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Focused Topics The Incredible Morphing Chameleon Thread, v. 2006.1
Closed to comments (though still eminently readable) and continued on version 2006.2.
An experiment: the opposite of a random thread. Once a topic is chosen, posts must stay on the topic until people someone agree decides to change it. GAPAs will zap as necessary to keep things on track.
(Thanks to Pink Stalking Penguin of Penzance and Purple Panda for the idea for this thread.)
Plants
Origami and Paper Folding
Musicals
Camp
The May/June 2006 issue
Sheer Joy
It starts at Comment 208.
Bad and/or Useless Advice
We all get lots of advice–especially people Musers’ age. Unfortunately, even well-meaning people can steer you in the wrong direction. When has that happened to you? How can people recognize bad advice when they hear it? How can they keep from giving bad advice themselves?
Families
Special stay-on-topic thread number 1, inspired by Mothers’ Day.
We all have them. What is yours like? Big or small, concentrated in one place or spread out over several continents? Do you keep in touch with your first cousins? Second cousins? Third cousins? Does your family keep track of its history? If so, how far back in time?
Happy Mothers’ Day!
The accepted spelling is “Mother’s,” with the apostrophe before the “s.” But Robert has long felt that as more than one mother is involved, the word should be possessive plural.
Anyway, unlike such bogus holidays as Presidents’ Day, this is one we all have some idea of how to celebrate. What do you do?
Advice
When Musers pool their collective wisdom, something is bound to happen. Here’s where.
(Copper Bigfoot’s idea.)
Theories of Life, Death, the Universe, and Everything
Idea by Emogrl, who says she has 713 theories of her own. Not all at once, please.
Gwendolyn had something to do with the inception of this thread, too, but we’re too lazy to go back and find out exactly what.
May “Happy Birthday” Thread
Keep an eye on “Dates to Remember,” and post your greetings and glyphs here. Coming up later this month:
05-09 Axa’s birthday (1992 – natural blues)
05-15 Qween Mae’s birthday (1992 – dusty pink)
05-23 Parmandiriel’s birthday (1989 – silver)
05-28 MemyselfandI’s birthday (1992 – blue)
(Parmandiriel doesn’t come around much nowadays, but she was a faithful Muser for many years and deserves honor.)
Happy Birthday, Nak*!
Nancy Kangas’s birthday is Sunday. Felicitations, O incomparable Musewriter!
(*Her name in Ble. Not “Naka”–we misremembered.)
Happy Un-Birthmonth, Phoenix!
All we know is that she was born in May, and that we’re glad she was.
[Our mistake. See you in July! –Admin.]
Hot Topics, v. 2006.3
Closed to further comments. Seek out v. 2006.4.
It’s been a while since the last “Hot Topics” thread, and many new MBers have come on board. So let’s set aside a new place for topics that need careful handling and/or an extra dose of civility. Here you go.
Plays/Acting/Theater/Theatre
A lot of MuseBloggers are doing this, and Shakespeare’s birthday is the ideal day to launch a thread about it.
Shakespeare’s Birthday
Born on this day in 1564
(Or maybe yesterday–we only know
When he was christened), Shakespeare still remains
The universally acknowledged king
Of English poetry. To honor him
We ask that Musers posting on this thread
Attempt to write all of their messages
In iambs (the poetic “foot” that goes
Ta-DAH), five to a line–in other words,
Pentameter. True, that will take some work,
But pretty soon you’ll get the hang of it:
Ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH,
Just like this introduction. So, good luck!
Maybe Paul Baker will drop by. (For all
We know, he talks in sonnets all the time.)
Happy Birthday, book_addict!
Monday the 24th is the day. Green is the color. Virtual books, presumably, are the virtual gift of choice.
Happy Birthday, Andromeda!
What kind of name is Pineapple-Duck? And what is your favorite color, so we can all wear it?