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A new year, a blank slate!

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes or the month ends.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Silly laws

New year, new try. And if you’re new here, we’re happy to have you aboard. Make this thread your first stop to meet the locals, ask any questions you might have, and get initiated into the Ways of the Blog.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

MuseBlog Veterans: Please use this thread only for its stated purpose.

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. In the first DFTT thread of the year, we’re particularly interested in hearing about old, dormant threads that you’d like to revive.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Ships’ Logs (kiwimuncher)
Pie Isle (Cinnamoon)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
College/University/Higher Education (Purple Panda)
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, Vegemite (MARFwarrior, Midnight Fiddler)
Urban Legends (MARFwarrior)

SILLY FUN
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
World of Piecraft (kiwimuncher)
Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Let’s Get Physiognomical (Armada)
Off with their Heads! (kiwimuncher)
You Know You’re Addicted to X When You Y (Syllabub)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (Midnight Fiddler)
Quick Reads (Midnight Fiddler)
Round Robin Smileys (Cello-Playing Mathematician)
Ble! Newluj-No Fulst (Daisy*chain)

DAYDREAMS

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
Bunny Apocalypse: the Next Generation (Armada)

RRRs and Writing
Sea Roc (kiwimuncher)
Etheterre (kiwimuncher)
Alchemy (kiwimuncher)
Books in Progress (kiwimuncher)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
History (Purple Panda, Midnight Fiddler)
Computer and Video Games (I-Man)
Song Lyrics (Midnight Fiddler)
Visual Arts (kiwimuncher)

USEFUL ITEMS
Suggestion Box
Last Month’s DFTT
HG2MB v.2008.1

Comment or cast your vote on the Letter to Muse in progress on the October 2008 Muse Discussion thread.

Known Muser birthdays and 5K Days this month*:

01-01 Jadestone’s birthday (1992 – cerulean or green)
01-01 FrigidSymphony’s birthday (1991 – no color, but loud heavy metal music)
01-03 Kari’s birthday (1995)
01-03 Rebecca Lasley’s birthday
01-04 ZVX’s birthday (year? – black)
01-05 grnqween2011’s birthday (1994 – green)
01-06 Admiral Penguin’s birthday (1994 – gold, red, obsidian)
01-12 Faye Beauchamp’s birthday (1989)
01-13 penguini’s birthday (1993 – light blue-green)
01-13 Wingnut’s birthday (year? color?)
01-15 Kiara’s birthday (1993 – black, blue, purple)
01-16 Cedar’s birthday (1990)
01-17 The Insane Blue Sage’s birthday (1995 – black, silver, green, and red)
01-21 Red Hed Em’s birthday
01-23 Kittymine’s birthday
01-26 Glassboro’s birthday (1995 – black and whatever you like)
01-27 RoseQuartz (formerly LadyGaladriel) is 5,000 days old
01-30 The Skipper Nancy’s birthday (1992 – yellow or sea-green)
01-31 Dandelions Are Wildflowers’ (::DAW::’s) birthday (1992)
01-31 Birthday of greekgurl the Latin speakin geek freak! (1994 – rainbow)

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between April 26 and May 26, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between July 30 and August 29, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

At this point, there’s no way to explain this thread except to say that it’s continued from Part 3.

All issues, all topics — including discussions started on the October 2008 Discussion thread.

Robert, age 13 (yearbook photo)

Long before Museica and the PeacefulPieceful Pie Planet — before NationStates and World of Warcraft — even before Dungeons and Dragons had been invented, then-Muser-aged Robert (see photo, above) and about half a dozen of his friends invented an imaginary country of their own and used it as a setting for role-playing and storytelling. Unfortunately, any original maps and manuscripts that still exist remain buried in the Coontz archives. Robert will scan and post them as they come to light. Meanwhile, this description will have to suffice for any MBers curious about their GAPA’s disreputable history. Read on… Read more »

WARNING! Will definitely contain spoilers!

To spare MBers reading the “Recent Comments” columns, please paste the following message in at the beginning of your posts:

SPOILER JANUARY MUSE SPOILER SPOILER.

Let us know when your issue arrives. NO SPOILERS, please. There’s another thread for discussing the issue.

It’s the solstice, the official beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere (and of summer down below the equator). ‘Tis the season(s)!

A thread dedicated to the use and preservation of Ble, the extremely economical (if not equally comprehensible) language that Nancy Kangas unveiled in the November/December 2003 issue of Muse.

Several dialects of Ble appeared in Part 1, and no doubt many others lie ahead.

Threadyay? (How do you like the new thread?)

In one of her letters she wrote:

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

You pretty much have to celebrate the birthday of someone who feels like that.

Ultracondensed versions of books, stories, songs, etc. — perhaps in “Smiley Story” format, perhaps not.

