on a purely superficial note

[bealeblues]

not to detract too much from the political debate, but let me be purely superifical here---

we are at 16 online right now... maybe one day the 22 will fall....

keep at it people

[Deviate]

shite, and i'll have to log off to go home...

-st.

[dinzdale]

Where's your dedication?

[Deviate]

hey hey hey, i stayed online, left my computer signed on at the office and everything just for the trip home... where is EVERYONE ELSE?

we're down to 6 members, 4 guests...

sigh.

it'll never be broken.

-st.

[AllegroNg]

Deviate - I know right!? Everybody sucks! Except for you! And, well.. Me!!!

[Deviate]

rock on NG! we ROCK!

-st.

[amanda]

I swear, one of these days, I will stay on 24 hours. I just need something to keep me going for that entire time....

any word on the 24hr fiction blogathon, ze?

edited to add- never mind. you kids just need to start talking about world politics earlier in the morning

[zefrank]

Monday 12 noon EST....who's in?

[masterofNone]

in

[amanda]

me too.

(nice work ze. you picked a Japanese holiday)

[Deviate]

in.

[bealeblues]

i'm in

[noxxville]

grr.....work.

[Madmack]

in...

[lapietra]

I will do my *utmost* to remember...

[AllegroNg]

yes? yes?

(leaving this on incase this was the monday where we're gonna WIN!!!)

[Frieda]

when's that in european time? 6 pm?

[masterofNone]

DAMMIT
my client has just moved back our meeting because of snow. I'll probably miss the 12:00 gathering but I'll leave my computer on to maintain my presence.

cheers

[Frieda]

est is that new york time?

[amanda]

frieda,

go here: time and date (http://www.timeanddate.com)
go to the meeting planner, or set yer own personal clock.

[RuneT]

58 minutes to go?

[bealeblues]

28 minutes for me, it looks like...

[dickieC]

28 members of ZeFrank's board
28 members of Ze
You post some words
and pass them around
27 members of ZeFrank's board

...

[Deviate]

we've got 12...
10 more to go...

-st.

[dickieC]

A hushed silence descends upon Madison Square Gardens/the Houses of Parliament/Mount Fuji/wherever the ZeMonkeys have prepositioned themselves, as they await the triumphal entrance of the man himself, to acclaim his genius and receive his orders for the world coup that will see a globe transformed into a dancing, happy place where the gents all wear kilts and the ladies white lace, and Annie will reign supreme in a world free of Naughty Birds.

The tension mounts...

[amanda]

waiting with breathless

antici...


























pation!



anyone for the time warp?

[Deviate]

9 members, 4 guests. that's 13 total (for those of you who failed math).

i don't know about you, but i'm only counting on the member totol to get us past 22. guest attendance is fleeting...

-st.

[Deviate]

8 members now... dont' know who we lost, but i'm deeply disappointed.

amanda
bealeblues
Deviate
dickieC
dinzdale
lapietra
RuneT
Zyle

and only 8 minutes away....

-st.

[dickieC]

Spontaneous dancing breaks out among the virtual crowds as the excitement becomes too great to bear. Some of the younger and more nervous members of the tribe attempt some of the more advanced lessons and land in a tangled heap on the floor - no-one minds, they just dust off their avatars and carry on. Stirring the Pot of Love is, as ever the most popular move, while in one corner the militant group Deviate For President! begin to chant... "1000, 2000, 3000..."

[Deviate]

5 minutes and we're losing people. still 8 members, only 3 guests. quick, people, get everyone to view the site!

-st.

[RuneT]

madmax is coming

[Deviate]

2 minutes.
1 more guest.
1 more member - thanks MadMack!

-st.

[bealeblues]

ummm.. where's ze?

[dickieC]

The bells of the college clock tower strike 5 pm behind me... as yet there is no sign...

[RuneT]

hah, 9 people. where is ze?

[Deviate]

14 people. and by my clock it's 12:00 EST on the nose. pfft. i'm keeping the website up all day, though, just in case...

-st.

[amanda]

keep playing boys and girls

if you don't, it'll take you off the online list

[RuneT]

is it unfair to log in a couple of "guests" or do we have no moral what so ever?

[Zyle]

morals?
*stiffles a snigger*

[Deviate]

welcome ZeFrank! (wow, that felt funny)

we're at 10 members now
only 2 guests

amanda
bealeblues
Deviate
dickieC
dinzdale
lapietra
Madmack
RuneT
zefrank
Zyle

[RuneT]

you forgot.....


REPORTING... SIIIR!

/salute

[dickieC]

A thousand thousand make their silent obeisance, thinking simply of their laughter echoing over the wires of the world...

[dickieC]

Slowly a murmur begins... "where's AllegroNg?", "where's NYC?"...."They promised!"

He's not going to be happy...

[Deviate]

welcome Eiggam.

11 members
1 guest.

we're losing bodies, gaining members...

-st.

[amanda]

c'mon kids

make that double espresso I had at midnight worth it.

[dickieC]

OK, we need Zen, NYC, MoN, AllegroNg, moel, surflugen, noxxville, Arif-ul-Haq, Frieda...

[amanda]

mon will be back soon- off to make money. he left his comp logged on, but it doesn't show him online.

