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from Fish Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 08:43 (Agree/Disagree?) God dammit, I hate it when people missquote "the word". The above statements are what the japanese would term "beimio". Close to what a family member might say, but no fucking cigar. I sugest you "get in the word" before you next atempt this sort of lameness. Theres nothing more corny than someone getting a corny statement wrong. (reply to this comment)

from AnnaH Monday, July 31, 2006 - 13:31 (Agree/Disagree?) Very funny Smashingrrl, but you're a shameless copycat. You should've posted this under Samuel's article "Ten things you'll only hear in 'the family'." I suggest paying Samuel royalties before you get sued. (reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 13:45 (Agree/Disagree?) Okay jackass, right after Samuel pays Dave Letterman royalties for copying his top ten lists. Wait, if I use the word "list", does that make me a copy cat too?(reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Monday, July 31, 2006, 15:03 (Agree/Disagree?) Now, now, you know you did wrong. Don't get all offended because someone called you on it. I'm sure it was a great idea and you thought you could package it as something new by making the title things that would get you a padded cell. But you need to give credit where credit is due. While you're at it, why don't you pray about receiving criticism a little better, Mmmkay? (Note: idea for previous comment was taken from Fish's comment to SeanSwede in the article "The Truth about the Swastika"). See, wasn't that easy? We're not asking you to use MLA citations, just say where you got it from. (reply to this comment)

From I disagree Monday, July 31, 2006, 13:35 (Agree/Disagree?) Just because they both concern themselves with the number ten does not make a case for any infringement on intellectual property, IMO. (reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Monday, July 31, 2006, 14:50 (Agree/Disagree?) Yeah...right, have you read Samuel's article? Aside from being about things “you would only hear in The Family,"(Samuel's title) both articles address almost the exact same issues. Case in Point: Issue #1: “Sharing.” Smashingrrl’s #10: I need to get the victory over my jealousy everytime my mate shares with someone. Thanks so much for going through all my mail or I never would have realized it. TYJ! Samuel’s #1: OMG! I can't believe you shared with my best friend! Issue #2: Health/”Provisioning.” Smashingrrl’s #9: I keep getting sick even though we're always careful to rebuke any hitchhikers from the provisioning. Samuel’s #8: Is this meat rotten enough to throw out? I wouldn't want to waste any of the Lord's money. Issue #3: Constant name changing/Multiple people with same names. Smashingrrl’s #8: Oh no, that's why you're confused. His name was Gabriel but he needed to get the victory over his lust for knowledge so now he's Uncle Simple. When I knew him, he was Uncle Tim. By the way, I know I used to spell my name Mary, but after the Victor Program, I had a problem with unhappiness. So now it's spelled Merry, can you please fix that for the sharing schedule? Mary H, Mary J, and I keep ending up in the same room. PTL! Samuel’s #4 & 5: Are you talking about Katrina B. Katrina C, or Katrina H.? That was his old name, he's Gideon now. Issue #4: Reaction to system authority/Family Slang. Smashingrrl’s #3 & 4: We had a wonderful prayer meeting last night. Uncle David was speaking in tongues and when I got the prophecy it was super! God's going to rebuke the goat who moved in next door and give him boils like Job. 4. We prayed and God made us invisible to the Romans so we could keep postering. Samuel’s #2: Slow down, Nathan. There are always Romans on this street. 6. The goyem don't even realize how much power the Jews have here. Don't get me wrong, I loved Smashingrrl's article, it was actually a lot more funny than Samuel's. However, copyright infringement is copyright infringement. You could also argue that Samuel's article was in a way a takeoff of JoeH's article "100 reasons why it's great to be a systemite." But there is nothing new under the sun, now is there? (Ecclesiastes) .(reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 10:36 (Agree/Disagree?) Yeah, it really doesn't take much effort to copy and paste. Let me give you a breakdown of how much time this takes me: Read Smashingrrl's article: 2 min. Realize this is almost the exact same thing as Samuel's: Five seconds (while reading so it doesn't figure into the total time). Find Samuel's article by typing in the one of the phrases in google search: 30 sec. (part of that was realizing how I could find it) Reread both articles and compare their points: 3 min. Copy and paste them into an email, write who each sentence belongs to: 5 min. Title the issues: 2 min. Write my commentary: 1 min. Figure out who the quote "Is there nothing new under the sun?" is credited to by typing that phrase into google: 30 sec. So the whole thing pretty much took me 12 minutes, interspersed with giving loans to jackasses and gossiping about who's getting fired. Time elapsed to write this comment: 3 min. What the hell am I gonna do with my rest of my day? (reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 10:42 (Agree/Disagree?) Why did I just I reply to my own comment? Why I am still replying to my own comment? Whatever, that was meant in reply to Andy's comment to my comment to Vixin's comment to my comment, and what...I mean...blah! Nevermind. (reply to this comment)

