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Mon, 28 February 2011 09:14   |
 _ned
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Dearest, darlingest, loveliest Oisin. Please write a guest post soon, or I will be forced to begin singing Kumbaya over and over and over again in proper protest fashion. However, since I don't know any of the proper verses, I'll be forced to make some up:
"Someone's knitting, my lord, someone's knitting..."
"Someone's turning on the lights, my lord, someone's..."
And someone else will be grading my exam, and someone else will be selling me coffee, and someone else will be trying to teach me and an entire class full of grumpy pre-meds about microbial physiology. That last one will be a bit difficult to fit in one verse without horribly disrupting the rhythm, but by that point I'll probably be a bit woozy from lack of breath and won't notice.
Of course, this can only end one way:
"Someone's coming at me with a chainsaw, my lord, kumbaya;
If only Oisin had written that guest post, my lord, kumbaya...
I guess I'm not too young to die, my lord, kumbaya,
Oh, lord, kumbaya."
And after that I will HAUNT you, and keep singing it. Somehow. Possibly borrowing the vocal chords of your friends and loved ones. And you will have only yourself to blame.
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39875 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Mon, 28 February 2011 11:05 |
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Honey_Bee
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Oisin-
Please write a guest blog so Robin can have the time off to work on Pegasus II else she will miss her deadline and thousands of rabid fans will ignore the bounds of social norms and harass and harass her until she cracks and Peter finds her curled up in a ball beneath her roses, clutching her hellhounds and muttering broken sentences about axes and deadlines and horse-like creatures with wings.
And you wouldn't do that to her, would you Oisin?
Would you?
[Updated on: Mon, 28 February 2011 15:29]
"All knowledge is worth having."
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Mon, 28 February 2011 14:31 |
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Mrs Redboots
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My dear Oisin, some months ago, we're told
A certain Hellgoddess, known to us all here,
Performed an act of magic in your rooms,
Lifted her voice, sang, warbled, made a noise
That you had longed to hear, had begged, beseeched
Upon your bended knees entreated her.
The hellgoddess, as is the way of such,
Drove a hard bargain: "Yes, you'll hear me sing
If you will write an entry for my blog!"
She sang. And now, Oisin, the time has come
For you to do your part in this exchange.
Pull out your keyboard - no, the other one,
The one on which you write, and make a start.
You'll find it's not so difficult to do.
But if you fail, beware, beware the wrath
Of all the minions threatening on this thread.
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39881 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Mon, 28 February 2011 15:16 |
Aaron
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†† More than one posted comment is also allowed but you have to say different things. Repetitions of the basic ‘write the guest post, Oisin’ will only net you one chance in the drawing.^
^ Unless I’m in an expansive mood. I might be in an expansive mood. After all, we want to wear him down. Repetition might be just the ticket. On the dripping tap/squeaky wheel principle.
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So, what would the canonical answer be to a request for a unified repetitive* appeal? With my apologies for the attempts at formatting.
Oisin's Instruction**
Write. the... guest. post.. Write. the... guest. post.. Write. the... guest. post.. Write. the... guest. post.. Write. the... guest. post.. Write. the... guest. post.. Oisin
Write. O..... Write. the... guest. post.. Write. O..... write. the... guest. post.. Write. O..... write. the... guest. post.. Write. O..... write. the... guest. post.. Oisin
Yes... please write. O..... write. the... guest. post.. Yes... please write. O..... write. the... guest. post.. Yes... please write. O..... write. the... guest. post.. Oisin
*"There is more to the theatre than repetition." - FKB
**In three parts, for a multitude of voices.
[Updated on: Mon, 28 February 2011 15:23]
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39884 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Mon, 28 February 2011 18:04 |
judith
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Rap for the O-Man
Yo, O-Man, dude, the hellgoddess said
That you've broken your promise to put to bed
The final draft of that blog of blogs
As a guest of hers. Yo! Ya want some frogs
Singin' in your pants, or some hellhound poop
Through your mail slot, or a nice long loop
Of an organ playin' a quarter tone flat,
Or viola jokes comin' at ya faster than that?