[Deviate]

are we SURE he left it on? i mean, he said he was gonna, but sometimes we forget...

anyhoo, we're missing 40% of the top ten posters. 60% of the top 20. where is everyone???

-st.

[bealeblues]

stand back people... deev is in statistics mode.... no one is safe

[amanda]

I think it times out after a while, hence the reason I said to keep playing.

[RuneT]

100% of the elleventh top poster is here! :))

[Deviate]

screw. we lost Eiggam. crap.

10 members.

and yes, i am in statistics mode. my math brain was kinda big this morning and seesm to have beaten its way to the forefront. gotta dig stats.

-st.

[lapietra]

ack.
we're dwindling.

[Deviate]

Peg, then you must be hidden. you're not on the "Who's Online" List.

and we lost MadMack, too. says 9 members. one guest.

amanda
bealeblues
Deviate
dickieC
dinzdale
lapietra
RuneT
zefrank
Zyle

-st.

[dickieC]

oh well, try again another time.

[Deviate]

there you are, nycwriters! 10 members now!

-st.

[Deviate]

11 members! Welcome sybil!

amanda
bealeblues
Deviate
dickieC
dinzdale
lapietra
nycwriters
RuneT
sybil
zefrank
Zyle

woo hoo! funny how i have the core list memorized... keep coming all ye ZeFrankenfurters, you ZeMonkeys o' Love!

-st.

[Deviate]

we lost Beale. i think that's hard proof that this record breaking attempt will have to wait...

sigh.

-st.

[RuneT]

yep, when the lawyer leaves the ship the monkeys go home.
?? What was that?

[Frieda]

i'm here! i'm here!



(and i ******* hate traffic jams)

[zefrank]

a valiant effort everyone...

[lapietra]

Thanks, ze -

Well - we should try again soon --
Maybe do a really concentrated pre-gathering campaign?

[masterofNone]

man, who figured on the timeouts.... sorry.

[AllegroNg]

I was gonna say! I left my thingy on while I went to work today. Yet.. I'm not on that list of wonderful people who hopped online at noon. Sniff.

[dinzdale]

Isnt leaving your computer on, without sitting at it at the prescribed time cheating?
I want to know that everyone is exactly here together in one big naked, heaving pile of ze-sexuality at the same instant....

...call me a purist if you must....

[masterofNone]

please don't talk to me of heaving piles

[Eiggam]

Hey guys... I was there... it just kept timing me out....
Guess I was busy doing my "JOB" instead of what I really wanted to do, which was help to break the record!

[noxxville]

I tried....really. And made it for a bit....then those bastard boss-type people made me *gasp* work.

damn them....

[Deviate]

13 members
2 guests

you can't choreagraph this traffic.

-st.

[bealeblues]

how is it that when we plan to have as many people online as possible, we fail miserably...

then, when we don't plan it, we get this:

There are currently 13 members and 2 guests on the boards. | Most users ever online was 22 on 09-19-2002 at 10:29 AM.
bealeblues, Deviate, dickieC, dinzdale, lapietra, Madmack, masterofNone, nycwriters, red, Red Princess, rmr, RuneT, sybil

[bealeblues]

well shite, now we're up to 16.....

[dinzdale]

So much for your big mouth scaring everyone away again.
As soon as someone says "Hey look 15, 16, 17..." someone has to go potty, someone has to go to the dentist, someone gets caught looking at porno....and it all goes down the toilet...
It's jinxed I tell ya.....

[masterofNone]

where's beale to jinx us?

[dinzdale]

See ? See ?....I clocked it too, 13 and missing Deev, Beale, Lala, DIckieC etc..., thinking , here we go again....
...and as soonas MoN opened this thread again * silence *


...I'm going to find the Jonah, and throw him off the whale....

[masterofNone]

heh heh

[dinzdale]

MoN - side question,
Your 1000 post was regarding tthe sexlife of your son.
How come no speech and performance a la Peg ?

We should mark it with a huge cake or something

[masterofNone]

that'd be like celebrating my 1000th attempt at masturbation. The attempt was celebration enough. Felt good. Amounted to little. Differed even less from every other time.

[dinzdale]

1000 th "attempt"....if you havent got it right by 1000 tries become a monk.

[Red Princess]

Beale's probably in court bailing someone out. maybe himself

[dinzdale]

For his 1000th attempt at masturbation perhaps....

[Red Princess]

perhaps, but wouldn't he have had to be in public to explain getting arrested for it?

[dinzdale]

The neighbours probably called the cops, what with all the noise and shrieking, and carrying on .....

[Red Princess]

what were YOU doing there?

[noxxville]

taking notes?

[dinzdale]

Recording evidence ......

[Red Princess]

sure, you were. that's not what the neighbors said

[Frieda]

what were YOU doing with the neighbors then?

[Red Princess]

wasn't there, they faxed me. that's my story and i'm sticking to it

[AllegroNg]

Ng wonders if she logs on under a different name in a different window, does that help us move toward our goal?

[Deviate]

nope.

-st.

[noxxville]

by the way....we're at 17 now

[dinzdale]

DONT JINX IT ! ! ! ! ! You EEEEDIOT.....

[noxxville]

oops....but I prefer Jackass