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,,,by the collective wit, wisdom, and transcendent silliness that can be found on the monthly random thread.

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… to know Part 2 of December’s random thread has arrived.

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

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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

What better place could there be on a windy autumn day than our own monthly random thread?

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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: Puzzles and riddles

New to MuseBlog? Then stop right in at this thread, and friendly bloggers will welcome you warmly with pies (or coolly, if refrigerated pies are in stock today) and help you find your way around. Don’t bother to duck; they never miss.

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.

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
Chronicles of Museica (badrang)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
College/University/Higher Education (Axa)
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, and Vegemite (Midnight Fiddler)
Just Friends (Zinc)

SILLY FUN
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories [SSSS] (Midnight Fiddler)
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
Round Robin Smileys (Koko’s Apprentice, Zinc)

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

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
Bunny Apocalypse: The Next Generation (Armada, Zinc)
RPG Alternative (Steampunk Jungle) (Koko’s Apprentice, Zinc)
Muse Academy (Zinc)

WRITING – RRRs
Sea Roc (kiwimuncher)

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
History (Purple Panda)
Song Lyrics (Syllabub, Midnight Fiddler, Zinc)
Cooking and Food (Taiwan Hippo Fan)
Harry Potter Trivia-Off (Luna the Lovely)
Lord of the Rings (LadyG)
Monty Python (Zinc)
Dreams (Zinc)

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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.

There is something so haunting about heading into the third monthly random thread….

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The truth is out there…the Kokonspiracy lights our way into the second installment of the October random thread.

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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: Factoids
Children’s TV shows

A neophyte is a fancy word for a newcomer. If you’ve just arrived on the blog, MuseBloggers on this thread will welcome you with pies (momentarily) in hand and help you find your way around.

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.

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
Pieceful Pie Planet (IBCF)
Ships’ Logs: Beyond Museica (IBCF, kiwimuncher)
Muse Academy Student Lounge (vaxiddxvii)
Muse Academy Halloween Ball Planning Thread (vaxiddxvii)
Muse Scouts (Zinc the sorceress)
“Mostly Harmless” Theme Park (Zinc the sorceress)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
College/University/Higher Education (Axa)

SILLY FUN
Off with their Heads! (IBCF)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories [SSSS] (IBCF, Midnight Fiddler)
Round-Robin Smileys (Zinc the sorceress)
Alter Ego Thread (Piggy)
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Let’s Get Physiognomical (Armada)

DAYDREAMS
Our Reclusive Gardens (kiwimuncher)

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
World of Piecraft (kiwimuncher)
Muse Academy RPG (IBCF)
RPG Alternative (Zinc the Sorceress)

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

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER
Theme with Variations (Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon)
Muse FanFiction (muselover)

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
History (Purple Panda, Midnight Fiddler)
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
Chess Lesson (Purple Panda)
Harry Potter Trivia-Off (Luna the Lovely)
Music (Midnight Fiddler)
Song Lyrics (Midnight Fiddler)
Books and Reading (Syllabub)
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
Cooking and Food (Taiwan Hippo Fan)

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Last Month’s DFTT
HG2MB v.2008.1

Continued from Vol. I, No. 6.

As the monthly Random Thread for September continues, let’s not forget where you’re really getting your education. (Feel free to download the image to put on notebooks and such.)

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School or no school, the blog’s monthly Random Thread keeps rolling along regardless. It’s the place to talk about anything or nothing at all.

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The final installment of the August random thread has been cooling on the window ledge a little longer than usual, but we trust there are a few pies left to fill out the month.

Continued from Part 2.

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This month’s random thread continues the theme of July’s: thinking cool amid what for many of us continues to be decidedly uncool weather. Think cool, act cool, be cool!

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

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

Current topic: The Olympics
Computer programming / Web design and graphics

“Neophyte” comes from Greek roots meaning “newly planted.” If you’ve landed on the blog and think you might want to put down roots here, stop in for a friendly welcome and some helpful tips from those already here.

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.

Attention, non-neophytes! Please don’t fill this thread with non-neophytic chatter. If there’s no one around to welcome, there are plenty of other places where you can post.

Help others navigate the blog by signposting your favorite threads here. 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
Ships’ Logs (kiwimuncher)
Muse Scouts (AvalonGirl)
Pie Isle (TNÖ)
Incredible Beasts of Museica (Beatlesrockr)

LIFE BEYOND THE VIRTUAL DIVIDE
Vegetarians, Vegetarianism, Vegetables, and Vegemite (Purple Panda)
Mostly Harmless (kiwimuncher)

SILLY FUN
The Polling Place (kiwimuncher)
Alter Egos(kiwimuncher, AvalonGirl)
Stupid Senseless Smiley Stories (Midnight Fiddler)
World of Piecraft (kiwimuncher)

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

WRITING – ASSORTED OTHER

OTHER THINGS WE LIKE
Coy Woodnesse (kiwimuncher)
Visual Arts (Purple Panda)
MuseBlog Chess (Purple Panda)
Music (Midnight Fiddler)
Books and Reading (Midnight Fiddler)
History (Midnight Fiddler)
Calvin and Hobbes (ZVX)

USEFUL ITEMS
HG2MB v.2008.1
Last Month’s DFTT
Ranting and Spazzing with Abundant Spoilers

Continued from Vol. I, No. 5.