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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

I'll admit, I had a passing thought about Pelegius when I was reading the thread about a certain person's screenplay.

I googled him. His wikipedia page appeared, with a link to this Blog.

Apparently Peligius got his wish and is in North London, possibly going to school. The site currently has dozens of posts and one comment I could find, posted by Teshi. It has 200 hits.

I'm not suggesting that we lure Pelegius back here or anything crazy like that, but people have been complaining that the board doesn't have the same kind of spice it did when Blayne was incoherent and Pelegius was the blind poet who breathed the world into a storm of words.

So, maybe look at his blog and give him a few webhits. Or not. [Wink]

Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :

Seems to have gotten a bit more coherent and readable since he left.

[ October 12, 2008, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: ricree101 ]

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

I'm coherent now?

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

I agree ricree. I'd say there's still that emperor's new clothes feeling in his ideas, like he really believes he is the first person to talk about what he's talking about, and that many of his ideas are self-evident, that suggests he needs more perspective and experience. Still, it's much, much better.

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

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Originally posted by Orincoro:
but people have been complaining that the board doesn't have the same kind of spice it did when Blayne was incoherent and Pelegius was the blind poet who breathed the world into a storm of words.

Who's the idiot that said that?

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Pel is alive and well. He occasionally posts under a different username at one of the satellite fora.

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

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Originally posted by Blayne Bradley:
I'm coherent now?

Depends on how you define the word. [Wink]

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Originally posted by El JT de Spang:

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Originally posted by Orincoro:
but people have been complaining that the board doesn't have the same kind of spice it did when Blayne was incoherent and Pelegius was the blind poet who breathed the world into a storm of words.
Who's the idiot that said that?

Amen.

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

Oh shut up, you know I'm right.

Posted by Amen (Member # 11781) on :

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Originally posted by Kwea:

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Originally posted by El JT de Spang:

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Originally posted by Orincoro:
but people have been complaining that the board doesn't have the same kind of spice it did when Blayne was incoherent and Pelegius was the blind poet who breathed the world into a storm of words.
Who's the idiot that said that?

Amen.

I deny it!

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

HAH!

Posted by naysayer (Member # 11778) on :

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Originally posted by Amen:

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Originally posted by Kwea:

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Originally posted by El JT de Spang:

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Originally posted by Orincoro:
but people have been complaining that the board doesn't have the same kind of spice it did when Blayne was incoherent and Pelegius was the blind poet who breathed the world into a storm of words.
Who's the idiot that said that?

Amen.
I deny it!

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

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Apparently Peligius got his wish and is in North London, possibly going to school. The site currently has dozens of posts and one comment I could find, posted by Teshi. It has 200 hits.

I'm glad to hear it. [Smile]

--j_k

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

Bah. My blog is much superior.

Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :

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Originally posted by Blayne Bradley:
I'm coherent now?

Vastly more than before.

Posted by lol_kitteh (Member # 11664) on :

I MIS PELEGIUS. I CAN HAS BLOG, 2?

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

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people have been complaining that the board doesn't have the same kind of spice it did when Blayne was incoherent and Pelegius was the blind poet who breathed the world into a storm of words.

Seriously? People? More than one?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Orincoro:
people have been complaining that the board doesn't have the same kind of spice it did when Blayne was incoherent and Pelegius was the blind poet who breathed the world into a storm of words.

When people say Hatrack has gone downhill and long for the good old days, they mean farther back that that.

A LOT farther.

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

I count you as three people, just for the record. Besides, this board has the electoral system, so my votes count more since the only hatracker in the Czech Republic now. Muahaha

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*pat pat*

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

I miss Blayne Bradley a lot. He was a smart, compasionate poster who often brought a spark of life to an otherwise dreary forum. He was like the cheese in a bowl of mac 'n cheese. Tasty and fun to eat.

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

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Originally posted by rivka:
*pat pat*

As far as I can see, you registered only two years before I did, so how far back are we talking about? Is this identity number two or three for you?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Yup.

I'm really TomDavidson.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

*nods* She's also Bob AND Dana. Wrap your head around that one.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

I am?

That would explain a few things . . .

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

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Originally posted by rivka:
I am?

That would explain a few things . . .

Indeed.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

The "good old days" of Hatrack are before I joined. Like right before. My joining the community really brought the place down, and fast.

And, now that I've wrecked the joint, I guess my work here is done. I'm off to ruin other forums.

Without me, there would be no nostalgia.

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be...

Posted by EmpSquared (Member # 10890) on :

Sometime around 2002-2004, I think, when every thread was made of chocolate, honey-flavored dreams.

Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :

I am the only hatracker in Luxembourg, so?

also you're only temporarily the only hatracker in the Czech Republic, as this title has belonged to someone else for... years [Razz]

Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

If someone reminisces about Gorbachev, is it Glast Nostalgia?

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

You know, driving traffic to someone's blog is nice and all. However, all the backhanded digs at someone who doesn't even post here anymore strikes me as much less cool.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

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Originally posted by The Pixiest:
If someone reminisces about Gorbachev, is it Glast Nostalgia?