From Samuel Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 14:07 (Agree/Disagree?) Can I reply to your comment now? : o ) I had actually forgotten about Joe's "100 reasons Why It's Great To Be A Systemite" (which it is) Joe, if I did anything to discredit your work, which was awesome, please forgive me. That morning I had been walking the parking lot at work collecting carts. They make us do it in half hour intervals, it's sheer terror : o ). In the morning, there are few customers, few carts out in the parking lot. I started thinking about the "Friends" episode where Jennifer Anniston finds out someone, I think Matt Perry, slept with her best friend. Of course when something like that happens it has the potential to change the whole friendhsip or at least make things odd between the two. She goes "OMG! I can't believe you slept with my best friend!" I think Joey piped in with "Way to go, bro", or something like that. Since there weren't any Room Shepherds or CRO's around to rebuke me for daydreaming, I soon changed the word slept with "shared" and laughed to myself all the way back into the store. Then I realized I of course couldn't share that joke with anyone at work, no one would understand it. So I got out a pen and paper on my break and started on the rest.(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 22:37 (Agree/Disagree?) Oh god, I had that job at home depot a few years ago. It friggin sucks.(reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 14:51 (Agree/Disagree?) I didn't mean to say you copied JoeH, I said one could say that in a way your article was a takeoff of Joe's, but really only in that it's a list and it's about the family. However it was different enough, and enough time had lapsed between them, for you not to feel like a copycat. Not like Smashingrrl's article, which appeared (I think) less than a month after yours and as I explained thoroughly above was very similar to yours. But you all have your very good excuses and I'm starting to regret ever making the comment that Smashingrrl copied you. Wait...I regret nothing, I'm completely right! Mwahahahaha!(reply to this comment)

From AndyH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 10:50 (Agree/Disagree?) If you don't wear a condom, your sleeping with everyone that person's ever slept with. So if you sleep with a girl that slept with a guy who slep with your ex-girlfriend, you could really fuck yourself. (reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 14:52 (Agree/Disagree?) Why did you just say that? Did you forget to take your Ritalin?(reply to this comment)

From AndyH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 15:25 (Agree/Disagree?) Actually, I've been out for quite some time now, and I am a mess. I don't know how I ever lived this way. (reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 15:37 (Agree/Disagree?) God, will you fucking make an appointment with your psychiatrist already? Or are you too ADD to even do that? Give me the number, I will make the appointment and I will tell them, yes he has ADD, for the love of god, put him on something before his head spins off his neck and he explodes in pile of random-ass comments. (reply to this comment)

From AndyH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 15:53 (Agree/Disagree?) I have an appointment on the 15th.. hey look a dog! (reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 15:56 (Agree/Disagree?) Does he have a puffy tail?!?!(reply to this comment)

From AndyH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 16:09 (Agree/Disagree?) The puffiest!(reply to this comment)

From Vixin Tuesday, August 01, 2006, 17:48 (Agree/Disagree?) My my, don't we have a lot of time on our hands!(reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 08:08 (Agree/Disagree?) Well, what the hell else am I supposed to do at work? Work? I think not. (reply to this comment)

From AndyH Wednesday, August 02, 2006, 10:04 (Agree/Disagree?) I fucking hate it when people say that. Just because you type/read slow, doesn't mean everyone else does. HATERS! I hate you haters!(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 15:32 (Agree/Disagree?) In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, here's said former friend's myspace profile. She's now listed as male. I'm not kidding. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=126255(reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Monday, July 31, 2006, 15:45 (Agree/Disagree?) Thanks, I appreciate the effort. Unfortunately Myspace.com is blocked where I work due to viruses, so I'll have to take your word for it. Good luck to your friend.(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:00 (Agree/Disagree?) It's not blocked due to viruses, trust me. I do this for a living. It's blocked because people are addicts and they don't want you on there instead of working.(reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:18 (Agree/Disagree?) A little of column A, a little column B. My coworker was really addicted and kept downloading so much crap onto her profile that it took 5 minutes for the f-ing page to load and inadvertently downloaded a virus. So they killed two birds with one stone. Her last day was yesterday, maybe they'll let us go on it again. (reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:28 (Agree/Disagree?) I hate that there's always one fucker who ruins it for everyone. Whatever "it" may be.(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 15:38 (Agree/Disagree?) Oh god, she has a picture of the spoons. They're actually bigger in that pic than they were on saturday. I guess the swelling's gone down. I now need to go watch QAF to get that image out of my head again.(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 15:23 (Agree/Disagree?) Okay, now that I've actually read his article, aside from reading all the homo comments...its seems they are both very similar. However, my article was derived from a conversation at the bar Saturday night for which I can provide three references. Some chic I used to hang out with, has suddenly decided to remove her boobs and wants everyone to call her Zack. It gave me flashbacks. Not the removing the boobs part; the name-change. By the way, if you're going to remove your boobs, wouldn't you want to at least leave a little so that it looks like you have pecs? She has two friggin spoons now. It's likely the nastiest thing I've ever seen. It seems samuel and I are simply bothered by many of the same things. You know what's weird? We were in the same cult, so like, we totally had to deal with the same GNs and like everyone like talked the same and it was totally like stupid. (reply to this comment)

