat on) since I posted the above
    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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    Group W bench;
    The default location where most in our community of free spirits can find themselves at some point along the way....
  • Anonymous (not verified)
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    Group W Bench...
    ...seems to be a euphemism for all the rejects/recalcitrants. Officer Obie indeed!
  • iknowurider
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    HAHAHAHA
    Whipper Snapper Bench :)!! That's a hoot. & I LOVE YA"LL ! PEACE
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    excepting alice!
    rider i LOVE U! MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
  • Allis185
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    Walk right in
    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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    Group W?
    wtf is that rider??? I couldn't handle the cigs.......OH maybe it's "Whipper Snapper" group bench.....ha.......:)))
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    welllll.........
    THAT....i can handle.......the group W bench...fine place it is, with many fine folk
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    Alrighty Now ~
    You boys are members.... of the Group W Bench :) "Kid, whad'ya get? I said~ I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.He said, What were you arrested for, kid? And I said ~ Littering. And they all moved away from me on the bench there~ and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said~ And creating a nuisance ~ And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, Mother stabbing, Father raping ~ all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench there ~ And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and ALL kinds of things...." PEACE
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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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That's the name of the pills. No, I've never taken them, I just hate the commercial. H20 is good enough for me. Bob, you are a trip. I saw a guy eat the worm once & it wasn't pretty. I won't go into detail, but I'm sure you can all imagine... Dude, Frankly, Lighten up man! Try out for a debate team. PEACE
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never drank the worm, just became the worm If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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it is only recently that i have had them, i am fine on Wine and beer but too much spirits and i feel lethargic the following day, no mega headaches but....... the perils of getting old, too much smoke can be hard too bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://spanishsunshinedaydream.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=633338979 Spanish Jam
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I don't know why the spam filter has suddenly taken this dislike to gratefulmom, but deepest apologies.
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as a bartender in my wayback years, people would ask for the worm and stick around looking for the last pour of the Mescale bottle. I always gave a gulp & gone, Bob, rarely a chew (ewww), but people swore it was the trick to not getting a headache the next day. I think the sugar content in the Mescale kept you from having a really bad headache, kinda like caffiene. who knows, but I always knew it was good for a night of entertainment when a few cruisers came in and started doing shots when the bottle was 1/2 way done. bob, here's my secret- one glass of wine + one glass of water + 1 Advil, 2 glasses= 2 Advil, 2 glasses water... hydrate often to reduce the AM throb....age is definitely a factor I have found out.
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way back when, like fucking forever ago, I earned $500 for being a "test subject" for a hangover medicine. Some pharmaceutical company was in the last stages of FDA testing, and we were the first human guinnea pigs. pretty cool gig, actually. Two separate weekends, we HAD to drink whiskey, controlled amounts to get us drunk during the course of the 4 days. There were 12 of us, 6 guys, 6 gals, all deadheads in the group. Actually, about only 6 or 7 hard core heads, and a few more "straight" people, but everybody was into shows and partying. Somebody knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody in charge of the whole thang, and somebody said; "hey, do you want to earn $500 for drinking booze?" no fool, I. I asked: '$500 U.S. dollars??" no fool, I. I asked: '$500 U.S. dollars EACH??" yes! OK, where do I sign? US greenbacks-- 500 bucks bought a lot of gas in those daze. all sorts of legal release forms, medical questions, gotta be healthy for the drug companies to do this to you. anyways, one weekend, you got the real charcoal pills, the other weekend you got a placebo. They limited the amount of food we could eat, limited the amount of water that we could drink, based on body weight and shit like that. Although the sample was only 12 people, it was all pretty scientific. Both times, they were drawing blood at intervals, (that really sucked) to test it -- whether you gots the placebos or not, both weekends, they were taking blood. before each "drink" wheich was every 15 minutes, I never shot nothing, so the whole needle thing is pretty fucked up, especially as you are getting drunk on sour mash. As we got drunk, they gave us memory tests, hand eye coordination tests, walk in a straight line, shit like that. Me and a few of the