Wtf And Oddities

[Barbaria1]

There was the old English tradition of 'beating the bounds',
when the kids were taken around the boundary of the parish
and beaten at each boundary mark, so they'd remember where it was.
Like Melissa's Whipping Sunday.

English traditions are always so quaint ...

 

[RacingRodent]

English traditions are always so quaint ...

You know that while a perfectly valid version for Crux Forums style lore the historian in me is screaming that is not how it actually works

I think the beating came in some time after the whole thing became simply an excuse for a piss up!

 

[Marcius]

 

[malins]

No. It's a post horn. ImageMaker has updated the site. It's the new alert system: Malins signalling the arrival of a new post.

Roman post horn

Somehow I have a bad feeling this time it's me who missed the fine print...

 

[Wragg]

Somehow I have a bad feeling this time it's me who missed the fine print...

Must be contagious

 

[malins]

Must be contagious

Blame it on the bad example.
Anyway I guess my, ummm, 'signalling' will, for a while, rouse our site members to more attention than the usual kind of inbox sound,
... though later I guess there'll be mostly just a very red-sounding wet squish if they really intend to grab me and push me down on that 'post-horn' for every incoming message...

 

[RacingRodent]

... though later I guess there'll be mostly just a very red-sounding wet squish if they really intend to grab me and push me down on that 'post-horn' for every incoming message...

I suspect our members have ears very attuned to such wet squishes

 

[malins]

I expected members ribbed with throbbing veins, just perhaps maybe demonic barbs, but ...ears?

 

[windar]

just perhaps maybe demonic barbs

Barb is troublesome and obstreperous, yes, but I wouldn't go so far as to call her demonic. Not usually anyway...

 

[Repertor]

View attachment 481774 Roman post horn

I expected members ribbed with throbbing veins, just perhaps maybe demonic barbs, but ...ears?

For those with bad ears:

 

[malins]

Now it's about playing the flute? This is bordering on the indecent.

 

[Barbaria1]

Barb is troublesome and obstreperous, yes, but I wouldn't go so far as to call her demonic. Not usually anyway...

Was that meant to be a compliment or ...

 

[malins]

Was that meant to be a compliment or ...

Well it means you dominate his perception to such degree that he didn't even notice the lower case and plural.
I guess you got him firmly wrapped around your finger.

 

[Barbaria1]

Well it means you dominate his perception to such degree that he didn't even notice the lower case and plural.
I guess you got him firmly wrapped around your finger.

Shhhhhhhh .... he doesn't know that

 

[RacingRodent]

Well it means you dominate his perception to such degree that he didn't even notice the lower case and plural.
I guess you got him firmly wrapped around your finger.

Well I was assuming that the kind of members you were referring to had just the one eye but then I have a dirty mind

Windar's is clearly on higher things

 

[windar]

Windar's is clearly on higher things

Barb's and malins' minds appear to be on fingering...

 

[Repertor]

Now it's about playing the flute? This is bordering on the indecent.

There may be some confusion.
Flutes are decent and politically correct.
Cigars are not.

 

[Barbaria1]

There may be some confusion.
View attachment 481779 Flutes are decent and politically correct.
View attachment 481780 Cigars are not.

That's so gross

 

[malins]

Shhhhhhhh .... he doesn't know that

Oh I don't know, sometimes they like it like that.

Well I was assuming that the kind of members you were referring to had just the one eye

Yes I was of course referring to those among our community who proudly rise to claim their Cyclopic heritage,

Windar's is clearly on higher things

... if putting her on a pedestal ever gets him anywhere...

 

[windar]

... if putting her on a pedestal ever gets him anywhere..

What are you talking about? I have made Barb toe the line since I came here. I tell her to jump and she asks, :"How high, Sir?"