:: laugh ::

Posted by Hello-Yes (Member # 11577) on :

I'm sorry ick. I guess I kind of think of Pelegius that way. Not for nothing, I genuinely am interested in what he's up to and wish him well. I guess I miss the basis of his relationship with the board as well, so it's like a little brother you don't like, but you wouldn't necessarily want to go away forever. Make sense? I think it *kind of* does.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

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so it's like a little brother you don't like, but you wouldn't necessarily want to go away forever

I have one of those...

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

Oh, by the way, the fact that I posted as Hello-Yes in this thread, and yet no-one noticed, kind of proves that I've been shamelessly hoaxing you all.

I don't know why I did it. I wanted an alter ego, I guess, and I came up with Hello-Yes. Indeed, I laughed REALLY hard when some people believed it... and now I've gone and messed it up. Oh, well, it was making me feel bad.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

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Originally posted by Orincoro:
Oh, by the way, the fact that I posted as Hello-Yes in this thread, and yet no-one noticed, kind of proves that I've been shamelessly hoaxing you all.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed the change in voice for that screen name, but simply didn't care enough to bother pointing it out.

[Edit--I didn't know that it was you who was behind it, but it was clear with that post that the screen name was *someone's* alt. It doesn't surprise me to hear that it was you, though--it seems in keeping with the person you've presented yourself as under this screen name to do something like that.]

I'm trying to make sense of the quoted sentence, though. If your interpretation of people's silence were correct, why would it prove that you've been shamelessly hoaxing the rest of the forum?

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Indeed, I laughed REALLY hard when some people believed it...

It's hi-larious when people take each other at their word, isn't it?

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Oh, well, it was making me feel bad.

An act of unmaking made you feel bad? Good.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

I have a personal policy, Orincoro: even if I am convinced that someone is an alt, trolling the forum for fun, I will post as if the alt is in fact a human being deserving of trust and respect. If it becomes too difficult for me to believe that the alt is actually a real person, I will simply ignore those posts altogether.

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

I have a policy, too.
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But I'm not telling you what it is until it's too late for you to do anything about it.

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

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Originally posted by Noemon:

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Oh, well, it was making me feel bad.
An act of unmaking made you feel bad? Good.

Would you rather I never admitted it? That's a serious question- I've already done it, now the question would be, admit it or not. I am not lying when I say it made me feel strange and mean to do it, which is why I stopped almost immediately. Then I brought it out again in the Thor thread because I felt like being mean, and obviously I was careless enough to suggest I wanted to come clean, which I did want to.

I didn't find what I did to be "malicious" per se, but I saw the wrong in it right away. The problem was that it also felt very, very funny. I don't have to admit that to you, but if that's the kind of person you think I am, take the two things together, and I won't argue with you about it.

So, fwiw, I apologize to you. I won't do it again.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

[Confused]

I assumed it was you, based on the context. I didn't perceive anything particularly tricksy or malicious about it. I just figured, hey, Orincoro has an alt. *shrug* I have several myself.

Is there a history I'm unaware of?

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

Ic, what was it that made it clear to you that the alt in question was Orincoro's?

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Would you rather I never admitted it?

Nah, it's almost always better to own up to your acts and deal with the results of them, I think. I appreciate that you identified yourself as the person behind the alt.

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I am not lying when I say it made me feel strange and mean to do it, which is why I stopped almost immediately.

I really am glad that you felt bad about it. It means you're a decent person (Ic, I'm not saying that you *aren't* a decent person--you perceived this differently than Orincoro and I did is all). And honestly, a more decent person that I thought you were. I was surprised to see that you genuinely regretted it.

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Then I brought it out again in the Thor thread because I felt like being mean

See, in general, if I find myself thinking "I want to me mean here", I refrain from whatever action it is that occurs to me to engage in, even if it would be funny (and I'm a sucker for The Funny).

A couple of times, here at Hatrack, I've veered into territory that I felt bad about afterward. On the other side, there was the time that I fooled a kid into thinking that a Ralph Waldo Emerson essay that he was supposed to write about was actually one of a pair of novels examining Eastern and Western society. I didn't actually think that he'd buy it--I started out just trying to say "do your own homework" in a funny way--but I didn't immediately come clean when he believed what I was saying. When I thought about it, though, I regretted leading the kid on. In general, when I've realized that I've veered into the negative like that, I've told on myself, as you did, and apologized, as you did. And then I resolved to try to avoid making that mistake again and didn't waste a whole lot of time feeling guilty about what had happened.

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I don't have to admit that to you, but if that's the kind of person you think I am, take the two things together, and I won't argue with you about it.

Well, like I said above, in light of all of this I think I underestimated you a bit.

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So, fwiw, I apologize to you. I won't do it again.

I appreciate that.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

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Originally posted by Scott R:
But I'm not telling you what it is until it's too late for you to do anything about it.

*groan*

Scott, I thought you had agreed to take California OFF your list! [Razz]

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

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Originally posted by Noemon:
Ic, what was it that made it clear to you that the alt in question was Orincoro's?

He said, "Sorry, Ick," which meant he had to be one of the people who had posted at least slightly backhandedly about Pel, and also someone who knew me well enough to use a familiar form when talking to me, so not someone who's so new as to have never really interacted with me.

I didn't exactly *know* that it was Orincoro, but it obviously wasn't some new member.