A post proposing a coffee lounge - not an actual coffee lounge

[wasellajam]

also, not that I should defend myself because it is ridiculous - but I switched my avatar back from my allegory of the cave avatar to my original avatar on the site from when I was way more active.

Nobody else on the planet has access to that avatar!

Ha, I thought of using my old ella avatar but these days anyone can copy anything so your avatar is proof of nothing. And though my memories of the interactions before I left are fuzzy, I know I felt awful about being goaded into banning someone. Very possibly Shem lol or maybe Billy did it for me or maybe every  mod ever has banned him. 

Hi milo, not voting

Ella, is it really you?
Or a reanimated corpse
hijacked by the Golem
whose nem
mustn’t be spoken -
I mean Shem?
People thought you were dead
of old age, or in bed
staring at the ceiling, in a retirement home,
tired of the bad food.
It’s good 
to have you back, if you are she.

ha, just saw this, could be any of those things, I'm certainly older than I ever guessed I would be (after 30 was gravy). But I'm lucky, still looking at the same view, just less inclined to interact with the world unless necessary.

[wasellajam]

...and he's wrong; after 30 years I went back home again and it's the same god damn place.

I hear you , Hi Ray.

[rayheinrich]

Actually, it belongs to the members, I renamed it," The Pigpen's resplendent Kaffeeklatch"

In one way you evidenced humility by taking your name off.
In another way you co-opted the rest of Pigpen.

Well done!

[rayheinrich]

...and he's wrong; after 30 years I went back home again and it's the same god damn place.

I hear you , Hi Ray.

How delightful to experience you and your wonderful avatar again!!!
(I've always had a crush on that cat under your avatar's butt.)

[wasellajam]

...and he's wrong; after 30 years I went back home again and it's the same god damn place.

I hear you , Hi Ray.

How delightful to experience you and your wonderful avatar again!!!
(I've always had a crush on that cat under your avatar's butt.)

I’m enjoying her too, like an old friend:
1910 Marcella
by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
oil on canvas 100 x 76 cm
Brücke Museum, Berlin

[milo]

Actually, it belongs to the members, I renamed it," The Pigpen's resplendent Kaffeeklatch"

In one way you evidenced humility by taking your name off.
In another way you co-opted the rest of Pigpen.

Well done!

It was a great suggestion, I considered naming it Ray Heinrich's incomparable kaffee's klatches and insights into the mysteries of the unknown

Great to see you around here again BTW

[milo]

posted in wrong spot

[rayheinrich]

posted in wrong spot

I didn't, I posted in the exact spot I intended to post in.

[milo]

yah, that's on me, need to pay more attention to details, Forgot we re-named the coffee lounge

[Magpie]

Billy banned shem...  shem had many avatars and different styles,  but I said you wrote like shem did, not the other way around.  Shem would also ignore me.  Just glad were clearing things up, its been a long absence, this isn't the movie 'the thing'

It seems like Shem has been and gone or has he?

The Elephant Trap - by Shem

The Elephant Trap - by The Karate Kid Part 2

Was it the same person or just plain plagiarism. Same font, slightly edited to be made worse and with a James Joyce quote.
I don't even think Shem would be stupid enough to use the same poem again when the title is so memorable. But who knows.
I would have said something back when I noticed but by then Karate Kid had disappeared. All his other poems also used the same font that Shem used so the mystery still remains.

[milo]

Billy banned shem...  shem had many avatars and different styles,  but I said you wrote like shem did, not the other way around.  Shem would also ignore me.  Just glad were clearing things up, its been a long absence, this isn't the movie 'the thing'

It seems like Shem has been and gone or has he?

The Elephant Trap - by Shem

The Elephant Trap - by The Karate Kid Part 2

Was it the same person or just plain plagiarism. Same font, slightly edited to be made worse and with a James Joyce quote.
I don't even think Shem would be stupid enough to use the same poem again when the title is so memorable. But who knows.
I would have said something back when I noticed but by then Karate Kid had disappeared. All his other poems also used the same font that Shem used so the mystery still remains.

I would guess that it was probably shem - though I feel we have applied that a little too liberally around here - as who else would find an obscure poem and then post all his other poems in that same stupid font that shem used to use and then also use Joyce quotes?

I guess it was his drugged out version of trolling or the Riddler leaving clues for a Batman that is a little too busy enjoying himself in the batcave to really care.

[milo]

Billy banned shem...  shem had many avatars and different styles,  but I said you wrote like shem did, not the other way around.  Shem would also ignore me.  Just glad were clearing things up, its been a long absence, this isn't the movie 'the thing'

It seems like Shem has been and gone or has he?

The Elephant Trap - by Shem

The Elephant Trap - by The Karate Kid Part 2

Was it the same person or just plain plagiarism. Same font, slightly edited to be made worse and with a James Joyce quote.
I don't even think Shem would be stupid enough to use the same poem again when the title is so memorable. But who knows.
I would have said something back when I noticed but by then Karate Kid had disappeared. All his other poems also used the same font that Shem used so the mystery still remains.

I would guess that it was probably shem - though I feel we have applied that a little too liberally around here - as who else would find an obscure poem and then post all his other poems in that same stupid font that shem used to use and then also use Joyce quotes?

I guess it was his drugged out version of trolling or the Riddler leaving clues for a Batman that is a little too busy enjoying himself in the batcave to really care.

oh, crap, this is the thread wondering if we should have a coffe lounge not the actual coffeee lounge that ray somehow convinced me to rename.  <sigh>

[wasellajam]

Maybe put a link to the resplendent one in the op and get this one locked, or change its name eliminating coffee

[milo]

Maybe put a link to the resplendent one in the op and get this one locked, or change its name eliminating coffee

Good suggestions.  I did rename it which should help.  I don't really want it locked becuase then people cant vote.  Should add a link - - but where?