Get yer act together, man, or you'll find the thorns
Of ten dozen roses in the bells of your horns
And the claws of a kitten climbing up your leg
When you're tryin' to play the pedal solo for Countess ABEGG.
Ya don't mess with Robin's friends; we're a serious bunch.
We'll come after ya with knitting needles and badly cooked lunch
And horse manure and half-cooked cinnamon rolls
As big as your head. So set some goals,
O-man, write that blog, or you'll never find
What only we can give you: peace of mind.
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39887 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Mon, 28 February 2011 19:23 |
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I have evidence of my singing ability - not!
You'll need more than knitting to hide from my voice, so it might be a good time to write that guest post...!
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Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39898 is a reply to message #39881 ] |
Mon, 28 February 2011 20:28 |
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Aaron's entry* resulted in an awful earworm** getting stuck in my head and since it is so awful, of course I had to share:
(to the tune of the William Tell Overture)
Write the post, write the post, write the post post post
Write the post, write the post, write the post post post
Write the post, write the post, write the post post post
OHHHHH PLEEEAAAASSSEEE write the post post post!
Thank you
(small bow)
* for three parts^
^ much classier than mine
** you know, one of those songs that gets stuck in your head and goes over and over and over and over...
[Updated on: Mon, 28 February 2011 20:30]
FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39908 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Mon, 28 February 2011 21:05 |
Jack_D'Arcy
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Dear Oisin,
I am not a knitter. I do not live in England, so threatening you with my tone deaf rendition of the musical numbers from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (a charming work by Joss Whedon) would probably be an empty threat. So what do I have to contribute to this thread?
I am a biology and English major at college. This gives me dangerous skills. I have at my command an abundance of relatively uninteresting facts. (For example, E. Coli is a gram negative bacterium, which means it has relatively few layers of peptidoglycan in its cell wall.) I also have an extensive vocabulary and a moderate level of exposure to poetry.
If you do not give Robin McKinley her guest blog, I will combine the two. I will send you sonnets to saccharides, odes describing osmotic pressure, limericks about lysosomes, haikus on hemoglobin. When I finish with the traditional forms, I will send modern poetry; some of it may even be in sprung rhythm.
Not frightened yet? I refer you to Erasmus Darwin's poem about evolution "Temple of Nature:"
"Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass.
These, as successive generations bloom
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume
Whence countless groups of vegatation spring.
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing."
And when I finish with biology, I will start on Physics.
[Updated on: Mon, 28 February 2011 21:11]
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Mon, 28 February 2011 22:59 |
khieri
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Dear Oisin:
I'm going to be as polite about this as is humanly possible. WRITE YOUR GUEST POST! You see, I wish to be rescued from the yarniness. Knitting hates me, but music and I, we're best friends. Save me from the insanity of knitters!
I don't even care what you write* but you should fulfill your promise soon... for your sake. Have you SEEN some of the threats you're getting? I'm positively TAME compared to some of these people^.
In summary, sir accompanist, as a musician and singer who loves accompanists for the many times they've rescued me in performance, please rescue me now†!
All respect and love,
Khieri
*as long as it has nothing whatsoever to do with YARN. Don't get me wrong, I love yarn, but knitting and I are feuding.
^Well, relatively.
†And once again, yourself. I don't envy you the harassment, sir.
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39922 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Mon, 28 February 2011 23:20 |
ideabasket
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Psst... hey you...Oisin. Come 'ere. Looks like you need some help. Lemme see what I can do for you.
You need a little protection from the blogging crazies? I can fix that for you. Get you a metal vest -- no not for bullets, for knitting needles and poking sticks.
You want to look after those precious ears, huh? Make sure you're still hearing music "in key" for the next 20 years or so? Here, 50-decibel earmuffs, good enough to block out all the threats... the songs, drums, harps, cats, dogs, screaming children, poems, whining, pleading, bells, howling ghosts, 4 year-olds with violins. Trust me. The muffs can handle it.