Midnight Fiddler requested this thread, which is a sort of spinoff of Muser Parodies.

WARNING: WILL CERTAINLY CONTAIN MANY SPOILERS.

Lady Bunniful’s latest creations. Check ’em out!

It’s amazing that we’ve never had a thread on this topic before. Requested by Syllabub.

bookgirl invented this game, which she describes as follows:

One player states a quote from a blogger (who’s been blogging for at least 1 month). The blogger who guesses it first gets 1 MBSBB point (=Muse Blog’s “Big Brother”). The player who answered the question gets the next to ask the next one. The quotes have to give you a clue as to where they’ve been said (only active threads) and are not allowed to come from alter egos or masked balls e.t.c. . If a question isn’t answered in a week, we go to the next one.

Anybody game ?

…if you miss December’s random thread, festooned with winter-holiday (or, if you’re in the Nether Hemisphere, summer-holiday) spirit.

(Users’ Manual: Obey The Rules. Consult The Guide. Have fun!)

Unlike the random thread, this discussion thread stays on topic until the topic changes or the month ends.

Newcomers should read The Rules and The Guide before plunging in.

Current topic: Snow, and things to do in/with it
Holiday “wish” lists

If you’re new to MuseBlog, we’re happy to have you aboard. Make this thread your first stop to meet the locals, ask any questions you might have, and get your hearty greeting pie.

Please read The Rules. You might also glance at The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog), which contains helpful hints regarding local customs, lingo, and other peculiarities of the blog; smiley information included.

If you’re new on the blog, just plunge on in. People here are friendly, and you’ll be fine.

Reading The Rules and The HG2MB (Hitchhiker’s Guide to MuseBlog) will help you get oriented, and the GAPAs (Great and Powerful Administrators) will be glad to advise you.

Once upon a time, MuseBlog had special threads for welcoming new bloggers (known impressively as “neophytes”). But between new arrivals the threads filled up with irrelevant chatter, and then MuseBloggers forgot how to spell “neophytes,” and the whole thing proved unworkable and fell apart. So now any thread will do — just pick one that strikes your fancy, and start posting. We’ll be happy to see you.

–The Management

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here, when they’ve scrolled off the main page. As always, we start this thread anew from scratch every month.

(Note: Please include the URL (Web address) with your requests. It also helps if you limit your requests to a few at a time, four or five at the most.)

Current categories:

ADVENTURES IN THE MUSIVERSE
Pie Isle (IBCF, Cinnamoon, Zinc)
Ships’ Logs (kiwimuncher)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
History (Vendaval)
College/University/Higher Education (axa)
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, and Vegemite (Midnight Fiddler)

SILLY FUN
Off With Their Heads! (IBCF, Zinc)
Round Robin Smileys (Koko’s Apprentice)
Alter Egos (Koko’s Apprentice, kiwimuncher, Zinc)
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher, Zinc)
World of Piecraft (kiwimuncher, Zinc)
Polling Place (kiwimuncher, Zinc)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (Midnight Fiddler)

DAYDREAMS
Our Reclusive Gardens (kiwimuncher, Zinc)
Wungs (Zinc)

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
RPG Alternative ([Steampunk Jungle] (Koko’s Apprentice, Zinc)
BA:TNG (Armada, Zinc)

WRITING – RRRs
Sea Roc (kiwimuncher)
Etheterre (kiwimuncher)
Alchemy (kiwimuncher)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Chess [v. 4] (Syllabub)
Books and Reading (Syllabub, kiwimuncher, Zinc)
Cooking and Food (Tetrahydrofuran (THF))

USEFUL ITEMS
Suggestion Box
Last Month’s DFTT
HG2MB v.2008.1

Comment or cast your vote on the Letter to Muse in progress on the October 2008 Muse Discussion thread.

The ideal hang-out at the school of your dreams. Paker, anyone?

Continued from Part Two.

Known Muser birthdays and 5K Days this month*:

12-17 Unintended Pun’s birthday (1992 – color?)
12-30 Zyviva’s birthday
12-30 Purplefinch’s birthday (purple?)

12-08 Taiwan Hippo Fan is 5,000 days old
12-08 Gaia Fawkstar (or whoever he is now) is 5,000 days old
12-14 Beavo is 5,000 days old
12-21 La Mort is 6,000 days old
12-24 Phoenix is 6,000 days old
12-27 Queen of Mercury is 5,000 days old
12-30 speller73 is 5,000 days old
12-30 Amelia Peabody (Chintsu) is 6,000 days old

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between March 26 and April 25, 1995.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between June 29 and July 29, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Sail on! And on! And on!
Continued from Part 12.

“I just finished my merit badge in World Domination!”

Continued from Part 2.