from solemn Monday, July 31, 2006 - 10:36 (Agree/Disagree?) #1 should be punishable by incarceration for the express purpose of receiving a blanket party during which she is whacked repeatedly by bars of soap in a sock, kicked, and otherwise beaten senseless. What? I didn’t say I wanted to do it, I am not an animal. But if I saw it happening, I wouldn’t stop it only because it must be very therapeutic for people who aren’t going anywhere for awhile to pound out a little frustration on someone like Zerby. As much as I would want to help, I think I would be serving the greater good to allow the malevolence to continue until the angry mobs had satiated their need for therapy. Also, what better than a beating to unite people in a common activity? (reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 10:40 (Agree/Disagree?) Nah, I've both given and been the recipeint of a blanket party. It's entirely humane.(reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 10:47 (Agree/Disagree?) Well then, I will have to devise a more suitable brand of unnecessary violence.(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 10:55 (Agree/Disagree?) My best friend's a professional dominatrix. I have a feeling she could come up with something suitably disturbing.(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 11:19 (Agree/Disagree?) That actually reminds me of a conversation I had with her once. I was talking about something I'd seen at a private party I'd bartended for and asked her how someone could go through that and actually enjoy it. I'll spare you the specifics. She said there's nothing she can actually do to a person's body that will fuck them up as much as what she can do to their minds. That, by the way, is why even those here who weren't physically abused are so screwed up. So that could be it. Maybe if she could just be forced to listen to us, one at a time, over and over, for the rest of her miserable life; maybe then she actually would beg for a padded room.(reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 11:45 (Agree/Disagree?) (I can't believe you spared me the specifics!) I understand what you are saying. But it would have to be a job for someone other that me. When I consider the time and meticulous planning that would have to go into such a thing, it starts to sound like an episode of Batman where he is left with a constant drip of water on his head that will run off his cowl filling a bowl, displacing a scale which will fire an arrow meant to break a glass tank full piranhas, that will spill all over the floor, frightening a cat that will jump on Batman’s face, scratching it, causing an infection that will kill him in four days time. But alas, using twelve straws and a piece of chewing gum that one of the jokers goons innocently left nearby, Batman will likely reach his utility belt on the wall and just escape anyhow. You see, I am angry about it already. I just don't have the patience to watch the wheels of justice slowly grinding exceedingly fine. Call me a brute, but if nobody gets punched in the pelvis, it doesn’t work for me. (reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 12:10 (Agree/Disagree?) You just made me spit yoo-hoo across the windshield of my truck. Seriously, while some really friggin hot shit goes on at those parties. Most of it's not at all sexy. It may have to do with the fact that there seems to be a direct correlation between the BDSM people and overweight pasty trekkies. I doubt I'd punch her in the pelvis. Not to spare her the pain; I'm just pretty sure she's skanky. I'd have to chop off my hand. I'm not saying I don't have an intense desire to punch her elsewhere. I'm also not saying i would....that would be wrong. <---see? not threatening personal violence "I asked for one thing and that's to have some friggin sharks with friggin laser beams attached to their heads!!!!"(reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 13:11 (Agree/Disagree?) Well you could always change "overweight pasty trekkies" to "men and women of exceptional physique". But I also understand the resulting story may not be fit for a public forum so we will move on to the “mutant sea bass” we have had to settle for.(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 13:47 (Agree/Disagree?) Yeah, I'm posting on a site wherein people are offended if I use the word "girlfriend". Imagine what would happen if I started discussing fisting, watersports, flogging etc. Oh wait, I just did. Oops Never mind that I only serve them drinks.....and they're str8.(reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 14:05 (Agree/Disagree?) Hooray for flogging!(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 14:11 (Agree/Disagree?) Now you're trying to get me in trouble. Damn you. (reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 14:15 (Agree/Disagree?) You don't seem like the type who needs help to get in trouble, but I do my best to instigate. (reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 14:23 (Agree/Disagree?) Who me? (strapon) I'm completely innocent; (violet wand) prude really. But I appreciate the instigation (spreader-bar) . And I'm a copcat too. I would never, ever, ever discuss anything that would make anyone uncomfortable (gags). See? Completely tame. (reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 14:32 (Agree/Disagree?) (singing) These are a few of my favorite things......(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 15:36 (Agree/Disagree?) hehe. First one, yes. The others, not so much but more power to ya.(reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 15:48 (Agree/Disagree?) Not so much me either, I may just be trying to get the last word. "As the thread is nears it's death by old age, who will have the last word? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion!"(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:03 (Agree/Disagree?) That's okay, check out spoon chic. You may get the last word after all since I've decided I need to go rant on my blog about this (spoon chics). Can't dissapoint the fans.(reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:06 (Agree/Disagree?) I will get it now :0P(reply to this comment)

From smashingrrl Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:31 (Agree/Disagree?) Nope I'm back, done ranting.(reply to this comment)

From solemn Monday, July 31, 2006, 16:37 (Agree/Disagree?) Oh, nice to see you again.(reply to this comment)

From Interestingly... Monday, July 31, 2006, 10:38 (Agree/Disagree?) ...Today is Zerby's birthday. Any ideas for a suitable gift? (reply to this comment)