And if you need some crowd control around your house, we got muscle. No fear. Your organ is safe. Anything you need, we got it.
Cost? Come on, everything's got a price. I scratch your back, you scratch mine...it all works out. I help you keep your sanity, your health. For me, you gotta do just this one little favor...no big deal... take you two maybe three minutes... give the nice lady the guest blog she wants.
Then we take care of you.
--the Faversham Mafia
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39923 is a reply to message #39908 ] |
Tue, 01 March 2011 00:36 |
zerlina
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| Jack_D'Arcy wrote on Tue, 01 March 2011 15:05 |
Dear Oisin,
I am not a knitter. I do not live in England, so threatening you with my tone deaf rendition of the musical numbers from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (a charming work by Joss Whedon) would probably be an empty threat. So what do I have to contribute to this thread?
I am a biology and English major at college. This gives me dangerous skills. I have at my command an abundance of relatively uninteresting facts. (For example, E. Coli is a gram negative bacterium, which means it has relatively few layers of peptidoglycan in its cell wall.) I also have an extensive vocabulary and a moderate level of exposure to poetry.
If you do not give Robin McKinley her guest blog, I will combine the two. I will send you sonnets to saccharides, odes describing osmotic pressure, limericks about lysosomes, haikus on hemoglobin. When I finish with the traditional forms, I will send modern poetry; some of it may even be in sprung rhythm.
Not frightened yet? I refer you to Erasmus Darwin's poem about evolution "Temple of Nature:"
"Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass.
These, as successive generations bloom
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume
Whence countless groups of vegatation spring.
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing."
And when I finish with biology, I will start on Physics.
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And I shall set them to music. Some of it might sound like Bach (P.D.Q)
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39924 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Tue, 01 March 2011 01:01 |
EMoon
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Though I live across the pond, Oisin, there are ways of getting the mellifluous strains of an aging mezzo ineptly imitating an aging Willie Nelson within range of your eardrums. Willie singing...oh, "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" and "Whiskey River" and "If You've Got the Money, Honey, I've Got the Time" and then the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band singing "Fishin' in the Dark" and I forget who singing "Thank God and Greyhound He's Gone." Followed by...filk songs. With da-da-dumpty-da when I can't remember all the words.
It would be easier to write the guest post. Even if it meant admitting to yourself that you'd been bushwhacked, hogtied, and drug through a pile of prickly-pear cactus by the Hellgoddess's swarm of followers...it would be easier to write the guest post than to listen to me trying to imitate Willie Nelson.
But if even that doesn't move you...just think of the Hellgoddess herself, that lovely and talented person who trusted you...and write the guest post.
E
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39927 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Tue, 01 March 2011 02:15 |
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Alannaeowyn
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Dear Oisin,
I really think it would be wise of you to acquiesce to Robin's really quite reasonable demand. And, you know, the consequences begin to seem quite fearsome! Some of these people seem downright dangerous. And, you know, I'm with them: I'd like that blog post too. So if it came down to it, if there were to materialize a mob at your front door, shouting or singing off-key or waving instruments of torture, I would be one of them, with my own small contribution: four bottle-fed kids, small and white and fluffy, raised in the belief that the only way to get milk is to nibble on human appendages. They can't distinguish between rubber nipples and fingers, you see. Or ears. Or noses. Or toeses. In fact, nothing is safe, and when the baby goats begin to nibble, it tickles. As they become desperate, they bite. And there are four of them. They surround one. And being cute, it is extremely difficult to harden one's heart sufficiently to fend them off effectively. I would really hate to inflict them on someone unaccustomed, but should it become necessary, I shall do so.
Come on, Oisin. Is it really so hard?
Victim of a prolonged addiction fed by daily hits. Thanks, Robin.
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39931 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Tue, 01 March 2011 02:45 |
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It appears, Oisin, that if you do NOT write that blog post, every obnoxiously noisy relative, friend, or family pet of every member of this blog will surround your house and make a horrendous vocal or instrumental noise all together (while knitting), and YOU WILL NOT LIKE IT!!