hard core boozers actually did BETTER on the coordination and memory tests as we got drunker-- that kind of totally fucking skewed the results resulting in odd-paradigms which the doctors could never explain. i was amazing the doctors and nurses with "philosophy" courtesy of Hunter or Barlow, (before the memory tests) saying shit like: "Cherish well your thoughts and keep a tight grip on your booze" It was pretty funny. So it all became a party for the first few hours and then it started to really suck. We were actually drinking just a little bit more than we were supposed to, often running to the bathroom to do various other things that required privacy. After about 30 or 45 minutes, some of the members of our little group started staring at the lights... babbling, giggling, you get the picture. some were definately en-hancing our party with un-mentionables. Suddenly, after boozing for 3 hours we had to take handfulls of these fucking smelly charcoal pills. I mean like 20 at a time, well, the doctor would say, please swallow all of these pills, but you can only drink 300 cc of water to do it. Every hour, more booze, more pills, more blood letting... It went on and on... the blood taking, the handfulls of pills, the continuous boozing, the MUSIC! but oh no!! "you can not dance!! no physical exertion, no sweating allowed!" I started calling this one nurse Dracula's mistress, calling her a leech and a blood sucker, I swear, she looked just like Nurse Ratchid. The whole thing became a big bummer and we was getting just a little belligerant. I think in all, we had to drink and do that shit for 6 hours each day of the 2 weekends. They had us all crash in the clinic. So it was 12 hours of boozing in a 48 hour time period. But you know what? Those charcoal pills definately work, I got the placebo the first weekend, and the real stuff the second weekend. So it went, we got through the 2 weekends, got the money paid in CASH!! and went our own way onto the summer tour that year... later on, I ran into the "straight" dude who kind of set the whole thing up, and I heard that they had to re-do all of the tests, because with the exception of 1 or 2 people, EVERYBODY had something we weren't supposed to have in our blood in our blood. So they drug company had to re-do everything, they threatened law suits because somewhere in that fine print we had signed papers saying we would be clean. But fuck it, we did it, got the cash dollar bill money, and hit the road. by the way, iknowurider, not only have I looked into the eyes of the worm, the worm winked at me -- but that is another story. peace
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these days, and probably for about 20 years, I have been off the hard alcohol; it is just too hard on the old system... I still enjoy beer and wine, especially red, red wine. I don't mix wine with beer, ever. though I often make my own blends of wine, 2 parts hearty merlot mixed with one part shiraz. and my personal cure for hangovers, is lots and lots of water and a couple of advils. Maybe add some whatthefuckaretheycalled?, yeah, electrolites, or some gatorade, like that. a liter of wine, 2 liters of water. I can't sleep though, because I'm up every 10 minutes to piss. such is the life of a geezer. ) -;
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now who really wants to hear the story of the crotch rot medicine cream that don't work that we tested the year before??! ( -: yuk yuk yuk.
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but I'm sure the rotten crotch story will be a hit with the ladies! ; - ) "Since you've all been such good boys and girls, I would like to take everybody in this entire audience out for milk and cookies. There are buses outside. Everybody follow me."
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your wife knows first hand about that story ever so intimately. ( -: yuk yuk yuk. we gotta stop this shit before we get booted off and banned from the forum for posting crap in every thread. I'd like to personally remind everyone, it all stated with some dork named Tony Clifton.
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I know, let's start bashing those dudes from England who have those funny "Beatle" accents. yuk yuk yuk
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CCJ, nice! What a story. Where the pills you were taking for this test the "morning after pills?" Joe where are you from again? What State?
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'Many of us have wondered about the State of CCJoe' he quipped in a genuine funny English accent.
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and Badger scores on the rebound! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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on the rotten crotch story too!! Yuck!
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Psychotic State is your cute little Beatle accent badger 'posh'?? I luv those cute Beatle accents you 'blokes' in UK have. buut, the Monchuster occent isa muuch more inneresting. 10 things Noel and Liam love and hate. these guys are fucking funny as hell. the Japanese asks the question, what do you love? Liam: Number 1. Me. so, badger, are you a Manchester United fan or a Manchester City fan?? out with it sun, which are ye??
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help me translating this Noel does say: at the end of things he loves, I better say I luv my daughter and I better say I love my girlfriend?? right???!! it was translated in the subtitles to say I love my pet dog and my girlfriend. which did he say?? sumtimes it is 'ard to 'ear you blokes, and my 'earing is 'orrible, inn'it? peace.
