Nadine (who I'm going Oxford with to see the mighty Cheese) has applied to join this forum to get to know you all before our big day! Her account hasn't been activated yet, it's been about 2 hours now. Now, I know mine didn't take this long...so what's going on?
Are we not accepting new members anymore? It's shit if that's the case. This is why the forum is dying.
I think this just requires the attention of a lemur, and they seem scarce these days... So who knows how long it'll take Tell her not to give up hope, this just shows how exclusive and desirable this community is
Well, maybe that guy "Dean" actually did something when he was here!
Actually, my application took days, but that was back in mid-09. Then again, it's no wonder. They probably had to run my app against a bunch of terrorist lists, credit checks and CIA lookups!
Mine took days, too--and I was a former member! Zelda and I kept the old forum alive--there might not have been a new forum but for Zelda's and my tenacity. Well, there probably would have, but still--I was a faithful, long-term member, and it still took a couple of days to get approved. Somebody ought to message Dean and let him know some more wannabe members have shown up.
Yes, Lozzy. But where have you been? Couldn't be busier than MT or me! Dean* made it clear that he hand selected this forum. New people are great, but would this sudden new interest have any thing to do with the reunion in Bristol?
Sorry bout depression.. All the more reason to stick with forum!!! I am having trouble with Bristol tickets. Also, the IRS,a sick calf that may not make it, a moron trying to take her 'place at my expense (*splat*), demonic electric sabatage and bloody damn computer! Dean* is missed!
Dean said he doesn't know who's running the forum anymore. I really hate to bother Garry; I feel like I've gotten on his last nerve, though he is, as always, unflappably warm and polite.
Still haven't heard from him about meeting the old man, either. He may just want to wait and surprise you on the day of the show. Or maybe John's a heartless old bastard who doesn't give a shit about how we feel.
Today I wrote John's L.A. agent, Tony Lipp, about my new revised trilogy that he (John) simply must act in, and that he must read my scripts TOUT DE SUITE!
Anyway, to confirm that info about Lipp, I went to the http://headcast.co.uk/contact.html page, and it still refers to poor old Dean there. So I think all of the web stuff is just self-maintaining, I think.
Maybe John's waiting for one of you to volunteer to do the job! ha ha
There is no job available, and if there was JC wouldn't let us do it anyway, trust me, I know. Why? Oh I dunno, he'd rather have ppl run this place who don't give a shit about any of us and we now have no new members being allowed to join. It's a joke. I sent Garry a message a while ago to no response - so either Garry is ignoring us all seeing as he doesn't reply to mrsthing either, or he's just busy...I don't know, frankly, I don't care anymore. This place is going to pot because a lot of ppl behind this thing are selfish. The end.
There is no job available, and if there was JC wouldn't let us do it anyway, trust me, I know. Why? Oh I dunno, he'd rather have ppl run this place who don't give a shit about any of us and we now have no new members being allowed to join. It's a joke. I sent Garry a message a while ago to no response - so either Garry is ignoring us all seeing as he doesn't reply to mrsthing either, or he's just busy...I don't know, frankly, I don't care anymore. This place is going to pot because a lot of ppl behind this thing are selfish. The end.
FYI,Cassbt. It took Zelda and Foote to get their awards about 4-5 years, and what a five years that was. MT and Naughty are really the longest active (exept when NO was conscripted). It has been wild but fun. JC loves us, but, I imagine is doing more interesting things at the moment. LIKE I SHOULD BE DOING!
oh hell's bells, I didn't spell activated correctly. Shit. I can't do one damn thing right. One simple little post and I didn't spell something right. It's like, all of my life I've fucked up posts. I try not to, but it happens. It's like somebody caused it and I'd like to know who that somebody is. Is it you? IS IT? IS IT? hey? Who's hitting on my cage? Stop that!
Aw, just get used to it, Fan. I did and now everyone expects it. Here do you want the firebaton, pink patent pumps or acordian from the front closet? Really I would not choose the pink patents. I think we should put taps on them for Naughy's tappity tippity tappity tappity dance.
*To Fan and Zelda's surprise their cages start to rattle as charcoal briquets start slamming their zoo cages. Lozzy's gorilla,furious at being sat upon by Loz's cracked cocxis, scratches his chest and tumbles over laughing at the lovely literate southern belles being pumeled in their cages.