I might also broadly hint that I play bagpipes pretty well, but I can do it awfully if required. I am not afraid.
Do not cross this River Styx any further than you already have.
Write.
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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Tue, 01 March 2011 03:00 |
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Diane in MN
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* I don't nag, other people in the family nag, I could name some names here but I don't need to go into that, but the point is that even though other people nag, I just REMIND people when they haven't done what they should have, and if people don't like to be reminded, they can say they're being nagged, but really they're not, at least not by me, because I don't nag, I just want people to REMEMBER their promises, and if it takes a LOT of reminding that still isn't nagging, it's not like they didn't agree to do it in the first place, and if they didn't want to say yes they didn't have to, did they, which is why it's not nagging to remind them about what they said, and if they think that gets tiresome imagine how I feel having to go on and on about it, but if I got into that it would be WHINING, and I don't whine any more than I nag, but that's getting off the point which is that some people need REMINDING about their commitments, which in your case, Oisin, means a guest blog, how hard can it be, after all, and then once it's done you won't have to be reminded any more, will you, which you might define as not being NAGGED anymore, but . . . (repeat from *)
(So please write the guest blog, because it is frighteningly easy to keep this up!)
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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Tue, 01 March 2011 04:33 |
lorelibrarian
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My dear, dear, most esteemed Oisin
Please, sir, write the post. I beg of you, do not destroy my tender belief in all that is good and true in this world; namely that those who raise their voice in tuneful melody or enable others so to do are paragons of virtue, who break no promises, tell no lies and harm none in this world.
Of course, *I* have the singing ability of decaying brie, and cannot carry a tune in a bucket, so, you know, I am none of the above. Not that that should be regarded as a threat, precisely. Yet. Given that I don't know where you live. Yet.
Feel like writing, yet? 
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
—The Creation of Éa,
Ursula K LeGuin
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| Re: The Harass Oisin into Producing What He Promised Guest Blog Riot Thread [message #39945 is a reply to message #39811 ] |
Tue, 01 March 2011 10:12 |
lecuyerv
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Dear Oisin,
I have always loved music. My typical expression of this love is to burst out into song not quite at the drop of a hat, but close. It's usually in response to a song cue. Life is littered with them.
Luckily my friends are the same. It's not unusual for us to have conversations sprinkled with random bits of show tunes, classic rock songs, assorted ballads and whatever else gets triggered. This happens so often that we've come up with a band name, Better Off Re(a)d, a song list and an album cover. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?fbid=1488452818 24581&set=t.100000973315677&theater (It's a photo from a nature hike on the Konza Prairie. Thanks to wonders of modern digital photography, we're all in the picture. Oh, and we usually wear a lot of red, evidence not withstanding.) My life isn't quite like a musical, but that's not for the lack of trying.
Since any musical worth its salt usually has accompaniment for the singers, I bought a two octave plucked psalter at a nearby Renaissance Festival. My reasons for this were twofold. I've always wanted to play an instrument. The music sheets for the psalter slide under the strings, so I can more or less teach myself how to play it. The only problem lies in my lack of trapezoidal sheet music.
To address this problem, I've acquired an old hymn book from my church. Between that, blank psalter "staff" paper, and the high school chorus where I kinda learned to read music, I figure I can figure out how to transcribe music and play my psalter. (The music teacher wasn't the greatest. He preferred to work with the easy-to-teach singers and not the teenaged girl who was more comfortable singing the tenor line with the boys than her assigned alto role.) I am very much a do-it-yourselfer.
A post from you filled with hints and tips on picking up and dusting off half-learned skills acquired over two decades ago in the hopes to fully learn them now would be most welcome. This way I can go on to learn other things - like playing an instrument.
Personally, I'd like to play my psalter without resorting to cheat sheets under the strings, because in the musicals, they never resort to sheet music.
Victoria
-Victoria
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