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Went to to Deep Elem, to have a little fun got his $15 ready, came home with the crotch rot burn oh, sweet mama CC's got the crotch rot burn
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please don't ask me 'bout them Mezcali Blues neither. nice song parody, iknowurider. peace.
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That was a grate story, you pig. Never had my blood taken while drinking or otherwise disposed. I bet that was wild. No dancing? Well, $500 & a good tale, can't beat that. PEACE
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Go Philly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sorry Trifecta , but I like the Flyers!!! Let's go Flyers!!!!
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yes famous Londoner Dick van Dyke with his authentic cockney accent provides an oh-so-accurate portrait of life in Britain today
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I'm off to go mow my aunt's lawn....Have a grate day!! Peace
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being overly observent, i was wondering how long the "e-mail sign-up" has been on the home page,below "who online". seems to me, if i'm a member why do i not an email reminder, wouldn't such events,offers n'releases already be posted on the home page? seems redundant! i do kind of remember it on the old dead.net but am just noticing it here now isay ol'chap, owabouta spot o'tea, yes yes roll1 4me
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all the way, baby! Ya gotta love a team that could cause the NHL to change the rules during the playoffs. When I was a kid I played goaltender. And believe me, I had my own way to deal with such antics... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Yes Mr Gallagher does say he loves his daughter not his dog Yes I hate Manchester United and I also hate Manchester City, who are now owned by Thaksin Shinowath no less, former PM of Thailand on whose watch thousands of drug users were shot while trying to 'run away from the police'. Not sure what Noel and Liam think about that. I don't exactly hate Oasis, they are not bad for a not-very-original pub band I suppose I am originally a Londoner from Peckham. I used to speak like Dick van Dyke but now sound like Prince Charles. Oh and I support Tottenham!
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I think it's a fairly recent addition, and mostly for the benefit of people who don't check in here that often. Every time a newsletter goes out or there's a new release we see new people and folks we haven't seen for a while. So if you're here early and you already get plenty of email from us, probably no need to sign up for more. But if you think you might be distracted for a while, not a bad plan to sign up.
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thx marye, i understand the thinkin, however i know i've signed up for newletters,etc, both on this page and on the old one, guess what! nada,nothing,zero,zip.. never ever recieved one? is it because i never registered as a deadhead(freaks unite)? i really wasn't registering for anything in 72-73, if you catch my drift. i have gotten to read the newsletters thanks to "the Archives". and yes yes, i"ve seen quite an addition of members since the dead went to sirus radio, like waves n a beach...
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I get my newsletters once in a while :)
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hey marye, any update for the chatrooms (temporary) maintenance program?? this works but it's not as much fun(hassle actually), i miss the inpending doom of the boot god;))) it was something for nothing with alittle xtra KICKed in, hehe.. misbehaving for naught peace tc
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u get newsletters, ratdog, rides on harleys, tekillya hangovers... i'm movin back east.... NOT:}{
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I am a lucky duck, I never really thought about it!! Now I'm really a happy camper :)
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Just be glad you're not a Disco Duck!Now you should be an even happier camper! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

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Hey now, has anyone heard any news on the chat room? Is it coming back? Are there any estimates as to when it will be back? TIA
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can u really HEAR news on the chatroom? wouldn't that be a newsroom? u been spending to much time in your personal archive mr. plant, posting willynilly pictures and whatnots! keep up the good work, takes my mind off the chat room, have u heard any news on it, any olds, just what is the situation anyway, i feel the snakes are behind this! where is that samoan when we need him...
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I don't really have much, except that a new improved version is being worked on and I spent some time failing to get booted by it last week. However, I am not going to make rash speculations based on that! But let's just say, you have been heard on this matter.
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i had to go:)))
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Just try http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com ! Closer to it, methinks.Now I'll just have to find out how to install linux on a badger... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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indeed Mr Pid that's what we do in the evenings
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yes yes,complete with the snake, i love it
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IKYR has an army amassed, at least 100 of her clones, pranksters work...and she of the luckyducks, now she is a flock...whats become of the baby!!!