Beutiful Princess Zelda snatches (sic) a twinkle from Fanny's Butt and flashes it at Gorilla. It sticks to his gluey skin (gorilla glue that he is) and 'WHOMP" he is flattened into his wagon of charcoal. Out of fear and concern for her Dixie kin, Mrsthing striks a kitchen safety match and flips it at wagon starts a huge bonfire for a zoo party later on. Naughty O, tippity taps onto the concourse and announces... "New members to be activated after reunion. We are exclusive here but groupies may hang on." Tippity tapity go her pink patent pumps as she taps off to find Turkish in his harem.
"Begone Harem Hussies"! Harem disappears and a line of Nun's take their place. No? Turk is Jewish? A line of Virgin Jewish Princesses take their place. American Jewish Princesses.
Of, coarse I do Sis, but, I did not know if you had adopted a gorilla for heavy work or not. I made the Hussies disappear. Hope Naughty Opposum, your daughter, did not get caught up in the spell!
The faint sound of tipity tap shoes are heard in the distance. "I'm here Mama. I'm here. Turkey will not leave those virgins alone. Pleh,Pleh,me, Mom"! (that is baby talk for help).
Pleh...pleh.....wait a second, is that baby holding up a mirror? gotta go, tornado here, I think. dammnit, and right in the middle of a thread, can it not wait?
Oh dear me,Lozzy. Tomato? You have a lot to learn about outbursts! Just you wait. OK, Gerry! See what you are doing here with these adoring fans begging for just an ounce of attention? Has the brite lite of JC's glory gone to your head or you just too overwhelmed with importance to bother. WHAT! NO TWITTER? I can get away with it as I am nothing, but YOU? You represent The GREAT and LARGE JOHN CLEESE!!! He has Bath's to take, bracelets to wear and prayers for the San Andreas Fault to crack, so he can get his money back...What if he can't pay you, huh? What are you going to do then? Become a file clerk for Ben Stiller? I think not...Now get out of the light and answer these people. Shish, what ever happened to manners? Tomato!
Loz, are you sure Nadine registered properly (not that I don't trust your words, if Dean hasn't been replaced there's no admin who can activate a new account, still...mmm, maybe I could try to...well, I'll tell you later about it).
Anyway, if we're really abandoned to ourselves (I know, I'm not here often, but I love this forum) what could be the reason? John wrote on here a few monts ago. Now he's silent. I mean, everywhere on the Internet, not only on the forum. No tweets. No Facebook posts. He's got a life, etc etc, but he was engaged with Jenny also last year and he brought his tour to Norway, Sweden, Denmark etc. Nevertheless, he wrote on the forum. I can't understand why we're without an admin.
That dancer had me absolutely mesmerized and hypnotized. There is so much subtle stuff going on there. I stared and stared, and even though it repeats, it almost seems as if it's a "little bit" different each time. 'mazing.
As for this forum, I think the issue of a lack of newcomers is indeed very important. All of you (me excluded, because I'm not a truly learned fan) are such experts it's hard to get anything going that isn't extremely esoteric and understood by only a few.
Newbies can start a discussion that may seem mundane to you/us, but it's exciting to them and stands a chance to refresh the discussions. As well, if the "star" had new material out, that draws more in -- as if they're the first ones to discover this world, and it's kind of cute to see their enthusiasm. Like: "I just saw this movie, 'The Meaning of Life', and WOW!"
So without new fans coming on board, and not so much new material leading them here, it's hard to maintain a dynamic forum. But, of course, as to the latter, the "old scroat" certainly deserves to be taking it easy these days.
So, sorry, I've nothing to suggest. I'm just venting.
But except for a few of the disagreements/debates, I can't recall a real spark since that contest, actually. When was that? Last Autumn? Or, maybe when we had that bizarro (ha, ha) come on a few months ago, for a couple of days, and s/he started about 25 threads of all sorts and everybody got all excited. It was like we were all maids in Fawlty Towers and some customer was running around messing up all the bedspreads! That really got the blood pumping, eh?!
Anyway, things like the contests have to come from the top; it's pretty useless if we start one ourselves. On another site I frequent, somebody new started an ABC of the star. "Able", "Beautiful", "Caring", whatever, on and on, one poster after another. This was for a movie star, but it petered out at "K" because it's just not dynamic. But then, I'm a killjoy, so don't listen to me.
I've been severely underemployed for nearly 8 months now (gad) so have been keeping my visitations to one a day, because I like the place. But for those of you who really want to carry the forum, I feel for you.